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So last night we lost him. Our little Severus Snape. Just like his namesake in Harry Potter, he wasn't able to make it to the end. But boy did we have fun with him while he was here. Roger and Jordan made the arrangements (dug the hole) in the back yard so that we could bury him after church today. Hayden watched intently, assuring his Christmas kitty, that he has named Stylus, that "it's okay, your not gonna get sick. Don't be sad." Our makeshift headstone, which (hopefully) will prevent Mesa from trying to dig him up. As of tonight, Miss Sydney isn't doing well either. She's a fighter though, and is doing the best she can, dealing with staying alive and the death of a brother. We're pretty sure that she'll be leaving us soon as well, but hoping deep down that the Lord will allow her to stay with us.
what the heck is going on with the kitty's? i feel sooooo bad for you all. did you get them from the same place as the previous one? maybe they already had something before they got to your place and then get sick once they are at your house. wierd. |
Forty years ago my wife, Gayle, and I responded to the YWAM invitation to join the "Revolution of Love" to reach the world with the Gospel through the Olympic Games event in Munich, Germany.
That idea that youth could be effective in impacting nations was a risky experiment–as far as most experts thought.
Today we see the fruit, not only of that experiment being proven true, but also the impact it has had on countless young people who have had their lives changed by God as they stepped up to the call of world-wide missions.
This summer, the Olympic torch will once again be lit, and another generation of YWAMers from around the world will gather in London to declare the message of the cross that sets the captives free. |
Phoenix police: 1 dead, 2 injured following shooting
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PHOENIX (KSAZ) - Phoenix police say a suspect is in custody following a deadly triple-shooting west of Phoenix.
The shooting, according to Phoenix Police Sgt. Jonathan Howard, happened at the 4300 block of W. Bethany Road. A 21-year-old man, identified as Chris Romo, was declared dead at the scene, and two others, a 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman, were taken to the hospital where they remain in stable condition.
Phoenix police say the suspect, identified as 34-year-old Timothy Elliot Pascale, was booked on first-degree murder and other charges.
The investigation is ongoing, however, police believe the incident stems from a traffic altercation between Pascale and the two male victims.
Investigators say the female victim was walking in the area when she was shot and was not involved in the altercation.
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Sarabha-Miga Jataka (#483)
The Bodhisatta was once a deer. The king was an avid hunter, and considered himself the manliest man in the kingdom. During a hunt in the forest, his courtiers surrounded a thicket and beat the ground with clubs, driving the Bodhisatta out and straight toward the king. The king let an arrow fly, but the clever Bodhisatta rolled safely out of its path. When the king saw the Bodhisatta dive down, he assumed he had hit it and yelled out a cheer. But when the Bodhisatta rose and ran off, the courtiers loudly mocked the king.
The angry king took off after the Bodhisatta and chased him for a long time. The king didn't notice a deep pit full of water because it was covered with weeds and he fell in. The king couldn't swim and the Bodhisatta saw him struggling. He felt pity, not anger, toward the king and rescued him. The king was so grateful he invited the Bodhisatta to come rule over the kingdom. But the Bodhisatta only asked that the king, from then on, follow the five precepts and encourage his subjects to do the same.
The king was so taken by the Bodhisatta's righteousness that his eyes filled with tears, and when he returned home he made a proclamation by drum that everyone in the city should follow the five precepts – though he told nobody about the near-death experience that led to his conversion. His chaplain, however, early the next morning heard the king in his bedroom chanting his aspirations to live a righteous life and was able to guess everything that had happened the day before. The king was so impressed by his chaplain's wisdom that he gave him a big gift.
The king kept his vow and dedicated himself to giving alms and doing good deeds, and the people followed his lead so much that heaven began to fill up with many new gods. Wondering what was causing heaven to swell, Indra, king of the gods, saw the king's devotion and divined how the Bodhisatta had set everything in motion due to his perfect virtue. Indra decided people should know about the Bodhisatta's greatness, so one time when the king went target shooting, he made the Bodhisatta appear in front of the target. Then he entered the chaplain's body, urging the king to shoot and kill because deer meat is for warriors. To explain why he didn't shoot, the king told those around him the story of how this noble deer had rescued and preached to him. Then Indra appeared floating in the air and praised the king.
After Pindola Bharadvaja, one of the Buddha's top disciples, had risen into the air to take a sandalwood bowl, the Buddha rebuked him for using his supernatural powers to do a cheap, pointless trick and issued an order forbidding all his disciples from using their powers. After this order was given, some heretics who wanted to create a schism among the Buddha's followers wrongly assumed the Buddha would no longer do miracles, so they said if he performed one, they would do one that was twice as good. To the shock of the heretics, the Buddha accepted their challenge, since he was not a disciple and the rule did not apply to him. He had the king send his town crier out announcing that in seven days the Buddha would perform a masterpiece called the Twin Miracle under a mango tree. To thwart him, the heretics cut down all the city's mango trees.
The day of the show, the royal gardener gave the Buddha a delicious mango. After eating it, he had the gardener plant the seed in the ground and it grew instantly into a giant, perfectly formed tree full of ripe fruit. A vast crowd of humans and gods gathered around the tree and the Buddha ascended onto a jeweled pavilion built by Indra and began the Twin Miracle; so named because it featured opposites. Flames shot from the top half of his body and water streamed from the lower, and then the fire and water sides alternated. Then fire and water alternated out of his right and left sides. And all the while, six-colored rays of light shone out of every pore of his body, lighting up both heaven and hell. The whole multitude was in awe and filled with faith.
After the miracle finished, the Buddha spent the rains retreat in heaven preaching to the gods, including his mother. When it came time to return to the realm of men the Buddha sent word so people could come greet him, and he descended on a triple staircase, one each made of gems, silver, and gold, accompanied by Indra, Brahma, and Suyama. The Buddha was greeted first by Sariputta (who had been the chaplain in an earlier birth), his wisest disciple, and he decided everybody should know that Sariputta was the wisest. So he began to ask people questions, each one more difficult than the next. Only Sariputta could answer the final question, which was asked as concisely as possible; and he answered in full detail just as if the Buddha had spoken himself.
The next evening, the Buddha heard some of his disciples discussing Sariputta's excellent wisdom and he told them this story as an example of Sariputta's wisdom from the past; being able to guess the full story about the rescue from just a tiny bit of information.
The king was an earlier birth of Ananda, another of the Buddha's top disciples. |
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Writing a Novel With Save the Cat!
Column by Cina Pelayo June 13, 2019
Blake Snyder
Larry Brooks
Save the Cat!
There is no right way or wrong way to write a novel. All you have to do, as Neil Gaiman once said, is "Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down."
But even though there is only one way to write a novel – actually writing it – there are multiple strategies for plotting your novel. Outline? No outline? Pantser? Methodical plotter?
In addition to the never-ending plot-or-pants debate, there are some who suggest framing your novel with structural devices. I've read quite a few books on how to write, such as Stephen King's On Writing, or Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird. I also enjoy books on the actual construction of a novel, such as Larry Brooks' Story Engineering: Mastering the 6 Core Competences of Successful Writing. Recently I started reading Jessica Brody's Save the Cat! Writes A Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need, given a few writer friends of mine have recommended it.
Even though there is only one way to write a novel – actually writing it – there are multiple strategies for plotting your novel.
I had heard the term 'Save the Cat' a few times, and so went digging for its origin. The Save the Cat method actually begins in screenwriting with Blake Snyder, an American screenwriter, educator and consultant. In 2005, Snyder wrote Save the Cat! The Last Book On Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. In Snyder's Save the Cat method, he stressed the importance of structure. The title actually comes from something nice the protagonist in Alien does—when Sigourney Weaver's character Ripley saves a cat. Snyder says this is the moment the audience is introduced to the protagonist of the film, and thus connects with their hero. Synder's original method outlined 15 beats, or pivotal moments, needed to move the story along. Ripley saving the cat was such a beat, and according to Synder, helped make the movie a success. Synder would eventually go on to write a book series based on this method, including Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies, Save the Cat! Strikes Back: More Trouble For Screenwriters to Get Into…and Out Of, and additional material, workshops and consultations. Synder died in 2009, but the popularity of his method continues. Brody introduced her version in 2018 for novel writers.
Brody took the learnings from Snyder and adapted them to the novel form. Brody breaks down each of the 15 beats and goes on to reveal what she claims are the universal story genres. Brody also provides examples of bestselling novels and highlights in those works where each of the 15 beats occur.
I don't want to list out all the beats and descriptions Brody outlines, because I don't feel comfortable giving away the structure an author developed as part of their non-fiction book. The book does currently have a five-star rating on Amazon, and the reviews have been solid, like this one by Karen Heenan on Amazon.com:
I've been writing for as long as I can remember, but that doesn't stop me from reading books on writing. This is one of the best I've read in ages. I'm not good at outlining projects, but this book is powerfully persuasive as to why outlining is a good idea, and I'm now somewhat of a convert. And an outliner.
So, what do I think about the book? I'm not a book reviewer, and my sophistication of whether I like a book or not is typically not more complex than 'It was good,' or 'I didn't like it.' In terms of whether or not the method worked for me, I can only say I don't know yet. I'm thinking of applying Brody's method toward the next novel I work on.
I will say that I applied the Larry Brooks' method in my last novel, and writing that novel was easier than the one I had written prior. What made Brooks' method exciting for me was applying the six core competencies; concept, character, theme, structure, scene execution, and writing voice. What was most manageable for me about Brooks' process is that you initially don't have to think about your book as sixty or so little parts, or scenes. He breaks up a novel into four parts.
Still, I would like to try to Save the Cat. Brody's method break down writing a novel into smaller parts, giving an example of how much of each section should go into your novel. For example, she says that the first part of your novel, the "Opening Image," should only take up about 0-1% of your novel. In the book, Brody takes some popular novels such as The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and breaks down their plot using the Save the Cat Method. Also, if you visit Brody's website, you can read about how author Robin Reul used the save the cat method to plot our her novel, My Kind of Crazy.
I'll end with this: Have you used the save the cat method? Did it work for you? Did it not work for you? Is there another method that does? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter.
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need
Author: Jessica Brody
Publisher: Ten Speed Press (2018)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
My Kind of Crazy
Author: Robin Reul
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (2016)
Column by Cina Pelayo
Cina Pelayo is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, short stories, poems, and more.
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Do Takeover Efforts (Like Icahn's Move on Biogen Idec) Harm Innovation?
When shareholder activists like Carl Icahn start banging on a company's front door, threatening to rally investors to help them take over the company, it naturally gives management headaches. But what effect does it have on a company's ability to innovate?
It's a good question in general, and it's moving front and center next week here in Boston as Icahn seeks to gain control of Biogen Idec, the Cambridge, MA-based global biotechnology company (NASDAQ: BIIB). The answer, according to an unscientific poll of a dozen leading business school professors of innovation, is that nobody really knows.
In Biogen's case, the company believes, not surprisingly, that such activism hurts not just innovation, but morale and other aspects of the business. "It's the uncertainty," says Biogen spokeswoman Naomi Aoki. "Whenever you have uncertainty, it has an impact on whether people want to do deals with you and with your ability to recruit and retain employees."
Although the firm won't reveal too many fresh stats, it is forthcoming about a few problems that seem to support the company line. At least one key executive spot has been hard to fill during these recent uncertain times at Biogen. David Parkinson, who had been the company's senior vice president for oncology research and development in San Diego, left to become CEO of Nodality, a San Francisco Bay Area diagnostics startup in September, a month after Icahn first began making noise at the company. The oncology research job remains unfilled nine months later, Aoki confirms. And, as of last weekend, the company counted 83 openings in research and preclinical development.
Biogen's business development group also appears to have slowed a bit, as, perhaps, partners wait to see if Icahn can get his nominees elected to the board before they agree to a deal. Biogen did seven business development deals from September 2005 to July 2007—a rate of about one every three months. Since Icahn entered the picture, Biogen has completed two deals in 10 months, Aoki says.
To at least partially counter the presumed effects of Icahn's presence on employee morale—including that of top scientists who lead its innovation efforts—Biogen launched a retention program in February that offers key employees bonuses of up to 150 percent of their annual salary if they remain continually employed at the company through March of 2009.
It seems like common sense that an ongoing proxy fight might unnerve employees, and that morale—and innovation with it—could suffer. In Biogen's case, top executives, even if they keep their jobs, may also feel the pinch in their wallets, because their annual bonuses are partly based on their ability to keep turnover low and fill senior vacancies quickly, according to the company's proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But some academic research suggests that corporate takeovers, despite their controversy, actually have a positive effect on innovation. Josh Lerner, a professor at Harvard Business School, looked at patenting trends before and after 495 buyout deals. "Patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and are more concentrated in the most important and
prominent areas of companies' innovative portfolios," Lerner and colleagues wrote in the April 2008 paper.
Of course, patenting data is public, so it's easy to capture, but it isn't the only measure of innovation. Business development, product approvals, publications, and advancements through phases of clinical trials are also signs of the potential for innovation at a biotech company like Biogen, just like recruiting and retaining innovative employees.
Lerner's data doesn't address any of those issues, and it also doesn't tease out patterns like what happens to innovation if there's a prolonged tug-of-war for control.
This is where Biogen's case falls into completely uncharted territory. There really aren't any academic studies that specifically dig deep into what happens to innovation at biotech companies after takeovers by large drugmakers, or after extended takeover battles, says Louis Galambos, co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University. It's an especially difficult question in biotech, because it takes years for a drug candidate to mature into a marketed product.
"What fascinates me is that I haven't seen a good study of this that examines the effect of takeovers on innovation at biotech companies over a 10-year period," Galambos says. "This is a really good question, it may just be that we lack data for it."
Based on interviews he's done with scientists at biotech companies, Galambos says a proxy battle like the one waged by Icahn might drag down morale, yet he's skeptical it would harm innovation over a 10-year period. Scientists are far removed from the executive suite where proxy battles are fought, and what they seem to get most excited about—and motivated by—are promising drug candidates, Galambos says.
"The people that wear white lab coats see themselves as a separate breed," Galambos says. "They are different than the suits. The suits are probably the ones who are most affected." |
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Jonny Evans and Chris Brunt goals secured victory over Czech Republic as Northern Ireland took a huge step towards the World Cup play-offs.
Michael O'Neill's men had been made to work for victory in San Marino on Friday but a 3-0 success ensured they would need just a point from this fixture to pull clear of their opponents.
And the hosts earned a fifth straight triumph as West Brom duo Jonny Evans and Chris Brunt - the former the subject of heavy interest from Manchester City during the transfer window - found the net to ensure that a first World Cup finals since 1986 remains a real possibility.
Czech Republic had dropped to fourth place before kick-off with Azerbaijan's thrashing of San Marino and their slim hopes of qualification were completely wiped out before half-time through Evans and Brunt, the pair typically profiting from set-pieces.
After cruising through the second half, Northern Ireland retain a remote hope of claiming top spot ahead of Germany but a play-off place is the realistic target - and only a spectacular collapse would see O'Neill's side fall short as Europe's worst second-placed side.
Although tough tests against the world champions and Norway are to come, Northern Ireland - with seven clean sheets from eight and unbeaten in competitive home internationals since September 2013 - will firmly believe they can reach next year's tournament in Russia.
Exactly a year on from a hard-fought goalless draw in Prague, the home side made a bright start and Josh Magennis - twice a scorer against San Marino - nodded an early corner wide.
With a Brunt corner from the right only half-cleared and Theodor Gebre Selassie slow to push up, Oliver Norwood's looping header behind the Czech back line found Evans onside, the defender throwing himself backwards to nod beyond Tomas Vaclik.
The same pattern of play continued after the restart and Aaron Hughes made a vital interception as a high ball threatened to finally bounce Czech Republic's way in the penalty area.
A series of attacking changes followed from the visitors, their pressure leading to a half-chance that Marek Suchy scuffed into Michael McGovern's grateful arms. |
Having been in the internal communications game for a number of years now, there are several flagship events and trade shows that Poppulo attends annually. While it's always great to meet old friends and familiar faces, it's very exciting when we venture into new territory, as we did when we attended the European Communications Summit (ECS) in Brussels, Belgium on June 29th and 30th.
Hosted by the European Association of Communications Directors (EACD), this was the 11th year of the ECS. Seen as the flagship event in the European calendar for senior, director-level communicators, some 600 communications directors attended the event from all over Europe.
The event is held in very high regard and we were delighted to meet with people from almost every country in Europe.
The event organization and execution was second to none, and the venue was perfect. The content was decent and varied, but the main attraction was the quality of attendees that we had the opportunity to mix with, share ideas, collaborate and connect with. The level of attendees was remarkably senior and from very diverse companies.
We had the opportunity to meet with people from all parts of Europe: from Sweden to Slovenia, from Bulgaria to Belgium. Companies represented included Coca Cola, L'Oreal, Dell EMC, Deloitte, GSK, Heineken, Vodafone and Johnson & Johnson, as well as a very strong representation from EU bodies. It made for an interesting mix, and plenty of interesting conversations.
The two days were packed with a busy agenda of keynote speakers, breakout sessions, awards and case studies, capped off with a great networking evening on the Thursday night.
Cyriel Kortleven, global speaker and author. Cyriel did both a keynote speech and an interactive session to show how positivity and creativity can be harnessed and used for the good. A memorable ice breaking exercise that he asked the audience to take part in was the power of using the phrase 'yes and' rather than the negative 'yes but' when listening to someone else's ideas. He showed how using the simple phrase 'yes and' to encourage and foster ideas can promote an atmosphere of creativity, innovation and productivity in a room.
What is the ideal leader? Interactive session by LEGO Certified Professional Dirk Denoyelle of Amazings. Dirk has the enviable title of being one of just 15 certified Lego professionals in the world. Attendees at this session were broken into groups who were asked to use Lego to build what they saw as the ideal leader. It sounded like it would be a bit of fun to break up the day and spark a bit of creativity, and that's exactly what it was: a thoroughly interactive, enjoyable and creative session that sparked plenty of interesting conversation and insight.
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Rolands Bulders, né le à Liepāja en Lettonie, est un footballeur international letton, qui évoluait au poste d'attaquant.
Biographie
Carrière de joueur
Rolands Bulders dispute deux matchs en Coupe des coupes, et un match en Coupe UEFA.
Carrière internationale
Rolands Bulders compte 33 sélections et 4 buts avec l'équipe de Lettonie entre 1992 et 1999.
Il est convoqué pour la première fois par le sélectionneur national Jānis Gilis pour un match amical contre la Roumanie le (défaite 2-0). Par la suite, le , il inscrit son premier but en sélection contre la Lituanie, lors d'un match de la Coupe baltique 1993 (défaite 2-1). Il reçoit sa dernière sélection le contre la Géorgie (2-2).
Palmarès
Avec le Kiruna FF
Champion de Suède de D3 (D2 Norrland) en 1993
Statistiques détaillées
Buts en sélection
Le tableau suivant liste les résultats de tous les buts inscrits par Rolands Bulders avec l'équipe de Lettonie.
Notes et références
Liens externes
Footballeur international letton
Footballeur soviétique
Joueur du FK Liepājas Metalurgs
Joueur du FK Jelgava
Joueur de l'IK Brage
Joueur du FK Ventspils
Naissance en mars 1965
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Q: Cannot find data from string using regex while string.find() works just fine import re
import urllib
p = urllib.urlopen("http://sprunge.us/QZhU")
page = p.read()
pos = page.find("<h2><span>")
print page[pos:pos+48]
c = re.compile(r'<h2><span>(.*)</span>')
print c.match(page).group(1)
When I run it:
shadyabhi@archlinux $ python2 temp.py
<h2><span>House.S08E02.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi</span>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "temp.py", line 8, in <module>
print c.match(page).group(1)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
shadyabhi@archlinux $
If I can find a string using string.find then what is the problem when I use regex. I have tried looking http://docs.python.org/howto/regex.html#regex-howto but no help.
A: match only matches at the beginning of the string. Use search, finditer or findall.
Also note that * is greedy. You might want to change your regex to r'<h2><span>(.*?)</span>'.
In summary, the following works for me:
import re
import urllib
p = urllib.urlopen("http://sprunge.us/QZhU")
page = p.read()
pos = page.find("<h2><span>")
print page[pos:pos+48]
c = re.compile(r'<h2><span>(.*?)</span>')
print c.search(page).group(1)
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Q: Package Filter in Logback.xml Project Structure
I would like to output log for all queries under every mapper package.
I don't want like to define each mapper package like this since the project will consist of a lot of packages later.
don't want to do
How can i achieve like this?
<logger name="com.example.demo.*.mapper" level="DEBUG">
<appender-ref ref="SAVE-TO-FILE" />
</logger>
A: You could use a String constant for the logger name instead of letting Logback derive the logger name from the current class. For example, each class in the com.example.demo.*.mapper package would declare a logger like so:
// extract "MAPPER" to a shared constant to maybe provide a MapperLogger utility class
Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger("MAPPER");
Then your logger configuration would be:
<logger name="MAPPER" level="DEBUG">
<appender-ref ref="SAVE-TO-FILE" />
</logger>
Or you could programmatically create loggers for every class in the com.example.demo.*.mapper package and associate each with your SAVE-TO-FILE appender.
A: I didn't find an answer to that question. That is why I've done some filtering by myself using ch.qos.logback.core.filter.EvaluatorFilter:
<configuration>
<property name="package" value="com.example.demo.*.mapper" />
<appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.core.filter.EvaluatorFilter">
<evaluator>
<expression>return logger.matches("^" + "${package}".replaceAll("\\*", "\\.*").replaceAll("([^\\\\])\\.", "$1\\\\.") + "$");</expression>
</evaluator>
<OnMismatch>DENY</OnMismatch>
<OnMatch>NEUTRAL</OnMatch>
</filter>
<encoder>
<pattern>%-5level [%d{HH:mm:ss}] [%thread] %-30logger{10} %msg%n</pattern>
</encoder>
</appender>
</configuration>
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Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee joined All Side with Ann Fisher May 17, 2011 to talk about the state of the university.
Ann Kicked off the conversation with the latest on the ongoing NCAA investigation of famed OSU football coach Jim Tressel, noting that Gee had said before that Tressel's job was safe. Gee declined, however, to talk about the investigation or anything to do with OSU football. Regarding the importance of sports to a school such as OSU, he said that "college athletics represent both the highs and lows of an academic institution.�
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Last month, Ohio Gov. John Kasich floated the idea of the charter university and mentioned Ohio State in the same breath. Gee said he doesn't like the phrase "charter university,� that the point is to give the institution the freedom to pursue enterprises. Gee said that some regulations have to go, but that he would not advocate less oversight by the state. He hopes that with fewer regulations, they could save money and channel more of it to the classroom. "We are over-regulated, and under-funded,� he said.
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For all you insomniacs out there, I am Dr. Chat and I'm going to take care of you.
If the combination of these three tricks don't really work for you, just add step 4, and repeat. Step 4 being to light up some janga and get up and close with nature's green, organic wonders. So remember; step 1, 2, 3, 4, repeat.
or download them all into your itunes and make a playlist!
I added an audioplayer with all the tracks in it. Good night!
These are awesome! Really good selection of tracks.
Thanks! come check us out again in a few weeks, I'll be posting another "Insomniac Playlist"; too many good songs to cover!
Wonderful, thank you. I reblogged it.
I just featured Your Hand in Mine on my blog as well, so check it out if you get a chance.
Nice cover Artwork and cool tracks, of course!
if, like me, you find that songs with lyrics prevent you from going to sleep (many people tend to focus on lyrics, and even if i stayed awake for days, a song with lyrics could never put me to sleep) pop on Boards of Canada's Geogaddi album. This works even better with a nice bottle of Chopin.
this is like exactly what i would do to sleep.
such a good playlist, i love explosions in the sky.
a song that always makes me mega relaxed is Terminal – Devin Townsend Project. certainly don't listen to his other stuff if you're sleepy, but that one particular song works wonders.
Breathe by The Cinematic Orchestra is entirely different then this one. Are you sure that is the right track name?
yeah it's a rip from the album I bought. maybe live special edition but it's legit dude.
you sure you're not confused with the telepopmusik "breathe"?
May I add a step zero?
yessssss i can't believe I didn't think of posting that! best website, so calming.
Dear Doctor Chat, I'm an insomniac, I already have/love all but 1 of these songs! You have great taste in music. Idea: Could you extend this list so that it would play all night!? Circa 8 hours of music? I have over 12,000 songs on my itunes and would be more than happy to contribute!
