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*** DISCLAIMER - I was approached by Packt Publishing to review this book. I was given access to the book for free. All opinions are mine.
Like a few other bloggers, I was asked to read through “Getting Started with Microsoft Lync Server” by Fabrizio Volpe. I had never read a Packt Publishing book before so I may have had poor understanding of how the book was constructed. It seems Packt Publishing books tend to be shorter and a bit more to the point than a traditional book, so be aware, this is not a massive tome like other computer books out there. This is 122 pages including the index and everything else.
It took me getting through the book once to understand the scope and target. Once I had that, the book overall was pretty good in what it was trying to achieve. This book will get the reader underway and does a decent job launching the reader into Lync.
There is an assumption that the reader has a decent understanding of Windows and Active Directory. If the reader is missing this background, they probably need to step back and learn that before continuing.
The book has seven chapters:
1. Installing a Lync 2013 Enterprise Pool 2. Understanding Front End Pool Pairing 3. Deploying Lync Mobility and External Users Access 4. Introducing the Lync Mediation Server 5. Getting Started with Lync Enterprise Voice 6. Deploying Persistent Chat Server 7. Choosing Lync 2013 Clients
The first 5 chapters really flow together. The focus is on the core concepts of Lync (IM, Presence, Voice). Each chapter sets up the next and you move right along. The author hits on some good topics that tend to fall into the advanced category but good info none the less. Most authors would have focused on a more simplistic setup to “get started” with a product but not here, were getting all the goodies including High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) topics.
One thing, the author sets up the infrastructure with two Lync Front-ends. I’m assuming this was done due to lack of hardware in order to have three. Microsoft does not recommend an Enterprise Lync Front-end pool with only two servers. This wasn’t stated in the book and there are plenty of documented issues with only two servers, just want the reader to be aware.
When we get to chapter 6, it seems like such an abrupt change to talk about Persistent Chat (or maybe the author did such a great job with the flow of the first 5), but again, the reader is getting the good stuff. Persistent Chat is the evolution of Group Chat from previous versions of Lync (and OCS 2007 R2). The author does a good job of walking through the install of Persistent Chat and leaves it up to the reader to decide if they want to install it in their organization.
Lastly, the author touches on the various clients. All of the clients are addressed and discussed. The only thing that could have been a good addition would have been a discussion on DNS entries needed for each client to allow for automatic server discovery. Since the author does a great job throughout the book of citing other blogs for info, I’ll point my readers to Stale Hansen’s blog on the DNS entries: http://msunified.net/2013/08/07/lync-client-sign-in-and-dns-records-recommendations/.
Overall, this is a pretty good book and I think the author made a great effort here. I would encourage folks who are looking for more of a step by step book to consider this one as it achieves what it set out to do.
*** In case folks are looking for where to get the book, you can go to Packt Publishing: http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-microsoft-lync-server-2013/bookcomments powered by Disqus

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According to a recent survey, 29 percent of teens admit their parents wouldn't approve of their internet activities if they knew.
Another survey found one third of teens post personal information about themselves online, their address, their phone number. Why is this a problem?
It proved to be a traumatic problem for 15 year old Chelsea Abram. Her father Bob says "Chelsea was a very, very attractive young lady. She did not look her age."
Like many kids, Chelsea spent a lot of time chatting online.
That's where she met Sam Levitan.
He told her he was 16.
He asked for a photo and she emailed him one.
Detective Carol Doyle of the Madison County Sheriff's Dept. says "He's a predator is what he is and he knew what he was looking for and what he was trying to find, and what he was trying to find were girls."
Chelsea also gave him her phone number.
That's all Levitan needed to find her address. Late at night he drove to her house and called her from his car. \
"And he said, `Well I'm right outside your house' and so she snuck out and got into the car with him," says Chelsea's mother Terry.
Levitan promised he would drive her to her boyfriend's house. Instead, he drove her to his home an hour away.
"She kept saying I wanna go home!," says Doyle. " And finally after some arguments ensued, he basically grabbed her and drug her down the hall to what was his bedroom, and he raped her."
Surprisingly, he gave Chelsea his real name . The police later arrested him.
They also found evidence that Chelsea was not his only victim.
Detective David Vucich says "His computer in essence left a digital footprint of where he had been and who he had talked to."
That digital footprint contained the screen names of more than 300 girls.
Levitan is now in prison, but the anguish Chelsea suffered was too much .
On New Years Day she commited suicide.
Detective Doyle chokes back tears. "Chelsea is the reason he's in jail. And I wish with all my heart that that little girl could have made it through it." .
Every year, between 3 and 5 thousand children are abducted by non-family members, many of whom are online predators. Make it very clear to your child to never meet in person with anyone they first met online.

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Dr. Doreen Ewert is at the top of her professional career, and she is going strong! LCC International University’s MA TESOL program is honored that Dr. Doreen Ewert is a full professor in the program for 10 years. Dr. Ewert brings outstanding expertise to LCC’s MA TESOL Program.
Our MA TESOL students know Dr. Ewert personally as a keen, supportive, brilliant person who keeps the conversation lively and interesting. Over the past decade, Dr. Ewert has served as a thesis advisor to twelve (12) MA TESOL students, guiding them through the research and writing process to produce outstanding research reports. As an instructor, Doreen guides students from the initial steps of forming research questions to choosing research methods and collecting data, to writing a thesis. As a thesis advisor, Dr. Ewert helps students to choose manageable research topics and then challenges students to produce their very best final thesis.
Doreen started her teaching career at Fresno Pacific College, in California, USA, where she also served in several administrative capacities including directing short-term English programs in Vietnam and Japan. For two years, Doreen taught English in Warsaw, Poland, before returning to Fresno.
After completing her PhD at Indiana University in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, Doreen stayed at Indiana University, serving as associate professor in the Department of Second Languages and the Director of English Language Instruction at IU, a university of over 90,000 students.
In 2012, Dr. Ewert accepted a faculty position at the University of San Francisco in the Department of Rhetoric and Language, where she currently serves as the Director of the Academic English for Multilingual Students Program. Dr. Ewert was promoted to Professor in 2018.
Currently, in addition to her full time professorship at USF, Dr. Ewert serves as a top tier leader of the Commission on English Language Programs Accreditation (CEA). In her role with CEA, Doreen is a key decision maker for accreditation of over 300 post-secondary, intensive English programs across the world.
Dr. Ewert has given 54 professional presentations and 30 workshops on topics ranging from extensive reading to vocabulary development, to literacy and fluency development. She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences of TESOL and the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Even more importantly, Dr. Ewert has authored or coauthored 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
This summer, LCC will recognize Dr. Doreen Ewert for a decade of service to the MA TESOL program. We are grateful for Doreen’s dedication to her students and to the professional field of TESOL.
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Seas of Mirth are not your typical sea shanty inspired band. Their members hail from Nottingham, Derby, Leicester and Birmingham and they put on a high powered performance that has been likened to “the Pogues getting Mumford and Sons in a headlock, whilst Flogging Molly steals their lunch money and Grandmaster Flash kicks them in the shins”.
The band have been going since 2007 and have played up and down the country from pub to stage from Edinburgh Fringe to London’s SE1 Club where they’re known for starting many a tug of war with the locals! Their combination of gypsy and punk laced folk will go down a storm at any festival.
They have just released Double-A side single: ‘Phantom Vessel/Ly Ly Ladyboy’ and a full length album will be out this Summer.
Get the single on bandcamp here.

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text: Vintage, circa 1950's-1960's, Mexican pendant necklace. Copper with some brass trim; copper chain, and blue glass beads. Like the deocrative, almost Modernist design on it. 3 part pendant hangs 7 1/4"; chain: 23" around. I recently saw a book on Mexican copper jewelry by Maya, and this design was in it.


