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Luteinizing hormone (LH) is important for both men and women. It is a hormone that leads to the production of other hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone.[1] If your LH is low, it can cause problems with fertility, which you can compensate for by using a drug that acts similarly, gonadotropin. If you're not trying to get pregnant, it's easier to replace the secondary hormones LH tells your body to produce.
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Increasing Luteinizing Hormone to Increase Fertility
1Ask about a gonadotropin treatment. When the fertility drug Clomiphene doesn't work, doctors often turn to gonadotropin treatment.[2] In women, LH is needed for ovulation, and gonadotropin acts in a similar way to LH, encouraging your body to produce the other hormones needed for ovulation.[3] In men, LH is needed to produce testosterone. Gonadotropin can act in its place, increasing testosterone and a man's sperm count, which also increases a couple's chances of conceiving.[4]
2Take human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) to produce eggs. Typically, if you're a woman, you take this treatment every day for about two weeks, and you or your partner will inject it under your skin. Once your body has responded, you stop the treatment and a doctor will monitor your follicles until they are ready for an egg to be released.[5]
3Inject human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to release eggs. When your follicles are ready, your doctor will give you an injection of hCG to tell your body it's time to release the eggs into your uterus. At that time, you can try to conceive for the next day or so.[6]
4Begin with hCG if you're a man. Men usually start with hCG. Generally, you'll have a couple of injections a week. You'll try it for about half a year. If it hasn't helped, your doctor may add hMG to your regimen.[7]
5Watch for side effects. The primary side effects of gonadotropin are swelling, irritability, restlessness, headaches, tiredness, and depression.[8] Men may also have an increase in acne, an increase in breast size, and changes in sex drive.[9]Advertisement
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Compensating for the Lack of Luteinizing Hormone
1Decide whether you need to increase the levels of LH. LH is important, but an absence of this hormone can be treated in other ways than increasing LH. That is, you can treat the effects of low LH rather than trying to increase LH levels.[10]
2Ask about estrogen replacement for women. If you are not trying to get pregnant, then the most likely treatment for you will be to take estrogen to replace what's not being produced because you are low on LH. You'll also need to take cyclic progestins to decrease your chances of developing cervical cancer.[11]
- Generally, you take estrogen and progestins in pill or patch form.[12]
3Consider testosterone replacement for men. In men, the treatment often means taking testosterone. Testosterone can be taken by young men who have a delayed onset of puberty because of low LH. It can also be taken by men who have a low sex drive or who have lost some of the defining male characteristics, such as facial hair.[13]
4Gain weight to treat anorexia nervosa. Some people develop low LH because of an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa. You should be within 15 percent of your ideal weight to stave off low LH due to an eating disorder.[16]
- If you do have an eating disorder, reach out to a medical professional. You'll likely need a team of medical professionals helping you, including your primary doctor, a psychologist or psychiatrist, and a nutritionist. Your primary doctor can help point you in the right direction.
5Treat the underlying condition. Many conditions can cause your LH to be low, such as overuse of opioids and steroids, issues with your pituitary gland, high levels of stress, long-term infections, and nutrition issues. Sometimes, treating the underlying condition will help with your LH levels.[17]
6Try D-aspartic acid. Some people have luck with taking 3 milligrams of D-aspartic acid per day. This supplement may increase the levels of LH in your body. However, only take supplements under the advice of your doctor, as anything that messes with your LH may affect your other hormones, too.[18]
7Consider chasteberry. Another supplement that may help increase your LH levels is chasteberry. This supplement may also decrease your FSH levels, though. FSH is a hormone that's important for fertility, so this supplement is likely not a good choice if you're trying to get pregnant. Ask your doctor before taking it.[19]Advertisement
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More than three decades since he was first bitten by the house bug, it is clear that Alan Hartley has lost none of his passion for the dance floor, whether he is playing to it or dancing on it.
Having fallen in love with house music the first time he heard it in a club in north west England in 1986, it would be another 10 years before he purchased his first pair of decks. But, in the time since, Alan has established himself as an eclectic DJ capable of reading and reacting to any crowd and a successful promoter creating one of the most glamorous brands of the Noughties with Twisted Elegance.
Always seeing himself as a clubber first and DJ second, Alan started out DJing in a backstreet of Liverpool at the now legendary G-Bar and the last 20 years have seen him play for some of the UK's biggest house nights, among them Garlands, Venus and Miss Moneypenny's.
As the new Millennium dawned, his flamboyant style and dynamic sets also made him the perfect booking for glamorous party brands like Chuff Chuff, Ultima and Peruvia.
In 2002 Alan turned his hand to promoting and co-founded Twisted Elegance at Manchester's Ampersand nightclub. With its glam house soundtrack, lavish production and teams of entertainers it quickly became one of the country's most popular dance floors. Indeed, in 2007, Pete Tong declared Twisted Elegance the 'new kings of glam'.
However, after five hectic years promoting, Alan decided the time was right to go back to his roots and at the end of that year he gave give up the glitter cannons to focus on DJing.
It proved to be a wise move and one which saw his DJ reach widen dramatically.
Within months he would be making his debut for Creamfields.
Booked to play the closing gig in the VIP arena at the festival's 10th anniversary in 2008, Alan left the crowd panting for more at four in the morning on a soaking wet Saturday and ensured himself repeat bookings for 2009 and 2010.
In 2011 he was asked to open the main stage at the festival, the same stage that just hours later would be taken over by none other than David Guetta.
Alan's magnetic Sunday afternoon set enticed bleary-eyed festival-goers from their tents and filled the field with close to 5,000 clubbers winning him a whole new army of fans.
Four years later Alan had the honour of opening another Creamfields main stage – this time at the brand's inaugural festival in Ibiza at Ushuaia, while this August will be his ninth time playing for Creamfields in the UK.
2011 also saw him achieve another of his dreams when he landed a set at Space, Ibiza, playing El Salon at Carl Cox's Revolution night.
Recent career highs have included playing alongside his own DJ hero, Roger Sanchez twice, and for the past three years Alan has played and managed the Love House arena at Reminisce, one of the UK's fastest-growing classics festivals as well as for the Heroes of House brand.
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Dog Olympics training: Part 2
Glove Wrestling. We have introduced this new discipline to the training schedule, in the hope that they will stop getting us to jump over the poles like a couple of show ponies. If you 'knock over' the pole enough times they eventually say "aaahh, are your old legs too tired?". Good that they missed Willow jumping over the 3 foot bench to get at that squirrel yesterday.
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I appreciate restaurants with websites – customers can find out opening hours, location, contact information and menu items with a simple click! However, what I truly adore is the accumulated excitement and curiosity piqued by each restaurant's description of why-we-should-go.
Credits to her beautiful website, my heart fluttered with anticipation for a visit to Black Sea Bakery Cafe. The sleek black/royal-purple combination conveyed a sense of style and character, crucial for a cafe's survival in the booming KW cafe scene.
Most importantly, their slogan is –
Made fresh, here.
Starting with a careful selection of ingredients, favoring natural ingredients above all; prepared inside daily under good old fashion recipes and served fresh to experience a taste hard to find around.
First Impression:
Black Sea Bakery Cafe was spaciously laid out, continuing the black/purple theme from their website. I loved the clean decor and thought the cafe was attractive and welcoming.
A wide selection of other beverages if you are not interested in coffee/tea.
I was drawn to the display case immediately, and drooled over those alluring desserts before mentally selecting
four one to order. However, I started sulking like a child when Y insisted that we should have a proper lunch before sweets.
Although our corner table provided adequate privacy, it was right beside the door and we were hit with cold wind every time someone entered or left. It was not a comfortable experience in the chilly fall.
On the Table for Maple:
- Soup of the Day ($3)
- Chicken Pesto Grilled Panini ($6.50)
- Sundried Tomato Chicken ($6.75)
It was okay, nothing too special and slightly watery. At least it was pipping hot.
Chicken pesto – oven roasted chicken breast, spiced basil-pesto house spread, and mozzarella cheese.
Sun-dried tomato chicken – oven roasted tomato chicken, sun-dried tomato house spread, and mozzarella cheese.
It was hard to swallow.
The panini was immensely dry, and homemade ciabatta bread was so tough that the crust prodded my mouth when I bit into it. A good panini should be toasty warm and moist, with every bite oozing flavour. These chicken paninis were simply not.
High hopes, higher disappointment. After the panini, I lost all interest so we decided to leave without dessert or coffee.
Lesson learnt – never judge a restaurant by it's website, or lack thereof.
If anyone had a positive experience at Black Sea Bakery Cafe, please let me know and that might persuade me to return for those beautiful cakes.
