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Q: A Client Walks Into a Server And Asks "What's New?" – Problems With Sequence Numbers I'm looking for a solution to an edge case scenario where a client continually asking the server for what's new will fail.
In this example, I'm not using timestamps because of another edge case problem. That's handled in this question: A Client Walks Into a Server And Asks "What's New?" – Problems With Timestamps
Assume we're using sequence numbers. There's a single sequence number that is atomically updated every time the table is changed. When any row is updated it records the current sequence. Then it's just a matter of the client asking for what's new since the last sequence it asked for.  Simple?  Yes, but...
Failure scenario:
Sequence starts at 1
1) Client A starts update. Updates sequence to 2
2) Client B starts update. Updates sequence to 3
3) Client B updates rows with sequence 3
4) Client C requests changes >1.  Gets B's changes. Good.
5) Client A updates rows with sequence 2.
6) Client C requests changes >3.  Gets nothing. Doesn't get Client A's changes.

Because we're using a MongoDB, I don't believe we can easily lock the sequence during an update. And, if we could, I worry about performance.
Having clients ask "what's new" repeatedly seems like a common use case and I find it surprising not to find a better wealth of best practices on this.
Any ideas on solving this scenario or recommending a better, preferably platform agnostic, solution for asking for changes?

A: One thing you can do is maintain a heap of sequence numbers that are in use as well as the "next sequence number to assign". Try the following:

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*When you grab a sequence number, put it in an "in-use" map.

*When you are done making changes with that sequence number, remove it from the "in-use" std::set

*Keep track of the minimum in the set. Whenever the minimum changes from "x" to "y", have Client C request values from x to y, but no greater than y.

So, in your example, when you update the sequence to 2, 1 is put in the in-use set. Then, when you update to 3, 2 is put in there, and the set contains 1 and 2. When the work for 2 is done, 2 is removed from the set, but client C does not pick up any changes because the minimum, 1, is unchanged. When client A is done with 1, the minumum changes from 1 to 3, and client C may read the changes from 1 to 3.
For a more complex example, suppose you have 6 clients use sequence numbers 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, yet finish in the following order: 12, 13, 11, 15, 14, 16 (which is the order they are removed from the "in-use" set. In this example, after 11 is gone, client C may read 11 through 13, because the minumum changes from 11 to 14. Then, after 14 is gone, client C may read 14 and 15, as the minimum changes from 14 to 16. Then, when 16 is gone, client C can read 16.
This is basically the algorithm we use in TokuMX replication that decides what oplog entries may be replicated to secondaries. Clients A and B would be threads doing writes to the oplog and Client C would be a tailable cursor from the secondary pulling oplog data.

A: This is clarifying and providing some examples of Zardosht Kasheff's correct answer above.

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*At the start of an update we add the sequence number to an in-use list

*Any client requesting "what's new" can't ask for anything >= the lowest number on the list.

*Thus if a couple clients were updating with sequences 10, 11, 12, a client would ask for everything from > sequenceOfLastItemReceivedByClient  and < 10 (the lowest number on the in use list.)

Here's my original example solved:
Sequence starts at 1
Client A starts update. Uses sequence 2.  In use table now has "2"
Client B starts update. Uses sequence 3. In use table now has "2,3"
Client B updates rows with sequence 3. In use table now has "2"
Client C wants to request >1 .  However, min in-use table is 2.  So it requests >1 and <2 which is none.
Client A updates rows with sequence 2. In use table now empty.
Client C wants to request changes >1. Gets A and B.

And Zardosht's example
Clients start updates with sequences 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. In use table is "11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16"
Updates 12, 13, 11 finish.  In use table is "14, 15, 16"
Client C wants to request >1.  Is allowed >1 and <14.  Gets sequences 11, 12, 13
Updates 15, 14, 16 finish.  In use table is empty.
Client C requests >13. Gets 15, 14, 16.

And a final example:
Clients start updates with sequences 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. In use table is "11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16"
Updates 12, 16, 11 finish.  In use table is "13, 14, 15"
Client C wants to request >1.  Is allowed >1 and <13.  Gets sequences 11, 12
Updates 13, 14, 15 finish.  In use table is empty.
Client C requests >12. Gets 13, 14, 15, 16

All above examples pass.  This seems to be a workable solution.

