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Mule deer in western Wyoming migrate long distances and indulge in lengthy foraging "stopovers" between their winter and summer ranges. That may not sound like earth-shaking news, but if you want to make a western wildlife biologist's heart race, mention this finding from Hall Sawyer's mule deer migration studies, and the frisson of a hot breaking story – scientifically speaking – is in the air.
And when it comes to policy, it could reshape the way roads and drill-pads are placed in mammoth energy projects on public lands in the West – that's what turns this slice of new scientific information into a more typical news story. A proposal to drill a big new natural gas field in the Wyoming Range near the headwaters of the Hoback River was held up earlier this year while the U.S. Forest Service drafts some new alternatives for the project – incorporating, among other things, Sawyer's surprising findings about mule deer odysseys.
That has energy companies, conservation groups, and other users of public lands on alert: the decision on Bridger-Teton National Forest presents a rare opportunity to see whether strong, new scientific information about wildlife can significantly alter a major energy project on public land. For once, valuable site-specific data is in hand before decisions are made and development begins.
Crossroads at the Hoback headwaters
The project – a proposal by Plains Exploration & Production Co. (PXP) to drill 136 natural gas wells from 17 drill pads – would add to the swath of natural gas projects expanding from the enormous Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields in Sublette County to the south. Conservation groups have targeted the PXP project for a number of reasons. It's in the Wyoming Range, one of the few wildland areas which state politicians seem inclined to protect from development. It's under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service, an agency viewed as friendlier to conservation than the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. It's closer to Jackson, with its eco-friendly population, and some special conservation legal tools, including stipulations that could restrict the location of wells. Finally, opponents have some scientific ammunition, in the form of long-term studies by Hall Sawyer and others that show major impacts of energy development in western Wyoming on mule deer herds, pronghorn, sage grouse, and other species.
A PXP spokesman noted that the project has so far been subject to seven years of analysis of seven different alternatives. Hance Myers, vice-president and director of corporate information for PXP, said in an email response to questions that while the "analysis period (should) not be permanently open-ended," the supplemental analysis will put the project "on even stronger footing." And the company still believes the natural gas can be developed in "an environmentally sound manner with a minimal amount of disturbance."
But seven years has also given the public, and the conservation community, more time to focus on a project that would drill in the headwaters area of the Hoback River, a federally designated wild and scenic river. American Rivers, a national group advocating protection and restoration of rivers, has put the Hoback on its "most endangered" list, and groups like the Citizens for the Wyoming Range and the Wyoming Outdoor Council want PXP's 17 well pads scaled back, if not blocked altogether.
Biologists and other scientists are reluctant to weigh in publicly on large-scale public land policy decisions, where economic concerns, politics and powerful industries are often in play. They simply want to see science given its due. Sawyer's earlier studies of mule deer declines connected to energy development in the Pinedale Anticline have not slowed the expansion of Anticline energy production; but this time, the research is in hand before drilling begins, and it shows that crucial stopover sites along several mule deer migration routes coincide with PXP's proposed well pads. Lisa McGee, National Forests & Parks program director for the Wyoming Outdoor Council, hopes this time science might trump the industry juggernaut.
Add to this the excitement – a particular biologist-sort of excitement – generated by Sawyer's application of the "Brownian Bridge movement model" to determine a pattern of ungulate migration that no one knew about. "It's great and good stuff, truly important," says an excited Gary Fralich, a Wyoming Game & Fish Department biologist who's studying moose in the same area.
And it could, if applied to the PXP plan, radically alter a major energy development project.
'The mule deer are dying'
I first met Hall Sawyer four years ago, when we hiked around the rough sagebrush country in the western foothills of the Wind River Mountains near Boulder, Wyoming, in Sublette County, looking for a mule deer collar with a radio transmitter that had stopped moving – in other words, a dead deer. Sawyer had begun this work as a graduate student at the University of Wyoming, and he'd been working for nearly a decade on studies of ungulate migrations, including long-term research on the Sublette mule deer unit, which happened to share some landscape with the giant natural gas discoveries of the last decade, including the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields.
Sawyer, a rangy fellow usually wearing a baseball cap, set off through the hills at a rapid clip, waving antennae overhead to pick up a signal. It took a few hours to find the deer – a pile of bone and rumpled fur – and while he was unscrewing the radio collar he told her story: "We captured her in December of 2005, and during the next summer, she migrated about 105 miles up into Cache Creek, just behind Jackson Hole. She made the migration back to this winter range, but in 06-07 she couldn't make it through the winter."
Sawyer raised the transmitter over his head, glinting in the sun, swiped at the flies, and checked it. Collars get smarter all the time – if a spotting plane flies once a month picking up the GPS locations of collared animals, biologists can get a fairly exact picture of their travels. This doe, like most other mule deer, and pronghorn, passed every year through Trappers Point, a migration bottleneck near Cora Butte where Indians camped every year and filled their larder. Human migrators still come through here, but now they're in semi's and Winnebagos, and the mule deer and pronghorn have to dodge across sometimes heavy traffic on Highway 191. There's a lot of migrating going on.
The conservation community has long been concerned about migration corridors for wildlife, but in recent years a larger public awareness has flared. It helps when the wildlife has charisma: "Y2Y" (Yellowstone to Yukon) has grizzlies and elk; the area where Sawyer works has, in additional to mule deer, the fleet and graceful pronghorn, traveling from Grand Teton National Park to the Red Desert along what conservationists have designated the "Path of the Pronghorn."
If you were a mule deer, you might feel a little resentment – pronghorn, which travel the longest ungulate migration route in the Lower 48, are the poster child for migrations-in-danger in these parts. Their journey from Grand Teton to as far south as I-80 includes steep paths through the Gros Ventre Mountains and tip-toe trails amidst the drill rigs.
But it was the mule deer – also migrators in the same tightening corridor – that were dying. The pronghorn, as biologist Kim Berger's studies showed, actually tolerated the energy boom pretty well, maintaining a stable population while Jonah and the Anticline expanded. (Fences, on the other hand – many of them erected by wealthy second-homers – were crippling the sprinters.)
While Berger's data showed the pronghorn doing all right, the mule deer were crashing. The Sublette herd has two segments, one on each side of north-south Highway 191. The segment on the east side of the highway where Sawyer and I hiked lives on land that, as yet, has had no energy development. It's a rough life east or west, as the carcass at our feet suggested, but east of the highway, the winter herd population was replenishing itself and maintaining numbers between 6,000 and 8,000 over the last decade. On the west side, though, in an area with a distinct Mesa newly dotted by drill rigs, it was a different story.
"Through the first five years on the Mesa we've seen a 45 percent reduction in deer numbers," Sawyer said in 2008 as we hiked back to the truck.
Although his contract, at the time, was being paid by Questar, Ultra Petroleum and other energy companies as part of their mitigation requirements, he wasn't shy about assigning blame to oil and gas development. "We've got so many radio-marked animals we've been able to tell whether deer actually leave the area. … The idea that the mule deer are just moving somewhere else and that's why we're seeing the decline just isn't what's happening." The mule deer are dying.
Each species has different needs, which is part of why it doesn't always work when a big energy project adjusts for a particular animal or season. If you look at the sagebrush hills on a hot summer day, you may not see much, and the notion of year-round drilling activity (which was approved by the BLM as an exemption to long-standing big game winter range protection strategies) might seem reasonable. But in the winter, flocks of 500 sage grouse may gather, and deer will be everywhere. "Once they get to these winter ranges, they're pretty much in a negative energy balance," said Sawyer. "Basically just trying to hold on until spring. That's why it's so important that these deer aren't disturbed a lot during the winter, and there's not a lot of activity going on."
Since our first hike together, Sawyer has earned his Ph.D., and published an impressive array of papers with gripping titles like "Identifying and Prioritizing Ungulate Migration Routes for Landscape-level Conservation," and "Evaluating Mule Deer Crossing Structures in Nugget Canyon." He is circumspect about the significance of his work – he will not like being singled out in this article – and a bit gloomy over a beer when he ruminates on the impact of biologists' data on energy development in western Wyoming. The development, once it gets underway, isn't likely to slow or change course because of a paper published in "Ecological Applications."
Migrating from science to policy
Over the years, energy companies involved in the Pinedale Anticline development have taken me with television crews to look at their work in Sublette County, visiting air quality testing sites and protected sage grouse leks, noting how they have replaced truck traffic with buried pipelines, reclaimed disturbed sites and planted new vegetation, and used directional drilling to minimize surface disturbance. Despite expensive and extensive efforts at mitigation, the premise is always that the energy extraction goes forward. "In general, any sort of science that suggests energy development and wildlife aren't perfectly compatible is frowned upon," Sawyer said last December, reflecting on a decade of mule deer and pronghorn studies, paid for directly or indirectly by the corporations he was slamming. "There's been a lot of effort to discredit that kind of research rather than seriously consider it and have an honest discussion about the tradeoffs."
