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SYDNEY, Nov. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Australian Forex provider Vantage FX has launched an exclusive closed beta-test of their new Vantage FX WebTrader Platform to a select group of traders. The new Vantage FX WebTrader platform is an improved version of their original WebTrader platform, which was discontinued earlier in the year by Vantage FX and various other brokers such as Alpari, GO Markets and Axitrader following third party provider Xogee's dispute with MetaQuotes.
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The Motorcycle segment lost sales volume but increased market share.
The US is third in markets behind Germany and Italy but lump Europe together and we are a distant second.
LT lovers take heart. The report comes out and says there will be a new LT six cylinder in the near future. Not dates but it is the first time BMW has mentioned it in one of its reports.
Six cylinders may not be limited only to the LT appears to be the hint in the announcement.
The Motorcycle segment made money. Not much on a percentage basis but it was profitable in a horrid market.
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International motorcycle markets contracted on average by roughly on third in 2009. Despite this difficult environment, we were still able to sell 87,30 BMW motorcycles worldwide (-14.1%) convincingly outperforming the market as a whole.
The Motorcycles segment generated revenues totaling euro 1,069 million in 2009, 13.1% down on the previous year. The difficult market environment in 2009 pushed down EBIT by 68.3% to euro 19 million, with profit before tax falling to euro 11 million (-78.4%)
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Motorcycle markets in 2009
Developments on international motorcycle markets in 2009 were largely shaped by the knock-on effects of the international economic and financial crisis. Worldwide motorcycle sales in the 500cc plus segment were down by almost one third (-30.3%) against the previous year. The number sold in Europe fell by 21.9% with all countries registering negative rates. While the decrease in France (-9.1%) and the United Kingdon (-10.3) were relatively moderate volumes in Spain (-55.2%), Italy (-21.7) and Germany (-16.7) were well down on those of the previous year.
The decline in sales in the USA ÔÇô the largest market for motorcycles in the 500cc plus segment ÔÇô was particularly steep at -40.9%. The Japanese market also failed to reach previous figures (-17.1%)ÔÇØ
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Motorcycle sales down on previous year
The number of BMW motorcycles sold in 2009 fell to 87,306 units worldwide (-14.1%) in a difficult market environment. Despite the adverse conditions, the Motorcycles segment was nevertheless able to improve its position and gain market share on all fronts, reflecting the fact that the drop in sales volume of BMW motorcycles was much less pronounced than the overall contraction of the markets in which we operate. A major contribution to this performance came from the K1300 R, K1300S and the K1300GT models which have been available to customers since February, and from the F800R, on sale since May 2009.
Lower sales volumes registered on most markets
In total 61,178 BMW motorcycles were handed over to customers in Europe in 2009, a decrease of 16.3%. In Germany, currently the largest single market for BMW motorcycles, we were able to maintain market leadership with 15,375 units sold (-17.2%). Sales in France (7,014 units/-14.6%), Italy (13,162/-12.5%) and Spain (6,457 units/-36.4%) were all down on the previous year. In the United Kingdom, however, sales increased by 4.3% to 5,859 units despite a generally contracting market.
The number of motorcycles sold in 2009 fell by 20.9% to 9.191 units in the USA and 6.3% to 2,825 in Japan.
Model range expanded
The expansion of the model range in 2009 helped to cushion the impact of adverse business conditions for the Motorcycles segment. The K1300R, K1300S and K1300GT models were shipped to dealers for the first time in February 2009. The F800R and the special R1200GS, R1200R and R1200Rt models (launched to coincide with the 15th anniversary of four-valve boxer engines) followed in the period from May onwards. The S1000RR (based on the racing version) was launched in December. A technical update of the R1200GS and a model revision of the R1200RT were presented at the International Motorcycle Exhibition (EICMA) in Milan. A BMW motorcycle with a six-cylinder engine ÔÇô Concept 6 ÔÇô was also unveiled for the first time. This concept study shows that a straight six-cylinder engine can be highly dynamic thanks to state-of-the-art design and engineering methods. The K model range will be expanded in the foreseeable future by the addition of the new BMW six-cylinder version. The first series production model will also be an innovative and luxurious BMW touring bike.
BMW motorcycles in 2009 ÔÇô analysis by series
R Series ÔÇô 45.9
F Series ÔÇô 38.4
K Series ÔÇô 15.7
Motorcycle production selectively reduced in response to drop in demand
We also selectively adapted motorcycle production volumes in 2009 to match the sharp decline in demand. In total, 82,631 motorcycles (-20.7%) were manufactured over the course of the year. During the year under report, our Berlin plant celebrated its 40th year as a production site for BMW motorcycles. During this period almost 1.9 million BMW motorcycles came off the production lines. The one millionth BMW motorcycle equipped with ABS left the Spandau plant in summer 2009. Twenty-one years agao we were the first motorcycle manufacturer worldwide to equip motorcycles with ABS anti-locking technology, thus setting an important milestone for active motorcycle safety at the time.
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Motorcycle markets in 2010
Despite the first signs of an economic recovery, we do not expect the international motorcycle markets in the 500cc plus class relevant for the BMW Group to make more than a modest recovery in 2010. The world market should settle down at a level slightly higher than that of 2009.
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Motorcycle segment
We entered the supersport bikes segment for the first time in December 2009 with the market launch of the S1000RR. We expect this move to create additional impetus for business, helping us to achieve our aim of beating past years sales volume figures in 2010. Revenues and earnings will also improve accordingly.
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From the Income Statements for Group and Segments
In euro million
Motorcycle segment
Revenues 1,069
Cost of Sales 925
Gross profit 144
Sales and administrative costs -126
Other operating income 2
Other operating expenses -1
Profit/loss before financial result 19
Interest and similar income 3
Interest and similar expense -11
Financial result -8
Profit/loss before tax 11
Income taxes -3
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Journalists Vow to Keep Greek State TV Running
Fired journalists at Greece's state-owned ERT television station defied an order to close the channel after the government decided to pull the plug on the broadcaster as part of cost savings demanded by international creditors. Philip Pangalos reports.
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Districts Forge School-to-Home Digital Connections
But education leaders are wrestling with how to put measures in place to allow school-issued digital devices to go home with students
Ashley McCaslin teaches in a one-room schoolhouse on the island of Frenchboro, about eight miles off the coast of Maine.
In her classroom, where seven students span six grade levels—from kindergarten to 7th grade—each has his or her own state-issued MacBook.
