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June 27, 2012 Food & Drink » Last Call
The Unplaceable Goodness of Revival Bar + Kitchen
Home to one of the best cocktails in Berkeley.
By Ellen Cushing @elcush
2102 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley. 510-549-9950 or
RevivalBarandKitchen.com
Hours: Tues.-Wed. 5-10 p.m.; Thur.-Sat. 5-11:30 p.m.
The best cocktail in Berkeley right now is also the hardest to order, seeing as it doesn't, technically speaking, have a name yet. It's made of strained tomato juice, cilantro syrup, lemon juice, and Rancho de Oro tequila, and it's the creation of Nat Harry, Revival Bar + Kitchen's bar manager — and, it should be noted, usually a fairly brilliant drink-namer, having come up with many a deliciously old-fashioned cocktail appellation, each wonderfully Hemingwayean in their definite-article-aided formality: The Brooklands, The Tomcat, The Inflatable Raft. But in this case, she's stuck. Suggestions welcome.
Until 2010, Revival was Downtown, a buttoned-up kind of place with considerably less charm than the space's current incarnation, a lovely and perpetually lively bar-restaurant that gives short shrift to neither side of the hyphen. My friend Emma, speaking of names, thinks it's a reference to a new vision for downtown Berkeley, which certainly makes sense, though I feel like I've heard somewhere that it has something to do with the restaurant's whole super-locavore, snout-to-tail thing. But either way, the place does feel like a revival of sorts, though what exactly it's reviving is of the intangible and unplaceable variety — a sort of nostalgia for a drinking experience that we're all too young to remember and which in fact may never have actually existed in the first place, when drinks were named with consideration and everything in the world was sepia-toned. The bar, set off from the dining room with a smartly placed high table, is made of zinc, with the oxidation rings to prove it, and when the summer-night light tumbles in through plate glass, everything inside appears to sparkle, people included. The bartenders, meanwhile, win the prize for least obnoxious post-1940s use of bowties and bowler hats.
The as-yet-unnamed tomato cocktail comes served in a dainty stem glass, light red but certainly not pink, with a wry little cherry tomato on a bamboo toothpick as garnish, and it tastes like basically magic: a little sour but for the most part sweetly vegetal, also in that unplaceable way, and unlike anything else I've ever drunk. I suggested the name Victory Garden, which was met with some measure of approval (Harry said thus far, the vast majority of suggestions have been puns on the words "cilantro" or "tomato," so the bar has apparently been set comfortably low); my companion suggested some play on the word "dirt," the details of which now escape me, but that was quickly and politely discarded by everyone. I'm sure someone will eventually come up with something perfect, but in the meantime, don't be shy about striding up to the bar and asking for it anyway.
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.class Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "AlarmManagerService.java"

# interfaces
.implements Landroid/app/PendingIntent$OnFinished;

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x0
    name = "ResultReceiver"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field final synthetic this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

# direct methods
.method constructor <init>(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 2264
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public onSendFinished(Landroid/app/PendingIntent;Landroid/content/Intent;ILjava/lang/String;Landroid/os/Bundle;)V
    .locals 14
    .param p1, "pi"    # Landroid/app/PendingIntent;
    .param p2, "intent"    # Landroid/content/Intent;
    .param p3, "resultCode"    # I
    .param p4, "resultData"    # Ljava/lang/String;
    .param p5, "resultExtras"    # Landroid/os/Bundle;

    .prologue
    .line 2267
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    iget-object v9, v8, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mLock:Ljava/lang/Object;

    monitor-enter v9

    .line 2268
    const/4 v5, 0x0

    .line 2269
    .local v5, "inflight":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;
    const/4 v3, 0x0

    .local v3, "i":I
    :goto_0
    :try_start_0
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v8

    if-ge v3, v8, :cond_0

    .line 2270
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8, v3}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v8

    check-cast v8, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;

    iget-object v8, v8, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;->mPendingIntent:Landroid/app/PendingIntent;

    if-ne v8, p1, :cond_3

    .line 2271
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8, v3}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->remove(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v8

    move-object v0, v8

    check-cast v0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;

    move-object v5, v0

    .line 2275
    :cond_0
    if-eqz v5, :cond_4

    .line 2276
    invoke-static {}, Landroid/os/SystemClock;->elapsedRealtime()J

    move-result-wide v6

    .line 2277
    .local v6, "nowELAPSED":J
    iget-object v1, v5, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;->mBroadcastStats:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;

    .line 2278
    .local v1, "bs":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;
    iget v8, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->nesting:I

    add-int/lit8 v8, v8, -0x1

    iput v8, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->nesting:I

    .line 2279
    iget v8, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->nesting:I

    if-gtz v8, :cond_1

    .line 2280
    const/4 v8, 0x0

    iput v8, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->nesting:I

    .line 2281
    iget-wide v10, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->aggregateTime:J

    iget-wide v12, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->startTime:J

    sub-long v12, v6, v12

    add-long/2addr v10, v12

    iput-wide v10, v1, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;->aggregateTime:J

    .line 2283
    :cond_1
    iget-object v2, v5, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;->mFilterStats:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;

    .line 2284
    .local v2, "fs":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;
    iget v8, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->nesting:I

    add-int/lit8 v8, v8, -0x1

    iput v8, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->nesting:I

    .line 2285
    iget v8, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->nesting:I

    if-gtz v8, :cond_2

    .line 2286
    const/4 v8, 0x0

    iput v8, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->nesting:I

    .line 2287
    iget-wide v10, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->aggregateTime:J

    iget-wide v12, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->startTime:J

    sub-long v12, v6, v12

    add-long/2addr v10, v12

    iput-wide v10, v2, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;->aggregateTime:J

    .line 2292
    .end local v1    # "bs":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$BroadcastStats;
    .end local v2    # "fs":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$FilterStats;
    .end local v6    # "nowELAPSED":J
    :cond_2
    :goto_1
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # operator-- for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mBroadcastRefCount:I
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2110(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)I

    .line 2293
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mBroadcastRefCount:I
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2100(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)I

    move-result v8

    if-nez v8, :cond_7

    .line 2294
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mWakeLock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2200(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;->release()V

    .line 2295
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v8

    if-lez v8, :cond_6

    .line 2296
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mLog:Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$3500(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;

    move-result-object v8

    new-instance v10, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v11, "Finished all broadcasts with "

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    iget-object v11, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v11}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v11

    invoke-virtual {v11}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v11

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    const-string v11, " remaining inflights"

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;->w(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 2298
    const/4 v3, 0x0

    :goto_2
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v8

    if-ge v3, v8, :cond_5

    .line 2299
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mLog:Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$3500(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;

    move-result-object v8

    new-instance v10, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v11, "  Remaining #"

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v10, v3}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(I)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    const-string v11, ": "

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    iget-object v11, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v11}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v11

    invoke-virtual {v11, v3}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v11

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;->w(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 2298
    add-int/lit8 v3, v3, 0x1

    goto :goto_2

    .line 2269
    :cond_3
    add-int/lit8 v3, v3, 0x1

    goto/16 :goto_0

    .line 2290
    :cond_4
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mLog:Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$3500(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;

    move-result-object v8

    new-instance v10, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string v11, "No in-flight alarm for "

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v10, p1}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    const-string v11, " "

    invoke-virtual {v10, v11}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    move-object/from16 v0, p2

    invoke-virtual {v10, v0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v10}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v10

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;->w(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    goto/16 :goto_1

    .line 2314
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v8

    monitor-exit v9
    :try_end_0
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0

    throw v8

    .line 2301
    :cond_5
    :try_start_1
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->clear()V

    .line 2314
    :cond_6
    :goto_3
    monitor-exit v9

    .line 2315
    return-void

    .line 2305
    :cond_7
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    invoke-virtual {v8}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->size()I

    move-result v8

    if-lez v8, :cond_8

    .line 2306
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mInFlight:Ljava/util/ArrayList;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2300(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Ljava/util/ArrayList;

    move-result-object v8

    const/4 v10, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Ljava/util/ArrayList;->get(I)Ljava/lang/Object;

    move-result-object v4

    check-cast v4, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;

    .line 2307
    .local v4, "inFlight":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    iget-object v10, v4, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;->mPendingIntent:Landroid/app/PendingIntent;

    iget-object v11, v4, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;->mWorkSource:Landroid/os/WorkSource;

