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Television killed the coffee-table star.
In 11 chapters of amazing color photos Planet Earth shows us all the places we'll never go and all the reasons to be breathless about existence … and it's humdrum by comparison to its sister television series.
If you haven't seen the Discovery Channel series and never will, then the book Planet Earth is worth a look, like many oversized glossy books compiled by professional photographers. Whether it is worth every tree that was used to make its paper and every river that winds up polluted by the byproducts of its ink is less clear. I suspect these sorts of books are like zoos: it's unfortunate, but we sacrifice this one plot of acreage and this one set of animals, turning them over to a very un-wild, unnatural existence, because that's what makes people give a damn about wildlife and act to preserve it.
A still picture of African elephants and buffaloes dipping into a stream is as nothing compared to a moving picture, eight times the size, with sound, of African elephants and buffaloes dipping into a stream. Especially in the days of 50-inch HDTV.
In the book, you can't help seeing the photos but it takes effort to read the text. On video, it takes no effort to watch and hear the narration (unless you Mute, but you won't because that would silence all the nature noises too, the bird chirps and whooshing wind and drippy cave echoes).
Furthermore, in the book, still pictures of very different scales are placed next to each other, so you have to stop and puzzle out — how big is this fish in real life, two inches or two feet long? What part am I looking at? Whereas on video the camera will zoom out or pan around and provide context automatically. With the video, you are behind a camera that is swimming through the water or flying past Mt. Everest. You are much closer to feeling the space around you and its grandeur. Video = you are there. Book = you have to think.
Generally speaking I'm a fan of thinking but flat-out experiencing is sometimes the better way to go.
Pardon me while I go find my hiking boots.


In the Eisteddfod I played the piano . Eisteddfod is where we talk about Saint David . We celebrate Saint David and Wales. Every class has a topic. Reception had dragons, Year 1 had welsh people, Year 2 had daffodils, Year 3 had castles, Year 4 had welsh food, Year 5 had welsh heritage and Year 6 had welsh artists. In the Eisteddfod I came first in year 4! I made a recipe book with welsh food recipes.


The Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig / University of Art is a university with strong international focus and an emphasis on both art and research. The Braunschweig University of Art is one of the largest art academies in Europe. Dating back to 1842, the HBK is proud of its traditions. Yet at the same time, it is looking forward and orientating itself for the future. We encourage an open and productive exchange between our students, teachers, and professors in all areas of study. Our goal is to combine artistic work, creativity, and research alongside varied curriculums to impart key qualifications that are essential for many jobs today: the ability to think innovatively and the ability to understand, construct, and manage complex problems.


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Sonic Environments Rapid Prototyping Integrated Control Operator
Traditional approaches to sound in exhibition spaces default to ceiling and wall mounted speakers. This practice removes the immersive potential of speaker arrays and reduces the creative opportunity of spatial sound designers. The challenge of the project was to address the sonic limitations of peripherally located loudspeakers while creating a language of sculptural form that is aesthetically strong, acoustically transparent, demountable and reconfigurable. Ultimately, the solution had to act as a flexible sonic exhibition design tool that supports the prototyping and delivery of sonic art works in a range of simple and complex audio formats. SERPICO first appeared in SITE and SOUND: sonic art as ecological practice at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery, Langwarrin Victoria, Australia (2 December 2020 to 2 May 2021). The exhibition was curated by Simon Lawrie, Lawrence Harvey and Jon Buckingham.
Question and Aims of the Project
What is the design solution providing curators and exhibition designers a flexible approach to sound-listener relationships using non-traditional loudspeaker configurations?
The aim of the project was to create a spatial sound exhibition design that inspired audiences to sit, walk, pause and listen to sonic art in a gallery. The design should also allow a curator flexible configurations, be affordable and portable. The project scope included a very modest budget, and small time window for construction Flexibility was required for this design as; a) sonic artworks for the exhibition were in multiple audio formats (stereo to 16 channels) and b) requirement that final speaker locations be resolved in the space which wasn't accessible for the 6 months prior to exhibition. Due to COVID restrictions in Melbourne across 2020, the project was developed online through collaborative co-design exercises between Mcleod, Harvey and Maisch. They developed digital 3D prototypes of the speaker enclosures inside an interactive model of the gallery to create a series of source-listener scenarios leading to the final integration of cube, planar quadrophonic and octophonic arrangements used in the final exhibition at McClelland Sculpture Park and Galleries.
Form and texture research
The system's three dimensional structures employ innovative approaches to providing flexible and acoustically transparent speaker housings. Using the archetypal geometries found in the nature and echoing them with the geometries of sound based cymatic patterns the system creates a sonic grove. Tree, seed and cell-like forms congregate together, providing structural support for speakers and offering places to sit and reflect.
In the Queen forms the use of hyperboloid geometry produces a structurally strong and visually engaging solution that allows the speakers to be angled in all directions. In the King forms the seed like structure are clad in multiple layers of stretch fabric mesh that produce a cocoon of moire interference patterns. Arranged with a gallery space the forms contrast and complement each other. The Pawn seating elements act like small islands, placed to invite different visual-aural experience perspectives. Each location creates a different visual-sonic vista.
Critical parameters for sonic immersion
After working on two large VR sound designs in the early 2000's Harvey developed a spatial sound composition approach using eight zones of auditory space around a listener (see Figure 5). The diagram indicates zone limits that might be used for upper and lower and boundaries of envelopes controlling panning, or a stochastic process selecting a discrete panning location. These locations tended to be maximally separated, particularly along the front-rear (Zones 1 – 2 and 7 – 8), diagonal (Zone 3) and lateral axis (Zone 5). Placing entries of sounds in Zone 1 and 8 can blur spatial qualities of the sound, as listeners may confuse the location of sounds in these zones.
For a stronger sense of left-right separation, placing sounds between ten degrees and ninety degrees (or –10 and –90 degrees) to the listener's central location (Zones 2 – 5) will give a clearer spatial location to the sound. At ninety degrees to the head on the extreme lateral axis, sounds are unequivocally locatable. In addition to being on the 'border' between the front and rear, the types and timing of sound events in Zone 5 are also critical to creating a sense of spaciousness and envelopment (Griesinger, 1996).
Zone 6 is also ambiguous as the sound might appear to be appearing and receding into our forward facing attention, and can be used to compositional effects of anticipation or ambiguity. To give a strong sense of a sound being on the side to the rear of a listener requires that it be between +/– 100 and +/– 135 degrees (Zone 6). These measures can only be a guide as the physical and technological listening conditions of most spaces are compromised so that the boundaries are relative. One must be mindful however, that use of these locations is for creative purposes, not perceptual testing in laboratory conditions.
In summary – the conditions for sonic immersion start with careful location and orientation of source positions (loudspeaker location). In general there are two types of cultural listening scenarios: fixed and dynamic. Scenarios where the receiver locations and orientation (forward facing seats for listeners) are fixed include game consoles, media units in lounge rooms, cinemas or concert halls. Acoustic signals from live instruments or electroacoustic material from loudspeakers can be precisely targeted at known locations where the listeners' head orientation is toward the screen or stage. Dynamic scenarios are much less discussed but include urban and gallery installations and museum exhibitions (Harvey, 2013). These are complex scenarios where listeners might be static or mobile, and orientated in different directions.
SERPICO addressed the mobile scenario by creating a stable sound field with intersecting spatial types – planes, cubes, rings. Sonic point sources (loudspeakers) are enclosed in sculptural objects themselves creating a grove like place reminiscent of the sculptural park surrounding the gallery.
The system extends the practice of exhibition design by using sound as an integrative, cohering sensory component of visitor experiences within exhibition spaces, indoor public spaces, schools and other education settings. Through its integration of structural components with standard loudspeaker cabinets, it enables unique spatial listening experiences while maintaining a visual connection to the surrounds. It allows interlocking virtual sound fields (planes, cubes and rings) to be created, through which a listener can walk and sit. It is highly portable and suitable for rapid prototyping of spatial sound designs, or to deliver extended exhibitions using non-traditional speaker configurations.
For a video walkthrough of the exhibition, please click here.
Ross Mcleod, lead designer; Lawrence Harvey, spatial sound design; Simon Maisch, technical sound implementation
2019 & ongoing
Figure 1: image on the left, two SERPICO renders of final forms used for the King (left) and Queen (right). The pawn for seating is shown in image on the right.
Figure 2: exploration of moire patterns and forms. Images by Ross Mcleod.
Figure 3: early form exploration. Images by Ross Mcleod.
Figure 4: Renders of final form in 3D model of Murdoch McClelland Gallery
Figure 5: auditory zone around a central listening location. The number boxes in this diagram are discussed in the 'critical parameters for sonic immersion' paragraph.
Figure 6: experimenting with speaker locations and angles. Images by Ross Mcleod.
Figure 7: preparing scaled down version of the exhibition to check audio signal paths and spatialisation trajectories.
Barrett, N. (2016). A Musical Journey towards Permanent High-Density Loudspeaker Arrays. Computer Music Journal, 40(4), 35–46. http://doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00381
Griesinger, D. "Spaciousness and Envelopment in Musical Acoustics," Paper 4401, (1996 November) AES E-library at https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=7378. Accessed May 14, 2021.
Harvey, L. (2008) The auditory centre: research and design of acoustic environments and spatial sound projects. PhD available from RMIT Research Repository.
Harvey, L. (2013). Improving models for urban soundscape systems. SoundEffects – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, 3(3), 113–137. https://doi.org/10.7146/se.v3i3.18444
Kelly, C. (2017) Gallery Sound. Bloomsbury Publishing USA.
Leitner, B. (1988). Sound : Space. Ostfildern: Cantz.
Mcleod, R. (2011) Between Field and Form PhD available from RMIT Research Repository.