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The problems experienced with our phone service commenced just one year after the opening of Roseville. It was a Saturday in September 1983, the day was one of those magical days in Brisbane reminiscent of September weather, warm with a cool comforting breeze. I was enjoying the sunlight filtering through the large leafy trees onto the sprawling verandah at Roseville Restaurant.
White and pink Rose petals scattered earlier by the Wedding party who were now enjoying their Wedding banquet in the Ballroom, fluttered in the breeze along the wide wrought iron framed verandah.
I was busily writing menus for the coming week, it was such a pleasure to have saved and restored the magnificent circa 1885 sandstone and brick homestead with the adjoining Coachman's Cottage that was now Roseville Restaurant. Nestled in over an acre of splendid rose gardens and water lily ponds, the world seemed so serene and peaceful.
The delicious aroma of the 50 plus Chocolate Soufflés our Chef was preparing for our guests drifted up from the kitchen, the hot chocolate infused with the light fluffy Soufflé was a sensation in its own right.
As Chef prepared to serve the Chocolate Soufflés, which upon being placed in front of the guests were punctured to allow the hot melted chocolate and King Island double cream drizzle into the hot Soufflé, a visitor found his way down the long chandelier lit hallway, to my surprise it was no other than my good friend Trevor Reddacliff.
Actually, Trevor and I shared a common bond; he was an avid admirer of early Brisbane Colonial architecture and loved his dining experiences at Roseville. I was surprised when Trevor told me that he had been trying unsuccessfully to phone us for days to make a booking for that very evening. As Trevor explained that our phone was either continually engaged or he received a message saying "the number you have called is not connected" he said friends of his at Spring Hill had experienced the same problem since the Sheraton Hotel had opened a few weeks earlier. Evidently the network was incapable of handling the volume of telephone traffic in the Fortitude Valley – Spring Hill network, it was overloaded.
Trevor said he had recently enjoyed a dinner with Ian McLean MP who was also the head of the Telecommunications Union. Ian had confided in him that the Fortitude Valley Exchange was an old Ericson transit Exchange switching traffic to other areas and Exchanges, including the Spring Hill Exchange, it was way past its working life and riddled with problems. Evidently Ian McLean had described how unhappy the Union was with the Government because he said the Government had taken too large a slice of the Telstra revenue, revenue which was needed to upgrade the network from analogue to digital. In the weeks prior to Trevor's visit several of our customers had commented that they had experienced difficulties in contacting us to make a booking, but until Trevor's comments I did not realize how serious the phone problem was.
The whole situation was very odd, odd indeed. The Minister failed to respond to our well documented complaints. The ongoing problems we experienced daily in receiving incoming phone calls and naturally restaurant bookings continued to erode our business viability over the years. I decided that one of my avenues of redress was to lodge an FOI request with Telstra.
Subsequently one of the documents I obtained confirmed the validity of the information Trevor had relayed back in 1983 some nine years earlier, precisely the same information provided by Ian McLean. The document was a Minute authored by Mr George Szylkarski, Supervising Engineer Network Investigations who I had met with in Brisbane in relation to our complaints and those of other Fortitude Valley Telstra customers. The George Szylkarski Minute is dated 11 October 1985, two years after Trevor's comments and nine years prior to his swearing under oath that he was unaware of any other customer of the Fortitude Valley exchange having the same types and frequency of problems as I alleged.
At this point it is important to consider the extraordinary cover-up of the existence of the above mentioned problems as noted in the Szylarski Minute together with the admissions made in the 1999 book "Managing in Australia" by Bob Joss (Westpac) and Frank Blount (former CEO Telstra).
"Telstra's existence in a competition-free environment had allowed the company to prosper with a rash of non-complementary technologies and outdated operating systems. Innovation and future-oriented investments were sorely neglected. Between 1989 and 1991, 27.4 per cent of Telstra's total revenue was spent on telecommunications investments. The OECD average was 32.3 per cent. Telstra's network operated on three different types of technology, the oldest dating back to the 1940s.
The state-of the-art digital network Blount had been promised? Only 28 per cent of the fixed network was digital. Before Blount departed AT&T, 90 per cent of their network was digital. Even if AT&T represented the leading edge in the US across that country's entire network, 53 per cent operated on digital technology.
A patchwork approach had prevailed at Telstra when digital service was introduced. The initial plan was to build a data overlay to "sit on top of " the existing analogue network.
The reality was that this plan created two networks in each exchange trying to integrate data capability within the full network. But that underlying network proved too unstable to support much of the data overlay. As a result, Telstra found that when the data market exploded it couldn't expand to meet the rising data demand.
In June 1996 I lodged a formal complaint with the Commonwealth Attorney General, the Hon Daryl Williams QC in regard to the false evidence sworn in Statutory Declarations by G Szylkarski and five others. Initially Daryl Williams refused to take any action, his office asking me to wait until after the Arbitrator brought down his Award. My immediate response was "Is this some sort of sick joke, that's the very point, the process is a sham" Under extreme sufferance Daryl Williams forwarded my complaint to the Police. Still nothing happened, the lies under oath remained in evidence and the Arbitrator Dr Gordon Hughes brought down his Award on 8 August 1996. One only has to consider the extract from the Arbitrator's Award as noted in the Table in Chapter 7 to ascertain the level of integrity attached to the administration of the Arbitration. Several years later the Police advised me that they could not take any action because "The Criminal Code 1889, S194 False Declarations and statements" as it was in 1994 was flawed at law and subsequently amended by the Queensland Parliament in April 1997. The Police advised me that the amendment was made to the Criminal Code as a result of my complaint to the Attorney General Daryl Williams QC in June 1996.
Back to Roseville Restaurant and the aroma of the delicious Chocolate Soufflé. In addition to the debilitating problems in receiving incoming phone calls, we also observed very strange patterns of interference with our phone lines. It was so bad by 1989 that there was a period when we did not have a phone service for six weeks. Our Restaurant bookings clerk phoned Telstra complaints one Friday afternoon at around four. She was informed by the operator that she was very surprised that it had not been fixed by now and that we should phone the exchange. We were given a number to call.
When the exchange technician answered the call, he said wait a minute, five minutes later he said I have flicked the switch you will be right now. This was just too much to cope with, Harry suffered a Panic Attack, he was so seriously ill, he started convulsing, we called a taxi rather than wait for an ambulance. The Royal Brisbane Hospital admitted him immediately we arrived in Emergency. This was the beginning of the deterioration in Harry's mental health.
Another Telstra Officer said "Customers get in the way of a good business" This was actually said during my meeting at the office of Telstra in Brisbane with no other than George Szylkarski. In May 1990 in addition to the problems, the deliberate sabotage of our phone lines was again obvious, just as we had experienced at Roseville. In desperation I increased our advertising budget by $45,000. Our advertising with Greg Carey and Haydn Sergeant on Radio 4BC was also increased and we had additional TV advertisements produced and on 20 May 1990 we commenced extensive advertising on Channel 9 and Channel 7.
For the next four days we did not receive one phone call. I contacted the Minister and finally late in the afternoon of the fourth day, Telstra was forced to admit that our lines at each end of the MDF in the Fortitude Valley Exchange had been open circuited. A wire had actually been inserted to open the circuits. They also admitted that this had occurred at Pillar DA 38 in Costain Street Fortitude Valley.
On 24 May 1990 Channel 9 informed us that they were inundated with complaints from viewers who could not make phone contact with us. Radio 4BC host John Carey reported innumerable complaints made by our customers to 4BC's hot line indicating their frustrations in not being able to make contact.
Haydn Sargeant contacted me and arranged an outside Broadcast in Queen Street with me to try and assist us. The strange pattern of the deliberate sabotage continued as did the now serious problem of receiving incoming phone calls. Each time we attracted Media over the problem, this infuriated Telstra. Our complaints of poor service and those of many other Fortitude Valley businesses heralded the start of the Government's cover-up of the Fortitude Valley Network problems, the deliberate sabotage of our phone lines and the bugging of our business and personal phone conversations.
The Cartoon on page 85 depicts the eavesdropping on our conversations by Telstra Officers at the Fortitude Valley Exchange, in other words phone hacking, which of course was denied until AUSTEL uncovered the evidence in a secret Report that Telstra had prepared for Freehills and Deloitte in defence of our claim. The evidence contained in the Telstra secret Report, as identified by the Australian Federal Police, confirmed that Telstra had intercepted our business and personal phone conversations for over three years. Telstra listened to the content of the matters we discussed, made notes of the information which they communicated in a Report to Freehills as a defence against our claim.
At the time I thought how absurd, how extraordinary for Senator Alston to publicly disregard the evidence and cause us additional damage because he somehow alleged that Telstra wasn't in the Restaurant Business, when more than anyone else he, Senator Alston was well aware that Telstra had eavesdropped on our conversations and used the information to prepare a secret Report in defence of our claim, for their Lawyers, Freehills. Furthermore Senator Alston had been briefed by the Australian Federal Police about this matter, additionally they provided him with a Brief which contained Telstra's admissions that they had found evidence that our restaurant phone lines had been sabotaged but they could not identify the culprits. He failed to disclose this important evidence.
I brought the matter of the misrepresentations by Mr Bugg to the attention of Prime Minister Howard, Attorney General Williams and Minister Alston. In my submissions I identified at least two factually incorrect assertions by the Director of Public Prosecutions, firstly he had alleged that the phone calls Telstra intercepted and listened to were …failed telephone calls to your business. The second misrepresentations related to Mr Bugg's assertion…The material did not included details of matters discussed in successful telephone calls or identify parties to the telephone conversations".
These calls were not failed calls at all, what absolute rubbish, how on earth could Telstra inform Freehills and Deloitte in the secret report that "All calls were booking tables or seeking work, at no time were there any calls complaining of not being able to contact the Tivoli" if they had not listened to the details of the matters we discussed in successful telephone calls.
No response was received from the Politicians other than to throw their full support behind the factually incorrect assertions proffered by their colleague Mr Bugg. On several occasions other Members of Parliament and Police Officers informed me that there had been enormous Political pressure asserted by the Politicians on the AFP and DPP to cover the matter up. In response I said so what !!! that does not alter the fact that it was covered up.
It is important to note that the letter from the DPP dated 22 March 1995 only refers to the (covert) taping of our phone conversations not that which was conducted for three years through the connection of listening devices, known as Monitoring Amplifiers. When the Senators provided a copy of the letter to me I responded that the reply was misleading in the extreme.
The truth is that the evidence obtained from the connections of monitoring amplifiers for three years, to which I referred to in the Senate Hearing was entirely ignored by the DPP. The Senators including Senator Carr in a subsequent conversation in the Senate said that he was sorry, there was only so much he could do because the Labor Party had skeletons' in the closet to do with my matter. Well! Oh Well! I thought to myself what do I do now, we need to put a bit of flesh on those skeletons! But the question is how?
The Prime Minister Howard and Minister Alston were informed but the skeletons remained in the closet, undisturbed whilst our lives crumbled in front of us. Copies of my letters to Prime Minister Howard, Minister Alston and Attorney General Williams QC including those received from the DPP are referenced and available on the Web Site. This is the extract from Senate Hansard dated 20 November 2002 wherein Telstra's Mr Scales misled the Senate by alleging that we had obtained a copy under the legal discovery process.
"Senator MACKAY – The Sunday program also alleged that Telstra tapped Mrs Garms phone and passed on information regarding her calls to her lawyers – we are not responsible for the Sunday program, we are just asking questions – providing a letter which seems to provide strong evidence that this in fact did occur. Is it true?
Senator MACKAY – Was it or wasn't it?
Mr Scales – Our understanding was that it was part of the discovery process.
Senator MACKAY – And therefore passed on to the Lawyers?
Mr Scales – As the Senator said, it was passed on to Mrs Garms, as well as being part of that discovery process.
Senator MACKAY – No, that was not the question. Was it passed on to the lawyers? The answer is yes, isn't it?
Senator Lundy – Through discovery?
The old saying the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction applies in bucket loads here! Most importantly, it was not until AUSTEL uncovered the existence of the secret Telstra Report on 21 December 1993 that the truth was disclosed. Our complaints for a decade had gone unanswered whilst Rome burnt as they say in the classics. On eleven occasions during the preceding ten years we had advised the Politicians and AUSTEL that we believed Telstra was listening to our phone conversations. Telstra repeatedly denied that any interceptions were occurring on our phone lines. We had also complained that our phone lines were being sabotaged, this was also denied, despite the Politicians being in possession of the evidence provided to them by the Australian Federal Police.
The truth is there was NO discovery by my Lawyers as alleged by Mr Scales, there was in fact no process for legal discovery, only FOI. To add insult to injury I did not have a Lawyer engaged at that time. Mr Scales simply lied to the Senate. Telstra did not provide us with a copy of the Secret Report. The Australian Federal Police noted this fact in their Brief of Evidence supplied to the Politicians. Telstra hid the evidence of their breaches of Privacy and the Law and withheld the Report under the FOI classification "Solicitors Files – LPP, Legal Professional Privilege".
This was a report they did not think would ever see the light of day. The Telstra Manager who prepared the secret Report was the Manager of Small Business Queensland, Mr Grahame Powles. In June 1993 AUSTEL made the finding that I had been misled by Telstra. This was in fact in reference to the conduct of Mr Powles. The same Mr Powles who prepared the secret Report containing information which Telstra obtained by listening to the content of the matters we discussed in our phone conversations over a three year period. Furthermore, it was not until the Australian Federal Police issued a Search Warrant on Deloitte and Freehills that I was able to even sight a copy of the Telstra Report.
The Australian Federal Police were informed on three occasions by the Minister that under no circumstances were they to provide a copy to us. As indicated the Politicians were provided with a copy, and despite our submissions failed to disclose the evidence collected by the AFP.
In fact during the Victoria Police investigation years later it was established that secret Report and associated the documents were not privileged at any time. This is precisely the point the Australian Federal Police Brief also contained Telstra's admissions to the AFP that they had found evidence found evidence to indicate that our telephone service was tampered with but they could not identify a suspect. The Politicians in fact hid the evidence, at no time was it disclosed to us either by the Government or Telstra.
(1) suppressed relevant documents without making a claim for privilege at all.
The Opinion by Ms McNicol makes for very interesting reading in Chapter ten (10) Yes Prime Minister.
In the Memorandum of Advice by Ms Associate Professor Suzanne McNicol wherein it is stated that Telstra "(3) made defective or erroneous claims to privilege and (4) knowingly made false or spurious claims to privilege" this opinion relates to the Australian Government Solicitor's FOI classification that the secret Telstra Report and other documents be withheld under "Solicitors Files – LPP, Legal Professional Privilege" and other erroneous classifications. Furthermore the Commonwealth Ombudsman reported that the Australian Government Solicitor charged $500,000.00 to provide the advice in relation to the processing of the FOI Requests.
During the investigations carried out by the Commonwealth Ombudsman and the Victoria Police Barrister, both parties informed me that over one million dollars was spent on Legal Advice to conceal the relevant important evidence. This is in addition to the thirty-two million dollars of Public Money spent on Legal and Professional advisors by Telstra, the Department of Communications and Attorney General's Department. A complete waste of Public Money which ended in a costly legal battle to cause us irreparable harm, exorbitant legal fees and of course the ultimate strategy to conceal the evidence. This unacceptable strategy was adopted despite the Lawyers and Department Officials allegedly knowing their case was on shaky legal grounds and that Telstra Officials had broken the law, they were intent on blocking access to the relevant documents which supported our case.
All of this was assisted by the Department of Communications Legal Officers and those from the Attorney Generals' Department to "keep the lid" on our case and that of the Endeavour Foundation.
Our current Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP recently endorsed the strategy outlined by the Attorney General, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC in regard to the collection and storage of Metadata.
The Metadata retention issue has been a hot political topic of late. In Chapter 1 the matter of the cover-up of the "bugging" of our business and private telephone conversations is discussed. In accordance with the Prime Minister's own words that the Metadata, i.e. the envelope would not be opened, from my own personal experience I would like to make it known that that is not entirely correct. As you would have gathered from Chapter 1, the evidence in our case establishes that the Envelope was secretly collected and indeed opened by Telstra with the contents distributed to their Lawyers, Accountants and the Ministers without my knowledge. It was disclosed during the Australian Federal Police investigation code named "Operation Oregan" and the Commonwealth Ombudsman's investigation that the content of the said Envelope was covertly distributed on five occasions by Telstra. It goes without saying that there was no transparency nor accountability and in fact a profound breach of privacy, intellectual property, confidence and trust.
The following Cartoon will give you some clues as to the extent of the cover-up by the Government to avoid charges being laid against Telstra. This is based on information provided by ex Public Officials and investigating Police Officers.


