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BERLIN (Reuters) - The Social Democrats (SPD) bemoaned a lack of concessions from Angela Merkel, while her conservative allies accused the SPD of trying to dictate policy despite losing last month's election.
Still, after eight long hours of talks on Monday between the chancellor and her center-left rivals, it was not the partisan posturing that was most telling, but the readiness of both sides to talk again.
Despite lingering differences over tax hikes and a minimum wage, as well as opposition among grassroots SPD members to partnering with Merkel for the second time in a decade, the odds that Germany will end up with a 'grand coalition' before Christmas remain high.
On Tuesday, hours after SPD leaders like Andrea Nahles went out of their way to make clear they could still say no to Merkel, other senior party members were striking a more conciliatory tone in private.
"I still believe we'll have a grand coalition," one member of the SPD's 35-strong executive board told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Another SPD board member said that as long as exploratory talks with Merkel did not collapse in acrimony, the party had little choice but to enter full-blown coalition negotiations with the chancellor in the weeks ahead.
If the party balked at that, the official said, Merkel would be forced into a deal with the environmentalist Greens, a move that could end up relegating the SPD to the opposition benches for many years.
"Even if some people expected more from the talks on Monday, the bottom line remains the same -- it would be a huge surprise if we don't get a grand coalition in the end," said Frank Decker, a political scientist at Bonn University.
Later on Tuesday, Merkel's conservatives -- her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) -- will follow up the SPD meeting with a second round of preliminary talks with the Greens.
Ahead of that session, some Greens leaders were sounding more open to the idea of a coalition with Merkel.
"I'm curious to see how the second round of talks go, and of course I'm open to possible surprises," said Katrin Goering-Eckardt, the party's parliamentary leader.
But there are numerous reasons why the pragmatic Merkel would prefer to work with the SPD.
For one, that combination was tried before in her first term and was broadly successful.
Together with the SPD, Merkel extended the retirement age and shielded Germany from the worst of the global financial crisis by introducing incentives for companies to avert layoffs. A cash-for-clunkers scheme boosted demand for German cars.
With the Greens, Merkel would be entering unchartered territory. The parties have been sworn enemies ever since the environmentalists emerged as a political force in the 1980s.
Even if new moderate Greens leaders such as Goering-Eckardt -- a protestant from the former East Germany, like Merkel -- chose to overlook that and do a deal with the CDU/CSU, they may face a rebellion from below.
"The problem with the Greens is the fear among party leaders of how the grassroots would react," a senior CDU official said on Tuesday.
A so-called "Black-Green" coalition would also struggle to get legislation through the Bundesrat upper house of parliament, where the SPD is dominant.
That would make it extremely difficult for Merkel to tackle priority reforms, like overhauling Germany's cumbersome federal structure and its fragmented educational system.
The policy divide with the SPD also looks to be smaller.
The center-left party has already signaled it could stop insisting on tax hikes if Merkel's camp can come up with other ways to pay for more investment in infrastructure, education and research, which all the mainstream parties agree is necessary.
The big sticking point is a minimum wage. In the talks on Monday, the SPD made clear it would not compromise on its demand for a nationwide wage floor of 8.50 euros per hour.
But even here, the divide between the parties is more about method than substance. Merkel agrees in principle to the idea of a wage floor, but wants this to be negotiated sector by sector, rather than imposed from above.
On a range of other issues, from how to tackle Europe's economic and financial woes to completing Germany's shift from nuclear to renewable energy, the differences are minimal.
Still, the path to an eventual grand coalition won't be smooth. SPD leaders must take care not to appear overly eager for a deal with Merkel given deep skepticism among the rank and file.
On Thursday, Merkel and the SPD will talk again. By Friday it should finally be clear who Merkel wants to govern with. But only on Sunday, when some 200 senior SPD members come together to vote on whether to continue coalition talks, will the outcome be written in stone.
(Writing by Noah Barkin; Additional reporting by Andreas Rinke and Madeline Chambers; Editing by Stephen Brown and Janet McBride)


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Rhapsody is the number one premium subscription music service with over one million members who can listen to more than 16 million tracks in over 600 genres. Rhapsody desired to extend the reach of their content to the Xbox 360 platform, designed to provide quick access to millions of songs.
The Xbox 360 application leverages Search, Rhapsody Radio channels, Music Guide, Playlists, My Library and My Rhapsody. It is also possible to search for particularly interesting content or features from deeper within the service. Fast Find is a search function for artists and albums that is well-suited to input constrained devices that have a reasonable amount of on-screen real estate to display search results. IdentityMine designed and created a now highly popular application that seamlessly integrated Rhapsody with Live authentication, while providing an easy-to-use listening experience right from your living room.
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Steven D. Lind
2, Room 2G25
Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
28-29 March 2001
contribution has been prepared by AT&T to assist the SG-A Ad Hoc in
its discussions,
and it should not to be considered a binding proposal on
or any of its representatives.
reserves the right to change, amend or withdraw this
at any time.
Steven D.
Telecommunication service
providers need a verifiable root for ENUM translations in order to offer
carrier-class services. While other roots are being offered within several
test-bed environments, AT&T continues to have concerns, as discussed
below, about the viability of multiple roots within a commercial-service
environment. AT&T believes that the Study Group A Ad Hoc should
concentrate its activities on issues that result in the rapid
implementation of an authoritative public root (or golden tree).
AT&T also believes that the United States should also adopt this
position within the ITU.
A major concern centers
around the possibility that different customer data may be stored in each
of several different roots for the same E.164 telephone number. The
results of such a situation may prove chaotic and yield unpredictable
results. It is not clear that
proposed ENUM-specific DNS resolver software could handle multiple roots
to extract correct, unambiguous customer records.
The problem is akin to todays directory assistance services
provided by multiple suppliers, in which a number of databases contain
records for the same customer, however in many cases the records are wrong
and inconsistent between databases.
AT&T prefers the use of
.arpa as the top-level domain (TLD) for ENUM implementation. While
other TLDs have been discussed for an authoritative public root, none of
them, including .int, satisfy any of the issues raised by the French
at the last meeting of Study Group 2 (see Delayed Contribution 15).
The .arpa TLD is best suited for the implementation of ENUM
.arpa is an infrastructure domain.
.arpa is furthest from ICANN involvement. .int is
currently controlled by ICANN, a situation that is unlikely to change in
the near future, if ever.
The ITU will be in control over what data goes into the
e164.arpa domain. While this would also be true for most alternative
TLDs (obviously not for private commercial trees such as e164.com),
it negates the argument that a different TLD is needed to place the ITU in
control of the domain.
.arpa provides additional operational and security
capabilities that are not accommodated by other TLDs. For example,
multiple highly distributed servers that do not fate share are deployed
around the world for the ".arpa" TLD, which ensures better
performance and reliability than for other TLDs, such as ".int".
The redundancy of this TLD is just one such feature from which ENUM
would benefit.
It is possible for multiple
parties to participate within a US authoritative tree, yielding some level
of competition. At the extreme, a separate Tier 1 Registry could be
established for each existing NPA. This
approach would allow easy separation of US ENUM implementation from
other North American countries. The Study Group A Ad Hoc Group on ENUM
should establish and recommend eligibility criteria that interested
parties would need to meet in order to participate as a Tier 1 Registry.
With such criteria established, a bid and award process should be
established through the US Government (or by some designated organization)
for each segment of the US authoritative tree at Tier 1.
