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Purdue University--Alumni and alumnae
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: MSA 303
Abstract A scrapbook compiled in the 1930s by Purdue alum, Lloyd Everett Keck. This collection includes a glimpse into the academic, military, personal and social activities of an Engineering student while on campus from 1936-1939 as well as various aspects of his life prior to college from 1917-1936. Items included are photographs, various programs, football tickets, diplomas, certificates, grade reports, clippings, and a commencement invitation and address.
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 151
Abstract This collection features artifacts and other memorabilia related to Purdue student customs and traditions. Included are Purdue student brochures, booklets written by Edward C. Elliott, various programs, a matriculation ticket signed by Winthrop E. Stone, a label from the first bottle of beer served to a Purdue student after the repeal of prohibition, early residence hall newsletters and other memorabilia. Also includes historical information and correspondence in regards to 3 key Purdue...
Collection — Box: Communal Collections 66, Placement: 01, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 360
Abstract Photographs documenting student life and Purdue campus in the 1920s.


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Alex Constantine - July 25, 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY - More than 20 years after a culture of deception, secrecy and bribery was exposed, AT&T executives are still fighting to keep Oklahoma ratepayers from receiving billions of dollars in long-awaited refunds.
In 1989, a conspiracy to bribe Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners allowed the telephone company, then called Southwestern Bell, to receive a favorable vote from the state agency that regulates public utilities. At the time, commissioners were deciding if Southwestern Bell should be allowed to retain a windfall from federal tax code reductions, or refund the excess revenues to Oklahoma customers.
A tainted 2-1 vote gave the telephone company a victory, but the good times were short lived as the case was soon marred by a high-profile federal bribery and corruption investigation that sent Corporation Commissioner Bob Hopkins and Southwestern Bell attorney William Anderson to prison. High-ranking telephone company executives were implicated in the conspiracy, but none of them were charged.
Hopkins was one of the two commissioners who voted in favor of Southwestern Bell’s application to retain the excess revenues.
Twenty-five years later, a lawsuit has been filed at the Oklahoma Supreme Court seeking $14.3 billion in refunds to current and former land line customers. On Tuesday, Supreme Court Referee Greg Albert heard oral arguments from attorneys for the petitioners, AT&T, Inc., and the Oklahoma Attorney General’s office. AT&T, Inc. was formerly known as SBC Communications and Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Albert also heard from current Corporation Commissioner Bob Anthony, who served as a FBI informant during the bribery probe. Anthony cast the lone “no” vote in the 1989 utility rate case. Albert will file a report next week with the nine Supreme Court justices who will decide in September whether the case should be reviewed.
Andrew Waldron, an attorney for two telephone company customers, Nichols Hills Mayor Sody Clements and retired Air Force Lt. General Richard Burpee, contends justices should reverse a 1991 court decision that forbids review of the Corporation Commission’s Public Utilities Docket (PUD) 260. Waldron argued the bribery had not been made public at the time.
“It’s undisputed that there was bribery. It’s undisputed that the state constitution requires a majority vote to pass any measure, excluding bribed votes. It’s undisputed that AT&T’s gross earnings were understated,” Waldron said. “This court can and does enforce the constitution and that vote (in 1989) was unconstitutional because of the bribery. It’s repugnant to the petitioners that the vote would be allowed by one yes vote and one bribed vote.”
However, attorneys for AT&T and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt argued reopening the PUD 260 case would not serve the public’s interest. Yet, the lawsuit contends the excess revenues, estimated at $100 million a year for the past 27 years plus 11.589 percent interest compounded annually, should have been refunded to telephone company customers. That would amount to an estimated $15,000 per land line customer during the 27-year time period, the suit contends.
AT&T lead attorney Clyde Muchmore told Albert the bribery case “has nothing to do with this.” He contends customer refunds should be made only when overcharges occur. “The excess revenue did not occur because of overcharges, but rather from changes in the corporate tax rates,” Muchmore said. “There is no reason the Supreme Court should undo its (1991) decision.”
Lawyers from the Attorney General’s office contend “innocent parties,” such as employees at the Corporation Commission and Attorney General, would suffer hardships if the case were reopened because of additional work.
Bribery and conspiracy
Some of the most volatile comments at Tuesday’s hearing came from Anthony who argued attorney Anderson did not act alone. Rather, Anthony contends the bribery was a conspiracy that started with top telephone company executives, including two Oklahoma division presidents. Anthony claims the executives knew about the bribery of Hopkins and the attempts to influence him, but failed to intervene. Anthony, who was the newest commissioner at the time, turned over illegal cash contributions from Southwestern Bell representatives to the FBI and then began working as an informant.
“Multiple executives and attorneys were involved,” he said.
Judge William S. Myers, Jr., the Special Master appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate certain issues, determined in an Oct. 5, 1993 report that the illegal cash payments made by Southwestern Bell to Anthony were “no more or no less than an effort to have him look with favor on their pending rate matters.”
Some of the telephone company executives named by Anthony were David Miller, SWBT’s vice president in Oklahoma for governmental and regulation affairs, Southwestern Bell Corporation attorney William Free, company attorney Glen Glass and Royce Caldwell, who served as Oklahoma division president from October 1988 to December 1989.
In a sworn affidavit filed July 14 at the Supreme Court, Anthony cited a FBI wiretapped conversation between Anderson and Free in which Anderson said, “(Glen) Glass knew the whole deal.” He went on to say, “We all knew.”
The wiretap recorded Anderson as saying, “They all knew we were trying to work something.”
Anthony’s affidavit also shows that Caldwell was aware of the bribery. The Oklahoma division president reportedly told Anderson, “Do it and don’t let me know how you do it.”
A 1993 court document filed by then-Oklahoma Attorney General Susan Loving lists former Oklahoma Division President J.B. Ellis as another Bell executive who was involved in an attempt to cover-up the conspiracy.
The document shows Ellis met Anthony on March 19, 1990, as Anthony talked to the Bell president about the illegal cash payments he received from Miller and Anderson. As Ellis was leaving the meeting, he told Anthony, “Let sleeping dogs lie,” the court record shows. According to the court filing, Ellis later told Anthony he had destroyed his notes from their March 19 meeting.
Beginning of the end
According to federal prosecutors, the conspiracy to bribe Hopkins started in early September 1989 and ended in early May 1990 when the last funds were paid. In addition, Hopkins and Anderson agreed that neither would talk to the FBI if approached, but would instead meet and confer between themselves while creating a false version of events surrounding the Public Utilities Docket 260 vote.
Hopkins appealed his conviction to the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which remarked about the use of secret FBI tape recordings that occurred in 1991.
“The tapes detailed efforts to conceal the payoffs from the FBI. From those tapes, the jury heard recorded conversations among Hopkins, Anderson, Murphy (witness) and other Southwestern Bell executives plotting their ‘story’ in the event federal agents questioned them,” the appeals court judges wrote.
In an interview with PBS’ Frontline, Anthony acknowledged that a “utility lawyer,” later identified as Anderson, offered him a $10,000 contribution to clear up campaign debt. Anderson reportedly told Anthony at the time he could get him $300 to $400 in “walking around money.”
On another occasion, Anderson allegedly handed Anthony fifty $100 bills, then explained what was expected for the money.
“He did say, ‘you know, these companies I represent, they expect to make a profit. They expect to be in business a long time. And we’re not going to bother you every day, but someday there will be some officer of one of the companies I represent, and we’ll need an appointment, and we’d expect for you to give us an appointment,’” Anthony said during the Frontline interview.
“Well, a certain amount of this is a wink and a nod, too,” he said. “But, there was no doubt in our minds what was going on. Very clearly what was happening was people were giving me a large number of hundred dollar bills because they were buying access, and they were buying influence. And those words were even used in conversations that I had with utility executives.”