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The British Union Jack Flag as it appeared in the late 18th century over Detroit.
The El Moore, a historic apartment building erected in 1898 and located on the corner of 2nd Avenue and West Alexandrine, is a sustainable urban living reconstruction project slated to open in the spring of 2015. The El Moore itself is a story of Detroit; one of many stories about our city, from the past and up to today. This blog post, part of a series called "The Voices of Detroit", relates how the 18th- and 19th-century European control of this area, first by the French, and then by the British, shaped the City as we know it today.
During the 2nd half of the 18th century, the French and the British were battling for control of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. The British were in control of the area now known as New England, and the French controlled areas in southern and eastern Canada, and present-day Pennsylvania and Ohio, from the Niagara River to the Ohio River. In 1759, the British overtook Fort Niagara, which in turn forced the French to relinquish all fortified posts east of Fort Ponchartrain in Detroit. Seeking to fortify their hold over the Detroit area, the Canadian governor offered free tools, free land, and free livestock to anyone who volunteered to relocate to Detroit and settle here.
The Canadian governor's plan did not go well, however, as many of the settlers sold their free incentives and moved back to Quebec. Meanwhile, members of the Iroquois and Wyandott First Nations aligned themselves with the British and attacked the French soldiers and Canadian settlers. In September 1759, the British captured Quebec, and on September 8, 1760, the British takeover of this area was complete with the capture of Montreal and the resulting Articles of Capitulation that required all French holdings turned over to the British, ending French control of Detroit. The last French commander of Fort Ponchartrain was Jean Francois Hamtramck.
By 1779, soon after the founding of the United States of America in 1776, the British built another fort, first named Fort Lernoult after the commander of the fort, Richard Lernoult, but the British ceded its control to the United States as part of the Jay Treaty of 1796.
The "Star-Spangled Banner" U.S. Flag: 1795 – 1818
Between 1796 and 1826, control of Detroit went back and forth between the British and the Americans four times. Fort Lernoult was renamed Fort Detroit in 1805 by then-Secretary of War Henry Dearborn; the fort was surrendered to the British by Michigan Territory Governor William Hull in 1812; it was recaptured by the Americans in 1813 during the War of 1812 and renamed Fort Shelby.
The 24-star U.S. Flag (1822-1836)
Fort Shelby was given to the City of Detroit by the British in 1826, and finally dismantled in 1827.
Recognizable names of current Detroit streets and cities in the metropolitan Detroit area include: Iroquois, Wyandott(e), Dearborn, Hamtramck, and of course Shelby—a street still in downtown Detroit near the Detroit River and Cobo Hall.
The boundaries of Fort Shelby superimposed over present day streets in downtown Detroit.
The center point of Fort Shelby was located where Fort Street and Shelby Street exist today in downtown Detroit. The boundaries of Fort Shelby are now known as Michigan Avenue, Griswold Street, W. Congress Street, and Cass Avenue. In 1961, during the construction of the Detroit Bank & Trust Building (now Comerica Bank), a wooden post from the fort was discovered, as were over 8,000 artifacts that are now housed at the Anthropology Museum at Wayne State University.
The area that was once Fort Shelby is now occupied by the Theodore Levin United States Courthouse, part of the Penobscot Building, and part of the former Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Detroit Branch.