Alternately, parties
interested in having U.S. ENUM service could form a Limited Liability
Corporation (as was done for the implementation of Local Number
Portability) to contract for the Tier 1 functionality. In this case, the
U.S. government should certify this entity as the U.S.
"e164.arpa" Tier 1 to the ITU.
All interested and
qualified parties should be able to provide Tier 2 services to end-users.
Many telephony, internet and application service providers will be
interested in providing ENUM services. Many of these providers will be
interested in providing services through the use of their own name servers
to minimize the cost of maintaining the end-users data within the NAPTR
records. For this reason, AT&T does not support the use of a Registry/Registrar model[1]
in use today for other internet domains. The Study Group A Ad Hoc Group
should establish and recommend eligibility criteria for the provision of
services using these Tier 2 name servers.
In addition, there are many
issues, such as validating the end users intentions in establishing
ENUM services for a specific E.164 telephone number, and tracking of the
disconnect of an active E.164 number that require specification.
AT&T believes that for validations and disconnection of E.164
numbers, the parties that have information on number assignments, usually
the telephone service providers, should be involved. Methods for
inter-entity exchange of information, including transfer of service
provider and notification of termination of service were developed for the
implementation of local number portability, and some of these techniques
may be applicable to ENUM administration as well.
Some of the processes used for Local Number Portability along with domain
registration should be examined to develop ENUM administration procedures.
Part of this process should include the telephony service provider
for an E.164 number notifying the Tier 1entity when the user relinquishes
service on the number.
AT&T feels that
specific criteria should be established for reliability, security and
performance of the ENUM services. In
particular, minimum acceptable performance requirements, such as, the
ENUM service should perform, in all respects, at least as well as DNS
performs today, should be established.
Guidance should also be provided as to how the reliability,
security, and performance objectives will be monitored and enforced.
With wide availability of a
number of Tier 2 entities, competition at the Tier 2 level will ensure
responsiveness to the needs of end users.
The registry/registrar
model is used for some domains within the Internet, particularly
".com." In this model, a single primary name server exists at
the top-level domain that is managed by a single entity. Other entities
act as registrars by interfacing with end-users, collecting desired domain
names from the end users and updating the registry on the end user's
For example, if I wanted to
register the domain name "sdlind.com" I could use Yahoo as a
registrar. They would collect the necessary information to register the
desired domain name and a fee, taking care of all the necessary work
interfacing with the domain name server. Yahoo has no name server itself,
but has satisfied all the criteria imposed by the registry operator to
have update permission.
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In the 1960's US foreign aid to Haiti trickled in in the form of used clothing and the flow hasn't stopped since. Secondhand Pepe, a documentary film by Hanna Rose Shell and Vanessa Bertozzi, follows the long journey of discarded garments from the ragyards in Miami, to the archives in London and onto the Pepe markets in Port-au-Prince where they are re-tailored and re-sold to fit the styles and peoples of Haiti.
'Pepe' is the name for the secondhand markets, the industry, the clothing, and the vendors. And while the origin of the term is disputed, Pepe dominates both the style and the economy of Haiti giving a second life to yesterday's textiles. Daily shipments arrive on the Haitian shores that are then sorted and taken to tailors and markets throughout the country. Because of Pepe, thousands of tons of clothing each year escape the landfill and find their way back in fashion.


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"A warrior's true strength lies not in the body, but in the spirit..."(src)
The Warrior is the fighter character class of Diablo I.
Warriors of KhandurasEdit
The Warriors of the lands of Khanduras are well trained in all of the weapons of war. Ranging from crusading Paladins to unscrupulous mercenaries, Warriors can be found wherever there is conflict amongst their countrymen. Many of these adventuresome men joined with King Leoric's army and went to battle against the kingdom of Westmarch. As the fires of war burned themselves out, these Warriors returned home to find their kingdom in shattered chaos and disarray.
Dark rumors of the mysterious demise of King Leoric abounded and the evil that lurked within his Cathedral drew many Warriors to Khanduras seeking fortune and glory. Though they were warned by the people of Tristram, a few of these brave souls ventured into the chaotic labyrinth beneath the old church - never to be heard from again. Whether they were driven by valor, honor, madness or greed, new Warriors arrived in Tristram every day, ready to challenge the dark unknown that awaited them beneath the earth.[1]
Other WarriorsEdit
Warriors served the city of Viz-jun before its destruction.[2]
An order of honor-bound Warriors once roamed the far east of Sanctuary.[3]
Crusaders are regarded as a type of warrior.[4]
Warriors exist in Askari[5] and Druid[6] societies.
Warriors were arguably the strongest character class in Diablo. They could wield swords, axes or maces. These weapons were either one-handed or two-handed. Two-handed weapons were more useful in the beginning, but at later levels players reach a vitality cap which caused life to increase at a relatively slower rate. In these later levels, the warrior has similar life to their earlier levels, but the monsters do much more damage. This necessitates the use of a shield. Their amazing strength allowed them to wear even the heaviest of armor.
Their magical abilities were limited. With the lowest maximum magic of 50 and less mana per level than the other classes, they were forced to only use support spells like Stone Curse and teleport. With their low mana these support spells could be used only sparingly. Since their low level attack spells could not effectively damage high level monsters, attack spells like firebolt and charged bolt were not an option. Advocates and the succubi which could teleport away from the player were especially difficult. To follow them, might result in aggravating more enemies to attack the player. Although the modification which gave less light radius was intended to be a curse it proved very beneficial to warriors. With a lower light radius, the warrior would aggravate fewer monsters.
The main difference between a high level warrior and a low level warrior is the magical ability. With maxed out attributes a warrior has 50 mana at level 1, but with maxed out attributes and maxed experience level of 50 the warrior has 98 mana. This is almost double as much mana granted by experience level. By the time a hero reaches these high experience levels, they would have already had enough money to purchase items which give bonuses to magic to read high level books. This changes the play style, since the warrior will be able to kill ranged attackers with more ease by teleport and stone curse.
Repair SkillEdit
The Warrior's repair skill restores an item's durability but decreases maximum durability. This could be use to get more use out of broken equipment, and could also be used prior to selling equipment to increase its value.
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This article contains information that is no longer relevant to gameplay, but is kept here for informational purposes.
In the original design document for Diablo, a class called the "fighter" was conceptualized. The fighter would have the perk of having more attacks than the other classes.[7]
Known WarriorsEdit
- The Warrior of Diablo I eventually became the Dark Wanderer that featured in Diablo II. Diablo III and supporting material altered his backstory to make him Aidan, the son of King Leoric. This was a retcon from previous lore, which established that the Warrior was a stranger to the people of Tristram.
- ↑ Diablo Manual
- ↑ Diablo III, Manald Heal
- ↑ Diablo III, Mempo of Twilight
- ↑ Diablo III, Kassar's Retribution
- ↑ Amazon Bow Skills, The Arreat Summit. Accessed on 2013-10-17
- ↑ Tales of Sanctuary, Rage
- ↑ 2016-03-19, Original Diablo Pitch Document. Graybeard Games, accessed on 2016-03-23


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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Sept. 5, 2014) - Kazax Minerals Inc. ("Kazax" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:KZX) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Midgley to the Board of Directors of the Company.
