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import config from './config';
import express from 'express';
import usersRouter from './api/users';
import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import mongoose from 'mongoose';
import {loadUsers} from './usersData';
import {Mockgoose} from 'mockgoose';
import {nodeEnv}  from './config';

export const server = express();

// Connect to database
if (nodeEnv == 'test'){
	var mockgoose = new Mockgoose(mongoose);
	mockgoose.prepareStorage().then(function() {
  	mongoose.connect(config.mongoDb);
	});
}
else
{
	mongoose.connect(config.mongoDb);
}

mongoose.connection.on('error', function(err) {
    console.error('MongoDB connection error: '+ err);
    process.exit(-1);
});
// Populate DB with sample data
if(config.seedDb) {
    loadUsers();
}

//configure body-parser
server.use(bodyParser.json());
server.use(bodyParser.urlencoded());
server.use('/api/users', usersRouter);
server.use(express.static('public'));

server.listen(config.port, () => {
  console.info('Your app is running on port:', config.port);
});


10th March (Sunday) Peaks Challenge Weekend – Potential Morning Tea instead of lunch.
11th May (Saturday) – part of the Feast High Country program. The walk is the same but lunch is served back in Falls Creek.
Easter Holidays – 19th – 22nd April.
School Holidays 6th – 24th April.


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import tabs from './tabs'
import * as actions from './tabs.actions'
import * as selectors from './tabs.selectors'

Object.assign(tabs, actions, selectors)

export * from './tabs.actions'
export * from './tabs.selectors'
export default tabs

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Uganda desk flag [UGANDA-FLAG-4X6] $2.50.
Click, Tap n Share Uganda desk flag!
The Uganda desk flag is a miniature replica of the national flag of Uganda.
The Uganda desk flag is made from durable smooth edged polyester material, a white hoist sleeve and comes with a black gold ornamented staff that measures 240mm (10 inch) in overall length.
The Uganda desk flag can be used to decorate a birthday cake, Uganda special celebration cake, raised on a work station or table, displayed on a desk, waved at a Uganda sporting or patriotic event, displayed on a Uganda delegates conference table, displayed in your sporting club, man cave or games room.


Billy Ray Shelton, age 76, of Soddy-Daisy passed away on Thursday, March 28, 2019 at a local hospital. He was born on December 13, 1942 in Tracy City, TN to the late Harold and Nellie Shelton. Billy was one of nine children, and was a proud U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He was also preceded in death by his loving wife, Burna Deane Shelton, and a brother, William Shelton. Billy was survived by his daughters, Michelle Neeley and Samantha Shelton, sister, Ruth, and brothers, Buster, Raymond, David, Jerry, Bobby and Johnny, grandchildren, Brittany Shelton and Gage Landers, great-granddaughter Arianna Shelton, many nieces, nephews, cousins, in- laws and friends. A graveside service will be held at 1:00 pm Monday, April 8, 2019 at the Chattanooga National Cemetery with Military Honors. Please share your memories of Billy with the family at www.chattanoogaeastbrainerdchapel.com Arrangements are by the East Brainerd Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 8214 E. Brainerd Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37421.
Thank you for accepting me and taking care of me just as if I were your birth daughter! You never hesitate to do something kind for anyone, regardless of the situation. I am happy you are now back with the woman whom you cherished for life ❤. I love and miss you both!
Mr. Billy, you were one of the kindest, gentlest men I have been blessed to meet. Thank you for your service.
Miss Burna and you are at peace and pain free.
He was kind and helpful in any way he could be. Anyone who had the pleasure of knowing him was blessed.
We love you "Papa" and are Thankful to have had you in our lives.
I love Billy, and am so thankful my Sister Burna had him for a husband. He was a kind gentle soul whenever I was around him. A hard worker, loved keeping a beautiful yard and garden. Billy always had something interesting to talk about and share. I pray I see you in Heaven. John 3:16 ( Jesus said) For God loved the wold so much, He gave His only Son that anyone who believes in Him, will not perish but live forever.
Loved by all, my Dad was the greatest man there was. He was always there for us, really he was always there for everybody, especially his family. I miss him so much already. But he is with his heart again, my mama! I will miss them both forever. I miss you Daddy! Love you. Give mama a hug & kiss for me!