Whether class members are participating in a video discussion via Skype in reading groups with students in other communities, writing essays in Google Docs, or building a social studies wiki, McCaslin sees the laptops as their key link to the outside world. And, she says, for the 7th graders, who take the devices home in the evenings and on weekends, they offer nothing short of salvation.
"The kids can start feeling really socially isolated," says McCaslin, 23, a first-year teacher. Of the island's 30 year-round residents, most work in some capacity in the lobster-fishing industry. "For my older students, [the MacBooks have] really become their lifeline."
To be sure, Frenchboro is an extreme case, set apart by ocean waters and sparsely populated. But experts on digital learning say it illustrates the importance of using today's technological tools to bridge homes and schools in all kinds of communities—rural, suburban, or urban—and give students online access to learning resources well beyond the school day.
Yet, as increasing numbers of school districts have put 1-to-1 computing programs in place, administrators are wrestling with whether to allow those devices to go home with students at the end of each day. While nearly all educators see the value in continuing learning and instruction beyond the school day, they also have questions about how to let students take the devices with them without too much risk of damage or misuse.
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In 2002, when a pioneering program in Maine provided each middle school student with a laptop computer, the state first gave districts the choice of whether or not to let their students take the devices home. Within a few years, half the state-issued laptops were headed home, while the other half remained under lock and key until the start of the next school day.
The program, which later expanded to include high school students, has since made it mandatory that all participating districts allow students to take their laptops home. In terms of protecting the devices that are sent home, Maine has a contract with Apple to provide various levels of protection. The partnership with Apple allows for a certain percentage of surplus devices, should any laptops get lost, stolen, or damaged beyond repair. The state also takes out a catastrophic loss plan to cover large-scale loss—for instance, should an entire school building burn down. Otherwise, explains Jeff Mao, the director of learning-technology policy for the state department of education, schools would have to amend their building insurance plans to account for the additional value of the computer equipment.
Finally, each community follows an individual plan to suit its needs. Some districts opt to purchase additional insurance, while others pass along any additional costs to families.
"Before we made it mandatory, students only had 50-minute blocks of time in order to get something done. It's difficult to construct something coherent in that time frame," says Mao.
"In general, we saw that integration was far less likely to occur when they didn't go home with the students," he says. "By requiring they be sent home, we started making kids much more fluent with technology."
Each school district adopts a policy to dictate what is appropriate and allowed and what is not. While content is filtered by school-operated networks during school hours, online activity is unfiltered outside the school day. Additionally, the state provides professional development to help schools teach digital citizenship. It also supplies families with an optional software tool called "Web History Viewer," which Mao created. The tool records all web activity regardless of whether a student deletes the browser's history. The state also publishes a how-to guide for parents to implement a no-cost content filter for home use.
Finally, for any online activity that goes beyond inappropriate and into the realm of illegal, "we leave that to the legal system," says Mao. "It is rare—very rare—but that is our protocol."
In Auburn, Maine, that fluency begins at a young age. The district recently began an iPad initiative with its kindergarten and 1st grade classes. Last year, two kindergarten classes piloted an experiment that allowed the youngsters to take the devices home.
The students memorized a song about proper iPad care, and all abided by the rule that it couldn't be used at either before- or after-school day care or during bus rides between home and school. The first night's homework assignment was to to use their iPads to make a short video of their families.
"There was no damage to the ones that went home," says Kelly R. McCarthy, a kindergarten teacher at Auburn's Fairview Elementary School. "And they all came back to school the next day because if they didn't bring them, they couldn't use them during class time."
Sadie Grealish's son, Jake, took part in the pilot. At home in the evenings, the two would sit in front of the iPad, taking pictures, working on a story-writing app, or playing a math game together.
"It's nice for the kids to have that instant feedback," says Grealish. Based partly on the take-home initiative, the family bought its own iPad this past Christmas for everyone in the family to use.
"He loves doing his assignments," Grealish says. "It just made it more exciting."
Parent Training
The Riverside school district in Southern California places so much emphasis on the home-school connection that it has even joined forces with the city-sponsored SmartRiverside Digital Inclusion Program to help implement a parent-training program designed to support computer use in the homes of low-income families.
For instance, if a family has a combined income of less than $45,000 a year and at least one parent attends one of its training classes, Smart Riverside will supply the parents with a refurbished desktop computer and wireless card, free of charge. So far, 8,000 computers have gone to families through the program.
The Riverside district, which serves about 43,000 students, runs a "bring your own device," or BYOD, initiative in each of its classrooms, pre-K through 12th grade. If a student cannot supply his or her own laptop, tablet, or smartphone, the district will provide its functional equivalent.
"They check out digital devices at the beginning of the year, and check it back in at the end," says David E. Haglund, the principal of the Riverside Virtual School, a blended learning program in the district serving grades 1-12 that mixes face-to-face instruction in school with virtual learning at home. "If it's lost, damaged, or stolen, they're responsible. The system works exactly like it always has with regards to textbooks." The district offers parents the option of purchasing third-party insurance to cover theft or damage to the devices.
Monica Ward teaches social science at Riverside's Ramona High School, which decided to move toward 1-to-1 computing about a year and a half ago. But BYOD wasn't really an option. About 80 percent of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and their families typically do not own PCs, tablets, or other computing devices.
Instead, the school purchased 2,100 Lenovo tablets at $180 per device. "They're nothing fancy," says Ward. "But they get the students where they need to go."
Ward sees the tablets as essential tools in helping to "close the achievement gap and bridge the digital divide." Because neither teachers nor administrators can predict when learning will occur, she views the home piece as an essential part of the 24/7 learning puzzle.
"There's no way to bring students into the 21st century if they can't then take their devices home with them every day," she says.
Her former student Ariel Camacho, an 18-year-old senior, remembers the days of lugging six textbooks from home to school, and back home again. Her tablet now contains everything she needs to get her schoolwork done, such as digital textbooks, class notes, written assignments, and group projects.
Camacho, who was recently accepted into Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and will be the first college student in her family, describes the tablets as "helping to level the playing field between my classmates." Mostly, she sees the devices as having a motivating effect among her peers, especially for completing homework.
At home, she says, the device was used by every member of her family. On a given weekend, her parents might use the tablet to review the school's digital dashboard to check her grades, while Camacho might use it to tutor her younger sister in fractions by scanning YouTube for instructional videos.
For her own work, she recently used it to figure out a calculus concept that had confused her.
Addressing Achievement
To protect a $1.3 million district investment in new MacBooks, the superintendent of schools in Natick, Mass., Peter Sanchioni, secured a personal investment from each family to deter theft and misuse. All students now pay a $75 fee to take school-issued laptops home.