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Kate Spade & Co. is exploring a sale. The New York-based handbag and accessories brand is working with a bank to gauge interest among possible buyers, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. The potential buyers include a number of retailers, the newspaper reported, adding that the process was at an early stage.
Sales of handbags have weakened over the past year in the U.S., as consumers are abandoning department stores in favor of online shopping. Lower spending by tourists, due to a strong dollar, has also hurt sales. In response, affordable luxury handbag makers, such as Coach and Michael Kors, are inching out of department stores and exploring deals with other brands. Coach, for instance, which acquired footwear brand Stuart Weitzman in January 2015, recently made multiple takeover offers for British luxury brand Burberry but was rejected, the Financial Times reported this month.
Kate Spade, known for its quirky and colorful satchels and totes, reported lower-than-expected quarterly same-store sales last month and said pricing competition would likely dampen earnings during the holiday shopping quarter. Spade, herself, who founded the company in January 1993, left in 2007 when the brand was acquired by Liz Claiborne in 2007 for $125 million. She has since launched a new footwear and handbag company, entitled, Frances Valentine.

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Rachel Karmel — Voice • Violin• Ukulele • piano • Cello
In Long Island
Areas of Work: Suffolk County and Eastern Nassau County
Ages Taught: All Ages
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Pop, Theory, Songwriting, Recording
Voice: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Violin: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
Ukulele: Beginner, Intermediate
Piano: Beginner, Intermediate
Cello: Beginner, Intermediate
Rachel has been studying music for 20 years and received her Bachelor Of Science in Music Education at Hofstra University.
Prior to her degree, she performed in many private and collegiate ensembles as a vocalist, such as Hofstra University Chorale, Hofstra University Chamber Choir, and Hofstra University’s all female a cappella group: Makin’ Treble. She held the position of Music Director for Makin’ Treble for three years and wrote several arrangements for the group to perform.
Rachel has sung in over 20 different style choirs and has played in 10 orchestras.
Currently, she performs with a jazz combo in the Hamptons, acts in musical theatre productions, is in an upcoming folk band based in Brooklyn, competes in popular vocal competitions, and writes, records and performs her own original music. (KarmaRé : Unispan Records)
The various experiences in performance ensembles have shaped her personally, and have also helped mold what her teaching styles have become. Rachel is excited and eager to teach any age. She believes that no matter who you are, music is a personal experience; everyone can connect with music on their own level. As a teacher/ coach, Rachel focuses on technical skills, literacy skills and an emotional connection to the music.
Enjoy taking music lessons from a highly qualified instructor in the comfort of your home.


Fall is just around the corner and Keebler Park is ready for its third annual Scarecrows in the Park art display featuring the Pirates of the Pandemic.
Dadeville resident Dianna Porter has taken ownership of maintaining Keebler Park and hopes to see community participation in this year’s event.
“It will be the same guidelines we’ve always had — family-friendly theme and designs,” Porter said. “But this year we are not charging a fee.”
Also different this year, participants must purchase or procure their own materials and Porter highly suggests the PVC-based directions she will make available.
“We will provide directions on how to build (a scarecrow) out of PVC, which is what is preferred because they are very little maintenance,” Porter said.
Applications also will be made available, which are still required to participate even though there is no fee. Applications and directions can be found at the Dadeville Public Library and Dadeville City Hall, along with online on the Dadeville Experience Facebook page.
“It’s really important to follow the (PVC instructions) because I maintain them,” Porter said. “With the glued-up PVC we rarely have any issues. They have withstood storms and rain; I’ve only had to make a couple repairs in the past.”
The scarecrows will be installed the first week of October and likely remain up through Thanksgiving.
“We were going to take them down Nov. 1 last year but people kept discovering them and calling to say how much they enjoyed it so we kept them up through Thanksgiving,” Porter said.
Once someone completes a scarecrow, he or she can reach out to Porter at 256-750-0075 to make an appointment to set it up.
“We usually set up by appointment for them to be brought out or I can sometimes go pick them up and install them,” Porter said.
Last year, there were 14 scarecrows in Keebler Park for the fall celebration and Porter hopes to see at least the same participation if not more this year.
“It grew more than double last year (from the previous year),” she said. “It’s just a fun thing to do for celebrating fall. It’s what they’re for.”
Keebler Park suffered some damage from the April 19 straight-line windstorm and had roughly seven trees down along with tons of limbs. As a result, the park was closed for a while and reopened around July 4.
“We’re still going the rain garden and hopefully some other art planned for Keebler over the next year,” Porter said.


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FTX’s investment arm Alameda Research has agreed to sell its interest in venture capital (VC) firm Sequoia Capital to the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund for $45 million, according to court filings. Sequoia was one of the biggest FTX backers, losing $150 million on its investment after the exchange went bankrupt.
Abu Dhabi Government-owned Investment Fund to Buy Sequoia Interest from FTX
Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, has secured a $45 million cash deal to sell its interest in Sequoia Capital to the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. The agreement is part of Alameda’s efforts to offload its crypto and tech venture investments to refund creditors.
If all conditions are satisfied, the deal could close on March 31. But the transaction is still pending approval by a Delaware bankruptcy judge, and such arrangements are typically subject to judicial scrutiny.
According to the filing, the purchaser is Al Nawwar Investments RSC Limited, an Abu Dhabi government-owned investment fund with a current stake in Sequoia. The filing says Alameda received interest from four potential buyers, ultimately striking a deal with Al Nawwar Investments “based on its superior offer and ability to execute the Sale Transaction within a short time frame.”
The FTX-Sequoia Relationship
The deal between Alameda and Sequoia comes just a few months after FTX filed for bankruptcy, sending shockwaves through the digital assets industry. Alameda played a central role in FTX’s collapse, with the crypto exchange borrowing up to $10 billion of user funds to help the trading firm cover its liabilities.
Sequoia Capital, one of the most successful VC firms in Silicon Valley, has been among the biggest FTX backers. The firm poured $225 million into FTX in 2021, most of that money coming from its multi-billion growth fund.
After FTX collapsed in November 2022, Sequoia wrote down its investments to zero. The VC firm, which lost $150 million on its FTX investments, said Sam Bankman-Fried’s company misled it.
“What gets me is not that we made the investment, it’s the year-and-a-half of working relationship after the investment and I still didn’t see it — and that’s difficult,” said Sequoia Capital partner Alfred Lin, referring to the red flags that contributed to FTX’s downfall.
This article originally appeared on The Tokenist
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In his excellent book Accompany Them With Singing (read it before you die or I’ll kill you), Thomas G Long says this:
“When someone dies, Christians, like all other humans, look around at the immediate environment and ask: What do we have to do? What seems fitting to do? What do we believe we are summoned to do? In other words, Christian funeral practices emerge at the intersection of necessity, custom and conviction.”
What’s good for Christians is good for everyone, note. But I think I’d be inclined to reduce Long’s three to two: to just necessity and duty. What do we need to do? Get rid of this body, it’s going off. In the manner of doing it, what do we owe this person who has died? How should the funeral ceremony be, and what part ought we to play in it?
Engaging with necessity has to do with caring for the body, then disposing of it. Evaluating duty is much harder. If doing your duty is defined as doing what needs to be done and saying what needs to be said, what might you permit yourself to outsource to others and what ought you to definitely do yourself, however reluctantly, both in caring for your dead person and in farewelling them? And the reason why this question is important is because if, as a bereaved person, you are going to get anything meaningful and therapeutic out of the experience, you need to put something in, the more the better.
This is a matter I have explored, as a secular celebrant, with many families, and I’m not sure it has ever gone down well. By the time I get to them, of course, they’ve seen the funeral director, and the full-outsourcing option has embedded itself and, as a result, the point of the funeral has largely been lost. To have lots of people do everything for you because you can’t be expected to do any of it yourself is perilously attractive. Duty is consequently subsumed in self-absorption. “Would you,” I ask, “like to say a few words about Dad?” “Oh, don’t you do that?” they reply. “Who would Dad prefer?”
Instead of seeking comfort through cosseting, bereaved people need to put themselves out and earn their comfort. Never in the history of funerals have participants been so utterly passive as those at most of today’s vastly improved secular ceremonies. Even unbelievers at a religious ceremony have a more interactive time of it.
Is this how the bereaved see it? Not most of them. They have low or no expectations of a funeral. It’s an event not to be engaged with but endured. And so it is that the opportunity to grieve best at the best time for grieving is lost.
For a celebrant, the creation of a funeral ceremony ought to be an organic process, the product of several meetings. If all goes well, the outcome will be far more participation by the mourners than they ever expected: a good funeral. Do celebrants customarily brief funeral directors about the emotional state and evolving needs of their clients during this process? No. Do funeral directors customarily monitor their clients with a view to providing a better experience for them? No. So far as funeral directors are concerned, everything is set in stone at the arrangement meeting – when their clients are in the first shock of grief. They are not interested in evolving needs. Too much hassle.
This business of doing everything for the bereaved seems like kindness but isn’t. I’d like to see more funeral directors and more celebrants exploring with their clients and with each other not what they can do for their clients but what their clients can and ought to do for themselves.

