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What is the Concept of Data Visualization?
Data visualization is the practice of representing data through visual elements such as charts, graphs, maps, plots, infographics, and animations. It simplifies complex data, making it more accessible and comprehensible for users.
The primary objective of data visualization is to identify patterns, trends, and outliers within large datasets. It facilitates data-driven decision-making in business intelligence (BI) and other domains by presenting information in an easily digestible format.
- Data visualization uses visual elements to represent data.
- It simplifies complex data for better understanding.
- Its goal is to identify patterns, trends, and outliers in data.
How Do Data Visualization Tools Enhance the Process?
Data visualization tools improve and automate the visual communication process by providing accuracy, detail, and interactivity. These tools enable users to create various types of visualizations, customize their appearance, and interact with the data by adjusting parameters to reveal more details or generate new insights.
Examples of data visualization tools include Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and D3.js, which offer a wide range of features and capabilities to create interactive and engaging visualizations.
- Data visualization tools provide accuracy, detail, and interactivity.
- They enable users to create and customize visualizations.
- Examples include Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, and D3.js.
What Are Some Effective Data Visualization Techniques?
Effective data visualization techniques include the use of size, color, and visual displays to emphasize information, add context, and communicate complex data relationships. Here are some tips for using these techniques:
1. Use size: Size can be used to emphasize important information and provide contextual clues. For example, visualizing endangered animals with shapes proportional to their actual size can help convey their relative sizes and conservation status.
2. Use color: Color can be used to differentiate categories, highlight specific data points, or indicate a range of values. For instance, a heatmap uses color gradients to represent the intensity of values in a matrix.
3. Use visual displays: Visual displays, such as bar charts, pie charts, and scatter plots, can effectively communicate complex data relationships and insights in an easily understandable manner.
- Size can emphasize information and provide context.
- Color differentiates categories and highlights data points.
- Visual displays communicate complex data relationships effectively.
What Are the Benefits of Data Visualization in Business Intelligence?
Data visualization offers numerous benefits in business intelligence, including:
1. Improved decision-making: By presenting data in a visual format, decision-makers can quickly grasp trends, patterns, and outliers, leading to more informed decisions.
2. Enhanced communication: Visualizations can convey complex information more effectively than text or numbers, making it easier for teams to understand and act on insights.
3. Faster analysis: Data visualization tools enable users to explore and analyze data more efficiently, reducing the time required to derive insights and make decisions.
4. Increased engagement: Interactive visualizations encourage users to explore data, fostering a data-driven culture within an organization.
- Improved decision-making through quick identification of trends and patterns.
- Enhanced communication of complex information.
- Faster analysis and increased engagement with data.
What Are Some Common Data Visualization Types and Their Applications?
Common data visualization types and their applications include:
1. Bar charts: Used to compare values across categories, such as sales by product or region.
2. Line charts: Used to display trends over time, such as stock prices or website traffic.
3. Pie charts: Used to show the proportion of each category within a whole, such as market share or budget allocation.
4. Scatter plots: Used to display the relationship between two variables, such as height and weight or advertising spend and sales.
5. Heatmaps: Used to represent the intensity of values in a matrix, such as website visitor behavior or correlation between variables.
6. Geographic maps: Used to display spatial data, such as sales by region or population density.
- Bar charts compare values across categories.
- Line charts display trends over time.
- Pie charts show proportions within a whole.
- Scatter plots reveal relationships between variables.
- Heatmaps represent intensity of values in a matrix.
- Geographic maps display spatial data.
How Can Data Visualization Improve Collaboration and Decision-Making?
Data visualization can improve collaboration and decision-making by presenting complex information in an easily understandable format, enabling team members to quickly grasp insights and make informed decisions. Interactive visualizations encourage users to explore data, fostering a data-driven culture and promoting collaboration across departments.
By providing a common visual language, data visualization helps bridge the gap between technical and non-technical team members, facilitating discussions and consensus-building around data-driven insights.
- Data visualization presents information in an easily understandable format.
- Interactive visualizations promote data exploration and collaboration.
- Visual language bridges the gap between technical and non-technical team members.
How Does Secoda Leverage Data Visualization to Enhance Data Management?
Secoda leverages data visualization to enhance data management by providing users with intuitive and interactive visual representations of their data. This enables users to quickly identify patterns, trends, and anomalies, leading to more informed decision-making and improved data governance.
By incorporating data visualization into its platform, Secoda empowers data teams to communicate insights more effectively, streamline workflows, and foster collaboration. This results in a more efficient data management process and a robust data infrastructure that supports innovation and growth.
- Secoda uses data visualization for intuitive and interactive data representations.
- Visualization aids in identifying patterns, trends, and anomalies.
- Improved communication, streamlined workflows, and collaboration are achieved.


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Stephen Lawrence's family are expected to meet Home Secretary Theresa May today to ask for a new public inquiry.
It follows claims claims that police secretly tried to undermine the family of the murdered teenager.
More top news
A memorial service marked the 30th anniversary of the King's Cross fire which claimed the lives of 31 people.
The athlete, who has been out injured since a motorbike crash in January, has been told he wont receive his annual £21,000 lottery funding.
Four people have died following a mid-air collision between a helicopter and a two-seater plane in Buckinghamshire.

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This CD was handed to me after a concert and I'm grateful to have been in the right place at the right time! State and Madison represent Chicago well. They have a unique, polished sound. I just watched the movie The Wolfman last night and was immediately reminded of my favorite song from this EP! These boys can go far, so give 'em a listen!


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Mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive birds, which were introduced across England, Wales and Northern Ireland to help stop the spread of avian influenza, will be lifted from 00:01 on Tuesday 18 April 2023.
New deer vision for Scotland
A new vision that will place communities at the centre of efforts to manage deer on publicly-owned land in Scotland will be unveiled later today at the Scottish Game Fair, Scone Palace.
Entitled Our Deer – Community Integrated Deer Management in Scotland, the vision is being brought forward by a partnership of eleven leading deer management stakeholders.
The organisations involved are the Association of Deer Management Groups (ADMG), BASC, the British Deer Society (BDS), Deer Management Qualifications (DMQ), the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), Lowland Deer Network Scotland (LDNS), the Scottish Association for Country Sports (SACS), the Scottish Countryside Alliance (SCA), the Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group (SCSTG), Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) and the Scottish Venison Association (SVA).
The partnership aims to institutionalise what is being described as ‘community integrated deer management’. This involves establishing more opportunities for trained recreational deer stalkers to manage deer on public land in their local area.
Bringing stalking opportunities within reach
In Scotland, nearly 6,400 people hold the Deer Stalking Certificate 1 (the introductory deer management qualification). In addition, more than 2,100 individuals hold the more advanced Deer Stalking Certificate 2.
Despite having an estimated population of one million, many trained recreational deer stalkers in Scotland struggle to access deer management opportunities in their local area.
This is especially true for those living near publicly-owned land, where permissions are described as being ‘out of reach’ for recreational stalkers.
The partnership organisations argue that current public expenditure on deer management contractors is ‘needlessly expensive’.
Instead, their vision seeks to utilise trained recreational deer stalkers, slashing costs if they were afforded more opportunities in their local area.
Making financial sense
In 2019, Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – which manages approximately 9% of Scotland’s land area – expended £10.5 million on deer management contracts and just under £5 million on fencing.
The partnership is urging the Scottish Government to establish a pilot community deer stalking scheme on FLS land. This would see a local recreational deer stalking syndicate pay a small fee to take on the deer management obligations.
It is envisaged that the harvested venison would be sold and consumed locally, thus reducing the overall carbon footprint.
BASC – the co-ordinating partner behind the vision – has pledged to support the pilot syndicate. It will also act as the liaison with FLS and develop replicable processes so that other schemes can be established in the future.
In addition, BASC and the British Deer Society (BDS) have pledged to provide discounted training courses to recreational deer stalkers with ambitions of managing deer in their local area, in a bid to upskill communities and make deer stalking more accessible. More details on this will be unveiled in due course.
The partnership is also recommending for the Scottish Government to establish a £250,000 deer management training fund. The fund would enable BASC and BDS to deliver the Deer Stalking Certificate 1 to well over a thousand students free of charge over an eight-year period.
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We'll meet on Union Square at the CORNER of Powell & Post and take a short bus ride to Pacific Heights with its colorful Victorian row houses, famous mansions, and diverse architectural mix. Learn the history of San Francisco through its architecture. Explore the inside of a period Queen Anne Victorian with all its original detail and furniture. See where Mrs. Doubtfire and Princess Diaries were filmed, or where Robin Williams and Francis Ford Coppola lived and much more. Enjoy lunch after the tour on Union Street in Cow Hollow, our exclusive Victorian commercial district. A truly unforgettable experience!
I have been living in San Francisco since the 70's, bought and restored my first Victorian home in the 80's, and have been studying and teaching San Francisco architecture since the 90's. I have a great passion for our city's trademark architecture, Victorians, and am an active member of the The Victorian Alliance and The San Francisco Architectural Heritage.
Ticket for bus to Pacific Heights
Tour begins by exploring the interior of a former Victorian girls boarding school which is privately owned and in period. From there we walk through the colorful Victorian row houses of Lower Pacific Heights. Next is Pacific Heights with its incredible water views including the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz. All the famous diverse houses are here where no tour buses are allowed. Ending on upscale Union Street full of restaurants.
Wear comfortable shoes. We go around hills, never up them. Water and snacks available for purchase at beginning of tour at local corner store. Tour operates rain or shine, one restroom stop on route.