In addition, each school-issued laptop comes equipped with its own GPS device and protective case.
The $75 student-user fee helps to offset costs associated with the stocking of spare parts, repairs, and student subscriptions to Microsoft Office. In the case of damage or loss, the district has a tiered approach for repair. While minor wear and tear is covered by the annual $75 laptop fee, a broken DVD drive costs an additional $100, a cracked screen costs $200 to repair, and a lost or stolen laptop requires that a student replace the device's full value.
He notes that in last year's pilot initiative with the district's 8th graders, fewer than five percent of the laptops had any damage.
Concerns related to damage aside, Mark Warschauer, an education professor and associate dean of the school of education at the University of California, Irvine, has found that even when students already had computers at home, they were generally more inclined to do homework on the laptops they used at school.
"When you have a device that has all of your projects and information on it, there's a natural, integrated way to bring work back and forth between school and home," he says.
Integration rules the day at the Mooresville Graded School District in Mooresville, N.C. The district is in its sixth year of a digital-conversion initiative. Every student in 3rd to 12th grade is supplied with his or her own school-issued laptop, with 4th graders and above required to take them home.
Mark Edwards, the superintendent, says the 1-to-1 program has breathed new life into the 6,000-student district.
"We've always heard that learning does not stop at 3 o'clock," says Edwards. "Our students are voracious learners between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Now, we can provide them with the tools and the resources that connect and compel them to keep on learning at home."
Vol. 32, Issue 25, Pages 12-15Published in Print: March 14, 2013, as Districts See Value in Ensuring Home-School Connections
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Harper Woods Police Chief Jim Burke said the incident happened about 2 a.m. Sunday as the sergeant heard three gunshots fired in close proximity to his scout car. It appears that someone was firing at the police car and not into the air, he said.
"It's unfortunate to think that someone would shoot at law enforcement, but that's the reality of the situation," Burke said.
The sergeant was driving on Kelly Road near Washtenaw, which is three blocks north of Moross, about one mile north of the Macomb County border when the shots were fired. He got out of the police vehicle, took cover, and requested assistance from backup units.
After other officers arrived and secured the scene, police found three spent rounds that hit a building directly above the windshield of the scout car. Officers conducted a search of the area but were not able to locate the shooter.
"We believe it came from one of the vacant houses in that area," Burke said. "The sergeant was driving down an alley, it's pretty tight in there and he was in close quarters. We have had some incidents in that neighborhood before but nothing like this."
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Not sure if it's useful for your use case, but to slow down the rpix86 emulation I simply temporary slow down the Pi itself. Very easy by performing these commands before running rpix86 (adjust the speed -300MHz in the example- to your own needs):Maybe (just an idea) an option to control how many CPU cycles per second are being emulated would be helpfull for these.
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Sometimes using a VPN in a standard way is not enough to protect your online activities.
There are situations when the data you are sending or receiving is very sensitive so that it is not acceptable to drop any packet unencrypted.
Normally it might happen if the secured tunnel is disconnected for any reason and although SecurityKISS Tunnel program informs about it in quite conspicuous way, it may be overlooked by user or the message may be suppressed by the operating system.
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Thanks to that no single packet can be sent outside of the tunnel.
Exclusive Tunneling in SecurityKISS
As all other features Exclusive Tunneling in SecurityKISS is very easy to use.
Exclusive Tunneling makes sense only once you get connected in the tunnel so when you are not connected and you select it from the Option menu...
...you should get appropriate message:
Exclusive Tunneling is quite 'dangerous' option in the sense that it blocks normal Internet connection what may be confusing for a user not familiar with the concept. That's why even when you get connected in the tunnel and select Exclusive Tunneling from the menu you should get the following warning:
So now you are in the Exclusive Tunneling mode. If your connection drops or the tunnel is disconnected for any reason you cannot send any data until you turn off Exclusive Tunneling in the Option menu.
Technical details
The procedure below describes technical details of deleting and restoring default route so it explains what happens behind the scenes and allows advanced users to automate it in the scripts.
1. Check internet connection details and network interface
Open windows command line console (menu Start -> Run, type cmd) and type:
You may get many interfaces but we need to find the one which is active with IP address and DNS servers assigned
Typical output may look like:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix.... : zyxel.com
Description....................... : Realtek RTL8139/810x Family NIC
Physical Address.................. : 00-00-00-AB-CD-EF
Dhcp Enabled...................... : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled......... : Yes
IP Address........................ : 192.168.1.37
Subnet Mask....................... : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway................... : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server....................... : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers....................... : 126.96.36.199
.................................. : 22.214.171.124
Primary WINS Server............... : 192.168.1.1
Lease Obtained.................... : 30 November 2010 19:28:13
Lease Expires..................... : 01 December 2010 03:28:13
We need to remember Connection Description which is in this case 'Realtek RTL8139/810x Family NIC'
2. Check default route
In the command line console type:
Depending on the network interfaces present in your system you should get something like that:
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x100005 ...00 00 00 AB CD EF ...... Realtek RTL8139/810x Family NIC
0x100007 ...00 ff 3a 3f cf 9b ...... TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
0x100008 ...00 00 00 FE DC BA ...... Wireless Network Adapter
Active Routes:
Network Dest Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.37 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Persistent Routes:
From the listing we need to remember:
- Interface ID corresponding to the network adapter description that we found in previous section. In this example we can see that 'Realtek RTL8139/810x Family NIC' has number 0x100005
- Gateway IP - 192.168.1.1
3. Create tunneled connection
Now you can start SecurityKISS Tunnel and connect to one of our servers.
Type again in the command line console:
to check that SecurityKISS Tunnel created another default route for tunneled connection:
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x100005 ...00 00 00 AB CD EF ...... Realtek RTL8139/810x Family NIC
0x100007 ...00 ff 3a 3f cf 9b ...... TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
0x100008 ...00 00 00 FE DC BA ...... Wireless Network Adapter
Active Routes:
Network Dest Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 18.104.22.168 10.11.6.45 10.11.6.46 1
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.37 1
Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Persistent Routes:
4. Delete default route
We need to delete default route for standard connection.
To do it we use information gathered in sections 1 and 2. The command will be in the format:
route delete [default_route] mask [netmask] [gateway_ip] IF [interface_id]
In this case the command is:
There should be no output from the command if it has been executed successfully.
Now you are protected against sending sensitive data via unsecured channel.
At this stage all online traffic can be sent only via secured connection.
Even if the tunneled connection is disrupted you can't go back to normal insecure connection without manual modification of routing table.