Absolutely dreamy tracks. How do I get these, tho? Should I buy/download every album?
You can right click the name of the song and "save as" on your computer.
I…am blown away. I love this playlist so much.
Also maybe some stars of the lid?
Why can't life be so dreamy and sweet. You make sleepytime a place I look forward to.
Un petit retour sur certains anciens posts sur ce petit blog pour former une belle playlist que j'utilise très souvent : ambiance. Si nous prenons les posts de ce blog, c'est une playlist plus que magnifique que nous pouvons bâtir.
Voilà pour l'instant ! Une playlist polyvalente : moments calmes, moments sensuels (hehe), moments de rêverie, car trips, etc.
En fait, je qualifierais leur style de musique d'ambiance. J'adore écouter leur chansons dans ma voiture le soir tard ou en bonne compagnie durant une soirée relaxe. Leurs chansons sont variées, leur style intéressant. DONC, c'est à essayer pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas. Pour se faire, voici des échantillons gratuits : leurs albums Genetic World et Angel Milk. Généreux, non ? |
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Love the raw, natural look of birch candleholders? Have you seen these in upscale gift stores? Now you can make your own!
I have a basket of these great candleholders that I wrote about last year here and here. They look amazing clustered on my mantle or living room sideboard. And the best thing about making your own is that you don't have to restrict yourself to 2 or 3 – you can fill up an entire sideboard in no time.
Now I had one secret ingredient – Livio. He is my dad's best friend and he can do just about anything. Want to know how to trap a squirrel? Call Livio. Is your plaster falling down from your bathroom ceiling? Call Livio. Need trendy raw wood birch candleholders? Call Livio. Within about 15 minutes, your sideboard is full. He's old school and he can really put a Pinteresting, blogging, DIYer to shame.
Don't despair if you don't have a Livio. These instructions are pretty easy with a few key things – a saw, a drill with a boring bit, and slim birch logs. If you can get your hands on one, a drill press makes this job a snap. I happen to have access to a large wooded lot up north with a huge selection of fallen trees, so this project was made with found birch logs and branches. I just love that these candleholders are green and earth-friendly.
My design involves cutting the logs into random lengths, from about 3 to 9 inches. I like my candleholders to look natural and unstructured, but if you prefer a cleaner look you could cut them all to equal lengths. I also used logs of varying diameters, from about 2 to 4 inches, but I think thicker logs look great, too. Livio drilled the holes to fit standard votive candles, although tapers would also look great.
I arrange mine randomly and tuck some pine branches around them that I get from trimming our Christmas tree. I usually add a few silver ornaments or some extra-large pinecones to jazz things up. Voilà– easy, gorgeous, and green!
Tip: if you're going to put fresh pine branches on your furniture, put something underneath to protect against pine resin – I learned this the hard way. I usually use clear cellophane for this because it doesn't show.
1. Cut logs in sections of varying lengths, from about 3" to 9" long.
2. Bore a hole in the center of each log section, 1½" wide by ¾" deep to fit a votive candle.
3. Place a votive in each. Light and enjoy!
Beautiful! Wish I had access to some fallen birch! Just in case your readers need to find one, that bit is also called a forstner bit.
Thanks so much for your comment and for the name of the bit. I looked for the name online but no luck! As for fallen branches, maybe a friend with a cottage? They don't have to be birch, and when branches come down in a windstorm homeowners usually appreciate some help getting rid of them! Thanks again.
I have these beautiful candle holders around the house. I love them, I put them down on a coaster because I didn't want to put them directly on my wooden table, and they molded the plastic coaster – is there a stain I can apply to prevent this from happening?
Thanks for your comment, Lisa. Did you mean that the wood left a mold stain on your coaster? I have seen this happen before because the wood has not dried out properly first. One thing that might help is raising the bottom of the candleholders with a few little stick-on plastic bumpers so that you get some air circulation. Or you can try painting the bottom with a clear acrylic sealer – some even are designed to help prevent mold. I think Zinsser makes one like this. I hope these ideas help – good luck!
I love these simple and stunning Birch Candles… So perfect!! Thank you for the inspiration… off to find some birch trees!!
Thanks Cynthia. I love that when you make them yourself you can have lots! So much more impact that way.
I LOVE these! We have a ton of little tea lights sitting around that we never use, and I think that THESE would be perfect for us to make to fill up our mantle for the holiday season in our new house! 🙂 Now I just need to find some birch logs!
These are a pretty quick project if you have access to the equipment. Good luck with it!
Oh wow – your birch tree candleholders look SO pretty!
Thanks Heather! Pretty easy to make, too, once you have the tools.
Thanks Janelle! These logs came from the wood pile at the cottage – pretty good score!
I love all the holders. My sister in law is hoping to do something like this. I'll have to pass it on! Gorgeous!
Thanks Kathryn! Fairly easy too if you can get your hands on the tools.
perfect! I love this winter look.
I made these for a wedding tablescape… but never thought to use them for Christmas!! your display looks beautiful, must go dig them out!!
Tried with Oak. Not a chance with the Forstner bit. I guess the wood has to be 100% dry.
I have a friend trying to make these for me for my daughter's wedding. We have the logs/branches, a drill press and a 2″ Foresner bit but each one is taking him hours to do. Any tips???
Is this because the drilling itself is taking a long time? I've made this project more than once. I found the time depends on the hardness of the logs. Usually the drilling has been pretty quick, but once I used very old logs and the drilling took forever because they were so hard. Birch and pine logs have drilled really easily. Hope that helps – good luck!
I've done this project a few times, each time with wood that was already dry. I don't think it's a problem to use fresh wood, except you have to remember that it will shrink so be sure to drill the holes a little bigger than you need to. And protect the surface of your table when you use them, in case the fresh wood causes damage. Exciting that you have an entire tree to work with! I've used branches as thick as 6 inches across, and they look great. Good luck and thanks for visiting!
Gorgeous collection and display! And I love that you're showing the "marbled" pieces of birch. I get tempted to only use the "clear" branches but these with the black lines through them have their own beauty don't they? Thank you for sharing. Pinning for sure!
Thanks for your comment! This is one of my favourite projects, and it's amazing that they look great almost anywhere I put them. And you're so right – the natural look seems to work well. Thanks for dropping by!
Do you mean that the wood is wet from rain? I have never done it, but I believe you can drill wet wood. There are some safety considerations as always when you are using electrical equipment, and I think the sawdust might gum up your equipment. You might want to research a little further. Good luck!
Hi there – love this project and my neighbour is as we speak taking down some dead birch trees so I have a full inventory. Question about fire retardant? Any issues with the candles? I was thinking to try and find a clear spray to protect from fire. Thoughts? I see you posted this several years ago, are you still making them?
Thanks for your comments. I haven't had a big concern with fire. If you burn a votive in these, you'll see the wooden edge doesn't get very hot. Maybe you can make a few and try it out. I think you should be careful with clear sprays, as some of these finishes are highly flammable. Maybe you could find a fire retardant spray that would be appropriate. I still use these same candles after several years. Thanks for dropping by!
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My Netflix account and I have an understanding. Every time Netflix releases a new show I might like, they tell me to watch it. The notifications will gently prompt me to check it out: "Sarah, this show is now available." Yeah, yeah. An email will follow shortly thereafter to reinforce the message: "Sarah, we just added a TV show you might like." Okay, I know. Meanwhile, I will inevitably delete the message, promptly forget the show ever existed, only to "discover" it a few weeks or months later and wonder why the hell nobody told me to watch it in the first place.
Not so when Netflix released One Day at a Time last Friday. The timing was perfect — Toronto's been under an extreme cold weather alert for four days, so I was housebound and in need of a new series after finishing The Crown. The notification popped up on my Netflix home screen and I clicked it absentmindedly, thinking I could watch it while making dinner.
One Day at a Time follows a Cuban-American family's adventures in what you may consider to be a stereotypical sitcom format: 30-minute episodes, multi-camera setup, a studio audience that laughs every now and again. You'd be wrong to dismiss it as just another vanilla comedy, though: Penelope Alvarez, played by the truly excellent Justina Machado, is an army veteran who served in Afghanistan and is readjusting to civilian life, office politics, and dating after separating from her husband. Her two teenage children, Elena and Alex, deal with a number of real-life issues with surprising frankness: peer pressure, immigration, deportation, sexuality. Penelope's mother, Lydia, played by Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony award-winner Rita Moreno — a true legend of stage and screen, absolutely unbelievable at 85 years old — is the keeper of the family's Cuban heritage, and gets a complex story line that includes grappling with the effects of age, struggling with her family's waning interest in religion, and dating as a senior.
Have I convinced you yet? This is a wholesome show that goes to the heart of difficult issues without ever feeling contrived or tacky. There's no "today, on a very special episode of …" here, but there are tough moments. Penelope's ex-husband, Victor, looms large throughout the first few episodes of the season: we learn that he is also an army vet who is affected by post-traumatic stress, and that he and Penelope broke up because he was abusing alcohol and painkillers and threatening to hurt himself. When he finally appears, just in time for Elena's quinceañera, he seems to be doing better; even so, the writers steer clear of any "look, my mental illness is magically cured!" shortcuts and keep the characters firmly grounded in reality (despite Lydia's best efforts to reunite the pair).
The supporting cast includes Stephen Tobolowsky as Penelope's hapless boss, Dr. Berkowitz, and Todd Grinnell as Schneider, their 40 year-old trust fund-kid landlord, who gets told off every chance they get (mansplaining, wearing a Che Guevara tshirt). Refreshingly, the men are true secondary characters, allowing Penelope to shine in every scene: Penelope takes Schneider car shopping, but he fails her completely, giving her the opportunity to face her fears about doing "husband stuff" like negotiating a good price; when Penelope finds out that a male coworker earns more than she does, she takes Dr. Berkowitz to task, and they have a frank conversation about pay equity that results in a raise.
It's nice to see a show about a strong woman who doesn't have her life totally figured out. Penelope is a self-described "badass Army chick," but she's also struggling to keep it together, and that honesty is what hooked me in from the very first episode.
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Podcast Series Episode 2 with Anneli Ahonen: We Should Beware of Our Inadvertent Vulnerabilities to Disinformation
The second episode of our podcast series Foreign Authoritarian-State Disinformation: Global Perspectives is out now! The initiative is supported by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with Meridian International Center as the implementing partner.
In this installment, Dr. Rumena Filipova talks to international media specialist, Anneli Ahonen. She has a longstanding experience in developing democratic responses to disinformation on the international level. Ms. Ahonen has followed closely Russia's disinformation around the invasion of Ukraine. Prior to that, she worked at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue as a senior fellow during the German Federal election in 2021. Until summer 2021, Anneli Ahonen was the Head of the East Stratcom Task Force at the European External Action Service. She led the team's work on strategic communication in the Eastern Partnership countries and the EU's response to Russia's disinformation, including running the EUvs.Disinfo campaign. Earlier Ms. Ahonen worked as a journalist for ten years, out of which in the period between 2009 and 2016 in St. Petersburg for the biggest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
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The best practices of EU strategic communications.
The next policy frontiers in moderating disinformation on social media.
What makes audiences vulnerable to Russian disinformation.
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Detail from Melancholy by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1532). Wikimedia Commons.
In the Western world today, witches, necromancers, demonologists, and magicians are the stuff of legends and stories, but they once seemed very real and inspired powerful emotions: anxiety and terror, envy and anger, pain and grief. The supernatural was essential to a subtle, sophisticated, and pervasive worldview, and was experienced on a daily basis by sane, intelligent people whose outlook on the universe was no less coherent than our own.
Understanding how our ancestors felt about these potent yet unseen environmental forces, and how these feelings changed between 1300 and 1900, is the main purpose of this three-year research project (2015–2018). It brings together historians of the medieval, early modern, and modern periods to examine evidence of human engagement with diverse supernatural realms (through prayer and contemplation, ritual and conjuration, astrology and divination) in the contexts of cosmos, community, and household, with a view to reconstructing the emotions that connected past selves with the supernatural and, in turn and ultimately, inner lives.
The first is that personal identity and subjectivity can be meaningfully historicized. Self-consciousness is universal, yet its expression was culturally constructed and therefore variable. The period 1300–1900 saw shifting boundaries between rich and poor, literate and illiterate, sceptical and credulous, from which new possibilities emerged for contemporaries to make and understand the self.
The second is that the study of emotions offers privileged access to personal identities and inner lives in past. Constructions of selfhood essentially comprise subjective feelings and responses to the challenges and opportunities of being alive in certain places at certain times; in other words, emotions, enmeshed with cognition, define consciousness and create identity. Recent research has shown how emotions can be studied, first, through public and private expression (e.g. letters, diaries, speeches, sermons); secondly, through the material culture of magical actions that are linked emotionally to the immediate environment; and thirdly, through the ideological reduction of emotions as social ideals and transgressions.
The third is that individuals leave some of the most valuable traces of their inner selves through their emotional interactions with the supernatural, via prayer, spell, or experiment. Involvement with occult forces engaged emotion as well as intellect. Thus, people formed impressions of themselves, often conflicted ones, in relation to their personal, social, and cosmic environments. The supernatural was dangerous terrain involving forms of spiritual communication that were usually at odds with orthodox worship.
In order to test these hypotheses, the project combines three diverse yet thematically linked studies, spanning six hundred years and focussing respectively on the scales of cosmos (1300–1500), community (1500–1700), and household (1700–1900). It thereby transcends the traditional yet artificial interpretative barriers erected between 'medieval', 'early modern', and 'modern' history, and between different geographical scales. The project is ranging widely across historical sub-disciplines (histories of society, religion, ideas, mentalities, emotions) to build a holistic sense of what inner lives in the past might have meant to those who lived them. The project is also drawing on other disciplines (especially anthropology, archaeology, and psychology), and is interconnecting a diverse array of manuscript, printed, and object-based sources, some of which, especially material culture, have been under-explored in studies of the medieval and post-medieval supernatural.
Through these methods, we hope to recover an authentic sense of inner lives (the qualities of lived experience, the perceptual contingency of 'reality', and pre-modern people's self-knowledge, self-image, and ways of seeing others), and will probe the limits of the historian's ability to say meaningful things about inner lives in the past, a world we have lost. We will examine continuities and discontinuities over time – challenging in particular simplistic, deterministic views of a transition from a sacralized to a secular universe – and will also illustrate how understandings of emotions changed, tracing in particular a shift in practical definitions (e.g. in encyclopaedias and dictionaries) from a range of sensory perceptions of stimuli towards a set of more abstract feelings contained within the body. Finally, in response to the theoretical abstraction of much work in the history of emotions, we aim to ground emotional engagement with the supernatural in solid historical contexts of event and action.
The project has been made possible by the generosity of The Leverhulme Trust, through the award of a Research Project Grant of £249,524 (RPG-2015-180). |
Friday is here and we wish we were in a casita! It's probably because we revealed a beautiful casita bedroom in a webisode and photo tour! We also shared our favorite light, mirror and wall color combinations!! Let's look at our top pinned images. |
Wamel is een dorp (circa inwoners) in het Land van Maas en Waal in de Nederlandse provincie Gelderland. Het is een dijkdorp op de linkeroever van de Waal. Aan de overkant van deze rivier ligt Tiel, waarmee het door het fiets-en-voetveer Tiel - Wamel – en sinds 1973 door de Prins Willem-Alexanderbrug, de eerste zelfdragende betonnen brugconstructie van Nederland – is verbonden. Wamel behoort tot de gemeente West Maas en Waal.
Historie
De eerste vermelding van Wamel, toen Vamele (doorwaadbare plaats) geheten, dateert uit 893 na Chr. wanneer de Abdij van Prüm een hof te Wamel bezit. Omstreeks 1445 werd het clarissenklooster Clarekamp gesticht.
De vermogende Lambert de Haze uit Wamel schonk begin 15de eeuw een huis en jaarlijks geld aan de Zusters van het Gemeenen Leven in Deventer om ook een klooster te stichten in Wamel. Dit werd een plaats voor alleenstaande vrouwen (begijnen), weduwen en ouderen: het "St Mariënhof".
In Wamel waren diverse kastelen en adellijke huizen gelegen, zoals Sterkenburg, Lakenburg en Pollenstein.
Op 1 januari 1818 werd de gemeente vergroot met de opgeheven gemeente Leeuwen. Op 1 januari 1984 werd de gemeente Wamel samengevoegd met de gemeenten Appeltern en Dreumel tot een fusiegemeente met de werknaam Wamel. Op 1 juli 1985 werd de naam van deze nieuwe gemeente gewijzigd in West Maas en Waal.
Geboren
Lando van den Berg (1913-1969), priester en kunstenaar
Koos Pompen (1930-2018), burgemeester van Boekel en Beers
Thijs van Beem (1953), burgemeester van Winterswijk
Bram Vermeulen (1974), NOS-correspondent in Turkije en Zuid Afrika
Iris van Herpen (1984), modeontwerpster
Zie ook
Lijst van burgemeesters van Wamel
Lijst van rijksmonumenten in Wamel
Lijst van gemeentelijke monumenten in Wamel
Fusillades in Tiel
Plaats in Gelderland
Geografie van West Maas en Waal
Voormalige gemeente in Gelderland |
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If you're going to delve deeply into cooking Vietnamese food, get over your fear of heat and make some caramel sauce! It's not as difficult as you may think. Just get some sugar, water and a saucepan. Once you've mastered it, it will quickly become your stealth ingredient. All you're doing is nearly burning sugar.
Caramel sauce (nuoc mau, pronounced "nook mao") is one of the cornerstones of Vietnamese cooking. It's primarily used in kho dishes to simmer savory foods such as whole fish, pork, shrimp, chicken, eggs and tofu — homey foods that are the soul of Vietnamese cooking. The color and flavor of caramel sauce are transformative, making food not only look beautifully amber but also delectable.
The term nuoc mau was originally coined in South Vietnam. People in North Vietnam called the same ingredient nuoc hang ("nook hahng"), literally translated as 'merchandising water', probably because it was so often used by food hawkers to enhance the appearance of their wares. Think of how molasses add to the flavor of barbecued foods.
The traditional method of making this sauce requires you to add boiling water to the caramelized sugar, which starts a dramatic reaction that's not for the faint of heart. The point of doing this is to arrest the cooking process so that the sugar doesn't burn to a bitter black stage. I find it easier to place the pan bottom into a sink filled with water and then adding the remaining water to dilute the sugar. The result of both approaches is the same bittersweet inky sauce that's a staple in every Vietnamese kitchen.
Use caramel sauce for Viet kho dishes, or as a little cheat in your marinades for foods that will go on the grill so that they color nicely. Don't put it on ice cream or other desserts. Its sweet, dark coffee flavor will taste yucky bad. Finally, select a light-colored saucepan to monitor the caramelization, and make sure it's clean.
off doing it yourself! The photos below are for encouragement.
heavy-bottomed saucepan. Place the sugar and 1/4 cup of the water into the saucepan and cook over medium-low heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves, about 2 to 3 minutes.
pagne yellow to light tea to dark tea.
When smoke starts rising, remove the saucepan from the heat and slowly swirl it around. Watch the sugar closely as it will turn darker by the second; a reddish cast will set in (think the color of a big and bold red wine) as the bubbles become a lovely burnt orange. Pay attention to the color of the caramel underneath the bubbles. When the caramel color is that of black coffee or molasses, place the pan in the sink to stop the cooking process. The hot pan bottom will sizzle upon contact and the bubble action will subside.
he saucepan back on the stove over medium heat, stirring until the caramel has dissolved into the water. The result will be slightly viscous; flavor-wise, it will be bittersweet. Pour the caramel sauce into a small glass jar and let it cool; it will thicken further. Store indefinitely in your kitchen cupboard.
Recipe from: Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors (Ten Speed Press, 2006) by Andrea Nguyen.
Cool! Thanks for the detailed photo breakdown of how to make this.
I was all set to make the caramel sauce…and then realized I STILL HAVE NOT BOUGHT SUGAR. Ran out last week.
Can I use palm sugar or the rock sugar?
Hey, thanks Kevin for the posting!
btw, I just read your article in the latest Saveur. You write so beautifully and elegantly, really capturing the spirit, hardwork and the humbleness of the family.
Thanks Jaden. The avocado feature was fun and lots of research, but the Hmong farmer story is one that I've wanted to write for years. The Xiongs were exceptional in many ways.
It looks so easy to make and we can't miss this caramel sauce in any of the Tet simmer dish..!!
How long can we keep if we couldn't finish it?
Can we put in the fridge of the remain?
Yep, just give it a whirl. It's just sugar and water. You can keep the caramel sauce in the cupboard indefinitely. I have a jar that I just keep replenishing over time. I've never refrigerated it, and it's has never gone bad. However, you certainly can put it in the fridge.
Tam, like Indonesian kecap manis? That's a good idea. Usually, I mix a some sugar in with the nuoc mau, along with nuoc mam fish sauce. The quantity of sugar depends on what the dish is that I'm going to simmer.
Your mom has taken an extra step to cut down her work later on!
Aii! I am a very expeerienced cook but had nothing but trouble with this caramel sauce – I attribute it to the fact I was cooking in the rocky mtn foothills at ~8400′ elevation.
In my first attempt, the sugar never dissolved, and withiin moments went from a murky syrup to a glob of crystalized sugar. I quickly added hot water and it became a clear syrup – "a step in the right direction" I thought.
Dotty, It may be your altitude, though I'm not 100% sure. I've experienced crystallization when (1) I hadn't cleaned my saucepan well enough or (2) my sugar was old and/or been exposed to moisture due to poor storage.
Sorry you had trouble but you pulled the pulled pork off! If I hear anything, I'll let you know.
Just read your book last night ( till 4AM) love the recipes, love the family history which is similar but different to mine.
Vietnamese food is just taking off in leaps and bounds over here as well. Good to have a book that's so grassroots!
Sorry to have kept you up so late. Thanks for the awfully kind words. I'm thrilled that Vietnamese food is thriving in Australia. I must visit some day!
Hi Andrea! I just got your book a week ago and I've been greedily devouring it… literally!
I gave the sauce a try today, because i'm going to attempt the lemongrass riblets tomorrow and want to marinate them.
Hi O, yep, there are many factors in cooking and yes, it sounds like it could have been your heat. But you got the stuff to caramelize in the end, which is fabulous! You don't want to stir the sugar after the initial stirring because you can introduce alien bits into it and the sugar reacts poorly. However, you can swirl the pan, if there are hot spots.
Glad to know you're enjoying the book so much!
P.S. Your blog at http://Chocolateshavings.com is great! Keep up the beautiful work.
Yeah that makes sense. I imagine if you stir too much the sugar that crystalises on the sides of the pan at the beginning can get dissolved late in the process and not caramelize… leaving a sauce that is too sweet.
Thanks for visiting the blog! I just posted the riblets (http://chocolateshavings.ca/?p=150) if you want to take a look.
Hey Andrea – Dotty in Colorado here again.
So I tried to make the Caramel Sauce at 5280′. Same thing happened – a crystallized pan of sugar. Ug.
I looked in a high altitude baking book and found a recipe for Burnt Sugar ~ looked similar so I tried it. Yippee! I was able to make the Caramel Sauce!
It is basically the same as your sauce, only no water with the initial sugar. Just melt it in a pan (takes a while!) and when it gets to that lovely, dark, espresso color add water. It was great.
Dotty, Whoah! It was the water that made the difference in the Mile High State. Thanks for sharing the insight. I'm sure many others will benefit from your persistence! Love it.
I noticed that you listed la lot as Pepper leaf, wild betel leaf, ye-thoei (Thai)and I always thought la lot and shaa ploo/chaa phluu (Thai) were the same. I use these leaves for Miang kam bai chaa phluu (Thai) and for the Vietnamese wrapped ground meats. I have one small vine potted in the greenhouse window. I am hoping to find additional plants and plant out in the greenhouse under the wood slat tables.
is it suppose to taste bitter and slightly sweet?
or sweet and slightly bitter??
most caramel i tasted is in ice-cream. so it always taste sweet..but never bitter.
This is going back to the questions about high altitude — Thank you Dotty!! I live at just over 3000 feet and barely qualify as high altitude; very few of my recipes have ever needed adjusting. But I ruined batch after batch of this caramel sauce until I finally realized the problem. Thank you for the solution!
