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It happened Wednesday just before 5 a.m. on Prospect Avenue in Foxhurst.
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The gunman then ran off north on Reverend James A Polite Avenue towards East 167th Street.
The victim was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln in stable condition.
The gunman is described as approximately 5'11" tall, with a medium build, wearing a black ski mask, black t-shirt, yellow and tan shorts, and carrying a black handgun and a black handbag.
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NEW DELHI: Expressing surprise over China objecting to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Vice-Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal P.K. Barbora said it was timed to coincide with elections in the State.
“Early this year, President Pratibha Patil, who is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, visited Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, and China had no objections. Why should they protest when the Prime Minister visits now?” Air Marshal Barbora said here at a news conference.
He said Beijing’s reaction should be read “between the lines” and interpreted it as one coming at a time when the State was electing its new Assembly.
Asked whether the size of the Chinese military was a factor that should be feared, and the reason for India developing infrastructure, the IAF Vice-Chief said: “The IAF does not fear.”


PNS Tabuk, built-in Romania, has been inducted into Pakistan Navy.
According to the Spokesperson for Pakistan Navy, the commissioning ceremony of PNS Tabuk was held in Romania.
PNS Tabuk is equipped with modern weapons and technology. The ship has the capability to perform several naval operations and can carry helicopters and drones.
The Spokesperson said another ship of this type, Yarmook, has already been inducted into Pakistan Navy.
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Citing three people with knowledge of the matter, Bloomberg reports that Research in Motion is considering hiring one Canadian bank and one global bank.
RIM declined to comment on this story when contacted by TheStreet, although CEO Thorsten Heins would not rule out a potential sale during the BlackBerry maker's recent fourth-quarter conference call.
The embattled Canadian firm reported weaker-than-expected fourth-quarter numbers with Heins acknowledging that RIM needs "substantial change."Rocked by delayed product launches, and fierce competition from Apple (AAPL), Google's (GOOG) Android phones, and, increasingly, Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows phones, investors have fled RIM in droves. RIM's shares, which have plunged almost 75% over the last 12 months, closed up 4.11% at $13.42 on Monday. -- Written by James Rogers in New York. >To follow the writer on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/jamesjrogers. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: email@example.com. Check out our new tech blog, Tech Trends. Follow TheStreet Tech on your wireless devices.
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Pentagon says ISIL's deputy war minister and another military leader were killed in group's Iraqi stronghold on June 25.
A US-led coalition air strike in northern Iraq killed two senior figures from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) late last month, including a commander considered to be the group's deputy minister of war, the Pentagon has said.
The June 25 air strike near Mosul, ISIL's stronghold in Iraq, killed Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a statement.
According to the Pentagon, Bajari had overseen ISIL's capture of Mosul in 2014.
The other ISIL member killed in the raid was Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, a military leader in Mosul, Cook added.
"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership experience in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in northern Iraq," Cook said.
In June, Iraq's military claimed victory in a US-backed offensive against ISIL fighters in the city of Fallujah, west of the capital Baghdad, after a month-long operation.
After Fallujah's recapture, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraqi forces would now set their sights on Mosul, Iraq's second-biggest city and ISIL's last remaining major hub in the country.
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HOOVER, Alabama - The Hoover City Council tonight agreed to pay a consultant more than $600,000 to help with appraisals, negotiations and other legal matters associated with right-of-way acquisition for the widening of Valleydale Road between Caldwell Mill Road and Inverness Center Drive.
The city of Hoover since 2000 has contracted with Volkert Inc. to provide a variety of services necessary for the widening of the road, including engineering and environmental studies, field surveys and preparation of contract plans.
Tonight, the council added more services it wants Volkert to perform in conjunction with right-of-way acquisition, excluding actual purchase of the 80-plus sections of right of way needed for the project.
The extra services approved tonight will cost $620,336, bringing the maximum amount the city will pay Volkert for right-of-way acquisition services to $1,131,221 and the maximum total amount payable to Volkert to $2,395,267, Volkert's contract states.
The Alabama Department of Transportation will reimburse the city of Hoover for 80 percent of the $620,336 approved tonight, and Shelby County has agreed to pay 10 percent, leaving Hoover to pay only about $62,000, Hoover Executive Director Allen Pate said.
That money already has been set aside in the city of Hoover's capital projects budget, Hoover Finance Director Robert Yeager said. In total, the city of Hoover has about $5 million set aside for the Valleydale widening project, while Shelby County has committed $2 million for the project, Yeager said.
The federal government is providing 80 percent of the money for the Valleydale widening project, which will widen a 3-mile stretch of the road to five lanes.
Pate said he could not predict when the actual widening work will be done, noting the project has been in the works since at least 2000. "It moves at a snail's pace," he said.
In other business tonight, the Hoover City Council:
- Approved more than $400,000 worth of budget increases, including money to help pay for new security cameras at the Hoover Public Library, new bulletproof vests for police officers and additional fuel and parts for city vehicles and police helicopters, among other things.
- Agreed to pay SiteMed about $39,000 to conduct on-site firefighter physical exams.
- Agreed to pay New World Systems Corp. $4,950 for software that will allow the Hoover Fire Department to electronically transmit patient vital signs to hospitals.
- Authorized the Birmingham Water Works Board to install two fire hydrants along Southland Drive and a private drive near U.S. 31, one fire hydrant on Craft Lane in the Kirkman Preserve subdivision and seven fire hydrants in the Lake Wilborn subdivision.
- Authorized Bessemer Utilities to install two fire hydrants in Ross Bridge, Sector 1.
- Declared two residential properties at 3710 Spearman Drive and 2024 Crest Lane to be public nuisances due to overgrown weeds and/or grass.
- Agreed to allow Baha Burger to sell beer and table wine for consumption on or off the premises at 4745 Chace Circle, Suite 125.
