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Events from the year 1913 in Italy.

Kingdom of Italy
Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)
Prime Minister –  Giovanni Giolitti (1911–1914)
Population – 35,351,000
872,598 Italians leave the country of which 376,776 migrate to the United States

Events

The First Balkan War (October 1912 – May 1913) of the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. As a result of the war, the allies captured and partitioned almost all remaining European territories of the Ottoman Empire. Ensuing events also led to the creation of an independent Albanian state. Despite its success, Bulgaria was dissatisfied over the division of the spoils in Macedonia, which provoked the start of the Second Balkan War (June–August 1913).  After the withdrawal of the Ottoman army from Libya after the Italo-Turkish War the Italians could easily extend their occupation of the country, seizing East Tripolitania, Ghadames, the Djebel and Fezzan with Murzuk during 1913.

April

 April 19 – Strike of automobile workers of the Isotta Fraschini, Bianchi and Alfa companies in Lombardy, which extends to other areas. The strike is disavowed by the Confederazione Generale del Lavoro (CGdL).

May

 May 6 – The Hague Court of Arbitration ordered the Kingdom of Italy to pay $32,800 damages to France for seizing the steamers Carthage and Manouba during the Italo–Turkish War.
 May 16 – At Sidi Garba in Tripolitania, 1,000 Italian soldiers were killed or wounded in fighting with the Libyan natives. After forcing a group of Libyans to retreat, the men rested and were surrounded and attacked.  General Ganbretti would later describe the loss as "the bloodiest day in the whole Italo-Turkish War".<ref>"Italians Lost 1,000 in Tripoli Fight", New York Times, May 24, 1913; A. Adu Boahen, General History of Africa: 1880–1935 (University of California Press, 1990) p. 50]</ref>

June

 June 19 – Italian occupying forces fought a fierce battle against the Arab residents of Libya, at Ettangi, Tripolitania.

August

 August 9 – A diplomat from Austria-Hungary told representatives from Italy and Germany that his Empire intended to plan an invasion of Serbia.  The private discussion would be revealed on December 5, 1914, by Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti, who said that Italy refused to participate. Austria-Hungary and Italy strongly opposed the arrival of Serbian army on the Adriatic Sea because they perceived it as a threat to their domination of the Adriatic and feared that Serbian Adriatic port could become a Russian base.
 August 11 – The London ambassadors conference, of Europe's six "Great Powers" (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom), settled on the boundaries of the new Principality of Albania, created from former Turkish territory by the Balkan League during the First Balkan War.

October

 October 26 – First round of Italian general election. Changes in the electoral law made in 1912 widened the voting franchise to include all literate men aged 21 or over who had served in the armed forces. For those over 30 the literacy requirement was abolished. This raised the number of eligible voters from 2,930,473 in 1909 to 8,443,205. Due to the Gentiloni pact, a secret deal in the run-up to the 1913 general election between Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti and Ottorino Gentiloni, the president of the Catholic Electoral Union, Catholic voters supported Giolitti's Liberal candidates in return for support for Catholic policies, especially funding of Catholic private schools and opposition to a law permitting divorce.Sarti, Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present, p. 308 It was estimated that over 200 deputies were elected through the Pact, sufficient to provide a majority for Giolitti.Killinger, The History of Italy, p. 134

November

 November 2 – Second round of Italian general election. The two historical parliamentary factions, the liberal and progressive Left and the conservative and monarchist Right, formed a single liberal and centrist group, known as The Liberals, under the leadership of Giovanni Giolitti, which narrowly retained an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies, while the Radical Party emerged as the largest opposition bloc. Both groupings did particularly well in Southern Italy, while the Italian Socialist Party gained eight seats and was the largest party in Emilia-Romagna.

Sports
 March 30 – The Belgian rider Odile Defraye wins the 7th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.
 May 11–12 – The Italian driver Felice Nazzaro wins the 1913 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.
 May 6–22 – The Italian rider Carlo Oriani wins the 5th Giro d'Italia stage bicycle race.
 June 1 – Pro Vercelli wins the 1912–13 Italian Football Championship.
 November 2 – The French rider Henri Pélissier wins the 9th Giro di Lombardia bicycle race.
 December 16 – Parma Calcio 1913 S.r.l., commonly referred to as Parma, is an Italian football club based in the city of Parma is founded.