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10, v11}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->setWakelockWorkSource(Landroid/app/PendingIntent;Landroid/os/WorkSource;)V

    goto :goto_3

    .line 2310
    .end local v4    # "inFlight":Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$InFlight;
    :cond_8
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mLog:Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$3500(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;

    move-result-object v8

    const-string v10, "Alarm wakelock still held but sent queue empty"

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Lcom/android/internal/util/LocalLog;->w(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    .line 2311
    iget-object v8, p0, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService$ResultReceiver;->this$0:Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;

    # getter for: Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->mWakeLock:Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;
    invoke-static {v8}, Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;->access$2200(Lcom/android/server/AlarmManagerService;)Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;

    move-result-object v8

    const/4 v10, 0x0

    invoke-virtual {v8, v10}, Landroid/os/PowerManager$WakeLock;->setWorkSource(Landroid/os/WorkSource;)V
    :try_end_1
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catchall_0

    goto :goto_3
.end method

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Another challenging selection of questions for you.
And if you get stuck you can find the answers waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating.
Enjoy and good luck.
Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the letters M A S H stand for?
Q. 2. Wind transports approximately how many millions of tonnes of dust from the Sahara to the Amazon every year?
a) 4 million tonnes b) 40 million tonnes c) 400 million tonnes
Q. 3. What city is known as 'The City Of Tigers' ? (HINT: it is not in Asia.)
Q. 4. 'Ring of Bright Water' is a book about which creatures?
Q. 5. This one is the name of a rich fruit cake decorated with almonds, a town in Scotland, and the last name of a comic Australian movie character. What is it?
Q. 6. In which country is the legendary city of Timbuktu? (If you have been following the TV series American Odyssey you'll know this one.)
Q. 7. A multi-point question. What currencies are used in the following countries?
a) USA b) Britain c) Japan d) Europe e) China
Q. 8. What percentage of internet users quit waiting for a video to load after 10 seconds?
a) 10% b) 20% c) 30% d) 40% e) 50% f) 60%
Q. 9. What were the first names of the four main characters of the long running and highly successful TV series 'The Golden Girls' ? (Bonus points if you can also correctly name the actresses who played them.)
Q. 10. In 1929, US Army Air Corps Lieutenant General John MacCready asked Bausch & Lomb, a New York-based medical equipment manufacturer, to create aviation sunglasses that would ban the sun rays and reduce the headaches and nausea experienced by his pilots. What name were they given?
Q. 11. "The devil on two sticks" is a former name for which juggling-like game?
Q. 12. What are the four largest countries on Earth by area? (A point for each you name correctly and a bonus point if you get them in the correct order, starting with the largest.)
Q. 13. What is the painting, 'La Gioconda', more usually known as?
Q. 14. What is the name of the traditional Irish potato and cabbage dish?
Q. 15. What is the name of John Lennon's widow?
Q. 16. With whom is the fictional character 'Alfred Pennyworth' associated?
Q. 17. Who is the largest American retailer of lingerie?
Q. 18. In the Bible what are the names of the first and last books of the New Testament?
Q. 19. What was the name of the flamboyant and controversial Australian actor who starred in many movies during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s and played characters like 'Robin Hood' and 'George Custer'?
Q. 20. What was the name of the group that Paul McCartney went on to form in 1970 after The Beatles split up?
Q. 1. M*A*S*H was a famous book, movie and TV series, but what do the latters M A S H stand for?
A. 1. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
A. 2. The correct answer is b) 40 million tonnes.
A. 3. It's Oslo, Norway. (Apparently because the city was referred to as 'Tigerstaden' (the City of Tigers) by the author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson around 1870, due to his perception of the city as a cold and dangerous place.
A. 4. Otters.
A. 5. It is 'Dundee'.
A. 6. Mali, Africa.
A. 7. a) Dollar b) Pound c) Yen d) Euro e) Yuan Renminbi
A. 8. The correct answer is e) 50%.
A. 9. They were Dorothy Zbornak (played by Bea Arthur); Rose Nylund (played by Betty White); Blanche Devereaux (played by Rue McClanahan); and Sophia Petrillo (played by Estelle Getty).
A. 10. They were called Ray Ban.
A. 11. Diabolo.
A. 12. 1) Russia 2) Canada 3) United States 4) PR China
A. 13. The Mona Lisa.
A. 14. Colcannon.
A. 15. Yoko Ono.
A. 16. He is butler to Bruce Wayne, aka Batman.
A. 17. Victoria's Secret.
A. 18. They are the book of Matthew and the book of Revelation.
A. 19. He was Errol Flynn.
A. 20. It was called 'Wings', have a taste….
Lif Is Too Short.
June 11, 2015 June 7, 2015 fasab comedy, Humour, Language, Puns	Amazon, amusing, Atilla the Hun got, bad for your joints, bad jokes, blind people, cannabis, circumcision, cod liver oil, Comedy, deaf people, dinner bell, Entertainment, feet, funeral, funny, Greek alphabet, hair stylist, handmade shoes, hate, health warning, hear you, Humor, Humour, hypochondriac, inventor, jokes, Lif is too short, link, movie, never gelled, noise, obesity, Optrex, passion has gone out of our relationship, previous day delivery, Psi Phi film, pun, puns, relationship, rip off, same middle name, scientists, sick of it, stupid, time machine, wasn't a dry eye in the house, wife, Winnie the Pooh, word play, word plays
Lif may be too short but thankfully there's no shortage of puns.
Here's the latest selection for you to…
Enjoy or endure!!
I've just ended a relationship with a hair stylist.
We just never gelled.
Say what you like about deaf people.
But not blind people,
they can still hear you.
I went to the inventor of Optrex's funeral today.
There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
My wife says the passion has gone out of our relationship.
She really doesn't know how much I hate her.
I used to be a hypochondriac until
I eventually became sick of it.
What have Winnie the Pooh and
Atilla the Hun got in common ?…….
the same middle name
Wouldn't it be better if handmade shoes
were for your feet?
I'll be making a movie
about the Greek alphabets.
It's a Psi Phi film.
What do you call
a quick circumcision.
A rip off.
According to scientists there is a
link between noise and obesity.
Probably the dinner bell.
Just bought a time machine from Amazon.
Well you have to when they offer
previous day delivery.
Finally for today a health warning:
Mixing cannabis with cod liver oil
is bad for your joints.
Happy Birthday Dot.Com
March 21, 2015 March 16, 2015 fasab Business, Computers, Current Events	Amazon, commercial basis, computer, Computers, Dallas, dot biz, dot com era, dot coms, dot infos, dot nets, dot orgs, ebay, ecommerce, first dot com domain name was registered, Happy Birthday Dot com, internet, internet commerce, investor group, Many Happy Returns, March 15th 1985, most valuable, new industry, registered, significant event, symbolics.com, Texas, TLDs, top-level domains, traded like commodities, US government contractors, windows
Yesterday I was looking through the windows. Today it's dot coms.
Technically I'm a week late but I thought I would wish good old Dot.Com many happy returns anyway.
Thirty years ago, on March 15th 1985, the first dot.com domain name was registered. It was symbolics.com.
It wasn't a significant event at the time because way back in 1985 about the only people using the internet on a commercial basis were US government contractors. Ecommerce giants such as Amazon.com and Ebay.com hadn't even been thought of.
It has all changed since then of course. Slowly at first, only four other dot.coms were registered in 1985, but now thirty years on the total number of registered top-level domains, or TLDs as they are known sometimes, has surpassed 288 million and showing no signs of stopping.
That total includes over 115 million dot coms, which are still the most sought after and most valuable, but there are also dot nets, dot orgs, dot biz, dot infos and a host of others. In fact more than 500 new TLDs are being added to the internet right now, with another 500 in the pipeline.
And the dot com era has spawned an entirely new industry. These names are now traded like commodities, most worth a few bucks, but quite a number making it to 6 and 7 figures (that's over $1million!).
So what happened to the symbolics.com name? It was eventually sold off for an undisclosed sum to a Dallas, Texas-based investor group in August 2009.
Like I said at the start, Happy Birthday Dot.com, the first thirty years have been good.
Fasab's Final Facts For 2014.
December 30, 2014 December 28, 2014 fasab Factoids, Unusual	3 billion Christmas cards, A Christmas Carol, Alexa rankings, Amazon, Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun, Black, British, Caligula, Charles Dickens, Christian church, Christmas, Christmas cracker, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas oratorio, Congo, couples to break up, craters, Crowns, demented, Deus Sol Invictus, Dublin, eastern province of Kasai, eat Christmas dinner, ebay, education, England, Entertainment, facebook, Facebook posts, fact, factoid, factoids, facts, final fact day, freak accident, George Frederick Handel, gifts in a wooden fishing boat, go to war with the sea, Google, Great Pyramid of Giza, Greek islands, grumpy old curmudgeon, hypothesized, information, Kalends, killed a whole soccer team, Lincoln Cathedral, Mercurian, mercury, Mercury's southern hemisphere, mickey mouse, movies, Neptune, never been out of print, Norwegian scientists, novella, pagan festivals, parasitic infection of his respiratory system, PayPal, plunder of war, presents under a Christmas tree, Random, Roman emperor, Rudolph's red nose, Saturnalia, seashells, seasonal offerings, single stroke of lightning, skin of a polar bear, suicide rates during the Christmas holiday, television shows, The Messiah, trap heat, trivia, true meaning of Christmas, Twelve Days of Christmas, visited by three ghosts, wear paper crowns, website, Wikipedia, world´s tallest man-made structure, Yahoo, YouTube
Hi, and welcome to the final fact day for this year.
There is a mixture of random bits and pieces along with some seasonal offerings, so hopefully you will find something of interest.
Norwegian scientists have hypothesized
that Rudolph's red nose
is probably the result of a parasitic infection
of his respiratory system.
(Oh boy!!!)
In December 1843 Charles Dickens
published a little novella
about a grumpy old curmudgeon who
rediscovered the true meaning of Christmas
after being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
He called it 'A Christmas Carol' and
it was a resounding success,
so much so that in the succeeding 171 years
it has never been out of print
and has been made into many movies
and television shows.
The skin of a polar bear
is actually black
which helps them to trap heat.
Christmas has its roots in pagan festivals
such as Saturnalia (December 17-December 23),
the Kalends (January 1 – 5, the precursor to the
Twelve Days of Christmas),
and Deus Sol Invictus or
Birthday of the Unconquerable Sun (December 25).
The Christian church heartily disapproved
of such celebrations and co-opted
the pagans by declaring December 25
as Christ's day of birth,
though there is no evidence
Christ was born on that day.
In 1999, a single stroke of lightning
instantly killed a whole soccer team.
The eleven players were all between
twenty and thirty-five years old.
This freak accident happened during
a match held in the eastern province of Kasai, in Congo.
The strangest thing of all, however,
was that the players from the home team
