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An Act to prevent the implementation of existing proposals made for the purposes of Part 1 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007.
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Sat 30 Mar 19: Ashford 1 South Park 2
Sadly, it was another defeat for the Tangerines on Saturday, with visitors South Park picking up another three points in their quest to avoid relegation as Ashford went down 1-2, thus continuing a fairly drab run of form. That said, once again, although South Park took their goals well, both Read more…
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Easter Egg Raffle Results
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who participated. The raffle raised a net profit of £152 for the club and thanks to Paul Blair and Alan Constable who donated the eggs. The results were: Star Prize: Russell Canderton Luxury Chocolate Egg: Scott Weight "Feathered Egg": Kate Cadbury Creme Egg: Read more…
Match Still ON
An earlier inspection today confirms that the pitch is perfectly playable at present so this evening's match against Hanworth Villa in the Middlesex Charity Cup remains on at the moment. There will be a further inspection around 4.30 p.m. this afternoon by which time the heaviest of the rain should Read more…
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Preview: Sat 9 Feb 19, Hertford Town v Ashford
Ashford will return to Hertford Town on Saturday, after an absence of 19 years. In the 2000-2001 season, our first at Ryman League level, our two clubs met for the one and only season we were both in the same league, which was the now defunct Ryman Division 3. That Read more…
MATCH POSTPONED
Ashford's match away to Westfield this afternoon has been postponed due to a combination of snow, ice and water on the pitch. A new date will be agreed in due course. Southall's match at home to Camberley at Short Lane is also off due to the frozen area in front Read more…
Preview Sat 12 Jan 19: Cheshunt v Ashford
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Today's match at South Park is ON as far we know, as is Southall's match at home to Knaphill
Sat 17 Nov 18: Ware 2 Ashford 2
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Ashford made it six points in four days on Tuesday evening with another 2-1 home win, this time over FC Romania. Having never played them before, nobody really knew what to expect. As it turned out Ashford had more of the play despite not being at their best. Brannon Daly Read more…
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Five Favorite Episodes of "STAR TREK VOYAGER" Season One (1995)
Below is a list of my five favorite episodes from Season One of "STAR TREK VOYAGER". Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor; the series starred Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway:
1. (1.11) "State of Flux" – Captain Kathryn Janeway and other senior members of Voyager's crew Janeway attempt to flush out a spy who is sending information to a group of aggressive Delta Quadrant species called the Kazon-Nistrim. Martha Hackett and Josh Clark guest-starred.
2. (1.14) "Faces" – When Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, Lieutenant Tom Paris and Ensign Pete Durst are captured by Vidiians during an Away mission, Torres is split into her human and Klingon halves in order for her captors to use her DNA to find a cure for their species. Brian Markinson guest-starred.
3. (1.01-1.02) "Caretaker" – While searching for a Maquis ship with a Starfleet spy aboard in the series premiere, the U.S.S. Voyager is swept into the Delta Quadrant, more than 70,000 light-years from home, by an incredibly powerful being known as the "Caretaker". Gavan O'Herlihy and Basil Langston guest-starred.
4. (1.04) "Time and Again" – While investigating a planet just devastated by a polaric explosion, Janeway and Paris are engulfed by a subspace fracture and transported in time to before the accident. Nicolas Surovy guest-starred.
5. (1.07) "Eye of the Needle" – Voyager's crew discover a micro-wormhole leads to the Alpha Quadrant and makes contact with a Romulan ship on the other side with ironic consequences. Vaughn Armstrong guest-starred.
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Top Five Favorite Episodes of "CHUCK" Season Two (2008-2009)
Posted on December 2, 2016 by drush76
Below is a list of my top five favorite episodes from Season Two (2008-2009) of NBC's "CHUCK". Created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, the series starred Zachary Levy:
1. (2.11) "Chuck Versus Santa Claus" – In this exciting yet emotional episode, an amateur criminal on the lam from the police crashes into the Buy More and take its employees, along with Chuck Bartowski's sister and fiancé hostage.
2. (2.08) "Chuck Versus the Gravitron" – Chuck, along with his handlers Sarah Walker and John Casey are shocked to discover that his ex-girlfriend, Jill Roberts is a FULCRUM agent in search of the Intersect. Chuck is asked to use his relationship with Jill to find a FULCRUM agent called Leader.
3. (2.22) "Chuck Versus the Ring" – In this season finale, Ellie Bartowski and Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb's wedding nearly goes awry, when FULCRUM agent Ted Roark appears at the church to get his hands on the new Intersect, now being guarded by Chuck's old college friend, CIA agent Bryce Larkin.
4. (2.09) "Chuck Versus the Sensei" – Casey is shocked to discover that his former mentor and sensei, Ty Bennett, had become a rogue agent. Meanwhile, Devon's parents make a surprise visit to help him and Ellie plan their wedding.
5. (2.13) "Chuck Versus the Suburbs" – Chuck and Sarah pose as a married couple when they and Casey investigate a Los Angeles suburban neighborhood that might be a front for FULCRUM.
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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" RETROSPECT: (7.21) "Friendship One"
Posted on March 1, 2016 by drush76
For such a quietly presented episode, the "STAR TREK VOYAGER" Season Seven episode, (7.21) "Friendship One"packed quite a powerful punch. For the first time . . . or perhaps not . . . audiences saw the dangers of exploration – not just for the explorers, but for also the explored.
The episode explored the impact of a late 21st century Earth deep space probe called "Friendship 1" that had made its way to a Delta Quadrant planet called Uxal over a century later. After being lost in the Delta Quadrant for three years, the U.S.S. Voyager managed to contact Starfleet after the crew used a Hirogen relay network to send their holographic Chief Medical Officer to the Alpha Quadrant in the Season Four episode, (4.14) "Message in a Bottle".
Nearly two years later in the Season Six episode, (6.10) "Pathfinder", Starfleet officer Reginald Barclay managed to contact the stranded Voyager using Starfleet's Pathfinder project. This allowed Voyager and Starfleet to contact each other on a monthly basis. Over a year later, Starfleet assigned Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew their first assignment – to retrieve the "Friendship 1" probe. The crew's efforts to accomplish their mission led to their discovery that the probe had a negative effect upon Uxal. By the time of Voyager's arrival, it was undergoing a nuclear winter, which had a major negative impact upon the Uxali inhabitants. When an Away team consisting of Lieutenant Tom Paris, ship's cook/morale officer Neelix and Lieutenant Joe Carey landed on the planet, they were taken hostage by a group of Uxali led by someone named Verin. The latter demanded that Voyager's crew transport his people to a safe planet . . . a process that would take at least three years. Naturally, Captain Janeway refused to capitulate to Verin's demand and a tense standoff commenced that eventually led to tragedy.
During my recent viewing of "Friendship One", I found myself remembering the 1993 movie, "JURASSIC PARK". The episode especially reminded me of the comments made by Jeff Goldblum's character about the dangers of exploration. Yes, some of you might be turning up your noses at such a comparison. But "JURASSIC PARK" and "Friendship One"provided some strong lessons. These lessons seemed to have gone over the heads of both Janeway and most of Voyager's crew.
The crew's attitude toward the planet's inhabitants struck an interesting note within me. They seemed to be embarrassed by the destruction caused by "Friendship 1", especially since it was an Earth probe. And at the same time, they were angered by Verin's murder of Lieutenant Carey. Janeway seemed only concerned with saving the hostages and acquiring the probe. It took Tom Paris and Neelix – two individuals dismissed by the crew as worthless when the series first began, to remind her and other Voyager crewmen that as Humans (at least a majority of them) and representatives of Starfleet, they had a responsibility to help clean up the mess caused by their ancestors' irresponsibility. If Starfleet had been in contact with "Friendship 1" up until the mid 23rd century, why they fail to recover it before it had disappeared? Especially if Starfleet had known about the probe's antimatter, of which the Uxali were unfamiliar. The Uxali's attitude also struck me as interesting. They were so full of bitterness at what happened to them. Then again, who could blame them? But due to this bitterness, the Uxali failed to realize that taking and killing hostages had only their situation even worse. The Uxali scientist, Otrin, had to remind his people that their bitterness and paranoia were keeping them from accepting the help they needed.
Someone had complained that the solution to Uxal's radiation came too quick and easy. I disagree. Otrin had been working on a solution for years. Voyager's technology, along with Seven's comments to Otrin, finally provided a means to use that solution. But even providing the solution to Uxal brought danger upon Voyager's crew, since the embittered Verin seemed determined to consider Janeway and her crew as the enemy and destroy them.
One of the episode's surprises is that a small moment between Paris and his wife, Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres would end up symbolizing the Chief Helmsman's encounter with a pregnant mother named Brin. Even more surprising, his successful efforts to save Brin's newborn baby from the radiation eventually save the hides of Voyager's crew and Starfleet's reputation. And despite this solution for the Uxali, Voyager still lost a valuable crew member. Also, the episode ended with Starfleet and the Federation's reputations on a shaky ground.
The episode featured some solid performances, including those from Kate Mulgrew, Jeri Ryan, Robert Beltran, Tim Russ and Roxann Dawson. Among the guest stars, I was especially impressed by the performances of Ken Land as Verin, John Prosky as Otrin and Bari Hochwald as Brin. But I have to give special kudos to Robert Duncan McNeill for his performance as Tom Paris in this episode. He did an excellent job of portraying Paris' quiet conflict between his desperation to live, his desire to help some of the Uxali – especially the pregnant Brin, and his quiet disapproval of the crew's arrogant attitude toward the Uxali. I was also impressed by Ethan Phillips' portrayal of Talaxian crewman, Neelix. The latter's quiet recall of his homeworld's destruction seemed even more powerful that the time we first heard about it in the Season One episode,(1.15) "Jetrel". And I also enjoyed how Neelix pointed out the Humans' flaws in a conversation with Verin:
NEELIX: "When I first met them, I thought they were arrogant and self-righteous."
VERIN: "I suppose you're going to tell me you've changed your mind."
NEELIX: "Well, not completely."
Joe Carey. I am quite certain that a good number of the show's fans were upset by his death. To be honest, I thought his character had died a long time ago. Josh Clark's last two previous appearances on the show – Season Five's (5.24) "Relativity" and Season Six's (6.23) "Fury" – had occurred in time travel episodes that featured his character during Voyager's first year in existence. Someone had complained that his death would have been more relevant if he had appeared on "STAR TREK VOYAGER" a lot more often. Again, I disagree. The circumstances surrounding his death made the story dramatic enough. His death proved to be pointless and tragic, due to Earth's carelessness and the aliens' unwillingness to trust. I found Crewman Hogan's death in (3.01) "Basic, Part II" and Ensign Marie Kaplan's death in (3.17) "Unity" upsetting enough. And they were not as well known to "STAR TREK VOYAGER" fans as Carey. Anyway, it was good to see Josh Clark, who provided one last excellent performance before the series' end.
I might as well be honest. "Friendship One" is not a big favorite of mine. My attitude has nothing to do with the episode's quality. Frankly, I consider it to be one of the most interesting episodes of the series. But I did find it rather depressing. Some did not care about the arrogant or careless portrayal of both Voyager's crew and Starfleet in general. I had no problem with that. Considering the franchise's habit of nearly putting humanity on a pedestal, this portrayal of Starfleet and humanity as flawed – even in the late 24th century – struck me as refreshing.
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Top 10 Favorite Episodes of the "STAR TREK" Television Franchise
Below is a list of my ten favorite episodes from all five "STAR TREK" television series:
1. (5.12 VOY) "The Bride of Chaotica!" – Ensign Tom Paris' latest holodeck adventure, "The Adventures of Captain Proton", takes an unexpected turn when the U.S.S. Voyager gets stuck in an interdimensional reef in this hilarious and imaginative episode.
2. (4.18-4.19 ENT) "In a Mirror, Darkly" – This surprisingly entertaining two-part episode features the back-stabbing antics of Jonathan Archer's Enterprise crew in the saga's Mirror Universe.
3. (3.16 VOY) "Blood Fever" – While enduring pon farr, a lovesick Ensign Vorik unexpectedly passes it to Chief Engineer B'Elanna Torres, affecting her relationship with Tom Paris during an Away mission.
4. (4.10 DS9) "Our Man Bashir" – While playing a 1960s secret agent inside one of Deep Space Nine's holosuites, Chief Medical Officer Julian Bashir is forced to make life and death decisions for those crew members, whose transporter patterns are stored in the program during an emergency in this wildly entertaining episode.
5. (4.07 VOY) "Scientific Method" – Unseen alien intruders used Voyager's crew as specimens for series of experiments that affect their physical and mental health in this weird and spooky episode.
6. (6.19 DS9) "In the Pale Moonlight" – This fascinating episode depicted Captain Benjamin Sisko and former Cardassian spy Elim Garak's efforts to manipulate the Romulans into joining the Federation in its war against the Dominion.
7. (1.28 TOS) "City on the Edge of Forever" – In this Hugo Award winning episode, Captain James Kirk and Commander Spock are forced to go back in time to the early 1930s to prevent Dr. Leonard McCoy from changing time, when the latter accidentally disappears through a time portal, while heavily drugged.
8. (5.10 DS9) "Rapture" – An accident causes Captain Sisko to have prophetic visions involving the Bajorans' religious beliefs and their future with the Federation.