Births
 January 10 – Franco Bordoni, Italian racing driver and pilot (d. 1975)
 July 22 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
 August 22 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist and Soviet spy who defected to the USSR in 1950 (d. 1993)
 September 29 – Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (d. 1996)
 October 24 – Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (d. 1984)

Deaths
 March 1 – Mario Pieri, Italian mathematician (b. 1860)

References

 Hall, Richard C. (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSllgZ-1D4YC The Balkan Wars, 1912–1913: prelude to the First World War, New York: Routledge,
 Killinger, Charles L. (2002). History of Italy, Greenwood Publishing Group,
 Nohlen, Dieter & Philip Stöver (eds.) (2010). Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook, Baden-Baden: Nomos Publishers,
 Sarti, Roland (2004). Italy: a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present, New York: Facts on File Inc.,
 Gilbert, Mark & Robert K. Nilsson (2010). The A to Z of Modern Italy'', Scarecrow Press,

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Years of the 20th century in Italy


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Demand The Department Of Justice To Release The Official Report Of Hillary Clinton's FBI Interview!
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The Department of Justice is evaluating whether or not to release the official report of what transpired during Hillary Clinton's FBI interview about her private email server. FBI Director James Comey promised to release the report -- if he was allowed -- during his press conference announcing his findings. But now, news reports indicate that the Department of Justice, pressured by the White House, is reconsidering whether to release the report. As citizens, taxpayers, and voters, we the public are entitled to see the report.
WE, the Undersigned, petition the United States Department of Justice to release the report of the FBI interview with Hillary Clinton about her emails and private server. We are entitled to know what she said before we have to decide whether to vote for her.
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We ALL would like to see her LIES on parade.
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Frank R. from Rochester, NY signed.


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Karen, R. (2018). Attachment Across Clinical and Cultural Perspectives: A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach. Edited by Sonia Gojman-de-Millan, Christian Herreman, and L. Alan Sroufe. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, 261 pp.. Psychoanal. Rev., 105(2):237-248.
Attachment Across Clinical and Cultural Perspectives: A Relational Psychoanalytic Approach. Edited by Sonia Gojman-de-Millan, Christian Herreman, and L. Alan Sroufe. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017, 261 pp.
When I met John Bowlby in 1989, psychoanalysis and attachment theory were two separate realms. Bowlby was an analyst, perhaps still the most famous in the world thanks to his work on separation and loss in the 1940s and 1950s as well as his international best-seller, Childcare and the Growth of Love (1953), which grew out of it. But he was not and never had been loved by his own colleagues. He had been virtually drummed out of the British Psychoanalytical Society because of his views, and he no longer published in analytic journals. His main collaborator was the American academic psychologist Mary Ainsworth, a former member of his research staff, whose pioneering longitudinal study of children in the home and the Strange Situation procedure that followed it (more on this in the notes) had been responsible for putting Bowlby's attachment theory on the map. Bowlby still had an office at the Tavistock Clinic where he had worked since before the war, but the Tavistock had long ago become a stronghold of Kleinians, and there was little communication between him and them. None of this can be guessed from reading the wonderfully integrative book under review, which, among other things, demonstrates the more recent interpenetration of attachment and analytic views. Bowlby, although an outcast, remained a loyal analyst to the end; he would have been pleased.
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NDLEA arrests 258 suspects, seizes 415kgs of illicit drugs
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested no fewer than 258 suspected drug traffickers in Katsina State from January to date. The NDLEA Commander in Katsina State, Mr Sule Momodu, disclosed this in an interview in Katsina on Friday. According to him, the Command during the period under review, also seized […]
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested no fewer than 258 suspected drug traffickers in Katsina State from January to date.
The NDLEA Commander in Katsina State, Mr Sule Momodu, disclosed this in an interview in Katsina on Friday.
According to him, the Command during the period under review, also seized over 415.01 kilogrammes of illicit drugs from the various operations within the state.
"We have seized 283.385,57kgs of Cannabis Sativa, 87.123,7kgs of psychotropic substances and also 44.5 litres of codeine.
"In the course of our operations across the state, we were also able to arrest 258 suspects including a female.
"Out of the 258 suspects we arrested during the period under review, 30 were students.
"We were also able to secure the conviction of 20 suspects to serve various jail terms.
"The agency also rehabilited many drug users in the state within the past six months," he said.
Momodu explained that in line with the global trend, the command was giving serious emphasis to drug demand reduction activities.
"We are not only involved in the arrest and prosecution of drug offenders, but we also carry out sensitisation campaigns, exposing the consequences of drug abuse and trafficking.
"Our campaigns are extended to primary, secondary schools and also tertiary institutions in the state.
"Recently we visited 32 schools as part of the 2021 United Nations' day against drug abuse and trafficking.
"In addition, drug free clubs were established in the schools to disabuse the mind of our children towards drug use." he said.


