Jammu, Oct 23: Excise Department today slapped fine on two minor mineral laden trucks for evading Toll here at Toll Post Gandyal, Kathua.
As per the department handout, a team of officials intercepted two vehicles bearing registration Nos.PB04V-0323 & PB35N-9117 each carrying 'Sand' illegally with malafide intentions to evade the Toll.
The Excise department team led by ETOs Varinder Gupta and Aamir Ayaiz Rather laid nakas at different points and chased the evading vehicles in a calculated and strategic manner on established Toll Post Gandyal. The accused drivers had a scuffle with the Excise team but eventually were apprehended and the vehicles were confiscated by the team and brought to Toll Post Lakhanpur. Accordingly, the proceedings under sections 3 & 8 of the J&K Levy of Tolls Act, 1995, were initiated and demand notices were issued to owners/ drivers of the vehicles against Rs. 451220/- which includes Basic toll & toll on goods and fine.
The operation was monitored by Ashish Kumar Gupta, Deputy Excise Commissioner, Toll Post Lakhanpur under overall guidance of Excise Commissioner, Talat Parvez Rohella.
The department has launched a massive drive against the toll evaders after the Court in series of judgments has directed all the stone crushers units operating in KerianGandyal and Nagri and nearby areas of Kathua District to route their material through Toll Posts established at Gandyal Village and Nagri and pay Toll tax in accordance with rule 3(2) of J&K Levy of Toll Act, 1995.


The twenty-eighth was fine and we held a durbar. It was decided that, Eckenstein being ill, Pfannl, Guillarmod and I should start up the mountain. Eckenstein voted for the doctor, qua doctor, in case of one of us being ill. It shows how easy he thought the slopes.
Wessely was very offensive in his resentment at not being included in the party. It was an intolerably bad piece of sportsmanship. Pfannl tended to take his side, and the pair made so much unpleasantness that we were soon reduced to the expedient of getting them out of the way as much as possible.
We got everything ready; but next morning the wind was so high that we could not start. Even while drinking our chocolate in the cooking tent, we nearly got frostbitten. After sunrise, the wind dropped; but it was too late to start. Eckenstein and Knowles were both ill, but the rest of us went on ski nearly to the pass at the top of the glacier. About four o'clock in the afternoon the wind started again and once again loosened my tent. This time snow came driving up the valley.
We had a spare tent for the use of the few natives whom we kept with us. I had gone out to try to refix my tabernacle at sunset — and there was a Balti out in the snow praying with his face towards Mecca! The religion of the Mohammedan, unlike that of the Christian, is positive. It is not based on fear, but on the actual sense of the relations of man and God. I laugh to think of the well-fed, idle and ignorant missionary at Shigar trying to convert men of this stamp. Their simplicity sees through Christian sophistication at a glance; and, their sense of ethics being outraged as well as their sense of reverence, it is easy to understand that the only converts from Mohammedanism are absolutely conscienceless scoundrels who wish to live on the scarcely camouflaged subsidies of missions.
The next day found me completely snow-blind. The pain is not so much severe as irritating. The feeling is as of having red hot sand at the back of one's eyes. One keeps on blinking with the idea of removing it, and of course it won't be removed. During my ski-läufing I had religiously worn goggles. My condition was due entirely to pottering about the camp for a few minutes in the snowstorm, fixing my tent. I got all right again in a couple of days. The weather was moderate on June 30th and July 1st. But from July 2nd to 6th was a continuous snowstorm. There was no remittance day or night. It was this which made Camp 10 unpopular.
at the corner of the north-east ridge of Chogo Ri. At this point the glacier divides into two large snow basins. One leads to the pass which I have named Windy Gap (21,500 feet) on whose north-west is the mountain at the head of the valley, which I called Staircase Peak, from the well-marked and regular indentations of its eastern ridge. The other is apparently a kind of blind alley, its circus of rocks seems to have no definite break. It is difficult to be sure of this, for when I saw it it was always a cauldron of whirling mists of snow.
Pfannl and Wessely had reported that the north-east ridge of K2 was climbable, and on Monday the seventh, which was fine, it was decided to try to ascend the mountain by that route. So main camp was to be moved to Camp 11. I was rather ill, but protested. The proposed route was in fact absurd. Camp 11 was much farther from the summit than Camp 10, and the proposal was to reach the shoulder by following a along and deeply indented ridge the wall of which is on the Chogo Lungma side, a sheer precipice of avalanche-swept slopes, except at the point which I had originally picked out.
However, I was overruled. The doctor and I prepared to leave on the eighth. It was on this occasion that we discovered the incapacity of the natives to pull a sledge. It is about three hours' march to Camp 11. The going was not bad, though I was still rather sick. The weather was good enough to go out. I went a considerable distance up the slopes of the mountain. There is some conflict in opinion as to the height reached by various members of the party. Eckenstein was fanatically determined never to exaggerate any exploit. We made a very great number of boiling-point determinations of the heights of our camps; but even these are subject to various sources of error. Camp 11 is roughly 20,000 feet; but I suspect it to be a little higher. I estimated my climbing at 21,500 feet at the time; but this was mostly out of respect for Eckenstein. I was his most devoted disciple; I would not have given him any chance to reproach me by making a statement which might afterwards prove an exaggeration. But my real opinion is that I reached something over 22,0000 feet. I could see clearly over Windy Gap; I must have been well above it. I would not depend on the reading of aneroids in any circumstances. We had taken three instruments specially constructed; they only began to register at 15,000 feet and went to 30,000. But comparisons of the three showed — usually — that no two were alike.
In the evening I was very ill indeed; indigestion, fever, shivering. In order to breathe I had to use my whole muscular strength. I was also on the point of vomiting and remained in this condition nearly all the night. In the morning I was a little better; my breathing had become normal; but I had a great deal of pain and felt very ill and weak. The weather was splendid.
Wessely and Guillarmod were encouraged to repeat my climb of the previous day; but from their report it is not clear whether or not they got farther than I did. I lay in the sunlight and rested. I noticed strange sights; a fly, a butterfly, some crows and an insect which I thought was a bee, but I could not be sure. All visited the camp. Later the camp was covered with the snow from a big avalanche from Chogo Ri. It stripped the whole wall of the north-east ridge; that is, it was about four miles broad.
Eckenstein and Knowles came up on the eleventh. Another fine day. I was still very ill; my temperature 39.4° Centigrade. I did not at all realize the cause at first, simple as it was. The true explanation was very far-fetched in the actual sense of the word. My symptoms became unmistakable before long and I had to admit that I was suffering from malaria. The hardships of the journey had removed my physiological protection and the bug stated to buzz about. I was thus the proud possessor of another world's record; the only man who had had malaria at over twenty thousand feet! Incidentally, I was also the only poet at that altitude. I have always been very amused at Shelley's boast that he had "trodden the glaciers of the Alps" — the Mer de Glace and the Glacier des Boissons! But I was actually writing poetry in these camps. Better poetry.
Like the man who committed suicide when he learnt that the was unable to move his upper jaw, I had been annoyed by reading somewhere that it was impossible to find a rime to "silver". I spent my spare time in thinking up all the most impossible words in the language, finding rimes for them — good rimes, not mere assonances — and introducing them into "Ascension Day" and "Pentecost". In that poem will therefore be found rimes for refuge, reverence, country, virgin, courtesan, Euripides, Aristophanes, Aeschylus, Aischulos, Sophocles, ARistobulos, Alcibiades, fortress, unfashionable, sandwich, perorate, silver, bishop (eight rimes for this word), Sidney (three rimes for this), maniac, Leviticus, Cornelius, Abra-Melin, Brahmacharya, Kismet, Winchester, Christ Church, worship, Chesterton, Srotápatti (two rimes to this), Balliol, and so on.
I have mentioned hardships. It may be interesting to mention the nature of these. The first and greatest was malaise, which was mostly due to lack of food and exercise. The latter complaint seems rather ridiculous; but it is an absolute fact. One must not bring damp things into the tent; if one does, it practically destroys the efficacy of one's protection against cold. One must therefore stay cooped up in one's tent as long as the weather is bad. I was in charge of the kitchen and had to go out in all sorts of weather; but that was hardly exercise. I often found that by the time I had filled and lighted the stoves and got the snow melted, I could not stand the cold any longer. I had to rush back to my sleeping-bag and warm up while someone else prepared the food.
This same is true about food. We found it difficult to eat anything but what may be called delicacies from the standpoint of people in our position. I felt a certain distaste for food. I had to be "tempted" like an invalid or a fastidious child. It became obvious that Eckenstein's German army theories were inapplicable to Himalayan exploration.
We suffered little from cold in the acute way, but rather from a chronic effect. The problem of cold has not been scientifically stated by any explorer so far as I know. It is thus: The normal temperature of the body is 37° centigrade. If therefore the temperature of the air is 30° one has to make up the difference by the heat disengaged by the combustion of food. If the temperature is 23° one requires theoretically twice as much food, if 15° three times as much, if 8° our times as much, if 1° five times as much, if -6° six times as much, if -13° seven times as much, if -30° eight times as much. There temperatures are very much less hot and less cold than those actually experienced. The maximum and minimum thermometers proved altogether unreliable; and the observations on the chart refer to more or less arbitrary times. Other thermometers showed temperatures of over 40° and under 30° centigrade. Unfortunately, simple arithmetic is not the only consideration. The digestive apparatus is calculated for dealing with an amount of food corresponding to, I don't know what temperature, but we might say at a guess 1°. If the average temperature is less than this, it means that you have to eat more than you can digest; and that means a gradual accumulation of troubles.
Spencer. But the average explorer (for some inexplicable reason) seems absolutely incapable of applying common sense, experience or the teaching of science to the vital problems with which he is posed. Here in 1922, after all our experience, we have the members of the Everest expedition drivelling about acclimatization, as if science did not exist. Norman Collie told me plainly in 1896 on his return from the Mummery expedition to Nanga Parbat, that the only chance of getting up a big mountain was to rush it. I knew Collie for a man of science and for a man of sense and experience. I trusted his information absolutely and I governed myself accordingly.
> Made a Bishop of His Reverence.
</blockquote></HTML> This programme is however hardly acceptable to Western minds, so little penetrated with Einstein's ideas that everything has to be done in a hurry. We may therefore leave "acclimatization" to the mentally defective heroes of the Everest expedition of 1921 and 1922. Collie was right in saying that one is living on one's capital on prolonged mountain expeditions. My experience enables me to add that it is not only a question of mountains. Any kind of prolonged hardship gradually wears one down. Again I repeat, it is pitiful to have to insist on such obvious truths. The low vitality of the working classes, the national deterioration caused by the privations of wartime, scream their warning. Anyone on earth except a member of the English Alpine Club would take it to heart.
Wessely who, like the brute beast that he was, seemed insensible to the influence of hardship and was keeping himself in comfort by stealing the supplies of the expedition surreptitiously.
Owing to the fact that snow at these altitudes evaporates without melting, it disappears from the neighbourhood of a tent, leaving a pinnacle where it is protected by the canvas. Thus, at the end of five days' snowstorm one would find oneself perched on a plateau some feet above the rest of the glacier. (This illustrates the formation of glacier tables.) It was necessary, whatever the weather might be, to shift the tent, as otherwise the weight of the snow on the sloping sides, and the general strain, would tear the canvas. We have a photograph of the plateau from which our tents had been removed after five days of snowstorm. In the middle of the square patch of hard snow relegated by pressure are two deep depressions like rude graves. These represent the ice melted by the warmth of our bodies through a double groundsheet of Willesden canvas, the canvas of the Roberts valise and the thick cork mattress.
Pfannl and Wessely had become completely intolerable and we encouraged them to go off to Camp 12 (estimated at about 21,000 feet) on the thirteenth. The weather showed its usual readiness to cook up a storm. On the fourteenth I describe it as (x.o.p.)n+1. A chit (note) arrived saying that Pfannl was ill. On the fifteenth the weather cleared in the afternoon; but I could see that it meant further mischief. My diary notes that I ate a meal this day. I must have been pretty bad previously to make such an entry; for my diary, whatever its other defects, is a supreme model of the laconic style.
been obliged to superintend the caravan of invalids. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth was an almost continuous snowstorm. Pfannl was suffering from oedema of both lungs and his mind was gone.
A pathetic incident sticks in my mind. He sent for me to come to his tent and told me that these dull brutes could not understand him, but that I, as a poet, would be able to enter into his feelings. He then said that there were three of him; two of them were all right; but the third was a mountain with a dagger and he was afraid that it would stab him. I did not at that time realize the significance of the delusion. Today it is obvious that the fear and fascination of the hills had got mixed up with that of the phallus, thus determining the character of the symbol. As things were, I could merely report that he was insane, and the doctor continued the treatment of keeping him continuously under morphia.


