The "Holographic Press Release" has been launched by You Are Here Labs (YAH). YAH is a company based in the USA that specialises in immersive experiences. Their main work focuses on virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. They now claim to have launched the world's first holographic press release.
YAH's system records 360-degree and 180-degree holograms that can be shared on social media platforms. The "Holographic Press Release" uses 3D capture and volumetric video. Volumetric video is a feature already integrated on Facebook and Snapchat. This means that user's won't need to download an app or visit a separate website to experience holographic video.
The "Holographic Press Release" can be used to showcase people and products as interactive, 3D holograms. This can help breath life into a brand's press releases by giving recipients a new experience that they haven't seen before. Standing out from the crowd is a difficult task for companies announcing new products or updates. The use of immersive technology can capture the attention of audiences and increase the level of engagement.
"Our holographic approach is aimed at physical objects, including people. Once the 'hologram' is placed in the world, users can move around it, viewing from any angle and distance. Cathy's hologram was purposely displayed at 180° or half of the capture in order to meet file size limitations for platforms like Snapchat and Facebook. We are already working to increase what can be done within these limits." – Ricardo Olivo, Vice President of Innovation Technologies.


BGI Australia launched its laboratory this May, bringing BGI's proprietary genome-sequencers BGISEQ-500 and BGISEQ-50 into Australia, the first of its kind to operate in the southern hemisphere. This talk will showcase the BGISEQ's technical capabilities and present case studies of collaborations with Australian scientists using these new sequencers. Powered by combinatorial Probe-Anchor Synthesis (cPAS), improved DNA Nano Ball (DNB) and pattern array technologies, the BGISEQ is changing the way genomics research is done in this country and around the world, providing end-to-end solutions with accuracy and flexibility, driving research dollars further and accelerating outcomes.
RSVP essential via this Eventbrite link.
The talk will be followed by a networking lunch in the foyer area of the Doherty Institute Auditorium. Please email Andrew Siebel (asiebel@unimelb.edu.au) with any dietary requirements.
Afternoon one-on-one sessions will also be available to explore opportunities for research collaborations or partnerships. To schedule a session please email bgi-australia@genomics.cn.


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SDCC 2019: Shout Factory Exclusives & Events
Pop-culture purveyor Shout! Factory returns to San Diego Comic-Con International in 2019 with a dynamic lineup, featuring captivating panel events for the beloved Adult Swim series Home Movies, the acclaimed documentary What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Shout!Factory/ScreamFactory; new official Mystery Science Theater 3000 merchandise; Comic-Con exclusive items; and engaging booth activities including a BoJack Horseman AR experience. Convention attendees are invited to join in the excitement at the Shout! Factory booth (#4118) on the main convention floor.
Get your favorite McGuirkisms ready! On Thursday, the classic Adult Swim animated series Home Movies is celebrating its 20th anniversary with its first-ever panel! The fan-favorite show is feted with a cast reunion featuring co-creators Loren Bouchard (Bob's Burgers) and Brendon Small (Metalocalypse), plus cast members H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob's Burgers) and Melissa Galsky (Bob's Burgers). Revisit your favorite characters, episodes and more with the team that brought them to you! Moderated by Dan Casey (Nerdist).
On Friday, Trekkers of all ages won't want to miss What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Join Star Trek: Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr, filmmaker David Zappone and select ST:DS9 cast members (including Andrew Robinson, Aron Eisenberg, Cirroc Lofton, Chase Masterson, and Penny Johnson Jerald) for an in-depth journey into the critically acclaimed documentary feature film about Star Trek's dark and often overlooked "middle-child" series. Moderated by Brian Ward (Shout! Factory), the panel will also feature NEW footage not included in the film's theatrical release.
Curious about how your favorite movies and TV shows make the leap from the screen to silver discs and invisible downloads? Saturday is your chance to find out how! From Mystery Science Theater 3000 to Gravity Falls to the films of John Carpenter and more, Inside an Indie Studio: Shout! Factory is an in-depth look at the operations—from acquisition to release—of an independent multi-platform studio facing the challenges of a rapidly changing entertainment landscape. Join Jeff Nelson (Sr. Director Marketing, Scream Factory and Shout! Factory) Brian Ward (Sr. Director of Production, Shout! Factory) and moderator Bill Hunt (The Digital Bits) as they give an insider's look at how an indie pop-culture company operates, along with special announcements and exclusive sneak peeks of upcoming releases.
During the convention, drop by the Shout! Factory booth (#4118) to take part in the exclusive #GetBoJacked augmented reality experience, where you'll get to "meet" your favorite Horsin' Around star, BoJack Horseman himself, and earn yourself a limited-edition button!
Can't make it to San Diego Comic-Con this year? For the first time ever, Shout! Factory TV will be bringing Comic-Con to those who can't be there in person with Shout! Breaks Out: San Diego Comic-Con 2019, featuring immersive daily video coverage of the true Comic-Con experience both inside the convention center and beyond!
For continuing updates on Shout! Factory's Comic-Con activities and news, please visit ShoutFactory.com, and follow us on Twitter @ShoutFactory, on Instagram @shoutfactory, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/shoutfactoryofficial.
Shout! Factory Event Highlights at Comic-Con 2019 Include:
Thursday, July 18th
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm Home Movies 20th Anniversary Reunion
The classic Adult Swim animated series is celebrating its 20th anniversary with the first-ever Home Movies panel! The fan-favorite series is feted with a cast
reunion featuring co-creators Loren Bouchard (Bob's Burgers) and Brendon Small (Metalocalypse), plus cast members H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob's Burgers) and Melissa Galsky (Bob's Burgers). Revisit your favorite characters, episodes and more with the team that brought them to you! Moderated by Dan Casey (Nerdist). Room 6BCF.
Friday, July 19th
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek:
Join Star Trek: Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr, filmmaker David Zappone and select DS9 cast members (including Andrew Robinson, Aron Eisenberg, Cirroc Lofton, Chase Masterson, and Penny Johnson Jerald) for an in-depth journey into What We Left Behind, the critically acclaimed documentary feature film about Star Trek's dark and often overlooked 'middle-child' series. Moderated by Brian Ward (Shout! Factory), the panel will also feature NEW footage not included in the film's theatrical release. Room 32AB
Saturday, July 20th
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Blake Foster (Blue Ranger), signing posters and copies of Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. This is a wristbanded event. Please stop by Shout! Factory booth (#4118) for more info. Sails Pavilion AA10.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Inside an Indie Studio: Shout! Factory
From Mystery Science Theater 3000 to Gravity Falls to the films of John Carpenter and more, this is an in-depth look at the operations—from acquisition to release—of an independent multi-platform studio facing the challenges of a rapidly changing entertainment landscape. Join Jeff Nelson(Sr. Director Marketing, Scream Factory and Shout! Factory) Brian Ward (Sr. Director of Production, Shout! Factory) and moderator Bill Hunt (The Digital Bits) for "Anatomy of an Indie Studio: An Insider's Look at Shout! Factory and Scream Factory" as they give an insider's look at how an indie pop-culture company operates, along with special announcements and exclusive sneak peeks of upcoming releases. Room 23ABC
Shout! Factory Booth (#4118) Comic-Con Exclusives
The Howling Limited Edition SDCC Exclusive Bloody Variant statue
Here's an offer so intense it might put hairs on your chest! Shout! Factory has teamed up with PSC Collectibles to offer an SDCC exclusive, officially licensed and limited edition 9-inch statue based on Joe Dante's classic werewolf film, The Howling. Pre-orders start July 1, 2019. For more info please visit ShoutFactory.com
Celebrate your Scream Factory fandom with this fan-favorite item. Stop by the Shout! Factory booth (#4118) for your 2019 Scream Factory Button Pack— while supplies last!
New Official Mystery Science Theater 3000 Merchandise
MST3K Bot Socks
MST3K: The Gauntlet Puzzle
MST3K Mads-O-Meter Lithograph
Shout! Factory, Shout Kids and Scream Factory Home Entertainment Highlights for SDCC 2019
* Includes a free poster or lithograph with purchase, while supplies last.
# Not in stores yet. Get it before it hits stores at the Shout! Factory booth!
The Babadook LGBTQ Pride Edition
BoJack Horseman: Seasons One & Two*#
Creepshow: Collector's Edition
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*#
Forbidden World Limited Edition Steelbook*#
The Good Place: Season Three#
Galaxy of Terror Limited Edition Steelbook*#
Gravity Falls: The Complete Series*
Home Movies Complete Series (DVD)
The Howling Limited Edition Steelbook
Humanoids From The Deep Limited Edition Steelbook*#
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
Okko's Inn
Penguin Highway#
Piranha (1978) Limited Edition Steelbook
Princess Mononoke: Collector's Edition
Silent Hill: Collector's Edition*
A Silent Voice – The Movie
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie*
MST3K Bot Socks (Crow and Servo)
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Sun, Dec 01, 2002 - Page 9 News List
Where will genetic knowledge lead us?
The language of DNA uses only the letters G, C, A and T, but the book written in this language will have an enormous impact on our future
By Leroy Hood
ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
Deciphering the human genome has provided insights into the nature of humanity, our relationship to the world and our future. We now have the set of instructions that specifies human development -- how each of us progressed from a single cell (a fertilized egg) to an adult human comprising a hundred trillion cells of thousands of different types. So what comes next?
The genome's language is DNA, whose alphabet has just four different letters: G, C, A and T. But the genome contains 3 billion of these letters. The Human Genome Project translated them into a Book of Life, that consists of 500 volumes, each with 1,000 pages averaging 1,000 six-letter words per page. Operationally, the human genome is composed of one long sentence of 3 billion letters cut into 24 pieces -- chromosomes -- that range in size from 45 million-280 million letters.
In a book, words are collected into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into chapters. Each level provides a higher, more coherent level of meaning. So, too, with the human genome. DNA's words are genes, which encode proteins -- the molecular building blocks of life. Genes and proteins are, in turn, gathered into the biological systems -- heart, brain, kidneys and so forth -- that execute the functions of life.
The first draft of the human genome, published in February last year, provided four new fundamental insights. First, humanity's Book of Life has only 30,000-35,000 different words, or genes. This is surprising, because the genome of a tiny worm that had been sequenced earlier contains about 20,000 genes. How we make do with only one-third more genes than this simple worm remains an unanswered puzzle.
Second, there are essentially no race-specific words in the Book of Life. Indeed, the Book of Life for two black people may differ more than that for a Caucasian person and a black person. The concept of race is cultural, not genetic.
Third, the books of life for humans, fish, flies, and yeast contain a large number of shared words (although the spellings are somewhat different). Many fundamental biological systems composed of these genes and proteins are remarkably similar. This underscores the descent of all life from a single common ancestor.
The fourth observation similarly highlights the interconnectedness of all life. For example, the Book of Life for humans contains around 200 genes derived from other organisms, contradicting the long-held view that all of our genes are transmitted vertically, from grandparents to parents to children. It seems that evolution also occurs in a horizontal context, in which any living creature can incorporate information from surrounding organisms.
The knowledge contained in the Book of Life has catalyzed paradigm changes in biology and medicine. We can now study a biological system in terms of how all of its components interact rather than one gene or one protein at a time. Indeed, the Institute for Systems Biology, which I cofounded two years ago, reflects my conviction that systems approaches will dominate biological study in the 21st century.
The paradigm change in medicine will be similarly radical. The next 10-15 years will see a shift away from our current reactive model -- you come in when you get sick and the physician attempts to make you well -- to a predictive, preventive and ultimately a personalized form of medicine.


