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5. Measurements: Considerations Before We Begin, Part II
Direct and Indirect Measurement
In the previous post, direct and indirect measurements were measured, but these were not elaborated upon. Before we go any further, we should discuss these two concepts and why they are different.
When we use 'direct' measurement, we are measuring the desired quantity directly, i.e., we apply a measurement device directly to the particular quantity we wish to measure. For example, to measure the length of a table, as discussed in the previous post, we might place a tape measure on the tabletop, position the zero mark on the tape at one edge of the table, and read the distance on the tape at the other edge.
By contrast, 'indirect' measurement is where we measures something other than the desired quantity, then use a mathematical model to transform what we actually measured into an estimate of the desired quantity. Modern measurement technology has led to increasing amounts of indirect measurements, and direct measurement is becoming much less common.
For example, in the past a chain, band or tape was used to measure the distance between two points. This was considered a direct measurement, although the value measured on the chain, band or tape had to be corrected for slope, temperature, tension, sag, calibration and elevation above sea level. As this involved a series of mathematical models of the systematic errors, it was really an indirect measurement, albeit very close to a direct measurement.
Sometimes an indirect measurement is necessary because a direct measurement is not possible. In the example above, unless we tunnel between the points of interest at sea level and bring the location of the points down to that level (which involves more indirect measurements), we cannot measure the sea level distance directly. Similarly, setting a total station over one point and a prism on a tripod over the other, we still need to reduce the slope distance measured for the slope, height above sea level, atmospheric effects, and the EDM/prism calibration values. The measurement may look direct, but again it is really an indirect measurement.
Suppose we place two GNSS antennae (identical antennae can be used) directly on the two points, and we want the 'straight line' vector between the two points. Is this a direct measurement? The GNSS actually measure wave counts for multiple signals from multiple satellites over time. These counts are then combined to calculate the resulting vector. The wave counts are converted to the vector components using a mathematical model, so it's an indirect measurement.
One of the realities of modern measurement is that any given measurement is almost certainly an indirect one. This means that a mathematical model is involved, which means that additional parameters for model usually need to be measured. It also means that as measurement gets more complex, so do the mathematical models and with them, the complexity of how errors propagate through the measurements, their reduction, and then into the final results.
The examples given above are efforts to measure a simple quantity: the distance or vector between two points. But surveyors and spatial data experts measure much more than this, and measurements go well beyond spatial measurements. How do we measure customer satisfaction, when the customers themselves may not be able to quantify it?
(And in case you think this isn't important, very few of us do surveys and measurements just for the intrinsic amusement: we usually have some particular job that needs to be done, a contract that must be completed, or someone standing there wanting results. This means there is a business function involved, and that usually has a customer or client, and to do things well, we'd like to know their level of satisfaction. It's a measurement that all businesses should be making.)
Similarly, how do we measure attributes for a GIS in a way that has meaning and some quality estimate associated with the measurement? How do we determine all the rights pertaining to a particular piece of land? All these can be considered measurements, in that they reduce the uncertainty associated with some unknown quantity, but we would like to know just how good the quality of the estimate of the unknown quantity is.
When I started doing surveying in the 1970s, the difference between direct and indirect measurements had an additional level of importance. The regulations concerning cadastral surveys required that indirect measurements be checked by independent measurement(s). In this situation, 'direct' meant that the measurement was made directly between the points of interest. As EDM became more widespread, most surveyors shifted from measuring azimuths by an offset traverse and direct measurement of the boundary lines by taping between the marks. As placing the EDM over the boundary points was often difficult, all the measurement became indirect. The regulations required that the connections that determined the boundary lines were checked by independent measurements.
This is a sensible rule. Indirect measurements are fraught with greater potential for errors, as a series of additional measurements (e.g., temperature, slope angle) are made, and a slip in these measurements can cause all manner of errors to propagate through the process. So some kind of independent measurements should be made to ascertain that the various measurements being made are sensible and reasonable. For some types of measurement, this can be a little tricky, but we can often built measurement procedures that allow these checks to be done as part of the overall measurement process. Such checks are cheap insurance against errors, and a quick and easy way to ensure one's professional reputation remain strong.
Because of the critical importance of indirect measurements, we will be returning to this topic again and again. The idea of determining the propagation of errors through the mathematical models used in all manner of geospatial processes is a central part of modern geospatial science.
While error propagation is usually discussed a bit later in a surveying or geomatics education program, it is very important to emphasize it early, when discussing the basics of measurement. This can be used as a way to introduce some different measurement techniques, e.g., tape, EDM and GNSS in this short discussion. But knowing the nature of errors is also critical from the start.