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The March Madness betting tournament is picking up speed and soon enough sportsbook players will have to be wagering on this year’s title match. Although the championship match will herald the end of the season, but it will also offer one of the largest betting opportunities of the year.
Latest College Basketball Best Bets & News
- Michigan vs. Oregon – Sportsbook Preview – Thursday, March 23, 2017
- West Virginia vs. Gonzaga – Sportsbook Preview – Thursday, March 23, 2017
- Purdue vs. Kansas – Sportsbook Preview – Thursday, March 23, 2017
Few can forget the buzzer beater we witnessed in last year’s title match. However, since Villanova has already been eliminated from this year’s tournament, the duty of providing a dramatic ending will fall onto other March Madness betting household names. Perhaps the likes of UCLA or Kentucky?
UCLA vs. Kentucky – Friday, March 24
When: 9:39 pm ET
Where: FedEx Forum
TV: CBS, NCAA Live Stream
NCAA Basketball Tournament Line:
UCLA Bruins PK (-110) 165 ½ (-110)
Kentucky Wildcats PK (-110) 165 ½ (-110)
The Bruins turned in a 31-4 record this season, a vast improvement from last year’s 15-17 record. UCLA also posted a 15-3 record in Pac-12 play that gave way to a 3rd place finish in the conference. The Bruins were able to advance to the semifinals in the Pac-12 Tournament where they were defeated by Arizona 75-86.
In the NCAA Tournament, the Bruins first faced off against Kent State, and deftly handed the Golden Flashes a 97-80 loss. In the second round of the tournament, UCLA faced Cincinnati and overcame the Bearcats without a problem 79-67. However, neither of those teams can compare to Kentucky and UCLA will certainly have to rise to the occasion this Friday.
In order to overcome the Wildcats the Bruins will need a solid performance from TJ Leaf. Leaf is leading UCLA in points with his average of 16.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 2.5 assists per contest. Second in points for the Bruins is Bryce Alford who is draining 15.6 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 2.6 assists per contest.
The Wildcats ride into Friday’s matchup sporting a 31-5 record (16-2 SEC) that gave way to a first place finish in the conference. In the SEC Tournament, Kentucky was able to prove that they were worthy of a 1st place finish in the conference by overcoming Georgia and Alabama to get to the championship match, where the Wildcats quickly disposed of Arkansas 82-65.
In the opening round of this year’s March Madness betting tournament, the Wildcats faced off against Northern Kentucky and handed the Norse a 79-70 loss. In the second round, Kentucky faced off against Wichita State, and the Shockers nearly shocked Kentucky by upsetting the Wildcats. However, solid defending in the closing seconds of the game assured a Kentucky victory.
The Wildcats will turn to Malik Monk to lead them over UCLA. Monk is currently averaging 20.0 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per contest. Second in points for Kentucky is De’Aaron Fox who is netting the team 16.1 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 4.6 assists per matchup.


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Today, Capcom officially announced that a Resident Evil 4 remake would be coming to consoles and PC on Mar. 24, 2023. Right after this announcement, it was also revealed that Resident Evil: Village would be making its way to PSVR2 in June 2022.
You can check out the trailers for each of them below.
This news came by way of the recent State of Play event for PlayStation. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any real gameplay footage for either game shown off, so we’ll just have to wait and see if there are any signification changes coming when we get closer to each release date, especially for Resident Evil 4’s remake.
You can check out more on the State of Play event by heading over to the front page of Twinfinite, as we’ve got all the coverage you could possibly need from it. We’ve also got plenty of other Resident Evil content that you’ll surely love right down below.


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What are the different types and styles of tango?
Information about the rich variety of tango styles.
Tango = three kinds of dances
The different styles of tango
Did you know that we have a few big international tango events in Belgium?
Two main tango festivals are being organized each year.
Next to the festivals we have 4 international tango marathons.
Brussels tango festival
Milonga is the fast and rhythmical version of tango. The musical structure is different from tango. We use simple steps as there is less time in-between the beats of the songs.
Antwerp tango festival
Vals is a non-stop circular dance. We never stop and use a lot of typical movements such as giro’s. We try to avoid too many pauses.
La Cita de los Amigos
Palace tango cita

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Check out all the comics dropping in December on DCUI!
THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD: BATMAN AND WONDER WOMAN
When a Celtic god’s murder leads to a war between the fairy folk and a possible breach between worlds, Wonder Woman must find the murderer and keep the peace while Batman investigates strange occurrences in Gotham City. As Diana must turn to the World’s Greatest Detective for help, the two heroes quickly learn their cases may be connected. Collects the entire six-issue miniseries.
Tell us who would win - Matter-Eater Lad or Parasite
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The community of Canary District dates back to 1859 as the Toronto District School Board had built one of the first free schools in the area was perceived as ‘downtown’. The Palace Street School is now considered the city’s oldest multi-room school. Upon the closing of the school, the building was renamed the Cherry Street Hotel in 1895. This famous hotel built an extension which became the Canary Restaurant 1965. The name of the restaurant was associated with a giant Canary that resided on the sign. During the 1970’s the area quickly turned into an industrial hub for the ever growing city. However, the area became desolate as the importing and exporting began to globalize exponentially. The area continued to sit unused for over 40 years until the City of Toronto partnered with key professionals to begin the formation of the Canary District. This key historical building still remain today as historical sight and gives inspiration to the 35 acre community that began its development 2014.
As a part of downtown, Canary District has been termed Toronto’s largest urban village. Taking up 35 acres around the intersection of Front St. and Cherry St. the area started its redevelopment as an effort to connect the east with the downtown core. As this community is within its beginning stages of development, the area has had the world’s brightest minds working towards building a community that focuses on offering a pedestrian friendly neighbourhood with emphasis on health and wellness. The area’s development will be a 3 stage process that includes George Brown College Residents, a YMCA, a blend of beautiful market value high rise condominiums and townhomes as well a luxury condominiums that offer a variety of amenities. The goal of offering this community as a development in stages is to allow it to grow as it ages.
The design of the community supports Toronto’s Mandatory Green Building as well as met the LEED Gold criteria. It has also been given a variety of awards including the NAHB Community of the Year, BILD 2014 Community of the Year and the Canadian Architect Award of Excellence. It was also able to gather attention on a global scale by housing the athletes of the Pan Am Games during their stay in Toronto.
This community has been termed as “having more green space than residences”. With the $15 Million, 18 acre Corktown Common Park as well as utilizing green spaces through courtyards, terraces and secondary pedestrian routes, the community hopes to attract a variety of residents to the area including families, professionals and enthusiasts alike.
The community, upon completion, will offer new roadways that will offer easy access to major highways as well as street cars and pedestrian routes throughout. Schools and daycares will be incorporated within the community as it continues through its phases of development. Street retail will offer shopping and dining that support the vision of the community and hold good business models.


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Apologies for lack of recent updates on the jail. There has been a lot going on, this will be a brief summary.
In December, we found out that the City planned to grant its permits for the new jail (the County has to get permits from the City) during Christmas week to try to avoid facing community response. We turned out in force to a press conference held by elected officials to declare WA a “Hate-Free State.”
We disrupted the remarks of Mayor Murray and County Executive Dow Constantine, exposing their hypocrisy as they promoted themselves as anti-racists while planning the new youth jail and trying to sneak its next phase by during the week of a major holiday.
Later that week we gathered for a large protest in front of Mayor Ed Murray’s home, demanding that he deny the jail permits and stop the project. Here is an op-ed by law professors opposing the jail from that same week.
The Master Use Permit (MUP) was ultimately granted by the city. Here is our press release responding. The next step was that over 75 organizations, mostly organizations that serve community most impacted by youth criminalization, submitted an appeal of the permit.
In January, it seemed like the tide was turning. A letter from Ed Murray to Dow Constantine was leaked, in which Murray stated opposition to the project. This was followed by a statement from Dow Constantine trying to look like he cares about racism and youth criminalization while still justifying the new jail. City Councilmembers Demboski and Harrell also showed up to the game with a statement against the jail.
But then the Hearing Examiner charged with looking at the appeal to the MUP issued a terrible ruling. The Examiner found that even though the ordinance clearly states that appeals are allowed and the MUP itself said that appeals are allowed, appeals are not allowed. This strained reading is clearly an attempt to stop communities of color from having their concerns about the jail heard. Murray has been trying to distance himself from this unpopular project because it is an election year, but his own attorneys filed a motion to dismiss that resulted in silencing the appeal of community organizations. Dow Constantine pretends that he cares about racism, and is aiming to promote himself as a juvenile justice reformer in this election year, but his attorneys filed a motion to dismiss that resulted in this silencing.
This week, Councilmember O’Brien made this statement, saying that the legislative intent of the ordinance was to allow the appeal. It is unclear what will happen with that process. What is clear is that the Mayor, the County Executive and the City and County Councils have felt our heat and are scrambling around, trying to keep pushing this horrible project through while simultaneously distancing themselves from it. Now is a great time to tell them exactly what you think of building this jail. Request a live meeting with Dow to tell him what you think! Write emails to all of them! Turn up at their campaign events and hold them responsible for their actions. Don’t be shy.


