Zhari Namco, the largest salt water lake in Ngari and the third largest lake in Tibet.
Zhari Namco, the largest salt water lake in Ngari and the third largest lake in Tibet (the largest lake is Namtso Lake, the second largest one is Siling Tso) lies among the peaks of Gangdise Mountains. The lake is about 54 km long and 20 km wide, with an elevation of 4613 meters and a total area of 1023 square km.
There are various wildlife living near Zhari Namco, which is also known as a famous wet land as well as an excellent prairie. Tibetan antelopes and kiangs are all t oo often seen seeking food or running on the lakeside. On the island live and breed a variety of wild birds such as black-headed gulls, bar-headed geese and black-necked cranes.
The Munuoshan Isolated Peak, which is made up of black limestones formed at the bottom of sea 200 or 300 million years ago, lies to the north of Zhari Namco. To the southeast of the lake, there is an arc sand berm extending to the isolate island in the middle of a lake. You can take a walk along the berm to the isolated island where lava blocks strew at random, or you can stand on the island to look around. The lake you see is the same as the sky in color.
Zhari Namco, like a sapphire left behind by the fairy, is no doubt a very marvelous lake to visit.
If you happen to come across some wild animals and migrant birds, please do not try to capture or hunt them.
Summer would be the best time to visit there, when it's not so cold. Were you lucky enough, you can see many wildlife.


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Official game balls for the NFL football Super Bowl XLIX wait for final inspection at the Wilson Sporting Goods Co. in Ada, Ohio, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.
The New England Patriots used footballs that were under-inflated in the first half of Sunday's AFC Championship Game against the Indianapolis Colts, evidence so far in the National Football League's investigation has found.
But the team's footballs were properly inflated for the second half and confirmed to have been properly inflated at the conclusion of the game, the NFL said in a statement Friday afternoon.
The NFL's investigation into the "Deflategate" controversy involving the Patriots is ongoing, and 40 interviews have been conducted so far, including of Patriots personnel, game officials and third parties with relevant information and expertise, the league said. The investigation is being led jointly by NFL Executive Vice President Jeff Pash and Ted Wells of the law firm of Paul Weiss.
The league said it has obtained and is continuing to obtain additional information, including video and other electronic information and physical evidence. It has also hired an investigatory firm with expertise in forensics to assist in reviewing electronic and video information.
"The goals of the investigation will be to determine the explanation for why footballs used in the game were not in compliance with the playing rules and specifically whether any noncompliance was the result of deliberate action," the statement said. "We have not made any judgments on these points and will not do so until we have concluded our investigation and considered all of the relevant evidence."
The league said the Patriots have pledged their full cooperation and have made their personnel and other information available upon request. In the coming days, the NFL will be conducting interviews, examining video and other forensic evidence, in addition to any relevant physical evidence.
Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft also issued a statement on Friday, saying that he received a letter from the league on Monday informing him of the investigation. He said he instructed Patriots staff to be "completely cooperative and transparent with the league's investigators." During the three days the investigators were in Foxboro, he said the team provided access to every full- and part-time employee the league's representatives asked to speak with and produced every communication device that they requested to search.
"It is an ongoing process that the league and our team are taking very seriously," Kraft said. "Competitive balance and the integrity of the game are the foundation of what makes our league so special and I have the utmost respect for those principles. Our organization will continue to cooperate throughout the league's investigation."
The NFL began looking into the issue not only because doctoring the footballs could provide a competitive advantage, but because it would compromise the integrity of the game. Deflating a football can change the way it's gripped by a player, or the way it travels through the air.
"Our investigation will seek information from any and all relevant sources and we expect full cooperation from other clubs as well," the statement said. "As we develop more information and are in a position to reach conclusions, we will share them publicly."
University of Indianapolis football players take part in experiment to demonstrate the potential advantages of a partially deflated ball.
No timetable was given by the NFL for when the investigation might be wrapped up.
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has denied altering the ball "in any way," saying that he would never break the rules. Coach Bill Belichick said he had "no explanation" for what happened, and like Brady said the first he heard of the entire ordeal was on Monday morning.
The Patriots will take on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday, Feb. 1.
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What really happened at The Dugway facility?
UFO, Crashed Stealth Plan or just a Chemical leak? Last week, Dugway Proving Ground, an army testing facility in Tooele County, was on total lockdown while trying to resolve a "serious concern". At around the same time of the lockdown, two people living outside the base witnessed strange red lights hovering over the base, then one of the lights appeared to drop something — a white light was seen coming out of one of the red lights, dropping slowly towards the ground.
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Home UFOs What really happened at The Dugway facility?
Dugway Lockdown, 26th Jan 2011
UFO, Crashed Stealth Plan or just a Chemical leak?
Last week, Dugway Proving Ground, an army testing facility in Tooele County, was on total lockdown while trying to resolve a "serious concern". Nobody was allowed in and staff on the base were not allowed out! Some reports even suggest staff who were in their cars about to leave the base at the end of their shift, were ordered to stay in them while the problem was resolved.
The facility was put on lockdown around 5.25pm Wednesday 26th January 2010, and neither Army nor county officials would give a reason why.
Lights add to mystery
At around the same time of the lockdown, two people living outside the base witnessed strange red lights hovering over the base, then one of the lights appeared to drop something — a white light was seen coming out of one of the red lights, dropping slowly towards the ground.
One eye-witnesses managed to grab his phone and record the lights and you can clearly see a light falling towards the ground, but unfortunately the footage is not very clear.
The witnesses said it definitely didn't look like or sound like an aircraft, the lights didn't flash and appeared to move very slowly and at one point looked like they were hovering.
Below if a mashup of news reports and witness interviews, including the above mentioned footage of the lights dropping something.
Official explanation
The following day (27th January) the Army issued a statement:
"A missing vial of a nerve agent led to a 12-hour lockdown at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah — less than a quarter-teaspoon of the nerve agent VX was discovered to be missing during an inventory check"
Dugway Proving Ground
What is Dugway Proving Ground and what is VX?
Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) is a US Army facility located approximately 85 miles (140 km) southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah in southern Tooele County and just north of Juab County. It encompasses 801,505 acres of the Great Salt Lake Desert, an area the size of the state of Rhode Island, and is surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges.
It had a resident population of 2,016 persons as of the 2000 census, all of whom lived in the community of Dugway, Utah, at its extreme eastern end. The name "Dugway" comes from a technique to dig a trench along a hillside to keep a wagon from tipping.
Dugway's mission is to test US and Allied biological and chemical weapon defense systems in a secure and isolated environment. DPG also serves as a facility for US Army Reserve and US National Guard maneuver training, and US Air Force flight tests — mostly from nearby Hill AFB in Ogden. DPG is controlled by the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). The area has also been used by US Army Special Forces for training in preparation for deployments to the War in Afghanistan.
Dead sheep, Skull Valley 1968
"Dugway Sheep Kill" incident
Dugway is perhaps best know (if that is the right word) for an incident that happened in March 1968, where 6,249 sheep died in Skull Valley, an area nearly thirty miles from Dugway's testing sites. When examined, the sheep were found to have been poisoned by an organophosphate chemical. The sickening of the sheep, known as the Dugway sheep incident, coincided with several open-air tests of the nerve agent VX at Dugway. Local attention focused on the Army, which initially denied that VX had caused the deaths, instead blaming the local use of organophosphate pesticides on crops. Necropsies conducted on the dead sheep later definitively identified the presence of VX. The Army never admitted liability, but did pay the ranchers for their losses.
Alien speculation and experimental aircraft testing – the new Area 51?
Following the public attention drawn to Area 51 in the early 1990s, UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists have suggested that whatever covert operations (if any) that may have been underway at that location (Area 51) were subsequently transferred to DPG.
The Deseret News (Utah's oldest continuously published daily newspaper) reported that Dave Rosenfeld, president of Utah UFO Hunters, stated:
"Numerous UFOs have been seen and reported in the area in and around Dugway…[military aircraft can't account for] all the unknowns seen in the area. It might be that our star visitors are keeping an eye on Dugway too…[Dugway is] the new area 51, and probably the new military spaceport!
Sources: ABC News, YouTube and good old Wikipedia.
# Conspiracies# Hoax# UFO
GI's at DPG were used as guinea pigs…many have died as recent as 2002. I was there as a NG soldier and most of us got sick there for an ? Reason…Our dear Gov. uses us as trash for experiments both as civilians, or soldiers…Stay well clear of this base…and the Army totally!!!

