(August 2014) – A group of about 30 Madison, Ind., city officials and business owners are working to generate ideas about how a new alley dedicated to art and tourism would be developed and used in downtown. This "stakeholders" group in the new grant-funded Alley Activation Project met July 15 with representatives of the architectural firm Gresham, Smith and Partners to discuss the project for the alley, which has been selected as the one between Subway Sandwich Shop and the former Joeyg's Restaurant and Nightclub.
This alley between Subway and the former Joeyg's Nightclub has been selected for use in the project.
• The first concept is considered an event alley and consists of a large single space that would incorporate a distinct archway for the entrance, string lights and raised planters.
• The second concept is called a gallery alley, which would entail the space being separated into three areas that could be used for different events concurrently. This design again employs a signature entrance as well as bench seating, canopies and possibly a mural.
• The third design is comprised of several small spaces intended for informal gatherings. This plan could accommodate groups or individuals and uses bench seating, planters and distinctive pavement design.
This meeting served as an opportunity for business owners and residents to ask questions and voice concerns regarding the project, which was made possible when the City of Madison was named a recipient of a $100,000 "Place-Based Investment Matching Grant" by the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs. These grants are intended to improve the quality of life and tourism in communities by developing "unique community gathering places." Madison matched the $50,000 with $50,500, which came from donors Vectren ($10,000), Community Foundation ($1,500), Board of Tourism ($3,000) and Main Street Program ($1,000).
The alley was chosen based on numerous factors. Details that made an alley a prime candidate such as interesting facades and architectural interest were weighed against issues that could cause problems such as structural troubles, or a conflict of use. For example, if an alley is commonly used as a thoroughfare or as access for residents, this would lower the likelihood of that alley being chosen.
Reaction to the proposals were mixed. Some business owners expressed concern that the beautified area may fall prey to vandals or become a hang out for a negative element. Henney said these concerns are being taken into account. His team believes that steps can be taken to address these concerns. Another concern was in regard to parking and the lack of guidance available to tourists regarding available parking off of Main Street.
Mike Sewell, of Gresham, Smith and Partners, explained that the renovated space will naturally draw attention to the additional parking available at the end of the alley at Mulberry and Second streets.
Wayne Spears of The Trading Post, a Main Street business, echoed these sentiments by saying that any improvement to the city is a positive thing.
The public meeting closed with an invitation for attendees to proceed to an area that was set up to allow individuals to design their own alley. This invitation for ideas continues, and all concerned citizens are encouraged to visit www.VisionMadison.org in order to complete an online survey. Also available on the website is the slideshow presentation that was presented that evening.
The final concept will be available to the public in mid August, according to Andrew Forrester, Director of Community Relations for the City of Madison. Feedback from the public meeting, as well as comments from the online survey, will be considered in the development of the final concept design, Forrester said.


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Q: Postgres: using table_to_xmlschema on a table with a Box element So, I'm trying to extract an XML description of my Postgres database tables that I can use with JAXB to handle some Java<->DB communication.  The problem is, I'm using the Postgres 'box' datatype for several fields in my tables, and the Postgres table_to_xmlschema doesn't appear to generate valid XML for boxes.
Here's my SSCCE:
Postgres table creation: create table BoxTest ( foo Box);
Postgres call to generate an XML schema: select * from table_to_xmlschema('BoxTest', true, true, 'SomeName');
Resulting schema:
<xsd:schema
     xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
     targetNamespace="SomeName"
     elementFormDefault="qualified">
 <xsd:simpleType name="UDT.User.pg_catalog.box">
 </xsd:simpleType>
 <xsd:complexType name="RowType.User.public.boxtest">
   <xsd:sequence>
     <xsd:element name="foo" type="UDT.User.pg_catalog.box" nillable="true"></xsd:element>
   </xsd:sequence>
 </xsd:complexType>
 <xsd:element name="boxtest" type="RowType.User.public.boxtest"/>
</xsd:schema>

The problem is that the description for the 'box' type is empty, despite that being a built-in type of Postgres.  (In particular, I get a SAX parsing error, with the message org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: s4s-elt-must-match.2: The content of 'simpleType' must match (annotation?, (restriction | list | union)). Not enough elements were found.)  So - is there some option I should be passing/setting to correct that output?  If there isn't a built-in option, is there an easy way within Postgres to tweak/correct the output of table_to_xmlschema?  And with any proposed solution - what will I have to do to make JAXB work correctly with the resulting schema?
If it matters, I'm using Postgres 9.1, and (I think) jaxb-impl 2.1.6.
Thanks in advance!

A: As Craig notes, the current table_to_xmlschema function does not recursively decompose recursive types.  I don't see this changing in the near future, and certainly not in stable versions so your best option is to write your own function which looks at the catalogs, and recursively builds a schema for you.  This shouldn't be too bad but it will be a bit of work.  I am actually working on similar projects for complex data presentation between PostgreSQL and the application though not using XML as an intermediary.  The actual queries needed to do this are not too bad.
What you will need to do is create a recursive query to look up types, (a WITH RECURSIVE cte on pg_attribute and pg_type) and then a function, possibly in pl/perl or the like, which generates the appropriate text for you.
The built-in functions will not work for you though.

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Q: How can I extract a sub matrix of order 4*4 from four 2*2 corner blocks of a 6*6 matrix? Let
mat = RandomInteger[10, {6, 6}];
mat // MatrixForm

I can access elements as follows
  b={{mat[[1 ;; 2, 1 ;; 2]]}, {mat[[1 ;; 2, 5 ;; 6]]},
mat[[5 ;; 6, 1 ;; 2]], mat[[5 ;; 6, 5 ;; 6]]} // MatrixForm

but doesn't appear in the 2*2 blocks form for the 4*4 sub matrix. is it possible to get that 4*4 sub matrix from here?
I tried Take (Drop) to get a sub matrix from 4*4 blocks which is quite easy
Take[mat, {3, 6}, {3, 6}] // MatrixForm

or
Take[mat, {1, 4}, {1, 4}] // MatrixForm

but not sure if Take can be used to extract 4*4 made up of corner four 2*2 blocks.


