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Star-Demon wrote: So - My current goal with my own projects is to make a good set of GUI elements and Input standards in C#/XNA then combine it with a game state system.
Once I fill that out, and get a nice base of code to be able to make what I want, it's all game programming from there.
So, I started with defining a base guielement, from which I'll abstract Menus, buttons, Dialogue windows, and so on.
//    EventHandler ElementHandler; //How does this compare to using delegates?
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I am still very fuzzy on how delegates work, as well as what code should go in what classes. Each gui element will fire events, so where does the delegate declaration go, and where do the firing and implementation parts go?
I'm also not sure if I should have a gui manager - I would like to leave all the handleinput() and handleevents() to the gamestate.
I've been trying to find something decent online, but so far nothing has really ironed it out for me. If I can finally understand how to use events, I can understand and finish the game states.
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That looks really nice, (better than Cegui and SDL GUI samples) but I also would like to learn how to do it myself so I understand how it works.
I tried taking a look just now but the applications don't run...did XNA get an update or is the latest version for windows development only good on 2008?
EDIT: AHH scratch that. Got it installed properly and working...just have to start playing with it.
Star-Demon wrote: having trouble with this skin thing - the samples structure their program very differently, so I don't know if this will work properly anymore, but I think I can't load the skin directory properly, since the directory exception keeps getting thrown or an autodetect error happens.
Other than that, I'm not liking it so far - poorly supported, not a lot of documentation or practical tutorials online.
Hircine wrote: have you loaded the custom content processing files? there should be two.
and have you added the required libraries and what not?
The library is easy to reference, but none of the google-fu told me anything about anything referring to custom content importing - most of it wsa out-of-context stuff for the same error.
Yeah, I read that, it's one of three half-complete tutorials on getting started, one requires a second library that looks like a game library.
Anyways, I'll keep playing with it over time, but maybe I should also shop around for a GUI system before I just off and use one. In the meantime I'll keep working on mine.
Hircine wrote: i could zip up a demo of mine to show you how to get started. would you be interested in it?
Sure - it can't hurt to see a normal implementation.


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Nowruz, which translates as "New Day" or "New Light", is the name given New Year's Day in the Persian (Iranian) calendar. Nowruz has been celebrated for over 3000 years across the region that once made up the Persian Empire.
A few days ago we left Athens on a sunny 80°F day, warm enough to welcome airport air-conditioning. Thirty-six hours later, back in Anchorage, the sun still shone, but the temperature was only 40°F. A chill north wind cut through the lightweight clothing I'd donned on another continent.
Spruce tips are one of the more unusual, least used, and tastiest wild edibles in Alaska. Over the last few weeks, I picked a bucketful and had a great time playing and experimenting with them.


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Haneen – Brickwork Lizards (reviewed by Sarah Ryan)
Having watched Brickwork Lizards at Wychwood Festival in 2017, I can say, honestly and without doubt, that they are one of the most imaginative, inventive, and musically intoxicating bands I have ever encountered. Stumbling upon this creative concoction of a band purely by accident, I was so inspired by the music of Brickwork Lizards that I bought their debut album Zaman (originally released in 2011) as soon as they had finished their set. Showcasing a variety of genres and stylistic influences, the hypnotic hybrid that is 'Haneen' fuses traditional Middle Eastern music with twentieth-century jazz.
A central motif of the album, vocalist Tom O'Hawk punctuates each song with spoken verse; staccato in nature, yet powerful in tonal quality, O'Hawk's lyrical dexterity is often augmented by an alluring accompaniment of cello, double bass, and piano. Opening the album, All That We Are clearly displays O'Hawk's seamless interplay with Tarik Beshir's oud playing and Malachy O'Neil's slapstick double bass sound. Lyrics, such as 'Beyond the depths of greed' and 'People strive for more,' highlight the atmosphere of belonging that hovers above this track, while the use of vocal call and response between Beshir and the other members of the band ultimately helps to reinforce an image of nostalgia, yearning, and identity. Similarly, Ya Rayah – meaning 'You, the one leaving' in Arabic – evokes feelings of longing and wistfulness, with Stephen Preston's trumpet solo dancing gracefully above a string accompaniment (playing pianissimo). Reflecting the playfulness of Dixieland jazz, We're Through boasts a powerful, monophonic voice to sustain the songs melodic energy and vigour; reaching a climatic ending, O'Hawk's and Beshir's fortissimo vocals also help to enhance the animated and spirited nature of the track.
A listener greets the face of almost every human emotion in this album: from love to despair, and from rage to remorse. I would not describe Brickwork Lizards latest work as a conventional album. By this I mean that, while it structurally resembles your average album (complete with a quirky cover and ten tracks), it defies convention by daring to merge so many paradoxical genres together. 'Haneen' is more like a painting that lives in an ancient palace, than an album that sits in the corner of a record store. It's a painting that ultimately stands testament to a forgotten era, and reveals all the charm, passion, confusion, and sincerity of an empire lost.
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Studio AIRPORT
Beyond Prison
Digital > 14.2 Information Site
by Studio AIRPORT
Design a storytelling platform presenting a collection of multimedia stories that explore innovative models of transformative prison work in the United States.
About Beyond Prison
Even though the US only make up 5% of the global population, 25% of the global prison population are American inmates. Those numbers clearly demonstrate that the country's incarceration rate is disproportionately high compared to the size of the population. The main reason for this is often claimed to be that roughly 2/3 of all prisoners released will go back to prison within three years making a re-design of the prison system in the US indispensable.
In the past decade, new programs have shown that cultivating essential human values can change the culture of prison. Kalliopeia Foundation supports this emerging field, and created 'Beyond Prison' to bring awareness to innovative approaches to rehabilitation and offer a new vision of what prison could be.
The website features seven multimedia stories that highlight proven, vibrant program models working to bring about deep-seated change in the lives of incarcerated men and women. The immersive site provides an experience of what's possible in transformative prison reform.
The website is the result of a close international collaboration between filmmakers, photographers, text writers, designers and developers, demonstrating the tremendous social interest in the topic beyond the borders of the United States.
Studio AIRPORT worked closely with Kalliopeia Foundation to make editorial decisions for this online storytelling platform. Together we designed a structure in which the story could be told best: An introduction page with statistics about the current prison system and the problems that come along with it, followed up by seven long-read stories, each focusing on a separate program.
When moving the cursor over the menu, a short description pops up to give the reader a first idea what the respective section is about. Also, usability is facilitated through a loop in navigation that enables the reader to easily continue with the next article.
The introduction page is designed in a way that will give a cinematic experience: To bring the facts and numbers to life, videos, images and typography are used to guide the user through the story. The unconventional structure of the page allows the user to see both text and visual elements at the same time without losing the overview of the page. Presenting powerful statistics in such a vivid and interactive way does not only enable the user to gain very rapidly an understanding of the issue but also to evoke a strong interest in it. Thus, the main aim of the introduction page consists in raising awareness and pointing out the need for action.
The seven longread stories are designed in a way that is comfortable to read. Balanced typography, enough white space and photography give a light feeling to the pages. Subtle type animations give the user an extra impulse to read the specific content. The design is minimalistic but gains its character from creative typography and balanced design choices.
Agency Studio AIRPORT
Client Kalliopeia Foundation
Website http://www.beyondprison.us
Category Digital
Subcategory 14.2 Information Site
Creative Directors Hannah Merriman, Zoë Fuller-Rowell, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Art Directors Bram Broerse, Maurits Wouters
Designers Bram Broerse, Maurits Wouters
Photographers Carlos Chavarría
Editors Hilary Hart, Michelle Moore, Sohrob Nabatian
Copywriters Hilary Hart, Ken Miller, Jessica Kraft
Film Editors Adam Loften, Graham Deenen, Valeriu Nechita
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Nostalgia 77 & The Monster - Measures (CD/LP, Tru Thoughts, 2014)
Posted on Tuesday 25 November 2014, 10:00 - updated on 25/11/14 - Music News - Permalink
A new jazz album from Nostalgia 77 is always a delight. After a beautiful folk/psych/pop long player released early this year, 'A Journey Too Far', a Grant Phabao reggae remix of his 'Seven Nation Army' released on a limited 7-inch, another GP remix featuring the amazing talent of American keys player Marco Benevento, 'Simmerdown', a full album of dub reworks by Prince Fatty, 'In The Kingdom Of Dub', and a few singles on the Tru Thoughts label, Benedic Lamdin aka Nostalgia 77 will be releasing at the beginning of december his third album of the year!! An impressive amount of work from a man with a not very exhuberant personality… The new record is all instrumental, rather meditative, with bass player and arranger Riaan Vosloo in the spotlight with 6 of his compositions, and two covers, one from Sun Ra, the other from Keith Tippett, both great influences of the band. A soothing, beautiful album from start to end. One for the jazz headz and the cool cats.
Nostalgia 77 & The Monster - Measures
(CD/LP) Tru Thoughts TRU298, 2014-12-05
Measures by Nostalgia 77 and the Monster
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'Measures' is the second album from the Nostalgia 77 & The Monster guise, bringing a flavoursome take on instrumental jazz. The collection of songs sees Ben Lamdin's long time collaborator, bass player and arranger Riaan Vosloo stepping to the fore, bringing six original compositions. The album also contains nods to the two dominant influences on this group over the years, in renditions of Sun Ra's otherworldly "An Island In The Sun" and British firebrand (and previous Nostalgia 77 collaborator) Keith Tippett's "Thoughts To Geoff".
Nostalgia 77 and the Monster is the second incarnation of the Nostalgia 77 Live band, his original Nostalgia 77 Octet having been disbanded after the death of drummer Graham Fox. Lamdin and Vosloo's aim was to produce an album ranging from the chaotic to the meditative. On 'Measures', Vosloo's writing strikes a delicate balance between strong themes and free space for the improvisers - a perfect canvas for the impressive cast of Kit Downes (piano), James Allsopp (reeds), Fulvio Sigurta (trumpet), Tim Giles (drums) and Vosloo himself on bass. The record captures the fiery fluidity of the band's live performances.
A regular name in the music press for more than a decade, Nostalgia 77's recent work has raised his profile to a new level. February's 2014's bluesy 'A Journey Too Far' solo LP and September's intrepid jazz/dub exploration 'In The Kingdom Of Dub' (with Prince Fatty) have been lauded everywhere from The Wire to Clash, Q, DJ Mag, Metro and Blues & Soul, and the latter gave rise to Nostalgia 77's first BBC 6Music Playlist for the "Medicine Chest Dub" single. He was recruited to produce long time fan Jamie Cullum's return to Jazz this year, a record which has been met with critical acclaim and has charted across Europe.
"The most refined, jazz improvised music around at the moment, really great" - GILLES PETERSON (BBC 6MUSIC)
"Inventive and accessible" - 4 STARS - THE GUARDIAN
"A super-cool collection… performed by a crack team of young jazzers" - 4 STARS - METRO
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Funkadelic - Reworked By Detroiters (CD/12"/3LP, Westbound, 2017)
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The Kamwenge Trading Centre shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Kamwenge, Uganda on 26 December 1994, when police constable Alfred Ogwang shot at revelers in a disco at Kamwenge Trading Centre, killing 13 people and wounding 14 others. He escaped to Dura afterwards, where he was arrested.

