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Articles » The Near Abroad
Drugs, smuggling and fake currency
North Korea's route to riches through the diplomatic pouch. Last May a sting operation in the port city of Vladivostok by a government anti-narcotics squad bagged two drug dealers and a stash of 8.5 kilograms of heroin, worth millions on the street. Nothing surprising about that – drugs, extortion, contract killing and general mayhem are commonplace in Russia's wild east, where police are fighting a losing battle against crime gangs. Read more >
Celebration falls flat against tough competition
From the vast pyramid of Foster's beer cans that greeted Crown Prince Naruhito at the official launch, to the last honk of Alan Dargin's didgeridoo, it was obviously Australian – but just what was it meant to achieve? Celebrate Australia, a month-long promotion of Australia's arts, entertainment, produce and scientific achievement, finished this week after a cycle of 100 events in Tokyo and 32 regional towns and cities around Japan. Read more >
Asia's Stonehenge
Quite simply, one of the world's great undiscovered archeological treasures. "You must be careful where you walk," says our guide, Lan Phetrasy, as he leads us around the rim of an enormous bomb crater and onto the mysterious Plain of Jars, the most dangerous archeological site in the world. Read more >
Seoul sheds shadow of the rising sun
There it stands, dominating the city from the top of Sejongno – Seoul's main boulevard – an immense four-storey pile of grey granite topped with a copper dome, once the grandest building in all of north-east Asia. In its vaulted halls and marble-pillared galleries, the National Museum displays floor upon floor of priceless art and artefacts, the crown jewels of Korean culture. Read more >
Beer, blackjack and women for travellers to wild east of Siberia – Khabarovsk postcard
Breaking the bank – how I beat the casino in Khabarovsk. It was 9 pm, but the sunlight was still filtering through the thick velvet curtains – white nights, they call them round here – as I took on the Amur Casino. Through the gloom I could see the croupiers idly spinning their roulette wheels, waiting for the punters. I took a sip of my Heineken beer and placed a pile of chips in front of me on the green baize blackjack tabletop. Read more >
Eating corn from cow-pats: inside North Korea's gulag
Kang Chol-hwan was 15 years old the first time he saw one of his friends murdered. "Until then I was too young and I was not allowed to watch the executions," he says, in a matter-of-fact way. Kang was forced to gather with thousands of other inmates of the camp on a muddy parade ground beside a frozen stream while guards tied the condemned man to a white wooden pole with three strips of cloth. Read more >
The Kim is dead – long live the Kim
It is a weird-looking contraption, shaped a bit like a five-metre cigar tube with a turret on top, thick coats of grey paint failing to conceal the clumsy welds that hold it together. It sits on a pedestal in the middle of a park on the outskirts of Seoul, with a plaque explaining that it is a midget submarine in which four North Koreans tried to sneak across the Imjin River to launch a terrorist attack on the South. Read more >
South Korea, economic superpower
President Kim's brilliant Korea. A funny thing happened some time last year while Australia was busy congratulating itself on the end of the recession and looking forward to some economic sunshine. It slipped one place down the ladder of international economies, as measured by gross national product. Read more >
Tiger in the taiga
Nowhere to run. Siberia fights to save the endangered white tiger. Vladimir Shetinin crouches on the forest floor and pokes a stick at the track of a trail bike frozen in the black mud. "Poachers," he grunts, tugging on his grey beard and cocking an ear to the sky. The only sound is the icy Siberian wind groaning through the bare boughs of the oaks and birches. Read more >
The world's most secretive Stalinist state
The great leap backwards. Yellow water, brown toilet-paper, and massive military parades – a week in North Korea. With a thunderous roar from the sound system, tanks, cannon, missiles and fighter planes boom across the great grandstand where 10,000 cadres manipulate coloured display boards with robot precision. Read more >
Why Korea hates the Japanese
Undeserved tears mark tyrant's end analysis. The legacy of occupation. Tokyo, Sunday: When Joseph Stalin died 41 years ago, The Daily Telegraph in Sydney splashed an illustration of a weeping crocodile across its front page, with the headline "STALIN DEAD – HOORAY". Read more >
World War II's last frontier – the forbidden Kurile islands
Last outpost of the cold war. Akiko Iwasaki kneels in prayer beside the lichen- covered headstone, a smooth grey boulder cast up by the sea half a century ago and inscribed in rough-hewn characters with the names of her ancestors. She unpacks bags of lollies; she arranges a posy of plastic daffodils; she drenches the rock with a flask of water, brought from across the sea. Read more >
A visit to North Korea's Gulag, the fight to save the endangered white tiger in Siberia, and a week in the Cold War's last frontier, the remote Kurile Islands.