While connected in the tunnel all online activities should work as usual. As a simple test you may use internet browser or type:
which should produce:
Reply from 220.127.116.11: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=54
Reply from 126.96.36.199: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=54
Reply from 220.127.116.11: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=54
Reply from 220.127.116.11: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=54
Ping statistics for 184.108.40.206:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Aipproximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 63ms, Average = 41ms
5. Simulate tunnel disconnect
In order to test effectiveness of Exclusive Tunneling we need to simulate network disruption by disconnecting from the tunnel in SecurityKISS program.
After clicking disconnect (and waiting a few seconds to let the network settings to go back to the stable state) the routing table should have no default route what prevents the system from sending unencrypted data.
It may be tested by using ping again:
which this time should give no reply:
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Destination host unreachable.
Ping statistics for 188.8.131.52:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
6. Restore standard connection
In order to restore the standard non-tunneled connection we need to recreate the default route which was previously deleted:
or renew all network adapters if you are using DHCP:
The commands to delete and add routes may be saved in the script to make it easier and faster to switch between Exclusive Tunneling and standard modes.


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Automatic Physical Units in Mathematica
December 9, 2010 — Jon McLoone, Director, Technical Communication & Strategy
I just published a Mathematica package that provides an alternative, richer implementation of units and dimensional analysis than the built-in units package. You can get it here. Aside from being a really nice extension to Mathematica, it is also an interesting case study in adding a custom data "type" to Mathematica and extending the knowledge of the built-in functions to handle the new "type".
First I have to explain the point by answering the question, "What's wrong with the built-in units package?" Well, there is nothing actually wrong with it, it just doesn't apply Mathematica's automation principles. It can convert between several hundred units and warn if a requested conversion is dimensionally inconsistent. But give it an input like…
and it does nothing with it until you specify that you want the result in a specific unit. The core reason is that it doesn't teach the system, as a whole, anything about units, or even that the symbol "Meter" is any different than the symbol "x". All of the knowledge about units and Meter in particular is contained in the Convert command.
So in this package I want as many of Mathematica's commands as possible to do sensible things automatically when they encounter unit-based quantities. In order to do this in an extensible way, I don't want to teach all these commands about Meter specifically, but I will create a new data type for units, so that I can teach the Mathematica commands about units abstractly. Just as in the existing version, the only function that needs to know about the ratio of Meter to, say, Inch, is Convert, though that might be invoked, in an abstracted way, by other commands.
My new data type is going to look (internally) like this:
And I am going to represent composite units with composites of the name in the second argument. For example:
So having created this type in my mind, what do I need to do to make it available to Mathematica? Well, nothing. Really, nothing! I can already enter and store data in that type and write functions that recognize that type because "type" is just an arbitrary symbol used as a wrapper for a collection of contents, and Mathematica eats symbolic data for breakfast!
We can proceed directly to teaching Mathematica what is special about the new type. Here is a typical rule to teach it what happens when you get powers of units.
The TagSetDelayed (shortcut notation /:) associates the rule with the symbol Unit. Generally it is good organization to keep the rules together, but it is also more efficient. More practically, it means that I don't need to Unprotect Power. The rest is a pretty straightforward pattern that says if we apply a numeric power to a unit, the operation slips inside the Unit object and applies to each of the components of the object. The PowerExpand prevents us getting into silly units like Sqrt[Meter^2]], which is correct for complex variables, but not useful for positive real valued units.
Once evaluated, powers of unit data simplify automatically.
When you think about the range of mathematical functions that can be applied to units, they mostly fall into a fairly small number of categories that are roughly all the permutations of: single vs. multiple argument, unit discarding or preserving, operate on quantity or quantity and unit type, and so on. Once you collect them into groups of the same type, then you can usually come up with a single rule that can be used for each function in the group. Here is the collection for "functions of one argument that apply directly to the quantity only and remain in the original unit." I use it to extend each function in this group (Abs through to Round) to handle units in the same way.
Here is one such example in action:
Of course, rules such as how the automatic axes labels work on visualizations of a grid of data in different units compatible only by column are a bit more complicated. None of these rules need any knowledge of the actual units; they can just make abstracted references to whether the input units are compatible and to a "common" unit for the output. For example, Min can only operate on units if they are all dimensionally compatible:
Once you have taught all the relevant functions in Mathematica how to handle Unit data in general, you are just left with the relatively simple task of describing how each unit behaves individually. That comes down to establishing a relationship chain between the definitions. In practice this can be simplified to a set of rules for each unit to and from a base unit representation, for example, that Unit[1, "Atmosphere"] Unit[101325, "Kilogram"/("Meter"*"Second"^2)]. Then any conversion can be reduced to converting to the base unit and then back to the new unit. Since unit values are now abstracted from all the logical code, we can just keep adding data. Over the course of a couple of very tedious days I added over 1,000 units, and you can add your own to the system too.
Finally, the internal structure isn't necessarily what we want to enter or see. Fortunately, the parser and form matter in Mathematica are just two more commands that can be given rules for our new data type. We can hide the object structure in the same way that you never look at the copious data hidden inside InterpolatingFunction or CompiledFunction. So with a couple of rules for MakeBoxes and MakeExpression, any symbol for which there is a unit value will be parsed as a Unit expression, for example, the input "Meter" parses as Unit[1, "Meter"], but displays as "Meter".
There are lots of details to doing a good job: efficiency considerations, syntactic sugar, auto-error correction or graceful fails under misuse, coverage of reals vs. exact numbers, and so on that take the package up to about 1,000 lines of code plus the 1,000 lines of unit definitions. But all of that is essentially handled in the same way as the three examples above—with additional rules for using this newly imagined symbolic data object under different circumstances.
I think the result is the most automated handling of units in any system. If it isn't, let me know and I will add whatever rules are missing.
Here are some examples of the package in action.
Calculations involving units will automatically convert arguments into a suitable common default unit. In most cases the default is SI units.
Where input units are not compatible, no computation will be performed.
Composite units can be used by multiplying powers of units, and will also be handled automatically.
SimplifyUnits will try to find simpler equivalents to composite units.
Most operators, for which unit-based quantities make sense, will automatically handle units.
Some data constructors can support ranges or intervals using unit-based quantities. For example, here we generate 10 random quantities between 1 Yard and 1 Meter.
Or generate values between 10 Meters and 13 Yards in 1 Foot steps.
Many plotting routines will handle units, and will usually display the resulting units as AxesLabel.
Unit-based quantities have a head Unit, which is not shown in StandardForm.
In TraditionalForm, traditional short labels, with full-name tooltips, are used for the units.