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So, I think I have all of the standard material attachments at this point. I have two of the silicone attachments from sybian and my collection from motorbunny is growing. My wife went out of town for about a week and I plan on surprising her with the new Motorbunny attachemnt (Mount Gushmore). I think it might be too similar to the Orb from Sybian but we will see. But I wanted to hear from you guys.
What is your favorite attachment to watch and/or use?


(Gram.) the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.
The plural number caused the captain to toss me a contemptuous look.
Miss Slowboy, in the mean time, who had a mechanical power of reproducing scraps of current conversation for the delectation of the baby, with all the sense struck out of them, and all the nouns changed into the plural number, inquired aloud of that young creature, Was it Gruffs and Tackletons the toymakers then, and Would it call at Pastry-cooks for wedding-cakes, and Did its mothers know the boxes when its fathers brought them homes; and so on.
290 M: Mean / SD: Standard deviation N1: Head noun / N2: Local noun Sing: Singular Number/ Pl: Plural Number D: Preamble distributive / ND: Preamble non distributive SV: subject-verb order / VS: verb-subject order Source: Author's elaboration.
Nevertheless, despite the flexibility and variation of the collective noun with respect to verb number, this study demonstrates that the influence of the oblique noun, in particular of its morphology, is one of the determining factors of the plural number of the main verb.
Twardzisz (1998:259) applied Langacker's approach to nouns in relation to names of fish in Polish, such as pstrqg 'trout', whose singular form refers to plural number, for example, jeziora peine pstrqga 'lakes full of trout'.
Many instances of plural number marking in Old English disyllabic neuter a-stem nouns appear uncertain.
The announcement did not name the people arrested or even say how many were arrested, just that it was a plural number.
4 The answers to the following questions can be found amongst the 31 UK Shipping Area names as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 (occasionally the names will apply to more than one category): i) 5 rivers, ii) 5 first and/or second names, iii) a type of pullover, iv) a famous C19th sea battle, v) a plural number, vi) a type of common cement, vii) are prefixed by compass points (3), viii) an aggressive Scandinavian warrior, ix) an expensive flatfish (two words) & x) an archaic English word meaning man or person.
Grammatical features of nouns, words that name, and the use of 's' to create plural number are subtly conveyed.
If it was allowed, he asked, "is the prayer for the blessing of the ring, as found in the Ritual, said in the plural number, and do groom and bride successively place a blessed ring each on the finger of the other, saying the accustomed words, 'With this ring, etc.


The Aquatania docked yesterday remarkably near the time when she was supposed to arrive, and when I was driving up to the pier I saw her slowly coming up to the dock, looking very imposing and like the old sea dog that she is.
I had a little chat with Kermit Roosevelt on the pier, and one or two other people whom I knew.
Only a short time to wait, and as I surmised would be the case, my brother was amongst the first people off the boat and I had to run after him and cling to his coat tails to keep him from getting through the customs and off the pier without me! It was grand seeing him and I was glad that I had this opportunity of spending a little while with him immediately on his arrival. Everybody is always so much more anxious to tell something of their impressions when they first arrive, afterwards those impressions grow rather stale.
When we got back to the apartment I settled down and chatted while he unpacked and then after I had made a few last arrangements, he took me to the train for Washington.
Just before leaving, I called up a young friend of mine in Philadelphia to tell her I would stop over for an hour and catch the next through train to Washington. I thought that on such a brief visit I could get in and out without attracting any attention, but I was wrong. The photographers were at the station, and we hurried up the steps to find a taxi, a panting young reporter kept demanding why I was there and what I was doing, and seemed quite incredulous when I insisted that I had only stopped off to spend an hour with a friend before Christmas.
I got into Washington in time to have a chat with the President, and to greet Franklin, Junior, who arrived by car a little later than I did with a seven months' old puppy, a Great Dane, who is going to spend his Christmas holidays with us, while Franklin and Ethel journey back and forth. He is very well behaved and dignified for a puppy, and when the President suggested that he might chew things up, Franklin, Junior indignantly said that he was already much too well brought up.
This morning I had to catch up on all the various household and social arrangements for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and I was glad to have Franklin, Junior here to settle last details on the party they have on December 30th.
Then a press conference with two foreign correspondents present, one from Holland and one from Finland, both of them attractive young women filled with a desire to write truthfully about the United States and yet finding the picture a somewhat confusing one. I think it must be a tremendously difficult thing to find yourself trying to grasp political and social situations at the present time with a somewhat limited knowledge of the country.


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package org.apache.spark.scheduler.mesos

import java.util.Date

import org.scalatest.mock.MockitoSugar

import org.apache.spark.deploy.Command
import org.apache.spark.deploy.mesos.MesosDriverDescription
import org.apache.spark.scheduler.cluster.mesos._
import org.apache.spark.{LocalSparkContext, SparkConf, SparkFunSuite}

class MesosClusterSchedulerSuite extends SparkFunSuite with LocalSparkContext with MockitoSugar {

  private val command = new Command("mainClass", Seq("arg"), null, null, null, null)

  test("can queue drivers") {
    val conf = new SparkConf()
    conf.setMaster("mesos://localhost:5050")
    conf.setAppName("spark mesos")
    val scheduler = new MesosClusterScheduler(
      new BlackHoleMesosClusterPersistenceEngineFactory, conf) {
      override def start(): Unit = { ready = true }
    }
    scheduler.start()
    val response = scheduler.submitDriver(
        new MesosDriverDescription("d1", "jar", 1000, 1, true,
          command, Map[String, String](), "s1", new Date()))
    assert(response.success)
    val response2 =
      scheduler.submitDriver(new MesosDriverDescription(
        "d1", "jar", 1000, 1, true, command, Map[String, String](), "s2", new Date()))
    assert(response2.success)
    val state = scheduler.getSchedulerState()
    val queuedDrivers = state.queuedDrivers.toList
    assert(queuedDrivers(0).submissionId == response.submissionId)
    assert(queuedDrivers(1).submissionId == response2.submissionId)
  }

  test("can kill queued drivers") {
    val conf = new SparkConf()
    conf.setMaster("mesos://localhost:5050")
    conf.setAppName("spark mesos")
    val scheduler = new MesosClusterScheduler(
      new BlackHoleMesosClusterPersistenceEngineFactory, conf) {
      override def start(): Unit = { ready = true }
    }
    scheduler.start()
    val response = scheduler.submitDriver(
        new MesosDriverDescription("d1", "jar", 1000, 1, true,
          command, Map[String, String](), "s1", new Date()))
    assert(response.success)
    val killResponse = scheduler.killDriver(response.submissionId)
    assert(killResponse.success)
    val state = scheduler.getSchedulerState()
    assert(state.queuedDrivers.isEmpty)
  }

  test("escapes commandline args for the shell") {
    val conf = new SparkConf()
    conf.setMaster("mesos://localhost:5050")
    conf.setAppName("spark mesos")
    val scheduler = new MesosClusterScheduler(
      new BlackHoleMesosClusterPersistenceEngineFactory, conf) {
      override def start(): Unit = { ready = true }
    }
    val escape = scheduler.shellEscape _
    def wrapped(str: String): String = "\"" + str + "\""

    // Wrapped in quotes
    assert(escape("'should be left untouched'") === "'should be left untouched'")
    assert(escape("\"should be left untouched\"") === "\"should be left untouched\"")

    // Harmless
    assert(escape("") === "")
    assert(escape("harmless") === "harmless")
    assert(escape("har-m.l3ss") === "har-m.l3ss")

    // Special Chars escape
    assert(escape("should escape this \" quote") === wrapped("should escape this \\\" quote"))
    assert(escape("shouldescape\"quote") === wrapped("shouldescape\\\"quote"))
    assert(escape("should escape this $ dollar") === wrapped("should escape this \\$ dollar"))
    assert(escape("should escape this ` backtick") === wrapped("should escape this \\` backtick"))
    assert(escape("""should escape this \ backslash""")
      === wrapped("""should escape this \\ backslash"""))
    assert(escape("""\"?""") === wrapped("""\\\"?"""))