Shooting
On the evening of 25 December 1994, at about 9 p.m., 28-year-old police officer Alfred Ogwang, who was stationed at the Kamwenge Police Post, went to attend a disco dance at the Kamwenge Trading Centre. When he tried to enter the canteen to get some beer at about 11 p.m., he found the door blocked from the inside by several guests. After he was finally let in, he got into an argument with Geofrey Ruhara for this provocation, whereupon all the guests were taken out of the canteen. Outside, Ruhara apologized to Ogwang, who, still angered about the incident, then went home. Upon returning to the barracks he fetched his gun, which was described as an SMG rifle, and made his way back to the Trading Centre.

Just after midnight Ogwang began shooting in the canteen, where he first shot dead Geofrey Ruhara, before killing John Rutaro, Patrick Kugonza, and Stephen Chance. Yelling "I will finish you all!" he then turned his rifle against the crowd in the dancing hall. When the generator was switched off, and the lights went out in the building, Ogwang stopped firing and fled. By then he had killed 13 people and wounded 14 others.

In the morning, at about 7 a.m., he was met at the barracks by Inspector Kisembo, who said he was awakened by some shots. Ogwang aimed his rifle at Kisembo, who managed to wrest it from the gunman's hands after a short struggle. While Kisembo went back to sleep, Ogwang escaped to Dura where he had a brother at an army post. There, he was arrested the next day and brought back to Kamwenge. An examination of his mental state, conducted on 29 December, found him to be sane.

During his trial Ogwang denied having committed the murders, saying that he had handed his rifle to a member of the Local Defence Unit at the entrance of the disco, not knowing what had happened to it afterwards. He also stated that he was too drunk to remember anything that night, and that he only learned about the shooting the next morning, when an angry crowd appeared at the barracks, accusing him of killing people at the disco, though the judge dismissed all of these claims and found him guilty of 13 counts of murder. Ogwang was sentenced to death by hanging, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2010.

See also
 Bombo shooting
 Kampala wedding massacre
 List of massacres in Uganda
 Human rights in Uganda

References

Mass murder in 1994
Massacres in Uganda
1994 crimes in Uganda
Kamwenge District
Spree shootings in Uganda
December 1994 events in Africa

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German airport security staff begin one-day strike
Frankfurt: Security staff at eight German airports went on strike on Tuesday in an escalating pay dispute that means up to 220,000 passengers could be affected by delays or cancellations, airport association ADV said. Security workers at the smaller Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen airports downed tools from midnight while those at main hub Frankfurt joined them two hours later, with a view to striking until 2000 local time (1900 GMT).
Strike action is also expected in Munich, Leipzig, Dresden and Erfurt, meaning hundreds of flights will be cancelled. The latest walkouts follow strikes at five airports last week and were denounced by ADV as excessive.
Fraport, operator of Frankfurt airport, expects 470 of around 1,200 connections to be hit. Lufthansa said it would cancel around 500 flights, 28 of which are intercontinental. Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings said 120 out of 700 flights would be affected.
Munich airport said that although Verdi called for action there as well, passenger security checks are carried out by a public-sector contractor whose workers would not strike. But some flights to and from airports affected by the walkout would be cancelled, it said.
Verdi is in wage negotiations on behalf of 23,000 security workers in Germany. Talks with employers are due to resume on Jan. 23.