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Gerald William Bullett
critic essayist novelist writer
December 30, 1893 (age 64)
The Progress Of Kay, A Series of Glimpses (1916) The Street of the Eye and Nine Other Tales (1923) Mr Godly Beside Himself (1924) Walt Whitman: A Study and a Selection (1924) The Baker's Cart And Other Tales (1925) Modern English Fiction (1926) Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible (1927). The Spanish Caravel (1927), later The Happy Mariners (1956) "Dreaming" (1928), essay The World in Bud And Other Tales (1928) Nicky Son of Egg (1929) The History of Egg Pandervil (1929) (ed.) Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday (1929) Germany (1930) Remember Mrs Munch (1931) Marden Fee (1931) Helen's Lovers And Other Tales (1932) (ed.) The Testament of Light (1932), anthology I'll Tell You Everything (1932), with J. B. Priestley The Quick And The Dead (1933) (ed.) The Pattern of Courtesy: An Anthology, Continuing the Testament of Light (1934) Eden River (1934) The Bubble (1934) The Jury (1935) The Snare of the Fowler: A Tragedy of Time & Chance (1936), as Sebastion Fox Poems in Pencil (1937) The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton (1937) (ed.) A Book of Good Faith – Montaigne: A Miscellany of Passages (1938) The Bending Sickle (1938), novel Twenty Four Tales (1938) (ed.) The Phœnix and Turtle (1938) (ed.) The Jackdaw's Nest, A Fivefold Anthology (1939) When the Cat's Away (1940) A Man of Forty (1940) (ed.) The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems (1942) Winter Solstice (1943) The Elderbrook Brothers (1945) (ed.) Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew Arnold (1945) Judgment in Suspense (1946) novel (tr.) The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse (1946) George Eliot (1947) Men at High Table and The House of Strangers (1948) (ed.) Silver Poets of the 16th Century (1949) Poems (1949) Cricket in Heaven (1949) The English Mystics (1950) Sydney Smith, a Biography and a Selection (1951) The Trouble at Number Seven (1952) News From The Village (1952), poems The Alderman's Son (1954), novel Windows On A Vanished Time (1955) The Daughters of Mrs Peacock 1957 The Peacock Brides (1958) Ten-Minute Tales and some Others (1959)
Anne Wadman
Mario Llosa
d'Aurevilly Barbey
Sylvia Wynter
Jesus College, Cambridge.
The Progress Of Kay, A Series of Glimpses (1916)
The Street of the Eye and Nine Other Tales (1923)
Mr Godly Beside Himself (1924)
Walt Whitman: A Study and a Selection (1924)
The Baker's Cart And Other Tales (1925)
Modern English Fiction (1926)
Seed of Israel: Tales from the English Bible (1927).
The Spanish Caravel (1927), later The Happy Mariners (1956)
"Dreaming" (1928), essay
The World in Bud And Other Tales (1928)
Nicky Son of Egg (1929)
The History of Egg Pandervil (1929)
(ed.) Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday (1929)
Remember Mrs Munch (1931)
Marden Fee (1931)
Helen's Lovers And Other Tales (1932)
(ed.) The Testament of Light (1932), anthology
I'll Tell You Everything (1932), with J. B. Priestley
The Quick And The Dead (1933)
(ed.) The Pattern of Courtesy: An Anthology, Continuing the Testament of Light (1934)
Eden River (1934)
The Bubble (1934)
The Jury (1935)
The Snare of the Fowler: A Tragedy of Time & Chance (1936), as Sebastion Fox
Poems in Pencil (1937)
The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton (1937)
(ed.) A Book of Good Faith – Montaigne: A Miscellany of Passages (1938)
The Bending Sickle (1938), novel
Twenty Four Tales (1938)
(ed.) The Phœnix and Turtle (1938)
(ed.) The Jackdaw's Nest, A Fivefold Anthology (1939)
When the Cat's Away (1940)
A Man of Forty (1940)
(ed.) The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems (1942)
Winter Solstice (1943)
The Elderbrook Brothers (1945)
(ed.) Readings in English Literature: From Chaucer to Matthew Arnold (1945)
Judgment in Suspense (1946) novel
(tr.) The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta: A Chinese Rural Sequence Rendered into English Verse (1946)
George Eliot (1947)
Men at High Table and The House of Strangers (1948)
(ed.) Silver Poets of the 16th Century (1949)
Poems (1949)
Cricket in Heaven (1949)
The English Mystics (1950)
Sydney Smith, a Biography and a Selection (1951)
The Trouble at Number Seven (1952)
News From The Village (1952), poems
The Alderman's Son (1954), novel
Windows On A Vanished Time (1955)
The Daughters of Mrs Peacock 1957
The Peacock Brides (1958)
Ten-Minute Tales and some Others (1959)
Bullett described himself as a "liberal socialist".
January 3, 1958 (aged 64)

