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With the new millennium just months ahead, the temptation to assess where we are and where we are going seems irresistible. For the paper industry, the assessment has to include electronic change, the...
Paprican's high-intensity dryer maximizes opportunities to improve the quality of the sheet
With the new millennium just months ahead, the temptation to assess where we are and where we are going seems irresistible. For the paper industry, the assessment has to include electronic change, the volatility of the market, and the cyclical nature of the industry itself. The industry's technical equipment is as susceptible to these forces as its management and its workforce.
The past decade has seen an immense amount of automation and electronic change in the pulp and paper industry. Because of the advancements, expectations of technical advancement have changed. John White, general manager of the forest products division of Gerrard-Ovalstrapping, believes that electronics and computerization are the biggest factors driving technical advancement. He said that the speed of electronic change has producers believing they must be continually looking for better, stronger and faster controls. "There is some desire to have the best, fastest and newest technology," he said. "Certainly, we need to move forward, but the hottest new chip does not always make you move forward."
A great deal of electronic improvement has already been made. Ivan Pikulik, director, Papermaking division, Paprican, agreed that there has been continual development in process control. However, the computerization is not the driving force of all technology and technical change in papermaking, said Pikulik. "In papermaking a great deal of process control revolution has already happened."
Likewise, advances in recycling were front-page news for many years, but recycling has lost its momentum because the pay off did not meet up to expectations. "If you don't perform," said Bob Eamer, senior v-p, technical development, Domtar " you don't become, or stay, the subject of people's interest."
Improvements spurred on by environmental concerns were at the forefront in the late 80s and early 90s. Over $25 billion had been spent in the past 10 years to modify installations for productivity gains and pollution control compelling the industry to spend billions of dollars to implement the technology. The technology and the upgrade have been dear, raising operating costs for the mills and incurring interest on loans used to implement the changes. "It has been costly," said Eamer. "The need still exists, but the challenge is to find a way to continue improvement in processes without the huge dollar investment of the past, and without the increased operating costs in the process."
What is driving change?
The needs to decrease process costs, to increase the consistency of the product and to make more grade changes, are spurring technical advancement in the industry, according to Eamer. There is also the desire to decrease the need for capital, by installing up-to-date equipment that requires less maintenance and less replacement.
Quality improvement, all agree, however, is the main catalyst today for technical change. Any change that is made, any new technology that is introduced has to improve the quality of the product. These advancement and improvements are made throughout the pulping and papermaking process but, as Eamer said, and others agreed "in papermaking the opportunities are the greatest. More advances are being made and implemented."
The next step? New shoes
Pressing and drying have benefited from some of the implementation Eamer spoke of with such techniques as press roll heating, and a novel Finnish technique called Condebelt drying. Ivan Pikulik considered what new opportunities and challenges face paper makers.
Existing headboxes are adequate for the present generation of formers, according to Pikulik, though a novel type of former developed in the future might require a new headbox.
Forming is an area where Pikulik does not see a need for a lot of development. Still a machine with higher retention of the starting materials would be beneficial to paper quality. To improve print quality, ideally, the former would place reinforcing fibres in the middle of the sheet while fines and fillers would be held on the surface. Existing formers are not designed to engineer the sheet structure.
"Twin formers do the opposite of what we want," Pikulik said. The next step is a completely new concept in forming though Pikulik does not see this change coming quickly because the introduction of a new technology "is risky at this time. There is no perception of great urgency to force this development…. The principle of forming would have to change completely," said Pikulik.
One possible means of improving the sheet, he said, would consist of separating fines and fillers from white water and applying them on the sheet.
Eamer agreed that current forming technology is very good, but added that it is also very expensive because it operates at very low concentrations and requires huge infrastructure to handle, store and drain all of the water. Good formation at higher concentrations could potentially lower the high cost of the process.
In pressing, Pikulik would like to see the elimination of open draws, and instead have a sheet that would travel fully supported. Currently available techniques of doing this include the wet-web transfer system, the press belt, and double felted presses with a suction transfer between the felts. Paprican has tried the first two of these techniques. "This is a development that is overdue…. An open draw provides too much opportunity for the sheet to break, or damage."
Adapting technology from board makers, the shoe press is nowadays used to press the sheet at higher speeds. A shoe press consists of a press roll on one side and hydraulically loaded contoured shoe on the other. This technology is used in Port Hawkesbury. "Pressing does not need revolutionary development. This (technique) will provide sufficient pressing capability for years to come," Pikulik.
Drying is an area that would benefit from revolutionary changes. The Stora machine, for example, is 146 m long and its drying section has 89 steel revolving cylinders. Space requirement is extensive because conventional dryers have a relatively low drying rate at 15 kg/m2/h, Pikulik reported. High-intensity drying, a technique developed at Paprican, takes up about 1/3 the amount of space required by a conventional dryer, said Pikulik, and is capable of drying 150 kg/m2/h. He added that there remains a missed opportunity to improve the quality of the sheet in drying.
Generally, there is a fair amount of room for improvement for sizing and coating equipment. He cited novel application techniques of on-machine coating that can be found at the Pacifica Papers mill in Port Alberni, BC, and at the Malette mill in St. Raymond, QC.
Soft calendering, he said, may get wider use.
Risk is too costly
Because of the terrible financial performance of the industry and the fact that the financial performance of most companies is still significantly lower than the expectations of investors, research and development does not get the attention and the necessary funds to keep the Canadian industry highly competitive. Canada spends less than competing nations on R&D, averaging about .3% of sales. This is probably amongst the lowest in the world, said Eamer.
"R&D has one problem…you always see how much it costs but the benefit is much less obvious," said Pikulik.
High level risk in the extremely capital-intensive paper industry does not encourage risk-taking. Introduction of new technology is very slow. With a return on investment of about 3 to 4% and a stock index that has grown at half the rate of most other stocks, the industry has to be cautious.
The time frame of viability for the equipment is shrinking, said John White. As potential application of technology changes, we are not using the equipment as long. Benefits are displaced for shorter periods of time. "It is hard to make a purchase today and know it will be leading edge for the next five years."
The costly items are the big pieces of equipment that cause the industry problems. "A recovery furnace costs approximately $100 million. You're paying 10% interest on that," Eamer said. "Most pulp mil
ls are recovery limited. An electrostatic precipitator will cost you $10 million. You have to generate $1 million more in revenue to break even. Secondary treatment plants… some cost $40 to $60 million and they increase operating costs!"
"Replacing equipment is prohibitive," said Dave Ingram, mill manager, Western Pulp. "You can't make the money back. We haven't got return on investments we have already made."
Eamer said that one challenge is that the industry and its suppliers are continually consolidating. "We have fewer competitive suppliers who are looking at these issues,"said Eamer. We need to develop more solutions in Canada, he said, to optimize the peripheral economic benefits, such as seen in Scandinavia and Europe today.
Because of the expense the industry does not get many chances to go with really new equipment. This situation slows down development. Pikulik added that a mill cannot afford to take the chance and the cost to introduce a paper machine with three HID machines instead of scores of cylinders, and not have it pay off.
Government intervention could alleviate the cautiousness. "Government could help to eliminate some risk as done in Finland. Unfortunately, government does not have enough money either," said Pikulik.
Mills in developing countries have not had to add on, said Ingram. They had best available technology built in. Scandinavians have better equipment and newer technology, said Ingram, because of the tax situation. "Scandinavians will walk away from mills that are newer than ones we're running."
The industry might also see more new equipment if there were more ownership within the industry. Unlike the petrochemical industry that often develops, designs and builds its own equipment, and where the owners are very proud of their inventions, paper makers no longer do that. "Now we have only two or three machine builders in the industry," said Pikulik "and they don't always have the same interests."
For machine builders, the designs have to be viable and profitable. The problem is that the inventions are very quickly copied. You can protect the design with a patent, but a patent does not go far, Pikulik cautioned. The dilution head-box is a good example. All suppliers now have dilution technology. "In some areas of design, like drying for example, there is little incentive to offer new technology. If it works the competition would come along to copy the design, and perhaps improve upon it."
Infusion of ideas
It is obvious that certain improvements would be beneficial but are we talking necessity. Does existing equipment meet the needs of the industry? Is it up to par?
There was no consensus. On a somewhat positive note Pikulik said, "There are paper machines that are 50 years old that are paid for. Quality is good, though uniformity may leave something to be desired."
On the other hand, machines may be paid up, but the operating costs are high. "It's the only equipment we have," said Eamer, "but are we at minimum cost? No. So no it is not meeting our short-term needs."
Overall, the technical equipment used in North America is not up to par. "We are not using state-of-the-art equipment because we are not building new mills," said Eamer. "North America is starting to lose that race."
The key to getting the best out of the equipment we do use is the human implementation and manipulation. "There is quite a wide gap between the very best performance on similar equipment and average performance," said Eamer. It's not the equipment, but the people who use it.
The industry would benefit form an infusion of ideas from other industries. "We tend to rely on suppliers to look at other industries," said Eamer. However, the paper industry has to look at the more sophisticated expert systems, best practices and supply chain management (see sidebar) successfully employed in other industries.
Eamer said that the industry needs to listen to its customers more and bring their needs back into the shops. This strategy is used in other industries and is known as a customer pull mode. Traditionally, the paper industry makes the product and pushes it into the market. "What is more effective is if we know what the customer wants and they pull it out of us." More of this is happening, he said, but the process needs to be accelerated.
Domtar is using new strategies. Eamer said the company is looking at better business systems, and better base electronic management to assess where the value is and how to give better customer service.
Ingram said the industry in BC is still hampered and haunted by its dismal financial performance. But he believes that "the Canadian industry is well-educated in (the latest) pulp and paper technology. We evaluate them as they come along. But we can't buy it. We continually have a capital plan, and look for capital improvements…. But nobody, especially in BC, has the money… When we return to profitability we will be out buying again," said Ingram.
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Today is our 327th back in Iraq.
There have been no new casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan.
We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:
$ 1, 625, 681, 550, 000 .00
I read a curious thing yesterday. The United States Coast Guard is soon to end its mission in Afghanistan and head for home. Now, I don't know about you, but I am a geography geek....so I'm pretty sure Afghanistan is completely landlocked. As it turns out, small teams of Coasties have been inspecting all military cargo bound for the US for more than a decade. I guess technically they are guarding the coast, but I find this more indicative of how the war has become all-encompassing among our military forces.
PORTSMOUTH -- After more than a decade on the ground in the Middle East, the Coast Guard is pulling out of Afghanistan -- a small but symbolic change as the U.S. continues to scale back military operations there.
Since 2003, the service branch known for patrolling U.S. harbors and coasts has been sending small teams to landlocked bases in the deserts and mountains of Iraq and Afghanistan, where they inspected and certified military cargo being shipped back to the U.S.
Six months after the end of combat operations in Afghanistan -- with far fewer troops on the ground, and far less equipment being shipped back -- those services are no longer needed.
The last Coast Guard Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment, or RAID team, will return to Portsmouth today.
"RAID has been our most forward deployed unit during the wars, and now after 12 years, that mission is coming to an end," said Capt. Scott McKinley, head of the Coast Guard's Patrol Forces Southwest Asia Branch, based in Portsmouth. "A couple months ago, it became apparent to the Army we were no longer needed."
The 15-member RAID team deployed to Kuwait nine months ago and spent most of that time traveling to forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan to assist Army units preparing to leave. The team is scheduled to touch down at Norfolk International Airport this morning then head to the Coast Guard station in Portsmouth for a formal debriefing.
But that's shipments coming back home. I've run across another story that indicates that maybe the Coasties should have been inspecting something else. War is a messy business, and that includes things like finance, contracting, and fraud, too. While we generally knew civilian contractors were all out trying to make a fast buck, it turns out that some unscrupulous soldiers were doing that on the side while at war.
U.S. Army Specialist Stephanie Charboneau sat at the center of a complex trucking network in Forward Operating Base Fenty near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border that distributed daily tens of thousands of gallons of what troops called �liquid gold�: the refined petroleum that fueled the international coalition�s vehicles, planes, and generators.
A prominent sign in the base read: �The Army Won�t Go If The Fuel Don�t Flow.� But Charboneau, 31, a mother of two from Washington state, felt alienated after a supervisor�s harsh rebuke. Her work was a dreary routine of recording fuel deliveries in a computer and escorting trucks past a gate. But it was soon to take a dark turn into high-value crime.
She began an affair with a civilian, Jonathan Hightower, who worked for a Pentagon contractor that distributed fuel from Fenty, and one day in March 2010 he told her about �this thing going on� at other U.S. military bases around Afghanistan, she recalled in a recent telephone interview.
Troops were selling the U.S. military�s fuel to Afghan locals on the side, and pocketing the proceeds. When Hightower suggested they start doing the same, Charboneau said, she agreed.
In so doing, Charboneau contributed to thefts by U.S. military personnel of at least $15 million worth of fuel since the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan. And eventually she became one of at least 115 enlisted personnel and military officers convicted since 2005 of committing theft, bribery, and contract-rigging crimes valued at $52 million during their deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a comprehensive tally of court records by the Center for Public Integrity.
Many of these crimes grew out of shortcomings in the military�s management of the deployments that experts say are still present: a heavy dependence on cash transactions, a hasty award process for high-value contracts, loose and harried oversight within the ranks, and a regional culture of corruption that proved seductive to the Americans troops transplanted there.
Charboneau, whose Facebook posts reveal a bright-eyed woman with a shoulder tattoo and a huge grin, snuggling with pets and celebrating the 2015 New Year with her children in Seattle Seahawks jerseys, now sits in Carswell federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas, serving a seven-year sentence for her crime.
Additional crimes by military personnel are still under investigation, and some court records remain partly under seal. The magnitude of additional losses from fraud, waste, and abuse by contractors, civilians, and allied foreign troops in Afghanistan has never been tallied, but officials probing such crimes say the total is in the billions of dollars. And those who investigate and prosecute military wrongdoing say the convictions so far constitute a small portion of the crimes they think were committed by U.S. military personnel in the two countries.
We'll shift gears to the home front...and here's a story that I actually have some first-hand experience in. More than two decades ago now, I went to Northeastern University on a certificate program to become an Emergency Medical Technician. (Circa 1993). In my class was a returning veteran from the first go-round in Iraq and Kuwait. He had been a medic while in-service, and was going for his civilian certification. As it turns out, even though he was at war and worked on persons with injuries we could only imagine...none of his military certifications crossed over to the post-war world. In essence, his experience counted for nothing because he didn't have the right piece of paper. The situation has never been remedied...and medics returning from Iraq and Afghanistan now are experiencing the same roadblocks.
NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. -- In four deployments as an Army combat medic to some of the most dangerous corners of Iraq and Afghanistan, Joe Carney had seen the worst of war -- bullet wounds, severed limbs, shrapnel. He saved lives amid bombs and gunfire, his emergency room often a patch of dirt in the desert or a rocky mountainside. None of that mattered when he left the Army three years ago.
"I think the services should do a better job because at the end of the day, your last day in the Army, the last day in the Navy, you're out, no one cares about you," he said. "What I tell people who are planning to get out is, you have to have a plan."
Like many medics and Navy corpsmen, the U.S. military's front-line medical professionals, Carney's skills translated to almost nothing in the civilian world.
He grew up watching "M.A.S.H." and "ER" with his parents and was drawn to emergency medical work as a young boy. That led him to join the Army at 19 and serve as a combat medic for 10 years. Nearly half of that time was spent deployed in war zones.
But despite his extensive training, he lacked state licensing certificates and he struggled to find a job at his skill level. He settled on a job as an emergency room technician, where he was allowed to do little beyond administer oxygen and take blood pressure readings.
"It was a good reality check," he said. "You know you're not in the military no more. The hard part was standing back when you've got these trauma situations."
It's a common story with medics and corpsmen, who have long had difficulty finding civilian medical work that matches their training.
"It is an asset that's being wasted because they're highly skilled in what they do," said Dr. Michael Bellino, an emergency physician who mentors Carney at the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Center in North Chicago, Ill. "I'd trust him with taking care of my family."
Carney, 32, doesn't have to stand back anymore. For the past two years, he has been working in a fledgling program that offers medics and corpsmen appropriate health care employment and at the same time, builds up the ranks at the Department of Veterans Affairs -- which is struggling mightily to keep up with demand. He and about 45 other veterans are working as Intermediate Care Technicians, a role invented for the VA program. Carney is also in a pilot program to prepare ICTs to become physician's assistants, a more advanced, higher-paying job.
I know of a program where civilians becoming paramedics spend hundreds of dollars to work in NYC for two weeks - this gives them exposure to the kind of trauma that military medics see every day. There really is a lack of common sense regarding these things, isn't there?
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BISMARCK, N.D. - While people were gathering at the national capitol, they also gathered at the state capitol in Bismarck Saturday in a march to address gun violence in schools.
Around 100 people gathered just steps from the North Dakota state capitol Saturday afternoon to support the March for Our Lives movement.
People of all ages showed up holding different signs. One person, who stood silently in the crowd, held up a Make America Great Again Sign.
Others say they're gun owners, who want to keep their guns, but say there does need to be some sort of change.
"The idea that people are like it's such a black and white no gun control or all we'll take them all away I'm like that's not really the dialogue, the dialogue is like in a democracy where are we going to compromise?" attendee Tempe O'Kun said.
Organizers say this is not a political action, but a call to action for legislators to keep kids safe.
One Army veteran and hunter in attendance says he doesn't want to lose his gun, but wants to protect kids in schools.
A march around the capitol grounds was cancelled because of the snow and ice.