came out of this tragedy unscathed.
In some of the Greek islands,
instead of a piling their
presents under a Christmas tree,
many families still put their gifts
in a wooden fishing boat
YouTube can be found in sixty-one countries
and across sixty-one languages,
with almost 75 percent of its users
living outside the US.
It's estimated that more than 1 billion users
use YouTube each month
mainly for entertainment.
According to Alexa rankings
YouTube is the third biggest
(i.e., most powerful) website in the world
trailing behind only Google and Facebook
and ahead of online giants such as
Yahoo, eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, and, PayPal.
Each year more than 3 billion
Christmas cards are sent in the U.S. alone.
Until the Lincoln Cathedral was
built in England in 1311,
held the title for the
world´s tallest man-made structure.
It held the record for an incredible
and unparalleled 3871 years!
According to data
analyzed from Facebook posts,
two weeks before Christmas is one of
the two most popular times
for couples to break up.
However, Christmas Day is the
least favorite day for breakups.
Contrary to popular belief,
suicide rates during the Christmas
holiday are low.
The highest rates are during the spring.
Mickey Mouse on Mercury?
Measuring 105 kilometers across (65 miles),
a striking resemblance to Mickey Mouse
can be found on Mercury's southern hemisphere.
It is attributed to an accumulation
of craters over a long period of time,
or else Mickey was originally a Mercurian!
Christmas trees have been
sold in the U.S. since 1850.
The demented Roman Emperor Caligula
once ordered his troops
to go to war with the sea.
He made troops return with
seashells as plunder of war
against Neptune.
The British wear paper crowns
while they eat Christmas dinner.
The crowns are stored in a tube
called a "Christmas cracker."
George Frederick Handel's
great Christmas oratorio,
"The Messiah",
was first performed in 1742,
in Dublin.
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Did You Know? – Americans, Chinese, French, Greeks, There's Facts About All Of Them In Here!
June 10, 2014 June 4, 2014 fasab Factoids, Unusual	$15 watch, a Chinese father, album, all five vowels, Amazon, americans, ancient Greeks, anonymously, aster, bad, billionaire, bird, blue, britain, British parliament, brown eyes, Buffalo Hangman, calamities, cars, Chinese, Chuck Feeney, cover, Des Moines, Did You Know, dis, disaster, discover, Disneyland, distribution centers, donated, education, Entertainment, Erie County, fact, fact feast, factoid, facts, flying coach, fortune, France, free gift to the world, french, George Washington, Greek, Greeks, Grover Cleveland, hanging, highest per capita, hired a bunch of assassins, homes, information, Jello consumption, kill, laid off, lingerie store, Main Street, melanin, mid 1800s, Mr Feng, naked baby, nickname, Nirvana, no recognition, NY, oiseau, online, passed a law condemning lipstick, patent in photography, planetary positions, rest of the world, room with 23 people, same birthday, seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means, serving as sheriff, shortest French word, Spencer Eldon, spring the trap, star, surprised, Texas, The Wizard Of Bras, tigers, trivia, unflattering, US, walk, wasting too much time, White, witchcraft, workers, World of Warcraft character
Yes, today is a bit of a multi-cultural fact feast.
Hope you enjoy.
Brown eyes are actually blue,
under a layer of melanin.
Billionaire Chuck Feeney donated most of his fortune
anonymously and with no recognition,
while flying coach, owning a $15 watch,
and having no cars or homes.
George Washington was surprised to discover
that the Chinese were not white.
(I wonder how surprised they were to find out he was?)
When it first opened in 1955 Disneyland had
a lingerie store on Main Street called The Wizard Of Bras
In the mid 1800s France gave a crucial patent
in photography as a free gift to the world…
except for Britain who had to pay for it!
Disaster comes from the Greek
"dis" meaning bad,
and "aster", meaning star.
The ancient Greeks used to blame calamities
on unfavorable planetary positions.
If you are in a room with 23 people,
there's more than a 50% chance that
two of the people have the same birthday.
There are more tigers living in Texas
than in the rest of the world.
While serving as sheriff of Erie County, N.Y.,
Grover Cleveland had to spring the trap
at a hanging on two occassions.
This earned him the unflattering nickname
"Buffalo Hangman."
Workers at Amazon's distribution centers
can be expected to walk up to 11 miles per shift,
picking an order every 33 seconds.
The shortest French word with all
five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
Des Moines has the highest per capita0
Jello consumption in the U.S
In 1770 the British parliament passed a law
condemning lipstick, stating that
" women found guilty of seducing men
into matrimony by a cosmetic means"
could be tried for witchcraft.
Mr Feng, a Chinese father, hired a bunch of assassins
to kill his son's online World of Warcraft character.
Apparently his son was wasting too much time after being laid off.
Spencer Eldon was the name of the naked baby
on the cover of Nirvana's album
Many Happy Returns Webby!
May 10, 2014 May 10, 2014 fasab bankers, Business, Computers, Current Events	$25million, 2014, 25 years old, academia, access to information, across the globe, Amazon, annoying, antiquated systems, associated technology, benefit, big brother, Blogging, Blogs, bothers big brother, burden on society, business practices, by-product, censoring the internet, China, commerce opportunities, communication, computer, concentrate, confidence, confidence tricks, controlled by the state, country, created, criminals, Current Events, data, data transfer, democracy, democratic nation, didn't buy a ticket, disseminate information, download streams, Dr Umbungo Watanga, elite, email, facebook, first modems, freedom, freedom to work, gamble, gigabyte, good, good parts, governments, greedy banksters, guilty and innocent alike, huge bonuses, idiots, impact on society, impose taxes on internet commerce, individual platforms, infancy, information, initiative, instantly, intelligence, looking at, Many Happy Returns, Mr Snowden, multi-billion dollar business, negative, negative side, never heard of, new applications, new environment, Nigeria, people dumb enough, personal details, potential, power to vote, pretence of democracy, proliferation of pornography and violence, reading, scams, scratched the surface, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, slow and temperamental, smart phone, snoop, social interaction, social media, start a war, stoney broke, surveil, tablet, targeting terrorists and criminals, teaching a generation of morons, telephone providers, the powers that be, theft, Thoughts, Tiannamen Square massacre, touch of a button, truthful, Twitter, unlock the fortune, Vision, wake-up call, Webby, won a lottery, world wide, world wide web, writing, wrong things, www
The World Wide Web, created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, turned 25 years old this year, 2014.
There has never been anything like it before, certainly not as regards the impact it has made on society and the way we live our lives. Many of those changes are good, many are not so good and a few are downright annoying.
Here's my take on some of them.
To concentrate on the good parts first, the one thing the www has done, for those who can use it effectively, is to give access to information that was previously only available to the elite few who managed to claw their way into the lofty heights of academia, or who worked in places where information was readily available. Now the same information is accessible at the touch of a button to anyone and everyone with a smart phone, tablet or computer.
Another benefit, in my view anyway, is that is has sent a massive wake-up call to telephone providers world wide, many of whom were fast asleep, content to rake in healthy profits from antiquated systems. No longer do we have to settle for slow and temperamental data transfer lines. Nowadays, particularly in the last few years, people are demanding systems that can cope with download streams in the gigabyte range. If you are old enough to remember the first modems you will know you wasted too much of your life trying to download at 12Kb/sec., sometimes less.
Freedom is also a welcome by-product of the World Wide Web.
The freedom to work in any country in the world, from virtually any country in the world is one big plus – it is for me anyhow. Another one I particularly like is the freedom to watch TV programs that I like, when I like, no longer tied to the schedules of some brainless bean-counter working for a broadcasting company. And the freedom to have your say on things as and when the mood takes you – they call that blogging don't you know! – is also a great advantage to the ordinary person.
As is the freedom to disseminate information across the globe instantly, as Mr Snowden ably demonstrated, although I would hazard a guess that the powers that be would not agree with me on that one.
Indeed, this is the one aspect of the www that really bothers big brother.
China for example is one country where access is controlled by the state. Coincidentally this year also marks the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, you'll find articles about that if you do a search, but probably not in China. They get away with it because they are not a democracy and do not pretend to be one.
In other countries, like the good old Land Of The (Not So) Free (Anymore)), the powers still like to con their people into believing that they are living in a democratic nation and that the people have the power to vote for this or that. But think for a moment, when was the last time you got to vote on whether to start a war, or whether to give $billions of your money to the greedy banksters to pay themselves huge bonuses and gamble away the rest?
It is because they need to keep the pretence of democracy going, that they do not yet have the confidence to start overtly censoring the internet. But they do all they can to snoop on what people are reading, or writing, or looking at.
This is where the freedom the www and associated technology provides can also be a negative, when it is used by governments to surveil us and record every piece of data they can. If they were doing this selectively and targeting terrorists and criminals no one would be too worried. But they are doing it to all of us, guilty and innocent alike.
They are also doing everything they can think of to impose taxes on internet commerce – of course they have to coz they're stoney broke.
The www has revolutionized business practices and created all sorts of new commerce opportunities, Amazon perhaps being the best example of a company that has gone from nothing to a multi-billion dollar business in just a few years.
Communication and social interaction are also areas where the www has liberated the ordinary person – first with email and more recently with social media. In the near future expect to see social media expanding to become much more than individual platforms such as Facebook or Twitter. We are already seeing many new applications that are allowing people to communicate more widely, more easily and more often.
Another negative is that the World Wide Web has unwittingly facilitated the proliferation of pornography and violence, and is teaching a generation of morons all the wrong things. Things that will ensure they become a burden on society, not an asset.
And it has also opened a whole new environment in which criminals can operate. Millions of dollars are being stolen every day through scams, confidence tricks and outright theft.
You could say (and I frequently do) that people dumb enough to fall for these scams deserve all they get, or all they lose, is perhaps a better way of putting it. You know, the idiots who believe they really have won a lottery they didn't buy a ticket for, or who think that Dr Umbungo Watanga from Nigeria is being truthful when he tells them that someone they never heard of has left them $25 million and all they need to do is send all their personal details and a few thousand dollars to unlock the fortune that awaits them. There really is one born every minute it seems!
