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Although its enemies like to think of it as an impregnable bastion of privilege, the Royal Opera House has been feeling the pinch of the financial crisis as sharply as the rest of us. Before the worst of the funding cuts have even snapped in, its box office has been struggling in what by common consent ranks – operatically at least – as the dullest season for years.
Yesterday's announcement of the 2012-13 programme could cheer everyone up, however. The Royal Ballet's new director Kevin O'Hare has put his best foot forward and, having taken imaginative advantage of the opportunity to celebrate centennial birth years of Britten, Verdi and Wagner, the Royal Opera's line-up looks positively scintillating.
As well as Ring cycles (already sold out) with Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Placido Domingo will make his world debut in Verdi's Nabucco. Other novelties include George Benjamin's opera Written on Skin, strongly cast new productions of rarities such as Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable and Britten's "coronation" opera Gloriana, as well as star-studded revivals of Verdi's Don Carlos and Puccini's La Rondine. If this doesn't get Covent Garden buzzing again, nothing will.
The other good news is that the Royal Opera has a new director who could scarcely be more upbeat about the future. Kasper Holten, a 38-year-old Dane who previously ran the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, took over from Elaine Padmore last autumn. Because opera books up so far ahead, his planning won't really kick in until 2014-15, but already he is galvanizing everyone with his enthusiasm and ideas.
An imposing figure of Viking mien, Holten comes from an establishment background (his mother is the first female governor of the Bank of Denmark) and his passion for opera began when he was nine after seeing a performance of Carmen.
"I was a child who had some difficulties expressing my emotions, and in opera I found something which could do that for me," is his psychological explanation of this precocious passion, about which he soon became "horribly nerdy". As well as accruing an encyclopaedic knowledge of the repertory, he made toy opera houses out of Lego and mounted a puppet Ring cycle – with his own surtitles – when he was 12.
Although he graduated from school with the top mark for economics in Denmark, he bypassed university or conservatoire. "At 18, I walked into the Royal Danish Opera as a volunteer to help on a production of Ariadne auf Naxos and you could say I never walked out again." At 26, after an apprenticeship which involved backstage and administrative work alongside directing his own productions, Holten was made the RDO's artistic director, a post in which he continued successfully for a decade.
As well as supervising the company's move into a brand-new theatre and developing its backstage infrastructure, his own shows enjoyed acclaim – his Tannhäuser, available on DVD, is one of the most convincing interpretations I have ever seen. His five-year contract with the Royal Opera allows him annual leave to stage two of his own productions, one of which may be at Covent Garden – next season, he will mount Eugene Onegin here, with Simon Keenlyside in the title-role.
Holten left Copenhagen vowing never to run an opera house again, but the Royal Opera's offer was one he couldn't resist. "It's not just that I adore London, it's also that I have had some of my greatest operatic experiences in this house – the recent Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, for instance. And I think the mix of the American and European models in the funding system is very healthy.
"There's no need for any quick fix. I have great admiration for [chief executive] Tony Hall's efforts to make this a forward-thinking institution, and the place is very well run. But I feel I have something to contribute, particularly in finding new directors of my generation."
His choices aren't likely to be safely conservative, but he isn't a kneejerk radical either. Holten says he still pinches himself in meetings when he realises he is collaborating with legends of the business such as the Royal Opera's music director, Antonio Pappano, and casting director, Peter Mario Katona, but he has also brought in as deputy his own man – the young British director John Fulljames, who acts as his "everyday conversation partner and guide to the British cultural scene. John keeps my thinking fresh".
What has surprised him to date is the extent to which the forthcoming Arts Council cuts will "put pressure on the organisation to do more for less. We need more new productions, but we also need to find new ways to afford them." Another shock is the casting process: in Copenhagen, he drew on a resident ensemble of Danish musicians, but at Covent Garden possibilities are circumscribed by the byzantine schedules of the world's top conductors and singers. "I hadn't fully understood the complexity of working with that."
Ticket prices are also high on his problem agenda: there's consideration of a move to a more dynamic model, along the lines of airline internet sites which alter their charges daily according to demand.
He doesn't want the Royal Opera to serve as a British showcase, working on the principle that "Covent Garden is a global house", in which native talent must compete on a level playing field with all-comers.
"I want the best of opera. Whether it's British or not is beside the point."
Most of all, however, he wants to broaden opera's conversation with other art forms and cultural institutions, with a mission statement proposing the idea of an opera house as an "emotional fitness centre".
"Life as we know it today is dominated by words, and what words are good at is expressing logic," he explains. "But so much of life is not logic, and that's where opera comes in: it connects you to the parts of life that aren't rational."


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This was my 5th straight weekend away from Atlanta and it was very eventful. I planned to go back to my home state to visit family and friends and ended up near the Catskills. Yes, No Beach.
One of my very good friends had to attend a work event and invited me along. It was hard to say no to an all expenses paid weekend at a resort with indoor/outdoor pools, hot tub, onsite restaurants, spa, gym, horse back riding, and go-carts. So I skipped the city scene and headed to the mountains. I could go visiting friends and family before leaving for the airport on Sunday :-).
We arrived after a 2.5 hour drive in Calicoona, New York at Villa Roma resort Friday evening. It took us a little longer because we are both picture taking fanatics and had to make several stops for nature shots. We headed to the pools for a little sun and then had dinner and crashed.
Saturday we enjoyed a delicious breakfast and then headed to the stables for horseback riding. That ride was so enjoyable and tranquil. I had not been on a horse in almost 6 years. My horse's name was Sundance. Sundance did not care for galloping and I was OK with it. He took care of me and I took care of him.
After the ride we lounged around the resort. My friend, David, had to attend Union Meetings so I got caught up on work emails and sleep. The weekend was truly relaxing.
Later in the evening we attended dinner in the main dining room. I went off to a work conference call while David watched the fireworks. We stayed in and watched movies and relaxed.
Sunday morning we headed back to the city. The drive was much faster without all the picture taking and traffic. I spent the afternoon visiting family and enjoying the weather.
I love hanging out with David. He is the most fun and laid back gentleman I know. True good friends are hard to find and keep which makes David a blessing. Too bad our schedules do not allow us to travel more often. Until next time, another eventful weekend in the books.
September 11, 20160

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As usual, the hellish weeks are still ongoing, and I was just done with a presentation, so I'm giving myself 30 minutes break to write a blog entry before starting to write my last group project essay (Tourism again).
Despite the busy life at the moment, I was still able to find time to listen to Hyun Joong's new song for the upcoming Drama "Marriage Plot". This song is called 그대도 나와 같다면 and it seems like it's being translated to "If you're like me". If you ask me, I think "If you feel the same" is a liberal but more accurate translation, which some translators have also used.
Just like the other fans, I was looking forward to this song as well, having heard the one minute trailer and I like it almost immediately. When it finally came out, I was listening to it with my friends before returning back home to read the lyrics while having the song played on my iTunes; that was when I was struck because it brought so many thoughts into my head reading it.
Have you guys checked out the lyrics? Because if you haven't, you should. Stephanie has done a very good translation of this on her blog, and I will repost it here as well for easier reading:
Source: Bugs Mobile apps (벅스모바일)
Translation: Stephanie (@5StarsAs1/ www.i-kpoplovers.blogspot.com)
Please leave the credits remain intact when repost.