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One issue which we have spoken about before has returned; the threat to our agencies posed by cyber attacks and the liability it brings to both our agencies, and the threat to our customers. The RPS website shares some very scary data about this threat. According to a survey conducted by Hartford Steam Boiler, 53% of firms experienced some sort of cyber attack in the past year. Of those hacked, 72% spent over $5,000 to investigate, restore, or replace software or hardware. 7% spent more than a quarter of a million dollars! As you can see, this is a large-scale problem with potential large-scale penalties.
According to reports, New York is enacting new regulations that make it the responsibility of the agent/broker to secure coverage to protect their clients in the event of a data breach. Couple this with the fact that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has asked for the regulating language to adopt similar legislation in the other states and one can readily see where this action will take us. There is at least one major carrier that already requires this protection to maintain a contract with them.
While writing this I contacted the WV Insurance for guidance on what we can expect. Commissioner McVey responded that “Although there are no current laws regarding the requirement to have Cyber coverages we do review the risk associated with those exposures and will be introducing this law at some point to our Legislature. It would include an assessment on how they would handle a breach (insurance, self-insurance deposits, etc.)…I think it is a huge risk for all of us.” CLICK HERE to see the press release from the NAIC.
If you do not have a cyber liability policy in place already, it is important to get one and will soon be mandatory. Please check the RPS website for further information or contact us a MSAA for more information. Quotes for VERY broad coverage are $400 for most agencies.


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Sören Espersen, an MP for the populist Dansk Folkeparti, pointed to the fact that British booty taken from Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars was being returned to a museum in Copenhagen this week, Dagens Nyheter reports.
Espersen, whose party is often perceived as anti-Swedish, is calling on Danish ministers to act on the issue.
He said that Sweden was refusing to listen “presumably because if it were to start handing back all the loot it took in the 16th and 17th century, large parts of their museums, churches and castles would be completely empty,” he told Danish news agency Ritzau, according to DN.
This is not the first time that Dansk Folkeparti has pressed for the return of Swedish treasures. In 2002, it accused the “previous Swedish military dictatorship” from carrying out widespread robberies in Denmark.
It also accused Sweden of perpetrating “history’s first systematic ethnic cleansing of Danes in Skåne, Halland and Blekinge,” the southern Swedish provinces previously part of Denmark. So far, the demands for the return of cultural treasures to Denmark have not included requests for the return of southern Sweden.