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Mohammed Kudus expressed his excitement after finally making his debut for Ajax Amsterdam on Tuesday afternoon.
The Ghana winger excelled as Ajax recorded their first win in a preseason friendly against Wolfsberger in a 2-0.
The 19-year-old who was a second-half subtitle made an instant impact at his new club when he played a part in the build-up to the second goal.
Speaking to Ajax TV, the former Right to Dream Academy graduate expressed his joy after finally making his long-awaited bow for the club and said he has much more to offer when the season starts.
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The earthquake that struck southern Iran on 26 December 2003 killed more than 30,000 people and left the ancient Silk Road town of Bam in rubble. The dead cannot be brought back, but the town can be rebuilt. Yet, according to an Iranian-born architect living in the United States, international aid agencies and the government of Iran are going about the reconstruction process in the wrong way. He says he has developed a new construction method that is not only resistant to earthquakes but is also consistent with the indigenous architecture of the Middle East.
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A big-assed post about Fireworks
This is a post about Fireworks. Not about Photoshop, Illustrator and which is 'best'. This is about a frustrated love hate relationship.
I love Fireworks.
It's been my tool of choice for a rather long time. In the previous year of working for Opera, I've used it more than any other app. Whether I've been working on interactive wireframes, UI mockups, icons or final production artwork, Fireworks is the one that I go to.
When people ask why I don't use Illustrator or Photoshop I sometimes find it hard to articulate precisely why. Illustrator is undoubtedly best for print/high-res illustrations and logos, while Photoshop is the first choice for manipulating photos, especially for print. Each have some tools from the other, but neither is intended for creating screen graphics with vector and bitmap tools in the way that Fireworks is.
It loves pixels. Photoshop and Illustrator only 'do' pixels when they're coerced, and by golly do they take persuasion sometimes. For example, in Illustrator, why does a 1 pixel stroke on a pixel perfect box, placed on pixel perfect co-ordinates have sub-pixels on the top edge? Why do I have to make the stroke 0.9px instead of 1px just to get a crisp 1px edge?
This is surely the most basic of things to get right? Photoshop can do vectors and some of what Fireworks can – it just makes it harder to do it.
What's so great about Fireworks…
Pixel-snapping vector tools aside, it's most useful feature (that still isn't present in anything else I've tried) is multiple Pages and States. Why have 45 separate files for a set of icons, when I can have one file that will export to 45 individual files? Let's say all these icons have the same background, like a typical OS X toolbar button, and you notice a glitch. To update all those files would be tedious, but because it's in Fireworks on a shared layer (or Master Page) one update is all that is needed. Master Pages in particular come in handy with site designs, as each page can be a different size and canvas colour.
Here's a sample working file of Opera Unite icons:
It contains five different pages (one for each pixel resolution) and 10 icons per page, each on a different 'state'. 50 icons, one file, one export. I've attempted replicating this functionality with layers, layer comps and multiple artboards, but they don't come close.
Every time I've worked on wireframes and mockups, I've felt blessed that I've got symbols. Anyone that's used Flash will know what a symbol library is, but for those that haven't, think of them like this: Reusable content. Take the example of a form button in a site design. I can create a button symbol, specify how that graphic can be resized (with 9 slice guides), and place it anywhere in my document. Again, updating and editing is a do-once, update every instance affair.
It's not all roses though.
I also hate Fireworks.
With a growing passion. With each update we get more tools and features that I care nothing for – Adobe Air, Bridge and Flex integration and CSS export. Worst of all it's become remarkably unstable, particularly under Snow Leopard. It crashes, even when you don't look at it funny.
I use it because it's the best there is, but there are a lot of holes that need filling for me:
Auto-activating fonts. Whether this is down to Adobe or the developers of Font Managers I'm not sure. To get a newly activated font to show up, you need to restart Fireworks
Export to Illustrator. Yes, this option exists, but it ignores gradients, transparency effects, and just about everything but the paths themselves. When I know that the artwork will be needed beyond screen use, I work in Illustrator from the outset, but there isn't always that fore-warning.
Placing items outside the canvas. A pasteboard area to place surplus artwork would make life a lot easier, and stop the 'resizing the canvas cuts overlapping artwork' pain.
It's taken to CS4 to get palettes that scroll with a scrollwheel, and even now, they don't ALL do it
In CS4, when using the 'application frame' you need to click inside the active document before commands like zoom work, otherwise it does nothing.
I really could go on, but there are also more general problems with the Adobe Creative suite:
Expensive – not two ways about it, it costs a few bob, and it often feels like better performance/bug fixes have to be paid for. I upgraded to CS3, solely to have a suite that worked properly on an Intel Mac. It now feels like those CS2 days are here again with Snow Leopard.
Bloated in feel: both with sluggish performance and barrel loads of features you never use. This can of course be entirely psychological.
Keyboard shortcuts deviate from the OS X standard, and from each other. Command-H should always Hide the application, Command-1 should always show the the document at 100%.
Installation: To reinstall CS4 recently took an hour, during which it also wants to take a big smelly dump in your Applications folder: Adobe Media Player, Adobe Drive, Adobe Bridge, Version Cue… STOP! Also – why make me close all my browsers?
Licensing/activation process. I know this is an anti-piracy measure, but it actually makes a cracked version more appealing.
Updating: Do I need to say anything here? It's a dark land far, far away from the ease of Sparkle, where even the updater needs to update itself.
Then there are those glitches with artefacts which have been creeping into Fireworks of late too. Blobs of pixels that aren't really there, but show up because the screen hasn't been redrawn correctly. Cumulative wasted hours trying to get rid of artwork that is a phantom.
Compare these gripes with an app like Opacity. It downloads quickly, you open it and it asks you if you want to place it inside the Applications folder – done! That's installation. As for updating, it self-updates and lets you know what's been changed. The least amount of friction, and you're left with the feeling of being in control of what you've installed.
Now, at this point, I need to confess that I'm the worlds worst beta tester. I've been on Fireworks beta programmes before, but haven't had much time to give feedback or bug reports. So it's a bit rich of me to be whining on my blog when this is all feedback that should've been submitted.
The problem is, after submitting the 20th crash report of the day, I've lost faith that anyone ever sees them or acts upon them. Overall, it feels like Fireworks is at the point of no return – no hope of it ever being fixed or improved, only that it will get more bloated, buggy, non-native and expensive. A stable version will no doubt come, but we will have to pay for it in the form of CS5. Maybe it's not the Fireworks team that's the problem here, maybe it's higher up at Adobe? Maybe it's just my setup? I can't tell.
The bottom line is: Fireworks was my favourite, cherished tool, and it's unreliability and issues mean my daily workflow is badly disrupted.
So, my thoughts turn to competitors. I'm not the only one, others are fed up with Fireworks and are looking for something to use instead. John Gruber, using the analogy of Filemaker's Bento app, hits the nail on the head:
Adobe shouldn't scrap its existing software any more than FileMaker Inc. should scrap FileMaker. But where's Adobe's "Bento" for bitmap and vector image editing for the Mac? The Bentos in this space are coming from indie developers with apps like Acorn, Pixelmator, Lineform, and Opacity."
For such a long time, there haven't been any alternatives. Various apps have been born that compete with other Adobe Suite apps, like Lineform and VectorDesigner with Illustrator, and Pixelmator and Acorn with Photoshop. Nothing for Fireworks, and yet the need for screen graphics is surely growing daily? Not only with websites, but desktop software and mobile apps.
In the meantime, Twitter clients have become ten a penny and Omnigraffle has matured to become a truly great tool for multi-page wireframes.
Recently however, three potential alternative apps have surfaced: Drawit, Acorn 2 and Opacity. I'm going to be putting these apps through their paces, to see if they can be potential alternatives. That's for another time though, as this post has gone on long enough!
However, initial trials are showing Opacity as the most thoroughly feature-filled contender, but with Acorn sporting undoubtedly the most thoughtful interface. Acorn also has the advantage in that it's developer, Gus Mueller, is actively seeking feedback on how it can be more of a Fireworks competitor. Drawit also has a pleasing UI, but with some issues on rendering.
I'll report back on these when I can!
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Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose largerthan life personality was tougher and more sharpedged than his worshipping fans ever knew. An extravagant life and armstrongs own indispensable satchmo, pops provides significant insights, but its unabashedly fawning tone and lack of spark prevent it from being definitive. Pops, terry teachouts biography of louis armstrong does that. The book is opening a new world to me of a long gone era, and the number one creative force who not only shaped jazz, but has influenced all of the music we have today. When you got to ask what it is, you never get to know. A life of louis armstrong new york journal of books. It is impossible to imagine what the music of today would sound like without louis armstrong s magic. A life of louis armstrong houghton mifflin harcourt, 2009. Terry teachout has written an amazing biography of new orleans native son louis armstrong. I am pleased to have received it with so little hassle. Dec 17, 2009 teachout delivers an entertaining yet factually rigid biography of louis armstrong, putting the past controversies in perspective, and codifying his life into a fairly straightforward whole. Louis armstrongs museum has gone silent, but pops is.