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Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism
Volume 2013, Article ID 653185, 7 pages
A Single Consumption of High Amounts of the Brazil Nuts Improves Lipid Profile of Healthy Volunteers
1Department of Chemistry, Natural and Exact Sciences Centers, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), 97105900 Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
2Department of Nutrition, Center Franciscan University (UNIFRA), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
3Clinical Laboratory Analysis, University Hospital, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
4Lutheran University of Brazil (ULBRA), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
5Department of Technology and Food and Science, Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
Received 20 April 2013; Revised 15 May 2013; Accepted 15 May 2013
Academic Editor: Cindy Davis
Copyright © 2013 Elisângela Colpo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background. This study investigates the effects of Brazil nut ingestion on serum lipid profile in healthy volunteers. Methods. Ten healthy subjects were enrolled in the study. Each subject was tested 4 times in a randomized crossover in relation to the ingestion of different serving sizes of the Brazil nut: 0, 5, 20, or 50 g. At each treatment point, peripheral blood was drawn before and at 1, 3, 6, 9, 24, and 48 hours and 5 and 30 days. Blood samples were tested for total cholesterol, high- and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c and LDL-c, resp.), triglycerides, selenium, aspartate and alanine aminotransferases, albumin, total protein, alkaline phosphatase, gamma GT, urea, creatinine, and C-reactive protein. Results. A significant increase of the plasma selenium levels was observed at 6 hours within the groups receiving the nuts. Serum LDL-c was significantly lower, whereas HDL-c was significantly higher 9 hours after the ingestion of 20 or 50 g of nuts. The biochemical parameters of liver and kidney function were not modified by ingestion of nuts. Conclusions. This study shows that the ingestion of a single serving of Brazil nut can acutely improve the serum lipid profile of healthy volunteers.


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What do you do when your pet, your best friend, is suffering and you simply can't afford the vet treatment to ease her pain? That was the dilemma facing Andrew and his beloved cat Tigga, whom he had rescued as a kitten. Luckily for both of them, Andrew came across RSPCA's Living Ruff program, through which he was able to provide Tigga with the care she needed, without the added stress of huge vet bills.
Living Ruff is one of RSPCA NSW's community programs, helping homeless pets and their people remain together while they get back on their feet, and to be as healthy and happy as they can be. These include distributing food for pets through our charity partners, providing emergency boarding for pets, and access to veterinary services.
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Michigan's unlikely dominance in congressional clout is about to take a hit.
Though the state is the country's ninth-largest by population, it is tops along with California with six committee chairmen – four Republicans in the House and two Democrats in the Senate. And the two longest-serving members of the House, Reps. John DingellJohn DingellTrump rips Michigan Rep. Dingell after Fox News appearance: 'Really pathetic!' Democratic lawmakers, 2020 candidates pay tribute to Conyers Energy efficiency cannot be a partisan issue for Washington MORE (D) and John ConyersJohn James ConyersThe Hill's 12:30 Report: Dems release first transcripts from impeachment probe witnesses Hispanic Caucus dedicates Day of the Dead altar to migrants who died in US custody Today On Rising: The media beclowns themselves on Baghdadi MORE (D), hail from Michigan and carry more than a century of congressional seniority between them.
But that will change in 2015 with the retirement of Dingell, the dean of the House, and three of the men wielding gavels in the Capitol: Reps. Dave Camp (R) and Mike Rogers (R), and Sen. Carl LevinCarl Milton LevinRemembering leaders who put country above party Strange bedfellows oppose the filibuster Listen, learn and lead: Congressional newcomers should leave the extremist tactics at home MORE (D).
"It's a loss. There's no way to sugarcoat it," said Rep. Candice Miller (R-Mich.), who as chairwoman of the House Administration Committee will rise inside the delegation. "It certainly is a loss when you lose that kind of seniority, institutional knowledge, the understanding of this place and the ability to get things done."
That Michigan had been able to amass as much power – at least at the committee level – as much larger delegations like California, New York and Texas, is remarkable even to the state's lawmakers.
"It's the great air and water that we have in Michigan," joked Rep. Bill Huizenga (R). "We're just superior."
The more serious, and simpler, explanation is longevity. While more junior lawmakers can win bids to the elected leadership, committees still run largely on the seniority system, even in the GOP where party-imposed term limits allow members to climb up the ranks a bit faster.
"We elect good people, and we keep re-electing them," explained Dingell, the 59-year House veteran who held sway over the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee for a total of 16 years before Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) ousted him in 2008.
When Huizenga first arrived in Congress in 2011, Dingell invited him to a dinner at the home of Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), then the new chairman of the Energy Committee. He was seated between Dingell and then-Rep. Dale Kildee, a Democrat who had represented Flint and Saganaw since 1977 before retiring last cycle.
"There was like 100 years of seniority sitting next to me," Huizenga recalled.
While Dingell and Levin are leaving after having served together for nearly 35 years, the retirement decisions of Camp, who heads the Ways and Means Committee, and Rogers, the Intelligence Committee chief, came as a surprise to Republicans in Michigan.
Camp, first elected in 1990, is finishing his final term as Ways and Means chairman, while Rogers, who arrived in 2001, could have served another two years as intel chairman under the Republican three-term limit.
Levin was first elected in 1978 and heads the Senate Armed Services Committee.
But there was never any grand plan to take control of so many congressional committees, Rogers said.
"Some of it is luck and timing," he said. "There was no backroom with cigars and martinis where we all said, 'Let's become powerful committee chairmen.'"
While the Michigan Republicans meet on a regular basis, the full delegation only meets when needed, members said.
The state's unifying force has always been the auto industry, a bedrock of both the state and national economy. When Congress and the Obama administration were considering a bailout for the automakers, the delegation met nearly every week.
"When it came to the auto industry, there was a perfect example of the entire Michigan delegation – Republicans, Democrats – all working together for the home team," Miller said.
All the state's congressional members last gathered to meet Mary Barra, the new head of General Motors who has come under fire for the company's delayed response to a faulty ignition switch linked to the deaths of 13 people.
And with the industry back in the spotlight, the absence of its long-time champion, Dingell, may be felt more keenly, Conyers said.
"I have to involve myself in issues I might not have gotten involved in when I was just behind John Dingell, the dean," he said. In addition to the automakers, Conyers said he would play a bigger role in antitrust law and intellectual property issues.
Lawmakers and party officials said they were confident Michigan would not lose influence in the next Congress. Darren Littell, a spokesman for the state Republican Party, said Camp and Rogers "are both savvy leaders, and they saw an opportunity to pass the torch."
While surprised at their retirements, Republicans were heartened that they decided to leave in 2014, a midterm election in which the party has a better chance of holding their seats heading into 2016, a year that may be more favorable for Democrats.
And despite the five retirements, Michigan is not losing all of its seniority, or familiar faces. Miller and Upton are expected to hold onto their gavels, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow will remain atop the Agriculture Committee if Democrats retain control of the Senate.
Levin's brother, Sander, is sticking around as the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. And Dingell's wife, Debbie -- a top powerbroker in the state in her own right -- is running to replace him.
And who would become the next dean of the House as its most senior member?
That's Conyers, the 84-year-old former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee who is now serving his 50th year in the House.
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Christmas Eve was sometimes hectic in our family, especially
those years when we lived in Dorchester, because Mom and Dad
would drive around to Mom's cousins' houses to drop off gifts for
the kids. Sometimes my sister and I went along but as we got
older and more responsible we'd stay home while the gifts run
was made.
Then there where Christmas Eves where we were all home
and spent the night wrapping presents for each other or other
relatives. I think I liked those quieter nights best.
The past two decades or so Christmas Eve is spent at my sister
and brother-in-law's house. Gifts are given out and opened and
my sister's youngest son Mike(now in his twenties) often ends
up with the handing out the gifts duties since he's the youngest
family member. Then there's food served buffet style. At that
point, I am just trying to stay awake because I've been dealing
with the last minute shoppers at the store all day and a good
meal on top of that makes me want to take a nap. And next
day I go back over for dinner.
All in all Christmas Eves over the years have been good ones,
sometimes saddened by losses of loved ones but we all enjoy
being together and relaxing after the end of the Christmas rush.
2009 Update: A new tradition began last year with the Christmas
Eve festivities moving to the home of my niece Sarah and her
husband Steve. And this year I am actually having a day off on
Christmas Eve, so I won't be so tired and sleepy!
2010 Update: Christmas Eve will be at my sister's this year and I'm
looking forward to some lasagna. I expect that Michael will be helped
with giving out gifts this year by my 2 year old grandnephew Noah!
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Nottinghamshire made a positive start to their first innings on the second morning of their Specsavers County Championship match against Lancashire at Trent Bridge.
Responding to the visitors' 276 all out, the home side reached lunch on 120-1, with Jake Libby unbeaten on 54. Steven Mullaney was the only man to be dismissed, falling for 43.
Mullaney had set the tempo by punching the first ball of the innings through midwicket for four. The bowler, Neil Wagner, had happily recovered after being struck on the helmet whilst batting on the first day.
The openers extended their partnership to 86 before Mullaney departed, chopping Kyle Jarvis onto his own stumps
Libby repeatedly worked the bowling into the leg side and brought up his 50 just before the interval, getting there from 68 deliveries, with five fours.
