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Assisted Living Facilities near Palmdale, CA
Palmdale, CA Assisted Living Facilities
Palmdale Court Care Home37656 Simi Street
Pink Coral Residence39332 Kennedy Drive
Excellent Home Care II37208 27th Street East★★★★★ (1)
Miramar Board And Care6913 Miramar Lane
Rancho Vista Manor II, RCFE39258 Dunbar Street
Palmdale Senior Villa38719 37th Street East
A Touch Of Paradise38917 Kensington Way
Annabelle's Cottage3732 Vitrina Lane
Rancho Vista Manor3336 Caspian Drive
High Desert Manor II39949 West Cliff Street
Americana RCFE40558 16th St. West
Independent Enterprises36722 Rose St.
Dj's Care Home3605 Sugarloaf Court
Durando HomeIII36235 43rd Street East
H&M Care Home Corp744 Vandal Way
Lliswerry Guest Home4139 Terra Verde Drive
Durando Home II38757 37th Street East
Best Elder Care37620 Simi Street
Guinto Home Care38645 Easton Street
Ivan Banner Boarding Care39409 Daylily Place
Senior Home Care3434 Tamarisk Drive
Jw Care Home37944 Moondance Drive★★★★★ (1)
Dimel Palace37221 Newburry Place
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Palmdale assisted living communities provide those in the Palmdale, CA area a senior housing option that allows for independent living while also providing helpful assistance when needed in a senior community.
Seniors in Palmdale can move on from the responsibility of managing and maintaining one's own home and choose to live in one of the 23 Palmdale assisted living facilities that offer supervision and assistance with activities of daily living when needed.
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With summer time comes the opportunity to don on your best summer dresses, get into those flip flops, and spend some much-needed relaxation time by the beach or in the local pool. For many parents, summer is also a time where they can capitalize on the fun learning opportunities summer camp has to offer, and sign up their kids for a few weeks of socialization and educational—yet recreational—activities.
One thing that parents tend to forget that they're signing up for with summer camp is the tragic inevitability of head lice. Like schools, summer camps are also the perfect breeding ground for lice, and with so many young children working together, playing together, and living together, all it takes is a little head to head contact until you have camp-wide lice outbreak.
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There's nothing like sitting by a campfire, telling camp stories, and sharing the enthusiasm of a wholesome, fun learning experience. However, if all the kids are itching away at lice-infested scalps all the while, then that's not really anybody's idea of a good time!
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Over the last few weeks, our family has gone through a wild precursor to Christmas celebrating. Our emotions have traveled from the pits of exhaustion to the heights of inexpressible joys. You know how it is at this time of year–we hope for the perfect Christmas and somewhere in our heads, in spite of what we know is true, we keep holding tight to the ideal. Maybe it's a Hallmark or a White Christmas movie we watched as kids that planted the seeds, I'm not sure, but all I do know is that our families Christmases always seem quite memorable and far from perfection.
It was just a few weeks ago that while my husband worked twelve-hour days for seven days a week–we enjoyed a sweet visit with our Florida family. Just as they were leaving, our son and our daughter-in-love came home for a seven-day visit as my husbands' layoff began. This week, after hanging our twinkling Christmas lights upon the Christmas tree that I always hoped for–a flu hit our family. Four out of nine of us are either in it or through it and I'm bracing for illness to overcome the rest of us. As I take a deep breath this morning, I remember being in similar places in years past. It's so tempting to feel overcome by our circumstances, isn't it?. Some of us are remembering our losses, facing employment challenges, overwhelmed by winter illnesses, discouraged by unmet expectations, and giving in to depressive feelings. For me though, because I've watched God move and answer specific prayers–I can't help but feel grateful instead during another unexpected Christmas journey.
This kind of peace has much less to do with the material things and more to do with what God has patiently shown me in times past. I think back upon our years as a family and realize that some of the sweetest memories I hold are the seasons when we simply had less. Less money fueled my creativity as a new bride to collect shells from a Florida beach and create ornaments. Less space in our home prompted us to cut our Charlie Brown Christmas tree in half to make it fit in our miniature family room. Less ability to travel to celebrate with family and friends nearby now leads me to open our home and share what we do have. It's during the moments that I've shed my ideal version of Christmas that the One Christmas is really about becomes more apparent. It's easier for me to see what God values when I let go of distracting traditions that I've treasured over the years. Right now, I'm cherishing the simple things–cozy cuddles while rocking in the recliner under piles of blankets, drinking steaming tea around the kitchen table while daddy tends another project, laughing with friends and family in a family room warmed by a fires flickering glow, and gathering often with those that share a desire to praise God for His saving grace. These are all treasures that I am valuing this Christmas.
I confess, I need more gratefulness to stand guard around my heart which is prone to wander. I need to remember where God has been tender, loving, and faithful year after year. It is so good being His–nothing I could ever desire will compare to my perfect Savior Jesus Christ. He's the only everlasting gift that will never fade away and that is why I am celebrating Him and Him alone this Christmas. I hope you will find your perfect peace in Him too–now and always.
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AEGIS is proud to sponsor the University/USCG Working Meeting on Maritime Cyber Security-March 7, 2018. This is an invitation only event focused on maritime cybersecurity. This working meeting will take place at CCICADA Center, Rutgers University.
More information here: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/MaritimeCyber2018/
In a program dating back to the March 2015 Maritime Cyber Security Learning Seminar and Symposium held at CCICADA, the center has been the research lead for a university-Coast Guard initiative on maritime cyber security. In this initiative, the USCG poses research challenges and different members of the research community, primarily at universities, take on the challenges. The researchers write white papers dealing with the challenge problems. A meeting is held during which participants break into groups and discuss the white papers, offering suggestions and advice to the authors. In plenary sessions, future research challenges are discussed.
These meetings are by invitation only. Invitees come from universities, government agencies, national labs, the private sector, etc.
Here is a list of the current Research Questions to be discussed at this meeting.
Maritime Cyber Security: Research Questions for Phases IV and V:
Q1: What are the accepted/respected cyber standards in use or in-development, that could be applied to facilities and vessels?
Q1: Additional note – do the identified standards have similar lexicon and follow the NIST Framework?
Q2: Noting that the opening step will be a self-assessment, what are the skills and credentials of credible 3rd parties that the USCG can point to, that would validate cyber plans and assessments for terminals/facilities or vessels?
Q3: How can the Coast guard, or a vessel or facility operator, identify and evaluate potential synergies between cyber and physical vulnerabilities to result in a holistic security assessment – including consequence management?
Q3: Additional note – DHS has been a proponent of 'threat indicator' sharing as a way to minimize sharing of proprietary business information that would cause businesses to be unwilling to share cyber incidents with government and industry partners. How do we socialize and facilitate threat indicator sharing between the maritime industry and other industries?
Q4: What are the minimum elements for/of a cyber assessment that will address elements of vulnerability and consequence for MTSA regulated facilities and vessels?
Q5: How can regulators and industry work together to develop consensus policies that are remain relevant despite rapidly evolving technologies and threats?