9. (5.18 TNG) "Cause and Effect" – The U.S.S. Enterprise-D becomes stuck in a time loop involving another Starfleet ship, but the crew manages to retain some memories of previous instances.
10. (7.24 TNG) "Pre-emptive Strike" – In this bittersweet episode, helmsman Lieutenant Ro Laren graduates from Starfleet's advance tactical training and is eventually ordered by Captain Jean-Luc Picard to infiltrate the Maquis and lure its members into a trap set by Starfleet.
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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" – Unfit For Command?
Do many STAR TREK fans consider most Vulcan characters unfit for command? I wonder. I came across this "STAR TREK VOYAGER" fan fiction story about the letters written to the Alpha Quadrant by Voyager's crew in the Season 1 episode, "Eye of the Needle". The author of this particular fan fiction story seemed to believe that because of their emotional distance, Vulcans are basically unfit for command. Personally, I disagree.
This belief that Vulcans were unfit for command certainly seemed supported by Lisa Klink's screenplay for the Season 2 episode, (2.25) "Resolutions". I am sure that many recall this episode. In it, the Voyager crew is forced to leave Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran) behind on a planet after the pair found themselves infected by an incurable disease. Lieutenant Tuvok (Tim Russ) assumes command of the ship and ends up facing a possible mutiny led by a very distraught Ensign Kim (Garrett Wang). Klink's screenplay portrayed Tuvok as a cold by-the-book officer, incapable of noticing or understanding the crew's uneasiness of leaving behind the captain and first officer. Quite frankly, not only did I dislike this one-dimensional portrayal of the ship's highest ranking Vulcan, I found it slightly inaccurate.
As a Vulcan, Tuvok has made it a practice to keep his emotions to himself and lead his life in a very logical manner. But this does not mean that he was exactly how Klink had described him in "Resolutions". Underneath the cool exterior laid a very emotional and passionate man who loved his wife and family a great deal and considered Kathryn Janeway a great friend. He also possessed a temper that he obviously must have struggled to contain all of his life.
Tuvok did possess a problem with interacting with others. This stemmed from a tendency to be a loner. This trait of his was specifically pointed out in the Season 3 episode, (3.14) "Alter Ego". In it, Harry Kim became infatuated with a hologram (a tall and leggy blonde named Marayna). To deal with his infatuation, he turned to Tuvok to help him recover from it. Tuvok did more than that. He became friendly with the hologram. But the hologram proved to be a lonely alien at a space station who used superior technology to prevent Voyager from leaving a particular area of space. When Tuvok pointed out her loneliness, she returned the favor:
MARAYNA: I don't believe you.
TUVOK: I beg your pardon.
MARAYNA: I think you're tying to isolate yourself and make a public protest at the same time.
TUVOK: Explain.
MARAYNA: You didn't want to be here in the first place. Being the only one without a lei sets you apart from the others, allowing you to symbolically maintain your solitude. And since everybody can see that you're the only one without a lei, you're letting them know that you'd rather be somewhere else.
TUVOK: Your logic is impeccable.
But Tuvok's loner tendencies did not mean that he lacked an ability to understand the emotional needs of others. Even before "Resolutions" had aired, Tuvok managed to display this trait on a few occasions. He was the first member of the crew to sense that Seska might prove to be a dangerous problem for the crew . . . even if he did not know about her being a Cardassian spy. Instinct told him that Tom Paris may have been innocent of the murder of a Banean scientist in (1.08) "Ex-Post Facto". In (2.04) "Elogium", he expressed compassion for Neelix's fear at becoming a parent and helped the latter come to a decision about starting a family with Kes. He was the only one who did not allow his fear or paranoia to get the best of him and realized that fighting the entity that was rearranging Voyager's structure might prove to be the best thing in (2.06) "Twisted". He managed to befriend Kes. In (2.22) "Innocence", he managed to offer comfort to a dying Voyager crewman and a group of alien children who had been abandoned to die by their kind. And for a man who was supposed to be an incompetent leader, he sure as hell managed to avoid any problems with leading the Security/Tactical Division.
If there is one scene before "Resolutions" that provided an excellent example of how compassionate Tuvok can be, one might as well return to his scene with the dying Ensign Bennet in "Innocence":
TUVOK: Tuvok to Voyager. Voyager, do you read? You must lie still.
BENNET: I can't, I can't feel my legs.
TUVOK: Several of the vertebrae have been fractured.
BENNET: Isn't there anything you can do?
TUVOK: I'm afraid the shuttle's medical supplies are inadequate. We must wait for Voyager to find us.
BENNET: It's getting worse. My whole body feels numb.
TUVOK: I want you to slow your breathing, relax your muscles. Try not to move.
BENNET: All this time I thought I was so lucky with no family back home. Nobody to miss. Now it seems kind of sad not to leave anybody behind.
TUVOK: I believe Ensign McCormick would miss you a great deal.
I realize that Lisa Klink wanted to create some kind of conflict between Tuvok and some of the crew in "Resolutions". But in painting Tuvok as an emotional iceberg incapable of compassion or seeing to the needs of others, I feel that she had went too far. This is quite evident in that the mutinous and obviously immature Harry Kim had been written with far more sympathy than Tuvok. It is no wonder that "Resolutions" has become one of my least favorite "VOYAGER" episodes.
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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" RETROSPECT: (4.08-4.09) "The Year of Hell"
Posted on October 19, 2012 by drush76
While reading some of the TREK forums and message boards over the years, I have noticed that many fans seemed to harbor mixed views of the "STAR TREK VOYAGER" Season Four two-part episode called (4.08-4.09) "The Year of Hell".
"The Year of Hell" began with the U.S.S. Voyager entering Krenim space, the same region of space that the former Ocampan crewman, Kes, had warned about in the Season Three episode called (3.21) "Before and After". Only Kes' description of Krenim space was set in an alternate timeline in which a very powerful race came dangerously close to destroying Voyager within a year. The Krenim space encountered by the Federation starship at the beginning of this episode seemed a lot more benign . . . until something or someone alters the timeline.
Unbeknownst to Voyager's crew, a Krenim military scientist named Annorax had developed a weapon ship designed to create temporal incursions. He used the to supervise the complete genocide of the Zahl, an enemy race that had ended the Krenim's status as a dominant power in their region of the Delta Quadrant. But the erasure of the Zahl nearly caused the destruction of the Krenim. Annorax's attempt to undo his actions led to the erasure of other worlds . . . and his wife from existence. And for two centuries, he has been creating one causality paradox after another in an attempt to get his wife back. However, one of Annorax's actions allowed a formerly harmless Krenim ship that Voyager had encountered at the beginning of the episode to develop into a powerful starship and inflict heavy damage upon the Federation ship. In this new timeline, Janeway and the rest of Voyager's crew are forced to endure a "year of hell", as they struggle to survive.
Screenwriters Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky created a fascinating and complex tale of what could have befallen Voyager if some of Kes' experiences in "Before and After" had occurred in their regular timeline. There have been occasions in which Voyager's crew had encountered more powerful alien vessels and societies. The starship was also captured by alien forces on two or more occasions. "The Year of Hell" featured the second time that Kathryn Janeway and her crew were forced to survive for a period of time in a damaged starship. But "The Year of Hell" took place during a period of nearly an entire year. Watching Voyager' become an increasingly uninhabitable vessel struck me as both fascinating and depressing. By the time Voyager was left with its senior staff (sans the kidnapped First Officer and Chief Pilot) after Janeway sent the rest of crew away in life pods, it had become a desolate place to be.
Braga and Menosky provided the episode with plenty of complex drama and characterizations. Kate Mulgrew gave an outstanding performance as a besieged Kathryn Janeway, determined to keep her crew alive and ship together by any means possible. Even if it meant sacrificing her health and sanity. The other outstanding performance came from guest star Kurtwood Smith, who portrayed the Krenim scientist, Annorax. Like Mulgrew, Smith portrayed his character as a leader determined to save or protect those he held dear – his species, his homeworld and especially his family. Unlike Janeway, Annorax's determination led to a more tragic conclusion. Both Janeway and Annorax – on a larger scale – reminded me a great deal of the Captain Nemo character from Jules Verne's 1870 novel, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
The supporting cast were given plenty of opportunities to shine. The best performances came from Tim Russ (Lieutenant-Commander Tuvok), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Paris) and Robert Picardo (the Doctor). Both Chakotay and Paris found themselves as prisoners aboard Annorax's time ship in Part II of the episode. This situation gave Beltran an opportunity to convey Chakotay's dismay at Annorax's abuse of temporal mechanics and his desire to help the Krenim scientist restore the damaged timeline. McNeill was excellent in portraying Paris' dismay at Chakotay's cooperation and impatient desire to stop Annorax and find Voyager. Russ gave a poignant performance as the uber-efficient Tuovk, who is forced to depend upon Seven-of-Nine as his guide after he lost his sight in an explosion. Picardo had two juicy scenes in which he gave it his all, involving the Doctor's moral dilemma in sacrificing several crewman in order to save a few and himself from the destruction of one of the ship's decks; and the Doctor's confrontation with Janeway over her careless attitude toward her health. Roxann Dawson, Garrett Wang and Jeri Ryan provided a bit of fun in a comedic scene in which Ensign Harry Kim, an injured Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres and Seven-of-Nine recalled a bit of Federation history from the 1996 movie, "STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT". And second guest star John Loprieno was excellent in his portrayal of Obrist, Annorax's first officer who becomes increasingly dismayed by the scientist's abuse of the time ship.
Unfortunately for "The Year of Hell", it has accumulated a good deal of negative comments about its ending. The mixed opinions of the entire episode stemmed from an ending that many fans viewed as a cop out. When Seven-of-Nine discovered a chroniton torpedo in one of the ship's Jeffries tubes, the crew realized they had been the victims of temporal manipulations. Seven used a devise on the torpedo to successfully shield Voyager against Annorax's time ship and any future temporal changes. However in Part II, Captain Janeway made an alliance with two species to attack the Krenim timeship. The remaining crew members move to the allied ships, while Janeway remained behind alone on Voyager to pilot the heavily damaged ship herself. After learning that the Krenim ship's temporal core had been placed offline and theorizing that the true timeline will be restored if the Krenim ship is destroyed, Janeway ordered the fleet to drop their temporal shields before ramming Voyager into the time ship. Her actions destroyed Voyager, caused the time ship to destabilize and erase from history . . . and reset the timeline to the day Voyager first encountered the temporal waves.
Many TREK fans accused the episode's writers of using the "reset button" to restore Voyager to its original timeline and erase the one featuring the year of hell. They also criticized Braga and Menosky for this act. Braga also did not want to use the "reset button" device. He wanted Voyager to remain wrecked for the rest of Season Four. But he failed to get his way, thanks to Paramount and producer Rick Berman. I do recall a fan fiction – a coda to the Season Seven episode (7.11) "Shattered" – that left Chakotay lost in time and both Janeway and Tuvok dead. As the new captain, Tom Paris was forced to land Voyager on an "M" class and order repairs on the ship that lasted for a year or more.
Recalling the state of Voyager in the alternate timeline, I saw no other fate for the ship if Janeway had not reset time. "Before and After" saw Voyager still traveling through Krenim space, despite its condition after nearly a year. But it did not look as damaged as it did right before the time reset in "The Year of Hell". The idea of a wrecked Voyager still traveling through space after nearly a year . . . strikes me as illogical. And how did Braga plan to deal with Annorax and the time ship? Did he have plans for the Krenim scientist to remain the series' main adversary for the rest of Season Four? Did he have plans for a series of plotlines featuring the adventures of the Voyager crew on an "M" class planet, while they repair the ship?
I am not saying that I am against the idea of time NOT being reset. But I still have bad memories of the early Season Three episodes of "BATTLESTAR GALACTICA", in which some of the colonists ended up as prisoners of the Cylons on some planet. And combining that with the knowledge of the "reset button" being used on many occasions, I find it difficult to get upset over the ending for "The Year of Hell". More importantly, I find it difficult to understand the fans and critics' reactions to the use of the "reset button". I guess I still find it so ridiculously strident, especially since such use of the plot device had been used so many times.
As far as I am concerned, "The Year of Hell" was a pretty damn good episode that featured an interesting twist on the Captain Nemo character and the alternate timeline subplot. It also featured superb performances from Kate Mulgrew and Kurtwood Smith, and some excellent acting from the rest of the cast. I am not surprised that it has remained one of my favorite episodes from the series' Season Four.
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"STAR TREK VOYAGER" RETROSPECTIVE: (3.24) "Displaced"
Posted on January 13, 2012 by drush76
I might as well be honest. I wish I could be objective about the "STAR TREK VOYAGER" Season Three episode,"Displaced". But I cannot. My feelings for this episode are too strong. Let me explain.