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Disney's "It's A Small World" iPhone - iPad App is a Charming Tribute to Disneyland Beloved Attraction
Disney released recently on the iTunes Appstore a new iPhone - iPad application called "It's a Small World", and this new app is a lovely, charming tribute to Disneyland beloved attraction.
Let's be clear from the start: this is an application designed as an interactive app for very young children. Still, all of you who love Mary Blair's attraction and who are always young at heart - and own an iPhone or iPad or iPod Touch - should enjoy the app. Why? Because they've succeed, i think, to find back the original childhood spirit of the ride. It's not perfect, but you can feel that the guys who developed the application tried their best to find back this "original spirit".
One of the great things is all the interactive part: almost wherever you "touch" elements of each image something is happening, the characters are moving, a crocodile goes out of the water, a dragon breath fire, etc... until the final where you launch your own fireworks by taps in the night sky. So, basically, the app is as much animated as the ride is!
There is 15 "chapters" in the app, and each one transport you, just like in the ride, in a different country or continent. In most of them you'll find Mary Blair famous color tones, and even reminiscences of her style. Here is screen captures of some of them, and although they don't pay totally justice to how it looks when you're experiencing the app, i'm sure you will identify which country / continent they are showing.
As i've told you the interactive part is charming... for instance in this chapter inspired by the jungle scene of the ride the page will look like this when it appears...
But if you tap on the crocodile or in the black area where you see the glowing eyes then the jungle animals appear, the hippo goes out of water, etc...
Each image is also slowly moving, almost as the same pace than the boat in the ride, giving you the feeling to discover each scene like you do when you're in the ride!
Again, it's a read along / sing along app for young children, but if you download it you'll be surprised how charming it is. The app cost $3.99 or 2.99€ on the Appstore, and knowing all the work it is to develop an app as i create applications also myself as you know, i can tell you that it's a fair price. And no need to say that if you have young children they will love it! Here is the iTunes direct link for those who are interested. There is an iPhone version of the app but of course if you own an iPad it looks even better on it. Finally, Disney also released a promotional video that you can see below.
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The Majestic Theatre was built in 1853 and was originally known as the Masonic Opera House. Since its inception, the Majestic Theatre has been continuously operating and to this day, offers residents and visitors high-quality entertainment. The historic Majestic Theatre has hosted such legends as Milton Berle, Sophie Tucker, Laurel & Hardy and many others. The theatre continues to offer live productions, concerts, films, tours and is also available as a rental venue.