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1944 in Norway
Battles involving the Soviet Union
Military in the Arctic
Naval battles and operations of the European theatre of World War II
Strategic operations of the Red Army in World War II
Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
Military operations of World War II involving Germany
Norway–Soviet Union relations
Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive
Petsamo-Kirkenes Offensive
Part of World War II
Soviet landing party heading for Kirkenes, Norway.
7–29 October 1944
Arctic Region, Petsamo and northern Norway
69°25′40″N 31°13′41″E / 69.42778°N 31.22806°E / 69.42778; 31.22806Coordinates: 69°25′40″N 31°13′41″E / 69.42778°N 31.22806°E / 69.42778; 31.22806
Soviet victory
Successful German retreat
Soviet Union Germany
K.A. Meretskov Lothar Rendulic
14th Army
133,500 men[1]
110 tanks
2,100 guns[2] 20th Mountain Army
45,000 men[2]
145 guns
6,084 killed or missing
15,149 wounded
21,233 overall[1] 8,263 overall (whole of October)[3] [Notes 1]
Białystok and Minsk
1st Kiev
Toropets and Kholm
Demyansk
2nd Kharkov
3rd Kharkov
2nd Smolensk
Lower Dnieper
2nd Kiev
Dnieper and Carpathian
Leningrad and Novgorod
Hube's Pocket
Jassy-Kishinev
Bagration
Lvov and Sandomierz
2nd Jassy-Kishinev
Dukla Pass
Petsamo and Kirkenes
Vistula and Oder
East Prussia
East Pomerania
German capitulation
Arctic 1941–44
Platinum Fox
Raid on Kirkenes and Petsamo
Lapland War
Petsamo–Kirkenes
Nordic countries in World War II
Denmark in World War II
Sweden in World War II
Norwegian Campaign
German invasion of Denmark (1940)
Occupation of Norway
Occupation of the Faroe Islands
Invasion of Iceland
Transit of German troops through Finland and Sweden
Altmark Incident
Operation Weserübung
Lofoten Islands campaign
Raids on Spitsbergen
Operation Fritham
Operation Zitronella
German battleship Tirpitz
Norwegian heavy water sabotage
Swedish iron mining during World War II
Operation Silver Fox
Danish resistance movement
Rescue of the Danish Jews
Norwegian resistance movement
Nazi concentration camps in Norway
White Buses
Continuation War
The Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive was a major military offensive during World War II, mounted by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht in 1944 in northern Finland and Norway. The offensive defeated the Wehrmacht's forces in the Arctic, driving them back into Norway, and was called the "Tenth Shock" by Stalin. It later expelled German forces from the northern part of Norway and seized the nickel mines of Pechenga/Petsamo.
2 The preparations
3 The offensive
4 Outcome
5 Forces involved
5.1 Soviet
5.2 German
10 Recommended reading
See also: Lapland War
Following the failure of the Wehrmacht's Operation Silver Fox in summer 1941, the frontline in the Arctic had seen little change. Environmental and supply conditions in the remote, nearly roadless region made it difficult, if not impossible, to undertake major military operations, and as far as land warfare was concerned, the Arctic had become a backwater. Sizable German forces were kept in the sector to protect the Finnish nickel mines of Petsamo, which produced a metal of high importance in German armour plate fabrication, and to guard the coast of northern Norway against an Allied landing operation.
After the armistice between the Soviet Union and Finland on 4 September 1944, the Petsamo region (though still largely occupied by the Germans) again became part of Russia, and the Finnish government agreed to remove the remaining German forces from its territory by 15 September (leading to the Lapland War). During the retreat of the German 20th Mountain Army, called Operation Birke, the decision was made by the German Armed Forces Command to withdraw completely from northern Norway and Finland in Operation Nordlicht. During the preparations for this operation, the Russians went over to the offensive on the Karelian Front.[5]
The preparations
The Stavka decided to move against the German forces in the Arctic in late 1944. The operation was to be undertaken jointly by the Karelian Front under the command of General Kirill Meretskov and the Northern Fleet under Admiral Arseniy Golovko. The main operations were to be conducted by 14th Army, which had been in the Arctic since the beginning of the war. Meretskov was provided with several units specially configured to meet the requirements for operations in the far north. The 126th and 127th Rifle Corps consisted of light infantry with a number of ski troops and naval infantry. The Soviets also had 30 engineer battalions, numerous horse- and reindeer-equipped transportation companies, and two battalions equipped with U.S.-supplied amphibious vehicles for river crossings.[2] In addition, the Soviets massed thousands of mortars and artillery pieces, 750 aircraft, and 110 tanks (while the Germans lacked any armour), making Soviet forces far superior to the Germans.[2]
Soviet preparations, which had lasted for two months, had not gone unnoticed by the Germans. The highly capable General Lothar Rendulic, who served as both head of the 20th Mountain Army and overall theater commander, was well aware of the threat posed by the upcoming offensive. Prior to the start of the Soviet drive, the defending Germans had been ordered to abandon Petsamo on 15 October, and Kirkenes by the beginning of November.[6]
The offensive
The offensive can be divided into three phases: the breakthrough of the German position, the pursuit to Kirkenes, and the battle for Kirkenes, including the southward pursuit that followed it. During the offensive several amphibious landings were conducted by naval infantry and army units.[5] Initially, the Germans' intended withdrawal was hampered by Hitler's strict orders to Rendulic to evacuate all supplies from the Petsamo region before abandoning it.[6]
Despite intensive planning before the offensive, the initial attack on 7 October immediately met with problems. Poor visibility made it difficult to co-ordinate artillery and fire support, slowing the assault; nevertheless, after some fierce fighting the Soviets broke through the German lines on the Titovka River. Blowing up the bridges behind them, the Germans retreated. The Soviets pursued, and over the following days conducted several amphibious landings to cut off the German forces.[2] On 10 October the Germans shifted the 163rd Division, which was already withdrawing from Finland to Norway, to the Petsamo region to bolster their defenses.[6] On 13 October the Soviets were poised to attack German forces around the town of Petsamo, and units of the 126th light Rifle Corps were able to establish a roadblock on the only escape route; however, troops of the German 2nd Mountain Division was able to clear the roadblock on 14 October, securing the retreat of Rendulic's forces. The Soviets captured Petsamo on 15 October, but due to supply problems, then had to halt the offensive for three days.[7]
For the rest of the campaign the Soviets advanced after the withdrawing Germans along the coast of Norway, with the Soviets trying to block and cut off German units on their retreat. But because of constant supply shortcomings and German delaying efforts, which forced sizable forces to be detached to road reconstruction, the Soviets were not able to achieve success and the Germans escaped with the bulk of their forces intact. The Germans abandoned Kirkenes on 25 October and finally on 29 October Meretskov halted all operations except reconnaissance.[6][7]
The Soviet offensive ended with a victory for the Red Army, however the Wehrmacht 20th Mountain Army successfully performed an orderly retreat with the bulk of its forces intact just like it did against Finnish forces during their retreat through Lapland carried out at the same time. Soviet failure to inflict clear defeat on the withdrawing Germans was largely due to the supply issues caused by efficient German destruction of road connections in the area. With often the only road available being out of service due damage and mines both supplies and heavy equipment, like artillery, could not be transported to front lines in sufficient quantities while lighter equipped forces were at disadvantage against heavily armed German forces.
The Soviet commander Meretskov was promoted to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, and was given a prominent command during the Red Army's attack on Japanese-held Manchukuo, in August 1945. The Petsamo–Kirkenes Operation is notable in that it was the last major offensive in an Arctic environment. It had been studied intensively in the Soviet Army for this reason.
Forces involved
14th Army, total; 133,500 men
31st Rifle Corps
99th Rifle Corps
131st Rifle Corps
Corps Pigarech[Clarification needed]
126th (light) Rifle Corps
20th Mountain Army
XIX Mountain Corps, total; 45,000 men
2nd Mountain Division
6th Mountain Division
Grenadier Regiment 388 attached
210th Infantry Division (a fortress division)
Division Group van der Hoop (regiment strength)
Bicycle Brigade Norway (regiment strength)
↑ Less than half of the 8,263 overall casualties were killed or missing in action.[3] The Germans "escaped with the bulk of their forces intact"[4]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Glantz (1995) p. 299
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Glantz (1995) p. 230-231
↑ 3.0 3.1 Ahto (1980) p.263
↑ Glantz (1995) p.231
↑ 5.0 5.1 Glantz (1995) p. 229-230
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Ahto (1980) p.260-263
Ahto, Sampo (1980) (in Finnish). Aseveljet vastakkain - Lapin sota 1944-1945 [Brothers in arms against each other - Lapland War 1944-1945]. Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä. ISBN 951-26-1726-9.
Glantz, David M.; House, Jonathan (1995). When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0899-0.
James F. Gebhardt - The Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation
Meretskov, K.A. 'Im Dienste des Volkes' (memoirs of the commander of Karelian Front)
Khudalov 'Am Rande des Kontinents' (memoirs of the commander of 10th Guards Rifle Division)
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Box Office Predictions – Judwaa 2 Set To Break Jinx, Register Good Numbers On Friday
Considering the fact that Monday is the big national holiday too, Judwaa 2 should only grow from strength to strength.
Joginder Tuteja
Finally, there is a film arriving this Friday where one doesn't have to say that 'word of mouth will have to do the trick'. Unlike releases over last so many months where entire dependency was on Saturday and Sunday jumps, here comes Judwaa 2 which is looking at starting big on Friday itself. No wonder, the film is slated to take one of the best opening days of the year with collections in the range of 15 crores at the least pretty much on the cards.
The film hasn't set a wrong foot ever since it's very announcement. Arriving in a year which marks 20 years of Judwaa release, the sequel here is as ambitious and entertaining as it gets. The film has the hit team of Sajid Nadiadwala and David Dhawan coming together. Fox is giving the film one of the biggest releases. Varun Dhawan has been the darling of the masses and the only young star to have a cent percent record so far. Jacqueline Fernandez is a regular with Nadiadwala Grandson and Judwaa 2 is no different. As for Taapsee Pannu, she finally gets a chance to step back into the Chashme Baddoor mode, the film which was again a David Dhawan entertainer and brought her into Bollywood limelight.
What has further helped in sustained publicity around the film is the launch of chartbuster tracks Tan Tana Tan and Oonchi Hai Building. These songs were big hits back in 1997. Now they have become chartbusters all over again. Such has been the magic of these Anu Malik tracks that a recall value is right in the top till date.
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All of this means that the film is quite hot amongst audiences today and there is good awareness quotient it. Considering the fact that Monday is the big national holiday too, Judwaa 2 should only grow from strength to strength and show huge numbers on Sunday.
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The R&D and Quality Control Division of Nagarjuna Ayurveda was started in1994 as a quality control laboratory and eventually got upgraded in to a full-fledged research laboratory. Nagarjuna Ayurveda created the trend of commercializing and organizing Ayurveda by creating one of the best R&D institutes in India with ISO Certification in Ayurveda. This has been possible through systematic R&D work and Lab practices. The highly trained team of Scientists and Physicians, from different disciplines, has successfully developed several valuable formulations which have helped the group to set new standards of excellence in Herb-oriented Health Care.
The R&D Unit has evolved stringent methods for analyzing and testing of raw materials and end products. A dedicated team of research scientists and quality experts conduct research for the development of new formulations and standardization of drugs.
Nagarjuna Research Foundation (NRF) is the charitable trust, which is heading and controlling the research activities of the various subsidiaries of Nagarjuna Ayurveda. Besides the research works on products and treatments, it is also involved in promoting Ayurvedic studies and the cultivation of medicinal plants. It has instituted the renowned 'Oushadhamithram' Award, presented to the best cultivator of medicinal plants, each year. The Nagarjuna Ayurveda Group has instituted the prestigious 'Nagarjuna Merit Awards' for promoting Ayurvedic Medical Education.
Raw material standardization and sharing of the technology with the industry.
Product development with proof in allopathic reference.
Process R&D for production process standardization.
Presenting the traditional products in the modern convenient forms.
Pharmacognosy To identify genuine raw materials through Microscopic and Macroscopic methods.
Chemistry To ensure pre process, in process and post process quality standards.
Pharmaceutics To ensure new forms, presentations and optimum dosage.
Microbiology To ensure absence of microbial contamination in medicines, to standardize fermentation, to identify herbs having good antibacterial & antifungal properties.
Pharmacology To scientifically evaluate the efficacy, toxicity and dosage of the herbal formulations.
Clinical Research To conduct various phases of clinical trails using Epidemiological parameters.
Nagarjuna Ayurveda has the only ISO certified R&D in state of Kerala, India. The adherence to quality standards helped Nagarjuna Ayurveda in becoming one among, the hand full of, ISO certified Ayurveda R&D's, in India.
Nagarjuna Ayurveda R&D Division is recognised by Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt. of India.
Animal Testing laboratory approved by the Committee for the Purpose of Control & Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Govt. of India. Incidentally this is the only Ayurvedic Company in the Indian State of Kerala which is having such a facility.
Approved Product and Crude Drug Testing Laboratory by Pharmacopoeial Laboratory of Indian Medicine (PLIM), Govt. of India. The institute utilises the unique Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer for heavy metal testing and Chromatographic finger-printing for raw material standardisation. It is the first one of its kind in the Ayurvedic industry in the State of Kerala and one among only less than 20 such Labs in the total of India. This approval means that even other manufacturers may bring in their raw materials as well as finished products to this Lab for getting them tested and certified on behalf of the Govt of India.
Research Partners and Collaborative Projects.
Sree Chithra Thirunal Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram – Cardoguard tablet – Delineation of Molecular Mechanism of Action and its Efficacy in regression of Ventricular Hypertrophy.