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SperoachBeatz ft Mayorkun x Peruzzi – "Constantly" Mp3 Download
Posted by Dave on June 5, 2021 0
The long anticipated song by "Constantly" is out Featuring two DMW frontiers Mayorkun and Peruzzi
Speroach Beatz made further success in 2019 with the production on Peruzzi's mega hit – 'Majesty' and Davido's mega hit song 'Risky' (featuring Popcaan). Also in 2020 when he produced another hit song for Davido, "Holy Ground" (which features Nicki Minaj).
Mayorkun is one of Nigeria's big Pop act. He made his debut in 2016 with 'Eleko' and has since then won several awards including the Headies Next rated in 2018 & has also steadily churned out back to back hits under Davido's music imprint – DMW. He has performed at the wireless main stage in 2018, the O2 Arena in Jan 2019 and has sold out numerous concerts both home and abroad. He released his debut album 'The Mayor Of Lagos' in Nov. 2018, a classic body of work which features chart topping singles; Mama, Che Che, Bobo and more.
Peruzzi Born Tobechukwu Victor Okoh, is known for his soulfully expressive vocals, humble attitude, passionate creativity, strength and commitment to his music all while maintaining a vibe and eclectic energy. He released his first single in July 2017 titled, 'For Your Pocket' which caught the ears of DMW boss, Davido, who jumped on the remix. Shortly after he got signed to DMW, he whipped up Davido's multiple award winning 'Fia', 'Ada' (ft DJ ECool), 'Doe' (ft Larry Gaga) and 2Baba 2018 summer hit "Amaka", which he featured on. In March 2018, Peruzzi dropped his first official single under his new label, DMW which gained major airplays and rocked major charts in Nigeria and beyond. Peruzzi recently released 'Rum & Boogie' album.
Today June 4, 2021 the trio premieres a new single titled "Constantly". This jam has been on Repeat since it release. It's highly addictive, well spiced with catchy lyrics, wordplays, melody and vibe.
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Bedwyn Trains Passenger Group
Delay Claim Form
Published Documents
If your journey is delayed you may be entitled to compensation. Use the Delay Claim Form menu to download a compensation claim form.
Off peak trains are: All day Saturday and Sunday, Weekday eastbound from 0843 onwards. Weekday from Paddington: 1006 to 1607 inclusive, 1707, 1807, 1906 and later.
Discounts are available to holders of Railcards. Railcards cost between £20 and £30 and offer a third off certain fares. On weekdays the 16-25 Railcard, Senior Railcard and Disabled Persons Railcard are all valid on the 0843 onwards. The Network Railcard (available to any adult not eligible for any other type of railcard) is not valid until the 0939. At weekends railcards are valid all day.
Don't forget if you are intending travelling on the underground you can buy a One Day Travelcard to include the tube.
Bedwyn is a penalty fare station so you need to buy a ticket before boarding. However, the ticket machine does not take cash so, in this instance, buy a ticket at the earliest opportunity. The on train ticket sellers are used to this. Useful article from The Times: "Alongside shameless fare dodgers, rail companies penalise many people who have been unable to buy tickets because of long queues or closed tills or machines. As with parking tickets, paying a penalty fare on demand is seen as an admission of guilt. Instead, you are entitled to pay the full single fare — and no more — on the spot, and to give the ticket collector your contact details. You will later receive a letter demanding further payment and should reply immediately, again refusing to pay and explaining why you could not buy a ticket. The Department for Transport's (DFT) Penalty Fares Rules 2002 state that a penalty fare must not be charged where there were "no facilities available" for selling the appropriate ticket. The DFT says in clauses 4.2 and 4.11 of its Penalty Fares Policy that passengers must be given sufficient opportunity to buy a ticket and that queues of more than three minutes, off-peak, and five minutes in peak time breach what is "sufficient". Note also that season ticket holders who forget their ticket should request a "nil-fare" notice when challenged. They may be charged the full single fare, but this is refundable on production of the ticket."
Shopping tips: Newbury and Reading, both having direct trains from Bedwyn, offer good shopping centres. Reading has the modern Oracle shopping centre. To get to The Oracle exit the station through the main entrance turn left, and follow the road straight ahead (Station Road leading into Queen Victoria Street). You will meet with Broad Street (opposite John Lewis). Turn left and The Oracle is on the right hand side, opposite.
Change at Westbury for Bath Spa, Bristol Temple Meads, Portsmouth, Southampton and Cardiff. Also, where the service is not direct, change at Westbury for Frome, Castle Cary, Taunton, Tiverton Parkway and Exeter St Davids.
Heathrow Airport: Take the train from Bedwyn station and pick up the RailAir coach service at Reading. To reach the coach departure point head through the main ticket barrier then take a diagonal left to the far side of the station concourse. Through tickets can be purchased on the train from Bedwyn. Typically coaches depart every twenty minutes to thirty minutes and ties in well with our train timetable. See
www.railair.com
or phone 0118 957 9425 for further details.
Gatwick Airport: Gatwick Airport is better served by trains than Heathrow with direct services from Reading. Simply board at Bedwyn and buy a through ticket then change at Reading (platforms 4a and 4b), though best to check your times first on either
www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk
or by calling 08457 484950
Bristol International Airport: Travel to Bristol Temple Meads and then take the Bristol Flyer direct coach service. If your flight times permit you may be able to make use of our limited westbound service. If not then change at Reading. For further details on the coach call 0871 200 2233.
Exeter International Airport: An hourly Stagecoach bus, service 56, departs Exeter St David's station for the airport. For further details on the bus call 0871 200 2233. We have a number of direct and connecting services to Exeter.
Birmingham International Airport: Birmingham International Airport is served by direct trains from Reading.
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R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv rrhobbs.us feed.
"Hollywood Being Priced Out Of 1 Upscale Rockland County Town Hollywood producers are targeting one upscale Rockland County town, but are running into all kinds of problems with local governments over filming times and fees. Tanya Rivero reports"