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Steve Bellan was known for his play at Fordham University and during the days of amateur baseball. On this day in 1871, he became the first Cuban, and the first Hispanic player, in MLB history.
Before the days when MLB ruled the baseball universe, college games and amateur contests were the main way to see a game. Several players would become stars during that time, their services desired on those ‘semi-pro’ teams in the late 1850’s and into the 1860’s.
One of those players was Steve Bellan. He spent six years as a third baseman, first plying his trade with the Union of Morrisania, and then playing for the Troy Haymakers. He remained a part of the team when they joined the National Association, the first professional baseball league. As such, it was on this day in 1871 that Bellan got into a game, becoming the first Hispanic player to appear in a Major League game.
During his three years in the NA, Bellan was a serviceable player. He had a lifetime .251/.280/.305 batting line, with nine doubles and three triples. Overall, he played just 60 games, likely hampered by his porous defense, even for that time.
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However, Bellan was not done with baseball. He returned to Cuba, and helped usher in the beginning of the Cuban Leagues. He became a player/manager for the Havana team, and was instrumental in organizing the first professional game. In that contest, Bellan’s team defeated Club Matanzas by a 51-9 score. Bellan himself clubbed three home runs in that game.
He continued his success with Club Havana, leading the team to the first two titles in league history, and added a third championship in the 1882-83 campaign. He was considered the true father of Cuban baseball, and remained influential in the game after his retirement in 1886.
To this day, baseball remains hugely popular in Cuba. This is due, in large part, to Steve Bellan, who helped popularize the game in the island nation when he returned home. His influence can be felt today, both in Cuba, and in the Majors today, as, on this day in 1871, he became the first Hispanic player in the MLB.

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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
By Tupac Shakur
Review by Qwintis N.
The story is about a rap artist, his life and what he has been through. I enjoyed the book because he wrote about real-life problems. My favorite part of the book was when he was talking about his goals and the message of it is OK to fall, but you need to get back up. I related to the book because I have been in the same position. I would recommend this book to someone else because it might help them with what they are going through. If I could give this book and alternate title it would be, "My Life in Poems."


I realize my vision of the robot you’ve always wanted might not be the perfect choice for everyone. Based on discussions with a lot of hobbyists, students, and educators, though, the robot described throughout this book has many of the capabilities many people are looking for in a robot. Knowing this, I decide to simplify the construction by utilizing off-the-shelf parts wherever possible and to greatly simplify the programming needed by utilizing RobotBASIC – a language I helped develop (visit www.RobotBASIC.org to download your free copy). My robot has multiple microcontrollers performing various tasks, but the overall operation of the robot is controlled by a real Windows 8 Tablet Computer (not Windows RT). The tablet’s small size lets it serve as the robot’s head and face and having a full featured computer in control makes it far easier to create exciting robotic behaviors. Furthermore, the power of Windows provides the text-to-speech and voice recognition needed to create a more natural man-machine interface.. I have tried to create a robot others can duplicate, but any machine this complicated can always be improved. I look forward to seeing how my efforts are expanded. Some readers may want or need to utilize different sensors, processors and/or programming languages, so I will do my best to explain the choices I made and the algorithms used to control the robot’s behaviors. Hopefully, this book will allow others to build on my work to create the robot they have always wanted. There are many example programs throughout the text that explain the principles used to build the final programs used to control Arlo. The final versions and all the necessary supporting files can be downloaded from www.RobotBASIC.org. You can view Arlo’s YouTube videos by searching YouTube for Arlo: The Robot You’ve Always Wanted (Parts 1 and 2) or just follow these direct links. http://youtu.be/ohpLRN-y2wY http://youtu.be/5Ogc4lvGRcc
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Speech by Hon Beatrice Ngcobo during the National Assembly`s debate on the State of the Nation Address
20 February 2013
Honourable members and guests
We come from the most very fragmented health system that cared for the few and according to colour in their separate wards and clinics.
Mr President you were correct when you made health as one of the apex priorities among others and when you introduced the NHI which allows for equitable Universal coverage as required by the constitution, the Freedom Charter and recommended by WHO. The Alma Mater during the 20th century called for "Health for All the 2000". The country is fulfilling that call.
Building blocks have been put in place since 2009 in readiness to implement the NHI. These are hospital revitalization and building new health establishments to make public hospitals places of choice. Private hospitals are segregative and extremely costly and do not allow for Universal coverage.
The Green Paper on NHI was published in 2011 August for public comments. We are going to be awaiting the white paper on NHI.
In 2012, a Bill on the establishment of the Office Health Standards of Compliance was published. Public comments took place and the Bill was passed by the National Assembly in November 2012, however there are some additions that came from the NCOP and those will be taken care of. The Act calls for the establishment of the following units the Inspectorate. Ombud and the Certification office.
Pilot districts by province:
- Eastern Cape: OR Tambo
- Free State: Thabo Mofutsanyana
- Gauteng: Tswane
- KZN: Umzinyathi, Umngungundlovu and Amajuba (by the province)
- Limpopo: Vhembe
- Mpumalanga: Gert Sibande
- Northern Cape: Prixley KaSeme
- North West: Dr Kenneth Kaunda
- Western cape Eden communities have been mobilised
Mr. President the NHI will be rolled out from April to 533 in designated pilot clinics in districts, 600 general Practitioners have been registered to date to see patients at the 10 Clinics for now. Various health personnel will be available including the community health workers, nurses, retired nurses and others. Communities have been mobilised and are still being mobilised.
Further, Mr. President you have announced that the fund for NHI will be made available next year. PHC is being piloted in the designated districts
Mr President you announced the HIV and AIDS programme in 2009 that;
- Pregnant women are started on ARVs early and have to start attending ANC at 14 weeks to diagnose any other condition.
- Prevention of mother to child transmission has decline 8% of babies died in 2008 and 2.7% in 2011. There is a decline in mortality rate of infants and fewer than 5s as estimated by the MRC.
- VCT campaign, more than 13m, came for testing and were predominantly women. It would be good if man came forward too.
- Male Medical Circumcision; more youth is opting for this procedure which is further supported by the Zulu Monarch.
- The President is leading the campaign; the Deputy President chairs SANAC as well as the Minister of health.
- SA has the largest treatment programme in the World.
- There has been reduction in the cost of ART. The money saved is used to put more people on treatment.
Industry has reported a decline on absenteeism as people are no longer sick (Old Mutual). Life expectancy has extended in the past 3 years 61 years (MRC).
I thank you


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This paper describes the ride and handling development process used for the 1997 Corvette. Three levels of suspension are available for the 1997 Corvette: base (FE1), sport (FE3) and RTD or Real Time Damping (F45) suspensions. All suspensions will be discussed in this paper A review of the development and vehicle integration tradeoffs for each of the specific chassis components is included. Control arm bushings, springs, jounce bumpers, anti-roll bars and insulators, tires, shock mounts, shock absorber valving, real-time damping, steering development, alignment and measurements are discussed.
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The Willoughby-Eastlake Water Pollution Control Center plans to replace a sewer line that was involved in a leak on Nov. 20 between Lakeshore Boulevard and the Chagrin River.
According to Willoughby Director of Public Service Lee Bock, the sewer pipe had corroded and burst after a buildup of hydrogen sulfide gas. The leak caused some discharge into the river, near 35933 Lakeshore Blvd., just across the river from the Willoughby-Eastlake joint water treatment plant where the sewer runs.
The leak was stopped the morning of the occurrence by workers who were able to redirect the flow. Bock stated that a subsequent plug in the line prompted a bypass, about 25 feet of temporary sewer.
"We've installed a relief pipe that continues to put the flow into the Eastlake sewer so we that don't have any backups," Bock said. "The force main is still pumping, but it's pumping into this bypass that we installed."
The city is seeking independent contractors to clear the blockage and replace the damaged line. Gorka said that the blockage is speculated to be near a valve, but they won't know until a contractor begins work.
"Actually repairing the line in question, that's probably like 200 feet maybe of line that we'll have to replace, reline..." said WPCC Superintendent Jack Gorka. "We've already repaired a section of it, about 30 feet, but we started it up and it still wasn't pumping, so that way we know we've got a plug... We won't know (where) until we start digging."
Gorka said that the gas buildup could've been a cause of the blockage.
"The line itself got eaten up and at some point got plugged up, which caused the water to find another path," Gorka said, "which is manifesting in the break, the pushing up through the ground... It must've dead-headed against something, is what we're thinking, is that part of the soil and all that ran into the pipe and caused the plug."
Gorka highlighted that the plan is to install the replacement pipe with a type of lining that is designed resist hydrogen sulfide, the compound that had corroded the original pipe.
Willoughby and Eastlake officials are now in search for contractors, so there is not a set date for repairs.
"We're working with our city engineer and Eastlake's engineer and coming up with a solution to the problem," Bock said. "We're in the process of talking to contractors... to see what their recommendations are and then we'll go from there."