Lancashire had begun the day on 273-9 in their first innings, with Jarvis on 17 and Matt Parkinson unbeaten on three.
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The Albufera Nature Reserve in Valencia
The Albufera Nature Reserve in Valencia
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L'Albufera, a valuable natural area
This ancient marine gulf, evolved into a freshwater lake, is one of the most important wetlands in Spain.
This lake appears on the List of Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention). It has also been declared a Special Bird Protection Area (ZEPA). The area covered by this declaration is the Albufera lake, its wetland environment, and the coastal band or cordon (Dehesa del Saler) adjoining them. The protected territory includes part of the municipal districts of Valencia , Alfafar, Sedaví, Catarroja, Massanassa, Albal, Beniparrell, Silla, Sollana, Sueca, Cullera , Albalat de la Ribera and Algemesí. The formation of the Albufera lake occurred due to the collapse of approximately 30 kilometres of the coastal band between Valencia and Cullera. The Albufera lake has an irregular outline, with an approximate diameter of six kilometres at its widest part. It is connected to the sea by means of canals or waterways which can be opened or closed by means of floodgates to modify the volume of water in the lake. There are six small islands in the lake: the "Mata del Fang", the "Mateta de Baix", the "Mata de la Barra", the "Mata de L'Antina", the "Mata de San Roc" and the "Mata del Rey". Remains of what can be considered to be the earliest settlers have also been discovered. With regard to the activities of the local inhabitants in this area, rice farming is particularly important, and is closely linked to the survival of the Albufera, owing to the pressure to reclaim more metres of the area for farming and increase the revenues from each harvest.
Муниципальные образования
Valencia-València (Region of Valencia)
Valencia, Albal, Albalat de la Ribera, Alfafar, Algemesí, Beniparrell, Catarroja, Cullera, Massanassa, Sedaví, Silla, Sollana, Sueca
- Категория охраняемой природной территории Nature reserve
- Площадь 21000 га
Как доехать и окружение
Информация о культуре
The Dehesa del Saler separates the actual lake from the sea by a strip of sand of approximately one kilometre in length. The Albufera Nature Reserve also has another, less well-known, small lagoon at its southern end called the Bassa de Sant Llorenç (Saint Laurence's pool). This is most likely a consequence of its having been closed off by the same sandbank that isolated the Albufera lake in Valencia.
Информация о природе
The characteristic vegetation in the area is an abundance of grasslands and reed beds. In the areas where the water is permanent there are reed mace, grass meadows and reed beds.
Информация о посещении
There are two visitor centres, El Racó de l'Olla and Caballerizas, both set in the Racó de l'Olla ecological reserve, which is reached via the Palmar road.
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This three-day festival held in the capital city is one of the biggest and most important in all of Bhutan. Thousands of visitors flock to see the celebrations, which include a number of vibrant masked dance performances of religious stories and plays by Astaras, or ceremonial clowns; their jesting is said to ward off evil spirits.
This three-day festival includes a one-day public holiday and is celebrated throughout China. Traditionally observed to give thanks to the moon for the harvest, nowadays it is often referred to as Moon Cake festival and families celebrate together, eating cakes, sending up lanterns to the full moon and enjoying the festive atmosphere.
In an effort to end a plague which ravished the village of Tai Hang in the 19th century, locals performed a fire dragon dance, which miraculously did the job. To this day, the ritual is still performed - but now on a much grander scale. The dance now sees some 300 performers, 72,000 incense sticks and a 220-foot dragon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a chance for Hong Kong to boast its rich traditional Chinese heritage. Those visiting at this time will be able to sample the famous ´moon cakes´ (originating from the Yuan dynasty), witness fiery dragon parades and explore a spectacular lantern exhibition at Victoria Park.
The spectacular eleven day Ganesh Chaturthi festival honors the birth of the beloved Hindu elephant-headed god, Lord Ganesha. The start of the festival sees huge, elaborately crafted statutes of Ganesha installed in homes and podiums, which have been especially constructed and beautifully decorated. At the end of the festival, the statutes are paraded through the streets, accompanied by much singing and dancing, and then submerged in the ocean.
Also known as Mysore Dasara, this elaborate 10-day state festival takes place in Southwest India's Karnataka. The last day, Vijayadashami, is the festival's most auspicious, said to denote victory of good over evil. The festival has a long history, having celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2010.


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Balakrishna's film is not Auto Jaani: Puri Jagannadh
Puri Jagannadh's 'Rogue' will hit the screens on March 31. In this interview, the frank director talks about what can be expected from the movie. He also reveals many interesting points about Balakrishna's 101st film that he is currently directing.
What is special about 'Rogue' and why has there been delay?
We wanted to release it in December, but we later decided to arrive during summer. In 'Rogue', all the actors have done a very good job, the hero (Ishan) is a very good-looking guy and the villain Thakur Anoop Singh (he was recently seen in 'Winner' and 'S3') too has an interesting character. The film is youthful drama. We have introduced new singers as well.
Considering this is your first bi-lingual, was it a difficult task to do? Are there any changes between the Telugu and Kannada versions?
It was not difficult. It made no difference to me. Both the versions are same. Not much difference between them.
The caption 'Maro Chantigadi Prema Katha' is meant to remind 'Idiot'. How can a rogue be a Chanti?
The tag line is meant to take the film to the mass audiences. When I chose 'Idiot', the tag line 'O Chantigadi Prema Katha' was meant to let those who didn't understand the title's meaning know what kind of a film it was. That Chanti was hyperactive. But this Chanti looks more serious.
Ishan is playing a rough n tough, rash and dynamic character. I think it won't take much time for him to become a star.
The posters are targeting youngsters. Can family audiences watch 'Rogue'?
The film can be watched with the entire family. The Censor board made suggestions to remove certain small bits and we have done that.
Have you made an analysis about why some of your films have flopped recently?
Not every film can be made into a hit. I myself didn't know that 'Pokiri' would become such a big hit. It's not in our hands. There is a famous writer in Hollywood whose book on screenplay writing technique is very famous; it has been read by many writers across the world and I too have read it. Two of the films directed by that writer were flops! Theory and practice are different.
It's said that the film with Balakrishna is nothing but your earlier script of 'Auto Jani'. What is his role in the movie and is it true that the title is 'Tapori' and an item song featuring Sunny Leone is there in the movie?
It was five years ago that I first approached Balakrishna garu with the intention of making a movie with him. However, that didn't take off. In this film, he is playing a gangster. His looks will be different and it's not a dual role. The film is not 'Auto Jani'. It's one of the stories I had written.
A final decision on the title hasn't been taken. A special song involving Sunny Leone is very much there.
When are you making a film with a Mega hero?
Not with a Mega hero. I want to make a film with Megastar himself. 'Ayana okkare migilipoyaru'...
At the pre-release event, VV Vinayak compared you with Mani Ratnam for writing your films yourself. How did you feel?
Mani Ratnam garu and Balachander garu have always been my inspiration. It felt great to be compared with him.


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Disclaimer – this post was written on Friday.
The first two months of my new job at SciDev.Net have been great, more than I dared to expect. The first day ended up boozing at an Italian restaurant, and after a brief research trip to France I am now blogging from Warsaw, in Poland, where I've been following the climate negotiations of the UNFCCC (COP19).
I know I'll miss the vibe of these two weeks, but I can't stay away from London for long without being homesick. So my flight back will be bittersweet, and Sunday will mark the first day of a reflection on the profession, on my personal goals and on international politics.
For now, I want to record an interesting discussion that took place yesterday over an oversize Polish beer and a plate of salmon. During the day, the EU spokesperson showed up at the media center to brief the journalists off-the-record. Counterintuitively, I recorded the conversation, though for my own use.
Then, discussing with my new friends it turns out that one of us is firmly against the off-the-record as well as the politics of embargo on press releases. Interestingly, he maintains that the embargo is a way for PR of controlling the journalist. He also thinks that the off-the-record shouldn't exist as if a piece of information matters it should be immediately made public.
I appreciate the beauty of the ideal, radical transparency, but I don't really think it can work in the long term. Some information needs to remain in the background, or it could not only be damaging for the subjects involved, source and journalists, but also be ultimately misleading.
That said, of course one needs to judge case by case depending on what's at stake, but try to think about an ugly beast such as the climate negotiations. It's an issue that looks pretty tangled and I promise, seen from inside it is even worse. Would it be of any good to disclose every word that you hear from a politician? I think it wouldn't improve your reporting nor the public understanding of what's really going on.
Giving to politicians and NGOs representatives the possibility of talking freely provides you with perspective and enables you to ask critical questions.
Though skilled sources will try to feed to you the questions they want you to ask their opponents, I think that a good journalist may take advange of off-the-record information more often than not.