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Recap: Lakers Fall To Suns In Second Game Of Preseason
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The Los Angeles Lakers took on the Phoenix Suns in their second preseason game on Wednesday afternoon, although they were again without some key players in LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Trevor Ariza and Dwight Howard. On the Phoenix side, Devin Booker sat out to get some rest.
The result of this game wasn't much different than Game 6 of the first round last year as the Suns blew out the Lakers, 117-105.
One player who was on the floor for the Lakers this time was Anthony Davis and he got off to a good start with three points and a pair of steals in the first couple minutes of the game.
Carmelo Anthony was also making his Lakers preseason debut and although he missed his first shot from behind the arc, he then went to work in the post for a pair of buckets to give the Lakers an early 13-12 lead.
The Lakers' offense stalled a bit when the starters went to the bench, however, and the result was the Suns holding a 27-21 lead through one quarter.
Coming off an impressive Lakers debut against the Brooklyn Nets, Malik Monk continued to show what he is capable of as he opened up the second back knocking down back-to-back threes, putting an end to those bench offensive woes.
Without Howard and Davis on the bench though, the Lakers really struggled to rebound the ball in the second quarter. After a few second-chance opportunities and a three by Jae Crowder, the Lakers found themselves trailing by double digits for the first time at 39-27.
The game got out of hand pretty quickly in the second with Crowder knocking down another three and Deandre Ayton punishing the Lakers inside while L.A. continued to struggle offensively outside of Monk and Anthony.
The Suns lead got all the way up to 21, although the Lakers and specifically Davis responded by banking in a three and then making a free throw to cut the deficit to 62-45 going into the halftime locker room.
In a bit of a surprise move, Davis started the second half for the Lakers, although the Lakers did make some changes with Rajon Rondo and Kent Bazemore replacing Talen Horton-Tucker and Anthony, who finished with eight points in 17 minutes.
Things weren't much different for the Lakers in the second half as they continued to get punished on the glass and Phoenix converted on some open threes to essentially put the game out of reach midway through the third quarter.
That marked the end of Davis' night as he played 25 minutes and finished with 14 points, eight rebounds, two assists, two steals and two blocks on 5-of-14 shooting.
Horton-Tucker got going for the Lakers offensively a bit towards the end of the third quarter by knocking down a pair of triples, which was a big emphasis for him this offseason. He also did what he does best, which is drive through traffic and get to the rim for a layup.
That didn't put much of a dent into the Lakers' deficit though as they trailing 102-74 through three.
Horton-Tucker continued to impress in the fourth quarter, even doing so with his passing on an alley-oop to Monk. The Lakers' rookies, Austin Reaves and Joel Ayayi, also showed flashes while leading a fourth-quarter charge although the game was already out of reach so the Lakers eventually fell to the Suns.
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Real Estate agents don't realize my home's potential.
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I am already a professional marketer and can easily sell this home.
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I am not 100% sure I'd like to sell my home.
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New Rock Island Trail Section Opens in Jackson County, Mo.
Jackson County, Missouri, held a grand opening last weekend of the much-anticipated phase two of the Rock Island Trail. The "Ride the Rock" ribbon cutting celebration took place on Saturday, July 10, at the new stadium trailhead, located at the Truman Sports Complex.
Jackson County Executive Frank White, Jr.; Jackson County Parks + Rec; and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) hosted local officials, community members, and media to celebrate the occasion and enjoy a great day on the trail. Guests had an opportunity to leave their mark on the project by signing a piece of rail from the historic Rock Island line. The rail piece will be displayed at to-be-determined Jackson County Parks + Rec facility.
The second phase of the Rock Island Trail is 7 miles long and runs from Brickyard Road in Kansas City, through Raytown, to the Truman Sports Complex. Combined with phase one, which opened in June 2019, the entire trail is 13.5 miles in length. With completion of the Rock Island Trail, Jackson County now has more than 150 miles of trails in its parks system for people to enjoy.
The new trail segment includes three new trailheads and parking areas, the preservation and re-use of four former railroad bridges, and five new trail-only bridges, including the new Wildwood Bridge, which at over 300 feet in length is one of the longest trail bridges in the region.
"The County had a vision to revitalize and energize our community in a way we have never seen before, and now that it has finally come to life, I am so proud and excited to celebrate this major accomplishment," said Jackson County Executive Frank White, Jr. "With the support of the Legislature, our visitors will enjoy an experience like no other on the Rock Island Trail, including riding a bike all the way from Lee's Summit to a game, concert or event at the Truman Sports Complex. I am deeply grateful to our Parks + Rec leadership, Rock Island team, contractor and partners for their hard work and perseverance to see this beautiful project through to the very end."
"We are very excited to open phase two and celebrate the completion of the Rock Island Trail," said Rock Island Project Manager Matt Davis. "This project transformed a blighted railroad corridor into a beautiful place for Jackson County residents to exercise, recreate and connect with their community. We are proud to finally share this wonderful amenity with the community."
Following the County's ribbon cutting ceremony, visitors walked and biked the Rock Island from the stadium trailhead, encountering fun activities along the way, including a dedication of the Raytown Chamber Trailhead at noon.
Total construction costs for phase two of the trail was $11.6 million, paid for by Jackson County with generous grants from the Missouri Department of Transportation and Kansas City, Missouri. Radmacher Brothers Construction of Pleasant Hill, Missouri built all 13.5 miles of the trail for Jackson County.
Jackson County acquired the 17.7-mile Rock Island Railroad Corridor in May 2016, in partnership with the KCATA to preserve the corridor for multi-modal transportation opportunities. Additional information about the Rock Island and other Jackson County trails can be found online at https://www.facebook.com/KCRRC.
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This is what Base32 does. It will standardize on one of the characters above (say the digits 018), and omit the ones are too similar (in this case OIlB).
When you receive input from the user, map the omitted characters to the canonical ones (e.g. replace the letter O with the digit zero). This way, even if the user can't figure it out, it doesn't matter anyways.
Base32 still leaves characters which seem like they may be ambiguous, even if underneath they can't be. For users with a little experience with this, they will still stop to question what they are doing.
Ergo, you can take it a step further and completely remove all characters that could be perceived as ambiguous (e.g. all of 0O1Il8B).
After all, you don't actually need your alphabet size to be a power of two. It is easy enough to convert into arbitrary bases, and you don't need it to be particularly fast either (since this is often coinciding with user input).
The only caveat that I can think of is that this will likely increase the number of characters required in the code to represent the same amount of data. That is why I personally went with Base32 for the code on the back of my business cards, since I preferred the code-space with \( 32^9 \) as opposed to \( 29^9 \) (and 10 characters was too much).


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Reading the first two chapters of Bronze Seeks Silver: Lessons from a creative career in marketing by Mat Zucker, reminded me of my need, twenty years ago, to impress the all-powerful art history professor. Zucker's book is a memoir of his career in marketing, but of course, he didn't start out as an advertising executive and he writes with wry wit about how he began his career. Spoiler: there is a discussion of fonts.
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Pullen, George G. III, 50, of Wheeling, W.Va., died Friday, May 29, 2015 at home surrounded by his family.
He was born April 20, 1965, in Wheeling, a son of the late George Grover Pullen Jr. He was a member of the Vineyard Church in Wheeling. George was a jack of all trades who worked many jobs including a mechanic for Wheeling Cycle and Marine, the City of Martins Ferry, construction, roofing, and many more. He played a role in the making of the movies Super Eight, the Men Who Built America on the History Channel, and The Christmas Tree.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma Pullen of Wheeling; his mother and father-in-law, Tom and Betty Wright of Bellaire, Ohio; two step-mothers, Maida Whithuhn Pullen and Patricia Clovis Patterson; one son, George Christopher Pullen of Wheeling; two daughters, Lora Pullen of Tenn. and Kelsey Pullen of Rayland, Ohio; one step-daughter, Amy Blankenship of Bellaire, Ohio; one step-son, Richard Quinn; four brothers, James Pullen of Rayland, Shawn Pullen of Charlotte, N.C., Orland Pullen of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Jeremiah Pullen of Steubenville, Ohio; one granddaughter, Vanessa Pullen; two nephews, Jacob Pullen and Zachary Pullen; one niece Lydia Pullen; and his best friend, Ed Armstrong.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Altmeyer Funeral Home, 1400 Eoff Street, Wheeling.
I do hope you find peace in this time of loss,and know the memories we all have of George are the gifts that he has left us. GODS Speed.
Rest in peace George. God bless all who are grieving your loss. Helen & Lee Kinney.


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But before you start chipping away at your balances, it can be good to strategize. Which debt should you pay down first? And why?
There are two types of debt: debt for appreciating assets and debt for depreciating assets.
When you borrow money as leverage to get a potential return or invest in an appreciating asset, you create "good" debt. The interest rate is usually lower, so this type often costs less.
Student loans, for example, are appreciating assets because they provide the financial leverage needed to further your education. A mortgage is another: Taking out a home loan lets you purchase an asset that typically increases in value over time.
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The kind of debt you have should influence the way you pay it off. Since debt for depreciating assets offers you no opportunity to build wealth — and it usually costs more money to keep a balance due to high interest rates — it typically makes more sense to pay off those balances as soon as you can.
Good debt, like for a mortgage or student loan, helps you leverage your cash flow by paying for an appreciating asset over time instead of all at once. This debt doesn't cost you as much because of the lower interest rate usually associated with it, and it gives you the ability to use some available cash for other priorities. Make your payments on time and in full, but beyond that, you can consider using your cash in other ways to reach your financial goals.
Beyond prioritizing high-interest payments, it can come down to personal preference when it comes to what loans to pay off. If your student loan and car loan have the same interest rate, but you're eager to pay off your student loan since you've been working on it for seven years, it may make sense to put extra payments toward that. Just make sure it's not at the expense of paying your car payment in full each month.
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L'archidiocèse de Rennes (en latin : ) est une église particulière de l'Église catholique en France. Érigé au , le diocèse de Rennes () est un des neuf diocèses historiques de Bretagne. À la veille de la Révolution française, il couvrait le pays de Rennes, un pays traditionnel de Haute-Bretagne. Depuis 1801, il couvre le département d'Ille-et-Vilaine. En 1859, il est élevé au rang d'archidiocèse métropolitain.