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Will Kok Thay pay a heavy price for the cruise business?
Esther Lee
January 31, 2022 17:00 pm +08
This article first appeared in The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on January 24, 2022 - January 30, 2022.
GENTING Hong Kong Ltd (Genting HK) was in the news again last week when it announced that it had filed for a winding-up petition and appointed provisional liquidators to see the company through a restructuring.
The cruise ship operator's move comes after the German court had on Jan 17 rejected Genting HK's application against the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (State M-V) requiring the state to satisfy a utilisation request and to permit a drawdown under a US$88 million (RM368 million) loan facility provided by the State M-V backstop facility.
A week earlier, Genting HK's shipyard MV Werften Holdings Ltd (MVWH) had filed for insolvency after failing to secure funds. The insolvency of the German shipyard inadvertently raised the possibility of cross defaults on Genting Hong Kong's US$2.8 billion debt.
The company was also seeking a €108 million (RM513 million) milestone payment under existing financing for the construction of the "Global One" vessel but was unable to obtain the funds after the German government's export credit insurance agency involved in the financing of Global One refused to confirm the insurance coverage required in respect of the facilities.
Genting HK had earlier said when announcing the winding up of MVWH that the German government had sought to resile from and replace the existing Global One financing structure with a new financing proposal as well as to impose additional conditions to fund disbursements. These included an additional guarantee from the controlling shareholder of Genting HK of the group's obligations under the financing structure to an amount of not less than €600 million.
Sources close to the Lim family say that the shareholder guarantee of €600 million was a risk that the family was not prepared to take.
The inevitable filing for liquidation by Genting HK took place last Wednesday.
Nevertheless, it is still too soon to write off the cruise ship operator given the major shareholder's quick move to seek the appointment of joint provisional liquidators in the Bermuda Supreme Court where the company has its registered office.
This, says observers, should buy Genting tycoon Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, whose family owns 75% of Genting HK, some time to fend off creditors while waiting for the rebound in the cruise business.
Genting HK stated on Jan 19 that the petition to appoint joint provisional liquidators is with the intention of "facilitating and assisting the company in developing and proposing a restructuring of the group's financial indebtedness in a manner designed to allow the company to continue as a going concern".
Notably, Bermuda is one jurisdiction that practises a rescue culture.
"Where a company is insolvent, rather than making a winding-up order immediately upon hearing the petition, the Bermuda court often appoints provisional liquidators on a 'soft' basis whose primary focus is to assist the company with exploring the prospects of pursuing a restructuring plan," says an article by The Law Reviews.
A liquidator says companies usually file for provisional liquidation if their assets are in jeopardy of being sold, thereby affecting the company to undertake a restructuring.
"Genting HK's creditors are entitled as per their contracts to take action against the company and that would be detrimental for the company. So, the provisional liquidation will provide a proper restructuring plan for all its creditors. It is a fair platform for creditors to decide on the plan and they will get to vote on it," says the liquidator, adding that the process of coming up with a restructuring plan could take between six and 12 months.
Nevertheless, a successful restructuring plan would ultimately depend on whether the creditors agree to the plan.
The group has been loss-making since the financial year ended Dec 31, 2016 (FY2016).
Meanwhile, its cash and cash equivalent had been declining rapidly in pre-pandemic days. In FY2017, its cash and cash equivalent stood at US$1.15 billion but dwindled to US$595.1 million by FY2019.
As its cash pile shrank, its borrowings almost doubled between 2017 and 2019. From US$1.89 billion of total borrowings in FY2017, which put its gearing at 16.2%, the borrowings ballooned to US$2.74 billion two years later, pushing net gearing up to 49.3%.
Needless to say, the situation only exacerbated during the pandemic, which forced the cruise business to a halt. According to its FY2020 annual report, cash and cash equivalent amounted to a meagre US$217 million against its US$3.38 billion debt tab. Gearing levels had reached 114.5% then.
In August 2020, Genting HK issued a profit guidance, warning investors of a "significantly higher" net loss for the first half of 2020 compared with the corresponding period in 2019 due to the pandemic.
Shortly after that, the group announced that it was temporarily suspending payments to creditors to preserve cash and sustain itself as a going concern. Advisers were hired to engage with creditors to restructure the company's debts.
For 1H2021, the group announced a massive net loss of US$742.59 million but said it was confident of having sufficient capital to fulfil its financial obligations in the next 12 months should its efforts, such as cost-cutting and raising fresh capital, prove fruitful.
The restructuring plan could take on various means, observers say, with one obvious option being the disposal of some of its assets.
For starters, they add, there is financial value in Genting HK's cruise ships, from the Crystal Cruises to Dream Cruises and the Star Cruises. On top of that, Crystal Cruises, the epitome of luxury, is popular among passengers in the West.
Crystal Cruises announced last Wednesday, following the filing of the winding-up petition, that it would suspend its Ocean and Expedition trips until April while its River cruise will be suspended to the end of May.