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Honey Boo Boo's Future Uncertain After Report Claims Mama June Is Dating a Child Molester
by Lily Harrison | Thu., Oct. 23, 2014 11:05 AM
Thibault Monnier, Pacific Coast News/Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Just one month after calling it splits with her partner, Sugar Bear Thompson, it looks like Mama June has found herself a new man.
But there's a big problem with the mother of four's alleged new relationship, according to the network that brought the famous reality show to light.
It turns out that the rumored boyfriend, Mark McDaniel, was convicted of aggravated child molestation in 2004.
According to TMZ, who first broke the story, Mama June was dating McDaniel (and not Sugar Bear!) at the time the incident took place.
To make matters worse, the site is reporting that the victim was actually a relative of Mama June's, and someone whom she is still in contact with.
McDaniel has served 10 years in a Georgia state prison and was released in March of this year. He is currently a registered sex offender in Georgia.
PHOTO: Look back on when Mama June and Sugar Bear exchanged vows
Jason Winslow / Splash News
Shortly after learning about the possibly blossoming new relationship, TLC released the following statement regarding new seasons of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo's on the network:
"TLC is not currently in production on Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. We are very concerned about this new information and are reassessing the future of the series."
Just a few weeks ago, Sugar Bear and Mama June announced that they were calling it quits on their longtime relationship.
PHOTOS: Celebrity Break Ups
"Sugar Bear and I have decided to take some time apart to figure out some things in our relationship," the pair said in a statement. "We are taking things day by day, but regardless of what happens, the girls will always be our number one priority. We want to thank y'all for your support."
The two exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony back in May in front of their kids in their backyard, however, they were never legally married.
During the show, Mama June gave a bit of advice to those looking to find love.
"Never settle for a man who doesn't treat you right. If a guy doesn't love everything about you, move on! There are plenty of other fish in the sea."
PHOTOS: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo: OMG Moments
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Is IPC-2152 Holding Your Power Integrity Back?
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For most designers, the Power Distribution Network (PDN) is a foreign and intimidating part of the PCB design process. But achieving optimal PDN performance is not as complicated as it seems.
For many designers, the Power Distribution Network (PDN) is a foreign and intimidating part of the PCB design process. But achieving optimal PDN performance is not as complicated as it seems. In fact, the fundamental goal of optimizing your PDN can be as straightforward as your PCB design process. How do we go about making PDN optimization less intimidating? By understanding what aspects we can control.
The fundamental goal of designing your PDN is very straightforward - provide enough current and voltage to every load to meet their operation requirements. Ensuring there's enough metal between each of the sources and their corresponding loads is the most critical aspect of the PCB in regards to PDN performance. But how do we get there?
Can IPC-2152 Get Us There?
Conservative width and via recommendations that may result in larger or more power shapes and vias than necessary.
Minimal direction on how to address imperfections in a design's power shapes.
Lack of insight into the proper placement of associated power rails.
It's clear that IPC-2152 does not provide enough guidance to properly optimize PDN designs on its own. How can we meet our PDN design challenges with a new level of expertise?
There are various aspects of most PDN designs that can be influenced by the PCB designer.
Want to learn how you can better prepare for and prevent PDN issues at the PCB level with an integrated analysis tool? Download our free whitepaper PDN Basics for the PCB Designer today to find out how.
Signal and Power Integrity Product Manager at Altium Jeff Loyer is the Signal and Power Integrity Product Manager at Altium. Prior to joining Altium, he spent more than 20 years as an engineer at Intel, the last 10 as signal integrity lead for their server divisions. While at Intel, he led work groups which significantly impacted the industry's high-speed PCB design practices, including work on the Fiberweave Effect, copper roughness, environmental effects on insertion loss, and insertion loss control and measurement (inventor of SET2DIL).
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RCEM (UK) team trains doctors at HFH on emergency medicine
Rawalpindi: A team of Royal College of Emergency Medicine (UK) is on a visit to Pakistan that has conducted a train the trainer workshop for supervisors of one-year certificate course, Emergency Medicine Foundation Programme that would be launched here in Holy Family Hospital (HFF) in town.
The specialty of emergency medicine is expanding in whole of the world very rapidly. Specialists of this field provide initial diagnosis and treatment to patients coming to emergency department of hospitals and save lives of many patients.
Keeping in mind the importance of this specialty, with the efforts of Vice Chancellor of Rawalpindi Medical University Professor Mohammad Umar (SI), department of emergency medicine is being established in Holy Family Hospital.
So far only six hospitals in Pakistan have established this specialty though most of them are in private sector while only few specialists of emergency medicine are available in Pakistan, said Dr. Umar while talking to 'The News' on Wednesday.
He added that the HFH is the first public sector hospital in Punjab province that has established this department of emergency medicine. For training of doctors in Holy Family Hospital, a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed with Royal College of Emergency Medicine (UK).
According to the MoU, the Royal College would start Emergency Medicine Foundation Programme in Holy Family Hospital that is a one year certificate course and would provide opportunity to as many as 30 doctors for training in emergency medicine according to UK standards.
The first team of Royal College of Emergency Medicine comprising Dean Royal College of Emergency Medicine Dr Jason long, Deputy Chief Executive RCEM Mrs Emliy Beat and consultant RCEM Dr Ayaz Abbasi visited HFH from Monday to Wednesday (June 17 to June 19) to conduct train the trainer workshop for supervisors of this course.
Dr Usman Qureshi, lead educational supervisor informed 'The News' that that after this training, doctors will be in a better position to deliver their services according to international standards in newly established department of emergency medicine in Rawalpindi Medical University and allied hospitals.