English translation
If you feel the same
If you feel the same
Can't even make a step, only tears fall within any minutes
If you feel the same
You should be looking at my eyes right now
Love becomes deeper like this, I wanted to stay beside you for a little while more
Wiping away your tears with my hand
Letting the pain slipping away without being noticed on the other hand
(correction thanks to @wonderrrgirl! ^^)
Trying to ignore this weakening self
Can you see I'm running towards you?
If you really feel the same
If you feel the same now
If you can feel my earnest longing
Even if you enter a completely different world
Even if you enter a world without me
We could feel the same
My heart just wanted to stay beside you
Slowing down my pace, to walk beside you
Trying to ignore this weakening self
To tell you that I love you, to tell you that you're my only one
If you really feel the same
If you feel the same now
If you can feel my earnest longing
Even if you enter the completely different world
Even if you enter a world without me
We could feel the same
If you feel the same
If you feel the same
You should be thinking of me right now
If you feel the same
What are your thoughts after listening to and reading the lyrics?
As for me, I couldn't help but feel that this song uncannily describes a part of life for Hyun Joong, or rather, any celebrity out there whose love lives can never be made public easily (as we already know). But what we also assume all the time is the fact that these very handsome and hot idols can literally get any girl they want out there. With their good looks, charisma, popularity, income level (at least for the successful ones) and other forms of cultural capital, who wouldn't want to be with a celebrity? I guess it's just such a given, that life will always be as bright and perfect as it was depicted on any typical idol drama where everyone ends up with a very happy ending. (Either that or they all die and the show ends, but let's ignore that other extreme. On the whole, many dramas ended happily; the hot main lead gets the guy/girl all the time.)
But if you have watched a lot of what the celebrities are saying, which they reveal occasionally, especially the more senior ones (sunbaes) who reached a stage in their career where revealing this very private aspect of their life will not jeopardize their career in any way; they started revealing how they've gone dating and have girlfriends in the past, and what's striking is how things don't always work out perfectly, or the way we think they would for these very attractive and seemingly perfect people.
But what I gathered after listening closely to them talk about their love lives is that things are not as good as we think. Perhaps being a fan and how it is probably many fans' dream to become the girl/boyfriend of their idols, they couldn't possibly imagine how anyone wouldn't want to end up with them. But the reality is when it comes to a real relationship with a idol star, the stakes involved are probably beyond what most people will normally think about.
The fact that the whole relationship has to say hidden, and how they couldn't be like normal people who go on dates in the movie theaters or take romantic walks on the streets, is one factor. Also, the other partner who isn't a celebrity (or just a commoner) will have to deal with the fact that there are thousands of others out there who're all ready to grab their celebrity boy/girlfriend away from them.
More importantly, this partner also have to accept the fact that the life and job scope of the idol is to perform, please the fans, and sometimes even having to act out roles as the lover of another person in dramas or MVs. Their celebrity boy/girlfriends are going to be surrounded by very good looking and attractive people, and goodness know what other things they have to go through as a couple.
In view of that, it is very common that they may not always end up with the people that they love, because ultimately, the lack of understanding, or the inability of the other party to understand the circumstances in which celebrities like Hyun Joong has to be in makes it very hard for any relationship to go on.
Not long ago, Hyun Joong mentioned that he has recently met the girl of his destiny in a Japanese magazine interview, and how he is surprised/amazed to be feeling this way. This article was translated into English and Chinese, yet there are so many different variations of it. Some translation said that he appears to be referring to a girl from his past, while some are saying it's the present girl. I do not understand Japanese unfortunately and different Japanese fans gave me different interpretations of that interview as well. So what exactly is the real thing that he said?
Well, not long ago, some of my friends met Hyun Joong, and this question was actually clarified with the man himself. Hyun Joong has personally clarified that he is indeed, talking about a girl he has met recently. (So this is not about some girl from his past, as I read from many translations) I am afraid this is also a dangerous topic, but just to appease those fans who are really against the idea of Hyun Joong having some girl out there, they are not together (as he also indicated in the interview actually. He just MET a girl whom he sees as the girl of his destiny, but is not together with this girl).
As a result, this song reminded me of this interview again. I always hope that Hyun Joong will get to meet a girl he really loves, and spend the rest of his life happily with someone he loves. But perhaps one of the difficulties of him ever meeting such a girl, despite how near-perfect he is in many of our eyes, is that it will probably not be easy to find a girl who really truly understands the circumstances he is in, and his career as an artiste.
This is why this song has an additional impact when I read the lyrics. It describes pretty accurately the kind of circumstances in which a celebrity-commoner couple is being placed in. A lot of love is required to get through the amount of waiting and pain needed in such a complicated relationship. His heart will no doubt wish very much to be walking beside the girl, because physically, this body is unable to do so 24/7 or even publicly.
"If you really feel the same
If you feel the same now
If you can feel my earnest longing
If you feel the same now
If you can feel my earnest longing
Even if you enter a completely different world
Even if you enter a world without me
We could feel the same"
Even if you enter a world without me
We could feel the same"
I thought this line is painfully well written. At the end of the day, everything lies on whether both parties feel the same about each other. We would all like to believe, that no matter what difficulties, no matter how far apart two very in loved people are placed in, if they truly feel the same, they can still be together eventually.
The challenge of course, is how nobody can ever be 100% sure if the other party feels the same way, and this is the pain and challenge for couples in such a complicated relationship.
I love this song, needless to say. Before I end I should say that this entry should not be used as an interpretation or conclusion about Hyun Joong's love life, or the mystery destiny girl he mentioned. I have no idea. I am merely listening to a song and trying to put myself in Hyun Joong's shoes if he were to meet such a situation. Even though the fact is there is indeed such a girl in Hyun Joong's life, how things end up for Hyun Joong eventually will be up to his own discretion to decide if he wants to reveal it in the end.
Hopefully this end is not too near either, because I still want to enjoy several more years of Hyun Joong as a performer. But I hope that at the end of the day, what we will see is that the fans had loved Hyun Joong enough, so much so that they are willing to accept the fact that Hyun Joong will eventually find his own happiness. I guess if we still want to see him perform for everyone, we got to accept this and love him regardless of who he is with, or who he loves.


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The program scheduled at the Sag Harbor Cinema over the weekend was typically offbeat: It included a French film about a philosophy professor facing a midlife crisis and a documentary about a Dutch immigrant who turned an old plow horse into a show jumping champion.
But the theater — beloved for its single large screen, the breadth of its programming and its red neon sign with the village name — was destroyed in a fire that ripped along Main Street on Friday, leaving residents dealing with the loss of a cultural oasis that had become a symbol of the area.
"For anyone entering Sag Harbor, the sign had significance and was remarkable," said April Gornik, vice president of the Sag Harbor Partnership, a group that works to preserve the character of the town, on Long Island's East End. "But for anyone that was living here, we understood that it was a possibility of seeing the most fantastic films in the world at a remarkably preserved venue."
She added: "Everyone's in tremendous sadness over it. No one has driven by the cinema where it had stood and not felt just a tremendous pain and pang of remorse."
The fire broke out in a building in the Main Street shopping district early Friday and, driven by the wind, spread to several other buildings, including the movie theater. A popular coffee shop and several stores were badly damaged, and several apartments were destroyed, although there were no injuries, according to Mayor Sandra Schroeder.
