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The First World War: An Illustrated History/John Keegan. Hutchinson. Hardcover. First edition 2001. Condition: As new. ISBN 0091793920
This study of World War I provides a comprehensive account of the conflict and its various campaigns from start to finish, vividly relating and interpreting the unfolding events of the military action through the battles on land, sea and in the air. It also explains how the war acted as an engine for the social changes that have shaped the world we live in today.
Looking at both the appalling and avoidable military disasters, and ultimately at the war itself, it asks why, if it all seems so obviously futile and such a massive waste of life now, how could it have seemed worthwhile back then, and why did so many people carry on, knowing they would die.
Beautifully written and comprehensively illustrated with photographs, full colour paintings, posters and advertisements, maps and diagrams, The First World War honours the dead as only true history can.
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Mariners' Hansen lives the Good Life
By Kirby Arnold Herald Writer
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He's known at the ballpark as such a rough and tough, flame-spewing coach that a former player once believed he might be the meanest man in America.
Roger Hansen, the Seattle Mariners' longtime catching coordinator and now their major league bench coach, is demanding no doubt. He admits he has never ended a grueling workout session with a catcher wondering if he should have been easier on the kid.
"Not a chance," he said.
It's all different at home near Stanwood, where Hansen and wife Lynn nurture their two daughters — 7-year-old Rylie and 9-year-old Madison — along with five goats, a Great Dane, a German shepherd puppy, three cats, 30-40 chickens, gardens and an uncountable number of frogs the kids and dogs like to chase on their five acres.
In truth, the 49-year-old jagged-around-the-edges coach is a pushover at home, especially around the girls. He's reluctant to admit that, knowing he has an image in the clubhouse to protect.
"I tell people they're my rented family," Hansen says.
Those who know him best know better.
"When he comes home, it's definitely family comes first. None of that tough-guy stuff," his wife said. "Whatever the family needs, he puts us foremost over everything. I'll give him a list and he'll go get groceries, although he might call 10 times and ask, 'Is this what you want?'
"The girls have him right where they want him. He wrestles with them and they cook together. They love baking bread together."
They rarely talk baseball, hard as that may be to believe.
Put it this way. None of the animals at home is named Junior or Griffey or Varitek or after any number of the players Hansen has mentored over the years. That may seem surprising because baseball has been the foundation for the family — he and Lynn met at a hotdog stand in downtown Calgary when he played minor league ball there in the 1980s — and given them memories worth bragging about.
Hansen spent the 1988 season as the veteran minor-league teammate/roommate/overseer for budding teen-age star Ken Griffey Jr., and they've maintained a special relationship ever since. It's not something he boasts around his daughters.
"They don't know who the players are," he said. "They'll go to school and some kid will ask, 'Do you know Ken Griffey Jr.?' And they'll say, 'Who's Ken Griffey Jr.?' Now that they're getting older, they ask more questions, like, 'Dad, what are you doing down there?' I'll tell them, 'I'm just down there teaching some kid.'"
Longtime friend Andy Bottin, a Camano Island resident and manager of the Mariners' rookie-level team in Peoria, Ariz., recently gave Hansen's daughters a photo showing their dad getting a big hug from Griffey in the dugout at spring training. Bottin had Griffey sign a copy for each girl.
"To those kids, I'm Uncle Andy," Bottin said. "I told the kids about how he babysat Junior years ago and how much the organization cared about Roger and trusted Roger, and 'When you get a little older I'll tell you some stories about your dad.' Roger was ready to kill me for that, but in the big picture he said thanks."
Since their marriage in 1989, Roger and Lynn Hansen have taken nearly every step of this baseball/family journey together.
They lived in Arizona while Roger worked for the Mariners as a roving minor league catching instructor in the early 1990s. When former general manager Woody Woodward wanted him to manage the Class A Everett AquaSox in 1996, he initially resisted the offer.
"Woody said, 'I'll rent you a house on the water,'" he said. "They found a place on Camano Island, and that's when I met Andy Bottin. It was close to Andy's house. We liked it so much that we bought five acres up there."
That's where the Hansens have remained, on a piece of land near the Kayak Point State Park.
Hansen managed the AquaSox one season, returning to a roving instructor role in 1997 before spending the next three years in Japan as a catching instructor with the Orix Blue Wave.
"When we were in Japan, that's when we started having kids," Hansen said.
And even though Rylie and Madison have grown up close to the game, the Hansens try their best to keep it separate.
"You try to have a normal family because you can get consumed with this lifestyle. You don't want that," Hansen said. "You want your kids to grow up and be responsible. Sure, they come to the ballpark and do things, but still, they have to live a life — school, chores, the whole thing."
Living in Snohomish County with the goats, dogs, chickens, cats, frogs and gardens has been a perfect way enjoy life besides baseball.
Last month, Lynn and the girls won several blue ribbons at the Stanwood-Camano Community Fair for their painted rocks, flowers and vegetables. Roger Hansen even won first place for a pink flower although he claimed the entry was made by the family without his knowledge.
"A flower?" he said. "Thanks guys."
Lynn and the girls also spend a lot of time volunteering at New Moon Farm Goat Rescue &Sanctuary in Arlington.
"They go there and clean up poop and all that," Hansen said. "When they head out there, they're bound to come home with another animal."
Because of his schedule — especially now as the Mariners' bench coach, taking over last month after former manager Don Wakamatsu and three of his coaches were fired — Hansen's schedule is hectic even when the team is playing in Seattle.
He often spends the night at a downtown hotel and the girls will join him in the city.
"Where we live, Stanwood-Camano is the country," he said. "Sometimes they like to come down to go swimming and see the city, but after a few days they're like, 'OK, we're out of here!'"
On the field, Hansen may seem like the opposite of the family man he is at home.
Those who know him say he's exactly the same caring person — along with some salty language and a workout regimen that will test the physical and mental limits of players. Jeff Clement, a former first-round draft pick who was traded last year to the Pittsburgh Pirates, said he'd heard so many horror stories before he met Hansen that he envisioned him as the meanest man in America.
"Roger holds you to a higher standard and he expects that out of the players," Bottin said. "He holds you accountable for your actions. If there's a negative to it, if you betray that, you're done. There's very little forgiveness on that side."
Hansen isn't afraid to lay his opinion on anyone, whether it's a teen-age catcher in a blocking drill or an executive in a front-office meeting.
"I'm going to call it the way it is, the way I see it," he said. "If it happens to be (Mariners CEO) Howard Lincoln or (team president) Chuck Armstrong or ownership, Roger is going to be Roger. There's not going to be any in-between. I look after the best interest of the club. If I'm doing something (wrong), I'll air myself out."
That's part of the reason Hansen is finishing this season as interim manager Daren Brown's bench coach. Young player or veteran, he demands accountability.
"If you were to put a tag on somebody, he is the Mariner Way," Bottin said. "You couldn't ask for a better guy up there right now to lead as example. He's going to bark at you if you disrespect this game and don't stay focused on playing the game the Mariner Way, the right way. I think we need that type of guidance and leadership."
Hansen, who turned 49 on Saturday, doesn't know if his current duties will lead to a similar opportunity next year, or even if he'll return to the catching coordinator job he has held the past eight years. In recent years, he has become a vital member of the player development department under minor league director Pedro Grifol, handling issues well beyond catching.
He and his wife talk every year about when he should leave the game, although Hansen isn't convinced he's at that point yet. It always seems like there's another way to help the organization, another young catcher to work with, he said.
"You can't leave until you get things finished," he said. "It has to be finished before you walk out the door. That means winning or getting to a point where we know we are completely stable, and that's at all levels of the organization.
"When is the time to say you walk away? That'll be a decision Lynn and I will make. I can tell you that it will be, 'This is it.' It won't be, 'Well, I don't know …' Save all that B.S. because once it's over, we'll just go home and get some horses."
Read Kirby Arnold's blog on the Mariners at www.heraldnet.com/marinersblog
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The Lynnwood girls join the Class 3A top 10 as five Snohomish County girls teams crack the rankings.
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We try to run the kind of business in which we can work happily and with a clean conscience. Part of that is decency in our daily practice: paying suppliers on time, treating clients as individuals rather than as assets to sweat, that sort of thing. Another part is ensuring that a chunk of our effort will benefit charities, non-profits and social enterprises whether through pro bono work or fundraising efforts. Here's what we do.
The "Tiny Tithe"
We donate £50 to our nominated UK charities (below) for every client invoice we raise above a nominal threshold. This is not a surcharge which we factor into our quotes or which we pass on to our clients, but we ask each of our clients to decide where they would like the £50 to be directed when the time comes.
The Gatehouse is a drop-in café at the St Giles Parish Rooms in Oxford which exists to provide a calm, safe refuge for people who are homeless or vulnerably housed. Max first discovered the Gatehouse through a friend who volunteered there (and because the Parish Rooms are also used for auditions for an am-dram group of which Max is a member).
In 2018-19 we donated £500 to the Gatehouse through our Tiny Tithe, with another £200 so far this year.
Children Heard and Seen
Children Heard and Seen's mission is:
to lead the way in providing quality support and intervention for children and young people with a family member in prison
to enable children and young people to fulfil their potential
to reduce intergenerational and parent re-offending
to work innovatively in partnership with stakeholders, other partners and funders
to undertake pioneer research and develop models for evidence-based practice
In 2018-19 we donated £1300 to CHAS through our Tiny Tithe, with another £400 so far this year.
Arts at the Old Fire Station
Arts at the Old Fire Station is a unique model of social inclusion. The public come to the Old Fire Station to drink coffee, buy art, attend classes and watch shows. Artists come to rehearse, create and showcase. Homeless people come to access Crisis services and build confidence and skills by participating and working in the arts.
They all come through the same door and find themselves sharing the space and having overlapping interests.
No other arts organisation in the UK has such a close relationship with Crisis, whilst simultaneously supporting artistic talent in our theatre and exhibition space, and facilitating a crossover between the two. Here, a homeless person can be an artist, volunteer, or audience member.
In 2018-19 we donated £2,900 to A@OFS through our Tiny Tithe, with another £1,150 so far this year.
Some of our clients have asked us to donate to other charities on an ad-hoc basis (which we are happy to accommodate). In 2018-19, recipients have included the Oxford Radcliffe Hospital's Silver Star ward (£650), MIND (£650), Scope (£50) and New Life Special Care Babies (£100).
We participate in everyday fundraising activities – distance runs, obstacle courses, free seminars, whatever works best. Most recently Max ran the Oxford Half Marathon, raising funds for the Gatehouse.
Pro Bono Work and Sponsorships
We support local charities and non-profit organisations in Oxford, through pro bono work and sponsorships. Recent activities include the following:
The Last Noël
We're proud to sponsor accessible, captioned performances of The Last Noël, running at the Old Fire Station during December 2019. Early reviews have been excellent, and you should really get tickets ASAP here!
"We'll tell the same old stories, all over again. And we won't complain. Because it's Christmas."
It's Christmas Day. Three generations of a family are busy preparing a feast, and you're invited. But someone is missing from the table.
The Last Noël is a funny, moving, uplifting play with live music and original songs by Chris Bush. Make this a Christmas you'll never forget.
We were proud sponsors of Offbeat, Oxford's fringe summer festival, in 2018 and again in 2019. For more information see here.
We sponsored captioned performances of this new play by triple Olivier Award winner Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster, King Charles III) directed by fellow Olivier winner Clare Lizzimore during its premier run in Oxford in December 2018.
Victoriocity
An unsolvable mystery in an unending city. Welcome to Even Greater London.
Victoriocity is a podcast comedy mystery set in an alternate Victorian London. We love it and were thrilled to be a sponsor for Season 2. Check it out on iTunes
Primary Care International
We helped Primary Care International to refine their agreement with project partners overseas, as part of a major 'healthcare innovation programme' tackling non-communicable diseases across Africa and elsewhere.
Justice in
We provide Justice in Motion with support in relation to various commercial contractual matters.
Theatre Therapy
We sponsored this pilot project by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust during August 2017. The project aimed to help children with autistic spectrum conditions develop their social skills through the use of drama based therapeutic games, working with actors and therapists from across the city of Oxford.
Previous "Tiny Tithes"
Here are some of the fantastic charities that we have supported in previous years.
We donated £1,125 to the Gatehouse during 2017 through the Tiny Tithe.
KEEN Oxford
KEEN provides inclusive sporting, social and creative activities for children and adults with special needs in the Oxford area. We donated £2,025 to KEEN during 2017 through the Tiny Tithe and raised a further £270 through fundraising.
The WHF
The Wildlife Heritage Foundation (WHF) operates The Big Cat Sanctuary in Smarden, Kent, providing a sanctuary for endangered big cats and assisting in conservation, breeding and the return of endangered animals to the wild. WHF also engages in field conservation projects overseas. We donated £800 to WHF during 2017 through the Tiny Tithe and raised a further £180 through fundraising.
Meet Nuwara
Max and Jo first met WHF when they visited the Sanctuary in 2016. They fell in love with Nuwara, a Sri Lankan Rusty Spotted Cat (one of the smallest members of the cat family), so Windich Legal adopted her. Like us, what she lacks in size she more than makes up for in attitude.
Isn't she a beauty? If you would like to adopt one of the WHF's amazing animals, click here.


