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THE DAY THE PRESIDENT AND THE QUEEN MET IN PAJAMAS
Bill Simons
PAJAMA GAME: Rod Laver, as a young boy, first impressed his coach Charlie Hollis when he stroked some tennis balls in his pajamas. Now and then these days players show up in outfits that look a bit like pajamas. And when Latvian Ernests Gulbis was asked about his questionable training habits, he quoted boxer Marvin Hagler, "If you sleep in silk pajamas, it's tough to wake up at six in the morning and go for a run."
But none other than the queen of tennis, Chrissie Evert, shared with us the best tennis and pajamas tale we've ever come across. We asked Evert to share a good story about her friend, the late President George H.W. Bush. She recalled, "The first time I ever met George Bush. Pam Shriver was the one who introduced us, and he was Vice President then. We were going to a dinner with the Chinese [prime] minister. I spent the night at President and Barbara Bush's house. We went to the dinner…He wanted to know all the scoop and gossip about the tennis players. [Then I] came home, went to bed. [The next morning at] 7:00 in the morning there's a knock on my bedroom door. It was President Bush. He said, "Chrissie?"
I said, "Yeah?"
He said, "Why don't you come over to Barb's and our bedroom, we have some newspapers waiting for you."
"Let me get dressed first, I'll come over in a few minutes."
He said, "Don't get dressed, come over in your P.J.s."
I go into their bedroom, they're both in their P.J.s, with newspapers thrown all over the bed. He offered me a cup of coffee. I jumped on the bed, lounged on it, had my cup of coffee with Barb and Vice President Bush – the first time I ever met them in bed…I knew right away what kind of a guy he was. The most down-to-earth, kind, normal person that there was. That's my story."
NEWSY NOTES: Federer didn't retire, Serena didn't disclose that she's pregnant again. Naomi Osaka didn't reveal she was married. But of late, there has been a whole lot going on. Within 48 hours, former US No. 1 Mardy Fish was named to be America's new Davis Cup Captain and Andy Murray, 31, tearfully informed us that sometime between now and Wimbledon he's going to retire, due to the lingering pain in his right hip. And then Gordon Smith announced that he is retiring as the USTA's Executive Director, after an impactful 12-year stretch in which stadiums rose, grounds were expanded, rules were changed, a national campus was built, and many a crisis was navigated.
On top of that, there are indications of a movement to possibly oust ATP Executive Director Chris Kermode because, inside ATP political circles, players feel he tends to favor the desires of tournament owners more than he backs the interests of the players.
In the first days of January before the Aussie Open, tennis can be kind of sleepy, a kind of quiet before the storm – but not this year. And, by the way, did we mention that the two most famous players in tennis, Roger and Serena, faced off in a Hopman Cup mixed doubles match in Perth, where the Swiss and his partner Belinda Bencic prevailed over Serena and Frances Tiafoe?
GO FIGURE: Djokovic and Federer have prevailed in 12 of the last 14 Aussie Opens. Nadal has won one, but he always seems to have issues.
NO KIDDING: Federer, who like many others was stunned by Andy Murray's farewell announcement, said that he wanted his own retirement to be a celebration. He added that Andy had a fabulous career and the Scot wasn't unlucky to have played in the era of himself, Nadal and Djokovic.
QUARTER OF DEATH: Serena, Halep, Venus Williams, Garbiñe Muguruza and Karolina Pliskova are all bundled into a stacked "quarter of death" at the Australian Open. Serena is seeded No. 16 and first plays German Tatjana Maria and then could face Genie Bouchard and get Simona Halep in the third round. Halep opens with Kaia Kanepi, who stunned her in the first round at the U.S. Open. The Estonian isn't going to oust the No. 1 player in the world in back-to-back Slams – right? Halep could have to play Venus and Serena in the third and fourth rounds. The Williams sisters could meet in the fourth round.
A PRINCE WITH A PROBLEM: He's a prince awaiting his coronation. German Alexander Zverev is the hottest young prospect in the tennis. He won the ATP Championship in November, but the best he's ever done in a Slam was reaching last year's French Open quarterfinals. Now, in Melbourne, he'll face a certain weight of expectation. To get to the final he might have to beat Stan Wawrinka, Dominic Thiem and Novak Djokovic. Novak has the easiest draw of the top four. He could face a hit-and-miss Denis Shapovalov, another Next-Gen hopeful in Medvedev, and, if all goes well, Kei Nishikori in the quarters. Andy Murray, who is now ranked No. 240, has a tough first round challenge. He'll face Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut.
SABALENKA WILL WIN THE AUSSIE OPEN?: Serena Williams is the most renowned younger sister in sports. Yet, tennis has a fabulous litany of younger brothers. We're not only talking about Mike Bryan, who is minutes younger than his brother Bob. Icon Andy Murray, who is going to retire, is Jamie's younger bro. Alexander Zverev has been guided by his older sibling Mischa. There were many other younger brothers who excelled, including James Blake, Murphy Jensen and Wayne Black, just to name a few more.
But our favorite younger brother is Patrick McEnroe. The former Aussie Open semi finalist was captured in priceless photos having to endure the antics of his older brother, a darn good player who made the phrase "You Can't Be Serious" famous. Patrick deserves a medal for being John's more-than-loyal bro.
Patrick has done it all in tennis: college play, ATP singles, doubles, USTA player development chief, ESPN chat-master, author and the last American Davis Cup Captain to lead our nation to victory. But what we love about the personable sage is his shoot-from-the-New-York-hip bluntness and his fearless predictions. The other day on a telephone press conference sponsored by ESPN, Inside Tennis and Chris Evert opened the door for a deep-think reflection on the role of luck in our sport. Evert said, "There's always a little luck involved. Don't you think, Patrick?"
But McEnroe abruptly dismissed the notion. "No, I don't think so at all. No luck involved."
When asked for the ka-billionth time whether the sad fate of American men's tennis was going to shift soon, Patrick said, "It's not going to happen any time soon. Nor is it happening for many other countries around the world, okay, including France and other huge tennis countries [like] Australia."
Most of all we love Patrick's predictions. They have long been some of the most interesting in the game. He unabashedly noted a superb call he made last year when he reminded us, "I told you all last year that Osaka was going to win a major. Let's not get caught up in the details that I said it was Wimbledon and not the US Open. Don't get caught up in the details of that."
And let's not get caught up in another detail – that when the 1998 French Open was just getting going, he told his brother on air that he predicted that Amelie Mauresmo would win the tourney. John lowered his voice and informed his bro that his pick had already lost on a back court.
Oh well, stuff happens. Just a few days before the start of play in Melbourne the ever-bold Patrick proclaimed, "I'm telling you here right now that the winner of the Australian Open women's side is going to be [Belarusian Aryna] Sabalenka, okay? She's going to win the Australian Open…She, as Chrissie said, is going to make a breakthrough this year. I say why not happen at the Australian Open?"
Last, year Sabalenka's loud play caused a stir when she suffered a loud defeat in the first round of the Aussie Open. Later she would apologize for all her noise and confided, "Sometimes I scream like a crazy [person.]" And we will scream with crazy amazement if it turns out that the twenty-year-old players win back-to-back Slams and, like Osaka in New York, Sabalenka wins the big prize in Melbourne.
We'll be watching Patrick.
TENNYS TRIUMPHS IN AUCKLAND: American Tennys Sandgren won his first ATP title in Auckland and Floridian Sonia Kenin captured her first tour level title in Hobart. At the Sydney warm-up tourneys, veteran Petra Kvitova and teen Alex De Minaur prevailed.
Why We Love This Sport – Djokovic Downs Roger in a Match for the Ages