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Documenting The Culture
TECH + GAMING
STYLE + TIMES
by Apparatus
PAUL NEWMAN'S DAYTONA ROLEX SELLS FOR A RECORD $17.8 MILLION
A Rolex watch the previously belonged to Paul Newman recently became the most expensive watch ever to be sold. At a recent auction, the watch sold for $17.8 million USD.
The auction: The stainless-steel Daytona Rolex was the main draw at a special 50-lot evening sale dubbed "Winning Icons — Legendary Watches of the 20th Century" at Phillips auction house.
Why this matters: The timepiece had been estimated at more than $1 million. The previous record for a wristwatch belonged to a stainless-steel Patek Philippe that sold for $11.1 million at Phillips in November. Newman originally received the watch as a gift from his wife, actress Joanne Woodward. The two starred together in the 1969 movie "Winning," which sparked Newman's successful racing career. The wristwatch has a white dial, three black subdials, a red outer track and Woodward's engraving on the back: "DRIVE CAREFULLY ME."
And the winner is: Newman's watch went to a bidder on the phone who wanted to remain anonymous the auction house said. The auction lasted 12 minutes with the first bid coming in at $1 million USD, which was immediately followed by a $10 million USD bid.
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When my friend was a child, no one expected him to go very far… He walked later than his peers. He talked later than his peers. His parents were told his learning disabilities and issues of ADHD were so severe he needed a small teacher student ratio and a specialized school.
Professionals told his parents he'd never graduate high school.
He did… with straight A's.
But he was… He just learned and excelled a different way.
Professionals told his parents he'd never make it through his Bar Mitzvah.
He did… leaving the school speechless.
Professionals told his parents he'd never make it to college.
He did… graduating at the top of his class with a 3.8 GPA. He then received his Master's degree with a 4.0 GPA.
He writes with me to this day. And he's one of the most humble people you'll ever meet. I won't share his name. He's a bit shy. But he's come a long way.
Just why am I sharing this with you?
Entrepreneurs face tough odds and struggles, too. In fact, most times, the odds are stacked against us. We're told we'll never succeed because of market over-saturation, or that our ideas aren't strong enough, or no one is interested.
But the strong entrepreneurs are those that don't give in to the odds and pressures of potential failure. We just push forward, like my friend.
Successful entrepreneurs find a way to get the job done, despite what others may say.
For example, as Entrepreneur.com reported recently, "Herb Kelleher cofounded Southwest Airlines on the crazy notion of using small regional airports and charging rock-bottom fares. Nobody thought he could pull it off. Today its market cap is bigger than United Continental and nearly as big as American and Delta.
Coffee shops had always been the bottom of the restaurant food chain, so Howard Schultz's bosses at coffee roaster Starbucks balked at his idea for a chain of cafes serving espresso, as was the custom in Italy. So he took a flying leap, bought the brand and the rest is history.
If you have a dream, a goal, a purpose, make it happen. There's no reason not to try.
We live once. Make it mean something.


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Das Konzert für Pauken und Orchester (norwegisch: Konsert for pauker og orkester, kurz Paukekonsert) ist ein Paukenkonzert von Marcus Paus, das zum 250-jährigen Jubiläum des Philharmonischen Orchesters Bergen geschrieben wurde. Es wurde von den Bergen-Philharmonikern unter der Leitung von Andrew Litton am 19. Februar 2015 uraufgeführt. Die Premiere wurde von NRK ausgestrahlt.

Das Konzert wurde 2015 in der norwegischen Musikzeitschrift Ballade ausführlich diskutiert, nachdem es vom Komponisten Olav Anton Thommessen wegen seiner Verwendung von Tradition und Tonalität kritisiert wurde; Thommessen ist als Komponist der führende Vertreter der atonalen Moderne in Norwegen und war um die Jahrhundertwende als Professor an der Musikhochschule Lehrer von Paus. Thommessen argumentierte, dass das neue Paukenkonzert von Marcus Paus eine Debatte über die Form und Zukunft der zeitgenössischen Musik anrege. Das Konzert wurde vom Komponisten Ragnar Søderlind, ebenfalls Professor an der Musikhochschule, verteidigt. Søderlind hielt das Konzert für einen guten Ausgangspunkt für die Debatte über (klassische) Musik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Der Musikphilosoph und Professor an der Universität Oslo Arild Pedersen verteidigte das Werk ebenfalls. Die Debatte war die größte öffentliche Debatte über Kunstmusik in Norwegen seit den 1970er Jahren.

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United Airlines Tests Lie-Flat Seats on Boeing 737 Max
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Those long, cross-country flights could soon get a lot more comfortable thanks to United, which is testing lie-flat seats on its new fleet of single-aisle Boeing 737 Max 10 jets. If all goes well, says United President Scott Kirby, the airline would add seats to certain planes when they enter service in 2020, reports The Points Guy. The Max 10 planes will largely replace United's aging fleet of 757s, and be used between East and West Coast points including Seattle, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, D.C.
United currently offers lie-flat seats on select cross-country routes, but the move would make them more attractive to customers who don't mind paying a premium for space (and sleep). The Chicago-based airline isn't alone in its thinking: 'Big Three' competitors Delta Air Lines and American Airlines both offer lie-flat seats on transcontinental flights, as does JetBlue. (The latter two offer lie-flat seats on the Airbus A321, a competitor to the 737 Max.)
Now, if only lie-flat seats in economy would become a reality.
With S.A.L.T, Silversea is Completely Rewriting How Cruises Do Food
How to Deal With Flight Cancellations Due to Strikes
10 Things You Should Never Do On a Cruise


Combine strawberries, lemon peel and 1 1/2 cups water in medium saucepot.
juice, corn syrup and lemon juice to sugar syrup. Boil 4 minutes.
-- fingertip tight. Process 10 minutes in a boiling-water canner.
This recipe yields about 3 pints.


Among the many improvements that Apple offered its iPhone users in iPhone OS 3.0 was a speed boost in many applications. Fellow iPhone users are recommended to upgrade immediately.
The Contacts list is the key to the 3rd Generation (3G) production line of iPhone. Here's a few tricks on how to add a portrait photo to a contact, using the built-in Safari web browser.
Three weeks ago I got an official notification that I was divorced in Portugal.
These news are written for an international audience. If you live in Denmark, please consult my news pages in Danish, as they are more updated with urgent news.
In mid-November, 2006, I had a meeting with the web committee of my Cultural Association Denmark-Bulgaria. I realised that the other members use Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) as the preferred or even only internet browser. I wondered why, so I gave it a thought. Here I am back with my explanation.
Microsoft bundles its Windows software installation package with Internet Explorer for different reasons. One is, of course, browsing web pages, but another is that Internet Explorer is linked to the operating system as Windows Explorer. This seamless integration with Internet Explorer was introduced in Windows 98 and was Microsoft's way to eliminate its worst rival, Netscape, during the browser war of the 1990's. This leads us to another reason — you need it to carry out upgrades from Microsoft. And of course, you don't belong to the guys, who never carry out upgrades of fear from vira or just out of laziness.
Given the quite big share of your time dedicated to writing text documents, e-mails and browsing the world wide web, you'd better get the best and most suitable programs for the job. Suitability doesn't mean accepting a default program provided by the manufacturer of your operating system, but careful selection based on individual taste and objective criteria. It's your time, it's your life. Get the best out of it.
Since Internet Explorer is a part of Windows, not just an additional program, you are much more vulnerable to malicious attacks than with other browsers. If you come across a virus, a Troyan horse, incorporated into a web page or just a PNG image file, it may infect your web browser and subsequently the operating system, the heart of your computer, from which is spreads rapidly. And, believe me, there is a lot of malicious software out in cyber space. Another browser or program may also catch an infection or suffer attack, but if that happens, you just uninstall it, throw it away, and re-install the clean software again.
Internet Explorer is not a standard web browser. The requirements that modern web browsers should meet are specified by the World Wide Web Consortium. The Consortium, also abbreviated W3C, is a standardisation organisation with representatives of the major agents in the internet industry. The list of participants includes brands as Netscape, Mozilla, Microsoft, Apple, Sun Microsystems, Opera, and many others. When founded in November 1996, one of its first initiatives was to make a specification for the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), called version 3.2. In 1999, W3C lifted the web browsing language to the heights of XML and by January 26, 2000, the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) was an official recommendation, i.e., standard. W3C introduced XHTML to keep structure and appearance apart on the internet. This was achieved by introducing a computer language for styling text and documents, called Cascading Style Sheets. It became a recommendation already by December 17, 1996. Microsoft Corporation was one of the first ones to embrace the standard in its version 4.5 of MSIE. Version 5 of Internet Explorer, especially the Macintosh version, was almost 100% standards compliant. The other chief competitor, Netscape, was a bit more reluctant.
Now the problem is that the later development of Microsoft Internet Explorer by and large neglected the more recent versions of the standards specifications coming from W3C. There is no such thing as the 100% standards compliant web browser, but their developers should do their best to live up to them, and most developers do. If you have been surfing the internet for the last decade, as I have, you can tell that MSIE's ability to render standard web pages did not change much from version 4.5 to 5, and from 5 to 6, there has been practically no change at all. We are talking about the time spanning from 1998 to the present date (2006), where the programmers of Microsoft did not focus on appearance, but on functionality. Particularly, Microsoft had to cope with the consequences of its own success; apart from winning honest PC users to their side in 1998, they also won swarms of nuisances that specialised their software for attacks on the Windows platform in forms of vira, Troyan horses, spyware, wormholes, etc. One way to get in and take control over your computer is the web browser, so the software developers of Microsoft have been focusing on the crucial security issues rather than on the web standards.
The PC user preferring Internet Explorer is missing the last eight years of refinement of appearance. CSS version 2.1 has been a candidate recommendation since February 2004, not just a recommendation, so officially, it is not a true standard. However, the work of the W3C CSS team is now focused on CSS version 3, just as to say that the job with CSS 2.1 is done. Browsers like Opera, Safari (for Macintosh), Konqueror (for Linux), Firefox have already included most of CSS 2.1. MSIE is lagging way behind.
Try to view this page first in Internet Explorer, and then in Opera. Do you see the difference?
Wrong again. Many experienced internet surfers are aware of the problems described above and are switching to other browsers. As of October 2006, less than 60% of the visits to the web site of W3Schools were done with MSIE, and the number has been falling ever since 2003. Although this is based on the statistics of one web site only, the tendency is clear. Computer users over the world abandon MSIE in favor of other web browsers, of which the chief rival is the open-source software Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation.
You may have your reasons. You may have a PC that is not entirely yours, for instance at your work, where the employer has set up security measures to prevent his employees from installing their own programs. Sometimes it is possible to find one or two programs that you can install anyway. In 2005, I managed to install both Opera and Mozilla on such a secured computer one place where I was taking a course. The trick was to install the programs outside the PC's Programs folder.
Another thing is if you deliberately chose to not install new programs. You will be missing a lot in this world, and I question whether your security argument holds. After all, I am not talking about installing obscure spyware or other annoying stuff; I am talking about software packages that that have millions and millions of largely satisfied users. Go to the sites of the browsers (conf. Links for a few of the browsers) and see for yourself. Or check neutral comparisons of the different web browsers. After all, you are at a greater risk of infection staying with MSIE than switching to a more dedicated internet browser.
It is a fast browser on a Windows computer, but it is not the fastest. In his Browser speed comparisons of 2004, Mark Wilton-Jones proved that in all categories of measurement, Internet Explorer was superceded by other browsers, and always by Opera. So much for the default browser built into your PC's operating system!