Depuis 1880, les archevêques métropolitains Rennes joignent à leur titre ceux d'évêque de Dol et de Saint-Malo et sont les successeurs des primats de Bretagne. Le nom complet de l'archidiocèse est archidiocèse de Rennes-Dol-Saint-Malo (). Depuis 2007, Pierre d'Ornellas est l'archevêque métropolitain de Rennes.

Histoire

L'évêché de Rennes a été érigé au . Il était jusqu'à la révolution française, l'un des neuf anciens évêchés de Bretagne, et son territoire correspondait globalement au Pays rennais.

Le , les diocèses bretons sont réorganisés afin correspondre aux limites départementales (ainsi, le département d'Ille-et-Vilaine en comportant 377 paroisses en 1789).  Ainsi, le Diocèse de Rennes se voit rattaché d'une partie des diocèses environnants bretons :
 du diocèse de Saint-Malo (l'est et de l'extrême nord),
 du diocèse de Dol-de-Bretagne (les trois quarts est),
 du diocèse de Vannes (l'extrême est),
 du diocèse de Nantes (une petite partie du nord).

Mais il doit céder au diocèse de Nantes les paroisses de : Fercé, Noyal-sur-Brutz et Villepot.

Jusqu'au , le diocèse de Rennes faisait partie de la province ecclésiastique de Tours, date à laquelle Rennes devient à son tour, le siège d'un archevêché et le diocèse est élevé au rang d'archidiocèse. Une première initiative avortée avait déjà été prise en ce sens par l'Assemblée constituante. Ce nouvel archidiocèse de Rennes, comprend les quatre diocèses bretons suivants : le diocèse de Rennes, le diocèse de Quimper et Léon, le diocèse de Saint-Brieuc et le diocèse de Vannes.

Le , il est renommé archidiocèse de Rennes-Dol-Saint‑Malo.

En 2003, par décision papale, l'Église de France décide de regrouper des diocèses et archidiocèses en fonction des regroupements régionaux. La province ecclésiastique de Rennes  regroupera l'ensemble des diocèses des régions Bretagne et Pays de la Loire.

De septembre 2015 à septembre 2016, le diocèse organise un ensemble de manifestations et d'événements à l'occasion du tricentenaire de la mort de saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort qui en est originaire.

Le diocèse lance le  l'ouverture d'une année synodale en vue de « renouveler les voies de l'évangélisation », pour que , année synodale lancée le même jour que l'ouverture du procès en béatification de Léontine Dolivet, laïque catéchiste.

Le , une nouvelle église a été inaugurée à Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande près de Rennes. Il s'agit de la première construction d'église depuis un demi-siècle.

Identité visuelle (logo)

Organisation

Organisation historique

Le diocèse de Rennes

Il était divisé depuis le XII s. en deux archidiaconés comportant eux-mêmes neuf doyennés.
 Archidiaconé de Rennes :
 Doyenné de Rennes,
 Doyenné de Fougères,
 Doyenné de Vitré
 Doyenné de Vendel.
 Archidiaconé du Désert :
 Doyenné du Désert. Celui-ci comprenant les paroisses de Vignoc, Montbourcher [en Cuguen actuellement], Mordelles (y compris sa trève de La Chapelle-Thouarault), Noyal-sur-Vilaine, Châtillon-sur-Seiche, Noyal-sur-Seiche, Saint-Grégoire (et sa trève de La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz), Melesse, La Mézière, Gévezé, Chavagne, Moigné, Saint-Gilles-des-Bois, Cintré, Chasné, La Bretonnière, Apigné, Brécé, Bruz, Chartres, L'Hermitage, Montgermont, Montreuil-le-Gast, Parthenay, Le Rheu, Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, Vezin.
 Doyenné d'Aubigné,
 Doyenné de Châteaugiron,
 Doyenné de Bain,
 Doyenné de La Guerche.

Ces doyennés ont évolué au fil du temps : entre le , le doyenné de Vendel a par exemple disparu ; il a existé un doyenné de Louvigné (son existence est attestée par une charte du ) qui comprenait les paroisses de La Bazouge-du-Désert, La Selle-en-Coglès, Le Châtellier, Le Ferré, Landéan, Louvigné-du-Désert, Mellé, Monthault, Montours, Parigné, Poilley, Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, Saint-Étienne-en-Coglès, Saint-Georges-de-Reintembault, Saint-Germain-en-Coglès, Saint-Jean-en-Coglès, Villamée.

Le diocèse de Rennes comprenait 216 paroisses et 8 trèves.

Le diocèse de Saint-Malo

L'évêché de Saint-Malo était divisé en 2 archidiaconés respectivement subdivisés en 4 doyennés chacun.
 Archidiaconé de Dinan :
 doyenné de Poulet
 doyenné de Poudouvre
 doyenné de Plumaudan
 doyenné de Bécherel
 Archidiaconé de Lohéac :
 doyenné de Lohéac
 doyenné de Montfort
 doyenné de Saint-Malo-de-Beignon
 doyenné de Porhoët

Le diocèse de Dol

L'évêché de Dol-de-Bretagne était son propre archidiaconé, comportait avant la Révolution 90 paroisses et 7 trèves en Bretagne et 4 paroisses de Normandie réparties sur 7 doyennés :
 Dol, regroupant les paroisses autour de l'abbaye-évêché et les enclaves de l'évêché de Rennes
 Bobital, regroupant des enclaves de l'évêché de Saint-Malo
 Coëtmieux, regroupant des enclaves de l'évêché de Saint-Brieuc
 Lanvollon, pour les enclaves de l'évêché de Saint-Brieuc restantes
 Lannion, regroupant des enclaves de l'évêché de Tréguier
 Lanmeur, pour les enclaves de l'évêché de Tréguier restantes, celle de l'évêché de Léon et celle de l'évêché de Cornouaille
 l'exemption de Saint-Samson, regroupant les enclaves normandes

Organisation actuelle

Le diocèse de Rennes compte 434 prêtres sur 84 paroisses, regroupées en 32 doyennés et 7 pays :
 pays de Rennes (7 doyennés, 15 paroisses),
 Doyenné de Rennes - Villejean Nord-Ouest (2 paroisses) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes-Centre (4 paroisses) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes - Maurepas (1 paroisse) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes Nord-Est (2 paroisses) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes La Rablais - Bréquigny (2 paroisses) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes La Madeleine - Le Landry (3 paroisses) ;
 Doyenné de Rennes Le Blosne - La Poterie (1 paroisse) ;
 pays de Rennes périphérie (6 doyennés),
 pays de Vitré (4 doyennés),
 pays de Vallons de Vilaine et Redon (4 doyennés),
 pays de Brocéliande (2 doyennés),
 pays de Saint-Malo (5 doyennés),
 pays de Fougères (4 doyennés).

Cathédrales et basiliques mineures
La cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Rennes est l'église cathédrale de l'archidiocèse.