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Turbine Bike – A history lesson
The Turbine Motorbike – A history
The adventure all started some years ago when Zef Eisenberg (Maxicorp Founder) visited MTT in Lousiania, USA to discuss the MTT (Y2K) turbine bike. MTT made about 15 turbine bikes from 1998, with the last one being built in 2005. With MTT then focusing 100% of their time on the big oil industry and turbine powered Fracking machines (natural gas release from underground rock), the minimal profit and hassle from Turbine bikes was of little interest.
After some positive meetings, it was agreed that Zef at Maxicorp (Autosport) in Guernsey would lead the development of a new fully updated Turbine bike incorporating the best equipment that bike technology offered in 2011. With Britain leading the world in terms of bike and automotive technology, Maxicorp had the team and expertise around to develop something special.
The project started off well with a 2005 built turbine bike coming over to the UK to be stripped down and taken apart to see all the areas where it could be improved. Vinyl wrapped in an amazingly eye catching 3M real Chrome film and sponsored by the watch brand, TAG Heuer. The bike was invited to appear at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 to much attention, and some top speed events to find out its flaws and where improvement was needed.
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011
In 1998, the Y2K (MTT) bike and it's technology was top of its game and became a wall poster bike for its time, but the world of technology, design and engineering moves along at a super fast pace and by 2011, the bike was old fashioned and tired in many ways; featuring heavy slab alloy chrome wheels, harley forks and chrome harley brakes, an often leaking Toyota based Corolla 3 speed auto box (converted to 2 speed manual), basic hand laid carbon tank, fairings, industrial style wiring and bodywork that did not live up to its price. The turbine bike of 1998 needed a total revamp and update if it was ever going to achieve its former glory.
The magnitude of the task soon became apparent. The donor Toyota Corolla donor gearbox was becoming obsolete and hard to find parts for. It was only designed to cope with 40-70hp in the car, not the 280hp from the C18 Turbine, so the pressure on the clutch plates had to be increased from 40psi to 150psi, causing regular leaking ATF oil, burnt out clutches and was a general pain with oil often dripping onto the rear tyre at speed or the gearbox occasionally over heating or seizing if oil didn't flow properly, as it used bronze bushings and not bearings in some areas of the gearbox. Even though it was two speed, the second speed 1:1 was too tall for the engine to allow a fast launch, as you would expect in a normal 6 speed piston engine motorbike. It therefore used the 1:2.8 ratio of the 1st gear to allow a better acceleration from a standing start. However as the jump from 1:2.8 to 1:1 is quite a leap in terms of ratio, changing gear mid acceleration could only be done very carefully (if at all!) to avoid snapping the gearbox shaft. Yes, it had it's compromises!
The Turbine installed in all the bikes was a Rolls Royce 250-C18, from a Jet Ranger Bell 206. A great engine at the time, but it was discontinued by Rolls Royce, so getting hold of parts and servicing them was nigh impossible through the proper channels, hence the affordable price of second hand ones for installation in the turbine bike. Another concern was that the C18 turbine also lacked a containment ring, this is a protective titanium ring that surrounds the internal hot wheels/blades and preventing them from escaping in the event of failure. The C18's successor, the C20B had the containment ring and thus was a far safer turbine to use. New safety and flight regulations required all C18 & C20B owners to upgrade at the time of servicing to a containment ring turbine. There were many old and tired redundant C18's Turbines on the market, which is why MTT used them. It made the bike affordable, as new C20B's are very expensive.
The 250-C18 engine was also known to be a little optimistic in its horsepower claims. Claimed to deliver 318hp, it rarely did 300-310hp even with the best care and blueprint build. At the rear wheel, the best the bike could deliver was about 240hp, when you realised a lot of power was used up within the power sapping heavy planetary gearbox and right angle bevel box. A top speed claim of 250mph was nothing more than that, a 'marketing claim' and the internet was full of hype of all different fantasy speeds. The reality was that even though the bike had claimed to have reached in excess of 200mph, it had never even reached this speed in a certified timing event, such as the Texas Mile, Bonneville, etc… 160mph being its best official 'timed' speed. At the time of its launch the bike was massively fast and powerful, far beyond anything else available, but in today's world of Suzuki Hayabusa's it was soon eclipsed and forgotten as so many automotive 'specials' are.
As the project developed back in Guernsey, so many areas needed to be changed and reworked, that the cost and time of the project grew beyond everyone's estimate. Everyone was becoming a bit disillusioned as budgets climbed. It was clear that a relaunch of a new turbine bike could be nothing less than perfect with the very best turbine technology, electronics, design and exotic parts, especially for a bike costing circa £150-£200k! Additional concerns of being able to pass increasingly strict EU legislation tests, prevented the bike from ever becoming 'production', being built in large numbers, and recuperating the R&D costs. Due to all of this it was decided that MTT and Maxicorp would part amicably and go their own ways, focusing on what each other do best. Maxicorp… bespoke specials and MTT – Big oil fracking machines.
Having gained significant knowledge and relationships in the UK with Rolls Royce and key suppliers who felt motivated by such an unusual concept as a new turbine bike, the team decided it would be a shame not to throw everything at the project and see what we could achieve without the constraints of budget and partners, as a one of 'special' bike – basically, the goal was to build the most crazy, best built, handling and fastest Turbine bike ever built.
Having now sourced the later updated and more powerful, Rolls Royce C20B (420hp out the box), the first issue we encountered was that the upgraded RR turbine was actually too powerful for an 'every day' road bike and far too powerful for anything but the most experienced motorbikers. The turbine made 4 times the torque of a Hayabusa at idle! and boy did it guzzle fuel. At full power (100% N1), it consumed 280 litres of fuel per hour! Even at idle (54% N1), the bike will use 32 litres of fuel in 30-40mins. Taking this into account, it was clear, we had to completely rebuild the turbine bike from the bottom up, with a focus on the latest technology and safety aspects and take it to various prestigious 'top speed' events to see what it could achieve in real life, as opposed to the drunken bragging of the local pub and internet forums. The birth of the MADMAX turbine bike commenced…
First step was….
To chop off parts of the frame and rebuild certain parts to be stronger with different angles to improve the geometry and strength, due to the far more powerful turbine.
Bin the entire auto/manual Toyota based gearbox, N2 turbine brake, hydraulic system, pipes, solenoid valves and wires and start afresh with a new gearbox concept, saving considerable weight!
A special one off designed CNC single speed gearbox was created using an F1 style multi plate carbon dry clutch that could cope with extreme levels of torque of around 1000lb of torque, along with titanium flywheels to take the extreme heat, as the clutch engages at very high 4000rpm.
A redesigned and strengthened swing arm was made with adjustable pivots to allow different anti-squat percentages to ensure optimum traction under full power.
Titanium spindles, fly wheels and more replaced weaker 6082 alloy versions.
A drop down adjustable rake triple tree was made to cope with the great braking forces and high speed runs.
New 50mm USD Marzocchi race forks from (BSB) British Super bikes, replaced the chrome Harley forks. These had the latest 108mm radial brake brackets, allowing us to use the strongest and most advanced one off 6 pot ISR mono brakes and 320mm discs for considerably better stopping power.
Twin 320mm rear disc and Twin 6 pot calliper was fitted to slow down the turbine and rear wheel from over 200mph.
A re-sculptured and more fitting, very strong, but lightweight 2kg carbon/kevlar tank was made, holding over 30 litres of jet fuel. It had a ballistic under belly for protection in the event of the turbine going wrong.
New more aerodynamic stylish carbon fairings were made for the entire bike using the correct vacuum techniques.
The latest LED lights were used throughout the bike to lower the amp drain on the electric system.
Special order, high cranking, small, but very light 28v volt high powered lithium batteries replaced the old heavy car ones.
All the electrics of the bike and it's 15 year old ECU were ripped out and binned in favour of the most advanced in house Motec ECU solution, with all the software solution being built from scratch and tested in house, providing amazing safety and data logging benefits, offering levels of safety, not even seen in a helicopter.
The bike was covered in an array of F1 style sensors, allowing the ECU to calculate the turbine and the bikes performance at over 100 times a second and most importantly shut down the fuel to the turbine in the event of anything going outside its programmed parameters before the rider even knows about a problem.
Full data logging and HD cameras allowed every run and every millisecond of the turbine and bike to be replayed back, the same as in a black box in a plane, allowing easy fault finding and data logging.
The heavy flywheel style Chrome Harley wheels were replaced with special BST carbon fibre wheels, with a vast reduction in weight. The bike wore special high speed 240/40/18 Continental tyres fitted and a 120/70/17 front tyre fitted, that had been tested to over 300mph.
Many other parts of the bike were completely remade and improved. Too much to list. The only thing remaining was parts of the old alloy frame, which will be replaced going forward.
Whilst we were doing so much, we decided a 'street fighter' version would look superb, allowing the turbine and engineering to be far more visible for those that appreciated the tech side.
Both the race and street fighter turbine bike have now appeared at many top speed events around the UK, Goodwood festival of speed in 2011, 2013 and 2015 and was sponsored by TAG watches. The bike has been invited to appear on the Rolls Royce H+S stand at the World Helitechshow 2014 in Amsterdam, and been pride of place at many events around the UK, such as Prescott bike show, IOM TT, Ramsey sprint, Coventry Motorfest, ACE cafe and more…
The bike is now officially confirmed as the world's fastest Turbine bike over a standing mile (233.6mph one way), under certified timing conditions (ACU, BRC, UKTA). It has even raced on the sand at the Iconic Pendine beach, reaching 141mph before the Turbine ingested too much sand! Maxicorp has no plans to build a production version of this bike due to EU regulations. We believe the bike is too powerful for most riders and far in excess of what you need. However for those people who are truly crazy and want nothing but the best and most powerful of motorbikes, we may be tempted to build one for those that can demonstrate they have sufficient money and expertise in handling such a bike for special occasions or ideally for those that want to add possibly the most extreme bike ever made to their current collection of automotive exotica. You'll need a large cheque though, the build cost of one of these bikes would be around £350,000, subject to spec.
For those special enough to already own an old MTT Y2K motorbike, we are to fully service and convert any old Y2K Turbine bike to whatever your budget allows, whether it is a front end change or a full upgrade to a new C20B containment ring Turbine. Our team are qualified and trained Rolls Royce 250 turbine technicians and can resolve any turbine issues and repair them to full OEM service centre specifications.