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Write on your lanterns, and cast them into the night with friends and family, among hundreds (or thousands) of other lanterns gathered here.
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In 2016, nearly 2,300 lanterns were set loose over El Dorado Lake, making it seem like the milky way had flown down from the sky. This year, they're setting off from the same location on September 23rd.
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News > Facilities > Contractor announced for Lyell Centre
Contractor announced for Lyell Centre
Main contractor for the new Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology has been announced as Morrison Construction
Friday 26th December 2014
The £9.6m design and construct contract will see Morrison Construction, part of Galliford Try plc, construct and deliver the new state-of-the-art Lyell Centre on existing vacant land within Heriot-Watt University's Edinburgh campus. It will be the Scottish headquarters for the British Geological Survey (BGS) as well as a major joint BGS/Heriot-Watt University research centre for geological, petroleum and marine sciences.
The centre will provide offices, research laboratory areas, aquarium laboratories and associated working areas, a central core containing welfare facilities, ancillary meeting areas, as well as external landscaped areas.
Professor Murray Roberts, co-ordinator of the Lyell Centre, said: "We are really pleased to see the Lyell Centre moving into the construction phase. A lot of work over the last two years has got us here, on time and on budget. Over the next year Heriot-Watt is embarking on an ambitious £8.5m recruitment drive to appoint new research stars to move into the Lyell Centre and drive it forward. The Lyell Centre is working at the interfaces of applied geoscience, ecology and technology – and we need this interdisciplinary approach to tackle the grand challenges of energy supply and sustainable development in a changing world."
John Ludden, executive director BGS, said: "BGS is delighted that the contract for the Lyell Centre has been agreed and building can commence on an exciting new opportunity for the British Geological Survey and Heriot Watt University to strengthen our capabilities and build new areas of co-operation.'
Eddie Robertson, regional director, Morrison Construction said: "We are delighted to have been selected by Heriot-Watt University and The British Geological Survey to construct this major new project at the University's Edinburgh Campus. This appointment reflects our strong reputation and market presence within the education sector. We look forward to working with Heriot-Watt University and The British Geological Survey to create the top class facilities the students and staff deserve."
Work will commence in December and is expected to last about a year.
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Plugging into the network
Joined-up technological thinking is already a mainstay of university management, and it's becoming increasingly essential. Simon Fry looks at the tools helping HE stay ahead
The Report: What does the future of HE look like?
Technology could make higher education open to everyone; at whatever stage of life. James Higgins considers how HE could be a student's partner for life
How technology can help students learn a foreign language
Technology offers the flexibility to use a combination of tools and methods to help students absorb new information and efficiently learn. In today's digital age, technology offers many powerful learning tools for teachers to use in classrooms and also for students to study with on their own.
Can HE solve edtech?
What's really holding back technology adoption in higher education? Charges are normally levelled at technophobia or cost but, as Paddy Smith discovers at Bett 2019, it might just be lack of content
Northumbria University gets down to business with Government funding award
£44,000 will help fund a project designed to help small businesses make better use of technology and modern management practices
The smart campus programming the future
What's the next chapter for connected learning environments at UK universities? Charley Rogers speaks to the experts to find out…
Cathy Parnham looks at the importance of the virtual open day experience for attracting and recruiting students
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Over half of university staff want more technology for teaching, finds new survey from Jisc


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"Alan Bean once said 'I have the nicest life in the world.' It's a comforting sentiment to recall as we mourn his passing.
"As all great explorers are, Alan was a boundary pusher. Rather than accepting the limits of technology, science, and even imagination, he sought to advance those lines -- in all his life's endeavors. Commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1955, he chose the challenging pursuit of flight training and, after four years as a Naval pilot, decided to challenge himself further by attended the Navy Test Pilot School and becoming a test pilot.
"He joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1963 and, just six years later, was piloting the lunar module for the Apollo 12 mission. During that mission, he walked on the Moon. Yet he pushed farther. In 1973, Alan commanded the Skylab Mission II and broke a world record with a 59-day flight traversing 24.4 million miles. In all, he had a hand in breaking 11 world records in the areas of space and astronautics.


House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (/ˌsæksˌkoʊbɜːrɡəndˈɡoʊθə, -tə/; German: Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) is a German dynasty, the line of the Saxon House of Wettin that ruled the Ernestine duchies including the duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Founded by Ernest Anton, the sixth duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is the royal house of several European monarchies, and branches currently reign in Belgium through the descendants of Leopold I, and in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms through the descendants of Prince Albert. Due to anti-German sentiment in the United Kingdom during World War I, George V changed the name of his branch from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917. The same happened in 1920 in Belgium, where it was changed to "van België" (Dutch) or "de Belgique" (French).
The first duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was Ernest I, who reigned from 1826 until his death in 1844. He had previously been Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (as Ernest III) from 1806 until the duchy was reorganized in 1826. Ernst's younger brother Leopold became King of the Belgians in 1831, and his descendants continue to serve as Belgian head of state. Léopold's only daughter, Princess Charlotte of Belgium, was the consort of Maximilian I of Mexico, known as the Empress Carlota of Mexico, in the 1860s. Ernst's nephew Ferdinand married Queen Maria II of Portugal, and his descendants continued to rule Portugal until that country became a republic in 1910.
Ernst I's second son, Prince Albert (1819–1861), married Queen Victoria in 1840, and thus is the progenitor of the United Kingdom's current royal family, called Windsor since 1917. In 1826, a cadet branch of the house inherited the Hungarian princely estate of Koháry, and converted to Roman Catholicism. Its members managed to marry an imperial princess of Brazil, an archduchess of Austria, a royal princess of "the French", a royal princess of Belgium and a royal princess of Saxony. A scion of this branch, also named Ferdinand, became Prince, and then Tsar, of Bulgaria, and his descendants continued to rule there until 1946. The current head of the House of Bulgaria, the former Tsar Simeon II who was deposed and exiled after World War II, goes by the name Simeon Sakskoburggotski and served as Bulgaria's prime minister from 2001 to 2005.
Wir, Ernst, Herzog zu Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, Jülich, Cleve und Berg, auch Engern und Westphalen, Landgraf in Thüringen, Markgraf zu Meißen, gefürsteter Graf zu Henneberg, Graf zu der Mark und Ravensberg, Herr zu Ravenstein und Tonna usw.
We, Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Jülich, Cleves and Berg, also Angria and Westphalia, Landgrave in Thuringia, Margrave of Meissen, Princely Count of Henneberg, Count of the Mark and Ravensberg, Lord of Ravenstein and Tonna, et cetera.
There were two official residences, in Gotha and Coburg. Therefore, the whole ducal court, including the Court Theater, had to move twice a year: from Gotha to Coburg for the summer and from Coburg to Gotha for the winter. For the Court Theater, two almost identical buildings had to be built in 1840 in Gotha (destroyed in the Second World War) and Coburg (now the Coburg State Theater) and thereafter maintained at the same time. In addition to the residential castles, Friedenstein in Gotha and Ehrenburg in Coburg, the Ducal family also used the Schloss Reinhardsbrunn in Gotha as well as the Rosenau and Callenberg Castles in Coburg and the hunting lodge Greinburg Castle, Grein, Austria.
Although the ducal branch is eponymous with the dynasty, its head is not the genealogically or agnatically senior member of the family. In 1893, the reigning duke died childless, whereupon the throne would have devolved, by male primogeniture, upon the British branch descended from Prince Albert. However, as heirs to the British throne, Albert's descendants consented and the law of the duchy ratified that the ducal throne would not be inherited by the British monarch or heir apparent. Therefore, the German duchy became a secundogeniture, hereditary among the younger princes of the British royal family who belonged to the House of Wettin, and their male-line descendants.
Instead of the future Edward VII of the United Kingdom inheriting the duchy, it was diverted to his next brother, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. Upon the latter's death without surviving sons, it went to the youngest grandson of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany. Charles Edward's uncle Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and his male line had renounced their claim. Although senior by birth, they were either not acceptable to the German Emperor as a member of the British military or unwilling to move to Germany.
The current head of the ducal branch is Andreas, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Koháry is the Catholic cadet branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. It was founded with the marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, with Princess Maria Antonia Koháry de Csábrág.
Palais Coburg Vienna, today a Hotel.
Palace of Svätý Anton in Slovakia, today a museum.
Walterskirchen castle near Poysdorf, Lower Austria is still owned by the family.
Edelény Palace, acquired 1831, today owned by the Hungarian state.
In Portugal, the former royal house is usually not distinguished from the House of Braganza.
Manuel II died childless in 1932. He recognised as his successor his distant cousin Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, who is not a descendant of Ferdinand II or the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Duarte Nuno and his successors are members of the House of Braganza.
Simeon II (1943–1946) In 2001, elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria as Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha—also known as Simeon "Sakskoburggotski" (Сакскобургготски).
The Belgian line was founded by Leopold, youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.
Because of the First World War, the family name was changed in 1920 to van België, de Belgique or von Belgien ("of Belgium") in the country's three official languages (Dutch, French and German). This family name is used on the identity cards and in all official documents. The armorial bearings of Saxony were removed from the Belgian royal coat of arms (see here). The branch of the family that ruled in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland also discarded their Coburg and Saxon titles and changed their name. Britain's King George V adopted the family name of Windsor, after the Royal Family's place of residence.
From King Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910, until 1917, when King George V replaced the German-sounding title with the name of Windsor during the First World War, British monarchs belonged to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha survived in the Belgian royal family until 1920, and it still survives in the Bulgarian royal family.
Patrilineality, descent as reckoned from father to son, has historically been the principle determining membership in reigning families, thus the dynasty to which the monarchs of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha belonged genealogically through the 20th century is the House of Wettin, despite the official use of varying names by different branches of the patriline.
Saxe-Coburg Dynasty Family Tree since the end of the 18th Century, showing their inheritance of the thrones of Great Britain, Belgium, Portugal, and Bulgaria.
↑ Bulgaria: Timeline, BBC News Online, 27 June 2007. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.
↑ Former king marks first year as Bulgarian Prime Minister, Radio Free Europe, 26 July 2002. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.
↑ Bulgarian (or Spanish) Prime Minister?, Bulgaria Development Gateway, 24 July 2003. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.
↑ Lord Alderdice speaking in the House of Lords on 19 May 2005, Hansard. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.
↑ Balfoort, Brigitte; et al. "journalist" (pdf). The Belgian Monarchy. Olivier Alsteens, Director-General of the FPS Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Wetstraat 16, 1000 Brussels. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
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News you will likely not see in the paper. For good reason.
Those having nothing better to do at 12:37 may go outside, where they will notice that they cast no shadow on the ground. The sun will be directly overhead in Honolulu at that time.
For other locations in Hawaii, if you really care, see this helpful page at the KITV website for the correct time in your location.
Hawaii is the only state where this phenomenon takes place.
What can you do at Lahaina Noon? Well, considering that we no longer pay for film, you can shoot exciting pictures like this one with your smartphone and tweet them to all your friends on the Mainland, for example. Or not.
Astro Bob has some better pictures than this, I'll have to admit.