L'archidiocèse compte trois anciennes cathédrales :
 l'ancienne cathédrale Saint-Samson de Dol-de-Bretagne, dédiée à saint Samson de Dol, était l'église cathédrale du diocèse de Dol ;
 l'ancienne cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Saint-Malo, dédiée à saint Vincent de Saragosse, était celle du diocèse de Saint-Malo ;
 l'ancienne cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Aleth, dédiée à saint Pierre, était celle du diocèse d'Aleth.

L'archidiocèse compte aussi trois basiliques mineures :
 la basilique Notre-Dame de l'Assomption de La Guerche-de-Bretagne, basilique mineure depuis le 10 mars 1953 ;
 la basilique Saint-Aubin de Rennes, basilique mineure depuis le 22 mars 1916 ;
 la basilique Saint-Sauveur et Notre-Dame des Miracles et des Vertus de Rennes, basilique mineure depuis le 22 mars 1916.

Évêques et archevêques de Rennes

Les évêques originaires de l'archidiocèse de Rennes
en exercice
  Christophe Pierre, nonce apostolique aux États-Unis
  Jean-Paul James, archevêque de Bordeaux
  Marc Aillet, évêque de Bayonne, Lescar et Oloron
  Jacques Habert, évêque de Bayeux et Lisieux
 Hervé Gosselin, évêque d'Angoulême
émérites
  Joseph Boishu, évêque auxiliaire de Reims
décédés
 Cardinal Jean Honoré, archevêque émérite de Tours
 Pierre Plateau, archevêque de Bourges

Notes et références

Annexe

Bibliographie
 Chanoine Amédée Guillotin de Corson, Pouillé historique de l'archevêché de Rennes, Rennes, Fougeray et Paris, René Haton, 1880-1886, 6 vol. in-8° br., couv. impr. (disponible sur Gallica).
 Michel Lagrée, Mentalités, religion et histoire en Haute-Bretagne au  : le diocèse de Rennes, 1815-1848, Klincksieck, Paris, 1977, 492p., .
 Jean Delumeau, Le Diocèse de Rennes, Paris, Beauchesne, " Histoire des diocèses de France ", 1979, 319p.
 Anne Lunven, Du diocèse à la paroisse Évêchés de Rennes, Dol et Alet/Saint-Malo (), Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, mai 2014, 432p., .

Articles connexes
 Circonscriptions catholiques françaises depuis 2002

Liens externes
  de l'archevêché de Rennes
 Diocèse de Rennes sur www.eglise.catholique.fr
 L'ancien diocèse de Rennes
 L'ancien diocèse de Saint-Malo
 L'ancien diocèse de Dol
   Rennes,  of Dol et  Saint-Malo sur www.catholic-hierarchy.org
   Rennes,  of Dol et  Saint-Malo sur www.gcatholic.org
  Georges Goyau, «  Rennes () », dans , vol. 12, New York, Robert Appleton Company, 1911, encyclopédie en ligne sur www.newadvent.org

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Боевая тяжёлая машина пехоты БТМП-84 (БМТ) — украинская опытная боевая машина пехоты.

Разработана Харьковским конструкторским бюро машиностроения на базе основного танка Т-84У. Предназначается для действия совместно с танками и обеспечения аналогичных танковым подразделениям параметров защищённости, мобильности и огневой мощи для мотострелковых подразделений. Серийно не выпускалась, произведён единственный экземпляр машины.

История создания
Разработана ХКБМ на рубеже 1990-х—2000-х в инициативном порядке на основе оценки потребности в увеличении уровня защищённости боевых машин пехоты, бронирование которых, как правило, значительно ниже такового у взаимодействующих с ними танков. Машина была построена в 2001 году и впервые представлена широкой публике в марте 2001 года на выставке IDEX в Абу-Даби, в сентябре того же года она демонстрировалась на выставке IDEF в Анкаре.

Описание конструкции

Броневой корпус и башня
Корпус БТМП-84 создан на основе шасси Т-84У, удлинение ходовой части которого на один опорный каток в сочетании с перекомпоновкой двигателя позволило оборудовать в задней части машины десантное отделение на 5 человек с возможностью посадки и высадки через корму. Для погрузки и высадки десанта имеются открывающаяся влево дверца с выдвижной лесенкой в корме и подъёмный люк над ней, а также дополнительные люки в крыше десантного отделения.

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Двигатель и трансмиссия
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Трансмиссия — механическая с двумя бортовыми планетарными коробками передач и гидроуправлением, с семью передачами переднего и одной — заднего хода. Соосно с коробками передач расположены обеспечивающие четыре дополнительные передачи заднего хода реверсивные бортовые передачи.

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Оружие по алфавиту
БМП по алфавиту
Тяжёлые БМП
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Freneuse-sur-Risle és un municipi francès situat al departament de l'Eure i a la regió de Normandia. L'any 2007 tenia 337 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de Freneuse-sur-Risle era de 337 persones. Hi havia 140 famílies, de les quals 32 eren unipersonals (20 homes vivint sols i 12 dones vivint soles), 56 parelles sense fills, 40 parelles amb fills i 12 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 206 habitatges, 140 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 48 eren segones residències i 18 estaven desocupats. 199 eren cases i 4 eren apartaments. Dels 140 habitatges principals, 118 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 19 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien una cambra, 7 en tenien dues, 18 en tenien tres, 47 en tenien quatre i 66 en tenien cinc o més. 136 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 56 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 75 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 231 persones, 163 eren actives i 68 eren inactives. De les 163 persones actives 149 estaven ocupades (93 homes i 56 dones) i 14 estaven aturades (6 homes i 8 dones). De les 68 persones inactives 26 estaven jubilades, 19 estaven estudiant i 23 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a Freneuse-sur-Risle hi havia 143 unitats fiscals que integraven 347 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 19.029 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 7 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa de construcció, 2 d'empreses d'hostatgeria i restauració, 1 d'una empresa immobiliària, 2 d'empreses de serveis i 1 d'una empresa classificada com a «altres activitats de serveis».

Dels 2 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un guixaire pintor i 1 perruqueria.

L'any 2000 a Freneuse-sur-Risle hi havia 15 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 111 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de Freneuse-sur-Risle a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de Freneuse-sur-Risle a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de l'Eure