Mr. Midgley brings over 12 years of experience in the metals industry. From April 2012 to June 2014, he held the position of Head of Strategy for ENRC (Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation PLC), a private, Kazakhstan/Central African-focused multinational natural resources company headquartered in London, U.K. Also at ENRC, Mr. Midgley held the post of Marketing Director from July 2005 to March 2012. From April 2002 to July 2005, Mr. Midgley was Operations Executive for Alloy 2000 S.A., a privately held marketing company based in Luxembourg responsible for the global sales of Kazchrome, a ferro alloy producer located in Kazakhstan. The previous two decades were spent marketing products from a number of international mining companies including Anglo American, Billiton and Rio Tinto.
Mr. Midgley has a Chemistry HND degree from the University of Leeds, Yorkshire, U.K., and a Business Studies BA (Honours) degree from the University of Sheffield, Yorkshire, U.K.
"On behalf of the Board of Directors and management, I would like to welcome Mark Midgley to the Kazax Board", said Trevor Campbell Smith, President and CEO of Kazax. "Mark brings an incredibly diverse range of experience in the metals industry to our Board of Directors, and we are very pleased he is joining the Board."
For further information on Kazax, readers are referred to the Company's website (www.kazaxmineralsinc.com) and to Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Trevor Campbell Smith, President & CEO
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Boston Review is a quarterly American political and literary magazine. The magazine covers politics, poetry, film, fiction, philosophy, economics, book reviews, and criticism. Boston Review also publishes an imprint of books alongside MIT Press.
The editors are Deborah Chasman and philosopher Joshua Cohen; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz is the fiction editor.
The magazine is published by Boston Critic, Inc., a nonprofit organization. It has received praise from notable intellectuals including John Rawls and Henry Louis Gates, Jr..
Boston Review was founded as New Boston Review in 1975. A quarterly devoted to literature and the arts, the magazine was started by a group that included Juan Alonso, Richard Burgin, and Anita Silvey. In 1976, after the departure of some of the founding editors, the publication was co-edited by Juan Alonso and Gail Pool, and then by Gail Pool and Lorna Condon. In the late seventies, it switched from quarterly to bimonthly publication. In 1980, Arthur Rosenthal became publisher of the magazine, which was renamed Boston Review and edited by Nick Bromell. Succeeding editors were Mark Silk and then Margaret Ann Roth, who remained until 1991.
During the eighties, the focus of the magazine broadened and during the nineties became more politically oriented, while maintaining a strong profile in both fiction and poetry.
Joshua Cohen replaced Roth in 1991, and has been editor since then. The full text Boston Review has been available online since 1995. Since 1996, twenty-six books have been published based on articles and forums that originally appeared in the Boston Review. Since 2006, MIT Press has been publishing a "Boston Review Books" series.
Deborah Chasman joined the magazine as co-editor in 2001. Pulitzer-prize winner Junot Díaz is the current fiction editor; Timothy Donnelly, B.K. Fischer, and Stefania Heim are the poetry editors. Simon Waxman is the managing editor.
In 2010, Boston Review switched from black and white tabloid to glossy, all-color format.[1] The same year, it was the recipient of Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for Best Writing.[2]
New Democracy Forum[edit]
The New Democracy Forum is a special feature of the Boston Review. It offers an arena for fostering and exploring issues regarding politics and policy. A typical forum includes a lead article by an expert and contributions from other respondents. Past forums have covered topics such as making foreign aid work, a strategy to disengage from Iraq, and new economic stress in the middle class.
New Fiction Forum[edit]
The New Fiction Forum was created as "a space for wide-ranging dialogue about contemporary fiction, a dialogue founded on a simple premise: that despite the intense commercialism of current publishing, there are original, vital novels published every season and readers to whom such narratives are of the profoundest importance". Past forums include fiction and reviews by Jhumpa Lahiri and Emily Barton.
Fiction contests[edit]
The publication sponsors well-regarded annual contests in fiction; past winners include Michael Dorris, Tom Paine, and Jacob M. Appel.
"Discovery" prize[edit]
The annual "Discovery"/Boston Review prize is given for a group of poems by a poet who has not yet published a book. Typically, the prize is awarded to four winners and four runners-up;[3] winners read from their work at the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center. Begun in the 1960s as The Nation/"Discovery" prize, the Boston Review took over administration of the prize in 2007 when The Nation ended its partnership.[3] Previous winners of the "Discovery" prize include John Ashbery, Alice James Books, Emily Hiestand, John Poch, and Martin Walls.
Notable contributors[edit]
See also[edit]
- ^ "Boston Review — Deborah Chasman and Joshua Cohen: From the Editors". bostonreview.net. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ "Winners of the 2010 Utne Independent Press Awards". Retrieved 27 October 2010.
- ^ a b "Four Poets Officially Discovered in 'Discovery'/Boston Review Contest," Poets & Writers (April 29, 2009).


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Berkeleyside will be at City Hall and will broadcast the event, which starts at 3 p.m., live on Facebook.
Harrison beat Ben Gould, a UC Berkeley graduate student, by capturing 62% of the vote.
Harrison, backed by Mayor Jesse Arreguín, is highly favored to take the vacant District 4 council seat.
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Unlike what has been said about my policies, they will make Berkeley more affordable, more inclusionary, and preserve Berkeley's unique character at a lower cost to our community.
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Muse Rock MSG in Between Piano Solos
Matthew Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse, has a pretty cool piano.
Matthew Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse, has a pretty cool piano. Its transparent top is always tipped up, and when he tinkles its pearlies, the lights inside twinkle on cue, shining toward his audience. Sometimes, when he's really feeling it, he'll do a strangely baroque solo and the entire billion-watt light show behind him will go all ELO. Mr. Bellamy really likes his piano, and last night at Madison Square Garden, he played it a bit too much.
It's a pity, because when Muse let their messianic, apocalyptic, bombastic best fly, they're a band capable of completely owning a 20,000-seat venue. Their hits are all buzz-saw guitars and jackhammer drums and Bellamy's awkward, alienated wail, and they sound really, really great when punctuated by the screams of adoring fans and accompanied by lasers and Jumbotron videos of robots doing the Macarena. But while Bellamy was plinking around like dystopia's very own Ben Folds, the rest of us were left twiddling thumbs, waiting for him to deign to pick up a guitar again. —Dave Hughes


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Khorm was an ice planet in the galaxy. During the Clone Wars, a battle was fought there, which resulted in Clone Commander Wolffe losing an eye to Asajj Ventress.[1]
Behind the scenesEdit
Khorm was first mentioned Star Wars canon in the 2015 sourcebook Ultimate Star Wars. In the Star Wars Legends continuity, it was depicted in a 2009 story arc of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars monthly comic series entitled In Service of the Republic.
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We offer work placements for students studying a degree with the option of completing a year in industry. We are looking for dedicated individuals anticipating achievement at university of 2:1/1st class degree, ideally in their penultimate year of study in a business related subject, though all applicants will be considered on their own merits. Recent graduates will also be considered.
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I graduated with a 2:1 degree in Human Geography from Cardiff University. During my time at university I always wanted to progress to a career in the automotive industry, with Mitsubishi being one of the fastest growing mainstream car brands in the UK it especially appealed to me. I joined the Mitsubishi graduate scheme in June 2016, since then I have worked on real world projects which directly influence the company. In my time with the company as Residual Value Planner I have travelled all over the country from attending meetings in rural Yorkshire to conferences in central London. The company has given me plenty of opportunities to really drive myself and use skills gained from university.