Louis armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern american culture. Certain to be the definitive word on armstrong for our generation, pops paints a gripping portrait of the man, his world, and his music that will stand alongside gary giddinss bing crosby and peter guralnick s last train to memphis as a classic biography of a major american musician. A life of louis armstrong louis armstrong was both a great artist and a popular success. Terry teachout draws on previously unavailable sources, including hundreds of private recordings made throughout the second half of the jazz masters life, to assess his artistic achievements and personal life. Check out other translated books in french, spanish languages. A beloved entertainer who was more complexand much tougherthan his. King of jazz famous african americans if i only had a horn. A virtue of teachouts fine book is to place armstrong s. Pops isnt just a good biography of louis armstrongs full and varied life. Louis armstrong is one of the most writtenabout musicians in history.
Satchmo the wonderful world and art of louis armstrong by steven brower 256 pp. An extravagant life new york times notable book for 1997 in anyones library. Pops by terry teachout houghton mifflin harcourt 512 pp. Pops a life of louis armstrong welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the pops a life of louis armstrong, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Armstrong s contributions to jazz, pop culture, and breaking the color barrier are well told in a crisp, clean prose. My hobby is to pick out the different things during what i read and piece them together and make a. Louis armstrong, in his own words jazz icon louis armstrong didnt just leave behind a treasure trove of musical recordings. Terry teachout discusses his biography of jazz musician louis armstrong and his impact on the world. A life of louis armstrong by reading guidebook club. Drawing on newly available primary sources, he weaves together a biography that is both illuminating and inspirational. A life of louis armstrong by terry teachout librarything.
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Account of a Tour of the California Missions, 1856. The Journal & Drawings of Henry Miller
San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1952. First Edition Limited to 375 copies. 4to. (8), 59, (1) pp. 19 reproductions of pencil sketches the author drew during a the summer of 1856 while visiting the California missions. Vellum backed patterned paper covered boards;.....	More
Old Carmel in Rare Photographs by L.S. Slevin (INSCRIBED)
Lawrence, Sharon and Kathryn Prine
Carmel, CA: Published by the author, 1995. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Sharon Lawrence and Kathryn Prine. 4to. 55 pp. Photo-illustrations of early Carmel.Publisher's photo-illustrated wrappers. Small previous owner initials & number on first page else a fine copy. Louis S. Slevin was the first photographer to shoot a full range..... More
California: The Land of the Sun (INSCRIBED)
Austin, Mary; Sutton Palmer
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. INSCRIBED "Los dias del sol dilaten del Alma. May we prove it true is the wish of Mary Austin, July - 1915". Large 8vo. 178 pp. Fold-out map of California at rear. 32 tipped-in color plates (including frontispiece) with titled tissue guards.....	More
Joaquin Murrieta And His Horse Gangs
Santa Cruz, CA: Bear State Books, 1980. First Edition. Small 4to. 685 pp. Index. Color frontispiece portrait of Murrieta; black & white photo-reproductions; maps; drawings by Joe Rodriquez. Tan cloth with gilt illustration to front cover and gilt lettering to spine; illustrated endpapers. A fine copy, as new. Biography of..... More
Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and their Most Famous Recipes; the Elegant Art of Dining
Edwords, Clarence E.
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1914. First Edition. 8vo. 138 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with black lettering; gilt and black image on front cover. Minor wear else a fine copy. "This book tells of the old San Francisco and of the new: of the quaint, the queer and the fascinating peoples..... More
California Idylls and Other Poems (INSCRIBED to Rev. Father Mestres)
Sexton, Ella May
San Francisco: 1920. First Edition. INSCRIBED "For Rev. Father Mestres, trusting he may care to read my Father Serra * Mission poesm, and appreciating his own tireless endeavor in historic lines. Ella M. Sexton, September Eighteenth, '24". Father Raymundi M. Mestres was a Monsignor who served for thirty-seven years at.....	More
San Francisco Adventures (INSCRIBED)
Dobie, Charles Caldwell
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. First Edition. INSCRIBED "This book is inscribed for Clio Lee ?, by her friend, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Fresno, February 20 1938". 8vo. 228 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering in publisher's illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (minor fading to spine; wear.....	More
From Cowhides to Golden Fleece; A Narrative of California, 1832-1858
Underhill, Reuben L.
Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Libraries, 1939. First Edition. 8vo. 273 pp. Bibliography; Index. Illustrations. Orange cloth in publisher's illustrated dustjacket; illustrated endpapers. Fine in near fine dustjacket (minor wera to extremities). The story of Thomas O. Larkin, California's only United States Consul. Based upon Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Oliver..... More
The Seacoast of Bohemia: A New and Enlarged Edition of the Classic Account of Early Carmel, California
Walker, Franklin
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1973. First Edition. 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photo-illustrations. Half red cloth spine over cream cloth boards in photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The classic account of the artistic & literary period in Carmel centering on the years between 1905-1914; much..... More
California Fairy Tales
Shannon, Monica
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928. 8vo. 298 pp. 4 color plates; black & white illustrations. Illustrated by E. C. Millard. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black; illustrated endpapers. Light spotting and soiling; else a near fine copy. First published in 1926; the author's first book includes charming tales from..... More
Mc's Stage Line (INSCRIBED)
McIntosh, George R.; Lillian McIntosh (editor)
Privately Printed, 1972. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To ***, George R. McIntosh". 8vo. 233 pp. Photo-reproductions. Illustrated by Lyle Morris and Ernest L. Morris. Tan illustrated wrappers in fine condition. Personal memoir and history of the McIntosh brothers' stage line and its operations in Monterey County, California during the late nineteenth..... More
Inside The Los Angeles Chinatown
Lui, Garding
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1948. First Edition. 8vo. 207 pp. Single-page map of Chinatown; illustrations. Publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Fading & light spotting to spine else a fine copy. In Garding Lui's 1948" Inside Los Angeles Chinatown", he explores the vast history of LA's Chinatown and the city's..... More
Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joaquin Murrietta: His Exploits in the State of California
Belle, Frances; Ireneo Paz
Chicago: Charles T. Powner Co., 1937. Second printing. 8vo. 174 pp. Translated from the Spanish of Ireneo Paz. Rust color cloth in tan and brown illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, in as new condition. The biography of one of the most infamous bandits in the history of the Old West..... More
Maps of the Pueblo Lands of San Diego 1602 - 1874 (SIGNED)
Harlow, Neal.
Los Angeles: Dawson's book Shop, 1987. First Edition Limited to 375 numbered copies, this being #59. SIGNED by the author. Small folio. xv, 244 pp. Bibliography; Index. Reproductions of maps. Printed by the Castle Press. Blue cloth spine over illustrated paper covered boards. Slight splaying of boards; small white mark.....	More
Dances of Early California Days
Czarnowski, Lucile K
Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1950. First Edition. 4to. 159 pp. Bibliography. Illustrations of music chords, dance forms, and costumes. Green cloth in color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy, as new. "By going direct to the old timers who still remembered the original dances of early California days and their music..... More
Yosemite (Carte/Map)
Mora, Jo J.
Monterey, CA: Del Monte Property Co., 1941. First Color Printing. Color pictographic map. Image size 17 3/4" x 13 7/8". Light creasing; small stains along right edge not affecting the image; colors are strong and bright. A nice copy of the uncommon first color printing. Jo Mora's first Yosemite carte..... More
Californology (Knowledge of California.): A Compilation of More Than Fifteen Hundred Spanish, Indian, and Unusual Names Found On The Maps of California. Together with Information Concerning their Meaning, Pronunciation and History.
Lloyd, Elwood IV
Hollywood: Hartwell Publishing Corporation, 1930. First Edition. 12mo; 55pp including 'Foreword,' 'Brief Guide to Pronunciation of Spanish Names' and 'A Word of Thanks.' Scarce publication in fine condition (previous owner name).	More
A History of Merced County California; With a Biographical Review of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who have been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present
Outcalt, John
Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1925. First Edition. Small 4to. 913 pp. Photo-illustrated plates of portraits and views. Three-quarter black morocco over green cloth boards; marbled endpapers. A near fine copy of an uncommon county history (light scuffing at spine ends). A history of Merced County from pre-statehood days, the..... More
The Famous Abalone Songs of Old Monterey
Howard, Don
Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1975. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Jean, from Vera Stokes, Pop Ernest's Daughter!" 8vo. 78 pp. Illustrations. Handwritten note tipped to front free endpaper explaining that the illustrations are after original drawings in the Pop Ernest restaurant, the first commercial business on Monterey's Fisherman's Wharf. Of.....	More
Big Sur Archaeology (INSCRIBED)
Howard, Donald M
Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1976. INSCRIBED by the author. 8vo. 96 pp. Illustrations; maps. Black & white illustrated softcover in near fine condition.	More
California's Lost Fortress The Royal Presidio of Monterey
Howard, Donald M.
Carmel, CA: Antiquities Research Publications, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 103 pp. Illustrations; plans; maps. Black & white illustrated softcover in near fine condition (previous owner name; light wear.	More