Lisa Klink wrote the teleplay for this episode about Voyager's crew members being replaced, one-by-one, with aliens from an unknown race. While arguing over a Klingon workout program that Chief Helmsman Tom Paris had created for the Holodeck, the pilot and Voyager's Chief Engineer, B'ElannaTorres, are interrupted by a strange alien that has appeared aboard ship from nowhere. This phenomenon occurs over and over again, until both Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay realizes that this new alien race – called the Nyrians – are bent upon taking control of Voyager . . . but without the use of brute force. Eventually, the entire crew end up as prisoners on a habitat that also contains prisoners from other races whose ships and colonies were also conquered by the Nyrians in a similar manner.
Amidst the alien takeover of the ship, the continuation of the blossoming relationship between the ship's Chief Helmsman, Lieutenant Tom Paris and Chief Engineer Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres hits a snag. In a previous episode called "Distant Origin", Paris had made a bet with Torres over the reason behind a ship malfunction. The Chief Helmsman won the bet and Torres was forced to participate with him in a Klingon exercise program in the Holodeck. Being inclined to avoid her Klingon heritage as much as possible, Torres resents that Paris is interested in all aspects of her entire self – both Human and Klingon. And later in the episode, both Torres and the Doctor revealed Tom's own insecurities and his tendency to use jokes to hide them.
Temperatures seemed to have played a major role in "Displaced". From Paris and Torres' heated argument over his Klingon martial arts program to the Nyrians and Torres' low tolerance of cold temperatures, and to finally the warm reconciliation between the two future lovers inside the Holodeck. It was good to see Voyager's crew – especially Janeway and Tuvok – work at retaking control of Voyager by utilizing the Nyrians' teleportation system. I especially found Janeway's ultimatums for the Nyrian leaders inside their habitat rather satisfying.
But what really made this episode rocked – at least for me – was the continuation of Paris and Torres' courtship that began when the Chief Pilot made his first overture in "The Swarm", earlier in the season. By the time "Displaced" had aired – some twenty episodes later – Paris has been in earnest pursuit of Torres. Lisa Klink had wonderfully brought out Paris' determination to reveal to Torres, his interest in everything about her – and that included both her Human and Klingon sides – despite how she may have felt about the latter. Klink also did an excellent job of revealing the pair's insecurities, which ended up providing many roadblocks to their romance and eventual marriage over three years later. Late Season Three and early Season Four had featured some of the best moments in the Paris/Torres relationship. At least until Season Seven. And among those gems included scenes from this episode.
Below are what I consider highlights from "Displaced":
*Paris and Torres' quarrel over the Klingon martial arts program
*Tuvok's revelation to Chakotay about his survival training experience on Vulcan
*Chakotay's attempts to defend the ship from the Nyrians, reliving his old role as a Maquis captain
*The Doctor's exposure of both Paris and Torres' insecurities inside the Nyrian habitat
*Torres' "I'm not hostile" conversation with Harry Kim and his fearful reaction to her tone
*Paris and Torres' frozen adventures inside another Nyrian habitat
*Janeway and Tuvok's efforts to gain control of the Nyrians' teleportation system
*Janeway's confrontation with the Nyrian leaders
As I had earlier stated, I wish I could be objective about this episode. But how can I? Even after eleven years, I still love it. Lisa Klink's teleplay seemed to feature everything – adventure, romance, humor, intrigue and rich characterization. It is easy to see why I consider "Displaced" to be one of the best "VOYAGER" episodes.
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Girl with the Banksy Accessory molested in Bristol.
Wait, what? Isn't that Banksy's M.O.?
Pop quiz, multiple choice: 1. Turnabout is fair play. 2. What goes around comes around. 3. Hoist by one's own petard.
Thank you so much for participating in this process and for your patience! Our jury for this competitive exhibit resulted in the final selection including 11 works by 9 artists. We received a total of 340 entries from 131 artists. Your exhibit is currently planned to be presented in our North Gallery, and it promises to be quite stunning!
I have Lauren Purje and Susan Sills to thank for the inspiration behind the three skull paintings I've completed in the past year and a half. Lauren challenged me to try a human skull–and the biggest challenge turned out to be simply getting my hands on one, which I've written about before. Once I'd completed and shown it, Susan stepped up and offered to loan me a baboon skull, which she'd come across on a trip to Africa, and gave me outright the cow skull I used for the painting that will be shown at Manifest. The baboon painting just came home from a show at Minot State University, and the human skull painting arrived home yesterday from the Tallahassee International at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts. These vanitas paintings are uniquely challenging but also uniquely rewarding: conveying the complexity of the surface of a weathered, aged skull, discolored from time in the soil, brings an unusual sense of fulfillment when it turns out well.
Edwin Dickinson may be one of the least known and least appreciated twentieth-century masters. The reasons probably have to do with the reticence of his best paintings–the quick, improvisational ones he called "premier coups" or "first strikes." These small, gestural canvases manage, with uncanny ease, to combine airiness and precision. In painting after painting we experience a rightness of scene, a simplicity and directness in suggesting, say, the haze of a summer's day, or the damp dispersal of seaside light. There is a softness about his paintings that seems the visual correlative of affection, an immediacy that seems a form of surrender to the view at hand. Dickinson's scrupulous attention to atmosphere, to the feel and prescence of light, to what is most ephemeral in our daily lives, give his paintings an elegiac cast. They are intimate depictions of nature at its most elusive and beguiling.
Anyone who wishes to elucidate the art of Edwin Dickinson (1891-1978) is confronted by a stubborn paradox: the painter developed and mastered two apparently contrary modes of expression, and skillfully mediated between them for more than fifty years. Dickinson's first way of working was manifested in large visionary canvases, for which a painstaking understanding of three-dimensional design was demanded. Created from memory and imagination, each elaborate painting could take years to construct, and the artist never deemed any of them completed to his satisfaction. Dickinson's second principal means of expression was manifested in several hundred landscapes distinguished by their air of spontaneity, liquid fracture, and vivacious handling. Painting directly from nature and out of doors, these canvases were created au premier coup, mainly in Western New York, Cape Code and rural France, each in one sitting. After a session of three or four hours, Dickinson considered a picture done and walked away from it . . .
Some current light bedside reading.
This past summer I was driving from Rochester to Chautauqua, to spend a few days helping Peter Georgescu put together a new book proposal, which turned out to be productive (and gave me a chance to work with Andrew Terrell, a very young former White House staffer who seems to know everything that's going to happen in Washington before it actually happens.) On my drive, somewhere in the Southern Tier, using a podcast app on my iPhone, I stumbled onto a program that has since become something I regularly listen to while painting: Entitled Opinions, by Robert Harrison, a professor of French and Italian at Stanford. It's an intellectual oasis, a golden island of conversation that constantly makes me whisper, yes, exactly to myself while I'm absorbing it. Its archive makes available ten years of programming, a buried treasure. I can't wait to make my way through it. Harrison's professorial post doesn't reflect his depth of learning in a wide variety of fields: either he's a very quick study or he retains everything he's investigated from decades of research and reading. Many of his guests also teach at Stanford, or Berkeley, or at another school here or in Europe. He's not only erudite but persists in thinking along lines that have been abandoned by many philosophers these days. As far as I can tell from my layman's perch, philosophy these days wants to find a safe harbor in brain research, rather than interrogating the mystery of things in a way that does little more than ponder unanswerable questions. These days thinking about consciousness tends to regard it as just one more phenomenon to be objectified, on the assumption that human nature is yet another biological mechanism to be understood and eventually improved upon through some kind of intervention. In the podcast I listened to in the car, a conversation about Heidegger with Thomas Sheehan, the guest and host mentioned at one point a philosophy convention where all the Heidegger specialists huddled in one corner and talked amongst themselves, with little contact with anyone else at the event, an anecdote that made me laugh with approval. Good for them! That image probably offers a clear picture of how much weight Continental philosophy carries these days in American academia.
The World's Biggest Drawing Festival runs throughout October; you can read more here. You can sample a charming children's book on drawing/painting/printing like the great artists from The Guardian here.
People say that Florence teaches you to see differently — that as the soft light moves across the ocher buildings, you see colors you never noticed before.
Little did he know he had only a month left to play it.
I've begun to have a deeper appreciation for deadlines. I've been painting on firm deadlines for a couple years now, first for a two-person show at Oxford Gallery in 2012, then a solo show at Viridian Artists this past summer and now another two-person show at Oxford in March, 2015. This last deadline is pushing me to do things I haven't done before, such as work on more than one painting at a time, and it's also motivating me to develop more efficient ways to paint.
I tend to work in successive shifts of three or four hours, with breaks for meals or errands. I'm learning to get more done in each of these windows of opportunity. I calculate exactly how much I need to finish on each day throughout a given month and then track whether or not I'm ahead or behind of my quota. I expect by the end of the work for this next show, I'll be producing probably twice as much work as I have in the same period of time in the past. One thing I've observed, no matter how much I'm enjoying work on a given painting, I procrastinate before sitting down and picking up a brush. Once I do, and once I put down the first mark of the day, it's as if I'm already at full speed. There's no ramping up, no acceleration: I'm fully immersed on the step-by-step progress of making the image come to life.
On balance, deadlines are helping me take my work to the next level, not only because it's making me refine my work methods, but also because there's no way to adhere to them without bringing the most focused sort of attention to the process. That attention—a heightened awareness of what I see and what I'm doing—is what it's really all about. It would be nice if I could bring it to my entire life.
The actual Bob Ross, not needing to sell real estate in Florida.
A friend sent me "Glengarry, Bob Ross" from McSweeney's. As I read it, I could see Baldwin, in a Malcolm Gladwell wig: First place, my BMW. Second place, a set of palette knives. Third place, penniless immortality.
The link will yield even funnier lines.
When I paint, as I've pointed out before, I listen to music or podcasts, often about comedy but also about history, music, and there's always Radiolab. I should get Audible.com but my attention to what I'm hearing contends with what I'm painting, so there would be way too much re-listening. Besides, for several years now, while listening to comedians talk casually about how they get by and do what they do, I'm constantly seeing parallels with a painter's life, at least in the range I'm doing it—getting some recognition and awards and some sales, now and then—but otherwise laboring away obscurely in Rochester, NY. At their best, comedians speak truths that make you uncomfortable, but in a way that lets you enjoy the discomfort—because you're laughing. It reminds me of Dave Hickey's dictum that art can depict something very uncomfortable as long as it does it beautifully—beguiling you into looking at what you don't particularly want to see. Jim Norton's recent address to Just for Laughs, a big comedy festival in Canada, was profoundly truthful about the enforced politesse of our PC culture. He talked about how comedians need to keep violating norms and conventions and rules for what can and can't be said in public, all in the pursuit of laughter. As he put it, murder isn't funny, but jokes about murder can be funny, and the laughter takes precedence over any responsibility for those who don't get the humor. Cruel laughter isn't the goal, but rather the laughter that's also a confession of recognition of truths in what might otherwise be censored in this culture of complaint about hurt feelings. Hurt feelings are a part of moving around in the vicinity of other people. Just walk down a sidewalk in New York City and five or six things or people will somehow affront your sense of self-importance or propriety or good taste. That walk will also make you feel utterly alive. Conversely, way too much art attempts to do what comedy legitimately does: shock people in a way you discover isn't so bad, once you realize the context, that it's art. (Or comedy.) I prefer art that seduces in such a way that you hardly realize you've been charmed. It requires you to pay attention, but doesn't fulfill your expectations that art needs to be radically unlike other art or just ordinary life. Shock value isn't high on my list of priorities. I can handle it with comedy and actually like it, if the shock is subtle and clever.
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Amir H. Fallah received his BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from UCLA in 2005. His past exhibits include shows at 4-F gallery, M.Y. Art Prospects, Laband Gallery, Cherrydelosreyes, OVERTONES gallery and the Scope Miami Art Fair. Amir Fallah's work will be included in the upcoming exhibition "Rogue Wave '07" at L.A. Louver, showcasing the art of emerging Los Angeles artists. He is currently represented by the Third Line Gallery in Dubai, UAE.
Amir H. Fallah lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Besides his work as an artist, Fallah is also the founder and Creative Director of Beautiful/Decay magazine that has evolved from a black & white xeroxed zine into an internationally distributed publication.