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Pharmacogenetic testing benefits MD's and Patients
Genetic testing is not a new concept and has been used as a medical tool for decades to allow the medical community to take a deeper look into the human body to make a myriad of determinations.
Newborn screening, diagnostic and carrier testing, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, prenatal diagnosis and predictive and presymptomatic testing are just a few reasons why chromosomes, proteins and metabolites are investigated. Other reasons could be for paternity tests, genealogy, forensics and more.
But a relatively new genetic testing, at least one approved by the Federal Drug Administration, is helping physicians provide better care for their patients by understanding how medications break down in their bodies.
The Olney Family Clinic – an extension of Hamilton Hospital in Olney – is now employing pharmacogenetic testing through GeneMed Management as another tool in their family practitioners' tool boxes to manage their patients' health by getting them on the most effective medications and possibly removing those that are ineffective or contradictory to others.
Dr. Jeremy Johnson is one of the family physicians at the clinic who is using this approach to patient care in rural Texas. He said they have screened about 50 patients, and about half of those needed to have their medications adjusted for the most effective treatment.
"It's going to be a good thing for patients that I've kind of hit a road block on," he said. "Let's do this test and make sure that we're metabolizing your medicine right, and it will give me another tool in my tool box."
Dr. Jeremy Johnson, of Olney Hamilton Hospital, talks with John Ingle, the business editor for the Wichita Falls Times Record News, about the benefits of pharmacogenetic testing. The testing uses a patient's DNA to help identify risks of adverse reactions to medications and determine the most effective medications and dosages. (Photo: Torin Halsey/Times Record News, AP)
Johnson said it was in the 1990s that researchers discovered what genes are responsible for helping break down medications in the body and that there are some genes that cause a mutation in a person's genetic structure that doesn't allow for the most efficient metabolic process, rendering the medication ineffective for a patient. He said some mutations can cause a medication to break down too quickly before it can reach its active stage, or the medication won't metabolize enough to reach that state.
The screening, which consists of a review of medications, medical history and a mouth swab, will compare the results with the medications prescribed to a patient and advise which ones are effective, not quite as effective or won't work at all. The results also provide dosage guidance, flagging those medications with are nonresponsive and explain why others are meeting the desired results.
"If you've got a mutation in one of your genes, your system is not working like it should," Johnson said. "This Genemed (testing) shows us where people actually have these mutations. It's really crazy, but there's a lot of it out there. We're (humans) not perfect, and as we get older there's a lot of mutations that happen – our genetic structures actually change, our telomeres shorten, which is part of our chromosomes – so, that ends up making us change."
Johnson said the reason some medications aren't working – not necessarily always, but sometimes – is because the genetic structure has changed, preventing a medication for one reason or another from reaching its active stage.
Olney Hamilton Hospital LVN Angela Moreno takes the vital signs of John Ingle, business editor for the Wichita Falls Times Record News, for a story on DNA sampling and genetic testing for prescribing more effective medications and dosages. (Photo: Torin Halsey/Times Record News, AP)
Mike Huff, CEO of Hamilton Hospital in Olney, said they decided about six months ago that the genetic screening was a service they wanted to add for their patients as well as for their doctors to continue providing quality health care to the Northern Young County town and the surrounding area. He said their pharmacy contractor told hospital leadership of the GeneMed Management and that they were providing the service in other rural areas such as Brady, Texas.
He said the pharmacogenetic testing had typically been relegated to larger facilities or teaching hospitals, but now the specimens could be collected at smaller hospitals and clinics and submitting to a central laboratory for testing and results.
Huff said he arranged a presentation for Hamilton Hospital's medical staff, and they were able to ask the experts questions about the screening and its usefulness. The physicians decided if that was something they could do in Olney, then they should try it.
"The win-win is for the patients, really," he said. "If we can provide a service in our community and the patients don't have to drive to Dallas or somewhere else to get the service and we're able to provide it here, then they get to stay home and that's a win for them.
"We get to provide the service, and that's a win for us. It's good for everyone all around."
The service is currently offered only at Olney Family Clinic unless a physician orders the screening for a patient admitted to Hamilton Hospital. It could soon be offered at Archer Family Clinic in Archer City.
Huff said the test is fairly expensive, but it is something that insurance is covering. He said, as with all tests and treatments, the affordability will depend on the insurance.
Those interested in the screening can call Olney Family Clinic at 940-564-3546 and make an appointment with a provider. People do not have to be patients of a provider there, but they will be required to fill out registration paperwork.
Follow John Ingle on Twitter at @inglejohn1973.
Business/metro editor John Ingle underwent the screening process at Olney Family Clinic on Wednesday as part of the story about pharmacogentic testing being done in the small Young County community of Olney.
Test results should be available in about two weeks, at which time he will have a follow-up with the clinic to go over the findings. He will also report on those results.

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First Communion Greeting Card filled with Scripture from the Feast of Corpus Christi.
The rising sun on the image is like a host in a monstrance with IHS - the Christogram for the Holy Name of Jesus.
Card size 4 x 6 inches. Made in the USA using recycled paper. Comes with white envelope.
The First Communion (La première communion), is a masterpiece by Cincinnati favorite Elizabeth Nourse (1859-1938) painted in 1895 from studies she made in the Breton village of Saint Gildas. Born in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, Nourse studied at the McMicken School of Design in Cincinnati before moving to France, where she enjoyed a successful career. The First Communion explores one of her signature themes: the spiritual lives of women and their participation in religious rituals. Card sized A7 (5"x7") comes with a soft pink envelope.
Package of 18 Thank You cards. The cards are blank inside. Each card is sized A2 (4.25"x5.5") comes with corresponding soft pink envelopes.
"Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the words and my soul shall be healed" is the salutation of this First Communion card. The image is inspired by the allegory of "King of the Golden City" by Mother Mary Loyola. The tended garden that greets the visit of the King is an image of the soul that is prepared to receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. The back of the card tells the story of the centurion in Mt 8:8-9,13 who spoke those words to Jesus.


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Q: Substituting special characters or numerals for letters/word parts Is there a word or phrase to describe a substituting a dingbat, special character or number for a letter or portion of a word?
Examples:

The Chicago Bulls successfully achieved a 3peat.
"In 1999, Tom Jermoluk stepped down as CEO of Excite@Home."
Ke$ha is the stage name of Kesha Rose Sebert.

I thought of "letter substitution", but that can also refer to a substitution cipher.

A: Words such as Micro$oft and Kei$ha are examples of satiric misspelling:

A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This is often done by replacing a letter with another letter (for example, k replacing c), or symbol (for example, $ replacing s, @ replacing a, or ¢ replacing c). Satiric misspelling is found particularly in informal writing on the Internet, but can also be found in some serious political writing that opposes the status quo.

The term also finds mention on Google Books.
3-peat is a contraction of three-peat1. From there, it's simply a question of replacing the three with the numeral (like we do with two-year-old/2-year-old). 3peat (sans hyphen) could perhaps be classified under one or more of leetspeak, SMS language, or as a grammargram or rebus.
I don't believe that Excite@Home really qualifies as it's effectively a portmanteau of the names of two companies, Excite and @Home. The latter is an ISP and its use of @ is self-evident.

1(the construction threepeat has apparently been registered as a trademark – threepeatedly :s

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Earlier this month, it was announced that the Boy Scouts of America would begin admitting girls into the Cub Scouts starting in 2018.
Some people started suggesting edits for the cartoon.
Other posts pointed out that the Girl Scouts, who have voiced their fears over the boy Scouts' announcement, have welcomed trans people for years.