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June 22, 2017 / John Kane
That surly rogue Howard Victor Chaykin had a new comic out, so I took a look. Buckle up, Sunshine... THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA by Chaykin, Bruzenak & Arbutov
Anyway, this…
THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA© #1 Art by Howard Victor Chaykin Written by Howard Victor Chaykin Lettered by Ken Bruzenak Coloured by Jesus Arbutov Cover Colourist Wil Quintana With thanks to Ramon Torres and Calvin Nye A tip of the Chaykin chapeau to Sabrina Pandora Image Comics, £2.49 (digital), (2017) © HOWARD CHAYKIN INC
1. An Actual Honest To Gosh Synopsis To Start Us Off, Like I hear The Professionals Do…
THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA (TDSoH) is the latest paper swagger from cerebral beefcake, Howard Victor Chaykin (Tony Curtis), and his unruly crew, Ken "The Bruise" Bruzenak (Russ Tamblyn) and Jesus "No Relation" Arbutov (Channing Tatum). It's set in a kind of alternate reality that doesn't seem altogether all that more awful than, uh, actual reality; it's just slightly more awful in different ways. A Presidential coup has been averted but America is getting low on Presidents, and paranoia is the new normal as the skies are spattered with drones and besmirched with the babble of conspiratorial chat rooms. Besmirched visually, because interestingly this latter internet chatter is given concrete form by "King" Ken Bruzenak, giving the pages a chaotic ugliness I'd guess is entirely intentional. It's an ugly world under Arbutov's crisp kitchen-catalogue sheen. Basically The War on Terror isn't going well in this one, particularly for CIA spook-meister Frank Villa whose career just turned to wet shit and in order to save his rep and the world itself he's going to need the help of polite society's worst nightmares.
THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA by Chaykin, Bruzenak & Arbutov
2. The Bad Ham Sandwich of History Always Repeats Itself
Judging by this first issue it looks like Howard Victor Chaykin is tweaking his 2004 CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN series for the 2010s. That is, a ragbag of ragamuffins are introduced and clearly set up to combat the instigators of a terrorist attack on American soil. Close reading Chaykinmaniacs will note the recurrence of the terror-attack-on-American-soil motif from both CHALLENGERS and CITY OF TOMORROW (2005), even closer reading Chaykinmaniacs will smugly recall this goes back through BLACKHAWK: BLOOD AND IRON (1988) and, yea, even unto AMERICAN FLAGG!(1983). That's because, unlike 99.9% of North American Comic Creators Howard Victor Chaykin didn't just start thinking about terrorism post 11th September 2001. And that's because Howard Victor Chaykin knows that there are fundamental forces which move through history, thanks to the delightful intransigence of human nature.
Alas, terrorism itself is far more persistent than it is modern, staining history's robes from the 1st Century AD Sicarii Zealots' opposition to the Roman occupation of Judea, to, well, that Islamophobe in a van just the other day in dear old London town. (Yes, it's still terrorism if the perpetrator is a white dude.) That's two thousand and seventeen magical years of terrorism, not that anybody's counting. There are other tangy chunks of familiarity in Howard Victor Chaykin's latest jam, such as the fractious domestic doonybrook (see also MARKED MAN (2012)), because although somewhere in-between 1590 and 1597 William Shakespeare wrote that "the course of true love never did run smooth" (A Midsummer Night's Dream), it was true before that and it's still true today. Chuck in kids, as Chaykin does, and make the bloke a philandering schmuck and it's truer than ever. Truth persists after all. But so do shitty interpersonal relationships and terrorism. But there are other forces equally tenacious.
3. Exit Hubris, Pursued by Nemesis
"Theresa May is more popular with voters than any leader since the late 1970s, a new poll shows…" The Daily Telegraph, 26 April 2017.
What with a clutch of terrorist attacks, a general election, the resulting hung parliament, the possibility of the Tories propping themselves up with a party that doesn't believe in either dinosaurs or homosexuals, a horrific fire so horrific it resists acceptance and sundry other whatnots and wellnows, the world of comics has been far from my senescent mind. Seriously, with all the real world upheaval I can't even pretend to care about Nick Spencer's Captain America comics, Marvel's shrinking share of the market, or even DC's latest attempt to use some dust they found trapped in an Alan Moore script to wrap Geoff Johns' latest bovine Event comic maunderings around. As to that last, it seems that there is just too much honour and decency in comics (sarcasm), so DC have had to outsource the latest corporate fracking of Watchmen to some ex-CIA dude. Hey, I'm not saying the CIA are hazy on morals, but it wouldn't surprise me if they thought ethics is a county in England immediately north-east of London.
All of which is a typically round the houses way of saying that like DC's latest wunderkind homunculus TDSoH's main protagonist, Frank Villa, is CIA, although Villa's still employed by The Agency and currently riding a crack-head high on results and reputation. Nope, old Villa won't have to write comics about Batman finding buttons (UK: badges) in his Batcave anytime soon. Crucially Villa also displays all the humility of a Marvel editor on Twitter. Pride goeth before a fall, as my old Mum used to say (she had a lisp). But it's a pattern even older than my old Mum (bless 'er oxen heart). Aye, truth be told thousands of years before Geoff Johns bought his first baseball cap the ancient Greeks noted that Hubris (the god of arrogance) was oft followed by Nemesis (the goddess of fate and revenge).