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Barbara Seidenath (born 1960) is a German-born American jewelry designer, metalsmith, and educator.

Biography
Barbara Seidenath was born in 1960 in Bavaria, near Munich, Germany. Her father worked in forestry and her mother was a school doctor. Seidenath is married to artist and metalsmith Louis Mueller (born 1943).

She studied from 1977 to 1980 at the  (English: State Vocational School for Jewelry and Glass) in Neugablonz, studying under family friend and jeweler . During college, Seidenath worked for jeweler Ulrike Bahrs (born 1944) which influenced her use of color in her work. In 1981, she was an exchange student at State University of New York at New Paltz, studying under Robert Ebendorf and Kurt Matzdorf. From 1984 to 1990, Seidenath attended the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich where she received her MFA degree.

For many years she had co-founded a line of jewelry with Lydia Gastroph (born 1957). Seidenath is known for her enamel work, as well as materials like gold, silver, and precious stones. Since the 1990s, she has taught at Rhode Island School of Design and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

Seidenath's work can be found in public museum collections at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as at others.

References

Living people
1960 births
American metalsmiths
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich alumni
American people of German descent
Rhode Island School of Design faculty
Tufts University faculty

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Ahead of their debut at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show, the 2018 Mercedes-AMG E63 and E63 S are unveiled here, the latter representing the fastest E-Class ever made. Generating 603 hp and 627 lb-ft of torque, the mid-sized four-door packs a 4.0-liter twin-turbo V-8 that allows it to compete with any number of performance coupes on the market today. The S version leaps from 0-60 mph in just 3.3 seconds before reaching a top speed of 186 mph. Its standard E63 counterpart has 563 hp and 553 lb-ft on tap, enabling a sprint time of 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 155 mph. Both versions have 4MATIC+ permanent all-wheel-drive, and the S variant also features Race and Drift modes. Following their debut in L.A., the cars will hit showrooms in the summer of 2017.
For more automotive news, check out the Mercedes X-Class concept, as well as the 2017 MINI Countryman.


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Cross Party Alliances
On October 17, Make Votes Matter (MVM) held an electoral reform all-party alliance meeting in Westminster. LDER was there, along with party President Sal Brinton and Lord Paul Tyler, our Lords Spokesperson for Political and Constitutional Reform. Paul and Sal both spoke about principled support for a system which serves not cheats the people. Narrow party advantage is the wrong perspective. All parties, with the notable exception of the Tories, were there. Labour reps (including Jonathan Reynolds and Paul Blomfield) were also convincingly pro-reform. Let's see if they can convince the Corbynistas…
On October 30, following a public petition led by MVM with support of the Electoral Reform Society, a Westminster Hall debate on electoral reform took place. This time some Tories were there (!) presenting Neanderthal pro-status quo arguments, based on falsity (claiming AV was a proportional system), and a nostalgic-cum-deranged belief that if it was British, then it had to be best. Our new Bath MP, Wera Hobhouse, provided powerful pro-reform arguments, drawing in part of her experience of her native Germany to do so. Labour (including Stephen Kinnock) was again present and forcefully pro-reform. Make Votes Matter have posted a report of the event, including videos of the main speakers, here.
Whether this 'momentum', especially within Labour will finally lead to change remains to be seen. We will ensure our party's positive involvement in next steps to reform.
Our MPs have also been working with Labour, SNP, Plaid Cymru and Green colleagues to extend voting rights to 16 and 17 year olds for all UK elections. A private member's bill put forward by Jim McMahon MP (Lab/Co-Op, Oldham and Royton) and selected by Oldham youth council, provided an opportunity for debate in the Commons on this important topic.
McMahon introduced the Representation of the People (Young People's Enfranchisement and Education) Bill by emphasising that it commanded cross-party support.
For the Liberal Democrats, Christine Jardine MP highlighted the success of involving 16 and 17 year olds in the Scottish referendum, noting that their contributions had been among the most informed, enthusiastic and incisive, and had brought many more young people into politics. Addressing some of the arguments against the bill, Wera Hobhouse MP drew comparisons with the case to resist votes for women a century ago.
Unfortunately the debate had to be adjourned due to time constraints and will resume on 1 December. This bill is unlikely to become law, but has raised public awareness of the issue and attracted considerable media attention. The UK Youth Parliament and NUS are currently campaigning actively for votes at 16, and have also been discussing the subject in recent weeks.
At LDER's September AGM, a new exec for 17/18 was elected: Crispin Allard (Chair), Penny Goodman (Secretary), Richard Lawrie (Treasurer), Martin Walker (Membership) plus Denis Mollison, Paul Mott, Helen Parker, Keith Sharp and Philip Smith. (At our November exec, Keith was elected Vice Chair.)
But there is lots to do! An AGM suggestion was to share our programme and work agenda with our activists, so people can chip in and support the cause according to expertise and availability.
A current priority need is a literature (print and on-line) refresh. Our 'general' leaflet is factually up to date (as of June '17 election), but could really do with a re-design, to make it more punchy-looking. We are also writing updated leaflets on Lords reform and England and Wales local government and so need help both in writing and designing.
So: if you are a great (or even only pretty good!) layout designer or writer, please write to us (see below). Any other contributions you can make – please let us know that too.
Crispin Allard
Posted on December 1, 2017 August 15, 2018 Categories newsletters, votes at 16, westminster


This chic entertainment stand is sure to stand out in any room. Update your office space by adding unique industrial style with this entertainment credenza from the Boulevard Café collection. Its spacious tabletop surface provides you with room to display all your favorite things - a stylish accent lamp, decorative plants or knick-knacks.
This credenza (60"W x 17"D x 26.96"H) is constructed of powder coated metal frame with mesh styling and a laminate top. It features four wire mesh metal doors with two adjustable shelves for storage and or to display anything from books and plants to awards and office décor. It also features cord access through the enclosed back so you can keep all your wires neat and out of the way.
This credenza can hold a 70" TV and up to 70 lbs.