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How to Sweat It Out in Your First Hot Yoga Class
Lauren Bedoskyupdated on June 21, 2019
Lauren Bedosky
Lauren Bedosky is a Minnesota-based freelance health and fitness journalist. She regularly contributes to a number of print and digital publications, including Runner's World, MyFitnessPal, Men's Health, Beachbody, and others. She lives in Brooklyn Park, Minn., with her husband and their three dogs.
Hot yoga is one of those things that elicits responses on two extremes — it's either someone's go-to workout they can't live without or they tried it once and will never go again. If you're in the first group, you know hot yoga's an effective, low-impact workout that strengthens both body and mind.
Trying out hot yoga for the first time? Here's what you need to know. (Image: fizkes/iStock/GettyImages)
What sets this workout apart from most other yoga classes is the heat. It transforms an otherwise low-key activity into a next-level workout, making it an appealing option for anyone who likes their workout to be challenging and intense. If you've never tried hot yoga before, there are a few things you should know first, since it's not right for everyone.
Read more: The Best Workout Classes for Achieving Every Kind of Fitness Goal
What Is Hot Yoga?
The name hot yoga is no joke: We're talking temperatures as high as 105 degrees Fahrenheit! And because the studio is so warm and humid, classes are typically slower in pace than other yoga styles like Vinyasa. That said, it's not uncommon to find heated Vinyasa classes.
There's also a hot yoga style known as Bikram, which was created by Bikram Choudhury. If you sign up for a Bikram yoga class, expect to perform a set sequence of 26 specific poses in a room heated to 105 degrees Fahrenheit with about 40 percent humidity.
According to the official Bikram website, the 26 poses were designed to "warm and stretch muscles, ligaments and tendons, in the order in which they should be stretched." A few of the poses you'll find in every Bikram class include Triangle pose, Tree pose and Cobra pose.
Thanks to the high temperature, hot yoga classes help your muscles relax and lengthen more easily, encourage your body to sweat and force you to pay greater attention to your breathing. Expect to work hard and clear your mind of everything but what's going on with your body.
Who Should (and Shouldn't) Do Hot Yoga?
In general, hot yoga can be a great option for all skill and fitness levels — no previous yoga experience needed. "The teachers will support you if you want to increase the intensity and also help with modifications to decrease the intensity," says Lacey Shelton, CorePower Yoga area manager.
That said, it isn't always everyone's cup of tea. "I have friends who are like, 'I'm never coming to your hot yoga class,'" says Adam Tills, certified yoga instructor and studio director of Heat Yoga Studio in Maple Grove, Minnesota. "The heat is just too much for them."
On an intensity scale of one to 10, expect a hot yoga class to be a seven or eight. "It depends on the person," Tills says. "Especially someone who's new to hot yoga, they might find it a 12 because some people are so overwhelmed with the heat level." If you're prone to fainting, overheating or generally feel sub-par at high temps, consult your doctor first.
Additionally, pregnant women (unless you've been practicing for a while and have been cleared by your doctor) and people with diabetes or cardiovascular issues, including high blood pressure, should avoid hot yoga, according to the American Council on Exercise.
It's best suited for people who are attracted to the fitness side of yoga, like to sweat and want to add a new or different challenge to their workouts. Hot yoga is also a good cross-training option for runners or weightlifters.
Runners in particular can build full-body strength and balance. "If you're a runner, you're usually just using the lower body, but hot yoga accesses other muscles," Tills says. "It gives you a nice counterbalance to what you do during running."
What to Expect in a Hot Yoga Class
In general, expect the practice to feel hot and humid and flow at a slower pace. However, other aspects of hot yoga — like class format and size — will vary depending on the studio you choose. At Heat Yoga Studio, for example, the room tops out at 105 degrees Fahrenheit, and depending on the time of day, sessions may be packed with as many as 30 students, which can make the room feel even hotter.
Typically, a hot yoga class will have you stretching more than flowing (as in Vinyasa). The poses are done at a deliberate pace, and your movements are synchronized with your breath. "The goal is to get you to extend your breath out anywhere from three to six seconds on the inhale and exhale," Tills says. "So when you're flowing into these poses you're coming into the pose in that three to six seconds, and you're coming out in that three to six seconds."
Often, you'll move through a series of seated and standing yoga poses (think: Tree pose, Half Moon and Chair pose) for 60 minutes, though some hot yoga classes — such as Bikram — can last as long as 90 minutes.
At the end of every class, you're often invited to spend as much time in Savasana (also known as Corpse pose) as you need. Savasana is a pose of total relaxation that has you lying on your back with arms and legs extended down along your mat. It helps your breathing return to its normal rhythm and gives you a chance to reflect on your practice.
Depending on the studio, you may not get much spirituality at hot yoga, though elements may be sprinkled throughout. If that side of yoga is important to you, call the studio beforehand to learn more about their vibe.
Read more: Why CorePower Yoga Isn't Just Another Yoga Class
What to Bring and Wear to Hot Yoga
The essentials include water, a yoga mat and a small towel to wipe away sweat. Some yoga studios, such as CorePower, rent mats and towels at the studio if you don't have your own.
Wear yoga clothes that feel comfortable and allow you to move. Because you can expect to sweat (a lot), it's a good idea to invest in breathable, sweat-wicking clothes. Synthetic fabrics like polyester, nylon, spandex and elastane are all great options, but natural materials like bamboo also contain antimicrobial and moisture-wicking properties.
How covered up you are is a matter of personal preference and studio etiquette. Many heated studios don't mind if men are shirtless and women work out in a sports bra and short shorts, but others may prefer that their clients cover up. When in doubt, call the studio to ask.
Read more: The Best Yoga Clothes for Getting Your Om On
Tips for Your First Hot Yoga Class
Both Shelton and Tills stress the importance of hydrating before you step into the studio. "I encourage people to hydrate at least an hour or two before class with two to three glasses of water," Tills says. You'll also want to be sure to bring a water bottle with you and keep it by your mat so you can take small sips when thirst kicks in.
Afterward, replenish with water and possibly also an electrolyte drink. (Electrolytes are minerals that help balance the fluids in your body.) "When you sweat like [in hot yoga] you're going to lose some electrolytes, and it's important to keep replenishing those," Tills says.
The heat in the studio can get overwhelming, especially if you're new to exercise in general or hot yoga in particular. Listen to your body and take breaks if the heat gets to be too much. However, Tills recommends staying in the studio during breaks if you can. If you make a beeline for the lobby, you'll expose your body to a shock of cool air, and you'll have to work harder to re-acclimate once you duck back inside.
Instead, you'll want to stand, kneel or sit on your mat with your arms by your sides and focus on your breathing. Resist the temptation to go into a common yoga posture known as Child's pose, where you lie with your torso between your knees and your head on the mat. "You want to keep your head above your heart," Tills says. "If you put your head below your heart, that changes the blood flow to your brain."
If you feel like you're going to faint during a hot yoga class, leave and seek medical attention.
Locations and Pricing
Plenty of yoga studios and larger health club chains (like L.A. Fitness) offer hot yoga these days, so you should be able to easily find an option near you.
CorePower Yoga is one well-known national yoga brand that offers a variety of in-person yoga classes, including hot yoga. They currently have more than 200 studios nationwide. If you're new to CorePower Yoga, your first week is free. After that, you can opt to pay for a single class (around $30, depending on your location), or buy a package of five, 10, or 20 visits.
There are also plenty of smaller chains and one-off studios that offer classes. For example, at Tills' Heat Yoga Studio, they offers a variety of heated Vinyasa-style classes seven days a week. New students can get three classes a month for $22, unlimited classes for two weeks for $35 or an unlimited month of classes for $49.
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NFL proposes expanding regular season, playoffs, per report
The NFL is asking the NFLPA to agree to expanding the number of regular season games from 16 to 17, and to expand the playoff field from 12 to 14, ESPN reported on Wednesday.
The agreement would go into effect for the 2021 season at the earliest, if players agree to the proposal.
As a result of the expanded regular season, the number of preseason games would decrease by one.
Under the current playoff format, the top two teams from each conference earn a bid into the conference semifinals, also known as the Divisional Round. The NFL's proposal would only give the conference champs the first-round bye past the Wild Card round.
A league source told ESPN that there is general agreement between players and owners on expanding the playoffs.
Collective bargaining talks will take place on Thursday, the NFL said. While players seem to accept an expanded playoff format, based on ESPN's reporting, there is still some contention on expanding the regular season to 17 games.
The NFL said it hopes to have a new CBA in place by the middle of next month.
The current CBA expires at the end of the 2020 season.