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Current Development Version on github:
VirtualBox virtual machine with a pre-configured version of Bambu running on Ubuntu-desktop 16.04 LTS 32bits – 1.64GB
VirtualBox virtual machine with a pre-configured version of Bambu running on Ubuntu-desktop 16.04 LTS 64bits- 1.61GB
Latest stable release:
August 14th, 2017 Release 0.9.5- panda-0.9.5.tar.gz.
New features introduced:
- Added support to GCC 6 and GCC 7 (GCC 4.9 is still the preferred GCC compiler).
- Added support to bitfields.
- Added support for pointers and memory operations to the Discrepancy Analysis. Reference paper: Pietro Fezzardi and Fabrizio Ferrandi, "Automated bug detection for pointers and memory accesses in High-Level Synthesis compilers", in 2016 26th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), 2016.
- Added new option: –discrepancy-only=comma,separated,list,of,function,names
Restricts the discrepancy analysis only to the functions whose name is in the list passed as argument.
- Added new option: –discrepancy-permissive-ptrs\n"
Do not trigger hard errors on pointer variables.
- added preliminary support to TASTE integration. Reference paper: M. Lattuada, F. Ferrandi, and M. Perrotin, "Computer Assisted Design and Integration of FPGA Accelerators in Aerospace Systems," in Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2016, pp. 1-11.
- Added support to OpenMP SIMD. Reference paper: M. Lattuada and F. Ferrandi, "Exploiting Vectorization in High Level Synthesis of Nested Irregular Loops," Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 75, pp. 1-14, 2017.
- Default golden reference is now input C code without any modification.
- The options –synthesize and –objectives have been removed. Now the same values passed with –objectives can
be directly passed through the option –evaluation.
- Improved the precision and the effectiveness of the Bit Value analysis and optimizations.
- Improved detection of irreducible loops.
- Improved CSE.
- Added a frontend transformations that merge some operations into FPGA LUTs.
- Now frontend explicitly introduces function calls to softfloat functions.
- Added support to block RAM with latency = 3 (–high-latency=4).
- Added bambu option –fsm-encoding=[auto,one-hot,binary].
- Added a new option: –disable-reg-init-value
Used to remove the INIT value from registers (useful for ASIC designs)
- Improved mapping of multiplications on DSPs.
- Added a GCC plugin to apply the whole program optimization starting from the topfname function instead of main function (currently only GCC 4.9 is supported).
- Added further integer division algorithms:
- non-restoring division with unrolling factor equal to 1 (–hls-div=nr1) which becomes the default division algorithm.
- non-restoring division with unrolling factor equal to 2 (–hls-div=nr2)
- align divisor shift dividend method (–hls-div=as)
- Added a specialization of the integer division working with 64bits dividend and 32bits divisor.
- Single precision floating point faithfully rounded expf and logf functions implemented following the HOTBM method published by
- Jeremie Detrey and Florent de Dinechin, "Parameterized floating-point logarithm and exponential functions for FPGAs", Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol.31,n.8, 2007, pp.537-545.
The code has been exhaustively tested and it supports subnormals.
- Single precision floating point faithfully rounded sin, cos, sincos and tan functions implemented following the HOTBM method published by
- Jeremie Detrey and Florent de Dinechin, "Floating-point Trigonometric Functions for FPGAs" FPL 2007.
The code has been exhaustively tested and it supports subnormals.
- Single precision floating point faithfully rounded sqrt function implemented following the method published by
- Florent de Dinechin, Mioara Joldes, Bogdan Pasca, Guillaume Revy: Multiplicative Square Root Algorithms for FPGAs. FPL 2010: 574-577
The code has been exhaustively tested and it supports subnormals.
- Implemented the port swapping algorithm as described in the following paper:
- Hao Cong, Song Chen and T. Yoshimura, "Port assignment for interconnect reduction in high-level synthesis," Proceedings of Technical Program of 2012 VLSI Design, Automation and Test, Hsinchu, 2012, pp. 1-4.
- Improved support to structs passed by copy.
- Improved ROM identification.
- Added a new option: –rom-duplication
Assume that read-only memories can be duplicated in case timing requires.
- Improved memory initialization.
- Added some transformations that lowered some memcpy and memset call to simple instructions.
- Improved softfloat functions for basic single and double precisions operations: sum, sub, mul and division.
Now addition and subtraction operations correctly manage operand equal to +0 and -0.
- Added three options to control which softfloat and libm libraries are used: –softfloat-subnormal, –libm-std-rounding and –soft-fp.
- Fixed builtin isnanf.
- Added double precision implementation of libm round function.
- Added __builtin_lrint, __builtin_llrint, __builtin_nearbyint to libm library.
- Fixed and improved tgamma and tgammaf function.
- Added support to parallel compilation of bambu libraries.
- Added support to the automatic configuration of newer releases of Quartus for IntelFPGAs.
- Improved verilator detection.
- Improved libicu detection.
- Improved boost filesystem macro.
- Fixed problems due to -m32 under arch linux.
- Fixed compilation problems with glpk and ubuntu 14.04.
- Fixed a problem with long double. They now have the same size of double.
- Added support to Mentor Visualizer.
- Improved components characterization and timing models.
- Extended support to VHDL.
- Now VHDL modelsim simulation uses 2008 standard.
- Extended set of synthesis scripts and synthesis results.
- Improved area reporting for Virtex4 devices.
- Improved characterization of asynchronous RAMs.
- Fixed extraction of slack delay from ISE trce and Lattice reports.
- Fixed yosys backend wr.r.t the newer Vivado releases.
- Added SLICES to the set of data collected by characterization.
- Extended set of regression tests.
Previous releases:
April 20th, 2016 – Release 0.9.4 – panda-0.9.4.tar.gz.
New features introduced:
- added support to GCC 5 (GCC 4.9 is still the default and the preferred GCC version)
- improved support to complex builtin data types
- added an initial support to "Extended Asm – Assembler Instructions with C Expression Operands". In particular, the asm instruction could be used to inline VERILOG/VHDL code in a C source description (done by extending the multiple assembler dialects feature in asm templates: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html)
- timing for combinational accelerator is now correctly estimated by the backend synthesis scripts (accelerator that takes a single cycle to complete).
- added option –serialize-memory-accesses to remove any memory access parallelization. It is mainly useful for debugging purposes.
- added option –distram-threshold to explicitly control the DISTRIBUTED/ASYNCHRONOUS RAMs inferencing.
- refactored of simulation/evaluation options
- added support to STRATIX V and STRATIX IV
- added support to Virtex4
- added support to C files for cosimulation
- added support to out of context synthesis on Altera boards
- now Lattice ECP3 is fully supported. In particular, the byte enabling feature required by some of the memories instantiated by bambu is implemented by exploiting Lattice PMI (Parameterizable Module Inferencing) library.
- improved and extended the integration of existing IPs written in Verilog/VHDL.
- added an example showing how asm could be inlined in the C source code: simple_asm
- added an example, named file_simulate, showing how open, read, write and close could be used to verify a complex design with datasets coming from a file
- added an example showing how python could be used to verify the correctness of the HLS process: python-bindings
- added MachSuite ("MachSuite: Benchmarks for Accelerator Design and Customized Architectures." – 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization.) to examples
- added benchmarks of "A Survey and Evaluation of FPGA High-Level Synthesis Tools" – IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems to examples
- added two examples showing how external IPs could be integrated in the HLS flow: IP_integration and led_example
- improved the VGA example for DE1 and ported to Nexys4 Xilinx prototyping board
- added two examples showing how it is possible to run two arcade games such as pong and breakout on a Nexys 4 prototyping board without using any processor. The two examples smoothly connect a low level controller for the VGA port plus some GPIO controllers with plain C code describing the game behavior.
- added a tutorial describing how to use bambu in designing a simple example: led_example
- refactoring of scripts for technology libraries characterization
- improved regression scripts: now panda regression consists of about 250K tests
- assertions check now have to be explicitly disabled also in release
- done port is now registered whenever it is possible
- added support to the synthesis of function pointers and to the inter-procedural resource sharing of functions (reference paper is: Marco Minutoli, Vito Giovanni Castellana, Antonino Tumeo, Fabrizio Ferrandi: Inter-procedural resource sharing in High Level Synthesis through function proxies. FPL 2015: 1-8)
- added support to speculative SDC code scheduling (controlled through option –speculative-sdc-scheduling | reference paper is: Code Transformations Based on Speculative SDC Scheduling. ICCAD 2015: 71-77)
- added two new experimental setups (BAMBU-BALANCED-MP and BAMBU-BALANCED) oriented to trade-off between area and performances; BAMBU_BALANCED-MP is the new default experimental setup
- added a discrepancy analysis to verify the correctness of the generated code (controlled through option –discrepancy | reference paper is: Pietro Fezzardi, Michele Castellana, Fabrizio Ferrandi: Trace-based automated logical debugging for high-level synthesis generated circuits. ICCD 2015: 251-258)
- added common subexpression elimination step
- reset can now be active high or active low (controlled through option –reset-level)
- added support to file IO libc functions: open, read, write and close.
- added support to assert function.