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Border Crises (Part 1): Is Biden open border policy an impeachable offense?
First the facts.
Defending the border is the constitutional responsibility of the federal government. It is argued that it is the exclusive responsibility of Uncle Sam (aka Joe Biden). When border states attempt to use law enforcement to defend their southern borders, the federal government (Biden’s government) orders them to stand down.
As a consequence, millions of illegal aliens have entered the United States, and remain in the United States since Biden took office on January 20, 2021. Over Christmas weekend, 35,000 migrants entered the United States. In December the total was 250,000, and in the final quarter of 2023, more than 730,000 – and counting.
To veil their intent to allow the migrant invasion, Biden, Democrat leaders and their media allies depict the millions of migrants simply as impoverished asylum seekers awaiting adjudication of their cases. In fact, 80 percent of the millions that are residing in America – taking advantage of benefits generally meant for citizens – are ineligible for asylum. In other words, they are here illegally and should be deported. Hundreds of thousands will never leave America even if they are ineligible for asylum.
Those numbers represent a clear and present danger to the stability and security of the United States. The invasion of migrants is overrunning the nation’s physical infrastructure, undermining the nation’s and local government’s financial resources — and generating criminal activities that is literally killing American citizens every day from murders, car accidents and drug overdoses. In addition, it is believed that hundreds, if not thousands, of terrorist types are believed to have entered among the got-aways based on the growing number being apprehended at the border.
While Biden refuses to use the powers of the presidency to secure the border from surge of foreign nationals illegally crossing, he supports policies to entice migrants to come to America by the millions. Illegal migrants are being provided with a growing number of benefits at the expense of the American taxpayer – schooling, jobs, welfare, drivers’ licenses. None of these are constitutional rights available to non-citizens. Cities such as New York are granting local voting rights to illegal aliens — one of the most fundamental rights of citizenship.
The border is not secure because of the willful inaction of Biden as the man-in-charge. He is not even ordering the level of deportations that earned President Obama the title of Deporter-in-Chief. Biden has not only not followed border security measures imposed by President Trump – such as the wall, Title 42, and detention in Mexico – he abandoned them.
Consequently, America’s southern border is NOT secure – not withstanding Homeland security Director Alejandro Mayorkas preposterous claim to the contrary. The clear disregard of the Constitution by Mayorkas has earned him threats of impeachment — and he is only following orders.
It is abundantly clear that Biden is failing – even refusing – to fulfill his constitutional obligation to secure the American borders from foreign threats. He is not living up to his oath to “obey and defend” the Constitution. The issue is whether his aiding and abetting the illegal crossing of the American border – with all the untoward impacts on the American people – a violation of Biden’s oath. Ergo an impeachable offense.
Biden’s open borders policy is inconsistent with his oath to uphold the Constitutional and obey immigration law. He is imposing his personal political will over his constitutional duties. He is operating as an authoritarian.
To create a positive spin on the open borders policy, Democrats claim that those pressuring to close the border are anti-immigration. That is simply a political lie. Most folks believe that America is a nation of immigrants – and that the country benefits from the labor and intellect of newcomers from throughout the world. America also needs the additional workers to grow the economy. But those benefits should come from LEGAL and CONTROLLED immigration. Not from largely unvetted hoards pouring across the border from dozens of nations.
Those on the left offer pitiful tales of mothers and children seeking a better life – escaping oppression and poverty. There are two problems with that narrative. The vast majority of those crossing the border illegally are young single men. Secondly, poverty is not a justification for granting asylum. That is why 80 percent of the migrants are not eligible.
Raising the question as to whether Biden’s obvious reluctance to protect the border is an impeachable offense is highly controversial. But still a question worth pondering.
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This bridge is one of the most unique movable bridges in the country. The vertical lift bridge was designed by famous engineers and vertical lift proponents John Alexander Low Waddell and John Lyle Harrington. The bridge is a double-deck structure with vehicular traffic on the upper level and railroad traffic on the lower level. The bridge is specially designed so that the lower deck can be raised without raising the upper deck. The lower deck is hung from the upper deck by hangers, and cables inside the vertical lift truss are able to pull the hangers up inside the vertical members, raising the lower deck up to just below the upper deck. This position would allow for medium sized boats to get under the bridge without interrupting vehicular traffic. For larger boats, the entire bridge can then be lifted in a more traditional fashion, providing the full height clearance afforded by the towers of the bridge.
The configuration of the upper deck of this bridge is unusual because it includes a vehicular traffic lane that is cantilevered out on each side of the truss, in addition to the roadway provided in the traditional space between the truss lines.
In addition to its unique design, this bridge is an early surviving lift bridge designed by Waddell and Harrington, which was the company which pioneered and popularized the modern vertical lift bridge starting with a lift bridge built in Chicago on Halsted Street in 1893.
This bridge's lower deck is raised in a similar manner to the ASB Bridge in Kansas City, also designed by Waddell and Harrington. The ASB Bridge lacks the ability to raise its upper deck however. For this reason, the Steel Bridge is the only one of its kind in the United States, where each deck can be raised independently.
Although the name "Steel Bridge" is an accurate description of this bridge, the name originated from the previous bridge at this location which was the first of its kind in the city.
Thanks to the addition of a sidewalk on the lower deck of this bridge in more recent years, it is possible for visitors to walk both the upper and lower deck of this bridge.
The bridge includes an extensive ramp approach system at the western end as well as several approach spans at the eastern end. Because of this as well as the double-deck design, measuring the total bridge length depends on which deck and ramp you are measuring. Another oddity is that the main span is not the largest span. The approach truss spans are listed with a 287 foot span, while the main lift span is 211 feet. The total length given in the technical facts table refers to the lower deck. Measuring the longest ramps on the bridge, the total length of the upper deck approaches 1800 feet.
Oregon's Historic Bridge Inventory indicates a number of companies who built the bridge. A historical article mentions that the American Bridge Company built the bridge. It is assumed American Bridge Company fabricated (and possibly erected) the superstructure, while United Engineering and Construction Company of Portland, Oregon may have acted as a general contractor for the superstructure. Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, listed as a builder of the bridge by the inventory, might be better described as an owner or financer.
Information and Findings From Oregon's Historic Bridge Inventory
Three double-deck riveted Pratt trusses with the center truss being a 211-ft long two stage lift span.
Waddell and Harrington, Kansas City
Oregon-Washington Railway and Navigation Co. (Builder); United Engineering and Construction Co., Portland (Superstructure); Robert Wakefield and Co., Portland (Substructure)
The first bridge built at this location in 1888 used steel as its main building material, the first such occurrence in Portland, thus the name the Steel Bridge, which remains on the modern bridge. The current Steel Bridge replaced that first one in 1912, and maintained the tradition of innovation in bridge design set by its predecessor. At the time of its opening, the 1912 Steel Bridge claimed to be the largest telescoping bridge in the world. The telescoping, two-stage lift action of the bridge still functions, allowing the lower rail-carrying deck to lift without disturbing traffic on the upper deck. For larger vessels, both decks can be raised, giving a maximum clearance of 163-ft.
Character Defining Features
Structure type, Location, Decorative railing, Multimodal functionality, Mechanism
Major alterations include the addition of a light rail line to the upper deck of the bridge and the addition of a pedestrian bridge on the lower deck.
Bridge Considered Historic By Survey: Yes
This bridge is tagged with the following special condition(s): Unorganized Photos
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Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act (PRIA 3)
Fee Determination Decision Tree
Decision Tree Resources:
Below is the fee for your selected Fee Category for Fiscal Years 2014/2015
| Decision Time
|B650||New use; non-food (3)||$ 6,079||7|
Do you plan to request either of the following types of waivers?
|50% waiver||You pay ---->>>>>||$ 3,040|
|75% waiver||You pay ---->>>>>||$ 1,520|
To pay the fee shown above, go to http://www.pay.gov and follow the instructions.
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An application for registration of a new use for a microbial or biochemical pesticide, with uses that do not fall under the definition of a food use. This category also includes a change in use pattern such that the exposure to humans and the environment could be significantly increased (e.g., additional routes of exposure) and therefore must be evaluated for increased risks.
All of the inerts used in the product must be either approved or pending with the Agency for the applicable uses.
Amendment applications to add new use(s) to registered product labels are covered by the base fee for this category as long as they are all submitted in the same package. Each application for a new product and/or new inert approval submitted in this package, however, is subject to its own registration service fee. The only exception would be if the new use(s) were to be added only to a new product (no amendments to registered product labels in the application package) in which case the review of the one new product application would be covered by the base fee for the new uses.
Any new product or amendment to the proposed labeling, which contains the same new use(s), that is submitted subsequent to the submission of the new use application but prior to its decision review time expiration date, will be deemed a separate new use application subject to a separate fee and new decision review time.
If the applicant on his own initiative submits any additional information that was neither requested nor required by the Agency, after completion of the technical deficiency screening, and which does not itself constitute a covered registration application, the applicant will be charged an additional 25% of the full registration service fee for the new use application.
Finally, if the new use(s) application include non-food (indoor and/or outdoor) and food (outdoor and/or indoor) uses, the appropriate fee is due for each type of new use, and the longest decision review time applies to all of the new uses requested in the application.
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Immediate Care has COVID-19 tests available in their facilities across Monmouth, Middlesex, and Ocean counties. They are currently performing hundreds of tests per day to help determine who is infected by the Coronavirus. This will assist people in being able to receive proper medical treatment and help stop the spread of the virus.
“Because testing supplies have been limited, thousands of people with fevers and other symptoms have been told by their doctors to stay home and do not get tested. But, if you are sick and would like to be tested, give us a call or go on our website today to schedule your same day or next day appointment. Testing gives you clarity, and in these uncertain times, nothing is more important.”, said Sal Cannizzaro, CEO of Immediate Care.
Immediate Care is currently testing anyone that has any COVID-related symptoms, such as fever, cough, or shortness of breath. They have set up two COVID-19 drive-thru testing sites at their Marlboro and Red Bank locations. They are also offering in-office COVID-19 testing at their Brick, Edison, and Hazlet offices right from a person’s car or in a contained area within their facilities.
Immediate Care accepts all major insurances and there are no out of pocket costs to patients coming for a COVID-19 test. It is a very convenient option and has essentially no wait time, with patients going through the whole testing process in under ten minutes. To receive a test, you must book an appointment through our website, or by calling 1-855-925-5467 Ext: 0.
All Immediate Care locations continue to remain open to walk-in urgent care patients for those that do not have COVID-19 symptoms as well. They have also started offering telemedicine services to patients who do not wish to come into the office, both for those with COVID-19 symptoms or for other medical needs. To book a telemedicine visit, click “Book Virtual Visit” on our website to see one of their certified medical providers for any medical concerns.

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in brief ERG Group has today voluntarily suspended its shares from trading on the Australian Securities Exchange while the company works out "issues" related to the termination of its Tcard contract.
The government's contract with ERG Group subsidiary ITSL to develop the Tcard -- a cashless electronic ticketing system for Sydney's public transport network -- was cancelled on 23 January after the project faced ongoing delays.
ERG Group is "in discussions with its secured lenders in relation to the continued availability and form of funding to facilitate the ongoing operation of the ERG Group and will provide a further update when those discussions have been completed", the company said.
The stock will be suspended "until the next announcement" according to an ERG spokesperson who declined to comment further.
The suspension was not early enough to stop Westpac reducing its holding in the company from 6.60 percent to 5.42 percent on 23 January, the day the Tcard contract was cancelled, although a trading halt was put into place on 24 January pending today's announcement. The company's shares are currently priced at AU$0.045 per share.


