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I will show you How To Download Titan v3 Resource Pack for Minecraft 1.20.3. If you are the lover of the PvP, this Minecraft Resource Pack is definitely for you! Titan v3 Resource Pack represents very good experience during the battles in Minecraft. The most unique thing is that this pack never compromises the quality of the visuals. It is a great pack and is ahead of the others. We can say that this one is one of the best Minecraft PvP Texture Packs. It has a high resolution that is based on the itemas and works perfectly with all Minecraft versions. There are also 3 different versions: V1, V2 and V3.
The textures are presented with the full of lively actions that will never disappoint you. Titan v3 is packed with lots of different animations that will make your game more “live”. You may ask, what this texture pack is for? Well, the main focus of this is to be used on the PvP fights in the Minecraft. But yes, you don’t have to do PvP, it is for all the users, depends on your needs. It has also a version with low resolution and that is 16x, which is really good for the low end PC users. So you don’t have to hesitate more, it is a perfect pack for you! But don’t worry, like I said it offers multiple versions, so the 16x isn’t the only one, if you want to have higher resolution, you can have it! This pack will perfectly work on Minecraft 1.20.3 so make sure you try it out!
How To Download Titan v3 Texture Pack for Minecraft 1.20.3
This Minecraft Resource Pack is fully compatible with Minecraft 1.20.3. You don’t have to worry, it will work just fine.
- Let’s start. Scroll down until you get to the download section where you find the Titan v3 download link and Optifine HD link as well.
- In case you are wondering “Why Optifine”, well most of the Minecraft Texture Pack requires you to have this mod.
- There is in-depth tutorial on How To install Texture Pack in Minecraft on my website, check it out.
- When you get to the download section, download both files. Let me show you how.
- Simply click on the link and then it will take you to the redirection website.
- Now just click on the link again, that’s all.
- After all these steps, you are finally on the website that I want you to be on. Look on the right side.
- As you can see, there is a download section, hit download.
- Just wait for the file and then take it and drop it on the desktop.
How To Install Titan v3 Texture Pack in Minecraft 1.20.3
We are slowly coming to an end. Make sure you have Minecraft Texture Pack on the desktop.
- Let’s get to the roaming folder now!
- Open the Windows Search Bar, it is on the left down corner of your screen.
- When you open it, make sure you type in %appdata% and then just hit enter.
- Do this and it will open the roamign folder. You should now see “.Minecraft” folder, open it.
- Let’s scroll down now to find the “resourcepacks” folder, open it.
- Just take the Titan v3 Resource Pack 1.20.3 and then drop it in the folder.
- Let’s install Optifine now.
- Double-click on the file and agree with the terms. Hit install.
- Open up the Minecraft Launcher and choose Optifine, hit play.
- When you are in the menu, go to the “Options ” -> “Resource Packs”.
- The pack will be in the left window. You should transport it to the right window.
- Hover over it and click on the arrow to the right.
- If you get the message “it’s outdated” you don’t have to worry, it will work just fine.
- Click “Done” and enjoy!


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Using the research room - When you arrive
Welcome to the State Archives research room!
- Please check in at reference desk (directly inside doors)
- First time visitors will need to read our researcher policy and present photo ID to register
- Research cards expire annually on June 30
- Please store belongings - purses, backpacks, cell phones, etc. - in the locker room outside the research room
- Coin operated lockers are available (quarters available at reference desk if you need change)
- Research papers, notebooks, and computers are allowed in research room. For security reasons, reference staff will ask to look through your materials at the end of your visit.
- Electrical outlets and wireless internet available
Our reference staff will be happy to help you throughout your visit to the research room. Individuals in need of access assistance or auxiliary aids and services are asked to contact the Historical Society prior to their visit.
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There has been an increase in the amount of violence in schools, of all places, in the last few years. More and more parents are worried about their children’s safety at school as there are certain risks at almost every other school. Some risks might be life-threatening, but usually, a majority of the risks are just some disturbances that tend to interrupt the ability and right of the child to get the quality of education that they deserve.
In such circumstances, professional security guards of reliable school security services in London can be quite beneficial. These security guards tend to provide the balance and safety that many schools need in order to keep the children in the school safe from any sort of harm.
The following are some of the points about how schools tend to benefit from security services.
- Reduced disciplinary issues within the school:
Most of the times it is the students, instead of intruders, that tend to be the culprits in incidents that occur within the school boundary. There are minor issues like students sneaking into the campus late or those who try to leave sooner. Moreover, there is a concern of vandalism, although it is not really dangerous, which can be a costly concern for any school. There are more aggressive incidents such as fights between students, attacks on teachers, and also sexual assaults happen in schools all around the world. By hiring school security services in London, you prevent these mishaps from occurring and make the students and teachers feel safer.
- Exposure to authority:
A majority of the kids don’t seem to have regular contact with uniformed officials and security guards. Some kids only encounter these uniformed officials on TV or places with a high level of security such as banks. So, security guards with uniforms can help the children develop a more positive opinion of these kinds of authority figures.
- Increase investment return:
In-person security is considered to be much more deterrent than an electrical security system, which is known to be vulnerable to hacking or being overridden by hackers. Security guards possess the potential to stop an event from taking place instead of only offering some sort of proof of the intruders after the crime has been committed. School security services are known to be affordable as the actions of the guards help to lower the cost of damage, both in human victims and property damage as well.
- Offer complete protection:
There is no denying the fact that innovative and modern solution of electronic security enables people to feel safer and become aware of problems faster. However, it is only the security guards who can stop any dangerous situation from brewing. Security guards are trained in such a way that they know how to assess a threat and offer complete protection to all the people in the vicinity.
So, now you know how can schools benefit from security services and what are the various benefits of investing in hiring security guards for the school premises.


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On a bright, sunny day I made my way to Mpemba. This is an area just outside of Blantyre, the city I live in and where Kingdom Workers Malawi is headquartered. Although not far from Blantyre, the area feels very rural.
We turned off the main paved road onto a bumpy dirt track winding through plots of corn interspersed with village homes. As we drove, I thought about how beautiful this country is, and I felt grateful to the people I was about to meet for being willing to share their stories.

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Maeve Brophy gave her first solo recital at age 9 and made her orchestral debut at 15. She has given solo and collaborative performances in Wells, England, the Amalfi Coast, Kiev, Ukraine, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Aspen, Nashville, Memphis, and Birmingham. She has performed for the Memphis Chamber Music Society and the Artist Ascending Series in Memphis and is a regular performer with the Luna Nova Ensemble. She has performed for the Lindberg Farm Series and Messiah Lutheran Concert Series in Huntsville. She is also the pianist for Nashville’s alt-classical group chatterbird. Maeve has performed as soloist with the Chernygev Symphony in Kiev as well as the Paducah Symphony and the Central Florida Philharmonic. In high school, her family made the trip from Memphis to Huntsville weekly so she could study with Yakov Kasman. She has a BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she studied with Dr. Kasman and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Texas Christian University where she studied with Jose Feghali. She also studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Marc Silverman and at the New England Conservatory of Music with Russell Sherman. She spent time working as a freelance accompanist in Memphis and played for numerous student recitals at the University of Memphis. She has taught students privately as well as at the Boston College of Adult Education. She is currently working an album and live concert video of Mozart and Franck sonatas she recorded in Memphis with her sister, violinist Linnaea Brophy. Expected release date is May 2017. She is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and Registered Yoga Teacher. Maeve currently teaches secondary piano at Belmont University in Nashville and is an accompanist at Vanderbilt University, where she has performed numerous recitals with students, faculty, and guest artists. She is also the pianist for Kingston Springs United Methodist Church. She lives in Nashville with her 8 month old daughter.
Carey Cheney, a native of Canada has been teaching and performing for 30 years. She is a Registered Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and has done teacher training in all levels of the Suzuki literature, as well as many enrichment courses throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.