In a win for Vineyard Wind’s offshore project, the Massachusetts legislature has enacted bipartisan legislation authorizing the Barnstable Town Council to grant an easement for a portion of Covell’s Beach that will allow for construction of the interconnection between the wind farm and the New England power grid.
The legislative vote follows a host community agreement (HCA) between the Town of Barnstable (a community in Cape Cod) and Vineyard Wind; this HCA was unanimously supported by the Barnstable Town Council in October 2018, the developer notes.
The HCA includes annual payments to the town of at least $1.534 million each year in combined property taxes and host community payments, totaling a guaranteed $16 million in host community payments. The town council has dedicated those resources to municipal water protection efforts.
The HCA also includes $80,000 for reconstruction of a bathhouse at Covell’s Beach, repaving of an aged parking lot at the beach, barring construction between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and collaboration on design features. The company and the town are also working in close collaboration to aid the town’s sewer needs by co-locating sewer infrastructure in conjunction with Vineyard Wind construction, which will save costs to the town and reduce the need for future road openings.
The bill was co-sponsored by State. Sen. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, and State Rep. William L. Crocker, R-Barnstable.
“The landing of the Vineyard Wind underwater transmission cable in Centerville will bring clean, renewable electricity for thousands of local homes and businesses and further establish our region on the leading edge of a clean energy future,” remarks Cyr. “Swift action on this legislation has been a priority for the entire Cape and Islands legislative delegation. With our vote, the Town of Barnstable will receive significant financial benefits and electric infrastructure improvements as a result of the project’s landing site.”
“I am very pleased the House has unanimously approved the Vineyard Wind easement for the Town of Barnstable,” adds Crocker. “This is another step in the legislative process that will eventually allow for the production of clean and renewable energy off Martha’s Vineyard.”
Vineyard Wind is expressing appreciation for the efforts of all Cape Cod officials, including the bipartisan coalition of legislators who co-sponsored the effort.
“Following more than a year of close collaboration between Barnstable and Vineyard Wind, we’re grateful for the efforts of Cape Cod lawmakers to enact bipartisan legislation that allows for construction of America’s first large-scale offshore wind farm,” says Erich Stephens, chief development officer of Vineyard Wind. “With the easement, Vineyard Wind can move forward with a program that features minimally invasive burial techniques 30 feet below the tideline with no disruption to the shoreline.”
Vineyard Wind, a 50/50 joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, is developing an 800 MW offshore wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. It was selected in 2018 as the winning bid under Massachusetts’ 83C offshore wind solicitation.
Photo: Justin H. Petrosek, Wikimedia Commons


At the Microgrid & DER Controller Symposium 2017, the brainchild of Erik Limpaecher from the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the ultra-high fidelity controller Hardware in the Loop (HIL) was in the spotlight, and it was glowing. It won the hearts and minds of all power engineers present.
At the workshop center stage, the real, unadulterated industrial microgrid controllers—from Eaton, GE, SEL, and Schneider—were in action. They were directly interfaced and controlling the Microgrid Controller HIL Testbed running real-time simulation comprising 3 feeders with 24 busses, one diesel generator, one natural gas generator with combined heat an power, battery storage, PV inverter, and numerous loads.
Microgrid controllers had to deal with a spectrum of disturbances including: various faults; irradiance profiles, load profiles, and Distribution Management System (DMS) requests to microgrid controller (e.g. to export active/reactive power, to island etc.)
While working alongside microgrid controller vendors, in preparation for the symposium demo, we learned 6 key lessons that will help ease your future design, test, validation, and integration pains:
- Thou shalt use HIL.
- Start simple.
- Configure and test communications with HIL models.
- Test with real controllers in the loop. Build confidence.
- Test relentlessly.
- Test Microgrid controller cyber security
Thou shalt use HIL
Designing and testing microgrid controller is difficult as it is. Designing and testing microgrid controller without the right tools is close to impossible. Today, microgrid controller design, testing and commissioning for vendors without HIL platform looks like this:
- Simulate power stage using off-line simulator (most often steady state power flow calculation) and obtain protection settings (based on limited steady state analysis)
- Use results of the off-line simulation as a starting point to program and configure microgrid controller.
- Go to the field and try to make microgirid controller work
- Fight with communications between microgrid controller and DERs while in the field commissioning.
- Test basic controller functionality and protection and commission the microgrid.
- Hope that the call, saying the microgrid is down, doesn’t come too soon.
With HIL microgrid testbed controller design and testing process looks very different:
- Build microgrid power stage model; use virtual HIL or an off-line simulator and obtain key microgrid parameters.
- Use unit test HIL models, for individual DERs, to configure and test microgrid controller communications. One DER at the time. (And all this while comfortably enjoying the warmth of your office)
- Test complete microgrid controller using real-time HIL model of the microgrid (without any real controllers in the loop-whole microgrid is simulated including controllers)
- Add controllers in the loop, one by one, and continue testing. Test starting from basic controller functionality and protection all the way to complex mode switching etc.
- Casually go to the microgrid site, download controller firmware to the site controller and wrap up microgrid controller commissioning with confidence.
Microgrid is a complex system. On one hand communications between microgrid controller and DERs and relays are complex (multiple communication protocols) and poorly standardized, and on the other hand dynamic behavior of generators and loads gives rise to complex system behavior.
Hence, when designing and testing controls, one ought to start with single DER model (e.g. battery storage, genset etc.) and test out communications first, calibrate measurements, test setting reference values and toggling states. Only then move on to test dynamics using the same simple Build level 0 unit tests.
Configure and test communications with HIL models.
Validated ultra-high fidelity models for microgrid components, including dynamic models of DERs and realys, are paramount. Ultra-high fidelity simulation models have two sides of the coin:
- Communication model fidelity, and
- Dynamic model fidelity.
Test with real controllers in the loop. Build confidence.
Once all the unit test are done and communication protocols are up and running and fully validated it is time to move on to Build Level 1 (BL1) models.
Build level 1 means that we have real controllers in the loop with the simulation. For example: we can real relay in the loop, real inverter controller, real genset controller etc.
Once we have built and tested microgrid controller with Build level 0 and Build level 1 models we are ready to dive into comprehensive system level testing.
In this phase, we start building a library of automated test sequences that include fault scenarios, different system disturbances, and various load and irradiance profiles.
Test microgrid controller cyber security.
Final phase, before commissioning is testing of microgrid controller and communication cyber security. Controller Hardware in the Loop is a perfect testbed to test and validate cyber security and the potential impact of a security breach.
Indeed, since all controllers are in the loop the communication and control architecture is identical to the one in the final hardware installation. Hence, the controller HIL presents a perfect sandbox for testing and validation of cyber security.
May we live in interesting times.
As a civilization, we are only at the beginning of a massive transformation that will completely re engineer the way we produce, distribute, and use electrical energy. Indeed, we are in the process of transforming our energy networks into more resilient, more flexible, and more sustainable systems through integration of distributed energy resources, introduction of renewable energy generation, and through advanced distributed controls and coordination.
The only way to achieve these goals will be through rapid adoption of new electronic design automation (EDA) tools, including the Ultra-high Fidelity Hardware in the Loop (HIL) real-time simulation.