You can convert quantities to specific units.
Or to the most appropriate unit from a list.
A large collection of pre-defined sets of units is available.
The available named unit sets is given by:
You can see or change the members of a particular set or create new sets.
You can declare new units.
Temperatures are assumed to represent temperature differences for standard unit conversions.
But their different origins are respected using ConvertTemperature.
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#1 Global warming brings peace and happiness07-16-2010, 12:06 PMGlobal warming brings peace and happiness
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Posted in Environment, 16th July 2010 12:53 GMT
A study correlating economic and political changes in China's Middle Kingdom has found that warmer climate benefited society. By contrast, a fall of temperature of 2C was correlated with conflict and famine.
"The collapses of the agricultural dynasties of the Han (25-220), Tang (618-907), Northern Song (960-1125), Southern Song (1127-1279) and Ming (1368-1644) are closely associated with low temperature or the rapid decline in temperature," say the academics led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Historical studies are problematic in two ways, and you have to be careful not to fall into one of two obvious elephant traps. One is that politics very much determines whether a society gets out of a pickle or goes into a decline. So deterministic views such as Jared Diamond's in Guns, Germs and Steel tend to underestimate this capacity for change.
The other (not entirely unrelated) trap is that we're no longer at the mercy of a nature, and thanks to technology have tamed it to a significant degree. We don't have a "peak wood" or a "peak whaleblubber" crisis today. Even the IPCC grudgingly admits as much. "The marginal increase in the number of people at risk from hunger due to climate change must be viewed within the overall large reductions due to socio-economic development."
Well, obviously. Although slight increases in temperature (and CO2) result in higher productivity, wealth remains the dominant factor. It's poverty that makes people miserable, not the climate. And lifting a couple of billion people from messing about in the mud, and into a modern, largely urban, technological society effectively removes them from the risks our great-great-grandparents used to worry about.
The idea that tiny changes in climate (either way) cause catastrophic effects, against which we're powerless, is really the last in a line of medieval superstitions. As Roddy Campbelll writes here, if you'd asked people in 1900 what would happen if temperatures rose by one degree, you'd have got the same prognosis you hear from the "bedwetters" today: "hunger, war, migration, desertification and water shortages in 2010... Pretty grim, wouldnt you think?" Yet here we are, and life expectancy is higher than ever. The fear of science and technological innovation runs so deep with some people, that self-flagellation is always preferred.
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Tiger Woods Out At Least Four Weeks After Surgery
Tiger Woods had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Tuesday to repair cartilage damange, his second operation in five years on the same knee. He is expected to miss at least a month while he recovers.
The surgery, announced on his Web site, came two days after Woods finished three shots behind Trevor Immelman in the Masters. He likely will miss The Players Championship, but should return in time to play the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
"I made the decision to deal with the pain and schedule the surgery for after the Masters," Woods said. "The upside is that I have been through this process before and know how to handle it. I look forward to working through the rehabilitation process and getting back to action as quickly as I can."
The surgery was performed in Park City, Utah, by Thomas Rosenberg, who also operated on Woods' left knee in December 2002. Woods also had surgery in 1994 on his left knee to remove a benign tumor.
Swing coach Hank Haney told the AP in phone interview he knew Woods' knee was bothering him, but was not aware of the surgery until Woods called him.
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Steinberg said the surgery repaired cartilage damage. The 2002 surgery drained fluid from around the anterior cruciate ligament and removed a benign cyst.
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The U.S. military has updated plans to "capture or kill" alleged perpetrators of the deadly terror attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CNN has learned.
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The plan was updated and discussed at the highest levels of the military as recently as last week.
The military has a list of several targets including some inside Benghazi and others in outlying areas. There are specific individuals named who are believed associated with the Benghazi attack as well other militants the United States wants to get. There are also militant camps or stronghold areas on the list that could be attacked.
The plan has series of "capture or kill" options that Obama would have to approve. It's not known how much of this he may have been briefed about.
One military official said the military is well aware that if it is ordered into action now by the White House, it could be viewed as a political move in light of the ongoing controversy over Benghazi. But he noted that initial planning began shortly after the attack last year.
Special operations forces have stayed in the North Africa region since the attack in varying numbers to collect intelligence and be ready to launch attacks if ordered.
CNN has been asked to not say where those forces are located.
Officials are emphasizing that its possible no military options will be carried out if the United States and Libyan law enforcement make any arrests.
The information was confirmed to CNN as a result of several days of reporting. It was not offered to CNN by the officials as part of any coordinated effort to reach out to the media.
Both officials declined to specify locations or names of potential targets.
But there are briefings circulating around the administration about a potential attack plan. A separate senior U.S. official said there has been no orders from the White House to carry out any option.
The initial "capture or kill" options assembled late last year were not approved by the White House for military action.
One military official said the administration was concerned that any American military intervention could weaken the fragile Libyan government so much that it might collapse.
That argument has also been made in the more recent discussions, but several officials say intelligence about the targets has improved.
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress that the law enforcement investigation has made progress.
"We will be prepared shortly, I think, to reveal all that we have done," Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.
Last week, the FBI released photos of three men it is seeking information about who could "possibly be implicated" in the attack. A federal law enforcement official said the men were at the scene but it is unclear whether they were involved.
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IRS officials to take the 5th. REALLY?!?!
Transparency at it's best.
To quote democrat, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE???
always killing... killing killing killing, criminals that are those people! whoever does it, 'they' or 'us'
at least don't call yourself christians then
You need to learn your christian history. I suggest you start with THE CRUSADES.....
Yeah Libya had the option of capturing or killing our Ambassador. They elected "kill". Obama started an undeclared war on Libya and it is nowhere near being over. Involving the FBI is a major joke. Benghazi was an act of war.
I would love to know what measures have been taken to say that Obama has done anything in the way of an undeclared war??? War should have been declared before the sun came up that day!!!!!! The only reason that anything is being done now is because of the pressure from people all over the nation. Anybody with a half a brain knew that this incident did not happen because of some internet flick. That story and all the other crap that was being released to the world was insulting to my intelligence. We are owed the entire truth!!!!!!!!!!
How many embasy people were killed when Bush was president?
Option of capturing or killing them? I'll go with killing them.
Killing would normally be the way to go but, this administration has stalled and lied so much about this incident that I personally would like to see them captured and interrogated for all the nation to see. Even if it means waiting to read it through the Freedom of information act.
Big mistake if we put boots on the ground - it doesn't even sound like we know for certain who did it.
President Obama is leadIng as most voting USA citizens want him to lead, both in his country and throughout the world. That's what he is paid to do; that's how democracy works.