- Annexed three single-family homes at 2866 Wisteria Drive (owned by Mary Bentley Thomas), 3237 Oriole Drive (owned by Peggy Turner) and 3204 Chapel Hill Court (owned by Britt Tingle).
- Declared September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Sept. 14 as the Laura Crandall Brown Ovarian Cancer Foundation Day in conjunction with the fourth annual Brookwood Medical Center Head Over Teal 5K and 1-mile Fun Run and Family Fun Day to be held at The Preserve Town Hall in Hoover on Sept. 14.
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Congratulations to Ph.D. student Ya Shen for receiving the best student research presentation award in 2012 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON) held at Cocoa Beach, FL on April 16-17, 2012. She is co-advised by Drs. Xun Gong and Parveen Wahid.
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The increasingly widespread availability of high-resolution video sensors, coupled with improvements in accompanying storage media, and processors have made the collection of aerial video for the purposes of tracking automobiles and monitoring traffic much more feasible in recent years . Corresponding efforts for the acquisition of aerial video imagery of traffic data using helicopters for the flight platform have been conducted by Angel et al. , Ernst et al. , Ruhé et al. , Hoogendoorn  and Hoogendoorn and Schreuder . More recently, a data collect has been conducted in a joint effort between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the University of Arizona, a frame of which is shown in Figure 1.
Aerial video is useful for traffic monitoring, since a large amount of data can be collected without the need to manually instrument large areas with sensors. Therefore, it is often desirable when collecting such video data to maximize the area covered. Limitations on storage, communications bandwidth and sensor resolution result in trade-offs between the area and other system parameters. In those cases where maximum area coverage is a strong driver, the number of pixels on target and the sampling rate will both tend to be low. This in turn tends to reduce tracking performance, in that virtually all tracking algorithms are based on: 1) appearance cues, which require enough pixels on target so that neighboring targets are distinguishable, and/or 2) smooth trajectory assumptions, which are broken if sampling rates fall too low with respect to the underlying spatial frequencies of the target trajectories.
In certain situations, tracking can be used to deduce rules underlying the system being tracked (such as, for example occlusions ). In urban environments in particular, such rules are reflected by the existence of restricted regions (i.e. cars don’t drive through walls), as well as high probabilities of certain speeds and directions of travel in allowed regions (i.e. traffic lanes have directions and speed limits). With this dataset, however we do not need to implement a complete, fully automated tracking system to get these results. Instead, we use a scheme whereby we find short tracks which are likely to be correct by ignoring difficult situations such as ambiguity, failure to detect cars, or false positives. Since we have a large amount of data, we can aggregate all data from all the short tracks over many frames to generate a model representing the rules.
In this paper, we outline an algorithm that effectively allows the inference of these rules by building up a velocity histogram at each pixel in the scene, continuing our previous work in . In Section II, we describe the system for acquiring and processing data suitable for the analysis we are performing in this paper. This analysis is done using track fragments, and takes advantage of the extremely high amount of information available to allow the application of a car detector (Section III) followed by a tracking/data association algorithm (Section IV) which only retains tracks which are likely to be correct. These tracks are then used to build a model of the city (Section V), represented as a velocity probability distributions at each pixel. We then present the results in Section VI and discuss how this provides advantages not only for future tracking algorithms, but also insight into the transportation structure of the urban environment.
Ii Data collection and initial processing
The data was collected in a six passenger Bell JetRanger helicopter, hovering above Tucson, Arizona (nominally at 32.250 N, 110.944 W), with one door off to allow for cables to be passed through. The sensor used was an InVision IQEye 705 camera with the vendor’s V10 optics package. The sensor was rigidly mounted to the helicopter strut, with an ethernet interface to a laptop for data storage and power transmission. A marine battery was carried along in the back seat as a power source. Details of the imaging parameters are given in Table I.
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An example of two frames of data are shown in Figure 2. Several features of the data can be seen from this, namely that the camera has a large amount of radial distortion, and that the images require stabilization. Distortions not readily apparent from this image are due to the ground being non-planar, and the rolling shutter on the camera. The rolling shutter is caused by pixels being exposed shortly before the row is clocked out of the CCD, so rows towards the bottom of the image are exposed later than rows at the top. This interacts with the high frequency vibration of the helicopter and results in image distortion with a high spatial frequency. This necessitates the use of a model with a large number of parameters, so we used a robust coarse-to-fine strategy.
For a general treatment of image registration, see for example [9, 10]. In our case, registration was performed in several stages. Firstly, the parameters of the radial distortion were found using the method in , which uses the ‘plumb-line constraint’ (the assumption of the existence of long, straight lines) to determine the distortion parameters. These parameters were then used to undistort all of the images.
Then, a single image was orthorectified by registering it to an aerial image taken from Google Maps (intersensor registration). An initial, coarse registration was performed by matching SIFT  features between sized versions of the two images, and fitting a homography using RANSAC
for robust estimation. Due to the difficulties of matching feature points between images taken with different sensors, this is able to fit the homography to within about a 20% error in scale and about 10in rotation.
A second stage of matching was then performed using a square grid of predetermined points, with a 50 pixel spacing between points, giving about 2000 points in total. A patch of pixels was taken around each grid point in the helicopter image. These patches were then matched to a region around the corresponding grid point in the Google Maps image, using normalized cross correlation. A second order polyprojective model (also known as a rational function model  or nonlinear homography ) was then fitted to these using a robust technique. In particular, we used a case deletion scheme where the model is fitted to the matches by minizing the sum-squared error using the Downhill-Simplex  algorithm. The worst 5% of points are removed and the model is refitted. The procedure is iterated until the mean error drops below 2 pixels.
The result of this is a single orthorectified helicopter image, which we refer to as the ‘base image’. Subsequent images in the video are then registered to the base image, which is intrasensor registration. The intrasensor registration process is inherently more forgiving than the intersensor process. This in turn allows the usage of different subalgorithms which provide much denser coverage of the image with better matching accuracy. The registration processes are still similar, however, in that a coarse to fine approach is still used, as is the basic framework of finding an optimal set of transform parameters from an iteratively refined set of control point matches. Frames of the video are registered simultaneously to the base image and the previous registered image. This removes long term drift and alleviates the problem that the area of overlap with the base image may be small.