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Tom Bidcock fits into the Cycling World Championships in Australia: 'I can't ship mine again'
5 months ago Brian Rodriguez
Sunday 4 September 2022 at 20:30
Tom Bidcock will not be taking part in the cycling world championships in Australia. Britain's Enos Grenadiers made the news after the first stage of the Tour of Britain, with Pidcock finishing fifth. "I want to be more selective in the races I run."
in conversation with News Bidcock indicated that he would not be able to appear 100% at first. "Mentally I wouldn't be able to recharge myself for such a big game. It's all in Australia. Earlier this month I was dreaming of winning the MTB world title, but it didn't happen. Then I lost a bit."
In recent months, the news has already become known that many toppers will not be attending the cycling world championships in Wollongong, Australia. For example, Mads Pedersen and Jonas Weinggaard will not play for Denmark and Alejandro Valverde should not be allowed to go to Australia from Movistar. Caleb Ewan (Australia), Fabio Jacobsen (Netherlands) and Dylan Tunes (Belgium) are not in their country of choice. Don't look for Irish jockeys in Wollongong either, because Ireland won't send jockeys to the 2022 World Cup, which begins a week after the Vuelta.
Favorite in the final victory round in Britain
"I've had a tough week," Bidcock frankly continues. I had prepared well, but everything seemed to be going well." After the disappointment of the MTB World Cup, the young rider was able to start the Tour of Britain. In the first stage, Bidcock only advanced in the last kilometres, after which he sprinted to fifth. "I had to pee. You might be a little relaxed. I should have been in a hurry (Friel, editor), and then I might have won."
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Bidcock is one of the favorites to win the overall Tour of Britain. The winner of the final stage of the Tour de France makes no secret of his ambition. "I think I can win the race, but we have several cards to play," the Briton points to retired Ritchie Porte and young American Magnus Sheffield.
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Finally, the cyclocross world champion also received a question about the upcoming cyclocross season. However, Pidcock is not yet sure what his plans are. "I want to be able to prepare well for the classics in the spring. I don't want to do the whole motocross season and then do the road and the Tour and then the World Cup. That's a lot of good stuff. I want to be more selective," Bidcock concluded.
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A Kind of Common Madness: A Conversation with Liz Harmer
By Seyward Goodhand
Destructive desire, a brother so psychically contaminated by his twin sister's sexual life it's as though her actions are his, a mother who inflames the mutual enmity between her children, social codes as rigid as they are ambiguous: Strange Loops, the second novel by Canadian author Liz Harmer, has the intensity and drive of classic tragedy. The book opens with the main character, Francine—a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, a wife and teacher pursuing a PhD—having an illicit affair with a former student who just turned eighteen. From there, her life unravels with inevitability so fixed it feels damned, as she casts back to the events that led her to this point. Strange Loops offers a complex, ethically tangled engagement with the reckonings of "me-too."
Harmer is also a widely published, internationally award-winning essayist and poet, writing about madness, motherhood, religion, and obsession. Her debut novel, The Amateurs, was a finalist for the Amazon First Book Award and has been optioned by Riddle Films. I love her bold, intimate work for how it combines an interest in overwhelming, seemingly unassimilable passions with the intellectual effort to make sense of them.
We have been friends for a decade and spoke over Zoom about tragedy, taboo, unmediated experience, and how we perceive the sexuality of teenage girls.
The Rumpus: Strange Loops explores the relationship between desire and subjectivity. What interests you about this subject?
Liz Harmer: Two huge things happened to me when I was quite young: I went mad, and I fell in love, in relatively swift succession. I emerged from the hospital at eighteen, and by twenty-two I was married to my first love. These things, of course, formed me, and I'm glad for both. But, for me, the feeling that Anne Carson describes in Eros the Bittersweet—that erotic love can feel like you are finally connecting with the truest truth there is, peering straight down into time, finally seeing clearly—is a kind of common madness. What interested me is how much these peak experiences lead us to compose ourselves, invent a reality to suit the new situation, and also, can cause us to do great harm. When we think we are seeing most clearly, we see most poorly.
Rumpus: You've said that Loops might be a polarizing novel. Why do you say that?
Harmer: One concern I have is that it indulges a kind of melodrama. It's unapologetically melodramatic and larger than life in a way that is not cool. Part of me worries about that being off-putting or seeming unintentional. I've also had a few reactions from people in workshops that made me believe we're pretty confused about what we think a protagonist means. Is a protagonist the endorsement of the author? This character, Francine, who I'm obviously very interested in and fond of, and who is difficult, fascinating, and intense, is making very poor moral decisions and missing something crucial about her own life. But my answer to the problem of likeability has always been that what's "likeable" isn't the same as what's nice or palatable. That what we—what I—really crave is a protagonist that surprises me.
Rumpus: We think of our culture here in the contemporary West as "permissive" but within the first few pages of Loops you approach the limits of what is permissible and take us into our taboos. What draws you to the forbidden?
Harmer: Yes, we are permissive about some things, and punitive about others, and my long training in the religious community that raised me, also raised me to ask why. As a teenager, I was constantly demanding that my elders tell me exactly why and for what theological reason sex outside of marriage was wrong. Here it says that Jesus will forgive us anything, that we can't help sinning (even a lustful thought is as bad as adultery), and here it says we shouldn't get married, and here are a bunch of God's favorite adulterers. So, I am in the habit of looking at the rules and taboos and trying to ask what their basis is.
When I started to present parts of this novel in workshop, people had very different reactions to the content. One person told me she would never read a novel about a woman taking advantage of a student like this—it was too far (and I understood this, because I found Lolita mostly painful to read)—and then an older man who read it seemed to see that Francine at seventeen trying to seduce her thirty-something youth pastor was in total control. He said the man "didn't stand a chance." To me, both of these reactions were revealing. Our taboos and our reactions to the crossing of those taboos shows us something about our deepest beliefs about gender, about sex, about power, etc.
Rumpus: When you said people might find this "not cool," I wondered, what's "cool"?
Harmer: Maybe detached, ironic? There's very little opportunity to have distance in this novel. But I've always been interested in the idea that there might be some experiences that are unmediated. This could mean being overwhelmed by art or the sublime; it could mean an experience of madness where you're approaching something that you can no longer think through fast enough to mediate. Not wanting to have a persona, wanting to be a self that's really there—this is an old-fashioned desire.
Rumpus: How do you get at unmediated experience in a medium?
Harmer: This is the puzzle I was facing. When I wrote this, I was writing in such a way that I was trying to access something I wasn't intellectually in control of, which is the closest you can get in a medium to getting at something unmediated. I think I was trying to do something like automatic writing. I was trying to be guided by something that wasn't clear to me and then in the editing process, to fix it up. I want this novel to feel like there's less of a gap between the thing and the comprehension of the thing.
Rumpus: Can you talk about the structure you chose?
Harmer: In the first pass I was conjuring feelings and figuring out what was happening. But then when I went back, at a certain point I realized that the novel had three separate time periods and two separate narrative centers and was jumping between loops. I took each section, I made this nerdy infographic where I figured out the number of pages that were devoted to each loop, and tried to balance them out more. There's a seventeen-years-ago loop where young Francine is having an affair with an older pastor, a present loop where she's having an affair with her former student, and a section from in-between, where Francine's family gathers at their country home and have a catastrophic fight during a tornado. At some point, I realized that while the first two loops drove the plot forward to its conclusion, the third didn't. Instead, the energy of that section is like a tornado—it spirals down in. It doesn't go forward—it goes deep. This was a very pleasing discovery to me. I placed the tornado loop in the mathematical centre of the novel, which felt like a sinkhole into which all the other events are tumbling. It's very pleasing to me when the structure of a novel can reflect its themes and content.
Rumpus: Why is it pleasing when form and content mirror each other?
Harmer: Maybe it gets at a very deep pleasure of containment, like being swaddled. Maybe it's like having a body instead of floating off into space.
My grade three teacher for some reason let me put on plays and cast all my classmates in them. The first play I put on was an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood. When we got to the final scene, all the actors were so excited to be acting that we just kept going with no script. Eventually the teacher had to stop us and say this is enough. I think about this moment a lot. You just want to keep playing, you want to give your characters more things to say and do, but then you lose the thread completely and there's no coherent story. I've written six novels and published two. The difference between a novel I can finish and one I can't finish is the presence or absence of a shapely "container," I call it.
Rumpus: I've often thought that we give teenage boys the grace of seeing their sexual advances and expressions as awkward or messy. With girls, we tend to give them this first-degree level of intention when it comes to their sexuality. Of course, teenagers want to be seen as sexual beings, but I think we see girls as more controlled than they are. When young Francine pursues an older authority figure, how responsible is she for this relationship?
Harmer: Francine is this very gifted young person who wants to think she's in control and older than she is and is treated as though she's older, which was also my experience as a kid. I think it's a damaging thing we do to girls. We're provoked by their sexuality and then our provocation is ascribed to them.
As a teenager, Francine takes this epic pilgrimage to throw herself at this older pastor. She's determined to go down this path. But there are moments here, which, to me, are the saddest, darkest parts of the novel, where she's alone in this house with him, trying to conjure up the feeling of wanting to throw herself into this thing, but she starts to feel afraid. Afterwards, she's shaken up. She goes home weeping, and she thinks it's because she's in love. But I think there's more going on there. This is Francine putting herself in a vulnerable position and then trying to be strong enough to withstand what has hurt her. She wants to see herself as older than her years, and the adults in her life also want to see her that way because then they don't need to be responsible for her. She's left to believe that she did this to herself and to this older man. She believes he was a victim to her desire.
Rumpus: Then Francine is the older teacher having an affair with a recent student. Were you thinking of trauma and its repetitions?
Harmer: I wasn't thinking about it at all because I was trying to write in this immediate way. Later, I discovered that she believes she had been the villain when she was young, and her re-enactment is clearly an attempt to understand what motivated the pastor. So yes, unconsciously on my part and on Francine's part, this is about trauma, but I wasn't trying to offer a clear explanation for her behaviour.
I went through something traumatic when I was young and I didn't acknowledge this to myself until about two years ago. I was so unwilling to accept that I wasn't in control of what had happened to me and to see that I had been damaged by this experience that I was resistant to the idea of trauma. And I guess I was afraid to write a trauma plot because, you know, we're "on the other side of the trauma plot." But discovering that you have symptoms of PTSD twenty years after something happened and that for all that time you did not know that about yourself makes you ask: How many other things do I not understand about my own experience?
Rumpus: Is that what a "strange loop" is?
Harmer: The title Strange Loops comes from this book I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, which is a very tender piece of personal, philosophical writing because it's about his wife's death and the belief he came to about consciousness and how intermixed our minds are with others. When someone we know well dies, things you love about them live on in your consciousness. So, there's a sense in which we humans create each other's consciousnesses. We're part of a complex system of feedback loops where we take something in, put it back out, etc., and that's how you create a self. I was thinking about Strange Loops as about creation of a self through others. To me, the main strange loop in the book is between Francine and her twin brother, Philip. They're so entangled with each other that it's not clear where one ends and the other begins. They're like the snake that eats its own tail, or like the staircase that seems like it's going up but it's going down. He can't bear what she's done as though it's happened to him.
Rumpus: In a number of essays you've written about coming from a Dutch Calvinist Reformed background and the way this impacted your sexuality as a young person. Here you gave Francine and Philip a liberal, secular household. How were you thinking about this obsession with female sexuality but without those traditional overdeterminations?
Harmer: Well, the sections in the past, set during Francine and Philip's teenage years, take place in the late '90s. Even outside of my own stultified, confused sexual education, which was extremely misogynist and sex-negative—the messages were "don't get pregnant." "don't be a slut," "just get married and go away"—I was thinking of people like Monica Lewinsky and how she had been defamed and villainized even though she was so young, and he was…the fucking president. Our whole cultural attitude at that time was misogynist in a way I hope has changed a little bit, for my own kids.
I felt very unsafe about sex as a young person because, talking about the responsibilities we give to girls, I felt like I was responsible for the effect I was having on other people. For me, one of the grand ironies of my sheltered childhood going to a Christian school was that in order to attend this very conservative school on the other side of the city, I had to take an hour of city buses through the heart of downtown Hamilton. I'd get off downtown and wait for my next bus in front of a strip club. Men were everywhere, and they all thought I was twenty, not fourteen. I had a lot of negative encounters. So, I had a confusing inside/outside perspective on sexuality.
I'd internalized some misogyny but was very interested in rebelling against that so was reading second wave feminism and stuff about sex positivity. I was trying to talk a big game about being open-minded about sex in a context that was completely unwilling to entertain that. I was annoying and provocative to everybody all the time. Even at seventeen, Francine is not coy about her sexuality, and I think it was an intellectual position for her. She is trying on an intellectual position, as I was at that age.
But I also have compassion for Philip. He's desperate for a meaning greater than his own reality, he's going through his existential crisis that we do as teens, and he becomes interested in religion as something that will give him that meaning. I made his parents secular, but in a sense, this is a devotion to atheism that I've always found similar to being Christian. Even though the family in this novel comes from a different cultural background than my own—they're also from a higher class than I'm from—I actually feel that psychologically they're very similar to the more dogmatic, conservative figures I've known so well.
Rumpus: The book feels boldly tragic. Is this bucking a trend or are there contemporary works that inspired you?
Harmer: Do you remember The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides? In the press for that I remember Eugenides saying the 19th-century marriage plot no longer has force because domesticity is no longer a place of high stakes for, say, women. We have divorce laws. We have bank accounts. We can own property. But love and domesticity have been places in my own life of high drama and struggle. The minute I was facing my own divorce, I realized how much traditional gender roles had really infected my own life in ways both subtle and very obvious, and so The Marriage Plot inspired me only insofar as it irritated me.
After I wrote Loops I read Querelle of Roberval by Kevin Lambert (the English translation is by Donald Winkler), which is based on Greek tragedy. It's written in a way that you don't have anyone to root for, and instead of God or Fate being the inescapable problem that causes the problem for the individual, it's capitalism. I'm very compelled by the idea that tragedy as a form offers us evidence that there are things beyond our control, yet that we must bear the terrible consequences of these forces we can't do anything to subdue. This is coming from my deep Calvinist roots, but what tragedy offers is a reminder that you are not your own. A great modern piety is that we believe in our own agency and we believe in our own freedom and we believe that we can make rational decisions.
I think I'm drawn, in most of the art I love, to the kind of ordinary darkness that everyone experiences: that every one of us, no matter what we might aspire to, is capable of failing to do what's right, and that failure, no matter how we might explain it to ourselves, no matter how sorry we might be, could have catastrophic consequences anyway. This to me feels like the tragedy of the human condition, and it also feels like the source of some of the most beautiful, terrifying stories people have made.
Author photo by Scott Nichols
Seyward Goodhand's first book, Even That Wildest Hope (Invisible Publishing), was a finalist for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, and longlisted for the 2020 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She's at work on two novels. More from this author →
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Trump Admin Blocks Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from California as DOJ Takes Legal Action
The Office of Civil Rights within the Department of Health and Human Services is taking the side of pro-life advocates who say they have been compelled to effectively support abortion.
In a statement on the HHS website, the OCR announced that it will "disallow $200 million in federal Medicaid funds going to California in the upcoming quarter due to the state illegally mandating that all health care plans subject to regulation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) cover abortion without exclusion or limitation."
The HHS ruling gives California the option of dropping coercive language or losing more money.
"If the State does not come into compliance, additional disallowances will be imposed at a rate of $200 million per quarter," read the statement, which, in summing up, said the action was "due to [California's] unlawful abortion insurance mandate."
In a separate case, HHS announced that the University of Vermont Medical Center will be sued by the Department of Justice, saying that the medical center "unlawfully forced a nurse to assist in an elective abortion procedure over the nurse's conscience-based objections and has refused to change its policies to prevent future coercion."
Ana Cheri WOWS Fans By Her Vacation Photos
Ashley Biden Responds To Melania Trump's Snub of Her Mom
Capitol Rioter's Found Text Messages Are Incredibly Disturbing
Kylie Jenner Is Being Roasted For Shower's Water Pressure In $36 Million Mansion
Belle Delphine Receives Huge Backlash For Posting Disturbing Content With No 'Trigger Warning'
Melania Trump Says She Is 'Disappointed' By Violence At US Capitol In First Statement
BABYSITTER TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL AFTER INSERTING A BABY IN HER VAGINA
Trump Admin Axes Obama-Era Restrictions on Religious Groups Providing Support to Needy
Iranian President Makes Chilling Announcement Americans Should Be Worried About