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Best SEO Tools for Small Business
Seo , Software
The Internet has revolutionized our lives. Almost all the things that we nowadays do with our devices involve the internet in some way or the other. The Internet has brought us various things that have made our lives convenient. Emails and Websites were one of the very first things that we were introduced to on the internet. The internet, as we know, has developed a lot since then, but the services that made the Internet widely enjoyable and convenient to use are the Search Engines.
The feature that enables users to find anything on this immense network of computers just by typing some phrases related to it might seem trivial to people nowadays. However, it certainly wasn't the case for those using the internet for the first time without any significant prior knowledge. Soon after the internet was introduced to the public, search engines were developed- Excite in 1993, Yahoo in 1994, and later Google in 1997. Nowadays, nearly every website that we come across offers search-based results.
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Though the search engines have been immensely useful for the users looking for relevant content, the content creators have availed the benefits as well. Search engines work on algorithms that are run on web crawlers to maintain and deliver information. The algorithms differ in different search engines, and the knowledge of their working can help content creators modify their content to be able to come up at noticeable positions when a user searches for the relevant information.
This practice of improving the content quality in accordance with appropriate search engines is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Through the years, various techniques have come up for optimizing content, however, with time, search engines improve the algorithm to deliver good quality and relevant information to the users.
With Google becoming more demanding with their algorithm updates, it is crucial that you stay ahead of the game and keep tabs on what's best for your marketing strategy in order to optimize your business. There is a plethora of tools that you can take advantage of in order to grow your business. One way to do this is by using a white label reporting dashboard. It helps businesses generate reports to measure traffic, conversions, and other metrics. This software is specifically designed to work with your website in order to help you monitor and gain insight on how well it is performing. You can also hire a dedicated team consisting of developers and SEO specialists to look after your project.
You can also hire a dedicated team consisting of developers and SEO specialists to look after your project.
Here are some SEO tools that can prove helpful for content creators and marketers-
*HubSpot Marketing Hub-
Search engines analyze several aspects of a page to rank them. Some of these aspects are the quality and relevance of landing pages, the number of relevant backlinks, and the volume of appropriately used keywords. Apart from this, certain other relevant factors are the Meta Description, Page title, and link. To rank the page higher, it is important to optimize these aspects of the page.
HubSpot is a prominent platform that offers marketing and sales tools. Within the marketing section, it offers SEO tools that can help content creators optimize their pages and content. HubSpot offers SEO tools to analyze the pages and recommend changes to optimize the content. The content editor allows users to edit their content according to the recommendation.
HubSpot also recommends relevant SEO optimize keywords and phrases as per the topic of the content. By connecting the domain to HubSpot, we can publish optimized landing pages to the domain through HubSpot. All these features have made HubSpot a popular platform for SEO and Marketing professionals.
Through the years, various techniques have come up for optimizing content, however, with time, search engines improve the algorithm to deliver good quality and relevant information to the users. You can use the help of a lot of software to guide you on this task, and our suggestion is that you do your research well as there is always a solution. Be sure to also read up on the software reviews and really see what's best for you!
*SEMrush-
SEMrush provides tools for researching keywords for adverts and content. Users can research keywords and get to know the potential traffic and the cost per click for utilizing those keywords along with several other metrics like keyword difficulty rate, bidding rate from other sites, etc. SEMrush helps track the visibility, traffic, and positional trends for the relevant domain.
Moreover, the SEO audit tools analyze the site for SEO optimization and provide scores and improvement suggestions. SEMrush's content template allows users to develop content with a lot of LSI keywords by recognizing the content type and thereby suggesting the keywords. Apart from these, SEM offers several other tools as well. Though SEMrush tools can be used by all kinds of content creators, it is majorly used in integration with Google Ads and Analytics to monitor and optimize PPC ads.
*Ubersuggest-
Ubersuggest is a popular platform that provides SEO and content marketing tools that can help users get an insight into their competitors' strategies and average metrics using competitive analysis. These data can then be used to optimize one's own content using other SEO tools on the platform and accordingly published to get a lead in the market.
Ubersuggest is owned by Neil Patel who professes the platform to be significantly cheaper than its other competitors. Apart from competitive analysis, other tools that Ubersuggest provides are- Keyword ideas, content ideas, site audit, traffic analyzer, and Backlink checker. These tools provide all the necessary ideas regarding keywords, or content based on a topic, and helps analyze and improve landing pages.
*Ahrefs-
Ahrefs is a Singapore based company that provides SEO tools essentially for entrepreneurial purposes. It is one of the top platforms for website optimization and domain analysis. The platform emphasizes backlinks, which are links from one website to another. Backlinks are considered important as they tend to bring organic traffic. For this reason, generally, sites with a high number of backlinks are ranked higher by search engines.
Aherf provides information on the competitors' use of keywords, number of backlinks, and relevant traffic among other metrics, and provides strategies to outrank them. Other tools provided by Ahrefs include- Site Audit tool, Broken link checker tool, Keyword generator, Website Authority checker, Keyword rank checker, content explorer, and SERP checker.
*Yext-
Yext is a New York based company offering advertisements services. Even though Yext was originally a local advertisement company during its early foundational days, it now is a prominent platform that helps companies grow their brands. Yext offers several tools to serve its customers- Knowledge Graph provides essential information about the competitors and market. This information can be used to come up with plans to leverage against the competition.
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Yext answers can be used to provide an interactive search-based browsing experience to the traffic. Reputation management allows users to react to the queries and reviews received by the site/service across the internet to improve their reputation. Yext offers several other tools including- advanced analytics, app directory to integrate third-party apps, integrations to publish content, and so on.
*Moz Pro-
Moz Pro offers its users a suite of SEO tools that help users in analyzing their domain, and traffic. The Keyword research tool helps understand how the keywords contribute to the traffic. It also provides information regarding website and keyword rankings and helps fix SEO issues with the site through the SEO audit tool. Apart from these tools, Moz pro offers suggestions to optimize landing pages, find link opportunities, analyze backlinks, and create custom reports.
*SE Ranking-
SE ranking is a platform that provides SEO tools that are focused to empower individuals in improving their content or website to appear as top search results. SE ranking offers in-depth website audit tools that find issues with the page and suggest relevant fixes. The backlink tool offers discovery and management of backlinks. Keyword ranking and tracking tool provides information regarding ranking positions of the website's keywords across different search engines. Other tools that SE ranking provides are- Social Media integration, On-page SEO checker, and page changes monitoring.
*Google Search Console-
Google Search Console, formerly called the Google Webmasters, offers several tools that allow users to check the keyword indexing status of their websites and optimize it for search engines. It offers many tools that are helpful to webmasters. It lets webmasters modify the crawl rate and robots.txt files to access pages that are accidentally blocked in robots.txt. Other tools that Google Search Console offers are- SEO audit tool, search queries and search keywords tools, and sitemap feature.
*Majestic-
Majestic is an England based platform that maps and surveys the internet and professes to have created the largest Link Intelligence database in the world. Its analytics serve SEO professionals, affiliate marketers, and other marketing experts and aspirants. For SEO professionals, it offers several tools that include the SEO audit tool, Backlink checker, Keyword tool, website rank checker, and custom reporting.
*Whitespark-
Whitespark is an SEO platform that provides optimization strategies for Google and Bing across different geographical regions whereas analytics review the metrics related to website and content performance. It offers several tools that make local search manageable and accurate. The tools include- Local Rank tracker, Reputation builder, Local citation finder, and Citation building, audit, and cleanup tools.
Conclusion-
Search Engine Optimization is an important marketing strategy especially when digital marketing is involved. The way the public rely on search engines to find information on the web, it can be easily inferred that Search Engines control the digital market in a way. To make the results relevant and maintain trust within the users, Search Engines use algorithms to bring up the best quality search results each time. It is therefore essential to optimize the content so that it ranks higher among the competitors. The above-discussed platforms provide all the necessary tools that one would need to improve their website or content. If you are into SEO, go ahead and check them out!
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Morgan Freeman Interview – FEAST OF LOVE
by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub September 27, 2007
I'm a huge fan of Morgan Freeman. And since I started working on Collider, he's one of those people that I've wanted to interview. From his work in "Unforgiven" to "Batman Begins," he's an actor that's always great onscreen and one whose work I'll see every time. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
So opening tomorrow is "Feast of Love," the new film from Robert Benton ("Kramer Vs. Kramer") and it stars Morgan Freeman as a local professor named Harry Stevenson who witnesses love among the town's residents.
From the die-hard romantic coffee shop owner Bradley (Greg Kinnear) who has a serial habit of looking for love in all the wrong places, including with his current wife Kathyrn (Selma Blair); to the edgy real estate agent Diana (Radha Mitchell) who is caught up in an affair with a married man (Billy Burke) with whom she shares an ineffable connection; to the beautiful young newcomer Chloe (Alexa Davalos) who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar (Toby Hemingway); to Harry himself, whose adoring wife (Jane Alexander) is looking to break through his wall of grief after the wrenching loss of a loved one…
So to help promote the movie, Morgan recently did a roundtable interview and I was able to participate. During our conversation he talks about making the movie and all the other stuff he's working on. If you're a fan of Morgan's, you'll dig the interview.
As always, you can either read the transcript below or listen to the audio as an MP3 by clicking here.
"Feast of Love" opens tomorrow.
Q: In the movie your character is the voice of reason and everyone comes to him for advice. Why do you think that is?
Morgan Freeman: Well because if you do represent the voice of reason, not wisdom, you didn't say wisdom, it sort of follows that people will assume wisdom follows reason around. Not necessarily so. My character does not give out advice. If you go back and watch it, you'll hear it. He doesn't give advice. All the advice that he gives if I can remember is twice. He tells Greg ['s character] to kind of count his blessings which is a suggestion rather than advice. And he tells Bat to stay away from this child. That's advice.
Q: But they do all come to you for advice and they confide in you.
Freeman: They come to confide because he's a ready and willing ear. He listens carefully. He listens quietly. He's one of those people who just listens. You will notice that if you have a tendency to listen, people have a tendency to talk to you.
Q: Your character also has a tendency to observe. You were the only one who saw Bradley's wife falling for someone else.
Freeman: Well she was certainly being intrigued by her. Yeah. But then that in the basic nature of the character that's on page, he's going through this script observing what's around him.
Q: In your life, do you feel you serve that role?
Freeman: No. No. No.
Q: Do you think your character was too busy observing other people's lives as opposed to living his own?
Freeman: That would be the $64 question in his case. I think that they managed to get their child grown up. He wasn't a child. He was a professional so where does parental responsibility end? It does somewhere. So I don't know. I wouldn't say that was the case. But then you say then what was the case and I'd have to confess I really don't know. But then that is the problem with the character. He can't answer that question.
Q: Do you believe that houses have the ability to breakup relationships?
Freeman: No. I'm trying to be careful in the answer because that is one thing can be gibing wrong. In other words if you're superstitious than it's quite possible that you believe in ghosts and not even know that you do. But, I'm not superstitious.
Q: What brought you to this project?
Freeman: I like to work. It's great fun to dance around with other actors so I do it on every opportunity that seems like the music is going to be good. Of course the music is sheet music that's on the page. This was good music. There were good dancers involved so that's a good drawl. Not to mention getting paid.
Q: I wanted to ask you about a couple other films you've done. "Wanted" and "The Dark Knight".
Freeman: "Wanted" is directed by a Russian director whose name is Timur Bekmambetov. Timur , sweet man and is an interesting director. Is the first foreign director that I've ever worked with. It was an interesting experience to play in a movie that is described as a graphic novel. It comes from some place I don't know. I'm very, very curious to see how it works out.
Q: Can you talk about your character?
Freeman: My character is not easily defined even by me who is a master of character definition. I play a guy who ostensibly heads up a fraternity of brotherhood of assassins. It's like a guild of assassins. By guild we mean that it's old. It's been around for a long time. And they have peculiar abilities. In other words, one guy shoots a rifle from five miles away and hits his target. There's no straight line in five miles. Is that informative?