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Category Archives: Colloquia
CG Colloquium Thursday January 16th
January 7, 2020 Colloquia, News, Upcoming
You are cordially invited to attend our CG Colloquium on Thursday, January 16th, 2020, 15:45-17:45h, EWI-Lecture Hall D@ta.
The program features the following two speakers:
Nouri Khalass
Title: Visualizing Axial-Symmetrical Nebula
Abstract: Nebulas are both interesting astrophysical phenomena as well as one of natures most beautiful sights to behold. Their astrophysical relevance comes from the fact that they can be the birthplace of new stars but also the remains of older stars. On top of that, nebulas have appeared countless times when depicting "space" in the entertainment industry. There exists a class of nebula that have a pronounced symmetry in their appearance. The goal is to create a tool that allows the user to model these kinds of nebula. By exploiting this symmetry the user does not have to model the complete nebula, but only a section of the nebula and from this a complete nebula can be synthesized.
Marie Kegeleers
Title: Interactive Story Authoring in Augmented Reality
Abstract: Augmented reality (AR) is a relatively new kind of technology that can be used as a tool to facilitate tasks that benefit from real time interaction and 3D visualisation in a real-world environment. An example of these tasks is story authoring. A story authoring application in AR allows the author to easily visualise story mechanics like plot points, as well as the authored scene with characters and props. Because AR integrates virtual elements with the real world, it offers more direct interaction with story elements which can provide a more intuitive experience compared to a PC application. This project introduces a new interface for AR in a tabletop environment using a head mounted device, that aims to facilitate the story authoring process through its different approach to interaction and visualisation. The interface provides a new way of interaction with virtual elements by combining both physical markers and hand gesture input. The tabletop environment is used to visualise the story authoring elements dynamically, in 3D, to avoid cluttering and enable adaptability. The goal of this combination of interaction and visualisation concepts is to provide a more intuitive story authoring experience.
Computer graphics colloquium Image Synthesis of the Future
September 17, 2019 Colloquia, News
You are kindly invited to join the colloquium "Image Synthesis of the Future" on the 18th from 14:00 – 16:00 in the Social Data Lab of the VMB building. During this event, we will experience several renowned speakers:
Ulf Assarsson of Chalmers University
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~uffe/
Prof. Assarsson is an expert in real-time shadow computation and large-scale scene representations, including applications to 3D printing.
Jacco Bikker of Utrecht University
https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/JBikker
Dr. Bikker is the author of the famous Brigade renderer, a path tracer for real-time applications.
Jacob Munkberg of NVIDIA research
http://fileadmin.cs.lth.se/cs/Personal/Jacob_Munkberg/
Dr. Munkberg worked for Intel and NVIDIA and is responsible for many influential papers on image reconstruction for real-time rendering.
Mark Stamminger
https://www.lgdv.tf.fau.de/person/marc-stamminger/
Prof. Stamminger, chair for computer graphics in Erlangen, is known for his many contributions to real-time rendering, including the seminal work on perspective shadow maps, as well as 3D reconstruction and VR/stereo rendering applications.
Each of the speakers will share their insights on the domain and share their views on the field.
CG Colloquium Thursday May 16th
May 13, 2019 Archive, Colloquia, News
You are cordially invited to attend our CG Colloquium on Thursday, May 16, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at Pulse-Technology.
Gijs Reichert
Title: Improving video analysis for the Olympic dinghy class sailing coaches and athletes
Abstract: Nowadays technology and data analytics are becoming increasingly intertwined with sports. The data can help assess performance during training and in competitive settings. However, for most sailors in the Olympic dinghy class it holds that the use of sensors during training is not standard practice and not allowed during races. To record and review their performance the coaches and athletes make use of video, shot (often by holding a camera in hand) from the a coach boat. The goal is to improve the capture, processing and analysis of videos used to train sailing athletes in the dinghy class. More specifically, the stabilization and quality of the footage taken from the coach boat that follows athletes will be improved. Next to this, of the entire recorded session only the interesting parts for the coach and athletes will be highlighted and extracted. To achieve this segmentation into clips object tracking will be used as well as methods to detect sailing manoeuvres. From these video clips the heel angle, position in boat and rudder movements can be extracted or enhanced to support the coaches in their assessment. The proposed approach should lead to a time-saving method to extract more information from the videos previously possible to support the training of the dutch Olympic sailing team.
Levi van Aanholt
Title: Semantic Tile Solving for Procedural Generation of Architectural Spaces
Abstract: We present an offline tile solving technique to generate complex architectural spaces. The generation is controlled by the notion of an architectural profile. An architectural profile allows to declaritively control spatial creation. It consists of semantic tiles representing building elements and declarative rules to control the generation according to architectural relations. This problem is converted to an ASP logic program and subsequently solved by an ASP solver. Our technique results in a declarative architecture generator that unifies procedurally generating building exterior, building interior and traversal in one system.
CG Colloquium Thursday May 2nd
May 1, 2019 Archive, Colloquia
You are cordially invited to attend our CG Colloquium on Thursday, May 2nd, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at Pulse Hall 4
The program features the following three speakers:
Huinan Jiang
Title: Player model analysis for adaptive content delivery in an educational game
Abstract: Player in games has been a useful way for understanding player motivation, style and preferences, assisting us to predict their behaviour, adapt the and improve user experience. For serious games, learning is also an factor to consider. Most work done in this area is about adaptive difficulty. While in our educational game Squla, students are exposed to multiple game types, it's interesting to know how their behavioural data could their game type preference, and whether custom game type delivery could improve students' engagement and learning. Therefore we present a player analysis method game adaptation, and experiment with target student groups to look into the impact.
Antony Löbker
Title: Automatic reconstruction of real-world buildings using open data
Abstract: Using publicly available data , such as Google streetview panoramas and OpenStreetMap building, it is possible to reconstruct real-world buildings. While these are not highly detailed, they will give a general impression of a. The proposed method can quickly reconstruction an entire neighbourhood in major urban centers around the world.
Julie Hongping Feng
Title: Building a 4D MRI blood flow statistical model
Abstract: Cardiovascular (CVDs) are the global number one cause of death. Current of CVDs is mainly based on functions and morphology of cardiovascular, and 4D MRI blood flow data has become a new and powerful source of, which allows both anatomical and functional analysis in a single. However, it is still difficult to efficiently utilize this data source diagnose CVDs. One of the main reasons is the lack of standard analysis and understanding of this rather new imaging modality. The method to understand the healthy behaviour and its variation is to build an atlas. Current blood flow atlas do not support 3D velocity vector field full information. We attempt to build a 4D MRI blood flow atlas similar to statistical shape and appearance models by applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to get the mean and main variations of the blood flow fields. The of this atlas would help physicians understand the 4D MRI data and assist them to identify whether the data is abnormal or not. In order to more efficient representations of variations for vector fields, we also tested Complex PCA and Quaternion PCA, besides traditional Real PCA. Finally, will visualize the results such that they can be interpretable.
CG Colloquium Thursday April 18th
April 15, 2019 Archive, Colloquia
You are cordially invited to attend our CG Colloquium on Thursday, April 18, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at Pulse Hall 4 .
Remi van der Laan
Title: Enhancing Compression of the Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graph
Abstract: Rendering massive scenes in real time represented as voxels has emerged as an attractive alternative compared to the traditional rendering pipeline. This has been achieved through the development of data structures that can efficiently store the scene data while also being inexpensive to traverse. The Sparse Voxel Directed Acyclic Graph is such a data structure, which losslessly compresses geometry by exploiting the spatial coherence in the scene. We attempt enhance the effectiveness of this compression through modifications to the construction of the graph and investigate possibility of applying lossy compression techniques.
Hao Ming Ye
Title: not available at the moment
Abstract: not available at the moment
Ruben Wiersma
Title: Graph Convolutional Networks for Learning on Point Clouds
Abstract: In the past decade, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved incredible results. A recent development in the deep learning community is the attempt to generalise the advantages of CNNs from a Euclidean domain to non-Euclidean domains, like graphs and manifolds. Some examples of graph data are social networks, regulatory networks, functional networks, and 3D shapes. We attempt to get an understanding of the methods currently available and aim to improve on the current methodology for learning on point clouds. A tentative conclusion is that the conceptually simple Graph Convolutional Network by Kipf and Welling could be improved for manifolds through the incorporation of the connection Laplacian from vector diffusion maps.
CG Colloquium Thursday April 4th
April 2, 2019 Archive, Colloquia
You are cordially invited to attend our Computer Graphics and Visualization Seminar on Thursday, April 4, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at Pulse Hall 7.
Ruben VroegindeWeij (PRELIMINARY)
Title: Motion in Image
Abstract: We present a method to encode motion in a single image by mixing frames from different time origins with a simple user interface.
Mark van de Ruit
Title: Pre-Estimated Spectral Rendering
Abstract: Spectral Monte-Carlo rendering algorithms are suited for reproducing several advanced light phenomena such as dispersion and colored particle scattering. However, spectral rendering comes at the cost of increased (colored) image noise, as now additional samples are required in the spectral domain. We propose to iteratively build estimates of the spectral distributions in a scene during rendering, and use these estimates to guide sampling of the spectral domain. This method can lower variance from spectral sampling in specific situations, which is demonstrated with a working implementation in a conventional path tracer.
Felix Yang
Title: Adaptive Multi-view Ambient Occlusion
Abstract: Screen-space ambient occlusion and obscurance is a group of techniques that approximate the ambient occlusion or obscurance lighting model in the screen-space. They are ubiquitously adopted in modern video games, but suffer from view-dependent artifacts. One possible method to remedy such artifacts is using additional auxiliary cameras to aid the computation, but the improvement diminishes if the auxiliary cameras have poor coverage of the main scene. This project aims to develop techniques to adaptively manipulate the auxiliary cameras to ensure good coverages, therefore a more stable improvement over the single-view result.
Workshop Visual Analytics and Applications
April 1, 2019 Archive, Colloquia, MedVis, News, VRVis
You are all cordially invited to workshop visual analytics and applications, which will take place on 8th of April, from 14:00-17:00 at Pulse-hall 4. Please find detailed program below.
14:00 Jean Daniel Fekete: "Exploring the Evolution of Relationships with Dynamic Hypergraphs"
14:40 Renata Raidou: "Employing Visual Analytics for the Exploration and Prediction"
15:30 Cagatay Turkay: "Informed computational modelling through visual analytics"
Abstract: With the increasing availability of computational data analysis and modelling tools that can be utilised out-of-the-box, the route from data to results is now much shorter. However, these advancements also come together their own limitations, and a data scientists need to be aware of the pitfalls and act carefully to question every observation and method used within each step of the data analysis process. Visual analytics approaches where interactive visualisations are coupled tightly with the algorithms offer effective methodologies in conducting data science in such inquisitive, rigorous ways. This talk will discuss how visual analytics can facilitate such practices and will look at examples of research on how data can be transformed and visualised creatively in multiple perspectives, on how comparisons can be made within different models, parameters, and within local and global solutions, and on how interaction is an enabler for such processes.
16:10 Thomas Hollt: Cytosplore: Visual Analytics for Single-Cell Profiling of the Immune System
Abstract: Recent advances in single-cell acquisition technology have led to a shift towards single-cell analysis in many fields of biology. In immunology, detailed knowledge of the cellular composition is of interest, as it can be the cause of deregulated immune responses, which cause diseases. Similarly, vaccination is based on triggering proper immune responses; however, many vaccines are ineffective or only work properly in a subset of those who are vaccinated. Identifying differences in the cellular composition of the immune system in such cases can lead to more precise treatment. Cytosplore is an integrated, interactive visual analysis framework for the exploration of large single-cell datasets. We have developed Cytosplore in close collaboration with immunology researchers and several partners use the software in their daily workflow. Cytosplore enables efficient data analysis and has led to several discoveries alongside high-impact publications.
CG Colloquium Thursday March 21st
March 19, 2019 Colloquia
You are cordially invited to attend our Computer Graphics and Visualization Seminar on Thursday, March 21, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at EWI-Lecture hall Chip.
David Alderliesten
Title: Continuum Crowds
Abstract: We present a real-time crowd model based on continuum dynamics. In our model, a dynamic potential field simultaneously integrates global navigation with moving obstacles such as other people, efficiently solving for the motion of large crowds without the need for explicit collision avoidance. Simulations created with our system run at interactive rates, demonstrate smooth flow under a variety of conditions, and naturally exhibit emergent phenomena that have been observed in real crowds.
Remco de Vos
Title: Tile-based Pattern Design with Topology Control
Abstract: Patterns with desired aesthetic appearances and physical structures are ubiquitous. However, such patterns are challenging to produce−manual authoring requires significant expertise and efforts while automatic computation lacks sufficient flexibility and user control. We propose a method that automatically synthesizes vector patterns with visual appearance and topological structures designated by users via input exemplars and output conditions. The input can be an existing vector graphics design or a new one manually drawn by the user through our interactive interface. Our system decomposes the input pattern into constituent components (tiles) and overall arrangement (tiling). The tile sets are general and flexible enough to represent a variety of patterns, and can produce different outputs with user specified conditions such as size, shape, and topological properties for physical manufacturing.
Vera Hoveling
Final Bachelor presentation by Vera Hoveling.
CG Colloquium Thursday March 7th
March 5, 2019 Archive, Colloquia
Computer Graphics and Visualization Seminar on Thursday, March 7, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at EWI-Lecture hall Chip.
Title: Exploiting Coherence in Time-Varying Voxel Data
Abstract: We encode time-varying voxel data for efficient storage and streaming. We store the equivalent of a separate sparse voxel octree for each frame, but utilize both spatial and temporal coherence to reduce the amount of memory needed. We represent the time-varying voxel data in a single directed acyclic graph with one root per time step. In this graph, we avoid storing identical regions by keeping one unique instance and pointing to that from several parents. We further reduce the memory consumption of the graph by minimizing the number of bits per pointer and encoding the result into a dense bitstream.
Michiel van Spaendonck
Title: Spatiotemporal Variance-Guided Filtering: Real-Time Reconstruction for Path-Traced Global Illumination
Abstract: We introduce a reconstruction algorithm that generates a temporally stable sequence of images from one path-per-pixel global illumination. To handle such noisy input, we use temporal accumulation to increase the effective sample count and spatiotemporal luminance variance estimates to drive a hierarchical, image-space wavelet filter. This hierarchy allows us to distinguish between noise and detail at multiple scales using local luminance variance.
Physically based light transport is a long-standing goal for real-time computer graphics. While modern games use limited forms of ray tracing, physically based Monte Carlo global illumination does not meet their 30Hz minimal performance requirement. Looking ahead to fully dynamic real-time path tracing, we expect this to only be feasible using a small number of paths per pixel. As such, image reconstruction using low sample counts is key to bringing path tracing to real-time. When compared to prior interactive reconstruction filters, our work gives approximately 10x more temporally stable results, matches reference images 5-47% better (according to SSIM), and runs in just 10ms (+- 15%) on modern graphics hardware at 1920×1080 resolution.
CG Colloquium Thursday February 21st
February 21, 2019 Archive, Colloquia
You are cordially invited to attend our Computer Graphics and Visualization Seminar on Thursday, February 21, 2019, 15:45-17:45h, at EWI-Lecture hall Chip.
Title: Visualizing Stars and Emission Nebulae
Abstract: We describe the star and nebula visualization techniques used to create a 3D volumetric visualization of the Orion Nebula. The nebula's ionization layer is modeled first as a surface model, derived from infrared and visible light observations. The model is imported into a volume scene graph-based volume visualization system to simulate the nebula's emissive gases. Stars are rendered using Gaussian spots that are attenuated with distance.
Title: Real-Time Polygonal-Light Shading with Linearly Transformed Cosines
Abstract: In this paper, we show that applying a linear transformation—represented by a 3 x 3 matrix—to the direction vectors of a spherical distribution yields another spherical distribution, for which we derive a closed-form expression. With this idea, we can use any spherical distribution as a base shape to create a new family of spherical distributions with parametric roughness, elliptic anisotropy and skewness. If the original distribution has an analytic expression, normalization, integration over spherical polygons, and importance sampling, then these properties are inherited by the linearly transformed distributions.
By choosing a clamped cosine for the original distribution we obtain a family of distributions, which we call Linearly Transformed Cosines (LTCs), that provide a good approximation to physically based BRDFs and that can be analytically integrated over arbitrary spherical polygons. We show how to use these properties in a realtime polygonal-light shading application. Our technique is robust, fast, accurate and simple to implement.


