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Resident Evil 3 remake brings you back to Raccoon City on April 3, 2020 – CNET
STARS members better watch out: Nemesis will be on the hunt again soon. The Resident Evil 3 remake has been a near-certainty for a while, thanks to the excellent update of Resident Evil 2 and some leaked box art, and on Tuesday Capcom officially revealed the game with a chilling trailer during Sony's State of Play livestream. It'll be out on PS4, Xbox One and PC April 3, 2020.
The trailer fakes us out by showing footage from the second game's remake, then rolling back the clock to reflect that Resident Evil 3 actually takes place 24 hours before those events (because every franchise needs to have a slightly confusing timeline). We see through Jill Valentine's eyes as deadly bioweapon Nemesis stalks her from the halls of a burning building to the zombie-infested streets of Raccoon City.
Despite the initial first-person viewpoint in the trailer mirroring Resident Evil 7, the game will be third-person like the remake of 2, developer Capcom said in a release.
Jill Valentine is back on Raccoon City's zombie-filled streets in the Resident Evil 3 remake. Nom nom nom.
The original version of Resident Evil 3 came out on Sony PlayStation in 1999. Nemesis might sound a bit like the Tyrant that lumbered after you in Resident Evil 2, but one major difference is that Nemesis runs faster than Jill's fellow Special Tactics and Rescue Service (STARS) members. He occasionally carries a rocket launcher and has some icky, icky tentacles that can infect people with a deadly virus… an element that's hinted at in the trailer.
Jill (the Master of Unlocking and a survivor of the first Resident Evil) teams up with amiable mercenary Carlos Oliveira as she tries to dodge Nemesis and escape the city.
It appears Capcom might have something planned for Resident Evil 2 Remake to tie the games together. A new Steam achievement called Chasing Jill showed up sometime Tuesday. The description says, "read a letter left behind by Jill," and no one has earned it. In Resident Evil 2 Remake, players come across multiple letters left by other characters, but there isn't a letter from Jill. It seems Capcom may add the letter soon and that the note will link the two games together. It's currently unknown if this achievement is available on the PS4 or Xbox One.
Nemesis is back too. Hug him.
Along with Resident Evil 3, you'll get co-op multiplayer game Resident Evil Resistance, an intense four-versus-one survival game that had a public beta test earlier this year. One player is the Mastermind, who can tweak the environment and use a deck of cards to place monsters and traps, as well as taking direct control over more dangerous bioweapons like the mutated William Birkin and Tyrant.
On the other side, four Survivors have to work together, using various weapons and unique special abilities to escape before the time runs out.
If you preorder, you'll get an exclusive Classic Costume Pack that includes Jill's original (less practical) costume and Carlos' original (less messy) hairstyle, so you can party like it's 1999.
And if you absolutely love spending money, the US Collector's Edition costs $180. It includes the physical game, a statue of Jill, an artbook, a double-sided poster featuring a map of Raccoon City and a digital soundtrack.
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What do you want from me? What would you like to ask of me? What do you think you need? How can I help you? I am so glad that you are asking me these questions. Why is that? The task that you have given me to do for you is overwhelming. I will start by saying that I am so glad that you have called me into your service. I couldn't be more pleased to be given something significant to do for you. It is the desire of my heart to bear fruit for your kingdom and bring glory to your name. I will give you every ounce of my effort to do all that you are asking of me. I am completely at your disposal. I also know that I can't possible do what you are asking of me without your help. If I tried to serve you with my own efforts alone, I would fail miserably. Yes, you would. I am very pleased that you know that you cannot serve me with only your own efforts. You know that you desperately need my help. Why do you think I have given you such a large assignment? You have given me such a large assignment so that I will know for sure that I must rely on you for your help. You want me to pray for your help every step of the way as I serve you. Yes, I do. That's right. Can you think of any other reason why I might have given you such a large assignment? I have told you that I want to bear an abundance of fruit for your kingdom. Bearing an abundance of fruit requires a large assignment. A small assignment would bear a small amount of fruit. Your giving me a large assignment is an answer to my prayers. Yes, it is. Can you think of any other reasons why I might have given you such a large assignment? You want me to know for sure that you are working in and through my life. You want me to know that you are using me to bring glory to your name. That is also correct. Can you think of one more reason why you have been given a large assignment that is beyond your abilities? You want everyone to know that it is you who has been working in and through my life. You want me to be a bold and bright witness for you in this world. Only you can help me to do what I cannot do. That's right. Others will be drawn to you as they see that you are working in and through my life. You will receive all the glory as you work in and through me. Yes, I will. Will you rely on me completely as I work in and through your life? Will you continually ask for my help? Yes, Lord, I will.
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Die Kirche Mariä Himmelfahrt und Karl der Große () ist ein katholisches Gotteshaus in der Prager Neustadt in Tschechien. Von 1350 bis 1784 war es Stiftskirche des Prager Chorherrenstifts Karlshof. Ab Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts pilgerten viele Gläubige zu dem Gnadenbild der Muttergottes in der Hoffnung, das auch als "Jungfrau Maria von Karlshof" verehrt wird.

Geschichte
Die Kirche wurde zusammen mit dem Chorherrenstift Karlshof vom böhmischen und römisch-deutschen König Karl IV. im Jahre 1350 gegründet. Noch vor ihrer Vollendung wurde sie 1377 durch den Prager Erzbischof Johann Očko von Wlašim geweiht. Ihre Architektur sowie die Patrozinien "Mariä Himmelfahrt" und Karl der Große verweisen auf das Aachener Marienstift.

Das monumentale Sternrippengewölbe des Oktogons mit einem Durchmesser von rund 23 Metern ist ein Werk des Hofarchitekten Bonifaz Wohlmut. Nach einer Inschrift auf dem Schlussstein wurde es erst 1575 fertiggestellt. Am Nordportal befindet sich ein plastischer Schmuck. 1708 wurde gegenüber dem Kircheneingang eine Heilige Stiege nach Entwurf des Architekten Johann Blasius Santini-Aichl erbaut und mit einer Statue der hl. Veronika geschmückt, die der Bildhauer Johann Georg Schlansowsky (Jan Jiří Šlanzovský, 1682–1752) schuf. Unter der Stiege befindet sich eine als Grotte gestaltete Kapelle der Geburt des Herrn und in einer Nische eine Weihnachtskrippe aus der Zeit um 1738. 1756 wurden die drei Kuppeln errichtet.