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Murray State, Auburn University and University of North Alabama Hold Top Three Spots in the Cabela's School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia Race
by: Amanda Gutierrez,
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(Dec 13, 2016 - San Antonio, TX) The Association of Collegiate Anglers has released the first rankings of the 2017 Cabela's Collegiate Bass
School of the Year presented by Abu Garcia race, and it comes as no surprise to college fishing fans to see some of the top fishing schools in the nation holding the top three spots. With over four months and 12 events now completed, the Murray State University bass team has taken an early lead in the season long quest to be crowned the best fishing team in the nation.
The Murray State University Bass team has long been a contender since the beginning of the Cabela's School of the Year program, and by all accounts has always had their eye on winning the Cabela's School of the Year title.
Ryan Lancaster, President of the Murray State bass team, said, "Leading the Cabela's School of the Year points race this early in the year is surreal. Typically, we find ourselves somewhere between 15th and 25th in the race going into Christmas break. However, this fall we have been extremely fortunate and managed to put together some really high finishes. The Murray State Bass Anglers, as a whole, have fished extremely well this fall. We have been fortunate enough to win the last four sanctioned school-run tournaments that we have entered, including two on the same weekend. Now we move into Christmas break with momentum and high hopes to continue our winning streak into the spring season."
About the ACA
The Association of Collegiate Anglers, a division of Careco TV, is a sanctioning body developed to facilitate growth, development, and structure within competitive collegiate bass fishing. The ACA provides support to dozens of school operated regional events nationwide and owns the Cabela's Collegiate Bass Fishing Series, the largest participatory collegiate tournament circuit in the country. With dedicated collegiate fishing programming on several television networks, four nationally televised collegiate bass fishing events, and thousands of members, the ACA is the leader in competitive collegiate bass fishing. For more information on the ACA, or the Cabela's Collegiate Bass Fishing Series, visit www.CollegiateBassChampionship.com.


SAN JOSE DEL CABO, MEXICO – Mexican naval authorities were patrolling the beaches along Baja California's southern tip after a shark bit a 34-year-old Colorado man, officials said Wednesday.
The man was surfing Tuesday at San Luis beach, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of San Jose del Cabo on the Gulf of California, when he felt something bite his left foot, emergency official Francisco Cota said. The man shouted to his friends, who helped him out of the water.
Cota said sharks have been seen in the region since April, but that municipal police officers stationed on the beach have begun warning visitors that they may be lurking in the area.
Since the attack, other local officials have begun monitoring the area and warning people to stay out of the water. Naval officials have also started patrolling deeper waters just off the coast, searching for sharks.
Officials said they had no reports of sharks at the popular tourist beaches of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo.
However, authorities have warned people away from the beaches of San Luis, Santa Elena and Zacatitos, popular with residents of nearby areas as well as tourists interested in adventure excursions and water sports.
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Around seven o'clock this morning, June 20, 2005, Frank Johnson, fifties from Colorado, paddled out by himself to grab a few waves at a break just north of Nine Palms on the east cape of Southern Baja.
I climbed out of my tent to check the waves. The sun did its early morning job as well as the southwest swell of three to four feet. My friend, Todd Darcel, sat awake in his tent, looking out the screen door. The glassy six-foot faces caused a quick brushing of the teeth, sunscreen, and I was on my way to the water. Todd worked a bit slower at camp.
As I stretched a bit, I noticed a guy running down the beach toward me, gaining the paddle out spot in no time. I looked at Todd walking down and back at this guy, Bodie Johansson, 24 of Telluride, CO.
I asked what was going on whereupon he replied that a guy was just bitten by a shark at the next spot up, called "shark fin" by another surfer. He figured I could tell the three guys in the water at Nine Palms that there's an awful lot of blood out there, which I managed to do quickly.
The injury, according to Bodie and other sources, came on the foot and ankle, hitting twice in quick succession. Frank Johnson began yelling for help, even waking my friend Todd.
When Bodie heard Frank yelling, he spotted him paddling in and pulled him from the water. Frank was rushed to San Jose del Cabo for medical attention after a group of campers loaded him in a truck with a tourniquet.
No other follow up reports are available at this time.
As far as prior attacks on this coast are concerned, locals living in the area attest to no other instances.
As frequent area visitor Sean Collins says,"on two separate occasions over the years I've seen single 5-6 foot bull sharks cruising in very shallow water just a few feet off the beach in this exact same area. They were very easy to see as the road was right above them. Kinda gives you the jitters, as I also like to surf this area alone quite a bit. Probably a good idea to not surf at dawn or dusk when the bait fish are on the menu."
As a Floridian, I can guess the "six foot" shark mistook Frank's foot for baitfish in the dawn, fairly turbulent water, despite its normal clarity.