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A non-Punjabi, speaking Punjabi about Punjabi. A Gora Veer jee shares some reflections on those Punjabis who decide to turn their back on their own language. It is in interesting video which everyone should watch because I have come across many Sikhs who struggle to speak Punjabi, don’t speak Punjabi with their children and some who feel shame to speak Punjabi. May Guru jee give us all inspiration from this Veer jee to take pride in our mother tongue and speak it more often!
Speaking in Punjabi About Punjabi
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Find service providers in Arizona for each category listed below or see all providers in your area.
What We Stand For
We believe that everyone is HIV Equal. As such, we believe that everyone, regardless of HIV status, is deserving of empathetic, competent care and education without prejudice or stigma.
This website is designed to be a multipurpose source of information regarding HIV prevention, care, and resources throughout Arizona. Developed and maintained by Aunt Rita’s Foundation, HIVAZ is dedicated to providing accurate, thorough information to Arizona residents.
CDC announces launch of a Monkeypox Vaccine Equity Pilot Program
If your organization would like to host a monkeypox vaccination event, please fill out this form in its entirety. Please note that priority consideration will be given to organizations who serve LGBTQIA+ communities of color, especially where access to a monkeypox vaccine is not available in their local community.
Tribal governments can directly apply to CDC for this vaccine opportunity. CDC has a form to submit questions about proposals here.
Explore resources for people newly diagnosed with HIV.
Positively You! is a campaign to help people with HIV get connected with resources, support, and so much more. Check out the Positively You! website to learn about what’s available in Maricopa County, and how to focus on staying positively YOU!

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Fugitive in money laundering investigation detained in Italy
A Sarasota investment company owner on the run from a federal money laundering charge has been detained in Italy, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman said late Thursday.
Daniel L. Prewett will be held in the European country until U.S. Marshals can travel there and extradite him back to Florida, marshals service spokesman Marc Howard said.
Prewett, the owner of JH Investment Services, was originally arrested in October on a charge that he laundered money as part of a cocaine deal.
He had been released on $1 million bail after pledging four pieces of residential property, all of which were originally purchased by his company. It is still not clear exactly why an arrest warrant was issued last week.
Other details of Prewett's arrest, such as where and how he was detained, or the location of his arrest, were not available Thursday night, Howard said.
Federal agents say in court records that on Aug. 1 they recorded Prewett discussing with undercover DEA agents the different ways he could launder money from a drug sale and transfer it to a bank account at his main office on Beneva Road.
In the next two months, an undercover DEA agent delivered $100,000 of supposed drug money to Prewett two times with the informants, and both times Prewett wired $90,000 to an undercover DEA account from an account belonging to JH Investment Services, according to court records.
Prewett, a felon who did time in a New York prison for a tax-fraud scheme, sold shares of real estate purchases in Sarasota, Costa Rica, North Carolina and South Carolina during the booming real estate market of early 2005. To other investors, he sold money market accounts.
Prewett also faces a growing number of lawsuits in Sarasota County from disgruntled investors, many of whom suspected Prewett had left the country.

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The Hennessey Venom GT set a new world speed record for 2-seat sports cars by reaching a top speed of 270.49 mph (435.31 km/h).
The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder is the most powerful roadster in the world. 1244 hp from a country where no one drives faster than 130
John Hennessey loves horses. But not the kind that somewhere in the pasture stands and hay like. No, the man who loves the extra horses, the performance not just plants his Texas-based Hennessey to in everything in the automotive world of distinction. For example, in the Venom GT Spyder. The car based on the Lotus Exige provides in its strongest version 1244 PS – And weighing in at just 1244 kilograms once.
HENNESSEY VENOM GT SPYDER ROADSTER 1244 PS
This combination explains the alien driving values of Ex-Lotus: The Venom manages to sprint from naught to sixty in 2.5 seconds, 320 km / h due following 15.3 seconds and the top speed is probably only a matter of courage. Who grade in his car quiz to comparable look for: a contrast has Bugatti Veyron no chance.
When Venom GT Spyder sets the tuner to save weight on pure rear-wheel drive. The body consists, apart from doors and roof, made of carbon and the interior omitted unnecessary luxury. The important thing is indeed really only behind the two passengers. Because there operates the seven-liter V8 Twin Turbo , the already modified by Hennessey Dodge moved Viper with 1000 hp. The engine is available in three power levels with 800, 1000 or 1244 hp. Switched is always manually fueled with a 6-speed? No comment.
Granted, the Hennessey Venom GT Spyder is not the most beautiful supercar, but definitely one of the most extreme. And unobtrusive Lotus-based evidence of a certain understatement – At least in view of the prices: The start beyond 1$,250,000. Prominent customers there way also: Steven Tyler , lead singer of Aerosmith, drives the first! Jonas Eling


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Sometimes the feeling of being trapped takes a hold of me. You know those times when you’ve bit off more than you can chew. But, you buck up nevertheless and do what is necessary to achieve whatever it is you’re set out to do. I love odds against me challenges.
I seem to be more successful when my INFP mind says: “Joseph, you’re not good enough!” Well, maybe not but I’d like to think it does. I’m real hard on me but have been changing and not beating myself up as often.
About face: I seem to always leave late and that means sometimes rushing to get where ever it is I’m going.
maybe I’m more intelligent than the average joe. 🙂
And, that’s part of the point. Our society is at torments length. Wondering if… I don’t know… They don’t know… Discern the ride for yourself and have fun along the way.
Working on that. Mind over matter that is. And wishing I had a transporter. 🙂
Thank you! For visiting this post! Your time and interest are truly appreciated. If you found the content engaging or thought-provoking, please feel free to share your thoughts or insights in the comments.
Thoughts & Ideas, Joseph Kravis 🙂
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In recent years, Fraunhofer HHI has developed an optical wireless communication technology, also known as Li-Fi. Now, industry partner Sangikyo, a Japan-based telecommunications system company, has launched the first Li-Fi product – the LED Backhaul. This is an LED-based optical link that is initially introduced as a 4K/8K Video Relay, which can achieve data rates between 100 and 750 megabits/s.
Fraunhofer HHI is one of the world’s key research institutes for the development of innovative telecommunications systems with optical data transmission. The upcoming 5G network deployment asks for flexible solutions regarding frequency spectrum, and there are considerations about implementing optical links for data backhauling.
Since 2014, Fraunhofer HHI has pioneered the idea of a short-range optical wireless backhaul link through research in two European research projects (SODALES, 5G Crosshaul). Apart from backhauling, the newly developed LED Backhaul can be used as a flexible network, as a form of LAN extension if no cable is available. This is a conceivable solution for factories or subways, areas that are not easily reached by radio waves.
“One of Sangikyo’s new initiatives is the collaboration with Fraunhofer HHI. We have worked with Fraunhofer HHI to advance the joint development of high-speed wireless communication with LED light and have attained a realistic application. In future, LED backhaul® will be standardized by IEEE 802.15.13 and by international standardization activities of the Fraunhofer HHI,” says Yasukazu Sengoku, COO Sangikyo.
“We are developing the communication technologies of the future and are pleased that the new wireless system with LED light, which was brought to the market in cooperation with Sangikyo, will be used on the Japanese market. We will continue to work with Sangikyo and develop a wide range of high-speed wireless systems with LED light,” says Prof. Ronald Freund, Head of the Photonic Networks and Systems department at the Fraunhofer HHI.
Optical wireless transmission is a future-oriented technology for fixed and mobile wireless optical communication over comparatively short distances. Possible applications are wireless backhaul and fronthaul for 5G, wireless communication for industry 4.0 as well as in indoor areas alongside WiFi and LTE, for instance in conference rooms.
Sangikyo is a company based in Yokohama, Japan, whose focus is to provide engineering services for its clients in the IT and telecom industry. For over 50 years, Sangikyo has successfully completed several projects in satellite communications, microwave communications and mobile communications both inside and outside Japan.