The grant supports Nordic publishing houses in translating and publishing literature from one Nordic country to another. In order to receive funding, you need to apply for the grant in the country in which the work was originally published. For the Faroe Islands, this means applying through FarLit.
The Nordic Council of Ministers' culture and arts programme has taken over the administration of the scheme to support the translation and production of literature and drama from one Nordic language to another. Grants are available for prose, poetry and drama, non-fiction of general interest (including essays and biographies), comic books and children's books. Grants are also awarded to special issues of magazines with a Nordic focus.
Special consideration is given to applications for grants for the translation of poetry and drama; and works which have been awarded the Nordic Council Prize for Literature will be accorded top priority for up to three years after winning the prize. Priority is also given to the minority language areas in the Nordic countries.
The Nordic Council of Ministers must be acknowledged on the title page and on the dust jacket or, in the case of paperback editions, on the back cover. In all of the above instances the logo of the Nordic Council of Ministers must also be displayed.
Each country sets its own application deadlines.


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Spain - Urban Heritage : TOLEDO (2014) MS
26-February-2015 01:28:12 AM
Stamp (Miniature Sheet)
Intaglio / Recess
Quantity Issued
Quite large miniature sheet, 22 x 17 cm and each stamp has a face value €1.
Stamps sizes:
The whole stamp was printed in intaglio process (raised-ink), giving a 3D looking and for my personal view: IT IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
JOINT URBAN HERITAGE
A total of 13 Spanish cities are part of the list of Joint Urban Heritage and recognized by UNESCO for the interest of their historical and artistic helmets. Toledo, heritage city and motive of this issue, has this designation since 1986.
Old imperial city and cultural center in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Toledo stands on a hill bathed by the Tagus River. Its urban layout has remained almost unchanged throughout the centuries, where its narrow, winding streets, flanked by Gothic, Moorish and Renaissance buildings, prove their historical past.
City museum and monuments, preserves the mixture of three cultures that populated the streets, Christian, Jewish and Muslim. It has a walled enclosure and different access points, such as the Alcantara bridge, the Gothic Bridge of San Martín, the Puerta del Sol, the door hinge, door and door Cambrón Valmardón. Among its most prominent buildings fit cite the Cathedral, the Gothic style; the Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes; the Church of Santo Tomé, in whose interior is the work of El Greco The Burial of the Count of Orgaz; the Mezquita del Cristo de la Luz, of Caliphate; the synagogues of Santa María la Blanca, and Traffic and monumental Alcázar.
Toledo, Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza / Eivissa, Merida, Salamanca, San Cristobal de la Laguna, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia and Tarragona, ie the 13 urban complexes heritage, founded in 1993 the Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain. This association, nonprofit, aims to act jointly in the defense and promotion of historical and cultural heritage of the cities that compose and defend common interests, explore solutions to similar problems and promote cultural tourism quality.
The souvenir sheet, printed in intaglio, reproduces a view of Toledo taken from the other bank of the Tagus. The stamps are spotting The Primate Cathedral of Saint Mary of Toledo and Alcázar.


