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Meet Your Ranger: Thomas Foster
Hometown: Williamsburg, Virginia
Education: B.A. in American History, University of North Carolina
Position in our Outer Banks national parks: I work in the Administrative Division as our Property Management Technician overseeing the parks' property, fleet, and housing programs.
Where you can be found: Park Headquarters, Manteo
Other national parks you have worked at: I've bounced around our three Outer Banks national parks in various positions over the last seven years working at Oregon Inlet Campground, Wright Brothers National Memorial Entrance Station, Bodie Island Lighthouse, Bodie Island Off Road Vehicle Permit Office, and even Human Resources at Headquarters.
Ranger Thomas with the "Flat Stanley" character at the top of the Bodie Island Lighthouse.
Currently reading/watching/listening to: Elmo. My almost-two-year-old son Bennett is the biggest fan of this accomplished actor, singer, and songwriter. Therefore, I simply cannot go a day with reading out loud or watching his finest works.
What do you like to do in your free time? I enjoy spending time with my family and being outside. Whether it's driving on the beach, offshore fishing, surfing, kayaking, or just working in the yard, it's nice to be in the great outdoors.
Ranger Thomas with his B.A.R.K Ranger, Jackson, on the boardwalk in front of the Bodie Island Lighthouse.
What do you like most about the Outer Banks? It's an incredible place with a unique culture and history. With a local population in the tens of thousands and visitation in the millions annually, it somehow maintains a small town feel where everybody knows everybody.
What inspired you to follow this career path? I left college with a four-year history degree, a two-year business degree, and a minor in marine science. I didn't know what to do with those, or how these three different disciplines could ever be used together. Then about a year later it became obvious, Cape Hatteras: The nation's first national seashore. It has centuries of history, miles of beaches, and it's all managed by a large, well-known organization.
What does a typical workday or work week look like for you? While a lot of my work these days involves looking at spreadsheets and emails, it's far from monotonous. I spend a lot of time resolving tenant issues with the parks' 36 houses and 20 recreational vehicle sites that we offer to our staff and volunteers. Likewise, we have a fleet of nearly 100 highway vehicles from sedans to dump trucks. Keeping up with maintenance, damage, recalls, replacements, and corrosion is a full-time job.
What do you enjoy most about working in our Outer Banks national parks?
The job diversity in this organization is incredible. If there's a career you want, the National Park Service probably has a version of it. I've always felt empowered here to learn a new skill or help a coworker with their job. Because of that, I've gotten to do things like band pelicans on remote islands, give interpretive talks, instruct off-road vehicle driving, participate in federal disaster recovery efforts, and help our law enforcement rangers with scenario-based training.
I've always had family in the area, and I spent much of my childhood here, so I enjoy being able to share my firsthand experiences of things like watching the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse move in 1999, attending the Wright Brothers Centennial in 2003, or witnessing the damage caused by any of the big hurricanes (Isabel, Irene, Matthew, Dorian).
The Outer Banks is a significant geological, environmental, and historical area. Much of the nation's history can be connected directly to this ribbon of sand. But it's also just a really nice place to spend the summer. Without the National Park Service, the area might be more developed, have less public access, and perhaps fewer historic structures remaining.
While a typical visitor is likely to only have brief contact with a ranger at a visitor center or campground, there are a lot of people working behind the scenes to make sure everyone has a great visit. Equipment gets purchased, utility bills get paid, a small army of seasonal workers are hired and trained each summer, agreements are written with other organizations, and a staggering number of laws, regulations, and policies are followed in order to maintain the public trust.
Also, did you know the Outer Banks national parks have been on the forefront of electric vehicle technology for years?
Since 2017, the parks have had an electric vehicle. In 2021, Wright Brothers National Memorial showcased CASSI, an electric autonomous shuttle which drove visitors around the park. In 2022, the parks received two out of six electric pickup trucks they have on order. Not to mention all the electric leaf blowers, string trimmers, UTV's, even an electric riding lawn mower which all really help to reduce unwanted noise around the parks.


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South Pacific Division History
Corps of Engineers History
South Pacific Division Leaders
Albuquerque District
4101 Jefferson Plaza NE
Los Angeles District
915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1101
Sacramento District
1325 J Street -- Room 1513
San Francisco District
450 Golden Gate Ave.
South Pacific Division Mission
Deliver vital engineering solutions throughout the Pacific Southwest, in collaboration with our partners, to secure our Nation, energize our economy and reduce risk from disaster.
South Pacific Division: Cornerstone of the Southwest
Established in 1888, the South Pacific Division is one of the Corps' nine regions nationwide.
Four operating Districts, headquartered in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and Albuquerque, provide federal and military engineering support in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and in parts of Colorado, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming and Texas.
The civil works program is oriented around major regional watersheds and leverages federal resources for navigation, flood damage reduction and ecosystem restoration. Major river basins include the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Ana, Colorado and Rio Grande, which are governed by complex water rights. Water resources are vital to agriculture, urban development, natural ecosystems, Tribal interests, and recreation.
There are more than 300 threatened and endangered species in the region. We issue regulatory permits under the Clean Water Act for development in the nation's waters and wetlands, balancing environmental stewardship with the need for economic and urban growth. The Corps works in partnership with other federal agencies, state governments and local communities on collaborative solutions to these complex water resource issues.
10 States (5 Shared with Other Regions)
California – One of the World's 10 Largest Economies
15 of 25 Fastest Growing U.S. Metropolitan Areas
2,286 miles of Federal Levees
46 Dams & Reservoirs
5 Strategic Ports
Less than 20 inches Annual Precipitation; Prone to Flood / Drought Cycles
30 Recreational Areas; 15.7 M Visits Annually
300 of 1,200 Threatened / Endangered Species
4 EPA Regions (6, 8, 9, 10)
4 FEMA Regions (6, 8, 9, 10)
4 VA Integrated Service Networks (18, 19, 21, 22)
3 U.S. FWS Service Regions (1, 2, 6)
1 National Marine Fisheries Office
13 Army & 12 Air Force Installations / Programs
170 Native American Nations
10 State Delegations
81 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives
20 U.S. Senators

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Video overlay is a technique of displaying a video information on a screen that's already displaying some image or a video. This technique is usually used in OSDs (on-screen display).
To display anything over an existing video signal you would need an IC that is built just for that purpose, such as teletext chips that display teletext info on a TV or even MAX7456 OSD chip. In this project, only ATmega8 is used to generate data and mix it with the existing video signal. Along with microcontroller there is also an LM1881 circuit that is used to extract timing information (sync) from the original video signal. This additional IC simplified the firmware in microcontroller.
Similar project but without the LM1881 can be found here.


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Powerful, flexible, compact – these words describe the SIEB & MEYER frequency converter SD2S-FPAM regarding ultra high-speed applications.


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Blodröd sol, (engelska Rising sun), är en amerikansk drama-thriller från 1993 i regi av Philip Kaufman med Sean Connery och Wesley Snipes i huvudrollerna. Filmen hade Sverigepremiär den 12 november 1993.

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Det japanska företaget Nakamoto har en fest på sitt Los Angeles-kontor när en prostituerad hittas död, efter ett uppenbart våldsamt sexuellt möte. Få personer inom Nakamoto har möjlighet att ta sig upp till den strikt säkerhetsomgärdade våningen. När kriminalpolis Web Smith, tillsammans med kårens veteran John Connor som har stor kännedom om Japans språk och kultur, anländer blir de motarbetade av företagets ägare som vill undvika en stor skandal. Till sist får dock Smith och Connor tag på en diskett med mordet från en av företagets säkerhetskameror, där dock mördarens identitet är dold i de mörka skuggorna i rummet. Så de lämnar disketten till en redigeringsexpert som efter en noggrann analys upptäcker att disketten är förfalskad, vilket får Smith och Connor att misstänka att företaget försöker dölja vem den verklige mördaren är.