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The summer in numbers: 2013 the hottest, driest and sunniest since 2006
Met Office releases early estimates detailing facts and figures behind 'seventh-sunniest' summer since records began
Friday 30 August 2013
This summer has been the warmest, driest and sunniest since 2006, the Met Office revealed.
It is expected to make it into the top ten warmest since records began in 1910, and according to early estimates has been 0.8C above average in the period from 1 June to 28 August.
Approximately 189mm of rain have fallen over the summer, around three-quarters of the average and making this about the 16th driest since records began.
The UK has also enjoyed above average sunshine, with a recorded 588 hours making 2013 the seventh-sunniest summer since measuring began in 1929.
Despite the figures, the Met Office said this year had not actually been a record breaker on any front, and while the 19 day heatwave in July was to some extent remarkable, that was more for its duration than for genuinely outstanding temperatures.
A spokesman said: “While this summer is warmer, drier and sunnier than the long-term average, it hasn't been exceptional. It stands out because the last six summers have been wetter than average, with 2012 and 2007 both being in the top five wettest, and 2008 and 2009 also in the top 10 wettest in records from 1910.
“This summer also contrasts with the rather cool summers of 2011 and 2012.”
The highest temperature of the year, 34.1C (93F), was recorded on 1 August at Heathrow. This was the highest UK temperature since July 2006.
There were nonetheless also some very wet days in parts of the country. Torrential rain on 23 July caused flash flooding in Nottinghamshire and in other parts of Northern England and Scotland. Heavy rain caused some flooding in Essex on 24 August, the Met Office also noted.
The generally fine weather this summer has not been without its casualties. Three servicemen died after suffering from heat-related illnesses during a Brecon Beacons training exercise in July.
And today a soldier in another training exercise died after collapsing on the North Yorkshire moors.
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Many of the children are provided with transport, organised by the L.A.* However, some children come from outside the school’s designated catchment area. In these cases, parents transport their own children to and from school.
*A pupil is entitled to free transport if:
they are living 2 miles or more from the designated school for the area (distances are measured over the shortest available pedestrian route)
or they need to cross the A49 which has been designated as a hazardous road.

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|Chamber of Secrets|
- "He was standing at the end of a long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars entwined with more serpents, rose to a ceiling lost in darkness, casting long, black shadows through the odd, greenish gloom that filled the place"
- —Description of the Chamber[src]
The Chamber of Secrets was created under the dungeons of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry during Medieval times by Salazar Slytherin, who disagreed with the other Hogwarts founders on the merits of blood purity. The Chamber of Secrets was home to an ancient Basilisk, which, according to legend, was intended to be used to purge the area of Muggle-born students. The Chamber is flanked with towering pillars entwined with carved wood, and a tall statue of Salazar Slytherin is at the far end. The basilisk rests within the mouth of the statue, possibly symbolising Salazar Slytherin's ability to speak Parseltongue. Sometime before 1992, the chamber flooded with water.
The entrance to the Chamber is at a snake-engraved sink tap in the second-floor girls' lavatory, where a ghost of a girl named Myrtle, more commonly known as Moaning Myrtle can often be found. A corridor may be entered by giving the command of "Open" or "Open up" to a snake engraved on the entrance in Parseltongue.
The engraved snake is on a tap over one of the sinks. The snake twist making the other snakes go back. According to Myrtle, the tap has never worked. A passage will open from the sink that leads to a corridor, which Harry Potter and Ron Weasley opened in 1993 and 1998 respectively.
Corridor of SecretsEdit
This corridor is a passageway leading to the door of the Chamber. In the spring of 1993, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Gilderoy Lockhart found an old, shed Basilisk skin while traveling through the corridor. Lockhart accidentally caused a cave-in when he attempted to use Ron's broken wand to cast a Memory Charm, which backfired instead.
Salazar Slytherin disagreed with the other Hogwarts founders about the importance of blood purity and the acceptance of Muggle-borns at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As the other Founders were against him in this matter, he left the school. According to legend, before he left, he created a secret chamber deep underground in Hogwarts Castle - known as the Chamber of Secrets. This Chamber was home to a beast - a Basilisk - that was allegedly supposed to purge the school of all Muggle-born students. Only Slytherin's heir could open his room. Over the centuries after Salazar Slytherin's death, many headmasters conducted searches of the school to find the Chamber. None, however, were successful, and the Chamber was dismissed as a mere legend by many. When the Chamber was opened in 1943 and 1992, it was revealed to be real.
There is clear evidence that the Chamber has been opened more than once between its creation and the twentieth century. When first created, the Chamber was accessed through a concealed trapdoor and a series of magical tunnels. However, when Hogwarts’ plumbing became more elaborate in the eighteenth century, the entrance to the Chamber was threatened, being located on the site of a proposed bathroom. The presence in school at the time of a student called Corvinus Gaunt – direct descendant of Slytherin - explains how the simple trapdoor was secretly protected, so that those who knew how could still access the entrance to the Chamber even after newfangled plumbing had been placed on top of it.
The Chamber was opened during the 1942-1943 school year by a young boy by the name of Tom Marvolo Riddle, later known as Lord Voldemort. Through his mother, he was the last remaining direct descendant of Salazar Slytherin, and he desired to see Muggle-borns driven from Hogwarts. In his fifth year, Riddle located the secret entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, and was able to control the Basilisk as he was the Heir of Slytherin. Riddle turned the beast loose on the school, injuring many.
The last victim was a student named Myrtle, who was killed in the girls' bathroom. Hogwarts was due to be closed, which upset Riddle, who did not want to return to the Muggle orphanage in which he was raised. He framed fellow student Rubeus Hagrid, who had concealed a pet Acromantula named Aragog. Riddle convinced the Headmaster at the time, Armando Dippet, that Aragog was the monster that had terrorized the school. Hagrid was expelled, and Riddle received an engraved trophy for Special Services to the School.
Albus Dumbledore, then the Transfiguration professor, distrusted Riddle and kept a close watch on him after that. As it was no longer safe to open the Chamber of Secrets, Riddle created a diary in which to preserve his sixteen year old self, hoping it would one day lead someone to finish Salazar Slytherin's "noble quest." The diary was also made a Horcrux with the murder of Moaning Myrtle.
- Dobby: "Terrible things are about to happen at Hogwarts. Harry Potter must not stay here... now that history is to repeat itself."
- Harry Potter: "Repeat itself? You mean this has happened before?"
- Dobby: "Ha?! I shouldn't have said that. Huh!? ...Bad Dobby! Bad!"
- — Dobby warning Harry Potter about the Chamber of Secrets incident.[src]
The Chamber was re-opened in 1992 when the bewitched diary of Tom Riddle manipulated and controlled Ginny Weasley, a first-year student who had got hold of the diary by Lucius Malfoy who slipped it in her cauldron when he was viewing her other spellbooks in Flourish and Blotts and fell under its influence. Ginny was compelled to vandalise the school by painting terrifying messages on the corridor walls. Petrifying many students opening the Chamber of Secrets letting the Basilisk come out and making people look at it in different ways; Hermione saw the Basilisk's reflection in the mirror and Mrs. Norris saw it through the flooded water floor.
She was made to open the Chamber, releasing the Basilisk. It petrified many students, including Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Penelope Clearwater, and Hermione Granger, as well as the ghost of Nearly Headless Nick and the Caretaker's cat, Mrs. Norris. They were later restored to their proper states through the use of Mandrake Restorative Draught. Fortunately, this time, no one was killed.
- "Speak to me, Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts Four!"
- —Tom Riddle summoning the basilisk against Harry Potter.[src]
On 29 May, 1993, Ginny was taken down to the Chamber to die, while Riddle intended to feed off her life force to become fully alive again. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and then-Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor Gilderoy Lockhart went to the Chamber to rescue Ginny, as a message had been left that she was being held prisoner there.
Once in the chamber, Harry met with the memory of Tom Riddle, preserved in the diary, and a near-death Ginny. As Ginny grew weaker, Riddle grew stronger. Riddle then reveals that he is, in fact, Lord Voldemort (rearranging the letters of his name from "Tom Marvolo Riddle" to "I am Lord Voldemort"), he then summons Salazar Slytherin's basilisk. Harry, knowing that eye contact with the basilisk would be fatal, ran from it, and was helped by the timely arrival of Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix who clawed the Basilisk's eyes out.
Now able to look freely, Harry battled the Basilisk with Godric Gryffindor's Sword, which materialised out of the Sorting Hat, that Fawkes brought down to the chamber, but a basilisk fang stabbed into his arm in the process. Near death, Harry used the fang to stab the diary, and it spurted out black blood like ink, and the memory of Riddle preserved in it was destroyed. This action also effectively destroyed the fragment of Voldemort's soul within it, as Basilisk venom is one of the substances capable of destroying Horcruxes. After the fight with the basilisk, Fawkes's tears healed Harry's wound, and he, Ginny, Lockhart, and Ron were carried by Fawkes out of the chamber.
On 2 May, 1998, during the Battle of Hogwarts, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger went back to the Chamber of Secrets to retrieve more fangs, since they needed Basilisk venom to destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes.
Ron was able to open the Chamber by mimicking the Parseltongue he had heard Harry use to open Salazar Slytherin's Locket. Once inside, Hermione stabbed Helga Hufflepuff's Cup with a Basilisk fang taken from the dead Basilisk's skeleton, destroying the Horcrux.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Ginny Weasley opened the chamber under Tom Riddle's control; however, she only could open it because of Tom Riddle's ability to speak Parseltongue. She was unable to speak Parseltongue afterwards but Tom probably told her what to say.
- In the book, it says that Filch could not get the messages written by Ginny off of the wall. It is unknown if he ever did, and it has not been mentioned since.
- The Chamber is one of the few Hogwarts locations not to be on the Marauder's Map, as it was never found by the Marauders.
- Tom Riddle opened the Chamber of Secrets in June 1943, but it is unknown precisely which day, possibly the same day he caught Hagrid from talking with Aragog (13th June) or the day before. As Myrtle recalled, they took "hours and hours" to find her body.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the Chamber of Secrets scene where Ron and Hermione enter and Hermione destroys the cup with a Basilisk fang is shown. Also, Voldemort caused the Chamber to flood and nearly kill them, and this is the scene when they kissed.
- The Chamber of Secrets happens to be the location of the destruction of two of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes: the Diary and the Cup.
- The Chamber had a green hue in The Chamber Of Secrets, but in The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, its hue was blue.
- In The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the snake head statues in the Chamber appeared to be more worn than in The Chamber Of Secrets, and had slightly bigger eyes.
- In The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 videogame, the chamber is recreated inaccurately. It has miles of caves, tunnels and doors in between the bone pit and the actual chamber. The chamber is also shown to be behind an ordinary metal door rather than the unique one in the films, and there is a ramp to get down into the chamber rather than a ladder.
- The statue of Salazar Slytherin in the film differs from the one in the book in that it only depicts Slytherin's head, rather than his full body. In Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey, it was revealed that the Chamber is flooded, and the water rose to the statue's head.
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Entrance only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Appears in flashback(s))
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- LEGO Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey
- Harry Potter LEGO Sets
- Harry Potter for Kinect
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In this briefing, Amnesty International expresses its concern regarding the implementation of the Procurator General’s mandate with regards to human rights violations by police in Mozambique. Amnesty International is concerned about the impunity the police appear to enjoy for these violations. Such impunity is evidenced by the lack of criminal investigations, criminal charges brought against police and trials of police officers. The lack of publicly available information regarding cases against police officers reinforces the perception that the police have a licence to kill.
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AUTHOR: Miller, Samuel Almond (1836-1897)
TITLE: New species of palaeozoic invertebrates
from Illinois and other states, by S. A. Miller and Wm. F. E. Gurley.
IMPRINT: Springfield, Ill.: E. F. Hartman, state printer,
COLLATION: 50 p.: v plates; 27
SERIES: Bulletin of the Illinois state museum of natural
history; no. 11
NOTES: Each plate accompanied by leaf of descriptive
KEYWORDS: 1. Invertebrates, Fossil. 2.
Paleontology--Paleozoic. I. Gurley, William Frank Eugene Reed (1854- )
LOCATION: AM101.I354 no.11