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Q: How to refer to inherited attributes in Hibernate JPA @NamedEntityGraph? I've the following mapping in my project:
@Embeddable
class LineItem {
    ...
}

@Entity
abstract class Invoice {
    ...
    @ElementCollection @OrderColumn @NotEmpty
    List<LineItem> lineItems = []
    ...
}

@Entity
class PurchaseInvoice extends Invoice {
    ...
    @OneToOne(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval=true)
    Payment payment
    ...
}

@Entity
class Payment {
    ...
    @ElementCollection @OrderColumn
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    ...
}

@Embeddable
class PaymentTerm {
    ...
}

All collection assosications are lazy by default.  My goal is to create an entity graph that can be used to eagerly load PurchaseInvoice.lineItems and PurchaseInvoice.payment.paymentTerms.
If I define the following entity graph:
@NamedEntityGraph(name='PurchaseInvoiceWithDetail', attributeNodes = [
     @NamedAttributeNode(value='payment', subgraph='payment'),
     @NamedAttributeNode(value='lineItems')
], subgraphs = [
     @NamedSubgraph(name='payment', type=Payment, attributeNodes = [
         @NamedAttributeNode(value='paymentTerms')
     ])
])
@Entity
class PurchaseInvoice extends Invoice

I got the following Unable to build entity manager factory error:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to locate Attribute  with the given name [lineItems] on this ManagedType [PurchaseInvoice]

What is the proper way to refer to an attribute in superclass (or subclasses) in JPA 2.1 entity graph?

A: This is not supported as of hibernate-entitymanager 4.3.4.  This is what I found so far:

*

*@NamedAttributeNode can't be used to refer to superclass' attributes.

*includeAllAttributes=true will include all attributes including superclass' attributes.

*@NamedAttributeNode in subgraph can refer to superclass' attributes.

A: Maybe it is a simple syntax- problem in the definition of the graph? In my opinion the definition does not contain square brackets.
I've tested your code and it was ok.
See:Developerblog

A: According to this link, this is a Hibernate bug and claimed to be fixed in version 4.3.6


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Last Saturday I heard a terrific wedding toast. There we were, entertaining at a gorgeous wedding outside the Madrona Manor on the hottest day of this year so far. It was 106 degrees at 3pm.
Maybe the heat inspired the father-of-the bride's wedding toast. He began with a few charming stories about "how did we all get here". And he concluded by tying all the stories together and urging everyone to "go for it". That is, to set your heart on a goal and pursue it with all your might.
In a brief way, it was similar to Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford University. You've heard it? This speech is one reason so many people, myself included, admire Steve Jobs and the values he cherished.
Back to the wedding toast. It often contains praise for the happy couple, a few jokes, and some excellent advice for living well. Similar to many of the school commencement speeches we're hearing these days.
I've witnessed some remarkable wedding toasts over the years. Now I'll be paying more attention to them, and I'll report a few more here from time to time.
Planning music for a wedding reception is one obvious way to personalize the celebration. I help people plan their wedding music and party music all the time. And of course, the wedding toast is another wonderful way to personalize the festivities.
Personally, I enjoy hearing toasts, and occasionally giving them. In fact, I recently posted a New Year's Eve toast in my blog. Not a wedding toast, but the sentiment is real, just the same.
How about YOU? Are you preparing a wedding toast? Ever deliver one?
Not a wedding toast — but an anniversary toast for my sister's 25th coming up. I will have to make it as personal as possible. Thanks for the inspiration!
Interesting…I never thought of how a wedding toast and a commencement speech could be similar. Now I am going to be watching.
Is it bad that I don't even remember the toast at our wedding?


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No Fenders -Formula 1, IndyCar and A Whole lot more..: F1: What's Next, Turn-signal Blinkers?
Congratulations Uncle Bernaughty, Kristian Horner and 'lil Sid Viddle. You've managed to Wind Up everybody at the start of Formula 1's prestigious Winter Olympics, nee F1 testing; Hmm? May be there should be a new Medallion category created?
And Mission Accomplished! As seriously? Why are we even remotely considering the thought of Reverse Grids? I mean what's next, Sprint Races ergo GP2? And while we're at it how 'bout adding those track sprinkler systems? Kerb Feelers'; Hmm? May be Triple points for Pole, two-points for; Uhm? Don't wanna give the revered StratsDuh-GEE! Group any novel ideas!
Or perhaps just rolling out some Super Soakers on random bits of Ash-fault! And then again how 'bout adding a Joker-lap complete with track cutout lanes?
Although Nico might use his silver medal to smack Louise over the head on the winner's rostrum, eh?
As Here's your Sign Bernie!
Congratulations, with leaders like you, its NO wonder Formula 1's going down the tubes!
Should Formula 1 use reverse grids?


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Researchers are developing a bra that can detect breast cancer
Manuel Rueda
http://fus.in/1V7EAhG
A group of scientists in Colombia has developed a bra that can detect breast cancer, according to a report from the country's largest public university.
The new bra is outfitted with tiny infra-red sensors that record breast temperatures and deliver a quick warning signal if any irregularities are detected.
"When you have cells in your mammary glands that are anomalous, the body needs to send more blood to that specific part of the body, and the temperature of this organ increases," said Maria Camila Cortes, an electrical engineering student at Colombia's National University who is working on the cancer-detecting bra.
"We don't want to replace a doctor's job," added Maria Jaramillo, a fellow researcher. "The idea is to develop a technique that will help with [early] detection."
The new anti-cancer bra is currently being tested in the university's labs and still doesn't have an official name or rollout date.
But Jaramillo says researchers are hoping that they can eventually take their bra to the market, and mass produce it at an affordable price point.
The bra wouldn't be Colombia's first lingerie export.
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— Maria Estrada (@fajasycorsets) February 2, 2016
The South American nation is already well known in the garments industry for its lingerie and body-shaping corsets. In 2014, Colombia exported $17 million worth of women's undergarments.
The anti-cancer bra, however, would be fashion meets science. Each bra will be equipped with sensors and three small lights that can deliver a reading after only a few minutes of use. A green light indicates no problems, a yellow light indicates the need to conduct another test, and a red light is a sign that the user needs to see a doctor for a proper medical exam.
Researchers said the bra also has a chip that saves breast temperature recordings for further analysis by doctors.


The Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth in Macomb County created by Executive Order 2006-11 is abolished.
Executive Orders 2006-11 and 2006-22 are rescinded in their entirety.
The provisions of this Order are effective upon filing.


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WATCH: What It's Like to Spend 55 Days in Space
Marsha Ivins on Space Shuttle Columbia, 1997.NASA
Climate Desk has launched a new science podcast, Inquiring Minds, cohosted by contributing writer Chris Mooney and neuroscientist and musician Indre Viskontas. To subscribe via iTunes, click here. You can also follow the show on Twitter at @inquiringshow, and like us on Facebook.
There aren't many people on Earth who have spent more of their life in space than Marsha Ivins.
A veteran of five Space Shuttle missions—in 1990, 1992, 1994, 1997, and 2001—Ivins has spent a total of 55 days in orbit, on missions devoted to such diverse tasks as deploying satellites, conducting scientific research, and docking with Mir and the International Space Station. Her jobs? Flight engineer, load master, robot arm operator, and photography manager, among other things.
In this interview (click above to stream audio or watch the video below) with Inquiring Minds cohost Indre Viskontas, Ivins relates what it's like to live in orbit—for instance, how your body and brain slowly adapt to the fact that no single direction is up or down. She also discusses some things you might not have known about space: why astronauts tend to be type-A personalities, for instance, and why Canada is so proud of the International Space Station's robotic arm.
Plus, for the benefit of geeks across the universe, Ivins explains why the Borg cube from Star Trek can maneuver just as well as any starfighter that Hollywood has ever dreamed up. "In space, they're one and the same," says Ivins.
Marsha Ivins aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis, 2001 NASA
In the interview, Ivins reflects broadly on where human space endeavors now stand. She discusses why publicly supported space missions are still vital, what it will take to get us to Mars and beyond, and why solving advanced space travel problems (problems involving energy and propulsion) might simultaneously help us solve many of our problems on Earth—perhaps including global warming.
The interview comes at a dismaying time for the US space program. Compared with the space race heyday of the 1960s, the percentage of the federal budget devoted to NASA has steadily dwindled. "We spent 4 and a half percent of the fiscal budget, and we went to the moon, from having never been to space, in nine years," says Ivins on the show. "That's astounding. And we did that, and the United States was the technological leader of the globe from that point on. Not so much any more." Today the NASA budget is about half a percent of total federal expenditures. As Neil deGrasse Tyson has noted, that means that if you held up a US taxpayer's dollar, and cut into it that much, "it doesn't even get you into the ink."
Moreover, it's not clear that private space initiatives are the answer to the problem. "Space exploration is not an immediate payback, fiscally or otherwise," Ivins says. "It is a generational kind of investment. And the only group that can afford to make that kind of an investment is a government."
Aurora Australis, from the International Space Station NASA
Ivins believes there would be dramatic payoffs from large-scale space exploration investments, of the sort that the United States made in the 1960s. That might include developing new sources of renewable energy that would not only be vital for long-range space travel, but could also help solve problems, like global warming, here at home. "When you develop something, in order to enable something like a space mission to Mars, it's got enormous payback on the Earth," says Ivins.
Marsha Ivins, smiling in space NASA
More generally, Ivins thinks our culture simply needs to fall back in love with space, and what it means that humanity can, if it chooses, go there. "You are off the planet. Think about those words. 'I am off the planet.' You don't get to say that [much].
"And I think 50 years from now, I would hope 20 years from now, it's not a big deal to be off the planet, any more than it is to be at 30,000 feet in an airplane."
The podcast interview with Marsha Ivins is available for audio livestream and also as video. The video is also embedded below.
This episode of Inquiring Minds also features a discussion about new developments in science, including research suggesting that political biases are so pervasive that they can interfere with your ability to do math, and mounting evidence of the dangers of head injuries received from playing football.
To subscribe to the Inquiring Minds podcast via iTunes, click here. You can also follow the show on Twitter at @inquiringshow and like us on Facebook.
Video: Fly Along With NASA's Cloud Hunters
Tim McDonnell and James West
NASA: We've Made Progress on Obama's Asteroid-Lasso Initiative
Why Darrell Issa Should Hold Hearings on Space Aliens
How NASA Used Social Media to Tell America the World Is Not Ending in 2012


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Henri Puolitaival
We all know the modern-day Detroit is a desolate, lonely place encompassed by industrial factory buildings – urban wasteland. That's where several world-renown artists drew their influences to create the innovative and cold sounds of techno filled with soulful warmth. This is something that one could never imagine happening in Finland, thousands of miles away from Detroit, a land encompassed with forests, lakes and beautiful nature rather than destroyed life. And yet from the northern parts of Finland we can find Henri Puolitaival, whose feeling and thoughts delivered through the music is strongly influences by the Detroit sound. Henri's music is deep and fresh yet paying respect to the original masters.
Henri's style is soulful, funky and his compositional skills are clearly in the foreground. He is a truly capable drum programmer and can put real mood in his playing, but the compositions and arrangements of his tracks are something really distinct. Henri's first release was "Sommarens Bästa Minne EP" – Swedish for "the best memory of the summer" – on Metrotraks, a commercial netlabel on Summer 2004. Already on the first release showed his talent for building songs instead of just looping a four-to-the-floor rhythm for five minutes, and one's attention seemed to be drawn by nature to the most important issue – the music itself.
The most amazing thing is that Henri was approximately fifteen (15!) years old when he made his first release. His first tracks were already aired by a national radio station in Finland years ago. What were you doing when you were eleven years old? This true talent was making killer tracks at that age. If this is what he can do now, we really can't wait what he'll be able to come up with in five years to the future.
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The Financial Services Authority has decided to fine JP Morgan Cazenove's chairman of capital markets, Ian Hannam, £450,000 after it judged that he had disclosed insider trading information in two emails.
The regulator said that Hannam had committed market abuse - even if not intentionally - after disclosing insider information on Heritage Oil Plc to a prospective client, in emails on 9 September and 8 October 2008. At the time, Hannam was JP Morgan's lead adviser to Heritage and regularly spoke with its chief executive.
The matter will now go to the Upper Tribunal, after Hannam resigned and said he would contest the case there. Hannam also said he had been under immense pressure at work, and that no-one in his team had raised concerns about the information sent. The Tribunal will issue a verdict on whether to uphold or cancel the fine.
The September email contained information about a potential offer for Heritage and the October email contained information about a new oil find by Heritage, the FSA said.
As it issued a decision notice, the FSA said it "accepts that Hannam did not set out to commit market abuse, but considers that Hannam's failings were serious in view of his experience and senior position within JP Morgan".
Tracey McDermott, acting FSA director of enforcement and financial crime, added: "Inside information is extremely valuable and must be handled with care to ensure that it is properly controlled and that appropriate safeguards are observed. This applies to all market participants but is particularly important for senior practitioners who will regularly interact with a wide circle of contacts".
Hannam, who is currently understood to be advising the mining mega-merger between Glencore and Xstrata, said in a statement today: "It is important to note that the FSA has not challenged my fit and proper status and has accepted that I acted with honesty and integrity. It has also accepted that I was acting in the best interests of my client and no one benefited or was damaged."


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Ryan Dungey wins Unadilla National
NEW BERLIN, N.Y. (AP) — Ryan Dungey won the Unadilla National on Saturday for third victory in last four rounds and fourth this season in the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship.
Dungey, the Red Bull KTM rider from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, won the first 450 Class moto and was second in the second. He's second in the standings, seven points behind teammate Ken Roczen with two events left.
Honda's Trey Canard was second, finishing fourth in the first moto and winning the second. Honda's Eli Tomac was third after two third-place runs, and Roczen was fourth overall.
Valli Motorsports Yamaha's Christophe Pourcel won the 250 Class for his first victory of the season. The Frenchman won the first moto and finished second in the second.
Yamaha's Jeremy Martin was second. He was third in the first moto and won the second.


The India Wearable Sensors Market is expected to increase to USD 18.30 Million by 2018 at a CAGR of 48.50%.
The India wearable sensors market size is high because of the usage of these wearable sensor devices in the healthcare vertical to observe biological activities which includes heartbeat, temperature and blood pressure.
Technology, application, and vertical segment the India wearable Sensors Market. By the Wearable Sensor industry is prominent due to its extensive application range such as Wrist Wear, Eye Wear, Neck Wear, and Body Wear. This Wearable Sensor Market is into many verticals like healthcare, chemical, oil and gas, logistics', packaging.
Intel acquired Mobileye on March 3, 2017. With the latest innovation in the wearable sensor which is built from carbon nanotubes making the sensor more flexible. The smartphones capture these nanotubes which are wrapped in the insulating material when exposed to some toxic gases signals. And this fairy tale triggered these sensors to use on the battlefield.
The use of capacitor sensors in the wearable's in sports, animation, VR and Bluetooth. This innovation is called as "Rubber in Hands" by the CEO.