Volunteer firefighters from several towns spent hours battling the blaze in freezing temperatures that turned the water from their hoses to ice. The cause is still under investigation.
The theater is owned by Gerald Mallow, a real estate developer, who bought it in the 1970s. A film enthusiast, Mr. Mallow had changed little about the theater since, resisting the trend of dividing larger theaters to install multiple screens. The theater has one large screen, and he frequently programmed several movies a day — each one showing once.
For Sunday, the program would have included the documentary about the immigrant and the horse, "Harry & Snowman," at 3 p.m., the French film, "Things to Come," at 5 p.m., and the hit independent film "Moonlight," at 7 p.m.
Reached by telephone, Mr. Mallow said: "I'm not ready to talk to you now. Sorry."
"He's in terrible shock," said Robby Stein, the deputy mayor of Sag Harbor, who said he spoke to Mr. Mallow after the fire. "This has been a life work for him."
Mr. Stein added, "It was like being punched in the head."
Mr. Mallow has periodically talked about selling the theater, and a group of residents, including Mr. Stein and Ms. Gornik, hoped to raise money to buy the building and preserve it as a movie house. Mr. Stein said that it was unclear now what would happen.
The building became a movie theater in the 1920s, but before that it was a venue for vaudeville and other types of entertainment. The neon sign, with its curved letters echoing the curved top of the white facade, was replaced several years ago with a replica of the original.
The building's facade had to be demolished because it was weakened by the fire, Ms. Schroeder said. The sign, however, was rescued. The main part of the theater, where the screen and seats were, is intact, although the extent of the damage is not clear, Ms. Schroeder said.
"Gerry captured the kind of essence of the independent theater which has died all around us," Mr. Stein said. "It also was kind of a place where it was idiosyncratic in every way. Everyone has stories about being there in the middle of winter with five people, and yet the movies would go on."
Sag Harbor was a hub of the whaling industry in the 18th century. It has also been a home to writers, including John Steinbeck and E. L. Doctorow. For years, it was a sleepy town sidelined from a wave of luxury that washed over other parts of the South Fork, although, in recent years, it has become more upscale.
Still, Ms. Gornik said it retained enough of its old character to be considered "the un-Hampton."
"The fact that we had the coolest movie theater just seemed to go with that, and it was just of a piece with a community that's really vibrant: artists, writers, poets, movie people," she said.
While the building and its sign were widely loved, there appeared to be a divide among newer and older residents in their attitudes toward the theater and its offerings.
Newer residents like Ms. Gornik, an artist, and Mr. Stein, a psychoanalyst, raved about the unusual movies they had seen there. People born in the town, such as Ms. Schroeder or Lisa Field, the president of the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce, talked with nostalgia about seeing movies or cartoons there as children, but said it had been years since they had been inside.
The fire also affected other businesses.
"It's literally smack in the center of Main Street, right in the heart of the village," said Ms. Field, who owns Sag Harbor Variety, a five-and-10 store on Main Street. The fire damaged the building next to hers but was extinguished before it reached her store, she said, and she was open for business on Sunday.
"Sag Harbor, its residents are resilient," Ms. Field said. "The talk around town is we're going to rebuild. We'll pull together. We'll come back."


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Matthew Wood, apprentice at Myerscough College, won gold at the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) WorldSkills final. The event taking place at WorldSkills UK LIVE from 15-17 November at the NEC Birmingham.
Sam Gordon, The Gardenmakers and APL apprentice, won silver, with Reece McKay from CAFRE took bronze.
The APL WorldSkills final took place last week from 15-17 November at WorldSkills UK LIVE. The event is at the Birmingham NEC in front of over 100,000 visitors over the three days. The first of four days was a training and familiarisation day. Then, the competitors had 16 hours to build a garden from scratch designed by head judge and APL general manager, Phil Tremayne.
This year's competitors included:
Brian Hughes, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)
Reece McKay, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)
Matthew Wood, Myerscough College
Sam Gordon, The Gardenmakers
Connor Pegler, Warwickshire College
Douglas Beck, Wiltshire College
During the final competitors were marked on elements such as paving including recessed drain cover detail and block paving provided by Marshalls. They were also marked on decking, fencing, planting, lighting, health and safety and the overall appearance of the garden. The final also included a plant ident created by North West based nurseries J A Jones, designed to test the competitors plant knowledge.
Judges for the competition included:
Head Judge Phil Tremayne, APL general manager
Steve Smith of Shore Landscapes
2011 WorldSkills UK Silver medal winner and International training manager, Simon Abbott
The APL also hosted the Horticulture Inclusive Skills competition on the Saturday of the show. Inclusive Skills Competitions enable young people with learning difficulties and disabilities to showcase their work skills and growing independence. The competitors were tasked with planting houseplant baskets, which they designed and planted themselves. The competition was once again a great success, and as of next year the Inclusive Skills competitions are being fully integrated into the show. Many thanks to Flowervision Birmingham for the plants supplied.
The APL would like to thank sponsors EcoDek, J A Jones, Landscapeplus, Makita and Marshalls for their support of the competition, without whom this would not be possible.
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Holidays in Spain
If you're planning a family holiday in Spain and like the idea of staying in your own property, with the freedom to eat at your own convenience, then you may wish to consider renting a villa at La Torre Resort.
Properties are available with heated swimming pools and gardens, making them an ideal option for families and large groups.
The villas also feature spacious terraces where holidaymakers can enjoy their evening meals or cook up a storm on the barbecue.
What's more, the properties are furnished to an extremely high standard and come equipped with televisions, DVD players, linen, towels, dishwashers and washing machines.
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Brits hoping to escape the wintery weather and take a holiday in Spain over the coming months will find no shortage of accommodation options at La Torre Resort.
Located in Murcia, which is served by several airlines from the UK, it has something to suit all tastes, from serviced hotel rooms to self-catering apartments.
One option for holidaymakers is to choose one of La Torre's rental townhouses, which typically have two bedrooms and two bathrooms.
There are three different styles to pick from - Madrono, Cornical and Palmito - and all come furnished to a high standard.
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The number of people searching for holidays to Spain and other popular destinations is on the increase, it has been revealed.
Research carried out by Hotels.com found that searches for breaks abroad are up by 400 per cent, with demand set to go through the roof on January 18th the "most depressing" day of the year.
Alison Couper, global communications director for the website, suggested that the rise in demand is hardly surprising, given the icy conditions currently enveloping the country.
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Holidays in Spain have been searched for by more holiday home fans than any other type of summer break so far this year, new figures from one portal have shown.
According to holidaylettings.co.uk, the country has been the top summer destination since Boxing Day and is also the number two location for winter sun and Easter.
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Those enjoying their golf holidays in Spain at La Torre Golf Resort may wish to take a break from the destination's 18-hole course and head to the nearby Murcia Cathedral for a taste of local history.
The 14th century religious site is free to enter and boasts a mix of impressive architectural designs, covering the gothic, baroque and renaissance periods.
Among the most iconic landmarks in the city, it was built up over the course of 600 years and is famous for its bell tower, which is over 90 metres in height and took two centuries to complete.
Murcia Cathedral is one of a number of locations the La Torre website suggests is worth a visit, along with the Roman Theatre, which is just 20 minutes away from the resort.