But since Howard Victor Chaykin isn't Greek lets stick to the Hebrews, who stuck it in a book for posterity: Proverbs 16:18 to be precise in a little tome called The Bible. Said spiritual foundation would of course be familiar to our Prime Minister, Theresa May, who is keen to remind everyone at every opportunity that she is a vicar's daughter; as though this were the 1930's and somehow that accident of birth meant anything at all with regard to morals or the lack thereof. For as Saint Francis of Assisi (and indeed Otis Redding in 'Hard To Handle'), would have it, "actions speak louder than words", and her actions contain as much Christian charity as Turkish Delight contains vitamins. In essence, my mum was a Nursing Auxiliary but I think there'd be some raised eyebrows if I started bed bathing strangers. Anyway, that's got nothing to do with anything, I'm just sick of Theresa May. In a minute I'll go on about her again, but it will actually be relevant. Which will make a nice change for us all.
So, yeah, what I'm getting at is the pursuit of Hubris by Nemesis is not some cobwebby redundancy to be disdained in this age of wifi, streaming content and fidget spinners. It was true back when men wore togas and were lot looser about where folks' gristly bits went, and it's no less true now. What's that? "Can you give me an example, John? Perhaps involving Theresa May?" I'm glad you asked, imaginary reader! Flex your brain and imagine being so secure of your political position that you called a General Election three years early with the stated intention of gaining a massive majority and driving the opposition back into the sea for a generation or more. (That's Hubris.) Now, keep that brain flexing and imagine if the election results came back and you not only had lost any previous advantage you had, but were now dependent on alliances with other parties in order to have a functional government, and even better, the opposition you sought to scour from the face of the earth had risen up and pushed back hard, in the process rediscovering its fire and grit. (All that bit would be Nemesis.) There's a lot of it about, basically, and there's been a lot of it about for a long, long time; so it's exceedingly apt that Chaykin chooses this as his starting point. Hubris is all over the pages featuring Frank Villa, but on the last page, in the very last panel, Nemesis roars.
4. All The Action Is Always At The Shit End of The Stick
"The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them." The Duke of Wellington on the British soldier.
Knowing he'll set Nemesis loose at the close of the issue Chaykin fills the preceding pages with introductions for his motley cast of embryonic leads. He makes some, er, interesting choices here; choices so extreme in their awfulness I suspect some dark joke is being played. I think part of the set up for that joke is recognition of who exactly ends up being the boots on the ground when a geopolitical fart unfortunately follows through. Because, c'mon, it is always, always, down to the ordinary Joes and Josephines to come to the rescue. Christ, these days even the spooks themselves don't even have to get their hands wet; they sip their root beer in a shed a thousand miles from the zone, drawling instructions to some Iowa farmboy weighed down with a cam set into his breastplate, like it's Call of Duty 15: It's Not My Balls On The Wire. Yeah, should things turn to shit in a hot second it won't be the sugar rushed Yalie whose mum gets folded flag and a telegram. And all for the benefit of the Status Quo (not the Dad-Rock band) and those who benefit most from the Status Quo (still not the Dad-Rock band); all of whom it would be pushing things to say gave even the slightest wisp of a shit for the human lives spent keeping them fat and happy.
More realistically, and more pertinently to us all on a day to day basis, take the low regard with which Emergency service workers are held by the political class. Their disdain for these mere cogs is clearer than a Cornwall summer dawn. Over here the emergency services have suffered more cuts than a sadist's Sunday roast under the last 7 years of Tory austerity. But when the bombs go off, when the knives come out, when the cars slam into crowds and when the buildings burn, who is there saving lives, containing chaos, stacking the dead and stockpiling nightmare scenes for the rest of their nights? It's not the politicians. It's the mortgage slaves and the supermarket shoppers; the people who always have to do more with less. Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It's not the people who start the shit who finish it, it's the people who get stuck in the shit. In a bleaker than bleak gag Howard Victor Chaykin overeggs this propensity to the extent that his whole sick crew are plucked from the ranks of the razor taloned boogeymen under the bed of western civilisation: the real bottom rungers. These being Henry John Noone, a black racist fresh off a shooting spree; Paul Evan Berg, a confidence trickster with a yen for mass murder; John Cesare Nacamulli, a serial killing shithead; and Christopher Michael Silver, a chick with a dick kicking violently against the pricks. And Howard Victor Chaykin, a comic book prince, sets these utter sweethearts the task of saving the world. Or he will do, next issue. Unless his pacing is totally fucked.
5. Offence Is In The Eye of The Beholder
Even in my privileged cis cocoon of blithe obliviousness I heard some people were offended by this comic, now I'm no fan of Arbutov's colouring myself but really, people, chill! Ah, a little cornball humour there. The thing is if people were offended then people were offended, I'm not about to argue against that. But if Comics as a whole is to be offended it's probably best to nail down the nature of the offence. In the pages of DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA is Howard Victor Chaykin transphobic, homophobic or (God forbid) neither? After all, the point of contention appears to be the portrayal of the character Christopher Michael Silver, and the book's not entirely crystal on Silver's status. As I understand it a "chick with a dick" can be either a passive male homosexual or transvestite, or a trans woman (i.e. male to female) with male genitalia. Silver's one of them. Unfortunatley Silver is also beaten savagely while turning a trick and kills in self-defence. This, it has been argued, is a less than wholesome representation of an already besieged section of society. Well, yeah, it is. And?