Q: What was it like working with James McAvoy?
Freeman: Great. He's a hard working kid. Maybe too hard. By that I just mean he overact, but this is an action movie and he got a little ill. But we were in Prague so I don't really know. I remember working in Bulgaria, I also had the same affliction that he came down with. It was like an ear affection that's really debilitating. Had something to do with the water I'm sure.
Q: An ear affection from the water?
Freeman: Yeah, I was submerged in an icy stream for awhile.
Q: On "Wanted"?
Freeman: No, on another picture called "The Contract", which never opened here.
Q: What was Angelina Jolie like?
Freeman: What do you want me to say? Something good or something bad?
Q: Whatever you would like to say.
Freeman: First I'm going to say something bad. She's already taken. She's an excellent person. Excellent actress. A joy to be with, a joy to work with. She comes by it honestly. Whatever it is, she's got it.
Q: Did she bring her family to the set?
Freeman: Oh yeah. They were all there. Brad is between so they stayed together as much as possible. He was there. I used to sing to her.
Q: What did you sing?
Freeman: (Singing) Angelina will you get up? She answered back I am not able. Angelina will you get up we need the sheets for the table. She laughed just like that.
Q: What were your experiences like working on the Batman sequel?
Freeman: The sequel. Alec Guiness remarked one time that he made more money on those two [Star Wars] movies that he was just featured in than he'd made in his whole career and had little or nothing to do. That's what it's like.
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Q: Have you finished your part?
Freeman: I haven't finished. I've got one more day. I travel all the way to Hong Kong to do it.
Q: Who do you play?
Freeman: Lucius Fox. Lucius Fox is the designer of Batman's toys – the Batmobile, all this utility stuff that he has, the cape which in the movie is really something.
Q: In Feast of Love with Alexa….
Freeman: Oh, you want to talk about what's current.
Q: Do you have to put younger actors at ease.
Freeman: I don't know if you have to. I have a maybe unfortunate habit of… I go on set just like I walk into this room, you know. Nothing special going on here. It's just me and us. Because there is a tendency in us to maybe revere flesh and blood and always be like, "Oh my God, it's…" and it's not conducive to ensemble work. You want the person you're going to be working with on the ground, not floating up here because they're in the presence of something that may or may not live up to the expectation. So, yeah, I work on making everybody at ease, you know. I mean we're not here to commit brain surgery. We're here to have fun. We're here to make a movie. Nothing in this world can be more fun than that.
Q: Do you get the "Oh my God, it's Morgan Freeman" thing a lot in your personal life and on the set?
Freeman: I got on the elevator one day and a lady I thought she was going to lose it right there. Her expression was "Oh my God, Oh my God! Oh my God!" and then she started to laugh. "Oh my God, Oh my God, I can't believe it's you. I love you! I love you! This is my husband. I love you." "Thank you very much. You're very kind. How very sweet of you." I can't wait for the doors to open so I can get out of there.
Q: You talk about how much fun you have working, how you enjoy working in ensembles. Are there any movies over your career or even something you've just shot that when you think back you say, boy, that was such a great time?
Freeman: Yeah. I do.
Q: Anything you'd like to share?
Freeman: Both movies that I did with Clint Eastwood. I just finished one with Jack Nicholson and Rob Reiner. "Feast of Love" working with Benton, Greg, Jane Alexander – a complete, wonderful ensemble. Every day you wake up is "Oh, we're going back to the set." It's not like, "Oh, when's this going to be over."
Q: I just want to make a comment. It's not a question. I was at a piano store earlier today and I mentioned that I was interviewing you and the manager said he was really good friends with your best friend, a guy named Dennis.
Freeman: My best friend? A guy named Dennis? Okay.
Q: There's no question or anything.
Freeman: I understand. Notice I haven't gone anywhere with it.
Q: Is there a role you haven't played in your career that you would like to play?
Freeman: Yeah, lots of them. I was asked this question just a little while back. There was a character, a historical and true character, whose name was Bass Reeves who was a deputy marshal in the 1870s and 80s, Oklahoma Territory, worked for Isaac Parker, the hanging judge, cleaning up Oklahoma Territory and making it safe for settlers, notwithstanding it was supposed to belong to the Indians. He was a very interesting character and the most interesting part about it to me is the fact that in all of the Westerns that you see, none of them seems to indicate that anybody was anything but white people and Indians and the Indians were always the bad guys except of course in "Dancing with Wolves." So this would be an opportunity — and I have been working for close to 15 years on it — to at least be inclusive. One of the problems that we have as a nation is we don't really know who we are because our history has largely been misrepresented. We all learn quite a lot of it by going to the movies or watching television. And I don't care what you say or think, as a youngster, you buy it.
Q: What do you like to do on your sets when you're not shooting scenes?
Freeman: Well I do different things. Right now, just not recently, I've taken… I was going to be – you know, you've got that sweater on that says Je t'aime – I was going to be facetious – but I've recently taken up golf. If I'm not working, I'm somewhere with a golf club in my hand chasing a ball off into the woods.
Q: How's it going?
Freeman: Really bad.
Q: I've never met a golfer who doesn't think it's going really bad. Do you have a golf clause in your contract like Sam Jackson?
Freeman: Yeah, somebody told me "Oh, you've taken up golf. Well, you ought to be like Sam." "What do you mean like Sam?" "Sam has a clause in his contract, wherever he goes he gets golf privileges. Oh yes, yes, it's there. One of the things they always offer you is a trainer for your physical fitness, physical conditioning. Golf is better than having a trainer so they're happy to accommodate you.
Q: Beside Hong Kong, what other films might you be doing later this year?
Freeman: I might be doing a very nice little film with William H. Macy called "Lonely Maiden."
Q: Perhaps.
Freeman: Perhaps.
Q: Thank you.
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Secondary/Tertiary Cities See Modest Uptick in Vacancy Rates While Gateway Cities See a Surge in Subleases as of 2021 Q1
Commercial & Investment Real Estate
By: Scholastica (Gay) Cororaton
On a national level, office vacancy rates continued to rise in the first quarter of 2021 to 16.4%, from 13% one year ago. But the impact of the pandemic has varied across areas, with the gateway and tech-heavy cities seeing huge spikes in vacancies arising from subleases while smaller secondary/tertiary markets have seen relatively minor increases in vacancy rates, according to NAR's latest Commercial Market Trends and Outlook Report.
Primary Cities See Huge Increases in Office Vacancy Rates, but Modest Rise in Secondary/Tertiary Cities
In San Francisco, the overall vacancy rate (direct and available via sublet) has increased by a whopping 12.7 percentage points as of 2021 Q1 from one year ago (6% to 18.7%), as 9.7 million square feet of office space became unoccupied, according to market data from Cushman and Wakefield. In Seattle, the overall vacancy rate increased by 9.2 percentage points (8% to 17.2%), as 4.3 million square feet of office space became unoccupied. The New York-Midtown South shed the most office space, at 10.7 million square feet, which led to an 8.8 percentage points increase in vacancy rate ( 8.2% to 17%). Cities with a relatively large tech workforce such as Austin, Nashville, Rochester, Salt Lake City, and Puget Sound (which includes Seattle) also saw a surge in overall vacancy rates.
On the other hand, vacancy rates have only increased modestly in most secondary or tertiary cities. One reason could be attributed to the Paycheck Protection Program that helped small businesses stay in business and enabled the small business owners to keep paying rent and to work out arrangements with landlords. With the pandemic affecting the entire economy, landlords would also have found it difficult to get new office tenants. According to the U.S. Census Business Pulse Survey, less than 2% of small businesses have closed permanently, even if half are operating at below normal capacity.
There are also location-specific factors accounting for the modest increase in vacancy rates. In Savannah, the office vacancy rate even declined, with office leasing activity benefiting from Savannah's strong industrial commercial real estate market because of its growing port operations and pickup in distribution and warehousing, with an industrial vacancy rate at a low 3.4%. Fort Myers/Naples is benefiting from the expansion of medical offices in the area. In Tucson, the Foothills submarket also had continuing lease-ups. Tucson is benefiting from relatively low office rents compared to Phoenix.
Gateway Cities Suffer Huge Declines in Occupancy While Areas That Had Higher Occupancy Were Secondary/Tertiary Markets
Only the secondary/tertiary markets saw an increase in office occupancy in 2021 Q1 compared to one year ago. These are Hampton Roads, Boise, Milwaukee, Buffalo, Tucson, Suburban Maryland, Fredericksburg, and Binghamton. The demand for office space in Hampton Roads is likely associated with the strong growth in the industrial/logistics development in Hampton Roads (Brookwood Development's Portside Logistics, Commerce Park in the Harbor View, Coastal Logistics Center).1 Boise is not surprising given that Idaho was the state with the highest percentage increase in population during 2010 to 2020 based on the 2020 decennial survey that was recently released. As noted earlier, Fort Myers/Naples is benefiting from the expansion of medical offices in the area. In Tucson, the Foothills submarket also had continuing lease-ups, with Tucson benefiting from relatively low office rents compared to Phoenix. In Milwaukee, little corporate downsizing has taken place.2
Vacancy Rates Rising Due to Subleases
Nationally, the office vacancy rate continued to tick up in the first quarter of 2021, to 16.4%, from 13% one year ago. Vacancy rates continue to increase, with 21% of the workforce still working from home as of March 2021 (6% prior to the pandemic), and even higher at 58% among computer and mathematical workers.3 Vacancy rates have increased as occupiers shed 138.4 million square feet of office space.4
Vacancies available through sublease are a large part of the overall vacancy rate in big cities with heavy tech and financial industry base. Direct tenants are still leasing the office space, but with workers working at home, the unused office space is being sublet. The available office space from flexible operators like WeWork is also part of this subleased vacancy, and tech workers and startup companies have been the largest occupiers of flexible office space.
Austin, San Francisco, New York-Midtown, Seattle, Puget Sound are areas that have seen a large increase in vacant space that is offered via subleases. In Austin and San Francisco, the vacancy that is available through sublet rose to 8% of office space from just 2% a year ago.
Secondary/Tertiary Areas Office Market See Huge Increase in Asking Rents
In the areas with high vacancy rates, asking rents have dropped tremendously as of 2021 Q1 from one year ago, such as in San Francisco (-12%) and New York Midtown South (-9%). But in cities with low office vacancy rates, asking rents have sharply increased by as much as over 15%, such as In Fort Myers/Naples (+23%), Roanoke (+20%), and Colorado Springs (+17%).
Surprisingly, asking rents continued to increase even in San Jose (15%), Nashville (9%), and Austin (8%) even as vacancies have increased sharply in these areas. Nationally, asking rents were up 5% year-over-year as of 2021 Q1, according to Cushman and Wakefield market data. However, while asking rents have not declined, most landlords have been providing tenant concessions. This is because the pandemic is a temporary shock to the office market, so landlords are not lowering asking rents for leases that extend beyond the pandemic's short-term impact. Instead, they are granting concessions to lower the current rents. Fifty-five percent of NAR commercial members who responded to the latest quarterly commercial survey reported that they are seeing more tenant concessions compared to the pre-pandemic period.
Cities in States With Strong Population Growth Likely to See Sustained Demand for Office Space
The secondary markets that are found in states with growing population such as Idaho (Boise), Utah (Salt lake), Texas (Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio), Florida (Fort Myers), and Virginia (Hampton Roads) will likely continue to see a demand for office space. Nationally, the recovery of the demand for office space in the big cities hinges on workers returning to their offices. As earlier noted, much of the vacancy is being driven by subleases, with slightly more than half of computer/mathematical workers still working from home. Not all will likely return to the office, and assuming that 5% of the additional employment that is generated is work from home, vacancy rates will likely continue to increase to about 18% in 2022.
1Cushman and Wakefield, https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/insights/us-marketbeats/hampton-roads-marketbeats
2 https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/insights/us-marketbeats/milwaukee-marketbeats
3 Source: American Community Survey in 2019 and BLS COVID-19 supplemental survey
4How big is 138.4 million square feet? A football field is around 57,600 square feet, so the negative net absorption is equivalent to 2,403 football fields, or 48 football fields per state.
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By mjohnson on Jan 30, 2019 at 12:04 p.m.
Wadena County commissioners Sheldon Monson and Bill Stearns recently met with Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa and Rep. John Poston R-Lake Shore in an effort to share priorities for Wadena County in 2019.
Monson spoke about a half-hour meeting at a recent special meeting in Wadena.
• Monson said there was a strong showing for representatives in favor of a bill allowing statewide appointment of auditor/treasurer positions in the counties. That would help Wadena County to move forward from an elected position to an appointed position, a topic the board has been discussing for years.
• Poston reportedly said he may be asked to testify on behalf of Wadena County due to the county having a low tax base and a high tax rate in comparison to other counties in the state. There may be some work that needs to be done to increase the county program aid funding.
• It sounds like there may be a bonding bill in the hopper to "hopefully get Hwy 10 done," Monson said. The Hwy 10 reconstruction talk has been ongoing for, some would say, 45 years. Commissioners last year tried to seek funding approval to make the entire stretch of Hwy 10 four-lane through Wadena. The current MnDOT plan creates four lanes through Wadena, but returns to two-lane for a short distance again before going back to four-lane well outside of Wadena.
• Commissioners also spoke about South Country Health Alliance and how the Department of Health holds back payments during April-June, making it difficult for the health program to make it through without a cash call.