Om filmen
 Filmen är inspelad i Los Angeles.
 Filmen bygger på Michael Crichton's bok Blodröd sol (originaltitel Rising sun) från 1991.

Roller (urval)
 Sean Connery - Kapten John Connor
 Wesley Snipes - Webster Smith
 Harvey Keitel - Tom Graham
 Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Eddie Sakamura
 Kevin Anderson - Bob Richmond
 Mako - Yoshida-san
 Ray Wise - Senator John Morton
 Stan Egi - Ishihara
 Stan Shaw - Phillips
 Tia Carrere - Jingo Asakuma

Externa länkar

 Blodröd sol på allmovie.com

Amerikanska filmer 1993
Amerikanska dramafilmer
Amerikanska thrillerfilmer
Los Angeles på film
Filmer från Twentieth Century Fox
Filmer i regi av Philip Kaufman
Engelskspråkiga filmer
Japanskspråkiga filmer

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All caught up. This was a bit of a long process. My first attempt to draw a pine tree turned into a black mudbath, so I whitewashed my journal page, and stuck a piece of torn yellow paper on top and tried again. Looking forward to drawing perfume or something scented tomorrow.
Then from the sad west turning wearily, I saw the Pines against the white north sky. Very beautiful, and still, and bending over, their sharp black heads against a quiet sky.
O pine-trees and the sky!


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Scott Morrison's condescending call for "patience" and "calm" on bushfires and climate change
There may now be so much heat trapped in the system that we may have already triggered a domino effect that could unleash a cascade of abrupt changes that will continue to play out in the years and decades to come.
I single out our political leaders because the rest of the country is already leading the way.
The scientific community has been trying to warn the government of the need to plan to adapt to climate change for at least a decade.
As a climate scientist I find prime minster Scott Morrison's request for people to be "patient" as infuriating as it is condescending. With respect prime minster, the science of climate change has been ignored in this country for decades. We are now seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass.
We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/03/we-are-seeing-the-very-worst-of-our-scientific-predictions-come-to-pass-in-these-bushfires Joëlle Gergis As a climate scientist I am wondering if the Earth system has now breached a tipping point
Fri 3 Jan 2020 I had goosebumps watching surreal footage of the mass evacuation of people stranded on the south-east Australian coast.
Once again, catastrophic bushfire conditions are bearing down on communities during increasingly horrific summers in Australia. It has been an unprecedented continuation of the horrendous bushfires that started as early as spring in south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales.
As I write this, the Australian navy is evacuating over 800 people from the bushfire ravaged town of Mallacoota in eastern Victoria. Holiday makers are being forced to abandon their cars, complete with kids' bikes strapped to the roof racks, ice melting in Eskies. People hoping for a carefree break over the new year are instead faced with the extraordinary position of having to flee for their lives.
Currently, there are tens of thousands of people in coastal NSW and Victoria stranded in towns where the highways are closed, supermarkets are running out of food, and queues for petrol snake down the streets of devastated towns. The scenes experienced by those caught up in the ordeal are being described as apocalyptic – rightly so.
Meanwhile, the locals face the infinitely more serious situation of returning to find their homes completely incinerated. Cars melted, pets killed, beloved landscapes destroyed. A lifetime of memories razed to the ground. As Australia's climate continues to warm, the most intimate places of human safety – our very homes – are being threatened in an increasingly dangerous world.
It's confronting to see military evacuations, usually reserved for developing regions of the world following natural disasters, happening right here in 21st-century Australia. The sheer scale and severity of the emergency has actually overwhelmed our capacity as a nation to deal with the unfolding events. Not just in one area following a single event, but across multiple disasters occurring simultaneously in every state and territory of our nation.
To avoid sounding like a broken record, instead I will say that as a lead author on the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment report of the global climate due out next year, I can assure you that the planetary situation is extremely dire.
It's no exaggeration to say my work as scientist now keeps me up at night.
As I've watched the events of this summer unfolding, I've found myself wondering whether the Earth system has now breached a tipping point, an irreversible shift in the stability of the planetary system.
Rapid climate change has the potential to reconfigure life on the planet as we know it.
We know this because the geologic record contains evidence that these events have occurred in the past. The key difference is that we've never had 7.5 billion people on the planet, so the human species really is in uncharted territory.
The scientific community is acknowledging this by including new sections on abrupt climate change throughout key areas of the upcoming IPCC report. We now consider these "low probability, high impact" scenarios an increasingly critical part of our work.
At the risk of stating the bleeding obvious, adapting to climate change in the driest inhabited continent on Earth is going to take a bit of work.
To prepare our nation for the very challenging times ahead, we need political leaders – at every level – prepared to face this harsh reality.
I single out our political leaders because the rest of the country is already leading the way. The leadership and true guts being shown out there by our local communities, often with minimal resources and under intense duress, has been staggering. The resilience, dedication, generosity and heart being demonstrated by our emergency services and embarrassingly unpaid volunteer firefighters is truly the stuff of legends.
Cynics might say that our government seems to be taking advantage of the fact that we are a remarkable people willing to do whatever it takes to defend our incredibly unique nation. But the longer we leave things on a national policy level, the worse things are going to get.
Failing to adequately plan for the known threat of climate change in a country like Australia should now be considered to be an act of treason.
The scientific community has been trying to warn the government of the need to plan to adapt to climate change for at least a decade. In fact, the world's first global conference on climate change adaptation was hosted here in Australia, on the Gold Coast in 2010.
This conference was run by the former National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCARF), which lost its federal funding in June 2018. It was a visionary initiative to attempt to help the most vulnerable nation in the developed world prepare for climate change. Despite this immensely important task, the initiative is now vastly scaled-down and operating through Griffith University by a handful of dedicated researchers.
How anyone thought that axing funding to the only dedicated national climate change adaptation program in the country was a good idea is completely beyond me.
This summer has been a brutal reminder that no matter how much we want to avoid addressing the problem of climate change, it simply can no longer be ignored. As this summer has shown, it is now part of every Australian's lived experience.
Now is the time for our political leaders to make a choice about which side of history they want to be on. There is much work to be done, and we are fast running out of time.
Everyone's patience has worn thin. The Australian people are justifiably angry and are now demanding true leadership in the face of this climate emergency.
We have already squandered over a decade debating climate policy in Australia. All the while, the clear reality of a rapidly destabilising planet accelerates all around us.
There genuinely is no more time to waste. We must act as though our home is on fire – because it is.
Dr Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer based at the Australian National University.
January 4, 2020 - Posted by	Christina MacPherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming


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03 July 2018 by Annette Fernandes-Poyser - BBN Central
BBN expands with four new partner agencies
Recent new partnerships in the last 12 months see BBN expand their geographical footprint into 27 countries worldwide.
BBN continues its global expansion by announcing the appointment of four new member agencies in the last 12 months.
The first, INL, is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is headed up by Rich Thomas. INL is one of Switzerland's top agencies and consistently delivers high levels of creativity and client service across multiple disciplines. The agency, has both B2B and B2C clients including Medtronic, Nestle, Givaudan, P&G, COTY and Dentsply Serona. Rich Thomas commented,"We're excited to join such an impressive group of agencies who share a real entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to collaborate."
MarketLogic has been supporting businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean since 2000. Their growth has been recognised by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing small businesses in the USA, three years in a row. The agency's integrated team has expertise across all communications media and combines regional strategy with local insights.
In November last year, award-winning Copenhagen-based cylindr, became BBN's partner in Denmark. As a strategic marketing and communications consultancy, 95% of cylindr's business is international, their clients being primarily Danish-based or Danish-affiliated multinationals. This new partnership completes our presence in the Nordics and maintains BBN as a formidable player in the region. Jonathan Winch, partner at cylinder said, "BBN has provided us a unique platform to help our clients in Denmark improve their global marketing and communications reach. Since joining, we've been struck by the exceptional level of experience, creativity and specialist skills in the group. We are excited to work alongside so many talented individuals and teams from around the world as close colleagues."
The leading Tokyo based B2B agency, ImpactM have confirmed their BBN partnership in Japan. ImpactM were recently invited to a leading global content marketing event in Japan, providing one of its key seminars on how to build owned media in a B2B environment. ImpactM was established in 2010 as a channel marketing agency for IBM. Since then they have expanded their service offering and client base considerably, with 90% of their business in the B2B sector. Clients include Microsoft and other major IT brands. Tomoko Shibata, CEO of impactM said, "We are very much looking forward to our BBN partnership to further grow as a B2B marketing expert in Japan. Given the global nature of BBN, working with world-class B2B marketing professionals around the world, we will endeavour to become the best B2B agency in the Japanese market. We also would like to help Japanese clients establish solid marketing operations overseas through BBN's global reach."
Annette Fernandes-Poyser, Executive Director at BBN commented, "Each of these new agencies adds a unique dimension to BBN and they fit perfectly into our organisation. New partners such as these bring new ideas and further extend our global presence. BBN provides support to clients globally and this further strengthens our position as a leading B2B marketing agency."
BBN is a collaborative agency-owned organisation, with every agency-partner an equity shareholder – all sharing the same genuine passion for B2B. Our collective knowledge and understanding of communications in the sector is almost impossible to match.
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My wife, The Mindboggling Mrs. Miyoshi, thinks that we should shoot our food. No, we are not a hunting family believing we should live off the land. She just likes to take pictures of food.
My wife likes to cook. She likes to try new recipes and use the family as Guinea pigs. Sometimes those recipes are exotic and sometimes they are a new twist on an old favorite. They are almost always delicious so I appreciate being a Guinea pig.
If you have been reading my blog for long, you know about our taste tests of Hostess® desserts. We had a similar taste test for pizza dough. The Mindboggling Mrs. Miyoshi and Thing 2 wanted to find the best dough for homemade pizza. So off to the library they went. Actually, my wife was the one who went and she found a great book called American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza. There was history, recipes, and a whole lot more. But the part they were looking for was the dough recipes. And there were plenty.
Needless to say, we had lots of pizza for a while, trying to get just the right one for those homemade pizzas. My wife and my son went through at least a half dozen recipes before they found the right one. Then after all that trial and error, The Mindboggling Mrs. Miyoshi got a Cuisinart food processor. It came with a pizza dough recipe that was quick and easy and tasty too. The pizza dough taste test was not for naught though. We had lots of good pizza with lots of different and tasty dough.
We have pictures of cookies and breads. We have pictures of taco meat, cheese, guacamole, and pico de gallo. And, of course, we have pictures of pizza and calzone. The pictures are not just to document the making of the different foods. They, like the food, are supposed to be art, in and of themselves. The food and the presentation of the food are both art. At least in the eyes of the chef, The Mindboggling Mrs. Miyoshi. For me, the aroma and the texture and the taste are the artistry. I love food. And while pictures of food might make my mouth water, I like to have the real thing in my mouth satisfying my desire. But when my wife makes a new recipe, I take the pictures or wait patiently while my wife takes pictures of the food. Even though I am ready to dig in.
My wife rarely thinks that her creations or the pictures of her creations are as beautiful as those seen on the internet. I know that they look great and compare favorably to those seen on the world wide web. And as beautiful as some of those dishes look on recipe and other food web sites, I will always vote for the food The Mindboggling Mrs. Miyoshi shoots. After all, I get to smell and eventually eat it all.


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Welcome to the Quality by Design project web site.
The Quality by Design Project is intended to promote and inform discussion, debate and knowledge about quality in early learning and child care (ELCC). It is intended to contribute to quality as Canada's new national ELCC program – framed by the "QUAD" principles of Quality, Universality, Accessibility and Developmental [ness] - develops.
Notice of additions and updates to this web site will be disseminated on the Childcare Resource and Research Unit's weekly e-broadcast, a sign-up for which is found on the CRRU website.
Quality by Design is a project of the Child Care Resource and Research Unit.


MINSK, March 5 (Itar-Tass) -- The state security committee (KGB) of Belarus has dismissed as untrue statements by oppositional ex-presidential candidate Alexei Mikhalevich to the effect that at the KGB remand prison he was subjected to torture and recruited as a secret agent.
As the public relations department of the Belarusian KGB said, "Mikhalevich's claims regarding a confidential relationship with the agencies of state security and 'torture' at the detention center are false and the information being disseminated in connection with this is defamatory." The KGB said that the decision to change the preventive measure against Mikhalevich "was taken in coordination with the prosecution authorities in accordance with Mikhalevich's acknowledgement of his awareness of all responsibility for the committed illegal acts, as well as his own petition in writing for clemency."
The official website of the KGB also published a fragment of a copy of the ex-presidential candidate's petition, addressed to the Belarusian head of state Alexander Lukashenko. In this letter, Mikhalevich, in particular, wrote: "I always treated you with respect, and your contribution to the independence of Belarus is undeniable and very large. During my election campaign I said nothing bad either about you or your relatives and friends. I am asking you to put the issue of my fate under your personal control."
Mikhalevich, was arrested in the small hours of December 20 last year as part of a criminal investigation of the riots that took place in Minsk after the voting in the presidential election. On February 19 he was released from the KGB detention center on his own recognizance. A few days later Mikhalevich held a press conference to announce that he had received freedom in exchange for signing an agreement of cooperation with the KGB. The ex-presidential candidate also said that in jail he and other prisoners were subject to brutal torture.