PXP's Myers emphasized in his email the company's "commitment" to "balance new energy development with conservation."
Then, a key discovery lifted Sawyer's mood. A recent paper, written with Matthew Kauffman of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, has Sawyer excited, even hopeful. "Stopover Ecology of a Migratory Ungulate" was published in May 2011 in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
The finding is simple, perhaps even obvious. When mule deer migrate long distances, rather than make the trip in a beeline, they dawdle, pausing for days and weeks at "stopover sites" along the way. Amazingly, this is new information, and it came from evolving GPS tracking efforts.
Ungulates like deer, elk and pronghorn, it was assumed, had a seasonal switch that set them off rushing from summer to winter range, and vice versa. Since some of these corridors were extraordinarily long – pronghorn can travel as far as 200 miles from Grand Teton National Park to the Red Desert – corridor conservation was an almost impossible challenge in the face of big new energy projects, fenced subdivisions, proliferating roads, and new building in the migration pathways. Inexplicably, the new U. S. Bureau of Land Management office in Pinedale was built, smack-dab, in a migration corridor.
"In the past, the perception was that these migration routes were essentially just conveyor belts, animals got on them and moved from one seasonal range to another," Sawyer explained. "We've been able to clearly see that that's not the case."
It's more the way birds travel, dropping down into wetlands to refuel on their long journeys. But there is a distinct difference between avian and ungulate: the tempo. Birds travel in a hurry, "optimizing food loads" and taking off again. Mule deer, in the spring, are almost languid in their journey, scaling higher elevations as they move north and stopping for days at sites they'd used for years, expertly timed just prior to "peak green-up, when forage quality was presumed to be highest," according to the Sawyer/Kauffman paper.
The stopover phenomenon was easy to overlook in past studies because it was rarely possible to identify a particular animal at the beginning and end of its migration, nor could scientists put frequent checkpoints along the lengthy routes. Rapid advances in GPS technology over the last decade have changed all that. New collars collect location data every two hours, 365 days of the year, with high resolution data. The information is stored aboard the collar, which is programmed to drop off in two years, usually at a time of year when the animal will be at a lower elevation.
With the new gear, Sawyer and Kauffman found the mule deer were timing their migratory journey to higher elevation so that they got the nutritional benefit of spring green-up at every stopover. "And it's very consistent," said Sawyer. "About every three miles, whether it migrates 10 or 100 miles. They use the same stopover sites year after year in spring and fall migrations."
"It's good and great stuff," said Gary Fralich, Wyoming Game & Fish's South Jackson Wildlife biologist, who is studying moose in proposed energy development areas. Fralich rhapsodizes about the way Sawyer applied the Brownian Movement Model – which, if this helps, is defined in a 2007 paper in Ecology: "based on the properties of a conditional random walk between successive pairs of locations, dependent on the time between locations, the distance between locations, and the Brownian motion variance that is related to the animal's mobility." There you have it.
"For people who study ungulate migration, it's kind of a big deal," said a laughing Kauffman, a mentor of Sawyer's who gives his former student lead credit. "Once you define the stopover areas, you find they spend 95 percent of their time there, and only 5 percent of the time migrating."
And here's where we come back to the PXP project (formally called the Eagle Prospect and Noble Basin master Development Plan). The proposed gas field would be situated in the Wyoming Range near Bondurant, including the headwaters of the Hoback River, and outside the area protected by the Wyoming Range Legacy Act. The Bridger-Teton National Forest's latest Supplemental EIS was released in the face of increased public scrutiny, including demands that the Forest Service strictly apply stipulations in the lease restricting surface occupancy, which conservationists say could cut the disturbed area in the proposed project by two-thirds. There have been rumors of negotiations to buy out PXP's lease hold in the area. Sawyer's mule deer data could – emphasis on 'could' – be another impetus to change PXP's plans.
Or not. There is 10 years of data on mule deer on the Mesa in the Pinedale Anticline, and the population is being allowed to crash, apparently due to human activity in critical winter range, according to Sawyer's data . But those Anticline studies providentially include mule deer that migrate north through the PXP area. Sawyer uses that data to identify stopover sites, and suggests the Forest Service could require that those sites be kept clear of rigs and roads and people, especially during the periods the mule deer use them. It wouldn't be everything the conservation community wants – that would be a complete ban on development – but with both PXP and the Forest Service insisting that the companies' right to drill is already decided, Sawyer wants to be sure the importance of stopover sites, at least, is recognized.
If the PXP project moves forward, Sawyer suggests that the essential project infrastructure – those roads, rigs and people – could actually be located in the migration corridors in order to spare the stopover sites. It sounds counterintuitive, but Sawyer says, mule deer on the move will cross roads. It's the places where they stop and forage that the "do not disturb" sign must be posted.
Opponents of the PXP project still hope the project can be stopped entirely. They are worried about the kinds of air pollution experienced in the Pinedale area (the potential for ozone spikes from gas field emissions is the primary concern), and also water quality (PXP will use hydraulic fracturing — or "fracking" — and must also manage large volumes of potentially toxic waste fluids), and surface damage to a beautiful viewshed. Wildlife advocates say there are other species in jeopardy, too, such as elk, and the moose that Gary Frahlich is collaring in a study underwritten by PXP, the state, and the Bridger-Teton that will arrive after a decision is made about whether, and how the PXP project moves forward.
The mule deer "stopover" data could, opponents say, at least contribute to another delay. "We're not drilling holes in the ground, and we've acknowledged that there are some issues," said Dan Smitherman, a Bondurant outfitter who leads Citizens for the Wyoming Range. "It's a business decision for (PXP). If they incorporate protection for air, water and wildlife, I think it's going to be very difficult for them to make money there when gas goes down to $1.50 (per thousand cubic feet [mcf] of gas)."
Natural gas prices have dropped precipitously this year, to just under $2 per mcf in Wyoming, but PXP officials show no sign of faltering resolve. In fact, PXP is among about a dozen oil and gas operators that, collectively, propose drilling some 20,000 new gas wells in western and central Wyoming over the next two decades.
Forest Supervisor Jacque Buchanan has no regrets about reworking the project plan and creating new alternatives. When she took over at Bridger-Teton in July, 2010, arriving from the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico, she was told the review process on the PXP project's environmental impacts was virtually complete. Right away, she saw problems. The public hadn't been notified about road density changes, a requirement under the Bridger-Teton's 1990 Forest Plan. The project also could be subject to the Jackson Hole Oil and Gas stipulations, which limits drilling near public roads – a special protection for that special corner of the state.
Both those things, along with Sawyer's science, will be considered in the new draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement. Buchanan expects the new version to be out near the end of May, followed by a 45-day public comment period. If the last draft is any indication – 60,000 comments poured in – this decision-making process will be much scrutinized.
PXP continues to show considerable forbearance and resolve. The federal permitting process for PXP's proposal began with a requirement that the company develop a plan for full field development, where many projects begin with a less elaborate Phase 1 that only involves the plans and impacts for exploratory work. The company has negotiated with the state and with groups like the Wyoming Outfitters and Guides Association and Wyoming Sportsmen for Fish & Wildlife to drop 28,000 acres of its federal mineral lease and devote millions of dollars to protecting and studying habitat and air and water quality.
Rumors persist that the company is looking for a way out, even negotiating a sale to conservation bidders. Responding to written questions, PXP's Myers counters that the company "has always taken the 'long view' on this project and recognized that the timeline for the permitting process would run completely independent of any price fluctuations in the commodity market." But the company will, writes Myers, "entertain any market based offer for our lease holdings on the Bridger-Teton National Forest."
Battleground central
Buchanan insisted that she does not feel inordinate pressure from either the energy industry or the conservation community, but there are voices on all sides, including two Wyoming governors who have chimed in. She repeatedly states that PXP's right to drill is unquestioned – and she is merely following "the good process laid out under NEPA (the National Environmental Policy Act), and let that drive us." She noted that Hall Sawyer's mule deer studies and stopover data will be incorporated not just in the two new alternatives, but in revising the old alternatives as well. And there will be language to allow changes in the plan when the moose studies are completed in 2013.
Then she paused, and one can imagine what runs through her mind – the huge outpouring of public comment, the concerns of state officials about the Wyoming Range, the strong opposition in the Jackson community, and the still-unfolding lessons of developments like the Pinedale Anticline. "None of us loves that this (process) has gone on as long as it has," she said. "It's interesting. It's battleground central."
(Banner photo courtesy of Rictor Norton & David Allen)
Geoffrey O'Gara is one of Wyoming's most accomplished journalists and writers. Geoff is a Wyoming Public Television producer and host of the influential Capitol Outlook and Wyoming Chronicle programs. He is the author of What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West (2002) and A Long Road Home, Journeys Through America's Present in Search of America's Past (1989) and several other books. An avid cyclist, basketballer and fly fisherman, he lives in Lander.