    // Special Chars no escape only wrap
    List(" ", "'", "<", ">", "&", "|", "?", "*", ";", "!", "#", "(", ")").foreach(char => {
      assert(escape(s"onlywrap${char}this") === wrapped(s"onlywrap${char}this"))
    })
  }
}

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Genetics & reproduction
Gut Permeability: the Relationship Between a Healthy Gut and a Healthy Pig
Disease and welfare Feed and nutrition Research and innovation Conferences & Events
31 December 2008, at 12:00am
Dr Daniel Nelson, Technical Service Manager, Swine, for Alpharma Animal Health, explains why pigs consuming bacitracin perform more efficiently than their non-supplemented counterparts, especially during periods of stress. The paper was presented at Alpharma's Swine Enteric Health Symposium 2008.
Dr Daniel Nelson
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract of the pig presents an extensive surface area providing direct contact between the pig and a large assortment of nutrients, microbes and exogenous toxins. The intestine should permit the exchange of nutrients between the gut lumen and the systemic circulation, while at the same time preventing penetration of pathogenic organisms and toxic compounds (Gaskins, 1997). The GI tract is the largest "organ" of the immune system. About 25% of intestinal mucosa is comprised of lymphoid tissue and more than 70% of all immune cells are found within the intestine (Gaskins, 1997).
The GI tract is also an energy "sink". It has been estimated that due to its rapid turnover, the GI tract uses about 50% of the maintenance energy requirements of a pig. Normal cellular turnover (once every 3-6 days) minimizes the opportunity for colonization by pathogenic microbes.
However, disease and stress increase epithelial cell turnover rate. During a disease challenge or during periods of stress, more energy and nutrients are shunted to the intestine to replenish intestinal cells, slowing pig growth. Intestinal epithelial damage from disease insult and stress can also reduce absorption of nutrients and decrease enzyme activity, causing poorer feed conversion (F/G). Intestinal epithelial cell damage can also reduce intestinal barrier function, resulting in diarrhoea and increased risk of morbidity and mortality.
Heat Stress: Humans and Pigs
During the hot summer months, heat stress in humans is not uncommon. Light cases of heat stress are characterized by heat rash, sunburn, cramps in the arms, legs, and stomach, and possible fainting. Heat stroke in humans is characterized by a body temperature greater than 105.8°F. Heat stroke victims have dry skin, an elevated heart rate, and may act confused. Left untreated, heat stroke victims can have convulsions, lapse into unconsciousness, and die.
Although not documented in as much detail, it is well know that pigs experience heat stress during periods of high environmental temperatures. Performance often deteriorates as a result. The underlying biological mechanisms ultimately responsible for heat stress and stroke as a result of exposure to hot environmental temperature are initiated within the GI tract.
Hyperthermia Can Damage the GI Tract
As warm blooded animals are exposed to environmental temperatures greater than their thermoneutral temperature, the body reacts by trying to dissipate internal heat. Whole body hyperthermia causes a reduction in blood flow to the GI tract (Kregel et al., 1988). This allows a greater proportion of cardiac output to reach the periphery for heat dissipation (Rowell, 1974). However, shunting of blood flow from the GI tract to the periphery can result in intestinal cellular hypoxia (Hall et al., 1999), ATP depletion, acidosis, and cellular dysfunction (Gisolfi, 2000).
Combined, these cellular assaults can disrupt the GI barrier, allowing noxious compounds to enter the blood stream.
Stress-Induced Release of Corticosteroids Increases GI Tract Permeability
Meddings and Swain (2000) reported an increase in epithelial permeability in all regions of the GI tract after subjecting test animals to stress. They also reported that the elevated epithelial permeability was mediated by adrenal corticosteroids, as stress-induced increases in epithelial permeability disappeared after adrenalectomy or pharmacologic blockage of glucocorticoid receptors in test animals. Meddings and Swain (2000) also showed that dexamethasone treatment of control animals increased GI permeability and mimicked the effects of stress.
Elevated Gut Permeability Increases Lipopolysaccharide Absorption
The intestines normally contain large quantities of highly toxic lipopolysaccharides (LPS or endotoxin) sloughed from the wall of normally occurring intestinal bacteria (Sakurada and Hales, 1998).
It is normal for small amounts of LPS to cross the intestinal barrier. However, large increases in blood LPS concentration are an indicator of intestinal epithelial cell damage and elevated gut permeability. Lipopolysaccharides have been shown to increase in the blood of human heat stroke victims (Bouchama et al., 1991), exhausted ultra endurance runners (Brock-Utne et al., 1988), heat-stressed primates (Gathiram et al., 1988) and hyperthermic rats (Hall et al., 2001). This evidence shows a direct relationship between heat stress and intestinal damage.
LPS Absorption Induces Cytokine Release and Reduces Heat Dissipation
Above normal blood LPS concentration is detrimental. Elevated blood LPS levels have been shown to reduce cardiac contractility. This reduces heat tolerance by limiting cardiac capacity (Abel, 1989). In addition, elevated blood LPS concentration stimulates release of, and increases serum concentrations of the cytokines TNF-alpha and IL1- alpha (Hack et al., 1989).
Cytokines elevate the hypothalamic set-point for body temperature regulation. Cytokines activate thermoregulatory mechanisms within the body that act to reduce heat loss (such as reducing skin blood flow) and may increase body heat production by inducing fever (Hull et al., 1993). For pigs experiencing heat stress, cytokine release is not helpful as cytokines are antagonistic toward body heat dissipation.
Dietary Antibiotics Ameliorate Gut Damage and Permeability
Gathiram at al. (1987) explored the relationship between dietary antibiotics and gut permeability as measured by plasma LPS concentration. In this study, monkeys were given an oral, non-absorbable antibiotic for 5 consecutive days before being anesthetized and subjected to heat stress. Another group of anesthetized monkeys served as controls. As rectal temperatures increased from 99.5°F to 112.1°F, the plasma LPS concentration of the control animals rose significantly (P<0.01) from 0.044 ng/mL to 0.308 ng/mL. The plasma LPS concentration of the antibiotic-fed animals started at 0.007 ng/mL and remained unchanged as rectal temperature increased. The dietary antibiotic ameliorated the deleterious effects of heat stress to the GI tract.
Similarly, research conducted by Bynum et al. (1979) demonstrated better heat stroke survival in dogs after reducing the number of GI bacteria.
Bacitracin Can Reduce Gut Permeability
Bacitracin has long been recognized as the feed additive of "choice" for use in swine and poultry diets during the hot summer months. The performance-enhancing capabilities of bacitracin under conditions of heat stress were demonstrated by Manner and Wang (1991). In this 2×2 experiment, hens were subjected to a thermoneutral environmental temperature of 68°F or an environmental temperature of 93.2°F, with half the birds in each temperature treatment supplemented with zinc bacitracin. Performance of the heat-stressed, zinc bacitracin-supplemented hens was significantly better, with improvements of 66.3% in ADG, 5.9% in F/G, 15.4% in egg number, and 16.9% in total egg mass compared to heat-stressed, nonsupplemented hens. In addition, and even more fascinating, was the observation that fasting heat production was significantly reduced in the zinc bacitracin-supplemented hens by 4.1% and 7.6% in the 68°F and 93.2°F environments, respectively.
Cyclical Nature of Heat Stress
Environmental heat stress reduces blood flow to the GI tract and elevates plasma cortisol concentrations. These changes act to damage epithelial cells of the GI tract, resulting in cell death and opening of tight-cell junctions. As a result, gut permeability increases, allowing abnormally high fluxes of LPS and other toxins from the intestine to enter the blood. The LPS induce cytokine release and depress cardiac output, each of which acts independently to elevate internal body temperature, exacerbating the heat stress the animal is experiencing.
Summary and Application
Dietary bacitracin is not absorbed. Bacitracin blunts the cyclical nature of heat stress via its antimicrobial activity within the intestine. Bacitracin reduces gut permeability and promotes a healthy gut. A healthy gut acts as a defence barrier against toxic bacterial endotoxins, reducing their absorption. As a result, pigs consuming bacitracin perform more efficiently than their non-supplemented counterparts, especially during periods of stress.
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How close are we to developing a vaccine for African swine fever?
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Rona Ambrose, Leader of the Official Opposition issues statement on Elsie Wayne
Rona Ambrose, Interim Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition, issued the following statement on the passing of Elsie Wayne: "I was saddened to hear of the passing of Elsie Wayne, who was a proud and vocal advocate for Atlantic Canada and a strong mentor for women in politics. From her first election to Saint John city council in 1977, Elsie was a dedicated and passionate servant of her community. Never losing an election, Elsie was the first woman elected as Mayor of Saint John, serving three terms from 1983 to 1993. From 1993 to 2004, Elsie served as the Progressive Conservative and Conservative Member of Parliament for Saint John. Elsie was only one of two PC MPs in her first term, and she built a reputation as a champion for the Canadian Forces and her home community in Ottawa. In 1998, she served as Interim Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. Throughout her political career, Elsie was a strong advocate for Canada's veterans, and was awarded a Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation in 2008 for her work on behalf of Canada's Merchant Mariners. She was the only female Honorary Gunner for the 3rd Field Regiment, and the first female Lt.-Colonel of the 722 Communication Squadron of New Brunswick. She was awarded three honorary doctorates, as well as the Distinguished Auxiliary Cross of the Salvation Army. Elsie was a unique character in Canadian politics. At a time when very few women leaders were present, she wasn't afraid to be loud, tough and passionate in standing up for Atlantic Canada. On behalf of the Official Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada, I offer my condolences to Elsie's family and loved ones."