As some of you will know, I have become a regular contributor to discussions on Trevor Marshall's Port Rowan blog and Mike Cougill's OST Publications blog. Both of these can be found via my links section (to the right for most computers, but to the bottom on tablets).
It was stumbling across the thought processes which led to Trevor's Port Rowan layout, via the S Scale SIG forum (I am active there, too, but you need to register as a member to read it) that got me out of my modelling doldrums and frankly gave me the slap across the face that I needed to make me realise that it is possible to combine something like the ramshackle emptiness of the Bishop's Castle Railway with North American prototypes. This re-awakened my long-standing interest in the short lines owned by the Central of Georgia, which has been further strengthened by reading around the subject, and making contact with Steve Flanigan, who models the Louisville and Wadley in H0 in a small space and has shared the fruits of his personal research with me. But then, he is North American, and what are North Americans for, if not generosity?
What Trevor has really done, though, is to take operations in a slightly different direction from what seems to be the norm in North America, based on magazines and websites.
Instead of trying to run as many trains as possible over a large basement empire with multiple stations, based on use of waybills and timetable and train orders (TTO) and a dispatcher, etc., he has concentrated on the individual operations around running the daily mixed train. This includes pausing to pump up the air, align couplers, connect hoses, etc. An out-and-back turn can take up a couple of hours, after which there seems to be a visit to a local hostelry for good food and decent beer. OK, this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but it is my pint of ale!
On top of this, we get superb modelling (on a par with Barry Norman and Maggie and Gordon Gravett) and a generous sharing of ideas and techniques. Well, he is Canadian, and what are Canadians for, if not politeness?
Mike's forum is subtly different.
The same basic theme is there, that you don't actually need a lot of layout to have a lot of fun. You get the fun by trying to model everything as faithfully as you can – the joy is in the detail.
Mike has published some booklets and books and also "The Missing Conversation", which will form the subject of another post, but he also makes a though provoking post each week on various aspects of the hobby. He has also been editor of O Scale Trains, and a regular columnist on finescale matters in that magazine. What I like about Mike, or to be more accurate one of the many things I like about Mike, is that he has taken a stand on behalf of Proto: modelling. I have always hinted at this (and not very covertly), but knowing that I am not a lone voice means I take that stand too – albeit feeling slightly ashamed for not having taken it more clearly sooner. Well, I am English, and what are Englishman for, if not self-deprecation?
I realise that for many people, a hobby is about getting away from thinking, but I am not mindless and I enjoy having my thoughts provoked. In the case of these three gentlemen, it has been to open my mind to what was lurking away at the back of it, and get me more interested in modelling than I have been for some time.
If you have been planning to, well, go on then.
This entry was posted in Modelling, Opinions, Thinking on June 21, 2013 by Simon.


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The Letters About Literature awards ceremony took place on Friday, May 2 in the rotunda of the Round House in Santa Fe. State Librarian, Devon Skeele, welcomed everyone and awards were then presented to the three New Mexico state champions who read their letters aloud, the three second place winners, the three third place winners, and the honorable mention letter writers.
Audrey Rodriguez, a sixth grade student at Eisenhower Middle School in Albuquerque, is the Level 1 champion. Audrey wrote her letter to Lynda Mullaly Hunt about her book One for the Murphys.
Leah Downey, a seventh grade student in Las Cruces, is the Level 2 champion. Leah wrote her letter to Deborah Ellis about her book The Breadwinner.
Katya Waid from Mountainair, who is a ninth grade student at New Mexico Connections Academy, is the Level 3 champion. Katya wrote her letter to Harper Lee about her book To Kill a Mockingbird.
Each of the state champions received a certificate acknowledging their achievement, $150 from the State Library, and a $25 gift card to Collected Works Bookstore. The second and third place winners also received a certificate and a $25 gift card for Collected Works Bookstore. All of the honorable mention letter writers received a certificate of accomplishment. The three New Mexico champions' letters were sent to the Library of Congress for the national competition. The winners of the national competition will be announced in early May.
There were 532 New Mexico students who entered the 2014 contest. Of those 532 entries, 133 semifinalists advanced to round two state judging. In Level 1, there were 166 entries with 31 letters advancing to round two. In Level 2, there were 201 entries with just 40 letters advancing to round two. In Level 3, there were 165 entries with 62 letters moving on to round two. All of the state semifinalists who advanced to round two state judging were sent an award certificate in the mail.
Letters About Literature encourages young readers to read a book and write a letter to the author about how the book changed their view of the world. The writers compete in the state contest to win $150 cash prize per competition level and a $1,000 cash award per competition level in the national contest.
This is the second year New Mexico State Library has sponsored the competition.
For more information about New Mexico's Letters About Literature contest, please email lori.thornton@state.nm.us or call Lori Thornton at 505-476-9717.
Thank you to all the students, teachers, librarians, and families who participated in New Mexico's Letters About Literature program. Keep reading and writing!


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Another nice test / data point. Your channel has become my go-to for checking velocities of different loads, really like that you also include the velocities in the video description for easy reference. I'm glad to see that the AE load isn't as anemic out of the P90 as it is out of the FsN, may have to snag some next time it's on a serious sale.
Looking forward to the SS197 and SS198 velocity tests, not too much out there for data on the PS90 SBR in terms of velocity. Curious to see how S4M, Protector, and T6B do as well.
Thanks. All in due time. Just wanted to let it get warmer around here before I do more.
Buffman wrote: Thanks. All in due time. Just wanted to let it get warmer around here before I do more.