Meanwhile, Dream Cruises sailings that have already been scheduled will proceed while bookings for two and three night trips from Hong Kong to Singapore through April and September are available, according to news reports.
While some might see the tycoon as making a shrewd move to give the cruise ship business another lease of life, it is worth noting that the tycoon's personal wealth will only see a slight dent.
Lim, through Kien Huat Realty Sdn Bhd, owns a 75.7% stake in Genting HK and is reported to have pledged about six billion shares in Genting HK, close to his entire stake in the company.
Since the start of the month, the share price had halved to HK$0.415 on the close of Jan 17 from HK$0.82 on Jan 3, when its market capitalisation was HK$6.96 billion. At HK$0.415 sen, the company is valued at HK$3.52 billion.
The shares of the company that is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange have been suspended since Jan 18. The stock will be closely watched when it resumes trading again.
Coincidentally or not, it was announced on Jan 19 that Genting Malaysia Bhd's (GENM) subsidiary GENM Capital Bhd will be redeeming its RM1.4 billion medium-term notes on Jan 28, ahead of the MTN scheme's maturity date of July 11, 2023.
Kien Huat Realty holds a 43% stake in Genting Bhd, which in turn holds a 49.45% stake in GENM. Lim directly holds a 1.8% stake in Genting Bhd.
The worst-case scenario for Lim now, observers say, is that he would lose his investment in Genting HK, which they think would not severely dent Kien Huat Realty.
"The damage to the wealth is much less if compared with the huge undertaking that Kien Huat Realty would have had to give if it had accepted the loan facility from the German provincial government," says an executive familiar with the group.
That said, the company with the better value, so to speak, is Genting Bhd. Based on the close of RM4.57 per share last Friday, the company's market capitalisation stood at RM17.72 billion.
This translates into a wealth of some RM8 billion, far exceeding the value of shares Lim holds in Genting HK.
It is also worth noting that Genting Bhd has continued to pay out dividends to shareholders in the financial year ended Dec 31, 2020 (FY2020), despite the pandemic that saw most of its business segments severely affected.
In FY2020, it doled out a net dividend of 15 sen per share, seven sen lower than the 22 sen that was dished out in FY2019.
In contrast, its peers such as Las Vegas Sands Corp, Crown Resorts Ltd and SkyCity Entertainment Group Ltd suspended dividend programmes to preserve cash and manage leverage ratios in 2020.
On the face of it, Lim appears to have mapped out an astute strategy by putting Genting HK under liquidation. It buys him more time and leaves the task of restructuring to the liquidators.
More importantly, it ensures that the rest of the business empire under Kien Huat Realty is not affected by the developments in Genting HK.
Cruise business sees strong recovery in the US, Europe
By M Shanmugam
Unlike in Asia, the cruise business in the US and Europe has recovered strongly based on forward bookings for this year.
Carnival Corporation & plc and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd — the top two ocean-going cruise ship operators with 70% of the global market share — have both recorded growth in forward bookings since the third quarter of last year.
Carnival, which holds the top spot, reported customer deposits increasing to US$3.5 billion (RM14.7 million) in the fourth quarter of last year compared with US$3.1 billion three months earlier.
In comparison, in the first 11 months of 2020 when the cruise business was severely hit, customer deposits were only US$1.9 billion. And Carnival had to book in most of the deposits as "future cruise credit" because it could not operate and customers opted to postpone the trips.
Royal Caribbean's forward bookings for this year and next have also showed significant improvement. For the first nine months of 2021, customer deposits were at US$2.8 billion, surpassing the US$1.8 billion for the whole of 2020.
It said that booking volumes picked up in the second half of last year and were accompanied by improved pricing. From September, the trend was strong with new bookings for sailing this year coming in at 60% higher than the monthly average for 2021, it added.
Royal Caribbean also pointed out that customer deposits were higher than pre-pandemic levels.
"Customer deposits for cruises taking place in the second quarter of 2022 and onwards are higher than customer deposits on cruises that took place at the same time horizon as of end September 2019," it had said.
Both Carnival and Royal Caribbean are optimistic of returning to the black in the second half of this year and have dismissed the threat from the Omicron virus. It is not only Carnival and Royal Caribbean that are looking at a better year, even the smaller cruise ship operators are optimistic of a turnaround in 2022.
The North American and European cruise business generally performs better than Asia and chalked up strong growth until the pandemic hit. Cruise operations came to a standstill for most of 2020 and the first half of last year.
During the period, the bigger cruise ship operators such as Carnival disposed of their older vessels to reduce capacity. The cruise operators also issued debt papers with coupons as high as 11.5% to raise funds to stay afloat.
Carnival reduced capacity by 13% and has plans to gradually increase its fleet until 2025. The new ships that it will take delivery through until 2025 are bigger, allowing it to be more economical by accommodating more passengers for each sail.
As for Royal Caribbean, it was operating at 63% of its capacity as at end-September last year and envisaged the number to grow to 80% by end-2021.
Although capacity has fallen, cruise operators can draw comfort from the higher revenues due to more spending by passengers who have been locked on shore for almost two years.
For instance, Royal Caribbean said last October that although the ships were cruising at below capacity, revenue per passenger cruise day — which is the number of passengers carried multiplied by number of cruise days — was up by 12% compared to 2019 due to higher spending by passengers on board.