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Letting the Foxes Guard the Henhouse: For-Profit Publishing and the Corruption of Open Access
First session in our Open Access Week series
Presenter: Clayton Hayes
The Open Access (OA) movement was originally intended to push back against high subscription costs of scholarly journals and came to be seen as a way to increase equity in the world of scholarly publishing. Instead, it has instead been co-opted by for-profit academic publishers to extract ever-larger sums from researchers and institutions. By discussing the parallel development of library OA and for-profit OA, I hope to contextualize Article Processing Charges and Read-and-Publish Agreements as "Open Access" systems which preserve the status quo (in favor of for-profit publishers) and reinforce existing inequities. This presentation is intended for a librarian audience, however, all who may have interest in learning more about open access and equity are welcome to attend
Veronica Bielat
vbielat@wayne.edu
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Honorary Master Chief
USS Stethem Holds Honorary Master Chief Frocking For Namesake August 24, 2010 Steelworker (SW/DV) 2nd Class Robert Dean Stethem was frocked to the honorary rank of master chief petty officer, 25 years after he was killed during the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in June 1985.
Stethem was singled out by Lebanese hijackers because of his military status and was badly beaten and ultimately murdered after their demands were not met. Throughout his ordeal Stethem did not yield; instead, he acted with fortitude and courage and helped his fellow passengers endure by his example.
"The idea is simple," said Cmdr. Hank Adams, USS Stethem commanding officer. "If 'Robbie' had lived and stayed in the Navy, surely 25 years later, he would have risen through the ranks to become a master chief."
When the Stethem chief petty officer mess presented the idea to Adams, he said he wholeheartedly agreed, signed a request for the promotion and forwarded it to the office of the master chief petty officer of the Navy (MCPON). A few months later, the request was approved and a heroic Sailor was honored.
"The strength and character that he demonstrated in TWA flight 847 allowed him to face extreme adversity with rarely good grace," said Adams. "With that strength and character he would have been propelled him to the ranks of master chief, over the course of 25 years career, and during those times just think of how many Sailors he would have positively influenced along the way."
Stethem's brother, retired Chief Boatswain's Mate (SEAL/EOD) Kenneth J. Stethem, attended the ceremony and served as honorary guest speaker.
Kenneth thanked all of those in attendance and the command for making his brother's promotion a reality. He then read the "Chief Petty Officer's Creed," as he and the area chief petty officers welcomed his brother to the mess. Kenneth received Robbie's master chief anchors, a bronzed master chief combination cover and the certificate of appointment from the MCPON's office on behalf of the Stethem family.
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"We should seek and speak the truth; we should wrap ourselves in honor and thank God everyday for the opportunity to make a difference while we are still here. If we do that, then like 'Rob,' when he's gone and when you're gone, we can continue to make a difference."
Chief Fire Controlman (SW) Daniel Watts concluded the ceremony by rendering honors to the command's newest master chief, announcing his arrival through an all-CPO honors sideboys team.
"Master Chief Construction (DV) Robert Dean Stethem arriving," Watts said.
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Q: Angular (4, 5, 6, 7) - Simple example of slide in out animation on ngIf What is the bare minimum and Angular4's native way to slide in and slide out a container element?
e.g.