Q6: Currently human-in-the-loop redundancies have prevented loss of life or damage to the marine environment as a result of cyber incidents on vessels. For instance: Dynamically positioned vessels have had computer glitches which caused drive-offs but consequences have been mitigated by professional mariners taking manual control within seconds of the drive-off and preventing collisions or emergency break-aways. Given pressures to improve efficiencies and reduce manning, are there certain redundancies, that if they were to be reduced or removed, would result in greater consequences to cyber incidents?
Event Organizers
Fred Roberts, Director of CCICADA Center at Rutgers and Event Research Chair (email@example.com)
For further information, email James Wojtowicz, CCICADA Managing Director (firstname.lastname@example.com)
DRAFT PROGRAM – subject to change
9:30am – 10:00am Registration and refreshments
10:00am – 10:15am Opening Remarks
Fred Roberts, CCICADA
10:15am-10:35am Speaker; RADM Lunday (invited)
10:35am–11:05am Six 5-minute overviews of the 'white papers' (total of six)
11:05am–11:25am Break; pick up lunch; bring it to review sessions
11:25am–1:00pm Three simultaneous white paper review sessions – participants to choose a group in advance. Questions 1, 2 or 3.
1:00pm–1:20pm Three 5-minute reports on the morning white paper review sessions plus discussion
1:20pm–3:00pm Three simultaneous white paper review sessions – participants to choose a group in advance. Questions 4, 5 and 6
3:00pm–3:15pm Break
3:15pm–3:35pm Three 5-minute reports on the morning white paper review sessions plus discussion
3:35pm–3:55pm Discussion of Next Steps
3:55pm-4:00pm Closing Remarks – Fred Roberts, CCICADA
Date/Location: March 7, 2018 – CCICADA Center, Rutgers University
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December 21, 2011
Pure Nickel MAN Alaska Exploration Update
TORONTO, Ontario. Pure Nickel Inc. (NIC: TSX) today announced results from its 2011 exploration program at the MAN project, Alaska. The MAN property is currently under a joint venture agreement with ITOCHU Corporation of Japan whereby ITOCHU can earn up to a 75% interest in the property by incurring $40 million of exploration expenditures by 2012. To date, ITOCHU has invested approximately $17 million in exploration expenditures and vested a 30% interest.
The MAN project targets Nickel (Ni) -- Copper (Cu) -- Platinum Group Element (PGE) mineralization in a series of mafic-utramafic complexes located approximately 300 km southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Four such complexes are present on the property, Alpha, Beta, Canwell and Rainy. Sulphide showings on the property have returned extremely high metal concentrations in grab samples, including 2.0% Ni, 1.3% Cu and 7.9 g/t PGE+Au+Ag from the East Rainy showing, 1.39% Ni, 0.48% Cu and 7.0 g/t PGE + Au + Ag from the Bird's Beak, and 6.7% Ni, 1.0% Cu and 1.5 g/t PGE from the Tres Equis showing. Pure Nickel Inc.'s work programs are currently focussed on identification of economic deposits of disseminated to massive Ni-Cu-PGE sulphide mineralization in the mafic-ultramafic complexes.
The 2011 work program completed 2580 metres of drilling in 11 holes a total of 151 line kilometres of detail ground magnetometer surveys, and 6.9 line kilometres of ground EM surveys. A summary of drill assay results from the 2011 drilling program are reported on the Pure Nickel website. The Company is encouraged by the results of the 2011 work program, which has led to new models for mineralization on the property, and identified several key target areas for follow-up work during the 2012 season. Interpretation of results and planning for the 2012 work program is ongoing.
The majority of exploration work completed in 2011 focussed on the Alpha complex in the central part of the property. One of the key objectives of the 2011 program was to evaluate the potential for "reef" style PGE mineralization in the Alpha complex. The possible presence of this type of mineralization was inferred from the occurrence of highly anomalous PGE values in historic drill hole FL009, 2.197 g/t Pt + Pd, completed by Nevada Star in 2003. The mineralization was associated with a distinctive gabbro/pyroxenite sequence interpreted as discrete layers in the complex. During the 2011 program, three holes targeting the potential reef successfully intersected the correct lithological sequence, but assay results did not confirm the presence of economic concentrations of PGE.
Many of the remaining drill holes targeted the basal (northern) contact of the Alpha contact, and tested possible extensions of mineralization at the Tres Equis massive sulphide showing. Due to poor drilling conditions and extensive faulting at the northern contact, the drill holes failed to intersect the contact. Despite these difficulties, encouraging results were obtained in hole PNI-058, which intersected 0.21% Cu and 0.65 % Ni over 0.91 metres.
For the first time Pure Nickel drilled on the Rainy complex in the northern part of the property. Two drill holes totalling 488 metres targeted the potential downdip continuation of the East Rainy showing, which hosts disseminated sulphide mineralization that has returned assays as detailed above from surface sampling. Hole ER-11-02 encountered disseminated sulphides at several depths, with anomalous PGE values of up to 650 ppb over 2.52 metres in drill core.
The Company also completed a mapping program on the Rainy Complex, and identified several gossanous areas at the complex's contact with the sedimentary host rocks. Grab samples from these gossanous contact rocks returned values up to 130ppb Au, 150 ppb Pt and 550ppb Pd. The gossanous zones are interpreted to reflect deposition of sulphides at the basal contact of the Rainy complex and, thus this stratigraphic interval is thought to offer significant potential for economic mineralization.
Dr. Larry Hulbert, D.Sc., P.Geo. is the designated Qualified Person for this project.
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About Pure Nickel Inc.
Pure Nickel is a mineral exploration company with a diverse collection of Nickel, Copper and Platinum Group Element exploration properties in North America. With approximately $3.1 million cash on hand and another $2.5 million to be received within 12 months, Pure Nickel is in a strong position to advance its property portfolio.
Forward Looking Statements
Some of the statements contained herein may be forward-looking statements which involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Without limitation, statements regarding potential mineralization and resources, exploration results, expectations, plans, and objectives of Pure Nickel are forward-looking statements that involve various risks. The following are important factors that could cause Pure Nickel's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements: changes in the worldwide price of mineral commodities, general market conditions, risks inherent in mineral exploration, risks associated with development, construction and mining operations, the uncertainty of future exploration activities and cash flows, and the uncertainty of access to additional capital. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events may differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Pure Nickel undertakes no obligation to update such forward-looking statements if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
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The Douglas DC-3 is a fixed-wing propeller-driven airliner. Its speed and range revolutionized air transport in the 1930s and 1940s. Its lasting impact on the airline industry and World War II makes it one of the most significant transport aircraft ever made.
The major military version was designated the C-47 Skytrain, of which more than 10,000 were produced.
Many DC-3s and converted C-47s are still used in all parts of the world.
The designation "DC" stands for "Douglas Commercial". The DC-3 was the culmination of a development effort that originated out of an inquiry from Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) to Donald Douglas. TWA's rival in transcontinental air service, United Airlines, was inaugurating service with the Boeing 247 and Boeing refused to sell any 247s to other airlines until United's order for 60 aircraft had been filled.[4] TWA asked Douglas to design and build an aircraft that would enable TWA to compete with United. Douglas' resulting design, the 1933 DC-1, was promising, and led to the DC-2 in 1934. While the DC-2 was a success, there was still room for improvement.