Boarding School – Sunday outings – Counsellors in Exeter – Jane Barclay ukcp reg.
Using a birthday-present voucher for Afternoon Tea in a Devon 'country house hotel' activates memories of precious but fraught Sunday outings. The need to 'look nice', the urge to eat as much as possible but without looking greedy, what to talk about… Log fires, oak-panelled hallways, sumptuous sofas – luxuriously comfortable yet NOT HOME. Breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea – and then back to school feeling full yet empty.


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As children's reading ability improves, they may want to read aloud with us, starting off with just saying a word or two that they recognize. Even children who cannot read at all can sometimes read along, either because you have read them the book so many times that they have memorized many of the sentences or because in a predictable book, certain phrases or sentences are repeated many times.
With picture books, another way to involve children in reading along is to use the pictures. For example, the sentence "Look at those puppets" appears accompanied by pictures of hand puppets in the book My Speech & Drama Class. Instead of reading the entire sentence, we can read only, "Look at those _______" and encourage children to use the drawings to fill in "puppets". Or, children can just name what they see in the pictures.
Later, children can use picture books to create their own stories. If those stories are different from what is in the book – a little or a lot different – that is okay. Also, when we are not reading to them, children may take books and 'read' them on their own, without us around. This reading play is an early stage in developing a silent reading habit. As children's reading ability improves, they can read the words they know and leave the other words to us.
When George's niece Crystal learned how to read, she still wanted him to read to her, and refused his invitations to take turns reading aloud, even when they were reading a book that was within her ability range. Instead, she read along silently as George read aloud, quickly pointing out any errors he made. However, Crystal's Elementary 1 teacher reported seeing Crystal reading aloud to her classmates!
Older children may enjoy round-robin reading aloud. For example, when one of George's nephews, Hank, was 9-years-old, they would take turns reading from books that Hank choose. The read aloud fiesta became multi-generational when Hank's grandmother joined in.