She holds the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts in cello performance from the University of Utah, and a Master of Music in cello performance, from the University of Texas at Austin. While there she studied cello and pedagogy with Phyllis Young and taught cello, orchestra and chamber music in the UT String Project
She has taught at many institutes in the US and Canada including the Mid-Southeast Suzuki Institute, New Orleans Suzuki Institute, American Suzuki Institute, National Cello Institute, Chicago Suzuki Institute, Stanford University Advanced Suzuki Institute, Montreal Suzuki Institute, Edmonton Suzuki Institute, Southern Ontario Suzuki Institute, South Carolina Suzuki Institute, Hawaii Suzuki Institute , Brandon Suzuki String Institute, DFW-WOW Suzuki Institute in Dallas, Intermountain Suzuki String Institute, and the Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institute. She has taught at many weekend and short-term workshops all over the US, Canada and Monterrey, Mexico.
She continues to teach and travel internationally, in 1988 Brazil to the Winter Festival in Santa Maria, in 1999 to Japan where she taught at the World Suzuki Conference, in 2006 to Turin, Italy where she taught at the 2006 World Suzuki Convention, in 2008, 2012 and 2013 to New Zealand, and Sydney Australia, and most recently in 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 to Mexico City to teach teachers at the FICUP International Music Festival. She regularly travels to cities in Canada to be an adjudicator for the Canadian Kiwanis Music Festivals.
Currently, Carey maintains a large cello studio with her cellist-husband Elliott in Salt Lake City, and she continues to perform solo and chamber music recitals frequently. She has recorded eight audio CDs and prepared eight volumes of her series, Solos For Young Cellists published by Summy-Birchard, a subsidiary of Alfred Music Co. Inc. The 7th and 8th volumes of music were just released in the Fall 2015.
Caroline is from Aberdeen, Scotland. She graduated from Edinburgh University with a Bachelor of Music degree and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London obtaining diplomas L.R.A.M. (in piano teaching) and A.R.C.M. (in violin teaching). She obtained a Masters Degree in Music with Kodaly Emphasis, from Holy Names University in Oakland, California.
Caroline started to teach using the Suzuki Method in 1974 in California. She pioneered the Suzuki Method in Peru (1981) and from 1992 until 1999 she was a lecturer in music theory at Holy Names University, where she directed the Summer Suzuki Teacher Training Institute. Caroline has been a teacher trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas since 1985.
Rita Hauck has been a Piano teacher since 1959, and a Suzuki Piano teacher since 1974. She and her husband, Dr. Robert Hauck, were privileged to have met Dr. Suzuki in 1966, an event that changed their lives forever. Mrs. Hauck has a Bachelor of Music Degree with a major in performance, a Bachelor of Music Education Degree in both Vocal and Instrumental music K-12, a Master of Music Degree in performance, and two years of Doctoral work in keyboard studies, (Piano, harpsichord, organ , and accompanying). She has been a church organist for 55 years. From 1976-1981, she founded and directed a Suzuki School of 350 students, trained 24 Suzuki teachers, and taught Suzuki piano students at Oklahoma Wesleyan University where she was on the Piano, Organ, and Music Theory faculty. From 1981—2011, Mrs. Hauck maintained a Suzuki Piano Studio of 40+ students in her home in Cincinnati, Ohio where she lived with her husband, Robert. She has been training Suzuki piano teacher in the United States and around the world since 1976.
Mrs. Hauck has been guest clinician at Suzuki workshops and Institutes in 44 states in America, including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as in Canada, Bermuda, New Zealand, and Australia. She had the honor of being in vied to be the International Piano Clinician and Trainer of Teachers at the 23009 World Suzuki Convention in Melbourne, Australia. Mrs. Hauck has served on state and local committees or the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the North Texas Suzuki Association, The Texas and Ohio Music Teachers’ Associations, The Music Teachers’ National Association, the Music Educators National Association, The Ft Worth Piano Teacher’s Forum, and National Federation of Music Clubs, and the Fort Worth Music Teachers’ Association. Mrs. Hauck’s piano students have won many local, district, regional, and national awards for excellence in performance. She and her husband raised four Suzuki children, all of whom played both piano and strings from age 3 through hight school, and all of whom are married adults and still involved in music professionally and semiprofessionally. Mrs. Hauck particularly loves training Suzuki piano teachers all year in a long-term program in her home studio. She loves teaching musk to the children and is grateful to have a part in the positive impact upon them and their families.
Edward Kreitman is the founder and Director of the Western Springs School of Talent Education. Mr. Kreitman received his undergraduate degree from Western Illinois University where he studied Suzuki Pedagogy with Doris Preucil and Almita Vamos. In 1986, he studied with Dr. Suzuki at the Talent Education Summer School in Matsumoto, Japan.
Mr. Kreitman is known throughout the world as a guest clinician at Suzuki institutes and workshops and is a registered Teacher Trainer of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Mr. Kreitman is the author of Teaching from the Balance Point – A Guide for Suzuki Parents, Teachers, and Students and Teaching with an Open Heart – A Guide for Developing Conscious Musicianship (click here to view ordering information).
Mr. Kreitman has served the Suzuki Association of the Americas in many capacities including a member of the Board of Directors, Violin Committee, and Coordinator for several Suzuki Method Teachers Conferences. Recently, Mr. Kreitman served on the SAA team that developed the Every Child Can! course. In 2008 Mr. Kreitman was honored to be presented with the Suzuki Chair Award at the American Suzuki Institute in Stevens Point, WI. In March 2011, he was awarded the Suzuki Association of the America’s Certificate of Achievement, an award given to teachers that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to excellence in their teaching.
Mary Ann Mears
Mary Ann Mears is originally from the Memphis, TN area. She studied violin with William Starr at the University of Tennessee and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in Suzuki String Techniques. She studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto during the summers of 1976, 1978, 1982 and 1983. She taught in the Denver, Colorado area from 1980 until 2005. While there, she was a founding member of the Suzuki Association of Colorado. Other training includes certification as a Montessori Infant and Toddler directress. She currently maintains a private violin studio in Germantown, TN.
Allen Moody, a native Memphian, is the Orff Music specialist at Idlewild Elementary where he teaches music for kindergarten through fifth grade. Under his direction, the Idlewild Recorder Ensemble performed at the 2014 AOSA National Conference in Nashville, TN. The Idlewild performing ensembles can be seen performing around Memphis at various pop-up concerts and the Overton Square Tree Lighting. Allen is an active member in the Memphis Chapter of AOSA, serving as the chapter secretary from 2011 – 2013 and currently serving as the chapter program chair. He received his B.M. in Music Education from the University of Memphis in May 2009 and received his Master of Music in Music Education in December 2016. Allen completed his Orff certification in 2012 at the University of Memphis. He is an approved AOSA Recorder Instructor for Orff Levels Certification courses and has presented workshop presentations at the state music conference and for local AOSA and WTGMEA chapters.
Greg Morris has been teaching more then 35 years. He began teaching in the University of Memphis Suzuki Program in 1980 and was the Coordinator of the Suzuki String Program at The University of Memphis from 2005-2016. He has been a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1979. Greg holds a Master of Music degree in violin pedagogy. He studied Suzuki Pedagogy with John Kendall, Allen Lieb and Yuko Honda. He now teaches privately.
Marilyn O’Boyle became involved with the Suzuki Movement in 1972, starting a Suzuki violin program in Lincoln, Nebraska. She then started programs in Lima, Peru and Santiago, Chile, where she lived in the 1980s. A registered Teacher Trainer, she has taught long term courses at the University of Nebraska, and short term courses in the United States and many Latin American countries. Marilyn is an SAA liaison to Latin American programs. She has directed several summer Suzuki Institutes, including the Eastern Nebraska Suzuki Institute, the TCU Institute and the New Mexico Suzuki Institute. She teaches in Albuquerque, New Mexico in her home studio. She has twice served three year terms on the Suzuki Association of the Americas Board of Directors.
Myra Ann Patterson
Myra Ann Patterson is a multi-instrumentalist, music educator, and performer with fifteen years experience bringing the joy of music to students and audiences of all ages.
She plays viola with the Memphis String Quartet, fiddle with the Earthquakers contra-dance band, guitar and vocals with her trio Myra Hall and the Players, and teaches violin, fiddle, viola, and guitar at Lane Music in Germantown.
Raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina amidst the sonorous music of Appalachia, she earned her Bachelors in Music Education from Appalachian State University and Masters in Humanities from the University of Chicago where she studied ethnomusicology, anthropology, history and journalism.