Look, Chaykin has long been active in at least promoting the existence of the, uh, sexually lavish. I don't know how many Trial By Internet points that's worth, but it must have some traction. But just because he has a preoccupation with this aspect of human diversity I don't think an automatic blanket condemnation is due. That would be as moronic as pointing out there's a lot of rape in Alan Moore's work and thinking that you had thus proved Alan Moore himself is a bit rapey. You've got to take it on a case by case basis. If the approach is consistently derogatory or repellent then, fine, fuck off, Sunshine; but if it isn't… And just in case you think I am contorting myself unnecessarily to support an inherent bias, you'll be pleased to note that, on a case by case basis the results are not entirely wonderful.
6. An Incomplete Look At The Many Chicks With Dicks of Howard Victor Chaykin
In AMERICAN FLAGG! comedy occurs when Reuben kicks a chick and his foot finds a dick. Comic relief is one of the earliest stages of societal acceptance when it comes to types considered outside the norm (see all the homosexuals in the sit-coms of the homophobic '70s), so…not great, but okay. Ah, but there's also a whole plot in FLAGG! revolving around a kind of transvestite twist on Vertigo, which is pointedly humane in its portrayal of the (then) improper. Big points go in the pot for that one. The camp comedy stylings continue with a urinal encounter between the plucky fireplug Maxim and a hefty transvestite in POWER AND GLORY (1994). Significantly Chaykin's bold as brass about it all, and the real punchline arrives with the superhero's full pelt flight from the glam man, powered not by the atom or nanotech, but by his super-homophobia. So, still in the realms of humour, but since the brunt of it falls fully on the homophobe, some strong points awarded there. Unfortunately, in PULP FANTASTIC (2000) Chaykin's portrayal of the sexually versatile reaches a sour nadir, so we'll just say that the series itself has a thoroughly distempered air that does none of the contents any favours. Oof, some genuine demerits there. It's okay though, because the spectacularly unpleasant BLACK KISS/BLACK KISS 2 is Chaykin's ace in the hole. BLACK KISS (1988) prominently features a chick with a dick and while this prominence is slightly undermined by the fact s/he is used as none too flattering metaphor, by BLACK KISS 2 (2012) Chaykin, in a quite phenomenal feat of artistic sleight of hand, delivers a romantic horror comedy in which the demonic chick with a dick finds true love and peace (of a kind) with Chaykin's doppelgänger, Cass Pollack. There are probably some I missed but I think that gives the gist.
Pillory Chaykin if you wish, it's your dime and I'm sure he couldn't give less of a shit; but I can't think of another white male whose work extends to chicks with dicks the ultimate compliment of treating them just like everyone else. No, I don't know why I am even bothering; it's not going to change your mind. Howard Victor Chaykin's a transphobe, a homophobe a Francophobe and a chifforobe. Think what you like. Sure, The Anti-Chaykin Grant Morrison had a chick with a dick in the waywardly great THE INVISIBLES, but s/he was an avatar of bullshit magicky wagicky woo-wooooooh! Maybe that's better, more helpful to the cause, but I don't think so. In his grumpy back matter Chaykin chunters on about identity politics, and I think this point gets lost in his anger at Trump winning the election. (There are many reasons Trump won, but mostly it's because The Democrats didn't campaign on policies, and seemed to believe they should win just because Trump is a dick. SPOILER!) Because I think his point is...that you shouldn't define people by their labels, but instead by their behaviour. Define them by who they are, not what they are. There are white shitheads and there are black shitheads; there are hetero shitheads and there are queer shitheads; there are cis shitheads and there are chicks with dicks shitheads. Real equality is not achieved by singling a group out, but by treating that group as individuals, and treating all individuals equally. So, to take an example from TDSoH, it might rankle that Chaykin's black character, Noone, is a racist murderer, but it's not his skin that defines him, it's his racism.
I was a bit naughty there. I overplayed how equally Howard Victor Chaykin treats, Silver. Mostly because the Witchfinder Internet also ignored this (how odd!). Howard Victor Chaykin does in fact apportion a greater measure of narrative sympathy to Silver than any of the other misfits. Significantly the only one of the characters whose situation is adulterated by backstory is the trans/queer character. It's fairly clear from the punchy and unself-pitying internal monologue that the situation in which Silver finds him/herself is down to society's failure to adapt or include. So, yes, there is transphobia and homophobia on the pages of TDSoH, but it belongs to the characters not to the author of those characters. The only two protagonists who don't come across as monsters are Villa and Silver. Hey you know, this could turn out to be a love story after all. Let the chick with a dick get the guy. It's 2017 after all, so why the fuck not?
7. Poor Old Ken Bruzenak
The real loser after all that noise is Ken Bruzenak. I intended to spend the bulk of this thing digging into the colossal contribution of Ken Bruzenak to the look of TDSoH, but now I have neither time nor room. Also, he goes over it himself in the backmatter. That's right! The backmatter in TDSoH is actually of interest! Sure, there's Howard Victor Chaykin's provocative screed about the election and how it messed up his intentions for the series, which is nice. But, better yet, Ken Bruzenak takes us through the creation of one single panel, from a black and white bitmap devoid of letters to the lushly layered final product. In the process he cements his right to be considered as much the artist as the colourist, Jesus Arbutov or the penciller, Howard Victor Chaykin. He puts a ridiculous amount of work into every panel and I'd like to single out his contribution for applause and pony rides but I've run out of room. Maybe next time, Ken Bruzenak. Because there will be a next time since THE DIVIDED STATES OF HYSTERIA was VERY GOOD!
NEXT TIME: Hopefully something a bit sooner, lighter and altogether shorter than this, and involving the plural of comic, which is – COMICS!!!
June 22, 2017 / John Kane/ 10 Comments
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package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.utils;