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Tattoos in this generation are of different shapes and variety. Geometric tattoos are one such immensely popular tattoo form. The specialty of geometric tattoos is, it can be incorporated in any design and sync beautifully rather than standing out awkwardly. Here is a collection of unique and beautiful geometric tattoos.
A multi hue geometric tattoo design on back for Girls. The design is in the shape of diamond and filled with colours of the galaxy. This tattoo might be depicting the galaxy within a diamond and expression the bearers imagination.
A classy geometric tattoo design on chest for Girls and women. This is a simple sketch of geometric shapes within a large design. The meaning of this is best described by the bearer.
An attractive geometric tattoo design on forearm for women. This is a tattoo of eye within a triangle called as third eye and an oversize flower on side. The distinct features incorporated in the design and the detailing has made this tattoo overwhelming.
An artistic geometric tattoo design on forearm for women. This kind of geometric designs has a meaning of its own. This design is made of geometric shapes such as triangle and circle along with a splash of blue watercolor ink.
A ornamental geometric tattoo design on arm for girls. Geometric designs alone has a charm of its own, but on combining it with natural elements such as floral vine, the overall structure appeal changes to a more subtle beauty. This design represents the sacred believes of the bearer.
An aesthetic geometric tattoo design on thigh for ladies. This tattoo has many converging triangles in the background with a prominent large flower on the front. The design is simple yet classy. It does not accommodate much detailing rather than the bold outline of the designs.
Geometric Tattoo Video
An awe-inspiring geometric tattoo design on thigh for women. This tattoo of a bunch of pretty flowers is placed within a diamond shape. The meaning of this tattoo is totally based on the bearer’s interpretation.
An impressive geometric tattoo design on forearm for girls and women. Flower tattoos, be it colorful or black and white, make heads turn. This is a tattoo of a huge lotus flower within a diamond shape which leaves the viewer speechless.
A delightful geometric tattoo design on thigh for Ladies. This tattoo consist of blue tiny flowers with several leaf branches placed within a diamond shape. The design shows the necessity of bees to maintain plants of earth and their inter link age.
A spellbinding geometric tattoo design on ankle for girls and ladies. The design consist of a diamond shape enclosing all the elements on earth in an astonishing manner. The creativity of incorporating this design in the tiny space is mind blowing.
An exquisite geometric tattoo design on side shoulder for Women. In this tattoo, a fully bloomed black and white flower is placed within a geometric shape. This looks like a unique architecture design and radiates elegance and grace to the bearer.
A magnificent geometric tattoo design on back hand for girls and ladies. This artist has done a smashing design by incorporating lion face in a triangle and completing the look with other triangles in back ground. This unique design holds significant meaning in the life of the bearer.


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Is your company interested in the development of improved or new materials for composites? If so, read on to hear about a proposal to support this vital area.
The UK Composites Strategy 2016 was launched on the UK stand at JEC 2016 in Paris.
Faye Smith of Avalon Consultancy Services has been re-elected to the Board of Directors of Composites UK.
Ahead of the publication of the UK Composites Strategy in 2016, the Composites Leadership Forum has issued an Executive Brief.
A summary version of the UK Composites 2013 report is now freely available.
Faye Smith of Avalon Consultancy Services has been elected to the Board of Directors of Composites UK.
New Study – UK Composites 2013: Status, Opportunities and Direction.
Three years after the launch of the UK Composites Strategy, we look back to see what lessons we can learn from the process.
Significant changes have been made to the support provided to UK science and engineering research to facilitate delivery of commercial benefit from the high levels of innovation in the UK.
Find out why the use of composites in aerostructures has increased dramatically recently and what the future challenges are as a result.