More than 18 European companies have formed a consortium to leverage the power of RFID to fully optimize the automotive industry's production and delivery systems. The RFID-Based Automotive Network (RAN) initiative's goal is to create an integrated system that provides uninterrupted transparency during the manufacturing process, throughout the shipping route, and onto the showroom floor.
Business process experts, manufacturing engineers, and logistics teams are utilizing RFID technology at every opportunity to bring RAN to life. Representatives at CeBIT 2012 in Hannover, Germany, were on hand to explain the details of RAN.
A car manufactured by Opel, for example might utilize up to 70 RFID chips during the manufacturing process. RFID chips are attached to engine parts, chassis, and body parts. Different types of chips are used depending on heat tolerance, size, and placement requirements. At the dealership, dealers will be able to better manage inventory and handle inter-dealer transfers.
The RAN initiative does not extend beyond the sale to the eventual customer, but representatives state that RFID chips would serve many useful purposes during car ownership as well. While obvious uses might include recalls and maintenance schedules, the ability of RFID to store information offers solutions on the road as well. After an accident, rescue crews often need to open the vehicle as quickly as possible. An RFID chip could contain specific information that explained the car's door structure, eliminating guesswork so the EMTs could save precious minutes during a rescue.
German auto giants involved in the initiative include Daimler, BMW, and Opel. IBM, Siemens, IBS, EuroLog, and SAP provide the software and IT support. Research partners include BIBA, FZI, Fraunhofer, HTW, and IWB. For logistics, RAN relies on both BLG Logistics and DHL. Bosch, KEIPER, and REHAU join forces for distribution and delivery.
The overall goal of RAN is to give auto manufacturers and everyone else in the supply chain the ability to track auto parts and completed autos at any point in time. The hope is that this will drive cost efficiencies throughout the system. RAN also hopes to develop new manufacturing and delivery standards driven by their RFID-based network.
You can learn more about this initiative at www.autoran.de. Click on the British flag for the English version of the site.