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La Manga Club, the luxury holiday resort in Spain, is offering travellers the opportunity to spend seven nights there for the price of five during the May half-term break.
The five-star destination, which is renowned for its world class sports facilities, announced the two nights free special this week, making it available to everyone booking a vacation for the May 24th to June 5th period before February 28th.
Guests already receive complimentary access to the resort's fitness centre and spa, but those taking advantage of this special offer will enjoy a number of other benefits, such as free golf and spa treatments and free kids' club sessions.
They can also cut down on accommodation costs, with rooms for children aged 12 and under at half price and the option to save up to 776 (£693) per double room.
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Those who have decided to take their holidays in Spain at La Manga Club this week can watch three top class women's football matches for free.
At 18:00 local time today, Norway - who finished in third place at the 2009 European Championship - will take on 2007 World Cup quarter-finalists China in a friendly at the luxury resort's football centre, with admission costing absolutely nothing.
Following that, at the same time on Friday January 15th, Norway will face off against Women's Euro 2009 runners-up England, who have been training at the facility this week.
The final game of the series takes place at 16:00 on Saturday January 16th and will see Norway play China again in a rematch.
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The owner of El Puntal Equestrian Centre, next to La Manga Club resort in Murcia, has claimed his facility will be able raise the bar for quality of service after the appointment of a new chief instructor.
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He added that El Puntal can now aim to become "truly top class", which would fit in well with its neighbour La Manga - a luxury destination for holidays in Spain, world renowned for its professional-standard sport offerings.
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Spain is an excellent place to visit for a vacation during the summer, according to one travel company.
Recommending a number of healthy trips for the family this year, First Choice claimed that the country "makes a perfect summer holiday destination".
It focused on health breaks to show the options that are out there for travellers who made new year's resolutions to treat their body better and stay fit throughout 2010.
One ideal location to visit is La Manga Club, a luxury holiday resort in Spain known the world over for its top class leisure and sports facilities.
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A number of famous rugby players will enjoy the delights of La Manga Club this May as the Wooden Spoon Celebrity Rugby Golf Classic takes place.
Former British and Irish Lions captain Gavin Hastings will be at the luxury holiday resort in Spain for the May 19th to 23rd event, along with the most-capped forward in rugby union history Jason Leonard and fellow England internationals Matt Perry and Mark Regan.
A statement announcing the tournament was published this week by Golf Monthly and Wooden Spoon claimed to be "delighted" to be staging it at "the beautiful La Manga Club".
Those taking part will stay at the deluxe Principe Felipe Hotel La Manga Club and will compete at the resort's North and South championship courses in teams of three, with each group including one rugby star.
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FFK Sires Southern Oaks
The final of the FFK Sires sponsored Southern Oaks was held at Youghal on Monday 7th August. The hot favourite Droopy's Harbour, trained by John A.Linehan, didn't disappoint and led from traps to line for owners the Blarney Racing Syndicate. Photo: Bertie Lupton Chairman of Youghal Track presents members of the Blarney Racing Syndicate with their winning trophy following Droopy's Harbour win in the final of the FFK Sires sponsored Southern Oaks at Youghal. Also pictured are Billy O' Dwyer IGB and John Mc Grath Track Manager. (Photo Paidi Walsh).
Droopy's Stud Champion Stakes Final
The Droopy's Stud Champion Stakes final was held at Youghal on Monday 26th June. The John Kenny owned and trained Wagga Sky had to work hard but finished strongly to win the 2017 final. Photo: Austin O'Connor representing Droopy's Stud presents John and Mary Kenny and family and friends with their trophy after Wagga Sky won the Droopy's Champions Stake at Youghal for 2017. (Photo by Paidi Walsh)
Summer Season
The summer season of racing was officially launched at Youghal on Monday 26th June 2017. Youghal Track Supporters Club are continuing to sponsor free entry to racing this summer. Free entry to racing will run from 3rd July to the 28th of August. Photo: Members of Youghal Track Supporters Club pictured at the launch of the free entry to racing at Youghal for the summer. (Photo by Paidi Walsh)
Fundraiser Friday June 9th 2017
Cystic Fibrosis Ireland held a fundraising race night at Youghal last Friday 9th June. Although the night was wet and windy a fine crowd showed up to support this great cause. The race card featured 3 rounds of the Droopy's Stud Champion Stakes but the feature race of the night was the Cystic Fibrosis Fundraising race.
The feature race was won by the Michael Leahy and Patrick Casey owned and trained She Brae. Pictured at the presentation to owner and trainer Michael Leahy and connections are Marcella Kiely and Liam Mc Carthy with members of the local Cystic Fibrosis fundraising committee. Also pictured is John Mc Grath (Track Manager). Photo by Paidi Walsh
Fundraiser Friday June 9th 2017
Youghal Greyhound Stadium are holding a fundraising benefit night in aid of Cystic Fibrosis Ireland on Friday 9th June. The race night was officially launched with Liam Mc Carthy and members of the local fundraising branch. Tickets for this special night of racing are available from Liam Mc Carthy on 0876243213. All support is greatly appreciated.
Annual Awards
The annual awards night was held at Youghal last Friday 27th January.
Dog of the Year and Owner of the Year 2016: Richard Whitley picked up the award for Owner of the Year for 2016 clocking up a total of 37 wins. His dog Whitty Tyson was awarded with Dog of the Year with a total of 17 wins. Richard is pictured with his granddaughter accepting his awards from sponsor John O'Brien.
(Photo: Paidi Walsh)
Private Trainer of the Year 2016: Nioclas Walsh from the Seaview Kennels in Ring, Co. Waterford took the title of Private trainer of the year for 2016 with a total of 14 wins. Nioclas is pictured with his brother Liam accepting his award from sponsor John O'Brien.
(Photo: Paidi Walsh)
Public Trainer of the Year 2016: Liam Twomey from Midleton picked up the Public Trainer of the Year award with a total of 24 wins for 2016. Liam is pictured with his father Moss accepting his award from sponsor John O'Brien.
(Photo: Paidi Walsh)
Congratulations to all award winners for 2016. Thank you to Youghal Track Supporters Club member John O'Brien for his continued sponsorship of the annual awards at Youghal.


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What is Voluntourism?
- Voluntourism means volunteering your time, skills, and energy with an organization, issue, or causes to help make a difference in communities around the world as part of your vacation package.
- "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Gandhi
Voluntourism is a new way of travelling that is becoming increasingly popular around the world. Voluntourism is when people volunteer overseas while they travel. It is similar to "eco-tourism" in a way because the objective of improving lives is still present. But unlike eco-tourism, voluntourism is aimed at helping other people rather than helping the environment. Voluntourism involves tourists going on vacation or rather, missions to help out on a particular project.
This volunteer work overseas entails not only the duties a volunteer will do, but it also gives a chance for tourists to discover new places, experience a foreign culture, and learn more about people in other countries. The time spent becomes an exciting and fulfilling vacation because you get to immerse yourself in another world while helping out those in need.
Doing voluntary work overseas is very different from the typical idea of a "relaxing" or "sightseeing" vacation which is in fact very artificial and does not allow you to really engage with the people in the country you are visiting and to form relationships with them as other human beings. In a sense, that sort of trip is more like taking a long trip to a human zoo to look at people and things rather than to live and be with them as one people.