"What difference does it make? "
President obama administration is guilty of more than incompetence the case of the benghzain attack thar result in the death of ambassdor chris steven and three other amercian
1. If the President knew that this was an terrorist attack from the start the why did he say it was a YouTube video for weeks after including at the UN, Mexican news channel, and with Hillary at the services of the dead. What did Susan Rice push the video narrative on the Sunday talk shows?
2. Who gave the stand down order?
Am bassador knew too much.. Just a white bump in the road
How in any way is this a racial issue? Please stop with that nonsense and the conspiracy theories. Nobody wanted anyone attacked or killed except the attackers. From simply reading the wikipedia page of the incident, "Between 125 and 150 gunmen" with RPGs, hand-grenads, and machine guns attacked the consulate. "The attackers seal[ed] off streets leading to the main compound with gun trucks. The trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Sharia, a group of Islamist militants working with the local government to manage security in Benghazi. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack
So it's no secret who perpetrated the attack. Now the next question is must more difficult. What is the best way to go about bringing these militants to justice or if that is even the best course. Obviously, we don't want another land war, so that leaves drones or some sort of smaller force. But if the group has hundreds of followers, obviously a small force isn't going to work. Also drones don't permit you to capture, just kill, which is conceivably a violation of our moral principles. However is revenge morally justifiable with lethal force? Who knows... But it's a difficult call. I'm actually currently in Morocco now (just traveling, non-military or political in any way, and everything is perfectly fine here btw), and given the lack of infrastructure like decent roads, hospitals, amenities, and so forth in Libya anything planned there would be difficult.
Fox News Sep 13, 2012 – Protesters angered by a film they consider blasphemous to Islam have stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen's capital, Sanaa
Fox News Sep 14, 2012 – Anti-American protests erupted across the Middle East on Friday over the anti-Islam film produced in the United States, following week-long demonstrations outside of several U.S. embassies
Fox News Sep 17, 2012 – In Jakarta, hundreds of Indonesians angered over the film clashed with police....
NY Daily News Sep 21, 2012 – Protests over anti-Islam film continue to rage across the world ...
A president moves to diffuse world-wide anger, and con-servatives, led by Mormon presidential candidate Willard Romney before our dead are buried. and now Mormon-Arab Daoud Issa and Mormon-renegade Jew Jason Cheffetz, dance on our American dead supporting terrorists to try and steal what they could not win at the ballot box. The Mormon gang needs to be investigated.
Because it is quite possible that the video was the cause for the attack by Ansar al-Sharia (the 125-150 or so militants that attacked the compound). In that case, what they all said was pretty much correct except for the protest culminating in the attack part. Seemingly, there was only the attack. Plus, the situation was evolving and at the time, they didn't really know the motivations for the attack or anything. Besides, pretty much all the significant aspects of the story are known now. Plus, why the heck would they cover this up? What would be the point? There is none. Brave Americans died and while the government's initial story was slightly messed up (concerning the protest aspect), the essentials were all correct. So stop with the conspiracy theories.
"David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times reported that 20-year-old neighbor Mohamed Bishari witnessed the attack. According to Bishari, it was launched without warning or protest and was led by the Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia (different from the group called Ansar al-Sharia based in Yemen designated by the U.N. and the U.S. Department of State as a terrorist organization[97]). Kirkpatrick reported that Ansar al-Sharia said they were launching the assault in retaliation for the release of the anti-Islamic video, Innocence of Muslims.[98]"
Whether it's "Bonny and Clyde", Usama Bin Laden, or a fella holding a gun against a hostages head. They should be given a chance to surrender at some point, or when they flee or fail to submit to arrest, resorting to deadly force is the only answer. That has been the authorities response all down through history, in protecting society from outlaws, etc.
Syrian Arab Army Eliminates Jabhat al-Nusra Terrorists in Lattakia
The Armed Forces continued operations against the armed terrorist groups in Lattakia countryside, eliminating scores of terrorists of non-Syrian nationalities and destroying their gatherings and hideouts in the areas of al-Mureej, al-Khadraa, Burj Zahya, Madares al-Rabe'a and al-Durra.
An official source told SANA reporter that a warehouse containing rockets, heavy machineguns and various types of weapons were destroyed, adding that scores of terrorists were killed in the process, among them were Zuhair al-Samadi, of the Tunisian nationality, Subhi al-Anfoushi and Ayyash al-Sha'eri, of the Egyptian nationality and Ra'ouf al-Zabedi of the Libyan nationality.
The Syrian Arab Army also targeted a warehouse of weapons and ammunition containing anti-armor shells and heavy machineguns and killed scores of terrorists in the areas of Jub al-Ahmar, Shalaf and al-Kuem al-Fuqani, terrorists Tufeeq al-Khazali, of the Palestinian nationality, Maher Alyo, Khaled Makki, Burhan al-Salloum, Azzam Allo and Omar al-Tarifi were identified among the dead.
Syrian Arab Army Seizes Weapons, Turkish Communication Devices in Idleb
In Idleb countryside, the Syrian Arab Army seized Turkish communication devices in addition to RPG launchers, night-vision binoculars, explosive materials and stolen medical materials that were hidden in a terrorists' hideout in Abu al-Duhour area.
The engineering units dismantled many explosive devices planted by terrorists in the area of Abu al-Duhour and killed and injured scores of terrorists affiliated to Jabhet al-Nusra terrorist organization.
Meanwhile, a military source said that Syrian Arab Army units destroyed terrroists' hideouts in the areas of al-Janudyeh, Maarat-masareen, Taftanaz and Jabal al-Arba'een.
Killing as much innocence as you can Asssad? Your people will carry you into the square and hang you.. Remember Gaddafi? ,he died a rat in the desert, So will you
If the administration wants to find the people responsible, I would check Obama's address book, I'm sure these are some of his cronies from the Muslum brotherhood. He has given 1.3 billion dollars and military supplies to these animals.....
Obma hasnt killed anyone here...how can you equate politics with slaughter...you dont understand the world do you?
Instead he just watched for 8 hours while our ambassador was murderer and then blamed a you tube video
@Tim,yah nothing much just ordering Seals in Osama BinLadens death with 21-22 of his Al Qaeda buddies thats all again nothing much!!
[The US must pay apology and compensation to Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria]
The US government uses lies and violence to murder 100,000 innocent Iraqi people and own 4500 soldiers for promoting the US military budget. The result is clear; Iraq was forced by the US to become a friendly ally of Iran.