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ONE OCEAN tells the story of the world's vast interconnected ocean ecosystem. With a wealth of never-before-seen HD footage, the spectacular 4-part series bears witness to underwater volcanoes erupting meters from the camera and discoveries of rare and bizarre life forms. Some of the planet's most innovative and charismatic marine scientists guide us on this adventure.
Journey with ONE OCEAN's cameras as they travel to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the USA exploring the richness of the underwater world. In each breathtaking episode, join scientists as they explore the ocean's beauty, power and fragility. The scientists include marine biologist, Boris Worm; ocean climate modeller, Debbie Ianson; zoologist, Nancy Rabalais; geologist, Nick Eyles; oceanographer, Richard Feely; paleontologist, Ted Daeschler; extreme deep sea researcher, Verena Tunnicliffe; and author and underwater photographer, Wade Doak.
The series is accompanied by an award-winning educational website, One Ocean Interactive, that contains a vast amount of information to engage the curious student.
Birth of an Ocean - The story of the ocean's turbulent beginnings and its successive incarnations.
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PhD candidate at the University of Lund, Department of Political Science. She holds a MSc in International Security Studies at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna and the University of Trento.
Is the Liberal International Order coming to an end? Uncovering how populists cooperate internationally
A seemingly never-ending stream of observers claim that the populist emphasis on nationalism, identity and popular sovereignty undermines international collaboration and contributes to the crisis of the so-called Liberal International ⋙
Agnese Pacciardi 6 Jul 2021 • 5 min read
A liquid frontline: new war imaginaries in the Mediterranean Sea
In the last few years, the Mediterranean area has witnessed at least three massive and unprecedented military operations that involve EU member states: the Italian Mare Nostrum (2013-2014), EUNAVFOR Med ⋙
Agnese Pacciardi 23 Apr 2020 • 7 min read
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Madrid travel guide
Madrid attract all sorts of travellers with its vibrant tapas bars, outstanding art museums, and historic squares. Plaza Mayor, Madrid's most impressive square, is surrounded by 15th-century designs, such as Palacio Real, Plaza de Oriente, and Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales.
Many also consider Madrid as the art capital of Spain, thanks to the city's trio of art museums near El Retiro Park. Museo del Prado, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza display hundreds of masterpieces, from Old Masters to contemporary American art. With plenty of things to do, it's no wonder Madrid is one of Spain's must-visit destinations.
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Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) is a rare, viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF); the causative agent is an RNA virus in the family Filoviridae, and growing evidence demonstrates that fruit bats are the natural reservoir of Marburg virus (MARV) (1,2). On January 9, 2008, an infectious disease physician notified the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) of a case of unexplained febrile illness requiring hospitalization in a woman who had returned from travel in Uganda. Testing of early convalescent serum demonstrated no evidence of infection with agents that cause tropical febrile illnesses, including VHF. Six months later, in July 2008, the patient requested repeat testing after she learned of the death from MHF of a Dutch tourist who had visited the same bat-roosting cave as the patient, the Python Cave in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda (3). The convalescent serologic testing revealed evidence of prior infection with MARV, and MARV RNA was detected in the archived early convalescent serum. A public health investigation did not identify illness consistent with secondary MHF transmission among her contacts, and no serologic evidence of infection was detected among the six tested of her eight tour companions. The patient might have acquired MARV infection through exposure to bat secretions or excretions while visiting the Python Cave. Travelers should be aware of the risk for acquiring MHF in caves or mines inhabited by bats in endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa. Health-care providers should consider VHF among travelers returning from endemic areas who experience unexplained febrile illness.
On January 1, 2008, the patient, a woman aged 44 years with no remarkable past medical history, returned to the United States from a 2-week safari in Uganda, where her activities included camping, white-water rafting, visiting local villages, and viewing wildlife. She had taken malaria prophylaxis with atovaquone-proguanil, as prescribed. On January 4, she experienced severe headache, chills, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea (Figure). She self-treated for traveler's diarrhea with 2 doses of ciprofloxacin, and developed a diffuse rash. On January 6 and 7, she was seen as an outpatient, had laboratory testing performed, and was treated with antiemetics. A complete blood count on January 6 revealed an abnormally low white blood cell count of 900/µL (normal range: 4,500--10,500/µL). She returned to her primary-care physician's clinic on January 8, complaining of persistent diarrhea and abdominal pain, as well as worsening fatigue, generalized weakness, and confusion. On physical examination, she appeared pale and fatigued, and had decreased bowel sounds; the remainder of her examination was unremarkable. Laboratory results received on January 8 revealed hepatitis (aspartate aminotransaminase 9,660 U/dL [normal range: 15--41 U/L] and alanine aminotransferase 4,823 U/dL [normal range: 14--54 U/L]) and renal failure (creatinine 2.3 mg/dL [normal range: 0.7--1.2 mg/dL]). The patient was admitted to a community hospital for further management. The admission diagnosis was acute hepatitis, nausea, and vomiting of unknown etiology.
On admission, the patient was afebrile (temperature 96.2°F [35.7°C]). She was treated with intravenous fluids and was started on doxycycline for possible leptospirosis. Her hospital course was characterized by pancytopenia, coagulopathy, myositis, pancreatitis, and encephalopathy, all of which are complications that have been associated with MHF. She had no signs of gross hemorrhage other than vaginal bleeding attributed to menses. During her hospitalization, she underwent cholecystectomy for acalculous cholecystitis. Testing was negative for leptospirosis, viral hepatitis, malaria, arboviral infection, acute schistosomiasis, rickettsial infection, and VHFs (including Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fever) (Table). Early convalescent serum collected on January 14 (10 days after illness onset) was submitted to CDC for testing and demonstrated no evidence of MARV infection by virus isolation, antigen-detection enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), or anti-MARV immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG ELISA. The patient was discharged on January 19 and had a prolonged recovery over the following year because of persistent abdominal pain, fatigue, and "mental fog," but had no long-term sequelae such as chronic hepatitis or chronic renal disease. She received a blood transfusion for persistent anemia after she was discharged.
In July 2008, the patient requested repeat testing after she learned of the fatal case of MHF in a Dutch tourist who recently had visited the same cave she had visited in Uganda, the Python Cave. The Colorado patient had visited the cave on December 25, 2007, 10 days before onset of her initial symptoms. Serum collected on July 15 tested positive for anti-MARV IgG by ELISA, prompting additional testing of the archived day 10 serum. Traditional reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was negative, and real-time (Taqman) RT-PCR was equivocal; however, nested RT-PCR* confirmed the presence of MARV RNA fragments in the day 10 sample.
On January 22, 2009, CDC notified the World Health Organization and Uganda Ministry of Health of the imported MHF case. The Python Cave had already been closed to visitors in July 2008, during the response to the Dutch MHF case. CDPHE and CDC conducted a public health investigation during January--February 2009. Interviews were conducted with the patient and her spouse, the patient's medical records were reviewed, and a retrospective contact investigation was conducted to identify possible secondary transmission. A contact was defined as a person who had physical contact with the patient, her body fluids, or contaminated materials or was in the same room as the patient during her acute illness (January 4--19, 2008). Contacts included health-care workers (including health-care providers, housekeeping staff, and hospital laboratory staff), commercial laboratory staff, and social contacts.
To limit the effect of recall bias and to identify secondary cases of MHF, a contact-tracing protocol (4) was modified for retrospective use to identify contacts who had a high-risk exposure to the patient's body fluids (through splash, percutaneous, or nonintact skin exposure), or prolonged absenteeism of ≥7 days as indicated by review of health and payroll records. The contact investigation identified approximately 260 contacts: 220 health-care workers, approximately 30 commercial laboratory workers from five laboratories, and 10 social contacts. No high-risk exposure or severe febrile illness was identified.
The patient and her spouse reported spending approximately 15--20 minutes in the cave and recalled seeing bats flying overhead. Neither remembered her having contact with a bat or sustaining an injury in the cave. However, the patient reported touching guano-covered rocks while climbing into the cave and surmised that she might have covered her mouth and nose with her hands once inside because of the unpleasant smell.
CDC, with assistance from public health agencies in Illinois, Uganda, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, conducted an investigation of the eight tour companions who accompanied the patient when she visited the Python Cave. During February--July 2009, participants were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire by telephone or e-mail and were offered serologic testing by anti-MARV IgG ELISA. Questionnaires were completed for all eight tour companions. All eight reported having entered the cave (at least under the cave ceiling), and six reported climbing over a crop of boulders further inside as the patient had done; however, none reported direct contact with bats or bat guano/urine. Serum samples were provided by six of the tour companions; none had evidence of prior MARV infection by anti-MARV IgG.
Reported by: N Fujita, MD, Western Infectious Disease Consultants, Wheat Ridge; A Miller, Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheat Ridge; G Miller, DVM, Jefferson County Public Health; K Gershman, MD, Colorado Dept of Public Health and Environment. Special Pathogens Br, Div of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases; N Gallagher, N Marano, DVM, Div of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Prevention, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases; C Hale, DVM, E Jentes, PhD, EIS officers, CDC.
Before the case described in this report, the only human cases of VHF imported into the United States were single cases of Lassa fever (an arenaviral hemorrhagic fever) in Chicago, Illinois, in 1989 (5) and in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2004 (4). No previous cases of imported filovirus (MARV or Ebola virus) infections have been reported in the United States, making this the first imported case of a filoviral hemorrhagic fever in the United States.
The patient described in this report was first diagnosed by convalescent serology because initial testing of the day 10 sample was negative by virus isolation, antigen-detection, and IgM and IgG ELISA. After the Dutch patient was diagnosed with MHF, retesting of the archived specimen with more sensitive molecular methods was performed, including a nested RT-PCR assay that detected viral RNA. This, along with the positive convalescent serology and compatible clinical course, confirmed the diagnosis. To obtain a rapid diagnosis during the acute illness, patients with suspected VHF should have paired acute blood specimens (ideally collected during days 0--4 and days 4--9 of the acute illness) tested at a World Reference Laboratory (e.g., CDC) with biosafety level 4 capability using multiple methods as appropriate for the timing of the sample, including virus isolation, RT-PCR, and IgM and IgG ELISA. Because the incubation period for MARV is 2--21 days, daily contact tracing is recommended to contain outbreaks. This involves following all contacts of patients suspected of having MHF, and isolating and testing those that experience fever within 21 days after their last contact.
Other sporadic cases of MHF have been reported outside of Africa: two laboratory-acquired cases in Russia and two cases imported from endemic areas (3,6). These imported cases occurred in a patient hospitalized in South Africa who likely acquired the disease while camping in Zimbabwe in 1975 (6) and the second in the previously described Dutch patient hospitalized in the Netherlands who died of MHF after visiting the Python Cave in Uganda in 2008 (3). Case-fatality rates of 83%--90% have been reported for widespread outbreaks of MHF in Africa (1,7).
Although the Python Cave is closed and no additional MHF cases have been reported, travelers should be aware of the risk for acquiring MHF in endemic areas in Africa and should avoid entering caves or mines inhabited by bats in these areas (10). Health-care providers should have a low threshold of suspicion for VHF among travelers returning from endemic areas, promptly implement appropriate infection control measures, and rapidly report suspected cases. Suspected cases of VHF are nationally notifiable and should be reported immediately to local and state health departments and to CDC's Special Pathogens Branch at 404-639-1115 (770-488-7100 after hours) to obtain guidance on testing, management, and response. Additional information regarding Marburg hemorrhagic fever,§ travelers' health,¶ and VHF infection-control guidelines** are available online.
This report is based, in part, on contributions by J Desjardin, MD, Western Infectious Disease Consultants, Wheat Ridge, Colorado; C Austin, Illinois Dept of Health; M Sabbe, MD, S Quoilin, MD, D Reynders, MD, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium; A Walsh, MSc, Y Chow, MBBS, D Morgan, MD, Health Protection Agency, London, United Kingdom; S Balinandi, MSc, R Downing, PhD, CDC-Uganda; J Lutwama, PhD, Uganda Virus Research Institute.
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Bausch DG, Borchert M, Grein T, et al. Risk factors for Marburg hemorrhagic fever, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Emerg Infect Dis 2003;9:1531--7.
Borchert M, Mulangu S, Lefèvre P, et al. Use of protective gear and the occurrence of occupational Marburg hemorrhagic fever in health workers from Watsa Health Zone, Democratic Republic of the Congo. J Infect Dis 2007;196(Suppl 2):S168--75.
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* Nested RT-PCR is more sensitive and specific than traditional RT-PCR. A portion of the product produced from the first round of amplification is used in the second round of amplification along with a different set of primers.
† Based on CDC's Interim Guidance for Managing Patients with Suspected Viral Hemorrhagic Fever in U.S. Hospitals, available at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/bp_vhf_interimguidance.html.
Marburg hemorrhagic fever (MHF) is a rare viral hemorrhagic fever caused by Marburg virus (a filovirus in the same family as Ebola virus), which is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and likely is maintained in nature by cave-dwelling bats.
The case described in this report, the first imported case of a filoviral hemorrhagic fever in the United States, adds further support to the epidemiologic link between MHF and exposure to caves inhabited by bats in Africa.
Health-care providers should advise travelers to endemic areas of Africa to avoid entering caves inhabited by bats, should consider the diagnosis of viral hemorrhagic fever among severely ill travelers returning from endemic areas, and should rapidly report, isolate, and test patients with suspected cases.
Alternate Text: The figure above shows the timeline of key events in the treatment and diagnosis of an imported case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Colorado from December 25, 2007 through January 23, 2008.
¶ Reverse transcription--polymerase chain reaction.