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Regional Design Firms Struggling From Slow Economy, Stalled Projects
Design firms across the mountain states are reportedly suffering the same malaise: financially stalled projects, a sluggish economic recovery and too much competition for shrinking public-sector work.
Rendering Courtesy of RNL
The RNL-designed Metro State Student Success Building will become the western gateway to the Auraria Campus in Denver.
Rendering Courtesy of Anderson Mason Dale Architects
The Southeast Wyoming Welcome Center in Cheyenne has a cutting-edge residential appeal.
An AIA Architecture Billings Index national survey of April business activity confirms at least part of the story, with 63% of firms surveyed reporting they have at least one project stalled from a lack of financing and that the average value of those projects is almost $50 million per firm.
The survey's major findings also included:
The availability of construction project financing remains a major issue for many architecture firms. In April, 57% of survey respondents rated the issue as very or extremely serious, and an additional 30% indicated it was a somewhat serious issue.
Nearly half of respondents (45%) said that the availability of credit has become more restrictive over the past year, with just 16% seeing an easing of credit availability.
"This data only serves to reinforce the dire need for lawmakers to act to alleviate a credit crunch that continues to plague one of the economy's biggest job creating engines—the design and construction industry," says AIA President Clark Manus.
Revenues Flat or Down
Bottom-line numbers tell the rest of the story. Regional design firm revenue for 2010 reported as part of this year's rankings shows, with few exceptions, declines from 2009 totals and a 30% to 50% reduction from 2007 pre-recession figures. Most firms have already tightened their belts and are now concerned they may be witnessing a "new normal" for the industry.
"Our biggest concern is the slow pace of the economic recovery and its profound effect on our profession as a whole," says Ken Field, a principal and president of RB+B Architects Inc., Fort Collins, Colo. "We are seeing very talented architectural graduates as well as seasoned professionals without jobs, and many are being forced to leave the profession."
Designers complain that owners have driven prices and fees to bare-bones levels, expecting keen competition for every project. "Architecture is increasingly becoming a commodity, with selection driven by the lowest initial fee," says Stuart L. Coppedge, an associate principal with RTA Architects, Colorado Springs. "Without significant changes in how we practice, at some point low fees will reduce the level of service architects are able to provide their clients."
Regional Designers Push for More Diverse Services and Help Clients With Project Funding
Top Regional Designers See An Upswing in Commercial Work
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The Specials to release a Brand New Album after almost 20 Years
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The Specials will return with a brand new studio album almost 20 years after the last release. The new album will be entitled 'Encore' and the first single from the album is entitled "Vote for Me" has already been revealed and included some classic Specials sound that we were used to listen in the 80's. Following the release on February 1st, the band will take 'Encore' on tour.