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Daniel Sturridge is scoring goals for fun this season and the Liverpool striker is a good bet at odds of 1.73 with Coral to rustle the onion bag versus Fulham at Anfield.
Liverpool pumped Fulham home and away last season, winning 4-0 at Anfield before leaving Craven Cottage with maximum English Premier League points courtesy of a 3-1 away win.
Fulham has managed to win two of its five English Premier League road matches this term but note that its victories came against a Sunderland side that was when in disarray under Paolo Di Canio and a Crystal Palace team that could end up being the worst in top-flight history. And remember that two of Fulham's goals in its 4-1 win at Selhurst Park were strikes that will be goal-of-the-season contenders.
The bottom line is that Fulham remains a genuine liability away from Craven Cottage, with its other road games across all competitions this season producing defeats to nil at Chelsea, Newcastle and Southampton, a 3-4 loss at Leicester and an extra-time 2-2 draw at Burton in which the Cottagers needed an 116th-minute equaliser to take the English Capital One Cup tie to a penalty shoot-out that they won.
Rather than backing Liverpool at generally available odds of 1.25 to beat Fulham, take the bigger price about Sturridge scoring at least one goal for the Reds. Sturridge bagged a hat-trick versus Fulham at Craven Cottage last term and he has scored 10 goals for Liverpool this season, including eight in the English Premier League. Sturridge has been on the scoresheet in nine of the 12 matches that he has played for Liverpool this term, with his blanks coming against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, Manchester United at Old Trafford and Southampton at Anfield – all top-half sides.
Fulham has only kept two clean sheets from 13 games across all competitions this season so Liverpool, which looks set to mount a sustained English Premier League title challenge for the first time in years, should engineer plenty of opportunities for Sturridge to find the back of the net.
Goals may not flow so freely in many other English Premier League matches, with the games at Selhurst Park and Villa Park very attractive from an exotic betting perspective. Of particular interest are punts on Everton to defeat Crystal Palace without conceding a goal and Aston Villa versus Cardiff to go under two and a half goals as well.
That no manager worth his salt really wants to succeed Ian Holloway as Crystal Palace boss says it all. Crystal Palace is doomed to relegation from the English Premier League having scored only six goals in its 10 top-flight matches and losing its last seven elite games on the spin. Everton has lost only once in the English Premier League this term and its defence is among the best in the division. Everton is interesting at odds of 1.62 to win at Crystal Palace but be greedy and back the Toffees to accrue three points and keep a clean sheet at odds of 2.80 with Coral.
Aston Villa's English Premier League campaign has come off the rails after a promising start and, even though Christian Benteke has returned following a short break out due to injury, the Villans have failed to score in each of their last four top-flight matches. For the Villa Park game to have a good chance of going over two and a half goals one would have to fancy Aston Villa to score at least twice and, with Cardiff travelling to Birmingham off the back of its 1-0 South Wales Derby victory over Swansea, one would have to lean towards under two and a half goals strongly. Stan James is out of line in offering odds of 1.83 about Aston Villa and Cardiff combining for fewer than three goals.
The English FA Cup first rounds takes place over the next few days and the pick of the bets in it is Cambridge to humble Bury at Gigg Lane. Cambridge, the Conference National leader, is trading at odds of 3.60 with BetVictor to beat a Bury team that is a good chance to swap places with it at the end of the season. Cambridge is performing to the level of a decent English League Two side so United really ought to be available at odds of around 2.75 to win on the road.

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- Minecraft - Pocket Edition
Cost: $7.49 | Developer: Mojang | Platform: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (reviewed on iPad) | Version: 0.1.2 | 2.9 MB |
Minecraft has been an absolute revolution in the games industry. Developed by the smallest of indie developers, the game introduced a whole new financing model for games development (ask people to pre-pay for the game, and give them an early build, then keep updating it as you go).
Minecraft – Pocket Edition seems to be following that philosophy. In paying $7.49; a real premium by iOS game standards, you get the most basic of Minecraft game modes: called 'builder,' it simply allows you to destroy and add Minecraft's distinctive blocks to a landscape to make shapes, houses and the like.
Later updates will introduce more of a "game." There will be enemies to fight, objects to craft, and more materials.
The question is: do you wait for that update, or buy the game now and enjoy elements as they are added in? The builder mode is actually good, if aimless fun, so while there's not nearly enough content to justify the $7.49 price tag right now, it's not a complete waste of money, and there's plenty more to come.
Pros: This is going to be a spectacular experience on iPad down the track
Cons: It's not worth $7.49 at the moment
Verdict: It's worth playing, if only so you can understand what is going to be one of the most influential games of all time.
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Writing a small parser / interpreter (Part 3: Semantic processing and simple WPF MVVM UI)
In the previous two steps we crafted a scanner and a parser for a subset of the LOGO programming language:
But, besides recognizing tokens and legal sentences, we also need to put semantic meaning into the LOGO programs.
Semantic recordings
For this purpose we will use semantic records. A semantic record is introduced to remember context while parsing the LOGO sentences.
private ILogoCommand ParseLogoSentence() { ILogoCommand result = null; Token nextToken = scanner.NextToken(); switch (nextToken) { case Token.FORWARD: case Token.BACK: case Token.LEFT: case Token.RIGHT: Match(nextToken); Match(Token.NUMBER); var numberRecord = new NumberRecord(nextToken, scanner.ScanBuffer); if (nextToken == Token.FORWARD || nextToken == Token.BACK) { result = new LogoMoveCommand(numberRecord); } else { result = new LogoTurnCommand(numberRecord); } break; :
When parsing simple LOGO constructs, we're using a NumberRecord to remember the number associated with a distance or angle and we're using LogoCommands to compose a record for later interpretation. One could argue that the NumberRecord seem redundant in this simple case, but actually we're using the NumberRecord for deciding the direction represented by the number.
public class NumberRecord { public int Number { get; private set; } public NumberRecord(Token directionToken, string numberAsString) { Number = int.Parse(numberAsString); if (directionToken == Token.BACK || directionToken == Token.RIGHT) { Number = (-1)*Number; } } }
The LogoCommands stores direction and angle information and provide means for calculating the geometry behind the sentence (its semantic meaning) through an interface:
public interface ILogoCommand { TurtleSituation CalculateSituation(TurtleSituation currentSituation); }
A TurtleSituation is just a placeholder remembering the current state of the geometry behind the LOGO program.
public class TurtleSituation { private static readonly DefaultTurtleSituation defaultSituation = new DefaultTurtleSituation(); public virtual int Angle { get; set; } public virtual int TurnAngle { get; set; } public virtual Position Position { get; set; } public static DefaultTurtleSituation DefaultSituation { get { return defaultSituation; } } #region Nested type: DefaultTurtleSituation endregion# }
Should we at some point need more complex sentences supporting e.g. routines, variables or the like, we could introduce a symbol-table to store identifier information. When dealing with more complexity it is also common to push the semantic records on an (explicit) semantic stack making it possible for the parser methods to query information discovered previously. One could of course also use the C# stack, pushing records as method arguments – in fact, we do that when returning LogoCommands from the parser methods.
All though the premise for these blogs were parsing techniques it would be a shame not to take the last step, writing a consumer of the LogoCommand records produced by the parser.
So, with the choice of a WPF MVVM kind of UI and a bit of Cartesian geometry, the Logo parser gets a graphical face. The MVVM pattern helps separate the UI view from the view logic using merely data binding and simple commands.
Please look to the code at the end of the blog for details.
Overview and recap
Over this series we have created a layered design utilizing simple parsing techniques. The scanner transforms received characters to tokens and the parser adds meaning to the sentences outputting commands. The commands are interpreted and ends up in simple line drawing instructions shown on the UI.
The above illustration hides details like how the ViewModel exposes the actual command that calls the application logic and invokes the parser. Also, the overall data bindings between the View and the ViewModel (not just the command binding) is left out for brevity.
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Come on Trigger, you're my only hope. How Evil is SSSS.Gridman's 9th episode?
Studio: Trigger
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Mecha
This episode had me sooo worried. It got me thinking that Trigger was gonna pull the "it was a just a dream" garbage that I absolutely despise. Thankfully that isn't what happened. Instead, we got kind of a recap episode where Akane tried to convince Yuta, Rikka, and Shou to become her friends in a strange dreamland, created by her newest Kaiju. It was a clever way to recap the show.
We revisited a few key points like Yuta waking up without his memories, but instead of Rikka being there to greet him it was Akane. She was trying to convince Yuta that she was his girlfriend and it seemed to be working too. Shou was reliving the day that he spent with Akane shopping for Kaiju stuff. It went a bit differently than the original, as Shou seemed to be getting a lot more stuff and he seemed a little more obsessed. Rikka's side of things seemed like it was all new. I think it's because she never viewed Akane as an enemy, to begin with. It was nice of them to throw in something original with all the older things. As neat as it was, the thing was still a dream and our heroes were stuck sleeping while The Neon Genesis Junior High Students tried and failed to revive them.