Unter Abt Thomas Johann Brinke (1729–1744) wurde die Kirche im Stil des Böhmischen Barocks durch den Architekten Franz Maximilian Kaňka umgestaltet. Den Hochaltar mit der plastischen Gruppe "Mariä Himmelfahrt" schuf wahrscheinlich Johann Georg Schlansowsky, von dem auch die Plastiken auf der Chorempore sowie die Darstellung Mariä Heimsuchung und "Christus vor Pilatus" auf den Säulenbalkonen stammen.

Ausstattung
In der Kirche befinden sich folgende Altäre:
 Das als Gnadenbild verehrte Altargemälde der "Muttergottes in der Hoffnung", das auch als "Jungfrau Maria von Karlshof" bekannt wurde, schuf 1697 der Glatzer Maler Johann Georg Heinsch; Kopie; das Original wurde nach der Auflösung des Stifts 1784 in die St.-Apollinaris-Kirche verbracht.
 Hl. Salvator, Altargemälde von Johann Georg Heinsch (1697)
 Hl. Anna, Altargemälde von Johann Georg Heinsch (1708)
 Hl. Karl der Große, Altargemälde von Franz Theodor Dallinger (1738)
 Hl. Augustinus, Altargemälde von Johann Wenzel Spitzer (1756)
 Hl. Liborius, Altargemälde von Josef Joachim Redelmeyer (1771)

Literatur
 Jaroslav Kadlec: Prag/Karlshof – Praha/Karlov. In: Floridus Röhrig (Hrsg.): Die Stifte der Augustiner-Chorherren in Böhmen, Mähren und Ungarn. ISBN 3-901025-34-0; Klosterneuburg 1994, S. 149–166, hier 158f.

Weblinks

 Encyklopedie Praha aufgerufen 26. Januar 2021 (tschechisch)

Einzelnachweise

Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche
Karl der Große als Namensgeber
Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Augustiner-Chorherren
Gotische Kirche
Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Barockisierte Kirche
Marienwallfahrtskirche
Maria Himmelfahrt und Karl der Grosse
Karl IV. (HRR)
Oktogon
Ersterwähnung 1350
Karlskirche

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Till now, we have conducted 11 video lectures and provided 6 worksheets with solutions. These video lectures consist of basic to the advanced conceptual knowledge of English Grammar. With these lectures, we tell you how to attempt error spotting using grammar rules and how to frame sentences correctly.
For the next week, we have planned to do Adjectives, Conjunction, Prepositions. Along with these 2 special video lectures on "How to Write Paragraphs" and "How to Improve Speaking Skills" will be provided.
Students write small paragraphs and that help them to improve their writing skills.
We are regularly taking follow-ups from students and keep an eye on their improvement.
This course helps our students to overpower the difficulties they faced while writing English and gradually brushing up their skills.
Students who were not able to frame a single sentence properly earlier are now able to write a small paragraph and we help them to improve by rectifying their mistakes. We are confident that in these 60-days, the students will be able to have a great command over the language.