While in Chicago Myra taught at the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute and played viola in the Artesian String Quartet. She wrote her master’s thesis about the Chicago blues scene, where she performed with Billy Branch, James Wheeler, and Mary Lane.
Previous to moving to Chicago, Myra performed with the Hayes String Quartet, Western Piedmont Symphony, Symphony of the Mountains, High Country Klezmorim and Lees McRae Theater. Her teachers include Nancy Bargerstock, David Yonan, Simon Ertz, Glenn Muegel, Russell Fallstad, Andy Page, Ken Lurie, and John Gloria.
Alex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri, but has been a resident of Memphis, TN since 2007. He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and has been teaching ever since. Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous galleries in Memphis, Nashville, Dallas, St. Louis, London and many others. His work has also been published in Studio Visit magazine, Beautiful/Decay, and Glasstire. Additional information and images of his work can be seen at www.alexanderpaulus.blogspot.com.
Mary Halverson Waldo
Mary Halverson Waldo received a BA in Music from the College of St Scholastica, and a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, in Performance of Early Music (Recorder and Traverso). A member of Waldo Baroque and Friends, she has made guest appearances with North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Choirs (Columbia, SC), Broad River Renaissance Band, the Bach Society of Minnesota, Chatham Baroque, Pittsburgh Opera, Fayerwether Friends, and Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston.
Ms. Waldo was a faculty member at MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis), and the Saint Paul Conservatory (MN), where she introduced recorder and flute into the Suzuki programs. She is a regular faculty member at music institutes and festivals throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, and England. Her teenage recorder students have won honors and awards in competitions sponsored by Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and Piffaro! She is a registered Recorder Teacher Trainer for the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and the European Suzuki Association.
Formerly a Music Director for the Twin Cities Recorder Guild (the MN chapter of the American Recorder Society), Ms. Waldo has been a writer for the American Recorder magazine and the American Suzuki Journal, and has served on the boards of the American Recorder Society (ARS) and the American Recorder Teachers’ Association.
Pamela Wilensky has been a String Specialist for Memphis City/Shelby County Schools for 20 years, teaching at the elementary, middle and high school levels. She is the Fine Arts Department Chair and Director of Orchestras at Central High School in Memphis, TN. She is a graduate of Appalachian State University with a Bachelor of Music Education. She has had extensive Suzuki Teacher Training and taught in the University of Memphis Suzuki Program for 20 years. She is a co-director of Memphis Music Camp as well as Shelby County Schools’ Artsfest. She is an active performer in Memphis and with the Germantown and Delta Symphony Orchestras, and was a member of the Jackson Symphony for 20 years. Pamela is an active member of the West TN School Band and Orchestra Association, the American String Teachers Association, and the Suzuki Association of the Americas, and has been the State Orchestra Chair for TNMEA. She has been a guest conductor for the Memphis City Schools All-City String Festival, Jackson Symphony Music Camp, the Quad State String Festival at Murray State University, the Austin-Peay University honor Orchestra and the Alabama Honor Strings Festival. She has been on the faculty of the Memphis Suzuki Institute for many years, teaching orchestra and technique classes.
Elaine Yontz teaches, performs, and organizes concerts in the Greenville, North Carolina area. She studied recorder at the University of Central Florida and the University of Florida, where she was assistant director of the University of Florida Renaissance Ensemble. She has been active in 3 chapters of the American Recorder Society and is a certified teacher of Suzuki Recorder through Level 4. Elaine is the assistant director of this year’s Memphis Suzuki Institute.


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Pause. A word I’ve become exceedingly familiar with over the past couple of weeks.
“Pause the movie, I’m going to fall asleep” has been a really familiar one, which I’m sure got slightly annoying for Evan while we were watching all the Harry Potter movies in order. I get tired at 10 p.m., okay?
Anyway, at this point it’s “pause your online shopping/Netflix watching/book reading life because reality awaits”.
Getting back into the swing of a new semester is never easy. It’s actually EXTREMELY DIFFICULT for me. I just really like sleep and that’s a problem.
However, this “pause” that I’ve had to put on my book reading life is something I’m fighting with all of my might. I’ve been trying to keep up nightly with After You (the sequel to Me Before You by JoJo Moyes), which I have to say is a lot better than I expected.
Similar to how starting a new semester is never easy, writing a sequel to a novel that has become a worldwide phenomenon, also not easy. I was hesitant to even start reading the sequel because no sequel can ever live up to the original. (I mean, have you SEEN Back to the Future Parts II and III?! Tragic, really.)
Moyes keeps surprising, so I’ll keep on reading.
Now on a more academic note…
I’m taking a class on the British Novel. It’s pretty spectacular thus far and it’s only been week one. Reading 150 pages over a weekend—not ideal, but I’m thoroughly enjoying it.
Side note: Total nerd alert but I wore my scarf with text from Wuthering Heights on it to class last week!!! I am so very thankful to have best friends around that understand my love of literature. Hence, I receive gifts like the Time Turner from Harry Potter and my initials carved from copies of Reader’s Digest.
Right now, we’re reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Holy wow. That man sure knew how to write. It’s no wonder he was a literary celebrity. If you took J.K. Rowling and combined her with Stephen King, Suzanne Collins, and every other fantastic author around right now—that would be Dickens in the 19th century (according to my professor).
I can’t even imagine what it must have been like reading his work while he was still alive and writing.
Well, I guess it’s probably time to get back to reality (a.k.a. homework) since I’ve probably been hitting pause for too long now.
I’m currently reading: After You by JoJo Moyes & Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

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The shortest distance from the deep foundation pit envelope of the project to the subway station building is only 7.7 meters, and the deepest excavation depth of the foundation pit is about 24 meters. The surrounding environment of the foundation pit is complex, involving many buildings, the construction is difficult, and there is a great risk of construction safety. The effective control of the structural deformation of the existing subway station is the key to selecting the underground enclosure structure and construction process of the surrounding post-construction projects. Combined with the actual situation of the project, the three-dimensional numerical analysis method is used to analyze the impact of the construction of the foundation pit of the building on its adjacent structures in detail, and the relevant treatment measures are proposed. The research shows that the unloading effect caused by the large-scale excavation causes the soil outside the pit to move towards the inside of the pit. Under the influence of the soil deformation transfer effect, the Beiguan Station of the R1 line subway produces certain rebound, settlement and horizontal displacement, but the values of each deformation index are within the deformation control standard, the numerical analysis considering the influence of small soil strain can better reflect the influence of foundation pit excavation on the displacement, deformation and internal force of the existing structure. It can better match the actual engineering experience.
- The shortest distance from the deep foundation pit envelope of the project to the subway station building is only 7.7 meters, and the deepest excavation depth of the foundation pit is about 24 meters.
- This paper mainly studies the influence of the foundation pit excavation on the subway structure of Beiguan Station of the R1 line on the south side: the calculation and verification of the envelope structure of the foundation pit project is limited.
- PLAXIS geotechnical finite element software is used to analyze the research content.
During the excavation of the foundation pit, due to factors such as excavation disturbance, stratum loss and consolidation settlement, the stratum will move and deform, resulting in the movement and deformation of the existing subway station structure attached to the stratum, and then Cause the change of the force of the station structure, and the important structures associated with the main structure of the station will also move and deform. Therefore, the effective control of the structural deformation of the existing subway station is the key to select the underground envelope structure and construction process of the surrounding post-construction projects.
The construction environment around the station is complex, with dense buildings and structures, and the natural geological environment is changeable. At this stage, people's research on engineering environmental problems is mostly based on the stage of experience summarization. Theoretical-based research, such as literature [1-4], is mainly based on the two-stage analysis method to conduct in-depth research on the deformation of adjacent subway tunnels caused by foundation pit excavation, experimental-based research, such as literature [5-7], mainly The influence law of foundation pit excavation on the deformation and internal force of the subterranean and lateral tunnels is studied through the centrifuge model test and the constant gravity full-scale or reduced-scale model test. The influence of foundation pit excavation and various control and protection measures on the adjacent subway tunnels, based on the research on the analysis and summary of actual measurements, such as literature [11-13], according to the monitoring data results of the comprehensive action of multiple factors on the project site, the disturbance of foundation pit excavation is discussed. The regular characteristics that cause the deformation of the tunnel are summarized, and the guiding significance of the project is summarized. However, there are not many achievements in the digitization and modeling of basic theory, and there are few researches based on super-deep and large foundation pits. For example, the impact of building foundation pit construction on its adjacent structures is sometimes determined by empirical methods, but the results are often difficult to meet the requirements for use. Especially when other engineering projects are built near the existing subway station, if the potential dangers of the surrounding projects to the existing subway station cannot be properly assessed, the economic loss and social impact will be difficult to estimate. The impact of deep and large foundation pits on the safety of surrounding buildings is of great significance.