The fall is fast approaching with leafs turning early because of the beautiful, dry, hot summer we've had. With fall coming quickly to Stowe we are all ramping up for the influx of tourists. People often ask me for places to stay and during the fall season one great place, because of its central location and proximity to fall events, is the Stoweflake Mountain Resort & Spa. Right across the street from the Stowe Farmers Market(a must do) and half way to town or the mountain, it's a great place to be. The Stoweflake spa is an excellent stop for a rainy afternoon. Try a hot air balloon ride for a unique view of the famous New England foliage.
The Stoweflake offers comfortable rooms, an indoor and outdoor pool for the kids, great gym and a few dining options. It is also right off the bike path, a wonderful way to spend a day.
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Hello lovelies, Episode 4 is here and today, I am writing on "Divine Diversion". Someone very close to me shared a story which I thought it to be worth sharing to inspire and educate someone out there and also most importantly, uplift and glorify the name of the Lord. Thanks for joining me today, as always this is your writer (Eunice). Let's begin, shall we??
Let's name this person Abigail, okay?
One day, Abigail went to Kokomlemle to do some few errands and after everything, she decided to go home. This is a person who really knows Accra city very well, but here she was in an area which was not her route to her home. She did not know the area she was at first but because she heard some trotro mates screaming "Neoplan station!!", she gave a sigh of relief because she finally knew where she was. P.S: Trotro is a privately owned mini-bus that takes people from one area to another.
She said in her mind "What kind of mistake is this?" because she was in a wrong place around 7pm. But, lo and behold, she saw a trotro in front of her car which had these words inscribed on them, "God don't do mistakes". Wow, wow, this was God just speaking to her. She was taken aback and realized that it was not a mistake, rather it was God diverting her route for a reason.
I know when our plans and routines are diverted, they can be annoying and disturbing, but God might be protecting us from danger. God often diverts us in order to make our lives much better than if we had stuck to our original plans.
Think of the Israelites. It took them 40 years to reach the Promised Land. You might be wondering, why didn't God give them 1 day to reach the Promised Land, but 40 years. He wanted to teach the Israelites, the spirit of patience and perseverance. Let us look at our own lives, we might be going through a delay in our lives and this might be quite challenging for most Christians when God is taking a while to answer our prayer request(s). I want to assure you my reader, that, God does no mistake. He definitely knows what He is doing. Our thoughts are not like God's thoughts. His thoughts are always far better than ours. So why don't you stick to God's plan for your life then? It might take time but He will surely answer us at His timing and God knows what is best for us more than we can think of. P.S: Delay is not a denial!! He hasn't forgotten about you! Stay tuned for the blessings attached to your obedience in listening to His voice. Let us look at an example from Joseph's life. God diverted him to Egypt even though his brothers wanted to kill him, but God used one of his brother's life to change his story. Joseph was rather sold to traveling Midianites who in turn, sold him to Potiphar. (Read the story from Genesis 37).
God diverted the evil plans from Joseph's life when he was in the household of Potiphar to prepare him to rescue God's chosen people from starvation. Another exemplary lesson we can take from Joseph is that, he had set some standards by not sleeping with Potiphar's wife. He chose to uplift God in every area of his life and God used that to bless him. We can apply this in our own lives when we choose to please God in our lives and not choose to live according to the world's standards.
In conclusion, God cares and knows every step of our lives. If your life is being diverted, this is not the time to blame God, but a time to let Him be the ruler of your life.
For He knows our plans since we were in our mother's womb. He has outlined every stage of our lives and our duty is just to let God do His thing! Spend quality time with God and you will know His voice. God is not a God of confusion. He knows no mistake. Learn to commit all your plans to God! God loves you. Shalom!
SAY THIS PRAYER: God, teach me to be willing to adjust my plans to conform to yours. Help me Lord to obey you at all times and to trust that you have better things in store for me than I could ever dream. I thank you God for an answered prayer, in Jesus' Name I pray with thanksgiving. Amen!
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Effect of Centrally Located Samples in the Integrating Sphere
Hemmat H. Safwat
Hemmat H. Safwat*
Mechanical Engineering Department, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
*Present address: Laboratorium voor Energievoorziening en Kernreactoren, University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands.
H Safwat
Hemmat H. Safwat, "Effect of Centrally Located Samples in the Integrating Sphere," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 60, 534-541 (1970)
Original Manuscript: April 7, 1969
The radiance distribution on the wall of an integrating sphere having a centrally located sample is analyzed. The radiance of the sphere wall is found as a function of the angular position inside the sphere. The analysis assumes mixed reflectance for the samples. It takes into account the effect of (1) the size of the sample relative to the sphere, (2) the average diffuse reflectance of the sphere wall, (3) the reflectance of the back face of the sample, and (4) the angle of incidence of the reference beam incident on the sample. The analysis considers the effect of the radiant exchange between the sample, its back, and the sphere wall. It allows also for the shadow of the sample on the sphere wall. The radiance distribution inside the sphere is found in case the reference beam does not hit the sample directly upon its entry into the sphere (this is useful in the absolute-reflectance-measurement technique). It is also derived when the sample is in the way of the reference beam. The expressions found for the radiance distribution allow accurate estimation of the errors due to the effect of centrally located samples in integrating sphere in reflectance measurements. The effects of the different factors involved in the interaction between the sample and the sphere wall can be seen from radiance-distribution expressions and would be of use in design of integrating-sphere reflectance-measurement systems. An example of the estimation of errors due to the effect of a centrally located sample inside an integrating sphere, in the measurement of mixed reflectance, is demonstrated.
Investigation of Opposition Effect in Integrating Spheres
Leo W. Stockham and Tom J. Love
Integrating Sphere for Imperfectly Diffuse Samples*
D. K. Edwards, J. T. Gier, K. E. Nelson, and R. D. Roddick
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 51(11) 1279-1288 (1961)
Interface Effects in Multiple Scattering by Large, Low-Refracting, Absorbing Particles*
Victor Twersky
Absorption and Multiple Scattering by Biological Suspensions*
Fluorescent Integrating Sphere for the Vacuum Ultraviolet
W. M. Brandenberg
Appl. Opt. 9(2) 451-457 (1970)


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VIDAM – solo exhibition: The Good Old Days Are Now
Street Art Berlin proudly presents one of the most impressive artist talents in Berlin: Vidam. From the 2nd of November until the end of March you can come to Factory…
The Haus – Berlin Art Bang hits the City West
What is going on in the City West of Berlin at the moment? The Haus - Berlin Art Bang is going on. Opening from 1st of April - you really…
Two new Street Art Murals by "Herakut" and "Vidam & LOOK – The Weird" at "Cons Space Berlin 2013"
Two new murals popped out of the ground in Berlin Friedrichshain. The new pictures, one made by the Street Art duo "Herakut" and one painted by "Vidam - The Weird" (Vidam is also a part of Peachbeach) and "LOOK - The Weird" appeared quiet near to each other. But it didn't happend accidently, the reason for this is the Cons Space 2013 which is a magnet for skater and artist and will take place between the 13.10 and 16.10.13 at Alt Stralau 4, in 10245 Berlin - Friedrichshain. The latest news about the Cons Space 2013 Berlin can be found on www.ilovegraffiti.de, they helped curating the event and are on site. But now to the Street Art Murals: The first mural made by Street Art duo "Herakut" (composed of the names Hera and Akut) is called: "Monkey see. Monkey do.". It is part of the "Giant Story Book", that is going to be a childrens book. All characters in the book, like the monkey, will get introduced in form of the allready painted murals. The project has an own page on Facebook. The second mural is painted by the Street Artists "Vidam- The Weird" and "LOOK - The Weird"


Often flying under the radar, Context are New Zealand's third largest architectural firm, with offices in Auckland and Christchurch. They wanted a new brand strategy and design that reflected their achievements to date, but also put their focus firmly on the future. Something to lift them above their competitors in the crowded architectural space.
While other architectural firms tend towards the traditional – monochromatic and static, all about the buildings - Context are different. They aim to be less high-brow and more focused on people – lifting lives through better design. Their passion for VR also reflects this fresh thinking perspective.
We created a brand that is anything but static. Full of energy and life, it enables Context to tell their stories in an inclusive, intelligent and people-centric way. The result is an architectural firm positioned as thought leaders: celebrating the people, the stories, the spaces, the journeys and the outcomes they help to create.


Minimal, timeless and elegant, each piece is handcrafted by us with the hope that they become the favourites you return to, year after year.
The process of hand-making is not a fast one, but one we cherish.
The designing, prototyping, problem-solving and ultimately making sometimes takes months, other times years, which is why every piece we make is made with longevity in mind – both in design and reparability.
Brought together by a love of making, quality craftsmanship is at the core of everything we do.
I'm always so intrigued about other's creative studio spaces. How they set them up and work day to day. So, I thought you might like a peek into mine?
To celebrate a dear friends 1st wedding anniversary we designed a book for them capturing their time spent in our workshop crafting two silver bowls by hand.
We recently completed this stunning centrepiece for an existing client of ours.