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USC vs. Arizona 2012: Game time, TV schedule, odds and more
Everything you need to know for Saturday's Pac-12 showdown.
By Jakob Engelke Oct 27, 2012, 5:02am PDT
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Riding a four-game winning streak, all of which have come against Pac-12 teams, the USC Trojans are looking to continue their momentum this weekend with a matchup against Arizona.
The No. 9 Trojans (6-1, 4-1 Pac-12) have beaten Colorado, Washington, Utah and California in successive weeks. Led by quarterback Matt Barkley, who has thrown for 1,773 yards, 22 touchdowns and just six interceptions, the Trojans have been electric on offense. USC has scored more than 42 points three times this season.
Arizona (4-3, 1-3) is coming off a dominant 52-17 win over Washington. The WIldcats are averaging 196.4 rushing yards per game.
Here's all the information for Saturday's Pac-12 showdown:
Who: USC vs. Arizona
When: Saturday, Oct. 27 at 3:30 p.m. ET
Where: Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Ariz.
T.V.: ABC
Point spread: USC by 6.5.
Specific team news, insight and analysis: For more on the Trojans, head over to Conquest Chronicles. For more on Arizona, check out AZ Desert Swarm.
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OWASP has certainly pushed forward a lot of great advancements in Software Security Assurance, yet you're still fighting your organization to allow you to scan applications before they go live. Somewhere between the avalanche of site breaches, new technologies, and new apps you're going to need a better strategy. Let's face it, if you want to keep playing the game with today's rules, you're going to need a bigger shovel …or you can simply choose to evolve your game. Combining a practical 'workshop style exercise' and a lecture style talk, this session covers and demonstrates some of the challenges of software security – and why you're having all this trouble in your day job. This talk will cover why Software Security Assurance programs are still lagging in a majority of organizations, and provide a critical look at how a shift in strategy can help you fall behind a little slower.


Ariel view of Santa Monica's Airport Park.
SANTA MONICA—The city of Santa Monica has decided to expand its park program with unused non-aviation land at the Santa Monica Airport.
The city will host an event at Airport Park on Saturday, June 18, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Community members are invited to share their ideas at the event for the park's future expansion on the 12 acres of prospected land.
Ishihara Park is currently under construction on Exposition Boulevard.
Renovation of the northeast quadrant of Read Park, which will break ground this summer.
The recent kickoff of the design and rebuild of the Clover Park restrooms.
The upcoming launch of feasibility and design of a sports field at the Civic Center, which has been previously reported on by Canyon News.
The City Council has demonstrated its willingness to expand and improve Santa Monica parks and recreation by approving more than $8.5 million in funding for open space projects in the 2016-18 Capital Improvement Program Budget.
The event will feature a presentation by architect Mark Rios at 11:15 p.m. Following the presentation, community members will be provided the opportunity to give input on key park features, amenities, and materials. There will also be the opportunity to meet with the Rios Clementi Hale Studios design team and other project consultants.
Airport Park covers four acres and includes a soccer field, walking path, picnic area, and dog park. It is located at 3201 Airport Avenue along the southeast border of Santa Monica. The 12-acre expansion is ample space for needed sports facilities.
For more information you can visit www.santamonicaparks.org or the Facebook event page.


March might not be the warmest month of the year, but it is one of the most important because it marks the transition from winter to spring, giving us hope that the days of dry skin and seven layers of clothing are almost behind us. In addition to warm weather, there are also so many things to look forward to, like International Women's Day and Mardi Gras.
Adding to that sense of anticipation are all the spring launches coming to Sephora aisles this month. From brand-new innovations, like a fog-inspired hydrating mist, to cult classics remixed, we've rounded up the best products coming to Sephora this month, so you can see all the newness for yourself.