Volunteer travel is a lot more sustainable as well because it deviates from the typical indulgent vacation. In voluntourism, you get to be responsible for the growth and change of others which is an experience unlike any other. This makes your trip to another country worth so much more than just "having fun" the whole time.
One thing that is clear is that going abroad and giving money and gifts to strangers, even if you do it from a place of love and with the best intentions, may not actually be helping them.
Ultimately, volunteering abroad is a rewarding, worthwhile activity. Your hard work and dedication in making a change in the world will touch lives – not least, your own.
Volunteer Work Abroad Opportunity.
Mary Ryse Resources Limited, the parent body of Gulfvisa Travel & Tours, in partnership with some reputable foreign organizations brings you the opportunity of a paid- volunteer program in Australia, Denmark, German, and Sweden. This Voluntourism program offers a limited number of paid volunteer jobs for super qualifying individuals from across Africa. This is a great opportunity to expand your horizons and gain professional work experience abroad.
Your round-trip airfare, visas, insurance, board and lodging are paid for by our foreign partners, including a monthly allowance to cover your expenses while working on the projects abroad. Applicants are required to be over the age of 24 and not older than 40, with at least a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and two-years work experience.
As a general requirement, all applicants have to subscribe as members and they must cover up their registration fees into the program. Subscription is mandatory for all interested participants.
We are currently accepting volunteer applications for the 2019 program. The deadline to apply is November 15, 2018. Volunteer placements duration ranges from 4-6 months. Applications must be submitted through our online volunteer application form. Any applications forms that are mailed or e-mailed will not be accepted.
Wild Animal Sanctuary Project:
In this program, you will live in beautiful Calga, Australia about 1.5 hours outside of Sydney by train. The location is situated on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary at the start of picturesque NSW Central Coast. This is the perfect project for animal lovers and it offers a wide range of exclusive Australian animal welfare programs like rescue, care, rehabilitation and release of Australian wildlife.
Marine Conservation Project:
Explore the deep waters of this world-renowned underwater wonder. Join a variety of important conservation efforts focused on the protection of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem. Coral reef surveying and marine data collection training are provided to volunteers in Australia.
Environment Conservation Project:
Volunteer on our conservation projects throughout Australia and work alongside a well established not for profit organization. This project allows you to explore the country away from the beaten track, helping to preserve some of the natural wonders Australia has to offer. Aid in the restoration of the region by maintaining walking paths or participating in flora and fauna surveys and make a valuable contribution to the ecology of the area.
Teach Conversational English:
Make a lasting difference through volunteering as you participate in this once in a lifetime opportunity to travel to Germany and immerse yourself into a local community, experiencing the culture firsthand. This program provides English speakers with a chance to live with a German family and teach them conversational English. This opportunity will be an amazing adventure of living in your teaching environment and being completely immersed in the fascinating culture of Germany. We provide the materials and you provide the personality to liven up a family class or dinner conversation!
Shadow doctors in Germany:
We are giving pre-medical and pre-health students an opportunity of shadowing hours in international hospitals in Germany. The mission is to help pre-medical and pre-health students pursue their callings in medicine passionately through their interactions with international healthcare. Our partners are committed to partnering with students on their way to becoming a doctor, which is why we carefully design and run competitive opportunities to give you experiences
Summer Camp Counselor:
We are in partnership with a very recognized organization that specializes in language & adventure sports camps for children & youth throughout Europe. We offer different positions, such as Camp Counselor, Sports Counsellor and so much more. Our partners provide an intense training through which you will obtain professional instruction in many outdoor education fields, from canoeing, kayaking, swimming, archery, climbing & high ropes, passing through field sports, creative activities, to language coaching, team building, etc. Plus, you will obtain a bronze cross and 1st aid certification.
Wildlife Tracking Project, Northern Sweden:
This project gives you the opportunity to get hands-on experience with animal tracking in the wilderness of Northern Sweden. You will get to live and explore in the beating heart of the Swedish wilderness. This program is designed for those looking for a deep wilderness and wildlife tracking experience. During your stay, you will be able to unplug and immerse yourself in nature, with the possibility of seeing some incredible wildlife in their natural habitat.
Green-Living Conservation in Stockholm Sweden:
If you have a passion for serving the community while serving a mission, this is the perfect opportunity for you. We are looking for hard working, community-minded individuals who are looking to expand their life experiences with something different and important. If you would like to be a part of the exceptional experience and see it from the beginning – then this is for you!!
Volunteer with People with Mental Disabilities:
Our partners offer a rare opportunity to volunteer in a community especially for people with mental disabilities in Denmark. The project, known as Hertha, is a community located in Herskind, a small village in Denmark that consists of families and individuals who have integrated themselves into the lives and rhythm of people with mental disabilities. The village has many workshops that volunteers can support, including a bakery, biodynamic market garden, biodynamic farm, dairy, weave shed, kitchen, and laundry. In these workshops, volunteers and community residents produce products for the village and beyond.
Volunteer at a School in Denmark:
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Engineering Internship:
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Britain finally approved a new 16 billion pounds ($33 billion) underground rail link across London designed to carry 200 million passengers a year and ease the capital's clogged transport network.
The government on Friday hailed Crossrail as Europe's biggest civil engineering project and said it should be running by 2017.
"By generating an additional 30,000 jobs and helping London retain its position as the world's pre-eminent financial centre, it will support Britain's economic growth," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.
The plan to connect the western and eastern ends of London via a tunnel was first proposed in the 1980s but has produced little more than planning meetings and parliamentary debate.
Businesses feared that London would slowly lose its status as an financial hub unless it fixed its transport problems.
The project will add 10% more capacity to the underground rail network, improve the business districts' links to Heathrow airport and support the urban regeneration expected around the site of the 2012 Olympics.
It had been deadlocked for weeks over 350 million pounds of missing funding, which the authority governing London's financial district agreed to pay at an emergency meeting on Tuesday.
The City Corporation also helped fund London's original underground railway in the 1860s.
"It is the key to the next 20 years of economic development of London," said London mayor Ken Livingstone who estimates the rail link could benefit the London and southeast economy by more than 30 billion pounds.
Election Speculation
The announcement came as Brown agonizes over whether to call a snap general election this week.
Speculation has been running high that the new prime minister would seek his own mandate by calling an election for Nov. 1.
"Getting the go ahead for Crossrail has been like piecing together a giant jigsaw, but with real UK jobs and GDP growth at stake," said Baroness Jo Valentine, chief executive of London First, which represents over 300 London businesses.
"Canary Wharf, BAA and City of London have all made important contributions," she added.
Crossrail will be one of Britain's biggest-ever building projects, exceeding the 7.5 billion pounds spent on digging the Channel Tunnel and the 9.3 billion pounds budgeted for the 2012 Olympics.
In central London, the trains will run through deep tunnels, with stations at Paddington, Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road, Farringdon, Liverpool Street and Whitechapel.
It will increase the rail capacity serving Canary Wharf by 54% and by 21% in the City financial district.
"Crucially for London's future, when Chinese and Indian businesses consider where to site their European headquarters, they will see in London a world city investing in its future," said Valentine.


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Believe it or not the Sheppey Writers Group is based on the Isles of Sheppey in Kent, UK and Isles is the first quirk of this book for Sheppey is a group of islands albeit separated by dykes and ditches but isles nontheless.