In the rapidly evolving world of digital imaging, the transition from Full HD 1080p to 4K and now 8K represents a quantum leap in video resolution. While 4K, with its significantly higher resolution than 1080p, brought about a marked improvement in video clarity and detail, 8K takes this enhancement to the next level. This article delves into the realm of 8K technology, exploring its impact on video cameras, TVs, cinema, and the broader filmmaking industry.
Lets jump right in an have a look at this sample of 8K video footage. In this case from the Sony A1. Crank up the resolution to 8K, play it full screen on a large computer monitor and see for yourself.
The Emergence of Cutting-Edge Video-encoding Technology
Now, a groundbreaking video-encoding technology (a codec), poised to halve data usage, emerges after extensive collaboration among major tech industry players. This advancement heralds a new era for streaming, promising high-quality footage with minimal buffering, even on slower connections. It notably paves the way for 8K content in on-demand services, signifying a monumental shift in video technology and defeating the argument that 8K will need faster internet connections or streaming than 4k or even 1080. If you really want to pixel peep 1080 vs 4K vs 8K and from between different cameras, I recommend DPReviews’s video comparison tool to compare still frames from between different cameras.
8K in Production: A Closer Look
While the human eye might struggle to discern improvements beyond the stunning visuals of a 4K OLED TV, 8K offers a realm of possibilities in video production. This ultra high definition technology, however, faces a familiar cycle in tech advancement: initial high costs and limited practical use, catering primarily to a niche market segment. The evolution from HD to 4K, and now to 8K, is a testament to the relentless pursuit of excellence in video quality.
8K Videos: Bridging the Gap between Reality and High Definition
8K content, while still in its infancy compared to the widespread adoption of 4K, promises an unprecedented leap in video quality. It plays a crucial role in elevating 4K content to extraordinary levels of clarity and detail. The current landscape, dominated by 4K and 2K content, is ripe for the integration of 8K, offering viewers a more immersive and detailed visual experience.
Hollywood’s Embrace of 8K: Redefining Cinematic Excellence
Hollywood’s foray into filming with 8K and 16K footage is a game-changer, offering unparalleled precision and clarity in 4K projection in theaters. This trend underscores the growing importance of ultra-high-resolution video in contemporary filmmaking and content creation.
Resolutions Beyond Full HD: Exploring 4K and 8K
As digital displays increasingly support 4K, this resolution becomes the new norm, offering a visual experience far beyond Full HD. 8K, or Super Hi-Vision, elevates this experience further, offering a staggering 7680 x 4320 pixels. This leap in resolution is not just a numerical increase but a transformative shift in how we capture and view video content.
The Canon EOS R5, Sony A1, and Z CAM: Pioneers of 8K Video Recording
Leading the charge in 8K video recording are devices like the Canon EOS R5, Sony A1, and Z CAM.
These cameras epitomize the cutting-edge of video technology, offering creators unparalleled detail and depth in their recordings.
Now, even cameras like the Fuji XH2 make 8K affordable, and accessible to most content producers.
The Practicality of 8K: Is It Worth the Investment?
The question of whether 8K is worth the investment hinges on its application. For filmmakers and action photographers, 8K offers a new horizon of creative possibilities. It allows extensive cropping and zooming without compromising image quality, transforming the post-production process and opening up new avenues for creative expression.
8K’s Role in Future-proofing Video Content
While 4K remains the standard in many consumer devices, the trajectory of 8K points towards a future where it becomes increasingly mainstream. The advent of 8K TVs and the support of platforms like YouTube and Vimeo for 8K content are harbingers of this shift. However, the current technological limitations, such as the maximum frame rates achievable in 8K, hint at a future still in development.
Ultimately, if you film your happy memories, or your vital content today in 8K, it’ll have a shef life for years to come.
The Role of H.266 and Versatile Video Coding (VVC) in 8K Adoption
The introduction of H.266 and Versatile Video Coding (VVC) is a critical development in the 8K narrative. It offers the promise of reduced data transmission requirements, a crucial factor in the widespread adoption of 8K. This codec, developed with the collaboration of industry giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Qualcomm, could revolutionize the way we stream and record video.
Conclusion: We are at the Dawn of the 8K Era
In conclusion, the journey from 4K to 8K is not just about higher resolutions; it’s about redefining the boundaries of video clarity and detail. As the technology matures and becomes more accessible, we will see more 8K and to the next generation of content producers, it’ll be the norm. Heck, smartphones can already shoot 8K, so lets hope real cameras catch up soon.