The DC-3 was the result of a marathon telephone call from American Airlines CEO C. R. Smith to Donald Douglas, during which Smith persuaded a reluctant Douglas to design a sleeper aircraft based on the DC-2 to replace American's Curtiss Condor II biplanes. Douglas agreed to go ahead with development only after Smith informed him of American's intention to purchase twenty aircraft. The new aircraft was engineered by a team led by chief engineer Arthur E. Raymond over the next two years, and the prototype DST (for Douglas Sleeper Transport) first flew on December 17, 1935 (the 32nd anniversary of the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina). A version with 21 passenger seats instead of the sleeping berths of the DST was also designed and given the designation DC-3. There was no prototype DC-3; the first DC-3 built followed seven DSTs off the production line and was delivered to American.[5]
The amenities of the DC-3 and DST popularized air travel in the United States. With only three refueling stops, eastbound transcontinental flights crossing the U.S. in approximately 15 hours became possible. Westbound trips took 171⁄2 hours due to prevailing headwinds—still a significant improvement over the competing Boeing 247. During an earlier era, such a trip would entail short hops in slower and shorter-range aircraft during the day, coupled with train travel overnight.[6]
A variety of radial engines were available for the DC-3 throughout the course of its development. Early-production civilian aircraft used Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9s, but later aircraft (and most military versions) used the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp which offered better high-altitude and single engine performance. Three DC-3S Super DC-3s with Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasps were built in the late 1940s.
Total production of all derivatives was 16,079.[7] More than 400 remained in commercial service in 1998. Production was as follows:
Production of civil DC-3s ceased in 1942; military versions were produced until the end of the war in 1945. In 1949, a larger, more powerful Super DC-3 was launched to positive reviews. However, the civilian market was flooded with second-hand C-47s, many of which were converted to passenger and cargo versions. As a result only three Super DC-3s were built and delivered for commercial use the following year. The prototype Super DC-3 served the US Navy with the designation YC-129 alongside 100 R4Ds that had been upgraded to the Super DC-3 specification.
From the early 1950s, some DC-3s were modified to use Rolls-Royce Dart engines, as in the Conroy Turbo Three. Other conversions featured Armstrong Siddeley Mamba and Pratt & Whitney PT6A turbines.
The Dodson International Turbo Dakota DC-3 is a conversion with an extended fuselage and with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-65AR engines fitted.[8]
The Basler BT-67 is a conversion of the DC-3/C-47. Basler refurbishes C-47s and DC-3s at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, fitting them with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67R turboprop engines, lengthening the fuselage by 40 in (100 cm) with a fuselage plug ahead of the wing and strengthening the airframe in selected areas.[9]
Braddick Specialised Air Services International PTY Ltd in South Africa is another company able to perform a Pratt & Whitney PT6 turboprop conversion of DC-3s. Over 50 DC-3/C-47s / 65ARTP / 67RTP / 67FTPs have been modified.[10]
Conroy Aircraft also made a three engine conversion with Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 called the Conroy Tri-Turbo-Three.
American Airlines inaugurated passenger service on June 26, 1936, with simultaneous flights from Newark, N.J. and Chicago, IL.[11] Early U.S. airlines like American, United, TWA and Eastern ordered over 400 DC-3s. These fleets paved the way for the modern American air travel industry, quickly replacing trains as the favored means of long-distance travel across the United States. A nonprofit group, Flagship Detroit Foundation, continues to operate the only original American Airlines Flagship DC-3 with air show and airport visits throughout the U.S.[12]
In 1936, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines received their first DC-3, which replaced the DC-2 in service from Amsterdam via Batavia (now Jakarta) to Sydney, by far the longest scheduled route in the world at the time.
The first airline in Latin America to use DC-3s was Cubana de Aviación, initially placing them in service on domestic routes, and then using them to start their first scheduled international service from Havana to Miami in 1945. This was the first scheduled service to Miami by a Latin American airline. Cubana used DC-3s on some domestic routes well into the 1960s.
Piedmont Airlines operated DC-3/C-47s from 1948 to 1963. A DC-3 painted in the representative markings of Piedmont, operated by the Carolinas Aviation Museum, was retired from flight in March 2011. Both Delta Air Lines and Continental Airlines once operated commemorative DC-3s wearing period markings.
During World War II, many civilian DC-3s were drafted for the war effort and just over 10,000 US military versions of the DC-3 were built, under the designations C-47, C-53, R4D, and Dakota. Peak production was reached in 1944, with 4,853 being delivered. The armed forces of many countries used the DC-3 and its military variants for the transport of troops, cargo, and wounded.
Licensed copies of the DC-3 were built in Japan as Showa L2D (487 aircraft) and in the USSR as the Lisunov Li-2 (4,937 aircraft)[7]
Thousands of surplus C-47s, previously operated by several air forces, were converted for civilian use after the war and became the standard equipment of almost all the world's airlines, remaining in front line service for many years. The ready availability of cheap, easily maintained ex-military C-47s, both large and fast by the standards of the day, jump-started the worldwide post-war air transport industry. While aviation in pre-war Continental Europe had used the metric system, the overwhelming dominance of C-47s and other US war-surplus types cemented the use of nautical miles, knots and feet in post-war aviation throughout the world.
Douglas developed an improved version, the Super DC-3, with more engine power, greater cargo capacity and a different wing, but with all the bargain-priced surplus aircraft available, they did not sell well in the civil aviation market. Only five were delivered, three of them to Capital Airlines. The U.S. Navy had 100 of their early R4Ds converted to Super DC-3 standard during the early 1950s as the R4D-8, later C-117D. The last U.S. Navy C-117 was retired July 12, 1976.[13] The last U.S. Marine Corps C-117, serial 50835, was retired from active service during June 1982. Several remained in service with small airlines in North and South America in 2006.[14]
A number of aircraft companies attempted to design a "DC-3 replacement" over the next three decades (including the very successful Fokker F27 Friendship), but no single type could match the versatility, rugged reliability and economy of the DC-3. It remained a significant part of air transport systems well into the 1970s.
There are still small operators with DC-3s in revenue service and as cargo aircraft. The common saying among aviation buffs and pilots is that "the only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3". The aircraft's legendary ruggedness is enshrined in the lighthearted description of the DC-3 as "a collection of parts flying in loose formation."[15] Its ability to take off and land on grass or dirt runways makes it popular in developing countries, where runways are not always paved.
Some uses of the DC-3 include aerial spraying, freight transport, passenger service, military transport, missionary flying, and sport skydiving shuttling and sightseeing.