2. Project overview
2.1. Project introduction
The project is located in Tongzhou District, Beijing, with a total construction land area of 58,520m2. The plot is adjacent to Tongzhou Beiguan Station of Metro Line M6 in the east, Tongzhou Beiguan Station of Metro R1 Line in the south, the Ring Tunnel in the west, and the C4 Exit and R4 Entrance of the Ring Tunnel in the north, as shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 1The relationship between the location of the plot and the surrounding environment
The plot of this project is a complex of office, hotel and apartment buildings. The tower building has 61 floors above ground, with a building height of about 275 m and 4 floors underground, the podium building has 3 floors above ground, with a building height of about 18.0 m and 4 floors underground, the pure underground garage is divided into three floors underground. layer consideration. The trough bottom elevation in the podium area of this project is considered as –22.00 m, and the trough bottom elevation in the tower area is considered as –24.00 m, which is an ultra-deep large foundation pit.
According to the progress of the project, the characteristics and difficulties of the project's foundation pit engineering, etc., this paper mainly studies the influence of the foundation pit excavation on the subway structure of Beiguan Station of the R1 line on the south side: the calculation and verification of the envelope structure of the foundation pit project is limited. Element software establishes the foundation pit support system and the two-dimensional model of the subway station, and simulates and evaluates the impact of the foundation pit excavation on the structural deformation of the subway station through finite element numerical analysis. Among them, the sideline of the basement structure is 7.7 m away from the nearest station, and the main structure of the station is buried at a depth of about 30.5 m.
Beiguan Station is an underground three-story island station. The main structure is a three-story, two-column, three-span frame structure. The total length of the station is 289.1 m, the platform width is 15.0 m, the line spacing is 18.2 m, the structure covering soil is about 4.3 m, and the station floor is buried deep. About 27.8 m. Based on the integrated design of Beiguan Station, connecting halls are set up in the northeast and northwest quadrants of the transfer node between the station and the M6 line Beiguan Station.
2.2. Geological conditions
The investigation report reveals that the interior layer with a depth of 137 m is composed of artificial fill soil, newly deposited soil and quaternary Holocene fluvial and lacustrine sediments. The lithology is mainly filled soil, cohesive soil, silty soil and fine medium sand with gravel locally. The main stratigraphic parameters and sections are shown in Table 1 and Fig. 2 respectively. Geomologically, the proposed site belongs to the middle and lower part of alluvial fan of Wenyu River. The shallow groundwater in the site is the pore phreatic and confined water of quaternary unconsolidated layer, and the buried depth of initial water level is 9.50-11.40 m, and the buried depth of stable water level is 9.90-11.70 m. The water in this layer mainly occurs in the third layer (3) of fine sand and gravel, the fourth layer (4) of fine and medium sand, and the fifth layer (5) of fine and medium sand.
Table 1Selection of soil parameters
(1) Miscellaneous fill
(2)-1 Clay silt, sandy silt
(2)-2 Silty clay, heavy silty clay
(2)-3 Clayey silt, sandy silt
(2)-4 Silty-fine sand
(3) Fine sand contains pebbles
(3)-1 Gravel sandwiched with fine medium sand
(4) Fine medium sand
(4)-1 Heavy silty clay, silty clay
(5) Fine medium sand
Note: – bulk density, – modulus of compressibility, – cohesion, – internal friction angle, – coefficient of permeability
2.3. Foundation pit supporting design scheme
Considering different conditions such as structural design conditions, geological conditions of various parts of the foundation pit, and support forms, the project is divided into two support sections 2(a) and 2(b).
(1) The support system of “double row pile + prestressed anchor bolt” is adopted in the support section of 2A, in which the front pile is replaced by underground continuous wall with wall thickness of 0.8 m, length of 35.50 m and embedded depth of 24.7 m, The back pile adopts the original subway supporting structure, with diameter of 1.0 m, spacing of 1.6 m, length of 27.2 m and embedded depth of 16.4 m.
(2) The supporting system of "double row pile + prestressed bolt" is adopted in the 2b support section, in which the front pile adopts cast-in-place pile, with pile diameter of 1.0 m, spacing of 1.6 m, length of 35.50 m and embedded depth of 24.7 m. The back pile adopts the original subway supporting structure, with diameter of 1.0 m, spacing of 1.6 m, length of 27.2 m and embedded depth of 16.4 m.
Fig. 2Support section drawings of 2a and 2b
Fig. 3Section drawings of support sections 2a and 2b
2.4. Groundwater control system
The foundation pit of this project adopts water stop scheme. Within 50 m from the subway, underground continuous wall water stop curtain is adopted. The width of underground continuous wall is 800 mm, and the joint of underground continuous wall is blocked by high-pressure rotary jet pile. 50 m away from the grouting pile + piles between the double high pressure rotary jet grouting pile sealing curtain, the pit is equipped with dredging Wells, with a depth of 30 m and a spacing of 20 m. Emergency precipitation Wells are set outside the pit, with a depth of 25 m for type 1 on the west side, 35 m for type 2 on the north side and east side, and the spacing of precipitation Wells is 8.8 m.
2.5. Design parameters and strength standards
1. Design water level: –11.70 m (absolute elevation 13.50 m).
2. Ground overload outside the pit: no pile load shall be allowed within 2 m of the top of the slope, and 30 kPa beyond 2 m, Additional loads on other parts should be considered according to actual conditions.
3. Design strength:
(1) Cement: P.O 42.5 ordinary Portland cement.
(2) Bored pile: the design strength grade of reinforced concrete pile is C25, and the crown beam is the same as the reinforced concrete pile.
(3) Underground continuous wall: the concrete design strength grade is C30 underwater, and the crown beam is connected with the ground wall, Wall concrete impermeability grade P6.
(4) High pressure rotary jet grouting pile: the cement content is 25 %, and the unconfined compressive strength is 1.2 mpa in 28 days.
(5) Double high pressure rotary jet grouting pile: cement content 35 %, 28 days unconfined compressive strength 1.2mpa.
(6) Steel strand: 1×7, Øs/15.2.
(7) Steel bar: HPB300 grade steel bar, HRB335 grade steel bar, HRB400 grade steel bar.
(8) Inter-pile support: Shotcrete slope protection layer concrete strength grade C20.
3. Finite element analysis establishment
Before the project construction, PLAXIS finite element software of geotechnical engineering was used to analyze the research content. PLAXIS geotechnical products are the world's leading finite element software for geotechnical engineering, which is used to solve the problems of geotechnical engineering such as deformation, stability, seepage, consolidation, construction process simulation, dynamic analysis and so on.
The HSS model is adopted in this paper. The HS Small material model is a constitutive model based on the soil hardening model (HS), which considers the stiffness enhancement effect at the Small strain stage. It can simulate the behavior of different types of soil, including soft soil and hard soil. It is capable of simulating plasticity, creep, expansion, stress strengthening, large deformation and large strain. The HSS model is more suitable for this project. According to the actual working conditions, considering the influence of groundwater and space-time effect on the effective stress of soil around subway, the model is 100 m in width and 50 m in depth.
In the analysis model, the envelope design near the foundation pit was simplified according to the principle of stiffness equivalence. Plate element was used to simulate the envelope structure, n2nAnchor element was used to simulate the free section of anchor rod, and the EmbeddedPile element was used to simulate the grouting section of anchor rod. Soil element was used to simulate the reinforced Soil. The constraint conditions at the bottom of the model are fixed in both horizontal and vertical directions, while the constraint conditions on both sides are fixed in horizontal direction and free in vertical direction.