Artists In Residence RIAS Studio presented A Product of Sand, an exhibition and participatory programming experimenting with site-specific glass.
2016 winners of an 'Art Space Is Your Space' residency award, Sam Ihrig and Anna Riley, also known as RIAS Studio, were at Wave Pool for the month of May 2016. While in Cincinnati, RIAS Studio experimented with creating site-specific glass using raw materials, which will be harvested locally and regionally, to explore the intimacy between maker and material, material and place.
An exhibition featuring works related to this project opened on May 14th from 7-10pm at Wave Pool Gallery and will continue to evolve throughout the month of their residency with Wave Pool. They also hosted a two day workshop on May 22nd and 23rd where community participants used local Cincinnati materials to create glass, creating unique formulas together in the studio. Additionally, RIAS Studio worked with teenagers from Heartfelt Tidbits to create unique glass recipes. Each participant was able to keep their particular Ohio glass.
RIAS Studio (Research Institute of Analogue Sampling) is a collaboration between artists Sam Ihrig and Anna Riley, both currently living in New York, NY. Their practice is driven by material inquiry, in particular through the material's geological and botanical origins. In recent months their research has led them from coasts to quarries, harvesting raw ingredients from the earth to manufacture site-specific glass recipes.
Sam Ihrig, Portland-native, studied Industrial Design at the California College of the Arts. Anna Riley, born in Birmingham, Alabama, studied Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design. After moving to New York they formed RIAS Studio, a collaborative practice emerging from a strong desire for material intimacy. Their current project explores the origins and production of glass.