The first stage of the intersensor registration matches SIFT keypoints between the current and previous/base image. An approximate transformation for the current image is known, since we know the transformation for the previous image. Therefore, the SIFT keypoints in the current image are only allowed to match to points within a pixel region in the previous/base image. A polyprojective transformation is then fitted using the case deletion scheme.
After this stage, errors with high spatial frequency remain as a result of the rolling shutter. To fit these errors, the image is split up in to
cells, and a displacement vector is robustly found for each cell. Intermediate displacements are found by linearly interpolating the vectors between the cell centres. The vectors are found by matching the SIFT keypoints between a cell in the current image and the corresponding cell in the previous/base image. Case deletion is then used to find the best single displacement vector for each cell.
These stages of registration bring the average jitter down to about 1 pixel, and the registered images are used for the remainder of the paper. For the interested reader, a more detailed treatment of these steps is also given in .
Iii Car detection
A number of existing vehicle-specific techniques assume that either a single car orientation, or a small subset of possible orientations, is known [18, 19]. These techniques are unsuitable for our application, since cars can appear at any orientation, for instance turning a corner at a junction. Other algorithms [20, 21, 22] use road position information from maps to aid detection. These techniques will therefore ignore traffic in parking lots and are not applicable where the road information is not up to date, such as during major engineering works or evacuation situations. Traffic monitoring would be particularly useful in these situations. Other techniques  are designed for accurate car counting, and so are tuned to perform well in parking lots, where large number of parallel cars are parked close together. Model based techniques, such as  tend to work with approximately 2 to 3 times the ground sample distance of our data. Consequently, we decided to use an approach based on generic object detection.
Car detection is performed by following the steps:
Apply pixel classifier to image and record the classifier response at each pixel in to a ‘response image’.
Blur the response image with a Gaussian.
Find all local maxima of the blurred response image.
Perform region growing segmentation of the response image, starting from the maxima.
Filter out small regions.
Compute mean and covariance of pixel positions in remaining regions.
A car is located at the mean of each region, oriented along the direction of largest covariance.
Pixel classification is performed in a similar manner to the method presented in , though somewhat simplified since processing speed is not a concern. The centres of all cars in an image were marked. Any pixel within 6 pixels distance of a car centre was labelled as a foreground pixel. Any pixel not within 20 pixels of any car center was labelled as a background pixel. Pixels an intermediate distance from cars are unmarked. In our dataset, cars are approximately 8 pixels wide and 16 pixels in length. The background pixels are then randomly subsampled so that foreground pixels make up about 15% of the data (as opposed to 1%). A single image was marked, giving 330 cars and 300,000 labelled pixels. We then trained an AdaBoost  classifier on the data for 200 iterations.
, in that we use a sum of positive and negative rectangles. In our case, we have between 1 and 5 rectangles of each sort, and the corners of the rectangles are scatted at random with a Gaussian distribution withpixels. This allows the rectangles to overlap.
To detect cars, the classifier is then applied to the image. For typical applications of machine learning, the response of the classifier would be thresholded at zero, giving the class of each pixel. However, we wish to find cars, rather than the class of each pixel. To do this, the classifier response is smoothed with a Gaussian kernel (withpixels), and all the local maxima are found and taken as candidate car locations.
Region growing segmentation is performed iteratively from these candidate locations until no further changes happen. The image corresponding to the blurred response of the classifier is denoted and the segmented image at iteration is denoted . The segmentation is initialized such that each pixel under a local maximum of is given a unique number, and every other pixel has the value 0.
The iteration sequence generates from . Initially, we assign . For each occupied pixel in , i.e. where , we attempt to spread the pixel value to its neighbours. Consider the pixel which we attempt to spread to its neighbour, . If (the neighbouring pixel is unoccupied) and if (the response is above some threshold), then assign . We use 4-neighbour connectivity, takes the values and . This procedure is iterated until .
At this point, all pixels sharing the same, nonzero number belong to the same object. Small objects are filtered out by removing objects that do not have enough pixels. In this case, segments with fewer than 10 pixels are removed. Of the remaining objects, their position and orientation are found by computing the mean and covariance of the pixels. It is assumed that cars are aligned along the direction of largest covariance. This does not distinguish between the front and back of cars. An illustration of this process is given in Figure 3.
There are a number of approaches to tracking multiple targets in the presence of detection errors and measurement noise, such as JPDAF (Joint Probabilistic Data Association Filter) , SMC (Sequential Monte-Carlo)  and PHD (Probability Hypothesis Density) filter , which can integrate continuity assumptions such as smoothness of motion and continuity of appearance. The main focus of these methods is to produce long tracks which are as accurate as possible, and get the correct data association over a large number of measurements.
Since we wish to build up a model of car motion over the city, we can aggregate a large amount of data from many frames. As a result, the tracking algorithm does not need to reliably produce long, accurate tracks. Instead we focus on forming short, but correct track fragments. Data which makes tracking more difficult, such as false negatives, false positives, and misestimation of the car orientation simply causes the track to be discarded.
Without any knowledge of the system, a car in frame could match to any of the cars in frame . The algorithm relies on basic physics to eliminate the majority of potential matches. A car in frame can only match to a car located within 30 pixels of it in frame . Given the frame rate and pixel size, this corresponds to a maximum velocity of 78 mph (124 km/h). Similarly, matches where a car rotates more than 30 between frames are eliminated. Furthermore, matches where the direction of motion is more than 30 off the direction of the car are eliminated. This last constraint is not applied if the velocity is below 5 pixels/s since noise from misregistration jitter prevents accurate measurement of the direction of motion.