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Artists: apply for the State of the Art Gallery Award
by janet | posted in: Events & Exhibitions | 0
One talented up-and-coming artist has the chance to win a R10 000 cash award and a Solo Exhibition in 2019 with StateoftheART Gallery
State of the Art Gallery has just launched the State Of The Art Gallery Award, a visual arts prize aimed at uncovering emerging South African talent. Entry is open to all artists who are permanently resident in South Africa, aged 18 years and older, and who have not yet had a solo exhibition with a commercial gallery.
Local judges will choose finalists whose work will go on show in a group exhibition at our Cape Town gallery in September 2018 for a final round of judging.
All shortlisted artists will have the opportunity to join StateoftheART as one of our featured artists. The overall winner of the StateoftheART Gallery Award will be announced before the conclusion of the Group Finalist's Exhibition and receive a R10 000 cash prize and solo exhibition.
The Award is aimed at artists working in one or more of the following media: drawing, printmaking, painting, photography, digital art, and sculpture.
Performance, video and sound art are excluded.
Entry must be made online through the StateoftheART Gallery website and will open on 01 February 2018 and close at midnight on 15 July 2018 at http://bit.ly/SOTAAward
All entrants are required to submit a minimum of four individual works which define their theme, signature and aesthetic as an artist. Entry is free.
For more information and competition rules please visit the website athttp://bit.ly/AwardRules , email Andrea Stallbom at award@stateoftheart-gallery.com or contact gallery director Jennifer Reynolds on 0724709272
Go to https://www.stateoftheart-gallery.com/gallery-award and http://www.facebook.com/stateoftheartgalleryaward for all of the details and rules.


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A: You need to change your SQL query to return the string using a JOIN.

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Her story tells the tale of a young girl's coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet—a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence.
In the roiling summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira is an aspiring ballerina in the romantic, highly competitive world of New York City ballet.
Enduring the mess of her parent's divorce, she finds escape in dance—the rigorous hours of practice, the exquisite beauty, the precision of movement, the obsessive perfectionism.
Ballet offers her control, power, and the promise of glory.
It also introduces her to forty-seven-year-old Maurice DuPont, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who becomes her mentor.
Over the course of three years, Mira is accepted into the prestigious School of American Ballet run by the legendary George Balanchine, and eventually becomes one of "Mr. B's girls"—a dancer of rare talent chosen for greatness.
As she ascends higher in the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, touching dark places within herself and sparking unexpected desires that will upend both their lives.
In the present day, Kate, a professor of dance at a Midwestern college, embarks on a risky affair with a student that threatens to obliterate her career and capsizes the new life she has painstakingly created for her reinvented self.
When she receives a letter from a man she's long thought dead, Kate is hurled back into the dramas of a past she thought she had left behind.


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Ohio State's Trey Sermon stepping into spotlight
Sporting Green // College Sports
By Mitch Stacy Jan. 6, 2021 Updated: Jan. 6, 2021 8:08 p.m.
Ohio State's Trey Sermon has rushed for 636 yards with four TDs, averaging 9 yards per carry, in his past three games.
Photo: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images
COLUMBUS, Ohio — During the first four games of Ohio State's pandemic-shortened season, transfer running back Trey Sermon was easy to overlook on a team full of big names and future NFL draft picks.
Nobody is overlooking him now. Astonishing efforts in the past two games — including a 331-yard, two-touchdown performance in the Big Ten championship game that earned him a Twitter shout-out from LeBron James — have brought Sermon the level of attention he sought while playing three solid years at Oklahoma.
"When I came here, my goal was to do whatever I can to help this team out and play for a national championship," Sermon said this week as the Buckeyes prepared to play top-ranked Alabama in the title game on Monday night. "It's all happened, and it does kind of seem like a dream."
More people learned Sermon's name last weekend when he rushed for 193 yards and a TD and caught four passes for 61 yards in Ohio State's 49-28 victory over Clemson in a College Football Playoff semifinal.
Sermon, who was recruited by Ohio State as a prep player, arrived in Columbus with some bona fides.
He was the Big 12's Offensive Freshman of the Year in 2017, scoring his first touchdown at Ohio Stadium on a pass from Baker Mayfield in a win over the Buckeyes. Joining Kyler Murray in the Sooners' backfield in 2018, he had his best season, rushing for 947 yards and scoring 13 touchdowns.
In his junior year, Sermon had to fight for playing time before his season was cut short by a knee injury in the ninth game. He graduated from Oklahoma so he could transfer without sitting out, and continued to rehab his knee as the Big Ten stopped and started again because of the pandemic.
Playing behind Master Teague III in the first four games, Sermon had 232 rushing yards and zero touchdowns. In the past three games, he's rolled up 636 yards with four TDs, averaging 9.1 yards per carry.
"The best part about Trey is when all that was going on, he never came into my office, never complained, never said, 'I need more carries,' none of that stuff," head coach Ryan Day said. "Just kept his mouth shut and kept going to work. I think that is the best part of this whole story, is he just kept going every single day to work and never said anything about it. And now he's playing at a high, high level."
Mitch Stacy is an Associated Press writer.