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Chapter 5 Picture Books, Comics, and Graphic Novels: Elements of Illustration in Children?s Illustrated Texts, esp Where the Wild Things Are and Bone. Elements of Children?s Illustrated Texts Visual Line Shape Color Space/Borders Literary point of view, character, Theme Feminist Visual Elements of Composition: A Visual Grammar ? Line: ? perhaps the most important element of composition as it lead?s the child?s eye in and around the text and the accompanying words ? may be thick, thin, whole, broken, jagged, smooth, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, straight, curved, etc ? horizontal lines suggest calm, stability, an absence of strife ? diagonal lines suggest instability, loss of balance, unless joined in a triangle ? jagged lines suggest danger ? Line in Where the Wild Things Are ? Line in Bone Visual Elements of Composition: Shape Shapes Distinct, vague, detailed, sketched, rounded, squared, organic, geometric, Shapes take human, animal, mechanical form Shapes can be pleasing to the eye, awe inspiring fearsome Shape: Greenaway Shapes: Briggs, Ray Shapes in Where the Wild Things Are and Bone Visual Elements: Color ? Color ? Denotes setting, theme, or mood ? Bright colors in books for very young children, black and white in books for older children ? Color/cost (b& white is less expensive than color) ? Color invariably used in instructional books regardless of intended audience?s age ? Color in Where the Wild Things Are ? Color in Bone Color: Bone Visual Elements: Space/Borders ? Space/Borders ? Space on a page exists at the top, the bottom, the sides ? Space is everywhere on the page or no where ? Space is defined by an illustrated page?s borders ? Space reveals human closeness or isolation ? Presence of Borders set limits, set distances, separate, make distinct ? Absence of Borders delimit limits, refuse distances, blur differences ? Space/Borders in Where the Wild Things Are Space/Borders Space/Borders Visual Elements: Space/Borders Visual Elements: Balance, Symmetry Literary Elements: Point of View ? Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told. ? Point of View is one of several literary tools used by the writer to build a whole narrative Characters: Human and Nonhuman Literary Elements: Theme ? Theme ? Theme is the main idea or central meaning of a piece of literature or art ? Theme is the underlying truth, or idea, about people, society, or the human condition, either explicitly (openly and clearly stated) or implicitly (suggested) ? Multiple and secondary themes exist but usually coalesce around a primary theme or idea that ties the story into a meaningful whole ? Theme is revealed through symbols, words, a combination of both ? Theme in Where the Wild Things Are ? Power, identity, play, Hero?s quest: playful parody suggesting children?s literature as subversive ? Theme in Bone Power Identity Play Criticism ? Feminist ? Absence of mother: there is no literal mother figure ? Presence of mother: the mother figure is represented through symbol such as water, moon, food ? Questions: ? Disney? ? Teaching? ? Stereotypical symbols? ? There are several critical models that can be applied to Sendak?s Where the Wild Things Are: Feminist Monomyth ? Monomyth ? Campbell?s Hero With a Thousand Faces. 1960s. ? Hero/Heroine leaves home, embarks on a journey, finds helpers, villains, reaches a nadir (low point), ?dies,? returns home. ? Max? ? Fone Bone? ? Thorn? Ian Andrews Sendak
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The Omnicom Group has announced that Tim Love, vice-chairman and chief executive officer, Omnicom, APIMA (Asia Pacific, India, Middle East, Africa) is slated for retirement from the agency.
Love has spent four decades in the advertising and branding industry and has, along the way, held senior client relationship positions in the US and in other regions. He has also worked with many of the Fortune 100 companies.
Before Love stepped into the role of vice-chairman at Omnicom in 2006, he held the position of president, global clients, at TBWA Worldwide, an Omnicom agency network.
Wishing him well, John Wren, president and chief executive officer, Omnicom, conveys in an official communiqué, "Tim has been an important part of our executive team, leading the current phase of our Asia Pacific expansion efforts. Tim leaves the region in excellent health."First Published : January 04, 2013

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MOSCOW, 1 February. Secretary of the Russian security Council Nikolai Patrushev is hoping that the political process in Syria will be completed within one and a half years. “We will seek that the political process in Syria was held in the framework of the Vienna group and the UN security Council indicative timeline and was completed within one and a half years,” he said in an interview with foreign journalists.
Kerry: U.S. urges the government and the opposition in Syria to hold talks in Geneva
“The next important step should be the formation of a government of national unity, the adoption of a new Constitution of Syria, the start of the implementation on its basis the necessary public reforms, conducting elections,” he said.
Patrushev said that in Russia interested in the preservation of the territorial integrity and independence of Syria. “It is a pity that she’s from a prosperous and stable country turned into a hot spot, he said. – That is why Russia became the initiator of the effective suppression of terrorism on Syrian territory, as well as the creation of the information centre in Baghdad to coordinate the efforts of countries directly involved in the fighting against terrorist groups. A similar coordination mechanism is created in Jordan”.
“As for the prospects of a political settlement, there is, of course, necessary to take into account a number of factors, including the worsening Shiite-Sunni confrontation, – said Secretary of the security Council. – It is impossible to avoid fomenting religious and ethnic hatred in the region, in order to solve their own geopolitical objectives of individual countries, such as Turkey”.
The Syrian conflict and the main stages of its settlement
Patrushev said the need to actively engage in the process of political settlement in Syria constructively minded opposition forces who are ready to fight with the “Islamic state”, “Dzhabhat-EN-Nusra” and other terrorist organizations. “Approved at the international level the list of terrorist groups, should clearly identify the locations of the non-radical armed groups, ready to confront the terrorists, to prevent, in particular, the possibility of application of strikes,” said Secretary of the security Council.
“It is important to ensure a rapid implementation achieved in Vienna and new York agreements, based on understanding of the necessity of launching the negotiation process under UN auspices. Of course, the important role it must play the special envoy of the Secretary-General on Syria (Staffan) de Mistura, stressed the Secretary of the security Council. – We believe that the platform for negotiations with the current Syrian government should be formed with account positions of a broad spectrum of constructive opposition. Will be ready to consider any initiative that will this process contribute. However, I consider unacceptable the attempts to include in the list of negotiators those who to achieve his goal, he chose the path of terrorism”.
ABOUT GROUPING “DZHEBHAT EN-NUSRA” AND “ISLAMIC STATE”
The radical Islamist group “dzhebhat EN-Nusra” (“Front of victory”), associated with a terrorist network “al-Qaeda” was created in 2011 on the territory of Syria. Our key objectives “dzhebhat EN-Nusra” named the overthrow of the regime of Bashar al-Assad with the subsequent establishment of an Islamic Emirate in Syria. On December 29, the Supreme court recognized “dzhebhat EN-Nusra” a terrorist organization and banned its activities in Russia.
“Islamic state” (ISIS) – an Islamist terrorist organization operating inside Iraq and Syria.
Established on 15 October 2006 by the merger of 11 radical Sunni groups. The core group forming the militants, who fought with American troops during their stay in Iraq and with the forces of the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
The IG recognized as a terrorist organization in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, UAE, India, Indonesia, and Russia (29 December 2014).


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IT WAS Vince Lombardi who dismissively declared that second place was nowhere. And given how often the former Green Bay Packers coach finished top of the pile, he was entitled to be sniffy about the runners-up slot.
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For Irish rugby, however, it’s a different story. Given our history, we can’t afford to be sniffy about anything.
So even when you strip away the emotion of this Saturday – it’s England, it’s St Patrick’s Day and that’s reason enough to be motivated – you have to look at the merits of chasing a slot on the podium.
Which basically is this: For four years out of six, Eddie O’Sullivan guided Ireland to within an inch of the Grand Slam/Six Nations championship. One hurdle, usually the French one, proved too high to clear.
Yet – to steal another Lombardi maxim –their ultimate glory came from being continually knocked to their knees and then coming back. The years of finishing second was the making of the team that would eventually get their Holy Grail in Cardiff in 2009.
Fast forward to Saturday. It’s only by winning these make-or-break games that teams can develop a hardened edge because winning, like losing, has a contagious effect. Bear in mind that in 2009, four of Ireland’s five games saw the team either win by a score or come from behind to win, and you begin to appreciate the importance of mental strength. How big an impact did the pain of past defeats help drive the 2009 class on?
So in this respect, Saturday is a dress rehearsal for what’s to come down the road.
What will arrive this week will be the usual hype that follows England whenever they string a couple of good results together. Sunday’s victory over France was more than good but Ireland, too, really impressed last Saturday.
Having said all that, Scotland were far from good – the exception being their giant lock-forward, Richie Gray, who doubled up as their most potent attacker, and is a shoo-in to play on the Lions team who will tour Australia next year.
Yet while the Irish defence parted like the Red Sea when Gray went on his blistering first-half run for Scotland’s only try, otherwise, that defence was excellent on Saturday, clinical in their organisation, patient in their commitment to the tackle and aggressive in the contact zone.
As Kidney said: “We’re going to need to play smart over the coming years in Irish rugby.”
And that is because we don’t have the quality in numbers to play any other way. With O’Driscoll, O’Connell, O’Callaghan and O’Gara nearing the end of their careers, the time for new leaders to emerge is swiftly approaching. Rory Best, damaged ribs and all, proved to be a leader on Saturday. Had he been there, you could have said the same about Sean O’Brien. Stephen Ferris, meanwhile, is a world-class operator and new boy, Donnacha Ryan, is already looking better than Donncha O’Callaghan.
All of this leaves us looking good for Twickenham in the short-term – and next season in the long term.
Yet if we are to progress then a victory this Saturday could prove a seminal moment in the lifespan of this team because sport is full of turning-point stories where a victory in what appeared an insignificant game turned out to be the making of men. This Saturday’s game could be critically developmental.