From Ruth Partis' offbeat view of the world, James Apps' definitely dark and weird view of it, through to Peter Apps' more lighthearted approach, there is something for everyone. Oh yes, I did not really forget Karm Arger and neither will you after reading his contributions.
These stories are not meant to take you too far from your comfort zone but are meant remind you of the rich variety of human life .
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For forty seven years I lived a humdrum life; getting up seven in the morning, having breakfast at eight, catching the eight thirty train to the city and coming back home by five o'clock; so the cycle went on, and on, until this happened. It was a Saturday. The wife announced that among the mushrooms in her cultivated patch there appeared to be an odd one. Would I come and take a look?
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Some three months afterwards, much to my surprise, my wife complained that her skin appeared to be changing colour; it was turning from its Caucasian white to a translucent green. Funnily enough, she said the same thing about me too, although I had not noticed it. Know what? It was absolutely true. Though I was much darker, I too was becoming green...


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Map Projections
The Earth is a spheroid - it is round like a ball or sphere but flattened by slightly by the centrifugal force of rotation. The Earth has a circumference of around 24,900 miles, but is around 27 miles wider than it is tall.
The Earth exists in three-dimensions but, other than globes, most representations of the earth, such as maps, are two dimensional. A projection is a set of mathematical transformations used to represent the three-dimensional world in two dimensions.
One key element of projection is the datum that is used to represent the world.
The lumpy surface of the earth is approximated with a simplified representation called a geoid. Then a smooth mathematical ellipsoid representation of the geoid that is used as the reference for latitude and longitude degrees. This reference system is caled a geodetic datum.
The science of creating geoids is called geodesy or geodetics. Geodetic engineers measure three fundamental properties of the earth:
- Geometric shape
- Orientation in space
- Gravity field
Because these properties are constantly changing (albeit in often subtle ways), geodetic engineers always have something to do in support of the earth sciences.
With contemporary geospatial data, the World Geodetic System from 1984 (WGS 84) used by the Global Positioning System (GPS) is the datum you will encounter most frequently. Datums you may also encounter (especially with older data) include the North American Datums from 1927 (NAD27) and 1983 (NAD83), although GIS software will usually handle transformation from those datums automatically with no additional attention needed on your part.
The transformation (projection) of three-dimensional reality to a two-dimensional representation always involves distortion of at least three of four properties of reality:
- Area
- Shape
- Direction
- Distance
The ultimate purpose of a particular visualization (map) determines which of these properties to preserve:
- Equal-area or equiareal projections preserve area. This is primarily important for general-interest maps where the size of areas (such as countries) is used to judge their relative importance
- Equidistant projections preserve distance and are useful for situations such as transportation or property boundaries
- Conformal projections preserve angles (and, therefore, shape or direction) and are useful for navigation. Note that conformal maps distort distance, so even though they can be used to point you in the right direction, that may not ultimately be the shortest path, especially over long distances
- Compromise projections attempt to balance the distortion of all four properties in a way that makes maps useful for specific purposes
To observe the distortions associated with a particular projection, Tissot's Indicatrix is a map of circles regularly spaced across the surface of the area covered by a map. This makes it possible to observe the different types of distortion at different locations on the map. Tissot's Indicatrix is used in the projection examples below.
Coordinate Systems
While the ubiquity of GPS has led to the popularity of specifying locations with coordinates using WGS 84 longitudes and latitudes, there are a wide variety of coordinate systems. While locations are still represented with pairs of numbers (and sometimes a third number for elevation), the meaning of those numbers and the range of possible values differ depending on which coordinate system you are using.
There are two broad types of coordinate systems:
- Geographic coordinate systems indicate where something is on the surface of the planet
- Projected coordinate systems indicate where something is on a map or other representation of the surface of the planet
While we live in a three-dimensional world, our experience of and interaction with the world at human scale is often perceived of and represented in two dimensions. We think of the distances between locations and objects as lines rather than degrees curved over the surface of the planet.
Accordingly, coordinate systems used by surveyors and the military often express coordinates in meters or feet, permitting quick calculation of distance.
Similarly, these coordinate systems are used by GIS software to indicate where to draw features on the screen when using a specific projection. Although the software will display these coordinate numbers, they are not usually that directly useful to the cartographer except when attempting to diagnose problems.
The process of transforming geospatial data from one projection to another is called reprojection. Reprojection can introduce errors into the data because of limitations in the accuracy of the way numbers are represented in digital computers and the differing characteristics of different projections. Caution must be exercised in choosing projections that are appropriate to the geographic area of the data (e.g. choosing the correct UTM or State Plane Coordinate System zone). When working with older data, consideration must be given to the datum upon which the projection and coordinate system are based.
With raster data that already represents data as a grid, the projection is locked into the data. It is possible to change the projection of a raster by overlaying the grid for a new projection on top of the old grid and taking the values from the old grid at the locations of the new grid. This process is called resampling. While there are mathematical techniques for making the new grid match the old grid as much as possible (interpolation), resampling always adds errors to raster data and should be avoided whenever possible.
Projection Types
The process of map projection often goes through the imagined step of wrapping a flat map around or thorough an area. This wrapped map is called a developable surface.
While there are hundreds of specific projections, there are a handful of general types associated with different types of developable surfaces that are the basis for those specific projections.
To balance distortions, some projections are compromise projections that incorporate complex transformations from the simple, fundamental types of projections given below.
There are three basic types of developable surface: the plane, the cylinder and the cone.
Cylindrical Projections
These projections are equivalent to wrapping the map as a cylinder around the earth.
This wrapping can be around the Equator, or around the poles (transverse cylindrical).
Conic Projections
These projections imagine the map wrapped as a cone that intersects the surface of the earth in one or two places, which are called standard parallels.
These projections treat the map as a flat surface or plane. They are commonly used for maps of the north or south pole.
Unprojected Longitude / Latitude
Since longitude and latitude represent x/y coordinates, they can be directly graphed on a grid, and this is the default when you open a feature set in ArcMap. However, because longitudes are closer together the further the further north you go from the Equator, the shapes of areas are flattened
Unprojected longitude and latitude is useful for diagnosing problems with data, but should not be used in any professional presentation, as it implies carelessness or ignorance of cartographic principles and standards.
Identifying Projections
While some common projections have names that are generally understood (like spherical mercator), a name is not usually enough to indicate what specific projection you want to use. For example, although the Mercator is a well known general type of projection, different Mercator projections have different parameters depending on how they wrap the world in different ways (transverse, oblique) at different places (central meridian) and using different coordinate units.
An exhaustive list of different coordinate system transformation identifiers is available at SpatialReference.org
There are three common conventions use to formally identify specific projections.