Actor, producer, and writer Paul Reubens feels fantastic about being Conan O’Brien’s friend.
Paul and Conan sit down to talk about wanting to join the circus, the letter Paul wrote to Walt Disney, remembering Phil Hartman, and anxiety over getting recognized. Later, Conan and Sona go head to head with a podcast statistics quiz.
Got a question for Conan? Call our voicemail: (323) 451-2821.
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On a very special new episode of the Talkhouse Film podcast, to coincide with the release of Pee-wee's Big Holiday, hip-hop star, actor and longtime Pee-wee Herman fan Kid Cudi is in conversation with Pee-wee himself, Paul Reubens. The topics they talk about include how they first met, Reubens' journey to bring Pee-wee Herman back to the big screen, Cudi's strong dislike of skunks (and recent encounter with a mountain lion), plus a discussion by both of planned creative projects that they've never talked about before. For more filmmakers talking film and TV, visit Talkhouse Film at talkhouse.com/film.
The legendary Paul Reubens sits down with Chris and Jonah! They talk about the development of Pee-wee, what it is like living with an alter-ego and the release of the newly remastered Pee-wee's Playhouse set. Paul also talks in depth about his moving to Los Angeles where he joined The Groundlings and came up with the character of Pee-wee, met Phil Hartman and how they came up with the idea for Pee-wee's Big Adventure!
Live from South By Southwest comes Comedy Bang Bang. We're proud to have Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, as our guest. Paul reveals his creative process as well as where Pee-wee Herman is headed. As if that's not enough, Dave Foley and Lil Gary join Scott for Would You Rather's and of course Plugs! Check out Eardrop which you can find on Earwolf and iTunes.
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The Amazon Deep Learning AMIs are now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, providing fully-configured virtual environments for AI developers and data scientists to quickly start experimenting with deep learning models.
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Valley Health issues Ebola notices
By Josette Keelor
WINCHESTER — Signs posted at entrances to area hospitals over the weekend direct visitors presenting with symptoms of Ebola not to enter the facilities.
Instead, the notices direct patients back to their cars where they should call the hospital from their cell phones. A medical staff member will screen each patient, asking questions specifically concerning Ebola so hospital staff can determine the safest way of transferring the patient into the hospital.
It’s all part of increased efforts to keep the community safe, said Dr. Nicholas Restrepo, vice president of Medical Affairs at Winchester Medical Center.
“We’re very happy to take care of you. We want to do it in as controlled a setting as possible,” Restrepo said.
Hospitals in the Valley Health System posted the notices on Friday, and Valley Health urgent care centers are expected to post notices this week. Currently only in English, the notices are being translated into French — the language of many western African residents. Valley Health is considering translations in Spanish as well.
Around the community, health care professionals are also being trained to recognize opportunities to screen patients for Ebola symptoms, including Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and 911 phone operators, said Dr. Jack Potter, medical director of Emergency Services for Valley Health System.
When callers dial 911 complaining of illness and requesting an ambulance, he said, “They’re going to get a question, ‘Have you been to West Africa?’ And that’s an appropriate question.”
Such questions and warnings could spark public fear of the potential for Ebola cases in the region, but Potter said the goal is to educate.
“This is a precaution; this is a way to protect each of us from that needle in a haystack. ‘Cause these patients will be a needle in a haystack,” he said.
So far, the only known transmissions of Ebola in the United States have occurred in Texas, he said. Other recent scares from Nebraska to Boston to Leesburg were false alarms.
With flu season coming up, he pointed out area residents will be experiencing symptoms similar to those of Ebola — headache, fever and vomiting. But the main factor of Ebola transmission is whether or not a patient was in western Africa or came in contact with anyone who traveled to western Africa in the last 21 days.
He’s not saying it can’t happen here.
Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., is a popular destination for travelers from Africa, he said, “So a huge number of people traveling from Africa are traveling through Dulles. We’re not that far from Dulles.”
Involving EMS staff and 911 operators will help keep Ebola patients isolated from the rest of the community, Potter said. “Our engagement with this patient should start in their living room.”
Over the last several days, Valley Health has teamed with the Lord Fairfax Health Department to train staff in isolating and treating Ebola patients. The effort started in earnest following recent events in Dallas, Texas, when an Liberian traveler from western Africa succeeded in infecting two hospital nurses caring for him.
“This is not just reactionary,” Potter said, “… there’s a very thoughtful process that we’ve been involved in very closely for now going on at least 10 days, and again we’re reaching out, we’re learning what’s in the best practices from around the country.”
Near daily meetings and frequent staff drills at Winchester Medical Center have included providing a subset of nurses with a higher level of training in skills needed to protect themselves and others from Ebola.
Those chosen are the ones best suited for the job, Potter said. Protective clothing includes gloves, a mask and hood, with all parts of the body covered and impermeable to liquids.
“You can’t just put any nurse into this garb. I mean it’s claustrophobic, it’s all those things,” he said. Hospital staff has experienced such situations through other trainings that have taken place in the years following Sept. 11, 2001.
“We’ve seen the effects that this equipment has on staff, and so to make sure that your staff is emotionally, as well as physically, able to put it on and keep in on for a few hours really is important to the success.”
Valley Health has an “overwhelming” amount of necessary equipment also readily available to Warren and Shenandoah counties, Restrepo said. Those hospitals are trained to identify patients, isolate them from others and contact the Lord Fairfax Health District for information on safest transportation methods to Winchester.
Potter said “there’s a method to this madness.”
“This is precautionary, it’s thoughtful, there is a goal that makes sense and they can feel safe,” he said.
The bigger danger he foresees is community members afraid of accessing medical care for fear of getting Ebola.
If there were to be an Ebola case, the health district would have to inform the community.
“You can’t hide that,” Potter said.
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Fresh from the vine, as a sauce, out of a tube, or made into soup – tomatoes are a real all-rounder and an essential player in so many dishes. We take a look at why tomatoes are so popular and why not all tomatoes are the same.
Top ranking tomatoes
All around the world, the tomato is a top ten culinary fruit. Yes, it definitely is a fruit – and a mighty popular one too. In fact, more tomatoes are produced globally than any other fruit (170m tonnes), even more than nature’s fast food, the banana (100m tonnes).
Tomatoes are low in calories, consisting almost entirely of water. When exposed to plenty of sun and ideal soil conditions, tomatoes contain higher levels of vitamins A, B, C and E than almost any other vegetable. They are also rich in magnesium, iron, calcium and phosphorous.
Phytochemicals, known as ‘carotenoids’, are responsible for the colour of tomatoes, which ranges from yellow to red. The red pigment lycopene is particularly adept at strengthening the immune system, and high levels are found in ketchup and tomato purée. For the body to optimally absorb and utilise the lycopene, tomatoes should be cooked before eating. Like most things, how a tomato tastes and whether we enjoy its taste is a subjective matter. However, there are several factors that can benefit a tomato’s ripeness and its taste. The variety naturally plays an important role in flavour, as do the sugar and acid content, the tomato’s firmness, how it is prepared, the aroma and, of course – and this is a key factor – the temperature at which the tomato is eaten. Some people prefer chilled tomatoes while others prefer them warmer.
What is the best way to store tomatoes?
Like most things, how a tomato tastes and whether we enjoy its taste is a subjective matter. However, there are several factors that can benefit a tomato’s ripeness and its taste. The variety naturally plays a important role in flavour, as do the sugar and acid content, the tomato’s firmness, how it is prepared, the aroma and, of course – and this is a key factor – the temperature at which the tomato is eaten. Some people prefer chilled tomatoes while others prefer them warmer.
- When storing tomatoes in the refrigerator, make sure that they are completely ripe. Although the cool temperatures in the refrigerator slow the rate at which tomatoes perish, they also stop them from ripening fully.
- Tomatoes are climacteric fruit, i.e. they continue to ripen after being harvested. You should only place them in the refrigerator once they have reached the desired level of ripeness.
- Once optimal ripeness has been reached from your point of view, you can simply eat the tomatoes right away, cook them as desired, or refrigerate them.
- For a more intense taste experience, we recommend removing tomatoes from the refrigerator and allowing them to come to room temperature before eating.
And, for the freshest possible experience, you can grow your own tomatoes in your garden or on your balcony. This way you can ensure that they have reached their optimum ripeness before picking them, and then eat them straight away at their very best.
Available all year
That so many tomatoes are consumed is, of course, partly due to the fact that they can be purchased all year round. In the UK, domestically cultivated tomatoes are available from May to October, with the main season extending from June to August. However, the UK imports the vast majority of its tomatoes from countries such as Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. And, during the winter months, imports from the likes of Morocco and Israel ensure that supplies of the red power-veg are never in any doubt.
The varieties on offer are steadily growing
Over recent years, the variety of tomatoes available has steadily increased. It used to be that our choices were restricted to round, oblong, beef or cherry tomatoes. Nowadays, baby plum tomatoes, grape tomatoes and tomatoes on the vine have joined the club, and these newer varieties are currently among the most popular.
Tomatoes on the vine last for longer after harvesting and ripen evenly on the plant, which doesn’t happen if they are harvested from the vine too early. Optimum ripening means that tomatoes on the vine contain maximum nutrients and boast exceptional flavour. Cherry tomatoes, cocktail tomatoes and beef tomatoes are all available on the vine.
Multi-coloured and not always round
Tomatoes come in all sorts of different shapes and a wide range of colours. Apart from round tomatoes – probably the best-known type – there are oblong, flat, plum-shaped, pear-shaped and date-shaped tomatoes. And the classic red tomato sits alongside yellow, orange, brown-black, green, purple and even black varieties.
How poisonous are unripe tomatoes?
Tomatoes belong to the nightshade family, which means that they sometimes contain toxic substances. This mainly relates to unripe, green tomatoes, and to the leaves and stalk of the plant, which contain the natural poison solanine. If consumed in large quantities, solanine can cause nausea and headaches. Solanine helps the plant to protect itself against pests and reduces the growth of bacteria and mould.
Therefore, you must always eat ripe tomatoes and make sure that you remove the green stem base (which contains solanine even if the tomato is ripe) when consuming or preparing tomatoes.
Naturally, you don’t have to worry about eating tomatoes that are naturally green and that don’t change colour on ripening. For example, the ‘Evergreen’, ‘Green Zebra’ and ‘Green Grape’ varieties.
- There are over 20,000 different varieties of tomatoes
- The largest tomato on record was just shy of 4kg in weight
- ‘La Tomatina’ is an annual festival that takes place in the Spanish town of Buñol where around 40,000 people throw tomatoes at each other.
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Bill Murray, Jim Carrey, Chevy Chase, Tim Allen, John Travolta and Ben Stiller were all offered and declined the role of Dave Seville. Jason Lee states that he was so excited the producers offered him a role they originally offered one of his biggest influences, Bill Murray, that he did back flips.
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Comedian David Cross was criticized by his fanbase as well as fellow comedians, notably Patton Oswalt (who, along with Brian Posehn, had been offered and rejected his role in the film) for acting in this movie. Cross responded on his blog where he admitted to taking the role primarily for the money and that he hadn't seen the movie (as he generally dislikes children's films) although he enjoyed working on the film and had "absolutely no regrets at all."
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The animators made it so that the Chipmunks frequently scratch their ears to make them seem more realistic.
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Justin Long (the voice of Alvin) went hoarse frequently during the recording sessions due to the fact they had to pitch up each sentence of dialogue so that the voice altering methods would sound more natural.
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(at around 40 mins) Dave's house number is 1958, the year Ross Bagdasarian created the Chipmunks and released "Witch Doctor" and the "Chipmunk Song."
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In some areas, release prints were delivered to theaters with the fake names 'Simon' and 'Hairy Beast'.
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David Seville was a stage name of Ross Bagdasarian, and his son was originally supposed to portray the character in the film. He took the name "Seville" from the area in Spain, where he had done military service.
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(at around 24 mins) According to Ross Bagdasarian Jr., the name-sake son of the Chipmunks creator, in an Associated Press interview, the piano seen in the movie where Dave and the Chipmunks sing "The Chipmunk Song" is the actual piano that Ross Bagdasarian Sr. used to write and perform the song (as well as "Witch Doctor") that launched the Chipmunks franchise.
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Ross Bagdasarian named the Chipmunks after executives at Liberty Records, who released Seville's and the Chipmunks' original albums. Alvin was named for company president Alvin Bennett, Simon for company vice-president/record producer Si Waronker, and Theodore for recording engineer Ted Keep.
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Alvin wears the signature red baseball cap twice in the film.
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(at around 9 mins) One of Jason Lee's original professional stereo skateboard decks can be seen leaning up against the wall in Dave's house after he arrives home from his meeting with the music executive.
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Initially, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karman portrayed Alvin, Simon and Theodore in the film, but were replaced at the studio's insistence with younger actors Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler and Jesse McCartney respectively. (However, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. does provide Alvin's singing voice.)
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(at around 40 mins) When Dave is looking for the Chipmunks outside of his apartment, the camera shows his apartment number "1958" (to the viewers left) for a long time. In December, 1958, the Chipmunk Song was the number one hit in America.
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The plot where Dave Seville meets Alvin, Simon and Theodore came from an episode of the Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983) TV series.
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(at around 1h 25 mins) The phrase the Japanese Alvin doll says ("Konbanwa. Watashi wa Alvin desu") translates to "Good evening. I am Alvin." The Spanish doll ("¡Hola! ¡Me llamo Alvin y yo quiero un hula hoop!") says "Hello! My name is Alvin and I want a hula hoop!" The phrase the French Simon doll says is "Bonjour! Je m'appelle Simon", it translates to "Hello! My name is Simon".
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Ross Bagdasarian Jr. was originally set to portray David Seville; however, due to his age (58 at the time of filming), the younger Jason Lee was chosen.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Salma Hayek and Drew Barrymore were considered for the role of Claire Wilson.
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(at around 42 mins) Beth Riesgraf appears briefly in the movie. She and Matthew Gray Gubler, who is the voice of Simon, are in the show Criminal Minds (2005) together where Beth Riesgraf plays Matthew Gray Gubler's love interest for his character Spencer Reid.
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(at around 1h 20 mins) When the chipmunks are being chased by security, Alvin jumps to the top of the show lamp and says "Yippie-Ki-Yay, mamasita" which is referring to the catch phase "Yippie-Ki-Yay" John McClane (Bruce Willis) says from the Die Hard series. Justin Long (Voice of Alvin) also co-starred in Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
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When Dave (Jason Lee) drinks his spicy coffee his hair changes styles in each shot.
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Matthew Gray Gubler (voice of Simon) plays the character of Dr. Spencer Reid on the TV show Criminal Minds (2005). Jane Lynch (Gail) plays the mother of Gubler's character (Dr. Spencer Reid) in Criminal Minds.
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The film was originally announced in June 1997 and going to be released by Universal Pictures and directed by Robert Zemeckis. But in September 2000 the estate of Ross Bagdasarian filed a lawsuit against Universal Pictures for which the development of the film was halted. It was until 20th Century Fox picked up the project in 2005.
John Cusack were considered for the role of Dave Seville.
The car Dave drives throughout the movie is a mid 1960's Triumph TR4, British sports car.
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All three of the chipmunks were fake. No real chipmunks were harmed in the making of this movie.
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Guy Pearce were considered for the role of Dave Seville.
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James Caan were considered for the role of Ian Hawke.
Sharon Stone were considered for the role of Claire Wilson.
Nehemiah Persoff were considered for the role of Ian Hawke.
Tony Danza were considered for the role of Dave Seville.
When the Chipmunks' song hits number one on the charts the other fictitious songs at the top are '712 Wheatley' by Iron Quick and Robbing, 'Shallow Foresight' by The Stone Allegory, 'Missing the Swans' by Madder Vauxhall, 'Drinking Irony' by Then Seven More, and 'Crog Divided' by Cougar Striped Gum. The next band on the list is Fallen Leader but the song can't be seen.
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The U.S. Geological Survey has said that a 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit southern Mexico on Friday morning.
According to the Associated Press, the earthquake, which was centered northwest of Acapulco, could be felt in at least six states for about 30 seconds. However, no injuries or casualties have been reported.
Despite how powerful the quake was, Mexico City’s Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera told CNN affiliate FOROtv that there were no reports of any major damage in the city.
Chilpancingo, capital of the southern state of Guerrero, reported a power outage, but services were quickly restored.
Many Mexicans, who were vacationing in resort towns for the upcoming Easter holiday, told local media outlets that were shaken up, but OK.
No tsunami warning was issued for any of the coastal areas.
There has been a spike in seismic activity recently with Nicaragua being hit by three earthquakes last week, an 8.2 magnitude quake in northern Chile earlier this month and a magnitude 5.1 tremor that shook southern California in March.