1966 PONTIAC GTO "242" STUNNING "TIGER GOLD" URETHANE BASE/CLEAR PAINT W/BLACK INTERIOR, 400/335HP, 4 SPEED, 12 BOLT POSI, POWER STEERING, RETIRED OWNER SINCE 2003, BEAUTIFUL READY TO ENJOY.
You are bidding on a beautiful 1966 Pontiac "242" GTO that is ready to drive and enjoy. It can be driven with confidence. This is the real deal 1966 "242" Vin coded GTO that you have been waiting for. I have painfully decided that it is time to pass the torch on my beloved GTO to another enthusiast who will have more time to use and enjoy it. History i can impart it was originally a west coast car built last week of March 66' in Fremont California at some point it went to Arizona (i have an old 70's registration from AZ included) i bought it in 03' in Maryland. Here are more details.
I had a full professional paint and body restoration completed in May 2005 still looks as good as the day it was finished. Always garage kept carefully driven only 2k miles since completion. The body is pin straight correct panel fit tight gaps whistle clean sheet metal. The paint was done right in Tiger Gold base with 3 coats of clear urethane buffed to a mirror-glass finish new rubbers it looks excellent upon close inspection. A correct pin stripe was added. The car was stripped painted in a correct for the year color "Tiger Gold" that was a special color made by "Royal Pontiac" which coined the phrase "Tiger in The Tank". It has clean chrome, emblems, stainless, and badges. It has Weld Polished Aluminum wheels w/Eagle ST Radialsthat complement the exterior. The original interior redone by a prior owner in black cloth that I have come to appreciate over the years simply due to the comfort level in varying degrees of weather hot or cold the seats are always at a constant and they still retain the original design pattern. It has power steering, upgraded Pontiac Cassette/AM FM radio w/cd changer in trunk, factory console, clock (not working) and more. The frame, floors, trunk are solid and a pleasure to see in this condition. PHS docs are included in sale.
NOM 72 period block Cast #481988 front stamp C072630YS code 400/335HP engine retains points distributor fires right up runs really nice mated to a rebuilt 4-Speed w/new clutch shifts properly. List of replaced items new shocks front and rear, rear springs and insulators, new clutch when trans was rebuilt, gas tank cleaned new sending unit, rebuilt carb, replaced o-rings and valve stems, brake lines, new alternator, brakes were done stop nicely, replaced rear axle bearing w/new gasket kit, new headlight switch, new motor mounts, throttle w/ cable bracket, bushings and sway bar, lower control arms, new spare, dual exhaust installed and much more i'm forgetting. Mechanically gone thru well sorted a truly enjoyable smooth running tight driving real GTO muscle car. On a personal note I purchased the car in 03' with 68k miles odo currently reads 70497 I put around 2k miles since I bought it however i just noticed my title had a clerical error it reads 107k actual (i should have checked back when i registered it in 03') hence I'm selling the car as *miles exempt *tmu (true mileage unknown).
This 1966 GTO is an awesome combination of beauty and beast thatcan be driven andenjoyed. It is a car that its owners took great pride in owning and took excellent care of. Thank you for your sincere interest and good luck to all bidders.
This vehicle is being sold as is, where is with no warranty, expressed written or implied. The seller nor any other individual associated with the sale of this vehicle shall not be responsible for the correct description, authenticity, genuineness, or defects herein, and makes no warranty in connection therewith. No allowance or set aside will be made on account of any incorrectness, imperfection, defect or damage. Any descriptions or representations are for identification purposes only and are not to be construed as a warranty of any type. It is the responsibility of the buyer to have thoroughly inspected the vehicle and to have satisfied himself or herself as to the condition and value and to bid based upon that judgment solely. The seller shall and will make every reasonable effort to disclose any known defects associated with this vehicle at the buyer's request prior to the close of sale. Seller assumes no responsibility for any repairs regardless of any oral statements about the vehicle.


PRESCOTT, AZ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- August 8, 2005 -- Produce Safety & Security International, Inc. (OTC: PDSC) announces the immediate appointment of Cindy Bassett as Sales and Marketing Manager responsible for the marketing and distribution of Medic Kleen® products within the state of Arizona.
Medic Kleen® products have been developed to serve the medical and dental professions, clinicians, urgent care facilities, police, fire, school health professionals and first responders wherever a concern for the presence of HIV, Hepatitis or other viruses may be present in blood and organic fluids.
Clarence Karney, CEO of PDSC, expressed his excitement over the introduction of Medic Kleen® as "yet another source of sales to complement the current Global Inspection Service, Red Hawk Farms Project and EPA Registered Spherequat® product revenues." He added, "These divisions, four of the seven divisions to be implemented in 2005/2006, will soon be complemented by our state-of-the-art Produce and Fruit Safety Program, equipment distribution and biodegradable fruit tray manufacturing."
Bassett's initial responsibilities within the state of Arizona will soon expand to include all of the southwestern states, and in 2006 national responsibilities. Bassett is a paralegal and brings many years of experience in consumer products and services to the PDSC management staff.
To learn more about Medic Kleen® Blood and Organic Stain Remover and other related products or to place orders, please visit the company's website at: www.medickleen.com.
About Produce Safety and Security International, Inc.
Produce Safety and Security intends to eliminate food safety and sanitation issues and provide methods to improve procedures to minimize risk and liability. Produce Safety and Security's comprehensive program is a proactive approach to food safety. The Company intends to offer a variety of products and services that provide safer food & produce products, better quality, reduce shrinkage and enhance shelf life.
Statements contained in this release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The forward-looking statements are made based on information available as of the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. Editors and investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements invoke risk and uncertainties and the company's actual results may differ from these forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to demand for the company's products and services, our ability to continue to develop markets, general economic conditions, our ability to secure additional financing for the company and other factors that may be more fully described in reports to shareholders and periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.


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Q: Methodology for validation of stochastic simulations with Kolmogorov-Smirnov test I'm a phd student in Geography, i need some help (or good ressources) to understand why and when i need to use PIT (Probability integral transform) in my validation program for simulation.
I explain the context : Actually, i'm running a lot of stochastic simulations (more than 100000) because i use genetic algorithm to optimize parameters values in my model.
In this model, we work on system of settlements in old times, and we try to obtain the best hierarchy of settlements. To obtain this result we construct a specific function fitness with multi goal objective.
One of this objective is really strict, i take all of my population at the end of the simulation and i try to test the possible lognormality of this rank size distribution => result is ok, or not ok...

Actually, i use a classic kolmogorov test to validate/invalidate the lognormality of my city population data, but ouch, this distribution is "unknown" at the end of simulation, so i use this step to resolve this problem :
1 - I try to estimate the standard deviation and the mean of my "unknow distribution" with MLE method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_likelihood)
2 - With std and mean for paramter, i generate a new lognormal distribution, named "generated theorical distribution"
3 - I make a uniform transformation on my data, using the "Probability integral transform" or PIT method. But here i don't understand this step, why i cannot use directly my data, perhaps you can enligth me on this point ? ...
4 - I compare the "generated theorical distribution" with the sorted simulation data after the uniform transformation (step3)
5 - After that i extract p-value, and D value to validate / invalidate the lognormality of my simulation data.
Now, my question on this method :

*

*I'm not statistician,so perhaphs these step are false ... in this case, can you explain me the step with the problem ?

*Also, i don't understand the step 3, and the necessity of the "Probability integral transform" of my simulation data here, can you enlight me on this point ?

*Do you think i can use this methodology, and ks.test with only 100 city in my model, so only 100 values in the sample used in lognormality test ?