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Christie's Education Evening Lecture 'Eliasson, Gormley, and McCall: Choreutic strategies for the senses' by Dr Andrea Mattiello
06 June 2019 | 06.00 pm-07.00 pm | London
This lecture given by Dr Andrea Mattiello explores the concept of choreutic strategies in the work of artists as diverse as Olafur Eliasson, Anthony Gormley, and Anthony McCall. Choreutic strategies are the specific set of kinaesthetic instructions used to transmit, deliver and execute an art piece with performative, time-based nature. From an etymological point of view, the adjective "choreutic" refers to anything having to do with the "choreutes", the individual member of the chorus. Choreography originally referred to the practice of writing for these "choreutes." It was writing in the sense of arranging the actions and sounds of the chorus and of its interactions within a play, the whole body of verbal-writing elements used to address a dance performance.
The work of these artists suggests a creative process focused on the kinaesthetic of the viewer, revealing similarities with the attention devoted by choreographers to the kinaesthetic of dancers.
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Ukraine thwarts Russian forces at river, sees long fight ahead
Ukrainian forces destroyed parts of a Russian armoured column as it tried to cross a river in the Donbas region, video from Ukraine's military showed on Friday, as the Ukrainian defence minister predicted many weeks of grinding fighting ahead.
Ukrainian forces have driven Russia from the second-largest Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in their fastest advance since Kremlin troops pulled away from Kyiv and the northeast over a month ago to focus their offensive on the Donbas region bordering Russia.
The city, which had been under fierce bombardment, has been quiet for at least two weeks and Reuters journalists have confirmed Ukraine now controls territory stretching to the Siverskyi Donets River, around 40 km (25 miles) to the east.
However, Moscow is still bombarding villages north of Kharkiv.
Some 10 km (six miles) north of the city, firefighters doused smouldering wreckage in Dergachi after what local officials said was an overnight Russian missile attack on the House of Culture, used to distribute aid. Volunteers inside were trying to salvage packages of baby diapers and formula.
"I can't call it anything but a terrorist act," the mayor, Vyacheslav Zadorenko, told Reuters. "They wanted to hit the base where we store provisions and create a humanitarian catastrophe."
Another missile had slammed into the building on Thursday and Russian shelling had wounded a staff member at a clinic and killed a young couple in their home, he said.
Russia, which denies targeting civilians, said its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Su-27 aircraft in the Kharkiv region and disabled the Kremenchuk oil refinery in central Ukraine.
It was not immediately possible to verify the reports.
Southeast of Kharkiv, Britain said Ukraine had stopped Russian forces crossing the Siverskyi Donets river west of Severodonetsk. Footage released by Ukrainian Airborne Forces Command appeared to show several burnt out military vehicles near segments of a partially submerged bridge and many other damaged or abandoned vehicles, including tanks, nearby.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report, or when or where the clash took place.
The Kremlin calls its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine a "special military operation" to demilitarise a neighbour threatening its security. Ukraine says it poses no threat to Russia and that the deaths of thousands of civilians and destruction of cities and towns show Russia is waging a war of aggression.
"We are entering a new, long phase of the war," Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov said in a Facebook post, predicting "extremely tough weeks" ahead during which he said Ukraine would largely be alone against an "enraged aggressor".
In their first conversation since the invasion, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by telephone on Friday with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, seeking an immediate ceasefire and stressing the importance of open lines of communication.
KYIV SAYS CHILDREN DEPORTED
Ukraine accused Russia of forcibly deporting more than 210,000 children since its invasion, saying they were among 1.2 million Ukrainians transferred against their will. The Kremlin says people have come to Russia to escape fighting.
In Kyiv, a court began hearing the first case of what Ukraine says are more than 10,000 possible war crimes. A Russian soldier is accused of murdering a civilian. Moscow has accused Kyiv of staging such crimes.
In the southern port of Mariupol, Russian forces intensified their bombardment of the Azovstal steelworks, the last bastion of Ukrainian defenders in a city almost completely controlled by Russia after a siege of more than two months.
Some of the civilians evacuated recently from tunnels under the plant where they sheltered described terrifying conditions.
"Every second was hellish," 51-year-old nurse Valentyna Demyanchuk told Reuters.
Around Snake Island, which Ukrainian military intelligence said allows control of civilian shipping, renewed fighting could help Kyiv resume grain exports vital to world supplies.
Ukraine said it had damaged a Russian navy logistics ship near Snake Island. Russia's defence ministry did not respond to a request for comment.
Satellite imagery from Maxar, a private U.S.-based company, showed the aftermath of what it called probable missile attacks on a Russian landing craft near the island.
NATO EXPANSION
Meeting in Germany, foreign ministers from the G7 group of rich nations backed giving Ukraine more aid and arms and the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced a further 500 million euros ($520 million) worth of military support that should be approved next week by EU members. He voiced confidence the bloc will agree an embargo on Russian oil.
Ukraine's foreign minister told the meeting he hoped EU holdout Hungary would agree to the oil embargo. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wants hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation before agreeing to a ban.
In a late night video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the Russian invasion could cause famine in dozens of countries, triggering political instability and migration.
"How much would you then have to spend to overcome the consequences? These are the questions which should be answered by those who are dragging their feet on sanctions against Russia or are trying to delay aid for Ukraine," he said.
A day after Finland committed to applying to join NATO, Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde said membership for her country would bring stability and benefit countries around the Baltic sea. Read full story
Joining the 30-nation Western military alliance would end the neutrality the two states maintained during the Cold War and further expand NATO, something Russian President Vladimir Putin said his invasion of Ukraine aimed to prevent.
Moscow has called Finland's announcement hostile and threatened retaliation but said a newspaper report the Kremlin might cut gas supplies to Finland was mostly likely a "hoax".
G7 backs more aid, weapons to Ukraine in show of unity against Russia
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How Are the Two Bush Presidents Related to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
March 30, 2020 by Karen Hill
George Herbert Walker Bush became the second descendant of passengers on the Mayflower to become president.
His son George W. Bush was the third.
In 1620, Jane De La Noye was a small girl who arrived in America with her parents aboard the Mayflower.
She was the first president Bush's grandmother eleven times removed.
Her cousin, Phillip De La Noye, had his name Americanized to Delano, and his grandson eleven times removed was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, making he and the two George Bushes cousins.
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Diaspora – A Facebook Alternative?
By Ben Johnson last updated March 14, 2011
Diaspora* is an initiative of four New York University students. It's a social networking platform based on an open source personal web server that will put individuals in complete control of their data. Basic operation revolves around Diaspora Seed, once you have it, you will have you own social network. You can do whatever you want like sharing videos, pictures and much more and yet you will have full control of your online identity and your seed network. They haven't mentioned clearly that it's an anti-facebook project, but one can easily understand their motivation after watching the video below.
Project Motivation
Diaspora team (Daniel Grippi, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer) believes that privacy and sharing information doesn't necessarily have to be mutually exclusive. In our normal life we share information directly with each other, so our online virtual life should work similar as well. Diaspora will replace today's centralized social web with a more secure and convenient decentralized network. Diaspora will be easy to use, and it will be centered on you instead of a faceless hub.
Most of such initiatives/alternatives usually don't go quite far, but the pace at which Diaspora* open source project is gaining moment is really marvelous. Diaspora team started its journey with a dream to raise $10,000 by June 1, and they have already raised $100,000! and still two weeks remaining in deadline. Facebook's recent alterations in user privacy settings could be another reason for this kind of huge support.
Diaspora Technical Specifications
* Full-fledged communications between Seeds (Diaspora instances)
* Complete PGP encryption
* External Service Scraping of most major services (reclaim your data)
* Version 1 of Diaspora's API with documentation
* Public GitHub repository of all Diaspora code
Diaspora Release
There isn't any committed timeline for Diaspora release, we only know that the team has already started work on the project and it will continue over summer, hopefully around Sept-2010, we would be able to see some sort of results.
It's hard to comment that Diaspora will succeed or not, but it surely is a nice initiative. Let's see how much they can deliver to what they have committed, also it would interesting if Facebook responds to Diaspora project in someway.
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Just a matter of time and FaceBook will be R.I.P.!
Finally an end to a horrible-planned-social-media site and time for something new, fresh and much better!
To all @ Diaspora: Good luck and thanks for making a change, that I know for sure will succeed!


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Q: how i can send a receive a data from second time using the same open socket in mule java? Hi to everyone on this Forum, on this ocassion I need a help from the community because I don't understand how to keep open the socket to send and receive data from a device. For instance when I send a first command to receive an answer, successfully I receive an answer, but after this first send/receive when I'm trying to send back a second command I have no response and in ocassions throws an error.
This is the class that I used in mule 3.5 CE java 1.7
public class TCPMuleOutBasic extends TcpMessageReceiver {

     public TCPMuleOutBasic(Connector connector, FlowConstruct flowConstruct,
             InboundEndpoint endpoint) throws CreateException {
         super(connector, flowConstruct, endpoint);
     }

     protected Work createWork(Socket socket) throws IOException {
         return new MyTcpWorker(socket, this);
     }

     protected class MyTcpWorker extends TcpMessageReceiver.TcpWorker {

         public MyTcpWorker(Socket socket, AbstractMessageReceiver receiver)
                 throws IOException {
             super(socket, receiver);
             // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
         }