It's that time of year! That's right. It is the ideal time to sign up with your local community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. With a CSA, you pay an upfront subscription fee to a local farmer for a share of the season's harvest. This includes fresh produce and, in some cases, eggs and other animal products. These items are typically delivered on a weekly basis all summer.
By joining a CSA, you receive fresh, locally-grown produce — as opposed to what you might find at a typical store, which, picked early, has likely traveled upwards of 1500 miles to get to you (on average).
With a CSA, you will get a chance to learn about new, locally-grown vegetables and fruits, and build a relationship with your local farmer. In addition, you can save money and buy local, rewarding your dollars to a more sustainable food system.
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Der Gioco del Pallone ist eine Mannschaftssportart, die auf dem Apennin entstand und in Italien bis ins 20. Jahrhundert gespielt wurde.

Geschichte
Der Gioco del Pallone (deutsch: Ballonspiel) war eine aus Italien stammende Mannschaftssportart, die zur Kategorie der Rückschlagspiele zählt. Ziel des Spieles ist es den Ball in die gegnerische Hälfte des Spielfeldes zu befördern. Größing (1996) vermutet eine eigenständige Entwicklungsgeschichte des Pallonespiels und verneint eine direkte Verwandtschaft zu den beiden in der italienischen Antike gebräuchlichen Ballspiele "Harpastum" und "Trigon". Entstanden sein dürfte das mit Regelwerk überlieferte Pallonespiel in der Zeit im 14. Jahrhundert. Der Mönch Bernhardin von Siena berichtet um 1400 von einem Ballspiel, das in den Straßen der Stadt gespielt wurde. Im Jahre 1555 veröffentlicht Antonio Scaino sein "Trattato del giuoco della palla" in dem die Regeln des Pallonespiels beschrieben werden.
Das Pallonespiel blieb in Italien bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert populär und wurde auch von Berufspielern betrieben. Goethe hat auf seinen Reisen durch Italien solchen Spielen beigewohnt. In seiner Italienischen Reise beschreibt er ein Pallonespiel, das er im Jahre 1786 in Verona beobachtete. Aber auch in Frankreich, Spanien und England hat man dieses Spiel gekannt, und aus einer Zeichnung aus dem Jahre 1644 des in Hamburg lebenden Holländers Arnold Petersen ist ersichtlich, dass es im 17. Jahrhundert auch vor den Toren Hamburgs gespielt wurde.

Zu den erhaltenen Pallone-Spielstätten gehört das zwischen 1819 und 1829 erbaute Sferisterio an der Piazza Mazzini in Macerata. An das alte Ballspiel erinnert auch die Piazza Gioco del Pallone außerhalb der Stadtmauern von Torrita di Siena.

Spielausstattung

Zur Grundausstattung des Pallonespiels zählten ein Ball (palla) sowie ein Unterarmschutz (bracciale), der das Spielen des vergleichsweise schweren Balles erleichterte.

Beim Ball handelte es sich um einen mit Luft gefüllten Lederball, der an Umfang und Gewicht im Verlauf der Geschichte verlor. Im 16. Jahrhundert betrug der Umfang ca. 32 Zentimeter und das Gewicht ca. 800 Gramm, während aus dem 18. Jahrhundert ein Umfang von ca. 20 Zentimetern und 500 Gramm überliefert sind. Bis zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts reduzierte sich das Gewicht noch einmal um 300 Gramm und der Umfang schrumpfte gar auf 9 Zentimeter. Das durch ein Ventil aufblasbare Innere bestand aus einer Schweins- oder Rinderblase, musste jedoch sehr häufig, alle paar Schläge, mit Luft nachbefüllt werden. Insgesamt standen bei jedem Spiel drei Bälle zur Verfügung, um einen durchgehenden Spielfluss zu garantieren.

In den Anfängen des Gioco del Pallone verwendeten die Spieler Stoff oder Leder, das sie sich um die Unterarme banden, um so einen Schutz gegenüber dem zu spielenden schweren Ball zu gewährleisten. Ab der Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts ersetzte man diese Stoff- bzw. Lederteile durch das Bracciale, einen hölzernen, mit Stacheln besetzten Unterarmschutz, den die Spieler über die immer noch bandagierten Unterarme stülpten. Ein in der Hand gehaltenes Stück Holz verhinderte das Verlieren des Bracciale. Mithilfe des mit Stacheln besetzten Armschutzes wurde ein genaueres Rückschlagen des Balles ermöglicht. Bezeichnet wurde dieser Unterarmschutz bevorzugt als "Bracciale", aber auch als "Busuole" oder "Manipola". Die deutschsprachigen Bezeichnungen lauten "Britschal", "Nagelstulpe" oder "Holzmuffen".

Wurde das Pallonespiel an einer Stadtmauer ausgetragen, so konnte diese in das Spielgeschehen mit einbezogen werden und ermöglichte weitere taktische Maßnahmen durch ein indirektes Spielen des Balles.

Regeln

Mannschaftszusammensetzung
Eine Mannschaft bestand aus zwei bis vier Spielern (in der Beschreibung Scainos sind es drei Spieler), es nahmen also höchstens acht Spieler an einem Pallonespiel teil. Die gebräuchlichste Spielvariante, die aus bildlichen Quellen überliefert ist, weist drei Spieler pro Mannschaft auf.

Spielbeginn und Punktgewinn
Zu Beginn eines Ballwechsels wirft ein Zuspieler (Pallonero) den Ball aus zwei bis drei Metern Entfernung auf. Der Aufschläger versucht nun den Ball mit dem Arm oder der Faust möglichst kraftvoll in die gegnerische Hälfte zu befördern. Die Wucht des Aufschlages wurde zum Teil durch ein Herunterlaufen des Aufschlägers von einer schiefen Ebene vergrößert. Die rückschlagende Mannschaft musste nun versuchen, den Ball zu retournieren. Das konnte direkt geschehen oder nach Annahme bzw. Zuspiel eines Hintermannes durch einen im vorderen Bereich des Feldes platzierten Angreifer. Punktgewinne konnten je nach Vereinbarung und Spielvariante nach ein- oder zweimaligem Bodenkontakt des Balles erzielt werden.

Zählweise
Die Zählweise war gleich der im heutigen Tennis. Der erste Punktgewinn einer Mannschaft zählte 15, der zweite addierte sich zu 30, der dritte 45 (später 40) und der vierte Punktgewinn brachte den Sieg. Bei einem Stand von 40:40 entscheidet nicht der nächste Punktgewinn, vielmehr war ein Vorsprung von zwei Punkten nötig. Somit ergaben sich folgende beiden, leicht veränderlichen, Spielverläufe:

Eine Mannschaft gewinnt das Spiel mit maximal zwei Verlustpunkten

Eine Mannschaft gewinnt das Spiel mit mindestens drei Verlustpunkten:

Die Ursprünge dieser Zählweise vermuten Spielforscher in der Währung Louisdor. Ein Louis d'or entsprach 60 Kreuzern.

Vergleiche zu heute gebräuchlichen Ballsportarten
Tennis

Zählweise in 15er-Schritten sowie die Vorteilsregel bei 40:40 Gleichstand. Punktverlust bei zweimaligem Bodenkontakt des Balles.

Volleyball

Punktverlust bei einmaligem Bodenkontakt des Balles. Annahmeposition bzw. Zuspieler und Angreifer. Größe des Spielballes.

Faustball

Spielfeldgröße und Austragung im Freien. Punktverlust bei zweimaligem Bodenkontakt des Balles. Spielen des Balles mit dem Unterarm. Größe des Spielballes sowie ein erhöhtes Gewicht im Vergleich zum Volleyball.

Literarische Überlieferung
Johann Wolfgang v. Goethe schreibt am 16. September 1786 in seinem Reisetagebuch Italienische Reise:
"Als ich heute wieder von der Arena wegging, kam ich einige tausend Schritte davon zu einem modernen öffentlichen Schauspiel. Vier edle Veroneser schlugen Ball gegen vier Vicentiner. Sie treiben dies sonst unter sich das ganze Jahr, etwa zwei Stunden vor Nacht; diesmal, wegen der fremden Gegner, lief das Volk unglaublich zu. Es können immer vier- bis fünftausend Zuschauer gewesen sein. Frauen sah ich von keinem Stand. Vorhin, als ich vom Bedürfnis der Menge in einem solchen Fall sprach, hab' ich das natürliche zufällige Amphitheater schon beschrieben, wie ich das Volk hier übereinander gebaut sah. Ein lebhaftes Händeklatschen hört' ich schon von weiten, jeder bedeutende Schlag war davon begleitet. Das Spiel aber geht so vor sich: In gehöriger Entfernung voneinander sind zwei gelind abhängige Bretterflächen errichtet. Derjenige, der den Ball ausschlägt, steht, die Rechte mit einem hölzernen breiten Stachelringe bewaffnet, auf der obersten Höhe. Indem nun ein anderer von seiner Partei ihm den Ball zuwirft, so läuft er herunter dem Ball entgegen und vermehrt dadurch die Gewalt des Schlages, womit er denselben zu treffen weiß. Die Gegner suchen ihn zurückzuschlagen, und so geht es hin und wider, bis er zuletzt im Feld liegen bleibt. Die schönsten Stellungen, wert in Marmor nachgebildet zu werden, kommen dabei zum Vorschein. Da es lauter wohl gewachsene, rüstige, junge Leute sind, in kurzer, knapper, weißer Kleidung, so unterscheiden sich die Parteien nur durch ein farbiges Abzeichen. Besonders schön ist die Stellung, in welche der Ausschlagende gerät, indem er von der schiefen Fläche herunter läuft und den Ball zu treffen ausholt, sie nähert sich der des Borghesischen Fechters. Sonderbar kam es mir vor, dass sie diese Übung an einer alten Stadtmauer, ohne die mindeste Bequemlichkeit für die Zuschauer vornehmen; warum sie es nicht im Amphitheater tun, wo so schöner Raum wäre!"