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New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony has broadened the perform of groups he’d be willing to join and waive his no-trade i for, every ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who states the Cleveland Cavaliers are currently an option.
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Earlier top top Friday morning the Knicks proclaimed during a news conference they expect to see Anthony in cultivate camp following week after not finding a trade offer this summer that satisfied the franchise.
“When we set out, we said if there to be something there that made sense both for him and for the Knicks organization, climate we would certainly strongly consider it,” basic manager Scott Perry said. “Obviously, us sit right here today and also that walk not occur as of yet.”
Since late June, Anthony’s preferred destination has been the Houston Rockets. However, discussions between Houston and brand-new York have been at a standstill v the Knicks do not want to take it Ryan Anderson and his three-year, $60 million contract as component of the deal.
Wojnarowski likewise reports the Anthony made decision to occupational with brand-new York and also expand his perform so a trade deserve to be finalized before the start of the season. The 10-time All-Star offered the company two new destinations and also playing together his great friend LeBron James in Cleveland was among them.
ESPN’s Ian Begley later reported the 2nd team Anthony included to his list was the Oklahoma City Thunder. Whether or not contact between both teams has been make is currently unknown.
The Knicks and Cavaliers had preliminary discussions this week, however no details trade principles were exchanged, per ESPN.
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Anthony, 33, has two years and also $54 million continuing to be on his present deal. He averaged 22.4 points, 5.9 rebounds and also 2.9 assists last season.
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Susana Chuva de Sousa Lopes and Maria Gomes Fernandes from Leiden University Medical Center ran the PluriMes public engagement stand at the public engagement evening which marked the start of the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s (ISSCR) 2015 annual conference.
The public engagement evening was held at the Karolinksa Institutet’s Aula Medica on Tuesday 23 June and had two parts. An interactive reception with stands run by a collaboration of EC funded HEALTH Consortia PluriMes, HumEn, ThymiStem, NeuroStemCell Repair and EuroStemCell, and also the Wellcome Trust – Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. The second part was a panel discussion on stem cells and the aging brain involving a world-leading group of international stem cell scientists, lead by the Karolinska Institutet’s Ernest Arenas.
The PluriMes stand had two activities, one activity used play-doh to show the public how pluripotent stem cells can make any type of the specialised cell. The other activity used M&Ms to explain how specialised cells can be return to a naïve state using a method called reprogramming. The M&M activity was developed at the PluriMes First Annual Consortium Meeting by PluriMes lab members from Dylan Stavish's (University of Sheffield) idea.
As an extra incentive to visit the stand members of the public were able to take away PluriMes branded M&Ms (which they could eat) in PluriMes branded petri dishes!
The event attracted about 50 members of the public and due to the collaboration between some of the leading European stem cell research consortia and centres the event was very successful at showcasing the amazing stem cell research taking place across Europe.