- added support to libc functions: stpcpy stpncpy strcasecmp strcasestr strcat strchr
strchrnul strcmp strcpy strcspn strdup strlen strncasecmp
strncat strncmp strncpy strndup strnlen strpbrk strrchr
strsep strspn strstr strtok bzero bcopy mempcpy
memchr memrchr rawmemchr index rindex
- improved double precision soft-float library
- added support to single and double precision complex division operations: __divsc3 __divdc3
- added preliminary support to irreducible loops
- changed the PandA hardware description license from GPL to LGPL
March 24th, 2015 – Release 0.9.3 – panda-0.9.3.tar.gz.
PandA now requires GCC 4.6 or greater to be compiled.
New features introduced:
- general improvement of performances of generated circuits
- added full support to GCC 4.9 family which is now the default
- improved retrieving of GCC alias analysis information
- added first version of VHDL backend
- added support to CycloneV
- added support to Artix7
- extended support to Virtex7 boards family
- added option –top-rtldesign-name that controls which is the function to be synthesized by the RTL backed
- it is now possible to write the testbench in C instead of using the xml file
- added a first experimental backend to yosys (yosys link )
- added examples/crc_yosys which tests yosys backend and C based testbenches
- improved Verilog testbench generation: it is now fully compliant with cycle based simulators (e.g., VERILATOR)
- added option –backend-script-extensions to pass further constraints to the RTL synthesis (e.g., pin assignment)
- added examples/VGA showing how to integrate existing HDL based IPs in a real FPGA design
- added scripts and results for CHStone synthesis of Lattice based designs
- improved support of complex numbers
- single precision soft-float functions redesigned: now –soft-float is the default and –flopoco becomes optional
- single precision floating point division implemented exploiting Goldshmidt algorithm
- improved synthesis of libm functions
- improved libm regression test
- improved architectural timing model
- improved graphviz representation of FSMs: timing information has been added
- added option –post-rescheduling to further improve the resource usage
- parameter registering is now performed and it can be controlled by using option –registered-inputs
- added a full implementation of Bit Value analysis and coupled with Value Range analysis performed by GCC
- added option –experimental-setup to control bambu defaults:
- BAMBU-PERFORMANCE-MP – multi-port performance oriented setup
- BAMBU-PERFORMANCE – single port performance oriented setup
- BAMBU-AREA-MP – multi-port area oriented setup
- BAMBU-AREA – single-port area oriented setup
- BAMBU – no specific optimizations enabled
- improved code speculation
- improved memory localization
- added option –do-not-expose-globals making possible localization of globals, as it is similarly done by some commercial tools
- added support of high latency memories and of distributed memories: zero, one and two delays memories are supported
- added option –aligned-access to drive the memory allocation towards more simple block RAM models: it can be used under some restricted assumptions (e.g., no vectorization and no structs used)
- ported the GCC algorithm which rewrites a division by a constant in adds and shifts
- added option –hls-div that maps integer divisions and modulus on a C based implementation of the Newton-Raphson algorithm
- improved technology libraries management:
- technology libraries and contraints are now managed in a independent way
- multiple technology libraries can be provided to the tool at the same time
- improved and parallelized PandA test regression infrastructure
- added support to Centos7, fedora 21, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10 distributions
- complete refactoring of output messages
Problems fixed:
- fixed problem related to Bison 2.7
- fixed reinstallation of PandA in a different folder
- fixed installation problems on systems where boost and gcc are not installed in default locations
- removed some implicit conversions from generated verilog circuits
February 12th, 2014 – Release 0.9.2 – panda-0.9.2.tar.gz.
New features introduced:
- added an initial support to GCC 4.9.0,
- stable support to GCC versions: v4.5, v4.6, v4.7 (default) and v4.8,
- added an experimental support to Verilator simulator,
- new dataflow dependency analysis for LOADs and STOREs; we now use GCC alias analysis to see if a LOAD and STORE pair or a STORE and STORE pair may conflict,
- added a frontend step that optimizes PHI nodes,
- added a frontend step that performs conditionally if conversions,
- added a frontend step that performs simple code motions,
- added a frontend step that converts if chains in a single multi-if control construct,
- added a frontend step that simplifies short circuits based control constructs,
- added a proxy-based approach to the LOADs/STOREs of statically resolved pointers,
- improved EBR inference for Lattice based devices,
- now, memory models are different for Lattice, Altera, Virtex5 and Virtex6-7 based devices,
- updated FloPoCo to a more recent version,
- now, register allocation maps storage values on registers without write enable when possible,
- added support to CentOS/Scientific Linux distributions,
- added support to ArchLinux distribution,
- added support to Ubuntu 13.10 distribution,
- now, testbenches accept a user defined error for float based computations; the error is specified in ULPs units; a Unit in the Last Place is the spacing between floating-point numbers,
- improved architectural timing model,
- added a very simple symbolic estimator of number of cycles taken by a function, it mainly covers function without loops and without unbounded operations,
- general refactoring of automatic HLS testbench generation,
- added support to libm function lceil and lceilf,
- added skip-pipe-parameter option to bambu; it is is used to select a faster pipelined unit (xilinx devices have the default equal to 1 while lattice and altera devices have the default equal to 0),
- improved memory allocation when byte-enabled write memories are not needed,
- added support to variable lenght arrays,
- added support to memalign builtin,
- added EXT_PIPELINED_BRAM memory allocation policy, bambu with this option assumes that a block ram memory is allocated outside the core (LOAD with II=1 and latency=2 and STORE with latency=1),
- added 2D matrix multiplication examples for integers and single precision floating point numbers,
- added some synthesis scripts checking bambu quality of results w.r.t. 72 single precision libm functions (e.g., sqrtf, sinf, expf, tanhf, etc.),
- added spider tool to automatically generate latex tables from bambu synthesis results,
- moved all the dot generated files into directory HLS_output/dot/. Such files (scheduling, FSM, CFG, DFG, etc) are now generated when –print-dot option is passed,
- VIVADO is now the default backend flow for Zynq based devices.
Problems fixed:
- fixed all the Bison related compilation problems,
- fixed some problems with testbench generation of 2D arrays,
- fixed configuration scripts for manually installed Boost libraries; now, we need at least Boost 1.48.0,
- fixed some problems with C pretty-printing of the internal IR,
- fixed some ISE/Vivado synthesis problems when System Verilog based model are used,
- fixed some problems with –soft-float based synthesis,
- fixed RTL-backend configuration scripts looking for tools (e.g., ISE, Vivado, Quartus and Diamond) already installed,
- fixed some problems with real-to-int and int-to-real conversions, added some explicit tests to the panda regressions.
September 17th, 2013 – Release 0.9.1 – panda-0.9.1.tar.gz.
New features introduced:
- complete support of CHSTone benchmarks synthesis and verification (link),
- better support of multi-ported memories,
- local memory exploitation,
- read-only-memory exploitation,
- support of multi-bus for parallel memory accesses,
- support of unaligned memory accesses,
- better support of pipelined resources,
- improved module binding algorithms (e.g., slack-based module binding),
- support of resource constraints through user xml file,
- support of libc primitives: memcpy, memcmp, memset and memmove,
- better support of printf primitive for RTL debugging purposes,
- support of dynamic memory allocation,
- synthesis of libm builtin primitives such as sin, cos, acosh, etc,
- better integration with FloPoCo library (FloPoCo link),
- soft-float based HW synthesis,
- support of Vivado Xilinx backend,
- support of Diamond Lattice backend,
- support of XSIM Xilinx simulator,
- synthesis and testbench generation of WISHBONE B4 Compliant Accelerators (see WB4 specs for details on the WISHBONE specification),
- synthesis of AXI4LITE Compliant Accelerators (experimental),
- inclusion of GCC regression tests to test HLS synthesis (tested HLS synthesis and RTL simulation),
- inclusion of libm regression tests to test HLS synthesis of libm (tested HLS synthesis and RTL simulation),
- support of multiple versions of GCC compiler: v4.5, v4.6 and v4.7.
- support of GCC vectorizing capability (experimental).
March 21st, 2012 – Release 0.9.0 – Build 10722 – panda-0.9.0.tar.gz.
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Selcrete™, in partnership with Sphandile Trading Enterprise has bid to secure a tender to build 100 000 residential and commercial units in the City of Ekurhuleni Municipality on the East Rand of Gauteng over the next three years. A demo unit utilising Selcrete™'s innovative building technology was handed over to a previously indigent Ekurhuleni resident today.
Designed by CMAI Architects and built using Selcrete™'s innovative panel system – comprised of their trademarked combination of cement, polystyrene and additive – using a technique proven in Scandinavia and northern Europe, provides homes with a lower risk to fire, three to four times better insulation than traditional bricks during winter and summer and is a lot more environmentally friendly. Selcrete™ blocks and panels are light weight, can be produced on site and are quick to assemble, offering this and future houses and buildings the advantage of being built faster.