import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import org.apache.hadoop.registry.client.api.RegistryConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.registry.client.binding.RegistryUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.exceptions.YarnException;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.api.records.Service;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.api.records.Artifact;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.api.records.Component;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.api.records.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.api.records.Resource;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.provider.AbstractClientProvider;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.provider.ProviderFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.monitor.probe.MonitorUtils;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.conf.RestApiConstants;
import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.service.exceptions.RestApiErrorMessages;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.PropertyNamingStrategy;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

public class ServiceApiUtil {
  private static final Logger LOG =
      LoggerFactory.getLogger(ServiceApiUtil.class);
  public static JsonSerDeser<Service> jsonSerDeser =
      new JsonSerDeser<>(Service.class,
          PropertyNamingStrategy.CAMEL_CASE_TO_LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES);
  private static final PatternValidator namePattern
      = new PatternValidator("[a-z][a-z0-9-]*");

  @VisibleForTesting
  public static void setJsonSerDeser(JsonSerDeser jsd) {
    jsonSerDeser = jsd;
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  public static void validateAndResolveService(Service service,
      SliderFileSystem fs, org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration conf) throws
      IOException {
    boolean dnsEnabled = conf.getBoolean(RegistryConstants.KEY_DNS_ENABLED,
        RegistryConstants.DEFAULT_DNS_ENABLED);
    if (dnsEnabled && RegistryUtils.currentUser().length() > RegistryConstants
        .MAX_FQDN_LABEL_LENGTH) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(RestApiErrorMessages
          .ERROR_USER_NAME_INVALID);
    }
    if (StringUtils.isEmpty(service.getName())) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_APPLICATION_NAME_INVALID);
    }

    validateNameFormat(service.getName(), conf);

    // If the service has no components, throw error
    if (!hasComponent(service)) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "No component specified for " + service.getName());
    }

    // Validate there are no component name collisions (collisions are not
    // currently supported) and add any components from external services
    Configuration globalConf = service.getConfiguration();
    Set<String> componentNames = new HashSet<>();
    List<Component> componentsToRemove = new ArrayList<>();
    List<Component> componentsToAdd = new ArrayList<>();
    for (Component comp : service.getComponents()) {
      int maxCompLength = RegistryConstants.MAX_FQDN_LABEL_LENGTH;
      maxCompLength = maxCompLength - Long.toString(Long.MAX_VALUE).length();
      if (dnsEnabled && comp.getName().length() > maxCompLength) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(RestApiErrorMessages
            .ERROR_COMPONENT_NAME_INVALID, maxCompLength, comp.getName()));
      }
      if (componentNames.contains(comp.getName())) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Component name collision: " +
            comp.getName());
      }
      // If artifact is of type SERVICE (which cannot be filled from
      // global), read external service and add its components to this
      // service
      if (comp.getArtifact() != null && comp.getArtifact().getType() ==
          Artifact.TypeEnum.SERVICE) {
        if (StringUtils.isEmpty(comp.getArtifact().getId())) {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException(
              RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_ARTIFACT_ID_INVALID);
        }
        LOG.info("Marking {} for removal", comp.getName());
        componentsToRemove.add(comp);
        List<Component> externalComponents = getComponents(fs,
            comp.getArtifact().getId());
        for (Component c : externalComponents) {
          Component override = service.getComponent(c.getName());
          if (override != null && override.getArtifact() == null) {
            // allow properties from external components to be overridden /
            // augmented by properties in this component, except for artifact
            // which must be read from external component
            override.mergeFrom(c);
            LOG.info("Merging external component {} from external {}", c
                .getName(), comp.getName());
          } else {
            if (componentNames.contains(c.getName())) {
              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Component name collision: " +
                  c.getName());
            }
            componentNames.add(c.getName());
            componentsToAdd.add(c);
            LOG.info("Adding component {} from external {}", c.getName(),
                comp.getName());
          }
        }
      } else {
        // otherwise handle as a normal component
        componentNames.add(comp.getName());
        // configuration
        comp.getConfiguration().mergeFrom(globalConf);
      }
    }
    service.getComponents().removeAll(componentsToRemove);
    service.getComponents().addAll(componentsToAdd);

    // Validate components and let global values take effect if component level
    // values are not provided
    Artifact globalArtifact = service.getArtifact();
    Resource globalResource = service.getResource();
    for (Component comp : service.getComponents()) {
      // fill in global artifact unless it is type SERVICE
      if (comp.getArtifact() == null && service.getArtifact() != null
          && service.getArtifact().getType() != Artifact.TypeEnum
          .SERVICE) {
        comp.setArtifact(globalArtifact);
      }
      // fill in global resource
      if (comp.getResource() == null) {
        comp.setResource(globalResource);
      }
      // validate dependency existence
      if (comp.getDependencies() != null) {
        for (String dependency : comp.getDependencies()) {
          if (!componentNames.contains(dependency)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(
                RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_DEPENDENCY_INVALID, dependency,
                comp.getName()));
          }
        }
      }
      validateComponent(comp, fs.getFileSystem(), conf);
    }

    // validate dependency tree
    sortByDependencies(service.getComponents());

    // Service lifetime if not specified, is set to unlimited lifetime
    if (service.getLifetime() == null) {
      service.setLifetime(RestApiConstants.DEFAULT_UNLIMITED_LIFETIME);
    }
  }

  private static void validateComponent(Component comp, FileSystem fs,
      org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration conf)
      throws IOException {
    validateNameFormat(comp.getName(), conf);

    AbstractClientProvider compClientProvider = ProviderFactory
        .getClientProvider(comp.getArtifact());
    compClientProvider.validateArtifact(comp.getArtifact(), fs);

    if (comp.getLaunchCommand() == null && (comp.getArtifact() == null || comp
        .getArtifact().getType() != Artifact.TypeEnum.DOCKER)) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(RestApiErrorMessages
          .ERROR_ABSENT_LAUNCH_COMMAND);
    }

    validateServiceResource(comp.getResource(), comp);

    if (comp.getNumberOfContainers() == null
        || comp.getNumberOfContainers() < 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(
          RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_CONTAINERS_COUNT_FOR_COMP_INVALID
              + ": " + comp.getNumberOfContainers(), comp.getName()));
    }
    compClientProvider.validateConfigFiles(comp.getConfiguration()
        .getFiles(), fs);

    MonitorUtils.getProbe(comp.getReadinessCheck());
  }

  // Check component or service name format and transform to lower case.
  public static void validateNameFormat(String name,
      org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration conf) {
    if (StringUtils.isEmpty(name)) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Name can not be empty!");
    }
    // validate component name
    if (name.contains("_")) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          "Invalid format: " + name
              + ", can not use '_', as DNS hostname does not allow '_'. Use '-' Instead. ");
    }
    boolean dnsEnabled = conf.getBoolean(RegistryConstants.KEY_DNS_ENABLED,
        RegistryConstants.DEFAULT_DNS_ENABLED);
    if (dnsEnabled && name.length() > RegistryConstants.MAX_FQDN_LABEL_LENGTH) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(String
          .format("Invalid format %s, must be no more than 63 characters ",
              name));
    }
    namePattern.validate(name);
  }