Love it that caramel sauce is being made in your high-altitude kitchen. The sky's the limit once you have the bittersweet gem in your cupboard.
Thanks so much for your Web site! I've been able to use your recipes while away at college and come home to surprise my Vietnamese parents with newly acquired cooking skills!
I am about to use the caramel sauce which I've kept in the cupboard but it is crystallized and somewhat solid. Did I do something wrong or am I supposed to just reheat (?in the microwave) to use it again??
Do you ever used the pre-made nuoc mau that comes in a bottle? I've used that couple of times and it came out pretty good.
Do you ever use the pre-made nuoc mau that comes in a bottle? I've used it a couple of times and it comes out pretty good.
Hi John — I've tried the pre-made stuff and found it to be very bitter — even after diluting it and adding sugar to tweak it. What did you do?
I have been following your blog from Lyon, France. I truly appreciate your effort in making Vietnamese cooking more accessible to a wider audience.
I attempted to make nÜÖc màu last week and it didn't turn out well. I got scared when I started to see some smoke rising and I think I removed the pot a few minutes too early. I am going to try again this weekend. Do you have advice about the smoke? How much smoke is smokey enough?
Miss Saigon Restaurant in Rockville, MD, serves a fantastic caramel sauce on many dishes that appears to have black pepper and some type of chili in it. Can you comment on how I might incorporate these into your recipe, since I am desperate to replicate that sauce in my kitchen!
I tried this twice and ended up with giant crystalized rocks both times. The second time, I didn't stir it at all. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Maggie — Try adding a drop of lemon or lime juice to the sugar and water before heating it up. That should help to prevent the crystallization, which happens if there's a smidgen of detergent/alien in the pot or sugar. Let me know how you fare. Thanks for reporting/sharing your frustration.
i have the same problem with the sauce not carmelizing and getting crystalized sugar – though not at high altitude. What are the other possibilities – you mention sugar with moisture and how "clean" does your sauce pan need to be?
Connie — it's tricky. Clean pan plus sugar that's not corrupted by strange bits. Usually homecooks don't have the sugar corruption problem.
Try adding a few drops of lemon or lime juice right at the beginning. That should do it.
HELP! I need to figure out the science of this I guess, but I could not get my sugar to caramelize. Is it b/c I only have non-stick pots? I also used an organic sugar..evaporated can juice, not white? It kept crystallizing, the whole mass. So I would add water to liquefy it again, and just kept repeating this vicious cycle and playing with the heat (increasing it). After 45 minutes…I gave up. I guess it is shrimp in spicy tamarind sauce tonight instead! Can you buy caramel sauce? BTW.
Tessa, I've made caramel sauce before with C&H Organic sugar and it was fine. Try adding a few drops of lime or lemon juice to the pan when you put the sugar and water in there. The use of a nonstick pot shouldn't affect things. Go for it again! Please.
Hmmm… can I also use this for crème caramel? I love that dessert, especially the caramel syrup. I'm actually looking for its recipe.
I've made two batches of this now and I'm a bit worried that it's not particularly viscous, it's a nice dark rich colour but it just seems a little runnier than I'd expected. What sort of consistency should it be?
I just made this, and I'm worried that maybe it's not right. This is my first time making caramel sauce.
I have to use this recipe for a pulled pork recipe, and i don't want the dish to get ruined! As far as looks go, it looks like your pictures. This should not be so hard for me, but it is!
It is basically the same as your sauce, only no water with the initial sugar.
Your articles help me a lot in all mediums of subjects.
Is cow broth a staple at all for Asian culture? Isn't the cow greatly respected spiritually?
I tried this recipe three times (I own your book) and every time it crystallized. The sugar has been stored in an air-tight container, so it couldn't have absorbed moisture prior to using it in the recipe. What am I doing wrong?
FYI, I did a little research, and if you're measuring the temperature of the sugar 390-400F/200-205C is the eye of the needle between still too sweet and burnt. Luckily also — and the photos are greatly helpful here — this is also where the chemical reactions occur, turning the sauce a deep molasses color.
As a side question, do you ever make more than 1 cup/250mL at a time? I'd like to fill a jar double that size, but am thinking it's probably better to do two batches. Thanks.
Thanks for the temp insights! You can certainly make a double batch but on occassion, I find that the amount of time required is roughly the same. But you'd only have to wash the pot once!
Thanks, and success on my first attempt with a double batch. I didn't pull out the candy thermometer, but used an IR one. With this I was reading 375-380F when it hit the black coffee color and I pulled it; the steam coming off may be the reason for the lower reading. Overall the color change was the best indicator, though measuring the temperature was helpful.
This was done on an electric stove, which is less than ideal. As the burner cycles on and off, I had to put it at a higher setting (then dial it back down) to bring it up to temperature, and slow the rise as we got close.
Lastly, the final product has the right color and a great taste. It isn't exactly watery, nor is it the consistency of the kind of caramel sauce you'd put on ice cream. I'd probably describe it as more like a thick syrup that flows nicely — easy to pour into a measuring cup or spoon. Is this to thin, or just about right? Thanks.
Hoooray!!! You've just earned a bunch of stars in the Viet food arena.
Thick syrup is perfect. You don't want it to misinterpreted as a dessert treat. So happy. High fives!
I am trying to make this sauce on a glass topped electric stove. It will not work as you directed, I'm sorry to,say. Finally it just crystallized and evaporated. What can I do to,change that.
Make sure to use cane sugar, not beet sugar. Plus add 1/8 teaspoon vinegar or fresh lime or lemon juice to avoid crystalization. Hope that does the trick! |
Home News Ukranian woman 'raped by teenage Russian soldier' as she sheltered in school
Ukranian woman 'raped by teenage Russian soldier' as she sheltered in school
News George Holan · March 31, 2022 · 0 Comment
TO young Ukrainian woman was raped and stabbed in a vicious attack after the village where she lived was occupied by Russian troops, it has been claimed, amid deepening concern over reports of sexual violence in the war.
The mother of the victim has made a video, talking about what happened to her daughter who has been left traumatized by her ordeal. Neighbors of the family told The Independent separately about the assault, and also what supposedly happened to the Russian soldier accused of carrying it out.
The rape took place at Mala Rohan, a village near Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine, seized by Russian forces on 25 February, the day after Vladimir Putin's invasion began.
The 27-year-old victim, mother of a five-year-old girl, also suffered knife wounds during the sustained sexual assault which began after a drunken Russian soldier burst into a school where people had taken refuge during fierce fighting.
The village was retaken by Ukrainian forces this week in a counter-offensive to drive back Russian troops who have been trying to capture Kharkiv, the second city of Ukraine, just 25 miles from the Russian border and viewed as a prime prize for Moscow.
The rape of the woman is said to have taken place on the night of 13 March.
The soldier who carried out the attack, said to be 19-years-old, was subsequently arrested by Russian forces after he was identified by local people and disappeared.
A villager who led the arresting soldiers to the suspect, ticketed at a local house, said that two Russian officers had told him that the rapist would be summarily executed, and his family would be told that he had been killed in action.
A destroyed car is seen in a crater from a Russian attack that destroyed a house in Kharkiv
"The soldier who did it was a young guy, 19-years-old, his name was Vladimir. He had been drinking all day before he raped the poor girl. He was out of control, this was happening a bit, there didn't seem to be much discipline among the Russian troops", Sergei, 55, tells The Independent.
"I went to the house where this guy was living with five Russians, most of them were officers. I went in by myself and said to the soldier, 'you know what this is about, don't you?' He gave me his rifle. I have been in the army, I took out the magazine, and then took him out where the other soldiers got hold of him."
Sergei, who did not want his surname published, continues: "I remember him very well, he was about medium height, quite well-built, dark-haired, with tattoos on his neck. He wasn't aggressive, he looked back at me as he was being taken away.
"A couple of the officers said that the soldier would be shot, this would be done out in the woods. There would be no official record, the guy's family would be told that he had been killed fighting the Ukrainians."
Sergei's account of what took place was verified by three other villagers.
(Kim Sengupta)
The victim and her family left Mala Rohan the following day. Her mother de ella made a video recounting the attack and its devastating impact on the young woman. The Independent has seen the video which makes harrowing viewing.
The victim's mother tells of how a Russian soldier arrived at the school at midnight, when there were around 40 people left out of around a hundred, who had initially gathered amid prolonged bombing outside.
The soldier, who was drunk, waved a pistol ordering everyone to kneel, threatening to shoot them, said the mother. He then took the woman's son away with him and forced him to join in a spree of smashing shop windows with iron rods.
The soldier returned with the son half an hour later, to the relief of the family. But he then grabbed the young woman at gunpoint and dragged her to a room on the second floor of the school while her young girl cried in fear.
"I couldn't sleep all night, thinking that he'd kill her. She came back at seven in the morning. The soldier had raped her repeatedly. He injected her with something, saying it was a painkiller, and that she wo n't feel anything from her because of it, "said the mother.
"He raped her and cut her around her face and her neck with a knife. He also cut off some of her hair from her. My daughter cannot speak about this anymore; she has been so badly affected by what happened."
I am Russian myself and I am ashamed of what is happening now. It is not just this rape which was so bad, they had attacked this country for no reason, what is happening is wrong.
Valentina, a Mala Rohan villager
Another resident of Mala Rohan, Valentina, 65, said: "What happened was terrible, really terrible. I heard that after the rape the soldier told other soldiers that the young woman had gone to the room with him willingly.
"That was a lie of course. When the Russians accepted that it was a lie they said they were shocked. An officer came and apologized to a lot of people, the family left as soon as they could, the poor people.
Two other villagers, Yulia, 47, and Andrei, 46, who verified the accounts of the sexual assault, said the behavior of the Russian forces have been mixed.
"Some of them got us food and generally tried to help, but others were shooting in the air, acting badly, drinking a lot," says Yulia. "This village has been destroyed because of their presence. We have had to spend most of the time underground for a month because of all the bombing.
"We don't know what happened to the soldier who carried out the rape, they said they were going to shoot him. He could have easily killed that girl and other people at the school."
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a warehouse after it was hit by Russian shelling in Kharkiv
The revelation of the attack in Mala Rohan comes after Ukraine's chief prosecutor, Iryna Venediktova, announced that a Russian soldier is wanted in connection with a rape of a woman, and the murder of the woman's husband in Brovary, near Kyiv.
Public figures and human rights groups in Ukraine and abroad have warned that the actual numbers of cases of sexual abuse by Russian forces are likely to be far higher.
Maria Mezentseva, the MP for Kharkiv in the Ukrainian parliament said last week that there "many more victims", and she expected the attacks to come to light. "We will definitely not be silent", she says.
Around a dozen people are said to have been killed in Mala Rohan during in the fighting. One man was buried by his family in the garden of their home because it was too dangerous to travel to the cemetery outside the village.
"His name was Mikhail he died in the bombing. The family waited for several days to see whether they could bury him properly. But at the end they had no choice but to dig a grave in the garden," says Svetoslav Schneider, a neighbour.
"Some families left when they could. I stayed behind and I look after their belongings, not just their homes, but their pets, their farm animals. Hopefully people will return. But others may settle elsewhere."
Cars hit on the road outside the village
Another body, unburied, that of a Russian soldier, lay 20 yards from the home of Vasilyi Gregerovich. "They just left him there, him and many others dead, when they withdrew in a rush. They came to this country, fought in this stupid war and some of them died," he commented.
Mr Gregerovich was staying on in Mala Rohan.
"I am 82-years-old. What am I going to do at my time of life? But I can understand if some people who left choose not to come back here. We were cut off for more than a month, bad things happened here, people will have bad memories they will try to forget". |
Texts by Ekaterina Degot, Sven Spieker. Conversation between Jan Wenzel, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Christoph Weber.Designed by Anna Lena von Helldorff [buero total]. Contents of the book relates to the sculpture of Christoph Weber The First Minutes of October which refers to the movie October by Sergej Eisenstein (1927). |
A sprig of winterberry at Sandra Pond. The tree or shrub sprouts bright red berries this time of year.
Winterberry shows festive red these days in Westborough's November wetlands.
Common winterberry (Ilex verticillata) is a small native tree or shrub that sports bright red berries on its branches in November and well into the winter months. It favors wetlands, so you'll find it growing at the edges of streams and ponds, in swamps, and sometimes at the edges of vernal pools. Black alder is sometimes another name for it.
You may notice winterberry while walking in the woods or driving along a wooded road, although it is sensitive to road salt. Sometimes you'll be tipped off by a car that's pulled over on the side of the road near a low, wooded wet area. You might even see the car's occupants returning from the woods with boughs of winterberry for seasonal decorations.
Winterberry grows in a few places along the shores of the Westborough Reservoir (Sandra Pond), although the recent trimming and brush-cutting along the shores have made it less apparent--but not for long. Lots of suckers are coming up and bearing fruit, so in a few years winterberry is likely to be much easier to see there.
If you follow some of the trails in the Westboro Wildlife Management Area that pass through wooded wet areas, you're likely to see an occasional winterberry putting on its brilliant show.
Winterberry is in the holly family, which is not surprising when you consider the red berries. Unlike many hollies, it loses its leaves in the winter. It is sometimes called swamp holly.
Like a typical holly, winterberry has male and female flowers mostly on separate plants. Only the female flowers produce berries, and only if there's a male plant nearby for pollination. You probably won't notice the small white flowers when they appear in June.
Why do the conspicuous red berries last on the branches? Don't birds and animals eat them? It turns out that the berries do get eaten, but usually not right away. For all their showy brightness, these pea-sized berries are low-quality fruit, with a low fat content. To humans, they have a bitter taste.
Birds and animals pass them up in favor of more nutritional food until there's nothing better around. Later in the winter, or during bouts of severe winter weather, the berries will finally disappear into hungry mouths.
Sometimes, the berries even last until spring, when they become food for birds that return early to these parts.
Native Americans had uses for winterberry, as they did for so many things in nature. The berries were an ingredient in remedies for worms in children.
It was the bark, not the berries, that proved most useful to them. They boiled the bark and buds in water and reduced the liquid down. They applied it externally to infected sores and gangrene. They also took it internally for fever, jaundice, and other ailments. For this reason, winterberry was also known as feverbush.
A number of commercial varieties of winterberry have been developed. They are available from nurseries for gardening and landscaping. Winterberry is relatively easy to grow in sunny, wet areas. To get the beautiful berries, it's important to purchase one male plant for several female plants. |
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Albert Maria Eibenschütz (Berlín, 15 d'abril de 1857 - Berlín, vers el 1930) fou un pianista alemany.
Feu els primers estudis en la Musterschule de Frankfurt del Main; des de 1874 fins al 1876 freqüentà el Conservatori de Leipzig, tenint per professors a Paul i Reinecke. Més tard acceptà una plaça a Jarkov (Rússia) i allà fou deixeble de Rubinstein. Aquest el 1878, el cridà al Conservatori de Leipzig perquè s'encarregués de la càtedra de piano. El 1880 passà a Colònia com a professor de perfeccionament de piano, on hi va romandre tretze anys.
Després es traslladà a Berlín, on ensenyà en el Conservatori Stern, i més tard a Wiesbaden, on fundà un Institut, que hagué d'abandonar per manca de salut, traslladant llavors la seva residència a Aquisgrà, per a dedicar-se a l'ensenyança i fou sots-director d'aquell Conservatori.
Des del maig de 1918 va residir a Berlín dedicat a la composició. Se li'n deuen peces de piano a dues i quatre mans, lieder, obres de música de cambra, simfonies i d'altres. Ensems va actuar diverses vegades com a solista en la Gewandhaus de Leipzig, a Gürzenich, Colònia, en el Museum de Frankfurt i en diversos punts d'Alemanya, Suïssa, els Països Baixos, Bèlgica, França, etc.
Des del 3 de juny de 1898 estava casat amb la pianista Wilhelmine Eibenschütz-Wnuczek.
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\section{IF07 Executive Summary}
In pursuit of its physics goals, the high energy physics community
develops increasingly complex detectors, with each subsequent
generation pushing to ever finer granularity. For example, the
emergence and growing dominance
of particle-flow reconstruction methods has stressed
the increasing importance of very fine detector granularity, not
only for tracking detectors but also for calorimetry, and has also
initiated the push to "4D" detectors that combine precision measurements
of both spatial and time coordinates to their measurements of
energy and momentum. While these developments have led to enormous
growth in detector channel counts, the analog performance requirements
for energy and momentum measurements, as well as spatial and timing precision,
are being maintained or (more typically) even tightened.
These challenging detector requirements drive the corresponding development of
readout electronics. A variety of factors, including the growing
specialization of the functionality required, and the explosive
growth in channel counts and typically modest (if any) increases in the
material budget and the power and cooling budgets,
lead to the increasing reliance on custom-developed Application
Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). This trend is further
exacerbated by challenges in the various experimental environments,
including radiation hardness requirements, cryogenic
and deep-cryogenic operations, and
space-based detector systems.
The development of custom ASICs in advanced technology nodes allows HEP detector
subsystems to achieve higher channel density, enhanced
performance, lower power consumption, lower mass, much greater radiation
tolerance, and improved cryogenic temperature performance than is possible
with commercial integrated circuits (ICs) or discrete components.
The higher level of integration also leads to fewer components and
fewer connections, leading to higher reliability, as required by
experiments that can run for decades and that provide access to
the on-detector electronics at most annually, and sometimes never.
This writeup summarizes the work of ``IF07'', namely
Topical Working Group 7 of the
Instrumentation Frontier group of the Snowmass 2021 process. Group IF07
dealt with issues pertaining to ASICs and Readout Electronics. The
community efforts as part of IF07 were organized across 7 white papers
submitted to the Snowmass process. The first~\cite{whitepaper1}
discusses issues related to the need to maintain the talented
workforce required to successfully develop future HEP electronics
systems, and to provide the appropriate training and recruitment.
The remaining papers focused on electronics for particular detector
subsystems or technologies, including calorimetry~\cite{whitepaper2},detectors for fast timing~\cite{whitepaper4}, optical links~\cite{whitepaper5}, smart sensors using AI~\cite{whitepaper6},cryogenic readout~\cite{whitepaper7},
and RF readout systems~\cite{whitepaper8}.
In the following section, a brief overview is provided of each
of the white papers in turn.
A white paper on silicon and photo-detectors was originally considered. This content is now captured by other frontiers with contributions form ASICs and readout electronics.
There are some overarching goals for advancing the field of readout and ASICs. Efforts with broad impact include:
There are some overarching goals for advancing the field of readout and ASICs. Efforts with broad impact include:
\begin{itemize}
\item[{\bf IF07-1}]: Provide baseline support and specialized {\bf training opportunities} for the instrumentation work force to keep the US electronics instrumentation and ASIC workforce current.
\item[{\bf IF07-2}]: Improve mechanisms for {\bf shared access to advanced technology} providing broader access by the community to foster real exchange of information and accelerate development.
\item[{\bf IF07-3}]: Continue to develop methodologies to {\bf adapt the technology for operation in extreme environments}. Deep cryogenics, ultra-radio pure materials, radiation-harsh environments with limited power budget and long lifetime for all cases.
\item[{\bf IF07-4}]: Develop novel techniques to manage very high {\bf data rates}. Data reduction and optimization needs to be as close as possible to the generation point with acceptable power consumption.
\item[{\bf IF07-5}]: Create framework and platform for {\bf easy access to design tools}. Develop specialized online resources for the HEP community (e.g. system simulations and design repository). Provide the basis for true co-design R\&{}D efforts: from simulation to verification and implementation.
\end{itemize}
\section{Overview of IF07 White Papers}
A brief overview and high-level summary of each
of the 7 IF07 white papers is provided below. For a more detailed
discussion of each of the various topics, the interested reader
is referred to
the white papers themselves, and to the references therein.
\subsection{Workforce and Training Needs}
Two decades ago as we embarked on the design of the LHC detector systems \emph{on detector} readout was focused on the integration of custom sensors and multiple types of Application Specific Integrated Circuits with communications rates at or below 100 Mbps. Significant effort went into the design of printed circuits on boards or flexible substrates. A new generation of ASICs were coming into use that could survive radiation tolerance levels consistent with the needs of LHC provided specialized layout techniques were employed. Designers were faced with learning new tools and rules for commercial ASICs that were attainable in a few months and system interfaces were being designed that allowed multiple institutions to design parts of a readout system nearly independently.
As LHC systems were being placed into service commercial ASICs and communications systems were leap frogging forward and significant change was moving the state of the art forward faster than our communities and budgets could maintain pace. Today's HL-LHC designs have been able to take advantage of advances that are still several technology generations behind the commercial state of the art to move what previously was multi-chip functionality onto a single silicon substrate to make systems on a chip that operate at much higher clock rates and can hold and selectively readout more data and contain most or all of the readout blocks for modules of thousands of small size sensors. The price for successful submission of these far more complex, low power integrated circuits has been the requirement for a workforce with knowledge of a broad set of new tools for design and verification as well as formalized design management and integration tools that don't allow new versions or blocks to compromise the overall performance or design progress of these now highly complex systems on a chip. We also recognize the revolution in capabilities offered by new, complex FPGA's that comprise a large part of the off detector readout of detector systems designed over the past decade. Here too the required knowledge base has expanded sufficiently far that coding is no longer an easy to skill to learn for this or next generation designers. We foresee the need for continuing workforce training past the qualifying academic degrees to update commercial design skills. Many designs require HEP specialized knowledge to enable successful first time designs for extreme temperature and radiation environments. Our community exploit the internet to provide an archive with searchable access to design examples from previous generations of detectors to replace the institutional knowledge passed down from previous teams. This is especially important given that the time between large detector system developments may exceed career lifetimes. In these extended interim's it is recognized that core HEP instrumentation specialists need to update their skills with practical projects to ensure their familiarity with the evolving state of the art in ASIC designs. This can be encouraged by DOE provided annual FOA's to support the design of service blocks that will be necessary in yet to be defined front end ASICs for next generation sensor arrays: High speed communication links, data storage blocks, PLL's, power converters and regulators etc. Having silicon tested designs for next generation ASICs will both speed up design cycles and help maintain workforce skill levels consistent with current (at the time of need) ASIC design tool familiarity to minimize the number of design submissions required to assure reliable ASIC performance. It would also be helpful for DOE to encourage a hybrid Instrumentation Based qualification for PHD degrees as part of a basic High Energy Physics degree.
In addition it will be beneficial to have instrumentation conferences with training available to introduce new design approaches or technologies.
We see the recent support from DOE for Instrumentation based traineeship to be an important step towards having a better trained, better informed workforce not only for designing systems but also for the benefit of future peer reviewed systems.
\subsection{Calorimeter Readout Electronics}
Calorimeters will continue to serve as key detector subsystems
at future colliders, as well as in many other applications.
The traditional challenges of calorimeter readout electronics systems,
including providing high precision energy measurements over a very
wide dynamic range, are increasingly compounded by the demands of much
finer granularity and correspondingly higher readout rates, as well
as the demand of providing precision time measurements in
the move toward ``4D calorimetry''. The on-detector location of
the frontend electronics, necessitated by signal-to-noise and
other requirements, imposes additional challenges, including
tolerance to radiation and/or magnetic fields, reliability over periods
of a year or more without maintenance, and power and cooling budgets.
Some of the key innovations in calorimetry that are driving ongoing and future readout electronics developments include
particle flow algorithms, in which measurements of energies from
calorimeters are combined with the momentum
measurements from charged-particle tracking detectors.
and dual-readout detectors, which provide a more flexible combination
of the electromagnetic and hadronic components of a shower. Both
of these methods aim to significantly improve the energy
resolution, and both can be implemented
either with or without timing information as an added component.
Particle flow algorithms are pushing calorimeter designs to
ever finer granularities, and therefore greatly increasing
channel counts. As an example, the High Granularity Endcap
Calorimeter (HGCAL)
being developed currently for the CMS HL-LHC upgrade
includes over 6 million
readout channels, a dramatic increase over the $\approx 200k$
channels of the ATLAS liquid argon (LAr) calorimeters that
set the scale for "finely segmented" among the original LHC detectors.
Meeting the challenges for frontend calorimeter readouts
has relied on custom ASICs for over 30 years, and ASICs will only
become increasingly important. Fortunately, the higher level of
integration available today has permitted some consolidation;
for example, while the current ATLAS liquid argon (LAr) frontend
required development of 11 different custom ASICs, spread over
a variety of technologies, the HL-LHC development underway requires
only three. The higher level of integration is most clearly seen
in the digital realm, where for example the lpGBT chip in 65~nm CMOS
fulfills a number of functions, including clock and control
distribution, slow control monitoring, and data serialization
and formatting, that were spread over a number of different ASICs for
the original LHC developments. However, even in the analog realm some
consolidation has been achieved, such as the 130~nm ASIC developed for
LAr that combines the functions of both the preamplifiers and the shapers
from the original construction.