Slide In Content (from top to down just like jQuery.slideDown()) when show turns to true.
Slide Out Content (suitably with ease-out effect) when show turns to false.

A: The most upvoted answer is not implementing a real slide in/out (or down/up), as:

*

*It's not doing a soft transition on the height attribute. At time zero the element already has the 100% of its height producing a sudden glitch on the elements below it.

*When sliding out/up, the element does a translateY(-100%) and then suddenly disappears, causing another glitch on the elements below it.

You can implement a slide in and slide out like so:
my-component.ts
import { animate, style, transition, trigger } from '@angular/animations';

@Component({
  ...
  animations: [
    trigger('slideDownUp', [
      transition(':enter', [style({ height: 0 }), animate(500)]),
      transition(':leave', [animate(500, style({ height: 0 }))]),
    ]),
  ],
})

my-component.html

  I am the content of the div!

my-component.scss
.box {
  overflow: hidden;
}

A: I answered a very similar question, and here is a way of doing this :
First, create a file where you would define your animations and export them. Just to make it more clear in your app.component.ts
In the following example, I used a max-height of the div that goes from 0px (when it's hidden), to 500px, but you would change that according to what you need.
This animation uses states (in and out), that will be toggle when we click on the button, which will run the animtion.
animations.ts
import { trigger, state, style, transition,
    animate, group, query, stagger, keyframes
} from '@angular/animations';

export const SlideInOutAnimation = [
    trigger('slideInOut', [
        state('in', style({
            'max-height': '500px', 'opacity': '1', 'visibility': 'visible'
        })),
        state('out', style({
            'max-height': '0px', 'opacity': '0', 'visibility': 'hidden'
        })),
        transition('in => out', [group([
            animate('400ms ease-in-out', style({
                'opacity': '0'
            })),
            animate('600ms ease-in-out', style({
                'max-height': '0px'
            })),
            animate('700ms ease-in-out', style({
                'visibility': 'hidden'
            }))
        ]
        )]),
        transition('out => in', [group([
            animate('1ms ease-in-out', style({
                'visibility': 'visible'
            })),
            animate('600ms ease-in-out', style({
                'max-height': '500px'
            })),
            animate('800ms ease-in-out', style({
                'opacity': '1'
            }))
        ]
        )])
    ]),
]

Then in your app.component, we import the animation and create the method that will toggle the animation state.
app.component.ts
import { SlideInOutAnimation } from './animations';

@Component({
  ...
  animations: [SlideInOutAnimation]
})
export class AppComponent  {
  animationState = 'in';

  ...

  toggleShowDiv(divName: string) {
    if (divName === 'divA') {
      console.log(this.animationState);
      this.animationState = this.animationState === 'out' ? 'in' : 'out';
      console.log(this.animationState);
    }
  }
}

And here is how your app.component.html would look like :

  <button (click)="toggleShowDiv('divA')">TOGGLE DIV</button>

  THIS DIV IS ANIMATED

THIS IS CONTENT DIV

slideInOut refers to the animation trigger defined in animations.ts
Here is a StackBlitz example I have created : https://angular-muvaqu.stackblitz.io/
Side note : If an error ever occurs and asks you to add BrowserAnimationsModule, just import it in your app.module.ts:
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';

@NgModule({
  imports: [ ..., BrowserAnimationsModule ],
  ...
})

A: Actually the minimum amount of Angular to be used (as requested in the original question) is just adding a class to the DOM element when show variable is true, and perform the animation/transition via CSS.
So your minimum Angular code is this:

    Open/close the box

With this solution, you need to create CSS rules for the transition, something like this:
.box {
    background-color: #FFCC55;
    max-height: 0px;
    overflow-y: hidden;
    transition: ease-in-out 400ms max-height;
}

.box.opened {
    max-height: 500px;
    transition: ease-in-out 600ms max-height;
}

If you have retro-browser-compatibility issues, just remember to add the vendor prefixes in the transitions.
See the example here

A: First some code, then the explanation. The official docs describing this are here.
import { trigger, transition, animate, style } from '@angular/animations'

@Component({
  ...
  animations: [
    trigger('slideInOut', [
      transition(':enter', [
        style({transform: 'translateY(-100%)'}),
        animate('200ms ease-in', style({transform: 'translateY(0%)'}))
      ]),
      transition(':leave', [
        animate('200ms ease-in', style({transform: 'translateY(-100%)'}))
      ])
    ])
  ]
})

In your template:

This element will slide up and down when the value of 'visible' changes from true to false and vice versa.

I found the angular way a bit tricky to grasp, but once you understand it, it quite easy and powerful.
The animations part in human language:

*

*We're naming this animation 'slideInOut'.

*When the element is added (:enter), we do the following:

*->Immediately move the element 100% up (from itself), to appear off screen.

*->then animate the translateY value until we are at 0%, where the element would naturally be.

*When the element is removed, animate the translateY value (currently 0), to -100% (off screen).
The easing function we're using is ease-in, in 200 milliseconds, you can change that to your liking.

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