I read a lot of business books out of personal interest as well as to keep up to date professionally.
Below are the business strategy books that I've reviewed so far although there are more to come.
If you just want to focus on the very best, I have a separate category where I pull out what I consider to be the classics – Best Strategy Books.
One warning. These can be heavy reading for someone not trained in strategy.
I'm also planning to create a category for the most suitable "strategy starter books" for entrepreneurs, business owners and senior managers of small and medium sized enterprises who want to learn more about taking a strategic approach to managing their business.


In fantasy literature, magic is, in many ways, the most ready analogue for real-world power.
Mages have magic: the ability to call the storm, raise the dead, or control minds. They are awe-inspiring, intimidating, terrifying. Special. They are often kings, sometimes in direct violation of laws designed to prevent that amalgamation of power. Even mages who aren't kings are so often shadow kings, advisors to kings, or adversaries of kings. And didn't we all share Harry's thrill when Hagrid said, "Harry—yer a wizard"? Of course we did, because having magic gave oh-so-miserable Harry the chance to change his life.
So consider, for a moment, female magic-workers in fantasy literature.
Most commonly, they are witches, and—even today, even in fantasy literature, even in fantasy literature by female and nonbinary authors—the word "witch" is so commonly a slur. In contemporary fantasy. In books reexamining historical periods. In all sorts of books with fantasy-world settings. Witches—or you might say women who work magic—are dangerous. They are often solitary, often old, and often ugly. They are in the business of crop-wilting, cattle-killing, storm-bringing, and baby-eating. They deserve the village's righteous justice: burning, drowning, hanging. These women who have magic must be redeemed, so often through death.
Just for having magic. Or, if you will, just for having power.
Having magic gives women the power to subvert expectations. It gives them a way to forge a living, allowing them to choose marriage if they want, rather than relentlessly pursuing a husband (always a husband) for food and shelter and protection. It gives them the opportunity to seek their own path, set their own priorities, and establish their own identity. Magic gives these women choices and independence. And untethered women—women with resources, with skills, with wisdom, with freedom—are dangerous.
May all women have such magic.
Fantasy literature—sometimes intentionally, sometimes not—has an awful lot to say about gender, magic, and power.
Witches in our real world—or reexamined versions of our real world: So many fantasy works examine the mythos of witches through the lens of our world. From very traditional tales of witches (Of Sorrow and Such) to criticism of historical societies (Sorcerer to the Crown, Redwood and Wildfire) to modern-day stories of witches and all-too-real expectations (Labyrinth Lost, All the Birds in the Sky, Practical Magic). From new tales of legendary witches (Vassa in the Night) to new legends of all-too-familiar tropes (This Strange Way of Dying, The Girl Who Drank the Moon). From May-December romances of young witches and mentor wizards (Uprooted) to witches finding late-in-life love together (The Memory Garden) to witches spurning traditional betrothal to seek their own way (The Bear and the Nightingale).
Witches in fantastic worlds: Sometimes, fantasy works take the witch archetype and build it a new world, one that may be more but is sometimes even less sympathetic to magic-working women: good witches (Sister Mine), evil witches (Sarah Pinborough's Beauty), and witches still figuring things out (Bayou Magic). Witches who rule their world (Forest of a Thousand Lanterns) or who would rather live quietly at home (The Beast Is an Animal). Witches who seize their own fate (The Bone Witch) or who are a formidable, desired commodity (Truthwitch). Adventurous witches (The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle), ambitious witches (Born Wicked), vengeful witches (The Shadow Queen), desperate witches (Chime), wise witches (The Color Master).
All manner of other sorceresses, illusionists, and magic-workers: In fantasy literature, beyond the witch archetype, women work magic in a thousand ways and for a thousand reasons. Because of slavery (The Fifth Season, The Forbidden Wish) or for vigilante justice (Slice of Cherry), because of talent (Last Song Before Night) or tradition (Three Dark Crowns), because of a bet (The Night Circus) or a hereditary gift (The City of Brass). Reluctantly (Jade City), mistakenly (The Young Elites), genteelly (Shades of Milk and Honey), cleverly (Passing Strange), with great responsibility (Fire) or great skill (The Mistress of Spices) or great grief (Sorrow's Knot). Sometimes, the magic they work isn't even theirs (Monstress).
In 2017, the Sirens theme was women who work magic. Not only women who have magic, but women who work magic. They might work it quietly or shyly or slyly. They might work it with great purpose or great intent or great pride. But these women have power and they use it.
This theme might speak to you in a number of ways. It might be about talent or training or skill. It might be about creation or innovation. It might be about goals and aspirations and drive. It might be about dreams or quests or bargains. It might be about oppression or revolution or revenge. It might be about independence.
And we hope, as we approach this year's Sirens reunion, that you'll contemplate women who work magic, as well as the other themes of our past four years, in your reading, your conversations, and your programming proposals.
At Sirens, our reunion years are an opportunity to reexamine the themes of the previous four years, in this case: hauntings, rebels and revolutionaries, lovers, and women who work magic. This is the last post on these themes—but please also know, as you begin to plan your programming proposals, that proposals need not focus entirely or even at all on theme topics. All proposals related to women in fantasy literature are welcome. Get inspired by our 2017 Women Who Work Magic book lists, Suggested Reading and Reading Challenge.