All that said, and twenty-five years on, the www is still in its infancy. We have come a long way in the past 25 years, but we have really only scratched the surface as regards what the web has the potential to do to further improve our daily lives.
Where the vision to develop the www will come from in anyone's guess. The only thing we know for sure is that the initiative won't come from governments or their bureaucratic servants, simply because the people we elect to those positions do not have the required intelligence.
So its up to you. If you have any great ideas you want to share, send me an email.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web.
They Say Pride Goes Before A Fall
April 1, 2014 March 31, 2014 fasab Computers, Current Events, Factoids, Politics, Rants	Amazon, americans, approval rating, bad code, bad designers, bad product, bureaucratic bunglers, commercial web sites, Current Events, deadline, debacle, ebay, education, facts, fools, fully insured, fully-functioning, Google, Hawaii, Healthcare.gov, idiot bureaucrats, idiots, insurance, insurance coverage, internet, lie, microsoft, morons, negative, no insurance, Obama, Obama administration, obamacare, politicians, politics, President Obama, press conference, Pride goes before a fall, Rants, stupid, stupid people, stupidity, system, toppled over, traffic, vacation, web site, Wikipedia
So, if pride goes before a fall, what goes before a CRASH?
Well, in terms of the pathetic Obamacare web site, the usual form of words from the Obama Administration is
"…the site was fully-functioning for a "vast majority" of users."
CRASH!
It happened again last week, early Friday afternoon in fact, as millions of Americans tried to get insurance coverage before the deadline.
I don't know where they got the information that the site was functioning for the "vast majority of users".
Well, I do actually. It was a lie. Another one.
In fact the healthcare.gov is not fully-functioning for anyone. On the positive side I suppose you could say that everyone has an equal chance of not being able to use the web site, but that is small comfort to those trying to do so.
And this is just the latest CRASH of many. Last November there was another major one. They "fixed" it, except of course they didn't, they just got it working for a while, until it toppled over again.
Left in the hands of idiot bureaucrats who clearly have no idea what they are doing, no system can work efficiently. They choose bad designers, who use bad code, produce a bad product, and then are amazed and surprised when it doesn't work.
There are tens of thousands of commercial web sites, like Google, Amazon, Ebay, Microsoft, even Wikipedia, that take much higher traffic every day without crashing – and they've been doing it for years.
Yet the bureaucratic bunglers can't get their web site working for more than a few weeks at a time.
About all they got right was the timing of the CRASH.
No, wait, they even got that wrong, because the whole debacle happened less than two hours before President Obama had a scheduled press conference, helping to push his approval rating more and more in the negative direction.
But fear not, as millions of his citizens now find themselves stressed and worrying because they have no insurance – due to no fault of their own – their leader will have a solution.
I don't know what it is, but the odds are in favor of another vacation, possibly in Hawaii – but definitely fully insured!
Time For The Monday Quiz!
February 10, 2014 fasab Questions, Tests	1916, 1938, 1958, active service, Amazon, American president, Annie Get Your Gun, answers, architect, assassinated, backbone, Baptized, Benjy, boundary, Bunter, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, capital city, composer, countries, court of Tsar Nicholas II, Cullen Skink, declare war, direct, east pacific, education, Entertainment, first and second World Wars, general, Geography, Germany, havoc, Hercule Poirot, history, host, island, Jesus, Laska, literary detective, London, Lord Peter Wimsey, magical powers, Monday quiz, most influential person, mountains, movie, movies, music, musical, ocean, Oscar Niemeyer, overthrew, politics, President of the United States, questions, quiz, quizzes, radio broadcast, Random, Rio Grande, river, River Amazon, Russia, Salvador Allende, science, Second World War, servant, Sherlock Holmes, Siberian peasant, son, soup, South America, South American city, South American country, space, sport, Steven Spielberg, stone heads, Summer Olympic Games, test, tests, The War Of The Worlds, Top Hat, top ten highest grossing films of the 20th century, treeless plains, true, tv, TV detective, War Of The Worlds, Winter Olympics, World War I
Yes, time for the Monday quiz.
Get your thinking caps on for another random mixture of questions.
As usual the answers can be found waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down below, but please NO cheating!
Q. 1: Which capital city is also a TV detective?
Q. 2: Who created havoc in 1938, when his radio broadcast of "The War Of The Worlds" was believed to be true?
Q. 3: What were 'Benjy' and 'Laska', sent into space in 1958?
Q. 4: Name the composer of the famous musicals 'Top Hat' and 'Annie Get Your Gun'.
Q. 5: Which mountains form the backbone of South America?
Q. 6: In which river was Jesus Baptised?
Q. 7: Which South American country provides the setting for the climax of the 1969 movie 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'?
Q. 8: Into which ocean does the River Amazon flow?
Q. 9: Which South American city was shaped by architect Oscar Niemeyer?
Q. 10: The Rio Grande forms part of the boundary between which countries? (A point for each if you like.)
Q. 11: What name is given to the large, treeless plains south of the Amazon?
Q. 12: Which island in the east pacific is renowned for its stone heads?
Q. 13: Which General overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973? (A bonus point if you can name the country.)
Q. 14: Who was in office as President of the United States when the decision was taken to declare war on Germany during World War I?
Q. 15: He was the son of a Siberian peasant and became the most influential person at the court of Tsar Nicholas II. He was widely thought to have magical powers and was assassinated in 1916. What was his name?
Q. 16: The Winter Olympics have just started in Russia, but in what year was London due to host the Summer Olympic Games, but couldn't because of the Second World War?
Q. 17: Which American President saw active service in both the first and second World Wars?
Q. 18: Which three movies did Steven Spielberg direct that were among the top ten highest grossing films of the 20th century? (Yes, a point for each and a bonus point if you get all three.)
Q. 19: In what country did the soup known as 'Cullen Skink' originate?
Q. 20: Which literary detective had a servant called 'Bunter'?
a) Hercule Poirot b) Lord Peter Wimsey c) Sherlock Holmes
A. 1: Columbo.
A. 2: Orson Welles.
A. 3: They were Mice.
A. 4: Irving Berlin.
A. 5: The Andes.
A. 6: In the River Jordan.
A. 7: Bolivia.
A. 8: The Atlantic Ocean.
A. 9: Brasilia.
A. 10: The United States of America and Mexico.
A. 11: The Pampas.
A. 12: Easter Island.
A. 13: General Pinochet in Chile.
A. 14: Woodrow Wilson.
A. 15: Rasputin.
A. 16: 1944.
A. 17: President Dwight D Eisenhower.
A. 18: "Jurassic Park", "E.T." and "The Lost World".
A. 19: Scotland. (It is a thick Scottish soup made of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions.)
A. 20: b) Lord Peter Wimsey
Cheers! It's The End For Cliff Clavin!
December 4, 2013 December 2, 2013 fasab Business, Current Events, Factoids, Shopping, Unusual	air, Amazon, Amazon delivery, Amazon drones, Amazon products, bar, Bezos, big bucks, Cheers, Cliff Clavin, commercial use, Current Events, delivering, delivery, delivery systems, drone, drone technology, drones, FAA, facts, Federal Aviation Administration, front door, future, high explosives, Jeff Bezos, jobs, John Ratzenberger, kill, mail trucks, Mailman, mailmen, military applications, Misc, Miscellaneous, powers that be, Random, road, rules for unmanned aerial vehicles, science fiction, spy, technology, terrorist
I know Cliff Clavin, the Cheers character played by John Ratzenberger for many years, was only a pretend mailman but if Jeff Bezos gets his way – and he usually does – then mailmen will have a lot less to do.
Cliff used to drone on in Cheers and bore everyone in the bar, but in the future jobs like his are to be taken over by drones.
The military applications are well known, but instead of delivering a few pounds of high explosives to an unsuspecting terrorist, drone technology, which was legalized for commercial use last year (2012), is being developed by Bezos and his team to deliver Amazon products by air right to your front door in about 30 minutes.
We're entering the realms of science fiction here. And if it were anyone else but Bezos you might be forgiven for dismissing the idea. But he thinks big, and thanks to the success of Amazon he has the big bucks to make it happen.
If it is real and it does happen, personally I think its great! An application for this technology other than the usual powers-that-be crap of using it to kill and spy on us.
Amazon says that, "From a technology point of view, we'll be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place."
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working on rules for unmanned aerial vehicles. They'll take their time as always, but eventually it will happen.
So in a few years time seeing Amazon drones in the air may well be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today.
Here's a taste of the future for you.
Did You Know? More Fabulous Facts Folks!
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Not much else needs to be said about today's post.
Another selection of fabulous facts.
At one point in the 1990s,
50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
A British man changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice
to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.
Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite
for under $1 million in 1999
—but Excite turned them down.
(Huge big dumb move, where is Excite today!)
Officials in Portland, Ore., drained 8 million gallons of water
from a reservoir in 2011 because a buzzed 21-year-old peed in it.
When three-letter airport codes became standard,
airports that had been using two letters simply added an X.
A California woman once tried to sue the makers of Cap'n Crunch
because Crunch Berries contained "no berries of any kind."
Actor Wilford Brimley who has appeared in such films as
The China Syndrome, Cocoon, The Thing and The Firm,
was once Howard Hughes's bodyguard.
According to Amazon, the most highlighted Kindle books are
the Bible, the Steve Jobs biography, and The Hunger Games.
During WWI, German measles were called "liberty measles"
and dachshunds became "liberty hounds."
In Spain, Mr. Clean is known as Don Limpio.
After leaving office, President Lyndon B Johnson
went all hippy and let his hair grow out.
There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne
he sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
If you start counting at one and spell out the numbers as you go,
you won't use the letter "A" until you reach 1,000.
In Gaddafi's compound, Libyan rebels found a photo album
filled with pictures of Condoleezza Rice.
Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men is used by researchers
to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.
Only one McDonald's in the world has turquoise arches.
Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.
Marie Curie's notebooks are still radioactive.
Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
The 50-star American flag was designed by an Ohio high school student
for a class project. His teacher originally gave him a B–.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work
when the first A-bomb hit,
made it home to Nagasaki for the second,
and lived to be 93.
Barry Manilow did not write his hit "I Write the Songs."
It was actually written by the former Beach Boy Bruce Johnston.