The new home belongs to proud 90 year old Gogo Khumalo. Her former home in the township of Kwa Thema in Ekurhuleni, was identified as needing urgent construction during a site visit to the area earlier this year by Chief Whip of the of the City of Ekurhuleni.
The new home consists of two bedrooms; a lounge/dining room; one bathroom with a toilet, shower and basin; and a kitchen. The entire house totals 44.14 square meters. Construction took place in three phases over approximately three weeks.
Says MMC for human settlements, Lesiba Mpya: "It is humbling to finally hand over Gogo Khumalo's house. All efforts from inception to finality of the implementation of my request to build her new home utilizing alternative building technology (ABT) are greatly appreciated."
Mr. Dumisane Ntuli, Founder and the current Executive Chairman of Sphandile Trading Enterprise says: "We believe in the benefits that Selcrete™'s product can provide in terms of addressing the existing backlog of housing in South Africa. By eliminating the need to construct homes using bricks and mortar, which takes much longer, we'll be able to roll out the delivery of quality built homes far quicker and cheaper. We're excited about working together with Selcrete™ to build many more homes like Gogo Khumalo's soon."
After the successful construction of phase one of the Noluthando Day Care Centre in Khayelitsha Cape Town in 2016, Selcrete™ set out to introduce the product to other municipalities across South Africa. Should Selcrete™ and Sphandile Trading Enterprise be awarded this tender it will mean great things for solving South Africa's housing crisis.
"The current rollout is costing government more to remedy than the initial CAPEX cost of poorly constructed RDP homes. Figures in certain areas are estimated to be up to two to three times the original build cost. Selcrete™ is fully Agrément SA certified and approved, offering a better more affordable and greener solution to easing the housing backlog" says Graeme Horwood, CEO of Selcrete™.
Selcrete™ are currently in advanced discussions with Ekurhuleni, Knysna and the City of Cape Town. Further to this, the product has been introduced to Eastern Cape and KZN municipalities and negotiations with other SADC countries are underway.
About Selcrete™
Selcrete™ Building System is inspired by techniques used in Norway. Selcrete™ is a greener product compared to most others, for instance due to the use of recycled polystyrene. The blocks and panels can be made on site, and don't have to be transported which saves energy and minimises carbon emissions.
It provides better insulation meaning there is less energy needed for heating and cooling therefore lower electricity costs.
More about the Ekurhuleni housing plan:
Summary of new build using Alternative Building Technology (ABT) system:
Bedroom 1 8.84m²
Bedroom 2 * 7.89m²
Lounge / Kitchen (open plan) 13.66m²
Bathroom * 2.69m²
Passage * 1.96m²
Internal walls & voids 1.40m²
External walls & voids 6.40m²
Gross External Area: 42.00m²
Covered Entrance: 1.30m²
Gross Construction Area: 44.14m²
Press release drafted by Gwen Sparks, Enhance PR on behalf of Selcrete™. For more information about this press release, for interviews, photographs, quotes, please call Gwen on 083 443 0019.
Gwen Sparks
Enhance PR


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Bentley will present the new Continental GTC Facelift at Frankfurt Motor Show this month. The British luxury car receives a number of aesthetic changes, along with several technical improvements.
Bentley Continental GTC Facelift will be presented at this year's Auto Show in Frankfurt. In 2010, the coupe version of the Bentley Continental GT has received a facelift, so it was normal for this model also to receive some changes. These include LED lights with a design inspired by that of Mulsanne, a refreshed interior and a more powerful engine. Bentley Continental GTC's appearance is more aggressive due to aesthetic changes.
Bentley engineers have refined drive train, reducing vehicle weight and increasing rigidity, also CO2 emissions were reduced and was kept outside of the silhouette. The direction from Bentley Continental GTC Facelift is now faster and the suspension received a number of changes for more fun to drive. The gauge increased for both front and rear axle and wheel-drive system now favors the rear torque distribution. With this item, understeer was minimized in the corners approached at high speed.
The engine remains a 6.0-liter W12, which now develops 15 hp and 50 Nm more. Thus, the total is 575 hp and 700 Nm. Six-speed automatic transmission on the Bentley Continental GTC Facelift has a QuickShift function that enables faster gear changes. In standard, customers get 20″ alloy wheels, but they can opt for 21″ wheels, a first for GTC.
The Continental GTC interior has been updated and is offered with an increased range of materials including fine leather, wood trim, special metals and particular mats. In standard, customers can choose from 17 shades of leather for the interior, with six color combinations, complemented by a choice of seven types of wood trim. Bentley Continental GTC Facelift has received acoustic glass for windows, with additional panels for sound proofing.
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Time and Its Men is a monograph about the short stories and novels of Ebrahim Golestan, one of the most celebrated figures of modern Persian Literature. Golestan (b. 1922), a modernist writer, has employed various means of expression, including journalism, story-writing, film-making, photography, and translation to articulate his thoughts. He is mostly distinguished in his successful career as a filmmaker and fiction-writer. He made his literary debut with his short stories. However, not even a single book is written on his literary legacy. According to the author "in the recent half century, a lot is written on Golestan's films, both narrative and documentary, but about Golestan as a short-story writer or novelist, who is a brilliant writer, not a separable book is written. The purpose of the present book is to fill this gap (p. 9)".
The book, as the subtitle indicates, is a critical analysis of Golestan's short stories and novels. This well-organized book is divided into two sections. The first section, "Ebrahim Golestan's Life, Works, and his Style of Writing", in its turn, is subdivided into four short sections: From Shiraz to Sussex, Translations, Films, and the Language and Form of Golestan's Stories. The second section, "A Critique of his Stories," provides critical readings of his stories Azar, the Last Month of Autumn (1948), Shadow-hunting (1955), The Stream, the Wall and the Thirsty One (1967), Tide and Mist (1969), The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries or The Secrets of the Treasure of the Jinn Valley (1974), Rooster (1995). The book closes with a bibliography.
In "From Shiraz to Sussex," Asgari touches upon Golestan's literary career. He attempts to provide both the chronological order and socio-historical background of Golestan's literary career based on biographical sources including Parviz Jahed's Writing with Camera. This short section, which is highly interspersed with Golestan's ideas, is authoritative and informative.
The next part, "Translations," discusses Golestan's translations from French (From Flaubert's Letters) and English (including Shakespeare's Macbeth, Twain's Huckleberry Finn) into Persian. As far as I know this is the only piece written on Golestan's translations. It is noteworthy that Golestan was the first Iranian translator who introduced some great American novelists, like Hemingway, Faulkner, and Twain, to Persian readers.
Together with Ghafari and Mehrjui, Golestan is a founding member of the New Wave of Iranian cinema. Golestan has directed two long narrative and more than sixteen documentary films. Asgari comments on Golestan's famous narrative and documentary films as tersely as possible.
The literary works of Golestan are interesting for "their experiments in narrative techniques, sentence patterns, abandonment of linear plots, and cinematic delineation of scenes and episodes." The last section—"The Language and Form of Golestan's Stories"— is about the above-mentioned features of Golestan's works. Also, it refers to the influence of Sa'di's Bustan on Golestan's minimalism. As Asghari's critical voice is rarely heard in these short parts, they can be regarded as an introduction to the second part of the book.
The second part examines Golestan's four short story collections and his novels. They all feature a dense employment of literary language especially symbols, allegories and codes. Asgari tries to decode their furtive levels. To do so, he puts them in their historical contexts, decodes, deciphers, and analyzes them in detail. This chapter, especially the concluding section on The Ghost Valley's Treasure Mysteries and Rooster, is the most informative part of the book. The former novel is a satirical allegory and an adaptation from a scenario and the latter novella is its companion. They are both allegorical and symbolic. In addition, the Ghost's narrative is replete with imaginative uses of cinematic techniques. This section consists of Asgari's main contribution in his book.
The book is a very neatly-organized and well-documented research on Golestan's short stories and novels. The main argument of the book is to decipher the hidden levels of Golestan's stories and novels. To do so, Asgari has searched a large number of sources. Also, the critical voice of the author is echoed in different parts of the book. Therefore, the book is not only a comprehensive research on Golestan's literary works, but also a very informative one about the political atmosphere of the time.
I have, however, three concerns about the book. Firstly, it ignores the influence of the American writers, including Hemingway, Faulkner, and Twain, on Golestan's style of writing. My next concern is that it is not informed by recent scholarship about Golestan's stories that includes Abbas Milani's "The Hunter of Shadows: Golestan and Modernity", P. Sprachman's "Ebrahim Golestan's The Treasure: A Parable of Cliché and Consumption", and Amirali Nojomian's "Semiotics and the Criticism of Contemporary Fiction". Last, the book also lacks an index.
Despite these shortcomings, Time and Its Men is an instructive book and its author has succeeded in providing a new reading/understanding of Golestan's short stories and novels. This volume is useful for students and teachers alike.