Update 1
The code which run the PITS  :
  def evalKs(sample: Array[Double],dist:LognormalDist)=
  {
    data = new DoubleArrayList(sample)
    v = data.elements
    n = data.size
    val dataUnif = unifTransform (data, dist)
    dataUnif.quickSortFromTo (0, dataUnif.size - 1)
    ret = kolmogorovSmirnov (dataUnif)
  }

The code for unifTransform in SSJ library GOFStat ( http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~simardr/ssj/doc/html/umontreal/iro/lecuyer/gof/GofStat.html ) :
   public static DoubleArrayList unifTransform (DoubleArrayList data,
                                        DiscreteDistribution dist) {
       double[] v = data.elements();
       int n = data.size();

       double[] u = new double[n];
       for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
          u[i] = dist.cdf ((int)v[i]);
       return new DoubleArrayList (u);
   }

In the class LognormalDist (by default mu = 0, sigma = 1) :
   public double cdf (double x) {
      return cdf (mu, sigma, x);
   }

   public static double cdf (double mu, double sigma, double x) {
      if (sigma <= 0.0)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException ("sigma  <= 0");
      if (x <= 0.0)
         return 0.0;
      return NormalDist.cdf01 ((Math.log (x) - mu)/sigma);
   }

In the class NormalDist
   public static double cdf01 (double x) {
   /*
    * Returns P[X < x] for the normal distribution.
    * As in J. L. Schonfelder, Math. of Computation, Vol. 32,
    * pp 1232--1240, (1978).
    */

      double t, r;

      if (x <= -XBIG)
         return 0.0;
      if (x >= XBIG)
         return 1.0;

      x = -x/Num.RAC2;
      if (x < 0) {
         x = -x;
         t = (x - 3.75) / (x + 3.75);
         r = 1.0 - 0.5 * Math.exp ( -x * x) * Num.evalCheby (NORMAL2_A, COEFFMAX, t);
      } else {
         t = (x - 3.75) / (x + 3.75);
         r = 0.5 * Math.exp ( -x * x) * Num.evalCheby (NORMAL2_A, COEFFMAX, t);
      }
      return r;
   }

Thanks a lot for your advice, critics on this students work in progress :)
SR

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The MolinaCares Accord Hosts Panel on Senior Care in Underserved Texas Populations Post-Pandemic
Caroline Zubieta, Caroline.Zubieta@MolinaHealthcare.com, 562-951-1588
Caroline Smyrl, Caroline@themonumentgroup.com, 512-344-2604
HOUSTON, Texas, July 8, 2021 – The MolinaCares Accord ("MolinaCares"), in collaboration with Molina Healthcare of Texas ("Molina"), recently hosted a virtual panel on Senior Care in Underserved Populations in Post-Pandemic Texas. Kelsey Letcher, interim plan president of Molina Healthcare of Texas, kicked off the panel following opening remarks by Dr. Tom Oliverson, state representative and chairman of the Texas House Insurance Committee.
"Our fundamental mission at Molina Healthcare of Texas is to serve the underserved, and we are doing everything we can to support our rapidly growing senior population, including through the provision of acute care, behavioral health, pharmacy and social services," stated Letcher. "Molina is dedicated to improving health equity, access to information, and reducing health disparities, including but not limited to race, geography, poverty, and education."
The panel of experts, featuring moderator Scott Braddock, editor of Harvey Kronberg's Quorum Report, as well as Dr. Angela M. Goins, lecturer of social work in the Social Work Program under the College of Public Service at the University of Houston-Downtown, Chamane Barrow, executive director of Coalition for Barrier Free Living and Lex Frieden, director of the Independent Living Research Utilization Project at TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital, discussed how social determinants of health, particularly income, education, race and location, have led to vast disparities of health care for the aging population. The conversation also covered what the biggest hurdles are for seniors in underserved populations to receiving adequate healthcare, how to better facilitate independent living for seniors, and the role of corporations and organizations in helping the aging population overcome those obstacles.
"There is a growing awareness amongst the medical community that social determinants of health go a long way in determining an individual's health outcomes and potential predisposition to be impacted by significant medical illness, said Dr. Tom Oliverson. "We should continue to monitor medical research that is currently underway to evaluate whether this could play a significant role in the development of conditions such as diabetes, cancer and heart disease."
Letcher also noted that organizations need to be more creative to meet the growing needs of seniors, particularly the underserved. Long-term ramifications from the pandemic are still unfolding and collaborations across industries and sectors will continue to be paramount.
The full panel discussion can be viewed here.
Established by Molina Healthcare, Inc., The MolinaCares Accord oversees a community investment platform created to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged populations by funding meaningful, measurable, and innovative programs and solutions that improve health, life, and living in local communities.
Molina Healthcare of Texas has been providing government-funded health care since 2006. The Company serves members through Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, Medicare-Medicaid (Duals) and Health Insurance Exchange programs, with service areas across Texas. Molina Healthcare, Inc., a FORTUNE 500 company, served approximately 4.6 million members as of March 31, 2021. For more information about Molina Healthcare of Texas, visit MolinaHealthcare.com.


The remains of former President George H.W. Bush will travel from Spring to College Station via Union Pacific's No. 4141 locomotive Dec. 6.
Former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush look out from inside Union Pacific's No. 4141 locomotive at its unveiling in 2005 in College Station.
Former President George H.W. Bush looks out from inside Union Pacific's No. 4141 locomotive at its unveiling in 2005 in College Station.
Former President George H.W. Bush sits inside the cab of Union Pacific's No. 4141 locomotive, a custom-painted locomotive honoring the 41st president.
A train carrying the remains of former President George H.W. Bush will travel along the Union Pacific Corp. rail line from Spring to College Station on Dec. 6, according to information from Union Pacific.
In addition to Spring, the 70-mile funeral train route will pass through communities such as Hufsmith, Pinehurst, Magnolia and Todd Mission in the north Houston area, according to a map of the route. The trip is expected to take just less than 2.5 hours, leaving Union Pacific's Westfield Auto Facility—which is not open to the public—at 1 p.m. and arriving in College Station near Texas A&M University's Kyle Field at 3:25 p.m.
The train making the trip is the No. 4141 George Bush Locomotive, which was unveiled in 2005 to honor Bush, the 41st president, according to Union Pacific information. The custom-painted locomotive features the colors of the Air Force One used during Bush's presidency.
Lt. Kyle Montgomery of the city of Magnolia Police Department said a specific timeline for when the train may pass through each community cannot be disclosed due to security reasons.
"We want as many people to come out and pay their respects, but we have to ensure the safety of the public and the security of the train procession," Montgomery said in an email.
Montgomery said onlookers must stay at least 25 feet from the railroad tracks to ensure safety.
In Magnolia, Melton Street will close at 11:30 a.m., but community members are able to park nearby and walk, Montgomery said. However, residents should avoid gathering on private property.
Thank you so much for this map and time schedule all in one place!


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Sneak Peek: Kim Kardashian's Replica Wedding Dresses by Vera Wang!
by Ella Stewart | Fri., Aug. 26, 2011 3:45 PM
You are cordially invited to...copy Kim Kardashian's bridal looks.
Yesterday, E! News exclusively confirmed that two of the reality star's three glamorous wedding dresses will be re-created by Vera Wang for her lower-priced David's Bridal line.
Now we've got the first look at the replica gowns...
PHOTOS: Kim & Kris' Honeymoon Highlights
Our exclusive sneak peek took place at a David's Bridal photo session in New York City, where the ballgown Kim wore for the ceremony and the mermaid gown she wore for her first dance were being modeled for promo purposes.
Just how big of a dent will these frocks make in a bride-to-be's budget?
Each look-alike gown will retail for less than $1,600 apiece. That's even cheaper than Kim's blinged-out wedding purse.
Wang told E! News that while the re-creations won't look exactly like Kim's bridal konfections, they "will certainly capture that sense of old-fashioned romance" that the designer strived to create in the original gowns.
Both dresses will be available at select David's Bridal stores after February 2012.
Check out People's Sept. 5 issue, out today, with lots of exclusive photos of the event.
TAGS/ Fashion , Kim Kardashian , Weddings