The US violence also kills 30,000 innocent Afghan people, but could not reduce one Taliban fighter. 81% Afghan people want US soldiers to get out from Afghanistan, but the US violates democracy seriously. Syrian government has 53% supporting from Syrian people, the opposition only has 19% supporting.
Now the US government provides weapons, lies and money to support the opposition of Syria, 40,500 innocent Syrian Muslims were slaughtered by the US violence in the unnecessary war to boost the US military spending.
Thus the US is worst country on violating human right and violating morality on the earth in the 21st century. Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria must get apology and compensation (US$ 10 trillion, 3 trillion and 4 trillion) from the US. The world should have justice.
The free Libyan people truly appreciate all the support and the sacrifice that our friends in the good old USA have given us during our struggle to liberate our nation from the dictatorship that ruled our country for decades. We stand with you to bring to justice those responsible for the terrorist act that brought Ambassador Stevens live to an abrupt end. We truly consider Ambassador Chris a true hero for serving his country during these unstable times. His tragic death will only make us stronger allies standing together for human rights to live free under oath, liberty, and justice for all
People don't have to look very far for info about the protesters in Benghazi and other places in the world, not just on 9/11/12, but in the weeks after, e.g. Chennai on 9/18/12. We can see the pictures and reports in the world's press, but those commenting here don't have to make much effort, CNN archives have it all. What I don't understand is why people ignore the facts and the evidence and post fiction to suit their own agenda.
Should capture or kill the IRS
Why cannot the Libyan's use their own security forces. This should be handled by the Libyan's if they want an Embassy located there.
please make this action asap because these people need force to stop them ,they established their own small army with excellent weapons and taking millions of dollars from the government which is weak and can not stop them...if you do this action later it will not make the desired results cos they will be stronger more people and more money thus more power..the libyan people needs the support and help of the americans at this time,,,,,please do not disappoint us be in the right time and no mercy to those scavengers,,,,,
Oh please, they're just blowing smoke up our asses.


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St. Petersburg, FL – What could be Mariano Rivera's final Major League season began with an Opening Day blown save, as the Rays toppled the all-time saves leader to post a 7-6 victory on Friday at Tropicana Field.
After belting a grand slam in the first inning off Yankees starter CC Sabathia, Carlos Pena delivered the game-winning hit in the ninth off the 42-year-old Rivera, who has strongly hinted that 2012 will be his last go-round in the Majors.
"That's bad — you don't want to start the season this way," said Rivera, who converted 44 of 49 save chances last year and owns a career total of 603. "But at the same time, thank God it's only one game. We'll come back tomorrow and play hard again."
Desmond Jennings opened the ninth inning with a single up the middle on a 1-2 pitch that Rivera left over the plate, and Ben Zobrist quickly followed with a triple to the gap in right-center field, tying the game at 6.
Two intentional walks loaded the bases with no outs, and Rivera struck out Sean Rodriguez swinging with the Yankees employing a five-man infield. Pena cleared them all, connecting for a blast that struck the wall in left-center field.
"It's early," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "It is the first day of the year. You don't expect these guys to be perfect. He's not going to be perfect the whole year, but I believe he's going to be really, really, really good."
The three-hour, 44-minute affair took on the feeling of a playoff game late, long after it was apparent to a paid crowd of 34,078 that a predicted pitchers' duel between Sabathia and the Rays' James Shields wouldn't materialize.
"It's definitely weird when you have two guys of that caliber going at it and there's runs on the board," said Raul Ibanez, who gave the Yankees a 6-4 lead with a three-run homer in the third inning, among his four RBIs. "It's baseball. Things happen."
New York needed Ibanez's shot, his first hit in a Yankees uniform, to claw out of a four-run deficit created in the first inning when Girardi was scorched while playing the percentages.
With two outs, Girardi ordered Sabathia to issue an intentional walk to Rodriguez, a light-hitting shortstop, loading the bases in a trade for a left-on-left matchup with Pena.
Girardi noted that Pena (4-for-35 with 19 strikeouts) entered the game with little career success against Sabathia when compared to the right-handed-hitting Rodriguez, who was 6-for-21 with two doubles off the Yankees' ace.
"It didn't work," Girardi said. "I felt good about CC getting him out, but it didn't work. He got behind in the count."
In his first at-bat since rejoining the Rays, Pena launched a full-count offering into the right-field seats, a blast on a belt-high fastball that was estimated at 428 feet.
"Joe made the move," Sabathia said. "It was the right move. If I make the pitches, we have nothing to talk about."
Luckily for the Yankees, Shields seemed off his game as well, lasting five innings as he turned in his fourth Opening Day start. The right-hander permitted six runs on nine hits, walking three and striking out three in a 104-pitch effort that included a wild pitch and a hit batsman.
"Obviously, the Ibanez home run wasn't the one I wanted," Shields said. "I thought I was making some pitches. I was getting behind in the count. I threw some quality pitches early in the count. It just wasn't going my way today."
The Yankees could have still used more. They left the bases loaded in the second, fourth and seventh innings.
"I don't ever remember scoring that many runs off [Shields]," Mark Teixeira said. "He's been really tough off us. We did get a lot of guys on base, but it'd be nice to get a couple more."
Sabathia allowed five runs on eight hits in six innings, marking his ninth career Opening Day start and fourth with the Yankees. Sabathia walked three — one intentionally — and struck out seven.
Throwing 63 of 104 pitches for strikes, he grooved a 93-mph fastball that Evan Longoria hit deep into the left-field seats for a fourth-inning homer, pulling Tampa Bay back within a run.
"[The problem was] fastball command," Sabathia said. "But it got better later, so I can take something from that and work in the bullpen and be ready to go four days from now."
Yankees reliever David Robertson briefly held the slim margin in the eighth after a walk and a single put runners at the corners, as "Houdini" recorded three straight strikeouts to escape — including one on an attempted squeeze that Jose Molina fouled away.
Girardi acknowledged that permitting a victory to squirt away on Opening Day hurt a little more than many of the 161 scheduled games to follow.
"Probably a little bit," Girardi said. "I think everybody looks forward to this day when you're going through Spring Training and you're going through the winter. It will be more business as usual tomorrow."