The NEW ISSUE of ABLE MUSE, Print Editon (Number 26) - Winter 2019, has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, & iBooks editions), with online excerpts at: www.AbleMuse.com. The digital and web editions of the complete issue (provided to the print edition subscribers only as a bonus), is also available now online at www.ablemuse.com, along with generous excerpts of the issue for non-subscribers.
Includes the 2019 winning stories & poems from contest winners and finalists.
editorial: Alex Pepple • featured art: A "Couples" Theme • featured poet: Matthew Buckley Smith (interviewed by Joanna Pearson) • fiction: Anthony J. Otten, Claudette E. Sutton • essays: Stella Pye, Michael Cohen, Sam Aaron Morgan • book reviews: Brooke Clark • poetry: Amit Majmudar, Gabriel Spera, Lynn Marie Houston, Maryann Corbett, D. R. Goodman, Heinrich Heine, Terese Coe, Andrew Frisardi, Alexis Sears, Ann M. Thompson, Melissa Cannon, David Allen Sullivan, Rob Wright.
Read all the details at Able Muse.
With special thanks for an outstanding new issue to -- Nicole Caruso Garcia, Susan de Sola, Scott M. Miller (Assistant Poetry Editors); N.S. Thompson (Nonfiction Editor); Karen Kevorkian (Fiction Editor); Cheryl Diane Kidder, Rob Wright (Assistant Fiction Editors).