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Norman Public Library West welcomes young readers in for its weekly Story Times, hosted on Tuesday mornings. September's Story Times will be at 10 a.m. on Sept. 6, 13, 20 and 27.
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Registration is not required in advance to attend.
Elementary-school age children are invited to make a new friend and work on their reading at Norman Public Library West's "Sit! Stay! Read!" program for reading to therapy dogs, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. each Thursday. Program dates for September are Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29.
The goal of the program is helping reluctant readers to practice their reading skills in a low-stress, non-judgmental environment.
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Ever "felt" like planting a garden?
This is sure to be a garden like nothing you've ever seen, as Norman Public Library West presents its DIY Felt Succulents event for teens, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. Ages 12 to 17 are invited to attend.
Each of the "plants" in this garden will be made of felt but have the look of a real succulent plant to spruce up the look of a room, porch or patio.
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THERE’LL be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting — and the folks at Illawarra Drive collecting funds for local charities.
That’s right, it’s the most wonderful time of the year and a treasured local tradition will once again light up Echuca.
The Illawarra neighbourhood Christmas lights charity collection will be on the four nights leading up to Christmas.
And will see collectors from the CWA, Echuca East Primary School and Echuca Lions Club rattle tins at the corner of Illawarra Dr and Butcher St.
In just 10 years, the popular event has raised more than $32,000 for local charities.
And instigator Greg Taylor said a lot of that came down to the street itself.
‘‘Illawarra Dr is perfect for fundraising, as you have to turn around to get out, so it creates this bottleneck,’’ Greg said.
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Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), and so consequently he was also known as "Long Tall Dexter" and "Sophisticated Giant." He played a Conn 10M 'Ladyface' tenor until it was stolen in a Paris airport in 1961. He then switched over to a Selmer Mark VI. His saxophone was fitted with an Otto Link metal mouthpiece, which can be seen in various photos. Gordon died on April 25, 1990 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gordon was born and grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a doctor who counted Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton among his patients. He played clarinet from the age of 13, before switching to saxophone (initially alto, then tenor) at 15. While still at school, he was playing in bands with such contemporaries as Chico Hamilton and Buddy Collette.
Between 1940 and 1943, Gordon was a member of Lionel Hampton's band, playing in a saxophone section alongside Illinois Jacquet and Marshall Royal. In 1943 he made his first recordings under his own name, alongside Nat Cole and Harry Edison. During 1943-44 he featured in the Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson bands, before joining Billy Eckstine.
By 1945, Gordon had left the Eckstine band and was resident in New York, where he was performing and recording with Charlie Parker, as well as recording under his own name. Gordon was a virtuoso particularly famous for his titanic saxophone duels with fellow tenorman Wardell Gray, that were a popular live attraction and that were documented in several albums between 1947 and 1952.
Many would characterize Gordon's sound as being 'large' and spacious and his tendency to play behind the beat is discernible. One of his major influences was Lester Young. Gordon, in turn, was an early influence on John Coltrane during the 1940s and 1950s. Coltrane's playing, however, during his early period from the mid to late '50s or early '60s influenced Gordon's playing from then onward. Similarities in their styles include their clear, strong, metallic tones, their tendencies to bend up to high notes, and their abilities to single-tongue and still swing. One of Gordon's idiosyncrasies was to recite the lyrics of each ballad before playing it.
Gordon was saxophonist for the L.A. production of the Jack Gelber play The Connection in 1960, replacing Jackie McLean who performed and recorded the Freddie Redd score in New York City. By this time he had begun recording for Blue Note Records a collaboration that was to produce some of his most highly-regarded work on the albums Doin' Alright, Dexter Calling..., Go, and A Swingin' Affair. The first two, his Blue Note debuts, were recorded over three days in May 1961 with Freddie Hubbard, Horace Parlan and others. The last two were recorded in August 1962 just before Gordon left for his extended stay in Europe. On these albums the rhythm section was Blue Note staples Sonny Clark, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins.
After that, he spent 15 years in Europe, mostly in Paris and Copenhagen, where he played regularly with fellow expatriate jazzmen such as Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Kenny Drew, Horace Parlan and Billy Higgins. Gordon also visited the States occasionally for further recording dates with Blue Note Records. From this period Our Man in Paris, One Flight Up, and Gettin' Around are regarded as among his finest sessions. Our Man in Paris was a Blue Note session recorded in Paris, France in 1963 with a quartet including pianist Bud Powell, drummer Kenny Clarke, and French bassist Pierre Michelot. One Flight Up features an extended solo by Gordon on the track "Tanya" recorded in Paris in 1964 with trumpeter Donald Byrd, while Gettin' Around was recorded during a visit back to the US in May 1965, as was the unreleased album Clubhouse.
Less well-known, but of similar quality, are the albums he recorded during the same period for the Danish label SteepleChase (Something Different99, Bouncin' With Dex, and a few dozen others). They feature American sidemen but also such Europeans as Spanish pianist Tete Montoliu and Danish bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.
Gordon found Europe in the 1960s a much easier place to live, saying that he experienced less racism and greater respect for jazz musicians. Furthermore in America he had experienced drug addiction and imprisonment (twice), and must have found the change of location helpful. While in Copenhagen, Dexter Gordon and Kenny Drew's trio appeared onscreen in Ole Ege's theatrically released hardcore pornographic film Pornografi (1971), for which they composed and performed the score.
From 1965-1973 he switched from Blue Note to Prestige Records but stayed very much on the hard-bop track, while the rest of the jazz-world was getting funky Gordon was making classic bop albums like 1972's Tangerine with Thad Jones, Freddie Hubbard, and Hank Jones. Some of the Prestige albums were recorded during visits back to North America while he was still living in Europe, others were made in Europe including live sets from the Montreux Jazz Festival. The American recordings included The Chase a tenor battle with Gene Ammons cut in Chicago in 1970.
Gordon finally returned to the United States for good in 1976. He appeared at the Village Vanguard, NY, for a gig that was dubbed as his 'homecoming;' and was recorded and released under that title. He noted "There was so much love and elation; sometimes it was a little eerie at the Vanguard. After the last set they'd turn on the lights and nobody would move".
After this appearance, Gordon recorded several more albums that proved he was as good if not better than before his years in Europe, and he finally gained appreciation as one of the great jazz tenors. The increased attention that he received because of Columbia Records promotions has been seen as a turning point in jazz because they focused on acoustic jazz rather than the commercial cross-over styles which had been heavily promoted during the first part of the 1970s.
Gordon made several notable film appearances. The first occurred, oddly enough, while he was in prison for possession of heroin. He portrayed an inmate playing in the prison band in Unchained, though the soundtrack was later overdubbed. In 1986, Gordon starred in the movie Round Midnight as 'Dale Turner', an expatriate jazz musician much like himself; the role might even be a thinly veiled biography of him, though Lester Young and Bud Powell were its main inspirations. Gordon received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal. In addition, he had a non-speaking role in the film Awakenings, which was released after his death. Between these two roles, Gordon made a guest appearance on the Michael Mann series Crime Story.
Gordon died of kidney failure in Philadelphia, PA on April 25, 1990, at age 67. He was voted musician of the year by Down Beat magazine in 1978 and 1980, and in the latter year was inducted into Down Beat's Jazz Hall of Fame.
Dexter Gordon (Los Ángeles, 27 de febrero de 1923 - Filadelfia, 25 de abril de 1990), saxofonista (tenor) estadounidense de jazz, estilista del bop y del hard bop.
Su primera colaboración importante fue con Lionel Hampton (1940-1943) aunque la presencia de Illinois Jacquet le impidió lucirse en los solos. En 1943, consiguió destacar en una grabación con Nat King Cole. Unas breves colaboraciones con Lee Young, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra y la big band de Louis Armstrong precedieron a su traslado a Nueva York en diciembre de 1944 y a su incorporación a la orquesta de Billy Eckstine, participando con Gene Ammons en la grabación de Eckstine de "Blowin' the Blues Away". Gordon grabó con Dizzy Gillespie ("Blue 'N' Boogie") y como líder para Savoy antes de regresar a Los Ángeles en el verano de 1946. Se convirtió allí en uno de los principales atractivos de la escena de Central Avenue, trabajando con Wardell Gray y Teddy Edwards en muchas batallas legendarias entre tenores.
Desde 1952, sus problemas con las drogas le llevaron a una carrera irregular durante el resto de la década (grabando dos discos en 1955). Hacia 1960, se recuperó e inició una serie de grabaciones para Blue Note. En 1962, en pleno éxito, se marchó a Europa en donde se establecería hasta 1976, y allí realizaría algunas de las mejores grabaciones de su carrera para SteepleChase.
Gordon regresó esporádicamente a EE. UU., grabando en 1965, 1969-1970 y 1972, y aunque en esas ocasiones se percibió un olvido por parte de sus compatriotas, su regreso en 1976 constituyó un acontecimiento mediático que repercutió en un inusitado interés por su biografía, que empezó a tener tintes legendarios. Gordon firmó con Columbia y se convirtió en una figura popular hasta que su salud le obligó a casi retirarse a comienzos de los ochenta. Regresó de nuevo para participar en la película 'Round Midnight (1986, Bertrand Tavernier). Fue nominado a un Oscar por su interpretación.
Como nota curiosa hay que decir que Dexter Gordon, amigo de Torben Ulrich (quien dirigía un pequeño club de jazz en Copenhague), es el padrino de Lars Ulrich de Metallica.


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Shares of Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM – Get Rating) have been given an average recommendation of “Hold” by the eleven research firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. Six equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and four have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price objective among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $169.50.
A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. Stifel Nicolaus lowered shares of Waste Management from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and dropped their target price for the stock from $185.00 to $171.00 in a report on Monday, December 19th. UBS Group cut Waste Management from a “buy” rating to a “neutral” rating and cut their price target for the company from $190.00 to $165.00 in a research note on Tuesday, January 10th. Morgan Stanley raised their price objective on Waste Management from $177.00 to $179.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, February 2nd. Raymond James dropped their price objective on Waste Management from $167.00 to $166.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, February 6th. Finally, StockNews.com assumed coverage on Waste Management in a report on Thursday. They set a “buy” rating on the stock.
Waste Management Stock Performance
WM opened at $153.15 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.12, a current ratio of 0.81 and a quick ratio of 0.77. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $152.41 and a 200 day moving average price of $159.06. The stock has a market cap of $62.51 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.41, a P/E/G ratio of 2.34 and a beta of 0.72. Waste Management has a 1 year low of $138.89 and a 1 year high of $175.98.
Waste Management Increases Dividend
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 24th. Investors of record on Friday, March 10th will be given a dividend of $0.70 per share. This is an increase from Waste Management’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.65. This represents a $2.80 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.83%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, March 9th. Waste Management’s payout ratio is currently 51.95%.
Waste Management declared that its Board of Directors has authorized a stock buyback plan on Thursday, December 8th that allows the company to repurchase $1.50 billion in shares. This repurchase authorization allows the business services provider to repurchase up to 2.2% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company’s board believes its stock is undervalued.
Insider Buying and Selling at Waste Management
In other news, Director John C. Pope sold 218 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 17th. The shares were sold at an average price of $154.76, for a total transaction of $33,737.68. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 55,809 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $8,637,000.84. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. In other Waste Management news, CAO Leslie K. Nagy sold 800 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Friday, February 24th. The shares were sold at an average price of $151.11, for a total value of $120,888.00. Following the transaction, the chief accounting officer now owns 5,210 shares in the company, valued at approximately $787,283.10. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, Director John C. Pope sold 218 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, January 17th. The stock was sold at an average price of $154.76, for a total transaction of $33,737.68. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 55,809 shares in the company, valued at approximately $8,637,000.84. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 31,027 shares of company stock worth $4,806,619. Insiders own 0.18% of the company’s stock.
Institutional Investors Weigh In On Waste Management
Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. McClarren Financial Advisors Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Waste Management in the 3rd quarter valued at about $25,000. Desjardins Global Asset Management Inc. acquired a new stake in Waste Management during the second quarter worth about $25,000. Twin Lakes Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Waste Management during the third quarter worth about $31,000. Steward Financial Group LLC acquired a new stake in Waste Management during the fourth quarter worth about $31,000. Finally, TD Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Waste Management during the third quarter worth about $33,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 78.48% of the company’s stock.
About Waste Management
Waste Management, Inc is a holding company, which engages in the provision of waste management environmental services. It operates through the following segments: East Tier, West Tier, and Other. The East Tier segment consists of Eastern U.S., the Great Lakes Region, and Canada. The West Tier segment includes the upper Midwest region and British Columbia, Canada.
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