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[Raja Nerjan Singh, Fatḥ Singh, and companions riding camels].
Gift; Anna C. Walter; 1984.
1 single leaf : card, ill. ; 323 x 442 mm.
Jeffrey Paley; sold at Christie's, London, 24 April 1980, lot 174; Anna C. Walter.
Ms. Jodhpur School miniature; illuminated in Rajasthan, ca. 1800.
Inscription on verso: rāja śrī nerjan sing fatḥ sing ("Raja Śrī Nerjan Singh and Fatḥ Singh").
Miniature measures 290 x 385 mm.


The getrusage() function provides measures of the resources used by the current process or its terminated and waited-for child processes. If the value of the who argument is RUSAGE_SELF, information is returned about resources used by the current process. If the value of the who argument is RUSAGE_CHILDREN, information is returned about resources used by the terminated and waited-for children of the current process. If the child is never waited for (for instance, if the parent has SA_NOCLDWAIT set or sets SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN), the resource information for the child process is discarded and not included in the resource information provided by getrusage().
The r_usage argument is a pointer to an object of type struct rusage in which the returned information is stored.
Upon successful completion, getrusage() returns 0. Otherwise, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
The value of the who argument is not valid.
exit(), sigaction(), time(), times(), wait(), <sys/resource.h>.


The prestigious Swiss International School of Qatar, a partnership between the State of Qatar and Bellevue Education, has opened for registrations and has already seen unprecedented demand for places.
The school, which has been approved by His Highness Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and established under the leadership of the Attorney General His Excellency Dr. Ali Bin Fetais Al-Marri is set to transform the education landscape in Doha.
Opening in January 2017 for 3-5 year olds, and from September 2017 for all ages up to 18, the school is situated in a prestigious state of the art site in Al Luqta. It has been established to satisfy a growing need in Doha for school places.
Bellevue Education's other schools include a highly sought after girls' school in Switzerland, and a number of private schools in the UK.
The Swiss International School of Qatar will be a premium school offering the highest standards and aspirations for children, providing strong academic focus whilst encouraging a love of learning in all its pupils, all with full sport, drama and music programmes to ensure children benefit from a broad education.
Chairman of Bellevue Education, Marwan Naja, believes that the Swiss International School of Qatar will provide Qatari and international families with a unique academic offering for their children. "Through delivering a multilingual international education the school will prepare students for an increasingly globalized world and provide them with invaluable intercultural awareness and communication skills," said Mr Naja.