When a car in frame can still potentially match to more than one car in frame , we use appearance based symmetric matching . That is, for each car in frame , we pick the best match in frame , and for every car in frame , we pick the best match in frame . Only the matches which are consistent are retained. The quality of a match is measured by using the sum of absolute differences (SAD) of a pixel rectangular patch, centred on a car and aligned with its direction. The best match is the one with the smallest SAD.
The same process is then repeated between frames and , and the resulting matches are chained together to create 3 frame ‘tracklets’. Tracklets with an unphysically high acceleration are removed. Although 1g corresponds to 1.74 pixels/frame/frame, we allow for an acceleration of up to 4 pixels/frame/frame to take into account jitter caused by misregistration.
V Model building
Once the tracklets have been found over all frames, they are used to build a model of the vehicle motion in the image. The model for motion is built up at every pixel and contains a 2D histogram of motion vectors. The tracklets consist of two line segments, and the two line segments each have an associated velocity vector. A line segment is placed in to the model by incrementing histogram bins corresponding to the velocity at every position along the line segments. All line segments from all tracklets are used to create the model. For increased precision and smoothness, instead of simply incrementing the closest bin to the velocity vector, a smooth Gaussian blob centred on the velocity vector is entered in to the histogram.
Vi Results and Discussion
The modes of the histograms at each pixel built from a dataset are shown in Figures 4 and 5. Examination of this data directly provides a large amount of information useful for traffic engineering and planning. Such data would be very expensive to obtain using standard techniques. Existing loop detectors or pneumatic tubes cannot capture vehicle trajectories; fixed cameras often do not have an extended field of view or suffer from occlusion; and, floating car techniques are expensive and provide only very small samples of vehicles.
The traffic circle at this unsignalized intersection is effective and causes a significant reduction in the speed of the vehicle. However, despite the presence of the junction close to the south, drivers consistently accelerate rapidly up to the nominal speed for this road.
A large number of U-turns at this particular junction imply that vehicles are unwilling to enter the main northbound traffic stream at this location. There may be significant delay for vehicles at this junction, and/or there may be inadequate signage to deter U-turns. Note that there is a central median on the major street which prevents traffic from turning into a southbound lane at this point.
This parking lot exhibits significant traffic in the easterly direction, with cars entering on the west and driving through to the east exit. With the proximity to the major intersection (seen at the center of the image), it may be beneficial to prevent cars exiting in the north-west corner, to prevent congestion and possible conflicts at this intersection.
A failure mode of the algorithm can be seen due east of the label. The car detector tends to misdetect cars and misestimate the orientation in parking lots, especially when the cars are densely packed. This occasionally causes mismatches, and therefore erroneous tracklets, the results of which can be seen.
The modal speed through the junction is lower than the nominal road speed. This implies that even on a green light, there may be factors that are causing drivers to slow, and reducing the flow of traffic. Also, the traffic speeds are significantly lower in the north-south direction, with significant queuing and very low speeds indicated by the tracklets. This would clearly imply that the allocation of green time at this traffic signal may need to be adjusted to give more green time to north-south movements.
The tracklets exiting the major intersection to the south indicate some significant lane changing activity. This may occur in part due to potential conflicts from the right-turning traffic from the eastbound approach to the southbound exit. This activity may also be due in part from the expansion of the roadway from two to three lanes as traffic moves southbound from the intersection. It may be useful to delineate the appropriate paths of vehicles more clearly through this section of roadway.
Similar lane changing can be noted on the eastbound exit of this intersection, but the causes of these lane changes is not readily apparent.
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Life's celebrations are one of the things we can count on. No matter what happens, we will always have loved ones, friends or co-workers that will be celebrating milestones. In honor of that I have digitized several new designs that are releasing today. Of course, we all have birthdays in our lives. This Happy Birthday Embroidery design stitches in a 4x4 hoop and within just a few minutes you will have a hip customized project. Also, this design is part of my Celebrations design pack that includes three other celebratory designs! See them below.
Do you know someone who is celebrating and needs a little congratulating? My Congratulations Embroidery Design is part of the Celebration Design Pack also. This 4x4 design can be customized with any color under the sun and would be perfect for so many occasions!
Help someone acknowledge that special date with my Happy Anniversary Embroidery Design. This would be beautiful in any thread color but Golds and Silvers would be very luxurious. This 4x4 design is part of the Celebrations Design pack also.
My Good Luck Embroidery design will help you send that special person off with a very meaningful wish. This 4x4 design is also part of my Celebrations Design pack. The best part about these four embroidery designs is they are all ready for you to pick your favorite thread color and within just a short time, you can have a very special customized project.
So I bet you know what is next? Birthdays for those little ones in your life. We all like to celebrate those special days that only come once in a lifetime. I have several birthday embroidery designs that you can stitch up in your 4x4 hoop. Let me show them to you with a few inspirational projects. This is My First Birthday Embroidery Design. These all include text and an Applique Number.
How about stitching this on a cute and soft bib?
This is My Second Birthday Embroidery Design and remember that you can always customize the colors on these so they will be perfect for many little ones.
I know a lot of two year old children that love to cuddle underneath a cover. They will know which blanket is theirs with this stitched on the corner.
When you get to My Third Birthday you can start working on those older projects for your special little people. Or have you thought about using any of these designs for your pets? They love birthday gifts too!
All kids love a Shirt just for them and they can tell everyone how old they are. I see birthday cake on the front of this one already!
My Fourth Birthday embroidery design lets those little buddies know they are still special and that you are taking time to create memorable gifts for them.
So how about a cute apron that they can wear while doing their crafts or helping you in the kitchen?
We have made it to My Fifth Birthday Embroidery design and they aren't babies anymore but I bet they still let you hug and kiss them. Let them be little as long as they can and make that homemade gift they will love to show off.
Now they are big enough to carry their own bag. A cute backpack for pajamas and overnight stays would be an awesome project for this design!