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Sci-Fi as a Religion?
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8:19-20
If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, and if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, "Let us follow other gods" (gods you have not known) "and let us worship them," you must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all your soul. It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. That prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
Yesterday, I wrote about SBNR, Spiritual But Not Religious, meaning a variety of things along the lines of the occult and various New Age religions. One of those religions that was listed by Wikipedia was "science fiction." My mind went to the documentary, The Science Fiction Makers which includes Brenton Dickieson of A Pilgrim in Narnia. The documentary came out about a year ago and is now available on Youtube. The trailer is below. The full length documentary is one hour thirty minutes and a few seconds.
The documentary provides the origin of Science Fiction in the work of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. They discuss how growing up in a predominant Christian background she was challenged when she in her friends were stuck in a country house one unusually damp summer. The leader of the group suggested a ghost story telling contest and for her contribution Mary Shelley dreamed up Frankenstein with the thoughts of whether Dr. Frankenstein should have done what he did and what happens when the lack of Christian moral values makes a creature into a monster. By the way, Mary Shelley was born Mary Wollstonecraft. She was the daughter of the philosopher and early feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft (Link to philosophy discussion HERE).
Yet, the documentary delves into three authors of Christian Science Fiction, Victor Rousseau, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle.
While many would cast Jules Verne and H. G. Wells into the role of the fathers of science fiction, the documentary mentions them, but in terms of a godless future. Victor Rousseau's contribution to science fiction is really an answer to the H. G. Wells dystopian story When the Sleeper Awakes. In the Wells story, the sleeper awakes after 200 years of sleeping, compared to Rip van Winkle's 20 years. He is seen as a savior for a world that only knows of science, a totally dystopian existence and they hope that the sleeper can help them reset the clock back 200 years so that they do not make the same mistake, but Christianity is not part of the solution. What they get is pure hopelessness. Maybe that synopsis is similar to the reviews of the day and the reason it is the least known work of Wells.
But in Victor Rousseau's book, The Messiah of the Cylinder, a Christian is cryogenically captured, by trickery, and awakens in the same type dystopian science world, but now the sleeper knows of Jesus; he knows of Love; he knows of Hope and a strong moral code that had been lost in a belief in pure science.
The documentary went on to discuss the C. S. Lewis trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. Even The Screwtape Letters ties into these stories. From there, the documentary concludes with Madeleine L'Engle with her book A Wrinkle in Time, followed by A Wind in the Door and others in that series. (Think Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which, and Mrs. Whatsit and the birth of the Tesseract.) The conclusion was that strong Christian Science Fiction writers may be hard to come by in that these authors were largely influenced by Wells, Verne, and George MacDonald. Not many people read such literature these days. Predominantly these authors wrote in Science Fiction Fantasy with a moral code twist that clearly depicts Christianity or at least the Christian worldview.
But the key here is that in many of these books, there are parallels to our present existence. As Dr. Malcolm Guite suggests in the trailer, a mirror in which we see our present time. The dystopian worlds of Wells as mentioned above and George Orwell in 1984 eliminate any purpose in life, and there is no mention of God or any other god. The documentary basically places Scientism as the only religion.
Are we not there already, in many respects? We have a COVID 19 virus pandemic and scientists must save us. We have a Climate Change problem and scientists must save us. And even then, only the scientists that parrot what the technologically uneducated politicians says are allowed to speak as to answers to these and other issues. Maybe it is not Scientism, but Politicism? But politicians lie, and scientists can only say what they have discovered. Scientists paid by politicians can make a politician's lies seem plausible but lies none the less. So why do we reject the God who Created the heavens and the earth for totally impotent and untruthful and unreliable humans?
But this essay started with "science fiction" as a religion. Now we prefer something that incorporates, in some cases, fake science, or at least scientific supposition, to something that is true and real. If you do not think science fiction is not a religion, you have not heard of the conventions and the practice of cosplay (dressing in a costume of an anime, sci-fi, or television/movie character and role playing that character). Even in cosplay for a few hours, you are escaping this world for another. You are worshipping and praising the other world as being preferred to this one. Yet, with so much of the science fiction in movies ignoring the only source of salvation, is this a reason to make it a religion? After all, the source of these alternate universes is in the imagination of flawed people. Most of this science fiction gives no answers to such questions as what moral code to live by or what is our purpose for existence.
Those can be found in Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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New Chamber Music at the Calumet Art Center
Friday, August 3, 2012, 7:30 pm, $8
The 2012 New Chamber music Concert at the Calumet Art Center in Calumet Michigan, will feature some of the composers and performing artists from last year as well as some new additions. Returning performers include Sylvia Ensminger, violin, Paul Seitz, viola, Pat Quimby, cello, Tom Bjoraker, percussion, Bryan Suits, flute, Robyn Johnson, clarinet, Jon Enseminger, piano, Christine Seitz, soprano and John Peiffer, horn and baritone voice. Joining these returning performers will be Janis Shier Peterson and Michael Adler, violins, and Alexandra Signor, trumpet. Janis is well known as an outstanding music educator in Marquette, conductor of the Blue Lake International Youth Orchestra and as concert master of the Marquette Symphony. Michael Adler is a student in Physics and Applied Computatinal Mathematics at MTU and is active in the Keweenaw and Marquette Symphonies and other musical activities. Michigan native and NMU alum Alexandra (Lexie) Signor is a member of the University of Missouri Faculty Brass Quintet and co-lead trumpet for the MU Concert Jazz Band.
We will again be performing very recent compositions, including several world premieres, by composers with ties to the Upper Peninsula. Anticipated world premieres include a new (2012) piece for marimba and strings composed by Tom Bjoraker, and a new (2012) work by Ishpeming composer Brandon Nelson, commissioned by Ms. Signor, for trumpet, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano, Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, piano, bass and drums, a new work for viola and piano by Sylvia Ensminger and a vocal duet with clarinet and piano by John Peiffer. In addition, we plan to perform music composed in 2011-12 by Houghton native (and recent graduate from Amherst College) Robert Suits, plus the Michigan premieres of Within Your Private Sky for solo marimba by Paul Seitz (2008) and other recent pieces. Of course, some of these pieces are still being written, so the program information will be updated as we approach the date of the concert. Admission to the event is $8.00.
We are ALSO offering a WORKSHOP for Middle School through High School Students on August 2 at 10 am. Please click link, below, for more information:
WORKSHOP: Improvisation - Making New Music
TENTATIVE August 3 Concert PROGRAM:
Reflecting, for viola and piano, by Nathan R. Barber^
Reconciliation, for soprano and piano, by Robert Suits^
Riverside, for string quartet, by Robert Suits^
Within Your Private Sky, for marimba solo, by Paul Seitz^
Mission, for marimba and string quartet, by Thomas Bjoraker*
Curious Elision, for viola and piano, by Sylvia Ensminger*
Dusk Refrains Over Quincy Mine, for trumpet and sextet, by Brandon Nelson*
A Sketch for Summer, for trumpet and piano, by Robert Suits^
Dance Again Medley, by John Peiffer*
Just Let Go, for trumpet, horn, trombone, piano, bass and drums, by Alexandra M. Signor*
* indicates world premiere
^ indicates Michigan premiere
A slide show of photos from the 2011 rehearsals and concert are posted, below.


The Sun – radiant energy, the essential self, who our spirit needs us to be.
The Moon – reactive energy, the instinctive, unconscious self.
Mercury – mental energy, conscious thought, communication, our style of learning.
Venus – love energy, how we relate to others, how we recognize love.
Mars – motivating energy, the energy with which we do things.
Jupiter – expansive energy, how we develop and grow, how we give and receive.
Saturn – structuring energy, how we relate to authority, discipline, necessities, fears.
Chiron – catalyst energy, how our experience of pain helps to heal others.
Uranus – electrical energy, freedom, separation, loss, where we tend to feel trapped.
Neptune – dissolving energy, our intuition and our different ways of interpreting it.
Pluto – transformative energy, power for self-change, what feels important, urge to control.


In this series historical and contemporary artists are painted using their child and baby photographs as references. Currently working on this project. More to come.
The portraits are always subject to the paint and depict a visceral love for its materiality. There is a playfulness in the paintings seen through the tension of the children's innocence and the suggestion of their adult lives. Tragedy and guilt contend with hope and goodness, producing a work that is just as much about the present as it is about the past. Drawing on themes of time, memory, beauty, and loss, paint is used to explore, celebrate, record, remember, and forget.


Every business needs an active sales team. Regardless of the field you're in, sales is involved in one form or another. Sales personnel are some of the most mobile professionals in the job market.
For an employer or manager, getting the right salespeople can be quite the task. Retaining them can be an even tougher task.
Here are a few tactics you can use to ensure your sales team attain their Key Performance Indicators and stay in your organization for a long period.
Unfortunately, many salespeople feel like they are just there to make money. While this is partially true, they are more than just money minting machines at your organization.
Letting them tap into the company's vision can help them sell more t, as well as stay to see their efforts bear fruits. When they have the company vision at mind, they will feel like they are directly contributing to the growth of the company.
Many graduates leave the education system without any practical knowledge in their area of expertise. While this is a sad realization, it is the reality.
To have an effective sales team, you should have them take up training to help them get better results.
You can email our General manager Ms. Muthoni Ndegwa at muthoni@corporatestaffing.co.ke for more information on our Sales Training Workshop and how it can directly improve your company's sales.
Money is what is mostly offered as an incentive in many organizations. Many salespeople are thought to be driven by money. This, however, is not always the case. There are salespeople who are driven by other incentives.
You can, for instance, offer a leadership position to a promising salesperson with leadership qualities.
When your salespeople know they are working for more than just money, they will likely stick around and work harder at achieving recognition and consequently growing the business.
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Whether you manage a large company or an upcoming one, you should invest in a strong sales team. When your sales team is equipped with the right information and training, they will help grow both the company and themselves.
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Join us on April 23 for presentations about a variety of kickstarter fundraising projects in public radio. During the hour, we will hear the backstory behind each project, the kickstarter goals and processes, results, and insights from the teams behind each initiative. WDET will be presenting on their Framed by WDET project, which was a multi-platform effort that included a multimedia exhibition and printed book. We will be hearing about the fundraising efforts behind re-launching Gothamist, LAist, and DCist from WNYC, KPCC and WAMU.
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Martin Scorsese Restores Classic Films
November 4, 2010 12:00 am by Isamary Ondé
A newly restored version of Federico Fellini's classic film "La Dolce Vita" was unveiled at the Rome Film Festival Saturday by American director Martin Scorsese, according to the Associated Press.
"La Dolce Vita," Fellini's most praised film, has been an inspiration to many of today's excelling directors through its disobedience to the filmmaking formula of its time and critique of a decadent, hedonistic society.
Additionally, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards and ranked 11th of "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" by Empire magazine this year. It is no surprise then that the film has been brought to the silver screen once again, and in time for the 50th anniversary of its release.
During the reveal of the renovated film, Scorsese shared the movie's influential effect on him as a director and exerted his duty to show future generations an example of great cinematic work.
"'La Dolce Vita,'" Scorsese said during a press conference at the film festival, "gave us the freedom to go ahead and break open cinematic narratives" and create "a spectacle of life, a spectacle of a society, a culture – and a satire."
"La Dolce Vita" is the second of several films that Scorsese, along with fashion label Gucci, which has donated $1.5 million to his film foundation, will renovate.
In May, Scorsese revealed a restored version of Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo" ("The Leopard"), which was received gleefully at the Cannes Film Festival where it was shown.
Also revealed at Cannes were some of the great classic films Scorsese's film foundation will restore in the future: Visconti's "Senso," Michaelangelo Antonioni's "Le Amiche," Barbara Loden's "Wanda" and John Cassavetes' "A Woman Under the Influence."
In addition to these future projects, Scorsese will also release a DVD collection of his picks of Elia Kazan films. The collection will also include a documentary of Kazan's life, produced and presented by Scorsese.
Kazan is one of the most beloved and notable Broadway and Hollywood directors, famous for displaying the hot button issues of contemporary society in his films. Scorsese's collection of Kazan's films will be available on Nov. 9.