Of key importance to maintaining the
ability to develop ASICs to meet the challenges of future calorimeters
will be to maintain affordable access to the specialized ASIC
processes in industry, and to qualify these processes concerning
their radiation tolerance and, in some applications, also their
performance in cryogenic environments. A fortunate development has
been the typically increasing radiation tolerance of new ASIC
processes with smaller feature sizes; while the original LHC readout
ASICs exploited a number of specialized processes, or used
standard cells
and design rules that had to be explicitly developed to improve the
radiation tolerance, the HL-LHC developments can focus on
commercial
130~nm and 65~nm CMOS processes and use commercial standard cell
libraries. The move to ever smaller feature-size ASIC processes
also greatly helps reduce the power consumption. However, the
corresponding evolution to lower power rails presents a significant
challenge for the very frontend analog circuits that must
handle input signals over a very wide, often around 16-bit,
dynamic range.
Other challenges for the development of future calorimeter readouts
include powering systems, ranging from power supplies, to DC-DC
convertors and low dropout regulators (LDO) or on-chip
regulation, that can provide
the needed power in a practical and radiation-tolerant manner,
and high-speed optical links that can move off-detector the
huge data volumes generated by the calorimeter frontends. Optical
links will be discussed further in Section~\ref{sec:links}. Powering
has long proved a thorny issue at the LHC, and carefully evaluating
over many years
the radiation tolerance of commercial devices has clearly
demonstrated that the great majority would not survive the LHC
conditions. As a result, industrial
partnerships were launched for both the original LHC and for the
HL-LHC to develop radiation-tolerant LDOs.
\subsection{Electronics for Fast Timing}
Picosecond-level timing will be an important component of the next generation of particle physics detectors. The ability to add a 4$^{th}$ dimension to our measurements will help address the increasing complexity of events at hadron colliders and provide new tools for precise tracking and calorimetry for all experiments. Time is crucial for background rejection in dark matter searches and neutrino detectors. As resolution continues to increase, time will likely become an equal partner to position measurement in particle tracking and particle flow event fitting. All this has been enabled both by the rapid and continuous advance of fast electronics and the ability to generate fast signals with good signal/noise from a variety of solid state sensors, photodetectors, and micropattern gas-based detectors.
Fast silicon sensors with gain, (e.g. Low-gain Avalanche Detectors LGAD) and sensors without gain (e.g. 3D sensors), micro-pattern gaseous detectors, Cerenkov light and fast scintillators such as LYSO, microchannel plate (e.g. LAPPD), semiconductor-based photodetectors such as SPADs and SIPMs, and other sensors provide all very fast signals.
There are several R\&D efforts aimed at the development of fast ASIC electronics for future HEP applications with focus on using specific and advanced technology (e.g. SiGe, 28 and 22 nm CMOS) and implementing suitable concepts for the needed time resolution (e.g. full waveform digitation, TDC, monolithic solutions).
The design and optimization of the front-end amplifier is particularly important for fast electronics. The front end typically defines the signal/noise and thus the time jitter of the system. It can also consume significant power. Each design must be optimized for its environment, considering signal source, input capacitance required resolution, and subsequent processing and developed as element of a larger system design effort.
Fast timing applications put special emphasis on noise and rise time, which often requires higher front-end power. Increased pixel density to cope with required resolution and occupancy although somewhat balanced by lower load capacitance, also strains the power budget. Improved per hit time resolution may require more complex processing of the input waveform with corrections for delta rays, nonuniform ionization and varying weighting fields. This will require more complex, power hungry on-chip calculations or increased waveform information sent to downstream processing.
For ultimate time resolution non-homogenous sensor responses must be compensated, either on-detector or as part of the processing chain. This is an opportunity to employ emerging technologies such as machine learning to front or back end systems to take advantage of all possible information.
Most of the sub-75 ps systems demonstrated to date have either been in small, well constrained systems, or in beam tests. Distribution and maintenance of the clock system will be a challenge for large systems. In large systems timing must be monitored and temperature and aging effects compensated. Optical transceivers can have several ps/degree delay variation. This has been considered in detail for Xilinx Ultrascale transceivers and techniques have been developed to provide 1 ps phase resolution.
Using a combination of these instrumentation techniques and developments, including Constant Fraction Discrimination (CFD), waveform sampling combined with precise clock distribution and newly developed sensors we expect that it will be reasonable for future fast timing detector sub-systems to set a 10pS timing resolution goal that will allow for unprecedented accuracy and significantly improve the physics reach of next generation high rate, collider detectors. We anticipate that the grand challenge of measuring particles with a
resolution of about 1 ps may be possible and would provide revolutionary physics opportunities.
\subsection{Optical Links}
The dramatic increase in channel count that has resulted
from detectors with ever finer granularity, plus the need to
deliver in real time either all or at least more of the full-granularity,
full-precision detector readout data, has placed increasing
demands on the optical links used to transmit the data from
the on-detector frontend electronics to the off-detector
digital processing and TDAQ systems. The radiation-tolerance
specifications for the detector mounted links has led to reliance on custom
developments, for the most part, though the original LHC detectors
did use some commercial link components which were tested to be
sufficiently radiation hard.
The radiation requirements plus the reliance on custom solutions have
resulted in link speeds per fiber which are significantly lower than
used in commercial systems. The original LHC detectors employed
on-detector optical links from several 100~Mbps up to 1.6~Gbps per fiber.
The per-fiber bandwidth increased
to 5~Gbps for the recently completed Phase I upgrade of the LHC experiments,
and currently to 10~Gbps for the ongoing HL-LHC developments. This substantial increase in
per-fiber bandwidth has, however, not kept pace with the growth in
data volume. For example, the original ATLAS LAr readout used a
single 1.6~Gbps link per 128 channels, while the corresponding HL-LHC readout
will need 22 fibers at 10~Gbps each for 128 channels. The
relatively low (up to 10~Gbps) per-fiber bandwidth, compared to industry rates of
up to 56~Gbps, results
in large fiber plants and an inefficient use of the SerDes resources
of the fast (and expensive) FPGAs that are typically used to
receive and process the on-detector digital data once it arrives off-detector and
away from radiation.
Realization of a functional optical link requires several building
blocks, including a data fan-in and serializer, combined with a
electrical-to-optical conversion coupled to an optical module that
couples to the fibers.
For serializers, the custom-designed 5~Gbps GBT was developed by CERN in 128~nm
CMOS, predominantly for use in the Phase I upgrades of the LHC detectors.
Following this successful mode, the 10~Gbps lpGBT was
then developed in 65~nm CMOS, and will be used in most HL-LHC on-detector electronic
readout applications.
R\&D is underway that aims to increase the bandwidth by a factor of two
in the short term, still within 65~nm CMOS, and then to move
to 56~Gbps utilizing 28~nm CMOS.
The critical components for the optical modules themselves
have been mostly
satisfied by commercially available VCSELs and pin diodes, which
must be painstakingly selected for radiation tolerance. However, a custom
optical module that integrates these functions plus the optical
connections is still required, due mostly to the tight spatial and mechanical
constraints, as well as material budget, imposed, in particular,
by the inner detectors at the LHC and HL-LHC.
It is apparent that future detector readouts will continue to deliver increasingly
large data volumes. Meeting the corresponding readout bandwidth requirements,
and in particular for on-detector environments with a significant
radiation-tolerance requirement, poses a number of
very significant challenges. Meeting
these needs will require ongoing R\&D, to facilitate the continued evolution
to higher bandwidths, and in particular per-fiber bandwidths.
\subsection{Smart Sensors Using Artificial Intelligence}
Modern particle physics experiments and accelerators, exploring nature at increasingly finer spatial and temporal scales in extreme environments, create massive amounts of data which require real-time data reduction as close to the data source and sensors as possible. The demand for increasingly higher sensitivity in experiments, along with advances in the design of state-of-the-art sensing systems, has resulted in rapidly growing big data pipelines such that transmission of acquired data for offline processing via conventional methods is no longer feasible. Data transmission is commonly much less efficient than data processing. Therefore, placing data compression, extracting waveform features and processing as close as possible to data creation while maintaining physics performance is a crucial task in modern physics experiments. The implementation of Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in near-detector electronics is a natural path to add capability for detector readout. It will enable more powerful data compression and filtering which better preserves the physics content of experiments, reduces downstream system complexity, and provides fast feedback and control loops. While the application of AI/ML is growing rapidly in science and industry, the needs of particle physics for speed, throughput, fidelity, interpretability, and reliability in extreme environments require advancing state-of-the-art technology in use-cases that go far beyond industrial and commercial applications.
AI, and more specifically ML, has recently been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for data compression, waveform processing, and analysis in physics and many other domains. While progress has been made towards generic real-time processing through inference including boosted decision trees and neural networks (NNs) using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) in off-detector electronics, ML methods are not commonly used to address the significant bottleneck in the transport of data from front-end ASICs to back-end FPGAs.
Embedding ML as close as possible to the data source has a number of potential benefits
\begin{itemize}
\item ML algorithms can enable powerful and efficient non-linear data reduction or feature extraction techniques, beyond simple summing and thresholding, which better preserves the physics content that would otherwise be lost;
\item This could in turn reduce the complexity of down stream processing systems which would then have to aggregate less overall information all the way to offline computing;
\item This enables real-time data filtering and triggering like at the LHC and the EIC which would otherwise not be possible or be much less efficient; or in the case of cryogenic systems, creates less data bandwidth from cold to warm electronics and thus reduce the system complexity;
\item Furthermore, intelligent processing as close as possible to the source will enable faster feedback loops. For example, in continuous learning applications, if the data is part of a control or operations loop where feedback is needed such as in quantum information systems or particle accelerators.
\end{itemize}
With rapidly growing machine learning applications comes the acute need for their efficient hardware implementations. Most of the efforts are focused on digital CMOS technology, such as implementations based on general-purpose TPUs/GPUs, FPGAs, and more specialized ML hardware accelerators. The steady improvements in such hardware platforms' performance and energy efficiency over the past decade are attributed to the use of very advanced, sub-10-nm CMOS processes and holistic optimization of circuits, architectures, and algorithms.
The opportunities for building more efficient hardware may come from biological neural networks. Indeed, it is believed that the human brain, with its $>$1000$\times$ more synapses than the weights in the largest transformer network, is extremely energy efficient, which serves as a general motivation for developing neuromorphic hardware. There is a long history of CMOS neuromorphic circuits. However, unleashing the full potential of neuromorphic computing might require novel, beyond-CMOS device and circuit technologies that allow for more efficient implementations of various functionalities of biological neural systems.
There are several ongoing R\&D efforts in our community focused on on-detector AI/ML and the key elements of both the design and implementation, and the design tools themselves. Though early in the exploration of these applications, the existing work highlights the needs for configurable and adaptable designs and open-source and accessible design tools to implement efficient hardware AI. Novel ML techniques are particularly important for resource-constrained real-time AI; advancing design, implementation, and verification tools which accelerate the development process; and emerging microelectronics technologies which could provide large gains in efficiency and speed. Different classes of future applications require dedicated investments to advance our capabilities in this field.
Many emerging devices and circuit technologies are currently being explored for neuromorphic hardware implementations.
Neuromorphic inference accelerators utilizing analog in-memory computing based on floating gate memories are perhaps the closest to widespread adoption, given the maturity of such technology, the practicality of its applications, and competitive performance with almost 1000x improvement in power as compared to conventional (digital CMOS) circuit implementations. The radiation hardness of these techniques and their applicability for robust performance in extreme environments is yet to be evaluated.
\subsection{Cryogenics Readout}
Many applications, including direct Dark Matter detection
and neutrino experiments, require electronics
designed to perform within cryogenic environments.
Some operate at deep cryogenic levels going from liquid helium temperatures at a few Kelvin down
to milli-Kelvin.
Time projection chambers (TPCs) used in neutrino detection and dark matter searches use noble liquids as a target material. Most current generation TPC's keep the active electronics in the warm, outside the cryostat.
The sheer scale of the DUNE LArm TPC being designed today makes it impracticalto
bring all the raw analog detector signals into the warm, and instead embeds the active front end
electronics in the cold. For the DUNE wire-based LAr TPC readout, the required cold functionality is achieved by a set of 3 custom ASICs, one that amplifies and provides analog filtering,
one that digitizes at 2~MSPS, and one that collects and serializes the data for transmission over copper cables to the warm electronics outside the cryostat.
The DUNE near detector will use a low power pixel readout utilizing the self-triggering LarPix 64-channel pixel ASIC submerged in LAr. Four programmable readout paths on the chip allow a board-level fault tolerant readout path. Track reconstruction results from prototype boards populated with 100 ASICs each have shown very promising physics results.
A second very low power readout is being investigated by the Qpix Collaboration that utilizes a novel approach to record the times of arrival of a fixed unit of charge, enabling offline reconstruction of the ionization current sensed at the pixel with a sub-femto Coulomb unit charge sensitivity.
Deep-cryogenic CMOS circuits and systems have seen rapid development in recent years, with quantum computing being the primary technological and economic driver. Early work focused on studying and modeling the properties of devices, including MOSFETs, resistors, and capacitors, in various CMOS technologies at cryogenic temperatures. The results suggested that devices in modern nm-scale fabrication technologies (including bulk CMOS, silicon-on-insulator, and FinFET) function successfully at temperatures as low as 50 mK. The main deleterious effects of cryogenic operation on nanoscale MOSFETs include a moderate increase in threshold voltage and degradation in 1/f noise and matching properties, both of which can be overcome using well-known precision circuit design techniques. A potentially more serious problem is the self-heating of such devices due to internal power dissipation. For example, a recent study shows that the channel temperature of 40~nm bulk CMOS transistors can increase by over 40~K compared to a LHe ambient of 4.2 K when dissipating only 2 mW. Thus, integrated electrothermal modeling is an important requirement for successfully designing deep-cryogenic CMOS systems.
Given the availability of reliable cryogenic CMOS device models, research has focused on using these models to develop and test functional blocks necessary for qubit control and readout, including cryogenic frequency synthesizers, low-noise amplifiers, and circulators. Cryogenic operation of embedded memory, including standard SRAM cells, has also been demonstrated. The availability of these building blocks has motivated the recent development of complete cryogenic CMOS qubit control and readout interface and monolithic quantum processors that integrate on-chip silicon charge qubits with CMOS readout electronics.
Precision sensing is another major driver for cryogenic CMOS circuits and systems where ultra-low-noise analog front ends is a major application area.
\subsection{RF Electronics}
RF electronics utilizes the RF domain to sense or control EM radiation well below ionization energies to make highly sensitive measurements of natural phenomena. The sophistication and sensitivity of RF related detection systems has improved dramatically with advances in wireless communications. HEP now has the opportunity to probe electromagnetic field signals measuring amplitude, phase, frequency, and polarization with unprecedented signal-to-noise and orders-of-magnitude improvement in signal processing throughput per unit of power consumption.
Combining RF A/D, D/A high precision and bandwidth performance and High speed FPGA's to readout arrayed superconducting sensors such as: Transition Edge Sensors TES, Kinetic Induction Detectors KID and superconducting bolometer systems with reduced the sensor size and will give us a better view of the universe.
Measurements of the extreme red shifted 21\,cm (1420 MHz) hyperfine transition of neutral atomic hydrogen are helping researchers to explore the early Universe searching in the red shifted range of 10-500 MHz inferring times before the creation of stars where a homogenous mix of materials allow robust theoretical predictions to be tested. The IF7 RF white paper describes the sophisticated very low noise techniques that are required to achieve the necessary electronics noise levels. To achieve reasonable levels of detection, undistorted signal backgrounds can only be found locally on the far side of the moon. Multiple proposals are being developed with the objective of installing sensitive antennae and electronics there with lunar orbiting satellite relay stations. The results of these explorations will benefit the ongoing development of cosmological models and may be an indicator of new physics.
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A bus filled up to the brim with hope, strength, and unity departed from Springfield College in the early hours of the morning. The destination? Change.
On Saturday, Jan. 21, 45 members of the Springfield community embarked on a trip to the Boston Women's March. An email had gone out to members of the faculty and student body over winter break providing information about the event, and seats filled up faster than anyone could've expected. This left many students to find their own transportation to the march, but they didn't care. They knew it was a small price to pay to partake in such a worldwide movement.
"I've always called myself an empowered woman, and I've always been someone to empower other women, so when I heard what it was about, it was exactly what I've always wanted to do," said senior Kayla McCarthy. "I just jumped on the chance."
And as the sun began to peek out of the cool winter clouds, the Boston Common welcomed the first of its guests. They traveled in by the dozens equipped with signs, banners, and an indestructible spirit. The final count weighed in at somewhere around 175,000 marchers.
Words of empowerment circulated through the air in the form of speeches and chants, as Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" echoed from the speakers. Children sat perched atop their parents' shoulders, peering out through innocent eyes at signs reading "I'm doing this so my daughters won't have to" and "Hate has no home here." Some youngsters even chose to make posters of their own. One sign scribed in 7-year-old handwriting read, "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." Another had a more simple message: "Girls Rule."
The name "Women's March" did not deter fathers, sons, brothers, and husbands from showing up to join the movement as well. Freshman Camden Spear was one of many men present.
"The biggest reason I joined is because I feel that all women and minorities of the world should feel empowered by, not limited by, their government or social system," said Spear. "We are obligated to join women in this fight."
Several men carried "I'm with her" signs, followed by arrows pointing at all the women in the surrounding crowd. Those three words of support and camaraderie encompassed the true meaning of the march.
"Feminism isn't about one gender over the other, it's about equality. And to me, the men being there just said 'I agree. We should all be on the same playing field.' I found that incredibly moving," said McCarthy.
This message rang true at the various other marches, as people from all walks of life came together as one under a united cause. Sophomore Jess Kosciuk represented Springfield College at the Women's March on Washington, which she attended with her mother and their church.
Social media played a pivotal role in spreading the word, as Kosciuk first heard about the event from one of her Facebook friends who said she would be attending.
"It was definitely different than if I was to go with someone my age because it was multiple generations marching together," said Kosciuk. "Everyone was running around giving updates about how many people were there. It's going to be in the history books someday, and I'll be able to say I was there."
For some, this was not their first march. Erin Placey, a graduate student at Springfield, took part in the 2007 march in Washington D.C.. Placey considered returning to D.C. for this year's event, but the opportunity to stay in closer proximity at the Boston March was more convenient. Even so, the experience was something that will resonate with her forever.
"The energy was palpable. It was incredible to be marching with people who were marching for the first time as well as people who have been marching for decades. I'm really glad the Office of Multicultural Affairs was able to put that together. As a student at Springfield, it was definitely one of my most proud moments," said Placey.
As the day came to a close, and the participants returned to their prospective homes, they knew the job still was not done. It would take that kind of passion and that magnitude of voices to make a difference, and it would take time. But still, the outpouring of love that was felt in the community that day was enough to reignite the spark of possibility. Junior Cassidy Cetti walked away feeling exactly that.
"Because of recent issues, I kind of lost a little bit of faith in humanity. But then going there and unifying with all of those men and women who felt the same – it was empowering. And for that to have happened in every state and other countries, that in itself makes me so hopeful that people do care about change and that we are going to make change happen."
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Pirelli tyres complete 14,949 kilometres in four days of testing
Pirelli supplied 1176 tyres for the first Formula One test of the 2012 season, held at the Jerez circuit in the south of Spain over four days. A total of 3380 laps were covered by 23 drivers – equating to 14,949 kilometres. The new P Zero White medium tyre completed the most running in Spain with 1776 laps run (91 sets used), followed by the new P Zero Yellow soft with 1010 laps run (57 sets used) and the P Zero Silver hard with 594 laps run (33 sets used). Although the new Pirelli Cinturato Green intermediate tyre and Pirelli Cinturato Blue tyre was brought to Spain, it was not used as the weather stayed dry despite ambient temperatures that dipped to as low as -2 °C degrees centigrade. The 2012 tyres performed in line with expectations at Jerez, but with most teams running brand new cars in different phases of development, it was hard to draw firm conclusions about relative performance. Pirelli's motorsport director Paul Hembery said: "The tyres performed exactly in line with our expectations here in Jerez, and we've had a very positive reaction from the drivers and teams so far, who have reported more grip at the rear, fewer 'marbles' and a reduced lap time difference between the compounds as well as faster overall performance – which is precisely what we wanted. We're happy with the level of degradation and we had no issues, as was the case for all of last year. But as the temperatures in Jerez were very low and the teams have also concentrated on other areas than tyres, it's too early to draw any detailed conclusions. We'll see more tyre development work at the next test in Barcelona, as together with the teams, we fully understand the implications of the latest rules. However, with all three of our available slick tyres having set a fastest time, it's a clear sign that we are on course to meet our objectives." Lotus driver Kimi Räikkonen – who last drove on Pirelli tyres in the 2010 World Rally Championship – set the pace on the opening day, with a spectacular return to Formula One thanks to a time of 1m19.670s on the P Zero White medium tyre. Mercedes were quickest on the second and third days using their 2011 car. Michael Schumacher lowered the benchmark to 1m18.561s on day two with the P Zero Silver hard tyre and Nico Rosberg set a time of 1m17.631s on day three with the P Zero Yellow soft: the best time over all four days. The Jerez test ended with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso going quickest with a time of 1m18.877s on the final day, again using the soft tyre. Testing Facts: - During comparison runs between the new medium and the new hard tyre on day one, there was a difference of between 0.4-0.5 seconds, with better grip and less wear: particularly at the rear. - The driver to complete the most laps at Jerez was Kimi Räikkonen, who racked up 192 laps on the soft, medium and hard over the first two days: nearly the equivalent of three grands prix. - Most teams started off with short runs initially, before trying longer runs and race simulations for the first time as they expanded their development programmes. - The top times on all four days comfortably beat the benchmark established at the last test in Jerez one year ago, where Rubens Barrichello went fastest for Williams with a time of 1m19.832s. Testing numbers: - Total number of sets brought to Jerez: 294 sets which equals 1176 tyres - Of which soft tyres: 71 sets - Of which Medium tyres: 105 sets - Of which Hard tyres: 43 sets - Of which Intermediate tyres: 38 sets - Of which Wet tyres: 37 sets - Total amount of sets used: 181 - Of which soft tyres: 57 sets - Of which Medium tyres: 91 sets - Of which Hard tyres: 33 sets - Of which Intermediate tyres: 0 sets - Of which Wet tyres: 0 sets - Longest run: 26 laps on the hard compound 27 laps of the medium compound 20 laps on the soft compound - Highest / lowest ambient temperature over four days: 20 °C / -2 °C - Highest / lowest track temperature over four days: 26 °C / 0 °C Tyre Summary: Day 1 1. Räikkönen 1'19"670 on Medium New 2. Di Resta 1'19"772 on Medium New 3. Rosberg 1'20"219 on Soft New Day 2 1. Schumacher 1'18''561 on Hard New 2. Webber 1'19''184 on Soft New 3. Ricciardo 1'19''587 on Soft New Day 3 1. Rosberg 1'17''631 on Soft New 2. Räikkönen 1'18''419 on Medium New 3. Vettel 1'19''297 on Soft New Day 4 1. Alonso 1'18"877 on Soft New 2. Vergne 1'19"597 on Soft New 3. Vettel 1'19"606 on Medium New For further information please contact: Alexandra Schieren +33 607 03 69 03 [email protected] Anthony Peacock +44 7765 896 930 [email protected] *** Francescopaolo Tarallo +39 334 684 4307 [email protected] (Head of Motorsport and Product Communications) PDF Version (182 KB)
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The log of wood remark is funny, but falls flat if you know the correct terms of address, which removes the humor.
IK has a very snarky sense of humor and would probably find something much more devastating if he were truly annoyed--which of course he would not be since he has probably been addressed either that way or by his given name and patronymic his entire life. It's the American version that is stiff and formal.