We have so many celebrations to look forward to and my wish is that these designs get you inspired to be creative. Remember how good it feels to give. I hope you have enjoyed this post, share what you learn and are generous with what you create. Someone will appreciate your hard work!
It is that time of year when the turkey becomes part of our holiday season. Today I am releasing this new In The Hoop Turkey Ornament as my ode to that tradition. This project is fun because two hoopings are required. The first hooping uses a 4x4 embroidery hoop which creates the face and details of the turkey.
If you look closely at the picture, you can see that the face/body is attached with a U shaped stitch just around the widest part of the body. This creates a small pocket that is perfect to hide small surprises. What kind of surprises? Keep reading.
The second hooping is done in a 5x7 hoop and I love this one because you can go through your seasonal fabric. If you look at the picture above you will see all of the fluffy fabric edges or Chenille. This makes the fabric look like the turkey's feathers. If you have Fall inspired charm packs, they would be so cute in different turkey ornaments. If you have never done chenille techniques, it is really easy using a small chenille or wire brush. The design comes with a full set of color instructions. Also, I have created a video you can watch below to make sure you can work through the process. So be sure to check that out.
So what can you do with this ornament? Here I have used it as a napkin ring. These would be precious at each of your place settings. Remember that pocket created by the turkey face? Slide a small dinner mint or hand written note in the pocket for a sweet take home gift for your guests.
Another unique idea would be to add a few drops of scented oils to a small piece of felt. Slide the felt into the turkey pocket and make your own seasonal air freshener. Hang this in your kitchen, bathroom or car. Bringing a bottle of wine to a gathering? Hang it on the bottle for a cute hostess gift.
If you don't want to hang it as an ornament, you can always use the turkey as a cute mug rug to dress up your work space.
I bet you have other creative ways to use an In The Hoop Turkey Ornament. Fall is a season of many blessings and my wish is that yours is very full. I hope you have enjoyed this post, share what you learn and are generous with what you create. Someone will appreciate your hard work.
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The Internet is buzzing with excitement. A Game of Thrones just released the third trailer for Season Six: an immersive video that has created a media splash that has Twitter users feverishly pressing the hash key. Unfortunately, fellow fans, we at Destinia cannot say whether Tyrion Lannister will survive his everlasting enemies or whether Khaleesi will found a new dynasty. However, we can recommend these great hotels to keep you near the locations where our favourite series has been shot. Come while there’s still time, before the 24th!
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It is the amount of time a mother spends on her children 😀
The physical stress of children I had expected. I had expected sleepless nights, tired limbs, mountains of laundry…. And perhaps, because I did it regularly on a much lesser scale, I thought I would be able to handle motherhood.
SubhaanAllah, now that I think of it, looking at just how much some mothers have to do – how patient they have to be – it’s a miracle that they survive the day.
The most difficult thing of all, perhaps, is the time. Or, well, lack there of. Once you have children, you have almost no time for anything else.
I wake up in the morning when my daughter wakes (which is usually at the time of fajr prayer – before sunrise). I was her up and then attempt to make breakfast with her close by. My son wakes soon after…. The day goes on and on until both of them are finally down for the night. Then, I am given about an hour of respite (God bless my husband), in order to clean, do my kitchen wrap-up, pray and shower. I am dragged off to bed by my 6 month old. It is with them that I wake, and with them that I eat, play, do work….And eventually sleep.
I know that there are moments in the day – say when the tiny one is sleeping – that I can go off and od my own thing for awhile, but then I have to use that time for the older one. I don’t want him to think that when the baby is down, I can ignore him. I want him to know that I’m still crazy about him and that I’m still there for him.
I realize now why people give their children to sitters so much – they have to have that free time, or they’ll lose themselves.
For me, I know that this stage is not forever. InshaAllah my children will be grown one day. I don’t want to regret a thing. I realize that I put this grueling method of motherhood on myself – the infant potty training, no baby food out of a jar, not leaving them for more than an hour unless necessary – and the list goes on. But just like labor, this too will pass.
And Alhamdulillah for being Muslim! I may not succeed at what I began to do. I may not do a job that I can look at and say, “I’m a great mother!” But Allah knows what I intend. He knows what I give up. He hears the screams I cannot release (and the ones I do!) He sees the tears I push away. He knows the loves that I gave up. And in the end, it is only His approval that I want. It is only His reward that I seek.
If I take this trust that He gave me and deal with it the best I can, He can reward me with far better than what I gave up.
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Prior to joining ROLF, Mary worked as an asset locator at a national collection law firm, and previous to that spent 10 years working in a skilled nursing facility.
Mary has been with ROLF since 2016.
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In 1943, Hollywood director and now Major William Wyler and his team shot nineteen hours of aerial combat footage obtained over five combat missions in World War 2 from which of the famous movie “The Memphis Belle” was created. That movie used approximately forty- four minutes of that collected film. Ultimately, all of that film was placed in storage at the National Archives and Records Administration and over time, faded in quality.
In 2018, documentary film maker Erik Nelson in cooperation with NARA remastered that film using 4K technology and applied that to a remastering of the original William Wyler “Memphis Belle” movie. Realizing that there was wealth of information and history in the residual outtakes, Nelson conceived another documentary using not only some of the remastered film but also veterans of that conflict to appear and do voice overs for the film. This resulted in enlisting ten veterans who served in each of the B-17 Flying Fortress crew stations who would amplify and complement the narrative of the original “Memphis Belle” movie. Their sense of loss of comrades is easily felt. Both films show the horror and emotions of men in combat that serve as a lesson for any period in time.
The Cold Blue is available to view on HBO Max.

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Tajima Station, February 2012
|Operated by||JR Central|
|Distance||363.3 km from Tokyo|
|Platforms||1 side + 2 island platforms|
|Status||Staffed (Midori no Madoguchi)|
|Opened||25 July 1900|
|Passengers (FY2015)||13,688 daily|
Tajimi Station is served by the JR Tōkai Chūō Main Line, and is located 360.7 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo and 36.2 kilometers from Nagoya. It is also the terminal station for the Taita Line.