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T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis
Vladimir V. Yurovsky, Barbara White
An increase of certain T cell subsets in systemic sclerosis patients, particularly of V81+ γdelta; T cells in the blood and lungs and CD8+ αbeta; T cells in the lungs, has been shown. The diversity of T cell antigen receptor (TCR) Vδ1, Vα and Vβ gene repertoires was examined using reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction to amplify rearranged TCR transcripts across the junctional region. This was followed by two methods of analysis. First, the relative expression of Vα and Vβ genes was determined in the blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of the patients. Second, we looked for evidence of restricted diversity of the junctional regions in TCR Vδ1 transcripts and in different Vα and Vβ gene families. Limited Vδ1-Cδ junctional region lengths were observed in the patients compared to controls. This was confirmed by sequence analysis of Vδ1-Cδ junctional regions after subcloning amplified products in a bacterial vector. A restricted diversity of the junctional region lengths was also detected in a number of Vα and Vβ gene families, particularly within bronchoalveolar CD8+ T cell subset. These data suggest that the oligoclonal expansion of the corresponding αbeta; and γdelta; T cells is antigen-driven and may be important in the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis.
International Reviews of Immunology
Bronchoalveolar lavage
Systemic sclerosis
T cell receptor
T cell subsets
Dive into the research topics of 'T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
T-Cell Antigen Receptor Medicine & Life Sciences 66%
T-Lymphocyte Subsets Medicine & Life Sciences 46%
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Medicine & Life Sciences 23%
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Medicine & Life Sciences 22%
Yurovsky, V. V., & White, B. (1995). T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis. International Reviews of Immunology, 12(2-4), 97-105. https://doi.org/10.3109/08830189509056706
T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis. / Yurovsky, Vladimir V.; White, Barbara.
In: International Reviews of Immunology, Vol. 12, No. 2-4, 1995, p. 97-105.
Yurovsky, VV & White, B 1995, 'T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis', International Reviews of Immunology, vol. 12, no. 2-4, pp. 97-105. https://doi.org/10.3109/08830189509056706
Yurovsky VV, White B. T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis. International Reviews of Immunology. 1995;12(2-4):97-105. doi: 10.3109/08830189509056706
Yurovsky, Vladimir V. ; White, Barbara. / T cell repertoire in systemic sclerosis. In: International Reviews of Immunology. 1995 ; Vol. 12, No. 2-4. pp. 97-105.
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Beresheet-Genesis in Hebrew- started as a private attempt by Israeli nonprofit organization SpaceIL, which Kahn now chairs, to win Google's 10-year space race competition Lunar X Prize. The State of Israel took part in the first launch and will do it again.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that they have failed during their first try.
Nobody at mission control was happy the night the news came in, he said, because "we missed by very little".
"SpaceIL, the start-up that functioned for more than eight years to find the spacecraft from the ground, revealed a technical glitch triggered a" series of events" that caused the spacecraft's engine to malfunction Thursday just 14 km (8.7 miles) above the heavens, making it" impossible to stop the spacecraft's velocity". "I hope this time we will succeed", he said at a cabinet meeting.
The failure was a disappointing ending to a 6.5 million-kilometer (4 million-mile) lunar voyage, nearly unprecedented in length, that was created to conserve fuel and reduce price. "We reached the moon, but we want to land more comfortably, and that is for the next time". It blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on February 21 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and entered Earth's orbit about 34 minutes after launch. It also had a time capsule that included a Bible, Israeli cultural symbols and a picture of famed Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in the crash of the US space shuttle Columbia in 2003.
Kahn, who mentioned he was encouraged by worldwide feedback on the first mission, said he intends to lead the second project, and will form a new group of donors to support Beresheet 2.0 and has appointed a new team, which started on Sunday. This resemblance to the moon will continue and will accompany us, also, all the way to the moon. "Never lose hope - your hard work, teamwork, and innovation is inspiring to all!" he wrote on Twitter.
Beresheet made the final cut, but after several deadline extensions, the competition ended a year ago without a victor.
Beresheet will land on a plain of lava, if all goes according to plan. "If we're successful, we'll inspire children to study the subjects that took us there". "We would have been turning in distance toward a sun orbit that no one wants to enter".