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Dual Citizenship coming soon to Malawi
By Amalawi - Fri Jul 15, 4:36 pm
Lilongwe – Malawian President Peter Mutharika has reportedly ordered Justice Minister Samuel Tembenu to draft dual citizenship legislation to allow Malawians who are stuck outside the country to return home and invest.
Mutharika said that the ministry of justice was currently amending the legislation that would allow Malawians to hold dual citizenship, fulfilling a promise made that he would address the matter.
“We are currently drafting the legislation. Very soon we will have the legislation. This will be possible because we want Malawians in diaspora to come to Malawi,” he was quoted as saying.
Most countries in Southern Africa allow dual citizenship and as such have seen a huge number of those in diaspora investing.
Mr Muntharika aand many of his ministers are former “Diaspora’s” they understand fully the need for dual citizenship hence the push for legislation

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If the LA Galaxy are hoping for at least a little fatigue from the New York Red Bulls in the Western Conference Semifinals, they might be a little disappointed.
Head coach Hans Backe praised his team's focus Friday after returning from a 2-0 wild card win over FC Dallas, and asserted that there will be no letdown when his team square off against the LA Galaxy at Red Bull Arena on Sunday (3 pm ET, ESPN2/Deportes, live chat on MLSsoccer.com).
"There is no way there will be any kind of fatigue for these players," Backe told reporters on a conference call on Friday; his Red Bulls are 5-2-1 in their last eight games. "The sessions have been the best two sessions so far this season. Definitely a [mental] change when we won the game against Philadelphia and went into the playoffs. I’m quite sure our players will lift their game against LA."
The second-year New York manager talked earlier in the week with how pleased he was with the crispness of the team prior to departing for their wild card playoff game at FC Dallas. With their backs against the wall for the last eight weeks, the Red Bulls have largely responded with gritty defending and dependable finishing.
“We’ve definitely gotten stronger, mentally, we’re all in a good frame of mind right now,” defender Tim Ream said. “But we still can get sharper and continue to play better.”
After a season where he was among the best rookies in the league, Ream had some ups and downs this year with the Red Bulls and the national team, leading to some talk of a sophomore slump.
But much like his teammates, Ream rebounded from a lackluster summer to kick things into gear for his club. The timing couldn’t be any better for New York.
“I feel more and more comfortable as the games and the weeks go on – I’m feeling more confident again,” Ream said. “Everyone makes mistakes, and ours just happen to be in front of 20,000 people and reporters. You just have to get beyond that.
“I think the biggest thing at this level is confidence, making your decisions and living with them,” Ream continued. “At the middle of the year I wasn’t as confident, but I’ve gotten that back.”


Lefevre, Jean Xavier
Born at Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a virtuoso on the clarinet and studied in Paris under Michel Yost. He joined the band of the guards, and in 1787 began to play in concerts. He was a member of the Opera Orchestra from 1791 to 1817 and a professor on the clarinet at the Conservatory from 1795 to 1825. In 1807 he became a member of the Imperial Chapel, and, after the restoration, of the Royal Chapel. He improved his instrument by the addition of a sixth key and wrote the official clarinet Methode of the Conservatory. He composed concertos, concertantes, duets, sonatas, etc., for the clarinet. He died in Paris.


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The Catskill Mountains are located in southeast New York State, between Albany and New York City. The Catskills are known for their dome-shaped peaks. The Lenape people lived there for thousands of years before European settlers arrived.
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Reduce the number of water changes.
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Dosing 1 x per week = up to 6 months biologically healthy water
Reduces the number of water replacements
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WATER MAINTENANCE TIPS FOR FISH AQUARIUMS Pet Planet wants to go further than any pet store that sells products for maintenance of aquarium water for fish and therefore gives you some advice that we hope will be practical when choosing the right product: Aquarium water conditions Aquarium temperature: Perhaps it is one of the most important factors for the survival of our fish, that is why we advise you to have a thermometer in your aquarium and to check it regularly (this thermometer can be found in specialized stores for animals), a thermometer will warn you if the heater of your aquarium fails. The normal temperature for most tropical fish is about 24-26 ºC. Since this is pretty generic, don't forget to ask what temperature each species requires when you buy it at your pet store. pH of the water: For fresh water, a pH around (6.5-7.5) is enough for most fish and plants to develop normally and in marine aquariums around (8.1-8.2), but be careful It will depend on each species. In specialized pet stores you will find pH meters for your aquarium, it will be enough to measure it once a month. If you decide to modify the pH of an aquarium, do it in the least abrupt way possible. Turbidity of the water in your aquarium: Also so that everyone understands it, we could say the clarity of the water in your aquarium. Tap water is usually quite slightly cloudy, in any case always try to make the water as clear as possible by making partial changes to the water in your aquarium. The chlorine in the water in our aquarium: The water as it comes out of the tap can be deadly for the fish and plants in the aquarium, this is due to the chlorine that the water contains. How can we avoid this naturally and make the water pure: collect rainwater through containers for our aquarium, a cumbersome method that we do not recommend since it can lead to a series of inconveniences for fish and plants in the aquarium. Another way is to let the water stand for a couple of days so that it releases the chlorine. Although, the most practical thing would be to use the products sold in pet stores to remove chlorine from tap water. All the advice given is generic, therefore we advise you to get information based on the speciesof fish, as it may change substantially.