The value of soil strength index and permeability coefficient is taken as the geological report. The deformation modulus of all kinds of soil takes into account the influence of stress path, and the unloading modulus is:
where – deformation modulus, MPa, – influence coefficient of stress path corresponding to deformation modulus, – effective weight of soil, – depth.
4. Analysis of the influence of foundation pit excavation on south R1 metro line
4.1. Finite element analysis modeling
Finite element analysis models of support sections 2a and 2b were established in PLAXIS according to the sectional drawing of adjacent subway LINE R1, as shown in Fig. 4.
Fig. 4Section and finite element model of support section 2a and 2b
a) Section view of 2a support section
b) Section view of 2b support section
c) 3D calculation model of support section
4.2. Finite element calculation results
4.2.1. Calculation results of soil deformation
Figs. 5-6 shows the cloud diagram of soil displacement from section 2a and 2b excavated to bottom slab.
Fig. 5Cloud map of soil displacement from excavation to bottom slab in section 2a
Fig. 6Cloud map of soil displacement from excavation to bottom slab in section 2b
Fig. 73D cloud diagram of soil displacement from excavation to bottom slab
a) Vertical (Max.: 26.4 mm)
b) Horizontal (Max.: 14.2 mm)
Fig. 5 shows that the maximum horizontal displacement of section 2a is 6.2 mm, and the maximum vertical displacement is 23.5 mm and –3.7 mm in the process of soil excavation to the bottom plate. Fig. 6 shows that the maximum horizontal displacement of section 2b is 10.0 mm, and the maximum vertical displacement is +24.0 mm and –7.0 mm. It can be seen from Fig. 7 that the maximum horizontal and lateral displacement is 14.2 mm and the maximum vertical displacement is 26.4 mm in 3D calculation.
4.2.2. Calculation results of subway station structure
Figs. 8-10 is the soil displacement cloud diagram of section 2a, 2b and 3D building from excavation to floor during excavation of tunnel foundation pit.
Fig. 8Cloud map of subway structure displacement from section 2a excavation to basement
Fig. 8 shows that the maximum horizontal displacement of section 2a is 4.7 mm, and the maximum vertical displacement is +6.0 mm and –1.0 mm in the process of excavation. Fig. 9 shows that the maximum horizontal displacement of section 2b is 4.9 mm, and the maximum vertical displacement is +6.3 mm and –1.1 mm. It can be seen from Fig. 10 that the maximum horizontal and lateral displacement is 4.4 mm and the maximum vertical displacement is 5.9 mm and –2.7 mm in 3D calculation.
Fig. 9Cloud map of subway structure displacement from section 2b excavation to basement
Fig. 10Cloud map of subway structure displacement from excavation to basement of 3D model
4.2.3. Calculation results of pile top deformation
Fig. 11 is the horizontal displacement cloud diagram of pile top of section 2a, 2b and 3D building during the whole foundation pit excavation process.
Fig. 11 shows that during the whole excavation process, the maximum horizontal displacement of the top of the diaphragm wall in section 2A is about 5.1 mm, and the maximum horizontal displacement of the top of the retaining pile in section 2B is about 8.2 mm. The maximum horizontal displacement of the retaining pile is about 5.0 mm.
4.3. Deformation affects the results
The deformation control requirements of station structure of R1 line are shown in Table 2.
Based on finite element calculation, the deformation results are shown in Table 3.
Fig. 11Horizontal displacement of pile top
a) Section 2a
b) Section 2b
c) 3D models
Table 2Structural deformation control requirements of R1 line station
Differences in deformation
Deformation control requirements
≤ +10 mm, –5 mm
≤ 5 mm
The vertical deformation difference on both sides of the deformation joint is no more than 1.5 mm
The vertical differential deformation between the same span side wall and the central column or between the central column and the central column is not more than 5 mm
The vertical differential deformation of 20m is no more than 5mm
Finite element analysis value
≤ 6.3 mm
≤ 4.9 mm
≤ 4.7 mm
≤ 1.7 mm
Table 3Deformation statistics of finite element calculation
Maximum horizontal deformation of soil (mm)
Maximum vertical deformation of soil (mm)
Maximum horizontal deformation of structure (mm)
Maximum vertical deformation of structure (mm)
The pile top is deformed horizontally (mm)
1) Due to the large excavation area of the foundation pit and the close distance between the foundation pit and Beiguan station of R1 metro line, the unloading effect caused by large excavation results in a tendency of the soil outside the pit to move inside the pit. Under the influence of the soil deformation transfer effect, the Beiguan station of R1 metro line has a certain rebound, settlement and horizontal displacement.
2) The finite element analysis results show that the Beiguan station of metro Line R1 has certain springback deformation, additional settlement and horizontal displacement in the process of foundation pit excavation, but the values of each deformation index are within the deformation control standard, in line with the corresponding evaluation standard, the structure is safe and the project is feasible.
3) The excavation process of the foundation pit has a certain influence on the deformation of the main body of the subway station and the structure of the ring tunnel due to the close distance between the subway station and the tunnel, so the deformation monitoring should be strengthened in the construction process, and the earthwork excavation should be carried out strictly in accordance with the design scheme of the foundation pit support.
4) The numerical analysis considering the influence of soil small strain can better reflect the influence of foundation pit excavation on the displacement, deformation and internal force of the existing structure, and the calculated results are in better agreement with the actual engineering experience. However, due to the characteristics of finite element model and soil constitutive relationship, the calculated value and influence range may be different from the actual value. Therefore, although the calculation results are quantitative calculation, they are qualitative reference.
5) Foundation pit construction shall be carefully constructed, and the quality of foundation pit construction shall be strictly controlled to ensure the safety of foundation pit, The deformation of foundation pit is strictly controlled to reduce the additional deformation of subway station and tunnel. During the construction process, the construction load between the roof of the subway station, the tunnel and the envelope structure is strictly controlled.
6) Dewatering tests should be carried out before foundation pit dewatering construction to accumulate experience. Meanwhile, feasible, operable and feasible emergency plans should be formulated to prevent sudden water seepage and water inrush accidents. Corresponding emergency supplies should be in place. Avoid precipitation outside the subway side foundation pit as far as possible.
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Amazing Adventures On The Sand
By Srinidhi Lakhanigam
It looked, for a moment, like a mirage freaked. There on the rolling dune were scores of askew four-wheelers competing backwards and forwards, kicking up clouds of sand as they went. The very first idea that jumped to my mind was that a pack of daredevil circus stuntmen had actually been unleashed in the desert. Nope. This had not been a mirage. There I was Thirty Minutes out of Dubai and there, with their throttles accelerated, were the dune-bashers assailing across the desert in their dune buggies.
Dune slamming is often called the ‘white water rafting of the desert’ and it’s a preferred sport in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Don’t get worried by the name. Dune slamming isn’t some bizarre fierce task, yet a serious adventure sporting activity, which entails driving flashy cars and trucks/ bikes/ buggies right into the open desert and having some severe enjoyable going up and down the mountain- sized sand dunes. Of course obtaining stuck and liberating yourself is also an experience.
Because I was new to the task, I chose to take the soft option: dune bashing with a powerful 250cc buggy and afterwards going for a full-fledged desert drive in a chauffeured Toyota Land Cruiser. Tourists are owned into the desert and tackled an electrifying flight backwards and forwards dune in 4×4 vehicles? mainly effective Toyotas or Pajeros.
Our dune-bashing exploration began when we were gotten by our Lebanese desert guide-cum-driver in a ultra-luxury, effective Toyota Landcruiser from the centre of Dubai city. It was about a half hr drive from the glittering high-rise building city of Dubai to the sandy stretches of Hatta.
As we left Dubai, we could see an imposing variety of rocky and sandy mountains of Hajar away with their pitted and damaged sides. The Hatta dune, believed to be remnants of an ancient sea, which had once washed over the Emirates, are located simply outside Dubai and most dune-bashing tours take off from right here.
We quit at the access of dune. You have two hours. You enter into the sand and enjoy yourselves, claimed our Lebanese chauffeur indicating the buggies which were offered for hire. A dune buggy is a 4X4 vehicle which has a motorbike saddle and handlebar. Owning a buggy on soft sands could be extremely tricky and simply large power isn’t really sufficient to ensure an exciting and enjoyable dune bashing outing.