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text: Since discovering Clerkenwell, I have become increasingly fascinated by the area's Italian community, and particularly the Italians that settled here in the 19th century. These brave migrants, many of them poor and unskilled, came to London in search of a more prosperous life. They were the victims of the grave economic conditions following the Napolionic wars, which also caused much political unrest among the Italian people, and divided Italy up into many subjugated states. In this period of impoverishment, migrants came to England on foot, tramping their way across Europe and stopping for periods in various cities and villages along the way. Once in London many made their money as organ-grinders or artisans, crafting picture frames and plaster statues. Others, invariably those from the South of Italy, sold gelato on street corners and became known to locals as "hokey pokey men" owing to their familiar cry of ecco un poco, meaning "here's a little (taste)". It was a gruelling life for these Italians, though they were on the whole extremely hard working, and adapted quickly to their new surroundings. In Clerkenwell they built an entire community for themselves. They called it Il Quartiere Italiano—the Italian Quarter. The English called it Little Italy.


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Batsheva Dance Company: Ohad Naharin's "Shalosh" ("Three")
Video: Batsheva Dance Company in Ohad Naharin's Three
Five years after its premiere, Ohad Naharin's Shalosh (Three) still lures audiences to the Suzanne Dellal Center – and judging by the enthusiastic curtain calls last Saturday night, the work continues to captivate crowds. My preview of this run of Three was originally published in the Jerusalem Post as "Lucky Number 'Three.'"
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Three by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
Addressing a small crowd in the Batsheva Dance Company's studios during an open rehearsal of Three, artistic director and choreographer Ohad Naharin mused that we frequently revisit books, movies, and music. So why not revisit a dance?
Naharin proposes that Tel Aviv audiences do just that when Three, an evening-length work which premiered in February 2005, returns to the Suzanne Dellal Center this weekend.
Guy Shomroni and Sharon Eyal in Three by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
"The showing of Three in Tel Aviv offers the viewer a renewed meeting with the work, which exists inside a constant process of development since its creation," Naharin explained in a press release. "This process, in which the work is growing and being refined all the time, is just as meaningful in the company's work as the process of creation before a premiere."
At the rehearsal, Naharin elaborated why both of these processes are so vital. "Since the premiere, the creation went through a lot of changes. I like to think of the premiere as a birth, since it's clear to everyone that birth is just one moment, and that afterwards many other things happen," he reflected. "There is no doubt that the work changed, improved, among other things because of the meeting with the dancers, who are very creative and musical themselves. This is one of the reasons that I recommend for people to see the creation twice, at the beginning and after a year or two once it has gone through this process of ripening."
Three by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
In the case of Three, the work has enjoyed five years of ripening while remaining in Batsheva's active repertory. Consequently, original cast members who have stayed with the company as well as newer additions to the troupe have had ample opportunity to develop their interpretation of the dance, calibrating their embodiment of the choreography with previously elusive nuances and subtleties.
Nowhere is this maturation more important and beneficial than in a work such as Three, which in the absence of complex stagecraft and elaborate visual design reveals the movement and the dancers' performance of it as the main subject. Lit plainly but effectively by Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi) and clothed in Rakefet Levy's basic, solid-colored tops and closely fitting cropped pants, the dancers approach Three's sophisticated, multi-layered movement with a confident straightforwardness.
Three by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
As the title suggests, Three contains three discrete sections, and Naharin's compositional and musical choices provide each part with a distinctive feel. In "Bellus," set to Glenn Gould's celebrated recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, a simple purity reflective of the music pervades both the dancers' finely wrought solos and the more pared down, precise group work. Brian Eno's spare, evocative Neroli provides the soundscape for "Humus," which features a flock of the company's women methodically repositioning their bodies and shifting their spatial formation in an entrancing unison.
"Secus," the final section, boasts a musical collage that stretches from the offbeat electronic stylings of AGF to the alluring Indian melodies of Kaho Naa Pyar Hai to the resonant harmonies of the Beach Boys. This adventurously eclectic mix serves as a fitting backdrop for the audaciously quirky choreography. From total stillness, the dancers burst into flurries of activity, creating a sense of organized chaos both in the space and within their bodies. Their novel movement often defies description, but it constantly commands attention and inspires awe.
Three by Ohad Naharin. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
Three's extraordinarily rich physical texture can be attributed at least partly to the evolution of Naharin's movement language, Gaga, in the early 2000s. Naharin noted that just a few years prior to Three's premiere, "Gaga became the heart of the daily practice of the company," and he added, "this common language [Gaga] held the keys to the process" of making Three. Indeed, the marvelous movement invention and robust embodiment which characterize Three are closely linked to the practice of Gaga, which expands the dancers' ability to research movement possibilities and awakens their sensitivity to physical sensations. Five years later, Batsheva's dancers bring a deepened understanding of Gaga to their performance of this work. And that's reason enough to revisit Three for a second or even a third time.
Related Articles on Dance In Israel
- "Getting to Know the Batsheva Ensemble"
- "MAX – Connecting to Ohad Naharin's Choreography"
- "Mamootot – Challenging the Performer-Spectator Divide"
- "Ohad Naharin's Deca Dance in Israel: A Cycle Completed"
- "Ohad Naharin to Receive 2009 Scripps/ADF Award"
- "Ohad Naharin in America: Out of Focus Documentary"
- "Batsheva Dance Company Premieres Ohad Naharin's Hora"
- "The Batsheva Ensemble on Tour at Home and Abroad"
- "Batsheva Dance Company: From Graham to Gaga"
- "Phaza Morgana 2009: Batsheva Dance Company in the Desert"
- "Ohad Naharin Receives a 2009 Dance Magazine Award"
- "Batsheva Dance Company: Ohad Naharin's Project 5"
Related posts on Gaga on Dance In Israel
- "Going Gaga: My Introduction to Gaga Dance Classes" (my overview of Gaga dance classes)
- "Gaga: Ohad Naharin's Movement Language, in His Own Words" (featuring a quote by Ohad Naharin about Gaga)
- "Gaga: A Foreigner Explores Ohad Naharin's Movement Language" (a reflection on my experience in Ohad Naharin's Gaga classes)
- "Ohad Naharin on Gaga (Video)" (with a video of Ohad Naharin discussing some concepts from Gaga)
- "A Glimpse into the Gaga Workshop (2008)" (including a video from last year's workshop)
- "Reflections on the Gaga Intensive 2009″ (dancers share their memories from this year's workshop)
- "Gaga for Dancers: From the Gaga Intensive to New Open Classes"


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On 10 November, Harriett Thompkins, shown in the picture here, presented our first class dealing with African-American genealogy. Harriett talked not only about the unique challenges faced by African-American family researchers, but also about the common aspects of research faced by all genealogists.
Attendees came from Tampa as well as local communities, and they represented PGS members and non-members alike.
The presentation was well-received and will be scheduled again in the Spring. So if you missed it this time around, be sure and check the schedule in the future so you can add it to your calendar.