While the three mains were trapped in the dream, Gridman was somehow manipulating the dream, trying to break them out. He appeared in windows, billboards, and a lot of other places that you might not expect. It was like reading one of the Where's Waldo books but everything is moving.
At some point in the dream, all three members of the main cast realized that they are in a dream world. Rikka realized it because things just didn't add up. For Shou it was the whole "it was too good to be true" thing. And Yuta's Gridman alarm snapped him out of it.
The Kaiju that created the dream was invincible as long as the main cast were trapped in its world. Meaning The Neon Genesis Junior High Students couldn't do anything about it. It was funny when they tricked Anti into trying to do something and even funnier when his efforts were completely futile.
With the main cast freed, the Kaiju lost its invincibility, allowing The Neon Genesis Junior High Students to form their own giant robot. Wait, if they could do this the whole time why do they need Gridman? They chumped the Kaiju too. It wasn't even a real fight. (Voyager: To be fair, they probably didn't know they *could* do this until the previous episode, seeing as they hadn't thought about the reduced output thing at all) Well, at least they did something I wasn't expecting?
Overall, I'd say this episode is about as Evil as a Villian (9). If you get the chance check out our Top 5 Ops and Eds article. Well, that's all I have for you today. Thanks for letting me waste your time, people.
SSSS.Gridman is on Crunchyroll.
Keep It Classy,
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It is shown that, in the large-size-parameter region (x ≫ n2/2) the Re(an + bn) is independent of the summation index n. For real refractive indices m < 2.5 the dominating term of Re (an + bn) has an x dependence of the form sin2[(m − 1)x] leading to the periodicity of Re(an + bn) and of the extinction curve QEXT(x) given by Δx = π/(m − 1). The derived periodicity is the same as the periodicity of interference structure derived by using the anomalous diffraction approximation; however, our derivation is not limited by the anomalous diffraction condition m − 1 ≪ 1. At refractive indices m > 2.5 the extinction curve does not have a simple periodic structure, since several terms of approximately equal magnitudes and different x dependences contribute to the Re(an + bn).
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Mr. Bratton joined the Jacob Burns Law Library staff in 2006 as the cataloging librarian. Prior to this, he served as a cataloging librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries, where he earned enhance status with OCLC and independent status in the Library of Congress' Name Authority Cooperative Program. Having enhance and independent status allowed Mr. Bratton to edit and improve bibliographic master records in OCLC's Union Catalog and contribute (without review) authority records to the Library of Congress Authority File. Since 2003, he has been editor of Authority Tools for Audiovisual and Music Catalogers.
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UK Fund Shaftesbury Buys Plot Of Land In 22@ District
31 March 2017 – Eje Prime
The UK fund is satisfying its investment appetite in the Spanish market by making acquisitions. In this vein, it has just added a plot of land in the 22@ district of Barcelona to its portfolio of assets. The plot is located at number 66 on Calle Cristóbal de Moura, according to Frédéric Mangeant, the Director General of the fund in Spain. Following this purchase, the group plans to construct an office building on the site.
Although the company did not want to make a statement about the amount of the operation, sources close to the deal say that the fund must have paid around €10 million. According to the same sources, Shaftesbury has purchased the plot of land from "a bad bank", and is now waiting to receive all of the necessary licences from the Town Hall of Barcelona before it starts construction of the property.
Shaftesbury is thereby committing itself to one of the areas that is expected to grow by the most in the Catalan capital. The 22@ district is attracting a large number of companies, both from within Spain as well as from overseas, wanting to open offices in Barcelona. In the same way, a large number of real estate companies are committing themselves to the construction of new office buildings to satisfy demand (…).
Shaftesbury's purchase of this plot of land forms part of the group's plans to grow in the Spanish market. Headquartered in Luxembourg, the fund's leader in Spain is Frédéric Mangeant, an executive who previously served as a managing partner of the international real estate consultancy Knight Frank and who is a member of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid Football Club.
Shaftesbury's Spanish subsidiary began its expansion in Spain in 2014, with the purchase of a building at number 48 on Calle José Abascal in Madrid, which it acquired from Sareb for €26.5 million. The fund has converted that property into a luxury residential building. According to sources in the sector, the 17 homes cost around €8,500/m2, and are set to become a benchmark for the multiple high-end projects that are currently underway in the capital (…).
The Shaftesbury Asset Management group manages more than €1,700 million of real estate assets and created the fund Shaftesbury Real Estate Partners 1 in 2015 with the objective of investing approximately €300 million.
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'The Last Dance' Episode 5 Will Be Dedicated to Kobe BryantMay 2, 2020
The fifth episode of the 10-part ESPN documentary series The Last Dance, which covers Michael Jordan and the 1990s Chicago Bulls dynasty with a focus on their 1997-98 championship season, will pay tribute to late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.
Arash Markazi of the Los Angeles Times broke the news Friday:
"Episode 5 is dedicated to Kobe Bryant," Markazi wrote. "His interview was filmed at his office in Costa Mesa last July and they edited it a week before his passing. They went back and looked at it after but it was perfect; nothing needed to be changed. The only edit was the dedication at the top."
The episode is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. ET Sunday.
Bryant was one of many athletes, celebrities and public figures interviewed for The Last Dance, which features comments from former United States Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, actor-musician Justin Timberlake and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, among others.
The 18-time All-Star and five-time NBA champion died in a helicopter crash with his daughter Gianna and seven others Jan. 26.
Jordan spoke at Kobe and Gianna Bryant's memorial Feb. 24 at the Staples Center:
He closed his remarks as follows, per Heather Tucker of USA Today:
"When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died. And as I look in this arena and across the globe, a piece of you died, or else you wouldn't be here. Those are the memories that we have to live with and we learn from.
"I promise you from this day forward, I will live with the memories of knowing that I had a little brother and I tried to help in every way I could.
"Please, rest in peace little brother."
Bryant will be posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.


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Duration : 2 days
Departure : Ho Chi Minh City
Suitable : Family, Friends, Honey moon couple
Type : Land tour
Product Code : T88MKG04
Immersing into seasonal picturesque flat rice fields and learn about daily activities on the Cai Be floating market. Taste the local specialties, visit interesting family businesses, such coconut candy and crispy rice popcorn mills; deeply explore the local village through handlebars; paddling the canal system by kayak; explore the local floating market at its nicest time and most exciting of the day.
- Exploring two traditional markets of Mekong delta people
- Biking in the village path through orchards to learn about local life
- Visiting Binh Thuy communal house and Munir Ansay Pagoda - a Khmer pagoda
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- Meals
- 1 Lunch
- Transportation
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- Accommodation
- Homestay, Hotel
- Price Includes
- All entrance fees
- English speaking guide
- Boat trip in the Mekong delta
- Accommodation: Homestay or hotel
- A/c van/bus pick up (centrally located hotel)
- Dinner is only for homestay option
- Meals as indicated in the program (B= breakfast, L = Lunch)
- Price Excludes
- Drinks
- Travel insurance
- Personal expense
- Vietnamese entry visa
- Cancellation by Customer
For almost of our tours, once tour is confirmed and fully paid but for one reason they cancel the tour, the following charges will apply in the event of cancellation prior to tour commencement:
- More than 45 days prior to trip departure: No charge (Full refund will be made but transaction fee will be paid by you).
- 30-45 days before arrival: 10% of total tour price.
- 15-29 days before arrival: 50% of total tour price.
- 7-14 days before arrival: 75% of total tour price.
- Within 7 days before arrival: 100% tour price.
- The above fees are subject to an added bank transaction fee.
- There will be no refund given for any unused or missed ground arrangements, sightseeing, meals or hotel accommodations.
- For no show cases, there will be no refund.
- All cancellations must be in person or in writing and received by Asia Travel Package
- Cancellation by Weather
In case of an unexpected situation/ bad weather causes an effect on your trip after commencement, we serve the right to change the itinerary of your booked tour for the safety of all clients in the group. If there are more than one solution, we will ask for your permission and agreement to do the next step. In such kind of cancellation, the refund of any payment on the un-used portion of transportation service, hotel service, car rental or tours will be given.
- Children Policy
- Under 4 years: Free of Charge.
- From 4 to under 8 years old: 50% of adult's fare and sharing bed with parents.
- From 4 to under 8 years old: 75% of adult's fare and using his own bed (on request)
- Over 8 years old: 100% of adult's fare and using his own bed.
- Day 1: HCMC – Cai Be – Can Tho
6:00am – 6:30 am: Pick up at your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city. Depart for Cai Be by car/van via Trung Luong Expressway. On arrival in Cai Be, set off for the Cai Be floating market by motor boats and watch the locals trading fruit and many other commodities on their vessels. Visit a small family business to see how coconut candy and crispy rice popcorn are made. Then wander in small villages, visit fruit plantations, accompanied by traditional southern Vietnamese folk music.