James (2015)
I studied a joint honours degree in Business Management, Marketing Management and Branding at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham. After graduating with first class honours, I joined Mitsubishi Motors in the UK on a Graduate Placement in June 2015. Mitsubishi was the perfect opportunity for me, combining my passion and knowledge of the automotive industry with the relevant skill-sets I had developed and refined throughout 4 years at university.
I am currently in my fifth, and now permanent position since joining Mitsubishi nearly 2 years ago. Within that timeframe I've gained experience working in Communications, Sales Operations, Product & Residual Values and Aftersales. Working across a diverse array of departments has provided me with significant exposure to different areas of the business, and I have been fortunate enough to continuously grow and develop through new challenges presented in each role undertaken.
Craig (2014)
I studied Business and Management at Aston University in Birmingham, which included a placement year in the automotive industry. After gaining invaluable experience I graduated knowing that I wanted to work for a company that I admire in an industry that I love, and Mitsubishi fitted perfectly. The people around me have been fantastic since I started and have guided and coached me, pushing me out of my comfort zone on so many occasions, but teaching me so much along the way. It has been both demanding and rewarding, but I certainly couldn't imagine it any other way.
Alissa (2014)
I studied Marketing, Advertising and Communications at the University of Gloucestershire and I joined the Mitsubishi Motors Graduate Scheme in June 2014. After graduating from University I knew that I wanted to get myself onto a graduate scheme in the automotive industry as I had completed work in this industry during my placement year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was attracted to the Mitsubishi graduate scheme because there was the opportunity to work in various different areas of the business, which has given me the chance to gain experience in job roles that I may not have applied for outside of the scheme.
Now in a permanent role as a Partnerships Co-ordinator, I work in the Press and Events team; as Mitsubishi are currently dedicating support to rugby, I am involved with five clubs, from local league and union clubs up to the elite teams of England and Scotland. The role varies massively – I can be involved in activating our partnerships to ensure we have a strong presence on match day to assisting at a rugby press announcement. From organising player's vehicles and our bigger partner fleets to designing and fitting players and coaches seat at Twickenham Stadium, it's a fast paced yet rewarding role!
Richard (2013)
Upon graduating from the University of Portsmouth in 2013 after studying Business Administration BA (Hons) I focused on finding a job in the motor industry and luckily enough I was offered a job with Mitsubishi Motors in the UK. Being a graduate within Mitsubishi Motors isn't like any other graduate job as you are placed in real roles by where you are forced to learn very quickly, it provides a great opportunity to work for a globally recognised brand but with the atmosphere of a family business. In the short time I have been with Mitsubishi Motors I've worked in the Service/Training, Sales Operations and Product Planning departments, in turn each giving me a very different insight into the business with added responsibility and challenges along the way. Through-out this time I played an integral part in the development and implementation of the Mitsubishi Learning Portal, Mitsubishi Approved Used Car website and the launching of the 2016 Outlander Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) into the UK market.
At the beginning of 2016 I became a Corporate Sales Manager, looking after UK Public Sector organisations such as the NHS and Local Authorities as well as Specialist Vehicle sales to the likes of the Police and Fire & Rescue Services. Again, this was another step up in responsibility and associated challenges, effectively managing my own time, meetings and ensuring I accomplish quarterly sales objectives, all of which was very alien to me. I truly believe that the rate of learning and experience I have gained from starting as a Graduate at Mitsubishi Motors in the UK exceeds that of most other automotive manufacturers and probably a large proportion of corporate graduate schemes as well.
Jessica (2016)
I chose to do a course which offered a placement year, as I wanted the opportunity to experience a year in the automotive industry and use this to find out if this was what I wanted to pursue long-term. My year at Mitsubishi has given me a basis for my dissertation, which I'll need to complete when I return to studying Business Management with Marketing at the University of the West of England and I've gained some vital skills to help me in my final year. Most importantly, the placement has made me feel much more confident about getting a graduate job after university and I hope to stay in the automotive industry.
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Here is a quick video showing all this in action.
Cube Location
The robot uses a webcam to take a picture of each side, we'll focus on this photo of a 4x4x4 cube. I use python opencv2 for all of the image processing.
Canny Edge Detection
The first steps are to load the image, gray it, blur it a little and then use Canny edge detection to locate all of the edges.
self.image = cv2.imread(filename)
gray = cv2.cvtColor(self.image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
blurred = cv2.GaussianBlur(gray, (3, 3), 0)
canny = cv2.Canny(blurred, 20, 40)
|Canny Edges
DilateThe next step is to dilate the lines a little, this makes the lines thicker which will make it easier to find the contours of the squares.
kernel = np.ones((3,3), np.uint8)
dilated = cv2.dilate(canny, kernel, iterations=2)
|Dilated Canny Edges
ContoursAt this point we have a black and white image with nice thick lines around each square. opencv has the ability to find all of the contours in an image where a contour is defined as "a curve joining all the continuous points (along the boundary), having same color or intensity".
(contours, hierarchy) = cv2.findContours(dilated.copy(),
Contour ApproximationsIt looks like someone spilled a plate of blue spaghetti noodles all over the cube doesn't it? We need to reduce the complexity of the shapes of the contours. We can do this via opencv's approxPolyDP which in a nutshell approximates the shape of a contour. In the image below the contours are again in blue but their approximations are in red.
|Contours (blue) with approximations (red)
Square Contour Approximations
The approximations look much easier to work with in terms of figuring out which ones are squares. We look at each approximation and use the following three rules to determine if it is a square:
- There must be four corners
- All four lines must be roughly the same length
- All four corners must be roughly 90 degrees
In the image below the contour is green instead of blue if the approximation for that contour satisfies our rules for being a square.
|Contours with square approximations are green
At this point we can eliminate all of the contours that are not squares, that cleans things up a lot
|Removed non-squarish contours
Squares within squares
Things are looking better but we have three squares in the middle where there is a square around the square. This happens from finding the contours of the black sections between each square. We eliminate these outside squares which leaves us with:
|Removed squares around squares
Cube dimensions and boundries
We can now analyze the remaining contours and figure out two key pieces of information
- We are dealing with a 4x4x4 cube
- We can find the boundries of the cube
|Removed contours outside cube boundry
Handling ErrorsSometimes the squares of a cube are dented or the sticker is peeling off or there is some really bad glare or it is in the shadows or there is some other crazy problem that makes the contour approximation fail one of our three "is it a square" rules when in fact it is a square. This happened in the image below, the square that is in the 3rd row, 5th column has a contour approximation that doesn't look like a square (the contour is blue, the approximation is red). Here we see the approximation is a triangle so it clearly failed the "There must be four corners" check.
|Non-square approximation for a square
|Missing One Square
|All Squares Located
Color Extraction
Once we've processed the images for all six sides we have the RGB (Red, Green Blue) value for each square. The 4x4x4 image from our example is side F in the cube below, the colors shown are the mean RGB values as extracted from the images. Notice how much variation there is...40 is a good bit darker than 17 but these are both yellow squares.
|Raw RGB values
The next step is to take those RGB values and identify which side (U, L, F, R, B, or D) the square belongs to. We do this because all rubiks cube solvers need to know the exact state of the cube.
The actual mechanics of how this works isn't terribly exciting to write about in a blog but in a nutshell it does the following:
- Identify the six colors used by the cube. In this case the colors are red, orange, green, blue, yellow and white.