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Q: cannot install php5.6-zip on ubuntu 16.04 currently I want to update my old php 5.6 application in ubuntu xenial 16.04.6 with php5.6-zip extension.
sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip
E: Unable to locate package php5.6-zip E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'php5.6-zip' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'php5.6-zip'
tried to add the ppa repository sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
The user named '~ondrej' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/php5-5.6'
Then tried to run sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php and
sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip
still got the unable to locate package php5.6-zip error. Btw there is no php5.6-zip from apt-cache policy php5.6 command. Does anyone have solution regarding this problem? your help would be much appreciated. Thank you
A: As far as I know you can't install from zip using "apt-get install". Since the zip file contains the build files. To install it use this instead, this should work.
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php5.6
And this to see versions
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It was an interesting Thursday for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, when her 2020 re-election campaign picked up an endorsement from a moderate Democratic colleague and a nationally known potential opponent declined to run against her.
The endorsement from U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and the decision from Susan Rice, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, are bigger curiosities to a national political audience than a Maine one. They underscore a deep nationalization of the 2020 U.S. Senate race here that will probably be the priciest campaign in state history.
Manchin is an atypically moderate Democrat, and he and Collins share similar records. In a C-SPAN interview on Thursday, Manchin said he would "go up and campaign for Susan Collins" and it "would be an absolute shame" to lose her in the Senate. He noted that he'd be making fellow Democrats unhappy by saying that about a Republican senator in a nationally targeted race in 2020.
But the context of the endorsement makes it less surprising. Manchin is a moderate who survived re-election last year in a red state that President Donald Trump won by a bigger margin than any other in 2016. In the last Congress, VoteView ranked him as the most conservative Senate Democrat and Collins as the most liberal Republican.
The two are longtime allies who have worked on many issues together. Just after Collins made her high-profile October announcement that she would vote for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Manchin confirmed that he'd vote for Trump's nominee as well. More than any other, that vote has made Collins a Democratic target in 2020.
Collins was endorsed in 2014 by U.S. Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats and is more liberal than Manchin, but that election wasn't really contested by national Democrats and Collins won a fourth term easily. Moves like this will give Collins ammunition to burnish the moderate credentials that Democrats are trying to neutralize.
Collins may not have her first high-profile Democratic challenger until the early summer. In the words of the Associated Press, Rice "tantalized" national Democrats by floating a potential Senate candidacy after Collins' vote on Kavanaugh, though she almost immediately seemed to walk it back. Her late mother was born in Portland and she is a trustee of her mother's home in Lincolnville.
While she would have lent some national star power to the race, her test balloon was never taken too seriously by Maine Democrats and it's unprecedented in Maine politics to ascend to high office without a political history in the state. Things seemed to fizzle after she appeared at an October fundraiser for Gov. Janet Mills. She said at a New York City event on Thursday that she wouldn't run, though she didn't rule out a future run in Maine or elsewhere.
House Speaker Sara Gideon, D-Freeport, is seen as the likeliest Collins challenger by most observers. In a Thursday text message, she said there is no strict time frame for a decision on running, saying she's fulfilling legislative duties "with full focus this session." That would seem to indicate a decision after the 2019 legislative session, which is scheduled for June.
A poll last month by Critical Insights showed Collins leading Gideon with 51 percent support to 29 percent, but 40 percent of voters didn't know enough about Gideon to evaluate her. Collins is sitting on a $4.4 million war chest driven by large, out-of-state donors that is effectively matched by nation Democratic crowdfunds promised to aid an eventual Collins opponent after the Kavanaugh vote.
The eventual Democratic nominee may not have to work hard to find money either on a national 2020 map that leaves Democrats with few better pick-up opportunities than Maine — which is still an uphill one.
The Legislature's watchdog group meets this morning, and it could call for a review of Maine's indigent legal services system. The consideration is a holdover item from a meeting last month, but in the interim, the Sixth Amendment Center released a critical study on the state system, which provides legal representation to indigent people accused of crimes. The group last week said it had "serious concerns" over the lack of financial oversight and safeguards within the system, which serves as an alternative for a state defender's office. Tune in here.
Today is also Mills' 100th day in office — if you count her inauguration day. To celebrate, she plans to sign a bill into law at 1 p.m. in her office that will guard against wage discrimination. LD 278, from Sen. Cathy Breen, D-Falmouth, bars future employers from asking about prospective employees' wage or compensation history before extending a job offer. Violation of the new provision could result in a fine up to $500.
— A bill from Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, to restore certain social services for non-citizens in Maine is expected to draw a crowd this morning before the Committee on Health and Human Services. The bill aims to restore access to state-funded food assistance programs, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and Medicaid benefits for income-eligible immigrants who lawfully live in Maine and are seeking legal status. This includes asylum seekers awaiting approval and immigrants waiting for authorization to work. Listen here.
— A bundle of county jail funding bills will come before the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee this afternoon for a potential vote. Most of the five bills vary slightly, but two would require the state to fund at least 20 percent of the operating cost for each county jail.
The committee will also consider a bill from House Minority Leader Kathleen Dillingham, R-Oxford, that would impose a waiting period before law enforcement officers make public the names of victims of crimes or accidents. Listen here.
— State energy regulators granted a key permit to Central Maine Power's $1 billion hydropower transmission project. The Maine Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously Thursday to grant CMP the needed certificate of public convenience and necessity for its project, saying the benefits of the project outweigh its costs and detriments. The three commissioners agreed with their staff's recommendation on March 29. CMP still must win approval from other state and federal regulatory agencies, and opponents will continue to fight the project on multiple fronts. Starks became the latest town along the corridor's path to formally express opposition.
— Republican efforts to tinker with Maine's minimum wage law fizzled in the Maine House of Representatives. Four Republican-sponsored bills aimed at slowing voter-approved increases in the minimum wage or offering other forms of relief to employers lost in floor votes Thursday, as majority Democrats solidly voted against them. The minimum wage has been a partisan flashpoint in the Legislature for years, with Republicans arguing that it harms small businesses, especially in rural Maine. While Democrats counter that raising the minimum wage benefits the overall economic picture for most Mainers.
— Another small Maine hospital has made big changes in an effort to adapt to fiscal challenges. Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport ended 2018 with a small surplus after recording more than $15 million in losses during the two previous years. Hospital executives recruited more primary care practitioners, expanded pediatrics and gastroenterology services and found $2 million in operational savings last year. Administrators will try to find $2 million more in savings this year as they work to improve the hospital's rating while adding office space for physicians and possibly an urgent care center.
— The president apparently tried to have people held by immigration officials released in places that would harm his political adversaries. The Washington Post reports that White House officials proposed transporting detained immigrants to sanctuary cities at least twice in the past six months – once in November, as a migrant caravan approached the U.S. southern border, and again in February, amid a standoff with Democrats over funding for Trump's border wall.
The state holiday that Mainers will celebrate on Monday has vexed editors for years. The holiday's official title in Maine is Patriot's Day, with the apostrophe before the S. Technically, that means we are celebrating only one patriot.
Massachusetts, the only other state to observe the holiday that honors colonists who launched the fight for independence at the battles of Lexington and Concord, spells it Patriots' Day, using the plural possessive. While I hate to admit it, that makes a lot more sense.
Past legislative efforts to adjust Maine statute so that the holiday could honor multiple patriots have fizzled. I would suggest that we dump the apostrophe altogether, given that the holiday honors patriots but is not owned by them — but that's next-level nerdery that would never survive the legislative process.
Republicans in Cumberland and Gray have picked KC Hughes of Cumberland, who runs a Portland screenprinting business, to run in a June 11 special election to replace former Rep. Dale Denno, who resigned last month. Thursday's version of the Daily Brief didn't include him alongside the Democratic candidate, former Rep. Stephen Moriarty of Cumberland. |
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Saturday March 27, 2021 - Mt Smart Stadium Upper Field
Loop are proud to announce L.A.B will be playing at the iconic Mt Smart Stadium on Saturday March 27, 2021.
L.A.B's biggest outdoor show to date will see them joined by an eclectic range of NZ's finest, including Mako Road, Ladi6, Ria Hall & The Leers, a stellar homegrown lineup that will not be seen anywhere else this summer.
- Spark Customers presale stars Thurs Sep 24 at 12pm. Register HERE.
- Loop/L.A.B presale starts Mon Sep 28 at 12pm. Register HERE.
- General tickets available Tues Sep 29 at 12pm from Ticketmaster.
This final addtion to L.A.B's summer schedule for 2021 will be the only chance for the Upper North Island to catch L.A.B perform an epic full-length two hour set, which will see them cover tracks from all three of their albums, plus new material currently in the works.
The show will take place at Mt Smart Stadium Upper Field, a site famous for the Big Day Out & countless other musical legends. The Upper Field will enable fans to dance the night away or sit back and relax on the grass and take in the epic production, with a range of food & beverage available on site.
"After our biggest shows ever at Spark and Claudelands Arenas in July, we're looking forward to taking L.A.B to another level and closing out summer with a bang! We're in a fortunate position here in NZ currently compared to other parts of the world, and we look forward to delivering a safe and international level show to Aotearoa," - Joel Shadbolt, L.A.B
The venue & promoter will follow the evolving NZ Event Sector Voluntary Code which sets out best practice guidelines for events under Alert Level 1, more information here. If the event cannot proceed due to COVID, it will be postponed with all tickets remaining valid.
Presented by Loop, with thanks to Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development (ATEED), L&P & Mai FM.
Gates open at 4pm, show ends at 11pm.
Tickets available from Ticketmaster Tuesday 29 September, and FREE train travel included with every ticket.
Full event info available HERE.
L.A.B will be joined for this show by another of New Zealand's fastest-rising acts, Mako Road. Set to release their debut album in late-2020, their laid-back indie-rock sounds has seen them amass over 20 million streams. Following on from two sold-out shows at Auckland's Powerstation this November, Mako Road will bring their sun-soaked sounds to this show.
New Zealand's undisputed queen of hip-hop, soul & R&B, Ladi6 also joins the bill, bringing her live set up including a full band alongside dancers The Sixxes. With a constantly-evolving catalogue which marks an artist only comfortable when taking risks, Ladi6 will be adding her collection of classics alongside her acclaimed live performance to this show.
Fresh off the release of her latest album Manawa Wera, Ria Hall will be bringing her stunning live show to this lineup. Inspired by classic reggae & soul records of the 1970's such as Third World & Jimmy Cliff, Manawa Wera presents a classic reggae sound in a modern Aotearoa context. Hall will bring this sound to life with a full band, perfectly complimenting her stunning voice.
Kicking things off will be Mount Maunganui's The Leers, a four-piece exploring the depths of indie rock & roll. Set to release new material in late-2020, their style of swelling build-ups, catchy guitar pop melody, dynamically engaging structure and head bobbing riffs will be the perfect way to start this show.
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Press Release from District Attorney Craig Northcott-Conviction In Fentanyl Related Death
On June 30, 2021, Hunter Gremillion, age 24 of Tullahoma, entered a guilty plea to killing Brennan Buckner, age 19 of Tullahoma, through the sale of fentanyl to him. Specifically, Mr. Gremillion pled guilty in Coffee County Circuit Court to Aggravated Assault Resulting in Death and received a 12 year prison sentence in the Tennessee Department of Corrections for selling fentanyl to Brennan who then died from the ingesting of that drug. The plea was accepted by and entered before Judge Vanessa Jackson, The State of Tennessee was represented by Assistant District Attorney Brad Hannah.
The Buckner family is in full agreement with this resolution of the case and hopes that Brennan's death will bring more awareness to the dangers of fentanyl. They also hope that Mr. Gremillion's conviction and prison sentence will deter others from selling or otherwise distributing this deadly drug in Coffee County and all other communities.
In Brennan's death, a precious life, which was full of potential, was needlessly cut short. His family and friends will never again be able to experience the joy and love that he brought into their lives and instead that is replaced by grieving the loss they have suffered. Mr. Gremillion's life is also drastically altered but he has a chance at redemption upon his release from prison. I pray for peace and comfort for the Buckner family and that Mr. Gremillion will take advantage of the opportunity that he has to change his path. I want to thank the Buckner family for their patience and perseverance through this difficult process and their gracious attitude in the face of this tragedy. I also thank ADA Brad Hannah for his excellent work in representing this office to achieve justice for Brennan and his family. Further, I commend Inv. Jason Kennedy with the District Attorney's Office, TBI and the Tullahoma Police Department for their investigation into this matter, which developed the evidence upon which an indictment and conviction were obtained. Without their work, justice would not have been achieved. Rest assured that this office will continue to work hard with our law enforcement partners to hold those who distribute these dangerous drugs in this community accountable for their actions.
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Phnom Penh Post - Ministry urges schools uphold harmful food ban
Ministry urges schools uphold harmful food ban
Khorn Savi | Publication date 19 June 2019 | 08:47 ICT
School children buy food from a street vendor in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan
Wed, 19 June 2019
Khorn Savi
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has renewed calls for all educational establishments across the country to uphold the ban on the sale of unhealthy or unsafe food, after finding that some are still failing to comply with food safety guidelines.
Ministry spokesman Ros Soveacha told The Post on Tuesday that teachers were being urged to pay greater attention to the health of their students, something that is of huge importance to their ability to study.
"The Ministry of Education has been working since the previous mandate to raise the awareness of health as a factor in effective student studies."
"The ministry has forbidden educational establishments from allowing students to have unsafe and unhealthy food, publicising in detail the guidelines, including as part of the primary school curriculum."
"All relevant parties, especially school management, across the country are to publicise the guidance," Soveacha said.
The ministry's Facebook page on Monday reminded about Directive No 18, dated May 2, on the promotion of food safety at public and private educational establishments.
This prohibits the selling of expired food, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, food without a clear source, energy drinks and sugary drinks to students.
Coffee, ice cream, syrup water, chocolate, chewing gum, jelly, doughnuts and sweets are also all banned.
The directive also prohibits foods that are too salty, fatty and high in sugar.
Schools must only allow healthy food, such as high-quality and hygienically cooked rice, bread, Khmer noodles, porridge and fruit, it says.
The director of the Phnom Penh Department of Education Hem Sinareth told The Post on Tuesday that his department holds meetings every year to instruct educational establishments to ban unhealthy and unsafe food. However, poor quality food had been inevitably sold at some schools, he said.
School children consume food and drinks from a street vendor in Phnom Penh. Heng Chivoan
"When we saw vendors selling poor quality food, we instructed them to improve and they did so. Some vendors may have sold expired food without us seeing them," Sinareth said.
Leng Vanny, an English teacher at the Hun Sen High School in Tbong Khmum province's Peam Chileang district, said that the school's senior leadership had recently met with vendors who operated outside the school, prohibiting them from selling certain foods.
However, some energy drinks were not banned, he added.
A Grade 12 student in Peam Chilang district said she ate packed meals such as cooked rice brought to school and drank energy drinks almost every day, which was bought in the village before arriving at school. She said she wanted to eat healthily, knowing it could improve her concentration.
She said she had recently stopped drinking energy drinks after they were banned from being sold near the school.
"Now I buy pure clean drinking water to drink with Khmer snacks that are sold at schools, such as seaweed snacks, grilled bananas and dumplings," she said.
Met Ty, a resident of Pi Thnou commune in Kratie province's Snuol district, told The Post on Tuesday that he banned his two children who were in grades 3 and 4, from buying snacks and soft drinks because they were low in quality and could affect their health.
"Snacks such as candy are not good," Ty said, adding that he gave each child a school allowance of two thousand riel, while his wife often cooked meals for them to take to school and fed them before they went.
A World Health Organisation study found that energy drinks can cause health problems in young children, while some European countries had passed laws banning their sale to minors.
According to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association in May, caffeine in energy drinks can cause health risks such as high blood pressure.
Contact author: Khorn Savi
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North Korea test fires missile into sea: South Korea military
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South Korea's military said Sunday that North Korea fired a projectile into its eastern sea, a likely effort to advance its weapons program while also challenging the young Trump administration in Washington.
MB FILE — North Korea test-fires a strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in August 2016, in this official government media photo
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The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the projectile was fired from an area in the country's western region around Banghyon, North Pyongan Province, which is where South Korean officials have said the country test launched its powerful midrange missile Musudan on Oct. 15 and 20.
An official from Seoul's Defense Ministry says it isn't clear whether the projectile was a ballistic missile. The official didn't want to be named, citing office rules.
The North conducted two nuclear tests and a slew of rocket launches last year in continued efforts to expand its nuclear weapons and missile programs.
Kim Dong-yeop, an analyst at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, said that the projectile could be a Musudan or a similar rocket designed to test engines for an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the U.S. mainland.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in his annual New Year's address that the North's preparations for launching an intercontinental ballistic missile have "reached the final stage."
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Officials in Goodlettsville have confirmed the death of Mayor John Coombs.
Coombs died Tuesday after suffering a stroke following a surgery last week.
City Manager Tim Ellis told NewsChannel 5 Mayor Coombs had gone in for a normal procedure for a heart condition. He had a complication from a stroke and could not recover.
"His legacy is his commitment to the city," Ellis said. "He was an ambassador to the city. He sold the city. He wanted you to come to Goodlettsville." Ellis added, "He was very fair with high ethics and just a good friend."
The mayor had served for the planning commission for many years. He was first elected into the City Commission in 2006 and was chosen to be vice mayor in 2010. Coombs became mayor in 2012.
"He was extremely close with his family. He was a great family man," Ellis said. "His family is devastated, but they are strong and they'll make it through this time."
Visitation has been planned from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday and again from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church in the 200 block of South Main Street.
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So ... can you give the exact date of when will it go out?
welp, "announcement" time I suppose.
if you're one of the 2 people who've actually been following the progress of this thing, chances are you've noticed progress has been slow, or i haven't posted anything about it.
i'm cancelling (or at least discontinuing) the sans wad, for a few reasons.
let's be honest here, nobody here's going to read a paragraph on why an undertale based wad is being cancelled, so i'll just simplify and list them here, in no specific/particular order.
1. don't have the time for it anymore.
2. lost interest in sonic robo blast 2.
3. not as interested in undertale anymore.
4. working on it feels forced, even though i know it isn't.
5. lost all motivation to work on it.
6. fear of the wad being taken as a joke when released.
this is something i've been wanting to mention for a while, but i never got around to it. sorry to those few people who were looking forward to the release of this.
That's a crying shame, though I understand and respect your reasons. Perhaps one day you can continue this wad out of boredom.
Also, who in their right mind would take this as a joke? You put heart and soul into it, that's all that matters.
Last edited by GreenKnight9000; 02-10-2018 at 12:38 PM.
It's because it's a mod featuring Sans. You know, the very character that's subject to memes surrounding Ness thanks to Game Theory? Also, Undertale's popularity waned down for the past 2 years.
WHOM DARES ENTER MY VILE LAIR?
yeah, that's also one of the reasons, i just forgot to list it. undertale is nowhere near as popular or "praised" as it was about a couple years ago.
Well, I was keeping a bit of an eye on this, and while I'm somewhat sad to see it be dropped, I can understand why it was dropped.
You're giving me a little MANIA.
I understand that matter and I hope you won't take this offensively but if the new Sans mod for SRB2 isn't coming out, why keep the posts up just to show people what the mod could've been if you had eventually decided to continue development on it. Plus there was this game out called Deltarune (which is now set to be on the Nintendo Switch very soon) but I believe that won't be enough to make you want to continue the project but I understand why you decided to cancel the project. Not everyone is going to enjoy the same game as others so I respect the decision you chose. |
Hear me out: why Ishtar isn't a bad movie
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The latest in our series of writers defending maligned films is an ode to Elaine May's lambasted 1987 flop starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman
It's a rare movie bomb that's such a catastrophe it becomes a byword for cinematic failure. Ishtar, Elaine May's 1987 comedy about two musicians who become wrapped up in a CIA plot in north Africa, is one of the lucky few.
Negative buzz trailed the film, made on an at-the-time grossly inflated $51m budget, from troubled production to release. Bad box office (final losses came to about $40m) followed savage reviews – typified by Roger Ebert writing that it was "a lifeless, massive, lumbering exercise in failed comedy" – and Ishtar quickly became a punchline. A Far Side comic strip would depict "Hell's video store" as one which stocked nothing but copies of the film. When Kevin Costner's Waterworld itself went off the rails in the mid-90s, the press mockingly dubbed it "Fishtar", a familiar shorthand for Hollywood profligacy in service to a true creative folly.
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Though it has high-profile fans (Tarantino and Scorsese are among them), Ishtar is a comedy whose greatest joke is still widely thought to be its own monumental failure. Thirty-four years removed from the drama of its making, however, Ishtar doesn't play like the dud of legend.
Inspired by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby's Road to … movies, Ishtar lives and dies by its pairing of Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as Lyle Rogers and Chuck Clarke, two ageing singer-songwriters convinced they can be the next Simon and Garfunkel. Unfortunately, Rogers & Clarke is an act so atrocious they can only book a gig at a hotel in Marrakech (it was that or war-torn Honduras), and it's to the credit of two of the biggest movie stars of the age that they not only convince as talentless losers, but that they so eagerly and winningly commit to the bit.
Hoffman, who got his break in The Graduate (directed by Elaine May's former comedy partner Mike Nichols) and had a blockbuster hit with Tootsie, his last film immediately before Ishtar, makes for an unsurprisingly capable anchor of May's farce. This leaves Beatty to be Ishtar's comic revelation, playing successfully against type and reputation to appear every bit the awkward, galumphing sidekick to Hoffman's diminutive ladies' man. Chaperoning us from a wintry New York to scorching Morocco via the fictional nation of Ishtar, Lyle and Chuck make for endearingly dimwitted company, on the fly constantly concocting almost-hummable original tunes with inane titles like Wardrobe of Love and That a Lawn Mower Can Do All That. It could have all been a recipe for a mean-spirited jab at the deluded dreamers of the world, but May is too generous a humanist to treat any of her characters with ridicule.
Only the third woman to be admitted to the Directors Guild of America, Elaine May was an Oscar-nominated writer-director with three well-regarded features to her name when she was hired to direct Ishtar; more than three decades later, she still hasn't directed another. If Ishtar isn't quite the perfect object that is her greatest work, 1972's The Heartbreak Kid, the film that may well prove to be May's last is still evidence of what a loss to cinema her absence has been. May always revelled in uncomfortably human moments going back to her Nichols and May days, and Ishtar is at its best whenever Lyle and Chuck are making neurotic spectacles of themselves. One of the film's funniest and most touching scenes sees Lyle trying to talk a suicidal Chuck off the ledge of his apartment by giving him the world's most depressing pep talk ("It takes a lot of nerve to have nothing at your age … most guys'd be ashamed!").
Beyond Beatty, Hoffman and May, Ishtar is perhaps best of all a showcase for the late Charles Grodin. Playing an amoral CIA agent who's only slightly smarter than the protagonists, Grodin is reliably, riotously deadpan in a role meant to represent the arrogant, blundering worst of Reagan-era foreign policy. If the rest of the film is more hit and miss, Grodin lands every one of his scenes, whether he's seducing a clueless Chuck on to the agency payroll over a candlelit dinner or failing to direct a covert hit on two American citizens in the Ishtari desert ("Just get out, we can still say we made a mistake").
Undeniably shaggy, with an anticlimactic third act where a battle sequence deemed too expensive for the spiralling production was supposed to be, Ishtar doesn't warrant the same kind of breathless re-evaluation that Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, that other great film flop of the 1980s, underwent a few years ago. Still, what works about Elaine May's fourth picture amounts to some of the finest material produced by a brilliant but sadly unprolific film-maker. Not epochally bad, then, Ishtar is instead something more ordinary: a fun, good-natured little comedy that just happened to cost big.
Ishtar is available to rent digitally in the US and UK
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Slater determined to enjoy Origin return
Billy Slater maintains his focus at training after being recalled to the Queensland team for tonight's State of Origin clash. DAVE HUNT
by Emma Greenwood
21st Jun 2017 6:00 AM
RUGBY LEAGUE: It was the 52 minutes of football that proved to Billy Slater he could return to the elite level of rugby league.
Slater's stats from Melbourne's Round 3 win against Brisbane in March hardly set the world on fire.
The man talked about as a future Immortal of the game came off the bench in the Storm's 14-12 win over the Broncos and made two errors, conceded a penalty, made just one tackle and missed another in an effort that certainly won't rate as his best of all time.
But it could end up being one of his most memorable games.
Just over 12 months earlier, Slater had lined up in the opening round of the season, full of hope his reconstructed shoulder would hold up to the rigours of an NRL season but headed off the field 80 minutes later knowing something was wrong.