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Dark Knight Rises vs Jaws: Batman Gets Competition in the Box Office This Summer
By Barry Lyndon
With the Dark Knight Rises and the Amazing Spider-Man around the corner, it's worth going back to where the whole idea of the summer blockbuster all came from: one movie by a 26 year old called Steven Spielberg. About a shark.
Jaws has been re-released in Great Britain this summer, and I was delighted at the opportunity to see it on the big screen.
Like the shark itself, the film has such a raw, potent identity that even Philistines like myself who had never seen it before have still been exposed to its terrors in various unexpected ways. I remember seeing the famous girl-swimming-with-shark poster in a French textbook when I was 12. The ubiquitous score by John Williams I had first heard parodied in a local radio jingle dealing in boat trips. I'm guessing they've gone out of business since then.
This is strange for me because I consider myself an otherwise huge fan of Spielberg. I've not only seen every one of his films in the cinema pretty much since I've been alive, but watched most of his back catalogue on DVD — except Jaws. I even read his biography once. By perfectly blending pop satisfaction with artistic verve and cinematic literacy, Spielberg hits the same spot that Hitchcock hit before him, achieving adoration from critics and audiences alike. It only takes one viewing of the masterpiece that is Jaws to see why.
Those who are lucky enough to have witnessed the film on the big screen in 1975 will not be disappointed by its re-release. Unlike George Lucas, Spielberg has managed to avoid the trap of perfectionism. Instead of ruining his classic with gaudy graphics, 3D, and other pointless insertions, he has stuck to cleaning up and sharpening the print. It really is beautiful to behold.
Set on the island community of Amity, whose main business is beaches, the plot follows the local sheriff, Martin Brody (played by Roy Scheider) who after discovering the presence of a shark in the surrounding waters attempts to close off the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with the mayor, who is determined to maintain business as usual. But when a young boy is eaten by the shark, Sheriff Brody joins up with an effete marine scientist, played by Richard Dreyfuss, and the grizzled fisherman and shark hunter, Quint, determining to kill it. Besides the shark, Robert Shaw's Ahab-like performance as Quint steals the show. The ensuing hunt is one of the most thrilling, terrifying and satisfying sequences of film I have ever seen.
It's interesting to note just how difficult Jaws was to produce. As Spielberg's third outing as director, following Amblin' and Duel, the shoot went way over schedule and over budget. Ironically, the true blessing of this film was how bad the mechanical shark was. After it broke down several times on set, Spielberg was left with no choice but to press ahead with the schedule and merely suggest its presence with swimming shots and the music. The few moments we actually see the shark are less terrifying than the many times we don't. Spielberg gets one important fact, lost on 90% of blockbuster directors these days, that the imagination is a far more effective canvas to exploit than the screen itself.
For many people Jaws will have a nostalgic quality, mixed up with memories of not wanting to go swimming, even in a pool, for months afterwards. I can't say it scared me quite that much, but I consider myself uniquely privileged to be able to enjoy it for the first time as it's meant to be enjoyed: in the movies. Before you hit the theatres this summer go back to the beginning. Go see Jaws!


Pitch frames for the title sequence of HBO's Fahrenheit 451.
Early design explorations for Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards 2019.
Photoshop composition created with various photos took by myself in Iceland.
Inspired by the belief long ago that pandas had evolved from raccoons.


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Famiglia d'origine
Maria era figlia di Carlo Luigi (1755-1801), principe ereditario di Baden, e di Amalia d'Assia-Darmstadt (1754-1832). I suoi nonni paterni erano Carlo Federico, margravio di Baden e la principessa Carolina Luisa d'Assia-Darmstadt; quelli materni Luigi IX, landgravio d'Assia-Darmstadt e la principessa Carolina del Palatinato-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld.

Biografia

Matrimonio
Il 1º novembre 1802 Maria sposò, a Karlsruhe il duca Federico Guglielmo di Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Oels (1771−1815), quarto figlio del duca Carlo Guglielmo Ferdinando di Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel e di sua moglie, la principessa britannica Augusta di Hannover.

Fuga ed esilio
Il Ducato di Brunswick-Lüneburg, di cui quello di Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel era una suddivisione, venne inglobato nel Regno di Vestfalia, governato dal fratello minore di Napoleone, Girolamo Bonaparte. Maria fu costretta a fuggire con i suoi bambini, rifugiandosi a Prenzlau. Nel 1806 il suocero fu costretto a fuggire, innanzi all'avanzata delle truppe napoleoniche ed a rifugiarsi ad Altona, dove morì a causa delle ferite riportate negli scontri con i francesi. Maria e la suocera Augusta di Gran Bretagna fecero una visita al capezzale dove giaceva malato, ma quando le truppe francesi si avvicinarono ad Amburgo, l'ambasciatore britannico consigliò loro di fuggire, cosicché le principesse dovettero abbandonarlo poco prima della sua morte. Le due donne furono invitate alla corte svedese dal cognato di Maria, Re Gustavo IV Adolfo di Svezia, ma Augusta preferì accettare l'ospitalità offertale dalla nipote Luisa Augusta di Danimarca. Maria accettò invece l'invito e si stabilì con i figli a Malmö, dove i sovrani svedesi risiedevano all'epoca senza corte, per esser più vicini al conflitto durante il momento difficile. Napoleone concesse inoltre a Federico Guglielmo il permesso di risiedere ad Altona.
Il fratello di Maria, il Principe Ereditario di Baden era sposato con Stefania di Beauharnais, una nipote della prima moglie di Bonaparte, di cui era alleato, e si recò in quell'epoca a Berlino per incontrarlo. Napoleone rifiutò di vedere Federico Guglielmo, ma disse che sarebbe stato lieto d'incontrare Maria, Carlo scrisse quindi alla sorella, invitandola a recarsi a Berlino da Napoleone quale ambasciatrice del Brunswick, in modo da perorare la causa del marito. Maria accettò il consiglio e decise di recarsi da sola a Berlino, ma venne fermata a Stralsunda per ordine del marito, che temeva che Napoleone la forzasse a sposare suo fratello Gerolamo Bonaparte. Infatti Federico Guglielmo amava teneramente la moglie, al punto da visitarla due volte in incognito in Svezia, nonostante quest'ultimo fosse all'epoca uno Stato nemico di Napoleone. In Svezia Maria visse a Malmö con la sorella e la di lei famiglia. A differenza di Federica tuttavia sembra che Maria fosse solita avere atteggiamenti informali con le dame del suo seguito. Inoltre ella pativa le restrizioni e la noia che aleggiavano a Malmö, in assenza di una vita di corte, sentendosi isolata dalla vita di società, e trovava difficile andar d'accordo col cognato, rigido e lunatico. Nel maggio del 1807 Federica lasciò Malmö e fece ritorno a Stoccolma per partorire, e chiese alla sorella di accompagnarla. Ma Federico Guglielmo la pregò invece di far ritorno in Germania, cosa che Maria fece.
Da quel momento visse con i suoi figli presso la corte di suo fratello, e visse sino alla sua morte prematura a Pforzheim. Maria morì, vittima di febbre puerperale, quattro giorni dopo aver partorito una bambina nata morta. È sepolta nella cripta principesca di Pfrozheim.

Discendenza
Maria e Federico Guglielmo ebbero tre figli:

 Carlo (1804–1873), duca di Brunswick;
 Guglielmo Augusto Luigi Massimiliano, (1806–1884), duca di Brunswick;
 Una figlia nata e morta il 7 dicembre 1808.