Banyan Cay Development, Noble House Hotels & Resorts Close on Construction Loan for Expansive Banyan Cay Lifestyle Community.
West Palm Beach, Fla. – Banyan Cay Development, together with Noble House Hotels & Resorts, are moving full speed ahead at Banyan Cay with the recent announcement of a construction loan from Calmwater Capital for a substantial development project. The funds will dramatically accelerate the construction of the Banyan Cay luxury hotel and conference center, spa, and real estate development. The existing Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course and soon-to-be completed clubhouse are nestled within the resort development, offering even more amenities and member access to the exclusive Banyan Cay Golf Club.
With the construction loan from Calmwater Capital, and project management of Banyan Cay from Jacob Companies, the 150-room luxury resort with a conference center will be completed in late 2019.
Each homeowner will have access to all the amenities available at the luxury hotel and have options to include a non-equity Golf Membership. Homeowners may also enroll their home in the Vacation Rental program through Noble House Hotels & Resorts.
Banyan Cay Dev, LLC. has partnered with Noble House Hotels & Resorts to create Banyan Cay Resort & Golf, LLC. This entity is tasked with the development of all Community Amenities as well as programming its social aspects.
The development of an extraordinary resort is well underway in West Palm Beach. Every aspect of this 250-acre wonder is designed for a casual luxury experience that no other resort can offer. The centerpieces include a 150-room lifestyle hotel and a 130-acre Jack Nicklaus Signature Course, which are highlighted by Clubhouse and Resort Dining, a 5000 square-foot Signature Spa and Fitness Center, Tennis Pavilion, pool, and over 15,000 square-feet of meeting facilities. Members are offered an even wider array of amenities and privileges, including early opportunities to be a part of this extraordinary resort. In total, 94 single family home lots, 52 custom home lots plus an additional 179 luxury condominiums, and 22 resort villas will live within the new community.
Situated on 250 of the most coveted acres in the heart of the Palm Beaches, Banyan Cay Resort & Golf offers all the perks without the pretense. Just minutes from an international airport and the urban electricity of downtown West Palm Beach, Banyan Cay Resort & Golf is emblematic of the modern day social epicenter, with its focus on amenities, activities, and experience. Brought to you by Noble House Hotels & Resorts, leaders in the hospitality industry offering innovative, non-traditional hotels and resorts, every element of Banyan Cay reflects a contemporary commitment to modern luxury. For more information on Banyan Cay Resort & Golf and the charitable foundation, Banyan Cay Cares, please visit https://www.banyancay.com or call 561-557-5840.
A privately held company for more than 35 years, Noble House Hotels & Resorts, Ltd. was founded in 1979 by owner and chairman Patrick R. Colee as a commercial property development group, later transitioning in 1994 to the dynamic hospitality ownership and management company it is today. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington and continuously growing, Noble House owns and manages an upscale portfolio of 18 distinct and visually captivating hotel properties, over 50 hotel restaurants, bars and lounges, the Napa Valley Wine Train, and a collection of spas, marinas, and private residences spanning the U.S. and Canada. A range of beachfront resorts spanning California and Florida, luxury retreats in Jackson Hole, WY, British Columbia, and Colorado, and a collection of urban hotels in Seattle, San Francisco, and College Station, TX make up the diverse group of destinations. Built upon a philosophy that emphasizes location, distinction, and soul, Noble House Hotels & Resorts dedicates itself to creating and managing exceptional properties that celebrate the local destination that surrounds.
For more information, visit https://www.NobleHouseHotels.com or call Noble House Hotels & Resorts at 877.NOBLE.TRIP.


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Das Schloss Grafenaschau in Grafenaschau, dem Hauptort der Gemeinde Schwaigen im oberbayerischen Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen, wurde über einem älteren Kern 1909–12 errichtet. Das Schloss im Stil eines Landhauses ist ein geschütztes Baudenkmal.
Es ist in der Denkmalliste Bayern folgendermaßen beschrieben:

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The blue ghosts are rising from the land surrounding Thomas Don Lewis.
Each spring, these fireflies emerge from damp leaf litter in the Southern Appalachians, hovering at about knee height with an unwavering glow, unlike the blinking bugs that might populate a child's Mason jar.
"There's nothing like it in the world," he said. "I have seen them in here so thick it looks like a carpet of light."
A decade ago, Lewis opted to put a conservation easement on his 122 acres to keep the land as a single piece of property and protect the fireflies, which need older, undisturbed forests to thrive.
To help defer some of the land's value lost in the easement, Lewis received a grant from the South Carolina Conservation Bank, a state agency that proponents say is critical to preserving natural, historic and cultural properties throughout the state.
The Conservation Bank is set to sunset in 2018 and in a legislative provision known as the "death clause," funding can be withheld altogether in tight budget years. To help provide longevity to this two-person state agency, a pair of bills are working their way through the state Senate and House that proponents hope, if reconciled, would stabilize funding and make it a permanent office.
That would not only ensure the Conservation Bank keeps its lights on and doors open, but it would allow one of the best conservation values in the state to continue, said April Donnelly, director of government relations for The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina.
In general, she said, grants awarded by the Bank to organizations like a land trust, historic society or a soil and water conservation district often spark partnerships and are leveraged at a 4-1 rate though federal awards and other resources.
Those protections go beyond conserving animal habitats, viewsheds or preserving land for its own aesthetic value, she said. Natural resources often serve the needs of the state's growing population.
"If we don't make an investment to make sure that water is clean and protected to as much of a degree as is feasible or possible, taxpayers at the end of the line end up paying for water treatment plants," she said. "If you preserve the forests around the water sources, you avoid the need to a large degree of having to build brick-and-mortar water treatment facilities because there is a natural treatment process."
The agency offers grants that can help landowners offset the devaluation of their property when they apply for a conservation easement that halts or restricts all future development of their land.
For the fiscal year ending in 2015, the Conservation Bank granted $18.9 million to projects across the state and has awarded more than $133 million since it was established in 2004.
The agency receives 25 cents of the $1.30 from every state deed recording fee on real estate transactions, and the Conservation Bank can go unfunded if at least half of state agencies have their budgets cut in a rough fiscal year. The proposed bills would increase that funding to 30 cents out of the recording fees.
The bank twice has had funding pulled, said Marvin Davant, executive director of the agency, leaving the office postponing many grant commitments in those periods.
Conserving properties across the state not only preserves habitats and special places, he said, but also contributes to the economy and jobs in the agriculture, forestry and tourism sectors.
Staffed only by Davant and a business manager, the Bank strikes a balance between private property concerns important to many Palmetto State residents and conservation, he said.
"We have a long, solid history of property rights being very significant to South Carolinians. It's impossible to start telling people what to do with their properties, as it should be," he said. "If you can provide an incentive for those people that want to do it, I think that's a perfect match."
The legislative bills would also allow for the Conservation Bank's board of directors to consider awarding grants to isolated wetlands.
Grants are awarded to landowners through approved organizations like Upstate Forever, which works with them though the conservation easement process.
Upstate Forever holds 97 easements, with 25 of those supported in part with Conservation Bank funds, including Lewis' firefly property.
Some, like Lewis, see the fair market value of their land drop dramatically when they opt out of development, and the Bank provides a mechanism to recoup some of that financial loss, said Erin Knight, director of Upstate Forever's land trust program.
She believes there is a misperception that landowners who pursue easements are wealthy or are profiting off the Conservation Bank.
But many, she said, love their land and want to see it conserved into perpetuity, and move into the easement process knowing they will not recoup the property's fair value.
"Landowners like these are heroes to the state of South Carolina and deserve some compensation for giving up the true financial value of their land," Knight said. "They are giving a gift and they will only see a fraction of that value returned. The Conservation Bank is one way we and other land trusts can work in harmony with landowners as they give that gift to the state."