- Create a list of the color combinations used by all edges (red/blue, yellow/red, etc)
- Create a list of the color combinations used by all corners (white/orange/green, red/blue/white, etc)
- Create a list of centers color squares
- For each edge (say U5 L18 for example) compute the color distance of that edge vs. all of the edges that in the "list of edge color combinations that we need" and find the one that is the closest match. The distance between two colors is calculated using the CIEDE2000 algorithm. For the U5 L18 example the needed color combination that matches with the lowest color distance is white/orange so we assigne white/orange to U5 L18 and remove white/orange from the needed list (since this is a 4x4x4 there is one more white/orange left on the needed list).
- Repeat the process for the corners and centers
And finally we print out a big string that represents the state of the cube. This string is what is passed to various rubiks cube solvers so they can compute a solution. For the cube above the state string is
The color resolver code is available at https://github.com/dwalton76/rubiks-color-resolver
The Code
If you have a linux box, webcam and a Rubiks cube you can install the software that I used in the video. It is available at https://github.com/dwalton76/rubiks-cube-tracker...just follow the install instructions in the README.
- http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2015/04/06/zero-parameter-automatic-canny-edge-detection-with-python-and-opencv/
- http://www.pyimagesearch.com/2016/02/08/opencv-shape-detection/
- http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/d9/d8b/tutorial_py_contours_hierarchy.html
- http://www.alanzucconi.com/2015/09/30/colour-sorting/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_difference


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ALBION, Mich. – The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point outscored Albion College, 19-3, in the fourth quarter to pull out a 33-19 victory in a non-conference football game at Sprankle-Sprandel Stadium.
Kyle Winchell, a senior tight end from Homer, hauled in a 30-yard touchdown pass from first-year quarterback Kyle Thomas as Albion took a 16-14 lead with 53 seconds left in the third quarter.
The Pointers answered by scoring touchdowns on their next three possessions. Zach Bosek ran in from 7 yards out and Ryan Swigart threw a pair of touchdown passes (27 yards to Jerry Williams and 39 yards to Steve Herra).
A turning point of the game occurred two plays after Bosek scored to put the Pointers ahead 20-16 with 14 minutes to play. Albion lost a fumble on its 27 yard line and Swigart found Williams for the score on the next play as the Stevens Point lead ballooned to 27-16 with 13:08 to play.
Andrew Fabry kicked a pair of field goals (28 and 39 yards) and Zach Serzo added a 29-yard touchdown run for Albion.
Thomas finished the night with 127 rushing yards and he added 112 yards through the air. Serzo finished with 70 yards on the ground.
Linebacker Jose Rodriguez led the Albion defense with 16 tackles. Patrick Czarnecki was credited with 13 tackles.
Albion continues non-conference play at home next Saturday against Concordia (Wis.) University. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.
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January 31, 2011 — In European companies, face time still rules. While half of the women surveyed in our latest report, Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe, didn't think working long hours was important, more than 83% said doing so was still key to advancement. "Workers may be told that you can work from wherever, but when they see that those advancing are in the office a lot, then there is a disconnect," said Laura Sabattini, Director, Research, and author of the new report. Read about one novel solution to managing a culture of presentism—plus news from Australia and Canada—in this edition of C This.
Use 'Em or Lose 'Em
Is it ethical for multinational corporations to swoop into foreign countries and hire talented women who are underutilized in the workforce? Yes! "Any time you can recruit talent it offers a company a competitive advantage," said Lee E. Miller, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University. "If a country is not using its local female talent then it is in the women's interest and the multinational's interest to put that talent to use."
READ: "The Gender Advantage for Multicultural Firms," by Elizabeth Harrin, The Glass Hammer, 1/27/11
Working the System
Can a well-placed jacket earn you respect in an office that over-values face time? It couldn't hurt, insists Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jorden, Catalyst's General Manager in Europe. Haller-Jorden told The New York Times about a little experiment conducted by a senior-level female executive in Europe. "She put her jacket on a chair and started leaving at a reasonable hour," she said. "Yet people started coming up to her and saying she was putting in a fabulous amount of hours. She said the jacket was the best investment of €250 that she had ever made."
READ: "The Codes That Need To Be Broken," by Doreen Carvajal, The New York Times, 1/26/11
Fixing the Workplace
A 2010 World Economic Forum survey found that managers from 600 large companies believed that a "lack of role models" and "masculine or patriarchal corporate culture" were the chief obstacles women face at work. Companies across Europe have responded by shifting away from leadership and assertiveness training to instituting formal sponsorship and mentorship programs that pair women with powerful company leaders. "European companies are waking up," said INSEAD's Herminia Ibarra. "They are realizing that it's really about changing the culture."
READ: "For Women in the Workplace, an 'Upgrade Problem,'" by Nicola Clark, The New York Times, 1/26/11
Canadian Quotas?
Only 3.8% of the CEOs in Canada's top 500 businesses are women. Are quotas one possible solution? In this wide-ranging discussion featuring background information from Catalyst's Deborah Gillis, Canadian Senator Celine Hervieux-Payette outlines a proposed bill that would force all publicly traded Canadian companies, banks, insurance companies and trust companies to ensure that at least 5% of their directors are women. Hervieux-Payette was also joined by Dave Gregory, former CEO of First Calgary Credit Union, and Amy Dittmar, Associate Professor of Finance at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
LISTEN: "Women in Boardrooms," The Current, CBC Radio, 1/14/11
New Year—New Rules
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) now requires member companies to set and report on targets for gender diversity at board and senior management level, add diversity indicators to senior management accountabilities, and establish programs to increase the pool of female candidates. With representation of women on ASX boards now roughly only 10%, the new rules are an important step to increasing awareness and transparency. "This year will tell whether rising awareness will force more assertive leadership," wrote Steve Harris executive director of the Centre for Leadership and Public Interest at Swinburne University.
READ: "Find Room at the Top for Women," by Steve Harris, The Australian, 1/27/11
Edit This!
New research into who creates and consumes content on Wikipedia raises more questions than it answers. A recent study found that barely 13% of Wikipedia's articles are written by women. The site boasts more than 3.5 million articles in English and 17 million across all languages—each written and edited anonymously. Interestingly, women and men look for information on the site at similar rates. So why do fewer women contribute? Critics allege that women are less willing to assert their opinions in public, but if you ask me, I think women are simply too busy to spend their time anonymously updating the site without receiving any credit for their hard work. What do you think is behind the wiki-gap?
READ: "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributor List," by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, 1/30/11


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Losing weight isn't easy. Gaining weight is. I've been on both sides of the war, and I've lived to tell the tale. Read below to find out how I came across the BEST WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT.
My name is Jenny and I'm a 26 year old receptionist. I'm pretty normal. I grew up in a Northeastern city. I did okay in high school. I had a couple close friends. I was never SKINNY, but I wasn't fat either. I got accepted to a decent college in Boston. That's when I got addicted to food.
Everyone has their own reasons for getting fat. Some people don't exercise enough, some people are too busy. My problem was food. Sometimes, after a stressful day at the office, I could come home KNOWING that there was something in the fridge to greet me, to make me feel happy. I didn't do drugs or drink alcohol. That was just my way of relaxing, calming down.