Ascendenza

Altri progetti

Maria Elisabetta
Maria Elisabetta
Maria


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Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)
Lessons Learned About Troubled Schools From Failing States
By Maurice J. Elias
Image credit: Thinkstock
Yes, you read correctly. Those involved in trying to turnaround schools have a lot to learn from those who have studied efforts to turnaround failing states. I think this would be a useful contrast from the usual corporate and business models invoked to "turnaround" schools, which succeed far too rarely.
The parallels of troubled schools and failing states are striking. Writing in Foreign Affairs (vol. 93, No. 1, "The Rise and Fall of the Failed State Paradigm," pp. 113-121), Michael J. Mazarr notes:
"In trying to force change on recalcitrant governments and societies, moreover, outside interventions undermine internal motives for reform by transferring responsibility for a better future from local leaders to external actors" (p. 117).
It is not hard to substitute terms relating to schools for terms relating to nations and get the message:
"The outside power needs cooperation from its local clients more than they need its sponsorship. The result is a dependency paradox that impedes reform. As success stories from South Korea to Chile show, the path from state weakness to strength has to be traveled by the states themselves, gradually and fitfully, most often under the influence of strong, decisive leadership from visionary architects of governance. It is an organic, grass-roots process that must respect the unique social, cultural, political, and religious contexts of each country. And although it can be encouraged and even modestly shaped by outside contributions and pressure, it cannot be imposed" (p. 117-118, italics added).
A reflection on many turnaround processes, as well as the overall Race to the Top model and the pressures to adopt the Common Core, shows how disempowering and overly prescriptive they tend to be. The urge to "civilize" and do "nation building" may be a good one but as Mazarr points out, "There are simply no proven methods for generating major social, political, economic, or cultural change relatively quickly" (p. 117).
And it's important to view changing schools as an act of social, political, economic, culture, and climate change. To believe that new academic routines can be installed and instruction made more rigorous and standards imposed and new tests given, without understanding the context into which these complex innovations must enter and into which they must be assimilated, is to invite frustration and failure.
How Do Failing States Succeed?
As alluded to earlier, states have turned around, and so have schools. When this has happened, they have shared four features.
Feature #1: As noted above, there must be "visionary architects" of leadership accompanied by many who understand the blueprints and are dedicated to construction and empowered to make modifications in light of realities not in the architectural plans.
Feature # 2: "A resilient mindset, one that treats perturbations as inevitable rather than calamitous and resists the urge to overreact" (p. 120). Annual assessment is anathema to a resilient mindset. The trends we need to look at take longer than can be judged on an annual basis and doing so creates mindset that become overly reactive to what are the inevitable bumps and sidetracks of "fitful progress." Excessive oversight that is evaluative rather than supportive or pragmatically helpful, bolstered by inordinate amounts and detail of highly particular record keeping, also numbs resilience and induces a compliance mindset.
Feature # 3: "Gradual progress through patient, long-term advisory and aid relationships" (p. 121). Building capacity must be the focus, and that requires the latitude to take one step forward and two back, toward the goal of three forward and two back. Change cannot happen without disequilibrium, and creating a new normal can involve conflict, disagreement, and harmonizing processes to become part of the reformed climate. This, in turn, requires trust, and that is exactly what is most lacking between the outside forces of school change and the "uncivilized" and "failing and failed" school folks who need to be changed, or replaced...or so it's thought.
Feature # 4: "The watchwords should be patience, gradualism, and tailored responses: enhancing effective governance through a variety of models attuned to local patterns and needs, in advisory and supportive ways" (p. 121).
This is how it happens. Fast change is fragile change. Imposed change is like a tree with shallow roots -- unable to withstand the inevitable strong winds and storms ahead. Implicit in this perspective is the need to involve a wide swath of the school community in the change, foremost the students. They will benefit from their inclusion, and the responsibility and empowerment that this affords, more than the pedagogical changes which will take years to bear fruit. Down the road, future students in that school will accrue the benefits of genuinely adopted and tailored instructional changes, accumulated developmentally. While change is taking place, participation in the process brings great social-emotional and character development rewards.
Similarly, genuine collaboration among faculty, staff, parents, members of the service sector, business, and parents in the community all will bring great short-term benefits to the school-in-change that will not show up in test scores.
What would happen if we changed our approach from business models in helping troubled schools to instead implemented the lessons learned from turnaround failing states? Michael Mazarr puts it well:
"One of the benefits of this change, ironically, will be to allow local institutional development to proceed more organically and authentically, in its own ways and at its own pace. Most of all, the new mindset will reflect a simple facing up to reality after a decade of distraction" (p. 121).
What are your thoughts and ideas about this blog post? Please share in the comments section below.


Siemens Stiftung expands its entrepreneurship training program and is thereby promoting personal initiative and social entrepreneurship. On March 10, the opening of a new solar station, the Water-Energy Hub, marked the start of entrepreneurship training for the local community in Honge on Lake Victoria. In collaboration with Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Siemens Stiftung has developed a detailed curriculum that rewards successful candidates with a certificate from a recognized educational institute. In partnership with the Kenyan organization The Youth Banner, the program is being implemented at the foundation's existing project locations.
Being able to run a small business of their own and to live off its profits is the dream of many people in rural and peri-urban areas of Kenya. Moreover, it is often the only chance they have to generate a regular income. There is no lack of creativity: selling books and household goods, supplying fishing equipment, manufacturing and selling soap and detergents are only a few of the numerous ideas people have come up with. To ensure that these ideas can develop into a business with real economic and social perspectives, Siemens Stiftung is supporting the professional implementation of such ventures through a training program for entrepreneurship.
A special curriculum dealing with business management, customer service, accounting and finance management was developed in cooperation with the School of Business at Kenyatta University. In addition to instilling basic business know-how, the curriculum focuses on the development of social and life skills. The program targets micro-entrepreneurs from rural and peri-urban areas who are able to take part in a local educational program and receive a nationally recognized certificate from Kenyatta University at the end of their training.
After completing a four- to six-week period of training, the participants are put through a six-month mentoring program. During this period, experienced coaches and mentors help them compile their business plans, gain wider ranging business contacts and arrange any necessary microcredits.
Speaking about the program, Wamuyu Mahinda, founder and CEO of The Youth Banner, a Kenyan youth welfare organization and cooperation partner of Siemens Stiftung since 2012, says: "The new training program by Siemens Stiftung and Kenyatta University creates further role models whose success stories can motivate entire communities and engender economic and social transformation."
The entrepreneurship training program is being offered at locations of existing basic service projects of Siemens Stiftung. "Projects such as the Water-Energy Hub provide access to clean drinking water and energy, thereby creating a vital infrastructure for the neighboring communities", said Christine Weyrich from Siemens Stiftung at the opening ceremony for the Water-Energy Hub in Honge on Lake Victoria. "We use this infrastructure for our training program and offer additional programs such as computer courses to help the budding entrepreneurs become more professional with regard to administration and communication."
In the coming months, further entrepreneurship training courses will be carried out in various regions of Kenya - at the Water-Energy Hubs in the western part of the country and at the water stations near Nairobi and Thika. The local operators will also take part in the training courses and receive the basic know-how necessary to run such a micro-enterprise successfully.
Kenyatta University is a dynamic, an inclusive and a competitive centre of excellence in teaching, learning, research and service to humanity. It provides quality education and training, promote scholarship, service, innovation and creativity and inculcate moral values for sustainable individual and societal development. The Center for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (CEED) within the School of Business is a leading research, training and consultancy center in entrepreneurship and enterprise development in the region and beyond. Its mission is to reduce poverty & unemployment and create wealth through inspiring, supporting and professionalizing entrepreneurship among the youth and community.
The Youth Banner (TYB) is a not-for-profit organization, which was established in May 2010 by Wamuyu Mahinda, Founder and CEO. It empowers the youth in Kenya economically by creating an enabling environment for youth to earn sustainable incomes. This helps the youth to deal with some of the issues affecting them that include: High level of unemployment, HIV infection especially among young women and high rate of extreme poverty. The members go through The Youth Banner Experience that is comprised of Training in Entrepreneurship, Coaching, Mentorship, Linkages to finance and markets, Exposure, Community Service and Peer-to-Peer support.
ENCOURAGE. empowering people. The Siemens Stiftung wants to empower people to actively address today's social challenges. Together with its partners, it designs and implements local and international projects with the aim of promoting individual responsibility and self-initiative. The foundation is committed to developing basic services and social entrepreneurship, promoting education and strengthening culture. The Siemens Stiftung pursues an integrative approach and stands for responsible, impact-oriented and innovative project work.