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THE HANGOVER PART II
There's something charming about director Todd Phillips & Co.'s refusal to mess with the Hangover formula in their follow-up to the 2009 hit. Beat by beat, structural grace note by structural grace note, The Hangover Part II follows the path of the first one. Both films open with an impending wedding interrupted by a phone call: On the horn, Phil (Bradley Cooper), blood-flecked, bleary-eyed and covered in grime, explains that something has gone horribly wrong; then we flash back to the events leading up to said phone call, which involve Phil and his buddies Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) getting inadvertently blitzed, blacking out and waking up to a trashed hotel room, some kind of exotic animal (a tiger in the first film, a monkey in this one) and a missing friend (the groom in the first film, the bride's younger brother in this one). The rest of the film involves them trying to piece together the happenings of their wild and crazy night in an attempt to locate their friend. Lather, rinse, repeat.
One can't quite fault this lack of imagination, because the structure is precisely what made The Hangover work so well. It was never about the jokes, really. (I laughed very hard at the first film but can remember very few genuine laugh-out-loud gags.) Rather, the Hangover films use the framework of a mystery thriller to create a kind of propulsive comic arc of discovery. The characters are lost and so are we; there's genuine danger and uncertainty here, capped off by a final revelation that's as intricate as anything Agatha Christie ever put together. In other words, it's funny because it's kind of scary.
Whenever the new film does up the ante, curiously, it tends to falter. Galifianakis' character, a lovably strange introvert in the first film, seems more like a mental jerkoff this time around, and attempts to portray Bangkok as a more insane place than Vegas never quite ring true, because the film does so little to give us a sense of location. Mostly, though, the movie works. Phillips' directorial style has always had a nice sheen to it: His compositions are exact, his camera moves are confident, and his cutting is rhythmic and precise. The actors are gradually becoming identified with their roles, with Helms' earnest weenie character as compelling a comic creation as Galifianakis' more pronounced weirdo. Can we hope that the next film (and there surely will be another) will put The Wolfpack in a more unique situation? Don't bet on it — for better and for worse. (Opens Thursday) — BILGE EBIRI
KUNG FU PANDA 2
It's not often that a computer-animated feature aimed at kids reminds you that maybe it's time to stop holding on to past baggage and get your damn act together. But what's most surprising is that the computer-animated feature in question is not a Disney/Pixar flick. With the release of Kung Fu Panda 2, DreamWorks Animation's panda-powered martial-arts tentpole proves to be the most entertaining and rewarding of its cartoon franchises. (O Shrek, how you disappointed us!)
The second installment has Jack Black's affable butt-kicking panda now leading the menagerie of kung-fu crusaders known as the Furious Five (whose roster, sadly enough, doesn't include Grandmaster Flash). His objective this time is to stop a vengeful, sinister peacock (voiced by Gary Oldman, of course) from taking over China with destructive weaponry and obliterating kung fu. Of equal importance, however, is his attempt to obtain inner peace once he learns the painful truth of his origins.
Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan and other A-list voices from the first movie return, supplemented by welcome newcomers such as Jean-Claude Van Damme. But the stars are upstaged by the eye-popping fight sequences, which provided the highlights of the first film. They're dizzyingly Rube Goldbergian in their graphic execution, and they serve the story's darker elements well, presumably implemented by credited creative consultant Guillermo del Toro (!). The chopsocky delirium will have kids sending their gummy bears airborne in delight, while adults will most likely wonder how they can also get some of that inner peace. Good luck with that. (Opens Thursday) — CRAIG D. LINDSEY

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Phenix City police looking for theft, fraud suspect
PHENIX CITY, AL (WTVM) - The Phenix City Police Department is requesting assistance from the public and has released surveillance photos.
They are currently searching for a female subject suspected of theft and fraud.
A victim reported checks stolen from their mailbox and later discovered that they had been used at various businesses in the Phenix City area.
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GEIER, SONJA1; EHRBAR, DORIS; SCHWEHR, PETER;
1) University of Lucerne â€“ Engineering and Architecture, Competence Centre Typology & Planning in Architecture (CCTP), firstname.lastname@example.org
Today`s challenge in the retrofitting sector is the realization of building retrofits that considers a holistic approach under the pressure of cost-optimization and energy-efficiency goals.
The paper presents experiences of energy-efficient retrofit with highly industrialised renovation methods, which have been investigated and analysed at the demo projects realized in the FP7 project E2ReBuild `Industrial Energy Efficient Retrofitting of Resident Buildings in Cold Climates` (www.e2rebuild.com). A bottom-up methodology provided an insight in the development and decision-making of the retrofit strategies during planning and realization. The analysis was divided into an ecological, an economic and a social part. While the ecological part focused on the reduction of delivered and primary energy demand, the economic part showed the ownersâ€™ approach on investment, rent increases and the expected further component and service life of renewed parts. The social part highlighted the ownersâ€™ efforts to keep the residentsâ€™ expenses for rent and energy low and to improve the living quality of the apartments and the entire surrounding area. Each demo project was characterized by different objectives and motivations, but all of them aimed at increasing the energy-efficiency.
Keywords: Energy-efficiency; Retrofit strategies; Residential Buildings; Demo Projects