         @Override
         protected Object getNextMessage(Object resource) throws Exception {
             ArrayList<String> testarr2 = new ArrayList<>();
             BufferedReader entrada;
             //Socket clientSocket = null;
             try{
                 ArrayList<String> testarr = new ArrayList<>();

                 //this.socket.
                 //clientSocket = this.socket;

                 //OPEN IN BUFFER, DE ENTRADA
                 entrada = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(this.socket.getInputStream()));
                 //OPEN OUT BUFFER DE SALIDA ENVIA COMANDO
                 PrintStream pingStream = new PrintStream(this.socket.getOutputStream());

                 //PrintStream pingStream = new DataOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());

                 System.out.println("STATUS SOCKET VAL 1.2: "+this.socket.isClosed()+" CON "+isConnected());
                 testarr = this.enviarComando("#SER",1,this.socket,entrada,pingStream);
                 System.out.println("ARRAY VALOR 1: " + testarr.get(0));

                 //OPEN A SECOND TIME, THIS IS MY PROBLEM DONT WORK

                 //ABRO BUFFER DE ENTRADA
                 entrada = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(this.socket.getInputStream()));
                 //ABRO BUFFER DE SALIDA ENVIA COMANDO
                 pingStream = new PrintStream(this.socket.getOutputStream());

                 System.out.println("STATUS SOCKET VAL 2: "+this.socket.isClosed()+" CON "+isConnected());
                 testarr2 = this.enviarComando("#NLO",2,this.socket,entrada,pingStream);
                 /*System.out.println("ARREGLO VALOR 2: " + testarr2.get(0));*/

                 dataIn.close();
                 return testarr;
             }catch(IOException e)
             {
                 System.out.println("ERROR ARREGLO:"+e.getMessage());
                 return null;
             }

         }//FIN NEXTMESSANGE

         //METODO PARA HACER PETICION
         //FUNCTION TO SEND A RECIVE DATA
         protected ArrayList<String> enviarComando (String comando,int req,Socket openSocket,BufferedReader entrada,PrintStream pingStream) throws Exception {
             boolean InitConnection = false;
             String lineaComando;
             String mensajeServidor;
             Socket clientSocket = null;
             ArrayList<String> retorno = new ArrayList<String>();

             try{

                 if (InitConnection == false) {
                     lineaComando = comando;
                     System.out.println("Mandando Comandos:"+lineaComando);
                     clientSocket = openSocket;
                     String direccion = clientSocket.getInetAddress().getHostAddress();
                     System.out.println("Direccion:"+direccion);
                     System.out.println("Cliente en línea ="+req);

                     System.out.println("Comando enviado:" + lineaComando);
                     lineaComando = lineaComando + CRC.getCrc16Ccitt(lineaComando) + "\r";
                     pingStream.print(lineaComando);

                     //entrada = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
                     //entrada.ready();
                     System.out.println("STATUS FLUJO DE ENTRADA ="+req+entrada.ready());

                     int contador = 0;
                     System.out.println("ENTRADA: "+entrada.toString());
                     while((mensajeServidor = entrada.readLine()) != null) //Mientras haya mensajes desde el cliente
                     {
                         contador++;
                         //Se muestra por pantalla el mensaje recibido
                         retorno.add(mensajeServidor);
                         System.out.println("mensaje dispositivo "+contador+ ": "+ mensajeServidor);
                     }
                     /*
                     lineaComando = "#NLO";
                     System.out.println("Mandando 2do Comandos:"+lineaComando);
                     lineaComando = lineaComando + CRC.getCrc16Ccitt(lineaComando) + "\r";
                     pingStream.print(lineaComando);
                     while((mensajeServidor = entrada.readLine()) != null) //Mientras haya mensajes desde el cliente
                     {
                         contador++;
                         //Se muestra por pantalla el mensaje recibido
                         retorno.add(mensajeServidor);
                         System.out.println("mensaje dispositivo Segundo"+contador+ ": "+ mensajeServidor);
                     }*/

                     InitConnection = true;
                 }

                 //dataIn.close();
                 InitConnection = false;
                 logger.debug("Socket timeout");
                 System.out.println("CIERRO SOCKET");
                 return retorno;
             }catch (SocketException e )
             {
                 System.out.println("ERROR F:"+e.getMessage()+" "+comando+" Request: "+req);
                 return null;
             }
         }
     }
 }

THE CONNECTOR AND FLOW.
    <tcp:connector name="TCP" doc:name="TCP connector"
     clientSoTimeout="100000" receiveBacklog="0" receiveBufferSize="0"
     sendBufferSize="0" serverSoTimeout="100000" socketSoLinger="0"
     validateConnections="true"  keepSendSocketOpen="true" keepAlive="true">
     <receiver-threading-profile
         maxThreadsActive="5" maxThreadsIdle="5" />
     <reconnect-forever />
     <!--  <service-overrides messageReceiver="TCPMuleOut" />-->
     <service-overrides messageReceiver="ve.com.comware.socket.TCPMuleOutBasic" />
     <tcp:direct-protocol payloadOnly="true" />
 </tcp:connector>
 <flow name="socketcomware0.1Flow1" doc:name="socketcomware0.1Flow1">
         <tcp:inbound-endpoint  host="107.170.3.231" port="2020"  doc:name="TCP" responseTimeout="100000" exchange-pattern="request-response"/>
         <logger message="HOLA1" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
         <logger message="test  ----------------- #[message.payload[0]]  -------------------#[message.payload[1]]  " level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
 </flow>

the error:
 org.mule.exception.DefaultSystemExceptionStrategy: Caught exception in Exception Strategy: Index: 0, Size: 0
 java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0
     at java.util.ArrayList.rangeCheck(ArrayList.java:635)
     at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:411)
     at ve.com.comware.socket.TCPMuleOutBasic$MyTcpWorker.getNextMessage(TCPMuleOutBasic.java:65)

A: Please try this and let me know so that I can understand your usecase -
   <tcp:connector name="TCP1" validateConnections="true" sendBufferSize="0" receiveBufferSize="0" receiveBacklog="0" clientSoTimeout="10000" serverSoTimeout="10000" socketSoLinger="0" doc:name="TCP">
    <tcp:direct-protocol payloadOnly="false"/>
</tcp:connector>