Afterwards, paddling through a series of small canals by kayaking to experience the charm of the Upper Mekong Delta. Arrive in Tan Phong Island, the green pearl where you can enjoy yourself with the nature. Lunch time is a good chance to get closer with the local and you will learn how to prepare special Vietnamese dishes. Food is cooked by yourself, and fresh river food is served in the heart of the garden. Cycle in the village path through orchards. Meet the local islanders to learn more about the local daily life in the Mekong Delta. Transfer to Can Tho. Overnight at hotel/homestay in Can Tho.
Meals: L
Accommodation: Hotel/ Homestay
- Day 2: Can Tho – Cai Rang floating market – HCMC
Breakfast at the hotel/homestay.
Take a leisure boat trip to explore the picturesque tributaries of the Lower Mekong River (Bassac River) then visit to Cai Rang floating market which is the liveliest one in the whole of region.
Walking trip to visit the fruit plantation and local noodle factory.
Visit Binh Thuy communal house and Munir Ansay Pagoda - a Khmer pagoda, renowned for its unique structure.
Have lunch and return to Ho Chi Minh City.
Around 17:30: Arrive in your hotel in Ho Chi Minh city
Meals: B, L
Accommodation: N/A
Important Notes
Tour departures every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Tour is not operated between 01 Feb and 09 Feb 2019 (Vietnam Lunar New Year)
Questions & Answers
Asked by Lara Sanderson | 23 May 2019
How much for one adult and two teens? Is a reservation necessary? Will you pick up at hotel? Thanks, Cristina
Answered by admin | 25 May 2019
Hello, Thank you so much for interested in our trip. I has sent detail itinerary, price, inclusion and exclusion via your email address. Please check it to see more. If your kids are from 12 years old. The price is same as adult. We will free pick up if your hotel was located in District 1. Thanks again
Asked by Bilal Lind | 11 May 2019
"Hi...how much for 3 adults and a 3 year's old toddler please ? We concern option 3-star. Does the tour include: coconut candy factory, floating market, Fruit Orchards? Thanks"
Answered by admin | 23 May 2019
"Hello Mr, Thank you so much for contacting us. The price is 140$/pax for 3-star hotel option. Your kids will be free of charge. Tour included: coconut candy factory, fruit orchards, folk music, kayak, floating market... I also sent detail email via your email address. Please check it"
Asked by Mercer Cressac | 23 Feb 2019
Hello. I am from France and a solo travel. Would you have any recomend to me? Please send email, I will check. Thanks
Answered by admin | 23 May 2019
Thank you so much. We received your request. You can join group tour to save money and have funny time with the guest who from everywhere in the world. I has sent email with itinerary for full day, 2-day and 3-day. Please check it to see detail. Thanks again. Hope I can serve you when you come Vietnam. Best wishes,
Customer Reviews
9.2Based on 31 reviews
Review summary
Value for money9.0
Bilal Lind
23 May 2019
Helen H
10 Mar 2019
Our two day one night trip was really well organised. Our guide was great, and well informed. The highlight was the floating market, but the other visits were interesting and varied. Our trip had about 12-15 people. Everything as taken care of and it was amazing value. Highly recommended!
10 Mar 2019
Our guide was hilarious. She had the best sense of humour and interacted with the entire group. She was full of knowledge and answered all our stupid questions. The tour was well worth it and the lunch at the end of the day was spectacular.
06 Mar 2019
Discovering the Mekong delta was a great experience. The Bus was on time and every activity was scheduled perfectly. Our Tour Guide was of a great help and very professional. We were very well looked after and she never missed an opportunity for a joke. Thank you again for all your hard work.
05 Mar 2019
The tour guide was a local from Mekong region and our tour learned a lot from him. He was very helpful during the tour - both to the locals and to the tourists. He shared a lot of information about his home region and sang us songs. Two thumbs up to him and this tour!


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TUESDAY, Feb. 10, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- All that talk of red wine and other alcoholic beverages being good for your health if consumed in moderation is just plain wrong, a new analysis contends.
A review of nearly 53,000 British people found little to no health benefit linked to alcohol consumption, once the results were adjusted for a range of personal, social, economic and lifestyle factors, the researchers reported.
"Based on the findings from this study, alcohol consumption appears to confer little to no protection against mortality [death] in most age-sex groups," said study author Craig Knott, a research associate in the department of epidemiology and public health at University College London.
Previous research has shown that light alcohol consumption may confer some degree of protection against early death and illness, with people who have fewer than two drinks per day living longer than both those who drink more and those who don't drink at all, the researchers said.
But these earlier studies were flawed because researchers lumped former drinkers in with people who've never touched a drop, calling all of them non-drinkers and then comparing them to people who imbibe lightly, Knott said.
"Importantly, former drinkers appear to be less healthy and at greater risk of mortality than never drinkers," he said. "With existing research having largely grouped former and never drinkers together, there was the possibility that protective effects seen among lighter drinkers may be less a consequence of a real biological relationship and more a statistical artifact arising from their comparison against people who are simply less healthy."
In this study, published Feb. 10 in the BMJ, researchers compared interview data from the annual Health Survey for England with national death records, analyzing the drinking habits and health of almost 53,000 people aged 50 and older.
Compared with people who never drank, any protective benefits from alcohol were largely limited to men aged 50 to 64 who reported having an average 15 to 20 drinks a week, and women 65 and older who had an average 10 drinks or less per week, the investigators found.
And even for these groups, the benefits are so minimal that they might be explained by so-called "selection bias" -- "including but not limited to the possibility that individuals participating in a study are healthier than those who do not," Knott said.
Most of alcohol's benefits evaporated after factoring in various definitions of occasional drinking, as well as a range of other personal and social influences, the study authors said.
"On this basis, it seems sensible for current drinkers to consider moderating the amount of alcohol they consume, and for non-drinkers to remain abstinent," Knott said.
The potential benefits of alcohol must be weighed against the increased risk of cancer, liver disease and other illnesses associated with drinking, Knott said.
"Even if alcohol did turn out to be protective against a certain condition, it may also increase your risk of other developing other health complaints," he noted.
Dr. Scott Krakower is assistant unit chief of psychiatry at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. He said the new study "adds to the growing literature that drinking alcohol is more deleterious than what has been portrayed by the media and advertisements."
And, Krakower said, "in particular, persons aged 65 years or older should be warned about these risks, as alcohol can be lethal when mixed with prescription medications."
More information
Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more on alcohol use.
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The Last Christian
Christian suspense fiction. Shawneda Marks., David Gregory, The Last Christian Friday, May 28, 2010
Vertical Reach = 4
Abby doesn't give thorough details about what she prays or what passages she reads in her bible but I love that she acknowledges doing them at all. Lotsa CBA christian fiction doesn't even elude to this I liked this character so much she was real to me.
Ministry Message = 3
The message I believe is to have faith in God and spread his word no matter what. I hope I didn't miss it the storyline held me so captive I didn't really grab a lot of message.
Craft = 5
I love good plot and great characters. This novel has both not to mention it has captivating details and dialogue. This is the only end time novel I believe I've ever enjoyed.
Aesthetics = 5
If I saw this book in a book store the title and cover alone would make me stop and pick it up. Good job Waterbook Press design team. LOVE IT!
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Klopp reveals hamstring scare for Liverpool star Salah
Mohamed Salah has scored 19 goals in 24 games for Liverpool this season and Jurgen Klopp is keen to protect his star forward from injury.
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp will assess Mohamed Salah ahead of Wednesday's Premier League match against West Brom after the Egypt international suffered a hamstring scare in the Merseyside derby.
Salah has enjoyed a flying start to life at Anfield and his brilliant opening goal in Sunday's 1-1 draw against Everton was his 19th in all competitions since joining from Roma for a club record £36.9million.
The 25-year-old was substituted by Klopp in the 67th minute and looked on from the bench as Wayne Rooney grabbed a point from the penalty spot for Sam Allardyce's visitors.
Having started without Brazilian duo Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino in the starting XI, the decision to remove Salah invited further scrutiny on Klopp, but the former Borussia Dortmund boss insisted he was acting out of necessary precaution.
"I took Mo Salah off because he had a hamstring [problem] a little bit," Klopp told reporters.
19 – Mohamed Salah has scored 19 goals in 24 apps for Liverpool this season (all comps), as many as he netted for Roma last term in 41 games. Force. December 10, 2017
"Then everyone said, 'How can you take him off?' and stuff like this. I don't go out and say, 'Yeah, but he is close to being injured.'
"He is not at the moment, thank God. Hopefully we took him off early enough."
Victory over third-bottom West Brom will guarantee a return to the top four for Liverpool ahead of their weekend trip to Bournemouth and Salah is keen to bounce back from eventual derby-day disappointment.
"All of us were disappointed after that game but that was the result and we have to carry on," he told Liverpool's official website.
"The next game is an important game for us at home, we have to get the three points and look forward."