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Trinity makes a point with 25 places in new admission route
A UK applicant expressed surprise at the simplicity of the CAO application system, saying he would have expected that an applicant would have to provide teachers' recommendations, predicted grades and personal statements, as is the case with the British application system, UCAS.
Unlike the UCAS system, the CAO system does not rely on such requirements.
Once applicants have met whatever specific course requirements may be required for the courses they are applying to, they are ranked in order of merit on the basis of their exam grades converted into "points", and the available places on a course are allocated in order of the applicants' scores.
A small number of courses have additional selection mechanisms, like portfolios for art and design, or aptitude tests for medicine, but the vast majority rely entirely on the Leaving Cert or other school leaving exam.
Irish Leaving Certificate applicants (or school-leaving applicants from abroad) will not know how they stand until all the results are in. Points are not set in advance.
Colleges work out "points" equivalences for school-leaving exams other than the Irish Leaving Certificate. Applicants from outside of Ireland should always contact the HEI in question.
The points system is regarded as a fair, but blunt, instrument, and one that cannot be manipulated through a "who you know" culture – a very important safeguard in a small country.
Nevertheless, there is ongoing debate on how to improve the process. Recent years have seen increased quotas for mature applicants; applicants with a FETAC qualification, and special access routes like DARE and HEAR for applicants with disability or socio-economic disadvantage.
As part of a process to establish if there is a better and a fairer way to offer college places, Trinity College Dublin is introducing a feasibility study in 2014. The university will introduce additional selection methods for some applicants to three courses: law, history, and ancient and medieval history and culture. Twenty-five places will be offered in the new admissions route.
Applicants in the feasibility study will be assessed in three ways: (1) Leaving Certificate results, (2) Relative Performance Rank (RPR) – the performance of the applicant relative to other applicants from their school; and (3) Personal and Contextual Data – provided via supplementary materials submitted by the applicant.
The information submitted will be sent to Trinity where it will be examined by professional readers, and will be presented for evaluation to an independent Admissions Review Committee.
All information, including Leaving Certificate results, will then go before a Final Review Committee consisting of internal and external representatives, where the final decision will be made about the allocation of the places.
Operating in partnership with CAO, all applications will be made completely anonymous to ensure the process is free from external influences.
Open days today: Dunboyne College of Further Education, Dunboyne, Co Meath, from 2pm-4pm. Marino College of Further Education, Marino, Dublin 3, from 11am-4pm.
Irish Independent


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U2UG Elections 2010 – Request For Comment
To the nominees in the U2UG Election, as well as the incoming President,
Let me first state that I'm extremely appreciative of the time and effort that the members of the U2UG Board have and are putting in for the benefit of the community. For a community to be sustained and grow, the community needs leaders to give it direction, to foster innovation and to support facilities that enable the community to learn, share and interact.
Without a community of active developers and product champions, a development stack will stagnate, no new solutions will emerge and hence employment opportunities for those skilled in the stack will eventually diminish.
So it makes sense that when we have the privilege of voting for community leaders, an educated decision based not only upon their credentials, but the direction they aspire to lead the community in, that we should make the most of out.
For these reasons I have a few questions for the two gentleman who have nominated for Vice President (Charles Barouch & David Jordan). Understanding the incoming President's (Laura Hirsh) thoughts on these questions would be also be beneficial.
- What do you see as the most important role of the U2UG?
- How do you see the "International User Group" supporting existing local user groups and helping establish new local user groups?
- What specifically do you think will increase the active member-base of the U2UG and how do you intend to monitor this?
- What do you think can be done to attract new developers & ISVs to U2 and where do you see the role of the U2UG in this?
- What do you hope to achieve by the end of this term if you are elected and how do you see it benefiting the community? How will you measure your success in this?
I understand this is a lot of questions to answer in the short time before the voting closes, but your answers will us understand vote exactly we are voting for.
PS: Should the two nominating for 'Member at Large' wish to answer, their thoughts would be greatly appreciated as well.


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Analytical Center held a discussion on the concept note of the Report on the economic consequences of the current situation in the field of social orphanhood.
Analytical Center is planning to conduct a research which will be the base for a report on the economic consequences of the current situation in the field of social orphanhood. Also, the Analytical Center wants to compare the budget and cost-effectiveness of different mechanisms for solving the existing problems in this sphere like: preventing children from being sent to institutions in connection with forced removal from their families of or at the request of the parents, facilitate the return of children back to their natural or foster families, improvement of institutions, socialization of graduates and parents with rights limitations, etc. The concept of such a report was presented to the expert community at the roundtable and participants discussed the possibility of obtaining the necessary data to prepare it.
First Deputy Director General of the Analytical Center Vladislav Onischenko noted that the report will include an assessment of the budgetary and economic efficiency of the current situation in the field of social orphanhood, its short, medium and long-term consequences and alternative scenarios. "We analyze the "cost to society" of one child under three financial and economic models. The first one is – "the natural family", when the child remains to live with his parents. The second one is – "the foster family", when the child is sent to a different family with partial government guarantees and without them. The third is – "institutional arrangement", in which the child is determined to live in an institution", said the First Deputy Director General. Each of the models is a variable one. Graduates from institutions and families that are at risk, including limited in parental rights are also in the focus of research.
Analytical Center expects to make recommendations to change the system. This will lead to more children growing up in families, live a healthy lifestyle, getting a good education, find employment and independence, create harmonious families and thus generate not only a positive social, but also fiscal and economic impact.
The investigation will reveal if this project will require additional budget spending in short and long-term. In the first stage, it is planned to rely on expert evaluation beside statistical data and existing analytical work.


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The advertising giant Interpublic Group of Companies is gaining a stronger foothold in Russia.
In a deal that has been brewing for years, Interpublic has acquired three Russian creative agencies from ADV, its longtime partner in the country.
Interpublic, which is based in New York, has done business in Russia for two decades through ADV, an advertising group that encompasses more than 40 agencies in countries including Russia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan. But with the deal, Interpublic will now directly own advertising agencies in one of the top global markets.
"We have wanted to own these agencies for years," said Michael I. Roth, the chairman and chief executive of Interpublic. "We have a number of global clients that operate in Russia that are very important, and it's important for us to have a relationship with our clients in the markets they compete in."
Interpublic's clients in Russia include L'Oréal and Unilever.
The other top holding companies — WPP, Omnicom Group and Publicis Groupe — also conduct business in Russia.
At the moment, relations between the United States and Russia are particularly fraught and the Russian economy is stumbling.
Last year, Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP, one of the world's biggest ad holding companies, warned that the economic sanctions imposed on Russia could threaten the advertising company's profits there.
Interpublic's media agency, Magna Global, expects industrywide ad spending to decrease 12 percent in Russia this year, largely because of economic strain in the country, according to an annual forecast released on Monday. (The company estimates that the Russian market will account for 40 percent of the $19.3 billion in ad sales in central and Eastern Europe.) Ad spending in Russia will stabilize in 2016, Magna Global predicts.
Despite the geopolitical and economic strain, Mr. Roth said that owning agencies in Russia made sense. "Our clients are still there, and they still advertise and we need to do the work," he said. "Frankly, if we weren't there, our competitors would be doing the work."
Ad holding companies have also been looking elsewhere for longer-term growth opportunities. Omnicom, for instance, announced in November that one of its divisions, DDB Worldwide, had acquired Grupo ABC, an advertising group in Brazil.
With the deal, Interpublic gains a majority stake in the Russian affiliates of three of its most well-known global creative agencies — McCann, Mullen Lowe and FCB. ADV shareholders will remain minority owners of the agencies. Financial terms were not disclosed, but a person familiar with the deal said it was valued at between $10 million and $20 million; Interpublic sets aside $150 million a year for acquisitions.
The deal will give Interpublic control over talent and management decisions at the agencies and allow the company to record revenue from its Russian operations on its own books.
ADV and the French advertising company Havas are also partners in Russia; that relationship will remain intact.


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Gurshinder Kaur, a school principal in a village near India's border with Pakistan, can catalogue a long list of local men lost to heroin, which passes across this fertile agricultural belt on its way from Afghanistan poppy fields to users in the West.
Kaur's cousin was arrested last month on smuggling charges. Another cousin, her next-door neighbour, changed over four years into a menacing, manipulative spectre, forcing his mother to provide him with money until he turned up dead one day, of an overdose.
It has become reflexive for Kaur to scan her 17-year-old's eyes every time he arrives home, searching for signs that he has tried heroin. At a family wedding, the day before, she counted four young relatives who had crossed that line. "They were there," she said. "But they had become empty."
Punjab's drug problem, which in the past years was discussed in a hush in family circles, is being trumpeted by Opposition parties this year as a full-blown social crisis. With unemployment high, and 2,30,000 men and women estimated to be dependent on opioids, an anti-incumbency wave seems likely to force the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) from power in state elections held on Saturday and clear the way for major gains by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a young political group founded to fight corruption.
In interviews in the affected region, many complained that local politicians had enriched themselves by protecting powerful smugglers from arrest, though they could offer little in the way of specific evidence.