 <flow name="tcp-testFlow">
        <tcp:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" host="${host}" port="${port}" responseTimeout="10000" connector-ref="TCP1" doc:name="TCP"/>
        <logger message="This is what your client is sending you - #[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
        <set-payload value="Hello from server - #[payload]" doc:name="Set Payload"/>
    </flow>

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An atomic bomb to make Mars habitable
13 September 2015 17 August 2019
by Fabienne Marion
The madness of the human race knows no bounds. After having polluted our good old Earth to the point of compromising humanity's prospects of survival, we are now seeking to conquer other planets to make them habitable. And if they aren't, all we have to do is force nature a little.
It is this crazy dream that Elon Musk has just revealed by stating without joking that if we bombed the poles of Mars with a few nuclear bombs, the polar ice would melt, releasing enough heat to recreate a liveable atmosphere.
Elon Musk is not a fancy guy. He is a forty-year-old but multi-billionaire entrepreneur who has already achieved several feats of arms: he created Paypal, a revolution in the field of payments, used today by several hundred million people around the world; he founded Tesla Motors, which is one of the most serious alternatives currently available for the creation of new generations of automobiles. He founded Space X, whose objective is to create low-cost launchers to conquer space. Finally, he is the promoter of one of the most revolutionary transport projects: thehyperloop. In short, a man of innovative ideas, who knows how to put them into practice.
Elon Musk has been forging for a long time, along with others... visionaries...the idea of going to Mars. He even claims to be able to send a manned flight there in a few short years. But Mars doesn't have enough atmosphere and so it's not livable. It once was, and its history is exemplary for imagining what might happen to the Earth in the more or less near future.
Several scientists are therefore working on a project to "terraform" it, i.e. to intervene on Mars in order to make it compatible with human living standards. Among these ideas, Elon Musk launched one last Wednesday on CBS which, it is the case to say, made the effect of an explosion. According to him, it is enough to bombard the icy poles of Mars with a few nuclear charges to melt them and create enough heat to gradually generate, by greenhouse effect, an atmosphere on the red planet. This, he says, is "the fastest way to make Mars habitable".
On paper, the idea might work. Indeed, by producing a huge heat wave through nuclear explosions, the polar ice could melt, bringing the water necessary for life. The scientists immediately pointed out the risks of this idea. Indeed, the explosion of atomic bombs on Martian soil would inevitably lead to a nuclear winter, which would prevent any form of life from flourishing on Mars.
Elon Musk is aware of this and therefore proposes a plan B, which is slower to implement. It consists of releasing enough greenhouse gases on Mars to recreate a liveable atmosphere. This solution is in the boxes of several scientific teams who are working on it seriously.
The Mars Terraforming Project
Injecting greenhouse gas into the Red Planet is a solution that seems theoretically feasible. The success of what may seem like madness is actually due to the history of Mars. The planet's past history suggests that it may one day become habitable for humans, that it can be made "habitable" for humans, that we can "live" on it, that we can "live" on it, that we can "live" on it. terraformer ".
The history of Mars can be broken down into three distinct ages: the Noachian, the Hesperian and the Amazonian.
Noachien took place from about 4.1 to about 3.7 billion years ago; this period is characterized by a heavy asteroid bombardment and the formation of abundant water surfaces on the planet. This period is the "hot and humid" age of Mars. There was probably a thick atmosphere at this time, whose pressure and greenhouse effect certainly allowed large amounts of liquid water to exist. The end of this age would have been marked by the beginning of intense volcanic activity.
L'Hesperian is in a period ranging from 3.7 billion years to between 1.7 and 3 billion years depending on the time scales chosen by scientists. This period is marked by intense volcanic activity. The global magnetic field would have disappeared, allowing the solar wind to erode the atmosphere, whose temperature and pressure on the ground would have begun to drop significantly, so that liquid water would have ceased to exist permanently on the surface of Mars.
L'Amazonian dates back 3.1 to 1.8 billion years, depending on the scale. This period is quite poor in geological activity and is characterized by extreme aridity and drought; this is the configuration we know today on Mars. During this period, Mars' volcanic activity weakened considerably. However, as on Earth, it was volcanoes that played a major role in the formation of the atmosphere and its recycling. Without volcanic activity, the atmospheric recycling stopped and Mars absorbed its atmosphere like a sponge. As the planet's core also cooled, it lost much of its magnetic field, making the upper atmosphere very vulnerable to electrically charged solar winds. By losing most of its atmosphere, the planet cooled and its liquid water became ice.
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The terraformation of Mars
According to some scientists, there is still a thick and warm atmosphere beneath the surface of Mars. We could therefore imagine "waking up" this atmosphere by generating sufficient greenhouse gases. This theory is supported by the characteristics of the current Martian atmosphere: the atmospheric pressure is currently between 6 and 7 millibars at low altitude. This represents less than 1% of the Earth's pressure at sea level. The inventory of frozen carbon dioxide remaining on the Martian surface is estimated to be about 100 thousand millibars, with much of it existing on the frozen surface at the poles and the rest underground in the permafrost.
The increase in atmospheric pressure and global temperature is linked to the warming of the Earth's poles. Hence the idea of creating a runaway greenhouse effect to release Mars' reserves of frozen carbon dioxide.
So the problem is thawing the poles. How do you do that? Elon Musk's radical method is violent, to say the least. There are others: in their article published in the journal of the British Interplanetary Society, " Technological requirements of Mars terraforming "Chris McKay and Robert Zubrin suggest the use of orbital mirrors. Built in high orbit above Mars, the mirrors reflect sunlight onto the Martian surface to warm it.
Another key to stabilizing Mars' atmosphere is the activation of its hydrosphere. Water not only provides a vital element for life, it also has the ability to stabilize the climate. Water retains heat and reduces drastic temperature fluctuations during the diurnal cycle, and water vapour is a powerful greenhouse gas that will help maintain thermal energy in the atmosphere. Current models suggest that there are large amounts of water stored in the Martian permafrost. Releasing this water will require an enormous amount of energy. Some believe that to release Martian water we could try to control the impact of an asteroid by simulating the bombardment of the hydrosphere that took place during the Noachian era. An even crazier idea than Elon Musk's, which, by comparison, seems almost the most sensible.
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During a press conference, Sessions referred to border communities as a "beachhead" and "ground zero" of a war that only exists in his mind, all while again neglecting to meet with the people most affected by the proposed wall and increased border enforcement. This is the second timeSessions has visited the border region in two weeks.