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NZ Endurance title to be decided at Highlands
National Championship, News
Bragging rights and national titles are at stake when Highlands hosts some of the fastest cars in the country at the 2018/19 Carters Tyre Service New Zealand Endurance Championship (NZEC) on Saturday, November 24.
The top 20 cars from the North and South Island Endurance Series' have been invited to compete in the 'winner takes all' finale.
"There's a massive rivalry between the two series and bragging rights are very important," says Chris Dunn, the Series Coordinator for the South Island Endurance Race Drivers Club (SIERDC). "As well as deciding a national champion for the 1-hour and 3-hour events, there's also a North v South trophy up for grabs at Highlands."
It's the first in a five-year deal between one of the country's most popular motorsport categories and one of the most popular venues. Highlands will host the New Zealand Endurance Championship event or the South Island Endurance Series finale until 2023.
"We've spent the last five years hosting the Australian GT Championship in November and in that time we've seen a real explosion in endurance racing in New Zealand," says Highlands Chief Operating Officer, Josie Spillane. "We're excited about hosting the best Kiwi drivers, teams and cars and the team at Highlands look forward to showcasing our facilities, the world-class track and our renowned Central Otago hospitality."
Among the favourites to take out the NZEC will be Neil Foster who won the SIES 3-hour championship and Simon Evans, the winner of the ENEOS North Island Endurance Championship. Highlands owner Tony Quinn is also a likely starter despite a controversial disqualification at Teretonga in September.
Quinn and his co-driver Damon Leitch (a professional driver at Highlands) won the race but as Damon was returning to the pits after the race he helped his brother Brendon restart his car after it had stalled just short of the finish line. Leitch and Quinn were disqualified but Chris Dunn is confident that Quinn will be on the starting grid. "We've had some of the cars who finished in the top 20 pull out of the event at Highlands so I'm sure we'll see Tony and his Aston Martin in action at Highlands."
This year's finale will be the first time the Cromwell circuit has hosted the finale. Previously, the NZEC decider has been held at Pukekohe Park, Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon and Mike Pero Motorsport Park in Christchurch.
"The SIERDC raced at the very first meeting at Highlands in 2013 when Shane van Gisbergen won a dramatic victory," says Dunn. "He came from two laps down or something ridiculous and I remember he had the car on two wheels through the corners and drove the pants off it to win the race. We haven't been back to Highlands since so we're excited about this event."
"t's a beautiful venue in a beautiful part of the world and the drivers and teams are really looking forward to racing on the track. We have four classes in the 1-hour and five classes in the 3-hour so you don't have to have the fastest or most expensive car in the field to come home with some silverware."
The South Island series has been running since the early 1980s but the first New Zealand Endurance Championship was held in 2015. It alternates between a North Island and a South Island venue every year and the standardised rules between the two series has proven to be a real boost for the category.
"It's really helped endurance racing in New Zealand," says Dunn. "It's an incredibly popular event with drivers. We had a waiting list for the 1-hour event at all our rounds this year and we've had near capacity grids. We've got GT3 cars racing with us, V8 Supercars and V8 Supertourers. Then we've got hot rods that have been built by guys in their sheds at home that can beat some of the factory cars. It's just a really open formula which allows for some freedom of expression in the cars and makes for some incredible racing. It's a really strong formula at the moment which is very positive for the sport in this country."
Tickets are on sale now and the $30 fee includes entry into the Highland Motorsport Museum (level one), access to the pits and the iconic Highlands grid walk before the main event. Youths under 16 get in free with a paying adult. It promises to be a great weekend of motorsport action in Cromwell with the Highlands Sprint Series, a celebration of grassroots racing, taking place on Sunday, November 25.
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NASA delays new astronaut class reveal until 2021 due to COVID-19 travel restrictions
HOUSTON, Texas -- Months after closing the application, NASA says it will not announce its new class of astronauts for another year, all thanks to COVID-19.
Because of coronavirus travel restrictions, NASA had to adjust the timeline for new astronaut interviews.
Due to delays, NASA does not expect to announce the new class for another year, aiming for October or November of 2021.
More than 12,000 people applied to be an astronaut between March 2 and March 31, 2020.
NASA noted the new timeline is subject to change based on the number of applicants.
Here's a look at the updated timeline:
April - July 2020 - Qualified Applications reviewed to determine Highly Qualified applicants.
August 2020 - Qualifications Inquiry form may be sent to References of Highly Qualified applicants.
October - December 2020 - Highly Qualified applications reviewed to determine Interviewees.
February - April 2021 - Round 1 Interviewees brought to Johnson Space Center for initial interview and activities. Interviewees will be selected from the Highly Qualified group.
June - July 2021 - Round 2 Interviewees brought to Johnson Space Center for additional interview and activities.
September 2021 - Round 3 Interviewees brought to Johnson Space Center for additional activities.
October/November 2021 - Astronaut Candidate Class of 2021 announced.
December 2021 - Astronaut Candidate Class of 2021 reports to the Johnson Space Center.
Requirements to apply to be an astronaut include a U.S. citizenship and a master's degree in one of the "STEM" fields, which are science, technology, engineering or math.
The master's degree requirement can be met in several other ways.
Candidates must pass NASA's long-duration spaceflight physical.
When applications opened four years ago, NASA got over 18,000 applications.
NASA is hoping the new class of astronauts will include sending the first woman and next man to the moon with the Artemis program. They hope sending astronauts to the moon will help prepare for a future Mars mission.
The video above is from previous reporting.
NASA drops 'insensitive' nicknames including 'Eskimo Nebula'
NASA says they will no longer use nicknames of celestial bodies that are culturally insensitive.
NASA releases closest-ever, 'unprecedented' images of the sun from Solar Orbiter
Video provided by the European Space Agency shows the Solar Orbiter's planned path as it studies the sun and nearby planets.
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El Valle (The Valley, en inglés) es la capital del Territorio Británico de Ultramar de Anguila. Localizada en el centro de la isla de Anguila, a 18º 13' latitud norte y 63º 03' longitud oeste, posee una población de 830 habitantes (2003 est.).

La ciudad posee pocos lugares con estilo de arquitectura colonial, debido al traslado de la administración de Anguila a San Cristóbal y Nieves en 1825. Uno de estos lugares es el Wallblake House, edificado en 1787, aún en pie y usado como casa parroquial de la iglesia.

Véase también
Mar Caribe
Antillas Menores

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Localidades de Anguila
Capitales del Caribe
Capitales británicas

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