After another bout of surgery and rehabilitation, Slater knew there could be no guarantees this time around.
Billy Slater on the fly for the Melbourne Storm. JULIAN SMITH
"It was a different feeling," Slater said of the anxiety surrounding his return against the Broncos.
"I was really nervous going into that game and made a few mistakes and didn't play my best.
"But I've never played that bad and felt that good after a game.
"It was a really weird feeling, I was just so happy to get through the game.
"Twelve months earlier I was in the same situation and I walked off that field knowing something was wrong, so I felt pretty good to finish that game."
Slater will notch another post-injury "first" tonight making his State of Origin return to play his 28th game in the Maroons jersey.
Origin was not a driver during his rehabilitation but once Slater knew his body would not fail him, returning to the game's toughest arena was certainly a goal.
"I never, ever gave up hope," Slater said of an Origin recall.
"Even when I got the setback in game one (being overlooked for selection), I always wanted to go out there and perform well and if the opportunity came up, be ready.
"I think playing rugby league was my sole motivation (during rehab). Obviously I wanted to get my shoulder back as strong as possible for life in general.
"But once I knew I could play rugby league again, I just wanted to get back and enjoy the game and I've been able to do that.
"Now I'm fortunate enough to wear a maroon jersey again which I've always really enjoyed doing and I'll be looking forward to the game."
Slater may not have played an Origin game for two years but he was key to Queensland's successful campaign last year after joining Kevin Walters' coaching staff to help guide the Maroons back three.
The experience didn't necessarily give him a new perspective on the game.
"It just reiterated to me that I wasn't ready to give up playing State of Origin," he said.
"As good as it was to be involved in last year's series, I felt I was rubbing my own nose in the situation. It was right there in front of me but I couldn't be a part of it the way I wanted to be a part of it.
"That certainly planted the seed in wanting to get back here."
Slater will return at fullback after being overlooked for the position in Game One, with incumbent and Kangaroos No.1 Darius Boyd getting the nod.
Slater was keen to stress there was no bad blood between the pair despite their competition for the position being portrayed in some circles as some sort of personal rivalry.
"I understand externally it's been put up as a Darius versus myself over the last month but we certainly don't see it that way," Slater said.
"I was in contact with Darbs post selection in the first game and even leading into game one I sent him a message and wished him all the best and told him how confident I was with him in that position and that he deserved it and that a lot of the chat was unwarranted.
"At the end of the day, we just want what's best for Queensland."
Billy Slater (left) practises his kicking game with Queensland skipper Cameron Smith. DAVE HUNT
Slater turned 34 on Sunday and knows he is nearing the end of his celebrated career but still plays with the joy of the kid that started his career in Innisfail almost three decades ago.
And after the adversity of the past two years, he appreciates every moment in the game.
"I'm just grateful I've got the opportunity to play again," he said.
"It's not that you take it for granted, but sometimes you don't focus on the little enjoyment things in the game and you're caught up in your preparation and the demand that external pressure put on you.
"I sit back and enjoy the little things a lot more now."
And a Queensland Origin comeback would be an occasion worth celebrating.
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#include "config.h"
#include "WorkQueue.h"
#include <mach/mach_init.h>
#include <mach/mach_port.h>
#include <wtf/PassOwnPtr.h>
struct WorkQueueAndFunction {
WorkQueueAndFunction(WorkQueue* workQueue, const Function<void()>& function)
: workQueue(workQueue)
, function(function)
{
}
WorkQueue* workQueue;
Function<void()> function;
};
void WorkQueue::executeFunction(void* context)
{
OwnPtr<WorkQueueAndFunction> workQueueAndFunction = adoptPtr(static_cast<WorkQueueAndFunction*>(context));
{
MutexLocker locker(workQueueAndFunction->workQueue->m_isValidMutex);
if (!workQueueAndFunction->workQueue->m_isValid)
return;
}
(workQueueAndFunction->function)();
}
void WorkQueue::dispatch(const Function<void()>& function)
{
dispatch_async_f(m_dispatchQueue, new WorkQueueAndFunction(this, function), executeFunction);
}
void WorkQueue::dispatchAfterDelay(const Function<void()>& function, double delay)
{
dispatch_time_t delayTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delay * NSEC_PER_SEC);
dispatch_after_f(delayTime, m_dispatchQueue, new WorkQueueAndFunction(this, function), executeFunction);
}
class WorkQueue::EventSource {
public:
EventSource(MachPortEventType eventType, dispatch_source_t dispatchSource, const Function<void()>& function)
: m_eventType(eventType)
, m_dispatchSource(dispatchSource)
, m_function(function)
{
}
dispatch_source_t dispatchSource() const { return m_dispatchSource; }
static void eventHandler(void* source)
{
EventSource* eventSource = static_cast<EventSource*>(source);
eventSource->m_function();
}
static void cancelHandler(void* source)
{
EventSource* eventSource = static_cast<EventSource*>(source);
mach_port_t machPort = dispatch_source_get_handle(eventSource->m_dispatchSource);
switch (eventSource->m_eventType) {
case MachPortDataAvailable:
// Release our receive right.
mach_port_mod_refs(mach_task_self(), machPort, MACH_PORT_RIGHT_RECEIVE, -1);
break;
case MachPortDeadNameNotification:
// Release our send right.
mach_port_deallocate(mach_task_self(), machPort);
break;
}
}
static void finalizeHandler(void* source)
{
EventSource* eventSource = static_cast<EventSource*>(source);
delete eventSource;
}
private:
MachPortEventType m_eventType;
// This is a weak reference, since m_dispatchSource references the event source.
dispatch_source_t m_dispatchSource;
Function<void()> m_function;
};
void WorkQueue::registerMachPortEventHandler(mach_port_t machPort, MachPortEventType eventType, const Function<void()>& function)
{
ASSERT(machPort != MACH_PORT_NULL);
dispatch_source_type_t sourceType = 0;
switch (eventType) {
case MachPortDataAvailable:
sourceType = DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_MACH_RECV;
break;
case MachPortDeadNameNotification:
sourceType = DISPATCH_SOURCE_TYPE_MACH_SEND;
break;
}
dispatch_source_t dispatchSource = dispatch_source_create(sourceType, machPort, 0, m_dispatchQueue);
EventSource* eventSource = new EventSource(eventType, dispatchSource, function);
dispatch_set_context(dispatchSource, eventSource);
dispatch_source_set_event_handler_f(dispatchSource, &EventSource::eventHandler);
dispatch_source_set_cancel_handler_f(dispatchSource, &EventSource::cancelHandler);
dispatch_set_finalizer_f(dispatchSource, &EventSource::finalizeHandler);
// Add the source to our set of sources.
{
MutexLocker locker(m_eventSourcesMutex);
ASSERT(!m_eventSources.contains(machPort));
m_eventSources.set(machPort, eventSource);
// And start it!
dispatch_resume(dispatchSource);
}
}
void WorkQueue::unregisterMachPortEventHandler(mach_port_t machPort)
{
ASSERT(machPort != MACH_PORT_NULL);
MutexLocker locker(m_eventSourcesMutex);
HashMap<mach_port_t, EventSource*>::iterator it = m_eventSources.find(machPort);
ASSERT(it != m_eventSources.end());
ASSERT(m_eventSources.contains(machPort));
EventSource* eventSource = it->value;
// Cancel and release the source. It will be deleted in its finalize handler.
dispatch_source_cancel(eventSource->dispatchSource());
dispatch_release(eventSource->dispatchSource());
m_eventSources.remove(it);
}
void WorkQueue::platformInitialize(const char* name)
{
m_dispatchQueue = dispatch_queue_create(name, 0);
dispatch_set_context(m_dispatchQueue, this);
}
void WorkQueue::platformInvalidate()
{
#if !ASSERT_DISABLED
MutexLocker locker(m_eventSourcesMutex);
ASSERT(m_eventSources.isEmpty());
#endif
dispatch_release(m_dispatchQueue);
}
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Q: How to fill OpenCV image with one solid color? How to fill OpenCV image with one solid color?
A: Use numpy.full. Here's a Python that creates a gray, blue, green and red image and shows in a 2x2 grid.
import cv2
import numpy as np
gray_img = np.full((100, 100, 3), 127, np.uint8)
blue_img = np.full((100, 100, 3), 0, np.uint8)
green_img = np.full((100, 100, 3), 0, np.uint8)
red_img = np.full((100, 100, 3), 0, np.uint8)
full_layer = np.full((100, 100), 255, np.uint8)
# OpenCV goes in blue, green, red order
blue_img[:, :, 0] = full_layer
green_img[:, :, 1] = full_layer
red_img[:, :, 2] = full_layer
cv2.imshow('2x2_grid', np.vstack([
np.hstack([gray_img, blue_img]),
np.hstack([green_img, red_img])
]))
cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyWindow('2x2_grid')
A: For an 8-bit (CV_8U) OpenCV image, the syntax is:
Mat img(Mat(nHeight, nWidth, CV_8U);
img = cv::Scalar(50); // or the desired uint8_t value from 0-255
A: color=(200, 100, 255) # sample of a color
img = np.full((100, 100, 3), color, np.uint8)
A: Here's how to do with cv2 in Python:
# Create a blank 300x300 black image
image = np.zeros((300, 300, 3), np.uint8)
# Fill image with red color(set each pixel to red)
image[:] = (0, 0, 255)
Here's more complete example how to create new blank image filled with a certain RGB color
import cv2
import numpy as np
def create_blank(width, height, rgb_color=(0, 0, 0)):
"""Create new image(numpy array) filled with certain color in RGB"""
# Create black blank image
image = np.zeros((height, width, 3), np.uint8)
# Since OpenCV uses BGR, convert the color first
color = tuple(reversed(rgb_color))
# Fill image with color
image[:] = color
return image
# Create new blank 300x300 red image
width, height = 300, 300
red = (255, 0, 0)
image = create_blank(width, height, rgb_color=red)
cv2.imwrite('red.jpg', image)
A: If you are using Java for OpenCV, then you can use the following code.
Mat img = src.clone(); //Clone from the original image
img.setTo(new Scalar(255,255,255)); //This sets the whole image to white, it is R,G,B value
A: Create a new 640x480 image and fill it with purple (red+blue):
cv::Mat mat(480, 640, CV_8UC3, cv::Scalar(255,0,255));
Note:
*
*height before width
*type CV_8UC3 means 8-bit unsigned int, 3 channels
*colour format is BGR
A: The simplest is using the OpenCV Mat class:
img=cv::Scalar(blue_value, green_value, red_value);
where img was defined as a cv::Mat.
A: Using the OpenCV C API with IplImage* img:
Use cvSet(): cvSet(img, CV_RGB(redVal,greenVal,blueVal));
Using the OpenCV C++ API with cv::Mat img, then use either:
cv::Mat::operator=(const Scalar& s) as in:
img = cv::Scalar(redVal,greenVal,blueVal);
or the more general, mask supporting, cv::Mat::setTo():
img.setTo(cv::Scalar(redVal,greenVal,blueVal));
A: I personally made this python code to change the color of a whole image opened or created with openCV . I am sorry if it's not good enough , I am beginner .
def OpenCvImgColorChanger(img,blue = 0,green = 0,red = 0):
line = 1
ImgColumn = int(img.shape[0])-2
ImgRaw = int(img.shape[1])-2
for j in range(ImgColumn):
for i in range(ImgRaw):
if i == ImgRaw-1:
line +=1
img[line][i][2] = int(red)
img[line][i][1] = int(green)
img[line][i][0] = int(blue)
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Hey fellas - like the title says, looking for a set of Aardvarks decals from CAM. 48-029. Willing to pay or trade. Let me know if you have a set and are willing to part with them. Can just be the VF-114 portion. Appreciate any help with this. Thanks!!
The older CAM stuff is hard to come by. Ebay is probably still your best bet.
Gotcha. Yeah, I've been keeping an eye out on ebay for sure, but no luck as of yet. I ended up going in another direction. Gonna do the early VF-41 with the black nose instead. Still holding out hope however that Furball or Fightertown will put out an Aardvarks history sheet one of these days...Geoff? Brian? You guys listening? Lol.
Are you STILL looking for that sheet?
Well, I kinda went in another direction because of the scarcity of said sheet and lack of luck locating one. However, if you happen to have one you want to get rid of, lemme know...I would most definitely buy another Tamiya Tomcat to put them on...feel free to drop me a PM. |
The Republic of Bulgaria shares its borders with 5 other countries in southeastern Europe and has a coastline on the Black Sea. Romania lies to the north, Turkey to the southeast, Greece to the south, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the southwest, and Serbia (with Montenegro part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) to the west. The eastern coastline on the Black Sea is 354 kilometers (220 miles) long, and the total area of the country is 110,910 square kilometers (42,823 square miles), making it slightly larger than the state of Tennessee. The capital, Sofia, is situated at the foot of the Balkan and Vitosha Mountains in western Bulgaria; other principal cities are Plovdiv in south-central Bulgaria, the coastal cities of Varna and Burgas, and Ruse on the Danube River.
The Bulgarian population recorded in the 1985 census was 8,948,649, but by July 2000, largely due to emigration , the population was estimated to have decreased to 7,796,694. In 2000, the birth rate stood at 8.06 and the death rate at 14.63 per 1,000 population, but this downward trend should be halted as the economy improves, emigrants return, and the country joins the European Union (EU) in 2007. By 2010, the population is projected to reach 7.26 million. Population density is about 70 persons per square kilometer (181 per square mile).
Ethnic Bulgarians account for 85 percent of the population, Turks 9 percent, and Roma (Gypsies) 3.7 percent. Other small, miscellaneous groups round out the total. Bulgarian, a Slavic language with a written tradition da ting back to the 9th century, is the principal language, with other languages spoken corresponding to the ethnic breakdown. Religions include Orthodox Christian (83 percent), Muslim (13 percent), and Roman Catholic (1.5 percent), with Jewish, Protestant, and other groups making up the rest. The population of Bulgaria is aging, with 16 percent below the age of 14 and 16 percent older than 65. The median age is expected to increase from 37.5 years in 1995 to nearly 41 in 2005. A majority of the population, 69 percent, lives in urban areas, and Sofia and its suburbs are home to the largest number.
Prior to 1989, the government encouraged population growth by providing maternity benefits, free health care, affordable pre-school day care, and reasonably adequate pensions. Emigration was negligible due to government restrictions on travel. Since then, however, deteriorating living standards, the opening of the economy, and freedom to travel have generated emigration, mostly of young people, to Western Europe and North America, and of ethnic Turks to their neighboring home-land. Many of the latter, however, return or maintain households in both countries.
The service sector, generating approximately half of Bulgaria's GDP in 1999 and employing 43 percent of the workforce, continues to experience the highest growth of any sector. Most private sector activity involves some form of trade or retail, and financial services such as insurance and lending, health-care services, and tourism are well regarded by private companies.
With the breakup of the rigid socialist banking system, the 1990s witnessed expansion of the banking and financial services sector. In 1996, however, many state-owned and some private banks collapsed under the burden of bad debts accumulated by state factories that had become obsolete and by the now infamous "credit millionaires." In 1997, the government focused on achieving stabilization and financial discipline, forcing the banks to avoid new lending and to maintain very high liquidity rates (a measure of how much cash is kept on hand). Bulgaria's low inflation is accompanied by low interest rates, but the level of lending is a third of that in most central European countries and is a major barrier to investment. The economy is heavily reliant on cash payments, which is detrimental to efficiency and conducive to corruption and tax evasion. Savings have been declining since 1999 due to generally low income levels.
The government is privatizing remaining state banks, and there were plans to sell in 2001 the largest, Bulbank, to a consortium made up of UniCredito (Italy) and Allianz (Germany), and the Bulgarian State Savings Bank. The large Post Bank was sold in 1998 to a consortium of Greek banks and AIG (U.S.), which also bought a stake in the United Bulgarian Bank in 1999. Most hard-won loans are now going to private companies. Consumer credit is developing, although slowly, with banks actively encouraging car and home loans to the tune of $400 million. Credit card companies have also started operations in this formerly virgin market.
Tourism plays a significant but not crucial role in the economy. While its competitors, Spain, Greece, and Turkey, have the advantage of aggressive and expensive marketing campaigns and decades of exposure to the market, Bulgaria has been unable to capitalize on its popular image as a land with a rich folklore tradition. The country offers extensive beach resorts along the Black Sea coast, several alpine skiing resorts in the Vitosha, Rila, Pirin, and Rhodope Mountains, and natural mineral water health spas. Nevertheless, the number of Western tourists fell by a third between 1994 and 1996, and the total revenue from the tourist industry in 1996 was $669 million. Attracted by low prices, cultural similarities, the lack of visa formalities, and a Russian-friendly population, former Soviet nationals spent 130 percent more overnight stays in Bulgaria in 1996 than in 1985, and 63 percent more than in 1993. Former East Germans are also frequent visitors. In 1996, overnight stays by Russians and Germans were around 2 million each, but the number of British and Scandinavian visitors is low. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians, among the top tourists to Bulgaria in the 1980s, now prefer other destinations. Foreign-acquired tourist hotels on the coast are mainly Russian-owned, while others have been leased to tour operators such as Germany's Neck-ermann who carry out renovation. However, it is 5-star business hotels that most attract foreign investors.
Growing quickly during the 1990s, the retail sector was energized by the privatization of state and municipality-owned stores, the emergence of many small private firms, and the import of cheap foreign consumer goods. Major foreign retailers, such as the German Metro, the Turkish Koc Holding, and others from Austria and France, began developing a network of large hypermarkets. The choice of goods has widened impressively, but low-income Bulgarians are generally reluctant or unable to pay more for better-looking products, often leaving consumers reliant on traditional domestic suppliers. The lower price of subsidized agricultural goods from the EU make them popular with buyers but detrimental to local producers. Direct and network marketing, which became popular in Eastern Europe after Oriflame (Sweden) made a success of it, is taking root, but only gradually, due to low levels of disposable income .
Crampton, R. J. A Concise History of Bulgaria. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Economist Intelligence Unit. Country Report: Bulgaria. London: 2000.
U.S. Department of State. FY 2000 Country Commercial Guide: Bulgaria. <http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2000/europe/index.html> . Accessed December 2000.
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module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:loadyaml, :type => :rvalue, :arity => -2, :doc => <<-'DOC') do |args|
@summary
Load a YAML file containing an array, string, or hash, and return the data
in the corresponding native data type.
The first parameter can be a file path or a URL.
The second parameter is the default value. It will be returned if the file
was not found or could not be parsed.
@return [Array|String|Hash]
The data stored in the YAML file, the type depending on the type of data that was stored.
@example Example Usage:
$myhash = loadyaml('/etc/puppet/data/myhash.yaml')
$myhash = loadyaml('https://example.local/my_hash.yaml')
$myhash = loadyaml('https://username:[email protected]/my_hash.yaml')
$myhash = loadyaml('no-file.yaml', {'default' => 'value'})
DOC
raise ArgumentError, 'Wrong number of arguments. 1 or 2 arguments should be provided.' unless args.length >= 1
require 'yaml'
require 'open-uri'
begin
if args[0].start_with?('http://', 'https://')
username = ''
password = ''
if (match = args[0].match(%r{(http\://|https\://)(.*):(.*)@(.*)}))
# If URL is in the format of https://username:[email protected]/my_hash.yaml
protocol, username, password, path = match.captures
url = "#{protocol}#{path}"
elsif (match = args[0].match(%r{(http\:\/\/|https\:\/\/)(.*)@(.*)}))
# If URL is in the format of https://[email protected]/my_hash.yaml
protocol, username, path = match.captures
url = "#{protocol}#{path}"
else
url = args[0]
end
begin
contents = OpenURI.open_uri(url, :http_basic_authentication => [username, password])
rescue OpenURI::HTTPError => err
res = err.io
warning("Can't load '#{url}' HTTP Error Code: '#{res.status[0]}'")
args[1]
end
YAML.safe_load(contents) || args[1]
elsif File.exists?(args[0]) # rubocop:disable Lint/DeprecatedClassMethods : Changing to .exist? breaks the code
YAML.load_file(args[0]) || args[1]
else
warning("Can't load '#{args[0]}' File does not exist!")
args[1]
end
rescue StandardError => e
raise e unless args[1]
args[1]
end
end
end
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Hailey Bieber describes the 'scariest moment' of her life after fearing blood clots
Zack ZwiezenApril 27, 2022
Hailey Bieber has spoken for the first time in over a month after suffering from a blood clot. The condition led to a lack of blood supply to her brain while she was having breakfast with husband Justin Bieber.
Hailey, who has previously only told the story to her friends and family, has opened up to fans about the ordeal. The star bravely spoke about the experience by posting a YouTube video on her channel. She said it was the "most terrifying moment" of her life.
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Hailey describes a scary blood clot experience
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Hailey Bieber usually uses her YouTube channel for challenges, celebrity chats, and sometimes to talk about topics like mental health, and just uploaded a very personal video about her recent scare.
In the 12-minute video, the model details what happened with her husband Justin Bieber over breakfast that morning.
The star recalled realizing she was having "stroke-like" symptoms after noticing an odd feeling in her fingertips.
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Beside her, Justin was worried and called for help and someone to dial 911. Luckily, a doctor was nearby and quickly on hand to help Hailey through her horrific experience.
The star was taken to the hospital where she was monitored and given medical attention.
Hailey underwent a series of tests and found that part of her brain was lacking oxygen. This gave her a blood clot. Doctors believed she was suffering from a TIA, a temporary ischemic attack. The condition may also be referred to as a "mini stroke."
A TIA is a serious condition that temporarily cuts off the blood supply to the brain and can have signs that are commonly known to occur during a stroke. These include falling face to one side, speech problems, and inability to raise arms.
In addition, causes of a TIA can be due to a blood clot blocking the blood supply to the brain.
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"It feels like a stroke"
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"Basically, it's like a mini stroke. It feels like a stroke, except my body cleared it up pretty quickly and I didn't have any problems after that."
Going into detail, Hailey said, "It was definitely a really eye-opening thing for me. I definitely felt a lot of anxiety from the situation."
Over a month after the TIA incident, she says she was "taking a blood thinner and aspirin every day" and is grateful to all the doctors who took care of her.
"Now that this is all over, I feel so relieved," she said.
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Hailey suffers the "most terrifying moment" of her life
Corresponding Glamor Magazineshe told her 43.5million followers that she has since received intensive medical care following the incident.
She described it as "one of the scariest moments I've ever experienced."
At the time, she wrote on her Instagram stories how she had breakfast with Justin. She said: "On Thursday morning I was sitting at breakfast with my husband when I started having stroke-like symptoms and was rushed to hospital.
"They determined I had sustained a very small blood clot in my brain that caused a small lack of oxygen, but my body had passed it on by itself and I made a full recovery within a few hours."
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UN urges Sudan to shed light on chemical weapons allegations
Amnesty International said that between 200 and 250 people including many children may have died as a result of exposure to chemical agents during attacks by Sudanese government forces in the Jebel Marra region of Sudan (AFP Photo/Albert Gonzalez Farran)
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN peacekeeping chief on Tuesday urged Sudan to help shed light on allegations of chemical weapons attacks in Darfur, but Russia said the claims must not be taken seriously.
In a report released last week, Amnesty International accused Sudanese government forces of carrying out more than 30 attacks this year using toxic agents in mountainous villages of the Jebel Marra region.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in response that it would require further information and evidence to push ahead with a formal investigation.
Herve Ladsous, the UN under-secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the Security Council that he encourages Sudan "to maintain full cooperation with any future OPCW investigation, as it has expressed readiness to do so."
Sudan has signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, the international agreement outlawing the use of chemical weapons.
Amnesty said that between 200 and 250 people including many children may have died as a result of exposure to chemical agents during the attacks.
France and Britain have said the allegations should be thoroughly investigated, but Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the report was unconvincing.
"Those allegations are not serious. There are so many reasons to believe they are not serious," Churkin told reporters.
Khartoum has blocked peacekeepers from the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID) from gaining access to Jebel Marra, where Ladsous said the situation remains "volatile."
Up to 194,000 people have been displaced in Jebel Marra since mid-January when the Sudanese army launched a military campaign against the rebel Sudan Liberation Army - Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) group, the United Nations says.
Darfur has been engulfed in a conflict since 2003 when ethnic minority groups took up arms against President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated government, which launched a brutal counter-insurgency.
At least 300,000 people have been killed and 2.5 million displaced, the United Nations says.