There’s no avoiding that a dune buggy is an odd looking vehicle. It’s built like a mobility scooter however it has 4 wheels with fat tires. And it roars with the desert sending up clouds of sand as it goes. Campers of buggies ridden by dune-bashing lovers followed by a jeep are a common sight on the dunes around Hatta. From where we were standing in Hatta, we might see ratings of buggies and automobiles tearing around the sand dunes in just what looked like self-destructive adventures.
After a couple of minutes of enjoying, I was itching to attempt my hand at it. I got on a 250 cc buggy and removed going to the nearest dune. I tried to race backwards and forwards over the dunes like the professionals out there, however took a tumble atop the initial triangular shaped dune. After a couple of more debacles, I mastered slamming the dunes without getting slammed right into the sand. Fluctuating the dunes, increasing columns and clouds of sand was an exciting experience.
Soon it was time to obtain back into the Land Cruiser and experience a genuine desert drive. Our Lebanese driver-cum-guide packed us in the vehicle and removed into the undulating stretches of dune. Soon the undulations increased as we looked at what appeared like huge sand hills. The trip ended up being a lot more uneven and felt nearly as if we were cruising in a stormy sea and not driving. As our Land Cruiser heaved and plunged backwards and forwards the crests and troughs of the dunes, our motorist cheerfully warned us that it ‘d get worse. Were we all right and were we game for even more? Obviously.
As soon as he had been reassured, he smiled and swung the wheel right into the sand dunes almost flying across the countryside. After fluctuating a few more dunes, he pulled up ahead at a place that looked a little bit like a ranch. This, said our chauffeur, was just one of the few farms, which used native Arab practices to breed camels.
The few camels in sight, took a glimpse at us down their long noses and went back to biting away on the turf! Soon, some more Land Cruisers appeared and lined up together with our vehicle. Out tumbled vacationers of all sizes, forms and races? Caucasians, Asians including Indians, and some Africans as well. They all goinged directly for the camels, ambitiously aiming to animal them and take photos.
Meanwhile our driver started to let some of the air out of the tyres, checking the pressure with a gauge to make sure it was perfect. Somewhat flat tires provide even more surface area call with the ground and make for higher trail-grip, he clarified including that we would certainly require all the traction we could muster up to discuss the high dunes.
After a short break and when all the Land Cruisers had let out air from their tires, we started off on our actual journey with the dunes. The dune rise for as high as 30m-40m, and some were also higher. The effective vehicle climbed up the dune gradually, sliding occasionally on the side of the sand pyramid. The windshield framed a climbing slope of sand; we were pushed back right into our seats as if we remained in an airplane soaring right into the skies.
That initial climb was not a very easy trip, yet it was certainly exhilarating and had our adrenaline pumping. And as we reached the knife-edge crest of the dune, we started to plunge down the opposite. Heading directly down at breakneck speed, skidding on the sand we had that sinking feeling in the pits of our stomachs. In places where the sand was too soft, the vehicle went sidewards, turning at a minor angle, in some cases to the left, in some cases to the right. Sometimes, it looked like if the vehicle would certainly just topple over on its side … however our chauffeur was an expert with over 10 years of experience and he skilfully guided the Land Cruiser through the dunes.
After a two-hour rough-and-tumble trip, we reached a craggy spot of rock in the middle of the desert. Our fleet of five Land Cruisers picked up a view of the crimson desert sunset. The view was merely remarkable and as the sunlight transformed from gold to crimson red to comforting orange, it was a soul-soothing experience.
The campers of automobiles prepared once again to proceed bashing the dunes till nightfall. We remained to bash in the sunset and ultimately got to the well-lit up desert camp, outfitted with piercing lights, shrieking Arabian music and stalls where we might photograph ourselves in typical costumes (kandura for men and burkha for females).
Likewise, there were a lot of desert delicacies made of dates, completely dry fruits and honey along with a stimulating mix of alcoholic mixed drinks and fruit mocktails. Later on as the evening passed, we stretched out on carpets and pillows on a round wood floor relaxing and taking pleasure in the cool desert wind. Quickly a belly professional dancer came on stage and amused us while a hookah aka shisha with perfumed cigarette was passed around, making us seem like royals delighting in the naach-gana by the dancing ladies.
o Where: Throughout Arabian deserts, Liwa Desert, Abu Dhabi, Hatta dunes, Dubai, or anywhere with acres of sand.
o Agencies using desert drives: Arabian Journeys (www.arabian-adventures.com), Alpha Tours (www.alphatoursdubai.com), Royal Sands Tourist http://www.royalsands.com).
o Prices: Dh160 onwards for desert flight including dinner.


THE 1970S brought platform shoes, maxi dresses, and bell bottoms to the fashion forefront. First thought to be apparel for rock stars and top models, bell bottoms became a popular ticket for fashionistas everywhere. And now they’re back, in a big bad way.
Bell bottoms were first worn by sailors in the 19th century and are still part of the uniform of the navies of some countries today. No one really knows the origin of the style—theories range from the fact that they’re easier to roll up, thus keeping the pants’ legs dry when sailors swab the deck, to sailors being able to get the trousers off quickly if they fell overboard.
An alternative of the ubiquitous skinny jeans that have been around for the past few years, bell bottoms are perhaps indicative of a trend toward bigger profiles. Maxi, free-flowing dresses were on the fall 2011 runway shows, indicating the return to a 1970s’ sensibility. And bell bottoms can be flattering, fitting snugly through the knees then widening up to the feet.
Eyewear moves right along with this development—ophthalmic frames are getting larger. Some consumers, in fact, are taking sunglasses and putting clear lenses in them. And this style is not just for the presbyopic crowd, young people are into the bigger look, too.
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INFRASTRUCTURE WORK has begun on the first component of the US$42 million Coastal Risk Assessment and Management Programme, which is a combined effort between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Coastal Zone Management Unit (CZMU).
The Holetown Waterfront Improvement Programme, which is expected to cost around BDS$10 million, will encompass 1.5 kilometres of shoreline from Zaccio’s Restaurant to Heron Bay, St James.
Speaking at Heron Bay yesterday during a Press briefing, acting director of the CZMU, Dr Lorna Inniss, said the project would enhance the coastline while also addressing the risks associated with sea level rise, coastal erosion, storm surges, winter swells and general climate change.
“Barbados has built quite a lot of capacity in terms of coastal management but now as the risk associated with coastal hazards becomes greater, it is imperative that, given that our economy is coastal-based, we are able to manage the risks not just to the environment and to recreation but also the potential economic risks,” she said. (NB)Please read the full story in today’s DAILY NATION, or in the eNATION edition.
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Ghanaian rap duo, Koteakeh collaborates with Singer and songwriter, Alpha Reigns on this new single titled, “One Man”, produced by A1BoomBeatz.
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October 12, 2013
BLACKSBURG - If Virginia Tech's players needed a couple jolts to the system to avoid a letdown situation before next week's bye, defensive coordinator Bud Foster has provided them. As Foster studied personnel heading into Saturday's game against Pittsburgh, Foster noticed some aspects of the Panthers' offense that jumped out at him. Though life is good for No. 24 Tech (5-1 overall, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) after jumping quickly to the top of the Coastal Division while it continues to try to find its offensive identity, Foster has given his defense a few things to ponder regarding Pittsburgh.
January 30, 2013
NEWPORT NEWS - Pittsburgh is now competing with Newport News to be the corporate headquarters for the relaunch of People Express, the iconic 1980s airline that pioneered discount ticketing. Michael Morisi, People Express president, said Newport News would at the least remain a hub for routes, Pittsburgh is now in the running to be the corporate headquarters and maintenance facility for the startup discount airline. If People Express succeeds to the extent that company officials are aiming for, a corporate headquarters in Virginia would generate about 1,000 jobs for the Peninsula.
February 22, 2004
PITTSBURGH - Shedrick G. Tuning, 43, son of Mary E. Tuning of Hampton, died Feb. 2, 2004. Services were held in Pittsburgh.