The station has one ground level side platform and two ground-level island platforms, with an elevated station building located above the tracks and platforms. The station has a Midori no Madoguchi staffed ticket office..
|1||■ Chūō Main Line||For Nagoya|
|2||■ Chūō Main Line||For Nagoya|
|3||■ Chūō Main Line||For Nakatsugawa and Nagano|
|4||■ Chūō Main Line||For Nagoya
For Nakatsugawa and Nagano
|5||■ Taita Line||For Mino-Ōta|
At times there are deviations from the description above.
|Chūō Main Line|
Tajimi Station was opened on 25 July 1900. On 1 April 1987, it became part of JR Tōkai. A new station building was completed in November 2009.
In fiscal 2015, the station was used by an average of 13,688 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).
- Tajima City Statistics (Fiscal 2015) (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Tajima City. 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
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Jobs Fair to offer 1,000 vacancies on Independence Day
By Jennifer Catan-Tilos
Dumaguete City (June 5) -- More than 10 overseas employment agencies are expected to participate in the jobs fair to be held at Quezon Park, Dumaguete City on June 12 in commemoration of the 111th anniversary of Philippine Independence Day.
Labor Employment Officer III, Kenrick Villaluz of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said that more than 1,000 overseas employment opportunities will be opened during the jobs fair. Local job vacancies from SPI and Robinsons will also join government agencies in hiring workers through the Comprehensive Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program (CLEEP), Villaluz said.
The DOLE expects placement agencies to accept both professionals and skilled workers which are in demand abroad, thus, job seekers in Negros Oriental are encouraged to take the opportunity to avail the job offers directly to the workers.
Among the jobs expected to be offered are electrician, plumbers, domestic helpers, mechanic, welder, engineers, nurses, cook, bakers, among others.
The local DOLE anticipated the countries where the workers to be deployed by placement agencies are in Middle East, Hongkong, Singapore and Europe.
DOLE official reminded the applicants to bring their resume/biodata, credentials, certificate of employment during the jobs fair. It would be better if they have passport and NBI clearance for travel abroad, the official said.
Kalayaan Job and Livelihood Fairs is in line with this year's theme of Independence day "Kagitingan, Kagalingan, Kasipagan Tungo sa Tunay na Kalayaan."
The Kalayaan 2009 celebration will be witnessed by a flag raising ceremony and program at 7:25 in the morning at Quezon Park, Dumaguete City. This will be followed by an opening of the jobs fair, medical & dental mission, public assistance, government services, among others at 8:00am. (PIA/JCT) [top]


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Nov. 30, 2011
HOUSTON - Tamir Jackson scored a game-high 20 points and Ahmad Ibrahim poured in five, three-pointers en route to a career-high 19 points as Rice drove across town for a 78-66 win over Houston Baptist Wednesday in Sharp Gymnsium.
With the win, Rice improved to 5-2. The Owls begin a four-game home stand this Saturday when they play host to St. Thomas. Tip-off for Saturday's game is 2 p.m.
The Owls' fifth win of the season was not secured until a late, 8-0 run.
HBU's Marcus Davis knocked down a three-pointer following a Rice turnover that cut the Owls' lead to 66-58 with 3:29 to play.
After Davis' trey, Jackson made the first of two free throw attempts then Connor Frizzelle and Emerson Herndon each made a pair at the line. Jackson closed out the rally by converting a three-point play which gave the Owls a 74-58 lead with two minutes to play.
In the first half, Ibrahim broke a 23-23 tie with three straight field goals starting with two of his five, three-pointers. After the treys he knocked down another jumper following an Owl defensive rebound to give Rice a 31-23 lead.
Ibrahim converted 7-of-11 shots, making 5-of-7 three-pointers. It was the first time since the 2009-10 season a Rice player made five three-pointers. The rookie also had six rebounds and two blocks in his most extensive playing time.
In his first start, Omar Oraby registered his first career double-double, scoring 11 points and pulling down 12 rebounds. Also in his first career start, freshman Dylan Ennis had five assists, two steals and grabbed eight rebounds.
As a team, Rice outrebounded HBU 48-35.
Junior Arsalan Kazemi, who is averaging a double-double for the Owls, did not dress for the game after suffering a mild strain to his lower back over the weekend at the South Padre Island Invitational.
Houston Baptist was led by Tyler Russell who scored 20 points while Art Bernardi came off the bench to score 15 points. Joe Latas, the Huskies' leading scorer was held to seven points and had four turnovers.
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Actor Ion Caramitru was buried on Friday, with military honours, on the Actors' Alley of the Bellu Cemetery in the Capital City, in the presence of dozens of people who applauded for a long time.
Roger Berlind, a producer of more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals and the winner of 25 Tony Awards, has died. He was 90.
He died Dec. 18 at his home in Montana. His family said cardiopulmonary arrest was to blame, The New York Times reported.
The Brooklyn-born Berlind enjoyed a four-decade career that boosted the success of actors including Glenn Close and Jeremy Irons.

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Atlantic salmon are native to Maine and New England and considered the “King of Freshwater Gamefish.” Maine is the last state in the nation with endangered populations of these incredible creatures. Join Downeast Salmon Federation (DSF) Executive Director, Dwayne Shaw and Joe Robbins, founding board member, as they discuss the fight to save the fish known as the toughest fighter. This one-hour presentation will share how DSF has adopted a scrappy approach to turning the salmon story from tragedy to success.
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IR-neaSCOPE is designed for nanoscale analysis that only requires measurements of IR absorption. It detects laser-induced photothermal expansion in the sample using mechanical AFM-IR detection. Requiring no IR detector and interferometry, IR-neaSCOPE provides a cost-efficient solution most suitable for samples with large thermal expansion coefficients (e.g. polymers, biomaterials, etc.).