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The next episode of WGC Ultimate gamer is on tonight, and frankly I have enjoyed it alot. There is alot of Drama, Like in all reality shows, but the concept is good. The cool thing is 3 members of PMS Clan stared on the show and one of them happens to be the Leader. Its on Sci Fi and you can also watch the past episodes on www.Hulu.com <---they are takin over the world you know.
Okay, being the GH and DDR addict I am, I'll state my beef that I've been dealing with after watching those two episodes.
Play on EXPERT!!! Play 9-10 foot songs!!!!
Seriously, people. Canned Heat was a 6-footer, 7 at best. And for those that don't know DDR's difficulty ranking system, it's on a scale of 1 to 10 feet, 10 being wicked hard. And for RB...they were playing on hard. HARD!!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!!
If you're going to have a show called Ultimate Gamer, you play on the big boy difficulties, not barely challenging difficulties. Ugh.
I have to agree with Asuka. I wouldn't wanna be represented by someone who can't even best me at my own game.. what makes it worse is that this person is suppose to be the ultimate gamer?..
I myself would have destroyed them at PGR4.. and Rock Band.
Kornkid25a wrote: I have to agree with Asuka. I wouldn't wanna be represented by someone who can't even best me at my own game.. what makes it worse is that this person is suppose to be the ultimate gamer?..
Honestly what they should have done was have atourney for ANY ONE that could attend. then take the best from each game and test them against everyone else like they are doing now. The problem is that all the ppl on the show are already sponsered or considered pros. Give those that need a break a chance to prove them selves. |
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the other side of silence
"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary life it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity" George Eliot. 'Middlemarch'
Working in various warehouses I always liked a tidy-up, a bit of stocktaking, giving a bit of shape and order to the accumulated muddle and inconvenience of things. Or, at least, the illusion of order and meaning. And even though I always think that the Sunday Supplement and TV reviews of the the year that's about to end smack of lazy journalism, and easy programming, I realise that this is exactly what I'm heading into. Starting with a poem that's now over a year old, and which seems like someone else's. As they do.
When all's said and done
after the eulogy
after the hymns no longer sung
with gusto or familiarity
awkward pause
and remembering the casket
isn't going to move
after the queue
to find the door
after the flare of lighters
the sucked-in smoke
the conversations half in bits
after all that
there's the buffet and the drinks
the loosening of ties
the unacknowledged complicity
of being alive while someone else is not.
I have been to funerals this year, and learn I am grateful for being alive. There's been a lot to be grateful for this year, especially things done for the very first time.
Like this wordpress poetry cobweb, which has kept me on my toes and anxious and sort-of-productive for about thirty five consecutive Sundays. It has made me reflect, and think and read and research. It has made me read other blogs much more attentively. So thank you Kim Moore and Anthony Wilson and Josephine Corcoran for teaching me so much. It has let me repay debts and keep promises. It let me try my hand at reviewing a poet's work (thank you, Julia Deakin for putting the notion in my head), and it has made me much more aware of writers who come lateish to writing, as I have. It has let me choose poems by Bob Horne, Liz Venn, Yvie Holder, Andy Blackford, Simon Zonenblick and Tom Cleary. It has let me posture and theorise without interruption (much like being a lecturer again, I suppose). I have used it unashamedly as a platform for my own poems, and no one has told me to stop. Yet. So, thank you, WordPress for letting me make the great fogginzo's cobweb.
Like winning competitions, one of which let me pay for the printing of my first pamphlet: Running out of Space, and one that gave me the prize of being properly published by a proper publisher. So, for Larach, thank you Camden/Lumen, and Sir Andrew Motion, and Adele Ward and WardWood Publishing. And also for my very first book launch.
Like submitting poems to various magazines and online sites, and finding out that having more rejections than acceptances is good for you. So thank you to the ones like Magma that are generous in their rejections, and for the care of the ones who take you on board, like Brett Evans at Prole, and the Sansoms at The North, and Martin Malone at The interpreter's house.
Like being the compere at The Puzzle Hall Poets (at the Puzzle Hall Inn in Sowerby Bridge), and being handed a microphone. Which panders to my enjoyment of performing, but more usefully makes me attend closely to all the poets on the open mic. so I can say something that shows their poems have been listened to; it means I have to take notes, and I end up with something like a commonplace book of lines that stood out. I look forward to the first Monday of each month; I enjoy putting the publicity together for Facebook. I really like working with Bob Horne and Freda Davies, deciding who to invite to do guest slots. I like all the friends I've made. So thankyou, Puzzle Hall Poets, and thankyou Gaia Holmes for inviting me to guest there in the first place. Which leads me to another first…..being a guest on Gaia's Phoenix Radio show : Themes for dreamers, which she co-hosts with William Thirsk Gaskell. Last Sunday I got to read my poems and talk about them and choose records to play. I can't recommend the experience too highly.
Like being invited to join an editorial panel for the OWF Press anthology The garden, and having the experience of trying to choose about 65 poems from well over 200 submissions. Humbling, that. But it's a cracking collection and a worthy follow up to the successful Wheels anthology from the same press. (I'll put the details at the end of the post). Equally humbling was getting a review accepted by The North…never done one before, and terrified of upsetting four poets who I like. As it happens I didn't. But I'd no idea how stressful it was going to be. Much rather let someone review mine.
What else? Last but not least, a poem-week-year has finally come to an end. This was the idea of Andy Blackford, whose poems appeared in the cobweb earlier this year. We'd met again after a gap of of about 40 years; Andy reckoned that since Bunuel and an artist friend used to meet to exchange and critique a piece of art on a given day each week, there was no reason why we shouldn't. And there wasn't. We now have to decide what to do about the 104 poems we've written. Got a title. Gap year.
So, you might well ask, after all that…………….. the silence and the stupidity and the funerals? What's all that about? And Paula Rego? Come on!
I think it all comes down to Kim Moore's Sunday Poem last week. Pascale Petit was her chosen poet, and Pascale Petit, for me, is the poetry equivalent of Paula Rego. She has that urgency, that passion, that edge. It's a feeling that both know pain very well, and are up to all its wiles. Or else their art does; I don't know. I'm not putting this very well. I can't find the words. They are both unflinching, aren't they? Take these lines from the poem that Kim Moore chose: 'How to handfeed sparrows.-
'Let the sun burn the top of your head
as if it's a candle, a whole day
for it to ignite. And when
a sparrow lands keep stock-still
even thought the flame is lit
and your scalp is melting
they are hungry, and you
have only one hour of that wick
in the centre of your being.
Let it burn down to the soles of your feet.
There's something purgatorial and Catholic about the burning, the candle, the sparrows, and something so intensely felt and personal it makes me shiver. It makes me think: I never feel in that way, to that degree. Or maybe I'm thinking after the event, because Kim happened to write in passing that she'd been reading Fiona Benson's first collection, Bright travellers, and on a whim I downloaded it to my Kindle, read it through that night. It stopped me dead in my tracks. And again the next morning in a doctor's waiting room, waiting for a routine taking of blood. Two extracts to show you what staggered me. The first is the whole of 'Prayer'
I saw you like a hare, stripped and jugged
in your own blood, your tail a rudder
steering you through burgundy and juniper,
your eyes gummed shut. Tadpole,
stripling, elver, don't let the dragtides
pull you under, but root in, bed down,
tucked behind my pelvic bone,
rocked in the emptying stoup of my womb.
It has the particular power, I think, that excited me in Ted Hughes when I first read him..but without the sort-of macho-bravado. This is textured and tender and strong. It's beyond me. I went and reread Slyvia Plath's 'You're' and knew this was a different, stranger, more wonderful thing entirely. And so is the raw open-eyedness of 'Repairs' , a midwife's stitches
It must be the gas
that has me see her
holding pins
between her tightened lips
as she works
with both hands
round the wound
to stitch me back in.
Just listen to this, and its precision of sound, the consonantal snag of that 'stitch'. Do you see why I might think again of Paula Rego….maybe one image in particular?
There's a physicality about these poems that's unanswerable, and a synthesis of the solid worlds of absolutely imagined birds and wild creatures, of weathers and the leaching of soils and the decay of rocks with the intensely particular personal lifeof the poet that makes this collection so wonderful and distressing. She reminds me of Wendy Pratt, not just because of the coincident experience, but their way of somehow living on level terms with it, and their way with words. Like this from 'Nan Harwicke turns into a hare'
I will tell you how it was. I slipped
into the hare like a nude foot
into a glorious slipper. Pushing her bones
to one side to make room for my shape
so I could settle myself like a child within her.
In the dark I groped for her freedom…..
There's that physicality, that sensuality, again, and again infused by the unspeakable loss of a child that has to be spoken and spoken for. That controlled intensity that has the lines shivering with energy. Just one more now. Kim Moore, this time,one who has dealt with abusive assault, or has come to deal with it. 'If we could speak like wolves'.
(Hares, rabbits, sheep, wolves, hunters and hunted, and the ones who run under the moon. I may be witched. Anyway, this from Kim) :
if I could rub my scent along your shins to make
you mine, if a mistake could be followed
by instant retribution and end with you
rolling over to expose the stubble and grace
of your throat, if it could be forgotten
the monent the wind changed, if my eyes
could sharpen to yellow……………………..
And there's that energy again, that physicality that's nailed in two words: stubble sharpen. And so it starts with The Sunday Poem. Or at least, that's a catalyst. I read these poems, and then I read what I've written in the last two years and I see what isn't there, and I wonder if I have access to what's missing. Just to explain why I chose that opening quotation from George Eliot; for the last 18 months or so I have grown gradually more deaf. It's something that can be dealt with, and will be, but at the moment I hear the world through a soft sieve. I miss the point of conversations and questions if I'm not attending. It's like listening to French. I recognise songs on the radio by the bass lines and drum patterns but I can't hear the whole tune. And now these poets. It's as though they've shown me emotional registers and harmonies that I can't hear or feel for myself, as though, in George Eliot's word I'm 'well-wadded'. I'm writing rhetoric and well-observed landscapes, and anecdotes, but I'm not accessing the whole picture. It won't be forced, but it must be possible. I wonder how.
I think that next week I might go on thinking about this, and about learning a new language, or a bigger one. So there we are. One year finishing, and whole new bunch of stuff to be fighting through. Hope your coming year will be exciting and happy in equal measure.
Wendy Pratt ; Nan Hardwicke turns into a hare [Prolebooks. 2011] £4.50
Fiona Benson; Bright travellers [Cape poetry 2014] £10.00
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By john foggin December 28, 2014 August 18, 2022 1,993 Words9 Comments
Nine days wonders and season songs
Nine days ago I was in Camden for the launch of my chapbook 'Larach' …..you can see what it looks like if you click on My Books at the top of the page; if you want to buy it, I'll be delighted. Of course, if you do, you should probably buy Josephine Corcoran's new pamphlet, and Liz Berry's Black Country and pre order Kim Moore's Art of falling, and, well, it's Xmas. You get the picture…..but, anyway, Camden High Street was all Friday night bustle and junk and tattooists (I was much taken by the the chaps standing at intervals with boards that advertised tattoos, piercings. And tatto removal. It didn't strike me as a smart sales pitch) and many young people all full of life and purpose; and it was cold. Proper cold. Winter cold. It was like being twenty again, out in a frosty city, all scarves and duffel coats, and up for it. Whatever that was.
And then I got to read at the Trinity Reform Church venue. And meet my editor, Adele Ward, and the Camden/Lumen organiser Ruth O'Callaghan for the very first time. And to see my book for the first time. It is truly lovely. Thank you, WardWood Publishing. All sorts of friends turned up, one I hadn't seen for about 50 years. He was in the very first class and form group I had in my first teaching job in 1965. Thank you for coming, Steve Lewis. Andy Blackford, also from Middlesbrough High School and one of this year's (un)discovered gems. Sally and Emma..my best friend's daughters. Anthony Costello from Todmorden's Kava poetry venue. Greg from 'Write out loud' (thanks for the write-up, Greg. Brilliant!). And then there were the Commended poets. That's when it gets humbling. I couldn't, can't, see why my poem should have won and why theirs didn't. Light a candle for all the commendeds and highly commendeds, the nearly-but-not-quites. If you're reading this, thank you for your poems and your readings. Then I drove to Northampton with my lovely friends, Dave and Heather, and the next day drove home, and packed notebooks and boots and pens and the next day drove to Whitby with poetry friends Keith Hutson (who I hope will be an (un)discovered gem ere long) and Maggie How…and the Poetry Business world-famous writing workshop.
It's the second year running for me to marvel at the endless inventiveness of the wonderful Sansoms, and at their sheer stamina. I get knackered by the end of a single Saturday in Sheffield. Whitby is five Poetry business writing days end-on, with extra poetry readings every night. Sixteen talented writers, totally focussed day after day.And of course, Whitby. Whitby in December. Wind off the sea. Another episode of extended deja vu. Remember the 50's and 60's? When did you last wake up and find your fingers were cold? Like being twenty again, or even younger. Amazing sunrises, and home-made biscuits of rare beauty, in this residential centre that used to be a girls' boarding school attached to St Hilda's priory. Sneaton Castle. You should try it. Because you couldn't make it, the rest of this cobweb strand will be a 'wish you'd been there' packet of postcards…and a very fast piece of writing out of a single workshop task.
Notations of a wander round Whitby.
careful hikers close the footpath gate and snib the catch
right by the five-barred gate where someone's daubed
in tin-end paint : trespasers will be shot
trees all lean inland
away from viking wind
its knives and hard words
laminate town, levels and layers
climbing out of the fisherman's river
like the wash from a big dropped stone
ginnels, snickets, steep narrow cobbled ways;
a place of roofs and corrugations, terracotta,
pantiled screes, oxblood, orange, leafdrift
a stone stair via dolorosa , penitential,
cruel and unusual punishment, this ascent for the blameless
seaside donkeys, and steelwork sinners out for the day
headland gravestones, pitted with salt and years,
congregate and crowd, incline towards the church
and all the dead in the way of the wind from the sea
one single sculpted stone fends off the whole north sea;
it throws an arm around the round river at the tide's mouth.
It says. Hush. Shh. Sh
I don't know if I'll manage a post next Sunday. Just in case, a happy christmas, and thankyou for staying with me through all these Sundays since early this year. May next year bring you everything you'd wish for yourselves. xx
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The BMW i3 battery system – from the power source of the Ultimate Driving Machine – is integrated into an intelligent storage solution for residential and commercial applications.
Montreal, Quebec June 21, 2016. … BMW i, a leader in innovative electromobility since 2011, announced a stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at the Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exhibition 29, making it the first automotive manufacturer to utilize a complete automotive high-voltage battery for energy storage. The battery storage system electrified by BMW i, enables customers to more fully realize their commitment to sustainability – and to take the next step towards energy independence. With this system, which integrates seamlessly with charging stations and solar panels, customers can offset peak energy costs and also enjoy the added security of an available backup energy supply during power outages.
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Intelligent interface that maximizes energy utilization.
The battery storage system electrified by BMW i ensures that the energy is utilized in the most efficient way possible. Utilizing real-time energy readings, the system can measure the available energy supply and demand, making the necessary calculations to determine the optimal time to charge or discharge the system. This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis.
The battery storage system also includes a voltage converter and power electronics to manage the energy flow between renewable energy sources, the house interface, and the Li-Ion high-voltage battery from the BMW i3. The system has been designed to be perfectly integrated into the house energy supply chain. The battery storage system electrified by BMW i is ideally sized so it can be conveniently placed in the basement or the garage of a detached house, where the stored energy can either be used for electrically-operated devices in the home or for charging the battery of an electric car.
Individual battery storage systems are key to enabling privately generated renewable power to be used directly on-site instead of being fed into the local power grid. By combining an eco-friendly power supplier with the convenience of the battery storage system electrified by BMW i at home or at a small business, our customers will be able to store renewable electricity and then use it at an ideal time to augment energy from the grid during periods of higher pricing, effectively reducing energy bills.
The battery storage system electrified by BMW i – years of study and research.
BMW i, a world leader in sustainability, has dedicated years of extensive practical studies and research together with Universities, National Laboratories, Utilities and Industry partners to maximize residential energy efficiency. The high-voltage batteries developed for the BMW i3 have already demonstrated their high potential for secondary use as a stationary power storage in numerous research projects. Long before the launch of the BMW i3, it was clear that the batteries would have an exceptionally long life and could serve a useful purpose in enabling electric driving both within and outside of the vehicle. In 2011, batteries which were previously used in the MINI E test fleet were successfully implemented in a stationary project. Together with the Federal Ministry of transport in Berlin, the project demonstrated that an energy positive home environment with a battery system is possible.
In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. In 2014, BMW integrated high-voltage batteries into a stationary storage system in Hamburg. This project serves the energy supplier Vattenfall as a power buffer for fast charging stations, aiding by storing solar power and helping to stabilize the electric grid.
In 2015, NextEra, the leading American energy producer and distributor of clean energy, signed the largest contract in automotive history for the delivery of 20 MWh of Battery 2nd Life automotive batteries. These batteries were sourced from the BMW ActiveE test fleet in the US and from early BMW i3 vehicles. NextEra will operate them in various industrial sized stationary electricity storage systems.
Another step forward for BMW i 360° Electric and the sustainability lifestyle.
The battery storage system adds to BMW i 360° Electric, an array of lifestyle offerings designed to optimize convenience and sustainability of the e-mobility lifestyle for BMW i and iPerformance customers.
BMW i 360º Electric encompasses products for home and public charging, assistance services, and flexible mobility. Moreover, BMW has partnered with experts in the field of electric mobility to provide its customers the best solutions available on the market to optimize their overall EV driving experience. Therefore, not only does 360º Electric allow for a convenient and easy transition to electric driving, but it will also provide customers access to an energy-conscious, sustainable lifestyle.
"With a battery storage system electrified by BMW i our customers can take the next step towards a sustainable energy lifestyle. Coupled with the home charging and solar energy programs, the system enables BMW drivers to embrace holistic sustainability beyond e-mobility," said Rob Healey, Manager of EV Infrastructure for BMW North America.
ChargeForward – a key component to the battery storage system electrified by BMW i.
BMW is conducting a pilot study into the relationship between home electric vehicle (EV) charging and the energy grid, together with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), whose service area covers Northern and Central California. Working with a group of nearly 100 BMW i3 drivers in the San Francisco Bay Area, BMW i ChargeForward is demonstrating how intelligent management of EV charging can contribute to optimizing electric power grid efficiency, and thus is expected to reduce total cost of electric vehicle ownership. The study has two parts: a managed charge pilot program involving BMW i3 owners and a Battery 2nd Life energy storage system. In the managed charge pilot program, these BMW i3 owners allow BMW to delay or interrupt the charging of their vehicles by up to an hour, based on requests received from PG&E when grid loads are at their peak. The program also includes a "second life" for used MINI E batteries, by repurposing these batteries into a stationary solar-powered electric storage system located at the BMW Group Technology Office in Mountain View, California.
About BMW i.
BMW i is a BMW Group brand and stands for visionary vehicle concepts and technologies, connected mobility services as well as a new understanding of premium strongly defined by sustainability. BMW i is represented in 50 countries with the BMW i3 electric vehicle and the BMW i8 Plug-in-Hybrid sports car.
BMW i also incorporates the associated mobility services, ReachNow (CarSharing 2.0), ChargeNow (easy access to the largest charging networks), BMW i Ventures (investment in young companies with the focus on urban mobility) and the BMW i Urban Mobility Competence Centre (for consulting cities, towns and municipalities).
BMW Group In America.
BMW of North America, LLC has been present in the United States since 1975. Rolls-Royce Motor Cars NA, LLC began distributing vehicles in 2003. The BMW Group in the United States has grown to include marketing, sales, and financial service organizations for the BMW brand of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, the MINI brand, and the Rolls-Royce brand of Motor Cars; Designworks, a strategic design consultancy based in California; a technology office in Silicon Valley and various other operations throughout the country. BMW Manufacturing Co., LLC in South Carolina is part of BMW Group's global manufacturing network and is the exclusive manufacturing plant for all X5 and X3 Sports Activity Vehicles and X6 and X4 Sports Activity Coupes. The BMW Group sales organization is represented in the U.S. through networks of 341 BMW passenger car and BMW Sports Activity Vehicle centers, 153 BMW motorcycle retailers, 126 MINI passenger car dealers, and 36 Rolls-Royce Motor Car dealers. BMW (US) Holding Corp., the BMW Group's sales headquarters for North America, is located in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey.
Information about BMW products is available to consumers via the Internet at:
www.bmwusa.com.
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Paris Mourns Heroes of the Pen by Ronald C. Rosbottom. © 2015 Ronald C. Rosbottom. Published with permission. All rights reserved. Read in part at the American Library in Paris on January 15, 2015 in Paris.
(French) Ronald C. Rosbottom, author of the bestseller When Paris Went Dark, is the key person to talk to about Paris having gone dark once more considering the tragic attack at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters earlier this year. Ronald's letter to colleagues and friends captures the terror and humiliation that was Paris. We feel When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944, is timelier than ever.
One of you, hearing of yesterday's attack at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly here in Paris, wrote: "Are you safe?" The answer is yes, we are, but we do not live in safe times.
We were in a restaurant at lunch yesterday on the Left Bank, when one of our friends read from her cell phone that there had been an armed attack near the Place des Vosges in the Marais where we often shop and dine. We asked the waiters if they had more news, but they were as uninformed as we. My wife, Betty, and I decided nevertheless to go to the Marais where we had planned to spend the afternoon. We stopped in a café to watch TV, and the news was stunning: a dozen people, ten of them journalists, cartoonists, and staff for the paper, had been gunned down just before noon. Amateur videos showed two masked killers getting into a car, but not before shooting a wounded policeman in the head.
The news spread quickly throughout the city, and everywhere we went on our way home Parisians were checking their cell phones for more information. Within hours, thousands had gathered spontaneously at the Place de la République, the square that has served as a rallying spot for all sorts of public support for the rights of man. We saw on TV hundreds of people holding candles, signs that read "Je suis Charlie," but, more poignantly, holding up their pencils, their Bics, their fountain pens, in sympathy with those journalists who had joyfully, satirically, and often "tastelessly," mocked the religious and political opinions of the certain.
Today, it's raining in Paris, as crowds gather in front of Notre Dame Cathedral, again in the Place de la République, and elsewhere throughout the city and the country. President Hollande has declared a rare three-day period of national mourning. The rain only reinforces the sense of mournfulness that covers this beautiful city. The 19th-century poet Baudelaire wrote about such dismal times "quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle/Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,/Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercle/Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits." [When the low and heavy sky weighs like a lid/Upon the soul moaning in injury,/And when, spanning the city's horizon,/It pours a black day sadder than our nights"]. This is how Paris felt today when I went out to buy a dozen newspapers—of all political stripes—commenting on yesterday's still resonant events.
Paris represents many things for Betty and me: a joie de vivre, that is, a deep belief that life can be pleasant, that being with friends over a slow meal is the height of sophistication, that just watching others enjoy the city is entertainment enough, that there are so many small actions that Parisians take that add aesthetic comfort to daily existence. Yet these events remind us of another Parisian tradition, that of tolerance, belief in the curative power of intellectual engagement, criticism as a healthy antidote to smugness and comfort. Liberty is not an empty ideal here, but a palpable reality.
Charlie Hebdo was not a great newspaper, nor a widely read one. Its most persistent impact came from the outrageous cartoons that its illustrators created, and which were picked up by media all over the world. Nothing was sacred; everyone's beliefs were criticized. And, a few years ago, the paper's offices had been fire-bombed, and its employees threatened. Most recently, the weekly had been relentless in its targeting of "radical Islam," or of those who used one of the world's largest religions for their own narrow purposes. In a formidable essay on Salon's e-zine, Laura Miller wrote that "to kill someone for making fun of you is a tacit confession of your own impotence, a demonstration of the fragility of your self-respect and legitimacy." Yet this felt impotence and sense of fragile legitimacy too frequently combine to create thoughtless and profane murderers. Thanks to countries like France, the light of reason will continue to show the rest of the world the way toward sanity.
In one of those coincidences that make living so surprising, I had gone to the Marais to buy a Christmas gift I had promised myself: a beautiful fountain pen. I purchased it just a few hours after twelve people had died defending my right to use it as a critic.
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom. Long listed for the National Book Award, now in paperback.