Shanks Group has signed a five year contract with Glasgow Airport to help it reduce waste collections by 75%.
The company will use its EcoCassette compactors to replace the airport's existing waste containers.
It said each EcoCassette can hold the equivalent of 15 large mobile bins. They are fitted with GPRS enabled sensors to monitor fill-rate, and the transport depot is automatically notified to collect full compactors.
The traditional bin lorry will be replaced with a crane-mounted vehicle which can collect four EcoCassettes per visit, each with a source-segregated waste stream.
Shanks said the increase in the number of waste streams per visit, and the collection of only full compactors, would mean that airport collections are reduced by up to 75%.
Glasgow Airport will be Shanks' first UK customer to deploy this technology.
Shanks UK managing director Peter Eglinton said the contract was "a clear endorsement of our sustainable approach to making more from waste".
Edinburgh Airport last month reached an 82% recycling rate for food and dry waste.


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A hallway at the Whole Woman's Health clinic in Austin, which shut down in 2014.
Callie Richmond
In every Texas legislative session in recent memory, there's been at least one showdown over abortion legislation — and this year's is unlikely to be an exception.
Despite the fact that lawmakers have so far been focused on bipartisan "bread and butter" issues like property taxes and school finance, more than a dozen abortion-related bills are circulating in the state Capitol — and advocates on both sides of the issue are honing their strategies.
There's a bill that would prevent abortions in cases where parents decide not to have the baby based on its sex, race or disability. Another would ban abortions starting at conception. Still another would allow Texas to outlaw the procedure immediately if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
These measures come at a complicated time for the nation's abortion fight: The 2018 elections in Texas and nationally saw Democrats — and women — pick up seats amid the #MeToo movement and backlash against President Donald Trump. A strong conservative majority on the Supreme Court has fueled deep speculation on the future of Roe v. Wade. And proposed abortion bills in Democratic and Republican state legislatures alike have deepened the national divide over how far people are willing to go to protect or block the procedure.
State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, said this session, divisive abortion legislation is taking a back seat to issues like property taxes and public education, where lawmakers have "a common purpose."
"I believe from conversations with some of my Republican colleagues they would rather be focused on what they were sent here to do, which is deal with those things that make a difference in the lives of Texans," she said. "And right now primarily that is school finance and taxes, and they do not want to be distracted by the abortion issue."
Joe Pojman, executive director for the Texas Alliance for Life, acknowledged that Texas legislators are "much more sober" on anti-abortion bills this session, in part given the 2018 midterm elections. Democrats flipped 12 seats in the Texas House in the midterms, marking the biggest shift in the lower chamber since the 2010 election cycle. Given their narrower margin, Republican legislators in the majority "want to make sure that the time that is available for social issues involving abortion is very well spent," Pojman said.
"No one is attributing the loss of Republicans to their support for the [abortion] issue," Pojman said. "Nevertheless, I want to make sure the bills that are debated are going to have wide support among the public and voters in particular, and I think that will be the case."
Marsha Jones, executive director of the Afiya Center, a reproductive rights group based in Dallas that focuses on black women, said she doesn't buy the argument that abortion opponents are less aggressively pushing abortion legislation this session.
"Maybe people are playing it safe, I think they're playing sneaky," Jones said. "I think folks just don't want to say how they're going to play it."
In the last several sessions, Texas legislators have created 24-hour waiting periods before an abortion can be performed; tightened restrictions around how minors can obtain court approval for an abortion without their parents; required women to pay a separate health insurance premium for non-emergency abortions; and required extra data from health facilities about abortion complications. Some of their new laws have been blocked by the courts, including a measure requiring abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains; and a ban on "dilation and evacuation" abortions, the most common second-trimester abortion procedure.
Yvonne Gutierrez, executive director for Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, said some of the bills being proposed this session would make low-income people, rural residents and women of color — who don't always have access to care in their communities or the financial means to obtain the procedure — more vulnerable.
In the 2018 midterms, she said, Texas voters sent a different message around marginalized communities.
"I think what we've seen is overwhelming support for women's right to access abortion and they don't want to see that taken away," Gutierrez said.
Abortion rights advocates are particularly concerned about House Bill 1500, which would ban abortions once the fetus' heartbeat can be detected. The bill makes an exception for medical emergencies and if a physician is unable to hear a heartbeat. The heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks of gestation.
The bill is "virtually creating a situation where you would have no abortions," Howard said. "So many people don't even know they're pregnant at that point in time that by the time they found out it would be too late to make a decision that you have a legal right to make."
Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park and the author of the bill, said in a news release last month that "the heartbeat is a universally recognized indicator of life" and that it should "also apply to our most innocent and vulnerable Texans." In a separate news release last month, he said 39 other state legislators had signed onto the bill as co-authors.
"A society is judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable members," he said. "I believe the most defenseless members of our society are innocent unborn children."
Several other state legislatures including Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee are considering similar heartbeat legislation. An Iowa judge blocked that state from going forward with its own version of the law in January. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has previously opposed those types of bills, calling them unconstitutional and unnecessary.
The Afiya Center's Jones said she's worried about the potential damage a heartbeat bill could do. She said Texas' reproductive rights community is still recovering from 2013's House Bill 2, which required Texas facilities performing abortions to meet hospital-like standards — including minimum sizes for rooms and doorways and pipelines for anesthesia — and shut many of them down in the process. The U.S. Supreme Court struck that measure down, but Jones said many clinics haven't reopened.
Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, R-Southlake, said despite Republican losses in the last election cycle and a focus on other top issues, he and his colleagues have not lost sight of anti-abortion bills. Capriglione is the author of House Bill 1685, which would outlaw abortion in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
"It's going to be important for me and other members to come back to the district and be able to say, 'Yes, we solved the property tax issues, yes we solved the school finance reform, yes we protected life, yes we protected religious liberty,'" Capriglione said. "Those are things that are going to be absolutely critical for us as a party."
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New England Patriots rip Luck-led Indianapolis Colts
By Gregg Rosenthal
Around The NFL Editor
Published: Nov. 18, 2012 at 07:44 p.m.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2012 at 12:32 a.m.
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Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts are writing a nice story this NFL season as potential playoff upstarts. Just don't call them real Super Bowl contenders yet.
The Colts saw what a title contender looks like Sunday night in Foxborough in a 59-24 loss to the New England Patriots. The Patriots scored twice on interception returns and another time on a punt-return touchdown. If you start spotting the Patriots points when quarterback Tom Brady is on the sideline, things are bound to get ugly. Brady was extremely sharp, too, throwing for 335 yards and three touchdowns on 35 attempts.
Colts rookie quarterback Andrew Luck turned over the ball four times and probably will be blamed for the loss, but this was a total team meltdown. The Colts' secondary has quietly been among the worst in the NFL all season. The Patriots converted eight third downs in 12 tries. The Colts' special teams was awful; Julian Edelman had 117 yards on two punt returns.
(Jan. 27, 2013; 7 p.m. ET on NBC)
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This game doesn't really tell us that much about the 6-4 Colts. We never thought they could compete with the elite in the AFC. Next week's game against the Buffalo Bills will tell us a lot more. That's a game a playoff-bound team needs to win. If the Colts lose to the Bills, that last AFC wild-card spot will be wide open.
The Patriots, meanwhile, are on to bigger matters. Up three games in the AFC East, they aren't thinking about whether or not they will make the playoffs. They're angling for a first-round bye.
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Canada's Drag Race: Smile, Wave, and Look Pretty
S1/Ep 7
Rita Baga and Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman; photo from Bell Media
"This is just like homecoming, but so gay."
You're right, Principal of Degrassi High Stefan Brogren, it is so gay! Welcome back to Canada's Drag Race, where things are kicking into high gear with the first-ever Drag Race pageant. Today, ladies, we're skipping the Mini Challenge and going straight to the Maxi, where the queens have to compete in the Miss Loose Jaw Pageant — complete with all your favourite categories: Talent, Swimsuit, and Interview.
But first, the dramatic cold open, where two key storylines are set up, the first being, of course, the girls' immense dislike of Lemon. At this point, it's been made clear that calling out Lemon's name at the end of the last episode (in response to "who should go home tonight?") came from personal reasons, as opposed to the critiques. Storyline number two is Scarlett BoBo's growing sense of irritation at consistently being safe, even when she (rightfully) expected to net her first win last week.