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Cannelton's primary lock chamber reopens after dual miter gate replacement
After over a year of planning and 132 days of execution, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District resumed locking boats through the 1,200-foot lock chamber at Cannelton Locks and Dam in Cannelton, Indiana, Nov. 13.
Engineering Division makes recruiting top talent a priority
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is always looking to add talented individuals to their world-class team. When comparing USACE to large federal agencies, USACE ranks number two on the Best Places to Work list, behind only NASA.
USACE, partners successfully remove Barren River Lock and Dam 1
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with The
USACE instrumental in preservation of one of Louisville's oldest historic homes
A piece of Louisville's history has been preserved thanks in part to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District's Regulatory Division.
Louisville District Deputy District Engineer retires after 44 years
Some mention legacy, some say legendary, but how would one properly sum up an esteemed 44-year
Louisville District, Indiana Silver Jackets educate public about importance of wetlands
Over the last few months, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District partnered with
USACE Real Estate executes recruiting mission on behalf of Army
Recruiting is an essential task for the U.S. military to maintain its strength in numbers, and a recruiting office is where some start their military career. It can also be a prospective service member's first impression of the military.
Furniture team plays vital role in successful opening of DoDEA's Patch Elementary School
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District furniture team helped successfully open
Miter Gate Replacement Project underway at Cannelton Locks and Dam
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District's Cannelton Locks and Dam Miter Gate
Indy North flood gate team awarded USACE Innovation of the Year Award
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commanding General and 55th Chief of Engineers Lt. Gen. Scott
USACE, 81st Readiness Division breaks ground on first U.S. Army Reserve equipment concentration site in Florida
The U.S. Army Reserve 81st Readiness Division, in coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Operations Division hosts boat operator training at Taylorsville Lake
Employees from several U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District field offices recently
Grissom Air Reserve Base cuts ribbon on new Aerial Port Facility
Grissom Air Reserve Base, in Miami County, Indiana, held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Aerial Port Facility, June 3, 2022. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District managed the design and the construction of the project.
Three Forks of Beargrass Creek Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study reaches major milestone with signing of Chiefs Report
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District recently completed an Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility study and recommended plan to restore both instream and riparian habitat within the Beargrass Creek watershed in Louisville, Kentucky. Beargrass Creek has a 60 square mile watershed and is composed of three main branches (the South, Middle and Muddy forks), which reach throughout the city of Louisville. Historically, Beargrass Creek has suffered degraded habitat due to development and manipulation.
Introducing Louisville District's first ever River Ranger: Lisa Freeman
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District manages nine locks and dams: seven on the Ohio River and two on the Green River in Kentucky. The Ohio River projects operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, serving both the towing industry and recreational boaters. It is a known fact that USACE is the steward of the lands and waters located on its projects. The Corps' guiding philosophy for natural resource management is to manage, conserve, and improve these natural resources that contribute to an increased quality of American life, now and for posterity. However, this it not only taking place at lake projects that provide recreational activities for the public, but also at the locks and dams.
Louisville District Dam Safety team works hard to ensure dams are reliable
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for more than 700 dams across the United States that provide multiple benefits such as flood risk management, navigation, water supply, hydropower, environmental stewardship, fish and wildlife conservation, and recreation. Through the Dam Safety Program, USACE provides oversight for its dams and works to ensure they remain safe, reliable and able to provide their intended benefits.
Louisville District delivers Newark Army reserve center ahead of schedule
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District recently completed a new 43,000 square-foot Army Reserve Center in Newark, Delaware, ahead of schedule.
New Army Aviation Support Facility unveiled at ribbon cutting
With the help from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District, the Army Reserve Aviation Command's newest Aviation Support Facility, also known as ASF, is officially open. MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new facility, April 2, 2022.
Water management team revolutionizes data collection with cloud-based solution
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District water management Team – who are responsible for the daily operation of seventeen multi-purpose reservoir projects within the Louisville District and the collection and dissemination of data associated with those projects in regard to reservoir control and water quality – has been busy working to revolutionize USACE processes. The water management team is currently developing a web-based user interface, which will allow lake project personnel to input data into the Civil Works Business Intelligence database, eliminating the need for an on-site storage solution. In January, the team started working with the USACE Hydraulic Engineering Center and Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory out of Hanover, New Hampshire, to serve as a pilot district for migrating all water management processes to a cloud-based platform.
Spring showers bring out lake staff superpowers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District manages 17 flood risk reduction lakes, which receive an average of 15 million visitors each year. While many visitors enjoy the campgrounds, playgrounds and other recreational activities the lakes provide, some may not realize the amount of work that goes on in preparation for the summer months.