PCE-GM 50 gloss meter is a highly accurate digital gloss meter. This gloss meter is easy to use, compact and solidly built. Colour and gloss are very important factors to determine surface characteristics.
This gloss meter can take measurements on the spot when needed, in laboratories, or in receiving departments. The gloss meter PCE-GM 50 is durable and easy to use.
Gloss is determined by measuring the reflection of light on a particular surface. This measurement takes into consideration the intensity of light reflected from a specific point onto a specific surface.
According to this, the surface gloss reading of glass with the previously calculated coefficient of 1567 must indicate the value relative to 100.
A plate of black glass is used as the reference surface for calibration with a value of 90.
This unit has a measuring geometry of 60° and can be used on flat surfaces.
The PCE-GM 50 glossmeter measuring a varnished surface.
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Q: How to access new colour schemes in version 10? Many colour schemes and colour functions can be accessed using ColorData.
Version 10 introduced new default colour schemes, and a new customization option using PlotTheme.  The colour themes accessible with PlotTheme have both discrete colour schemes and gradients.
Is there a standard way to access these?  I.e. get a colour function that take a real argument in $[0,1]$ and returns a shade, or one that takes an integer argument and returns a colour, as with ColorData.

A: Update 2: The content and organization of $PlotThemes in versions 10 and 9 are very different. In Version 10
 Charting`$PlotThemes

gives

whereas in Version 9, the content is organized around Charting/Plotting functions (See the picture in original post below.)
The color schemes can be obtained using:
 "Color"/. Charting`$PlotThemes
 (* BackgroundColor, BlackBackground, BoldColor, ClassicColor, CoolColor,
    DarkColor,GrayColor, NeonColor,PastelColor, RoyalColor, VibrantColor, WarmColor,
    DefaultColor, EarthColor, GarnetColor, OpalColor, SapphireColor, SteelColor,
    SunriseColor, TextbookColor, WaterColor} *)

 Grid[{#,Row@(("DefaultPlotStyle"/.(Method/.
   Charting`ResolvePlotTheme[#,   ListPlot]))/.
      Directive[x_,__]:>x)}&/@("Color"/. Charting`$PlotThemes),Dividers->All]

Update: The function that defines the color schemes and styles seems to be ResolvePlotTheme, which is in the Charting context in both Version 9 and 10.
?Charting`ResolvePlotTheme
(* too long  to copy here ... *)

For example,
Charting`ResolvePlotTheme["Vibrant", ContourPlot]
(* {BaseStyle -> GrayLevel[0.5], BoundaryStyle -> None,
   ColorFunction -> (Blend[{Hue[0.5, 1, 0.5], Hue[0.35, 0.5, 0.7],
                     Hue[0.17, 0.7, 0.9]}, #1] &), ContourStyle -> GrayLevel[1, 0.5],
   GridLines -> Automatic,
   GridLinesStyle -> Directive[GrayLevel[0.5], Dashing[{0, Small}]],
   Method -> {"GridLinesInFront" -> True}}  *)

So, one can access the color functions used in these themes using something like;
 Grid[{#, ColorFunction /. Charting`ResolvePlotTheme[#, ContourPlot]} & /@
          ("ContourPlot" /. Charting`$PlotThemes), Dividers -> All]

More generally, one can get the settings for ColorFunction, ChartStyle, PlotStyle BaseStyle etc. using a similar approach:
Grid[{#, Column@FilterRules[Charting`ResolvePlotTheme[#, PieChart],
         {ColorFunction, ChartStyle, BaseStyle}]} & /@
  ("PieChart" /. Charting`$PlotThemes), Dividers -> All]

PlotTheme seems to work in Version 9.0.1.0 as an undocumented feature:
?*`*PlotTheme*

After Unprotect and ClearAttributes[--,ReadProtected] one can access some details. For example:
?Charting`$PlotThemes

And, despite syntax hightlighting suggesting error, they work as expected:
Row[Plot[Table[BesselJ[n, x], {n, 5}], {x, 0, 10}, Evaluated -> True,
ImageSize -> 400, PlotLabel -> Style[#, 20],
Charting`PlotTheme -> #] & /@ {"Vibrant", "Monochrome"}]

A: For ease of direct access I have found through digging the following relationships for indexed colors:
map = {"Default" -> 97, "Earth" -> 98, "Garnet" -> 99, "Opal" -> 100, "Sapphire" -> 101,
   "Steel" -> 102, "Sunrise" -> 103, "Textbook" -> 104, "Water" -> 105,
   "BoldColor" -> 106, "CoolColor" -> 107, "DarkColor" -> 108, "MarketingColor" -> 109,
   "NeonColor" -> 109, "PastelColor" -> 110, "RoyalColor" -> 111, "VibrantColor" -> 112,
   "WarmColor" -> 113};

For example:
ColorData["Sunrise" /. map, "ColorList"]

Visually:

("Default" was added manually; it is not listed with the others that I can find.)
In addition to indexed colors each of these PlotThemes has rules for gradient colors, Financial plots, Wavelet plots etc.  For example "MarketingColor" and "NeonColor" use the same indexed color scheme but other details are different.
This additional data may be conveniently found as follows.  (You will need step.)
Plot[x, {x, 0, 1}]; (* preload PlotThemes system *)

System`PlotThemeDump`resolvePlotTheme["BoldColor", ""] // step

System`PlotThemeDump`resolvePlotTheme["Sunrise", ""]   // step

You can copy values directly or let the Switch statement assign the value to the appropriate Symbol.
For example to find the gradient colors used by:
BarChart[{Range@98}, PlotTheme -> "DarkColor"]

We can use this:
System`PlotThemeDump`resolvePlotTheme["DarkColor", ""];

System`PlotThemeDump`$ThemeColorGradient

You can of course view all definitions at once but be warned that it is long:
?? System`PlotThemeDump`resolvePlotTheme

This Symbol can also used to customize plot themes as I described in the second half of my answer to:

*

*Is it possible to define a new PlotTheme?