Fun times with Year 5!
It has been a beautiful sunny day for the first day of the Year 5 residential and we have enjoyed lots of activities including a beach walk, rock pooling, sand sculptures and an evening story around the fire. Time for a good sleep in preparation for tomorrow's activities!


I personally think this button would be useful enough to be worth adding to the main menu.
In a way that is what load is for, to load the games you have saved.
Although in TH you could resume the last game, so perhaps it would have to look to see what the latest save was?
"...so perhaps it would have to look to see what the latest save was?"
Yes, a resume button would make loading the latest saved game quicker and easier because players could load it with a single click instead of having to open the load screen, select the saved game from a list and then press the load button.
Edvin has given me the go ahead to create this button for the main menu.


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Jasmine Thomas will reunite with Curt Miller in Los Angeles. (TBEN Photo/Adam Hunger)
Jasmine Thomas reunites with her former coach. Thomas — along with the No. 10 overall pick — was traded Monday from the Connecticut Sun to the Los Angeles Sparks in exchange for three players, the Sparks announced.
The move reunites Thomas with Sparks head coach Curt Miller, who coached the Sun for the past seven seasons. Miller joined the Sparks in October.
Thomas, 33, was limited to just five games last season due to a torn cruciate ligament. She averaged 6.6 points, 3.0 assists and 2.2 rebounds per game. In her previous six seasons, all under Miller, Thomas averaged 11.9 points and 6.0 assists per game.
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Miller cited Thomas' knowledge of the game and skill on both ends of the floor as a reason Miller would be a fit with the Sparks, according to the team release.
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The Sun reached the WNBA Finals last season without Thomas, where the team lost 3-1 to the Las Vegas Aces.
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The Sun received center Olivia Nelson-Ododa, Jasmine Walker and the reserved rights to Kianna Smith in the deal. Nelson-Ododa and Smith were drafted by the Sparks in 2022. Walker was drafted by Los Angeles in 2021. Nelso-Ododa has experienced the most success of that trio, averaging 4.0 points and 2.9 rebounds over 30 games .
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Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics
Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (Editor), victoria walters (Editor)
This book project began as the proceedings of the world-wide only conference on Beuys that took place on the 20th anniversary of the artist's death. It had attracted excellent international speakers and discussants.The proposition was to bring together English-speaking and German-speaking scholars and discuss the differences in reception. The keynote was Gene Ray, who had, at the same time as developed similar insights in my Doctoral dissertation, also concluded that Beuys had engaged in more substantial ways with Germany's recent past than had been acknowledged. In assumptions about his attitude towards his past as German soldier lay many of the differences in reception.Ireland seemed to be an idea vanatage point from which to address these questions, particularly as the University of Ulster's Interface Research Centre (Contested spaces)helped to fund the conference and the book functioned as an output of the FP6 network of excellence SUS.DIV on sustainability and diversity. However, while the Celtic Tiger roared, the book's right moment had not come. Only with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain and with some pertinent additions to the presented papers did the book become a rounded project, now co-editec by Victoria Walters. It investigates Beuys' importance for the self-organized infrastructure in art in Northern IReland, for oppositional artists in central Europe before 1989, brings in anthropological considerations and provides a historical background to concepts such as "relational aesthetics" and Christoph Schlingensief's "over-identification".Beuys' name may not be mentioned at every turn, but his thinking is alive and effective.
Berlin, Muenster
Relational Aesthetics
German Soldiers
Art in Ireland
Engaged Art
art and reconciliation
peaceful revolution
social sculpture
Lerm Hayes, C-M., & walters, V. (Eds.) (2011). Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics. Berlin, Muenster.
Lerm Hayes, Christa-Maria (Editor) ; walters, victoria (Editor). / Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics. Berlin, Muenster, 2011. 232 p.
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Volusia County is ideally situated in the eastern section of Florida. Rich with arts, entertainment, and recreation, it has a lot to offer. But the real jewel of Volusia County is its four beautiful springs.
Peppered throughout the county, Blue Spring, Green Springs, DeLeon Springs, and Gemini Springs are distinct treasures in their own right and quite enticing for those lucky enough to make Volusia County their home.
Here's a look at the area's unique springs, the sought-after recreation they offer, and the way of life it boasts for Volusia County Residents.
Blue Spring is the largest spring on the St. Johns River. Located in the 2,600-acre Blue Spring State Park in Orange City, it's also the winter home of West Indian Manatees and a designated manatee refuge.
During swimming season, water enthusiasts enjoy the spring's comfortable 73-degree water by swimming, scuba diving, and snorkeling. They can also take advantage of the fishing, boating, and canoeing opportunities, as well as river-boat tours.
The aforementioned hundreds of manatees make for ample wildlife watching from the spring's overlook from mid-November through March. Visitors can also take self-guided tours of the historic Thursby House, erected in 1872 in the heyday of the steamboat era or enjoy the picnic areas and three covered pavilions.
Blue Spring makes Volusia County an even better place to call home by allowing residents the chance to see the wonder of wildlife migration in action. Plus, the watersport activities set in the Blue Spring and St. John River are just the thing for an invigorating outing with family and friends.
Located in Enterprise, Green Springs is one of Florida's few green sulfur springs. It's nestled in Green Springs Park, which includes 36 acres of natural beauty that can be enjoyed from any of the overlooks and paved nature trails. With free admission and dawn to dusk operating hours, it's a great place to spend the day from eating at a picnic pavilion or letting the kids enjoy the playground.
Green Springs' own history is interwoven with that of Volusia County that dates back to early Native American settlers, including the Seminoles and Mayaca, who believed the spring water had healing powers and deemed the land surrounding it as sacred. In 1841, Cornelius Taylor shared that belief and built one of Florida's original health spas, a hotel, so visitors could benefit from the sulfur springs.
Green Springs enhances Volusia County by providing residents with a place to enjoy the outdoors and become enthralled by both the mystique and history of the springs' gentle sulfur waters.
Located in both the municipality and state park that sport their namesake, DeLeon Springs are cascading springs that produce 19 million gallons of water every day at a year-round 72-degree temperature.
Visitors can access the water by swimmer's lift, ramp, or stairs. Swimming and limited access snorkeling and scuba diving are also available. Rent out canoes, kayaks, and paddle-boats for exploring the 22,000-acre Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge. Another option is to learn about the Refuge in a 50-minute guided boat tour.
The 625-acre park overlooking the water affords the opportunity for hiking, birding, picnicking, and enjoying the playground. There's lots of natural beauty to love, including a 600-year-old cypress tree and butterfly garden with hundreds of plants attracting the migrating creatures.
Visitors can also get a literal taste of history at the on-site Sugar Mill Restaurant in a replica of the actual 1830s sugar mill that's is 100 years old. It's fun for all ages to cook your own pancakes right at your table!
With a rich history, natural beauty, and activities that encourage lots of memory making, DeLeon Springs makes Volusia County an even better place to call home.
Located in DeBary, FL Gemini Springs is true to its name with a pair of springs that generate 6.5 million gallons of sparkling, clear water every day. It's great for fishing on the dock (with a freshwater fishing permit), but the 210-acre Gemini Springs Park has lots of other offerings for visitors, too.
The free park is open sunrise to sunset and sports a dog park and camping. Plus, the numerous walkways and trails for biking and walking allow ample opportunity to observe the natural wildlife and vegetation.
Just down the road from Gemini Springs is the town of Enterprise. In Florida's frontier days, it was teeming with government and commerce activity. Nineteenth-century farming operations at Gemini Springs included citrus, timber, and making turpentine from longleaf pine trees.
The wealth of history and opportunity to exercise in a beautiful natural setting makes Gemini Springs just one more reason outdoor enthusiasts should call Volusia County home.
Looking to call Volusia County your home?