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rm (zkratka pro , tj. odstranit) je v informatice příkaz používaný v unixových systémech pro smazání souboru (nebo adresářového stromu).

Přepínače
 -f : nedotazovat se před odstraněním souborů určených jen pro čtení, ignoruje neexistující soubory
 -r : rekurzivní odstranění souborů v adresáři
 -i : dotaz zda se má soubor nebo adresář odstranit
 -v : popisuje, co právě dělá

Zápis rm -rf / nebo rm -rf * se často vyskytuje v anekdotách o Unixu. V případě, že by tento příkaz byl zadán superuživatelem, způsobil by smazání všech dat na připojených discích s právem zápisu.

V případě, že použijeme rm na smazání symbolického odkazu, bude smazán pouze odkaz a data (resp. soubor) na který symlink odkazoval, zůstanou nedotčená.

Práva
Pro většinu systémových souborů platí, že pro jejich odstranění potřebujeme práva zápisu na jejich nadřazenou složku. Může být matoucí, že pro odstranění souboru nepotřebujeme přímo právo zápisu k souboru samotnému. Pro odstranění složky (rm -r) musíme obsah vymazat rekurzivně. Proto je nutné mít právo pro zápis i mazání adresáře (jestliže není prázdný), stejně tak je nutné mít tyto práva pro podsložky (neprázdné), což v některých případech vede ke zvláštní situaci, kdy nemůže být podsložka odstraněna proto, že uživatel nemá práva pro zápis. Tedy ani pro odstranění souborů v podsložce. Toto neplatí v případě, že je podsložka prázdná.

Jestliže je soubor v adresáři s nastaveným sticky bitem, poté je pro odstranění nutné, aby uživatel byl zároveň i majitelem.

Zajímavost
Společnost Sun zavedla ochranu pro příkaz rm -rf / v operačním systému Solaris 10. Při pokusu o provedení příkazu systém oznámí, že odstranění není povoleno.

rm z projektu GNU odmítne vykonat příkaz rm -rf /, jestliže je spuštěno s parametrem --preserve-root, který je od GNU Core Utilities 6.4 implicitně nastaven.

Reference

Externí odkazy

 rm – dokumentace rm v Single UNIX Specification

Standardní unixové příkazy

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Arts and Culture in Northern Ireland (2016) will report on the characteristics and behaviours of adults attending and participating in arts and culture in Northern Ireland based on the findings of an omnibus survey of the resident adult population. The report will form part of the Arts Council's Official Statistics output for 2016/17.
The Annual Funding Survey Provides details on the activities and outputs of core funded arts organisations each year. Data gathered on our investments informs evaluations, funding decisions and future strategy. We will make this data available as an Official Statistic in 2016/17.
In collaboration with the Public Health Agency, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland will manage a three year evaluation of its pioneering Young People and Wellbeing Programme which aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people by engagement in high quality arts.


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'Catamancer' is the all-cat 'Hearthstone' you've been waiting for
Gallery: 'Catamancer' is the all-cat 'Hearthstone' you've been waiting for
Blizzard's digital collectible card game Hearthstone is already a hit. But cats -- furry, adorable, occasionally cantankerous -- are also quite popular. So why aren't there more cats in Hearthstone?
That's a question for Blizzard to answer. In the meantime though, indie developer Frostbolt Games is aiming to deliver the next best thing with Catamancer, a planned online multiplayer title which bills itself as "the one and only cat themed collectible card game!"
That's definitely a niche, though one we're surprised that the internet hadn't already filled. Catamancer allows players to "summon Black Panthers and White Tigers, Meowls and Mewsicians or even mythical units like Catdalf the Grey or Cathulhu," per the Dutch developer's site.
Unlike Hearthstone, Catamancer plays out on a chess-like grid, but with cat-like behaviour influencing play mechanics. Units occupy space on the "field", but can be jumped over, scared back, or coaxed towards you. Real cats can be standoffish, so appropriately enough neutral virtual kitties can be summoned that affect the map but belong to neither player in a match. Cat cards can even hide beneath boxes to "play ultimate mind games" with your opponent (and if that doesn't mean forcing them to go look at the widdle kitty playing in the box!, it'll be a missed opportunity). There's some twisted humour to spot too -- the Veterinarian card can "neuter" a rival unit. Ouch.
Like most CCGs, digital or not, the rules could get complicated but Frostbolt aims to put the "emphasis on fun, strategy and cats". That last part is clearly the most important. Everything in the game, from playable cards to spells, is based on our beloved felines and the result is shaping up to be, in short, straight up adorable.
Unit cards include the likes of the Social Shorthair ("a classic that fits into any deck. Plus, he loves to take a nap on your lap"), while Defenders -- which hold control of three fields around them, forcing enemy units to either retreat or spend their attack turn on the defender -- feature mighty warriors such as the White Tiger and the, err, Fluffy Cat.
The Kickstarter campaign is seeking €16,400 (£11,800), which in addition to funding development is also going towards producing custom art for each card. Frostbolt is looking to create more than 100 cards for the game to launch with. As with most crowdfunding efforts, rewards scale up the more you're willing to pledge in support, but for the true crazy cat person, the €500 (£360) tier is likely to be the sweet spot -- it allows you to immortalise your own fuzzy companion in the game.
Like Hearthstone, the finished product intends to be free-to-play, but its makers will sell booster packs of cards to customise your deck. Catamancer is currently targeting a July 2016 debut.
The 2019 Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV isn't the hybrid SUV you've been waiting for
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The online obsessives who wait years for sequels that may never happen


Pledis Entertainment posted a teaser picture for Orange Caramel's comeback on their website.
As you probably know, Orange Caramel is a sub group of After School with the members Nana, Raina and Lizzy. "Magic Girl", from their first mini album, showed off their cheerful and retro concept.
Their comeback is dated for next week on November 18.


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La trentaduesima edizione della gara maschile Junior dei Campionati del mondo di ciclocross 2010 si svolse il 30 gennaio 2010 con partenza ed arrivo a Tábor, nella Repubblica Ceca, su un percorso iniziale di 160 m più un circuito di 3,1 km da ripetere 5 volte per un totale di 15,66 km. La vittoria fu appannaggio del ceco Tomas Paprstka, il quale terminò la gara in 40'30", precedendo il francese Julian Alaphilippe e l'olandese Emiel Dolfsma.

I ciclisti che presero il via furono 61, dei quali 59 completarono la gara.