  @VisibleForTesting
  public static List<Component> getComponents(SliderFileSystem
      fs, String serviceName) throws IOException {
    return loadService(fs, serviceName).getComponents();
  }

  public static Service loadService(SliderFileSystem fs, String
      serviceName) throws IOException {
    Path serviceJson = getServiceJsonPath(fs, serviceName);
    LOG.info("Loading service definition from " + serviceJson);
    return jsonSerDeser.load(fs.getFileSystem(), serviceJson);
  }

  public static Service loadServiceFrom(SliderFileSystem fs,
      Path appDefPath) throws IOException {
    LOG.info("Loading service definition from " + appDefPath);
    return jsonSerDeser.load(fs.getFileSystem(), appDefPath);
  }

  public static Path getServiceJsonPath(SliderFileSystem fs, String serviceName) {
    Path serviceDir = fs.buildClusterDirPath(serviceName);
    return new Path(serviceDir, serviceName + ".json");
  }

  private static void validateServiceResource(Resource resource,
      Component comp) {
    // Only services/components of type SERVICE can skip resource requirement
    if (resource == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          comp == null ? RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_INVALID : String
              .format(RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_FOR_COMP_INVALID,
                  comp.getName()));
    }
    // One and only one of profile OR cpus & memory can be specified. Specifying
    // both raises validation error.
    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(resource.getProfile()) && (
        resource.getCpus() != null || StringUtils
            .isNotEmpty(resource.getMemory()))) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(comp == null ?
          RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_PROFILE_MULTIPLE_VALUES_NOT_SUPPORTED :
          String.format(
              RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_PROFILE_MULTIPLE_VALUES_FOR_COMP_NOT_SUPPORTED,
              comp.getName()));
    }
    // Currently resource profile is not supported yet, so we will raise
    // validation error if only resource profile is specified
    if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(resource.getProfile())) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_PROFILE_NOT_SUPPORTED_YET);
    }

    String memory = resource.getMemory();
    Integer cpus = resource.getCpus();
    if (StringUtils.isEmpty(memory)) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          comp == null ? RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_MEMORY_INVALID :
              String.format(
                  RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_MEMORY_FOR_COMP_INVALID,
                  comp.getName()));
    }
    if (cpus == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(
          comp == null ? RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_CPUS_INVALID :
              String.format(
                  RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_CPUS_FOR_COMP_INVALID,
                  comp.getName()));
    }
    if (cpus <= 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(comp == null ?
          RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_CPUS_INVALID_RANGE : String
          .format(
              RestApiErrorMessages.ERROR_RESOURCE_CPUS_FOR_COMP_INVALID_RANGE,
              comp.getName()));
    }
  }

  // check if comp mem size exceeds cluster limit
  public static void validateCompResourceSize(
      org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource maxResource,
      Service service) throws YarnException {
    for (Component component : service.getComponents()) {
      // only handle mem now.
      long mem = Long.parseLong(component.getResource().getMemory());
      if (mem > maxResource.getMemorySize()) {
        throw new YarnException(
            "Component " + component.getName() + " memory size (" + mem
                + ") is larger than configured max container memory size ("
                + maxResource.getMemorySize() + ")");
      }
    }
  }

  private static boolean hasComponent(Service service) {
    if (service.getComponents() == null || service.getComponents()
        .isEmpty()) {
      return false;
    }
    return true;
  }

  public static Collection<Component> sortByDependencies(List<Component>
      components) {
    Map<String, Component> sortedComponents =
        sortByDependencies(components, null);
    return sortedComponents.values();
  }

  /**
   * Each internal call of sortByDependencies will identify all of the
   * components with the same dependency depth (the lowest depth that has not
   * been processed yet) and add them to the sortedComponents list, preserving
   * their original ordering in the components list.
   *
   * So the first time it is called, all components with no dependencies
   * (depth 0) will be identified. The next time it is called, all components
   * that have dependencies only on the the depth 0 components will be
   * identified (depth 1). This will be repeated until all components have
   * been added to the sortedComponents list. If no new components are
   * identified but the sortedComponents list is not complete, an error is
   * thrown.
   */
  private static Map<String, Component> sortByDependencies(List<Component>
      components, Map<String, Component> sortedComponents) {
    if (sortedComponents == null) {
      sortedComponents = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    }

    Map<String, Component> componentsToAdd = new LinkedHashMap<>();
    List<Component> componentsSkipped = new ArrayList<>();
    for (Component component : components) {
      String name = component.getName();
      if (sortedComponents.containsKey(name)) {
        continue;
      }
      boolean dependenciesAlreadySorted = true;
      if (!ServiceUtils.isEmpty(component.getDependencies())) {
        for (String dependency : component.getDependencies()) {
          if (!sortedComponents.containsKey(dependency)) {
            dependenciesAlreadySorted = false;
            break;
          }
        }
      }
      if (dependenciesAlreadySorted) {
        componentsToAdd.put(name, component);
      } else {
        componentsSkipped.add(component);
      }
    }

    if (componentsToAdd.size() == 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format(RestApiErrorMessages
          .ERROR_DEPENDENCY_CYCLE, componentsSkipped));
    }
    sortedComponents.putAll(componentsToAdd);
    if (sortedComponents.size() == components.size()) {
      return sortedComponents;
    }
    return sortByDependencies(components, sortedComponents);
  }

  public static String $(String s) {
    return "${" + s +"}";
  }
}


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If you address your gum disease before it becomes severe, scaling and root planing may be the only treatment you need. However, as with any dental procedure, after-care is vital. In order to keep your teeth in good shape, and resist future occurrences of gum disease, you must brush and floss daily, eat a healthy diet, avoid tobacco use, and have regular dental checkups. Even after a successful scaling and root planing, if you don't attend to your teeth properly, it's quite likely that you'll develop gum disease again.
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A frequent symptom of gum disease is gum recession (also called gingival recession). As the gums recede, more of the roots are revealed. This can make teeth appear longer and can also create sensitivity to hot or cold liquids or food. It also exposes the tooth to increased risk for tooth decay as bacteria, plaque and tartar attack the surface of the tooth and the root.
During a soft-tissue graft, tissue from the roof of your mouth or another source is sewed to the damaged gum area, covering the roots and restoring the gumline to its original, healthy position. This procedure can also be performed for cosmetic reasons.