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Ascott notches up business transformation with acquisition of 80% stake in Synergy Global Housing in U.S.
Second majority-stake acquisition within a month as Ascott gathers momentum to surpass global portfolio target of 80,000 units well ahead of 2020
Mr Lee Chee Koon, Ascott's Chief Executive Officer (middle), with co-founders of Synergy Global Housing Mr Henry Luebbert and Mr Jack Jensky after signing the deal which would see Ascott acquiring an 80% stake in Synergy.
Singapore, 24 July 2017 – CapitaLand's wholly owned serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott), is acquiring an 80% stake in Synergy Global Housing (Synergy), a leading accommodation provider in the U.S. The acquisition will expand Ascott's footprint in the U.S. and strengthen its extensive range of international-class serviced residences for corporate customers worldwide. It will also triple Ascott's portfolio from over 1,000 units to about 3,000 units in the U.S. This acquisition is yet another move to transform Ascott's global operating platform following hot on the heels of its investment in Quest Apartment Hotels earlier this month, which will leapfrog Ascott to become the largest serviced residence provider in Australasia.
Mr Lee Chee Koon, Ascott's Chief Executive Officer, said: "With the acquisition of Synergy as well as our earlier investment in Quest, Ascott is gearing up to transform our business to become an even more active and dominant player in the hospitality eco-system. As we move up the value chain to acquire strong operating platforms globally, we are getting closer to our customers, understanding their needs better and thereby improving our service and product offerings to them. The synergies to be realised with these majority-stake acquisitions will propel Ascott's growth at an unprecedented pace."
"Ascott has been a partner of Synergy to cross sell our units since 2013. We see value in taking a majority stake in Synergy to further increase the scale of our business in the U.S. and to strengthen Ascott's lead globally. With Synergy, it will expand our global cross-selling and distribution network as well as enlarge our talent pool. Ascott will also get an uplift by over 2,000 units located predominantly in the U.S., and increase our global portfolio to close to 70,000 units. We are confident of surpassing our target of 80,000 units well ahead of 2020, as we look at more opportunities to grow through investments, management contracts, franchises and strategic alliances."
Mr Lee added: "The U.S. is Ascott's third largest source market for guests. This acquisition will give us direct access to Synergy's corporate customers in the U.S. that include worldrenowned technology brands in the Bay Area and beyond. In addition to providing Ascott's corporate customers with more accommodation options in the U.S., we will also be able to immediately fulfill demand from Synergy's corporate customers when they require accommodation outside of the country. The U.S. is a key market for Ascott and we see potential for us to expand further in cities such as New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington DC."
Synergy Global Housing leases some apartments at Mosso property in San Francisco.
Synergy Global Housing's leased apartment at The Park in Orange County.
In addition to Global Solution Centres in Dublin, Ireland; Hyderabad, India and Singapore; Synergy has a strong foothold in the U.S., where it leases apartments from partners and property owners to rent to corporate clients. In particular, this investment will give Ascott an immediate presence and access to corporations based in Silicon Valley, which include hightech powerhouses boasting achievements and influence that extend well beyond the San Francisco Bay Area.
Mr Henry Luebbert, Co-founder of Synergy Global Housing, said: "This joint partnership strengthens both Ascott's and Synergy's ability to service its customers by combining two of the world's leading brands in the serviced accommodation sector. Having spent more than 30 years managing award-winning properties, Ascott has been one of the foremost serviced residence providers around the world. Synergy's expediential 18-year growth within the furnished housing space has been fueled by our future-forward innovation and immense passion for the customer. This has fostered our industry leader reputation and track record of success. We will be able to build upon Synergy's deep knowledge and close relationship with our corporate customers through this collaboration with Ascott, as we continue to also work with our strong network of partners to secure the right accommodations for our clients. We, together, will focus on our mission to transform the hospitality eco-system."
Mr Jack Jensky, Co-founder of Synergy Global Housing, said: "Synergy has been a choice accommodation provider for many Fortune 500 companies and major Silicon Valley technology firms, and we will remain so in the future. Our clients, who come from industries such as relocation, healthcare, manufacturing, entertainment, social networking and technology, have come to trust us because of our focus on the guest experience. We will stay as true to that philosophy as we always have. Ascott's acquisition gives Synergy a competitive advantage by growing our global footprint and providing our customers more high-quality international serviced accommodation options to our U.S.-based clients. This is a natural partnership for both Ascott and ourselves, bolstered by a common vision to provide the best-inclass accommodations and highest level of service."
This transaction with Synergy is the latest of Ascott's acquisition spree to scale up its global presence. In early July, Ascott announced its acquisition of a majority stake in Quest Apartment Hotels to become the largest serviced residence provider in Australasia. In May, Ascott's real estate investment trust, Ascott Residence Trust, announced the acquisition of DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel New York – Times Square South, adding to its two properties in Manhattan – Sheraton Tribeca New York Hotel and Element New York Times Square West hotel. In the same month, Ascott acquired Hotel Central Fifth Avenue New York, which will be rebranded to Citadines Fifth Avenue New York in 2018.


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Love across borders: the tailor and the soldier
Europeana 1914-1918
love across borders
We have recently begun collecting personal stories from people all across Europe relating to migration, following on from our successful Europeana 1914-1918 project.
This short blog series, Love across borders, is inspired by collections discovered during this project, with stories of romance and love at the time of World War 1. Read on to see how new connections and relationships would not have been possible without people moving across the globe!
Wars like the First World War brought a lot of pain and terror in the countries involved. But they also brought people together who may never have otherwise met. Just like Maria Apollonia Rittel and the American soldier who later became the father of her child.
Captain from the Medical Corps of the 3rd US Army, Michael Josef Rittel, CC0
In 1919, when the war was finally over, Maria Apollonia was a young tailor living in Düsseldorf, Germany. She met an American soldier who was stationed in Koblenz and fell in love with him. He was a Captain of the 3rd US Army's Medical Corps. When he had to return to the US with his troops, he promised her that she could join him there later.
But this never happened, as on the way back to the US his ship sank. This was the only information Maria heard. They never saw each other again. Still, there has always been someone to remind her of this romantic episode: Karl, the son who never got to know his father.
Maria Apollonia and her son Karl, who never got to know his father, Michael Josef Rittel, CC0.
Until today, this remains a gap in the family's history. Karl's son, Michael only owns one picture of his grandfather and is still searching for more information about him and this love story.
Do you have a story to share about love across borders, or romance during World War 1? Share your stories with Europeana Migration and Europeana 1914-1918.
· The Love across borders series was researched and written by Larissa Borck
This blog post is a part of the Migration in the Arts and Sciences project, which explores how migration has shaped the arts, science and history of Europe.
3 thoughts on "Love across borders: the tailor and the soldier"
Michael Josef Rittel says:
Dear ladies and gentlemen, I received a photo of the 2nd division AEF 1917 – 1919 via a Facebook contact today. In the middle of the second row is a soldier who looks 90% like my grandfather. Can we publish this picture? What do I have to do? Kind regards from Germany to Michael J. Rittel
Roume Georges says:
Je recherche la famille de Jakob Schumacher marié avec Apollonia Rittel, originaire de Mayen allemagne, mariage dans les années 1900.
Etes vous de cette famille?
Europeana says:
Bonjour Georges,
Cette blog parle d'une histoire contribué en ligne a Europeana 1914-1918, ici: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2020601/contributions_13292.html
Si tu veux, nous pouvons envoyer vote email au contributeur. S'il vous plaît envoyez un email à 1914-1918@europeana.eu. Merci.


Usually the LCBO has the annual edition of Midleton Very Rare in time for St. Patrick's Day, but this year they were late (How dumb is that? Imagine the increased sales, folks!) Not only does the 2017 edition contain some of the oldest whisky ever put into the range, but it has entirely new packaging with a super fancy box and luxurious bottle design (too luxurious, in my opinion...) Let's see how it compares to the 2016 bottling.
The colour is a rich gold. Very nutty on the nose, with dark chocolate, marzipan, crispy malt, toasted oak and dark honey. Lots of tropical fruit: banana skin, papaya, lemon and underripe green mango. Touch of mint. Very grassy. A bit closed (it is a freshly opened bottle) but those roasted almonds, walnut and macadamia are very apparent, speaking to a prominent pot still character. Lots of complexity too: the longer it sits, the more you get (sandalwood, nutmeg, lots of fruit.) With water you get ginger and wood smoke. Scrumptious!
A wee bit thin on the palate, with more honey, cinnamon, cloves and light maple syrup (very light). Orange pith. Chocolate, but milk this time. A hint of ginger; also the requisite butterscotch and vanilla. Buttery, creamy mouthfeel. Both maltier and spicier with water. Very impressive but doesn't quite have the joie de vivre of the nose.
The medium-to-long finish is oaky, spicy (with black pepper and paprika) and lightly sherried. This is beautifully done, one of the best of the range that I've tasted, with a wonderful balance between serious oak and that biscuity spirit. That rich, creamy mouthfeel is fantastic. How does it compare with the 2016 edition? That one's been open for over a year, and is still quite fresh with those roasted nuts and honey - but lacks the body of the new edition. As good as 2016 was, 2017 is definitely better - almost justifying the fancy gussying-up!
Wow! At that price it BETTER be good!
@talexander, great review, makes me want one!
I seem to be locked into Scotch single malt with an insurmountable tunnel vision, but you and @paddockjudge and @Nozinan and @Victor are forcing me to get serious about Irish, Canadian and American whiske(y)s. I feel like I really need to get over my preconceptions and break out of that box. Thanks for your usual persuasive review.
@BlueNote I truly believe that the true whisky lover can find something they like within every style, be in single malt scotch, blended scotch, bourbon, American rye, Canadian, Irish, Japanese, whatever. Having said that, everyone has their own preferences that are always totally valid.
@talexander I couldn't agree more. I admit my experience with Irish and Japanese whisky is minimal, and North American is becoming a little more prominent in my radar. I'm very fortunate I have had friends who helped expose me to the good stuff.
When I started my whisky journey, it was all single malt scotch for me. I still prefer it, but it's hard for me to shell out the money for it when I can get some real quality American whiskey that I really enjoy at higher proof and much lower prices, often local too. I try to keep an open mind. Whiskey is a wonderful thing and intend to explore as much as I can.
@talexander I think that we can say the same thing you said about the levels of ABV. There are gems at all levels of ABV even if we have our own preferences.
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@Robert99 Absolutely, many of the greatest whiskies are 40%.