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Communications Service Providers today experience new challenges in almost every aspect of their organization, from major network rollouts to new business models and expanding product portfolios. Service providers and suppliers are now forced to deal with increasingly complex value-chains and outsourcing arrangements in order to compete in convergent, highly saturated markets.
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According to ANSI standards, fall protection equipment should be inspected by the user before each use and inspected at least once a year by a competent person.
Each year, falls from heights ranging from just a few inches to 120 stories account for more than 30 percent of all fall-related injuries and work-related deaths. Such injuries not only endanger the integrity of the workplace and the safety of employees, but also cost businesses millions of dollars each year in medical expenses, lost wages, and lower productivity.
Therefore, fall protection planning and the correct fall protection training are essential to ensuring the safety and health of your employees and your company. Developing a comprehensive fall protection and training plan is the right decision for the safety of employees, the financial health of the company, and the integrity of the product.
Before a company can implement a plan or begin training, it must first decide what type of fall protection to employ. The most foolproof form of fall protection is simply to eliminate the fall hazard, which in some facilities can be done by changing the workflow process. Often, however, the hazard cannot be eliminated, meaning that some sort of safety protection must be added. In its simplest form, this could be a railing, or it could be more involved, such as a restraint system or possibly personal fall protection equipment, including a harness, lanyard, and rigid rail anchor systems.
Restraint systems prevent workers from falling by keeping them from reaching an area where the fall hazard exists. Restraint is typically the preferred fall protection system when the environment allows because a fall is completely avoided. The downside, however, is that once in place, restraint systems are inflexible, unable to accommodate multiple workers, and limited to the length of the system.
Fall arrest systems allow the worker to fall--just not very far. The systems enable workers to safely perform their duties from the height required while tied off to the system. The systems are professionally engineered and typically custom designed for the specific work environment.
There are two types of fall arrest systems: those that use a wire rope to support a worker and those that use a rigid rail. Wire rope systems allow the worker to fall into a previously inspected clearance area, preventing injury with a harness, trolley, and wire rope lifeline. Such systems require additional fall clearance due to the initial sag or stretch of the wire. A rigid rail fall arrest system allows workers to fall with the peace of mind that their fall will be stopped using a harness attached to a custom-engineered support. Rigid rail systems can accommodate longer distances between supports, reducing both material and installation costs. These systems provide uninterrupted protection for additional workers on the same system.
While choosing the correct type of fall protection is critical, training employees on how to properly use the chosen system is equally important. A successful fall protection training program ensures that companies and all of their employees know what fall hazards exist in their workplace, which products and equipment can be used in each work space, how to anchor a worker to the system properly, how to wear a fall protection harness correctly, and how to inspect and maintain fall protection equipment so the system can continue to provide safety and peace of mind.
Most fall protection systems must be customized to fit the facility at hand. As such, it is also important that companies decide what they want to achieve through fall protection. A common goal is to eliminate any serious injury or fatality related to falls. Do they also want to decrease the rate of injury by 50 percent, or perhaps 70 percent? Creating such goals will allow companies to select the correct system and, from there, to develop the correct training regimen.
Completing a workplace assessment is a useful way for companies to identify these goals and pick a fall protection system. A number of factors need to be considered when evaluating a workplace facility, including what other systems already may be in place, floor space availability, ceiling space availability, and budget. If a facility already employs a wealth of floor-mounted equipment, a ceiling-mounted system may be most practical and out of the way. How many workers will be using the system at a given time is another factor to keep in mind.
Industry regulations also play a role in choosing a fall protection system. OSHA mandates the 4-foot rule. The 4-foot rule refers to Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR) and seeks to ensure and enforce safe and healthful working conditions for general industry, construction, and maritime trades. Employers are responsible for providing their workers with a place of employment free from recognized safety and health hazards. OSHA enforces regulation 1926, Subpart M for construction and regulation 1910, Subparts D and F for general industry, which require fall protection be provided at: 4 feet in general industry; 5 feet in shipyards; 6 feet in the construction industry; 8 feet in longshoring operations; or any height when working over dangerous equipment and machinery, regardless of the fall distance. If companies have workers working at heights in any of these circumstances they are legally required to implement a suitable fall protection system.
While considering fall protection, companies also should be thinking about who can oversee the system, because industry regulation agencies (including OSHA's and the American National Standards Institut's) require that a competent person must verify the required maintenance procedures have been properly followed. Such a person, as defined by OSHA, is someone who is "capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees, and who has authorization to take prompt corrective measures to eliminate them." This person is usually also responsible for ongoing inspections. OSHA requires a visual inspection for wear and damage prior to each use, mandating that any deterioration or defective components be removed from service. According to ANSI, fall protection equipment should be inspected by the user before each use and inspected at least once a year by a competent person.
In considering different fall protection options, companies are actually laying the framework for their formal fall protection plan. Once goals have been determined and a fall protection system chosen, companies then are required to write a detailed and site-specific plan on how the system will be used to maintain productivity while protecting employees. The plan should outline the fall protection measures that will be employed, spell out a rescue plan for worst-case scenarios, identify who is responsible for overall supervision and training, and include an overview of training objectives.
Although all parts of the plan are important, companies are advised to pay special attention to the training and rescue plan sections of the document, because both can be the deciding factors in the effectiveness of a fall protection system. The rescue plan section should strive to minimize the time between a fall occurrence and getting medical attention to the fallen worker. This step is vitally important to the safety of a company's workers and also the company's bottom line.
As with other parts of the fall protection plan, a thorough rescue program should be established prior to using fall protection equipment. It is of critical importance that the plan be understood and that all workers feel confident implementing such a program. The plan must take into account the equipment and special training necessary for a prompt rescue under all foreseeable conditions. The rescue plan aspect of fall protection should be especially emphasized during employee training.
A number of organizations have successfully addressed and implemented fall protection systems and training initiatives. One such company is a municipal transportation authority for a major Northeast city. The transit authority was in the process of replacing old buses with more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicles. While fuel costs and emissions were decreasing, the authority discovered that its maintenance employees would regularly be climbing up to the top of the new buses to service the top-mounted electric battery packs. At the time, there was no protection in place to prevent employees from falling.
After assessing the workplace, the authority found that it didn't have room in the facility to support the beams necessary for a wire rope system, nor enough distance for the wire rope to stop the fall before the workers would hit the floor. The solution was installing four identical, ceiling-mounted monorail systems with self-retracting lanyards. The dual-trussed monorail is 39 feet long, which fully covers the length of the buses. It allows more than one worker to be on the roof of a bus and permits two workers to pass each other without disconnecting the lanyards from their harnesses.
After going through training, all workers now can access the battery packs on the roof as needed. A worker uses a hook to pull down the lanyard and attaching it to his or her harness. The transit authority is now able to complete its operations safely and efficiently, and management has the peace of mind of a rescue plan if needed.
Of course, no fall protection system can guarantee safety. Yet with the proper education, planning, equipment, training, and awareness, virtually any facility can be transformed from hazardous to safe and safety conscious.