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Vivek Mohindra
Vivek joined New Science Ventures as a Partner in April 2013. He serves on the Board of Directors for Ferric Semiconductor, Inc., Mangstor, Inc., Caringo Inc., BrightVolt, and GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Inc.
Vivek holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in addition to an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in Semiconductor Processing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Lese
William is a Managing Director at Braemar Energy Ventures in NYC where he serves on the Board of Directors for BrightVolt and EnerNOC. Braemar Energy Ventures focuses on investing in early to mid stage energy technology companies primarily in the US and Canada. Prior to joining the Braemar team, William was a partner at Mantis Holdings, a venture capital firm focused on investing in environmental and energy efficiency companies.
William holds both a B.A. in Physics and an M.S. in Energy Sciences from New York University.
James Sims
Jim is a co-founder and Chairman of Silicon Valley Data Science. Jim founded Cambridge Technology Partners Inc. (Cambridge MA) in 1991 and led the firm to $625 million in annual revenue, 4,500 employees and international prominence. CTP was purchased by Novell, Inc. in 2001. Prior to CTP, he founded Concurrent Computer Corp. and built it to $340 million in annual revenue and 3,500 employees.
Jim also founded GEN3 Partners in 1999 to focus on the business of corporate innovation and expanded GEN3 Partners by creating GEN3 Ventures, designed to create high value companies based on the innovation discipline of GEN3 Partners. He also serves as Managing Partner in GEN3 Capital, LP, a fund established to mine for technology rich opportunities and building growth based businesses.
Jim has served on the EDS Board of Directors, and on the Thru, Inc. Board of Directors. He has served as Chairman of RSA Security, Chairman of Airgain, Inc., Chairman of American E-Pay, Inc., Chairman of Groxis, Inc., Chairman of GenXL, Inc., Chairman of Leveler, LLC, and Chairman of Specialists on Call, Inc.
Dan Squiller
Dan is the CEO of Aquam Corp., a global provider of technology solutions for water and energy distribution infrastructure ensuring the health, longevity, safety and reliability of vital resources for utility & municipal, commercial & residential and industrial markets. Aquam's water and energy technologies diagnose, clean and remediate aging infrastructure & water scarcity issues.
Previously, he has held CEO and executive positions at Scientific Atlanta, St. Bernard Software, Invensys plc, PowerGenix, GT Advanced Technologies, and Verengo Solar. C-level roles have spanned from venture capital backed early-stage companies to billion-dollar global enterprises. Public company leadership roles have included chairmanship of Densei-Lambda, a First Section Tokyo stock exchange company. Mr. Squiller also consults to venture capital and private equity firms where he specializes in technology commercialization, international expansion, turnarounds, and Asian supply chain development.
A graduate of Ohio University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MA in Interpersonal Communication, Mr. Squiller also completed the Executive Institute program at Stanford University. He has served on and chaired various Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for industrial companies, trade organizations, and nonprofits. He currently serves on the boards of Aquam Corp., BrightVolt, and TriLumina Corp.