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Ludwig Pape ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Ludwig Pape (Maler) (1786–1857), deutscher Maler und Restaurator
 Ludwig Pape (Politiker) (1877–1968), deutscher Unternehmer und Politiker (Zentrum), MdL Preußen

Siehe auch:
 Louis Pape (Johann Christian Ludwig Pape; 1799–1855), deutscher Cellist und Komponist

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Pantry of the Heart: Temple United Methodist Church Feeds the Hungry
By Sunset Beacon on January 9, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )
By Lana Krouzian
A small group of volunteers at Temple United Methodist Church at 65 Beverly St. works seven days a week, 365 days a year, to deliver food to 400 families every week, providing them with a mainstay that they otherwise could not do without.
During the first months of the COVID-19 shutdown in March 2020, a small group of parishioners, together with Pastor Kelley O'Connor, an eight-year established clergy leader at the church, discussed the need to provide food assistance in an impending economic crisis, which would result from non-essential services being closed down. People were soon to be losing jobs and many would be in need. Despite concerns expressed to wait on the project due to the strict pandemic rules being imposed, Robert Mason, a long-time parishioner, active volunteer, and U.S. Army veteran with 30 years of service, stepped up to the occasion.
Pastor Kelley O'Connor, clergy leader at the Temple United Methodist Church. Courtesy photo.
"Food should be given to people when they need it," Mason said.
Without a moment's hesitation, Mason enlisted the help of local stores – Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Gus's Market, Noe Valley Bakery, and Molly Stone's – that donated their leftover foods to be delivered to the church by Food Runners, a non-profit group that delivers surplus food to senior centers, pantries, and community centers that serve the needy.
Almost single-handedly, this slim, 5-foot, 6-inch, energetic and able-bodied 83-year-old gentleman started hauling carts with boxes, placing them on shelves. He set up refrigeration, made a website, responded to phone calls, organized a registry list with ID's and a number system for walk-ins as well as where food tables would be placed.
Volunteer Robert Mason is a tireless contributor at the food pantry. Courtesy photo.
O'Connor described Mason as "a non-stop, go-getter guy, so lovely, so concerned." Other volunteers also got involved shortly thereafter. Queenie and Ruth are coordinators for the Wednesday distribution.
"These ladies get volunteers who divide, disperse and bag up the food," O'Connor said. "They work intensively to make certain all is ready for the Wednesday crowd."
O'Connor describes the food operation as one that gathers talent, human gifts and creativity, with long arms that make an impact.
"We are a global church, with 13 ethnicities who respect and care – that is inter-cultural rather than multi-cultural," she said.
Tyree, lay minister, participates in making what he calls "the human connection" and in "putting into service what we believe."
Lay Minister Tyree Johnson (right) works with volunteers at the pantry's food shelves. Courtesy photo.
Paul Harrell, another U.S. veteran connected with Temple United Methodist Church, was named volunteer of the year in his town on the peninsula. He stressed the importance of serving one's community because "it is the right thing to do."
Susan Worts has been an active volunteer at the church for 17 years. She ran the much smaller-scale Wednesday pantry throughout the entire time, and helped see it through its current growth. In addition, Worts partners with Catholic Charity seniors and Head Start; not a single person is turned away, not a single person will go away hungry.
After a busy day of food distribution at the church, Temple United Methodist Church delivers food to individuals who are homebound, disabled, destitute or otherwise unable to travel. One lady in the Sunset, had to give up her apartment and move into her beauty salon. The lack of clients due to the shutdown of "non-essential" services made it necessary for her to seek food pantry help. Temple Food project responded with regular food delivery to her door.
Soon, in the midst of pop-up pantries that had started up during the pandemic throughout San Francisco, Temple Methodist's food distribution project became an impressive operation. Starting as a two-days-per-week activity, serving Merced, Ocean View and Ingleside, the project increased to seven days per week, expanding to include the Sunset District, Daly City and north peninsula. With the practical guidance of a seasoned army veteran, the volunteers' sense of targeting every aspect and need, this small project became one of the most efficient, well-run and well-organized pantries in the City.
Approximately 500 pounds of food are dropped off to the church every day from the participating stores. Approximately 75 families per day are served. Walk-ins are welcome from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every day or upon need, if requested. At the end of the evening, the food is gone with only excess non-perishable foods on the racks for the next day. Empty, clean boxes are donated to Meals on Wheels to use for their distribution program.
With every progressive step, the idea of helping people with food seems to catch fire with this group. The core of volunteers has created spin-off after spin-off, as each one thought of more people they could serve.
Mary Wan is a neighbor of the church. She doesn't own a car, so she takes her cart full of food boxes once a week from church across Junipero Serra Boulevard and 19th Avenue, all the way to Brotherhood Way to an assisted living facility, bringing food to the elderly disabled.
Chudy and Florence Nnebe take food from church to their Daly City neighborhood for distribution. They developed a system of posting announcements on Next Door so that neighbors know when to expect food delivery. It has become a significant spin-off operation of their own.
Chudy Nnebe prepares food delivery for neighbors in need in Daly City. Courtesy photo.
"We've got my wife, sister, brother-in-law and children, all involved in a big family effort," Chudy said. "Neighbors help, and there is amazing spontaneous teamwork. This whole experience has been one of tremendous joy. It has strengthened our family, bringing us closer together, and has strengthened our spiritual life."
Nickey Trasvina, another neighbor of the church, takes food to individuals whom she personally knows in the Midtown Terrace Park area, near Laguna Honda. Among the elderly individuals who receive help from Trasvina are people who have been "good organizers" in their day, active volunteers in their communities, who are now elderly and disabled. Trasvina is happy that these people who contributed significantly to our lives in their younger years are now able to receive help from the Temple Methodist's food project.
Brenda Sanchez is a cheerful door greeter who handles the number system and name registry.
"When Robert was out for a few months for his hip surgery, it took five or six people to replace him. No one could do what he did," she said. "When the pastor asked me if I would help Robert, I said 'Of course. How could any of us not help Robert.'"
After his rehab period, one could see Robert back at the pantry with his walker, directing traffic, making certain that all was running smoothly. After a few weeks, the walker disappeared, and once again Mason was pushing carts loaded with heavy boxes.
Mason said he has a lot of energy because he used to be a marathon runner. A native of Annapolis, Maryland, Mason served as career military in Vietnam, the Philippines, Okinawa and Korea. His military career also took him through a number of states in the United States: South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Utah and Missouri. While stationed in Utah, Mason was a track club trainer. His runners were trained to run 10-12 miles daily. When he, together with his track club, ran the marathon, it was 14 miles uphill, then downhill into Salt Lake City. He said, to see the sights, including places in Idaho and Montana, the only way at low cost was to run through them all.
"Today, I don't run, but I walk my dogs eight miles per day, after I get through at the pantry," he said.
He has no plans of slowing down.
"Couch potatoes die early," he said. "So, I volunteer every day. Best job I'll ever love. When I reach age 100, there may be other things I want to do."
For more information about Temple United Methodist Church, go to https://www.sftempleumc.org.
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The African National Congress is extremely disturbed and outraged by the distasteful and indecent manner in which Brett Murray and the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg is displaying the person of Comrade President Jacob Zuma.
This disgusting and unfortunate display of the President was brought to our attention by one of the media houses and we have physically confirmed this insulting depiction of the President. We have this morning instructed our lawyers to approach our courts to compel Brett Murray and Goodman Gallery to remove the portrait from display as well as from their website and destroy all printed promotional material. We have also detected that this distasteful and vulgar portrait of the President has been displayed on a weekend newspaper and its website, we again have instructed our lawyers to request the said newspaper to remove the portrait from their website.
It is in our view and we remain steadfast in that the image and the dignity of our President as both President of the ANC, President of the Republic and as a human being has been dented by this so-called piece of art by Brett Murray at Goodman Gallery. We are also of the view that this distasteful depiction of the President has violated his individual right to dignity as contained in the constitution of our country.
The same gallery has displayed the logo of the ANC without the permission of the ANC, with the inscription FOR SALE on it, both these portraits are a clear calculation to dismember and denigrate the symbols and the representative of the ANC, chief amongst them, the President of the ANC.
The ANC believes in both freedom of the press and artistic expression. The vulgar portrait and the dismembering of the ANC logo by Brett Murray is an abuse of freedom of artistic expression and an acute violation of our constitution, apart from being defamatory. That is why we have instructed our lawyers to approach the courts in-view of these violations and the defaming nature of the so-called President Zuma portrait titled "The Spear".


Video: Japan Set To Enter New Ponzi-Like Spiral.
The 2011 University of Virginia Investing Conference was held November 10th & 11th at the Darden School of Business. This year's theme was "The Political Cycle, Political Change and Investing. In this video, Kyle Bass, Managing Partner of Hayman Capital Management LP, is interviewed by Darden Professor Ken Eades.
Kyle spoke at the conference on "Debt Sustainability: Which Countries Are Beyond the Point of Return and Why".