Perhaps unique among prewar aircraft, the DC-3 is in daily use. The very large number of civil and military operators of the DC-3/C-47s and related types, means that a listing of all the airlines, air forces and other current operators is impractical. As of 2012, DC-3 #10 is still used daily for flights in Colombia.[16] Buffalo Airways, based in Canada's Northwest Territories, operates scheduled DC-3 passenger service between their main base in Yellowknife and Hay River, plus some passenger charter operations, using DC-3s. Some DC-3s are also used by the airline for cargo operations.[17]
The oldest surviving DST is N133D, the sixth Douglas Sleeper Transport built in 1936. This aircraft was delivered to American Airlines on July 12, 1936 as NC16005. The aircraft is at Shell Creek Airport (F13), Punta Gorda, Florida, where it is undergoing restoration. The aircraft will be restored back to Douglas Sleeper Transport standards, and full airworthiness.[18]
The oldest DC-3 still flying is the original American Airlines Flagship Detroit (c/n 1920, #34 off the Santa Monica production line),[19] which can be seen at airshows around the United States and is owned and operated by the nonprofit Flagship Detroit Foundation.[20]
Basic price of a new DC-3 in 1936 was around £18-23,000 and by 1960 used examples were available for £25,000.[21]
A 1943 DC-3 was installed as a major design element atop architectural renovations at The Roasterie in Kansas City, Missouri.[22]
Data from McDonnell Douglas Aircraft since 1920[1]
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Naguib Mahfouz, the Egyptian novelist, playwright and screenwriter who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature and was widely regarded as the Arab worlds foremost novelist, died yesterday in Cairo. He was 94.
Mr. Mahfouz had been hospitalized and in declining health since suffering a head injury in a fall at his home in July, Reuters and The Associated Press reported, citing Dr. Hossam Mowafi, who supervised Mr. Mahfouzs
treatment and who announced his death.
Twelve years ago, Mr. Mahfouz survived a stabbing attack near his home after Islamic fundamentalists had accused him of blasphemy.
Mr. Mahfouzs city was teeming Cairo, and his characters were its most ordinary people: civil servants and bureaucrats, grocers, shopkeepers, poor retirees, petty thieves and prostitutes, peasants and women brutalized
by tradition, a people caught in the upheavals of a nation struggling through the 20th century.
Around their tangled lives, Mr. Mahfouz chronicled the development of modern Egypt over five decades in 33 novels, 13 anthologies of short stories, several plays and 30 screenplays. The Swedish Academy of Letters hailed
his work as an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind.
Mr. Mahfouz, a slim, shy and modest man he once described himself as a fourth- or fifth-class writer was admired for his vivid depictions of modern Egypt and the social, political and religious
dilemmas of its people. Critics compared his richly detailed Cairo with the London of Dickens, the Paris of Zola and the St. Petersburg of Dostoyevsky.
He has been the only Arab writer to receive the Nobel Prize. At the time of his selection, in 1988, he was widely read in Egypt and other Arab countries but largely unknown in the United States and Europe. While many
of his works had been translated into French, Swedish and German, only about a dozen had been rendered into English, and many were out of print. Since then, his best-known novels have been published in the United
States and other English-speaking countries by Doubleday and sister companies. They include The Cairo Trilogy, widely regarded as his masterwork.
Arabic has a rich tradition in poetry, but the novel was not a strong art form until Mr. Mahfouz made it accessible. For English-language translators and readers, Arabic presents special difficulties: the dialogue sounds
overwrought, the descriptions stilted. As Brad Kessler wrote in a 1990 article for The New York Times Magazine: Mahfouz writes in the florid classical Arabic, which is roughly the equivalent of Shakespearean
Until winning his $390,000 Nobel Prize, much of which he said he gave to charities, Mr. Mahfouz had struggled financially despite the popularity of his books. For many years he supported himself and his wife, Attiyat-Allah,
and two daughters by working for government ministries. He almost never left Egypt and did not go to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize but sent his daughters, Om Kolthoum and Fatima, to accept it on his behalf.
They and his wife survive him. During the 1960s and 70s, he was the head of the State Cinema Organization, which is responsible for raising money, censorship and decisions on which movies should be made.
About 30 of his own novels and short stories were adapted, including one that won a national film prize in 1962. For his censorship work, he was often criticized by Cairo intellectuals.
Mr. Mahfouz had many enemies. Islamic fundamentalists considered some of his work blasphemous, and political opponents resented his support for Egypts peace treaty with Israel in 1979 and his earlier criticisms
of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who seized power after a 1952 coup.
Many of Mr. Mahfouzs books were banned in Arab countries, and a 1959 novel, Children of the Alley, whose theme is mans search for spiritual values, has always been blacklisted in Egypt at the
behest of the Islamic theological authorities because it portrays Muhammad as a simple, all-too-human womanizer. It also has characters based on Adam and Eve, Moses, and Jesus.
Like many Egyptian intellectuals, some of whose works have been denounced as disrespectful to Islam, Mr. Mahfouz in recent years had been put on a death list by Islamic fundamentalists who were said to be
responsible for hundreds of terrorist killings in Egypt and abroad.
In 1989 Mr. Mahfouz joined scores of literary figures in defending Salman Rushdie after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned one of his books, The Satanic Verses, as blasphemous and offered a reward for
his being killed. But in 1992, Mr. Mahfouz distanced himself from Mr. Rushdie and criticized his book as insulting to Islam, though he also said that the death threats against him were wrong.
Mr. Mahfouz was stabbed in the neck outside his apartment building in 1994. The assailant fled in a car. The authorities said the attack might have been carried out by the Islamic militants who had declared him an infidel.
The police had offered him protection, but Mr. Mahfouz, who condemned cultural terrorism by Islamic fundamentalists, refused it.
After the stabbing, however, armed guards were posted outside his apartment building, which overlooks the Nile. And though he continued to write in his later years, he did so in failing health; he was diabetic and nearly
blind, and the attack impaired his ability to hold a pen.
It also led to a more restricted life, forcing him to curtail his almost daily walks to a coffeehouse to meet friends or to an office at Al Ahram, the newspaper for which he wrote occasional columns. After the attack,
friends had him driven to their homes for weekly salons.
Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo on Dec. 11, 1911, the youngest of seven children of a civil servant. His early childhood was spent in the old citys Gamaliya quarter, the setting of many of his books, and he came
of age in an era of intense nationalist activity against British rule.
He studied Arabic literature in high school and cultivated a wide range of literary interests while studying philosophy at the University of Cairo, from which he graduated in 1932. He read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov,
Proust, Mann, Kafka and Joyce and the playwrights ONeill, Shaw, Ibsen and Strindberg.
He began writing short stories, 80 of which were published in magazines, and in 1938 he published his first collection, The Whisper of Madness. A year later, his first novel, The Games of Fate,
appeared. It was a thinly veiled allegory about the struggle against British occupation but was set in ancient Egypt to get around the censors.
After several such historical novels, he turned to a new genre, the realistic novels of the 1940s and 50s for which he is best known. The Cairo Trilogy, whose three volumes took 12
years to complete, appeared in the late 1950s and is regarded as a masterpiece of the Arabic language.
It tells the story of Egypt through the eyes of three generations of a middle-class Cairo family from World War I through the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk. Each of the volumes Palace Walk,
Palace of Desire and Sugar Street is named for a Cairo street, and the tragedies and fortunes of the family parallel the nations struggle for political independence.
Later works by Mr. Mahfouz The Thief and the Dogs (1961), Chatting on the Nile (1966) and Miramar (1967) were experimental, sometimes given to stream-of-consciousness,
and critical of either the coup that eventually made Nasser the ruler or of his dictatorial rule. Mr. Mahfouz was never jailed for these or other writings, though other writers were.