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For those who've missed the past nine months around here, Brandy and her husband Dave are six days from bringing Baby J into the world and we're almost as excited as they are to meet the little guy.
Brandy and Dave in the home stretch!
There's no doubt she'll take on the challenges of mothering in the practical and organized way that is her trademark, becoming a pro in no time at all.
Kinda like the way she handles her job here as managing editor.
A job I'll be doing for the next 12 weeks while she's on maternity leave.
Truth be told, Brandy has even been so organized as to…well, organize the next 12 weeks of work I'll need to cover. She's gotten all the kinks out of our production schedule, she's given writers all their deadlines and she's even sent me appointments reminding me to set appointments.
Now all I have to do is final edit all the writing, map the pages for each issue, create a list of all the project photos for the studio, compile the contracts for our writers and project contributors, get projects organized and delivered to our studio for photography, review first, second and final design proofs, review the final page layouts before they go to the printer, write a few columns, come up with headlines for our covers and organize our post-mortem meetings. For three months.
If you see our next three issues in your mailbox and on the newsstand, you can thank Brandy. I'll be the one over there whimpering in the corner.
Brandy, we sure will miss you while you're gone but we're so excited for you!
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this could grow to be a fertile half of domestic A.I.
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specialists may be left as thumbs.
no superior) advantages for rookies.
the knowledge is in use.
legal guidelines that reduce and interact with the ML process, especially copyright regulation.
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Цар-зілля південноєвропейське, дельфіній Палласа як Delphinium pallasii (Delphinium fissum) — вид рослин з родини жовтецевих (Ranunculaceae), поширений у південній частині Європи й у західній Азії.

Опис
Багаторічна рослина 50–60 см. Стебло б.-м. округле. Усі стеблові листки б.-м. довго-черешкові. Чашолистки на верхівці тупі. Безволоса або волосиста рослина. Яскраво-сині квіти, у довгих китицях.

Поширення
Поширений у південній частині Європи й у західній Азії.

В Україні вид зростає у лісах, на узліссях, кам'янистих схилах — у Криму.

Використання
Декоративна отруйна рослина.

Джерела

південноєвропейське
Флора України
Флора Європи
Флора Західної Азії
Рослини, описані 1801


Madison County was the first area in Illinois to report positive tests of mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus.
Mosquitoes collected by the Madison County Health Department in the Godfrey area tested positive on May 22.
Illinois Department of Public Health Director Nirav D. Shah said the weather warming up means mosquito season.
"Although we see West Nile virus in Illinois every year, it's still important to take precautions to protect yourself by wearing insect repellent and getting rid of standing water around your home," Shah said.
Monitoring for West Nile virus includes laboratory tests for mosquito batches, dead birds as well as testing sick horses and humans with West Nile virus-like symptoms.
The Department of Health requests that anyone who observes sick or dying crows, blue jays, robins or other perching birds should contact the local health department, which will determine if the bird will be picked up for testing.
West Nile is transmitted through the bite off a mosquito that has picked up the virus by feeding of an infected bird.
Symptoms may last from a few days to a few weeks and include fever, nausea, headache and muscle ache.
According to the Illinois Department of Health, four out of five people infected with West Nile virus will not show any symptoms. In rare cases, severe illness including meningitis or encephalitis, or even death can occur.
The first West Nile virus positive result in 2016 was a blue jay in Douglas County collected on May 20.
Last year 61 counties in Illinois reported a West Nile positive.
The Department of Public Health recommends practicing the three "R's" – reduce, repel and report.
Reduce – make sure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens. Repair or replace screens that have tears or other openings. Try to keep doors and windows shut. Eliminate, or refresh each week, all sources of standing water where mosquitoes can breed, including bird baths, ponds, flowerpots, wading pools, old tires and any other containers.
Repel – when outdoors, wear shoes and socks, long pants and a long-sleeved shirt. Apply insect repellent that contains DEET, picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus or IR 3535 according to the label.
Report – report locations where you see water sitting stagnant for more than a week, such as roadside ditches, flooded yards and similar locations that may produce mosquitoes. Local health departments or city governments may be able to add larvicide to the water, that will kill any mosquito eggs.


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Q: Why does npm need sudo for EVERYTHING? I don't know how I've managed it but npm seems to need sudo for absolutely every command, even npm help does not work without sudo. If I use a command without sudo, I do not see am EACCESS error, but instead my terminal session hangs and then just closes that tab (I use iTerm on Mac).
I have tried changing the ownership of my local .npm folder, outlined here and also done the same on my /usr/local/bin folder where node is installed but none of these allow me to just run npm without sudo, even when installing local packages...! It seems to me that something has screwed along the way, can anyone help?
Many thanks

A: I encountered the same error after a fresh install of 0.12.4 today; this solved the problem for me:
sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local/lib/node_modules

In my particular case, I noticed that this folder was owned by '{some-large-integer-account}:wheel'...YMMV
If that doesn't solve it, take a look at the ownership of the folders that are being blocked as mentioned in the EACCESS error trace. If you're not sure what the ownership should be, you can usually infer it from the sibling dirs' ownership.

A: I had this as well on my machine. What I did to fix it (there are probably much less extreme ways) was to completely remove npm, and then did a fresh installation node.js (with which npm is included) from http://nodejs.org/ making sure I didn't install as root. That then allowed me to use npm without root (except for global installs).

A: Take ember project for example, I give all related project directory root:

neil@neil-System-Product-Name:~/Projects/ember-quickstart$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /home/neil/Projects/ember-quickstart/

neil@neil-System-Product-Name:~/Projects/ember-quickstart$ ember s
Could not start watchman
Visit https://ember-cli.com/user-guide/#watchman for more info.
Livereload server on http://localhost:7020
Build successful (10679ms) – Serving on http://localhost:4200/
Slowest Nodes (totalTime => 5% )              | Total (avg)
----------------------------------------------+---------------------
Babel (18)                                    | 7561ms (420 ms)
Concat (8)                                    | 1872ms (234 ms)
Rollup (1)                                    | 629ms

A: Use the below option.
Open the terminal and cd to your Home directory and run the below command.
mkdir "${HOME}/.npm-packages"

Then this command after that.
npm config set prefix "${HOME}/.npm-packages"

Next, open your .zshrc file using the open -t .zshrc command and add the following to it.
NPM_PACKAGES="${HOME}/.npm-packages"

export PATH="$PATH:$NPM_PACKAGES/bin"