This beautiful authentic Spanish finca with lots of space has a swimming pool, outdoor bar and a beautiful self-standing bbq house. Finca in Spanish means farm and that is t, there are all kinds of fruit to be found in our country, we also have different animals so pets always welcome.
a ten minute drive from the beach and with many nice sights in the areato relax and unwind.


Desert Broad Nosed Weevil, Sand Canyon, Owens Valley, California.
This mating pair of Desert Broad Nosed Weevils is on a Brittlebush Flower, Encelia farinosa. It appears the male has a couple of parasites near his mouth.


Bedford Central School District 2012-2013 School Budget Informational Meetings.
The 2012-2013 school district budget – What's in and what's out?
What does the tax levy cap mean?
How will the cuts affect the students and the quality of education? What is the school district doing to plan for future budgets?
Please attend an informational meeting to learn about the facts from Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jere Hochman, and Assistant Superintendent Mark Betz.
Attend the meeting that is most convenient for you!!!


Peeling paint reveals the room numbers of the past. Kodak Trix-400 on Canon T40.
Tarpaper telling time- Wood wittling weather- Rust rot ruins.
This elevator was built in 1922 and was used until the passing rails were removed in the mid-1970s.
A calendar and comic strip decorate the current pattern shelf in the building which was a coffin factory.
This building was 99 years old when it was demolished for the coal mine.


"Let's get right to work," said Professor Edelamn, walking into the laboratory.
"What is going on?" asked Mr. Egghead, jumping up onto the table.
"I am going to be working on a new EXPERIMENT," announced Professor Edelamn.
"Oh," said Mr. Egghead, having a bad feeling in the pit of his egg yolk.
Professor Edelamn picked Mr. Egghead up in his hands and carried him to a cooler. He switched off the LIGHT and locked the door. Mr. Egghead was shivering. He pressed his face up against the glass on the cooler. He saw Professor Edelamn talking to Professor Lindley.
Professor Lindley just happened to look over at the cooler. She noticed Mr. Egghead. She immediately opened the door to the cooler.
"You have just ruined my experiment!" shouted Professor Edelamn.
Professor Lindley carefully pulled an icicle out of Mr. Eggheads EYE.
"What experiment are you talking about?" asked Professor Lindley.
Professor Edelamn explained his idea to Professor Lindley.
Professor Edelamn knew Professor Lindley was right. He was so focused on wanting to make money for the university that he didn't consider Mr. Egghead's feelings at all.
"I am very sorry," said Professor Edelamn.
"Why don't you just eat your breakfast sandwich instead?" asked Professor Lindley laughing.
"Yes maybe that is a better idea," said Professor Edelamn, hearing his stomach growl.
Always treat fellow human beings with respect.
Example: Professor Edelamn did not think of Mr. Egghead's feelings when he put him in the cooler.


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This class is assigning vertices demands to capacitated generators in such a way that the total cost is minimized. The solution is based on the min cost max flow algorithm.
GeneratorsCapacieties is a functor which for each Generator returns its capacity .
VerticesDemands is a functor which for each vertex returns its demand.
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This bike bag doesn't just look good, it's also super practical. Inside you'll find space for everything you want and need on your travels, like your phone, keys, wallet and a book. And the best thing? Not only is this a great bike bag, but can also be removed from the bike and be used as a shoulder bag.The long shoulder strap can be removed and tucked into the bag when you are riding. This 2-in-1 bag from Gusti Leather nature is made from naturally tanned goat's leather and impresses with its practicality and attractive appearance.


Located within a waterfront condominium, this Canton penthouse has a breathtaking view of the heart of Baltimore. When the client approached us to update the galley kitchen and give it a fresher look, we jumped at the opportunity.
"Since we had a very specific footprint to work with, we had to be strategic with every square inch of the space," says Andy McGrath, Project Manager. Ceiling high upper cabinets in custom white accomplished much needed storage while brightening and adding height to the kitchen. Our design team came up with a customized plan to have the walnut veneered cabinets grain matched for a better visual flow.
The end result was clean, contemporary, and functional. Now the client has another view that is just as pleasing to the eye!


Meeting time to be determined. CNS has partnered with the Graduate School and the Faculty Innovation Center (FIC) to develop this course to support Teaching Assistants who will be leading a lab or discussion section for the first time. In this research-based seminar on pedagogy, graduate students will learn strategies for effectively leading lab/discussion sections, and will receive personalized support and feedback designed to improve their confidence and skills as instructors. Matthew Landry, a PhD student in Nutritional Sciences who has completed GRS 097, NSC 088L, and NSC 088T, will lead this class; Dr. Molly Hatcher of the FIC will serve as its instructor of record.
Any CNS graduate student in their first year of leading a lab/discussion session in Fall 2017 can apply for this course by completing the survey here. Applications are due by August 25.
F 3:00-4:30pm. These seven workshops are designed for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty who are interested in learning how to teach science effectively in their own courses. Topics include the principles of learning, backward design, assessment, active learning, and inclusive teaching strategies. Assignments require participants to reflect on classroom observations, read science-education research, and create a mini-lesson using backward design. Completion of this course meets Core Requirements 1 & 2 of the Concentration in Teaching and Mentoring. Interested graduate students should sign-up for the workshop version of this course during registration. Postdocs and faculty should contact Dr. Kristin Patterson (kpatterson@austin.utexas.edu) in TIDES to be added to the course.
Meeting times to be arranged. This seminar aims to develop graduate students' and postdocs' skills in mentoring undergraduates and other junior researchers in doing STEM research. The course will involve discussions about how to define appropriate projects, establish relationships, set expectations, encourage communication, balance guidance and independence, and consider ethical issues and diversity in mentoring. This course meets one of the elective requirements for the Concentration in Teaching and Mentoring.
A variety of independent study electives are available at the Concentration Canvas page at this URL: https://utexas.instructure.com/enroll/KG6LP3. Elective topics include: Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Technology Enhanced Teaching, Online Teaching, Advanced Pedagogy, Effective STEM Outreach, and Facilitating Professional Development.
Prerequisites: current or prior enrollment in the Science Communication Seminar.
Meets Tuesday evenings, 5:00-8:00, in GSB 5.142A. This course is a professional development elective within the CNS Concentration in Leadership and Project Management. Taught by Caroline Bartel from the Department of Management in the McCombs College of Business, this is a special section of a McCombs MBA course tailored for graduate students in STEM disciplines. This course will develop the knowledge and skills necessary for scientists to manage and lead effectively within organizations. Students may take this class on either a C/NC (low workload) or a full credit (higher workload) basis.
This course is concerned with the job of the general manager, who has responsibility for the performance of an entire organization or a multi-functional unit of an organization. The primary task faced by such managers is that of developing and managing an overall strategy; hence, the name "strategic management." Accordingly, the objectives of the course are to (1) take the first steps in developing a "general management" orientation in all students, (2) develop the new skills and knowledge needed in such positions, and (3) synthesize the skills and knowledge students have obtained through prior work experience and course work. Among the topics covered in the course are the role of the general manager, formulating business and corporate-level strategy, managing strategic change, strategy implementation, and developing general managers. The objectives of the course will be accomplished primarily through a combination of readings and case discussions. Students will be evaluated based on the quality of their participation in in-class discussions and course papers. The participative nature of the course requires daily preparation and participation of the highest quality.Further topics in this concentration will be piloted in the 2018-19 academic year.
Learn the basics of using UNIX from the command line. Introductory topics include the filesystem, the shell, permissions, and text files. The course will touch on manipulating text files using standard UNIX utilities, how to string utilities together, and how to output the results to files. The goal of the course is to develop some basic comfort at the command line, get a sense of what's possible, and learn how to find help.
Students in the course will learn what a cluster is and how to use the world-class clusters available at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The course will discuss the basic architecture of the Lonestar and Stampede computing clusters, how they compare to a regular computer, job launchers and job scheduling, and how to submit your own jobs to TACC. Custom tools by the Bioinformatics Consulting Group for job submission will be emphasized. Familiarity with a unix command line is a prerequisite. Students must also establish a TACC account and can do so by visiting this link.
Python is a simple and popular programming language that can be used across platforms, and is useful for a wide variety of tasks.
Generate simple descriptive statistics to summarize data.
Graphically display various types of data.
Edit features of graphs (titles/labels, colors, shading, etc.).
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Michael J. Mahometa is the Director of Consulting Services and Professional Education at the Department of Statistics & Data Sciences (SDS) at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006. His major course work was completed in Behavioral Neuroscience, with a minor in Statistics. His background in animal models of learning makes him familiar with full factorial designs—which he quickly expanded into a love of all things regression. Dr. Mahometa has been a statistical consultant for the SDS department since its inception in 2006 and enjoys helping members of the UT community reach their "light bulb moment in statistics" through both his courses and his consulting practice.
This course introduces both principles and practice of scientific data visualization, especially as applied to large multivariate data sets. Will cover common methods of visually summarizing data and illustrating relationships between variables of various common types (continuous, categorical, etc.) as well as design concepts for increasing the clarity of quantitative graphical communication. Will introduce modern "grammar of graphics" ideas as foundation for thinking about, relating, and ultimately building new types of informative plots. Implementations of covered methods in both R and python will be presented.
Students should bring their own laptops to the course. Installation of either R (with ggplot2) or Python (with matplotlib, seaborn, and plotnine) prior to class is required.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Dennis Wylie joined the CCBB Bioinformatics group in 2015. He has experience in NGS data analysis including variant calling and RNA-Seq-based biomarker discovery and predictive modeling (classification, regression, etc.). Prior to UT, he earned a PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley applying stochastic simulation methods to problems in immunology, did postdoctoral work modeling the transmission of infectious disease, and spent six years as a bioinformatician in industry.
This is an introductory course on the basics of database technology using MySQL, including the structured query language (SQL) along with modes of database interaction specific for bioinformatics workflows. We begin with a hands-on introduction to databases and the MySQLWorkbench user interface, creating and populating a schema, followed by simple and more complex queries to manipulate different subsets of data. Finally, we discuss bulk loading of database tables and programmatic database access, for example from Python.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Anna Battenhouse is a research scientist in the labs of Drs. Edward Marcotte and Vishy Iyer as well as leading the Biomedical Research Support Facility in its mission to support the IT and computational needs of the UT Austin biomedical research community. She has extensive experience working with NGS data, and teaches the Introduction to NGS Tools course in the Big Data in Biology Summer School as well as several CCBB short courses.
Correlation and simple linear regression analysis.
Multiple regression and multivariate ANOVA models.
Reproducible report creation in RStudio.