The Well-Known ID (WKID) number is an ID number commonly used to reference a projection. The European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) maintains a numbered registry of coordinate reference systems and transformations. One issue with this numbering system is that there is not a clear structure to the numbering scheme, the same projection can have different numbers, and there are different registries or authorities that use different numbers. EPSG numbers are given below in the list of suggested projections. For example, a commonly-used WGS84 / World Mercator projection is EPSG:3395
PROJ.4 is a software library used to transform between coordinate systems. There is a standard set of PROJ.4 strings used to formally specify types of projections and the parameters used with a specific projection. For example, the PROJ.4 string for the EPSG 3395 World Mercator projection (EPSG 3395) is:
+proj=merc +lon_0=0 +k=1 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs
Well-Known Text (WKT) convention is an international standard (ISO 19162) for specifying coordinate transformations. This format is much more detailed than PROJ.4 and can be difficult to read. For example, the WKT for the EPSG 3395 World Mercator projection is:
PROJCS["WGS 84 / World Mercator", GEOGCS["WGS 84", DATUM["WGS_1984", SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563, AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]], AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]], PRIMEM["Greenwich",0, AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]], UNIT["degree",0.01745329251994328, AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]], AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]], UNIT["metre",1, AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]], PROJECTION["Mercator_1SP"], PARAMETER["central_meridian",0], PARAMETER["scale_factor",1], PARAMETER["false_easting",0], PARAMETER["false_northing",0], AUTHORITY["EPSG","3395"], AXIS["Easting",EAST], AXIS["Northing",NORTH]]
Suggested Projections
There are dozens of different types of projections. When you consider that many of those projections have parameters that can be varied depending on the part of the earth you wish to focus on, the number of possible projections is infinite.
However, there are a much more limited number of projections that are commonly used. The following are some North-America-centric suggestions that can give you a good starting point in seeking an appropriate projection for your map.
World Maps
Mercator is one of the oldest and most commonly seen projections. It is a cylindrical projection devised by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) during the great age of European exploration, and as such it is conformal (preserves direction) in order to facilitate naval navigation.
The primary disadvantage of the Mercator is that it makes areas close to the poles (such as Greenland) look much larger than they really are.
A commonly used Mercator projection covering the entire world is EPSG 3395:
Spherical Mercator is a variation of the Mercator projection that mathematically represents the world as a sphere rather than an ellipsoid to make calculations easier. This is the projection used by almost all web maps. Because the world slightly flattened, this spherical representation causes the map to be inaccurate when mapping large areas closer to the poles. Spherical Mercator has had a variety of ID numbers, but EPSG: 3857 is the current standard.
The Robinson projection is a compromise projection developed by Arthur Robinson in 1964. The Robinson projection solved the "Greenland Problem" by representing the country closer to its actual size than the Mercator projection. The Robinson projection is considered by many to be visually appealing and in 1988 was adopted by the National Geographic Society for some of its world maps in place of the older Van der Grinten projection. The World Robinson projection is EPSG: 54030.
Winkel Tripel is a compromise projection devised by Oswald Winkel in 1921 that strives to represent the whole world while minimizing distortion of area, direction and distance (tripel means three in German). This is the projection used for maps by the National Geographic Society and many educational publishers. The Winkel Tripel does not have an EPSG number.
McArthur's Universal Corrective Map is one of a number of alternative projections intended to provoke viewers to critically examine assumptions about maps. It is a variant on a Mercator projection by Australian cartographer Stuart McArthur that debuted in 1979 with a reversal of north and south.
There is, of course, no geological or astrophysical reason why north should be up, and the reversal of the poles asks us to call into question the biases inherent to a traditional north-up orientation.
Large Country and Continent Maps
Albers Equal Area Conic is a common projection for maps of the continental United States that has historically been used by the United States Geological Society (USGS). It is a conic projection with two standard parallels that intersect the earth, and it preserves area while slightly distorting shape. An Albers Equal Area Conic projection commonly used for maps of North America is EPSG:102008.
Lambert Conformal Conic is another conic projection commonly used for the continental United States. While it distorts area, it preserves shapes better, and since it preserves angles (conformal) it is commonly used for aeronautical charts since a straight line on the map approximates the shortest-path great-circle distance between two points. A Lambert Conformal Conic projection commonly used for US maps with Texas in the center is EPSG:3082.
Local Maps
While projections for world or country maps are primarily focused on presentation or navigation, projections at the local level are more important for the ability to accurately find specific locations and measure distances, such as when surveying property lines or engaging in military activity.
The State Plane Coordinate System is a set of projections commonly used by local and regional governments. They are based on Lambert Conic or Transverse Mercator projections that are conformal and, therefore, can be conveniently used for calculating distance.
There are 124 different zones in different parts of the US. They can be oriented with the long side of the zone going east-west (for example, Iowa's zones are conic) or north-south (Illinois' zones are transverse Mercator).
The small size of these zones means that distortion of distance can be greatly minimized to 1 part in 10,000. You can measure a distance of two miles within around a foot of accuracy
There are a number of different versions of the State Plane Coordinate System that have been used over the past century (NAD27, NAD83, HARN, CORS96, NSRS2007), and you should choose the version most commonly used in your organization. If you have a choice and high accuracy is not an issue (such as for simple cartographic representations), the easiest option is the NAD83 variant.
ArcMap allows you to search and select from a variety of state plane coordinate systems in the coordinate reference system dialog.
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a coordinate system based on the Mercator projection and used as an alternative to latitude and longitude. It was devised by the US Army Corps of Engineeers in the 1940s to make land navigation easier and is still used as the basis for the military's Military Grid Reference System.
The world is divided into zones and the coordinates within each zone are specified in meters. Because the projection preserves distance (conformal) and the distortions of distance within small areas on a Mercator are minimal, distance calculations are easier when conducting military operations within fairly small areas.
Projections in ArcMap
- Identifying the coordinate system of a data layer (0:15)
- Geographic coordinate systems vs projected coordinate systems (0:40)
- Global projections: World Mercator and Robinson (1:40)
- USA projections: World Mercator, North American Albers Equal Area Conic, Lambert Conformal Conic (2:10)
- State Plane Coordinate System Zones (2:45)
- Displaying a subset of data: definition queries (3:15)
- Local projections and the State Plane Coordinate System (3:45)
- Setting missing coordinate system information (5:20)
Map Projections in R
Projections in R are handled by the RGDAL library and are usually specified using PROJ.4 strings that can be given as parameters to the CRS() function, and in turn used when either creating spatial objects from coordinates, or transforming the coordinates to another coordinate reference system.
The data for this example is in 2017-state-data.zip.
To get a proj4 string For R, you can search SpatialReference.org.
library(rgdal) # Load the shapefile states = readOGR(".", "2017-state-data", stringsAsFactors=F) # Select only the contiguous 48 states states = states[((states$ST != "AK") & (states$ST != "HI")),] # Transform to Albers Equal Area Conic to make cartographically proper usa_albers = CRS("+proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=37.5 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs") states = spTransform(states, usa_albers) # Plot a red-state/blue-state choropleth colors = ifelse(states$WIN2012 == "Obama", "navy", "red") plot(states, col = colors) legend(x="bottomleft", legend=c("Obama","Romney"), title="2012 US Presidential Election", pch=15, col=c("navy","red"))
The following is a list of variables with the PROJ.4 strings used in the examples of suggested projections above:
# EPSG:4326 Unprojected WGS 84 latitude and longitude # NEVER USED THIS IN A PRINT MAP wgs84 = CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs") # EPSG: 3395 World Mercator world_mercator = CRS("+proj=merc +lon_0=0 +k=1 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs") # EPSG: 3857 Spherical Mercator spherical_mercator = CRS("+proj=merc +a=6378137 +b=6378137 +lat_ts=0.0 +lon_0=0.0 +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0 +k=1.0 +units=m +nadgrids=@null +wktext +no_defs") # EPSG: 54030 World Robinson robinson = CRS("+proj=robin +lon_0=0 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs") # EPSG: 102008 North America Albers Equal Area Conic usa_albers = CRS("+proj=aea +lat_1=20 +lat_2=60 +lat_0=40 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +datum=NAD83 +units=m +no_defs") # EPSG:3082 US/Texas-Centric Lambert Conformal usa_lambert = CRS("+proj=lcc +lat_1=27.5 +lat_2=35 +lat_0=18 +lon_0=-100 +x_0=1500000 +y_0=5000000 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs") # EPSG: 32610 UTM zone 10 North (Washington state, WGS 84) utm10n = CRS("+proj=utm +zone=10 +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs") # EPSG:3692 State Plane Coordinate System - NAD 83 NRS 2007 Washington South, US feet washington = CRS("+proj=lcc +lat_1=47.33333333333334 +lat_2=45.83333333333334 +lat_0=45.33333333333334 +lon_0=-120.5 +x_0=500000.0001016001 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=us-ft +no_defs")


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Erebia gorge (Hübner, [1804])
Range: Endemic to Europe; occurs in most higher mountains from the Pyrenees to the Carpathians and the C Balkan Peninsula.