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namespace internal {
namespace {

// These are the list of container ids of containers which may contain windows
// that need to be activated in the order that they should be activated.
const int kWindowContainerIds[] = {
    kShellWindowId_LockSystemModalContainer,
    kShellWindowId_SettingBubbleContainer,
    kShellWindowId_LockScreenContainer,
    kShellWindowId_SystemModalContainer,
    kShellWindowId_AlwaysOnTopContainer,
    kShellWindowId_AppListContainer,
    kShellWindowId_DefaultContainer,

    // Panel, launcher and status are intentionally checked after other
    // containers even though these layers are higher. The user expects their
    // windows to be focused before these elements.
    kShellWindowId_PanelContainer,
    kShellWindowId_LauncherContainer,
    kShellWindowId_StatusContainer,
};

// Returns true if children of |window| can be activated.
// These are the only containers in which windows can receive focus.
bool SupportsChildActivation(aura::Window* window) {
  if (window->id() == kShellWindowId_WorkspaceContainer)
    return true;

  for (size_t i = 0; i < arraysize(kWindowContainerIds); i++) {
    if (window->id() == kWindowContainerIds[i] &&
        window->id() != kShellWindowId_DefaultContainer) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}

bool HasModalTransientChild(aura::Window* window) {
  aura::Window::Windows::const_iterator it;
  for (it = window->transient_children().begin();
       it != window->transient_children().end();
       ++it) {
    if ((*it)->GetProperty(aura::client::kModalKey) == ui::MODAL_TYPE_WINDOW)
      return true;
  }
  return false;
}

// See description in VisibilityMatches.
enum ActivateVisibilityType {
  TARGET_VISIBILITY,
  CURRENT_VISIBILITY,
};

// Used by CanActivateWindowWithEvent() to test the visibility of a window.
// This is used by two distinct code paths:
// . when activating from an event we only care about the actual visibility.
// . when activating because of a keyboard accelerator, in which case we
//   care about the TargetVisibility.
bool VisibilityMatches(aura::Window* window, ActivateVisibilityType type) {
  bool visible = (type == CURRENT_VISIBILITY) ? window->IsVisible() :
      window->TargetVisibility();
  return visible || wm::IsWindowMinimized(window) ||
      (window->TargetVisibility() &&
       window->parent()->id() == kShellWindowId_WorkspaceContainer);
}

// Returns true if |window| can be activated or deactivated.
// A window manager typically defines some notion of "top level window" that
// supports activation/deactivation.
bool CanActivateWindowWithEvent(aura::Window* window,
                                const ui::Event* event,
                                ActivateVisibilityType visibility_type) {
  return window &&
      VisibilityMatches(window, visibility_type) &&
      (!aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(window) ||
        aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(window)->ShouldActivate(event)) &&
      SupportsChildActivation(window->parent());
}

// When a modal window is activated, we bring its entire transient parent chain
// to the front. This function must be called before the modal transient is
// stacked at the top to ensure correct stacking order.
void StackTransientParentsBelowModalWindow(aura::Window* window) {
  if (window->GetProperty(aura::client::kModalKey) != ui::MODAL_TYPE_WINDOW)
    return;

  aura::Window* transient_parent = window->transient_parent();
  while (transient_parent) {
    transient_parent->parent()->StackChildAtTop(transient_parent);
    transient_parent = transient_parent->transient_parent();
  }
}

}  // namespace

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, public:

ActivationController::ActivationController(aura::FocusManager* focus_manager)
    : focus_manager_(focus_manager),
      updating_activation_(false),
      active_window_(NULL),
      ALLOW_THIS_IN_INITIALIZER_LIST(observer_manager_(this)) {
  aura::Env::GetInstance()->AddObserver(this);
  focus_manager_->AddObserver(this);
}

ActivationController::~ActivationController() {
  aura::Env::GetInstance()->RemoveObserver(this);
  focus_manager_->RemoveObserver(this);
}

// static
aura::Window* ActivationController::GetActivatableWindow(
    aura::Window* window,
    const ui::Event* event) {
  aura::Window* parent = window->parent();
  aura::Window* child = window;
  while (parent) {
    if (CanActivateWindowWithEvent(child, event, CURRENT_VISIBILITY))
      return child;
    // If |child| isn't activatable, but has transient parent, trace
    // that path instead.
    if (child->transient_parent())
      return GetActivatableWindow(child->transient_parent(), event);
    parent = parent->parent();
    child = child->parent();
  }
  return NULL;
}

bool ActivationController::CanActivateWindow(aura::Window* window) const {
  return CanActivateWindowWithEvent(window, NULL, TARGET_VISIBILITY) &&
         !HasModalTransientChild(window);
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, aura::client::ActivationClient implementation:

void ActivationController::AddObserver(
    aura::client::ActivationChangeObserver* observer) {
  observers_.AddObserver(observer);
}

void ActivationController::RemoveObserver(
    aura::client::ActivationChangeObserver* observer) {
  observers_.RemoveObserver(observer);
}

void ActivationController::ActivateWindow(aura::Window* window) {
  ActivateWindowWithEvent(window, NULL);
}

void ActivationController::DeactivateWindow(aura::Window* window) {
  if (window)
    ActivateNextWindow(window);
}

aura::Window* ActivationController::GetActiveWindow() {
  return active_window_;
}

bool ActivationController::OnWillFocusWindow(aura::Window* window,
                                             const ui::Event* event) {
  return CanActivateWindowWithEvent(
      GetActivatableWindow(window, event), event, CURRENT_VISIBILITY);
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, aura::WindowObserver implementation:

void ActivationController::OnWindowVisibilityChanged(aura::Window* window,
                                                     bool visible) {
  if (!visible) {
    aura::Window* next_window = ActivateNextWindow(window);
    if (next_window && next_window->parent() == window->parent()) {
      // Despite the activation change, we need to keep the window being hidden
      // stacked above the new window so it stays on top as it animates away.
      window->layer()->parent()->StackAbove(window->layer(),
                                            next_window->layer());
    }
  }
}

void ActivationController::OnWindowDestroying(aura::Window* window) {
  // Don't use wm::IsActiveWidnow in case the |window| has already been
  // removed from the root tree.
  if (active_window_ == window) {
    active_window_ = NULL;
    FOR_EACH_OBSERVER(aura::client::ActivationChangeObserver,
                      observers_,
                      OnWindowActivated(NULL, window));
    ActivateWindow(GetTopmostWindowToActivate(window));
  }
  observer_manager_.Remove(window);
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, aura::EnvObserver implementation:

void ActivationController::OnWindowInitialized(aura::Window* window) {
  observer_manager_.Add(window);
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, aura::RootWindowObserver implementation:

void ActivationController::OnWindowFocused(aura::Window* window) {
  ActivateWindow(GetActivatableWindow(window, NULL));
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// ActivationController, private:

void ActivationController::ActivateWindowWithEvent(aura::Window* window,
                                                   const ui::Event* event) {
  aura::Window* window_modal_transient = wm::GetWindowModalTransient(window);
  if (window_modal_transient) {
    ActivateWindow(window_modal_transient);
    return;
  }

  // Prevent recursion when called from focus.
  if (updating_activation_)
    return;

  AutoReset<bool> in_activate_window(&updating_activation_, true);
  // Nothing may actually have changed.
  if (active_window_ == window)
    return;
  // The stacking client may impose rules on what window configurations can be
  // activated or deactivated.
  if (window && !CanActivateWindowWithEvent(window, event, CURRENT_VISIBILITY))
    return;

  // Make sure the workspace manager switches to the workspace for window.
  // Without this CanReceiveEvents() below returns false and activation never
  // changes. CanReceiveEvents() returns false if |window| isn't in the active
  // workspace, in which case its parent is not visible.
  // TODO(sky): if I instead change the opacity of the parent this isn't an
  // issue, but will make animations trickier... Consider which one is better.
  if (window) {
    internal::RootWindowController* root_window_controller =
        GetRootWindowController(window->GetRootWindow());
    root_window_controller->workspace_controller()->
        SetActiveWorkspaceByWindow(window);
  }

  // Restore minimized window. This needs to be done before CanReceiveEvents()
  // is called as that function checks window visibility.
  if (window && wm::IsWindowMinimized(window))
    window->Show();

  // If the screen is locked, just bring the window to top so that
  // it will be activated when the lock window is destroyed.
  if (window && !window->CanReceiveEvents()) {
    StackTransientParentsBelowModalWindow(window);
    window->parent()->StackChildAtTop(window);
    return;
  }
  if (window &&
      !window->Contains(window->GetFocusManager()->GetFocusedWindow())) {
    window->GetFocusManager()->SetFocusedWindow(window, event);
  }

  aura::Window* old_active = active_window_;
  active_window_ = window;
  if (window) {
    DCHECK(window->GetRootWindow());
    Shell::GetInstance()->set_active_root_window(window->GetRootWindow());
  }

  FOR_EACH_OBSERVER(aura::client::ActivationChangeObserver,
                    observers_,
                    OnWindowActivated(window, old_active));

  // Invoke OnLostActive after we've changed the active window. That way if the
  // delegate queries for active state it doesn't think the window is still
  // active.
  if (old_active && aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(old_active))
    aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(old_active)->OnLostActive();

  if (window) {
    StackTransientParentsBelowModalWindow(window);
    window->parent()->StackChildAtTop(window);
    if (aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(window))
      aura::client::GetActivationDelegate(window)->OnActivated();
  }
}

aura::Window* ActivationController::ActivateNextWindow(aura::Window* window) {
  aura::Window* next_window = NULL;
  if (wm::IsActiveWindow(window)) {
    next_window = GetTopmostWindowToActivate(window);
    ActivateWindow(next_window);
  }
  return next_window;
}

aura::Window* ActivationController::GetTopmostWindowToActivate(
    aura::Window* ignore) const {
  size_t current_container_index = 0;
  // If the container of the window losing focus is in the list, start from that
  // container.
  aura::RootWindow* root = ignore->GetRootWindow();
  if (!root)
    root = Shell::GetActiveRootWindow();
  for (size_t i = 0; ignore && i < arraysize(kWindowContainerIds); i++) {
    aura::Window* container = Shell::GetContainer(root, kWindowContainerIds[i]);
    if (container && container->Contains(ignore)) {
      current_container_index = i;
      break;
    }
  }