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Valenti III, Valenti IV team to launch V5
New VC firm looks for winners in auto technology
Tom Henderson
File photo (left); Jessica Miller
Private equity pioneer Sam Valenti III (left) is joining forces with his entrepreneur son, Sam IV, in a new venture capital firm, V5 Partners LLC.
Hooking up the old with the new is the theme of a new venture capital firm in metro Detroit. In more ways than one.
The firm, Bloomfield Hills-based V5 Partners LLC, has raised $150 million in committed capital and arranged a $50 million line of credit with a New York bank to fund its investments. The managing partners and co-founders are Sam Valenti III, one of the pioneers nationally in private equity and venture capital investing, and his son, Sam Valenti IV, a longtime record company owner and investor in tech startups.
Their business model is to combine the younger Valenti's contacts in Silicon Valley with the elder Valenti's contacts with Midwest manufacturing firms. They will invest in promising technology firms that need to scale up production and revenue, then help them find large customers who can use their products. A focus will be on choosing the winners of the many emerging tech companies who want to create products or services for connected and autonomous cars.
The $200 million total is large by Michigan standards. Last September, Ann Arbor-based Arboretum Ventures LLC raised the largest VC fund in state history, $220 million, which surpassed the previous largest fund, the $180 million raised in 2013 by Farmington Hills-based Beringea LLC.
The firm will operate as a family office. The Valentis have a controlling interest and will be managing partners. They said two wealthy families in San Francisco and two in New York, who have requested anonymity, are also investors.
V5 has already made its first investment, an undisclosed amount in San Francisco-based Trucks Venture Management LLC, which is raising a $20 million fund in San Francisco that invests in startups in the hot space of connected cars. Trucks was co-founded by a pair of University of Michigan grads, Jeffrey Schox, a prominent patent attorney in Silicon Valley, and Reilly Brennan,who is director of the Revs Program at Stanford University, an interdisciplinary program centered on autos and mobility.
Trucks has nine portfolio companies, including Nutonomy, a spinoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that has launched an unmanned taxi service in Singapore; San Francisco-based Zendrive Inc., which uses sensors in smartphones to track driver and auto behavior; and Nauto, which monitors driver performance and awareness in real time with a backward-facing dash cam and monitors the road ahead for trouble with a forward-facing dash cam.
Schox is also a limited-partner investor in Ann Arbor-based eLab Ventures, a VC firm founded by Silicon Valley veterans with ties to Michigan, and he has been the patent attorney for local tech companies, including Farmlogs, Duo Security and Akadeum Life Sciences Inc.
While the first investment was in a VC firm, V5 will primarily invest in young but established tech firms in need of capital to scale up production. The fund is doing due diligence for other investments it hopes to make soon.
According to the elder Valenti, the firm generally won't do seed or early-stage investing but in what are called B and C rounds in companies that are further along in development. "We want to invest in Shetland ponies and turn them into unicorns," he said. "For every unicorn, there are hundreds of Shetland ponies."
"Unicorns" is the term used for early-stage companies that have already reached a valuation of at least $1 billion. He said there were 20 such firms just three years ago and 170 today. The Valentis hope to help create more.
One of the new unicorns is San Francisco-based Cruise Automation, a 3-year-old developer of autonomous vehicle technology with 40 employees, which was bought by General Motors in March for more than $1 billion.
"The headline here is: Two generations, $200 million to invest and no time to lose," said the elder Valenti. "Unicorns all need customers. The hard part is matching them up. A lot of technology is locked up on the coasts, but it's the heartland where the manufacturing companies that need technology exist. That's where I come in."
For example, Valenti is on the board of Detroit-based American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., which is opening its 350,000-square-foot, $30 million Advanced Technology Development Center in the fourth quarter this year.
"There's an inflection point. Startups need capital to scale up, and big companies need innovation. This (V5) can be where the two meet," said the younger Valenti.
"This is exciting news. I'm glad to hear it," said Kevin Prokop, a managing director of Detroit-based Rockbridge Growth Equity LLC, a private equity firm affiliated with Quicken Loans Inc. founder Dan Gilbert, when told of V5. "Sam is a legend and a pioneer. For him to capitalize on his long career and his relationships, and to integrate that with leading-edge technology companies, is just a great story."
An investing legend, an impresario son
Valenti, currently president and CEO of Valenti Capital LLC, a wealth management firm in Bloomfield Hills, was honored in 2012 with the lifetime achievement award at the annual Crain's M&A awards, held in conjunction with the Detroit chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth.
In his career, he engineered more than 100 acquisitions for Taylor-based Masco Corp., helping it increase revenue from $10 million when he joined the company in 1968 to about $13 billion at its pre-recession peak. He also was among the first investors in the state's two largest private-equity firms — Detroit-based Huron Capital Partners LLC and Detroit-based Peninsula Partners LLC — and an early investor in Ann Arbor-based EDF Ventures, the state's oldest VC firm, and in Arboretum Ventures.
In 1976, Valenti invested in the first fund of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP, which grew into an international powerhouse that now has $80 billion under management.
From 1992 to 2000, Valenti was chairman of the investment committee of the state's pension system, helping it grow from $5 billion in assets to $52 billion, and in 2002, he co-founded the Ann Arbor-based Michigan Venture Capital Association.
Valenti is co-founder and chairman of the Ann Arbor-based Renaissance Venture Capital Fund, which is affiliated with the Business Leaders for Michigan; executive chairman of Bloomfield Hills-based manufacturer TriMas Corp.; and executive chairman of Troy-based Horizon Global Corp., a company spun off from TriMas last year.
Sam Valenti IV's bona fides aren't as extensive, but are impressive.
Valenti got his business start by founding independent record label Ghostly International LLC while a sophomore at the University of Michigan in 1998.
Ghostly now has offices in Ann Arbor, Brooklyn and Los Angeles. An internationally recognized electronic music label that helps artists coordinate tours and do licensing deals, Ghostly also runs an online store that sells an eclectic range of objects, from T-shirts to paintings and sculptures to high-end sunglasses.
Valenti, who at 15 was a DJ with the moniker of DJ Spaceghost, has founded a second record label, Spectral Sound, and in 2011 founded Drip.fm, a subscription music service that in March became the first acquisition of Kickstarter, the crowdsourcing company, for an undisclosed amount of money.
The local investment community has greeted the news of the new VC fund with kudos.
"I've known Sam the fourth for maybe 10 years. He's super bright. He created things in the music world that were way ahead of the curve. He foresaw the opportunities and challenges in the music business before anyone, and it helped him establish a global reputation," said Chris Rizik, CEO and portfolio manager of the Renaissance Venture Capital Fund. "Father and son coming together here is a great combination of complementary skills."
"Sam is one of two or three godfathers in the venture capital industry in Michigan, and we have a lot to thank him for where we are today," said Paul Brown, a managing partner at eLab Ventures.
Brown said the V5 model of investing in later rounds was not unique, that it is the focus of many of the large West Coast funds, which avoid early-stage investing. "The differentiator is Sam and his contacts with manufacturers," Brown said. "If Sam says there's a technology they should look at, they will."
Asked why he would start another endeavor at 69 when he already has so much on his plate, the elder Valenti said first and foremost it was a chance to finally be in business with his son. "He never worked for me. He never worked for Valenti Capital. From the time he was a sophomore in college, he was doing his own thing. So this is going to be a blast."
Second, he used a baseball analogy.
"I'm 69, but I can still hit 98 on the radar gun. I can't do it every day, but I can do it. When I'm only able to hit 75, I'll quit."
Sam Valenti III