THE DEE-JAY hydraulic reservoir and power unit manufacturing system is available from Doug Symons and Associates .
This is not just a hydraulic reservoir, but also a versatile and efficient manufacturing system that allows power units to be assembled virtually DIY, according to Doug Symons and Associates.
DEE-JAY reservoirs are structurally sound to support equipment loads, reduce noise reverberation and resist thermal distortion.
Reservoirs are pre-drilled for standard oil level/temperature gauges one end and require no marking out or cutting.
4) A DEE-JAY manifold system that allows complete circuits to be built up to include pressure relief valve, pressure gauge, return line filter, stacking of CETOP 3 and 5 subplates, air filter and clogging indicator, which eliminates pipe work.
Larger reservoirs have a system of baffles to separate hot and cold oil flows, reduce turbulence, maximise heat dissipation and removal of entrained air and includes the rated working capacity plus 25% free air space.
Reservoirs range in size from 15 to 500 litres ex-stock.
The DEE-JAY reservoir allows a selection of lids to suit motor frame sizes D80 to D225.
• Flexible gap sealing gaskets to provide air tight seal between the reservoir, lid, adaptor plates and manifold blocks.
The DEE-JAY reservoir is one hundred percent Australian designed and manufactured to the highest quality, says Doug Symons and Associates.


Hello CAS fans, welcome back to another CAS Mix Up October Challenge, the theme is "METAL" hosted by our talented Mac.
I copper heat embossed the stamped leaves (Dylusions-Further around the edges) on vellum, the square frame (Nellie's Multi-frames) and the outside edges of the die cut leaves (MC Collection-feuillages).
Fantastic design and layout, Joanna! I love that you layered the vellum frame over leaves and only the outside edges of leaves are copper heat-embossed. The color of the copper looks fabulous against the white card base!
Gorgeous Jo, the copper looks stunning against the velum.
Love your Faux Metallic copper leaves with the Vellum Jo, a wonderful design for the challenge. Thanks for you lovely comments and welcome to the Design Team.
How elegant this looks! Love your faux metal and the wonderful framing of your focal. The leaves in the background are fabulous! This is so beautifully done!
The copper embossing looks so rich with the vellum, Jo! The contrast between the heavy and light textures is wonderful!
The heat embossed copper and the delicate vellum make a stunning combination. One fabulous CAS card with the faux metal and those fabulous leaves. Love how you've combined the leaves and the die cut frame too x.


If you follow me on Twitter or on Facebook, then you might be aware that I had the chance to work with the owners of Strawberry Apparel on a Back to School Special.
It was my first encounter with the brand. Initially, I thought they produced ordinary graphic shirts; however, when I came face to face with their newest designs and their photo advertisements, something told me that they weren't just "any" local graphics shirt label.
I had a little chit-chat with Jude, one of the founders, and he explained to us how the idea came to be and what makes their shirts different. Check out the full interview here.
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wow, this must have been fun!
I just watched the video of the interview!!


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MPR News Intelligence on higher education
Notes in the Margins
Remediation, smart drugs, and net neutrality
Alex Friedrich July 7, 2014, 8:04 AM Jul 7, 2014
How college remediation rates are distorted — and why No matter how serious a problem remediation may be, it is wrong to inflate remediation numbers and then use them to justify everything from charter schools to the Common Core. (The Washington Post)
College Group Run for Profit Looks to Close or Sell Schools Facing heavy losses and a crackdown by government agencies, Corinthian Colleges, one of the largest for-profit operators of trade schools and colleges, will largely cease operating under an agreement with the federal Education Department. (The New York Times)
European Students' Use of 'Smart Drugs' Is Said to Rise Under heavy pressure to excel, significant numbers of European university students are using cognitive enhancers, so-called smart drugs, to keep up with academic demands, recent studies show. (The New York Times)
Discounting dims revenue growth prospects at some private colleges The continued increase in freshmen and undergraduate tuition discounting represents a credit risk for some private institutions of higher education, according to Fitch Ratings. (University Business)
Dialogue on net neutrality hits campuses Michael Berman, vice president of technology & communications at California State University Channel Islands, equates a regulated Internet as "a network where the video for courses from The University of Phoenix or Coursera run quickly, but those from edX and your local community college run at slower speed and lower resolution." (USA Today via NAICU)
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Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master's in European political economy from the London School of Economics.
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Hewlett-Packard Says Goodbye to PCs, webOS
August 18, 2011 at 12:25 pm PT
Hewlett-Packard confirmed today that it is "exploring strategic alternatives for its personal systems group," including a possible sale or spinoff of the unit as an independent company.
It also said that it is engaged in talks with the British software concern Autonomy. Bloomberg News reported earlier today that HP was in talks to acquire Autonomy for about $10 billion, which would make it HP's third-largest acquisition ever, after Compaq in 2001 ($32 billion) and EDS in 2008 (about $16 billion).
In addition, HP said it would discontinue operations of the webOS unit that came with last year's acquisition of Palm, the handheld computing company for which it paid nearly $2 billion. Ina Fried has more about that here, but obviously the revelation that the TouchPad tablet device isn't selling at Best Buy was an important indication that the webOS business was not long for this world.
The news came along with quarterly results that missed the consensus expectations of analysts. Revenue was $31.2 billion versus a consensus of $31.19 billion. Per-share earnings were $1.10, a penny short better than the consensus of $1.09. While HP managed to squeak by expectations on the earnings front, its outlook isn't getting any better. It reduced its revenue forecast for the year to a range of $127.2 billion to $127.6 billion, down from its previously guided range of $129 billion to $130 billion. It also cut its estimated per-share earnings for the full year to a range of $4.82 to $4.86, down from $5. HP shares set new 52-week lows today, finally settling at $29.51, down 6 percent. The shares have lost nearly 30 percent since the start of the year, and are down more than 40 percent from their 52-week high set in February.
Update: In the sudden onslaught of HP news I misread the press release and said that HP missed the consensus by a penny per share when in fact it beat the consensus by a penny per share. Sorry about that.
A second update: Now HP has confirmed the terms of the Autonomy acquisition. HP has reached a deal to pay $42.11 a share for Autonomy in cash. The deal represents a premium of about 64 percent from Autonomy's closing price yesterday. The deal will close by the end of the year.
And if that weren't enough HP news for you, the company named John Visentin as executive vice president of HP Enterprise Services, effective immediately. Visentin previously led HP Enterprise Services for the Americas. Prior to joining HP, Visentin held several senior executive positions at IBM and, all told, has 27 years in the information technology industry. He replaces Tom Iannotti, who announced his retirement earlier this year.
Here's the announcement. I'll have more as I go through everything.
HP Confirms Discussions with Autonomy Corporation plc Regarding Possible Business Combination; Makes Other Announcements
Press Release Source: HP On Thursday August 18, 2011, 3:02 pm
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– HP (NYSE:HPQ – News) today commented on the recent announcement by Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE:AU.L.l – News). HP confirms that it is in discussions with Autonomy regarding a possible offer for the company.
HP also reported that it plans to announce that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG). HP will consider a broad range of options that may include, among others, a full or partial separation of PSG from HP through a spin-off or other transaction.
In addition, HP reported that it plans to announce that it will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.
HP today announced preliminary results for the third fiscal quarter 2011, with revenue of $31.2 billion compared with $30.7 billion one year ago.
In the third quarter, preliminary GAAP diluted earnings per share (EPS) was $0.93 and non-GAAP diluted EPS was $1.10, compared with third quarter fiscal 2010 GAAP diluted EPS of $0.75 and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $1.08. Non-GAAP diluted EPS estimates exclude after-tax costs related primarily to the amortization of purchased intangible assets of approximately $0.17 per share and $0.33 per share in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2010, respectively.
For the fourth fiscal quarter of 2011, HP estimates revenue of approximately $32.1 billion to $32.5 billion, GAAP diluted EPS in the range of $0.44 to $0.55, and non-GAAP diluted EPS in the range of $1.12 to $1.16. Non-GAAP diluted EPS guidance excludes after-tax costs of approximately $0.61 to $0.68 per share, related primarily to restructuring and shutdown costs associated with webOS devices, the amortization and impairment of purchased intangibles, restructuring charges and acquisition-related charges.
HP estimates full-year FY11 revenue will be approximately $127.2 billion to $127.6 billion, down from its previous estimate of $129 billion to $130 billion. FY11 GAAP diluted EPS is expected to be in the range of $3.59 to $3.70, down from its previous estimate of at least $4.27, and FY11 non-GAAP diluted EPS is expected to be in the range of $4.82 to $4.86, down from its previous estimate of at least $5.00. FY11 non-GAAP diluted EPS estimates exclude after-tax costs of approximately $1.16 to 1.23 per share, related primarily to restructuring and shutdown costs associated with webOS devices, the amortization and impairment of purchased intangibles, restructuring charges and acquisition-related charges.
HP will host a conference call with the financial community today at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET to discuss these announcements well as HP's third quarter 2011 financial results. The call is accessible via an audio webcast at www.hp.com/investor/2011q3webcast.
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Steve started to play violin at age 3. A few years later he began studying violin at the RCM in Chatham Row, Dublin, with Nell Kane. In 1982 Steve met 'The Edge' at a bus stop and went on to record 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and tour with U2.
Around the same time, Steve was a founding member of In Tua Nua which featured Sinead O Connor as one of the vocalists and signed to Island records. In 1985 following some recording sessions in London, Steve was asked to join the Waterboys and he then went on to make many records with them including the seminal 'This is the Sea' and 'Fisherman's Blues' and more recently 'An Appointment with Mr Yeats'.
Steve is a much respected session fiddler and has recorded with Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Sinead O Connor, World Party, Declan O Rourke among many others. He continues to be an integral part of 'the Waterboys' and is a founder member of Sligo band 'NoCrows' with whom he records and tours with regularly.
Steve also regularly performs with the Sligo Baroque Orchestra and has recently completed a commission composing music for the orchestra and African ensemble Musica Tropicana. This work was performed during the Cairde Sligo Arts festival and will hopefully be recorded later this year (2014).