Women play important roles in many Mahfouz stories and often illuminate their inferior status in Egypt and the wrenching social changes under way. In one story, a girl exploited as a prostitute fights back; another
tells of a home where women are not even allowed to look out a window for fear of being seen, until a modern woman marries into the family and begins to demand equal rights.
Mr. Mahfouz supported President Anwar el-Sadat and the Camp David accords that led to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, and he was denounced by many of his countrymen. But he also supported the Palestinian cause, giving
a portion of his Nobel money to Palestinian charities, and his works remained popular; his Nobel Prize was welcomed throughout the Arab world.
In an interview with The New York Times in 2002, Mr. Mahfouz said he no longer feared death and no longer fretted that it would come before he had the chance to finish his work. But he sounded melancholy when enumerating
the pastimes that old age had denied him. That is the way of life, he said. You give up your pleasures one by one until there is nothing left, then you know it is time to go.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
June CD Review of the Month: The Solomon Douglas Swingtet - Live at the Legion
Solomon Douglas's Live at the Legion is an ambitious undertaking full of yummy Basie and Ellington inspiration that flies in the face of those who say Lindy Hop is moving unstoppably back to days of 1920's Hot Jazz. I had the good fortune to DJ band breaks when Solomon's Swingtet performed Splanky, Shorty George, Rockin' in Rhythm and East Saint Louis Toodle-oo (all off his new CD) at BABBLE this year and remember thinking at the time, "he's not taking the easy way out playing well known numbers that require musicians that can really bring it".
But bring it, this CD does. Eric Heveron-Smith is as solid as always, as is Peter Petersen, (whose release "Keep Your Hat On" is also tight). Honestly, I was prepared to not like the slower version of "I Needs to Bee'd With" as the Basie version from Live at the Sands is a favorite of mine. But the arrangement was quite good, even if markedly different in feel. I also appreciated that the liner notes told us which recordings Solomon based his arrangements off so I could listen side by side for comparison. I particularly enjoyed the tracks mentioned above, as well as Centerpiece and the very groovy Funk Junction.
My only complaint, and it's a small one, is that I felt like the trumpet section was, at times, a bit restrained. They came off sounding a little tentative and unsure in an otherwise driving "One O'clock Jump". In fact, "Saturday Night Function", "Singing the Blues Till Daddy Comes Home" and particularly "Buffalo Blues" were all well measured and technically proficient, but I kept wishing they would cut loose and bask in the energy of the live recording the way the rest of this album does.
Still, Live at the Legion is a very solid release and I imagine you'll be hearing a fair number of the recordings at events in the future because the sound quality is superb and the arrangements have a great thickness and complexity that give dancers a lot to play with. All in all, a very nice followup release that captures much of the excitement I felt when seeing the ensemble perform live in NYC. Great for DJ'ing, even better to throw on and listen to at home.
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Life drawing is often thought of as one of the basic skills of an artist. Life drawing is the term used to describe drawing the human body – from life (as opposed to from a photograph) using your own skills in observation. Open to individuals of all levels of experience, the figure drawing program features weekly monitored life drawing sessions. Though without formal instruction, the sessions usually develop natural discussions of technique and materials into which all are welcome to participate. The poses will be timed, with an emphasis on longer poses.
Ongoing, January 14 – June 2; no Figure Drawing February 18 or April 14.
Adrian Tans, Gallery Director at ArtisTree Gallery, is a self-taught artist living and working in Woodstock, VT. Along with his preferred large-scale oil paintings, Adrian pursues sculpture, installation work, graphic design, and many forms of nonpermanent art. In 2016 Adrian and fellow Team Vermont members placed first in the International Snow Sculpture Championships held in Brekenridge, Co. Adrian has illustrated five published children's books and is a member of the Copley Society of Art. For more information about Adrian, visit his website.


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Checklist: clothes, laptop, phone, favourite duvet, teddy bear, home-made cookies… Remedy Kit?! Moving out for the first time? Freedom, new friends, adventures, self-sufficiency, independence and experimenting with being YOU? (Oh… and classes, higher learning and new connections) You'll have heard all the stuff about learning to cook, clean; doing it your own way, and … Continue reading
We Are Stardust
Calling all Homoeopaths! Come and join us for an introduction to Astrology with particular emphasis on how astrology can enable us to identify susceptibilities and understand our(selves) and our patients more readily. Through a series of six sessions we will explore the building blocks of astrological language and symbol and give us a glimpse of … Continue reading
Homoeopathy for Home and Family
I will be offering an Introduction to Homoeopathy for the Home Series beginning on the 26th of September for six weeks. The classes will include a brief history of homoeopathy, philosophy and a more practical piece outlining the use of 36 common first aid situations. Remedies can be safely and effectively used in all sorts of cases… in … Continue reading
Spring into Clean!
We find ourselves answering an inner urge at this time of year, the return of sunny days enjoining us to clean the windows and to let in the fresh brisk air; the riot of new growth in the garden has us hustling for our shears and trowels in preparation for the promise of the next … Continue reading
Homoeopathy for the Home – Classes in Cambridge
We will be starting another Homoeopathy for the Home Class on April 9, here in Trumpington. Five-two hour classes in which we'll cover the basics of homoeopathy AND the practical application of 36 Common First Aid Remedies. We'll also touch in on the history of homoeopathy and how remedies are made. This series is designed … Continue reading
Saturday Morning Homoeopathy with Marlow
Linton Village College presents Saturday Morning Homoeopathy with Marlow with Marlow Purves BA LCH MARH Remedies for Power Surges and Other Eventualities of Menopause Homoeopathic and nutritional advice for changing times…the best is yet to come! 18 May 2013 Homoeopathy for the Nursery Common remedies for childhood ailments and practical tips for parents 25 May … Continue reading
The Gardener's Apothecary
The Gardener's Apothecary We've been waiting for such a long time and finally encouragement is coming from the garden. A few degrees warmer temperatures and a little bit of sunshine seems to be all we need to woo us into our over-wintered bits of paradise. Joyous reunions, plans for sowing, the promise of colours, scents … Continue reading
Marlow Purves, BA LCH MARH: Healer and Homeopath
Marlow has been a healer and homoeopath for over 25 years, during which time she has studied and incorporated many different tools into her practice, including astrology, Shamanic healing, hands-on healing, vibrational essences, guided meditation and healing journeys. Marlow gained a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and English Literature, a Licentiate of College of Homoeopathy, … Continue reading
DIY Homoeopathy No 3 – Pregnancy and Birthing
This Saturday, Jan 29 will see the third in the series, DIY Homoeopathy. This week we'll be looking at remedies for Pregnancy and Birthing. Pregnancy is the most dynamic time of a woman's life. The energy required to 'build' a body for a new being is monumental. Despite this, we can often feel … Continue reading


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Expendable: The Political Sacrifice of Schapelle Corby
From The Expendable Project
Introduction by Der Kosmonaut
Schapelle Corby was a 27 year old Australian tourist who in 2004 had travelled to Bali for holiday. When Corby's luggage was inspected by Indonesian Customs, 4 KG of marijuana were discovered. Corby denied she was responsible. Rather than getting legal support from the Government of Australia, the entire state apparatus launched a campaign to to keep Corby in prison. Corby was convicted and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by a Bali court.