VIS-neaSCOPE+s is optimised for robust amplitude and phase-resolved vector field mapping in the visible spectral range. It utilises best-in-class s-SNOM technologies for near-field imaging and spectroscopy of plasmonic nanostructures and waveguide structures. VIS-neaSCOPE+s provides the most flexible beam-path configuration capable of polarisation resolved-measurements, side and bottom illumination synchronised with the sample motion.
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A new study from The Brookings Institution slams federal agencies for doing a poor job of making cybersecurity part of their strategic plans.
While federal officials tend to talk the right talk--it points to President Obama's cybersecurity plans outlined in his State of the Union Speech--federal agencies fail to back that talk up with action.
After passage of the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010, federal agencies were required to set out a strategic plan. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' plan is one of the most detailed at 125 pages--and also one of the most IT-focused. Overall, however, the study's authors call the focus on cybersecurity "abysmal," according to Kevin Desouza, associate dean for research at the college of public programs at Arizona State University and a non-resident senior fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, in a blog post.
The Defense and Energy departments are notable exceptions, Desouza says. Overall, half of the federal agency strategic plans don't mention cybersecurity at all, and few discuss cybersecurity efforts in detail.
"The major issue that we uncovered was that even though the threats of attacks to critical infrastructure are at an all-time high, most of the agencies lack clear plans on how to invest in capabilities to actually deal with these threats and also in the agencies where they had clear plans or clear actions, there were no real performance evaluation metrics to actually uncover if these investments are actually going to pay off," Desouza tells Federal News Radio.
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which has suffered a number of embarrassing breaches, in November redirected $60 million to its cybersecurity efforts. However, a series of reports from the Inspector General continues to hammer the agency for its lack of discipline and accountability for effective oversight of its IT projects.


Eight cars carrying sand went off the tracks Monday near a culvert that may have been weakened by the recent floods.
Investigators said that the tracks were unstable and gave way around 2:30 Monday afternoon.
No one was hurt and workers said it could take a week to clean up the sand and fix the tracks.
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There is an irregular lucent line traversing the lateral sesamoid from anterior to posterior. The borders of this lucent line are not corticated. The transition from the lucent line to the outer convex surface of the sesamoid are sharp and angular, in keeping with fracture.
Sesamoid fractures are uncommon, and may be mistaken for a simply bipartite sesamoid. The radiographic appearance in this case suggests fracture, as the fracture fragments are not corticated along the fracture line, together would be nearly exactly the same size as the medial sesamoid, and the fracture line is anteroposteriorly oriented instead of transversely. The history of trauma with pain specifically at this point should suggest the diagnosis as well. It may also be helpful to note that bipartite sesamoids are more common at the medial sesamoid, and therefore a bipartite lateral sesamoid should raise the level of suspicion in equivocal cases.


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Winners of 22 Grammy Awards - more than any other band - U2 have sold over 150 million records.
Whilst maintaining their reputation as one of the top rock bands of the modern era, U2 have pursued personal and ideological goals including relief of world poverty and social justice whilst also on a musical journey that has embraced many different styles.
This richly illustrated book, with many classic and rare photographs, supported by an informative text, tells the compelling story of the one of the most successful bands in rock history.


The Governing Board is mandated to prevent and detect organized crime and facilitate the confiscation of proceeds of crime.
They are Mr Justice Brobbey, Chairman of the Board, ACP (rtd) K.K Amoah, Acting Executive Secretary, EOCO, Mr Francis Kofi Torkornoo, Acting Executive Secretary, Narcotics Control Board, Mr Henry Acquah, Deputy Commissioner, Internal Audit, Ghana Revenue Authority, Mr Dick Anyadi, a private Legal Practitioner, and Commissioner of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.
Others members are, Colonel Michael Kwadwo Opoku, Director General, National Security Council Secretariat, DCOP Mrs Maame Tiwaa Addo Danquah, Director General, Criminal Investigations Department and Mrs Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa, Director of Public Prosecutions.
The Office was established by Act 804 of 2010 in line with Article 190(1) (d) of the 1992 Constitution, as one of the public services of the country to supplement and augment government’s effort in the fight against corruption.
Justice Ellen Amoah swore in the board chaired at a brief ceremony in Accra on Thursday.
Ms Gloria A. Akuffo, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, said there were challenges facing her Ministry and its affiliates in terms of personnel and accommodation.
These notwithstanding, Ms Akuffo pledged to offer the needed support without interfering in their work.
“I am hopeful that things would improve so that staff would carry out their mandate effectively.”
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General said her Ministry required 600 attorneys to work with but regretted that it was currently working with half of that number.
According to her, the Ministry has been given the green light to recruit only 50 personnel out of 200 applications received.
Mr Justice Brobbey on behalf of the board pledged to do their best in the formulation of policies that would promote the investigation and prosecution of crimes and offences, which fall within their jurisdiction.
“In the era of scientific and technological advancement, offenses like cybercrime, internet fraud and transcontinental crime are obviously rampant,” he observed.
Mr. K.K. Amoah, assured the public that his outfit, in the midst of challenges, continues to carry out their mandate effectively in the fight against financial and organized crime in the country.
Mr Amoah, a Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police recounted that there are a number of serious cases before the EOCO, and that, the office continues to receive cases daily from the public.
He admitted that there had been delays in some of the cases being investigated, but assured that they would work meticulously to ensure that people found culpable were prosecuted.
“There are a lot of cases on hand and we have a team that is working. An investigation is a serious work and it takes time, we need to take time and present a credible docket to the Attorney General.” he stressed.


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Fight the patriarchy: Women have old white guys scared | Thompson
I'm an old white guy, and after the events of the past few weeks, even I'm sick of old white guys. From the roaring sense of entitlement oozing out of the pores of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to President Donald Trump's abhorrent mockery of sexual assault survivor Christine Blasey Ford, the old white male power structure has proven its obsolescence.