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Scott Thomas Anderson reports:
The rampant hacking of credit cards and ATM accounts that has hit Amador County is partly the result of "malicious software" installed at a Martell business, according to investigators from Amador County Sheriff's office. Worse yet, six months of online victimization may not be over for some locals, particularly for those who entered Mountain Mike's Pizza last winter without cash in their hands.
Sheriff's officials updated reporters yesterday afternoon about a lengthy investigation into more than 70 cases of ATM/credit card fraud inundating its investigations bureau. Additional cases have also been reported to the Jackson Police Department. Undersheriff Jim Wegner said his detectives had been working closely with fraud units from several banks affected by the string of crimes, which began at the end of 2010 and gained an almost overwhelming momentum by February of this year.
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So far, only that one Mountain Mike's Pizza store in California has been identified as having been breached from that chain, but other national chains have not been so fortunate, it seems.
In March, Extreme Pizza disclosed that the point of sale (POS) systems at a number of its west coast franchises had been compromised beginning in August 2010. Customers' credit and debit card numbers were reportedly misused between then and January 2011. In an FAQ on its site, the chain said it was first made aware of the breach on February 28, 2011. Sixteen stores in California as well as stores in Colorado and Oregon were affected.
Both the Extreme Pizza and Mountain Mike's Pizza breaches were on the west coast, where a third national pizza chain, zpizza, is also headquartered. zpizza provided DataBreaches.net with the following statement:
Zpizza was affected by malware on our point of sales system used to process credit and debit card transactions at 12 of our locations. These incidents did not involve an internal security issue within zpizza, and based on investigation, we have sufficient reasons to believe that zpizza is one of many small businesses across the nation that was affected by a computer hacker. Additional details about the issue is on store websites.
Zpizza is working with the Secret Service to address and resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Additionally, we have hired an outside consultant to ensure that our point of sale systems are secure and protected from anyfurther intrusion.
The notice posted on individual stores' web sites in mid-May read:
An Important Notice to our Customers
This notice pertains to any customer who used a credit card or debit card at the (LOCATION) zpizza location from September 2010 through and including January 2011. In advance, zpizza apologizes for any inconvenience that you may experience from the circumstances described below.
Zpizza recently discovered that an unauthorized person wrongfully accessed certain point of sale systems that zpizza uses to process credit and debit card transactions. Based upon its investigation to date, zpizza reasonably believes that a computer hacker improperly acquired credit and debit card information. This incident did not involve an internal security issue within zpizza. In fact, zpizza has learned that it is one of many small businesses across the nation that has been affected by this computer hacker.
Zpizza has moved swiftly to address this unfortunate incident and is working with the Secret Service to investigate it. zpizza is also working with an outside consultant to ensure that its point of sale systems are secure and protected from any further intrusion.
If you have used your credit card or debit card at this zpizza location from September 2010 through and including January 2011, please consider taking the following immediate steps in order to prevent the unauthorized and unlawful use of your personal information:
Some of the locations of affected zpizza stores include California, Montana, and Virginia.
Elsewhere, a breach involving a national pizza chain was also rumored to be the source of card fraud reports in the Ohio area, but whether that will pan out (no pun intended) and whether it's yet another national pizza chain remains to be seen.
Firefly POS Implicated?
At least a few people involved with the situation have been pointing fingers at the Firefly POS software. Over on PMQ.com, a forum for the pizza industry, one owner wrote:
We had a breach of our credit card system. Talked to the bank fraud unit, the local authorities and forensic audit companies. The indication is that the majority of credit card breaches have been with the Firefly/Granbury system from what the people we contacted have said.
Other sources with knowledge of the situation also allege that the breached units of Extreme Pizza and zpizza were all, or almost all, using Firefly. A spokesperson for zpizza confirmed to DataBreaches.net that their breached units were using Firefly.
Whether the Firefly allegations are also correct for Extreme Pizza and other pizza stores could not be confirmed at the time of this posting. Granbury was contacted several times over the past two weeks and asked to respond to the allegations but did not provide answers to questions posed or any statement specifically addressing a number of allegations that have been made.
Charles Hoff, an attorney who has been involved in a number of high-profile cases where restaurants have sued POS vendors and/or their installers replied "No comment" when asked whether he has been asked to file any lawsuits against Firefly, its parent company, Granbury, or any of their authorized installers.
Deja Vu All Over Again?
The breach description for Mountain Mike's Pizza sounds somewhat like a number of restaurant breaches in 2008 that occurred when login credentials to remote access to the desktop were left in a default state and were exploited by hackers. At least one commenter on PMQ.com indicates that his system was breached by a remote-access account that had been enabled to allow support.
As of 2006, Visa had issued warnings about the risks of enabling remote access software – warnings that it has repeated numerous times since. Despite Visa's repeated warnings, remote access compromise accounted for 41% of attacks in the merchant category during the period January 2009 – June 2010. As recently as April 19, Visa issued an alert, "Remote Access Vulnerabilities—Most Frequent Attack Method Used by Intruders," and asked acquirers and processors to share the alert with merchants as soon as possible. But despite repeated warnings, either Level 4 merchants have not gotten the message or they have not understood how to ensure they comply with industry standards on firewalls and the need to change default configurations.
Ultimately, of course, it is the stores that are responsible for the security of customers' credit card and debit card data, and it is the stores that suffer if customers stop using cards or stop frequenting a store if they've suffered fraud as a result of transactions with a merchant. But are the processors, acquirers, vendors, and installers doing enough to help the merchants who pay large fees to get a system that they believe is compliant? It doesn't seem so if four years later, we are still talking about a lot of POS hacks in the restaurant sector.
In the meantime, if these breaches occurred in August and September of 2010 and there was a rash of fraud, how many other national pizza chains were also affected that we haven't yet found out about in the media? Hopefully, some of the mainstream journalists will start digging into this a bit more.
Update: The Amador County Sheriff's Office issued a media release about the Mountain Mike's Pizza breach.
Update of Aug. 5: On July 27, DataBreaches.net received the following e-mail from the Chief Operating Officer of Granbury Technologies:
we recently saw a posting from Scott Thomas Anderson which says Granbury denied any comments
this is NOT true – we have given statements to anyone who has asked (and we have talked to many)
there are some very untrue and misleading information in this posting and we would like a retraction posted immediately
I would certainly entertain a discussion with Scott or whoever is responsible for postings
I expect a prompt response and please note that our legal counsel has been made aware of this and is awaiting your response
I responded to them to point out that Scott Thomas Anderson was not the source of the comments they objected to and to remind them that I had contacted Granbury a few times to ask them specific questions and to request to interview them but they did not get back to DataBreaches.net at any time during a two-week period before that entry was published – even after they had indicated that they might.
Mr. Rosenberg replied, complaining that I should have included comments he had made to me in response to one of the e-mails requesting an interview. His comments in one email were:
There are many misconceptions of what is really going on and how to protect and who they should go to get protection, and certainly the small business owner doesn't have a clue. I believe that the issuing banks and especially the processors are not doing enough (except covering their butts and blaming others). And the government seems to take the sideline on this which is costing the economy billions.
We've been working directly with Secret Service, Dept. of Justice, Visa, M/C, Amex and some receptive processors (as most are not receptive rather they are slanderous and disparaging and false communication)
Those comments were omitted from the original blog entry because even though I agree with them, they were nonresponsive to the questions I had put to them about why there were so many reports and allegations of hacks involving Firefly.
On July 27, DataBreaches.net offered Granbury yet another opportunity to provide their perspective on, or explanation of, the reported breaches and allegations:
If others have made statements that were cited in that piece that you feel are untrue, I will be happy to give you yet another opportunity to give your perspective and clarify any points at a mutually convenient time, and would consider writing a follow-up to that piece.
Granbury did not respond to that offer.
If a report is inaccurate, I want to know so I can issue a correction. To date, however, Granbury has provided no facts or substantive responses. The original blog entry stated:
That statement was accurate at the time of posting and it is still accurate.
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Experimental producer Arca has announced a new eponymous record and shared lead single "Piel".
"Piel" is the haunting first taste of Arca's debut for new label XL, and it's also his first song featuring his singing voice.
"Here's my voice and all my guts: feel free to judge it," writes Arca in a statement about the album. "It's like a bullfight: you're watching emotional violence for pleasure. So this is a character who, almost as a mockery of the transaction, goes uncomfortably deep, into self-mutilation. 'You want gore? Here's gore'."
The album features previously released tracks such as "Sin Rumbo" and "Urchin"; it follows last year's 25-minute Entrañas project and 2015's Mutant LP. Arca was announced last year with the working title of Reverie - he teased "Piel" during the announcement on Instagram.
Arca's teamed with frequent collaborator Jesse Kanda for the excellent artwork (check it out in the "Piel" stream above).
The London-based producer has also confirmed his biggest headline show to date at London's Roundhouse on 28 April. tickets are on sale 24 February.
Arca is out 7 April via XL Recordings.