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CURE FOR SOCIAL-RESPONSIBILITY SMUGNESS: GIVE UP ON UNSOLVABLE PROBLEMS
By WILLIAM RASPBERRY and Washington Post Writers Group
I've found a lovely cure for social-responsibility smugness. Whenever I'm tempted to dismiss someone else as selfish, bigoted or socially irresponsible -- all because he doesn't share my enthusiasm for a particular policy -- I think of my own changing attitude toward the homeless. Brings me back down to earth every time.
No, I haven't turned against the homeless. It's just that I no longer see homelessness as a problem that's likely to be solved any time soon, and, as a result, I find it hard to sustain much interest in it.
That must sound cold -- as cold, perhaps, as people used to sound to me when they complained about public spending for inner-city education, or job training, or whatever policy happened to make sense to me at the time. Now, I'm a little more tolerant, thanks to waning interest in the homeless.
The homeless I refer to didn't seem to exist until "deinstitutionalization' ' dumped them out of the mental hospitals and onto the streets. The reasonable-sounding notion was that mental patients should have their illness treated in the least-restrictive environment. For the non- dangerous schizophrenics and others who needed only regular medication, that meant out-patient care at neighborhood clinics.
It turned out -- surprise! -- that mental patients don't always show up for the medication. A lot of those who didn't wound up sleeping on benches and in cardboard boxes, joining those we used to call the "street people" in a new category known as the homeless. Their numbers have been growing ever since.
And, I confess, my openness to the appeals from homeless advocates has been declining.
I used to get excited about the prospect of clean, well-managed shelters, run by saints like the late Mitch Snyder. Surely such facilities were within the fiscal means of the local governments, particularly if ordinary citizens would pitch in to help. But the shelters didn't seem to stay clean or well- managed for very long, and many of the homeless preferred to take their chances on the streets and steam grates.
It once seemed reasonable to me that a lot of the homeless could find work if only they had access to shower facilities, a clean set of clothes and a mailing address. Churches and other organizations started to provide these basics of human dignity, and I'm sure a few once-homeless men and women are now gainfully employed and snug in their modest apartments. Very few. What's more likely is that very little has changed, even for those who found their way to the showers and free clothing centers.
At one time it seemed plain to me that the growth in homelessness was a direct result of discrete societal changes: a troubled domestic economy, a skyrocketing real estate market and a Reagan administration cut in housing subsidies for the poor. But a more likely culprit is growing (and untreated) addiction to drugs and alcohol and what might be called "noninstitutionalization."
The relevant point, though, is this: Nothing, no matter how promising it seemed at the time, has made any difference. Things keep getting worse, and it gets harder to respond to each new proposal, each new attempt at conscience- pricking.
And finally, decent people like me, who used to lay homelessness at the feet of the authors of the Vietnam War and Reaganism and neo-heartlessness, start to doubt that there really is any solution to the problem. We don't say it out loud; we simply stop hearing the pleas of the advocates.
Something very much like that may be happening with regard to the causes I still care deeply about: public education, criminal-justice reform, the plight of the inner-city underclass. How could anyone be so coldhearted as to walk away from crack babies, pitifully uneducated children, hopeless adolescents and boys so bereft of positive role models they are virtually destined to wind up in prison or dead?
Can't we see that we all have a responsibility for this tangle of problems, and even if we don't, can't we see that it's in our interest to help make things better?
I once believed that anyone who didn't see it that way was, virtually by definition, a bigot. But when I think of my frustration over the question of homelessness, I see another possibility: You don't have to be mean-spirited to walk away from social problems. All it takes is the certainty that nothing can be done to solve them.


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Recording: John And Yoko
Sunday 27 April 1969 Studio No Comments
Studio Two, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Producer: John Lennon
Engineer: Jeff Jarratt
On 22 April 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had recorded the track John And Yoko, which comprised side one of their Wedding Album.
As part of the track, Lennon and Ono had recorded their heartbeats using a sensitive hospital microphone. They then stood at a pair of microphones and called each others' names for 22 minutes.
Following mixing attempts on 22 and 26 April, it was decided that the heartbeats could be improved. They were re-recorded during this session, which lasted from 3-6pm.
The nice thing about working with John and Yoko was seeing just how much in love they were. They had a fantastic relationship, even though they took a lot of 'stick' for it. The John And Yoko recording was fantastic, though quite unpleasant. John managed to get hold of a highly sensitive microphone from a local hospital and we recorded their heart beats. The mike was so good that you heard all the gurgly noises and everything going on inside the stomach!
Jeff Jarratt
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, Mark Lewisohn
John And Yoko was finally mixed and completed on 1 May 1969.
Recording: Oh! Darling, Octopus's Garden
Recording, mixing: Octopus's Garden
2018: George Harrison's estate announces new label HariSongs
2015: Paul McCartney live at Tokyo Dome, Tokyo, Japan
2011: McCartney and McCartney II reissue details announced
1967: Recording, mixing: Magical Mystery Tour
1966: Recording, mixing: Taxman, And Your Bird Can Sing, Tomorrow Never Knows, I'm Only Sleeping
1965: Filming: Help!
1964: Rehearsal: Around The Beatles
1964: US single release: Love Me Do
1963: Live: Memorial Hall, Northwich
1962: Live: Star-Club, Hamburg
1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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2007 - "Exhibition of paintings" - by Vinitha Anand held at the Modern Art Exhibition Hall, International Roerich Memorial Trust, Naggar, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh . May 27th to June 27th. Inaugurated by Poetus Rita Singh.


The German National Library has been involved in the project since 1997. It runs under the aegis of the Conference of European Librarians (CENL) and was initiated by four European national libraries: the Swiss National Library (NB, project leader), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), the British Library (BL) and the German National Library (DNB).
The goal is to produce a multilingual retrieval vocabulary at the authority data level which is designed primarily for searches in bibliographic databases. Equivalent relationships are created between the topical terms of the three universal indexing languages LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings), RAMEAU (Répertoire d'autorité-matière encyclopédique et alphabétique unifié) and GND (Integrated Authority File). These indexing languages are not only used in the project libraries for subject cataloguing their holdings, they are also widely used by other libraries all over the world. The links are created by trained experts in a dedicated production database (Link Management Interface). Most of the linking work carried out by the German National Library was conducted in the CrissCross project. The authority data are provided and regularly updated by the Bibliothèque National de France, the Library of Congress and the German National Library. Integration of the data links into the search portal of The European Library (TEL) is currently under development. Some of the links (one-to-one mappings) were integrated in the GND in the last quarter of 2013; these are now available for retrieval. These data is available via voclink and will also be made available by the DNB via its Linked Data Service. Further development of MACS is being carried out in collaboration with the Swiss National Library under the auspices of CENL.