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package com.nowellpoint.console.api;

import static spark.Spark.get;
import static spark.Spark.delete;

import com.nowellpoint.console.model.Identity;
import com.nowellpoint.console.service.ServiceClient;
import com.nowellpoint.console.util.JsonTransformer;
import com.nowellpoint.console.util.Path;

import spark.Request;
import spark.Response;

public class IdentityResource {

	public static void configureRoutes() {

		get(Path.Resource.IDENTITIES, (request, response)
				-> getIdentity(request, response), new JsonTransformer());

		delete(Path.Resource.IDENTITIES, (request, response)
				-> deleteIdentity(request, response));

	}

	private static Identity getIdentity(Request request, Response response) {

		String id = request.params(":id");

		Identity identity = ServiceClient.getInstance()
				.identity()
				.get(id);

		return identity;
	}

	private static String deleteIdentity(Request request, Response response) {

		String id = request.params(":id");

		ServiceClient.getInstance().identity().delete(id);

		response.status(204);

		return "";
	}
}


Kuroko now sells more than Bleach.
Woot! HxH FTW! and its nice to see beelzebub so high up on the list from usual!
Well Attack on Titan Opening numbers so low,Hoping Gr8 sales boost after the anime in April ..
Very Gr8 Numbers 4 Hxh ..
And I Really Dont Know About KBasketball ?is it because the threats or the Huge Numbers of Fan girls or this manga is Really good ?
I'm glad Saint Young Men is doing well. It's a delightful manga. Too bad it probably won't be licensed. But hey, I can hope.


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Q: Porting Node.js script to Python I want to port this Node.js script to control a Sky box over into Python, https://github.com/dalhundal/sky-remote/blob/master/sky-remote.js
I've gone through and done the best that I can do, code is below;
import time, math, socket, struct, time
from array import array

    #sky q port 5900

    class remote:
        commands={"power": 0, "select": 1, "backup": 2, "dismiss": 2, "channelup": 6, "channeldown": 7, "interactive": 8, "sidebar": 8, "help": 9, "services": 10, "search": 10, "tvguide": 11, "home": 11, "i": 14, "text": 15,  "up": 16, "down": 17, "left": 18, "right": 19, "red": 32, "green": 33, "yellow": 34, "blue": 35, 0: 48, 1: 49, 2: 50, 3: 51, 4: 52, 5: 53, 6: 54, 7: 55, 8: 56, 9: 57, "play": 64, "pause": 65, "stop": 66, "record": 67, "fastforward": 69, "rewind": 71, "boxoffice": 240, "sky": 241}
        connectTimeout = 1000;

        def __init__(self, ip, port=49160):
            self.ip=ip
            self.port=port

        def showCommands(self):
            for command, value in self.commands.iteritems():
                print str(command)+ " : "+str(value)

        def getCommand(self, code):
            try:
                return self.commands[code]
            except:
                print "Error: command '"+code+"' is not valid"
                return False

        def press (self, sequence):
            if isinstance(sequence, list):
                for item in sequence:
                    toSend=self.getCommand(item)
                    if toSend:
                        self.sendCommand(toSend)
                        time.sleep(0.5)

            else:
                toSend=self.getCommand(sequence)
                if toSend:
                    self.sendCommand(toSend)

        def sendCommand(self, code):
            commandBytes = array('l', [4,1,0,0,0,0, int(math.floor(224 + (code/16))), code % 16])

            try:
                client=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
            except socket.error, msg:
                print 'Failed to create socket. Error code: ' + str(msg[0]) + ' , Error message : ' + msg[1]
                return

            try:
                client.connect((self.ip, self.port))
            except:
                print "Failed to connect to client"
                return

            l=12
            timeout=time.time()+self.connectTimeout

            while 1:
                data=client.recv(1024)
                data=data

                if len(data)<24:
                    client.sendall(data[0:l])
                    l=1
                else:
                    client.sendall(buffer(commandBytes))
                    commandBytes[1]=0
                    client.sendall(buffer(commandBytes))
                    client.close()
                    break

                if time.time() > timeout:
                    print "timeout error"
                    break

I think the issue is how I form the buffers? I'm not entirely sure as this is the first time I've dealt with buffers.
Having read through the Node.js documentation on new Buffer, it looks like it creates an array of Octets, whereas what I have is an array of ints, I may be wrong but an Octet is 8bits whilst an int is 4bits, I've tried changing the array to long and double, but this doesn't seem to resolve the issue

A: Having had the time to have a quick read through on how Node.js handles buffers and buffers in general and it looks like what I thought was right.
Change;
commandBytes = array('l', [4,1,0,0,0,0, int(math.floor(224 + (code/16))), code % 16])

to;
commandBytes = bytearray([4,1,0,0,0,0, int(math.floor(224 + (code/16))), code % 16])

Also, then just pass the bytearray;
client.sendall(commandBytes)

instead of;
client.sendall(buffer(commandBytes))

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