And before I knew it, people were looking at me with disgust. Even I began to notice myself getting really chubby. It's not like we didn't have mirrors in the house. But something inside of me said "it's okay, don't worry–you're not fat."
Finally, one day it hit me, square in the face. No wonder I have no boyfriend. No wonder my friends look at me with pity and disgust. I'm FAT.
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I'm not Cindy Crawford. I never will be. But fat?
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Tetsunari Iida has a radical but straightforward idea — that Japan can go 100% renewable. He has been anti-nuclear and pro-renewable energy for decades. In order to take this idea forward he was instrumental in founding, in 2000, the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP), an independent think-tank that promotes participatory based energy policies at the local, national and international levels.
The interesting point is that Iida began his career working as a researcher/engineer in the nuclear industry. He has since become one of the most ardent critics of both the nuclear industry in Japan and the way that the energy sector works as a whole. This does not always make him a popular figure with bureaucrats and business leaders.
But following the nuclear accident at Fukushima, he is increasingly sought by the media as a source of valuable insights on the current situation and on the next steps that Japan can take to solve its energy crisis.
On Our World 2.0 we have written about Iida's work in the past with regards to how the power elite operates in Japan and more recently on the potential for Japan to go 100% renewable by 2050. We were lucky enough to catch up with Iida last month for an interview, amidst his hectic schedule, at the ISEP offices in Tokyo.
In the video interview that accompanies this article, Iida provides details on how Japan can move towards a renewable future and he also outlines some of the challenges that will need to be overcome.
It is clear that moving towards renewables is about more than simply adding more wind turbines and solar panels, but rather it is about a significant system re-think. For instance, one important measure would be to make the national power grid independent from the ten major electricity supply companies. That way anyone can set up their own electricity supply company and the current monopolistic structures would give way to a more diverse system.
Other voices added to the renewable chorus
For a long time, Iida's institute and other members of the Japan Renewable Energy Platform (a group of renewable energy associations covering wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, small hydro, etc.) have been lobbying to try to influence Japan's energy policy.
They have tended to gain most traction at the local government level, and indeed Tokyo Metropolitan Government has observer status in the platform, and there is close collaboration with the Green Local Government Portal — a group of local authorities that support green energy and climate policies.
For instance, Tokyo Metropolitan Government has adopted a renewable energy strategy and a target to increase renewable energy to 20% by 2020, and the City of Yokohama Government has proposed increasing its renewable energy output tenfold.
However, there has been a lack of support from the national government for anything other than solar power. This could be changing. A new study has just been published, commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment, on the potential for growth in the renewable energy sector. (A summary of the report is available in English.)
According to the study — undertaken by a group of consulting companies and guided by a committee of academics from various universities — there exists enough potential wind power generation capacity to produce electricity equivalent to 40 nuclear power stations.
These findings support Iida's own proposition that all 52 existing nuclear power stations could be phased out by 2050 and replaced with renewable energy sources. The Ministry of the Environment's report also argues that in the Tohoku region, the areas mostly significantly affected by the earthquake and tsunami, it would be possible to generate enough electricity from wind power to replace between 4 and 11 nuclear power stations.
The big difference between Iida's proposal and that of the Ministry relates to the other renewable energy sources like solar, geothermal, small hydro and biomass. Iida believes they all should be fully developed, while the Ministry is concerned that the estimated amount of electricity generated from these sources would be too small.
Round one goes to renewable energy
In the post-Fukushima energy debate that is just kicking-off, it is clear that round one has been won by the renewable energy advocates, such as Tetsunari Iida. However, it is clear that a counter reaction can be expected. Initially, after the nuclear accident, the response in some quarters was "now is not the time to discuss the energy future". The approach by nuclear advocates would be to wait until the nuclear accident is under control, perhaps nine months from now, when the public are less concerned about the levels of radiation. Then the debate can begin in a more "objective" manner.
We can expect that a whole list of reasons for keeping nuclear power will be rolled out, including that:
- nuclear power is vital for Japan's energy security because the country has no indigenous energy sources;
- nuclear power is a fantastic export opportunity and overseas revenue generator for Japanese industry;
- nuclear power stations are safe because Fukushima showed it was the power generators that were damaged and caused the accident, rather than the reactors.
These arguments are far less convincing now, after the accident, than they may have been before. Nevertheless, if messages are repeated often enough, then people may begin to believe them, again.
But really now is the time for radical thinking along the lines of innovators like Iida. That is why the 20 April announcement by the president of mobile phone provider Softbank, Masayoshi Son, is so inspiring. He promised that he would spend one billion yen (US$12 million) of his own money to establish a foundation to advise the Japanese government on the rapid adoption of solar, wind and geothermal energy.
Perhaps others will follow his lead, to help renewable energy advocates win the subsequent rounds in the debate and to help push Japan further along the renewable energy path.


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Unpretentious, cosmopolitan community; highly academic; forward-thinking, with a deep-pocketed bursary programme and a fabulous real-world co-ed buzz.TATLER SCHOOLS GUIDE 2018
Latymerians celebrate A Level results
David Goodhew said today: "I'm proud of all our pupils, who work hard both in the classroom and in their many co-curricular activities, making them the well-rounded and lively individuals Latymerians are known for being."
Latymer Upper School has most entries at National Schools' Regatta 2018
End of Year reflections from the Head
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Situated on the banks of the Thames in West London, Latymer Upper School is one of the country's leading fully co-educational schools for children aged 11 - 18 years. It focuses on both the academic achievement and the personal development of each and every pupil into well-rounded and caring citizens.
Alongside a broad curriculum and dedicated teaching it offers first-class facilities and a plethora of sporting, musical and artistic opportunities beyond the classroom.
Girls and boys joining the school at 11+ from state primary and prep schools embark on an exciting academic programme designed to inspire their intellectual curiosity and achieve their full potential.
We focus on developing both depth and breadth of subject knowledge and understanding as well as learning techniques that will help ensure success at GCSE and A level. The vast majority of pupils then go on to their first choice University both in the UK and abroad.
Latymer Upper School is highly selective and the admissions process is designed to identify children who have the potential to thrive in an environment that fosters academic excellence and independent thinking.
Admission at 11+ is through our own competitive examination in English and Maths and pupils who do well will be invited to return for an interview. Admission to the Sixth Form at 16+ is through interview and is conditional on achieving specified grades at GCSE.


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Jan. 31, 1942-March 19, 2012
PRINCETON -- Carol Register Bass, 70, passed away Monday, March 19, 2012, at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.
Carol was born in Wayne County Jan. 31, 1942, to the late Ray Emmitt Register and Georgia Johnson Register.
She had worked with R.G. Barry and Co. for more than 20 years, and had retired from Bussman.
Carol will be remembered as a loving wife and mother, and for the joy that she received from crocheting and decorating cakes.
The family will receive friends Thursday, March 22, 2012, from 6 to 7 p.m. at Seymour Funeral Home, followed by a service at 7 p.m. in the chapel, with the Rev. Randall Woodard officiating. Interment will be Friday, March 23, 2012, at 11 a.m. in Princeton Cemetery.
Carol is survived by her son, Eddie Bass Jr. and wife, Leticia, of Goldsboro.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Lee Bass Sr., and her sister, Betty Gray Wiggins.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.seymourfuneralhome.com.