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La rivière Congaree () est une rivière des États-Unis longue de  qui se jette dans le fleuve Santee. Le nom de cette rivière provient de la tribu amérindienne Congaree.

La rivière est navigable sur toute sa longueur. Une partie des rives de la rivière est protégée et de nombreuses activités touristiques se sont développées (vélo, observation ornithologique, randonnée botanique...)

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La rivière débute au centre de l'État de Caroline du Sud à Columbia au confluent entre les rivières Saluda et Broad. La rivière sert de frontière entre les comtés de Richland, Calhoun et Lexington. Trois villes se situent sur les rives de la rivière : Columbia, Cayce et West Columbia.

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Le Congaree River Blue Trail est un sentier aquatique classé National Recreation Trail sur la rivière.

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I know this sounds cliche', but hope is an amazing thing – the coffee tastes a little sweeter today, my work and responsibility as a small business owner doesn't seem as overwhelming and it's freezing cold but I am only noticing the sun. Today the word hope is tangible – it has "real" meaning.
What a day! From about 8 am to 1:30 pm we had well over 60 people stop in Tazza D'Oro to watch the inauguration of President Obama. As long as I'm around I will NEVER forget my experience or the people I had the chance to share the moment with. Thank you! It just happened that we had a photographer on site, Anthony Musmanno, who was there to do a photo shoot for an upcoming issue for a fabulous magazine. Anthony captured the moment that will forever be archived for Tazza D'Oro. Thank you, Anthony. The photos are beyond words and for me just pure, raw emotion! See the photos – click here.
The photos were great. The sepia tone was an added benefit here as it was a historical event and the photos had an air of history with that tonal quality. I only wish I had been there instead of watching at home. Cudo's Amy. You should have some of these framed to hang in the shop.


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Borges and his Precursors. Bergson and «the Retrograde Movement of the True»
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Keywords: Borges, Bergson, Eliot, Precursors, Bloom.
The article aims at demonstrating that Borges, by affirming that «each writer creates his precursors», was rather influenced by Bergson's reflection on the retrograde movement of the true and on the pre-eminence of the effect over the cause, than by T.S. Eliot's article Tradition and the Individual Talent – to which the essay Kafka y sus precursores explicitly refers. In order to prove that, we start from a peculiar slip of the Argentine writer in the conference El tiempo, where he ascribes to the French psychiatrist Hippolyte Bernheim a Bergsonian argument. On this basis, we then explore the relationship among Bergson, Eliot and Borges.
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Rare wolf attack injures camper, shuts down campground in Banff, Alberta
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Parks Canada believes only 1 wolf was involved but has closed Rampart Creek as a precaution
A wolf that attacked a tent and injured a camper has been killed and the campground has been closed after a rare incident took place in Banff National Park, officials say.
Around 1 a.m. on Friday, Parks Canada received a report of a wolf attack at Rampart Creek Campground off the Icefields Parkway, according to a news release.
Officials say the wolf attacked the tent and inflicted hand and arm injuries on a camper inside. No wildlife attractants or food were found nearby.
The wolf believed to be responsible was tracked down about one kilometre south of the campground and was destroyed by Parks Canada.
The camper was transferred to hospital in Banff.
Parks Canada says this appears to be an isolated incident, and events like these are very rare. As a precaution, the campground will stay closed until a full investigation is completed.