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The True Beginings of EN
French chemist discovered electroless nickel A Century before Brenner
Electroless nickel has come a long way since its inception more than 65 year ago. Or was it actually 165 years ago?
While the noted U.S. chemist Abner Brenner is commonly credited as the father of EN for patenting the process back in 1946, more recently, others have traced the plating process’s birth back to 1845 France.
So who dares speak foul of Dr. Brenner, who wrote the book on the process (more than 1,200 pages in the 1963 Electrodeposition of Alloys), and whose name appears on the award given by the American Electroplaters Society?
Actually, it’s Dr. Brenner himself (1908-1999), who late in life spoke of the work of French chemist Adolphe Wurtz—who first discovered the process while working with hypophosphorous acid—and another chemist, F.G. Roux, who wrote extensively of his work with EN back in 1916.
Dr. Brenner, who was chief of the electrodeposition section of the National Bureau of Standards for 41 years and has over 30 patents to his credit, has been cited by many as discovering the process in the mid 1940s. But two names actually appear on the patent: Brenner and Grace Riddell. And Brenner himself noted in later writings that the ideas for EN began as early as 1845 with Wurtz, and continued with Roux in 1916. The U.S. Patent Office says the patent it issued in 1950 differed from the earlier patent in that Roux’s reaction was spontaneous and complete, while the Brenner and Riddell process was a controlled catalytic process so that deposition occurred only on catalytic surfaces immersed in the bath.
Dr. Brenner later wrote that his patent was an accidental discovery similar to the work of Wurtz and Roux, but said he took out a patent to “protect U.S. government rights.” In fact, a declassified U.S. Army technical report written in 1963 goes on extensively about Wurtz and Roux’s work, and gives much of the discovery credit to them—not Brenner.
“The deposition of cobalt by chemical reduction was developed by Wurtz at the same time as was nickel plating by chemical reduction, but has not gained as much use,” wrote Army project manager Jacob Knanishu at the Rock Island Arsenal Laboratory, outside of Arlington, VA.
Most enlightening, though, in Knanishu’s report was this statement: “This method of nickel plating can be used to advantage in protective coatings of parts used in the electronic control compartments of rockets and missiles, space instrument packages, and radar equipment, where optimum protection is imperative.”
How right he was—predicting more than 40 years ago the benefits of EN today.

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Democracy is not about voting for representatives, nor was it ever so.
Neither Athens, nor the Swiss cantons which practiced democracy, had representatives.
Democracy means the power of the people, not the process of giving it up. Assuming, of course, that they had any power in the first place to give up.
The system of representation was the system used by ruling elites among themselves to best resolve their differences.
The Parliamentary system is so well loved because it protects the interests of the ruling elite well.
One chooses ones representative from the choice available based on the information and impressions which one has received from the press.
Since the rich control the media, they control the information and the “impressions” that the voters may have of the parties and candidates.
One does not vote for laws. One votes for a gang – yes, that is essentially what a political party is – and trusts them on the basis of what they have said and done in the past.
Unfortunately, this choice of gang is usually a choice of the “lesser evil”.
This trust in the parliamentary system is provenly misplaced.
The conservative and liberal parties of Germany voted for a dictatorship in 1933, just as the British Parliament voted for one when they handed all power to Cromwell after the English Revolution.
Present day events have shown the same pattern with European parliaments giving away their (the people’s?) sovereignty to a non-elected authority in Brussels and to the USA.
Please stop repeating the mantra that the parliamentary system has something to do with democracy.
It is a classic case of Orwellian newspeak.

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Lea Michele Controversy: Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and author. Child actress in Les Misérables, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof and Spring Awakening on Broadway from 1995–2006. Rachel Berry on Glee (2009–2015) earned her an Emmy nomination, two Golden Globe nominations, four People’s Choice Awards, three Teen Choice Awards and a Satellite Award.
Michele and the rest of the Glee cast got four SAG awards for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series and three Grammy nominations for songs recorded for the show. Michele later portrayed Hester Ulrich on Fox’s Scream Queens and Valentina Barella on ABC’s The Mayor (2017).
Lea Michele Controversy
Former “Glee” co-star Samantha Ware tweeted that Michele made her life a “living nightmare” while working on the show. Lea Michele is now receiving backlash.
Ex-colleagues on a wide range of projects have endorsed Ware’s statement, providing further evidence of Michele’s on-set conduct throughout the incident.
Ware came out after Michele used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in a tweet about George Floyd. You made my first televised appearance a terrible nightmare, don’t you remember?!?!?” Ware penned a piece. It’ll be etched in my memory forever. My doubts about a Hollywood career were shattered when I heard you say, “If you had the chance, you’d s— in my wig!” and other horrific microaggressions.
This is not really the point,” Ware said on Instagram after her comment on Michele’s skin color and her family’s history provoked significant criticism. Michele lost a business deal as a result of Ware’s tweet, which prompted a lengthy apologies from Ware. To me, the most important thing is that my actions clearly resulted in harm to others.”
Lea Michele: Professional Life, Career, and Awards
Lea Michele, who began her musical career on Broadway at the age of eight, debuted as a solo artist in 2014 with the release of her debut solo pop album ‘Louder,’ which she recorded at Columbia Records.
It was ‘Buster’ in which she voiced various characters and Third Watch on television that led to her earning $80k each episode of a total of $10 million in her first two years.
On addition to her roles in ‘Glee’ and ‘Scream Queens’, she is most recognized for her roles as Rachel Berry and Hester Ullrich, respectively. Previously, she had won a Satellite Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, three People’s Choice Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.”

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Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured by pirates and falls in love with the captain. It was adapted into a romantic comedy and starred silent movie actress Viola Dana. ‘Flappers and Philosophers’ (1920) are tales about young dreamers whose dreams get broken, tales which perfectly encompass the zeitgeist of the 1920s.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is one of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century and author of the classics ‘Tender is the Night’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’. His writing helped illustrate the 1920s Jazz Age that he and wife Zelda Fitzgerald were in the centre of.
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Unsurprisingly, Syria’s Assad submits candidacy for May vote
DAMASCUS – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been in power for 21 years, has submitted his candidacy for next month’s presidential election, state media said Wednesday.
The 55-year-old is widely expected to secure a fourth term in office by a comfortable margin in the May 26 vote, which observers have already said would be far from free and fair.
“Parliament was informed by the high constitutional court that Bashar Hafez al-Assad has filed a request” to run in the upcoming poll, the official SANA news agency said.
Five other candidates have so far filed applications with the high constitutional court, it said.
The little-known contenders include a former lawmaker and several businessmen.
Presidential hopefuls have until April 28 to put forth their candidacy for the second such vote to be held since the start of the country’s civil war a decade ago.
Candidacy conditions make a victory by Assad a foregone conclusion. Candidates have to garner support from at least 35 members of the 250-seat parliament, which is dominated by Assad’s Baath party.
They must have lived continuously in Syria for at least 10 years, meaning that opposition figures in exile are barred.
The previous presidential election was held in 2014 and saw two candidates run against Assad after a constitutional amendment allowing for a multi-candidate ballot.
Only two other candidates were approved by the Assad-appointed constitutional court and the incumbent won with 88 percent of the vote.
It will be the second vote since the conflict erupted in March 2011, killing at least 388,000 people since and displacing half the population, with no political solution in sight.
Since the start of the war, government forces have clawed back swathes of territory from rebel and extremist forces with military help from regime allies Russia and Iran and Tehran’s proxy Lebanese militia, Hezbollah.
Several regional and global powers have lent they support to anti-Assad forces.
Today, large parts of Syria still escape government control and polling will not take place in those areas.
They include the northwestern province of Idlib, a rebel bastion controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which is led by members of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate.
The Idlib region, including nearby districts where other rebel groups are also present, is home to 2.9 million people, of whom two thirds have fled their homes in other regions ravaged by violence.
Western powers last month warned against a poll that would not be “fair or free”, and opposition figure Nasr Hariri denounced the forthcoming election as a “farce”.
Hariri said the vote would show the “regime is disconnected from the people who revolted against it”.
Syria’s main opposition coalition in exile said it rejected all elections involving Assad.
In a statement, it urged the international community to take “measures… that would require the regime to engage in a real political solution”.
The poll comes amid a crushing economic crisis, compounded by a slew of Western sanctions, including from the United States, that have targeted key figures including Assad and his wife Asma.
Ahead of the vote, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the US called for a boycott of the polls, which they said would not be “fair or free” and serve only to re-empower Assad.
In mid-March, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, urged the international community not to be fooled by such elections.
“They will not legitimise the Assad regime,” she said.
She told Security Council members the elections “do not meet the criteria laid out in Resolution 2254 — including that they be supervised by the UN or conducted pursuant to a new constitution”.