The Australian Federal Police intentionally told lies and falsehoods to prejudice both the trial and public opinion of Corby. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation was also deployed to whip up propaganda and turn public opinion against Corby.
This excellent documentary and website has unearthed evidence not only of Corby's innocence but an entire network of drug smugglers in Australian airports with overt complicity by the police. Moreover, the documentary examines how the imprisonment of Corby was organised from Prime Minister John Howard down through every governmental department and ministry. Most damaging was that both the police and prosecutors in Australia suppressed evidence which might have led to her acquittal or charges dropped. The low point of the entire sordid affair was how the Australian Broadcasting Corporation slandered the entire Corby family even saying that her father who died of cancer was a drug dealer and user himself!
Though never mentioning Julian Assange or Wikileaks, the documentary indicates that Assange's legal problems in Europe and the US are most likely being coordinated by the Australian government and state. All of the propaganda and smear campaign led by the international news media mirrors what happened to Schapelle Corby. There are more parallels between Corby and Assanage. Corby was scarified for political expediency so that Australia could maintain critical commerical and strategic ties with Indonesia. Conversely, Australia maintains critical strategic ties with the USA. With Obama's recent visit to Australia and the announcement of more than 2,000 Marines to be stationed there, coupled with the Obama administrations witch-hunt against Assange and Bradley Manning, the Australian government has decided to abandon Assange and to do everything to prejudice him. For all the evidence and documents pertaining to the Corby case, visit http://www.expendable.tv/
Free Schapelle Corby! Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! Free Bradley Manning, Free Julian Assanage! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS WORLDWIDE!
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Post-qualifying press conference with Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
Track Interviews - Conducted by Martin Brundle
Q: Congratulations Lewis, another pole position. Take us through the lap. That was an important one wasn't it?
Lewis Hamilton: That was very important. How are you guys doing? You good? That was close. These guys have... I didn't know how close it was going to be once we got to qualifying, but once we got to the last run I knew it was quite edgy between us and that it was going to require solid laps. The first one was decent, but not good enough, and the second one was just that little better and enabled me to pull that out. You know there have been some races where I've not actually done a better time and I've had to bail out of the second lap, so I was very, very adamant that today I was going to do a better second lap, so I'm very happy with that.
Q: Just spitting rain a little bit, but any troubles out on track?
LH: No, the track has been incredible. It started out very, very green and slippery in practice three and then once we got into qualifying it was just rubbering in and it was getting faster and faster every session. The wind direction: there is a beautiful headwind going into the Esses. The Esses are just incredible; it's little bit like Maggots and Becketts. And also, there's such a big crowd here. We did a fan signing earlier and I've never seen the fans so hyped before, so it's great, but big thank you to the team and everyone here.
Q: Just very briefly: the supersofts - you had to do an extra lap, so your start tyres, are they OK?
LH: We'll see tomorrow. But the Ferraris are obviously really quick so... I just hope for better weather for everyone that's in the grandstands watching and I hope that it's an exciting race tomorrow.
Q: Thank you. Where is Sebastian? Sebastian, great lap, P2, through your Friday pain you'll start P5 of course. Take us through your qualifying session?
Sebastian Vettel: It was pretty close obviously. It's always a bit of a shame when you miss out on just that little time. I think with six hundredths you can always debate you had them somewhere in you. But I was pretty happy with the laps I had. I think it was quite tricky to get everything together. Obviously it's been dry today and better for us, but the wind was quite tricky for us but it's the same for everyone. Yeah, pretty happy. I think given the last couple of weeks that we had, pretty happy that we are back in range.
Q: Yeah, Ferrari are back on form aren't they it seems; you've found your pace again?
SV: Yeah, it seems that we are, obviously not in the wet but in the dry it seems that we are better off and I think today has been surprisingly close. I don't think we expected it to be that close, so that's good.
Q: So, some work to do in the race from P5?
SV: Yeah, I'm used to it, so I know how to do it now.
Q: Kimi, happy 39th birthday during the week, still plenty of speed there isn't there?
Kimi Raikkonen: Yeah, a little bit too slow, but I can deal with it. No, it's been a pretty positive day and for sure I think we got pretty close. It's far from ideal but I feel good with the car. We'll try tomorrow; it's going to be a long race, and nobody really knows how the tyre will survive, because of yesterday's rain, so it will be interesting.
Q: And of course you will start on the ultrasofts, unlike people around you?
KR: Yeah, not much to lose, so we'll try to make a good start and go from there and see what we can do. I think it should be OK.
Press Conference
Q: Lewis, your third pole position here at COTA - but an extremely tight battle with all three of you covered by less than a tenth of a second. Just how intense was that fight out there for you today?
LH: Clearly very intense. Naturally, going into qualifying, really wasn't sure what to expect - because basically, obviously, we were driving in the wet yesterday. And today, in practice, the Ferraris looked like they'd made some improvements, obviously. They've brought an upgrade of some sort and looks like they may have taken it off. But otherwise, anyways, we were very, very close. So, I knew it was going to take perfection and very, very neat laps to outpace them. I think James had told me, our strategist had told us it was very, very close between us all so give it everything. And I think Q1 and Q2 was fairly straightforward for us - but then once we got to Q3 it was just really about maximising, making sure on the track at the right time and not leaving a millesecond on the track. The first lap was good but obviously quite close between us all. I knew, being that I was less than a tenth, I think it was, ahead, I knew that the next lap, these guys would improve also. So, there was no room for error. And considering there's been some qualifying Q3s in the past races where I've had to bail out of the second one because it wasn't good enough, so I was very, very strict with myself today. I was like 'today, you have to make sure you pull through on that second lap', which I'm so grateful I did. Nonetheless, the team have done really great job this weekend. I think the approach for us has been very sturdy and we've not been getting ahead of ourselves. We knew that this weekend it was going to be close, and that we have to do the same due diligence and same work effort and workload as before, and yeah, this a great result. I'm so happy. It was a different feeling today, coming in. I don't know why. I don't know if I slept longer or not. I was in a different headspace going into qualifying, which is weird but it was a good one.
Q: Sebastian, Lewis is talking about how fine the margins were today. Do you feel that gap was out there anywhere, or can you not pinpoint where the gap is between the two of you?
SV: I think if it's less than a tenth, you always think probably there was a little bit left but I was pretty happy with the laps I had, to be honest and I think overall it's been a positive surprise, I guess for both of us, to see how competitive we've been today, given how far we've been behind the last events. So, I think there's probably more positives - but yeah, if you're that close, you want to be ahead, not behind.
Q: Kimi, similar question to Sebastian really, with the gaps so close. Were you happy with your run, or do you feel you left anything out there?
KR: I think if you do a few more tries then for sure that amount you can improve. It's just a very small difference somewhere, and you could be suddenly that much quicker - but this is what we got today. I think the last run was pretty good but the previous had very little grip, so then I was surprised how much on the last run I had, so obviously, when you have a bit more consistent grip it's more easy to know how much you can actually push - but yeah, it was OK.