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Power Rangers: 15 Things You Didn't Know About The Black Ranger
For more than 20 years, Power Rangers has given audiences a rainbow assortment of color coded superheroes to save the day, both on Earth and across the universe. From the early days of fighting Rita Repulsa to the most recent seasons featuring samurai and ninjas, the franchise has explored villains, heroes, and themes of every variety. Now, Saban is bringing their beloved franchise to the big screen with a whole new cast who are taking us back to where it all started.
To get you ready for the new cinematic iteration, we've given you the skinny on just about every original Power Ranger and how they've been updated for the big screen. The Yellow Ranger has been making waves as the first out-of-the-closet LGBTQ superhero, and the Blue Ranger will show audiences an autistic hero for kids to look up to. Now, it's time to learn about another one of the core colors in the Power Rangers series.
Get ready for 15 Things You Didn't Know About The Black Ranger!
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A pair of Black Rangers Are Two Of The Longest Serving Power Rangers
Given how long the franchise has been running, you might think that there are a lot of Power Rangers characters who have stuck around for years. With every team featuring an almost entirely new cast of characters since the fifth season of the series, however, there are only four Power Rangers who have episode counts that extend beyond the norm.
Billy Cranston (David Yost), the original Blue Ranger, stuck around the series the longest when it comes to consecutive episodes, with 194 of them under his belt. But for most of that time, he wasn't an actual Ranger. Beginning as a Blue Ranger in the Mighty Morphin days, he ended up serving as a mentor to the team during the Zeo and Turbo runs of the show before leaving it behind. Amy Jo Johnson left the series in the third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers having completed 137 episodes, though her character has lived on in her own comic book mini series.
Coming back for more episodes after they left were Tommy Oliver (Jason David Frank) and Adam Park (Johnny Yong Bosch). While Tommy began the series as the Green Ranger before later becoming both White and Red Rangers, he would return in Dino Thunder years later to mentor a new team as the Black Ranger. The character has made more than 250 appearances across eight different seasons, making him the longest-running character in the series by a wide margin.
Adam, meanwhile, joined the MMPR team when the original Black Ranger left the series. He also appeared in both the Zeo and Turbo seasons as a Green Ranger. Even after passing on his abilities to a new generation, he came back to the series multiple times in his first Power Rangers uniform (black) to help save the day. He's appeared in 137 episodes overall, but Bosch has also provided his voice to Power Rangers video games, performing as several different characters, including Tommy!
The Original Black Ranger Is Missing A Finger
Growing up in the '90s, there were plenty of kids who watched Walter Jones dance his way through the aptly named "hip hop kido" on the show, something created specifically to showcase that the Black Ranger was just as much of a dancer as he was a fighter. Kids were quick to notice his moves and try to imitate him as Zack. Kids might not have been so quick to notice that Jones was missing one of his fingers, though.
The missing finger wasn't noticeable on the show to most kids, since so many of his fight moves involved closed fists -- and there wasn't a particular focus on his hands when he wasn't fighting the Putty Patrol. In costume, the actors who portrayed the characters in the Japanese Sentai version of the show appeared with their five-fingered gloves. Interviewers at various Power Rangers themed conventions over the years have continued to ask Jones about the missing finger after the rumor started that he lost the finger during an accident on the show. That rumor can be put to bed. Jones lost the middle finger on his left hand in an accident when he was just four years old.
Walter Jones Created His Own Fight Choreography
When Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was in development, the series didn't have a team that included a fight choreographer like modern superhero shows do. While series like Agents of SHIELD and Arrow choreograph their fight scenes down to the tiniest detail, Power Rangers was a bit more free flowing with its fight sequences.
When the series was in its pre-production stages, the producers decided to cast actors who had skills they could translate to the characters instead of initially finding them stunt doubles. As a result, Amy Jo Johnson and David Yost, who were both gymnasts, were instructed to incorporate gymnastic moves into their fights. Likewise, Walter Jones, who was an experienced dancer in addition to his martial arts background, was asked to incorporate dance moves into his own fights. Jones would make up choreography in between shooting scenes with stunt men who were suited up as Putty Patrollers. His dance moves gave Zack a distinctive style compared to the other Rangers.
The Black Ranger Is Usually Second In Command
Because much of the costumed footage for the Power Rangers series comes from the Japanese Super Sentai series, a lot of the team dynamics transfer over from there. As a result, the Pink and Yellow Rangers, regardless of gender, are usually the lower ranking members of the team, while the Red and Black Rangers are usually the highest. With Red almost always serving as the team leader, Black becomes second in command.
There are a few notable exceptions to this particular rule. Towards the latter end of the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' run, it was the White Ranger who became the leader of the team, despite being an addition outside of the core group. Of course, that decision paid off when Austin St. John's Jason, the original Red Ranger, left the series, as it allowed a veteran Ranger to continue to lead the team.
Constantly playing second fiddle to the team leader can lead to in-team jealousy, though, which is something the comic series recently explored.
Rita Repulsa Almost Chose Zack As Her Green Ranger
BOOM! Studios has been publishing its own Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series that fleshes out the storylines that appeared on the '90s television series. In it, the teenagers are given quite a bit more depth than their television counterparts. As a result, the story of the Green Ranger entering the picture, widely regarded as the best story arc of the original show, is made even better.
On the television series, Tommy Oliver was brainwashed by Rita Repulsa into being her very own Power Ranger, until the original team managed to break him out of the trance. In an interesting twist, the comics reveal that Tommy wasn't Rita's first choice to pilot the Dragonzord. Instead, she went after Zack, the Black Ranger, who didn't appear to be getting the recognition he deserved. Even though it was his quick thinking that saved the day in a big fight, it was the Red Ranger who got the credit in issue #5. Rita sought to exploit that oversight, hoping that he would be feeling inadequate and jealous. Zack surprised her when he turned her down, as he was happy to do his part to save the day, even if he didn't get the glory. As a result, Rita opted to go after someone who wasn't already a Power Ranger. Those 5 teenagers with attitude were just too loyal to one another.
Two Former Black Rangers Reunite In The Order
When you check out the cast list for the upcoming movie The Order, it's already pretty impressive for any genre fan. Not only does it include Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: The Next Generation), but also Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek) and George Lazenby (James Bond). In addition to those big names, the film also features a ton of Power Rangers alumni.
Two of the franchise's Black Rangers will be reuniting for the film, which follows a group of vigilantes who discover that some of their teammates have turned on them. Original Black Ranger Walter Jones is set to appear in the film, as is Azim Rizk, who played one of the most recent Black Rangers in Power Rangers Megaforce.
Former Yellow Ranger Karan Ashley and Zordon himself, David J. Fielding, teamed up to write the script, and they're also serving as producers on the film. While it's not officially affiliated with the Power Rangers franchise, it's shaping up to be a must-watch for fans of the long-running series.
There Has Never Been A Female Black Ranger
Though colors like Red, Blue, and Yellow have featured both male and female characters in the Power Rangers roles, the color scheming of the series has at least two constants: Pink Rangers are always female and the Black Rangers are always male. While the Super Sentai series have featured male Rangers in pink garb in the past, the Power Rangers franchise in the U.S. has yet to do that. But on both sides of the Pacific, every full-time Black Ranger has been a guy, though that doesn't mean a female character hasn't been able to wield the abilities of that particular color at any point.
In the Power Rangers Megaforce and Super Megaforce seasons of the series, two of the team members were female. The Pink and Yellow Rangers were both able to use Black Ranger "keys" to draw on the abilities of the Black Rangers that came before them. Technically, the Pink Ranger is the first female Black Ranger as she utilizes the Black Ranger RPM key a few times over the course of the series. The Yellow Ranger would also eventually go on to use Black Ranger keys at various times as well.
Walter Jones Has Never Returned To The Series In Character
Of the original six Power Rangers, three of them have returned to work for the franchise in character. Amy Jo Johnson reprised her role in the Power Rangers: Turbo movie after leaving during the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers run. So did Austin St. John, who left before Johnson did, though he also returned to take on the role of the Gold Ranger for a little while. Jason David Frank, probably the most well-known Ranger of them all, returned for multiple versions of the show, even serving as a mentor to a new generation of Power Rangers at one point.
Neither David Yost nor Thuy Trang ever returned to the series after leaving, though the latter, who played the original Yellow Ranger, died in a car accident in 2001 and never had the chance to return. The only actor who hasn't been a part of the series beyond the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers run who did have the chance, though? That would be Walter Jones. Jones has never made a comeback to the franchise in character, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his roots. Jones teamed up with Austin St. John to host a Power Rangers special that included an airing of the "lost episode," the pilot that was shot to sell the show. Jones and St. John filmed segments that featured behind the scenes information for longtime fans.
With the series ongoing, and the movies having five sequels planned, there's always a chance that Jones's Zack Taylor could pop in for an appearance or two at some point.
The Black Ranger Was The Only Unplayable Original Ranger In Power Rangers: Super Legends
In 2007, likely as a ploy to capitalize on the nostalgia associated with past Power Rangers series, Disney Interactive released Power Rangers: Super Legends to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the franchise. The video game was created for PC, Playstation 2, and Nintendo DS, with different characters playable in each version. In it, the Future Omega Ranger enlists the help of various other Power Rangers to go up against Lord Zedd, who has found the Time Crystal as the human archaeologist he became after Zordon saved the galaxy. Unable to resist the temptation of power, Lord Zedd is evil again.
The game featured various Power Rangers from Mighty Morphin, Zeo, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, SPD, Lost Galaxy, Operation Overdrive, and Time Force seasons, depending on which console was being used to play the game. In the case of the original Power Rangers, players could go through the game as the Red, Pink, Yellow, or Blue Rangers on the PC and Playstation 2, or the Red or Pink Rangers for the Nintendo DS. The Green Ranger also appeared as a helper character. The only Ranger from the Mighty Morphin era to not be a part of the game play in any way was the Black Ranger, an oversight that went entirely unexplained by Disney Interactive.
Two Black Rangers Teach Martial Arts After Their Ranger Days
With so many Power Rangers having a love for martial arts before they even get their superpowers, it's probably not a big surprise that at least a few of them go on to teach martial arts to a new generation. Most audience members would probably expect Tommy to be among them, given his constant presence at tournaments in the early days of the show. But Mr. Oliver goes on to become a science teacher with a doctorate in paleontology and a mentor to the Dino Thunder Rangers instead. It's the first two Black Rangers of the Mighty Morphin era that look to pass their knowledge on to the next generation.
On the show, Adam is revealed to be teaching martial arts when he returns for a team-up episode. In the past, the show had already demonstrated his gift for teaching by having him coach underclassmen on the soccer team. Meanwhile, in the comics, Zack brings his hip hop kido to a new generation of kids. While the show featured him giving lessons at the Angel Grove youth center, the comics have him teaching the classes in a whole new country. When Kimberly tracks him and Trini down in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink series, Zack is teaching a class, with the former Yellow Ranger serving as his assistant.
The miniseries is meant to fill in the gaps for what Kimberly is up to between her leaving in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series and the the new team gaining Zeo Ranger status, but it also gives plenty of updates on Zack as well. In addition to training kids, he's also dating Trini.
Teams Without A Black Ranger Usually Have A Green Ranger
When Tommy Oliver emerged on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers as the Green Ranger, he began a tradition of that one extra Ranger making a "surprise" appearance at some point in other seasons. Those additional Rangers weren't typically Green, though. They were often White, Gold, Silver, and many even had a different name or title than the core team. Instead, the Green Rangers of later seasons were actually the counterparts to Black Rangers from the earlier seasons, becoming the second in command in many cases. In fact, there are quite a few Black Rangers who were also Green Rangers.
Adam Park, who was the second Black Ranger on the Mighty Morphin team, became the Green Ranger for both the Zeo and Turbo teams. His Turbo successor, Carlos Vallerte (Roger Velasco) would also pull double duty, as he became the Black Ranger during the In Space season. Megaforce Black Ranger Jake would go on to become the Green Ranger in Super Megaforce. Of course, there's also the original Green Ranger, Tommy Oliver, who would later become the Black Ranger in the Dino Thunder season.
A Black Ranger Has Fought The Most Minions
In every season of Power Rangers, there are four different levels of monsters the Rangers fight. There's the big bad: the person or humanoid monster who sends the threats to the Rangers. There's the sidekick: the monster who acts as the right hand to the big bad and appears throughout the season. There are the monsters-of-the-episode: the ones who don't usually make repeat appearances. Last, at the lowest level, are the minions: the foot soldiers who are created en masse to battle the Power Rangers all the time. They're basically disposable. In every season, these foot soldiers get a new version to go with the new iteration of the Rangers. One Ranger has actually battled 11 different varieties of these all-too-easily-defeated goons.
Over the course of the franchise, Tommy Oliver has taken on Rita's Putties, Zed's modified Putties, the Tenga Warriors, the Machine Empire's Cogs, Divatox's Piranhatrons, Divatox's Putra Pods, Lothor's Kelzaks, Mesogog's Tyrannodrones, Zeltrax's Triptoids, the Troobian Empire's Krybots, and the Armada's XBorgs. By the time Tommy Oliver is a Black Ranger for Dino Thunder, he's pretty much a legend. In fairness, he also happens to be the only Ranger who actually created some of the minions he and his team were forced to war against.
The Tyrannodrones that plague the Dino Thunder Rangers were created by Tommy and a coworker by combining dinosaur DNA with advanced technology. When that coworker went on to become Mesogog, he reprogrammed their creation to act as his own minions.
The Black Megaforce Ranger Made Some Snake-Related History
Not all of the Power Rangers series use animals for the team inspiration and abilities. When they do, though, there's usually a pattern to the kind of animals they use. Pink Rangers often are assigned the graceful animals, while Red Rangers get large and imposing animals, Yellow Rangers get animals with immense strength, and Blue Rangers get animals that are smart and move in packs. The Black Rangers' animal patterns are a bit less well-defined, though there is one common thread: no one ever has a snake as their Ranger symbol.
We imagine this has to do with the animal commonly being associated with treachery and deceit in mythology and literature. Power Rangers likes to put a good spin on its animals. The trend was broken with Power Rangers Megaforce, where the Black Ranger became the first one to be tied to a snake. Jake Holling identified the creature as his own animal spirit, and even yells "venom of the snake" during the use of his abilities, calling on the snake zord.
Megaforce premiered in 2013, the 20th anniversary of the franchise, and it's best known for utilizing "ranger keys" to help the current Rangers call on past powers. So much of the series acted as a callback to previous teams that the use of the snake was one way to differentiate it from the past.
Some Specialty Rangers Are Considered Black Rangers
In every season of Power Rangers, the audience is introduced to the core team of Rangers in the first two episodes. Several episodes later, they often get a little help from a new friend. These sixth Rangers usually stand out from a crowd as Green, White, or Gold Rangers, but on rare occasions, they actually stand in for the Black Ranger.
Power Rangers Turbo didn't have a Black Ranger on their core team, having rolled with green instead. During their tenure, they got some assistance in their fights courtesy of someone known only as the Phantom Ranger. He wore a black suit, but he had some high tech abilities (like being able to make himself invisible) that came in handy. His identity under the mask was never revealed, though, unlike Anubis Cruger or the Magna Defender.
Anubis Cruger, an alien being who resembled a canine, acted as the Shadow Ranger during the SPD season of Power Rangers. Interestingly, though his uniform was mostly black, it also had traces of blue in it. The Magna Defender was also from an alien world, and he traveled to the space colony Terra Venture during the Lost Galaxy season. Though he began the show on a quest for vengeance, when he sacrificed himself, he passed his abilities onto the former Red Ranger Mike, making him the sixth Ranger for his friends in another season where a Green Ranger was on the core team instead of a Black Ranger.
Ludi Lin Stars As Zack In Saban's Power Rangers
Saban has brought its franchise full circle by bringing it to the big screen with the very first iteration of the Power Rangers characters taking up the mantle once again. Of course, the story has been updated for a new generation, with a new look and fleshed out characters. Now, it's Ludi Lin who takes on the role of Zack Taylor that Walter Jones made famous.
Like Jones, Lin has experience with martial arts. He's actually competed professionally and was interested in bringing a variety of techniques to the role of Zack. So, like Jones, Lin was able to provide input for his fight scenes to help create Zack's style and influence the choreography. Also like Jones, Power Rangers is Lin's big break. Despite some work in short films and the Chinese film Monster Hunt, 2017's Power Rangers is serving as the actor's first introduction to a wider audience. He's most definitely a worthy successor to the Black Ranger title.
Did you learn anything new about the Black Ranger? Did we miss out on some interesting facts that you happen to have hidden up your sleeve? Let us know in the comments!
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After linking the world for 167 years, the commercial electric telegraph is no more. The speed with which electromagnetic telegraph systems took over both short- and long-distance communication in the mid 19th century set the pattern which telephones and the internet would follow, spawning the connected world we now live in. The closing down of India's state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam, Ltd. (BSNL) network on Monday sparked a last-minute rush of people looking to send a souvenir telegram to mark the historic event before the electric telegraph was relegated to the history books.
In 1837, Samuel Morse, together with his assistant Alfred Vail and US physicist Joseph Henry, invented the single-wire telegraph. There were previous multi-wire telegraphs developed, but none proved commercially successful. Morse and Vail also developed the Morse Code during this period.
In 1844, Morse and Vail demonstrated their improved telegraph system over a federally-funded line stretching from Washington to Baltimore. The first commercial telegraph line became operational just two years later. The line connected Lancaster and Harrisberg, Pennsylvania, a distance of 39 miles (63 km). Where Morse's first message read "What hath God wrought?", the inaugural communication on the Pennsylvania telegraph was the somewhat less formal, "Why don't you write, you rascals?"
The subsequent pace of wiring the world via telegraph was quite remarkable. During the 1850s, most cities and towns in the eastern portion of the United States were connected by a web of telegraph wires. In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph line spanned the US, providing instant communication between east and west coasts. Two days after the line went live, the Pony Express was dissolved as obsolete as it just couldn't compete with the much quicker delivery time of the transcontinental telegraph.
The installation of an underwater cable across the Atlantic Ocean that connected western Ireland and eastern Newfoundland was accomplished in 1858, only 12 years after the first commercial telegraph was founded. The hostile conditions encountered in the ocean depths (much of the cable lay at a depth of 2.5 mi (4 km)) were not well understood, resulting in a useful life of only three weeks for this first transatlantic cable. Progress in developing robust cables was rapid, however, with the first stable telegraph cable being laid in 1865-6.
Imagine the task of constructing and deploying such a cable. At the heart of the cable were seven strands of very pure copper wire. Each strand was about 1.2 mm in diameter. These strands were coated with Chatteron's compound (a mixture of gutta percha, rosin, and tar). Four thick layers of gutta percha (a crystalline latex rubber) were applied, with thin layers of Chatteron's compound between them. This core of the cable was covered with a jacket of specially preserved hemp, then wrapped with twelve strands of 2.4 mm diameter high-tensile steel wire, protected from corrosion by galvanization and covered with treated hemp yarn. The resulting cable is just over an inch (25 mm) in diameter, and weighs about two tons per nautical mile (a kg per m).
Some 2,300 nautical miles (4,300 km) of cable with a weight of about 4,600 tons (4,173 tonnes) were required to lay the transatlantic cable across the North Atlantic seafloor. At the time, the largest sailing steamship in the world was the SS Great Eastern, a ship which was laying idle owing to a rather tempestuous life at sea. She had suffered a major explosion, had been torn apart by gales and rocks, had a habit of running down and sinking smaller ships, and rarely sailed with even a significant fraction of the 4,000 passengers for which she was designed. In the end, a price war with the Cunard and Inman shipping lines forced her out of the market.
What the transatlantic cable companies saw, however, was that the world's largest ship could be bought at auction for a fraction of her value, a mere £25,000 (US$38,000) for a ship whose scrap value alone was four times greater than that. After refitting, the SS Great Eastern became the first large-scale ship dedicated to the laying of underwater cables, eventually laying over 30,000 miles (50,000 km) of cable at a pace of 5 mph (8 km/h).
The reliable transmission speed of the 1866 transatlantic telegraph system was eight words per minute, reflecting the tendency of these early cables to spread a waveform in time, so that input pulses spread out and could overlap at the receiver if sent too quickly. In 1885, Physicist Oliver Heaviside provided the knowledge that allowed changes to the design of the cables to overcome this problem, so that by 1900 transmission rates of 120 words per minute were being sent reliably between continents.
The cost of early telegrams were only justified by the value of instant communication. In 1860, for example, a ten-word telegram sent from New York to New Orleans cost $2.70 (about $65 in 2012 currency). When the transcontinental telegraph opened, the cost was $7.40 for ten words (about $210), while a ten word transatlantic message to England cost $100 (about $2,600). These prices came down in time, but telegrams largely remained a tool for the corporate, the rich, and for emergencies. Despite the high cost, some 212 million telegrams were sent in the US in 1929, the peak year for such activity.
The high cost of telegraphic messages led to many expedients to reduce the word count of telegrams. As abbreviating words did not help (telegrams were charged by the word, with a ten word minimum), other elements of cryptography were enlisted. One favorite, particularly for businessmen, was the use of private codes. Code books were available containing lists of phrases and the corresponding code, typically containing about five characters.
For example, the message "What is the best price delivered here for axle steel? How long does the quotation hold good? Disposed to accept any reasonable offer. Anxiously awaiting your reply. Rodgers." in the private code of the US Steel company would read "QKKMA AFBEH QPXFL QRURH QSWKU Rodgers."
Along the same lines, the shortest known telegraphic query and answer was between Oscar Wilde, the Irish poet and playwright, and his publisher. Wilde, who was living in Paris for the sake of his freedom, was curious one day about the sales of his new book in England. He cabled his publisher "?" and "!" was the quick response.
As the 20th century progressed, increasing access to, and decreasing prices for, telephone communications began to reduce the importance of telegraphy. In 1960, the cost of a three-minute phone call and a 15-word telegram were approximately equal in the US. As the prices crossed, the number of telegrams sent in 1970 was about half of the number sent in 1960, and continued to slide as other forms of electronic communication multiplied.
At about the same time, the wired telegraph was beginning to be replaced in most First World countries by wireless microwave systems, and later by satellite systems. The telegraph system operated in India by BSNL was the last system known to use wired telegraphs. But the popularity of email and mobile phones had seen the system running at a loss for years.
The last telegram sent in India was from Ashwani Mishra, a reporter for India's DD News TV channel, to Rahul Gandhi, the Vice President of the Indian National Congress. The telegram wished Mr. Gandhi, the grandson of Indira Gandhi and the great grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, success and happiness in life, and hopes that he would attain the heights in life as did other great men of the past.
While one can still send telegrams in many countries, for the most part the data is transmitted over internet links. The electric telegraph is now a subject for nostalgia and hobbyists, who still string local telegraph systems for chatting via Morse code.