As a cartoonist friend of mine points out, old white guys have been running the show forever, but still haven't figured out how to provide basics like food, fuel and shelter for everyone.
Don't wait for the old white dudes to pass the torch. Seize it.
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Setting off for my latest crazy adventure. An overnight train ride to Melbourne, watch a concert, then another overnighter back.
Glad I’m not flying. Too many storms!
The holiday is done. All back home now, including doggy. Quite a bumpy flight until we were off the coast of Australia. Saw meteors, other aircraft, a green laser over PNG and watched “The Abyss”. Lots of rain clouds over Sydney, though the threatened bumps didn’t really eventuate.
Need a shower, sleep and food now.
North Ryde station is closing for at least seven months at the end of September for conversion into a metro station. Today was probably my last ride on it until then. I can’t believe how many hours, days, months and years I spent riding to there and back in the course of my work.
Here in the pretty Victorian mountain town of Corryong we still haven’t escaped from the smoke which blighted our home over the past week.


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Ready Artwork loves to support local events so when the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce approached our team to help them design a logo for their new Beer & Wine Festival, we were excited to work with them.
The Beer & Wine Festival is a fairly new unique event celebrating craft beer, wine sampling & live music that takes place at the local metro train station. So the Chamber approached us to create their branding for their marketing material.
Our client wanted to embody key elements that symbolize the city of Monrovia and its history and culture. The festival is targeting an older crowd, so the logo needed to have a clean and contemporary feel to attract their ideal audience.
Our designers went through several sketches and played around with weeds and barley symbols. They also went through research, color study, typography study, and napkin sketches before narrowing down a final design.
Our designers created a modern and contemporary logo that also has an element of timelessness, which means the logo can be used for years to come. The final logo uses a san serif font and has earth tones to create a rustic feel. The client has used this logo on their promotional material, like flyers, website, and merchandise.
Does your business need a timeless logo? Contact Ready Artwork to see how we can help design a successful logo for your company.

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The trial leaders will present the results of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ALL Consortium study, which involved nearly 500 patients under age 18 with B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference.
Trial participants received an initial course of "induction" chemotherapy for B-ALL, a cancer of the blood that is one of the most common cancers in children below age 15. After a month of treatment, the patients had a bone marrow sample sent for a test able to measure levels of leukemia that cannot be seen under a microscope.
Thirty-five of the patients were deemed to have a very high risk of relapsing because they retained relatively large numbers of leukemia cells as measured by this test. An additional 16 patients were also considered very high-risk because their leukemia cells had certain chromosomal abnormalities.
These 51 patients then received an intensified treatment regimen consisting of two additional rounds of chemotherapy using agents not typically given to newly diagnosed patients with B-ALL. This was followed by an intensified consolidation phase of therapy to keep the disease in remission, and then a standard maintenance phase to further deter the disease from returning.Investigators estimate that, five years after reaching complete remission, the rate of event-free survival (a measure of survival without relapse or development of another cancer) was 76 percent for these very high-risk patients. By contrast, less than half of similar patients who receive standard chemotherapy reach the five-year mark without relapsing.
"Though it involved a relatively small number of patients, the new trial is one of the first to show improved outcomes for this set of patients as a result of an intensified chemotherapy protocol," says senior author Lewis Silverman, MD, of Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center. Trial leaders will continue to track the study participants to gauge the durability of the remissions produced by the intensified treatment.
Co-authors of the study include Kristen Stevenson, MS, and Donna Neuberg, ScD, of Dana-Farber; Marian Harris, MD, of Boston Children's Hospital; and Stephen Sallan, MD, of Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center.Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center
Boston Children's is also the site of DF/CHCC inpatient clinical translational research in pediatric malignancies and has long supported the operation of an effective and productive stem cell transplant service. It has a long history of investment in and support of both clinical and basic cancer research, with more than $7.3 million in National Cancer Institute research support and 47,000 square feet of space devoted to cancer research. It is a recognized center of excellence in angiogenesis, cellular/molecular immunology, cancer genetics, and molecular signaling research.
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For the first time, a team of researchers at the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, has succeeded in making an integrated circuit (IC) from just a monolayer of a semiconducting polymer via a bottom-up, self-assembly approach.
In the self-assembly process, the semiconducting polymer arranges itself into an ordered monolayer in a transistor. The transistors are binary switches used...
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Researchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (IOCB Prague), Institute of Physics of the CAS (IP CAS) and Palacký University...
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Scientists from the University of Zurich have succeeded for the first time in tracking individual stem cells and their neuronal progeny over months within the intact adult brain. This study sheds light on how new neurons are produced throughout life.
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NICKLAS Bendtner insists Denmark are developing into a potent attacking force after extending his rich vein of form on the international stage.
The Sunderland striker’s first half goal in Denmark’s 2-0 victory over neighbours Sweden on Friday took the 23-year-old’s tally to four in four for his country.
Bendtner believes he is making the most of Denmark’s improved creativity, with Morten Olsen’s side notching 10 goals in their last four games on their way to Euro 2012.
“You can see that I’m starting to get more chances than before,” said the on-loan Arsenal frontman, who played just over an hour before being withdrawn.
“We have not really done anything different.
“We’re still playing within the strategy we developed, but now we’re just doing it better than before.
“People are willing to give 100 per cent now and I think I’m being played in the right way too.”
Earning the Scandinavian bragging rights was a big boost to Denmark’s preparations for the European Championships.
And Denmark face another of their neighbours tomorrow night when they host Finland.
Bendtner added: “It’s always nice to score and then beat Sweden, I feel great.
“It was an important victory and we won the Battle of Scandinavia.
“I am also sure that there is even more to come from me.
“It’s been two months since I came to Sunderland and started to play solid and for the most part, I’ve been fit.
“I had an injury at Arsenal which took a long time to heal, but now it’s okay.
“And as I’ve said before, I’ve got things in place in my life.”