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Growing up I used to hear similar sayings all the time that I did not really believe and just thought were cliché, like "don't judge a book by its cover", or "there are two sides to every story". At that point I honestly thought I knew everything there was to know but in reality, I knew very little about anything.
As I grew older, I studied math and statistics in school and was taught there is only one answer to a given problem. Whether it is a calculation, a true statement for a theorem, or something else, there was always only one right answer. Everything was black and white.
Then as I got older and had a family, I was presented a challenge. My oldest son is autistic. Without going into much detail, it can be very frustrating because the way he looks at the world and perceives things is very different than how I perceive things or how other kids perceive things. To him, the world is just like we are taught in math and statistics: black or white, right or wrong, true or false. There is no room for interpretation and there are not multiple sides to every story.
Then I started diving more into data literacy and had a realization. A data point, a piece of evidence, or an observation. They all actually have many sides and are all parts of a puzzle. There is a story there waiting to be unlocked. It is true the value of a point of data may be the number 2 or the color yellow, but what does that really mean and what can we do with that information? This ties to the concept we have been talking about a lot with data-informed decision making. A single piece of data, or a single observation or piece of evidence is 1 dimensional. When you start to combine data together you are starting to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Then when you add in your experiences and beliefs to it, it starts to come to life and tell you a story. That can give you great wisdom and insights. This is one reason why decision making should celebrate diversity and inclusion and be a team sport, as you are able to see multiple sides of the data and what its story is.
With that realization and gained wisdom, I started to apply this thinking to my son. I stopped looking at his attitudes and behaviors as wrong. Just like with data, there is a story there and a puzzle that was waiting to be put together. I just needed to put aside my bias and try to understand his side of the story based off his experiences and beliefs.
My goal now is to always educate him on different perspectives, so he hopefully will be well rounded and cultured one day and see that the world is not black and white. While this has not been a total success yet, the tenets in data literacy are the same ones I now apply to him. I am always curious why he believes what he believes and why he does what he does. I challenge him often and I ask him sometimes to think through his thought process so I can hear his perspective. In many cases, I have left the conversation realizing it was I who had tunnel vision and bias, not him. It has opened up an entire new world of collaboration between us and I have a ton more of wisdom than I did before as a result.
Going back to data for a second. In business, we should not think like we did back in school that there is only one right answer when it comes to data and analytics. Your experiences, combined with experiences from others will allow you to turn that data into insights and wisdom that will continue to help businesses, help society, and help our planet. Continue to be curious about the data and challenge it. Try to find ways to disprove it rather than looking to justify it. And just like I now celebrate the diversity and different perspective from my son, I also preach that businesses should do the same when they are making decisions., it will help you understand the different sides and stories data can tell, and it truly can change the world by making more informed decisions.


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The Yotel brand is on a roll at the moment. It has a core brand – Yotel, then an extended stay brand called Yotelpad.
Extended stay brand Yotelpad to make European debut in Switzerland
And then there is the Yotelair brand which are in or near airports, both landside (before security) and airside (after security). New Yotelair properties recently opened not only at Changi the Jewel and also both landside and airside at the new Istanbul Airport, to add to properties at London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris CDG, as well as five city hotels in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Washington DC and Singapore.
New hotels are also coming in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Geneva, Amsterdam, Miami, Dubai, Mammoth, Park City, Porto and New York Long Island City.
Yotel's major shareholders include a controlled affiliate of Starwood Capital Group, the Talal Jassim Al-Bahar Group, United Investment Portugal and Kuwait Real Estate Company (AQARAT). Yotel was created by YO! founder Simon Woodroffe OBE.
First impressions
Check-in is via automatic kiosks which are easy to use, although seeing that I was well past millennial age, a member of staff came over and walked me through the process. It takes a scan of your passport or identity card and of course you swipe your credit card, then you generate your own keys on a pad and are ready to go. The reception is one Level 4 and most of the rooms (called cabins) are on level 4M one floor up.
Staff are very helpful. The only thing to bear in mind is that there are no storage facilities, so when you check out you'll need to go down one level and pay for baggage storage at the Jewel facility should you need this – it's about S$25 (Singapore Dollars) per day for a checked bag size.
You can also use the showers here (and not stay). The current price for this is S$20.
And you can stay at the hotel in four hour increments – check the website for the current rates.
Where is it?
On level 4 of the Jewel building. To reach it take the link bridge from Terminal 3 and then go up one level either via the escalator or lift (the lifts get very busy, so if your bags aren't too large, take the escalators). You'll see the entrance for the hotel on the right. If you are coming in from Terminal 4 (for instance) bear in mind you'd have to use the free hotel shuttle bus to get here.
The 130 rooms all have adjustable mood lighting which can be controlled through four separate switches. All the rooms are en suite with two showerheads (power shower and rain shower, and the beds are like hospital ones, so you can raise the upper half up and watch the large screen television, or recline and sleep on them.
I was in an entry level Premium Queen Cabins (10 sqm) which the site says can cater for two people – I'm sure it could, though it would be a tight fit but was fine for one, and there are larger Family Cabins (21 sqm) sleeping up to four. There are also fully accessible cabins.
To make the most of the space available you can push your bag under the beds, and there are hangers on the wall (two, though I'm sure they'd give you some more if required). The bed was comfortable and sound proofing was very good. There are also lots of power points and USB sockets for charging all my electrical items thing.
There are curtains and a sliding door for the divider between the bathroom and the bedroom for privacy if there's two of you. Provided in the room are two small bottles of water and a couple of tooth brushing kits. There are some useful shelves in the wall by the door, and hooks for hanging items in the bathroom. It's all been carefully thought out.
Wifi is free and very fast, and you can stream your own content from your device onto these large TVs in the room. The rooms can be booked for a minimum of four hours, and if you want a late check out beyond 1200 then it's around S$25 for every two hours past this point.
Outside in the corridor it's possible to sit if you are with a larger group or just getting a little claustrophobic in your room. This is the upper level of the two storey cafe (see below). I walked around the Jewel exploring and then paid S$80 for a foot, shoulder and back massage at a place opposite the hotel, which was a good way of unwinding after a week's work travelling.
Food and drink
There is a good little self-serve café called Komyuniti (all in capitals the way they do it) on the lobby level which has a great view out into the Jewel from an open balcony. In fact the Rain Vortex – the world's tallest indoor waterfall and the iconic feature of the Jewel can be seen from here, so you can sit and watch the evening light show from the café. In the morning the waterfall starts at 0800 on a weekday. It gave me quite a shock when I was quietly working in the cafe and it suddenly began.
Free coffee, tea and water is served here all day, and the breakfast in the morning is exceptional value for money – S$10 when I was staying, which considering the Jewel is very high end means you'd struggle to get a coffee and pastry for that in most of the outlets.
If you want to eat in the evening, go down to the second basement level of the Jewel and head into Five Spice which has lots of Asian and Western options. I had a three-course meal there for S$12.50 and it was delicious.
Leisure facilities
Other than the Jewel, there is a small but well equipped fitness centre on site.
This is an excellent option for a one-night stay and access to the Jewel. The rooms are comfortable and it's worth trying one of these Yotels just for the experience, I think. I would certainly stay in another if it was in the right location and for the right price.
Fact box
- Best for A ringside view of the Jewel and comfortable and affordable stay in Singapore
- Don't miss Having a free coffee in the evening and watching the light show on the central waterfall
- Contact Yotelair, Level 4, Lobby H, Jewel Changi Airport, yotel.com


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Be an Explorer of Volcanoes!
Volcanoes and a rugged landscape are what make Ruapehu one of the very rare dual UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Ruapehu region includes Tongariro National Park and Whanganui National Park on the North Island. We'll go over some of the awesome things to do in Ruapehu in this Ruapehu guide.
Backpackers flock hereto climb up active volcanoes or ski down them in winter. But the way to see it all is by hitting a bike trail! Especially the three-day ride Mountains to Sea, the Timber Trail, or the Fishers Track. Hikes are not lacking in this district either, with the Tongariro Crossing being a major highlight.
For national park activities, see our guides on Tongariro and Whanganui.
Things You Can't Miss in Ruapehu
- Climb to Mt Ruapehu's crater lake
- Check out Tawhai Falls and Mangawhero Falls
- Explore Mordor by bike
- Ski down an active volcano
- Bike to the Bridge to Nowhere
- Learn how to pronounce Whakapapa properly…
Hiking Mt Ruapehu
In summer, the unmissable Mt Ruapehu Crater Lake hike (tour information on Viator and Tripadvisor) and the famous Tongariro Crossing will cater to your volcanic needs. Because we all have volcanic needs. Due to the weather conditions being better in summer, it is a good time to do these hikes for clear views.
Lord of the Rings Scenery
If you don't fancy the full-day walks mentioned above, there are shorter volcanic walks. One, in particular, is the 30min Meads Wall walk starting at the top of Mountain Road. As you walk, some of the areas may feel familiar. This could be because it was a filming location for The Lord of the Rings, where Frodo, Sam and Gollum are sat watching the Black Gates of Mordor open. This is just the start of the Lord of the Rings scenery in this district so check out The Famous Lord of the Rings Filming Locations in Ruapehu.