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Sylacauga is known for its fine white marble bedrock. This was discovered shortly after settlers moved into the area and has been quarried ever since. The marble industry was the first recorded industry in the Sylacauga area.
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Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio): Grades 3-5
The list Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio): Grades 3-5 represents an ordered or unordered set of connected resources found in Indiana State Library.
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The State Library of Ohio, in partnership with other state educational organizations, has sponsored this award since 1982. Children from over 600 Ohio schools and public libraries choose the award winners every other year as part of a statewide reading program
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25 Items in the List Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio): Grades 3-5
5 Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library, Chris Grabenstein
6 Wonder, R.J. Palacio
10 Found, Margaret Peterson Haddix
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : hard luck, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : old school, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the meltdown, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the getaway, by Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules, Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth, Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the last straw, Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever, Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : dog days, Jeff Kinney
11 Diary of a wimpy kid : the long haul, Jeff Kinney
16 Wayside School gets a little stranger, Louis Sachar ; illustrated by Adam McCauley
18 Shiloh, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
23 Ramona Quimby, age 8, Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Tracy Dockray
23 Ramona Quimby, age 8, Beverly Cleary ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen
24 Nothing's fair in fifth grade, Barthe DeClements
26 Superfudge, by Judy Blume
26 Superfudge, Judy Blume
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trueShiloh
trueSuperfudge
trueWayside School gets a little stranger
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : Greg Heffley's journal
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : Rodrick rules
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : cabin fever
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : dog days
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : hard luck
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : old school
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the getaway
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the last straw
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the long haul
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the meltdown
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the third wheel
trueDiary of a wimpy kid : the ugly truth
trueEscape from Mr. Lemoncello's library
trueFound
trueNothing's fair in fifth grade