Government statistics show that a police crackdown over the last two years has had some success in reducing the supply of heroin, and public rehabilitation centres have proliferated. But that has done little to blunt the public anger, or the human damage.
"People are very, very angry, if they come from a home where anyone is using drugs," said Dharminder Singh, 22, who said he planned to vote for the Aam Aadmi Party. He said he was so unnerved by watching the deterioration of one of his uncles, a small-town shopkeeper who is injecting heroin, that he had decided to move to Canada.
"I am going from here because of the drugs, to get away," he said. "I am afraid. If one time you will taste it, then you will not be able to stop."
Emotions run particularly high in the district of Tarn Taran, where every morning solitary farmers fan out through a border security fence to mist-shrouded cropland along the 60-mile border with Pakistan.
In years past, smuggling networks moved gold bullion and weaponry into India to feed a militant Sikh insurgency; those pathways became the basis for a drug trafficking route, using villagers as couriers.
The smugglers throw parcels of heroin across the border in bottles, or enlist farmers to carry the drugs after pushing the parcels into long plastic pipes using a wire, said Faiyyaz Farooqui, a counterintelligence official in the Punjab police.
Once, after a farmer explained that he had to remove a tree, police found that logs had been hollowed out to conceal a large shipment of heroin. Among those recently arrested is Baldev Singh, 48, a farmer from the village of Rajoke, who was caught with more than 1 pound of heroin, worth more than $370,000 on the international market, in the speaker box of his tractor's stereo.
Singh's relatives describe him as so poorly educated that he cannot read a clock. His wife, Sharanjit Kaur, said a stranger had offered him Rs 20,000 to pick up the parcels of heroin. "He is a simple man," she said. "He is not very greedy. It's just that on that occasion, he was trapped."
The arrests of Singh and a younger cousin, Pargat, have infuriated their relatives, who say they face prosecution only because they are so poor. "The big fishes have lots of money, so they pay the money and they get out of it. The politicians protect them," said Iqbal Singh, 70, Pargat's father. "The small people, they get arrested."
Equally maddening, to many, is the fact that many in the governing party deny that drugs are a problem. In Rajoke's tiny police outpost, less than 1 mile from Baldev Singh's house, the head constable, Jarnail Singh, said he had not heard a single complaint about drug use or trafficking in his six months of service.
Jasbir Singh, leader of the SAD in Rajoke, said no drug smuggling or use had occurred in Rajoke in the last 10 years. "This is a big myth," he said.
Relative success
Virsa Singh Valtoha, a legislator in the Tarn Taran district, was more measured, saying Punjab had made progress in controlling the problem. "We took tough measures against it," he said. "Nobody was spared. Now the problem is very less. I won't say that it is totally finished."
Some voters said they would stick with the SAD because, they reasoned, the opposition would be no less corrupt. Ranjit Singh, 32, said he believed that smugglers had received protection from Akali Dal legislators when they faced arrest, and that the legislators relied on the cartels in exchange for votes and cash assistance. "We need a messiah," he said.
For now, families are moving on without loved ones lost to drugs. Sumandeep Kaur, a pale, straight-backed woman of 24, was three months into her arranged marriage when she realised that her husband, from a prosperous farming family in Rajoke, had resumed using heroin.
His drug friends would begin calling him first thing in the morning, she said. She would beg him, and berate him, but he went anyway. "For one or two days, he would ignore them, but they would say, 'Come on, come on,' and he would start again," said Kaur, who grew up in Amritsar, Punjab's major city.
"We were pulling from this side, and they were pulling from that side." He died of an overdose 19 days before the birth of their son, who is now 5.


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Movie Fridays
Start a weekly family tradition.Make Fridays special by turning them into movie night. Make special kid fare like frozen pizzas, chicken fingers, hamburgers or nachos, then check the TV listings to see if there are any good family-oriented movies that the kids have yet to see. If not, rent one from the local video store, or plan to buy one on pay-per-view, if you have that option. Pop some popcorn and settle in for a fun family night!
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Sunday, January 7th, 2018
Monday, July 3rd, 2017
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
You are on a website. There are exits to the north, south, east and west.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
A day without Javascript
Charlie conducts an experiment by living without JavaScript for a day.
So how was it? Well, with just a few minutes of sans-javascript life under my belt, my first impression was "Holy shit, things are fast without javascript". There's no ads. There's no video loading at random times. There's no sudden interrupts by "DO YOU WANT TO FUCKING SUBSCRIBE?" modals.
As you might expect, lots of sites just don't work, but there are plenty of sites that work just fine—Google search, Amazon, Wikipedia, BBC News, The New York Times. Not bad!
Friday, May 12th, 2017
Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
I think this might be the first large-scale practical demonstration of the InterPlanetary File System: routing around the damage of Turkey's censorship of Wikipedia.
Sunday, October 16th, 2016
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia
Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note.
Thursday, March 24th, 2016
Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism | Motherboard
The street finds its own uses for colonial internet practices:
Because the data is completely free, Angolans are hiding large files in Wikipedia articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia site (Angola is a former Portuguese colony)—sometimes concealing movies in JPEG or PDF files. They're then using a Facebook group to direct people to those files, creating a robust, completely free file sharing network.
Monday, October 12th, 2015
Histography - Timeline of History
A nice navigable timeline of historical events from Wikipedia.
Friday, August 30th, 2013
Hatnote Listen to Wikipedia
Wikipedia edits converted into Eno-esque sound.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013
Nearby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I sense the hand of Tom Morris in this. Wikipedia has created a "nearby" page for browsers with geolocation, much like the Wikinear mashup that Simon created with Fire Eagle five years ago.
Monday, June 18th, 2012
Mick O'Pedia: Bejaysis, ye can look up all kinds o' shite now
Sure, this is a bleedin' one-to-one copy of feckin' Wikipedia. Give it an aul' spin.
Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Athena - MediaWiki
Documentation of an ongoing project to create a mobile-first responsive MediaWiki theme.
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Play me off
One of the fun fringe events at Build in Belfast was The Standardistas' Open Book Exam:
Unlike the typical quiz, the Open Book Exam demands the use of iPhones, iPads, Androids—even Zunes—to avail of the internet's wealth of knowledge, required to answer many of the formidable questions.
Team Clearleft came joint third. Initially it was joint fourth but an obstreperous Andy Budd challenged the scoring.
Now one of the principles of this unusual pub quiz was that cheating was encouraged. Hence the encouragement to use internet-enabled devices to get to Google and Wikipedia as quickly as the network would allow. In that spirit, Andy suggested a strategy of "running interference."
So while others on the team were taking information from the web, I created a Wikipedia account to add misinformation to the web.
Again, let me stress, this was entirely Andy's idea.
The town of Clover, South Carolina ceased being twinned Larne and became twinned with Belfast instead.
The world's largest roller coaster become 465 feet tall instead of its previous 456 feet (requiring a corresponding change to a list page).
But the moment I changed the entry for Keyboard Cat to alter its real name from "Fatso" to "Freddy" …BAM! Instant revert.
You can mess with geography. You can mess with measurements. But you do. Not. Mess. With. Keyboard Cat.
For some good clean Wikipedia fun, you can always try wiki racing:
To Wikirace, first select a page off the top of your head. Using "Random page" works well, as well as the featured article of the day. This will be your beginning page. Next choose a destination page. Generally, this destination page is something very unrelated to the beginning page. For example, going from apple to orange would not be challenging, as you would simply start at the apple page, click a wikilink to fruit and then proceed to orange. A race from Jesus Christ to Subway (restaurant) would be more of a challenge, however. For a true test of skill, attempt Roman Colosseum to Orthographic projection.
Then there's the simple pleasure of getting to Philosophy:
Some Wikipedia readers have observed that clicking on the first link in the main text of a Wikipedia article, and then repeating the process for subsequent articles, usually eventually gets you to the Philosophy article.
Seriously. Try it.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
Wikipedia:List of articles with doomed BBC links - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read it and weep. Here are the articles on Wikipedia that reference URLs that are getting axed as part of the BBC's upcoming cull.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
[Citation Needed]
What a wonderful idea for a blog: "Collecting Wikipedia's finest [citation needed] prose."
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Link Rot « The Bygone Bureau
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O'Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of "the cloud." The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
Monday, January 24th, 2011
A History of the World in 100 Seconds on Vimeo
A gorgeous visualisation of Wikipedia data from History Hack Day. Watch the shape of the world emerge over time.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Notabilia – Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia
Visualisations of the history of controversial Wikipedia articles.
Friday, September 17th, 2010
The Story Behind a Wikipedia Entry - NYTimes.com
James Bridle's dConstruct artefact is in the New York Times.
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Six degrees of separation as applied to Wikipedia articles. Read on to find the Kevin Bacon of Wikipedia pages.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
A Cederholm-designed site for tracking trends on Wikipedia. Check out the HTML5-based class names.
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