Other Walks Around Ruapehu
See what a ski field looks like in summer by taking the Waterfall Express Chairlift then taking the descending track to see cascading waterfalls. This 1 hour to 1h30min walk is aptly called the Waterfalls Descent. In the villages at the base of Mt Ruapehu, Whakapapa Village and Ohakune, you'll also find a great range of hiking trails. Check out 13 Walks Around National Park Village & Whakapapa Village and 10 Mind-Blowing Mt Ruapehu Walks.
Don't feel like taking a hike? You can still get an awesome view by taking the scenic chairlift up the volcano.
Bike Trails in Ruapehu
Ruapehu is the home of some epic bike trails including the Mountains to Sea Trail. This 3-day adventure involves 200km (124 miles) of biking and 31km (19 miles) of jet boating to get from Mt Ruapehu to the Whanganui coastline. Travel through volcanic and rainforest landscapes of Tongariro National Park and Whanganui National Park.
Besides 3-day long trips, there are more than 10 other bike trails to try. Get to the Bridge to Nowhere, a bridge abandoned in the Whanganui National Park forest, by doing the Mangapurua Track. Plus, there is the 42 Traverse – 42 because it's 42km which is a challenge both uphill and downhill.
On the Ohakune side of Mt Ruapehu, there is the Old Coach Road cycling and walking track. Highlights include a historic train tunnel and a couple of viaducts, one of which you can walk across. Along the way, there are plenty of information signs to read about the track. Despite being advertised as a track for families, don't be fooled into thinking it's too easy. Expect a few climbs but some fun descents! From Ohakune you can get a shuttle to Horopito, costing around NZ$15, and then cycle your way back to Ohakune on the 14.5km (9-mile) track.
Finally, the better known Timber Trail around Pureora Forest takes you across suspension bridges, the tallest of which is 55m (180ft) high!
For more awesome bike trails, check out Mountain Biking in Ruapehu.
Mt Ruapehu in Winter
The winter season at Mt Ruapehu lasts well into spring, unlike ski fields found in the South Island. This mountain has a lot to offer snowsports enthusiasts. So strap on your skis/snowboard/blades or whatever and head to the three ski areas.
The mountain's small club field is Tukino is on the east side of the mountain. Very different from the commercial fields, it can only be accessed by 4wd or shuttle from the little town of Waiouru.
Whakapapa, on the northwest side of Mt Ruapehu, is the largest ski field in New Zealand! It's a great place to learn how to ski/ride as it has a complete beginners area called Happy Valley. There's no chance that you will stumble across a black run by accident. On the other hand, with 30 intermediates and 24 black trails, any keen skier will have a blast.
On the southern side of Mt Ruapehu is Turoa. The ski field has the highest chairlift in NZ, the Highnoon Express, reaching 12 intermediate trails and 24 black trails. Base yourself in Ohakune for the convenience and apres-ski session.
For about skiing at Mt Ruapehu, check out Ski Season in New Zealand: North Island or South Island?
New Zealand's Highest Cafe
Knoll Ridge Cafe is worth visiting in both winter and summer. Situated 2020m above sea level, you can have your lunch with the most stunning volcanic view.
To get there, take the scenic chairlift up. But don't leave without taking Amphiteatre Walk. The 2-hour hike downhill gives you a chance to get some amazing photos of the surrounding volcanic country. You can even see as far as Mt Taranaki!
Ruapehu Has So Much More to Offer…
… That we couldn't justify doing just one backpacker guide for the area!
For guides on specific districts within Ruapehu, see these guides:
- Whanganui National Park – Guide for Backpackers. See the Bridge to Nowhere!
- Tongariro National Park – Guide for Backpackers. Find out all the ways to explore Mordor.
- Lake Taupo – Guide for Backpackers. NZ's largest, but peaceful lake!
If You Have More Time in Ruapehu…
- Feast your eyes on a beautiful landscape, while biking the Ohakune Old Coach Road. This old horse and cart road is now a popular bike trail
- See the largest greenstone structure in the Southern Hemisphere at The National Army Museum of Waiouru
- Drive down the scenic Forgotten World Highway (SH43)
- Hike around something that is truly "forgotten": Lake Rotoaira
- Take a RailBike on the Forgotten World Adventures railway.


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Dungeon Lords - MMXII Released
Courtesy of Gamebanshee, it seems that Dungeon Lords MMXII has been released. You can get it at Green Man Gaming for 14.99 US dollars, though it seems it is currently out of stock? Here's a quote about the key features:
Co-op story mode for up to 8 players and full single-player game experience 50-70 hours
Completely reworked intuitive Graphic User Interface
New Multiplayer Features
Dual Switchable Interface Modes (supports Hot- Key action play and Point&Click play)
Updated full hardware Screen Resolution support (16:10, 16:9, 1920x1080 etc.)
New quick-start Hero character creation system
All new Magic system including new Magic Spells
New Hero Classes, new and improved Class Skills, and new unique class action abilities
If you want to know more about the game, please go here.
Source: GameBanshee
Information aboutDungeon Lords
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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Dec. 17 (GIN) – Leaders of the new nation of South Sudan are struggling to contain an uprising within the ruling party of President Salva Kiir, who tellingly has traded his ever-present fashionable cowboy hat for military fatigues.
Kiir rubbed his colleagues the wrong way when he sacked his entire cabinet including his vice president, Riek Machar, in July, suspecting him of plotting to take over the presidency. Mr Machar responded by calling the move a step toward dictatorship and declared his intention to challenge Mr Kiir for leadership of the party in the 2015 election.
The gap-toothed Mr Machar belongs to the Dok section of the Nuer people, South Sudan's second largest ethnic group while President Kiir is from the Dinka clan.
Despite a pledge that the ruling SPLM party would never allow political power to be transferred through violence, Kiir took action against his perceived rivals this week and unleashed state forces in the capital city Juba. Kiir's critics have been rounded up and gunfire is heard citywide. Some 13,000 people are seeking refuge at two U.N. bases in Juba. Hundreds are reportedly fleeing the city.
Former government ministers have been arrested but the whereabouts of Mr Machar are unclear.
To the rest of the world, business is booming in South Sudan. The burgeoning East African country is expected to have one of the world's fastest growing economies. Its vast natural resources and urgent need for wide ranging investment attracted foreign investors to Juba last week for the country's first major investment conference.
The positive outlook is based on oil exports and the economy's vast potential to expand after decades of civil war and neglect.
But this week's escalating problems are worrying the African country's major ally. On Tuesday, Washington ordered U.S. citizens to leave South Sudan immediately. Special Envoy Donald Booth, in a Voice of America interview, said: "We've been concerned for some time of rising tensions. We've been reaching out to numerous parties to put together a picture of what has happened."


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Easter always brings fond memories of growing up in my small and rural home town of Colusa, California. We bought new hats and tailored new dresses made every year. Dinner at Grandmas house, followed by the egg hunt in the yard, then at our church. As I grew older and had my own family, new outfits for my three sons and a new elegant hat and dress for me, followed by brunch at my best friends house or our house with lots of kids, food and champagne. Always sunny smiling times in San Diego.
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Now my sons are grown with one granddaughter so far and two graddaughters locally with my new husband, so we are attempting to start a tradition of the the Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch after. Think may be me going by myself to church, if I get everything ready the day before for a simple brunch the day before.
Hoping my son will send photos of my granddaughter in her new dress, hat and holding her basket and pray someday they will live closer, so we can help the tradition grow. For now, I love making them dresses and stuffing Easter Eggs.
Hope you all have a loving and happy Easter!


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Matthew McConaughey visits birthplace of Uvalde following Texas school shooting
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Matthew McConaughey paid a visit to his hometown of Uvalde, Texas to show support for the community reeling from Tuesday's mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, in which 19 children and two teachers were fatally shot.
Republican congressman Tony Gonzalez, whose congressional district includes Uvalde, shared a photo on Twitter in which the 52-year-old actor can be seen posing with the politician and Uvalde School District staffers. Fox News reports that McConaughey appeared at the Uvalde Civic Center on Friday and did not respond to questions from the press.
Gonzalez went on to thank the Oscar winner for "helping us heal."
This week was a solemn reminder that evil exists in the world, but we will never let it break us. We'll unite to be an even more powerful reminder that love never fails & together we can change things.
Appreciate Uvalde native Matthew McConaughey helping us heal. #UvaldeUnited pic.twitter.com/2LwZPbuVNX
— Tony Gonzales (@TonyGonzales4TX) May 27, 2022
Though his family later moved to East Texas, McConaughey was born in Uvalde, where his mother taught at a school near the Robb campus. The day after Tuesday's mass shooting, the star — who recently floated, then rejected, the possibility of running for governor of his home state — posted an emotional message reacting to the tragedy and calling for change.