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CyclingTeesside appthletes are getting on their bikes but they aren't getting any quicker! We have taken a look back at some of the Strava routes we have featured as part of the Macks Strava challenge and Teessiders seem to have hit a wall.


Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an epic action adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. In an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human lady ignites the desire of her Carpathian lifemate—and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal a tribe of fierce wildlings carry males off into madness a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne a child is lost in the twilight involving life and death and a determined lady undertakes a treacherous journey to guard all she holds dear.
Milk and Honey requires readers by means of a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them for the reason that there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. When this relentless rogue FBI agent comes knocking, her adversaries will have to answer—with their lives—in the most current thrilling Jane Hawk novel by the #1 New York Instances bestselling author of The Silent Corner. Milk and honey takes listeners by means of a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them—because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just prepared to appear.
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Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in Solo: A Star Wars Story, an epic action adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. In an explosive novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, a human woman ignites the want of her Carpathian lifemate—and of an ancient vampire with a score to settle. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal a tribe of fierce wildlings carry males off into madness a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne a kid is lost in the twilight amongst life and death and a determined lady undertakes a treacherous journey to safeguard all she holds dear.
An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the generating and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. Rupi Kaur reads milk and honey, her New York Instances bestselling collection of poetry and prose about survival, the practical experience of violence, abuse, enjoy, loss, and femininity. Only Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon stand in between two warring moguls and global havoc in this thrilling suspense novel in Clive Cussler's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
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360-degree Live Streams Will Transform Your YouTube Experience
By Tony Bradley / April 18, 2016 June 12, 2016
YouTube announced that it now supports 360-degree video for live streams, and spatial audio. Both of these technologies have the potential to fundamentally change the video streaming experience, and put you in control of experiencing the scene as if you were physically there.
Streaming video in general—and YouTube specifically—have already transformed the way people share with each other and interact with the world. YouTube puts hundreds of millions of videos on every possible topic at your virtual fingertips. Almost anything you might want to learn how to do, or anything you want to see can be accessed via YouTube. Now, YouTube wants to provide more realistic audio and visual experiences that literally allow you to feel like you're there.
"What excites me most about 360-degree storytelling is that it lets us open up the world's experiences to everyone. Students can now experience news events in the classroom as they unfold. Travelers can experience faraway sites and explorers can deep-sea dive, all without the physical constraints of the real world," proclaimed Neal Mohan, Chief Product Officer for YouTube in a blog post. "And today's kids dreaming of going to a basketball game or a concert can access those experiences firsthand, even if they're far away from the court. What were once limited experiences are now available to anyone, anywhere, at any time."
The 360-degree live streaming requires that the YouTube creator have a camera that supports capturing 360-degree video. Thankfully, the barrier to entry isn't too high. There are high-end 360-degree camera rigs that can be quite expensive, but the entry-level devices are fairly affordable.
From the end-user perspective, however, you don't need any new or special technology. Whether you're watching the YouTube video on a PC, tablet, smartphone, or other device, a circle in the upper-left corner of the video gives you directional control to change your point of view and look around as the video is streaming.
The technology works very well, but I did have a minor issue. Frequently as I tried to click on the circle to navigate around the field of vision it instead interpreted it as a click on the video itself—which pauses playback. The nice thing is that you can still play with the direction and navigate while the video is paused, and then start the action again.
The one caveat that may make this a less-than-awesome experience for many is bandwidth. I enjoy a 100Mbps-plus connection for my home broadband, and my 4G / LTE is pretty strong from my mobile devices. Many people, however, don't have access to the fast broadband speeds necessary to transmit 360-degree live streaming video smoothly.
Tony Bradley
Editor-in-Chief at TechSpective
I have a passion for technology and gadgets--with a focus on Microsoft and security--and a desire to help others understand how technology can affect or improve their lives. I also love spending time with my wife, 7 kids, 4 dogs, 7 cats, a pot-bellied pig, and sulcata tortoise, and I like to think I enjoy reading and golf even though I never find time for either. You can contact me directly at tony@xpective.net. For more from me, you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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Content will be King. LiveStream already has this platform less 360-Just another way to make yourself relevant (youtube).Fact is, most people want polished product unless your Live streaming an OTT (OvertheTop) event.Almost forgot to mention,one hell of a way to build a Visual Library for free.Give your Images and work for Free to these Corporations.Contract anyone?


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X-Files Memorabilia Museum Planned For Saratoga Springs, New York
Cindy McMullen
Cindy McMullen Published: October 19, 2020
Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images
Collectors of X-Files memorabilia, perhaps the most extensive collection in the world, are looking to open a museum in Saratoga Springs, New York.
The X-Files is the second longest-running sci-fi series in television history and a pop culture phenomenon. The show spurred the world-renowned "Scully Effect," an influx of women pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers thanks to the positive representation of Agent Dana Scully.
Jim and Kelly Thornton of Saratoga are the owners of the X-Files Preservation Collection. They would travel to various Comic Cons and other festivals to display their collection, but now it's too large. So, they're registering the X-Files Preservation Collection as a non-profit so they can open a museum and work on restoring many iconic pieces that include:
Screen-used props
Set dressing from The X-Files
Several pieces of furniture from Mulder's office
An alien cryopod from "Fight the Future"
The burnt doll from episode "Chinga"
A suit worn by Mitch Pileggi as Skinner
Tattered shirt worn by David Duchovny as Mulder in episode "Field Trip"
The Thortons conducted a crowdfunding campaign and are looking for financial backing and startup costs through Indigogo.
Our goal is to raise $8,000.00 to secure the location so that we can build this museum for you. This will give us the first few months' rent and also help us to fund licensing etc.
If you can't make it to Saratoga, here's a view tour of the collection
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Today, NCVLI was joined by co-amici the National Center for Victims of Crime, the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, and the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, as we filed an amicus brief in support of the victim in the State of Texas v Ukuwachu.
In the case, the defendant, a University of Baylor football player, was convicted of sexual assault. The Court of Appeals reversed defendant's conviction. In the brief filed with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, amici argue the Court of Appeals made a fundamentally flawed decision, violated Texas' rape shield law and violated the state Constitution's mandate to treat victims with fairness and respect.
Of all crimes, the reporting rates for sexual assault are some of the lowest. In Texas, a recent study found that fully 91% of sexual assaults are not reported to law enforcement. Decisions like this one can serve to further decrease reporting of sexual assault, particularly in cases where the victim knows the assailant. Factoring in that the majority of sexual assaults are perpetrated by a small number of repeat offenders, these low reporting rates represent nothing less than a public health crisis. Victims, their families, and their communities will be harmed if this decision stands. Justice for this and all victims demands that rape shield laws and Constitutional protections are honored and enforced by all courts at all levels.
Click here to read the joint Press Release. We will keep you posted on the case.
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Russian largest vodka producer Tatspirtprom will enter the Russian beer market. The company, which is controlled by the Ministry of Land Assets of the semiautonomous Republic Tatarstan through its investment company Svyazinvestneftekhim, plans to spend about 4 billion Russian rubles ($69m) on a one million hectoliter brewery in Chistopol, 140 km south east of Tatarstan's capital Kazan. The production will be operational in mid-2018.
In May this year Tatspirtprom commissioned the supply of German brewing equipment with Krones, the world market leader in brewing technology. On September 5, General Director of Tatspirtprom Irek Minnakhmetov signed a 10 year license agreement with Prince Luitpold of Bavaria from König Ludwig International (KLI), for the production and sale of Bavarian beer under the brand names Kaltenberg and König Ludwig in Russia and Tatarstan. Aaccording to experts the deal is worth between 0.5 and 1.0 billion Russian rubles ($8.6m-$17.2m depending on the volumes sold. KLI already entered similar agreements in Russian in 2004 with Sobol in Nowosibirsk and in 2007 with Ochakovo, the largest Russian controlled brewery headquartered in Moscow.
Besides the licensed brands, Tatspirtprom intends to produce at least 5-6 own beer brands. The brewery is palnning to conquer at least one third of the 3 million hectoliter beer market of Tatarstan. Some other smaller breweries as well as local market leader Efes in Kazan already operate breweries in the republic but experts believe that the optimistic plans of the vodka producer are not unrealistic. Anadolu Efes, which suffers from shrinking beer sales in Russia like most of the other foreign dominated major beer producers,announced in August to combine its Russian business with SunInBev, a subsidiary of international beer behemoth AB InBev (inside.beer, 9.8.2017). Since 2007, when foreign companies dominated 92% of the Russian beer market, their market share has declined to 70% today.
Tatspirtprom was established in 1997 by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Tatarstan. The company is the largest alcohol company in Russia and ranked first in the national rating of vodka. In 2016, Tatspirtprom produced 1.24 million hectolitres of alcoholic products, including 1.15 million hectoliters of vodka, which gave it a 16% share in the Russian vodka market and 85% of the vodka market of the Republic of Tatarstan. It operates two spirit plants, four distilleries and one winery.