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Christian Brothers Automotive Named Best of the Best by Franchise Business Review
Christian Brothers Automotive Featured on Distinguished List of Top Franchise Companies
January 19, 2018 // Franchising.com // HOUSTON - Franchise Business Review, a franchise market research firm, announced that Christian Brothers Automotive has been named to their annual list of the Top 200 Franchise companies. The list, titled the Top 200 Franchises of 2018, ranked hundreds of participating franchise companies by their overall levels of franchise owner satisfaction.
Christian Brothers Automotive was ranked Best in Category in the “Automotive” category, beating out the competition to land the number one spot on the list. The brand was also recognized as a 10-year Hall of Fame member, awarded to franchises that have been featured on the “Best of the Best” list for 10 or more years.
“It is an incredible honor to be named at the top of our category,” said Josh Wall, VP of franchise and strategic development. “The relationship we build with our franchisees is our highest priority, as well as continuing to ensure our franchise opportunity is an investment that will help our franchisees achieve their financial and family goals. It is a great source of pride that our franchise family consistently offers positive feedback about our training process, support system and rewarding business model.”
The Franchise Business Review Top 200 ranking puts Christian Brothers Automotive into an elite group of the best franchise companies in the country. More than 3,000 companies franchise in the United States, but only those with exemplary fundamentals, great financial position and high franchisee satisfaction scores earn a spot in the ranking.
Christian Brothers Automotive was among 307 franchise brands, representing over 28,000 franchise owners that participated in Franchise Business Review’s research. Christian Brothers Automotive’s franchisees were surveyed on 33 benchmark questions in the areas of financial opportunity, training and support, leadership, operations and product development, core values (e.g., honesty and integrity of franchisor), general satisfaction, and the franchisee community.
Providing entrepreneurs interested in investing in the franchise a full suite of support services ranging from initial and ongoing training to sales and marketing programs, the Christian Brothers Automotive investment ranges in price from $458,950 to $555,350, with 82-83% of the investment typically financed over a 10-year period using Small Business Administration (SBA) loans. Plus, Christian Brothers Automotive is a proud partner of the VetFran program. Approved candidates receive 10% off of the total franchise fee. Ideal Christian Brothers Automotive franchise candidates are strong leaders with experience leading a team. They prioritize giving back and engaging with their local community in order to ultimately make a difference for everyone around them.
“There are thousands of successful franchise companies operating in North America, but many of those companies do not offer a solid investment opportunity for the actual franchise owners,” says Eric Stites, CEO of Franchise Business Review. “As an independent research firm, we rate the franchise companies in the marketplace today and identify those that have the highest levels of satisfaction and performance among their franchisees in order to help entrepreneurs when choosing which franchise to invest in. The companies on this year’s list are the top performing brands in the areas critical to their franchisees’ success.”
For more information about the Christian Brothers Automotive franchise opportunity, visit http://www.christianbrothersfranchise.com.
To learn more about Franchise Business Review’s annual Top 200 ranking, please visit: https://franchisebusinessreview.com/page/top-franchise-opportunities/.
About Christian Brothers Automotive Corporation
Dedicated to its brand mission “To glorify God,” Christian Brothers Automotive has firmly planted its roots in faith, honesty and trust, which have proven to be clear differentiators in the competitive auto services and repair industry, a $380 billion sector in the U.S. economy. With its guiding principles instilled from the very first location, which opened in 1982, Christian Brothers Automotive has successfully expanded to more than 170 locations in 25 states. The Houston-based company delivers a variety of professional auto-care services including upkeep, maintenance, and repair.
To learn more about car services available at Christian Brothers Automotive, visit www.cbac.com. For information about franchising with Christian Brothers Automotive, visit http://www.christianbrothersfranchise.com.
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Charging an EV should be as easy as charging a smartphone
- Sep 15, 2020 10:56 am GMT
The biggest barrier in the transition to electric vehicles is the lack of charging infrastructure. While large-scale projects will ultimately deliver the most effective results, traction will come from multiple smaller applications and innovations, argues Jean-Christoph Heyne from Siemens’ Future Grids business unit
Mobility is responsible for one third of all energy consumed and for one quarter of global CO2 emissions. According to a report from Navigant Research, electrification of transport will be the greatest lever to leap from business-as-usual climate catastrophe to limiting global warming to an increase of 1.5°C.
If all urban areas in Europe, China and the United States electrified their private and public transport, the resulting emissions reduction will contribute 28% to the required total to remain within the Paris Agreement goals. E-mobility has the potential to become the climate crisis game-changer.
In this time of pandemic and financial crisis, E-mobility can help us to revive our economies sustainably and create much-needed economic growth. Stimulus packages include measures to foster the sale of electric vehicles and the expansion of charging infrastructure. The French government issued an €8 billion rescue plan for its car industry, aiming to become the leading producer of EVs in Europe. Germany has doubled its contributions for EV purchases until the end of 2021, granted investment of an additional €2.5 billion for the expansion of charging infrastructure and in research funding for electric mobility and battery cell production.
At the same time, automotive manufacturers are accelerating their EV launch plans. By 2022 we will be able to choose from 500 car models globally. EVs will reach price parity with internal combustion vehicles in most segments by mid-2020—even without generous subsidies.
However, numbers of EV adoption are sobering. The global market penetration stands at just 2.4% in 2019. The adoption of electric vehicles is increasing, but in most markets, it still is a niche player.
Charging an EV must become as easy and convenient as charging a smartphone.
Research group BloombergNEF’s EV Outlook report describes charging infrastructure quite simply as “a challenge in our forecast”. Meanwhile, a consumer survey by consultancy McKinsey shows that more than 50% of the participants see charging or range as a top concern. Drivers will not replace their combustion engine vehicle with an electric car if there is no reliable charging infrastructure in place.
Large, city-wide infrastructure projects would move the needle, but the costs are prohibitive. We need to be smart in how the infrastructure is put in place and think of a charging ecosystem rather than a one-size-fits all solution.
Using existing infrastructure for EV charging is a one option. What if we could turn every lamp post into a charger? In the UK, we have been working with the energy start-up Ubitricity to turn existing lamp posts into charging points. Installation typically takes less than an hour. Roughly, 1,300 lamp posts across London provide on-street charging capability, powered by 100% renewable energy. Local councils and other local bodies can drive the switch to electric vehicles for residents and businesses.
Considering that 80% of charging happens at home or at work, companies can play a larger role in widespread EV adoption. While in some countries this is enforced by near-term policy requirements, many companies still set carbon reduction targets of their own. Offering enterprise charging is a way for companies to reduce their carbon emissions, to demonstrate commitment to a zero-carbon future and to encourage employees to buy and drive an EV. This is especially so in the EU where company cars account for about 50% of new cars.
As sustainability has become a priority for many businesses, companies should not miss out on integrating fleet electrification into their climate action plans. The logistics company DHL made a pledge to expand its green fleet and to reach 70% clean operations of last-mile pick up and deliveries by 2025. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announced last year that the company has placed an order for 100,000 electric delivery vans from startup Rivian. Any large fleet owner should make fleet electrification part of its journey towards a net-zero future. This will not only help the image but also cut Scope 1 emissions and make the fleet future-proof.
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Office-based chargers can be made public when not needed for employee charging during off-hours and weekends. This could open up new revenue streams. Though the know-how and capacity to maintain and manage the charging infrastructure as well as to handle technical problems are often not part of the companies’ core business. Professional services such as technical operation, remote monitoring, and maintenance of the hardware are required. Charger-as-a-service models are a worry-free option for a variety of companies and businesses.
Any business with off-street parking, like retailers, shopping malls or hotel chains, could purchase and install chargers from a manufacturer and have control over the rates of customers who want to charge their EVs while shopping. Or a store owner could partner as a host with an EV charging network provider that retains ownership and sets prices for the public stations in its network. Diversification of revenue streams through offering grid services such as ramping and frequency regulation could also help margins.
All these smart but practical innovations are solutions that will ultimately help to tip the balance towards full E-mobility. Electrification of transport is an energy efficient and sustainable way to decarbonise the economy. Government efforts and subsidies create the right momentum, now we must drive expansion of charging infrastructure.
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RCB are without their star players - Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers - at the moment who are recuperating from injuries - but, in their absence, the onus of big runs was well taken care by Kedar Jadhav in their second match against Delhi Daredevils.
After losing their opener against Sunrisers Hyderabad, RCB made a remarkable comeback in their second game against Delhi Daredevils to emerge victorious.
Jadhav played a lone hand with a brilliant 69 off just 37 balls and helped his team post a respectable total of 157 for 8 against a Zaheer Khan-led Delhi outfit.
Opting to bat first after winning the toss, RCB began on a brisk pace but lost two quick wickets early on and that put brakes on their scoring rate.
Jadhav then shifted gears and hit a flurry of big shots amidst cheering by home supporters at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
RCB were 61 for 3 at once stage. Jadhav decided to score some quick runs as he hit leg-spinner Amit Mishra for two boundaries and as many sixes to take 24 runs from the 13th over.
Jadhav continued with a four and six off Carlos Brathwaite to add another 16 in the next over as RCB scored 48 runs in three overs to up the ante.
The Maharashtra batman hammered five sixes and as many boundaries in his 37-ball knock of 69.