Car accident compensation - dependency and property damage claims.
Car accident injury compensation - who can claim?
if you were financially dependent on a close relative or de-facto fatally injured in a road accident.
Unless you make a dependency claim in relation to a road fatality it is not otherwise possible to make a road accident compensation claim unless you suffered a physical or mental injury.
Fatal car accident dependency claims - background.
At common law, a person cannot receive damages in tort for the death of another person. In 1846, to remedy this issue the English parliament enacted legislation widely known as 'Lord Campbell's Act'. In 1846, Western Australia introduced Lord Campbell's Act and this formed the basis of the Fatal Accidents Act 1959 (WA) ("the Act").
Fatal car accident dependency compensation - can I make a claim?
If you are a relative of a fatally injured road user and you were financially dependent on the deceased, you may be able to make a dependency claim.
(g) any person who was a former spouse or former de facto partner of the deceased person whom the deceased was legally obliged, immediately before his or her death, to make provision for with respect to financial matters.
Fatal car accident dependency compensation - what can I claim?
loss of financial support and services provided by the deceased to the relative.
Car accident compensation - can I make a claim for property damage?
In many cases, where an innocent victim is injured in a car accident, the vehicle in which the injured person was traveling is damaged. As explained above, the injured road user may be able to make a claim for personal injury compensation as long as a totally or partially negligent road user was involved in the accident.
If your vehicle was damaged by a partially or completely negligent road user you may also be able to make a claim for the damage caused to your vehicle via their property damage insurer. This claim process can, however, be confusing to those who have not had to negotiate the system previously.
Car accident compensation - what should I do straight after a crash?
Ensure the scene of the accident is safe and that no one is in danger. If serious or life threatening injuries have been sustained call 000 as soon as possible.
If possible take steps to stop any further damage from occurring i.e. marking the site of the accident with warning signs, removing debris from the road.
Exchange contact details with the negligent driver, record detailed information about the accident scene, the injuries and the damage to property. Try to take clear and detailed photos or video of the crash site, your injuries and the damage to your car.
Try to identify any witnesses to the accident, ascertain what they saw of the accident, ask for their contact details and confirm whether they would be happy to support your claim.
Unless it is a medical emergency do not leave the scene until you have all of the information outlined herein.
Do not admit liability or discuss your role in the accident at any point. Adhere to this position regardless of whether you were at fault or not.
Listen to and record anything the other driver says regarding their liability for, or, role in the accident.
Do not negotiate for the payment of damages or repair costs unless you have obtained the written consent of the insurer.
If serious injury or damage has occurred or if the accident was in someway caused by malicious or criminal acts then you must notify the police as soon as practicable.
Car accident compensation - how do I claim for damage to my car?
Ideally, if your vehicle is damaged in a road accident by a negligent driver you can lodge a claim with the negligent driver's vehicle insurance provider. The insurer will first make an assessment as to which party was fully or partially liable for the accident. If the insurer finds that the other driver was partially or fully responsible for the accident they will make you an offer to compensate you for the assessed value of the damage to your vehicle.
Agreeing to a final amount of damages to be paid by the insurer is done through a process of informal negotiation between you and an insurance assessor or claims manager. If you do not agree with the assessment or the offer of damages you could request that your claim is reassessed by the insurer. Failing this, you may need to contact a commercial lawyer specialising in property damage to ascertain whether it would be commercial to take legal action to recover the damages against the insurer.
Car accident compensation - I was not at fault and the negligent driver has no insurance. How is the damage to my car paid for?
In Western Australia, motorists are not required to hold compulsory property damage insurance over their vehicles. This leaves the vehicle owner with the choice to take out full comprehensive car insurance, third party property insurance or no property damage insurance at all.
If a negligent driver damages your vehicle but does not have any property damage insurance you have a legal right to claim damages against the driver. If a legal action is brought and won against the at fault driver they will be ordered by the court to pay damages to you.
Car accident compensation - can I make a personal injury claim and a claim for property damage?
If you are injured in a road accident and are eligible to make a motor vehicle personal injury claim and a claim for property damage we strongly advise that you obtain legal advice from a specialist personal injury lawyer. In these circumstances, an issue estoppel can arise when one set of facts exist, a decision is made by a court regarding those facts and then a plaintiff attempts to make another claim based on the same set of facts. Here for example, a property damage claim could be settled in regards to a particular accident and this could estop the plaintiff from bringing a personal injury claim in regards to the same accident.
If a loved one has died in a motor vehicle accident and you relied on that person for financial support you may be able to make a claim for compensation. We will provide you with support, information and assistance to help you deal with this very traumatic event.
Although we do not provide legal advice on property damage issues, we have a trusted network of legal practitioners to whom we may be able to refer you to for such assistance.
Dependency compensation claims should be made as soon as possible after the death of your loved one and delay can negatively impact on the success of the claim, so please call us now for assistance.


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Eupatorium formosanum is a plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is found in Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands (Japan). It is a perennial herb growing about  tall.

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Vung Tau is a city in southern Vietnam. The city's area is 177.663 sq km and population is about 242.280 people. It has coastline of 48.1 km in length. Vung Tau is a peninsula, including 13 wards and a commune Long Son.
Vung Tau city is the largest oil and gas center in Vietnam. Petroleum industry accounts for a large share in total industrial production and has an important role in economic growth of the city. Currently, most Vietnam oil and gas productions are in Vung Tau city.
Vung Tau has an Industrial Zone (160 ha) suited in Dong Xuyen, not far from the city center. The zone's infrastructure systems have been completed serving – the oil and gas projects.
Vung Tau has the first seaside resort in Vietnam. In 1870, Arduzer, the first hotel in Vung Tau, was built and was a spa for the French leadership at the time. Passing many years, more bungalows and vacation homes were built. Today, Vung Tau has about 4.500 restaurants and hotels, including 18 hotels rating from one to three stars, with nearly 1.300 international standards rooms. The city is also famous for its pagodas and temples.
Facing the ocean on three sides, Vung Tau is windy all year round and has 2 distinct seasons, the rainy season from May to October and the dry from November to April. The average temperature is 28 0C.
With cool climate, long beach and harmonious temperatures, Vung Tau is an ideal holiday resort. Annually, the Vung Tau city has average of three million visitors. Trade and tourism turnover reaches 2,300 billion VND.
Coming to Vung Tau city, visitors will have opportunities to soak in a blue sea or lie under the sunshine. Tourists can also visit the charming destinations in Vung Tau or walk along the stretching and beautiful beaches.