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To Fix Tech, Democracy Needs To Grow Up
These days we cannot agree. But two clear statements that could find wide support are "We need to fix technology" and "We need to fix democracy."
The rapid growth of technology brings with it social risks: government and private surveillance, widespread job automation, high levels of monopolistic and oligopolistic power, sluggish productivity growth, algorithm bias, and catastrophic risks associated with advances such as AI and biotechnology. . What is not often discussed, but no less important, in my opinion, is the loss of short-term or non-tradable uptrends. This includes the development of vaccines to prevent new diseases and open source platforms for fundamental digital processes such as identification and communication.
As democracies face complex global challenges, citizens (and increasingly elected leaders) around the world are losing faith in democratic processes and opting for automated alternatives. Nation-state democracies suffer to varying degrees from chaos and violent participation, low responsiveness to the public interest, incompetence, weak organizational capacity, government, inability to adopt new technologies, and corporate ownership. While small democratic experiments proliferate at home and abroad, they remain too fragmented to accommodate large-scale governance decisions.
This puts us in a dilemma. It is clear that we can better channel technological progress towards collective human progress—perhaps one of the biggest challenges of our time. If today's democracy is so flawed, it doesn't seem to be up to the task. Here's what's going on with so many calls for "democratization of technology": given the amount of complaints, why choose one system over another that seems to fail?
As we do everything from observation to spaceflight, we also desperately need ways to overcome complex complications with global implications and share their benefits. It certainly looks like a job for democracy, although much better. So, how can we fundamentally modernize democracy in order to successfully achieve positive long-term collective outcomes?
A question of the collective mind
To answer these questions, we must recognize that our current forms of democracy are early and very imperfect manifestations of collective intelligence—systems of coordination that enable and facilitate decentralized, agent-based, and meaningful decision-making between individuals and communities. Joint solutions.
Artificial intelligence or CI is not just for humans. Mycelium-based networks of trees can exhibit intelligent behavior, distribute nutrients, and send stress signals during times of drought or insect infestation. Bees and ants display great intelligence through complex choice, deliberation, and mutual communication using body movements and a pheromone dictionary. People don't just vote. Wild dogs sneeze when they decide to move to let them know a quorum has been reached, the target point is context dependent - for example, low status people need at least 10 sneezes to reach this, while high status people only need to sneeze. takes three. Apes and great apes make quorum decisions on flexible "rules" based on behavior and negotiation.
But unlike meerkats or ants, humans don't have to rely on our biologically coded pathways for CI within us, or wait for the slow, invisible hand of evolution to change our processes. Knowing that growth and participation must not be compromised, we can purposefully improve. (This is the thesis on which my organization, the Collective Intelligence Project, is founded.)
Our progressive innovations in CI systems, such as representative democracy of nation-states, capitalist and non-capitalist markets, and bureaucratic technocracy, have already shaped the modern world. And yet we can do much better. These existing collective intelligence profiles are abstract versions of structures that we can rely on to make better collective decisions about shared resources.
Biden, along with Michael Knowles and Chris Stirwalt, attacked half the country and previous media failures.
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Trade association Interferry has welcomed this week's decision by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to uphold previously agreed sector-specific Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) targets for ro-ro passenger and ro-ro freight vessels.
The committee's latest session – MEPC 73 – tightened EEDI requirements for certain ship types, but confirmed that ferries would be among the categories where it is appropriate to retain the original timeline and reduction rates. These had been set in three phases, requiring improvements of 10 percent by 2015, 20 percent by 2020 and 30 percent by 2025.
After MEPC 71 in July 2017, a correspondence group including Interferry was set up to review the feasibility of the targets. Recommendations were submitted to MEPC 73 following seven rounds of communications.
The decision follows another breakthrough in April this year, when MEPC 72 confirmed the immediate application of a 20 percent correction in its EEDI calculation formula for ro-ro and ro-pax vessels. Interventions by Interferry - which has IMO consultative status - and various flag states had argued that the universally-applicable targets were problematical even for highly efficient ro-ro newbuild designs due to the diversity of such vessels.
Roos stressed, "Interferry totally supports the environmental objectives of the EEDI but, as with other shipping sectors, we need to ensure that the measures are fair and practicable.


text:
from lettuce import *
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

from survey.features.page_objects.accounts import LoginPage

from survey.features.page_objects.aggregates import AggregateStatusPage, DownloadExcelPage
from survey.features.page_objects.households import NewHouseholdPage
from survey.features.page_objects.investigators import NewInvestigatorPage, InvestigatorsListPage
from survey.features.page_objects.root import HomePage
from survey.features.page_objects.users import NewUserPage
from survey.models.users import UserProfile

@step(u'Given I have a user')
def given_i_have_a_user(step):
    world.user = User.objects.create_user(
        'Rajni',
        'rajni@kant.com',
        'I_Rock',
        first_name='Rajin',
        last_name="Kant")
    profile = UserProfile.objects.create(
        user=world.user, mobile_number='2222222223')

@step(u'And I visit the login page')
def and_i_visit_the_login_page(step):
    world.page = LoginPage(world.browser)
    world.page.visit()

@step(u'And I login a user')
def and_i_login_a_user(step):
    world.page = LoginPage(world.browser)
    world.page.login(world.user)

@step(u'Then I should see that I am logged in as given username')
def then_i_should_see_that_i_am_logged_in_as_given_username(step):
    world.page.see_home_page_and_logged_in_status(world.user)

@step(u'And I am in the home page')
def and_i_am_in_the_home_page(step):
    world.page = HomePage(world.browser)
    world.page.visit()

@step(u'And I click the login link')
def and_i_click_the_login_link(step):
    world.page.click_the_login_link()

@step(u'Then I should see new investigator with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_new_investigator_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = NewInvestigatorPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()

@step(u'Then I should see list investigator with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_list_investigator_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = InvestigatorsListPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()

@step(u'Then I should see new household page with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_new_household_page_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = NewHouseholdPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()

@step(u'Then I should see aggregate status page with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_aggregate_status_page_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = AggregateStatusPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()

@step(u'Then I should see download excel page with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_download_excel_page_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = DownloadExcelPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()

@step(u'Then I should see new user page with logout link')
def then_i_should_see_new_user_page_with_logout_link(step):
    world.page = NewUserPage(world.browser)
    world.page.see_username_link()


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Georgia basketball coach Joni Taylor gives birth to girl
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Georgia coach Joni Taylor has given birth to a girl less than 12 hours after leading the Lady Bulldogs to a victory.
The Bulldogs said in a release Tuesday that Taylor is resting comfortably with her second child, Drew Simone Taylor. Her husband Drew and their older daughter Jacie welcomed Drew at 7:29 a.m. on Tuesday.
Taylor thanked "everyone in the Georgia community for your prayers and encouragement during this happy season of our lives" in a statement. "I am thrilled that Drew will be surrounded by so many special people, and that she will be a part of the Bulldog family."
Taylor led Georgia to a 78-56 win over Mississippi on Monday night. There are no immediate plans for when she will return to the team. Associate head coach Karen Lange is overseeing the Lady Bulldogs (15-10) in her absence.
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For those in search of Korean comfort fare, look no further than Han Yang's stone-bowl bi bim bab ($10.95). Bulgogi, vegetables and shiitake are arranged in a circle on top of rice that turns crisp wherever it comes into contact with the pot. These ingredients are topped with a fried egg, and the whole mix is meant to be stirred at the table with ko chu jang (hot bean curd paste) stirred through for flavor.
The end result is alternately sticky, chewy and crunchy with healthy greens and a touch of meat -- a snapshot of Korean cuisine in one bowl.
If you're into more simple fare, the lures are combinations of kalbi with your choice of barbecue chicken, beef or meat jun. In the evening, diners are welcomed with about 10 panchan, varying from the usual kim chee to spicy fishcake, to accompany orders of yakiniku, tofu stew pots and the popular Han Yang Special (12.95), a plate featuring a thick cut of kalbi, barbecue chicken, bulgogi, a couple of pieces of fresh-made deep-fried mandoo and a single butterflied shrimp, in addition to the basics of cabbage, bean sprouts, rice and soup.
There's plenty of panchan to enjoy at Han Yang.
More aging hippie music comin' at ya as Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen drop out of the ozone during their ongoing interisland tour to pay a visit to the Hawaiian Hut Friday night.
Already an anomaly back in their heyday for their takes on classic boogie, swing and country, the band's lone top 40 hit came in 1972 with their version of "Hot Rod Lincoln."
New Jersey blues guitarist Chaz DePaolo will be the opener.
Tickets for the 9 p.m. show are $35 in advance and available at the Liquor Collection in Ward Warehouse, Hungry Ear in Kailua, Jelly's in Aiea, Good Guys Music on Kapahulu, Rainbow Books on University, Hawaii's Natural High in Waikiki and CR Imports on Mookaula, plus by phone at 545-2820 and online at hawaiisbesttickets.com.
Tickets for the Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen are $35. The time-travelin' musical act plays at 9 p.m. Friday at Hawaiian Hut. Call 545-2820 or visit hawaiisbesttickets.com.
Burt Lum, former computer columnist for The Other Paper, is putting together a thing called the Unconferenz, described as "a grassroots tech/Internet gathering to foster sharing and interaction amongst its participants." The format is "Open Grid, Ignite Session, Internet+Tech, 45 minute sessions."
Lum goes on to say that he doesn't want "talking heads -- we want participation, sharing and interaction. Product discussions are encouraged, especially if it is the creator, designer or principal innovator."
Topics confirmed for "core" sessions include podcasting/vlogging/new media, digital storytelling, how to get business and government interested in Web 2.0 in Hawaii, and streaming video.
It all happens from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Japan American Institute for Management Sciences, 6660 Hawaii Kai Drive. Attendance is limited, and cost is $20 in advance and $35 at the door, which includes a T-shirt and lunch. To signup, go to upcoming.yahoo.com/event/379564. More info can be found at http://unconferenz. pbwiki.com and Lum can be reached at 381-6877 or bytemarks@gmail.com.
Once again, the Hawaii State Art Museum's "Live from the Lawn" event on Friday will feature some of the nominated artists vying for Best Hawaiian Album in this year's Grammy competition.
From 5 to 9 p.m. on the museum's front lawn, artists to perform will include Cyril Pahinui ("He'eia"), Raiatea Helm ("Hawaiian Blossom") and Dennis Kamakahi, George Kahumoku Jr., Richard Ho'opi'i, Peter deAquino, Bobby Ingano, Garrett Probst, Owana Salazar and Sterling Seaton ("Treasures of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar").
The event will be simulcast on KITV and on the Internet by Oceanic Time Warner Cable.
Free to the public; lawn chairs, beach mats and picnic food will be allowed. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited. For more information, call 586-0900.