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As much as we love dining out, my favorite part of the week is cooking Sunday supper with Nick. We usually reserve this day for any slow-cooking or soups / stews, and start early so that the aromas fill the house by the time afternoon sports are on. This weekend we made both my favorite dutch oven crusty bread and white chicken chili – the chili is easy enough for beginners, takes under an hour, and boy is it flavorful! Nick likes his brunch-style topped with a sunny side up egg. Read on below for the recipes!
I'm also partnering today with Macy's registry to share some of our favorite, useful registry-friendly items! Snapchat friends probably see our Le Creuset cast iron oven on the regular, producing stews, roasts, bread, and so much more. It's quite heavy, so an added benefit of use is an extra arm workout!
Martha Stewart also makes a more affordable cast-iron pot collection that my mom uses and recommends. Our pot was thanks to a generous friend Liz who makes yummy "dutch oven crusty bread." It's soft on the inside, just perfect while warm with a pat of butter or olive oil. She got her pot as a wedding gift with the bread recipe card inside, and passed the tradition on to me since I always asked her to make it! We couldn't resist baking a loaf to go with dinner (recipe here; instructional video here) – I'm no baker, but this is the simplest bread you'll ever make. Just make sure to use instant yeast per the recipe, or proof your non-instant yeast first.
On to the chili – I love a good recipe that serves as a guideline, but can easily be adapted for individual tastes or for vegetarian friends (try veggie broth instead of chicken; extra beans and veggies instead of meat).
Adapted from Cathy on Allrecipes. Serves 4.
* If you like it hot then include jalapeno seeds, otherwise remove them. Be careful and don't let your bare hands linger on the inner membrane & seeds! I learned this the hard way years ago and had hands on fire.
** Original recipe calls for 3.5 cups broth which was a little soupy. You can tweak the ratios of broth, chicken, and beans based on your liking.
*** We use boneless, skinless chicken thighs seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Wrap in foil to keep juicy, and bake for 20 minutes on 400 degrees. If they're not fully cooked at this point, they will be in the chili. Ground chicken or turkey would be interesting too!
1. Heat the oil over a large pot on medium-low heat. Cook and stir the onion until tender. Mix in the garlic, jalapeno, green chile peppers, cumin, cayenne, and oregano. Continue to cook and stir the mixture until tender, about 3 minutes. Mix in the beans then chicken broth, and simmer for 15 minutes stirring occasionally.
2. At this point if you want a thicker texture, dip an immersion blender into your pot, and pulse a few times to puree some of the beans before adding chicken. Otherwise, just stir in the chicken and simmer another 15 minutes. We're obsessed with the Cusineart smartstick (ours is a prior model) which we also got as a gift – it's a food processor, whisk, mini blender, and immersion blending stick all in one. The immersion stick is a must if you like making creamy soups – no messy & dangerous step of pouring hot soup into a blender!
3. Stir in optional corn at the end before turning off the heat. Serve hot and top with garnishes. I just love the added sweetness of corn and some fresh cilantro with the spices in this!
Here's a few other gift-able items that we have and love. Readers – what was your most memorable wedding gift received?
Thank you Macy's for partnering on this post!
You two look so cute together!
I tried your recipe with all your revisions, and it was perfect! The decreased broth made for a perfect stew consistency, and the thighs were amazingly flavorful. I added a heaping handful of cilantro to finish. My new favorite stew-y food (previously was beef stew!) Thank you for sharing!!
You are such a lovely couple! Your Sunday mornings looks like a real fairytale!


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Hospital admissions unrelated to COVID-19 have partially rebounded, study finds
Kelly Gooch - Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 Print	| Email
U.S. hospital admissions that are not linked to COVID-19 have partially rebounded since the pandemic's start, but they remain low for patients in majority-Hispanic neighborhoods, according to a new study in Health Affairs.
The study examined data from 1 million hospital admissions from Sound Physicians, a large nationally representative medical group. The data is from more than 200 hospitals in 36 states, including New York, Michigan, Washington and Ohio.
Researchers from Sound Physicians and Hanover, N.H.-based Dartmouth College said they looked at admissions unrelated to the coronavirus for 20 acute medical conditions from early February through early July and found that these admissions fell in March and reached 43 percent below pre-pandemic baseline in April.
Updated data suggests admissions remained about the same level through the summer, the researchers said.
In late June and early July, admissions unrelated to the coronavirus were substantially lower for patients in majority-Hispanic neighborhoods (32 percent below the pre-pandemic baseline) and were still below baseline for pneumonia patients (44 percent), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/asthma (40 percent) and sepsis (25 percent), according to the study.
Researchers theorized the declines may have partially been due to a fear of becoming infected, increased use of telemedicine and potentially lower transmission rates of diseases unrelated to the coronavirus after state stay-at-home orders.
They concluded that "Health system leaders and public health authorities should focus on efforts to ensure that patients with acute medical illnesses can obtain hospital care as needed during the pandemic to avoid adverse outcomes."
Read more about the study here.
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Forget the Eiffel Tower or writing letters in the sky, an estimated 2.1 million people have been proposed to in a good old British pub.
And it seems the pub is the bedrock of many relationships, with 10.4 million pub-goers saying they have started a new relationship there, while 4.1 million said it's the place they have broken up with a partner.
The figures were revealed in an extensive survey by Ei Publican Partnerships, leased and tenanted pub business and part of Ei Group.
It also revealed that 8.2 million rated their local pub as a 'great place to socialise and meet people', while 12 million people said their local pub is an important aspect of community life.
Figures were obtained from a survey of 2,008 UK adult respondents, and then calculated nationally based on an adult population of circa 52 million.
The study comes ahead of the inaugural National Pub Fortnight – a celebration of the Great British pub set to take place between July 22 and August 6.
The initiative is designed to highlight and encourage consumer interest in pubs and will give away 15,000 free pints across the UK to the first customers who download the National Pub Fortnight smartphone app.
See a pub proposal in action below, as Simon proposes to his partner Julie with the help of the Proposal Planners.
People love to get married in pubs too, but sometimes they're not easy to pull off. Read these three pub wedding disasters faced by licensees.
Who will be spending big tonight?
Men are likely to be the big spenders on Valentine's Day – in both cash terms and the time it takes to get ready.
Pubs could be in for a week to get the heart racing, with spending set to increase on Valentine's Day this year.


I'm Zarinah from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
I would like to make confirmation regarding the registration procedure.
It is stated that you will be keeping ONE form of ID per group over the duration of your rental.
As foreign visitors, do we need to give in our passport for the rental?