Published in Obituaries on March 21, 2012 1:50 PM


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STANDING TALL—The Air-Sea Interaction Tower, built as part of an experiment sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, allows scientists to deploy instruments that monitor the relationship between winds and waves in all weather conditions. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
UNDERWATER POWER STRIP—The seafloor node of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, shown here being lowered into the water, supports experiments but it is also an experimental technology itself. Scientists plug into the node's power supply and data cables to study everything from shifting sands to blooming plankton. (Photo by Jayne Doucette, WHOI)
New robotic technologies and cutting-edge instruments—such as the plankton-observing FlowCytobot—are tested at MVCO before heading off to projects in other regions. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, WHOI)
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» Observatory Information from WHOI's Coastal Ocean Institute
» Eastern Consortium of Coastal Ocean Observatories
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» A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone: National Needs for Coastal Mapping and Charting
» Enabling Ocean Research in the 21st Century: Implementation of a Network of Ocean Observatories
» Oceanus: A New Coastal Observatory is BornPublished Jan. 2000
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Most traditional means of observing the ocean have their limits. Research ships and submarines must return to port. Robots and moored instruments run out of battery power. Satellites have stamina but their view does not penetrate into the depths. Ships and subs can carry only a few scientists at a time, and never into dangerous but scientifically interesting conditions such as hurricanes. Consequently, scientists have had to be satisfied with intermittent glimpses of the environment.
The next wave of ocean science will be done full time, and in real time. In recent years, ocean scientists and engineers have been developing new ways to go to sea—and stay out there—without getting seasick. They have been plugging instruments into seafloor nodes connected directly to shore-based labs, and using electro-optic-power cables to transmit steady streams of power and data.
At locations such as the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, researchers have staked out a parcel of ocean and are observing it with 24/7 vigilance, with the potential to do so for years. They can continuously measure what is happening on the sandy ocean bottom, in the water column from the seafloor to the surface, and in the air above it. And they can do it while sitting at their desks. Thanks to the cables, data from the sea are freely available on the Internet in real time to an unlimited number of scientists.
Unconstrained by time, space, and foul weather, scientists are starting to use coastal observatories to move past the snapshots of ocean processes, the restricting "befores" and "afters" that do not allow them to learn what happened in between. Now they can illuminate processes. How do storms rearrange shorelines and seafloor sediments? What is exchanged at the interface between air and water, and how does it affect coastal weather? Why do currents change seasonally? How do environmental changes affect plankton at the base of the marine food chain?
Built in stages since 2000 on the south shore of Martha's Vineyard, MVCO provides a natural laboratory to study key coastal processes in the North Atlantic. Permanent and project-specific instruments have measured the motion and strength of currents, the movement of sediments, the cycles of microscopic plants and animals and the bottom-dwelling creatures that eat them, the exchange of gases and aerosols between the ocean and atmosphere, and coastal meteorology.
Just 90 minutes from Woods Hole on WHOI's coastal research vessel Tioga, MVCO is exposed to the open ocean and a wide range of conditions, including energetic tides and surface waves, and winds ranging from dead calm in summer to intense storms in fall and winter. In a seasonal rhythm, offshore waters become stratified in summer, with warmer surface waters atop denser, colder waters; in winter, the water column becomes homogeneous again.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shared the costs to build a small, inland shore lab, a 10-meter mast with meteorological instruments at the ocean's edge, and a seafloor node 12 meters below the sea surface and 1.5 kilometers from the shore. Cables connect the sensors at the mast and sea node to computers and communications devices in the shore lab.
In 2002, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) provided support for the design, construction, and deployment of an Air-Sea Interaction Tower (ASIT) about 3 kilometers from Martha's Vineyard. The tower stands in 15 meters of water and extends 22 meters above the water line into the atmosphere. It is connected through its own fiber-optic cable to the shore lab.
The node and tower act as scaffolding and "extension cords," allowing scientists to install instruments in the coastal environment, then return home to collect data over the Internet. If equipment fails, they can quickly detect the problem and go fix it.
In addition to long-term, continuous, and easily accessible streams of data, coastal observatories provide other advantages. Structures such as MVCO can allow scientists to chronicle the processes at work during extreme events that were previously difficult to study.
For instance, scientists have spent decades making shipboard expeditions to measure how the air and sea exchange heat, water, gases, and momentum. But they have learned little about what happens when wind speeds exceed 40 to 50 knots because no ship captain will intentionally cruise into a hurricane and risk lives to make such measurements. Even in less extreme circumstances, the natural movement of a research vessel leaves scientists wondering how much of what they measure is real and how much of it is "ship noise."
Coastal observatories also can help engineers who are developing and testing new instruments. For instance, researchers working on power-hungry, advanced sensors have plugged into MVCO to test the effectiveness of their instruments without the power limits of batteries or the time limits of ship-based expeditions.
Today, WHOI scientists and engineers are working with colleagues from around the country, using MVCO for a variety of interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research projects. These have included:
With initial experiments underway and some lessons already learned at MVCO, WHOI scientists and engineers are making plans to improve and expand the facility.
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and other robotic vehicles will likely play an important role in future studies at MVCO and other ocean observatories. Researchers can use observatories as remote ports from which they can launch these vehicles into inaccessible regions and extreme conditions. Equipment is already being tested to allow AUVs to download data and recharge their batteries at underwater nodes.
WHOI researchers are also working with colleagues at other institutions to create a network of coastal observing systems extending from the Gulf of Maine to Florida. By linking observations of several observatories along the East Coast, researchers will be able to develop a clearer picture of the long-term cycles and processes at work in the northwestern Atlantic. From hurricanes to migrating marine life to eddies spinning off from the Gulf Stream, coastal observers will be able to track developments in the ocean from start to finish and season to season. The result will be a more precise view of everyday life in one of the world's oceans.
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Weight Watchers Tips: Snacking Ideas on SmartPoints
There's been a huge shift recently at Weight Watchers, and now people are understandably looking for tips. People want to know the best snacking ideas on SmartPoints, because chocolate has pretty much doubled in points.
It's great to hear that people want tips and ideas. It means they're trying and looking for ways to still enjoy their treats and live a healthy life, while losing weight.
While I could tell you to snack on fruit and veggies, we don't always want them. We want chocolate, crisps, yoghurts and everything else that could be "bad" for us. It's not bad, as long as eaten in moderation. Here are some of my snacking ideas on the new Weight Watchers plan.
Danone Shape Yoghurts and Muller Lights
Shape yoghurts have barely changed in points. Most of them sit at 2sp (I've worked them out with the calculator), so that's one great snack that you can have. Many others have gone up in points.
Muller Lights have gone up, but they're still relatively low. Depending on the flavour, there are some 3sp ones. Others are 4sp. I still think this is reasonable, especially if you focus on healthy meals throughout the day. Remember, your lean meats and fish have decreased in points!
0% Greek yoghurt is still reasonably low, too. Mixed with some choc shot and fruit, you have a great snack or dessert.
Multipack Walkers Crisps
Wotsits, French Fries and other Walkers crisps like this are still low in points. Multipack versions are smaller, which means they are usually lower in SmartPoints than their single pack varieties. We always have multipacks of Wotsits in the house.
If you attend Weight Watchers meetings, the crisps available there are also great options to snack on.
These are definitely snacks worth considering. Sometimes, you don't want something sweet. Smaller packets are also good because it's often easier to stop. If you grab a large pack of something like Dorritos, there are high chances that you'll just end up eating them all!