Andrew Huff is the editor and publisher of Gapers Block, an award-winning Chicago-centric news and events webzine he co-founded in 2003. The site went on hiatus on Jan. 1, 2016; read about it here. A serial early adopter, Andrew created his first webpage in 1996; launched his personal blog (sadly, currently offline) in 2001; and joined both flickr and Twitter in their infancy. You can find his blog on Tumblr for now.
In addition to Gapers Block, he has also worked for several years as a professional blogger for corporate clients, developed content and helped design he has also been a professional blogger for corporate clients, a professor of online journalism, a copywriter for academic websites, and a PR professional for everything from indie rock bands to the tech startups to health care nonprofits. Andrew holds a journalism degree from the Ohio State University and a certificate in medical writing and editing from the University of Chicago, and has presented at SXSW Interactive and other conferences. In 2009 he was named to the Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40 list.
Andrew currently works at Glendale Communications Group, a PR and nonprofit administration firm.. He lives on the far North Side of Chicago with his wife, Cinnamon Cooper, and three cats.
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Sloane Stephens: New female tennis star married famous soccer player
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The young American star of women's tennis, Sloane Stephens, got married this Saturday, January 1, 2022 to football player Jozy Altidore.
Isn't that the best way to start the year? Professional sports couple Sloane Stephens – Jozy Altidore got married in Miami on Saturday January 1, 2022. Sublime in her haute-couture dress, the American tenniswoman and international footballer said yes to each other in Florida, in a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, two years after announcing their engagement. Stephens and Altidore exchanged their Peter Marco branded rings in front of a large mirrored arch and under the well-known palm trees of this oceanfront American state.
The guests, who all had to be fully vaccinated, also had to do a PCR test the day before the wedding, in addition to testing themselves again two days after, to make sure they had not created a cluster. A very important subject for Sloane Stephens, who lost his grandparents to the pandemic a few months ago. "I thank all those present and who had to show a lot of flexibility to make themselves available and respect all the health rules that we have imposed in order to have the best possible day", said the bride to her guests, to begin a touching speech.
Jozy Altidore: "Seeing my wife walking up the aisle will be etched in me forever"
"I loved thinking about all of the making up of that moment that culminated in this life changing day. It's so nostalgic to pull back the threads of memories and review all the moments that brought us here. It made me fall in love with Sloane once again"said Jozy Altidore, full of emotion in his voice. He and Sloane Stephens, who won the 2017 US Open Grand Slam tournament, have organized a series of events to make their nuptials as original as possible: a tennis tournament, a crayfish boil, a tasting of wines and a romantic picnic on the beach.
But what Jozy Altidore expected the most was to see his wife walk up the aisle: "It is one of those moments that will remain etched in my memory forever", commented the football player. "We both have extraordinary schedules and unbelievably crazy lives. And knowing that despite all of this, we have always remained an incredible point of contact with each other is the most heartwarming feeling in the world. world", continued the tennis champion. A very loving couple.
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Isn't that the best way to start the year?
The couple of professional sportsmen Sloane Stephens – Jozy Altidore got married in Miami this Saturday, January 1, 2022.
Sublime in her haute-couture dress, the American tenniswoman and international footballer said yes to each other in Florida, in a luxury hotel in Miami Beach, two years after announcing their engagement.
Stephens and Altidore exchanged their Peter Marco branded rings in front of a large mirrored arch and under the well-known palm trees of this oceanfront American state.
The vaccinated, who all had to be fully vaccinated, also had to perform a PCR test on the eve of the wedding, in addition to testing themselves again two days after, in order to be sure not to have created a cluster.
A very important subject for Sloane Stephens, who lost his grandparents to the pandemic a few months ago.
"I thank all those present and who had to show a lot of flexibility to make themselves available and respect all the sanitary rules that we have imposed in order to have the most beautiful day possible", declared the young bride to her guests. .
"I loved thinking about all of the making up of that moment that culminated in this life changing day. It's so nostalgic to pull back the threads of memories and review all the moments that brought us here. Made me fall in love with Sloane again, "said Jozy Altidore.
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He and Sloane Stephens, who won the 2017 US Open Grand Slam tournament, have organized a series of events to make their nuptials as original as possible.
A tennis tournament, a crayfish boil, a wine tasting and a romantic picnic on the beach.
But what Jozy Altidore expected the most was to see his wife walk up the aisle.
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Q: calculating the average wining of a jackpot you have an urn with balls numbered from 1-90, you guess 6 numbers in your mind, and then pick 6 balls from the urn, if the numbers you guessed match the numbers u picked out in any order, you win the jack pot of 10^7, else you lose 1$, calculate the average wining, also calculate what should the jackpot prize be in order to make the game fair, ( a fair game is where the average wining is 0)

A: The probability to guess all the $6$ numbers correct, is
$$1\ :\ \binom{90}{6}=622,614,630$$
So, we have $p\approx1.6\cdot 10^{-9}$. The average winning is
$(1-p)\cdot(-1)+pn=(n+1)p-1$ , if we can collect $n$ dollars in the case of a win.
The game is fair, when $n=622,614,629\ \ $ ($1$ less than the number of possibilities)
To see this, denote $S$ to be the number of possibilities. The probability to win is $\frac{1}{S}$. The game is fair, when $(n+1)p-1=0$ So, we have $n=\frac{1}{p}-1=S-1$.