# Preserve MANPATH if you already defined it somewhere in your config.
# Otherwise, fall back to `manpath` so we can inherit from `/etc/manpath`.
export MANPATH="${MANPATH-$(manpath)}:$NPM_PACKAGES/share/man"

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Successful exit for Target Partners
VC firm sells its shareholding in Betty Holding AG
MUNICH – 29 September 2006 -- Munich based venture capital firm Target Partners has sold its shares in Betty Holding AG (Zurich) to Swisscom Fixnet AG (Bern) as part of Swisscom's takeover of Betty Holding AG.
Betty has developed a new generation of TV remote control that enables consumers to directly participate in a TV program. The interactive remote control has its own display and additional buttons for direct program participation. Whether it's about playing, voting or requesting product information: Betty transforms the mass medium TV into a dialoguebased medium – independently of the broadcasting technology. Recently, Betty also signed up ProSiebenSat.1, one of Germany's large private TV groups, to support the rapid introduction of Betty TV to consumers and to the advertising markets in Germany.
Matthias Zahn, Betty's co-founder and head of its German subsidiary Betty TV AG, is enthused about this important step for his company: "With Swisscom Fixnet we have a strong European partner for Betty TV. A partner with whom we can now jointly pursue the ambitious goal of establishing Betty TV with broadcasting groups and advertising firms as the leading platform for interaction and dialogue with the TV consumer, first in the German speaking countries, then in other large European TV markets.'
Target Partners is excited, too: "Betty's technology has the potential to change the European TV markets substantially. We were already convinced of this when we invested in early 2004. With our successful exit, Betty now can build out its potential as the subsidiary of an established international player", says Dr. Berthold von Freyberg, Partner at Target Partners.
ABOUT TARGET PARTNERS
Munich-based Target Partners is a venture capital partnership focused primarily on investments in the IT, communications, renewable energies, environmental technology and media industries. The firm provides equity financing to start-up and early stage companies and supports them during their build-out and expansion phases. With many years of experience as managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the team at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and marketing products and services, building organizations, raising funds and taking companies public in Europe and the United States. Target Partners currently manages fund capital of € 112 million. Since 2000 the firm has invested in 17 portfolio companies in the German-speaking countries.
Target Partners
+49 (0)89 207049-0
brigitte@targetpartners.de
Company profile of Target Partners
Past press releases of Target Partners.


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The Contaminants in Food (England) Regulations 2005
2005 No. 3251
Regulation 2
Explanatory Memorandum
This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum
2.—(1) In these Regulations —
"the Act" means the Food Safety Act 1990;
"authorised lettuce" means lettuce of the kind specified in point 1.3 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.2 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;
"authorised officer" means any person who is authorised in writing, either generally or specifically, by a food authority or as the case may be a port health authority to act in matters arising under these Regulations;
"authorised spinach" means spinach of the kind specified in point 1.1 of section 1 of Annex I to the Commission Regulation, which complies with the conditions of the derogation under Article 3b.1 of that Regulation in relation to the United Kingdom;
"the Commission Regulation" means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 466/2001 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs(1) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 30th November 2001(2), and as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 2375/2001(3), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 221/2002(4), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 257/2002(5), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 472/2002(6) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 23rd March 2002(7), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 563/2002(8) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 14th June 2002(9), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1425/2003(10), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2174/2003(11), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 242/2004(12), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 455/2004(13), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 655/2004(14), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 683/2004(15), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 684/2004(16), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 78/2005(17), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 123/2005(18), Commission Regulation (EC) No. 208/2005(19), and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1822/2005(20);
"Directive 98/53/EC" means Commission Directive 98/53/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs(21) as amended by Commission Directive 2002/27/EC(22), Commission Directive 2003/121/EC(23) and Commission Directive 2004/43/EC(24);
"Directive 2001/22/EC" means Commission Directive 2001/22/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and 3–MCPD in foodstuffs(25) as corrected by Commission Decision 2001/873/EC(26) and as amended by Commission Directive 2005/4/EC(27);
"Directive 2002/26/EC" means Commission Directive 2002/26/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of ochratoxin A in foodstuffs(28) as amended by Commission Directive 2004/43/EC and Commission Directive 2005/5/EC(29);
"Directive 2002/69/EC" means Commission Directive 2002/69/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of dioxins and the determination of dioxin–like PCBs in foodstuffs(30) as corrected by a corrigendum published on 20th September 2002(31) and as amended by Commission Directive 2004/44/EC(32);
"Directive 2003/78/EC" means Commission Directive 2003/78/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of patulin in foodstuffs(33);
"Directive 2004/16/EC" means Commission Directive 2004/16/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of tin in canned foods(34);
"Directive 2005/10/EC" means Commission Directive 2005/10/EC laying down the sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels of benzo(a) pyrene in foodstuffs(35);
"food authority" includes neither the appropriate Treasurer referred to in section 5(1)(c) of the Act (which deals with the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple) nor a port health authority;
"port health authority" means —
in relation to the London port health district (within the meaning given to that phrase for the purposes of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984(36) by section 7(1) of that Act), the Common Council of the City of London; and
in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act;
"Regulation 882/2004" means Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules(37).
(2) Any other expression used in these Regulations and in the Commission Regulation has the same meaning in these Regulations as it bears in the Commission Regulation.
OJ No. L77, 16.3.2001, p.1.
OJ No. L313, 30.11.2001, p.60.
OJ No. L321, 6.12.2001, p.1.
OJ No. L37, 7.2.2002, p.4.
OJ No. L41, 13.2.2002, p.12.
OJ No. L155, 14.6.2002, p.63.
OJ No. L203, 12.8.2003, p.1.
OJ No. L42, 13.2.2004, p.3
OJ No. L104, 8.4.2004, p.48.
OJ No. L106, 15.4.2004, p. 6.
OJ No. L293, 9.11.2005, p.11.
OJ No. L209, 6.8.2002, p.5.
OJ No. L34, 8.2.2005, p.15.
1984 c. 22.
OJ No. L191, 28.5.2004, p.1. The revised text of this Regulation is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No. L191, 28.5.2004, p.1).
Explanatory Memorandum sets out a brief statement of the purpose of a Statutory Instrument and provides information about its policy objective and policy implications. They aim to make the Statutory Instrument accessible to readers who are not legally qualified and accompany any Statutory Instrument or Draft Statutory Instrument laid before Parliament from June 2004 onwards.