Coursera.org is a fantastic resource for free online classes taught by leading universities. While no credit hours are attached to them, many give certificates of completion at the end of the course, which may be useful material to add to your CV.
Google Developer's University Consortium contains a large collection of materials for learning programming in a variety of languages.


This sketch is part of a TV series called "Rudi Carrells Sketche mit Prominenten" ("Rudi Carrell's sketches with prominents"). This sketch was first aired on June 5th 1971. Rudi Carrell was a well known Dutch showmaster in Germany in the sixties up to the eighties.
Winnetou and his sister Nscho-Tschi are talking in front of their tipi. Old Shatterhand arrives and tells about his trip. Nscho-Tschi then asks both to become blood brothers.
In the end Rudi Carrell promotes the "Glücksspirale", a well known charitable lottery.
Rudi Carrell passed away on July 7th 2006 from lung cancer at the age of 71. Thank you, Rudi, for one of the last live appearances of Lex in Germany!
The main actors were: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Klaus Havenstein and of course Rudi Carrell.
Cutting his arm 2: ouch, that hurts!
Cutting at a can of tomato juice!


Covalent chemical probes have become a hot topic in drug discovery within last few years. The impressive number of successful applications in protein drugability assessment and in investigation of enzymes functions brought aspiration to discovery of new covalent modifiers. However, further progress in this area is limited by availability of new covalent fragments with new structures and balanced molecular properties. We have recently elaborated parallel chemistry approaches to synthesis of new libraries encompassing covalent fragments of various classes.
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Подсолнечная точка () планеты — точка, в которой Солнце может наблюдаться строго над головой (в зените), то есть солнечные лучи падают на планету в этой точке строго перпендикулярно. Также может означать наиболее близкую к Солнцу точку астрономического объекта.

Для наблюдателя на планете с углом наклона и параметрами вращения как у Земли подсолнечная точка будет двигаться к западу, каждые сутки совершая полный оборот и приблизительно двигаясь вдоль экватора. Однако также точка сдвигается к югу или северу в пределах тропиков, поскольку склонение Солнца меняется в течение года, в результате точка совершает движение по спирали.

В момент летнего солнцестояния подсолнечная точка касается тропика Рака, а в момент зимнего солнцестояния касается тропика Козерога. Подсолнечная точка пересекает экватор в моменты равноденствий.

Когда подсолнечная точка проходит Гавайи, такое событие называют Лахайнским полуднем

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 Day and Night World Map (shows location of subsolar point for any user-specified time)

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