Crispbread and Salsa
Crispbread is another great option for a snack. There are lots of different brands, though, so you need to check which ones will be better for you SmartPoints wise.
I like some soft cheese on my crispbread, and having prawns or smoked salmon is great, but that's not always the best for snacking, right? You want something quick and easy?
Well, why not salsa as a dip? This is low in points and you can make a zero pointed one if you do one yourself. There are other dip ideas, like hummus.
Hot Chocolate and Mini Marshmallows
I've got to admit that my go-to snack is still a hot chocolate at the end of the night. Choosing the brand of hot chocolate is important. Lighter options are lower in SmartPoints. I switched from Cadbury's to Weight Watchers and saved 4sp!
Marshmallows with my hot chocolate is a must for me, but the bigger ones aren't worth the points values. That's why I now opt for mini marshmallows. I can have 20 of them for 1sp. Most of the time I don't have the full 20!
It's all about finding new options. Making changes is a must. After all, if you're not willing to change, why would you expect your weight to change? There are still ways to snack on the new Weight Watchers plan. Why not be thinner AND healthier in 2016?


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By Jim Christie
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Fresno and Hercules residents will vote June 4 on ballot measures that indicate how far some of California's ailing municipalities must go to fix their wobbly finances.
In Fresno, a city of 500,000 in the state's Central Valley, Mayor Ashley Swearengin is seeking support for a measure to privatize residential garbage collection. The plan would save money by eliminating about 120 city jobs and raise at least $14 million in fees over several years from a private garbage contractor.
On the same day, Hercules, a city of 24,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, will vote for the second time in two years on a tax increase, this time a rise in utility service charges. If the measure fails, the city says, it may have to shut down the police department and contract with the county sheriff for law enforcement.
The $3.7 trillion municipal debt market was shocked last year when three California municipalities - Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes - filed for bankruptcy in quick succession.
Mammoth Lakes quickly withdrew its bankruptcy filing, and a stronger economy is putting more money in government coffers around the state. But the much larger Stockton and San Bernardino cases may yet impose substantial losses on bondholders, and many other local governments remain close to the fiscal brink.
As times improve, "the struggle isn't quite as bad, but it's still a struggle," said Marilyn Cohen, president of Envision Capital Management in Los Angeles.
Fresno, the largest city in the state's agriculture-rich Central Valley, was hit hard by the housing slump and recession, and its economy remains weak, Moody's Investors Service said in January. Moody's cut the ratings on most of the city's lease revenue bonds to Ba1, one notch below investment grade.
Moody's also downgraded Fresno's convention center and pension and judgment obligation bonds to Ba2, another notch deeper into so-called junk territory, and said its outlook on all of the ratings was negative. The downgrades affect about $318 million in debt. Fresno has no general obligation bonds.
California's recovery is beginning to lift the Central Valley, but not nearly as much as it has helped coastal area cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, said Jeff Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton.
Fresno City Manager Mark Scott said that outsourcing garbage collection, which the city employee unions fiercely oppose, is a key step in restoring solvency. California's fifth-largest city faces a projected $1.2 million deficit in its $243 million general fund budget for the next fiscal year.
Savings on garbage collection and the fees from the company that would take over the service could be used to pay back $20 million borrowed from various city funds, Scott said.
The unions will be pressed to help the city's finances even if voters approve the measure, Scott said. "We're asking all 11 to take cuts as their contracts come up."
In Hercules, near San Francisco, alarm bells rang early last year after its now-defunct redevelopment agency defaulted on a bond payment of about $4 million.
The debt's insurer, Ambac Assurance Corp, sued Hercules, which assumed oversight of the agency's operations. In a settlement, Ambac received two city properties as collateral, staving off a possible bankruptcy filing.
But Hercules' finances remain strained. The city balanced its current budget by tapping reserves and using one-time money, and its leaders are urging voters to approve a measure to increase its utility users tax by 2 percentage points to 8 percent. That would raise about $1 million a year over five years.
Hercules voters last June approved a four-year, half-cent sales tax increase to support the city's general fund. They also voted for a plan to sell the municipal electric company, which the general fund has propped up.
The city police department is already down to 21 officers from 30 two years ago, said City Manager Steve Duran. If the current measure fails, it may let the remaining officers go and instead pay the county to patrol the streets.
"The only place where we have any meat left on the bone, if you will, is the police department," he said.
(Reporting by Jim Christie; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn; Editing by Jonathan Weber, Mary Milliken and Lisa Von Ahn)


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Indie-rock darlings The Shins return with new album 'Port of Morrow'
LONDON (AP) ' Indie-rock favorites The Shins are back with a new album, a new lineup and a more upbeat sound that lead singer-songwriter James Mercer credits in part to his tranquil family life.
The band's fourth album, "Port of Morrow," is set for release March 20 in the U.S. It comes five years after The Shins' Grammy-nominated album "Wincing the Night Away" entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2.
Mercer admits he'd love to snag the top spot this time.
"I mean that will never go away," the 41-year-old Portland, Oregon, native said. "A number one record. You're up there with the biggest bands in history. It's just cool you know?"
Between albums, Mercer parted ways with the other original band members ' drummer Jesse Sandoval, keyboardist Marty Crandall and bassist Dave Hernandez ' and recruited a new team.
"Port of Morrow" was produced by Greg Kurstin, who also has worked with Kylie Minogue and Lily Allen. Although Crandall and Hernandez guest on "Port of Morrow," they won't be touring with their former frontman, who defends the new lineup.
"It's not that these musicians are better ' it's that when you work with somebody new you get a whole new perspective on your song," Mercer says. "I want to be free to work with a number of people. I just think the songs benefit from it, and that's the most important thing to me."
Mercer married former journalist Marisa Kula in Hawaii in 2006, after she interviewed him for pop music magazine, "Spin." The pair have two young daughters, Sabine and Odette, who directly affected his writing on "Port of Morrow."
The jubilant tone of lead single "Simple Song," for instance, is miles away from some of the more downbeat offerings on "Wincing the Night Away," a collection of songs written after the band shot to fame thanks partly to their 2001 song "New Slang" being featured in the movie "Garden State."
As the band took off, Mercer found his "social situation was upended," providing good fuel for "Wincing." With the new album, however, "There's a lot of just thinking about love," Mercer says.
"Having children is something that makes you think about the importance of love and relationships between humans and it also at the same time, the opposite of that ' the wars and violence become very poignant and distressing, too."


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PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - At least 10 people have been killed in flash floods in Mauritius and more downpours could be on the way, officials and the Indian Ocean island's meteorological service said on Sunday.
The deaths occurred on Saturday and most of the victims were trapped in an underpass leading to the Caudan Waterfront, a commercial area in Port Louis.
Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam said on Sunday that Port Louis had a torrential downpour with 152 mm falling in two hours.
"The speed of the torrents of water has led to tragic loss of life and heavy damage to property," he said, adding that he was declaring Monday a day of mourning.
The Mauritius meteorological service said showers were expected overnight and on Monday, with isolated thunderstorms that could cause further floods.
(Reporting by Jean Paul Arouff; Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Stephen Powell)


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"An Intimate Scottish Castle Wedding Venue"
About Barcaldine CastleBarcaldine Castle is a truly beautiful setting for your dream wedding. Set on the shores of Loch Creran with breathtaking views, the 16th century castle is the perfect romantic and exclusive wedding venue.
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