You can now identify paintings, dogs and more.
If you've ever stepped into an acquaintance's decked-out home and felt like totally uncultured swine when you can't identify the art on the walls or what fancy dog breed their pup is, then you're probably going to like what the Google Pixel 2's Lens A.I. has to offer.
Introduced among various new devices and features at the special "Made By Google" event on Wednesday is a futuristic feature that is enabled by machine learning.
The Google Lens was first revealed at the company's I/O developer conference earlier this year. We were floored at how the image recognition system could simply "look" at a wifi network's credentials to instantly connect the device it's running on to the internet. Turns out, that was just the beginning.
Get smart...or at least the tools to pretend you are.
With that, it's clear to see how Google's plan to make us all big know-it-alls has gotten even more sophisticated.
This kind of deep learning breakthrough is made possible by the millions of datapoints collected in Google Search, Chennapragada explained.
Though it does not appear the Lens will be immediately available in the Pixel2, Chennapragada said a preview of Google Lens will come to Google phones later this year.


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Система APG II — таксономическая система классификации цветковых растений, разработанная «Группой филогении покрытосеменных» (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) и опубликованная в 2003 году в статье «An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II».

Разработчики Системы
Основные разработчики Системы — участники «Группы филогении покрытосеменных»:
 Биргитта Бремер (Birgitta Bremer, The Bergius Foundation, Шведская королевская академия наук),
 Коре Бремер (Kåre Bremer, Факультет систематики растений, Уппсальский университет, Швеция),
 Марк Чейз (Mark W. Chase, Jodrell Laboratory, Королевские ботанические сады в Кью, Великобритания),
 Джеймс Ривил (James L. Reveal, Университет Мэриленда, США),
 Douglas E. Soltis (Биологический факультет Флоридского университета, США),
 Pamela S. Soltis (Музей естествознания Флоридского университета, США) и
 Peter F. Stevens (Биологический факультет Университета Missouri—St. Louis, Миссурийский ботанический сад, США).
Определённый вклад в разработку Системы внесли также:

 Arne A. Anderberg,
 Michael F. Fay,
 Peter Goldblatt,
 Walter S. Judd,
 Mari Källersjö,
 Jesper Kårehed,
 Kathleen A. Kron,
 Johannes Lundberg,
 Daniel L. Nickrent,
 Richard G. Olmstead,
 Bengt Oxelman,
 J. Chris Pires,
 James E. Rodman,
 Paula J. Rudall,
 Vincent Savolainen,
 Kenneth J. Sytsma,
 Michelle van der Bank,
 Kenneth Wurdack,
 Jenny Q.-Y. Xiang и
 Sue Zmarzty.

Происхождение Системы
Система APG II является преемницей Системы классификации APG (1998). Каждая из этих систем отражала консенсус мнений широкого круга учёных-ботаников, объединённых в «Группу филогении покрытосеменных» (APG) и работающих в ряде институтов разных стран.

На смену Системе APG II в 2009 году пришла Система классификации APG III.

Основные группы

Система состоит из следующих основных групп (все они не являются явными кладами):

Схема с указанием числа семейств
Ниже в табличной форме приведена схема системы APG II с указанием названий порядков и числом семейств.
 (…f) — число семейств в данной группе
 • порядки       •• …f — число семейств, не включённых в какие-либо порядки

В основном списке APG II — 45 порядков и 453 семейства.

Состав групп
Ниже приведён состав групп, входящих в систему APG II.

Каждое перечисление начинается с семейств и порядков, для которых ещё не определено место в последующей кладе. Семейства, входящие в состав порядков, в данном списке не приводятся.

«+ …» = семейство, которое может быть отделено от предыдущего.
 клада цветковые растения
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство  [+ семейство ]
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада магнолииды
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада монокоты
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада коммелиниды
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада эвдикоты
 Семейство  [+ семейство Didymelaceae]
 Семейство
 Семейство  [+ семейство ]
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада базальные эвдикоты
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада розиды
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада эврозиды I
 Семейство  [+ семейство Krameriaceae]
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада эврозиды II
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада астериды
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада эвастериды I
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 клада эвастериды II
 Семейство
 Семейство  [+ семейство ]
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
 Порядок
В дополнительный список семейств и родов, не имеющих в системе APG II определённого места, входят ещё три семейства:
 Семейство
 Семейство
 Семейство

См. также
 Angiosperm Phylogeny Group
 Система APG
 Таксоны, входящие в систему APG II (полный список)
 Система APG III
 Система APG IV
 Цветковые растения
 Система органического мира

Примечания

Литература
 Ботаника. Учебник для вузов: в 4 т. / П. Зитте, Э. В. Вайлер, Й. В. Кадерайт, А. Брезински, К. Кёрнер; на основе учебника Э. Страсбургера и др.; пер. с нем. Е. Б. Поспеловой, К. Л. Тарасова, Н. В. Хмелевской. — М.: Издательский центр «Академия», 2007. — 576 с. Т. 3. Эволюция и систематика / под ред. А. К. Тимонина, И. И. Сидоровой.