Questions From The Floor
Q: (Scott Mitchell - Autosport) Question for Sebastian. You talked about it being a positive surprise after the last few races. Why do you think you've been able to make that step? Is it an understanding of what happened before? Do you think maybe the cooler conditions helped? And is there in any way an element of frustration to be so close to pole and obviously know that you've got the three-place penalty applied?
SV: Well, I can't change that now. Obviously, it is what it is. We went back with our car quite a long way, and it seems to work better that way.
Q: (Peter Windsor - Peterwindsor.com) Lewis, congratulations. You used the word 'perfection' there. I'm interesting to know from your perspective whether that was the perfect lap? I don't think you were purple in [sector] one but I wonder if that was a function of perfectly using the tyres for the lap?
LH: No, it wasn't a perfect lap. You know I never talk about perfect laps. Naturally, I think that's what we're all striving to achieve but it's just... there's so many parameters out there. You get out there and there's different gusts of wind every time you hit a corner. Tyre temperature differences. You know. A different heartbeat on the different bumps. There's so many different variables and you're really just on your tippy-toes the whole way, trying to catch it and grab it and utilise the grip. But anyway, for me, no, I think the first section, for some reason they're particularly quick there. I think some of that was probably in Turn One, mostly. They generally have a car that's better in corners like that. But then the rest of the lap was good. There was no mistakes. The first lap was quite good - but there was a little bit of time loss I think maybe, in the exit of... in a couple of corners. Turn 11, Turn 12. Maybe 13 and a little bit in 20 - but that second one, I was obviously able to capitalise and make sure I didn't drop the ball. So, I mean, it was a good lap but for me the highest one I have still is Singapore. But, I tell you, this track is incredible this year. It's taken another step for us. That first section, we're flat-out through Turn Two - which is easy - then Three, Four, Five, all the way into Six, and you're pretty much flat all the way into Six and halfway through Six. So the G-Force that you're pulling through there is incredible. And then you don't really have much of a lift, or much of a lift for Seven. And then you're braking down, and because there's a headwind coming from Turn 11, which hits you dead on into Eight, the cars hooked-up through there and it's really fantastic to drive. So I really enjoyed today's lap.
Q: (Christian Menath - Motorsport-Magazin.com) Looked like in Q2 with the Supersoft tyres, Ferrari had the upper hand. Lewis, are you concerned by that and Sebastian and Kimi, do you see your biggest chance in that?
LH: I'm not really sure where all the time was. They were obviously very quick. I don't think it was as big as that. What did Kimi have? It was just Sebastian, wasn't it, so it was about four tenths? Well, I just think it shows... I mean this weekend, we're pretty much on a par performance-wise, I think. As you can see in qualifying, that was the max for all of us and as Kimi said, we could go around and do some improvements, more improvements everywhere but we're pretty much dicing around the same kind of performance which, as Seb said, they've gone back on some of their potential updates and the car is better in the sweet spot and for us, we've not brought updates here so we're on max downforce level here. I think that's how it is for us all. I think that's great to see us so close and still I'm hopeful for the future to have more teams, more qualifyings like that, that are closer, but with more cars involved, that's got to be the ultimate goal for Formula One.
Q: Sebastian, do you think you've got an advantage on the supersoft tyre?
SV: No, I think he probably had a bad lap, I don't know.
LH: Me? No, it was a good lap. I don't really do bad laps too often.
SV: Yeah, so if that's the case, I will take it and we are half a second faster tomorrow on the supersofts. Thank you.
Q: And Kimi, you'll be starting on the ultrasoft. Do you think the supersoft holds an advantage or are you confident?
KR: I have what I have and I'm happy about it so we will see how it works out tomorrow. It's a bit impossible to say.
Q: (Peter Windsor - Peterwindsor.com) Lewis, when Max had his problem, did you then have to change the way you used any kerbs at all, did it affect the way you were thinking in terms of kerb strike after Verstappen's problem? You were told on the radio that he'd hit a kerb...
LH: The team were a little bit more nervous about it. I hadn't hit the kerb where he had his... Max likes to use a lot of the track as you know from history here so... but there are those big sausage kerbs at the back which... yeah, I don't know how he damaged the car there but I wasn't going over that area. I think there was another corner out of the exit of the last corner where there are those bumps also which I might have just clipped the edge of them but it wasn't really a problem but no, naturally the team were just alerting me to an issue that someone else has had so you can avoid it. But it didn't really come into my driver thoughts because I wasn't driving on those areas anyway.
Q: Sebastian, were you told of Max's problem and did that affect anything, the way you attacked the lap?
SV: Not really, but I saw it on TV and then... yeah, of course, you take action, you don't want to damage the car so I tried not to go there too much.


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The early 1930s brought another breakdown of international currency relations. A financial community already stunned by the early postwar chaos, and the Wall Street collapse, became justifiably jittery about bank deposits and currencies, as the depression spread.
Since the early 1990s, candlestick charts have been the choice of forex traders in analyzing trends and prices. If you are new to the currencies market, it will be to your benefit to become acquainted with the basics of candlestick charts.
If the gold standard era before 1914 has been viewed as the classic example of international monetary soundness, the interwar period has played the part of a nightmare, which postwar officials have been determined to avoid repeating. Payments, balances, and exchanges, gyrated chaotically in response to World War I, and The Great Depression.
After World War I, the European countries had to struggle with a legacy of inflation and political instability. Their currencies had become inconvertible during the war, since their rates of inflation were much higher than that experienced in the United States, the new financial leader.
In this setting Britain made the fateful decision to return to its prewar gold parity, achieving this rate by April 1925. Though the decision had been defended as a moral obligation, and as a sound attempt to restore international confidence in Britain's role at the center of a reviving world economy, the hindsight consensus is that bringing the pound back up to $4.86656 was a serious mistake.
It appears to have caused considerable unemployment and stagnation in the traded goods industries, as theories predicted.
France, Italy, and some other European countries, chose a more inflationary route, for complicated political reasons. A succession of French revolving-door governments was unable to cut government spending or raise taxes to shut off large budgetary deficits that had to be financed largely by printing new money. Something similar happened in Italy, both before, and immediately after, the 1922 revolution that brought Mussolini to power.
The ultimate in inflation, however, was experienced by Germany, where the money supply, prices, and the cost of foreign exchange all raised more than a trillion fold in 1922-23.
Money became totally worthless; by late 1923 not even a wheel barrowful of paper money could buy a week's groceries. The mark had to be reissued in a new series equal to the prewar dollar value, with old marks forever unredeemable.
The failure of the reputable Creditanstalt in Austria caused a run on German banks and the mark, since Germany had lent heavily to Austria. The panic soon led an attack to the pound sterling, which had been perennially weak and was now compromised by the fact that Britain had made heavy loans to the collapsing Germans.
On September 19, 1931, Britain abandoned the gold standard it had championed, letting the pound sink to its equilibrium market value. Between early 1933 and early 1934, the United States followed suit and let the dollar drop all gold value, as FDR and his advisers manipulated the price of gold in an attempt to create jobs, somehow.
What lessons do the interwar experience hold for postwar policymakers? During World War II expert opinion seemed to be that the interwar experience called for a compromise between fixed and flexible exchange rates, with emphasis on fixity.