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Andromeda (mitologija), kćer Cefeja i Kasiopeje u grčkoj mitologiji
 Andromeda (zviježđe), zviježđe sjevernog neba
 Andromeda (galaksija) ili Messier 31, najbliža spiralna galaksija našoj galaksiji, Mliječnom putu
 Andromeda (TV serija), TV serija
 Andromeda (radio emisija), radio emisija
 Andromeda (biljni rod), planinski ružmarin, monotipski biljni rod iz porodice Ericaceae, jedina vrsta je divlji ružmarin ili ružmarinka (Andromeda polifolia)
 Andromeda (glazbeni sastav), švedski sastav progresivnog metala


Read it! It's a classic! And it's been in the A&R Top 100, so it must be good. I'll be rereading it later in the month when I can retrieve my copy from home.
Still, from what I remember, I found the storyline to be quite compelling, and the storyline engaging.
I've tried reading it a couple times actually, but have found it hard to get into.
I first read Daughter of the Empire, Servant of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire (by Raymond E Feist and Janny Wurts) when I was a kid. I went to read Magician a couple of years ago and was like "I know those place names!" To explain, the books I read first were written after and are set in the other half of the two worlds.
I read this when I was fourteen and loved it, though I got progressively less interested with the series. I read it several years later and was less impressed, but it's still a good story. My favourite parts involved Pug in Kelewan, and I remember reading the scene at the arena, where Pug goes all 'VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!' on everyone.
One problem with it, that I noticed even at fourteen, is how Midkemia. which is clearly based on European culture yet often including modern sentiments, is seen as superior to Kelewan, which is, as clearly, Asian, perhaps especially reminiscent of Japan. Kelewan has to be Midkemia-ised in the Empire books before it is seen as morally equal to Midkemia. These books were written in the 80s and 90s - I would have thought you could expect authors to be beyond othering Asian culture. High fantasy is often a conservative genre - one step behind other forms of speculative fiction when it comes to politics and social justice - perhaps the books are one more example of that.
I agree with, Sionainn - I have it because I heard it's a classic... but I have tried reading it a few times, but have never got too far into it... did anyone else have that problem??
Wait, which one's Kelewan and Midkemia? I think Pug's from Midkemia, the European one, and Mara (Empire books) is from Kelewan, the Asian one. But I don't remember there being much about Kelewan becoming European-ised or that Midkemia ever sees it as an equal, there wasn't really that much about Midkemia in general. Although it's been a fair few years since I've read them!!
Sorry, that all happens in the Empire books, by Raymond E Feist and Janny Wurts, not in Magician and its sequels, which are mainly set in Midkemia.
Yeah, sorry, that's what I was referring to. I just don't remember that all happening, I don't really remember there being much about Midkemia in the Empire books except for the slave guy.
I totally did the same thing, read the empire trilogy many years before the magician. I actually finished the magician before I put it together.
I collect copies of the magician. The older and more well-read the better.
I must read the empire trilogy again soon. I have found the latter two in op shops but not the first, yet.
I finally read the Magician this year with the thought I had never read a Raymond E. Feist book before. While reading it I realized I had read one of his years before (8 years ago in fact).I think it was called Daughter of the Empire and I nearly had a pink fit when I connected the two. Sooo incredibly good. I admit it took me a little bit to get into the Magician but once I did, I was hooked. I haven't yet read the rest of the series but I hope to soon. Seriously once you get past the first few or so chapters it gets quite good. I have found that often the first book in a series does not always contain too much action first off as it is more of an establishing story, for example Pawn of Prophecy in the Belgariad. That's not always the case though.