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Burgh Island – Acquisition Finance & Advisory
Burgh Island is an award-winning and iconic hotel located on the south Devon coast. Built in 1929 to an Art Deco design and situated on a stunning tidal island overlooking the mouth of the river Avon and Bigbury-on-Sea it boasts an unrivalled history and heritage.
In early 2018 Marechale Capital was appointed as an adviser to a management team keen to acquire the hotel from its retiring owners. Marechale initially helped structure the offer and negotiate with the vendor to agree exclusivity prior to securing both the debt and equity finance from a new investor group.
Now under its new ownership the hotel is undergoing a staged multimillion-pound renovation programme although it will retain its world famous 1920's genre to be 'The best hotel west of the Ritz'. Improvements to the 13th century pub, the Pilchard Inn, have already been completed and further works will include the refurbishment of the guest rooms, and the creation of a spa.
Marechale continues to monitor the investment for the investors it introduced and also acts as the Independent Non-Executive Director on the Board.
www.burghisland.com
We are delighted to have worked closely with Duncan Gray, OSiT and Penny and the Inn-Telligence team in structuring, advising and co-funding the purchase of Burgh Island. This is the 9th luxury hotel asset we at Marechale have helped structure and finance in the UK, Ireland and Europe in the last 6 years. We are particularly excited to be part of this iconic hotel's redevelopment with its unique blend of island location, history and service.
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Q: Some confusions about Pascal's law I think Pascal's law is very confusing. It says that any change in pressure in any part of a liquid is transmitted to all the parts of the liquid without being diminished in magnitude.
Consider this situation:
A vessel filled with mercury is exposed to atmospheric pressure. Then, an empty test tube having only vacuum is inverted to it so that some area of the mercury surface gets covered by it and the pressure on that part becomes zero. So the change in pressure of this part is equal to the atmospheric pressure. So, pressure at all the other parts of the liquid should decrease by 1 atm, and the normal forces on the liquid by the vessel should somewhat readjust to account for this decreased pressure.
But, if I'm correct, in this situation some mercury would itself rise into the test tube to make the pressure at the part of the surface enclosed by the test tube equal to the atmospheric pressure.
Does this law need a better statement or some modification?
And I'm also confused about when a liquid level rises and when it doesn't. For example, if we have a mercury vessel exposed to some pressure, and that pressure is decreased then no rise in mercury level happens. But if the opening of the vessel is some tube of lower cross-sectional area than the vessel, and pressure is decreased, then mercury level rises. Why?

A: Pascal's Law is relevant to the instantaineous case, the very moment in your example that the mercury is exposed to a vacuum, whereas you are considering the final stable state of the system after the liquid has stopped moving in response to the pressure change.
You could try to formulate a different expression of the law, but it is tricky to get right to say the least. Here, I had a go, "A pressure difference between any two areas of a liquid surface results in a net force on those areas" - how do you like that version? (me not so much).
2) for the liquid to move there has to be a pressure differential between different parts of the liquid, amounting to a total net force on it. If you just change the pressure everywhere there is no net force resultant.


Beautiful capture and work, Deborah, L.
I love eagles, and this is so majestic in its presentation, Deborah! I love this piece, a lot! The majesty of the avian in flight is phenomenal, and your background so highly accentuates this majestic and beautiful flight of freedom! Your surely got the big, "Elvis" F/V on this masterpiece of beauty!
Randy thank you so much for such a fabulous comment, F/V. I am so glad you like this. I love eagles myself and hope to watch them this winter.
Very nice capture & textures!
This turned out great. Wonderful work.
Thank you Bob for taking the time to comment and for the V/F. I appreciate it.


Amanda Peña teaches ninth grade English Language Arts at PSJA Southwest Early College High School.
Amanda Peña teaches ninth grade English Language Arts at PSJA Southwest Early College High School. She is a 2017 Teach For America corps member.
What motivated you to apply to join TFA in the RGV?
As a first-generation college graduate, I have always had an interest in becoming a teacher because my education gave me the freedom to explore and fall in love with the world in ways I had not had access to. I wanted to give those opportunities to other students as my teachers had for me. My undergraduate studies in international development drew me to the rich cultural and political laboratory that is the Rio Grande Valley. Because TFA combined my passion for education and social justice, I applied to teach in the Valley to be part of a larger movement elevating the next generation of LatinX scholars into the sociopolitical systems defining the American identity.
I wish my students could focus their energy on developing their passions and interests, while being challenged to think critically about the ways they can and will continue to interact with the world around them. With so much pressure on state testing, many of my students fail to see the possibilities and freedom of their education.
If I could, I would change the academic culture to support both goals by first helping students decide who (or what kind of person) they want to become, so they can ultimately discern and prepare for a career that allows that identity to flourish and create lasting, positive impact.
Education sets the foundation for a country's development. With many schools under-resourced and understaffed, inequities in achievement and opportunity go on to reverberate at greater levels throughout the nation. Teach for America provides both short- and long-term solutions because it places motivated individuals in classrooms that often do not have permanent teachers. The frequent support and professional development corps members are given throughout the years further aids in the development of creative and engaging lessons and approaches to learning in all contents.
Whether they continue to teach as a lifelong career, or impact students in other ways, the experiences corp members take with them from the classroom can help improve outcomes for low income communities. My time as an educator, for example, has motivated me to pursue a career in urban planning to collaborate with school campuses to better identify critical needs by district. I hope to improve transportation routes and systems to connect families to locally-available resources and greater opportunities for their social, physical, and recreational health.
When I studied abroad in Brazil, my host mom told me before I left, "A vida é uma troca"— life is an exchange. Her words rang truest for me once I became a teacher. It is a privilege being in the presence of young minds stepping into their power and discerning their purpose to shape the world around them. I am inspired every day by their motivation, curiosity, and authenticity, and they often teach me the most about life without intending to. My students have added more light, wisdom, insight, and joy to my life than I could have ever found anywhere else. At the end of each day, I can only hope I have given them as much as they have given me.
My first year of teaching was spent working with students who were retesting in English 1 in addition to taking English 2 for the first time. Many of my students had passed both STAAR EOC English tests and shared with me that it was the first time they had ever passed an exam in their lives.
To celebrate, I hosted a banquet in our school library where my students would receive awards for passing their STAAR tests, improving their scores, and for other classroom achievements. I invited their families and cooked enough spaghetti and meatballs, bread rolls, and salad for 100 guests. As Murphy's Law would have it, the food warmers did not work, the air conditioning shut off, and many students' names were misspelled on their awards.
Several students cried giving speeches in front of their families about how proud they were of themselves and our class. I bawled like a baby when one of my students shared that this was the first time he ever read a whole novel (and without pictures) on his own. I sat with every family to revel in their pride for their students' accomplishments, and took more teary-eyed photos than I ever hope to stumble across on the internet.
Despite the cold pasta and humidity of the room, that moment cemented for me the power of doing small things with great love wherever we go with whomever we meet. That will forever be one of my favorite days in my life.