Welcome to visit Kaiphone at Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robot Show 2018 (Booth No. K1213) - Kaiphone Technology Co., Ltd.
Welcome to visit us at Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robot Show 2018.
Kaiphone Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 1993 in Taiwan. We have been working in the field of electrical wiring protection conduits and fittings for more over 25 years. In 2017, we officially joined the "Taiwan Automation Intelligence and Robotics Association".
Looking forward to having plenty experiences of flexible conduits and fittings used in the field of automation and robotics. The main products expected to be presented in this show is Nonmetallic Mechanical Protection Tubing & Fitting (UL 1696), Armored Electrical Flexible Conduit, Wiring/Cable Harness, etc.


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In the City of Cement
As U.S. troops departed, Baghdad in ruins.
Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. While on assignment for the New York Times, Anthony Shadid died today in Syria.
Anthony Shadid Washington Post Jul 2009 10min Permalink
Syria's Sons of No One
Inside the safe houses where Syrian youth protesters have retreated since the uprising:
Around his neck he wore a tiny toy penguin that was actually a thumb drive, which he treated like a talisman, occasionally squeezing it to make sure it was still there. I sat next to him on the mattress and watched as he traded messages with other activists on Skype, then updated a Facebook page that serves as an underground newspaper, then marked a Google Earth map of Homs with the spots of the latest unrest. "If there's no Internet," Abdullah said, "there's no life."
Anthony Shadid New York Times Magazine Sep 2011 20min Permalink
4 Times Journalists Held in Libya Faced Brutality
No one really knows the script for days like these, and neither did we.
Anthony Shadid, Lynsey Addario, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks New York Times Mar 2011 10min Permalink


Cydcor is celeb rating its 18 year anniversary! For the past 18 years, the company has grown tremendously and achieved numerous milestones, ranging from a move to the United States in 2001 to its most recent expansion into the retail channel. Just recently, Cydcor announced that the company experienced an overall growth of 15.2 percent in 2011 – an example of the hard work and dedication that each and every Cydcor team member and the field puts into the business every day.
Cydcor started as a small Canadian business to a thriving and profitable company that is looking forward to even more growth and expansion. Today, with hundreds of independently-owned offices across North America selling on behalf of major clients, the company is poised to continue its enormous success. Here's to the next 18 years!


The costs of electricity interruptions in Spain. Are we sending the right signals?
One of the objectives of energy security is the uninterrupted physical availability of energy. However, there is limited information about how much is the cost of energy supply interruptions. This information is essential to optimize investment and operating decisions to prevent energy shortages, or, alternatively, to determine the strength of the signals to be sent to the agents so that they may invest accordingly. In this paper, we estimate the economic impact of an electricity interruption in different sectors and regions of Spain. Although there are several caveats in our analysis, we find that in 2008 the cost for the Spanish economy of one kWh of electricity not supplied was above €4 even in a conservative scenario, which is higher than the signals currently being sent as incentives to avoid these interruptions. This might result in an underinvestment in short-term energy security, particularly when we add the usual risk aversion of most consumers.
JCR Impact Factor and Scopus quartile: 2.696 - Q1 (2013); 4.039 - Q1 (2017).
Published on paper: October 2013.


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Susi Wallner (verh. Kränzl, Pseudonym: Leonore Weismann), (* 3. März 1868 in St. Leonhard bei Freistadt; † 22. April 1944 in Linz) war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin und Heimatdichterin.

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Susi Wallner wurde am 3. März 1868 in St. Leonhard bei Freistadt geboren. Bis 1872 lebte sie in Kremsmünster, dann zog sie nach Linz und heiratete 1919 den Hofrat Emil Kränzl. Sie war Mitarbeiterin der Linzer Tages-Post und der Wiener Volkszeitung. Susi Wallner veröffentlichte in den Feuilletons diverser Zeitungen über 1000 Erzählungen, Geschichten, Märchen, Sagen und Skizzen.

Sie starb am 22. April 1944 in Linz und wurde in einem Ehrengrab am St. Barbara-Friedhof beigesetzt. In Linz ist die Wallnerstraße und in St. Leonhard bei Freistadt die Susi-Wallner-Warte nach ihr benannt.

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 Die alte Stiege, 1898
 Hallstätter Märchen, 1900
 Erzählungen, 1902
 Linzer Skizzen, 1904
 Bunte Blätter, 1908
 Gestalten aus Oberösterreich, 1912
 Die Soldatenbraut, 1915
 Auf heimatlichem Boden (Ländliche Charakterbilder), 1925
 zahlreiche Erzählungen und Skizzen in Zeitschriften und Zeitungen

Literatur

Weblinks

 Susi Wallner - St. Leonhard

Autor
Literatur (19. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Deutsch)
Literatur (Österreich)
Heimatdichtung
Erzählung
Roman, Epik
Historischer Roman
Schriftsteller (Linz)
Person (Cisleithanien)
Österreicher
Geboren 1868
Gestorben 1944
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Dimes have been on the march since 1938, and they aren't slowing down. The March of Dimes was first established as a fundraiser in the fight against polio. The organization was instrumental in the development and delivery of polio vaccines and helped lead to the irradication of this horrible disease that had afflicted previous generations.
Once dimes are on the march, they are hard to stop. Not only are dimes the cutest denomination of US currency, they also are noted for their perserverance.
Today, the March of Dimes helps with a variety of concerns including prenatal care and in addressing birth defects and developmental disabilities.
The money raised by the March of Dimes has helped fund the research of 11 Nobel Laureates.
The Site of the Day, of course, is the March of Dimes - Utah Chapter which has information on the March of Dimes in the Salt Lake community.
So, if the dimes in your pocket feel like joining the march, you will find a great charity worthy of support. (I understand that green currency is appreciated as well). The site includes information on local activities and volunteer opportunities.


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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine | Forum
Who Do You Think You Are Magazine? | Forum
http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/
Charles Stanley Cope and Robert Cope
http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic17379.html
by JaneyH
I am trying to sort out two brothers on my husband's side of the family. Shown below is a family portrait of all eight children, taken about 1917.
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Far right is the eldest son, Edward Moseley Cope. I have comprehensive details of his military service and death in 1919. I'm inclined to believe that the children are standing in age order, right to left - I have another photo of them standing in the same order, in exactly the same location, a few years earlier. This would imply that the second person from the right (in a suit) is the second son, Robert Cope. His service record is on Ancestry and shows that he enlisted on 29 January 1916 and joined the Machine Gun Corps, mobilised 7 August 1918.
So assuming that the person third from right is third son, Charles Stanley Cope, born 17 August 1899, what is the uniform he's wearing? I've found his service record on the IWM's 'Lives of the First World War' website which shows he was in the the RAF from 1 April 1918, and wounded on 1 October 1918 at Wimereux in France. (This is confirmed by a newspaper article in the Nantwich Guardian.) My thinking is that Charles served elsewhere before joining the RAF - but where? Given his age it would only been for about a year. The photo above must have been taken before April 1918 because eldest son Edward was already a prisoner of war by this point.
As ever, all contributions gratefully received.
Re: Charles Stanley Cope and Robert Cope
Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 10:09 pm
by AdrianB38
If you go to http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/raf-officers-service-records-1918-1919/ and enter Charles Cope's name, there is just one in this collection (AIR76, RAF Officers' Service Records). (That's £3.50 to download, by the way, but also available from FindMyPast).
An interesting new feature in the catalogue is that, after selecting his record, it gives possible other matches, which includes:
COPE, Charles Stanley
WO 339/122211 Army Officer's service record
There is no guarantee that it's the same guy. However, when you select it, the catalogue entry says it's for Officer Cadet Charles Stanley COPE Royal Flying Corps. So it's a pretty good bet that this is the same guy. RFC is what my instinct was when I saw the photo. The light coloured band on the cap, I'd not seen before in WW1, but somewhere recently it appeared in a WW2 photo where it was also sported by RAF officer cadets.
Like all(?) WO 339 papers, "This record has not been digitised and cannot be downloaded."
Comments on his RAF papers
- he lived just up the road from me - Rope Hall, Nantwich!
- p2 of the papers shows that he served as a Premium Apprentice with the London & North Western Railway at Crewe Loco Works.
- Ancestry has 4 records & images relating to his time at Crewe with the LNWR in the UK, Railway Employment Records, 1833-1956 - these suggest (on a quick reading) that he returned to the LNWR, leaving in 1922 due to injuries from the war
Dear Adrian,
Many thanks for this; I know next to nothing about military uniforms so your input is much appreciated. I'm on the train to work now but I'll look at the record on FMP this evening, along with the railway employment records on Ancestry. I may also be able to get to Kew before Christmas, so I'll add that one to my list.
I was aware of Charles' apprenticeship from the newspaper article mentioning his injuries. My understanding is that he was in hospital for many months. In later life he was the Chairman of Crewe Alexandria FC!
Almost all of my husband's family hail from Cheshire. The Copes were farmers from Wybunbury and Walgherton, but many others were from in and around Winsford - farmers on the maternal side, and salt-miners on the paternal. Sadly we don't appear to have any connection with the village that we share our surname with - Hough. I do have a photo of my husband and son standing by the sign at the entrance to the village though
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There are two casualty cards for him on the RAF Museum site - one initially detailing his injury as 'GSW left thigh & fractured femur, dangerously ill'. Also noted is the other occupant of the aircraft.
avaline wrote: ... casualty cards for him on the RAF Museum site ...
Thank you for that - I'd missed or forgotten their existence.
That's a new one for me - thanks, avaline.