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Scottish Fair Trade Forum is holding Fair Trade Regional Session: Highlands and Islands on March 21 2020.
Date: Saturday 21 March 2020
Location: Spectrum Centre and Hidden Gem Café, 1B Margaret Street, Inverness, IV1 1LS
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Organised by: Scottish Fair Trade Forum
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Fair Trade Regional Session: Highlands and Islands
Join us for an informative Fair Trade session and a fantastic opportunity to network with Fair Trade groups and Fair Trade
The Scottish Fair Trade Forum is hosting an informative session available to anyone interested in Fair Trade. The session is a fantastic opportunity for networking between Fair Trade groups in the area and to discuss recent developments in the Fair Trade movement. Lunch will be served.
1. General Introduction from the Forum
2. Campaign priorities: hear about the latest developments in the Fair Trade movement and the areas in which we need to continue campaigning.
3. Social Media Training
All welcome to attend.
For more information about the Scottish Fair Trade Forum, visit: www.scottishfairtradeforum.org.uk
You can also follow us on Twitter & Facebook: @FairTradeNation
Note: The program is subject to change.

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In a time and place where giants are fighting to save the whales. And where wide concern is arousing about the way the Japanese government is handling the disaster that took place on the world's sole remaining whale floating factory, the Nisshin Maru. It is worthwhile to see what precious nature is actually there to protect . A little series about the Antarctic environment.
Far below the icy top layer of the Antarctic waters a small man-made apparatus is roaming around looking for anything of interest. The ROV, named Isis, is the UK's first deep-sea remote operated vehicle and is capable of diving down to 6.5 kilometre below the surface. Isis's mission, here on its inaugural science mission, on the Antarctic seabed, is the first time men is looking at the deep sea near this vast continent. A continent we know little about and still we have began commercial exploitation of its resources already.
The first results of the scientific mission, performed from the British Antarctic Survey's ship RSS James Clark Ross, are already appearing; it found interesting evidence of the "ice-driven evolution of Antarctica's coast" and it found huge ancient "meltwater channels" which can learn us how the ice sheet will change in the years to come.
Although mostly a geology mission Isis also looked at the fauna and did some interesting finds, causing a Professor Tyler to proclaim "The wealth and diversity of the fauna in this area was incredible!", which in itself led me to proclaim: We want picture proof! (and found some here) What the researchers found was beautiful but also included a warning on the fragility and vulnerability of this remote ecosystem to the climate change we see everywhere. As the sea water is now a bit warmer as ten years ago the temperature has become right for the king crab to enter, and these were actually found closer to the coast as ever before.
Isis found unique communities of filter feeders with proof of these flourishing there for millions of years. The rapid entering -invasion- of king crabs and other species alien to the system might endanger that. While more research is needed this is yet another example of climate change affecting everything and everyone. Not all is lost though, overall the Antarctic deep sea ecosystem is a fascinating one that we hardly know anything about. Sciencemag wrote some good articles about the mission and the first results.
Good post... I was thinking of starting an Antarctic series too... You beat me to it!
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A luxury loft community in the heart King William.
As a luxury apartment community for the last eight years, Saint Benedict’s has been enthusiastically embraced by native San Antonians & transplants alike. The rich history of this property dates back to the turn of the twentieth century. In the 1950’s the St. Benedictine sisters established a nursing home and hospital on the property, which was in operation in one form or another until the mid-1980’s. From the early 1990’s to 2004, the property sat vacant and in disrepair until it was purchased by an investment group that included the present owners. Notable architect Davis Sprinkle began transformation of the property’s mid-century structures into 66 high-end, design-minded living spaces in 2006. No detail was spared during the design & planning process. According to Sprinkle, “The goal was to create a modern oasis in the heart of the historic King William neighborhood. The minimalist design aesthetic is expressed in the layout of the residential units with their large picture windows, open floor plans, and crisp white interiors. The variety of communal courtyard spaces lends a contemplative vibe by offering gathering areas that afford privacy while still connecting back to the neighborhood.”
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According to a Girl Scouts report, the state ranked 29th in economic well-being and extracurricular activities, but 44th in physical and emotional health.
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Diamond Race Review - The Throws
The men's shot put saw one of the most thrilling head to heads of 2015, as David Storl and Joe Kovacs battled it out from May until September. Storl set the tone early, winning in Doha. He then lost to Kovacs in Eugene, and the precedent was set. Right up until the final the two traded blows, each winning at alternate meetings to ensure that neither ever pulled ahead in the Diamond Race. As Brussels approached, the two men were locked together at the top, each of them on 14 points with three victories. The final, though, would be the first meeting all season where neither Kovacs nor Storl managed to win. Kovacs third place meant that he snuck two points ahead of Storl to claim the Diamond Trophy, just weeks after beating the German to the world championship title.
In the women's event it was an entirely different story. With Valerie Adams missing most of the season through injury, Christina Schwanitz was all but unchallenged at the top of the Diamond Race table. She won all but two of the seven rounds, ending with a lead of 13 points and collecting her first Diamond Trophy.
— IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) September 26, 2015
Schwanitz's domination in the shot was nothing on Sandra Perković's hegemony in the discus. The Croatian won six of the seven rounds, ending on a huge total of 30 points, with a 23 point lead over her closest challenger. Only in Lausanne did Perković falter, beaten by Yalmí Pérez. She returned to claim a convincing victory in Brussels, though, securing the Diamond Trophy and reasserting her brilliant dominance in this event.
The men's discus played out as a battle between two Poles. Between them, Piotr Małachowski and Robert Urbanek made podium finishes at all seven Diamond Race rounds. It was Małachowski who started better, with victories in Shanghai and Eugene. Urbanek fought back in Paris, and his consistent podium finishes meant he remained within touching distance of his compatriot right up until Stockholm, where Małachowski's victory saw him extend his lead to six points. Urbanek made one final bid for glory at the Zürich final, but even victory wasn't quite enough to pip his countryman at the last. Małachowski's second place at Weltklasse saw him finish with a two point lead and a Diamond Trophy.
— IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) September 11, 2015
Barbara Spotáková had already won three Diamond Trophies prior to 2015, but she had never defended the title successfully. The defence of her 2014 title got off to a bad start, a the Czech managed to collect just one point in May and June. The field was open, though, and there was space for Spotáková to move up the table if she started winning. She did so, taking victories in Paris and Stockholm and finishing second in London.That gave her a handsome lead ahead of the final in Zürich, where yet another victory saw her complete what was, in the end, a convincing Diamond Race triumph: 19 points, a 12 point winning margin and a fourth Diamond Trophy.
Tero Pitkämäki took an early lead in the men's javelin Diamond Race with victory in Doha. His success was short lived, however, as he was quickly overtaken by Vítezslav Veselý. The Czech finished in the top two of all the next four rounds, and it wasn't until Monaco that Pitkämäki was able to win again. Even then, he remained six points behind Veselý, and it looked certain that the Czech would take the Diamond Trophy in Brussels. But he faltered at the last, not even making the podium in the final. Pitkämäki's superb performance saw him take all eight points and complete a dramatic late comeback to become the first Finnish athlete ever to win a Diamond Trophy.
— IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) September 24, 2015

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Historically, Ras Al Khaimah’s economy was primarily based on fishing, agriculture, and pearl diving. However, in recent years, the emirate has undergone significant economic diversification and has emerged as a hub for manufacturing, tourism, and real estate development. Whilst tourism has been a popular destination for tourists for many years it is the advent of Free Trade Zones that have attracted major foreign investment. These zones provide businesses with various incentives, such as tax exemptions and 100% foreign ownership.
The emirate is further enhanced by as a well-developed education system with schools and universities offering a wide range of academic programs and high quality healthcare facilities providing all residents with access to medical services.
Ras al-Khaimah real estate is enjoying a period of robust growth on the back of supporting infrastructure, complementary policies, and a diversified economy. Land and Property transactions from the first half of 2022 showed a 45 per cent year-on-year increase.
As the country has diversified economically, Ras Al Khaimah has seen significant real estate development with numerous projects offering residential, commercial, and tourism-related properties to cope with the higher number of people seeking accommodation. Interest from property investors continues to grow in this emirate.