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Posted by Jan (184.108.40.206) on August 09, 2003 at 13:09:51:
In Reply to: Maarten Koning (J.J. Voskuil ' Het Bureau' ) posted by Jan den Breejen (220.127.116.11) on August 09, 2003 at 12:52:10:
Rich (and others);
What kinda type of writer would be likely to write such a series of books making caricatures of former colleges by enhancing their negative sides in very detailed descriptions of office interactions (7 volumes!)?
Never before has the dry humour and occasional tragedy of office life been described as thoroughly as in this cycle of novels. The appearance of the first two parts, Meneer Beerta (Mr Beerta) and Vuile handen (Dirty Hands) was enough to guarantee the cycle’s status as a classic of Dutch literature. The books mercilessly describe the frivolity, the petty irritations and teasing, the conniving and crawling, the hierarchy, the unnatural suppression of emotion, and the alienation that insidiously strengthens its hold on people over the years in which they are obliged to spend their days together in a closed room. Gradually the Bureau itself emerges as the real main character: an institute which draws in its staff every morning with a magnetic power, encloses them, wrings them dry, then spits them back out at the end of the working day.
J.J. Voskuil has produced a sublime parody of academic specialisation. Maarten Koning, the fictional alter ego who first appeared in Voskuil’s previous book Bij nader inzien, joins the Bureau for Dialectology, Folklore and Onomastics in 1957, and is charged with systematic research into the most obscure of folk traditions: the belief in elves, the uses of scythes and harrows, rye bread and cradles. Nobody knows what purpose the research is meant to serve, but everyone does as they’re asked. Voskuil’s wry method of recording a scene in the space of a few pages and then cutting to another gradually builds up to create a complete picture of a surrealistic agency which would do Kafka proud.
Part One, Meneer Beerta, is a brilliant portrait of the institute’s director. This ironic and elusive figure is the personification of Maarten Koning’s view of academic research: a version of occupational therapy which provides status and income for its practitioners, who therefore maintain a prudent silence when outsiders and inferiors question its meaningfulness. In Vuile handen, set between 1965 and 1973, the period of Vietnam and student unrest, Maarten has become head of the Popular Culture Department and is gradually trying to surround himself with a circle of kindred spirits. He has grown up and now identifies with his role. From this new position he watches his student ideals being slowly whittled away. Het bureau is a profoundly comical, detailed and moving depiction of that world of bosses and wage slaves which ultimately imprisons everyone.
Het bureau is beyond a doubt the absolute literary sensation of the last thirty years.
Theodor Holman, Het Parool
What makes the novel so special is the way it magnifies human failing. The Bureau is the universe in a pocket edition, an allegory for society. The fact that there is still plenty to laugh at, mainly because of the sublime style and the often comic dialogue, makes human fate bearable.
Jury’s Report Libris Literature Prize 1997
Despite the honest, diary-like, unadorned style which clearly betrays the spirit of Alberts, Elsschot and Nescio - and could one ask for better writers as guardian angels? - the novel ultimately reveals an exceedingly sophisticated construction.
H. Brandt Corstius, NRC Handelsblad
(…) A really masterly novel cycle (…) much funnier than one might at first think. Reading it is, and for once this deserves to be said, a first-class experience.
T. van Deel, Trouw
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Dan Ahdoot is a standup comic, actor, writer and producer based out of New York City and Los Angeles.
Dan is a national headliner who had performed in all 50 states and is a frequent guest on many late night comedy shows including The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brian, and Comics Unleashed. His standup comedy has won many awards and accolades including Best of the Fest at the prestigious Montreal Comedy Festival. He is currently acting on Netflix’s Cobra Kai, has been on NBC's Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Showtime’s Shameless, Comedy Central’s Workaholics and Disney Channel’s Kickin’ It.
Dan has a diverse writing career as well. He wrote the Lionsgate feature film Public Disturbance, and has previously developed with FOX, CBS, NBC and Freeform.
Erica Rhodes has appeared on ABC’s Modern Family, HBO’s Veep, Fox’s New Girl, and IFC’s Comedy Bang Bang. She was a regular panelist on Comedy Central’s @midnight and Fox’s Punchline. Her standup TV appearances include NBC’s Bring the Funny and Last Call with Carson Daly, the CW’s Howie Mandel Comedy Extravaganza, SeeSo’s The Guest List, Hulu’s Coming to the Stage, and AXS’ Live at Gotham. Erica was chosen as a New Face for the 2018 Just for Laughs Festival (Montreal) and also performed at the San Francisco Sketchfest, the Moontower Comedy Festival (Austin, TX), the Blue Whale Comedy Festival (Tulsa, OK), the Boston Comedy Festival and RIOT L.A. Fest. Erica starred in the ABC Digital series The Off-Season, was a semi-regular performer/writer on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, and a recurring character on the Audible series, Dr. Katz: The Audiobook. Her first album Sad Lemon hit #1 on the iTunes comedy charts and her first one-hour comedy special La Vie en Rhodes can be viewed on Amazon Prime.
Bob Zany has appeared on over a thousand national TV shows from the Tonight Show to Last Comic Standing and a seventeen-year stint appearing on and co-hosting the National Jerry Lewis Telethon. His numerous film credits include Joe Dirt with David Spade, Stephen Soderberg's The Informant playing Matt Damon's attorney. He also has available on Amazon, a documentary about his career in showbiz, "Close, But No Cigar" opening with his appearance on the Gong Show with Chuck Barris in 1977 at the age of 15!
He's taking his act to all 50 states, three territories and Washington, DC plus 13 countries from London to Israel.
He's also heard weekly from coast to coast on radio with his Zany Report in over 25 markets plus 17 years on the syndicated The Bob and Tom Show in over 150 markets. He was honored to film 11 episodes in front of a studio audience for drybarcomedy.com
Avi Liberman's quirky style has made him a favorite in comedy clubs from Los Angeles to New York. Born in Israel, raised in Texas, having gone to college in New York, and now living in Los Angeles, his style is a winning combination of life experiences and topical issues told through a varied blend of characters and voices with worldwide expertise.
Avi has performed stand-up comedy on CBS’s "Late Late Show" with Craig Ferguson on comedy central's "Premium Blend" and "make me laugh" as well as NBC’s "Friday Night!" his acting credits include "Dave's World" CBS, "Boston Common" NBC and "Andytown USA" Comedy Central.
Since 2001, Avi has successfully arranged widely acclaimed stand-up comedy tours in Israel to help boost morale while donating all of the proceeds to a charity. The successful "Comedy for Koby" tour is now a multi-annual event, benefitting The Koby Mandell Foundation.


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tvOS 11.2 is now available as a free software update for both Apple TV (fourth-gen) and Apple TV 4K. For the new Apple TV 4K, tvOS 11.2 includes new video settings for changing high dynamic range and frame rate dynamically based on content.
Apple TV 4K users can find the new Match Content options in the Settings app under Video and Audio after updating to tvOS 11.2. Here’s how Apple describes the new options:
We’ll use your selected display format to play content without alteration. We can also switch formats automatically to match the content’s dynamic range and frame rate.
Within Match Content, there are two options: Match Dynamic Range and Match Frame Rate.
Match Dynamic Range lets you “play content in its original dynamic range” according to the description, which means non HDR movies and TV shows won’t look blown up when played on Apple TV 4K.
Match Frame Rate lets you “play film and international content at its original frame rate,” which Apple notes automatically happens on some televisions.
Both Apple TV (fourth-gen) and Apple TV 4K gain new Sports features too.
Live sports integration works with live games broadcasted from ESPN with live scores and game time remaining displayed across multiple live games on a single interface. Scores can be optionally hidden as well. As part of live sports integration, the TV app can send alerts for close games so you can switch to those as they happen. The TV app also gains a new Sports tab as part of the update with the most recent sports categories presented first based on what is in season.
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Stephen John LAING - 19/07/2016
Under section 21(2) of the Parole Act 2002
Hearing: 19 July 2016 [Withheld]
Members of the Board:
Ms S Pakura (Panel Convenor)
Dr S Davis Mr A Shaw
DECISION OF THE BOARD
1. Stephen Laing, 33, appears today for further consideration of parole. Mr Laing is serving a sentence of imprisonment of 10 years.
2. Mr Laing was originally sentenced in March 2008 to a term of five years for offending involving objectionable material between 2005 and 2007. He was released on parole in 2011. Further similar offending occurred and was discovered in September 2011. A further conviction and sentence followed.
3. We note that there was an earlier one year prison term imposed in 2005 for similar offending between 2003 and 2005.
4. The parole eligibility date was 17 June 2012. The sentence expiry date was 16 October 2017. The RoC*RoI is 0.50134. The prison security classification is minimum. Mr Laing is recorded as a high risk offender.
5. There have been no issues of behaviour or attitude raised in the Parole Assessment Report. He is currently employed in the [Withheld]. The tutors identified that Mr Laing has a positive attitude. At the parole hearing today the senior prison officer identified that he is an inmate who gets on with others in the unit.
6. Mr Laing attended and completed the Te Piriti Programme. He advised us today that he had in fact completed the programme twice and he had also completed the SAFE Programme between 2005 and 2006.
7. The psychological report dated 26 February 2014 states; “Given that Mr Laing has previously offended while engaged in a community treatment programme and later offended soon after his release from a prison sentence in which he completed the Te Piriti Programme, there seems little reason for an optimistic view of his likelihood of re-offending.” Mr Laing’s assessment of re-offending through the acquisition of objectionable material from the internet is considered to be high.
8. Mr Laing’s [Withheld] supported him at the hearing today. We were informed by Mr Laing that arrangements had been made for the [Withheld] Police to be in contact with him when he is released and that the police were going to be responsible for monitoring him while he was in the community. There is no documentation that we have at this time that supports this assertion.
9. We were also advised by [Withheld] that contact had been made by the community Probation Officer with Psychological Services. [Withheld] stated that the psychologist, [Withheld], has agreed to accept Mr Laing as a client when he is released into the community. Again, there is no documentation that supports this assertion.
10. Mr Laing accepts that he knowingly made choices to offend. That he lied to [Withheld] when he was released on parole and he did circumvent the safety mechanisms that were put in place to stop him accessing the internet. He also acknowledges that nobody trusts him.
11. Mr Laing reoffended in a serious way on parole. He actively and with determination found ways to access a wireless internet connection without the knowledge of his key support person [Withheld] or the owner of the wireless connection [Withheld]. Mr Laing was accessing adult pornography within four or five weeks. He then moved to child pornography within the next two months.
12. Mr Laing is a high risk of accessing objectionable materials from the internet, he reoffended rapidly when released, he deceived his key support person and undermined the safety mechanisms put in place to manage his high risks, provides a basis to conclude, that the risk Mr Laing poses to the community is undue.
13. Taking all of the information and the matters discussed at today’s hearing into account and when we apply the test set out in Section 7 and 28 of the Parole Act, 2002, it is clear that Mr Laing continues to present an undue risk to the safety of the community.
14. Accordingly parole must be declined. The risk remains undue. Mr Laing will be seen again in June 2017, or at the very least at the end of that month.
Ms S Pakura