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Student group launches rocket 36,000 feet; gains grant for building liquid fueled rocket engine
Jun 06, 2016 Susan Mumm, Media Specialist
The SSS team prepares the launch.
The Student Space Systems (SSS) organization at the University of Illinois has achieved a milestone in its goal of reaching suborbital spaceflight by launching a rocket 36,000 feet into the atmosphere.
The group maintains theirs is the third highest university launch in history with a successful launch and recovery, behind earlier ones by the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Laboratory and the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
The group's ultimate goal is a "space shot;" building a rocket that could fly to an altitude greater than 100 kilometers, thereby achieving suborbital spaceflight.
Meanwhile, the group has secured a $12,000 grant from the Student Sustainability Committee (SSC) on the Urbana campus to build a sustainable liquid-fueled rocket engine with reusable 3D-printed parts.
The rocket launch accomplished this spring is the third phase in a five-phase plan SSS outlined when a group of freshmen first formed the organization in October 2013.
Phase I was the group's first test launch; a rocket that flew to 4,500 feet in spring 2014. Phase II's goal the following year was to launch a rocket to an altitude of greater than 10,000 feet. The group's first Phase II attempt produced a rocket reaching 7,600 feet. However, on their second attempt to break the 10,000 foot barrier, there was a manufacturing error in the rocket's commercially fabricated solid rocket engine. The error caused an explosion immediately after launch resulting in the rocket being unable to ever fly again.
"That was part of the reason that we wanted to explore liquids and hybrid engines because we wanted to build the rocket (engines) ourselves," said SSS Technical President Ben Wexler.
This year's launch proved much more successful.
"One of the amazing things about this launch, specifically, was how perfect it went," said Wexler. "Usually, there's something small that goes wrong. It's very rare that something goes that well and that speaks a lot about the people in Student Space Systems that work on the project."
The SSS team.
The 100-member organization spent about a year on Phase III, culminating in the launch in March in California. The goal was to send a rocket higher than 35,000 feet while testing the telemetry system (live air to ground transmission of data), altitude, speed, acceleration, and GPS positioning. "We also had a GoPro (video recording device) on the rocket so we could get footage," Wexler said.
The team also tried out a new means to deploy the parachute that would return the craft safely to Earth. "We developed a more creative high altitude version of the black powder deployment," said Florin Ghinet, the team's director of propulsion. "We developed a contained pressure vessel so we could ensure combustion."
The rocket was recovered about eight miles from the launch pad, close to what SSS had expected from simulated exercises.
SSS is currently building Phase IV, a rocket with a goal of reaching an altitude of higher than 100,000ft. The exact launch date is not yet confirmed, however the group is aiming for a late spring or early summer launch, most likely in California or Nevada.
The $12,000 grant will cover the entire costs of the new 3D printed , liquid fueled rocket engine. The engine will be printed from Inconel-718, an alloy composed of nickel, cadmium, chrome and titanium, and suited for extreme environments subjected to pressure and heat. At about 11 inches tall, the new rocket engine will be fueled by a combination of oxygen and methane. " If the first liquid engine test goes well, the Student Sustainability Council will award SSS another $13,000 to build a larger version of the engine that could potentially be used on Phase IV" Ghinet said.
The group's Phase V goal would be to reach the "space shot."


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Michelle Obama shades Trump with advice on how to tweet
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Former first lady Michelle Obama speaks at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, Illinois.
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By Nicole Gallucci 2017-11-01 18:06:41 UTC
As a former first lady Michelle Obama knows how much weight words can carry. She gets it. But she wants to make sure everyone else does, too. Everyone.
Queen Michelle sat down with poet Elizabeth Alexander to speak at the second day of The Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. She spoke on the importance of sharing your voice intelligently and hmmmmm we wonder if she was referring to anyone in particular...
"When you have a voice you can't just use it any kind of way ... You don't just say what's on your mind. You don't tweet every thought," Obama said. Judging from the immediate burst of laughter in the crowd, one would assume she was throwing some shade at the current Tweeter-In-Chief, Donald Trump.
"Your first initial thoughts are not worthy of the light of day," she went on, "And I'm not talking about anybody in particular, I'm talking about us all because everybody does that."
Feeding the Trump shade theories, Alexander joked, "We are so not talking about anybody in particular," and Michelle continued to drop her social media knowledge.
"Tweeting and social media — that is a powerful weapon that we just hand over to little kids, you know? A ten-year-old. 'Here you go,'" she said before firing another round of shots on Trump.
"You need to think and spell it right and have good grammar, too," Obama said. *airhorn noises*
As anyone who's gone near Twitter this past year knows, Trump has abysmal grammar and often tweets without proofreading. "I am honered to serve you, the great American People, as your 45th President of the United States!" he infamously wrote in January.
The former FLOTUS went on to discuss the weight a president's voice, specifically, carries. "The first lady or the president ... you have that voice and that power and that platform and I think what comes with that is the responsibility to know that every word you utter has consequences."
"Words matter at this level ... But the truth of how much words matter is true for every one of us," she said, encouraging everyone to treat others, even those with different opinion, with respect.
@realDonaldTrump, you listening?
November 1, 2017 at 01:10PM


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Jeri Ryan, Star Trek's Seven-of-Nine Then & Now
Jeri Lynn Ryan (Seven-of-Nine) is an American actress best known for her role as the former Borg drone Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Voyager, for which she was nominated four times for a Saturn Award and won in 2001. She has reprised her role as Seven of Nine in Star Trek: Picard.
Lead Creature Designer Neville Page and Prosthetic Designer Vincent Van Dyke go into detail about Seven Of Nine's (Jeri Ryan) Borg prosthetics, from her arm enhancements to her iconic ocular implant. Stream full episodes of Star Trek: Picard, exclusively in the U.S. on CBS All Access.
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She also had her cleavage enhancement I mean regeneration garment.
Go back to the days of Voyager where she was an actual Borg and then you will see how they were designed.
Large and in your face as much as possible.
A blue-eyed blonde with that hard, pretty face, and those huge knockers!
Ancient news, but it's got Jeri Ryan in it, albeit an old, sub-prime version of her. I've enclosed the comment from Youtube of the person who uploaded it. I agree with most of it, but I loved both Mortal Kombat movies. I gotta love anything with a kickass, peroxide-blonde in it–no surprise there.
The new movie is somewhat Resident Evil like but I must admit, it looks pretty decent. Much better than I thought it would so far.
For years, people have been trying to get a third Mortal Kombat movie off the ground, and yet for obvious reasons, it never came to pass. The terrible Mortal Kombat: Annihilation basically ensured that another sequel would never see the light of day, but when Warner Brothers picked up the rights to the franchise last year, we started to hear plans about a possible reboot. Now, this week, it looks like we may have our first real proof of said reboot in the form of a short film / promo trailer that has mysteriously found its way online. Did I mention that it happens to star Michael Jai White (Black Dynamite) as Jax and Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) as Sonya Blade.
Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One on "Star Trek Voyager"
Seven of Nine (born Annika Hansen) is a fictional character who appears in seasons four through seven of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. Portrayed by Jeri Ryan, she is a former Borg drone who joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager. Her full Borg designation is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. The character Seven of Nine arrived just as the character Kes was leaving, and was intended to introduce a foil to Captain Kathryn Janeway in a similar manner as Spock does to Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series.
Seven of Nine was played by Jeri Ryan for four Voyager seasons. The character was a part of the last four seasons which concluded in 2001 with its seventh season, and Seven was featured in many episodes despite coming later to the series. Seven was introduced in the second part of the episode "Scorpion," the first episode of the fourth season. The character continued to appear throughout the series until the final episode, "Endgame." Stories related to her relationship with Captain Janeway and with The Doctor appeared throughout the series.
Several episodes, such as "The Raven," explored her background and earlier life as Annika Hansen before she was assimilated by the Borg. Her romantic life is a mystery due to her Borg emotional restrictions; she does proposition Harry Kim but he turns her down. Later on, with the Doctor's assistance, she tries dating other crew unsuccessfully, while later exploring intimate relationships with a hologram of Chakotay. Finally, in the series finale Endgame she is involved in a short-lived romantic relationship with Chakotay which includes at least three dates and a first kiss before she "alters the relationship's parameters." However, in one alternate timeline they get married, and in another she is killed along with the rest of the Voyager crew ("Timeless").
Her real name was known to her crewmates, but after joining the Voyager crew she chose to continue to be called Seven of Nine, though she allowed "Seven" to be used informally.
Seven of Nine, again played by Jeri Ryan, is due to appear in the upcoming series Star Trek: Picard.
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