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We have found that on the innermost partitions of sure of the Egyptian pyramids, are painted drill patterns for martial arts styles as carried out by the Pharaoh's army people over 5,000 – 6,000 years in the past. About kickboxing – A long-time martial arts membership in our city taught one fashion of competitive kickboxing to 5-yr- olds with some fairly dangerous outcomes – accidents and increased agression, accidents at home – But that was simply the OWNER'S own fashion of kickboxing, not all kickboxing. The Instructor (Sensei) in some traditional martial arts remains to be revered with demigod respect. Help the youngsters make stunning Aztec solar artwork like the one shown above by going to the 123 Homeschool 4 Me web site for the directions.
Two team members of Country Arts WA, Doone and Tegan occurred to be visiting our Shire for the supply of an Arts Funding Forum and so they had been happy to take on the function of impartial decide. We produced murals, parades, puppets, prints, workshops, performances, publications, summer mural camps, arts schooling coaching, battle resolution, nonviolence, consensus-based determination-making and curriculum development. Plan a day of New Year arts and crafts for teenagers to keep the spirit alive right after Christmas. We at GAAH value group efficiency for many causes; our students develop confidence, share accountability, and educate others about culture through the arts. Make lovely Thanksgiving napkins by following the instructions at CRAFTS BY Amanda.
Kids will get pleasure from these enjoyable and free Chinese New Year activities and arts and crafts. I was additionally relieved after I was reminded of the risks or threats which lie in Light/White magic inasmuch as there may be risks at midnight arts. For my daughter's Arts and Crafts social gathering invitations, I created customized invitations utilizing Create & Print.


A number of the nation's media outlets are highlighting the efforts of Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to end government shutdowns for good.
Earlier this year, for the fifth time, he introduced his End Government Shutdowns Act legislation which will permanently prevent the federal government from shutting down, ensuring that essential government services aren't disrupted and protecting taxpayers who must bear the resulting cost.
According to a news release from Portman's office, he legislation currently has nearly 30 cosponsors in the Senate and a bipartisan companion in the House. Portman has made clear he will strongly push for its inclusion in any final government funding bill over the next few weeks.
Portman said recently, "It's disappointing that both sides didn't resolve this matter weeks ago. Shutdowns inevitably costs taxpayers more money once the government reopens. I hope that both parties come together and reach an agreement that brings a resolution to this issue as quickly as possible.


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Q: Can I make iOS Simulator listen to keyboard events for debugging purposes? What I want to do is make some shortcut key for debugging on iOS simulator. e.g. Right Arrow key to call my speed up function to make game run faster. Note that the soft keyboard is not on when I hit debug keys.

A: Override the keyCommands property to enable shortcut keys. It is a property on UIResponder, so this can be done in any of your views, view controllers, or even your app delegate.

A: FLEX does all the tricks for you.
You just need to register keys that you are interested in,
FLEXManager *flex = FLEXManager.sharedManager;

// open or close debug
[flex registerSimulatorShortcutWithKey:@"D" modifiers:(UIKeyModifierFlags)0 action:^{
    // Do what you want to do when user click "D" on hardware keyboard
} description:@"Open/Close DebugViewController"];

A: The only straightforward way of achieving this (that I can think of) is to create a few very small buttons in your app and connect them to the functions you want to call. You can place them somewhere where they don't interfere with the user interface. Because your developing for a mobile device you unfortunately can't press a key on the keyboard and have it call a function.


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50th Atlas 5 rocket puts up new GPS satellite
Launching for the 50th time, an Atlas 5 rocket flew a milestone mission Wednesday in deploying a Global Positioning System satellite for the worldwide utility.
Video: Atlas 5 Rocket launches with GPS Satellite
The 50th Atlas 5 rocket lifts off From Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.
Live coverage: Atlas 5 rocket launches with navigation satellite
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 1:21 p.m. EDT (1721 GMT) with a satellite to replenish the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System navigation network.
Atlas 5 rocket rolled to Cape Canaveral launch pad
An Atlas 5 rocket has been rolled out to its launch pad at Cape Canaveral for blastoff to deploy a replacement satellite to strengthen the Global Positioning System for U.S. military forces and the worldwide economy.
Atlas 5/GPS 2F-8 launch timeline
Follow the Atlas 5 rocket's ascent into orbit from Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 launch pad with the U.S. Air Force's GPS 2F-8 navigation satellite. T+0:00:01.1: Liftoff T+0:01:18.5: Mach 1 and Max Q T+0:04:03.8: Main Engine Cutoff T+0:04:09.8: Stage Separation T+0:04:19.8: Centaur Ignition No. 1 T+0:04:27.8: Nose Cone Jettison T+0:17:09.4: Centaur Engine Cutoff No. 1 T+3:18:02:1: Centaur Ignition No. 2 T+3:19:31.8: Centaur Engine Cutoff No. 2 T+3:24:17.5: Spacecraft Separation
Atlas 5 to fly Wednesday, continuing rapid deployment of GPS satellites
Launching new Global Positioning System navigation satellites at a rate not seen in 21 years, this year's fourth such deployment is coming up at midday Wednesday, Oct. 29 by an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
GPS modernization continues with quick pace of launches
A new satellite launched Aug. 1 has joined the U.S. Air Force's GPS navigation network to help guide everything from bombs to road trippers to their destinations, with final preparations on track to send up another GPS spacecraft at the end of October.
Mysterious satellite launched from Florida by Atlas 5 rocket
Rocketing through gloomy skies with a payload clouded in a veil of secrecy, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket fired away from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday to deploy a satellite thousands of miles above Earth.


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Strategic choice refers to the decision which determines the future strategy of a firm. It addresses the question "Where shall we go".
A SWOT analysis is conducted to examine the strengths and weaknesses of the firm and opportunities that can be exploited are also determined. Based on the analysis the firm selects a path among various other alternatives that will successfully achieve the firm`s objectives.
Strategic choice is therefore, the decision to select from among the grand strategies considered, the strategy which will best meet the enterprise objectives. The decision involves the following four steps – focusing on few alternatives, considering the selection factors, evaluating the alternatives against these criteria and making the actual choice.
1. Focusing on alternatives – The aim of this step is to narrow down the choice to a manageable number of feasible strategies. It can be done by visualizing a future state and working backwards from it. Managers generally use GAP analysis for this purpose. By reverting to business definition it helps the managers to think in a structured manner along any one or more dimensions of the business.
At Business level strategic alternatives are – Cost leadership, Differentiation or Focused business strategy.
Objective factors – These are based on analytical techniques and are hard facts used to facilitate strategic choice.
Subjective factors – These are based on one`s personal judgment, collective or descriptive factors.
3. Evaluation of strategies – Each factor is evaluated for its capability to help the organization to achieve its objectives. This step involves bringing together analysis carried out on the basis of subjective and objective factors. Successive iterative steps of analyzing different alternatives lie at the heart of such evaluation.
4. Making a strategic choice– A strategic choice must lead to a clear assessment of alternative which is the most suitable alternative under the existing conditions. A blueprint has to be made that will describe the strategies and conditions under which it operates. Contingency strategies must be also devised.


Its April 1st and I give myself 2 months to reach my goals. I started this new progam on Nov 25th, 2008 . In the last 4 months, I saw some changes in my body but I'm still away from my goal. I'm going to give all it takes to reach my goal.
Sleep early by 11:00 pm and wake up no later than 7 am ( really need to work on this).


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