The next day in the werkroom, Brooke Lynn announces the challenge, since Rita Baga was last week's winner, she gets to assign the "characters." See, this is technically a pageant, but it's really another improv challenge, as the queens have to stay in character and bring out the laughs.
The roll call: Miss Behavin' (Jimbo), Miss Demeanor (Priyanka), Miss Erable (Ilona), Miss Informed (Scarlett, who wanted Jimbo's character), Miss Fits (Lemon), which leaves Rita with Miss Match'd.
As the queens build their characters, Brooke Lynn takes a little walk around the room and scopes out the scene. I'm not sure if it's the editing, or if she really sits down next to Ilona and says hello by asking "how does it feel to be the first First Nation, Two-Spirited person here?" because that's a very heavy question to just blurt out of the blue.
"It's not always my job to educate,' Ilona explains, 'as it is to be present, to represent." The burden placed on BIPOCs is always to educate, to call out, and to correct the mistakes. It's exhausting, because even being in the room, being present, comes with its own pressure.
Rita Baga, Jimbo, Scarlett BoBom and Lemon; photo from Bell Media
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman hosts the pageant, which is the best thing he's done all season; the panel features CDR's Squirrel Friend Traci Melchor, drag legend Michelle DuBarry, and Stefan Brogren as judges. Highlights include Scarlett's Miss Informed — it may not have been her first choice, but the character is hilariously neurotic, as well as Lemon, who once again wields her impressive acting ability with a character who doesn't have talent outside of… pageant-ing.
Cue the Miss Congeniality references. There's a lot of them. A lot.
Rita Baga also tries to tap into her inner actress and play up a Miss Congeniality character… far less effectively.
The judges love Jimbo's obnoxiously sexed-up Miss Behavin', which I wouldn't mind at all… except they blast Ilona and Priyanka for being way too one-dimensional with their characters.
Once again, it just doesn't make sense. You can call Priyanka's character one-note (and a not-very-vague caricature of an angry Black woman, but that's a whole other conversation), but Jimbo's performance is just "look at me, I'm a wh*re." It's equally as one-note — and even more egregious? It's boring.
The category on the runway is Pageant Perfection, and the moment I hear Ilona say her bedazzled top is "putting Beyonce to shame" is the moment I know she's going home tonight. Rita's Thierry Mugler-inspired gown is a show-stopper, but the judges (with guest judge Allie X) focus too much on her half-assed wig to appreciate it. Priyanka's Bollywood-inspired dress looks brilliant on her, but the judges note a lack of confidence on the catwalk, and clock her for that.
Jimbo on the runway; photo from Bell Media
Lemon, continuing to play to her strengths, appears as some Honey Boo Boo (remember her?) inspired character, complete with a tiny tiara — the judges love it. They also love love love Scarlet BoBo, who's never looked more glamorous, but still with that signature edge.
You know who they don't love? Jimbo. Jimbo the pink pom-pom. The judges tear into the poor girl like sharks, unable to find one positive thing to say about the look. Jimbo, understandably, loses it when the girlies go back to untuck.
"Jeffrey said I don't look glamorous at all. It's one thing to say, I think you should be more glamorous, or my version of glamour. But to say that I'm not glamorous at all — that's like saying 'always never.' I think he maybe needs to look up the word glamour. You question my taste level? I question your knowledge of the English language."
Poor Rita Baga attempts to peacefully offer her input on the debacle only to be met with "Your lace line looks like barf, your hair is fried" — Rita reacts as though someone spat on her.
On the runway, controversial decisions are made. Jimbo and Rita get thrown into the middle as safe, Priyanka and Ilona are the bottoms of the week, which leaves Scarlett and Lemon as the top two. Remember when I said that Scarlett's storyline was set up in the cold open? All episode long, we've been teased with a long-overdue Scarlett BoBo win; Allie X even says that tonight could be hers for the taking. In that moment of truth, the judges call out… Lemon. Lemon takes her second Maxi win. I almost expect Scarlett to scream.
But we can't worry about that right now because Priyanka and Ilona have to lipsync to "Hello," by Allie X! Priyanka establishes herself as the newest lipsync assassin, but honestly, it's high time Ilona gets the boot. We've entered a new phase of the competition.
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The Universe's First Stars May Reveal a Big Clue About Dark Matter
By Nola Taylor Redd 2018-02-28T18:17:54Z
The EDGES ground-based radio spectrometer, located in Western Australia, may have shined some light on dark matter in its hunt for the first stars.
(Image: © CSIRO Australia)
A big clue about the nature of mysterious dark matter may have been discovered.
Astronomers with the Experiment to Detect the Global EoR (Epoch of Reionization) Signature (EDGES) project reported today (Feb. 28) that they've spotted the apparent fingerprints of the universe's first stars. The signal they detected was twice as intense as they had predicted, suggesting that either the hydrogen gas pervading the early universe was significantly colder than expected, or background radiation levels were significantly hotter than light from the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the Big Bang that formed the universe.
"The only way to cool [the gas] is for something else, which is even colder, to take heat away," Rennan Barkana told Space.com by email. The EDGES team reached out to Barkana, an astronomer at Tel Aviv University in Israel who studies early stars, when they measured the surprising signal. He came up with a possible solution. [The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps]
"The only candidate constituent of the universe that could have been even colder than the gas is the dark matter," Barkana said.
A unique time
The matter we're familiar with — stuff made of protons, neutrons and electrons — makes up just 15 percent or so of the matter in the universe. The rest is composed of a material that scientists cannot directly observe. This stuff, known as dark matter, gives itself away through gravitational interactions; for example, a galaxy may rotate faster than it should, given the amount of visible matter scientists have observed.
By probing the early universe, the EDGES scientists may have inadvertently found a new way to study dark matter, whose basic nature remains mysterious. Gas in the early universe was already extremely cold — the coldest it would ever be, Barkana said, because it had cooled down from the universe's hot early days but had not yet been heated by starlight.
While ordinary matter has been heating up in the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, dark matter has been cooling down. If particles of normal and dark matter collided with one another due to some nongravitational force — Barkana said this would be "somewhat analogous to an electric force" — then they would naturally transfer heat from the hotter one to the cooler one. In the process, the warmer object would cool ever so slightly.
The tiny amount of cooling is key to why this effect can be observed only in the early universe. With nothing else to heat the gas, it would quickly cool as it interacted with the dark matter, creating the unusual signal observed by the EDGES team. [Gallery: Dark Matter Throughout the Universe]
In the current universe, cooling from dark matter would be drowned out by heating effects from stars and X-ray effects from stellar remnants such as black holes, Barkana said. So the cosmic dawn is a unique environment for studying the heating effects of dark matter that can't be seen today.
"We do not expect to notice the dark-matter cooling, except around the formation time of the first stars, when the gas was cold and there was no significant warming," Barkana said.
Barkana's study was published online today (Feb. 28) in the journal Nature.
Smaller and slower
In addition to possibly revealing the influence of dark matter, the new EDGES observations may also have provided another clue about why the particles making up the stuff have been so elusive. Dark matter could be composed of conventional "baryonic" matter, but most scientists think it is instead made up of unusual particles.
Among the leading candidates for dark matter are hypothetical particles known as weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are generally estimated to be tens to hundreds of times more massive than protons. But the measurements from the EDGES team suggest that the dark-matter particles are no heavier than a handful of protons, Barkana determined.
He compared the collisions between baryonic-matter and dark-matter particles to tossing a tennis ball at a wall. The tennis ball returns at nearly the same speed because it didn't lose much energy to the far heavier wall.
"Similarly, if dark matter were much heavier than the gas particles, the latter could not cool even if the two collided," he said.
That could have important ramifications for dark-matter particles.
"People have been thinking about building new types of experiments that would look for lighter particles," he said. "The new clue from cosmology fits right in with that."
The observations also suggest that dark matter travels slowly rather than at near light speed, since fast-moving particles would heat the gas rather than cooling it.
To be clear, the dark-matter idea remains a hypothesis; it's far from settled science. The signal the EDGES team spotted came from the absorption of cosmic microwave background photons by hydrogen gas. Barkana said it's possible that something could be strange about the radio background rather than the gas.
"This would mean that the universe was full of radio waves, much stronger than those in the cosmic microwave background, already back when the stars had barely begun to form," Barkana said. "This would be quite unexpected but could correspond to a large population of black holes or some other very surprising astrophysical event."
Though he remains confident that dark matter is the culprit, Barkana noted that some caution is warranted, given that the conclusion is based on the first measurement of its kind.
"The measurement is solid, and it passed many checks," he said. "But still, it's important to get independent confirmation by a different instrument."
More detailed measurements will help to confirm the discovery, and Barkana said such measurements are "coming soon." Whereas EDGES takes an average measurement across the sky, arrays such as the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, in South Africa, and the international Square Kilometre Array—which will be built in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa — will measure more detailed patterns of radio waves in the sky.
"The dark-matter interpretation predicts a very specific pattern, due to the difference in how dark matter and ordinary matter behaved in the early universe," Barkana said. "So [these future observations] will be a clear test."
Follow Nola Taylor Redd at @NolaTRedd, Facebook, or Google+. Follow us at @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.