re: All Records that refer or relate to the City's ownership of the Willowick Golf Course, located at 3017 West 5th Street, Santa Ana, California 92703-1898, from January 1, 1980, to the present.
1.	All Records that refer or relate to the City's ownership of the Willowick Golf Course, located at 3017 West 5th Street, Santa Ana, California 92703-1898, from January 1, 1980, to the present.
This request is objected to on the grounds that, as phrased, is overly broad and unduly burdensome. Records going back to 1980 are not electronically retained, may be in boxes in storage, may be in microfiche, not easily found or retrieved, and may be voluminous in scope.
Notwithstanding the foregoing objections, the City will produce non-exempt, non-privileged disclosable public records in the possession and control of the City that are deemed responsive, or potentially responsive, to the extent that it is readily located.
2.	All Records that refer or relate to the source of funds used to acquire the Willowick Golf Course from January 1, 1980, to the present.
3.	All Records that refer or relate to the acquisition of the Willowick Golf Course by the City of Garden Grove from January 1, 1980, to the present.
4.	All Inventories that include or refer to the Willowick Golf Course and all Records that refer to any Inventory or its preparation regarding the Willowick Golf Course, including staff reports, Planning Commission agendas and minutes, City Council agendas and minutes, resolutions, and ordinances, from January 1, 1980, to the present.
5.	All Records, including but not limited to, deeds, purchase and sale agreements, or any other conveyance document related to the Willowick Golf Course from January 1, 1980, to the present.
6.	All Records that constitute, reflect, or refer to any written offer by the City to sell, lease, or otherwise transfer the property at Willowick Golf Course to any person or entity, public or private, or nonprofit from January 1, 1980, to the present.
The City does not have records responsive to this request.
7.	All Records that constitute, reflect, or refer to any Requests for Proposals relating to Willowick Golf Course that the City sent to any person or entity, public, private, or nonprofit from January 1, 1980, to the present.
8.	All communications the City sent to, or received from, any person or entity, public, private or nonprofit, that refers, relates to, or mentions the Willowick Golf Course from January 1, 1980 to the present.
This request is objected to on the grounds that, as phrased, is vague, overly broad and unduly burdensome. Note that in Rogers v. Superior Court, (1993) 19 Cal. App.4th 469, 481, the Court held that requests for public records must be focused and specific. Perhaps you might want to specify whether the communications you are interested in relate to a specific topic, event, or date.
9.	All Documents referring or relating to the City of Garden Grove's parcel designation of the Willowick Golf Course as remnant, excess, or surplus land from January 1, 1980, to the present.
The City has no documents responsive to this request.
10.	All Documents referring or relating to any cooperative agreements between the City of Garden Grove and the City of Santa Ana regarding the operation of the Willowick Golf Course, from January 1, 1980, to the present.
11.	All Documents referring or relating to any cooperative agreements between the City of Garden Grove and the City of Santa Ana regarding the use of the Willowick Golf Course, from January 1, 1980, to the present.
12.	All Documents referring or relating to any cooperative agreements between the City of Garden Grove and the City of Santa Ana regarding the funding used to operate the Willowick Golf Course, from January 1, 1980 to the present.
13.	All Documents referring or relating to Cooperative Agreements between OCTA and City, referring or relating to the OCTA Streetcar Project from January 1, 1980, to the present.
14.	All Records, Communication(s), and Document(s) that refer or relate to the City's intended use of the Willowick Golf Course from the period of time of January 1, 1980 to the present.
15.	All Records, Communication(s), and Document(s) from the period of time of January 1, 1980 to the present that refer or relate to the City's classification of the City-owned property, Willowick Golf Course as "excess", "remnant", or "surplus".
16. All Records, Communication(s), and Document(s) that refer or relate to the City's implementation, interpretation of, and compliance with Government Code Sections 54220 et seq., including all reports, memorandum, correspondence, and other records, from the period of time of January 1, 1980 to present, including but not exclusive to the Willowick Golk [sic] Course.
The City interprets this request as applying to all properties it owns or has ever owned and as such this request is objected to on the grounds that it is vague, overly broad and unduly burdensome. Note that in Rogers v. Superior Court, (1993) 19 Cal. App.4th 469, 481, the Court held that requests for public records must be focused and specific. Perhaps you might want to specify a specific property and limit the request to a specific date or event.
Notwithstanding the foregoing determination, records will not be produced, or may be redacted, to the extent they are determined to be exempt from disclosure pursuant to: the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine (Government Code §6254(k), Evidence Code §954, Code of Civil Procedure §2018.030); the public interest exemption and common law deliberative process privilege (Government Code §6255(a), Times Mirror Co. v. Superior Court (1991) 53 Cal.3d 1325); and the preliminary drafts, notes and memoranda exemption (Government Code § 6254(a)).
Due to the voluminous number of records sought by your request, the City is still in the process of reviewing, compiling, and assembling records. The City anticipates that records will be made available to you by April 15, 2019.


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The Roman Temple site was discovered in 1982. The remains were identified by the late Professor Barri Jones as belonging to a multi period Roman water shrine with Celtic origins and a possible continuity into the Early Christian period. Dr Anne Ross the renowned authority on the Celts considered the site had probably been a cult shrine venerating Sabrina the goddess of the river Severn. The site overlooking the great horseshoe bend of the Severn was considered by both Jones and Ross and also by Bryn Walters as sensational for its grand outlook, on a scale unsurpassed in Europe.
The horseshoe bend of the river Severn is the largest topograhical feature of its type in Europe set in a valley, flanked by the 800 ft high hills of the Cotswolds on the east and the 800 high hills of the Forest of Dean on the west. The temple site is located near the 600 foot contour at the top of Dean Hill on the eastern flank of the Forest, directly overlooking the horseshoe bend. Immediately to the front of the eastern entrance to the site the remains of an artificial platform can still be seen, which Dr Ross identified as the probable Public place for ceremonies of propitiation of the river goddess.
Dr Ross and Barri Jones also considered the Severn bore and the filling of the horseshoe bend with the flood tide as central to the Cult of Sabrina. When full the horseshoe bend appears in certain lights as a silver 'torc' a sacred symbol of the Celts.
The visible remains date from the later Roman period when the earlier water shrines were replaced by a huge courtyard temple with a large western apse. The apse has important features which include a large foundation base probably to take a plinth for a cult statue set in the centre of a triple opening. The Central sub rectangular courtyard was flanked on the north and south sides by ambulatories and to the west end by a large cross hall with niches in the walls, which probably held statuary.
The courtyard lay directly over the springhead of the earlier shrines. The springhead was notable for the large collection of flint material found from the late Mesolithic through to the Bronze Ages, as well as sling stones and fragments of iron arrow heads all probably dating from the late Iron Age/ Roman Conquest.
Details of the Temple's development will be described in future posts.
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