Matt Ryan's Mine Studio has been producing quality work and lessons for over ten years. Starting in a small studio in Simsbury Connecticut. Matt was able to work on his college art projects and operate as a working sister studio to Mark Lewis Creative Arts. Since then, he has done character design for large companies, published comics, painted and illustrated for a gaming cd, package design and has taken his lessons to a larger audience.
As a partner at Free Lunch Studios, located in Granby CT, Matt teaches groups and privately in comic themed workshops and classes as well as hosts special art events there.
The Mine Studio's philosophy is to produce a quality product. To bring life to a new visual rendering of the client's vision, be it either package design, character concepts, sequential art or any other task at hand.
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Q: How to access nested tag of element in XML which have common name My XML somewhat looks like this:
<A> AID = "10"  BID = "20" CID = "30" DID = "40"
        <B> AB = "100" BB = "200" CB = "300" DB = "400"</B>
    </A>
    <C> EID = "10"  FID = "20" GID = "30" HID = "40"
        <B> EB = "10" FB = "10" GB = "10" HB = "10 </B>
    </C>

I wanted to access "B" tag element which is inside the "A" tag element.I am using respXML.getElementsByTagName("B"); But in this case I am getting access of both the B tag. I want only access to B tag which only part of A tag not the C tag.

A: With a fixed XML (see kjhughes' comment for that) I think you could use :
var childBs = document.getElementById('A').getElementsByTagName('B')

Basically you get all A elements and then all their B children and put them in the childBs variable.

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The EU Invests EUR 272 Million in Railroads: A Cohesion of Latvian and Lithuanian Railway Projects!
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The EU will finance the purchase of trains in Latvia and the electrification of the Kaišiadorys - Klaipėda railroad in Lithuania. The Cohesion Fund has approved investments of EUR 272 million. How will the money be distributed?
100 Climate Neutral Cities by 2030: What Should You Know about the EU Green Transiti…
As part of the EU Mission for 100 Climate Neutral and Smart Cities, the EU Commission has presented a list of 100 cities selected for the project.…
Latvia will receive EUR 114 million of the EU funds. The money will be used to buy 23 EMUs for Riga and Pieriga region, which will replace the state-owned company's outdated rolling stock. The electric trains will have 400 seats with space for 450 standing passengers. Delivery of the EMU fleet, which has a maximum speed of 160 km/h, is planned for the end of 2023, with further commercial operation on tracks from Riga to Aizkraukle, Tukums, Skulte, and Jelgava. Such a solution will help increase the number of trips by environmentally friendly means of transport to 2.7 million.
Andreas Matthä, "It's time for a second energy turnaround." ÖBB Invests EUR 1 Billion…
By 2030, ÖBB wants to invest around one billion euros in renewable energies, namely hydro, wind and photovoltaics. In this way, ÖBB will be able to generate…
Lithuania, in turn, will receive EUR 157 million from the EU for the electrification of railway line Kaišiadorys - Klaipėda with a length of 365 km. At present, the line uses only diesel traction, the emissions of which amount to 3% of all greenhouse gases emitted by the country's transport sector. It is part of the highway that connects Klaipėda with the border of Lithuania and Belarus (a total length of 423.9 km). The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2023, and its economic and environmental effect is estimated at EUR 700 million.
It is worth noting that currently, only 8% of the Lithuanian railway network is electrified, so this project is a crucial contribution to supporting TENT-T development principles aimed at improving the efficiency of the EU railway system.
Never Has Locomotive Lease Been So Easy. Alpha Trains Launches New AlphaNOW Customer…
Alpha Trains has launched and invites users to register on AlphaNOW, a new customer portal, and an online booking tool. With the implementation of…
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EMU, Latvia, Lithuania, Cohesion Fund, electrification,
The ÖBB launches the Leisure/Bike Sprinter Gailtal on Carinthia's…
Ermewa SA and T3M join forces for the approval of new brake pads.…
Alstom wins another signalling project in Turkey


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José Luis Sánchez Bribiesca (Ciudad de México, 17 de julio de 1927 - ibídem, 25 de enero de 2002) fue un ingeniero civil, catedrático e investigador mexicano. Es considerado en su país uno de los pioneros en el área de ingeniería hidráulica.

Estudios y docencia
Sus padres fueron Eleuterio Sánchez Amador y Ana María Bribiesca. Estudió en la Escuela República de Panamá, en la Escuela Secundaría número 1 y en la Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. Cursó su licenciatura en la  Escuela Nacional de Ingenieros de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Después de obtener su título como ingeniero civil en 1951 con la tesis Efecto sísmico general en los arcos continuos, realizó una maestría en ingeniería hidráulica en 1964.

Inició su labor docente desde 1950 y su trabajo como investigador desde 1960. En su alma máter impartió más de treinta y cinco cátedras diferentes. Fue coordinador y subdirector en el área de Hidráulica e Ingeniería Ambiental en el Instituto de Ingeniería de la UNAM.

Investigador y académico
Realizó tareas de investigación en las áreas de producción de energía eléctrica, producción de alimentos, distribución de agua potable y drenaje, así como en el desarrollo de infraestructura portuaria. Colaboró con la Secretaría de Agricultura y Recursos Hidráulicos (SARH), con la Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), con el Departamento del Distrito Federal (DDF) y con la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT). Participó en los proyectos de la Presa Infiernillo, Presa Malpaso y Presa de la Amistad. Construyó el primer túnel de viento de Latinoamérica y un canal de olas generadas por viento.

Fue miembro de la Academia de la Investigación Científica, de la Asociación Mexicana de Hidráulica y de la Academia Nacional de Ingeniería. Fue miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI).

Obras publicadas
Publicó artículos especializados para revistas nacionales e internacionales, así como varios libros. Entre sus títulos publicados se encuentran:
 Hidrología histórica del Valle de México, en 1960.
 Mecánica del medio continuo, en 1972.
 Turbulence Effects on the Lining of Stilling Basins, en 1973.
 Doce algoritmos para resolver problemas de hidráulica, en 1978.
 Behavior of Spillways in Mexican Dams, en 1979.
 Aspectos hidrodinámicos de plantas hidroeléctricas, en 1980.
 Introducción a la micromecánica de fluidos, en 1985.
 Manual de hidráulica marítima elemental, en 1987.
 The Behavior of Francis Units under Partial Loads, en 1990.
 "A simplified procedure to evaluate liquid column separation phenomena and its possible extension to air inclusion problems" en Water Power and Dam Construction.
 Reflexiones sobre el desarrollo de la ingeniería hidráulica en México, en 1996.
 "Dimensionamiento de una presa derivadora" en Manual de la ingeniería de ríos en 1997.
 "Navegación fluvial" en Manual de ingeniería de ríos en 1998.
 La verdad absoluta y otros cuentos de ciencia ficción, novela de ciencia ficción, en 2002.

Premios y distinciones
 Investigador Emérito por el Instituto de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en 1985.
 Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Tecnología y Diseño por la Secretaría de Educación Pública en 1985.
 Premio Universidad Nacional en el área de Investigación Tecnológica por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en 1988.
 Premio Nacional de Ingeniería Civil por el Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles de México en 1995.