Ссылки
 Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

APG II
Появились в 2003 году


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NYPD commissioner apologizes over mishandled 1994 rape case
In a letter, O'Neill offered the woman his "heartfelt apology for all aspersions cast upon your credibility by NYPD personnel those many years ago"
NEW YORK — New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill on Sunday apologized to a woman who came forward with a rape allegation in 1994 but was discredited by police, saying the department let her down "in almost every possible way."
In a letter, O'Neill offered the woman his "heartfelt apology for all aspersions cast upon your credibility by NYPD personnel those many years ago."
O'Neill on Sunday apologized to a woman who came forward with a rape allegation in 1994 but was discredited by police, saying the department let her down "in almost every possible way." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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The woman, who is African-American, had told police in April 1994 that she had been in Prospect Park in Brooklyn when she was dragged into the bushes and raped.
She gave authorities a detailed description which was the basis of a police sketch, and DNA evidence was recovered, but no arrests were made.
A newspaper columnist, Mike McAlary of the Daily News, wrote at the time that police sources cast doubt on the woman, saying she had invented her story in an effort to gain attention around a speech she was going to give at a rally demonstrating against anti-lesbian violence.
The woman sued McAlary for libel, but a judge dismissed the case in part because McAlary had been relying on information from police. McAlary died in 1998.
In January, police announced that the case had been cracked, that modern DNA analysis methods found a match to a man serving prison time for rape. He told police he wasn't involved in the 1994 attack.
A few days after that announcement, another NYPD official made an apology.
Deputy Commissioner John Miller sent a statement to the woman's lawyer that he was wrong to tell reporters that police doubted the woman's account. He was the chief police spokesman at the time.
In his apology letter on Sunday, O'Neill said, "We know the damage that sexual assaults inflict on survivors. Compounding that damage with insensitive comments and wild conspiracy theories only further amplifies the cruelty and injustice of the initial crime itself. For that, I am deeply and profoundly sorry."
The woman, now 52, said in an interview with the New York Times on Sunday that the apology left her feeling grateful and unexpectedly emotional.
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You are in: Home > Places > The Rev. C. H. B. Watson, West Bridgford church, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 45, 1941
A cottage at Sutton Bonington
A note by T. M. BLAGG
House at Sutton Bonington
Demolished 1935
IN that encyclopaedic work, Sir Banister Fletcher's "History of Architecture on the comparative method" (10th ed. 1938) Nottinghamshire is distinguished by having two of its picturesque cottages chosen for illustrations (p. 416) among the very few examples of English types. One of these is the "cracked" cottage at Sutton Bonington; the other at Normanton-on-Soar.
Although the Normanton cottage yet remains with us, we regretfully record that the more interesting one at Sutton Bonington was pulled down in 1935.
Owing to the greater prosperity of its agriculture in the period 1750-1860, which caused timber and cob and thatched cottages to be replaced by brick and tiled; and owing also to the more early general use of brick for house building, Nottinghamshire has never been so rich in these picturesque cottages as the south and west of England, and such as we had have mostly been "improved away" in recent years, as for instance the entire destruction of the hamlet of "Little London" at Scarrington. We cannot therefore but deplore the loss of Sutton Bonington's "cracked" cottage.
At Hucknall Torkard the members of the society, on their visit last June, saw an example of this "crack'' construction at the church porch of that place.
The method consisted in the selection of two massive oak timbers whose natural grain gave them a slightly arc bend; these were laid out flat on the ground and a transverse timber like the transom of the capital letter A morticed on to them and secured by oak pins or trenails. A similar frame was made for the other end and when all was ready they were up-reared to form the two gable-ends, and a roof-tree or rig-beam rested on their apex.
This stage the master-carpenter and his men celebrated by enjoying a "rearing-supper" provided by the owner for whom they were building. The custom still survives in an attenuated form when a flag is stuck on the gable when the roof-timbers are in position and ready for the tiler or slater to get to work and the workmen expect their "'lowance" to mark the stage they have reached.
After being up-reared in this fashion, the frame was further strengthened by studs and massive comer stocks and then the walling filled in with cob or puddled clay laid on reeds; often the lower half of the walls were more substantially built of rag-stone or the narrow bricks of the period, either in courses, "clumps," or herring-bone patterns.
When in position the crucks have very much the outline of the pairs of whale jaw-bones seen as garden-arches in the Trent-side villages, which were brought back as trophies on the fore-peak of Hull whalers after a successful voyage.
Sir Banister Fletcher has kindly allowed me to use the illustration given in his work, which was published by Messrs. B. T. Batsford, Ltd.
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David Fischer (Born 1946) was an English designer and artist based in Midsomer Norton, Somerset. He was known for his award-winning designs and paintings of pub signs. Among the awards he won includes the prestigious Holburne Museum of Art Award. He secured a unique commission to create vast murals to improve United Kingdom's service stations. Fischer's work has been praised by John Leighton, the Director of National Galleries of Scotland, Humphrey Ocean RA, and Victoria Glendinning. From 1961 to 1966 Fischer served as decorator for F. Speed and Sons in Midsomer Norton. He attended the School of Creative Arts (formerly West of England College of Art) between 1966 and 1970. He then went self-employed as a freelance designer and artist starting a business at his home at the Hole in the Wall, Church Square. Fischer designed and created signs for pubs in South Wales, South Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and Somerset.
He completed about 400 signs in a period of 15 years. In 1908s, Fischer embarked on the production of large scale mural for Trusthouse Forte's Welcome Break service areas. He created fourteen of them some measured more than 8 feet high and 60 feet in length. He set a decorative theme for each site depending on its location. The themes included local battles, historical events, and local attractions. The murals were placed at Sedgemoor services, Abington services, London Heathrow Terminal 4, Gretna Green, Dover Eastern Docks, Membury services, Hartshead Moor services, Woodall services, Michaelwood services, Pease Pottage services, Newport Pagnell services, and at Copdock, Ipswich.
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Diabetes is increasing in South Asian countries and India has earned the name of diabetic capital of the world. Diagnosis of diabetes and living diabetes involves considerable amount of affective reactions that diabetic patients face on a daily basis and the attribution of control. The objective of the study was to find out if there is a relationship between positive and negative affect and health locus of control in diabetic patients. The sample consisted of 60 participants (30 men and 30 women) between the age group 40-45 years. The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) were used. The results indicated a significant relationship between positive and negative affect and health locus of control in diabetic patients. However, there were no significant gender differences four in positive affect and negative affect and health locus of control in diabetic patients. The study explores the role of emotions and affect in health and chronic illnesses like diabetes.
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