Mehr beiläufig wird das Pallone-Spiel auch in E. T. A. Hoffmanns Erzählung Das steinerne Herz erwähnt.

Darstellungen in der Kunst

Unter den 15 erhaltenen Zwergfiguren, die im Zuge einer Neugestaltung des Mirabellgartens in Salzburg durch Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach ab 1690 aufgestellt wurden, sind zwei als Pallone-Spieler gekennzeichnet. Der eine ist mit einer Bracciale und einem Ball als Aufschläger ausgestattet. Der zweite hat als Rückschläger nur die Bracciale als Ausrüstung.

Pallone-Spieler schufen auch die in Rom tätigen Bildhauer Heinrich Kümmel (1837/38) und Ferdinand Schlöth (1863).

Literatur
 Stefan Größing: Pallone – ein aristokratisches Ballspiel, in: Günther Bauer (Hrsg.): Homo Ludens. Der spielende Mensch IV. Verlag Emil Katzbichler. München/Salzburg. 1996.
 Johann Christoph Friedrich Guts Muths: Spiele zur Übung und Erholung des Körpers und Geistes, 2. Aufl., Schnepfenthal 1796.
 Peter Streitwolf: Ein fürstliches Ballspielgerät aus Heidelberg, in: Ethnographisch-archäologische Zeitschrift 34 (1993), S. 400–431.

Einzelnachweise

Ballspiel
Rückschlagspiel

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Lands End - digital innovator once more, but not chasing 'pretty' stores?
By Stuart Lauchlan March 24, 2019
Digital innovation is back to being the norm, claims CEO, but profits plunge year-on-year.
One step forwards, two steps back - a wise move when you're on a cliff edge, but less so if you're Lands End. But that's the situation the US retailer finds itself in again, turning in a 59% year-on-year drop in profit for its latest quarter, while sales fell 1.6% to $502.3 million.
Despite the numbers, CEO Jerome Griffith boasts that progress has been made to " leverage our data to become a more digitally-led organization, adapting to ongoing shifts in customer shopping behaviors". He argues that this in fact a return to basics for the retailer:
Operationally, we function like the digital innovator that we were once famous for being.
That may be a characteristic of Lands End that has escaped universal attention, but Griffith insists that the past year has seen a return to some best practices:
We were agile, we took a test and learn approach to our website innovations, and we were nimble in our response to changes in customer trends. Specifically, we focused on our internal and external search efforts, improved mobile site speed and leveraged the price clarity across all platforms.
The result of these efforts? Double digital US e-commerce sales growth - and coming from one platform in particular, says Griffith:
Sales on mobile devices grew more than three times as fast as the total. In fact, during the quarter, mobile traffic exceeded desktop traffic for the first time.
That has implications for where to focus investment, he adds:
Our work on search will continue to focus on key items, seasonality investments and updates designed to better align with our customer search habits. We understand that our customer is increasingly discovering Lands End via search on their smartphone. So we are expanding initiatives centered on the customer's experience by offering personalized messaging, improved product presentation, and a faster website.
Not just pretty stores
In common with other retailers, Lands End has also had to make a decision about its relationship with Amazon - threatening presence or complementary route to market? It's the latter option that Griffith points to:
While we're making it easier than ever to shop through our own stores and website, we see tremendous potential to increase brand awareness and expand our customer reach, by selling Lands' End products on third party marketplaces in the US and internationally. We began selling key items on Amazon in the US last year, and during the fourth quarter, we also began selling on Amazon in Germany.
It's early days, he admits, but the initial signs are promising:
Even though this business remains very small, we're encouraged to see that more than half of our Amazon customers are new to the brand, while in general, customers who shop with us on Amazon have similar characteristics to customers in our other channels. We do note that for the holiday season, a new Amazon customer skews slightly younger and more male, and items that are selling well on Amazon are the same key items that are selling well through our own stores and website, which reinforces that our product and merchandise strategies are working.
Stores remain part of the equation and with the collapse of Sears and the expansion of Lands End's own outlets, there's some positive data with sales in company-operated stores rising 15.1% year-on-year. The Sears demise has actually turned into a potential benefit for Lands End, building out a store infrastructure without having to lose the 'bloat' that many others still struggle with.
That allows for some strategic manoeuvrability. Griffith says:
I've never been a fan of opening up stores just to make yourself look pretty. They need to be profitable and they are and they will be. I will say, when you look at stores today, I don't believe that you can just look at four walls and say this makes a store good or not.
I think, with the way that customers are shopping today, they want what they want where and when they want it. So our customers interact with us in the stores but they've also interacted with us online. So we're really looking at the total trading area to say what does a store actually bring to us for the customer experience in the trading area?.'
One manifestation of this thinking is the use of more tech within the stores themselves:
You'll notice inside the stores, our employees carry i-pads. We have kiosks in the store, so that you can interact with us online, because based upon the size of the store there's no way that they can carry the full range of product that we offer in the store. But we don't want to penalize the customer. We want the customer to have a great shopping experience. So therefore we make the full line available to them in a different way.
As with all our distribution channels, our retail stores represent the Lands' End American Heritage aesthetic making it easy for customers to find our products in an inviting, brand appropriate setting, while also enabling us to better engage and connect with our customers…We're also encouraging customers to shop on our in-store web portals where we can showcase our full online assortment and we've observed that our new stores are driving a larger percentage of these sales.
Behind the scenes, a new ERP implementation is nearing completion, while an enterprise Order Management System rollout is getting underway. Next up will be a Warehouse Management System project, currently being scoped. These back-end upgrades will enable greater agility moving forward, says Griffith:
With our updated ERP system in place, we're enabled to build on that backbone and upgrade the way we take, process and fulfill orders across our enterprise. We expect that the Enterprise Order Management system will enable us to better utilize inventory across our company and allow for numerous fulfilment options, such as Buy Online, Pickup In Store, and Buy Online, Ship to Store.
The store growth looks encouraging, but then again it's starting from a very low base. The digital growth numbers remain consistent - and that's probably the story of Lands End in 2018. No great disasters, but no great progress - keep on, keeping on. It's not the greatest story of retail digital transformation, but nor is it the worst.
Image credit - Lands End
Retail e-commerce and the omni-channel


BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:47 P.M.) – Moments ago, vanguard forces of the Syrian Army scored a major advance inside rebel-controlled areas of Damascus' East Ghouta region, seizing the militant stronghold towns of Uataya, An-Nashabiyah and Hazrama.
The victory was achieved after an entire day of heavy clashes between the Syrian Army and rebel forces of the Jaysh al-Islam faction near to and inside Uataya.
In the end, superior firepower in the form of tanks, artillery and airstrikes would propel Syrian troops to overrun all militant defense lines and strong-points within the town.
By this advance, the Syrian Army virtually isolated the towns of An-Nashabiyah and Hazrama from all other militant-held areas within East Ghouta and de facto split to the insurgent pocket into two.
However, when the Syrian Army entered An-Nashabiyah and Hazrama, it found the towns to be completely bereft of insurgent fighters who had fled both settlements in the final hours of the Uataya battle to avoid being encircled.
Thus in a day of campaigning, the Syrian Army has managed to wrest control of three large towns in East Ghouta which for years prior represented unbreachable militant strongholds.
I get confused by the many names of these groups! So to keep it simple, I just support whatever Assad is supporting and I know I can't be far wrong.
Hope they also circumvented some more defence lines.
Syria should place snipers alongside the humanitarian gateways – wait for terrorists to fire, see where it's coming from and kill the terrorists. Why can't they do this? They're doing the right thing by breaking down the whole and working on bits at a time. Good luck, guys! My best wishes go to you along with my prayers for your safety!


These are the notes that should be in the students' Interactive Science Notebook (ISN). This is helpful when calculating success rate and percentage.
This is additional information based on the Bottle Flipping STEM completed in class.
Students used this packet to complete their Bottle Flipping STEM Learning Experience.


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The last American soldiers to leave Kabul ended the 20-year war in Afghanistan
View of Kabul Airport on the evening of August 30. – / AFP
This is the end of twenty years of American life in Afghanistan. The last American soldiers to leave Kabul, the Pentagon announced on Monday, August 30, the end of the longest war in U.S. history.
The last C-17 took off from Kabul Airport on August 30. At 10:30 p.m., General Kenneth McKenzie, who heads the KST, Afghanistan-based federal command, told a news conference.
"If military evacuations are completed, the diplomatic mission of more qualified American citizens and those seeking to leave Afghanistan will continue.", General Added.
For eighteen days since August 14, US and its allies have evacuated more than 123,000 civilians from Hamid-Karzai International Airport, a senior official said.
The footage was heard Tuesday after the U.S. military confirmed they were leaving.
The U.S. military intervened in 2001 on the orders of President George W. Bush to hunt down al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks.
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Daniel Fackler joined the Department of Structural Change and Productivity in December 2014. His research focuses on empirical labour economics.
Daniel Fackler earned a diploma and doctoral degree from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.