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How shall we respond to governors who close churches?
We are re-living the Japanese-American internment camps
Governors are reacting to the Wuhan virus the way the FDR reacted when he issued an executive order authorizing the military to force American citizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent into internment camps in America after Pearl Harbor (1942-1944). Public servants had a lack of information about the threat: they knew little about the true loyalties of these citizens (their likelihood of engaging in sabotage), as governors last month knew little about the future impact of the Wuhan virus. Like governors today, they ignored the US Constitution and US law because of an emergency to intern healthy, loyal citizens.
The Constitution is more important in emergencies than in stable times
The Supreme Court excoriated Abraham Lincoln for similar atrocities: "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2, 121 (1866)."
Staying home is great advice, but most governors are not given authority by their state constitutions and laws to force healthy people to stay home. Indeed, the first amendment to the Constitution recognizes the unalienable right to peaceable assembly. The US Supreme Court uses the 14th amendment to apply the US Bill of Rights to state and local governments.
The Framers did not make an exception for pandemics when they wrote the Constitution in 1787, even though they had experienced a far more devastating small pox outbreak 1775-1782. It's estimated that 10 Americans died of small pox for every one who died in combat during the American War for Independence.
America has experienced many pandemics that were far more deadly than we ever thought the Wuhan virus might be, without ever locking down a state. Why did our generation react differently from previous ones? Is it because our ruling class is used to working from home? Is the working class, who can't work from home, today suffering because of the modern privileges of the ruling class?
Parts of America now disdain religious freedom
Tertullian, who said "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church" was thinking of a specific, incompetently-implemented persecution in a specific period of history. Islamic persecution has always decimated the Church in its territory once it has gained control of a government. Four-fifths of the Christian world was conquered by Islam permanently during the first few centuries of Islam.
We want a part of North America to remain a healthy missions sending base where the whole gospel may be preached and passed on to future generations. In Indiana (and many other states), the governor issued an executive order banning religious meetings of more than 10 people, even outdoors, and required meetings of fewer than 11 people to use individually-packaged communion elements, staying six feet apart, etc. Yet he didn't ban retail stores or government buildings from having more than 10 people. The governor of Kentucky required police to record the license plate numbers of church attendees and required attendees to self-quarantine for 14 days.
Christian doctrine on church and state
Historically, the Church has taught that God instituted parallel governing structures for human society. Church government, civil government, and family leadership, are three human organizations that any society should have. Each institution draws its authority from God, and each one has been given its own sphere of authority.
Billy Graham was a pastor to many presidents, but he never had the authority to veto a decision a president made. But if the president were serving at a Billy Graham rally, of course Billy Graham could veto a decision of the president regarding the rally. If Billy Graham were in the Army, he would have followed orders from the president.
The sphere of authority of the church is watching over the souls and consciences and doctrines (worldview) of congregants and of society. It includes everything about church services and buildings. In the New Testament, we read much about the authority of apostles and of bishops/pastors, and of deacons, who somehow form a church government structure (not to mention offices of the church such as teacher, evangelist, prophet, etc which are generally non-governmental).
The sphere of authority of civil government is to punish the evildoer, to administer God's justice. As Paul puts it in Romans 13, "an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Civil government holds the sword. Church government guards the truth, helps us become spiritually healthy people, and binds up the wounds of the broken-hearted.
Government is not the highest authority. All institutions and all creation are under God's authority, and his authority is delegated through multiple institutions, not one, to prevent the tyranny of Babylon.
Christian civil government
In the book of Judges, we see that God preferred that Israel would follow the men who the people recognized was chosen by God to lead them. These men were called judges because they adjudicated civil disputes, but also led their armies. Although there was no formal voting like in a modern republic, judges were recognized by consensus. God warned Israel against accepting a monarch, saying that monarchs are tyrannical.
Generally speaking, wherever the culture of the people of a state has not been formed and infused by the Church, dictatorship or oligarchy is usually the form of government found. Out of fear of the power of a dictator, the people are forced to recognize the sovereignty (right to rule) of that man.
But in cultures that are formed by the Church, the people as a whole can have the courage to establish the sovereignty of The People by overthrowing tyrants who claim sovereignty. Then they can practice self governance, in that public servants are temporarily given the honor of providing direction. This is civil governance by the consent of the people who are governed. It is the people themselves as a whole that are sovereign, not the public servant.
Paul wrote as a citizen of the Roman Empire. When reading Romans 13, Americans can read it two ways. Are the "governing authorites" Paul speaks of analogous to our governors and president, or are they analogous to The People of our state, who actually hold the sovereignty? I would argue both, although in different ways. Romans 13 can be the foundation for submission or regime change.
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"
In 1775 the Continental Congress selected 3 men to create a seal for the union of the 13 colonies: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. They chose this motto to place in the seal: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Our founding fathers believed, like most Puritans before them, that public servants who are a terror to good conduct are tyrants and out of alignment with the authority God gives to the institution of civil government.
Paul knew his letters would be dangerous to the carriers and holders of his letters if he openly undermined the authority of Roman rulers. Yet it's clear that Romans 13 speaks only of rulers who punish evil, not rulers who punish good. Rulers who don't punish evil or who are "a terror to good conduct" are therefore not rulers "to whom respect is owed."
The purpose of America
Beginning in 1620, the reason our ancestors established America was to avoid interference in their goal to establish a society that would be ordered and governed according to God's will. A society that would know God and serve him. A place free from persecution of devoted, radical Protestants. Therefore the actions of many of our governors are violations of the purpose of America.
The Christian doctrine of the limited jurisdiction of civil government is perhaps the single most important lesson we have inherited from the struggles and religious wars of Middle-Ages Europe. The rejection of this doctrine by the ruling class and by the Left in America will result, in my opinion, in a religious war.
We live in a country in which, in most states, the ruling class has deemed the church "non-essential." During this cornonavirus scare, our government zealously guards the "constitutional right" to abortion, which is not mentioned in the Constitution, yet ignores freedom of religion and assembly, which are mentioned in the Constitution. Abortion centers are using much-needed masks and gloves, and spreading the virus. Obviously, the ruling class in this country has a different world view and a different religion from the one of the Framers of the Constitution.
On one side of this future war will be those who accept traditional American values, and on the other will be those who follow humanism. Most humanists don't perceive their beliefs as a separate worldview, and most believe that their religious doctrines deserve to be enforced by the state, although they don't think of their doctrines as religious.
I believe that the best way to avoid this war would be to form separate countries: one for blue states and one for red states. No one should be forced to move, but this gives partisans an opportunity to move instead of fighting. For more on this, see Does Christianity call us to meekly forbear evil, or to courageously use the power at our disposal? A Defense of Secession
If you are like me, you were happy to quarantine to avoid spreading the virus. But not all Christians are like me. Some don't have access to internet or a car or a drive-in church service. They can't borrow these things because of social distancing.
No one has a problem with governors giving suggestions. It's the enforceable executive orders with punishments that burden the Church. Most governors are giving orders with the force of law. I researched the Indiana and Oregon executive orders and found that the laws they cite for the penalties that they are threatening are not laws that give them the power to shut down churches. So besides being in conflict with the constitutions of the US, Indiana, and Oregon, they aren't based on authority given to the executive branch by the legislature. The executive branch can not write its own laws. Only the legislative branch can. They are making decisions that are not theirs to make.
The most effective response will be lawyers suing governors and mayors. I have high hopes for this, although most judges today don't value the actual Constitution or self government. Here's an explanation of how lawsuits could prevail on the grounds that these executive orders violate "due process" of law:
Due process concerns raised by Idaho prosecutor in letter to Governor
But what about us, who are not lawyers? Do we have a duty to disobey governors on this while we wait for a reversal of these orders? Or is online assembly enough? Heb 10:25 says "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Obviously just watching a video is not assembly because we don't get to exhort one another. One preacher preaching is not "one another." Is the chat feature in YouTube or Facebook adequate to be considered assembly?
For average Christians, a limit of 10 people is usually too small for a good house church if kids are involved, and the stay-at-home orders in some states, such as Michigan, don't even allow any people to visit other homes. A church of this size does not give adequate opportunity for the expression of the variety of spiritual gifts that are available in the broader church.
A Protestant household can practice Holy Communion (The Lord's Supper) alone at home. Where does this leave Catholics, who believe that only the priest can conduct the sacrament of Holy Communion? There aren't enough priests to go around, even if their governor would allow them to visit homes and even if the priest knew their addresses.
The Bible says to lay hands on each other to heal them (Mark 16:18), and that was common in Jesus' healing ministry. In the ministry of the early church, people often laid hands on others (Acts 8:17, Acts 6:6, Acts 13:3, Acts 28:8, 1 Tim 4:14). The Bible says to anoint the sick with oil (James 5:14). Most Christians won't mind missing out on that, but this is a decision for a congregation to make according to their own conscience, not a governor.
There might be a state where the governor or mayor could be voted out in a primary or general election. In states like California states, a replacement for the governor is just as likely to be a tyrant as the current one. Is this the kind of state you want to support with your taxes? The kind of state you want your descendants to become rooted in? Or is moving to a more righteous state a reasonable option? There are a dozen states that haven't burdened the practice of religion during this crisis. Six of them haven't issued any stay-at-home order at all, and eight others recognized churches as "essential."
Protests are being organized at state capitols. For example, there's a Facebook page called American Revolution 2.0 that created an event post for each state for May 1.
In any state, it's possible to find churches that are still meeting in person, or both in person and online, in defiance of the orders. Perhaps some feel, in their own conscience, that continuing to meet is the only way to remain true to their Master. Some churches defy the orders in secret to try to avoid fines and reproach from those who are afraid of the virus. Others do it publicly to resist the encroachment of anti-Church power and precedents.
In many foreign countries, most people can only meet in churches in secret. Their children are forced to be brainwashed into the ruling class' religion in the public schools. When they graduate they find it's hard to get work unless they follow the ruling class' religion. We should not consent to letting our entire country go down this path. Failure to act is consent.
The Governor of New Jersey had 15 members of a synagogue arrested and charged. When questioned by Tucker Carlson, the governor stated "I wasn't thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this". When pressed, he said religious leaders were fine with it. https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/04/gov-murphy-just-defended-njs-coronavirus-lockdown-on-fox-news-heres-how-it-went.html Those who, by their actions, renounce their oath of office (to the US Constitution and their state constitution) have renounced their position as an official. He's no longer the legitimate governor of NJ.
Why don't government officials fear the consequences of violating the Constitution? Because the militia never makes them pay any consequences. The people created the Bill of Rights to draw a line in the sand that government may not cross. But officials have seen that they can cross the line without consequences. When lawsuits fail, only the militia can make them pay. In extreme cases like this, even our liberal judiciary might vindicate us (although the Pennsylvania Supreme Court failed us yesterday). But this is a clarifying moment that helps us think about the cases in which our liberal judiciary does not defend the actual, written Constitution. In America, sovereignty is in the people of a state. The ultimate guarantor of their sovereignty is their militia.
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Arrest made after quadruple shooting in Dale City
November 05, 2020 Uriah Kiser
Police say they have a suspect in custody following the shooting death of two people at a Halloween party on Bristol Court in Dale City in the early morning hours of Sunday, November 1.
A total of four people were shot in the incident, which was followed by another shooting seriously injured another man later that same day, at a home on Hackwood Street in Dale City.
A press release is below.
On November 3, detectives from the Homicide Unit identified the suspect sought in connection to the quadruple shooting which occurred at a home located in the 3300 block of Bristol Ct. in Woodbridge (22193) on November 1.
As of result of the shooting two men were killed and an additional man and woman were seriously injured. The two surviving victims are expected to recover. The investigation revealed that a large party was occurring at the home where an altercation escalated. During the encounter, the suspect brandished a firearm and fired multiple rounds, striking the four victims.
Following the investigation, detectives obtained warrants against the suspect, identified as Karriem Angelo JACKSON. On November 5, members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force located and apprehended JACKSON without incident in the Reston area of Fairfax County. No additional suspects are being sought at this time.
Arrested on November 5: [No Photo Available]
Karriem Angelo JACKSON, 26, of the 2300 block of Hunters Square Ct in Reston
Charged with 2 counts of second degree murder, 2 counts of aggravated malicious wounding, and 4 counts of use of a firearm in commission of a felony
Court Date: December 11, 2020 | Bond: Held WITHOUT Bond
The deceased were identified as Christopher Alan JOHNSON, 24, of Alexandria and Frank Chineji SAPELE, 25, of Arlington
Double Homicide Investigation[Previously Released] – On November 1 at 2:03AM, officers responded to a residence located in the 3300 block of Bristol Ct. in Woodbridge (22193) to investigate a shots fired call. The investigation revealed that there was a large party at the home when the shooting occurred.
Three individuals, two men and a woman, were located at the residence suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers attempted first-aid on one of the men and the woman until rescue personnel arrived at the home.
The two men were pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was flown to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. While investigating, a third man arrived at an area hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound and was determined to have also been at the residence at the time of the incident. Police have identified a total of four individuals who were shot during the encounter, all are believed to be adults.
Detectives with the Violent Crimes Bureau are actively investigating this incident to determine what led up to the shooting.
Here's more information about the victim from the Hackwood Street shooting. His name has not been released, and police have yet to update his condition.
Shooting Investigation – On November 1 at 10:45PM, officers responded to the 14700 block of Hackwood St. in Woodbridge (22191) to investigate a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located an 18-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound to the upper body. Officers attempted first aid on the man until rescue personnel arrived. The man was flown to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries. Officers and a police K-9 searched the area for any other parties involved. Detectives with the Violent Crimes Bureau are actively investigating the incident to determine what led up to the shooting. There is no threat to the surrounding community. Detectives continue to seek assistance from any witness to the incident. The investigation continues.
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