Touring the Cuban capital with music in mind.
Think Cuba, and much of what comes to mind is rhythm — the beats of the Buena Vista Social Club and bodies swaying to sensual salsa, son, rumba and danzon.
It's little wonder, then, that InsightCuba's Jazz in Havana tour struck me as the perfect entree to this Caribbean island. And my dad, Farnell, a Chicago pianist and songwriter, was game to join me on this musical escapade.
Our trip took place last year, before President Donald Trump rolled back some of former President Barack Obama's relaxed travel policies with the communist nation.
In early November, the Trump administration announced new travel restrictions designed to steer business away from state-controlled Cuban hotels, shops, tour companies and other operations linked to the Cuban military, intelligence or security services.
The biggest change? Most individual travel to Cuba is once again off-limits for Americans, although cruise ship stops and commercial flights are still allowed. Also permitted are organized, regulated "people-to-people" group trips like the one we took with InsightCuba. These trips are meant to encourage meaningful contact between Cubans and Americans, and participants must be accompanied by a licensed tour-group representative.
What most jazzed us about our five-day, four-night tour was the chance to meet, listen to and even jam with Cuban musicians.
Before heading out to studios and clubs with our guides, we got the lowdown on the country's jazz history from famed singer, songwriter and musicologist Alberto Faya, a captivating professor who aurally walked us through the African, Spanish and even American roots of modern Cuban music.
The next night, we heard Faya's bassist son David and his bandmates play at Havana's Jazz Cafe, a chic, dimly lit spot that features some of Cuba's best musicians. It's across the street from the swanky Hotel Melia Cohiba, where we stayed, and the miles-long Malecon, a seaside boulevard and promenade that serves as this sticky city's living room.
A daytime stop at Abdala Studios brought more live music up close. In a performance just for our nine-person American group, members of the saxophone-led quintet Chewy y su Eclipse Cubano showed off their chops, inviting any musicians among us to join in and jam. My pianist dad, an R&B/jazz/gospel pro who's led several Chicago-area church choirs, took them up on the challenge. Making himself at home on the keyboards, he seamlessly slid into the soulful jazz rhythms.
After lunch, it was off to legendary Havana jazz spot La Zorra y el Cuervo (The Fox and the Crow) for some midafternoon sounds. This intimate downstairs club is probably Havana's best known, its stage having hosted international legends like George Benson and Cuba's own pianist Chucho Valdes. Jazz en Trance, another young sax-led quintet, commanded the stage. And like the bandleader at Abdala, saxophonist Denys Carbo implored the musical-minded in our group to play along onstage.
Again, my dad — whose 1972 soulful slow jam "I Wanna Be Loved" was later recorded by British rock legend Elvis Costello — took the bait. But rather than merely jamming on the keyboards, this former Chicago Public Schools music teacher led these millennials in the classic "What a Wonderful World." Our group hooted, hollered and clapped for its very own rock star.
Even for seasoned travelers, going to Havana isn't as simple as booking a trip to London or Paris. U.S. credit and debit cards don't work in Cuba, and don't even think about online banking from the island — an action that might freeze your accounts.
While the Cuban government has allowed Starwood Hotels & Resorts to manage and renovate some properties, including the Four Points by Sheraton Havana in the picturesque Miramar district, there's still less supply than demand.
The U.S. State Department issued a travel warning in September advising U.S. citizens against travel to Cuba, citing attacks of unknown origin that have left embassy personnel with hearing loss, sleep difficulties and other health problems. The warning isn't mandatory, so travel is still allowed, even though the rules aren't as relaxed as they used to be.
InsightCuba President Tom Popper said web traffic and phone calls to his company have spiked, as travelers try to navigate the shifting landscape. He said the company has lowered trip prices, compared with last year, and now offers private, small-group tours that let travelers customize packages based on their budgets and interests. The Jazz in Havana tour has several departures scheduled for 2018, with itineraries hovering around $4,000 a person, based on double occupancy. That doesn't include flights to and from Miami.
The day before leaving Havana, we lunched outdoors at Espacios, one of the country's privately run eateries called paladares, many of which are housed in converted rooms of family homes or garages.
The tables of this paladar were set in a leafy, secluded backyard as roosters and chickens crowed and clucked around us. Strong mojitos and flavorful cuisine were on the menu — as was more jazz. Stellar young Cuban pianist Alejandro Falcon, accompanied by an equally accomplished drummer and guitarist, served up some serious jazz grooves during the meal.
On our way back to Jose Marti International Airport, our guides hooked up a memorable musical surprise. For the past 60 years, the Bailadores de Santa Amalia — a now-elderly group of neighborhood friends — get together to dance. This Sunday morning, after showing off some of their sweet moves at a small club normally closed at this hour, they and a pair of lithe young dancers pulled us onto the floor to spin, salsa and swing. By the end, we were all sweaty — and beat.
If music is indeed a universal language, after five days in Havana we all found ourselves far more fluent.
Maureen Jenkins is a freelance writer.
Young musicians Denys Carbo and Jazz en Trance perform a midafternoon gig at Havana's legendary jazz club, La Zorra y el Cuervo.
An accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist, famed musicologist Alberto Faya explains African, Spanish and American roots of modern Cuban music to a group of tourists.


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Farmers Hardware
Farmers Hardware, located on West King Street in downtown Boone, North Carolina, was a quintessential part of downtown from its original opening as a hardware retailer in 1924. Adapting to the changes and pressures of technology and big-box stores, Farmer's Hardware closed its doors in 2004, changed its business model, and reopened the following summer as an eclectic emporium called The Shoppes at Farmers Hardware. To this day Farmers has remained a local, family business, with Greene's descendants providing a 21st-century vision for the business.
King Street, 1923.
Farmers Hardware, 1988.
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The Shoppes at Farmers Hardware
In 1924, Clyde Greene and his business partners opened Farmers Hardware at the current Boone Bagelry (516 West King St.) location on King St. in Boone, NC. At that time Boone Hardware, the leading competitor, occupied the present-day location of the Farmers Hardware. The original Farmers Hardware was smaller and not as centrally located as Boone Hardware. The pressures of the Great Depression forced Boone Hardware to close down and opened the way for Farmers. Soon after, the store was moved to the corner of Depot and King streets, where it stands today, albeit in a different form.
Clyde's youngest son, Cecil Greene, was raised in the business like the majority of the family. He worked as a traveling salesman as a young man for a hardware wholesaler, C. M. McClung. Eventually, he returned to the store and bought out his father's partners in 1963, making it a family venture that has lasted to this day. Clyde Greene retired in 1977 and Cecil and his children ran the business for the next 27 years.
Farmers Hardware was forced to close its doors in the summer of 2004 by the pressures of big box enterprises and the changing dynamics in downtown Boone. The family business decided to alter their approach and develop the building into a retail emporium, offering spaces for individuals and businesses to rent and sell their goods. The goal was to create an environment for retailers and artisans to have their own ship without the traditional overhead and in June of 2005 the family business once again opened its doors as the Shoppes at Farmers Hardware.
Today the Shoppes at Farmers Hardware offers a unique shopping experience in the heart of historic downtown Boone, North Carolina that combines goods from local artisans and experienced retailers, featuring a wide variety of merchandise from apparel to furniture, to handcrafts, and much more.
"Our History," The Shoppes at Farmers Hardware and Supply Company, accessed October 25, 2016, http://shoppesatfarmers.com/ "Shoppes at Farmer's Hardware," The High Country, accessed October 25, 2016, http://boonencinfo.com/shopping/shoppes-at-farmers-hardware/
The Shoppes at Farmers Hardware website.
The Shoppes at Farmers Hardware Facebook Page
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Created by Cameron Wheeler (Instructed by Kristen Baldwin Deathridge, Appalachian State University) on October 25th 2016, 10:14:00 pm.
Downtown Boone Walking Tour
This brief walking tour starts at the historic Appalachian Theatre and includes over a dozen stops at historic sites and buildings along King Street. The tour concludes at the former Linville River Railway Depot, part of the legendary Tweetsie Railroad line, which is now home to a popular local cafe. Enjoy!
Historic Walking Tour of Boone
Explore some of Boone's historic sites with this tour! This tour was created by graduate students in Kristen Deathridge's Fall 2016 Intro to Public History course, in cooperation with the Town's cultural resources department.
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Today's Belgian Grand Prix will go ahead despite fatal accident yesterday
Today's Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps will go ahead as normal despite the fatal accident yesterday at the track of Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert, organisers said.
"Following the drama that struck at the F2 trial on 31 August 2019, in which the driver Anthoine Hubert tragically lost his life, the company Spa Grand Prix SA would like to offer its sincere condolences to the Hubert family and to all of those close to Anthoine, with whom we share the pain of the loss of a talented driver with an exceptional personality," the organisers said in a communique.
Hubert, aged 22, was involved in a high-speed collision with the American Juan Manuel Correa. Both men were taken to the university hospital in Liege, where Hubert died of his injuries an hour later. Correa remains in hospital suffering from fractures to both legs.
Out of respect for Hubert, the F2 trial planned for today will no longer take place, the organisers said, but other planned events will go ahead.
"This tragedy is a painful reminder that motor sports are and will remain a dangerous discipline which involves drivers taking dangerous and courageous risks in the name of the passion they share with their fans. And a reminder that the safety of the drivers as well as the spectators is an absolute priority for the organisers Spa Grand Prix," the communique goes on.
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Classification random forest generator.

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ClassificationRFGenerator(ClassificationDataset dataset,
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Creates a new ClassificationRFGenerator.

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Starts the forest building process.

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public ClassificationRFGenerator(ClassificationDataset dataset,
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Creates a new ClassificationRFGenerator.

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