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Titiotus icenoglei est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Zoropsidae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique de Californie aux États-Unis. Elle se rencontre dans les monts Tehachapi dans le comté de Kern.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle paratype .

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Wendell R. Icenogle.

Publication originale
 Platnick & Ubick, 2008 : A revision of the endemic Californian spider genus Titiotus Simon (Araneae, Tengellidae). American Museum novitates, ,  (texte intégral).

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Notes et références

Zoropsidae
Espèce d'araignées (nom scientifique)
Faune endémique de Californie


At the turn of the century an intimate alliance of philosophers, poets and theologians discovered the incarnation of their aspirations for a spiritually transformed world in the symbol of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom of God. Under her various aliases as the Divine Feminine, the Wisdom Clothed in the Sun and the Beautiful Lady, this feminine archetype usurped the traditional role of Christ as the mediator between heaven and earth. She was, however, primarily the inspiration of the Russian philosopher-poet, Vladimir Solov'ev (1853–1900), who created of her the cornerstone for both his metaphysical and aesthetic systems. This spiritual courtship of the Divine Sophia deeply patterned the literary works and interrelationships not only of such prominent symbolist writers as Aleksandr Blok and Andrej Belyj, but brought to light religious eccentrics like Anna Schmidt in a scandalous fashion. Sophia's influence ranged far beyond the narrower confines of literature and eventually provoked one of the most fascinating debates within the modern émigré Russian Orthodox Church through the offices of Sergej Bulakov, an apparent student of Solovev's Sophiology.


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Q: PostgreSQL Index Usage Analysis Is there a tool or method to analyze Postgres, and determine what missing indexes should be created, and which unused indexes should be removed? I have a little experience doing this with the "profiler" tool for SQLServer, but I'm not aware of a similar tool included with Postgres.

A: It can be found by using following query in postgres console
use db_name
select * from pg_stat_user_indexes;
select * from pg_statio_user_indexes;

For More Details https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring-stats.html

A: There are multiple links to scripts that will help you find unused indexes at the PostgreSQL wiki.  The basic technique is to look at pg_stat_user_indexes and look for ones where idx_scan, the count of how many times that index has been used to answer queries, is zero, or at least very low.  If the application has changed and a formerly used index probably isn't now, you sometimes have to run pg_stat_reset() to get all the statistics back to 0 and then collect new data; you might save the current values for everything and compute a delta instead to figure that out.
There isn't any good tools available yet to suggest missing indexes.  One approach is to log the queries you're running and analyze which ones are taking a long time to run using a query log analysis tool like pgFouine or pqa.  See "Logging Difficult Queries" for more info.
The other approach is to look at pg_stat_user_tables and look for tables that have large numbers of sequential scans against them, where seq_tup_fetch is large.  When an index is used the idx_fetch_tup count is increased instead.  That can clue you into when a table is not indexed well enough to answer queries against it.
Actually figuring out which columns you should then index on?  That usually leads back to the query log analysis stuff again.

A: Check the statistics. pg_stat_user_tables and pg_stat_user_indexes are the ones to start with.
See "The Statistics Collector".

A: I like this to find missing indexes:
SELECT
  relname                                               AS TableName,
  to_char(seq_scan, '999,999,999,999')                  AS TotalSeqScan,
  to_char(idx_scan, '999,999,999,999')                  AS TotalIndexScan,
  to_char(n_live_tup, '999,999,999,999')                AS TableRows,
  pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(relname :: regclass)) AS TableSize
FROM pg_stat_all_tables
WHERE schemaname = 'public'
      AND 50 * seq_scan > idx_scan -- more than 2%
      AND n_live_tup > 10000
      AND pg_relation_size(relname :: regclass) > 5000000
ORDER BY relname ASC;

This checks if there are more sequence scans than index scans. If the table is small, it gets ignored, since Postgres seems to prefer sequence scans for them.
Above query does reveal missing indexes.
The next step would be to detect missing combined indexes. I guess this is not easy, but doable. Maybe analyzing the slow queries ... I heard pg_stat_statements could help...

A: On the determine missing indexes approach....Nope.  But there's some plans to make this easier in future release, like pseudo-indexes and machine readable EXPLAIN.
Currently, you'll need to EXPLAIN ANALYZE poor performing queries and then manually determine the best route.  Some log analyzers like pgFouine can help determine the queries.
As far as an unused index, you can use something like the following to help identify them:
select * from pg_stat_all_indexes where schemaname <> 'pg_catalog';

This will help identify tuples read, scanned, fetched.