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Diatrizoinska kiselina (ili u anjonskom obliku diatrizoat), takođe poznata kao amidotrizojeva kiselina, ili 3,5-diacetamido-2,4,6-trijodobenzojeva kiselina, je radiokontrastni agens koji sadrži jod. Neka od prodajnih imena su: -{Hypaque, Gastrografin}- i Urografin (kombinacija soli natrijuma i meglumina).

Diatrizoat se smatra visoko-osmolalitskim kontrastnim agensom. Njegov osmolalitet je u opsegu od oko 1500 mOsm/kg (50% rastvor) do preko 2000 -{mOsm/kg}- (76% rastvor).

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The Importance Of Choosing The Right VC
Michael Litt 8 years
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Editor's note: Michael Litt is CEO and co-founder of Vidyard, a video marketing and analytics platform.
Like so many young startup founders, I find myself alternating between laughing out loud and cringing as I watch the Pied Piper crew navigate the business world on HBO's "Silicon Valley." Having spent a good chunk of last year raising my own company's latest round, the conversations about investment and valuation really hit home.
Looking back, I'm thankful the only body parts on the table in my VC meetings were elbows.
The show gets so much right about struggling to get your product to market, dealing with eccentric personalities and navigating the Sand Hill Road dog and pony show. But I was cringing as Richard and Erlich obsessed over dollar amounts at the expense of where the money was coming from. It's an easy trap to be dazzled by dollars, and Pied Piper isn't the first startup to fall into it. The show glossed over the importance of finding the right VC. Founders need great venture partners not only to sign the check but to provide good advice, make business connections and provide benchmarks against companies with similar business models in their portfolio.
After all, they're not just taking free money. They're giving up part of your company and opening up board seats to these people. They can't afford to take on the wrong person.
Pied Piper is paying for it in newer episodes. Against a wall, Richard agreed to take money from uberdouche Russ Hanneman, a man whose claim to fame and riches was putting radio on the Internet and whose only interest in Pied Piper seems to be getting them to overpay on crap from other companies he owns.
In the fictional land of Hooli, taking money from Russ Hanneman is a hilarious disaster. In the real world, it's just a disaster. Real startups need more than money from their VCs. They need their connections and their advising services. Sure, you don't necessarily want an overly assertive new board member who steals autonomy from the founders, but you do need someone with good judgment and a real interest in making sure you succeed.
When I was meeting with VCs while raising money for Vidyard, I took a lot of meetings. I dutifully explained our video marketing and analytics platform, showed off the impressive growth we'd achieved and told them about the immense scale of our opportunity. Of course, we talked about the money: how much we wanted and at what valuation.
After dozens upon dozens of meetings, there was one firm I wanted investing in Vidyard. Okay maybe two or three, but Bessemer Venture Partners was the only one that I really loved. I didn't love them for the term sheet they ended up giving us or how fancy their offices were. I loved them because they loved our business, and they shared our vision for where we could go. And I knew they had helped others like Shopify and Box go from fledgling startups to big success stories.
I spent long hours on the phone with Bessemer partner Byron Deeter talking about our business, but we spent just as much time talking about unrelated technologies and shared interests away from the office. It was clear that there was a match to be made. It took a while, more than six months, for us to prove Vidyard's potential and make the numbers work to get an actual deal done, but the result is a partnership in which we know we can trust our investor to do more than sign checks.
I'll keep watching and hoping Richard and his crew can overcome the obstacles they've created for themselves. Real world startup founders would be wise to learn from Pied Piper's mistakes and seek investors that provide more than just money. But that doesn't make nearly as entertaining TV.


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Q: Current state of pythonPort in Boost.Build.V2 I'm currently using bjam boost.build as my preference C++ building tool. But using bjam programming language is sometimes quite hard and non-intuitive to me.
Henceforth I'm waiting with impatience to boost.build.V2 Milestone 15, "PythonPort"
But even now with Boost.build Milestone 12, when I look in boost-build directories I see python files matching most jams.
Henceforth I wonder what are those files for and if there is a way to use python extensions in my bjam from the current boost.build version ?

A: If you are looking for a build tool written in Python, have a look at SCons, especially the user guide. Its configuration (SConstruct) files are actually Python scripts.