October 16, 2013
BLACKSBURG - Just getting Dadi Nicolas to Virginia Tech, and keeping him there once he arrived, has taken some effort. Now that he's firmly entrenched in his own unique role, it's starting to pay off. Nicolas has what all football players envy - a natural ability spawned not necessarily after years of crafting, but instead by some unseen force. As a 6-foot-3, 224-pound defensive end, who added outside linebacker to his duties last Saturday while logging three sacks in Tech's 19-9 win against Pittsburgh, the speedy Nicolas has a knack for making quarterbacks squirm.
March 9, 2003
WILLIAMSBURG - Fern Elizabeth Lewis, 84, of Williamsburg and formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa., died Saturday, March 8, 2003. Arrangements by Bucktrout of Williamsburg.
April 9, 2006
Jim and Christie Bradley of Newport News are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Tina Marie, to Bret Jonathan Stutzman, son of Bruce and Linda Stutzman of Pittsburgh, PA. The bride to be is a graduate of Warwick High School and received a bachelor's degree in marketing management from Virginia Tech. She is currently employed with the H.J. Heinz Company in Pittsburgh, PA. The groom-to-be is a graduate of Upper St. Clair High School in Pittsburgh, PA. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Richmond and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

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If you can’t have the retirement of your dreams in the U.S. or Canada, you can have it somewhere else. Just the other day my retired friend who lives in Manhattan lamented about the cold and how it’s a little more difficult to get around.
She wonders what would happen if she lost her mobility because she loves exploring the nooks and crannies of the big city. Her tiny one-bedroom apartment in a very tall high-rise is cute, but expensive to maintain and she’s starting to feel closed in. However, if she chose to retire in Nicaragua she could create a dream life she never even considered.
Think living near the beach is out of your reach financially? At home it may be, but not when you move abroad. San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, offers the proverbial beach-town lifestyle with all the quirks, colors, and fun that you saw in those 1960s surfer movies.
Worldwide, Nicaragua is still in the running for some of the most economical homes near the beach. San Juan del Sur is a tiny and very colorful three-square-block town, but it’s loaded with restaurants, surf shops, shuttle services to other beaches, beachwear stores, live music, and more. You can hear the waves crashing almost anywhere you walk. It’s a dream life. And it can be yours for a song.
If you want to rent without needing a car, there’s a beautiful, well-appointed one-bedroom house that just came on the market for $500 a month, including all utilities and WiFi. Located on the main drag that goes into town, a five-minute walk will get you anywhere you want…including the beach. With a front and back patio this house would be great for a single retiree or a couple.
If you are looking to buy, you can’t go wrong with this $149,000, ocean-view, two-story, 1,250-square-foot home at Maderas beach—our famous surf beach where they hold international surf competitions. One of four detached homes, it comes completely furnished, with granite countertops, beautiful hardwood finishes, and well-appointed furniture. With a sweeping view of the ocean from the patio, you can while away the hours in your own private heaven.
San Juan del Sur is experiencing a construction boom right now. According to the local government, over $200 million dollars will be invested in the next few years to bring this once-sleepy fishing village up to world tourism standards.
If you are “on the fence” about moving to Nicaragua, I urge you to take your next vacation here—and see if you can find your retirement paradise here. I did, and I’m sure you can too.
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We are offering free parking for coaches, in the car park at the front of Dalton Mills, for The Grand Départ this weekend.
With Keighley filling up for the hugely anticipated start to the Tour de France, coach parking will be in great demand. As we currently have free parking space at the front of the mill, especially on a weekend, we were keen to offer it to coaches to help to make one of our town's most exciting events run smoothly.
The Tour de France cyclists will pass through Keighley at 13.00 on Sunday 6 July, with the publicity caravan arriving approximately two hours earlier. A free-ticketed spectator hub has been set up in Keighley's Victoria Park, with a second one at Haworth's Central Park.
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I have been reading The Log from the Sea of Cortez, by John Steinbeck. It is the chronicle of a six week marine specimen collecting trip around the Sea of Cortez. While describing the adventure, he frequently ascends to philosophical rumination about creatures, humankind and the universe. This morning I read the following:
There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not changing things, but generally considered good and bad throughout the ages and throughout the species. Of the good we think always of wisdom, tolerance, kindliness, generosity, humility; and the qualities of cruelty, greed, self-interest, graspingness, and rapacity are universally considered undesirable. And yet in our structure of society, the so called and considered good qualities are invariable concomitants of failure, while the bad ones are the cornerstones of success. A man—a viewing-point man—while he will love the abstract good qualities and detest the abstract bad, will nevertheless envy and admire the person who through possessing the bad qualities has succeeded economically and socially, and will hold in contempt that person whose good qualities have caused failure. When such a viewing-point man thinks of Jesus or St. Augustine or Socrates he regards them with love because they are the symbols of the good he admires, and he hates the symbols of the bad. But actually he would rather be successful than good. In an animal other than man we would replace the term “good” with “weak survival quotient” and the term “bad” with “strong survival quotient.” Thus, man in his thinking or reverie status admires the progression toward extinction, but in the unthinking stimulus which really activates him he tends toward survival. 1
The passage hits home for me as I am the sort that falls into the “weak survival quotient” category. I have often thought, a little despairingly, about my inability to make a solid enough living to enable me to pass on my genes to a new generation.
But there is something wrong with his analysis. In earlier passages of the same chapter, Steinbeck talks about how powerful families don’t often remain powerful beyond a few generations and sometimes don’t last one generation. Comparatively, the power of Jesus and St. Augustine and Socrates has extended across a multitude of generations (for better or worse) and inhabited the minds of far more people. Our concept of what power is might be inadequate. Spiritual and intellectual accomplishment is remembered far longer. Oligarchs are memorable mostly to the communities directly affected by them. Who talks about Aristotle Socrates Onassis anymore?
In my thinking and reading of late, I am finding that the very qualities of the “strong survival quotient” are the ones that plunder the planet and exploit human beings; a system that values and rewards destructive instincts, not constructive ones. As Steinbeck suggests, we have known since the beginning of recorded thought what constitutes good and bad, but have failed for just as long to put “the good” at the center of how our societies function.
We are not very far removed from our primal selves it seems. Steinbeck speculates this may be part of the problem. He wonders if we were ready for consciousness:
Perhaps no other animal is so torn between alternatives. Man might be described fairly adequately, if simply, as a two-legged paradox. He has never become accustomed to the tragic miracle of consciousness. Perhaps, as has been suggested, his species is not set, has not jelled, but is still in a state of becoming, bound by his physical memories to a past of struggle and survival, limited in his futures by the uneasiness of thought and consciousness. 2
A recent New Yorker article on Wendell Berry finds him echoing Steinbeck’s conception of human beings as two legged paradoxes:
The following year, he marched against the Vietnam War in Lexington, where he told the crowd that, as a member of the human race, he was “in the worst possible company: communists, fascists and totalitarians of all sorts, militarists and tyrants, exploiters, vandals, gluttons, ignoramuses, murderers.” But, he insisted, he was given hope by people “who through all the sad destructive centuries of our history have kept alive the vision of peace and kindness and generosity and humility and freedom.” 3
Steinbeck has some things to say about hope too:
It is amazing how the strictures of the old teleologies infect our observation, causal thinking warped by hope. It was said earlier that hope is a diagnostic human trait, and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe. For hope implies a change from present bad condition to a future better one. The slave hopes for freedom, the weary for rest, the hungry for food. And the feeders of hope, economic and religious, have from these simple strivings of dissatisfaction managed to create a world picture which is very hard to escape. Man grows toward perfection; animals grow toward man; bad grows toward good; and down toward up, until our little mechanism, hope, achieved in ourselves probably to cushion the shock of thought, manages to warp our whole world. Probably when our species developed the trick of memory and with it the counterbalancing projection called “the future,” this shock-absorber, hope, had to be included in the series, else the species would have destroyed itself in despair. For if ever any man were deeply and unconsciously sure that his future would be no better than his past, he might deeply wish to cease to live.4
We are a puzzling species. Full of hope for better. Full of desire that continuously draws us to the worst. How we overcome ourselves is a question for the ages.