A: Another new and interesting tool for analyzing PostgreSQL is PgHero. It is more focused on tuning the database and makes numerous analysis and suggestions.

A: You can use below query to find Index usage and Index size:
Reference is taken from this blog.
SELECT
    pt.tablename AS TableName
    ,t.indexname AS IndexName
    ,to_char(pc.reltuples, '999,999,999,999') AS TotalRows
    ,pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(quote_ident(pt.tablename)::text)) AS TableSize
    ,pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(quote_ident(t.indexrelname)::text)) AS IndexSize
    ,to_char(t.idx_scan, '999,999,999,999') AS TotalNumberOfScan
    ,to_char(t.idx_tup_read, '999,999,999,999') AS TotalTupleRead
    ,to_char(t.idx_tup_fetch, '999,999,999,999') AS TotalTupleFetched
FROM pg_tables AS pt
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_class AS pc
    ON pt.tablename=pc.relname
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
    SELECT
        pc.relname AS TableName
        ,pc2.relname AS IndexName
        ,psai.idx_scan
        ,psai.idx_tup_read
        ,psai.idx_tup_fetch
        ,psai.indexrelname
    FROM pg_index AS pi
    JOIN pg_class AS pc
        ON pc.oid = pi.indrelid
    JOIN pg_class AS pc2
        ON pc2.oid = pi.indexrelid
    JOIN pg_stat_all_indexes AS psai
        ON pi.indexrelid = psai.indexrelid
)AS T
    ON pt.tablename = T.TableName
WHERE pt.schemaname='public'
ORDER BY 1;

A: PoWA seems like an interesting tool for PostgreSQL 9.4+. It collects statistics, visualizes them, and suggests indexes. It uses the pg_stat_statements extension.

PoWA is PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer that gathers performance stats and provides real-time charts and graphs to help monitor and tune your PostgreSQL servers. It is similar to Oracle AWR or SQL Server MDW.

A: CREATE EXTENSION pgstattuple;
CREATE TABLE test(t INT);
INSERT INTO test VALUES(generate_series(1, 100000));
SELECT * FROM pgstatindex('test_idx');

version            | 2
tree_level         | 2
index_size         | 105332736
root_block_no      | 412
internal_pages     | 40
leaf_pages         | 12804
empty_pages        | 0
deleted_pages      | 13
avg_leaf_density   | 9.84
leaf_fragmentation | 21.42

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Lynsey Baxter (West Ham, Londres, 7 de maio de 1959) é uma atriz inglesa.

Ela nasceu em Londres em 7 de maio de 1959. Ela começou como uma atriz mirim em 1974, e mais tarde treinou na Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Ela tem trabalhado no teatro, televisão, cinema, rádio e voiceover.

Baxter treinou reflexologia em 1998, enquanto aparecendo na série de televisão Dangerfield, e em seu tempo livre trabalhou em hospitais. Ela também foi relatada como uma massagista corretiva treinada e conselheira transpessoal.

Filmografia

Filme

Televisão

Teatro

Rádio
Kind Hearts and Coronets, BBC Radio (1995), as Sybella
 Abelard and Heloise, BBC Radio (1999)

Prêmios
 Most Promising Newcomer, Plays and Players Award
 Best Actress, Monte Carlo Film and Television Festival, 1991, as Elizabeth in Starlings (1988).

Ligações externas

Alunos da Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Atrizes do Reino Unido
Atrizes de televisão do Reino Unido
Naturais de Londres
Atrizes do século XX
Atrizes do século XXI
Atrizes de teatro do Reino Unido


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Crimson Red Autumn Leaves at Bishamondo Temple
On May 19, 2018 April 15, 2018 By JenniferIn Kansai, Temple & Shrines
In an attempt to escape the crowd flocking to popular autumn spots in Kyoto, I headed to Bishamondo Temple (毘沙門堂), located in Yamashina ward. This temple is famous for its crimson red leaves, thus despite being away from Kyoto's popular tourist spots, it still enjoys a fair number of momijigari enthusiast in the autumn season.
No, there were people. They just didn't want to get in anyone's frames. Civilization.
The temple traces back to year 703, founded by monk Gyoki on the instruction of the 42nd Emperor of Japan, Emperor Monmu and was originally named Gohozan Izumo-ji due to its original location in Izumo on Mount Goho, north of the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
Satisfying colors
Bishamondo was renamed after one of the Four Heavenly Kings enshrined here, Bishamonten (Vaisravana), in which the statue is said to be a creation of Saicho, the founder of the Tendai sect. of Buddhism in Japan. The wood for the statue is said to be the surplus of what was used to make the famed Yakushi Nyorai statue in Enryaku-ji, also founded by Saicho.
Hondo as seen from Kodai Benzaiten
The temple's conditions declined due to the Onin War but was revived and relocated to the current location in 1665 by Tenkai, a Tendai sect. monk who was associated with the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu. His disciple Kokai, continued his efforts to complete the reconstruction.
An hour after opening, here's the crowd
The 111th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Go-Sai's sixth child, Prince Koben received his Jukai (lay Buddhist ordination) at Bishamondo and spent his life as a priest here. Thus, the temple became a Monzeki temple (temples headed by families of the imperial family or aristocrats), and is one of the only five Monzeki temples of the Tendai sect. in Kyoto.
Benzaiten surrounded by red autumn leaves, pictured from the main building
After enjoying the autumn leaves before the entrance of the temple, you will find steps up to the Niomon. At both sides of the Niomon you will find the two Nio – Agyo and Ungyo, sculpted in 1665. Since this is a Monzeki temple, there is also a Chokushi-mon (Imperial Messenger's Gate) built in 1693 for the use of the imperial family.
Niomon
One of the Nio Guardians
The main attraction of Bishamondo temple is of course the Hondo or the main hall, built in 1665 by Tokugawa Ietsuna, the 4th Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate. This is where the statue of Bishamonten is enshrined. Right before the Hondo is the Karamon, also built in 1665. Going further you will find the Reiden Hall, in which an Amida Nyorai statue is enshrined here. Another point of interest here is the dragon painting on the ceiling of the Reiden, painted by Kano Eishuku.
Lining up to enter the Hondo
Next is the Shinden, which used to be Emperor Go-Sai's imperial residence. The Shinden features fusuma (sliding screen) paintings by Kano Masunobu, foster son of the famous Kano school painter Kano Tanyu. Behind this building is a chisen-kaiyushiki garden (strolling pond garden), called Bansui-en.
Bansui-en
Bishamondo is also famous for its 150 years old Shidarezakura (weeping sakura), attracting visitors in spring and is usually at its peak around early to mid April.
The 150 year-old shidarezakura
If you make a detour to the right-end of the Hondo, you will find Kodai Benzaiten, enshrining Benzaiten (originated from the Hindu goddess Sarasvati).
Walking towards the Kodai Benzaiten
Kodai Benzaiten
Outside the temple you can explore the nearby grounds for more autumn delights.
Admission fee: 500 yen
Opening hours: 08:30 – 17:00, closes at 16:30 from December to February
Bishamondo is a 16 minutes, 1km walk away from JR Yamashina Station or Keihan Yamashina Station, both of which are reachable within 10 minutes on the train from Central Kyoto.
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Here this morning under the dying Autumn sun the bus rocks over gravel slick roads and fluorescents flash steadfastly over the slated cherry slumbering eyes all while a metal bird chirps excitedly to the rear. We call this something. A life. A routine. A ritual. An exit. I wish I could tell my child this is all right. But how come? Everybody is on a shoestring, hamstrung into a bus where we grit our way no different than those that once creaked and cracked and broke on once our ironic laden rennaisainced oceans. How come? Can you tell me the difference between this world and a death wrought on flowery treachery of servitude? It matters little this that answer, the key to that lock-in-step thought is nothing next to this: that I am already free to think as simply as I breath and to embrace as humbly as I may even as this day that cools under the shade of this our modernity also warms contentedly to this the beat of our unimagined and simply real humanity.
And if you still cannot get off at the next stop then listen carefully to that tin brittle bird in the back because it is no bird as much as it is the creak and the grind of metal on metal, the scrape against casing that bullets you down to the dry well upside and inside out in Murakami form. Time to get up and get out. And remember your time now is no more than a monkey face and some wrinkles done beautifully under a mop of gorgeous hair. Smile.
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