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Argentina scored four second-half tries to secure a hard-fought 33-3 bonus-point victory over determined Georgia and make it two wins out of two in World Cup Pool D.
The Pumas were on the front foot throughout but, owing to some tremendous defending by Georgia, were only 6-3 up at half-time courtesy of two Felipe Contepomi penalties.
The second half was a different story however, and as the grizzled Georgians tired, Lucas Borges (two), Patricio Albacete and Federico Martin Aramburu – with the game's last act – went over for tries.
Contepomi, with three penalties and two conversions, grabbed a 13-point haul with Merab Kvirikashvili scoring Georgia's only points.
The first half was spent almost entirely in the Georgian half, yet the Pumas harvested just two penalties for their efforts. That was down in part to some sloppy mistakes from Marcelo Loffreda's men, but praise should go to the mighty Georgian defence, who showed an unyielding appetite throughout for head-on confrontation.
It was the eastern Europeans who took the lead, Kvirikashvili taking advantage of Contepomi's spill from the kick-off, then Argentinian indiscipline to boot a simple penalty.
They then defended for their lives, some bruising tackling helping them keep the lead for 10 minutes.
Argentina restored parity with a 12th-minute Contepomi penalty and they were glad to see Kvirikashvili miss his second attempt at a three-pointer a minute later. The Argentinians held the whip hand but they just could not break down their opponents' rearguard.
There were just three points in it at the interval but an 11-minute spell at the start of the second half decided the game.
In the 47th minute, Sale flanker Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe's show-and-go 20 metres out fooled the Georgia outside defence and he was able to set Borges free down the right flank for a score Contepomi converted. The Leinster fly-half – playing at centre here – kicked his third successful penalty to stretch the lead to 16-3 before Borges notched his second try.


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With enormous volumes of data generated every day, more and more decisions are based on data analysis and algorithms. This can bring welcome benefits, such as consistency and objectivity, but algorithms also entail great risks. A FRA focus paper looks at how the use of automation in decision making can result in, or exacerbate, discrimination.
Put simply, algorithms are sequences of commands that allow a computer to take inputs and produce outputs. Using them can speed up processes and produce more consistent results. But risks abound.
Making algorithms fair and non-discriminatory is a daunting exercise. But several steps can help move us in the right direction. These include:
- checking the quality of the data being used to build algorithms to avoid faulty algorithm 'training';
- promoting transparency – being open about the data and code used to build the algorithm, as well as the logic underlying the algorithm, and providing meaningful explanations of how it is being used. Among others, this will help individuals looking to challenge data-based decisions pursue their claims;
- carrying out impact assessments that focus on the implications for fundamental rights, including whether they may discriminate based on protected grounds, and seeing how proxy information can produce biased results;
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Many people think The Killers, who have a new album and tour, are British.
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1. Brandon Flowers sings almost all of Hot Fuss with a British accent. Just listen to the way he sings, "it's killing meh" on Mr. Brightside. Look how snooty and British the boys look in this promo shot from 2004.
2. Lots of indie pop- rock bands from the early 2000's were British, including, but not limited to: The Kaiser Chiefs, The Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, The Arctic Monkeys, Keane, and The Editors. Basically all of them.
3. Early on, Sir Elton John championed the band's music. Sir Elton is British (and a knight!)
4. Their first live album and concert movie was recorded at Royal Albert Hall.
Royal Albert Hall is, in fact, in England.
6. Brandon's iconic Dior feather jacket retired to the Hard Rock Cafe in London.
7. The British love 'em. The Killer's singles routinely top the UK charts, while in the US the singles usually peak somewhere in the bottom half of the top 50. Ironically, some of their overseas success comes from The Killer's thoroughly American representation. They sing about cowboys, America, and the desert. Europeans love that shit.
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Customers and staff of a Rubery bingo hall were left shaken when men entered the building, demanding money, yesterday evening (Sunday 16th December).
The robbery happened at around 9.15pm at Buzz Bingo (formerly Gala Bingo) in Park Way in the Great Park area, while the popular leisure venue was still open.
The two men, wearing balaclavas, entered the main hall where customers were enjoying bingo games, demanding money. One of the men threatened a staff member. He was believed to have been armed although no weapon was seen.
The pair made off with a quantity of cash.
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Three years. 3 years since I joined this place.
It feels like only yesterday I fixed up that Olympics thing...
I haven't been here for the majority of a year but I might as well celebrate it anyway, I still remember.
So why not I explain my story for the unknown ones who may not know. Or anyone just interested to hear... see... what?
My Story :D It may be long.
It started in 2011, I came across this wiki a young teenager, just having joined Sonic Fanon Wiki (leaving shortly the following year), and I wanted to join this place as well. I came across it while I was bored literally reading every detail about the Sonic characters on the Wikipedia pages. See, I wanted to know more about the Sonic series ever since 2010 when Mario (a character I loved…Read more >
Hey guys, it's been a while.
Now many of you have many questions. Some of you I know may be new (it has been more than a year since I left, even if I don't know you, I'm not surprised) but I want to explain this.
First of all my avatar why I have a pink Mario depicted in it.
Long after my leave in July 2012, I saw a Youtube channel by the name of Starman3. There was this whole community, the SM64 community. I, after a long period of time was asked to join the YTR, a group in said community full of a bunch of wonderful friends, there were so many to name. Before I joined though, from watching all the vids, I created a colour code, a set of colours that alter Mario in an SM64 ROM through the use of a code. That is my Mario in the picture, and a…Read more >
Ok, I'm not lying here. Apparently every few minutes, a large amount of the RWA's activity gets cut out. I don't know why its happening. It's just white..... seriously.Read more >
Ok, this question may or may not be interesting to you. But I'll ask my question.
In Sonic X, Knuckles apprently gets tricked 4 times total. Episode 5, Episode 25, Episodes 40-41, and Episode 56. However, in episodes 40 and 41, Knuckles doesn't directly get tricked by Eggman. And no one, not even Tails, Amy, Chris, ANYONE, knew why Sonic was tearing down the towers until he explained after his fight with Knuckles, so that explains when he got tricked(before Sonic explained to EVERYBODY the truth). My question is this
How did Knuckles get tricked in Episodes 40-41?
In Episode 5, it's simple. A direct walk-up and beg.
In Episode 25, Knuckles and Chris come, but Eggman forms a plan and tricks him on the spot.
In Episode 56, it's the same thing as …
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I don't know why people hate me. I keep getting put down just because I want to help. I really want to help, peeps.
Examples of being put down:
On chat...
MetalShadow272: Pink, please don't Mini-Mod
Me: Oh please, I was just helping.
Random users blog, his fav character one, look below my comment, I know what he says is right, but, it's another put down.
I know I've been acting a little strange lately, but I'm stressed, okay? I have so little time on the wikis because I've been pulled away. By my family and stuff.
With the chat rule, I'm only helping to enforce it. Believe me, I don't like the idea of users coming here just to chat as much as any of you do. And I was just stating an opinion on that users blog. I didn't say he had to leave, that w…
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Juliana sees her dress for the first time.
Even Muhammad Ali is excited to see the bride.
Not gonna lie. I teared up editing the next two images.
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