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Liverpool’s Georginio Wijnaldum pulls off ridiculous skill during Holland training (Video)Published September 07, 2016
Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum is known to be a very good footballer, but even we were caught by surprise by his magical instincts.
A clip of the midfielder’s showboating during a Holland training session has gone viral, leaving fans wondering if the 25-year-old is some sort of a magician.
Watch the footage below, as Wijnaldum somehow plucks a football out of thin air, whilst showing off his impressive skills.
Whilst on the face of it, it appears as though the Dutchman is some sort of wizard, but the answer is unfortunately a lot more simpler then that.
Can you work out how he’s done it?
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“Sign, sign, everywhere a sign” the song sung by the Five Man Electric Band came to my mind last night as I took a stroll by the river at sunset. If you’ve not heard this song from those ole hippy days – here it is.
Anyway, back to my walk. I was walking on the bike path by the Ohio River in the downtown of this small burg we live in and I was surprised at all of the signs. I took my camera to catch the sunset, but ended up shooting the signs. Yes, I agree with this one.
The beginning of this walk.
Let’s get started.
Trash cans even had signs on them.
I couldn’t believe there were two of these signs on this small bike path.
Signs on top of another sign.
Love this sign – sure!
One of my favorite signs when I’m out and about. I had no idea there was one of these down at the river.
Walking down to the boat launch, right off of the bike path –
Then back on the path – I don’t remember ever seeing a sign like this before.
Now for a little history.
There were several other signs, but I thought those were enough for today’s blog. After my walk, I sat down on one of these benches that also had signs on them!
I was amazed at all of the signs in just a small area. Oh, I did miss the sunset. Guess I’ll catch it another day. Thanks for dropping by and letting me rant about the signs.


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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Let’s Get Kreativ
After a painfully long layoff – largely due to a painfully overloaded work schedule – I’m pleased to report that The Cooler will spring back to action here in the near future. I have reviews to write, rants to share, an event to announce and various other posts that need to find their way out of my brain and onto the page, er, screen. Before we return to business as usual, however, I wanted to give thanks to three bloggers who acknowledged The Cooler with a Kreativ Award. Oh, sure, it’s a meme, but I’m flattered just the same and, even more, I’m eager to share some love with my fellow bloggers because, wow, I can't express how much fun it is to be a movie fan thanks to the blogosphere.
So, here goes …
First, to recognize those who recognized me. Thanks to Tony Dayoub, who writes with notable clarity and honesty at Cinema Viewfinder. Thanks to Edward Copeland, whose blog, Edward Copeland on Film, is back to life after health complications forced a layoff. (Can you write horizontally? I don’t think I could. Way to go, Ed!) And thanks to Jake, a talented (and young) writer whose Not Just Movies was the best blog I discovered in 2009. Keep it up, fellas.
Second, for reasons that don’t make a whole lot of sense to me, I’m supposed to now tell you some things about myself that you might find interesting. OK. I’m game. Here goes …
1. I’ve never seen It’s a Wonderful Life. Sure, the list of movies I haven’t seen is long. Why point out this one? Because when I tell people I’ve never seen this movie they tend to look at me with horror-struck faces as if I’ve admitted I like burning the American flag while hosting dog-fighting parties in my backyard.
2. I’ve lived in five states plus the District of Columbia. For someone who isn’t from a military family or in the witness relocation program, that’s quite a few.
3. I’m still a little confused about who John Conner’s original father was, assuming that his latter father was someone he sent from the future and that they couldn't be the same guy – or am I remembering The Terminator incorrectly? The Terminator, by the way, was the first R-rated movie I was allowed to see. (And is it me, or has Linda Hamilton not had a memorable role since she played the clueless, supportive wife on Titanic’s big Oscar night all those years ago?)
4. After my utter disappointment with the majority of the films I saw in 2009, I fear I’m becoming a curmudgeon. By the time Invictus and Nine rolled around, I didn’t have the energy to write another disgruntled review. (I still might write something about The Lovely Bones, though.)
5. I grew up playing sports. In the past, I’ve made a living writing about sports and I’ve worked in sports public relations at two major universities. Currently, I play in two very casual fantasy football leagues and one very competitive National League-only fantasy baseball league (which I won last year, by the way). And yet I couldn’t tell you when ESPN’s SportsCenter airs and never watch it.
6. I do a fairly decent Andy Rooney impersonation.
7. I always get asked for directions, including when I’m visiting from out of town. Two weeks ago, I gave my easiest directions ever. Wandering through D.C. after seeing a movie, a tourist came up to me at a traffic light and asked for directions to the National Portrait Gallery. I turned 45 degrees and pointed to the large freestone building directly next to us. “That way?” he asked. “No,” I replied. “That’s it.”
Finally, I now get to spread the love to seven more bloggers. Many of them have already been honored, but I’m including them anyway. In no specific order …
Craig of The Man From Porlock
Kevin J. Olson of Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies
Troy Olson of Elusive as Robert Denby
Jermaine Olson of ... wait, never mind.
Fox of Tractor Facts (don’t stay away altogether, buddy)
FilmDr of The Film Doctor
Hokahey of Little Worlds
Steven Santos of The Fine Cut
Thanks for all the great blog reading!


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Chris has over 20 years of experience in supervisory and managerial positions, having served as the Division Manager of Environmental Health in Pinal County since 2013 after having been an Environmental Health Manager in Maricopa County, where he started his career in 1996. His leadership extends to service in various public health and policy groups, including serving as past President of the Arizona Environmental Health Association and current President of the Arizona County Directors of Environmental Health Services Association. Chris has served as adjunct faculty with Rio Salado Community College for over 25 years, where he was also the recipient of the outstanding adjunct faculty award on multiple occasions. He has been a public health subject matter expert and invited presenter at local and national conferences.
Chris has a Master of Science degree and multiple certifications, including a Registered Sanitarian and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Sanitarians. He received his certification from ASU as a Public Manager in 2012. Chris is excited to help foster the collective talent of our public health team in developing, implementing, and evaluating cutting-edge public health practices, policies, and programs serving our Pinal community.


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ICCO will participate in a webinar on ‘Digital Solutions for Smallholder Farmers: the Challenges and Opportunities of COVID-19’ on August 27th, 2020 from 10:00 till 11:30 CEST.
The webinar belongs to a series of webinars organized by The Food Security and COVID-19 Community of Practice on Digital Solutions on digital opportunities in the response to COVID-19 in Asian & Africa agri-food systems.
Speakers at this interactive webinar will be:
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- Dhimas Putranto, Programme Officer/Business Development Officer at ICCO Cooperation and Project Manager of SMARTseeds.
- Ad Rietberg, Director Agri-Wallet
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Ghana’s “dancehall superstar”, Stonebwoy, who signed up with Zylofone Media earlier this year has stated that he composed fellow Ghanaian artiste, Chris Waddle’s popular “Bie Gya” hit song.
During a recent interview on Zylofone FM’s Showbiz Agenda, the “higher” hit-maker said he wrote the popular song, “Bie Gya”, but chose to let it out to Chris so he could only feature on it. Responding to a question whether he considered “spiritual feeling” when releasing a song, he responded in the affirmative.
“A song like ‘Biegya’, I felt I’m not the one to churn out so I was like, ‘Waddle, why not take this song so I’ll be the one to feature on it?’ I wrote the song. I didn’t mean to say this but it’s because you’ve asked me that’s why this issue is out.” Said Stonebwoy in the interview.
According to Stonebwoy, Chris Waddle’s “Bie Gya” isn’t the only song he’s written, adding that he’s written several songs for a Ghanaian artists.
Stonebwoy will be having the second edition of his annual “Bhim Concert” on the 22 of December. The first edition saw a considerable amount of fans and patrons attend the concert. With last year’s concert being a hit, this year’s concert promises to be an exciting event.
“Bye Gya” controversy
Stonebwoy’s comments come almost a year after Chris Waddle accused popular Ghanaian artiste, Shatta Wale of stealing his song, “Bie Gya”, a title Shatta Wale also used for song of his.
Back then, Chris Waddle also accused Shatta Wale of employing occult measures to dampen other artist’s shine, artists Chris Waddle said Shatta Wale couldn’t compete with.
Source : Yen.com.gh