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Bibliografía

Alumnado de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Investigadores del Instituto de Ingeniería de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ingenieros civiles de México
Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (México)
Ingenieros de la Ciudad de México


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Will the global public accept a COVID-19 vaccine?
By Joan Conrow
As researchers race to develop a vaccine in response to COVID-19, new polls and studies are casting doubt on public acceptance of that approach.
Overall, several countries experiencing political instability and religious extremism are seeing growing skepticism that vaccines are safe, while the spread of misinformation online is threatening vaccination programs worldwide, according to a global study published in Lancet.
The Lancet study found that public confidence in vaccines varies widely between countries and regions, based on surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019. People in some European Union states, including Finland, France, Ireland and Italy, expressed increased confidence in vaccine safety. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Serbia registered significant increases in respondents strongly disagreeing that vaccines are safe.
The findings are important because vaccines must be widely administered in order to be effective, but anti-vaccination groups are mobilizing in opposition to a COVID-19 vaccine. In some countries, the issue has become further complicated by politics.
"It is vital with new and emerging disease threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that we regularly monitor public attitudes to quickly identify countries and groups with declining confidence, so we can help guide where we need to build trust to optimize uptake of new life-saving vaccines," says Prof. Heidi Larson from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, who led the research.
The World Health Organization declared vaccine hesitancy one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019. Declining confidence can result in vaccine delays or refusals, which is already contributing to a rising number of preventable disease outbreaks in measles, polio and meningitis worldwide.
"One of the main threats to the resilience of vaccination programs globally is the rapid and global spread of misinformation," Larson said in a press release. "When there is a large drop in vaccination coverage, it is often because there's an unproven vaccine safety scare seeding doubt and distrust. Sometimes there is a genuine small risk that gets rapidly spread and amplified to appear to be a much larger risk. There are also cases where vaccine debates have been purposefully polarized, exploiting the doubting public and system weaknesses for political purposes, while waning vaccine confidence in other places may be influenced by a general distrust in government and scientific elites."
Meanwhile, 81 percent of Americans surveyed feel it's unlikely a COVID-19 vaccine will be available before the Nov. 3 presidential election and less than half of would get it if it is, according to a poll conducted in the United States from Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Additionally, 62 percent of those polled are worried that political pressure from the Trump administration will lead the Food and Drug Administration to rush to approve a coronavirus vaccine without making sure that it is safe and effective. About four in 10 believe key government agencies, including the FDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are paying "too much attention" to politics when it comes to reviewing and approving treatments for coronavirus or issuing guidelines and recommendations.
The Kaiser poll also found that nearly half of American adults hold at least one misconception about coronavirus prevention and treatment. One in five say wearing a face mask is harmful to your health and one in four believe hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for coronavirus. Though numerous studies have debunked that claim, it was widely touted by Trump.
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Charlie Morton's Surgery Successful
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Charlie Morton #50 of the Pittsburgh Pirates reacts after he gave up eight runs in two innings against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on July 29, 2011.(Photo by Len Redkoles/Getty Images)
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pirates' pitcher Charlie Morton's hip surgery was successful.
Dr. Thomas Byrd performed the operation in Nashville, Tenn.
Morton had a torn labrum in his left hip, according to the Pirates.
The Pirates say he suffered the nagging injury late in the 2011 season.
It usually takes about six months to recover from this kind of surgery.
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Dr. S.V. Sreenivasan is the Joe C. Walter Endowed Chair in Engineering, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a nanotechnologist with an interest in creating high throughput nanofabrication techniques that enable applications in mobile electronics, advanced displays, healthcare and energy sectors. He has published over 130 technical articles and holds over 100 U.S. patents in the area of nanoscale manufacturing.
Dr. Sreenivasan is co-director of the NASCENT Center(link is external), a National Science Foundation funded Nanosystems Engineering Research Center. NASCENT Center is an interdisciplinary research effort in the area of high throughput nanomanufacturing systems that enable future generations of mobile computing and mobile energy technologies.
Dr. Sreenivasan co-founded Molecular Imprints Inc. (MII), a nanopatterning spin out from UT-Austin. He currently serves as the Chief Technologist of Canon Nanotechnologies, Inc., a company formed as a result of the acquisition of the semiconductor business of MII by Canon Corporation in 2014. MII is continuing to commercialize nanopatterning in other areas such as displays and data storage.
Dr. Sreenivasan has received several awards for his work including Technology Pioneer Award by the World Economic Forum (2005), University of Texas Chancellors' Award for Entrepreneurship (2007), The ASME Leonardo da Vinci Award (2009), The TAMEST O'Donnell Award for Technology Innovation (2010), the ASME William T. Ennor Manufacturing Technology Award (2011), the UT-Austin Inventor of the Year Award (2012), and the ASME Machine Design Award (2017). He was named fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in April 2017.


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Q: Consistently high but decreasing ping behavior on ubuntu machine I have a ubuntu machine (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS) connected to my home router via ethernet. I had been noticing poor performance when connecting via ssh, so I ran some ping tests from the ubuntu machine. It starts high, but decreases at a strangely consistent pace. Here are the results:
$ ping -c 30 www.google.com
PING www.google.com (216.58.217.164) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=99.7 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=98.1 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=97.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=96.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=95.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=94.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=93.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=92.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=91.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=89.9 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=88.9 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=87.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=86.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=85.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=84.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=83.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 time=82.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=81.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=80.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 time=79.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=78.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=22 ttl=56 time=77.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=23 ttl=56 time=76.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=24 ttl=56 time=75.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=25 ttl=56 time=74.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=26 ttl=56 time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=27 ttl=56 time=72.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=28 ttl=56 time=71.0 ms
64 bytes from iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net (216.58.217.164): icmp_seq=30 ttl=56 time=61.9 ms

and another website to test
$ ping -c 30 www.apple.com
PING e6858.dsce9.akamaiedge.net (23.218.213.175) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=99.8 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=2 ttl=59 time=98.1 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=3 ttl=59 time=97.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=4 ttl=59 time=96.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=5 ttl=59 time=95.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=6 ttl=59 time=94.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=7 ttl=59 time=93.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=8 ttl=59 time=92.2 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=9 ttl=59 time=91.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=10 ttl=59 time=90.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=11 ttl=59 time=88.9 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=12 ttl=59 time=88.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=13 ttl=59 time=87.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=14 ttl=59 time=86.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=15 ttl=59 time=85.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=16 ttl=59 time=84.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=17 ttl=59 time=83.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=18 ttl=59 time=82.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=19 ttl=59 time=81.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=20 ttl=59 time=80.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=21 ttl=59 time=79.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=22 ttl=59 time=78.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=23 ttl=59 time=77.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=24 ttl=59 time=75.9 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=25 ttl=59 time=74.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=26 ttl=59 time=73.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=27 ttl=59 time=72.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=28 ttl=59 time=71.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=29 ttl=59 time=70.0 ms
64 bytes from a23-218-213-175.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.218.213.175): icmp_seq=30 ttl=59 time=69.0 ms

Anybody know what might cause this behavior?
Update:
Pinging the router results in the same thing, so the problem must be something on the local network. Heres the report from mtr anyway:
                                               Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best Wrst StDev
1.|-- 192.168.1.1                               0.0%    10   74.6  81.9  74.6 100.0   9.1
2.|-- lo0-100.WASHDC-VFTTP-311.verizon-gni.net  0.0%    10   74.6  72.7   8.9  97.4  23.3
3.|-- B3311.WASHDC-LCR-22.verizon-gni.net       0.0%    10   74.5  73.6  17.9  97.3  20.6
4.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
5.|-- ???                                      100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
6.|-- 0.et-10-3-0.GW13.IAD8.ALTER.NET           0.0%    10   74.2  76.0  44.8  97.0  12.7
7.|-- 204.148.79.46                            10.0%    10   74.1  76.7  53.8  96.9  11.0
8.|-- 209.85.252.121                            0.0%    10   74.1  77.6  62.9  96.8   8.3
9.|-- 209.85.143.145                           10.0%    10   74.0  78.4  71.9  96.8   7.3
10.|-- iad23s44-in-f164.1e100.net               10.0%    10   73.9  79.2  73.9  96.7   6.9

Not sure what 4 and 5 are.
$tc qdisc
qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2
qdisc pfifo_fast 0: dev enp9s0 root refcnt 2 bands 3 priomap  1 2 2 2 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1