A: Peter's answer is perfect but an alternative approach to see this is that over 'x' games you want to neither win nor lose anything, and if it is fixed that you lose a dollar every time you lose we can directly say that this can happen only one way,
We lose (x-1) games and win 1 such that the prize money is (x-1)
Again the conclusion is same as that of Peter's

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International peacekeeping organization
Phoenix Regiment
United Nations (formerly)
GloboTech (formerly)
Superior firepower
Air support
Societal
Leader(s)
General Mark Jamison Sheppard
General Andrew Owen
The Global Defense Initiative (abbreviated as GDI) is an international military force sanctioned by the United Nations to preserve world order by combating global terrorism and pursing the eradication of Tiberium from Earth.
The GDI is one of the two most recognized factions in the Tiberium universe, the other being its nemesis the Brotherhood of Nod.
1.1 First Tiberium War
1.2 Interbellum
2 Technology level
2.2 Second Tiberium War
3 Subfactions
3.1 Falcon Division
3.2 Phoenix Regiment
The Global Defense Initiative was created by the United Nations on 12 October 1995, in order to enforce the United Nations Global Defense Act and uphold the ideals of the UN Charter. This was in response to the growing threat that terrorism, epitomized by the Brotherhood of Nod, poses to the international world order.
With the arrival of Tiberium in the same year, GDI's mandate later expanded to global environmental protection from the spread of Tiberium.
Main article: First Tiberium War
After the bombing of the Grain Trade Center in Vienna by Nod terrorists, the United Nations authorized GDI to openly engage Nod forces. By that point, Nod already had secured a foothold in Eastern Europe and are beginning their conquest of Africa.
GDI fought the Brotherhood on a multitude of fronts, led by American brigadier general Mark Jamison Sheppard. Battlegroups under the command of James Solomon and J.C. Carter engaged Nod militia throughout Eastern and Central Europe.
Despite GDI's best efforts in the war, they lost their last foothold in Africa and Nod cemented control over the whole continent. After capturing a crucial base in South Africa, Nod would then hijack GDI's Ion Cannon network. The orbital weapon fired onto the White House, delivering a humiliating blow to the GDI. With global condemnation, the United Nations was forced to curtail funding and deactivate GDI bases around the world. Nod was left unchallenged, making them the victors of the First Tiberium War.
Interbellum
Following GDI's defeat in the First Tiberium War, the United Nations decided to capitulate to Kane's demands, forcing the peacekeeping organization to undergo "substantial restructuring", downgrading it to merely a token force. This left the weakened GDI at the whims of the Brotherhood, as leftover GDI bases began to suffer the onslaught of Nod aggression.
All seemed lost for the fractured remains of GDI until in 2010, a young GDI colonel named Andrew Owen opened negotiations with the GloboTech Corporation. GDI was not Nod's only target, as the corporation's sanctuary cities also suffered attacks by Nod zealots. Owen's Phoenix Regiment agreed to serve as a glorified PMC for GloboTech in exchange for arms and aid. Their first task would be to escort a vital supply shipment in Chambery, France and aid the besieged GloboTech forces from Nod. Following the successful operation, GDI forces later discovered the location of the GDI Supreme Commander, General Sheppard.
In 2021, the Phoenix Regiment made their assault on Nod-controlled Turin in Italy, in hopes of capturing the Wellsping field, one of the largest Tiberium fields at the time nearby. Deploying their latest Kazuar prototypes, GDI eliminated the Nod presence, securing a vital resource point. For the next six years, GDI slowly but surely received the necessary manpower and resources to rebuild themselves back into a major military power.
Technology level
During the First Tiberium War, GDI mostly utilized conventional weapons and equipment from its member nations, with the notable exception of several advanced weapons and technologies:
Artificial intelligence: GDI commanders are supported by the Electronic Video Agent, or EVA, an artificial intelligence that provides them with intelligence and serves as their battle command interface.
Orca aircraft: deployed during the later stages of the war, the Orca was an extremely fast and maneuverable VTOL aircraft armed with rockets. It would become the first in a long line of similar aircraft.
Space technology: GDI utilized the satellite-based Ion Cannon to eliminate entire bases with a single blast. However by the end of the conflict, Nod forces in Africa would hijack the Ion Cannon network, using one to destroy the White House.
Despite their losses in the first war, GDI's technology advanced dramatically thanks to its support from the GloboTech Corporation. It came to rely on high-tech weaponry and equipment during the Second Tiberium War:
Mechanized walkers: units like the Kazuar and the Scatterpack became mainstays of the GDI arsenal during the conflict, replacing most standard armoured vehicles.
Hover vehicles: the Skimmer LHV was GDI's first observed hovercraft used in combat.
Orca aircraft: the Orca moniker was now used for a series of specialized aircraft, combatant or not.
EMP weaponry: EMP was employed by the Wasp APC and Orca Manta to disable enemy electronics and vehicles. The EMP Cannon can launch large concentrated spheres of energy to disable vehicles, structures, and cyborgs in a large radius.
Railgun technology: railguns are the main armaments of the Railgun Commando, the Phalanx Platform, and the Mammoth Walker. Gatling Towers may also be upgraded with anti-air railguns.
Jet packs: a primitive version of jet packs was seen used by Marauders.
Firestorm technology: Firestorm barriers were impenetrable force fields used for passive base defense.
Space technology: GDI was able to re-establish their space capability, using a new generation of the ion cannon called ICARUS.
Subfactions
The Falcon Division is a traditional GDI task force that relies on slow but powerful units such as Exo-Suit soldiers, Goliath Tanks and the massive Mammoth Walker; as well as a defensive doctrine to expand and steamroll the enemy into submission.
Led by Colonel Andrew Owen, the Phoenix Regiment is a splinter group that rejected the United Nations' capitulation to Nod and continued the fight against the Brotherhood despite overwhelming odds and lack of official support. With new support from the GloboTech Corporation, they came to rely on light mechanized units, such as the Skimmer and the Kazuar; and hit-and-run tactics backed by long-range support from their Siege Troopers and the Behemoth artillery, not unlike those of their sworn enemy.
Global Defense Initiative at the Command & Conquer Wiki
Factions of Twisted Insurrection
Major factions
Genesis Legion
Sons of Kane
GloboTech Corporation
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The Most Underrated Figures in Hawaiian History →
I wouldn't say this lightly about anyone, but Amy Perruso is the definition of a super teacher. She is originally from Southern California and is a graduate of USC. She is Social Studies department head at Mililani High School and has a Ph.D. in Political Science. She was recently elected as the Treasurer of the Hawai'i State Teachers Association (HSTA) on a progressive slate that is seen as a kind of upheaval that could lead to radical changes in the direction of the union. She is an award-winning teacher, recipient of awards from Walmart and the Hawai'i Council for Humanities History Teacher of the Year in 2012. Her students perform at a national level in History Day, Mock Trial and We the People, all of which are social studies civics and history competitions. She has taught, among other things, AP US History, Modern Hawaiian History and Participation in Democracy. I chatted with her (literally) on some big topics.
'Umi Perkins: What is your philosophy of education?
Amy Perruso: Education should be designed to meet the actual desires, ends and purposes of young people, not those of bureaucratic institutions, corporations, or the adults who are trying to justify their own existence within these institutions. I have a lot more to say, but I have been thinking about that principle a lot in the last few days.
UP: What is your view on the balance or tension between the need to train employees and educate citizens?
AP: There is no need for 'balance,' in my view. Neither is a legitimate purpose, unless the citizenship is critical of the nation-state.
UP: I've been watching a show called Creating Freedom, which is very critical of most institutions and the tacit submission of people who don't even know they are conforming to repressive systems – this includes schools. Are you in the business of creating freedom, and if so how is it done in the context of a bureaucracy like DOE?
AP: Hm, I'd like to be, and maybe on some days I succeed on creating pockets, but it's fairly shallow and superficial. I'm reading Jay Gillen's Educating for Insurgency, and he would say that he students with whom I work, the honors and AP students, have already internalized the norms and socializing objectives of our institutions, so that our current social structure has become the inner voice or conscience of my students. To the extent that they start to feel conflicted, that is the extent to which I think learning is happening and the moment at which idea of 'freedom' can enter the conversation.
UP: What's the plan for HSTA?
AP: My plan or the HSTA's plan for HSTA?
UP: The new leadership.
AP: Shift from business model to organizing model, and start fighting for the schools our children deserve.
UP: Can you reveal any details about how that's done?
AP: We've been learning from other teacher unions across the country doing similar work. There are incredible teacher- activists, some of the most intelligent and committed people I've ever met, fighting education deform in such courageous and inspiring ways.,.. You should meet them, Umi:)
UP: It's very overwhelming.
AP: Yes:)
But you have to start somewhere:)
UP: So you're not just a teacher-activist, I see you as a teacher-scholar. How do you balance the two, or do they dovetail together?
AP: I don't think you can be thoughtful about politics, teacher politics, unless you educate yourself against the grain of a the dominant educational ideology. We're just lucky that other teachers are writing texts in the world for us to read:)
UP: You're referring to Keanu Sai I presume? [smile emoticon]
AP: Among others:) Yourself included- your stuff often makes me rethink.
UP: I'm thinking myself now of your phrase "against the grain." That is difficult. It requires one to push against the boundaries and perhaps endanger our own success in the system which reward us. Or punishes us. I find that when it's you against the system, the system usually wins.
It just has so much inertia and resources available to keep itself going.
You wouldn't believe some of the things I've heard.
I'm seeing a quote right now from Frank Zappa: "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
AP: Yes. But when I am crippled and bedridden, will I be more proud of my Walmart award or my work with teacher activists on opt out? The latter, I think, although the former made what I do with the latter 'matter more' to other people.