Distribution in Bulgaria: On and in the immediate vicinity of the highest peaks of Rila (Musala) and Pirin (Vihren), not below 2500 m. This species has the highest resident range of any butterfly in Bulgaria.
Habitat: Stony alpine habitats with very scant vegetation.
Bionomics: One generation flying from the end of July till September. Larval host-plants: grasses (Poaceae) (Tolman & Lewington 1997).
Conservation status: The most local Erebia in the country. As such, and despite not being directly threatened at present, it has to be considered vulnerable. IUCN category: Vulnerable. Its inclusion into the Red Data Book of Bulgaria is herewith recommended.


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Fascinating coloring book with incredible features
Author: Evgenii Kostrov
Date: 20 Apr 2017, tested on Nokia Lumia 920
Color Sprouts is a wonderful coloring book for Windows Phone thanks to which you will be able to find a very exciting activity to a bored child. Whether you are at home or somewhere on the road, it is quite a daunting task to come up with an entertainment for children. Now you will be able to do your business without thinking that the child might get somewhere or do something wrong. Just run on the coloring book called Color Sprouts on your smartphone, give it to the kid and you can enjoy the peace and tranquility.
So, the drawings available in the application catalog are made in the same style as in modern children's titles. You (or your child ) just need to select the color and the tool and then you can start creating masterpieces. By default, the key tool is the filling which can be used to paint individual sections of pictures with a single click. You only need to select the color of the paint, its type, or the landscape (more on this later) and choose the area to be filled. Sometimes just by using the filling you can create such drawings - just a lovely sight.
Palette and toolsAs a palette common paints of certain color and saturation are used as well as pearl colors with varying intensity and the aforementioned landscapes with which you can adorn pictures with real photos of parts of the sky, water, earth, grass, sand, gravel, rocks, and even a brick wall. What can come of it, you can see on the screenshots and believe us, this is not the limit. In the catalog of tools you will find a brush, a stamp (36 cute icons), a paint can (the filling), the effect of spray paint, colored marker, eraser, and the function of decorating your picture with text.
In case of making errors (there may be many of them) you can press the button with an arrow rounded to the left and undo the last action. At this, there is no limitations on the number of undos. In the bottom right of the screen there are three points the click on which will open the advanced menu. There you can reset all the changes or save the picture which later can be found in your main gallery or in the folder "Saved Pictures" when you connect your smartphone to the PC through the USB-cable.
The major schtick of the applicationIn total, the application provides 144 drawings in need of coloring and each of them can be painted many times. However, the most important feature of the program is that you can choose any image from the gallery or take a picture of anything directly from the application interface and begin coloring it.
ResumeMoreover, the most remarkable thing is that even in this case the filling mode works correctly and doesn't allow the paint to go beyond the closed borders. In general, if you wish, you can easily download the material for the coloring book from the Internet and greatly expand the application catalog. The free version has the same functionality as the paid one and the only difference between them lies in the presence/absence of advertisements.
Final ratings
Usefulness 10/10
Usability 10/10
Originality 10/10
Design 10/10


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Based in Venice, Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française now for ten years looks into French music of the late 19th century (1780-1920) and presents its rediscoveries both on CD and in concert. The foundation dedicates itself to raising forgotten and rediscovered scores and to editing them in such a way that they can be performed again. Palazzetto Bru Zane works closely with renowned labels like Ediciones Singulares, Zig Zag or Naïve that help spreading these musical treasures. In order to promote the heritage of French Romantic music, the Palazzetto Bru Zane launched Bru Zane Classical Radio, a web radio accessible throughout the world. Twenty-four hours a day, Bru Zane Classical Radio webcasts a programme consisting entirely of music and reflecting the richness and variety of the French Romantic repertory (classicalradio.bru-zane.com).
Since 2012 Palazzetto Bru Zane has been expanding its activities to the German-speaking countries. Ophelias Culture PR oversees the PR.


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Last Will and Testament of
Morgan C. Chapman
March 31, 1806 – March 10, 1878
I Morgan C. Chapman, Citizen of Linville District Rockingham County Va. do make and publish this as my last will and testament. And I first direct that after my decease, and after my body is interned in a Christian like manner and my soul is consigned to the God who gave it that if my wife Catherine shall survive me, she shall keep all my personal property that I may have at my decease, during her natural life time, except such articles as are hereby, otherwise disposed of and after her decease, my executors shall make sale of all the remainder of my personal property, except the cane mill, and the works belonging thereto, the Bay-mare some 7 or 8 years old, and the two year old colt, which are now in my possession - said cane mill and said bay Mare & colt shall be kept by my Executor for the use of the family. And the proceeds of said sale shall be used to pay for all necessary expenses and honest debts incurred by my said wife or the family at home and the remainder of the proceeds of sale, shall be equally divided between five of my children viz. Elizabeth Sherman, Dolly Sheets, John Chapman, Henry Chapman, & Laura Chapman (And my Executors shall pay five Dollars to each of my two daughters Josephine, & Isabelle Susan, - and five Dollars to each of my two grand children, Martha Rouhoofs two sons, and three dollars each to my daughter Mary Catherine Pifer's (?) four children And one hundred and fifty Dollars each to my two sons John and Henry - all of which shall be paid out and bear interest from the death of my said wife Catherine if she shall survive me, and said specified amounts shall be the entire legacy for each of my Children as above named in my estate). And my wife shall hold and accept my farm or real estate as long as she lives, and to use as much of the proceeds there of as she may need - And after her decease, my said farm on which I now reside, containing some one hundred and fifteen acres more or less I will bequeath to my two sons James M. And Jefferson D. share and share alike in the said farm, - Said mare and colt as herein named I also will and bequeath, with all their increase , to my son James as a recompense for the value of two horses I received of him, - And he to use his pleasure as to keeping or using them for the benefit of the family, - They shall be his property after my decease, And I hereby make and appoint my two sons above named, James M. Chapman and Jefferson D. Chapman as my Executors, in this my last will and testament, - Written on half a sheet of paper given under my hand and seal this 9th day of July 1877.
Morgan C. Chapman - seal
Signed sealed & delivered
in the presents of us
and in the presents
of each other
B. J. Mason
J. N. Whetzel
Daniel Myers