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The 8 lamp T8 cold storage facility high bay fixture was designed in conjunction with a national cold storage logistics company to optimize the light output in cold environments. The fixture features a double gasket that maintains a temperature seal between the lens and high bay housing. The high bay housing itself was redesigned to do away with any excess venting not needed in a climate controlled facility. By sealing the high bay fixture in this manner it can be used in freezer applications where temperatures can be as low as -80 deg. F.
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Cost of living in Galaţi, Romania compared to Alexandroupoli, Greece
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These prices were last updated on May 26, 2018. Exchange rate: 0.21595 EUR / RON
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Cost of living in Galaţi (Romania) is 38% cheaper than in Alexandroupoli (Greece)
For example, to keep the same standard of living that would require €1,200 in Alexandroupoli you would need to make just about €744 (3,446 lei) in Galaţi.
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Renewable Power Capital (RPC) and Greenfield, two UK-based renewable energy developers, have agreed to collaborate on the development of 500 MW of energy storage projects in the country. RPC has purchased two projects from Greenfield, totaling 83 MW. By the second quarter of 2024, the projects are anticipated to have received final approval.
RPC can now increase its commitment to the UK’s rapidly expanding battery storage market, which is a strategic priority for the company. The partnership is essential for RPC to grow its portfolio of renewable energy sources, which support a resilient and decarbonised electricity infrastructure.
Earlier in 2023, RPC made agreements with Tundra Advisory and Euder Energy to develop a 1 GW onshore wind portfolio in Poland and 1 GW of solar in Spain. The company has transitioned from a renewables investor to an operator by taking over three Finnish wind farms with 171 MW of capacity from OX2. The company has also entered into a ten-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with automotive technology company Faurecia to supply 417 GWh of clean energy from its Klevberget wind farm in Sweden.
REGlobal’s Views: This announcement comes just six months after RPC announced a collaboration with the UK battery storage company Eelpower for 1 GW of storage in the UK. There is a surge in demand for energy storage systems in the UK and many companies like SSE Renewables, Cero Generation, Pulse Clean Energy and others have recently announced projects in this space.


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Kaley Cuoco Reveals Why She ‘Cried All Night’ After Losing Role To Kate Hudson
Kaley Cuoco recently admitted to feeling devastation after not getting the “Knives Out 2” part she wanted. She stated that the role went to Kate Hudson instead.
Cheat Sheet said that the “Big Bang Theory” alum shared her story to Glamour for its April cover issue. She even revealed that she “cried all night” upon learning she had lost out on the role.
The 36-year-old celebrity explained that she does not usually let official casting decisions affect her. But, for the “Knives Out 2” role, she said she was “convinced” she had the part, even leading her to pack her bags for Greece to begin filming.
Despite feeling “devastated” after learning the news, Kaley Cuoco pointed out that Kate Hudson is “great.” She also emphasized that she “could not be happier with how things turned out.”
The “Flight Attendant” star explained that it was supposed to happen, adding that Hudson was supposed to do it and she was supposed to do her own thing. But, the actress revealed that she never got an explanation as to why the production did not move forward with her.
Cuoco noted further as to why things happened the way they were supposed to. As it turned out, she received a casting offer the following day for “Meet Cute.”
Although she was hesitant at first, she read the script, resulting in her to accept the part. She even shared that it was “the most magical little script,” adding that she would have never gotten it if she got the “Knives Out 2” role.
Meanwhile, Kaley Cuoco’s career continues to rise these days. She is currently busy with her new fan-favorite series, “The Flight Attendant,” which is ongoing on HBO Max.
In the same engagement with Glamour, the “Man From Toronto” actress discussed matters relating to marriage and relationships. She told the interviewer that she will never get married again.
Fans would recall that Cuoco first tied the knot with Ryan Sweeting in 2013. She then married Karl Cook in 2018 after dating for about two years.
The actress’s first marriage did not last long as she and Sweeting parted ways after 21 months of being a married couple. As for her second marriage, it lasted for three years as they decided to split in late 2021.
Despite Kaley Cuoco’s plans of not tying the knot ever again, she stated that she “would love to have a long-lasting relationship.” She also stated that she loves love, adding that she believes “there is someone out there.”


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Adele Is Planning To Release A New Album In 2019
Well, here’s some good news! According to British tabloid The Sun, Adele has started working on the followup to 25. “She’s back in the UK and intends to write here,” a source told the newspaper. “A number of studio musicians have been approached to work with her and she’s already penned some of the songs.” The Brit is apparently aiming to release the album just before Christmas, 2019. Given that all of the diva’s previous albums have been named after her age at the start of the recording process, it could well be called 30.
Needless to say, expectations for Adele’s next album will be sky high. After all, 21 and 25 have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide between them. And that’s without streaming figures taken into consideration. Not only that, but both albums have been rewarded with Grammys for Album Of The Year. Given her incredible success and status in the industry, the “Hello” hitmaker could literally work with whoever she likes. It will be interesting to see if she goes with established producers or fresh blood. We’ll know more in about 18 months.


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Who would have thought that Everything Everywhere All at Once would make a clean sweep at the 95th Academy Awards by winning 7 Oscars from 11 nominations in different categories? Well, this is a fact now as the 2022 masterpiece won several hearts not just at the Oscars but at the box office as well. With such a common yet unique concept, the film made history at the biggest night in Hollywood.
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While fans can’t help but think about the future of this marvelous project, the director Daniel Kwan in an old interview recalled being worried about their project which was in the making.
Daniel Kwan Was Concerned About The Concept of Everything Everywhere All at Once!
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The film director, Daniel Kwan, and Daniel Scheinert who are popularly known as The Daniels in a 2022 interview with Vulture gave an insight on the then-new film, Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Opening up about their take on the multiverse which is the core of the film, Scheinert opened up about researching the concept as early as 2010 after he watched the documentary Sherman’s March.
Kwan further explained the latter’s insight by sharing,
“The multiverse became a vessel for us to point at infinity in a way that most other premises probably wouldn’t allow for.”
As their interest in science fiction began to grow stronger, they got worried when Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse film hit theatres.
“Then, as we were working on the movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out. It was a little upsetting because we were like, ‘Oh shit, everyone’s going to beat us to this thing we’ve been working on.’”
While they felt a bit intimidated by the Marvel movie, they continued to polish their concept and brought a multiverse that ended up bagging the most Oscars of this year.
The Daniels Won The Best Director Oscar!
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The filmmakers were honored with the prestigious Oscars Award in the Best Director category for their 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once. They are the third duo in Oscars history to take the golden statuette home this Sunday. After receiving the award, the duo addressed the audience and gave their acceptance speech.
Scheinert dedicated the award to “all the mommies of the world” and showed his gratitude to his parents for not squashing his creativity for his previous “disturbing” projects which he claimed were a threat to nobody.
“There is greatness in every single person, it doesn’t matter who they are. If you have a genius that is waiting to erupt, you just need to find the right people to unlock that.”
Other than the Best Director category, the film won in categories including Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Lead Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, and Editing.
The sci-fi action adventure film is streaming on Netflix.


A WFSB viewer sent the following photo of a bear at Pond Place in Avon on Thursday.
BRISTOL, CT (WFSB) -
Bristol school officials warned parents to be on the lookout after a bear was spotted near one of the city's middle schools Friday.
A bear was spotted near Northeast Middle school.
School officials sent out a phone message to all parents warning them about the bear and asking students that walk home to be picked up.
One official at Ivy Drive school said a bear has been seen often at Northeast Middle school. She added that there were several reports of a bear Friday.
"I got a phone call from my granddaughter who was practicing softball at Northeast school," said Dave DeFelippi, who lives next to NorthEast Middle School. "And she said tell grandma to watch out! I says for what? She says because we saw a bear and they stopped our practice."
Several Eyewitness News viewers have emailed the station indicating that they have seen a bear in the city Friday afternoon.
DeFelippi told Eyewitness News he's seen coyotes before, but never bears. So he said he is keeping an eye out as summer draws near.
Ivy Drive school was dismissed at 3:25 p.m.
Officials said there are no plans to do anything different at the schools on Monday.
A bear was previously spotted in the area of Rambler Street and Shagbark Drive during June 2012. Police said the bear was never captured.
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