Can Gerunds Be Also Used As Adjectives?
The present participle (VERB+ing) is also used as an adjective.
In Third World countries, many houses do not have running water.
Here, the word "running" is a present participle doing the work of an adjective. It describes a certain kind of water (water that flows out of a pipe).
The wind blew the falling leaves.
She comforted the crying child.
He dived into the swimming pool.
He waved to the swimming children.
In the first sentence, the pool is used for swimming, but in the second sentence the children are doing the action of swimming. In the first sentence, "swimming" is a gerund. In the second sentence it is a present participle.
Visiting relatives can be boring.
If you read the sentence to mean that the relatives who visit your house are boring, then "visiting" is a present participle. In this case, the subject of the sentence is "relatives" and "visiting" is an adjective describing the relatives.
If you read the sentence to mean that the activity of going to visit your relatives is boring, then "visiting" is a gerund. In this case, the subject of the sentence is "visiting" (as a gerund) and "relatives" is the object of the gerund.
Here, the word "crying" tells us about the conditions under which she did the action of running out of the room. Since it is telling us something about the verb, it is doing the work of an adverb. "Crying" in this sentence is considered a present participle, not a gerund, since it does not have any noun-like significance.
The force of the blow sent him flying.
The wind came howling down the chimney.
The hurricane hit the West Coast, destroying thousands of homes.
Knowing that his wife would be upset, he did not tell her the bad news.
Taking a deep breath, she jumped into the icy river.
Shutting the door quietly behind him, he left the building.
In all of these cases, the present participial phrase (underlined) has some logical connection to the action in the verb and therefore does the work of an adverb.


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Introduced back in 1976 by Pentax, the MX is a professional, all-manual SLR camera. One of it's most appealing features was the compact body combined with one of the largest and brightest viewfinders of any SLR.
The MX is all manual: it does not feature auto-focus or auto-exposure modes such as aperture-priority, shutter-speed priority, or full program.
Pentax MX's accessories included a film back capable of 250 photographs in one load as well as motorized winder Winder MX (2 frame/s) or a Motor MX (5 frame/s)motor drive and a 2 fps winder, Data backs, Dial Data MX, besides numerous other accessories.
The current shutter speed and relative aperture are visible in the view finder, the aperture via a window that projects the aperture value from the lens aperture ring into the view finder.
Exposure is set by adjusting shutter speed or aperture until a green LED lights up in the viewfinder. This is an electronic version of the match needle metering of the Pentax Spotmatic and KM series.
The Exposure meter is powered by two 1.5V silver oxide batteries (G13) and is designed to operate as open-aperture, center-weighted Through-The-Lens meter, using GPD cells for fast light response, with tri-colored LED exposure read-out, rapid wind lever and shutter release button acting as meter switch (Pentax MX's weak spots).
Film speed range: ASA 25. 1600.
Due to Pentax MX's complete lack of automatic functions, but excellent array of manual controls, the MX is often prefered as a film SLR camera complementary to a classic Rangefinder cameras such as Leica.


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Erin Adams
Hold onto your taste buds: There's nothing you won't want to try on the menu of Jaime's Creole Brasserie in Brevard. The 17-month-old restaurant signals polished hospitality and the promise of good food.
Although the space is gargantuan, the cozy central hub of the room is the long bar area situated under 200-year-old pine beams. Smaller anterooms with lower ceilings and optional privacy screens skirt the main hall. From our perch we can see the gleaming open kitchen at the far end of the dining room. The truly curious can belly up to the eight seats at the kitchen-side chef's table.
A wood-fired oven bakes pizzas, such as the Finnochio (ricotta, mozzarella, duck confit, shaved fennel, anise seed, balsamic braised figs, and rosemary), the Mr. Paul (a muffaletta-inspired pie), and at least six others. But we are here to taste the creole cuisine of Chef Jaime Hernandez, the former executive chef of Baton Rouge's Jubans, who was voted one of the best chefs in America by his peers. He came to Western North Carolina three years ago, first opening a small, well-regarded café in Marshall. Ultimately, Brevard, with its small Louisiana diaspora, seemed a better fit.
Hernandez makes everything in his kitchen, from the Worcestershire sauce to the local farm tomato ketchup to the blends he grinds from whole spices. He grew up in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, the purported crawfish capital of the world. "In Louisiana, you just grow up around food, and the emphasis on food is everywhere," Hernandez says. Even socializing is "based on 'where you gonna eat next.'"
For us, the question is what are we going to eat next. We're already enamored with the dark and deep base notes of spice in the gumbo that's served with a mound of jasmine rice floating atop and spoonfuls of sliced Andouille sausage. And a lobster bisque provides a rich cream-tomato potage with a slow heat, slightly smoky edge, and taste of the sea in that rich, crustacean way only lobster can provide.
A substantial Wine Spectator award-winning wine list takes time to study, and local beers and ciders make a welcome accompaniment to many of the more complexly spiced dishes.
We dive into the crawfish and brussels small plate, served in an Asian noodle bowl—a nod to the Vietnamese-American culture Hernandez also grew up enjoying. "It's about the combination of ingredients," he explains. "There are so many combinations going on in Louisiana cooking, like with any ethnic cuisine. If you've lived there and felt the heartbeat of the culture, then the techniques come with that."
The brussels are slightly charred and studded with Benton's bacon, shaved radish, cilantro, and thin pickled onion rounds in a piquant honey-mustard sauce. While we could opt for any number of light, bright salads, and starters like honey bourbon-brined bone marrow, escargots, and wood fire-roasted oysters, our hearts are set on the crawfish and bacon mac and cheese. Rich with sherry-spiked pimento Mornay, Louisiana crawfish tails, and bacon gratineé, it's possibly the least delicate dish on the menu but satisfies completely.
Hernandez's creole and classic French experience shines most with the entrées. Mountain trout meunière, an oven-roasted rainbow trout filet stuffed with lump crabmeat, is served as a roulade skin side out, perched on a bed of grilled asparagus. A creole meunière—brown butter, chopped parsley, and lemon—makes this dish a light but brilliant dinner choice. It's so beautifully executed, you'll fall in love with brown butter all over again.
Tonight's risotto special (it's usually on the menu, but with various pairings) is a gorgeous plate of plump mussels flowering open around a generous mound of swordfish chunks, shrimp, and more crawfish. Lashings of saffron-scented sauce make this version particularly aromatic.
If you prefer deep and savory, try the grillades—tender Abita root beer-braised pork cheeks atop creamy stone-ground grits, ginger-tomato jam, and fried leeks—or the wonderfully traditional steak frites, replete with béarnaise sauce.
Because it's so unusual for these parts, we must try the bananas Foster, created first at Brennan's, the famed New Orleans restaurant, in 1951. Butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, dark rum, and liqueur are cooked to caramel-sauce perfection with ripe bananas, lit afire and served on top of vanilla ice cream. Forgoing the flambé, Hernandez uses a crisp waffle as his canvas. The dessert disappears quickly; in fact, nothing lingers for long at Jaime's, except for the diners.
The Draw: This great space is creating excitement with Louisiana cooking by a native.
The Drawback: Cocktails could be prettier if not served in mason jars.
Don't Miss: Lick-your-plate-delicious bananas Foster, rustic gumbo, or anything with crawfish
www.jaimescreole.com
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