June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and deserted Paris. The City of Light was occupied by the Third Reich. Parisians were stunned, humiliated, and yet curious about the sudden appearance of thousands of German soldiers on their boulevards. The Germans too were curious: How do you treat a city that did not fire a shot in its own defense?
Celebrating more than 70 years since the Liberation of Paris, Ronald C. Rosbottom's When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company; March 17, 2015), now in paperback, weaves a rich tapestry of stories to help readers rediscover the texture of daily life in a city that looked the same but had lost much of its panache. Over the four years of the Occupation, an eerie sense of normalcy would settle over Paris as the occupiers and the occupied struggled to coexist.
Excerpt: When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom. Copyright © 2014 by Ronald C. Rosbottom. Reprinted with permission of Little, Brown and Company (Part One)(Part Two).
Interview: Ronald C. Rosbottom's "When Paris Went Dark" – Marking the 70th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris (Part One) (Part Two) published on A Woman's Paris®.
Ronald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and a professor of French and European Studies at Amherst College. Previously he was the dean of the faculty at Amherst and the chair of the Romance Languages Department at Ohio State University. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
You may also enjoy A Woman's Paris® post Anne Morgan's war: American Women Rebuilding France, 1917-1924. Anne Morgan, daughter of the prominent financier J.Pierpont Morgan, and the 350 American Women—all volunteers—left comfortable lives in the United States to devote themselves to humanitarian aid in France; an account from the exhibition of photographs and silent films from the Franco-American Museum in Picardy, France. Château de Blérancourt, in Picardy, France was created by Anne Morgan and is today a national French museum devoted of friendship and collaboration between the United States and France.
French Impressions: Barbara Will on Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the intellectual life during wartime France. From 1941 to 1943, Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein translated for an American audience thirty-two speeches in which Marshal Philippe Pétain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy government, outlined the Vichy policy barring Jews and other "foreign elements" from the public sphere while calling for France to reconcile with its Nazi occupiers. In her book, Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma, Barbara Will outlines the formative powers of this relationship, treating their interaction as a case study of intellectual life during wartime France.
French Impressions: Dr. Alan T. Marty on the dark history of the City of Light. Alan T. Marty, MD, armed with an historically-informed exploratory spirit, has often encountered Paris' endless capacity to evoke a mood, to surprise with similar absent/present paradoxes, as detailed in his A Walking Guide to Occupied Paris: The Germans and Their Collaborators, a book-in-progress. His work has been acknowledged in Paris dans le Collaboration by Cecile Desprairies, Hal Vaughan's book Sleeping with the Enemy: Coco Chanel's Secret War; and referenced in Ronald Rosbottom's When Paris Went Dark, and in an upcoming book about Occupied Paris by Tilar Mazzeo.
Text copyright ©2015 Ronald C. Rosbottom. All rights reserved.
This is a great report about the spirit and life in Paris at the time of the Charlie Hebdo attack and now. Bravo and thank you.
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Jabberwock: The jabberwock appears in a comic strip!
The jabberwock appears in a comic strip!
Please visit Manjula Padmanabhan's blog for the dope on what happened when the legendary Suki came out of retirement for an illustrated interview with Yours Truly. This appeared in Business Standard's Weekend supplement on June 18 and I'm glad Manjula's posted it on her site, since I have zero-proficiency when it comes to putting up pictures on mine.
Straight Curves: have mailed you the file. And in a bigger size too.
It has been done, young duck. |
package co.OscarSoft.CPTWC_Frag;
import android.content.Context;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;
import com.squareup.picasso.Picasso;
import java.util.List;
import co.OscarSoft.CPTWC_Frag.models.Tweet;
/**
* Created by oscarso on 12/13/15.
*/
public class TweetsArrayAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Tweet> {
private static class ViewHolderUser {
ImageView profileImage;
TextView userName;
}
// View lookup cache
private static class ViewHolder {
ViewHolderUser vhUser;
TextView rts; //relative timestamp
TextView body;
}
public TweetsArrayAdapter(Context context, List<Tweet> tweets) {
super(context, 0, tweets);
}
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
Tweet tweet = getItem(position);
ViewHolder viewHolder;
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viewHolder = new ViewHolder();
convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.item_tweet, parent, false);
if (viewHolder.vhUser == null) {
viewHolder.vhUser = new ViewHolderUser();
viewHolder.vhUser.profileImage = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.ivProfileImage);
viewHolder.vhUser.profileImage.setImageResource(android.R.color.transparent);
viewHolder.vhUser.userName = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvUserName);
} else {
Log.d("DEBUG", "viewHolder.vhUser != null");
}
viewHolder.body = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvBody);
viewHolder.rts = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tvRTS);
convertView.setTag(viewHolder);
} else {
viewHolder = (ViewHolder) convertView.getTag();
}
Picasso.with(getContext()).load(tweet.getUser().getProfileImageUrl()).into(viewHolder.vhUser.profileImage);
viewHolder.vhUser.userName.setText(tweet.getUser().getScreenName());
viewHolder.body.setText(tweet.getBody());
viewHolder.rts.setText(tweet.getRts());
return convertView;
}
}
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Maestro Group - Ideas Shines Here!
Ideas shines here! We are a bespoke integrated marketing solutions company offering complete range of services throughout the kingdom and the middle east.
Why we exist? For many, stereotypes are the easiest thing to digest.
Great work demands more than a creative soul. That's why we base our work on data mining while using analytics to help us uncover local day-to-day cultural insights that make people tick.
Maestro offers an extensive list of services.
Curiosity did not kill the cat. In fact, it helped the cat thrive.
A simple throwback on how we implemented and manage this event.
Here are some of the basic advice on how to handle negative feedbacks on social media.
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About Us Why we exist?
For many, stereotypes are the easiest thing to digest.
The stereotype says that Saudi Arabia is incapable of evolving as a socio-economic powerhouse due to an underdeveloped workforce.
"Great work demands more than a creative soul." That's why we base our work on data mining while using analytics to help us uncover local day-to-day cultural insights that make people tick.
By reactive monitoring, we effectively steer social behavior in the direction of needed change. But we are aware that pretty things inspire people, too. For this reason, we built Maestro on a hybrid work culture that does not sacrifice design on behalf of efficiency.
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The Saudi Arabian labor market is going through a major shift, moving steadily from foreign labor to local labor. Since the Ministry of Labor initiated a mandatory Saudization quota per business, they were looking for solutions to build a market dynamic that revolves around young Saudi potential – while at the same time establish a demographic balance.
Background The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia had 2 jobs on its plate: to push the overall economy in the direction of the 2030 vision, and to keep the level of welfare from dropping. With public service prices about to rise, the government was keen on creating a welfare security net to make sure that services remain affordable to the entire population.
Join Us Curiosity did not kill the cat. In fact, it helped the cat thrive.
Being firm believers in "for us by us", we are always on the lookout for social misfits, thinkers, and conceptualizers that are looking to contribute to Saudi's professional and creative industry.
We're trying to say we are actively seeking the curious types. So, if you're an overly-curious person… if you were the annoying kid with too many questions that your family had a hard time answering – if you do things differently, can predict trends or products before they're a reality; if you see things abroad and wonder how they would work back home; if you're not satisfied with the status quo and have grand ambitions; if you enjoy collaborating with others: we're looking for you!
We're trying to say we are actively seeking the curious types. So, if you're an overly-curious person… if you were the annoying kid with too many questions that your family had a hard time answering – if you do things differently, can predict trends or products before they're a reality; if you see things abroad and wonder how they would work back home; if you're not satisfied with the status quo and have grand ambitions; .... if you enjoy collaborating with others: We'd love to meet you.
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The CMS shook up its organizational chart, naming a former nurse and hospital administrator as its second highest-ranking deputy. Marilyn Tavenner, who rose to the rank of CEO of Johnston-Willis and Chippenham hospitals in Virginia and was named that state's secretary of Health and Human Resources in 2006, has been tapped to head the new Center for Medicare. Still, the appointment underscores that the CMS has yet to name a permanent administrator. Charlene Frizzera now serves as acting administrator. Tavenner's hiring comes after the announcement of a restructuring, creating the new Center for Medicare and streamlining other departments to create the Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey & Certification; the Center for Program Integrity; the Center for Strategic Planning; and the Office of External Affairs & Beneficiary Services. |
PAGES' Carbon in Peat on EArth through Time working group (C-PEAT) will hold a workshop, titled "Short-Term Peatland Patterns, Processes, and Sensitivity to Rapid Climate Change" from 10-13 May 2018 in College Station TX, USA.
This is a meeting for 15-20 invited participants. There is a plan to record parts of the workshop and share the videos live (see below) with a larger audience of peatland scientists who might not be able to attend.
Peatlands have played a key role in the global carbon (C) cycle during the Holocene and previous interglacials. While it is well known that high-latitude and tropical peatlands have acted as net long-term atmospheric sinks for carbon dioxide (CO2) over time, key uncertainties remain regarding the short-term peatland patterns and processes that lead to C sequestration (or loss) at decadal to centennial timescales.
We know that a changing climate can strengthen or weaken the peatland C sink capacity and induce non-linear responses and feedbacks in peatland systems. However, we don't know which factors are responsible for such changes. A better understanding of these short-term processes is essential to (1) assess climate sensitivity of peatlands' C sequestration potential, and (2) integrate peatland dynamics in terrestrial, climate, and land-cover change models.
This specific workshop will have an emphasis on developing a forward model of peat accumulation to understand short-term peatland dynamics and system resilience; the model will be specifically designed to interpret paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental information from peat cores.
Task 4 - create a calendar and a series of tasks to be accomplished by the end of the year.
Task 5 - assess peatland sensitivity and resilience to rapid climate change.
(4) an inclusive and participatory research agenda for the coming year that facilitates data integration and analysis, as well as collaboration between international scientists with expertise in empirical, experimental, and modeling methodologies and experience from around the world (tropical and high-latitude peatlands).
0900-0930: Models: DigiBog – Andy Baird et al.
This meeting on short-term peatland patterns and processes and its responses to rapid climate change will also be used to plan a proposed second phase of the working group.
The meeting will allow us to (1) utilize the data previously synthesized, (2) write at least one new community paper, and (3) plan out our research agenda and activities pertaining to 'short-term peatland dynamics' for the next three years.
If you would like to join future C-PEAT activities, subscribe to the mailing list to be informed of their plans.
C-PEAT leaders Angela Gallego-Sala (left) and Julie Loisel prepare for the meeting. |
Normally a game of petanque is played to 13 points, and it takes as long as it takes. This can be a problem when you have a lot of teams playing. Some games finish quickly, while others drag on. Teams that have finished their game sit around waiting for their next opponents to finish THEIR game. During a competition, scheduling of matches is extremely difficult and the competition takes much too much time. During regular club play, families with busy schedules and limited time, may be forced to play one long game and then leave, when it would be much more fun to spend their time playing two or three short games.
So there is a genuine need for short-form games — games that can be played in a limited and predictable amount of time.
Time-limited games
The traditional solution is time-limited games. A specified time limit is set, and when it expires games must finish their current mene, and play only one or two more menes. If that mene ends in a tie, then they play still one more mene.
There are two problems with time-limited games. The first is that they aren't very effective in producing games of a predictable length. The second is that playing against the clock introduces a new but distasteful tactic — stalling for time when your team is ahead.
Fixed-mene games
Philippe Boets, of Petanque America, prefers a different solution. He calls it compact format games with a set number of rounds.
The idea is simple. All games are played to a fixed number of menes (six, for example) or to 13 points, whichever comes first. The team in the lead at the end of the last mene is the winner. If the teams are tied at the end of the last mene, they play one more mene, a tie-breaker.
Philippe says that this format works especially well for club tournaments. Instead of a tournament being a grueling all-day endurance test, the entire event can be finished in two-and-a-half or three hours.
The Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island Petanque Club uses fixed-mene games for regular club play, and it has worked out very well for them. Games played to six or seven menes are pretty predictable in running for 30 or 35 minutes. Thirty-five minutes per game is enough time for a family to arrive at the petanque courts at 2pm, have a nice time, play three games, chat with friends a bit, and be reasonably confident that they will be able to leave around 4pm. The Tucson Petanque Club has had the same experience. Philippe believes that this compact form has been a significant factor in the success of the Amelia Island club. The compact form makes it possible to make a reliable prediction of how long your afternoon of petanque will take, which is really important if you need to be coordinating the schedules for a family.
Short form games may not be appropriate for every club. Predictable scheduling may be desirable for a club with younger families (or for a club that is trying to attract new members). On the other hand, long-time players may feel that the new format isn't traditional "real" petanque. That's why Philippe recommends using this compact form in new clubs, starting from the very beginning of the club. If players have always played short form games, that is what they will be familiar with and they won't be inhibited by ideas of what's "traditional".
One minor issue is scorekeeping. When you are playing a limited number of ends, you need to keep track of the number of menes as well as the scores of the two teams. If you use a portable scorekeeper, you might carry a second one to record the number of menes played.
Reduced-point games
The third kind of short-form game is a game played to fewer than 13 points. You can play, say, to 11 or 9 or 7.
Reduced-point games have their uses. If you don't have the time to play to 13, it can be good to ask your opponent "I have to leave by 4:30. Would you like to play a shorter game, say to 9?"
Reduced-point games aren't a good way to keep games in a tournament to a limited, predictable length. If one team is MUCH better than the other, it can reach 9 points and win in two menes. On the other hand, if the teams are equally matched and have to work hard for every point, it may take 17 menes for one team to beat the other 9-8. One game would take 10 minutes; the other would take 90 minutes.
Round-robin tournaments
It might seem that a round-robin competition is ideal for local tournaments… everybody gets to play almost all the time, so nobody ends up just sitting around. And a round-robin format can accommodate an arbitrary number of teams. The problem is that round-robins can be long and grueling — instead of being fun, they can turn into an endurance test. If you have 8 teams, that means that every team plays 7 games (one game against each of the opposing teams). And that can take a long time.
Here is where short-form games can really be handy. If each game is played to 6 menes, that will probably take about half-an-hour per game. You should be able to start, play seven short games, and wind up the tournament in less than four hours.
After a round-robin competition, team rankings are typically determined by the number of games that each team has won. An alternative is to rank teams by the total number of points scored, or (better still) the average number of points by which the team won or lost its games. You can find a description of such a competition-design HERE.
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I like percussion instruments, especially drums. In this post, let me introduce 二十四节令鼓.
二十四节令鼓 is a type of drumming performance created in 1988 by two Malaysian Chinese. From the name, we know that it is about the twenty-four seasons in the lunar calendar. There are 24 drums which represent the 24 seasons. Although it is called season, it is actually a day in the lunar calendar that signifies a change in the weather.
The performance combines the sounds of drums with the movement of the drummers. It is normally performed during Chinese festive seasons in Asian countries. The sounds of the drums are magnificent and inspiring. If you have a chance to see the performance during Chinese New Year, do not miss it.
By Wendy in Languages on 31/01/2014 . |
using System;
using System.Threading;
using Gtk;
class Trou {
static TargetEntry[] targets= new TargetEntry[]{ new TargetEntry("UTF8_STRING", 0, 0)};
static bool read_done = false;
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Application.Init ();
Thread t = new Thread (ExitIfDone);
t.Start ();
einsatzInDasPasteboard ();
Application.Run ();
}
static void einsatzInDasPasteboard ()
{
Clipboard clipboard = Clipboard.Get(Gdk.Atom.Intern("CLIPBOARD", true));
clipboard.SetWithData(targets, new ClipboardGetFunc(OnClipboardGet), new ClipboardClearFunc(OnClipboardClear));
}
static void ExitIfDone ()
{
while (!read_done) {
Thread.Sleep (50);
}
Application.Quit ();
}
static void OnClipboardGet(Clipboard cb, SelectionData sd, uint i)
{
sd.Text = Console.In.ReadToEnd ();
read_done = true;
}
static void OnClipboardClear(Clipboard cb)
{
}
} |
Tiger Brands Limited is a public company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange which manages investments primarily involved in food and healthcare products.
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Peaceful Sleep Mat Refill(s). Reg. L6558 Act No. 36 of 1947. Registration Holder: Tiger Consumer Brands Limited. Registration No: 1972/006590/06. PO Box 200, Isando, 1600. Tel. (011) 921 1690.
Peaceful Sleep Dual Purpose Mosquito Unit. Reg. L6558 Act No. 36 of 1947. Registration Holder: Tiger Consumer Brands Limited. Registration No: 1972/006590/06. PO Box 200, Isando, 1600. Tel. (011) 921 1690.
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4.5. Anyone who within a period of 183 days preceding this competition has won any competition organised, promoted, or conducted by Tiger Brands, who resides at the same address as such a Winner, or who uses the same telephone number to enter this competition may not participate in this competition.
5.1. Buy any Ingram's Cream pack from the list below.
5.2. Dial *120* 11222# with the pack on hand and follow the simple prompts.
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5.4. Entrants to retain their till slip showing proof of purchase as this will need to be presented to claim your prize if drawn as a winner.
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6.1. Participants stand a chance to win education bursaries to the value of R1 million and these will not be transferable or exchangeable for cash.
6.2. The Winners will be selected by an Audited random draw and will be notified telephonically within four weeks of the selection having taken place. In the event that any of the winners cannot be successfully contacted following all reasonable attempts to do so the Promoter reserves the right to draw another Winner in substitution. The names of the Winners will be available on the consumer care line. Any queries in this regard may be directed to the Tiger Brands consumer care line 0860101107.
6.3. Any prize not taken up for any reason within one month of notification will be forfeited.
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7.1. There will be 115 winners selected.
8.1. There will be 5 draws throughout the duration of the promotion to determine the winners.
8.2. One draw will take place on the 1st of each month starting from 01 May 2018 and ending on 01 September 2018.
8.3. At each draw, 1 x R50 000 winner, 2 x R25 000 winners and 20 x R5 000 winners will be drawn.
8.4. This will be a random draw overseen by an independent auditor.
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11.5. The Promoter reserves the right to substitute the Prize with any other prize of similar commercial value to the Prize offered herein, at its sole discretion.
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10 animals your children will never see
Jason Wire
It's a good thing cameras are easy to come by these days.
OR, MAYBE IT'S A bad thing. Because at some point–maybe 10 years, maybe 50 years from now–your kids, or your kids' kids will ask you if you ever saw a black rhino.
Yes, you'll say, thinking back to a trip to the zoo, when a few still lingered around in captivity. It didn't seem like much back then; sure, it was cool and all, but you never thought to yourself that you were looking at one of the last black rhinos that would ever walk the planet.
Such may be the case with these ten species, each of whose populations have been destroyed over the past thirty years, largely due to human interference. The next time you see any of these creatures–if there is a next time–remember that you may be looking at the dinosaurs of the future.
Iberian Lynx
The Iberian Lynx. Photo from Wikimedia.
The Iberian Lynx is the most endangered species of cats, and given very few, if any cat species have gone extinct in the past 2,000 years, something must really be going wrong. Right now, there are fewer than 100 in the world, all of which are in Andalucia, the southermost region of Spain.
A combination of increased construction in their habitats, vehicle collisions, poaching for fur and a starkly diminished population of rabbits have resulted in the incredibly low number of lynx in the wild. Additionally, during the second months of an infant lynx's lifespan, siblings from the same litter will become incredibly violent towards one another, often killing the weaker cub.
Sumatran Orangutan
Photo by Brian Snelson.
Orangutans, found only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, get their name from the malay language: "Orang" (person) – "hutan" (forest), or "forest person." The description itself is pretty accurate: 96.4% of human and orangutan DNA are indistinguishable from one another. They also fashion their own umbrellas out of large leaves when it starts pouring, and carve little prodding sticks for wresting some honey out of beehives.
But unfortunately, orangutans aren't likely to survive much longer. At the current rate of extinction, the Sumantran orangutan will be finished off within the decade: only 7,500 exist, and they're dying at a rate of 1,000 per year, according to the WWF. As usual, the #1 cause of population devastation is from invasive human actions like deforestation and fires resulting from human error.
Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Baby Wombat. Photo by Will Keightley.
The largest known wombat, the hairy-nosed variety can grow up to nearly 100 pounds–a pretty massive marsupial. And while it's fuzzy, cuddle demeanor and a distinctive waddle suggest a slow and laid-back personality, if they get worked up they've been measured running over 40 kilometers per hour. Less than 100 of these exist in the world today, all in a national park in Queensland, Australia.
Wild Bactrian Camel
The Bactrian Camel. Photo by Jeff Kubina.
If you were to draw a camel, how many humps would it have? Odds are, you'd draw it with two–and you'd be drawing a Bactrian Camel. Unlike the massive population of one-humped Arabian camels, Bactrians have two for food and water storage, and comes from the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia.
The Arabian and Bactrian camels are the only two surviving species of camels in the world–and soon there may only be one, given that less than 1,000 exist in the wild, and are projected to reach extreme lows over the next decade or two. Mining, hunting, and genetic mixing with domestic camels have driven the numbers of Bactrians camels to the current levels, which is a shame: the future will have to settle for only one-humped camels, or photos of the Bactrians that once were.
Dama Gazelle
Dama Gazelle. Photo by Drew Avery.
Indigenous to central-north African countries like Niger, Chad, and Mali, the Dama Gazelle has received little support from conservation groups and has fallen well below even 100 gazelles found at a time. They were once fast and numerous, but an onslaught of readily-available automatic weapons has proven a fatal blow to their numbers. Despite their probably extinction, the Dama Gazelle is a national symbol in Niger, where it appears on the emblem of the Niger national football team.
Black Rhinocerous
The Black Rhino. Photo by Laurens.
The black rhino was once the most populous, thriving species of rhino on the planet with several hundred thousand living throughout Africa. Today, their numbers have dwindled immensely, and the Western species of black rhino has been declared extinct.
The biggest threat to rhinos has typically been the poaching of their horns to make opulent ceremonial daggers called jambiyas, as well as usage in traditional Chinese medicine (which also has driven the Javanese rhino into near-extinction). If you're reading this and feel far from the scene of the problem, consider this: in June 2007, a black rhino horn was confiscated at a traditional Chinese medicine store in Portland, Oregon.
Leatherback Turtle
Leatherback Turtle. Photo by Paul Mannix.
Outside of crocodiles, leatherback turtles are the world's largest reptile. They've been recorded growing up to 10 feet long and more than 2,000 pounds. Due to their diet of jellyfish, they routinely dive distances over thousands of meters below the sea–making them the world's deepest-diving non-sea-creature. But as well, they often mistake pieces of plastic debris for jellyfish and die from choking or ingesting harmful material.
At one point a few decades ago, leatherbacks thrived with a population of more than 115,000 females nesting each year. Today, that number is now somewhere between 26,000 to 43,000–a dramatic drop that's put it on the critically endangered species list.
Red Wolf. Photo by Stephanie Nakatani.
About 30 years ago, the last 17 remaining red wolves were put into captivity in an attempt to re-stabilize their population in the wilderness of the southeastern United States. Decades later, their numbers have increased to about 100–but deforestation in the area is simultaneously reaching record levels, poising to again push the red wolf population into extinction.
Siberian Tiger. Photo by Julie Monk.
When it comes to tigers, two species in particular are known better than any of the six that haven't yet become extinct: the Bengal tiger and, of course, the Siberian tiger. Few animals have earned such a widespread recognition and appreciation as the Siberian tiger, yet what most people don't know is that only about 250 of them are known to presently exist.
Of course, some may not care about the subspecies of tiger–a tiger is a tiger, they might say–but the Siberian tiger is the largest species of cat that's ever existed, and unlike the Bengal tiger, they're relatively easy to domesticate and have a very rare rate of attacking humans. To erase a subspecies is not to discard a small sub-category of interchangeable animals–it's equivalent to deleting an entire race with their own distinctive characteristics.
Sadly, it may be too late to keep the ice from breaking. Photo by Dave Hogg.
The Polar Bear is the largest species of bear and largest carnivore in the world and lives mostly within the frigid climates of the Arctic Circle.
Everyone knows the story going on: ice caps are melting, effectively rendering the Polar Bear incapable of standing on its own four legs. But the truth is that Polar Bears aren't victims of ice cracking around them–it's a sadder story, really. As Polar Bears wander through a mix of land and slush and ice and water, they can't walk as fast and cover enough ground to find regular food, so they eventually starve to death.
Alright, that's enough depressing news and sadness for now. Here to save the day: a baby polar bear playing in the mirror. |
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