  // Look for windows to focus in that container and below.
  aura::Window* window = NULL;
  for (; !window && current_container_index < arraysize(kWindowContainerIds);
       current_container_index++) {
    aura::Window::Windows containers =
        Shell::GetAllContainers(kWindowContainerIds[current_container_index]);
    for (aura::Window::Windows::const_iterator iter = containers.begin();
         iter != containers.end() && !window; ++iter) {
      window = GetTopmostWindowToActivateInContainer((*iter), ignore);
    }
  }
  return window;
}

aura::Window* ActivationController::GetTopmostWindowToActivateInContainer(
    aura::Window* container,
    aura::Window* ignore) const {
  // Workspace2 has an extra level of windows that needs to be special cased.
  if (container->id() == kShellWindowId_DefaultContainer) {
    for (aura::Window::Windows::const_reverse_iterator i =
             container->children().rbegin();
         i != container->children().rend(); ++i) {
      if ((*i)->IsVisible()) {
        aura::Window* window = GetTopmostWindowToActivateInContainer(
            *i, ignore);
        if (window)
          return window;
      }
    }
    return NULL;
  }
  for (aura::Window::Windows::const_reverse_iterator i =
           container->children().rbegin();
       i != container->children().rend();
       ++i) {
    if (*i != ignore &&
        CanActivateWindowWithEvent(*i, NULL, CURRENT_VISIBILITY) &&
        !wm::IsWindowMinimized(*i))
      return *i;
  }
  return NULL;
}

}  // namespace internal
}  // namespace ash


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Walk-in and grab your jab this weekend
Anyone aged 18 or over in Bradford district and Craven can get their coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination this weekend by walking into one of a number of drop-in vaccination clinics.
Dubbed 'Grab a Jab' the country-wide vaccination push aims to make it as easy as possible for anyone to receive either their first or second dose without having to wait for a pre-booked appointment. The move follows last week's announcement that anyone aged 18 or over is being called for their Covid-19 immunisations.
Several vaccination sites will have walk-in clinics taking place throughout the weekend, from tomorrow (Friday 25 June) into Monday (28 June). Details of all the clinics across Bradford district and Craven are available at https://bit.ly/VaccineWalkInClinic and below.
Friday 25 June
9am-12pm & 2pm-6pm: Airedale Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD
9am-4pm: Silsden Medical Practice, Elliott Street, Silsden, BD20 ODG
10am-4pm: Jacob's Well, Nelson Street, Bradford, BD1 5AX
10am-4pm: Bradford College, Great Horton Road, Bradford, BD7 1AY
10am-4pm: Birch Medical Centre, Woodroyd Centre, Bradford, BD5 8EL
10am-4pm: Barkerend Health Centre, Daffodil Building, Barkerend Road, Bradford, BD3 8QH
Saturday 26 June
8am-5pm: The Ridge Medical Practice, Cousen Road, Bradford, BD7 3JX
9am-4pm: Shipley Medical Practice, Alexandra, Road, Shipley, BD18 3EG
9am-5pm: Markazi Jamia Mosque, Community Rooms, Emily Street, Keighley, BD21 3EG
9am-12pm: Airedale Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD
10am-1pm: Tesco, Valley Road, Bradford, BD1 4RB
10am-4pm: Whetley Medical Centre, Saplin Street, Manningham, BD8 9DW
2pm-5pm: Bradford Interchange, BD1 1JX
Sunday 27 June
9am-5pm: Markazi Jamia Mosque, Community Rooms, Emily Street, Keighley,BD21 3EG
9am-12.30pm: Airedale Hospital, Skipton Road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD
Monday 28 June
No appointment is needed and there are clinics open during the day, evening and over the weekend to encourage everyone to #GetVaccinated. All are offering first and second doses, with most offering Pfizer vaccines for younger people and the Astra Zeneca (AZ) jab for older residents and those needing a second AZ dose.
Text messages are also being sent to people living in areas where there has been a lower uptake of vaccinations with a link to information on local walk-in services.
Nancy O'Neill, deputy accountable officer and strategic director of transformation and change at NHS Bradford District and Craven Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), said: "Over recent weeks it's been great to see glimpses of what we once called normal life return and I know we all want restrictions to be lifted. Getting the vaccine is the best way we can all help to see those restrictions lifted. The more people are fully vaccinated, the more the spread of the virus will be limited and fewer people will end up in hospital.
"That is the aim of 'Grab a Jab' weekend. It's about protecting as many people as possible and making the process easy for everyone to get their jabs – whether that is a first or second dose. If you are 18 or over, don't delay in getting your vaccine – go and grab your jab."
Second doses have been brought forward to eight weeks following evidence showing how important the second jab is in protecting people against the Delta variant that is now spreading across the country. Giving these at eight weeks will still ensure the vaccines provide people with the maximum protection against Covid-19.
"This virus has devastating consequence for people of all ages and backgrounds. Getting everyone vaccinated remains the most important way of getting back to normality – it's that simple," added Nancy O'Neill.


For 32 years, a green monster has defined Ritchie Highway's approach to Glen Burnie. The shoebox-like structure just south of the Baltimore Beltway belongs to the Motor Vehicle Administration, the behemoth bureaucracy that issues driver's licenses, registration tags and decides who is fit to drive.
The good news regarding the MVA headquarters is that the institutional green of the building will be replaced by a white facade, trimmed in red. The bad news, for the next year anyway: It is only part of a $4.4 million renovation that will keep the MVA's base in a constant state of flux until next June.
Simply put, the building is a place to avoid until that time, which thankfully is an easier warning to heed these days. There was a time when the MVA headquarters was far more familiar to Maryland motorists, but now most drivers can do their business by mail or by visiting a number of branch offices, from Annapolis to Hagerstown.
It is usually the hopeless procrastinators who still find themselves at the MVA in Glen Burnie. Once there, they enter a warren of cubbyholes that is so confusing visitors need a Sherpa guide and dogsled to reach their destination.
The aim of the renovation is to simplify the headquarters' layout and modernize customer services. Visitors scrambling to pay overdue parking fines or renew tags should be able to do so without becoming so confused. As work places are reconfigured, employees will have an easier job, too. The MVA's new look is a welcome development. The building remains virtually the lone, unmodernized miscreant in a stretch of new and renewed shopping centers and hotels. When the renovation is complete, it should benefit the look of Glen Burnie overall.
TALKING ABOUT GLEN BURNIE, the antique district around Crain Highway and Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard has gone through many changes. Despite skeptics, the district has proved its resilience and is there to stay. Glen Burnie, home to automotive showrooms and the aforementioned Motor Vehicle Administration headquarters, might seem an odd place for antiquing. But merchants and customers are proving that some community stereotypes were made to be broken.


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package proof.exception;

import proof.solver.Solver;

/**
 * Thrown whenever a linear program could not be solved.
 *
 * @author Tilo Wiedera
 */
public class LinearProgramException extends InvalidProofException {
  /**
   * Creates a new linear program exception. Includes the provided error message.
   *
   * @param solver executing solver
   * @param filename file containing the linear program
   * @param errorMessage optional error message, set to {@code null} to ignore
   */
  public LinearProgramException(Solver solver, String filename, String errorMessage) {
    super(solver.getClass().getSimpleName() + " error while solving " + filename
        + (errorMessage == null ? "" : ("\n" + errorMessage)));
  }

  /**
   * Creates a new linear program exception.
   *
   * @param solver executing solver
   * @param filename file containing the linear program
   */
  public LinearProgramException(Solver solver, String filename) {
    this(solver, filename, null);
  }
}


Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling.
1985 Ph.D. Geography. Anthropogenic sedimentation in Orkney: the formation of deep top soils and farm mounds. University of Strathclyde (Science and Engineering Research Council Studentship). 1981 B.Sc. (Hons.) Geography and Biology, University of Strathclyde.
Aug 2002 – present: Professor, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling Leadership of research and research-led learning and teaching in Geography and the Environmental Sciences. Research focussed on Geoarchaeology – Soils, sediments and landscape histories- landscape change, long-term sustainabilities and resiliences, heritage management. North Atlantic and South Asia regional foci, with experience in Sahalian Africa, Middle East, North-west Europe). Additional foundational specialisms in Pedology, Biogeography, Land resources sustainability.
Aug 1990-July 2002: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader: Geography and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling. Research programmes and research-led teaching modules in Land Resources and in Geoarchaeology. Development of BSc Environmental Geography and MSc Environmental Management programmes.
Aug 1985 – July 1990: Researcher, Senior Researcher: Ministry of Agriculture, UK Government. Responsible for research and development of land evaluation and monitoring methods applied to formulation, implementation and monitoring of EU/UK land use and environment policies.
Aug 2011 –July 2016: Dean, Natural Sciences, Senior Management Team University of Stirling. Responsible for founding and establishing the new Faculty of Natural Sciences, integrating the Institute of Aquaculture, Biological Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Computing Sciences, Mathematics, and Psychology. Initiating and leading strategic directions in research and in learning and teaching, managing human resources, finance and space.
Aug 2007 – Dec 2011: Deputy Principal (Research), Senior Management Team University of Stirling. Responsible for University research futures and strategy, academic staff research performance, research outputs, citation and open access, research grant and contract income, Research Excellence Framework (REF) preparation, Research post-graduate students, research-led learning.
Aug 2006- July 2007: Head, Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling. Responsible for research and teaching with ca. 450 FTE students, 24 FTE Academic Staff and 12 FTE support staff, including strategy and planning, finance, human resource and space / infrastructure.
Aug 2002-July 2006: Associate Dean (Research) Natural Sciences, University of Stirling. Responsible for Faculty Research Strategy, Facility funding initiatives Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) management; Faculty research postgraduate development and supervision quality.
Soils, sediments and landscape history considers soils and sediments as historical narratives that define land resource utilisation and organisation by early societies together with their environmental and landscape consequences.
These narratives are elucidated through innovative theoretical frameworks of landscape that give new understanding of the Anthropocene together with innovative techniques in thin section micromorphology, soil biomarker analyses and modelling applied to anthrosols, podzols, andosols and archaeo-sediments.
In doing so, historical depth is given to long-term human interactions with environmental processes and new understanding of 'completed human ecodynamics experiments of the past' in relation to sustainability and resilience.
Contribution is made to discussions on cultural and national identities as they relate to environments and landscapes, together with foundations for natural and cultural heritage resources management.
North Atlantic region: (including Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Faeroes, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles). Current programmes include the emergence and formation of early fishing sites (supported by UK AHRC); landscapes of Norse - indigenous interaction (supported by the UK Leverhulme Trust - Footprints on the edge of Thule programme); farm resilience in marginal environments (supported by the US National Science Foundation, Human and Social Ecodynamics programme); soil and field system inheritance (supported by the Shetland Amenity Trust); the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site (supported by Historic Scotland).
South and West Asia: (Sri Lanka, Nepal and Iran). Current programmes include the use of water in early urban hinterlands programmes, Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) and Sialk - Kashan (Iran) (supported by AHRC and Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada); modern human settlement in tropical South Asia, evidence from late Pleistocene-early Holocene rockshelter sites in Sri Lanka (supported by the British Academy); protecting and preserving the natal landscape, Lumbini, Nepal (supported by UNESCO).
Cresswell AJ, Sanderson DCW, Kinnaird TC, Holdridge G, Lichtenberger A, Raja R & Simpson IA (2018) Luminescence dating of soils and sediments from Jerash, Jordan. Jerash Geoarchaeology.
Strickland K, Coningham R, Acharya KP, Schmidt A, Simpson I, Kunwar RB, Tremblay J, Manuel M, Davis C, Bahadur K & Basanta B (2015) Ancient Lumminigame: A Preliminary Report on Recent Archaeological Investigations at Lumbini's Village Mound. Ancient Nepal, (190), pp. 1-17.
Strickland K, Coningham R, Acharya KP, Dahal BN, Davis C, Kunwar RB, Tremblay J, Simpson I, Jones J, Hale D, Bahadur K & Basanta B (2015) Recent excavations at Tilaurakot's southern Industrial mound: a preliminary report. Ancient Nepal, (190), pp. 47-58.
Simpson I (2012) Micromorphological analyses of samples from Context 577. In: Sveinbjarnardόttir G (ed.) Reykholt: Archaeological Investigations at a High Status Farm in Western Iceland. Publications of the National Museum of Iceland, 29. Reykjavik: National Museum of Iceland, pp. 254-256.
Kourampas N, Simpson I, Polo-Diaz A, Perera HN & Deraniyagala SU (2012) Geoarchaeological reconnaissance of Pleistocene sites in southern Sri Lanka: Fahien-lena rockshelter and tool-bearing sediments of the Iranamadu formation. Ancient Ceylon, (23), pp. 1-26.
McKenna LE & Simpson I (2011) Thin section micromorphology of anthrosols (Area 1). In: Moore H & Wilson G (eds.) Shifting Sands. Links of Noltland, Westray: Interim Report on Neolithic and Bronze Age Excavations, 2007-09. Archaeological Report, 4. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 77-89.
Simpson I & Wilson G (2011) Anthropogenic sediments and anthrosols at Links of Noltland: The potential for integrated palaeo-landscape interpretations. In: Moore H & Wilson G (eds.) Shifting Sands. Links of Noltland, Westray: Interim Report on Neolithic and Bronze Age Excavations, 2007-09. Archaeological Report, 4. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 75-76.
Simpson I & Adderley WP (2011) Activities and accumulations: Micromorphological analyses of archaeological sediments from multi-room houses in Finnmark, Norway. In: Olsen B, Urbanczyk P & Amundsen C (eds.) Hybrid Spaces: Medieval Finnmark and the Archaeology of Multi-Room Houses. Instituttet for sammenlignende kulturforskning: serie B, Skrifter, 139. Oslo: Novus, pp. 267-286.
Lucas G, Roberts HM, Edvardsson R, Aldred O, McGovern TH, Vésteinsson O, Sigurgeirsson MA, Chepstow-Lusty A, Simpson I, Gudmundsson G, Lockheart MJ, Obuseng V, Bull ID & Evershed RP (2009) The structural sequence. In: Lucas G (ed.) Hofstaðir: Excavations of a Viking Age feasting hall in North-eastern Iceland. Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series, 1. Reykjavik: The Institute of Archaeology, pp. 55-167.
Simpson I, Dockrill SJ, Guttmann EB, Bull ID & Evershed RP (2007) Soils and the early cultural landscape. In: Dockrill S (ed.) Investigations in Sanday, Orkney Volume 2: Tofts Ness, Sanday - An island landscape through 3,000 years of prehistory. Edinburgh: The Orcadian Ltd and Historic Scotland, pp. 239-252.
Dockrill SJ, Gater JA & Simpson I (2007) Beyond Mound 11: Investigations within the Tofts Ness Landscape. In: Dockrill S (ed.) Investigations in Sanday, Orkney Volume 2: Tofts Ness, Sanday - An island landscape through 3,000 years of prehistory. Edinburgh: The Orcadian Ltd and Historic Scotland, pp. 113-141.
Adderley WP & Simpson I (2006) Norse Homefield management across the North Atlantic Region. NABO Conference: THE VIEW FROM HERE: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 20.09.2006-24.09.2006.
Adderley WP, Simpson I, Olsen B, Henriksen J, Urbanczyk P, Myrvoll E & Amundsen C (2006) Site formation processes in late-medieval multi-room building complexes, Finnmark, Norway. NABO Conference: THE VIEW FROM HERE: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 20.09.2006-24.09.2006.
Simpson I, Adderley WP, McKenzie J & Wilson C (2006) Norse settlement and site formation in the Faroe Islands. NABO Conference: THE VIEW FROM HERE: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 20.09.2006-24.09.2006.
Simpson I, Thomson AM, Brown J, Adderley WP, Morrison S & Wheeler K (2006) Early Rangelands in the North Atlantic Region. NABO Conference: THE VIEW FROM HERE: History and Ecology of the North Atlantic Region, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 20.09.2006-24.09.2006.
Simpson I (2005) Soil and sediment analyses. In: Downes J, Foster S & Wickham-Jones C (eds.) The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site: Research Agenda. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 107-109.
Mainland I, Simpson I & Tipping R (2005) Sample research topics: the formation and utilisation of the landscape. In: Downes J, Foster S & Wickham-Jones C (eds.) The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site: Research Agenda. Edinburgh: Historic Scotland, pp. 126-127.
Lancaster S, Simpson I & Davidson D (2005) Soil micomorphology. In: Bradley R (ed.) The Moon and the Bonfire: An investigation of three stone circles in north-east Scotland. Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 42-46, 68-72.
Simpson I & Adderley WP Invited lecture: Micromorphological analysis of the soils and sediments of the multiroom house complexes, Finnmark Norway (Presentation) Rybno Workshop on Multi-room Houses, Rybno, Poland.
Adderley WP, Simpson I, Barrett R & Wess TJ (2005) Archaeological Soils and sediments: Application of microfocus synchrotron X-ray diffraction analyses in thin-section (Poster Presentation). Synchrotron Radiation in Art and Archaeology meeting, Grenoble, France, 09.02.2005-12.02.2005.
Vésteinsson O & Simpson I (2004) Fuel utilisation in pre-industrial Iceland: A micromorphological and historical analysis. In: Gudmundsson G (ed.) Current Issues in Nordic Archaeology: Proceedings of the 21st conference of Nordic Archaeologists 6-9 September 2001, Akureyri Iceland. Reykjavik: Society of Icelandic Archaeologists, pp. 181-187.
Simpson I & Adderley WP (2004) A micromorphological perspective on archaeological site formation processes. In: Larsen J & Rolfsen P (eds.) Halvdanshaugen - Arkeologi, Historie og Naturvitenskap. Occasional Papers, vol. 3. Oslo, Norway: University Museum of Cultural Heritage, University of Oslo, pp. 329-340.
Adderley WP, Simpson I, Barrett R, Roberts HM & Wess TJ (2004) Keynote speech: Gásir and early sulphur use in northern Europe: analyses of sources, processing and trade, presented by Adderley and Simpson. A seminar on the medieval center at Gásir (Málþing um miðaldaverslunarstaðinn á Gásum), Akureyi, Iceland, 28.02.2004-28.02.2004.
Thomas J, Simpson I, Davidson D & Gauld JH (2003) GIS mapping of anthropogenic soils in Scotland: investigating the location and vulnerability of Scottish plaggen soil deposits. In: Boschian (ed.) Second International Conference on Soils and Archaeology. Second International Conference on Soils and Archaeology, Pisa, Italy, 12.05.2003-15.05.2003. Pisa: G, pp. 127-128.
Lancaster S & Simpson I (2003) Assessing and modelling faunalturbation. In: Robson-Brown K (ed.) Proceedings of the Archaeological Sciences Conference, 1999. BAR International Series, 1111. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 64-85.