Video: McConaughey speaks out about school shooting in his hometown
"Once again, we have tragically proven that we are failing to be responsible for the rights our freedoms grant us," he wrote in a statement posted to social media.
"The true call to action now is for every American to take a longer and deeper look in the mirror, and ask ourselves, 'What is it that we truly value? How do we repair the problem? What small sacrifices can we individually take today to preserve a healthier and safer nation, state and neighborhood tomorrow?'" the Dallas Buyers Club star asked. "We cannot exhale once again, make excuses and accept these tragic realities as the status quo."
"It's time we re-evaluate, and renegotiate our wants from our needs. We have to rearrange our values and find a common ground above this devastating American reality that has tragically become our children's issue," he continued.
"This is an epidemic we can control, and whichever side of the aisle we may stand on, we all know we can do better. We must do better. Action must be taken so that no parent has to experience what the parents in Uvalde and the others before them have endured."
He finished the post by writing, "To those who dropped their loved ones off to school not knowing that today was goodbye, no words can comprehend or heal your loss, but if prayers can provide comfort, we will keep them coming."
McConaughey isn't the only Texas-born celebrity speaking out about Uvalde. Fellow Oscar winner Jamie Foxx, a native of Terrell, posted a blistering note calling out politicians and "so-called Christians."
"Never thought I would live in a society, a 'Christian society,' where they would let little children die over and over again and still not change any laws," the Ray actor wrote. "If the people in this country are leaders and so-called Christians... if they are going to heaven... I'LL PASS!!!!!"


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Keysight Technologies Inc. announced 10 new PXIe instruments, including a new arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) that includes three highly synchronized channels for precise tuning of IQ waveforms and envelope tracking, as well as the industry's first full-featured PXI oscilloscope. The AWG and oscilloscopes provide up to 1 GHz bandwidth to support complex baseband IQ signal generation and analysis for evaluating emerging 5G and aerospace & defense wideband technologies.
The new PXI offering includes AWGs and digitizers that allow engineers to build onto the instrument's core capabilities or insert custom algorithms into the on-board FPGAs. A graphical design environment makes it easy to add customization required for emerging technologies, research and design, while accessing the full performance and speed of the FPGA. The M3xxxA AWGs and digitizers use the FPGA and PXI reference clock to provide real-time sequencing and multi-channel/multi-module synchronization to support advanced multi-channel applications like multi-user beamforming technologies and quantum computing.
"Engineers in research are constantly looking for ways to advance technology and achieve new levels of performance," said Roger Nichols, Keysight's 5G program manager. "Our new class of cost-effective PXIe solutions brings the performance they need to do this, but also the flexibility and new levels of easy customization in how real-time and deterministic signals are created and processed."
Ideal for creating digitally modulated waveforms for wideband communication systems and high resolution waveforms for radar and satellite test, the M9336A PXIe AWG includes multiple independent or synchronized signal outputs. The M9336A provides superior performance in a single-slot PXIe module including 16-bit resolution, up to 1 GHz modulation bandwidth, and individual channel control of gain, offset and skew. Engineers can generate industry-standard and custom waveforms for the AWG by using Signal Studio, MATLAB, Waveform Creator or other tools and easily integrated into multiple application development environments.
The M9243A PXIe oscilloscope is built with Keysight's InfiniiVision oscilloscope technology, providing up to 1 GHz bandwidth for quick analysis and troubleshooting of wideband signals. With a 1,000,000 waveforms per second update rate and advanced probing technology, the oscilloscope enables troubleshooting of random and intermittent signals not easily seen with digitizer technology. Powerful features include cursors and markers, advanced triggering, waveform averaging, masks and 31 selectable measurements. When the scope is combined with 89600 VSA software, engineers can demodulate and evaluate complex IQ waveforms with a full 1 GHz bandwidth.
A webcast covering wideband analysis challenges and the use of oscilloscopes or digitizers is scheduled for March 1.
Keysight's rapid repair turnaround, with industry-leading calibration, core exchange strategy and standard three-year warranty, maximizes system uptime to reduce the total cost of ownership.
Additional information about Keysight's PXIe instruments is available at www.keysight.com/find/pxi. Product images are available at www.keysight.com/find/pxi_images.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
Pricing for the following products, all available today, start at:
- M3100A PXIe FPGA digitizer, 100 MS/s, 4 or 8-channel $6,200
- M3102A PXIe FPGA digitizer, 500 MS/s, 2 or 4-channel $7,800
- M3201A PXIe FPGA arbitrary waveform generator, 500 MS/s $5,700
- M3202A PXIe FPGA arbitrary waveform generator, 1 GS/s $8,300
- M3300A PXIe FPGA arbitrary waveform generator/digitizer, 500 MS/s. 2-channel $12,900
- M3302A PXIe FPGA arbitrary waveform generator/digitizer, 500 MS/s. 4-channel $14,500
- M9336A PXIe IQ arbitrary waveform generator, 1 GHz bandwidth, 3-channel $22,000
- M9241A PXIe oscilloscope, 200 MHz bandwidth $5,500
- M9242A PXIe oscilloscope, 500 MHz bandwidth $8,500
- M9243A PXIe oscilloscope, 1 GHz bandwidth $12,000
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are self-help groups based around mutual support, where people who have problems with alcohol or drugs meet to share their experiences and provide mutual help.
The founding idea of AA is that alcoholism is a disease, and the individual is powerless over it. It is estimated that there are over 2 million members of Alcoholics Anonymous worldwide, over 3000 groups in the UK, and groups can be found in any country of the world.
Joining these groups requires only one thing – a desire to stop drinking or taking drugs. Membership is free and anonymous and not aligned with any external organisations. People usually attend one or two weekly meetings but can attend as many as they wish.
Other groups include Gamblers Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Debtors Anonymous, and Workaholics Anonymous.
Al-anon offers support and understanding to the family members of problem drinkers of Alcoholics Anonymous, and Ala-teen is for teenage children of alcoholics (aged 12-17).
Other Self-Help Groups
The 12 Step approach has helped millions of people worldwide, but some people look for an alternative approach. There are some other groups for those who are looking for alternatives:
- SMART Recovery – (Self-Management and Recovery Training) is an abstinence-based organisation that uses 'common sense self-help procedures' to empower participants to develop a more positive lifestyle. It has not yet built up the reputation or evidence base of AA and NA, but there are a growing number of meetings around the country.
UK Self-Help Groups Database
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Cocaine Anonymous
- Gamblers Anonymous
- Overeaters Anonymous
- Workaholics Anonymous
- Al-Anon Family Groups
- SMART Recovery
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The 17th annual Craic Festival of Irish film and music takes place March 5-7, 2015.
Each year, festival founder Terrence Mulligan puts together the best in Irish film and music into a series of nights in NYC, and calls it "The Craic", which is Irish for good times. This year's line-up:
The Films:
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Opening Night
Tee to Green
Starring & narrated by Aidan Quinn w/ Rory McIlroy
Directed by Andrew Gallimore
Tee to Green is a documentary about the History of Golf in Ireland. Appearances by Rory McElroy, Rick O'Meara & Padraic Harrington
$20 includes film & after party (Tourism Ireland and Stella Artois open bar)
Friday, March 6
U.S. Premier of ROAD
Starring Liam Neeson
A Q&A will follow with Liam and the filmmakers and a reception sponsored by Stella Artois.
Written, produced and directed by Michael Hewitt and Dermot Lavery (DoubleBand Films).
$ 25 includes film & after party (Tourism Ireland and Stella Artois open bar)
Saturday, March 7
Retrospective of Animation of Brown Bag Films
Brown Bag Films is the award-winning film company that was nominated for two Oscars for Best Short Animation (Granny O'Grimm and Give Up Yer Aul Sins).
$15 admission [tickets]
Doors open 6:30pm each night.
All films are show at:
Tribeca Cinema
54 Varick St.
New York, NY.
The Music:
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Julie Feeney – 11pm
critically acclaimed composer, singer & producer
Pat McGuire – 10pm
upcoming new CD "Hunger Is Good Sauce Pt II"
The Shackles – 9pm
a new band featuring Colin Smith, Nick Casarino and Noam Dworman
The Narrowbacks – 8pm
fire it up!
Doors open: 7:30 pm
$15 advance / $20 day of show [tickets]
Mercury Lounge
217 E. Houston St.
New York, NY
Kids Film Fleadh at the Craicfest
Saturday, March 7, 2015
A fun program of Award-winning shorts such as the award winning short Rockmount and Oscar nominated Short Give Up Yer Aul Sins. Also we have Irish Step Dancing (Niall O'Leary dancers) and Storytelling (John Liam Shea & Honor Molloy). KIDS FLEADH is for kids 4-12 starts at 11am sharp.
Followed by a reception. Goodie bags for the Kids. Free tea/coffee and scones.
$10 for adults and kids.
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick St.
More info at Thecraicfest.com