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With its official release-date postmark and DateStamp™ serial number, the Specimen Set has fast become established as one of the leading issues of the year, selling out in just a few weeks for the last few years.
But the 2019 edition is set to be even more popular, as it represents the first chance to get the official UK Queen Victoria 200th Birth Anniversary commemorative, poignantly marked on a £5 coin.
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MEChA Event with Alvaro Huerta on left in blue serape-circa 1986
"Reflections of a MEChista by a Chicano Scholar Activist"
By Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.
I first learned about MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán) during UCLA's Freshman Summer Program (FSP) in 1985, as a 17-year-old freshman. Many moons later, when I became a member, I still stand by MEChA's mantra: "Once a MEChista, always a MEChista." (To pretend to be younger, I usually joke that I was "actually" a 7-year-old math prodigy at UCLA in 1985!)
When I shockingly learned of the proposed name change of MEChA at the MEChA National Conference 2019 at UCLA (March 29 – 31, 2019), I decided to write down some short reflections about the state of MEChA (or lack thereof in terms of its future?) to express what this important organization means to me and its significance for students (current and future) and alumni from our high schools, colleges and universities.
While there are many racist lies, state-sponsored misinformation actions and reactionary views towards MEChA, for someone like myself—a former Chicano kid from the projects—MEChA represented a haven in a white-dominated space. At my undergraduate years, there were few Chicanas/os at UCLA, including other elite universities and colleges in the country. In my case, given that I grew up in the project and on welfare, food stamps, Medical, etc., there were even fewer of us. In fact, many of the Chicana/o students at UCLA that I met hailed from the middle-class with parents who spoke English, graduated from college and owned property (e.g., home). This created a greater sense of alienation for me, which is very common among first generation university/college students from America's barrios. In this context, MEChA became a "safe space," where I belonged, despite being a brown street kid from the "wrong side of the tracks."
As a MEChista, I also gained political consciousness. While I didn't normally read or write during my poor/inadequate K-12 education, apart from my assigned Chicana/o studies books, I began to read the great works of Marx, Che, Chomsky, Gramsci, Fanon and others, allowing me to acquire a better understanding of the world in general and, particularly the inherent contradictions of capitalism. In MEChA, we debated these great thinkers—unfortunately, mostly male—and how their ideas and theories applied to us as Chicanas/os in a land that once belonged to us or, as the saying goes, as "strangers in our own land." Essentially, as MEChistas, while we were taking our own courses and studying different subject matters, simultaneously, we were teaching ourselves about these influential thinkers, and others, under the premise that it's not enough to understand the world, but to transform it (Marx).
On campus, we organized conferences and events to recruit more Chicanas/os and Latinas/os to higher education. We also defended the most vulnerable among us. For example, when then-UCLA Chancellor Charles Young decided to cut financial aid to undocumented immigrants, we organized an 8-day hunger strike (November 11-19, 1987). Led by then-student leader Adrian Alvarez, a total of five hunger strikes went on a liquid-only fast in defense of our undocumented brothers and sisters. This historic hunger strike, as I've previously written about, "… provided an organizing model for other Chicana/o student activists to stage similar hunger strikes at UCLA (May 24-June 7, 1993), UCSB (April 27-May 5, 1994) and other colleges/universities." The 1993 hunger eventual led to the creation of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies.
Once I left UCLA to organize at the community (and national) level, apart from other campaigns, I successfully co-founded the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles (ALAGLA) to challenge the City of Los Angeles' 1996 draconian leaf blower ban. If convicted, under this ban, Latino immigrant gardeners would be subject to outrageous penalties: misdemeanor charge, $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail. The other co-founders included MEChistas from UCLA, along with Mexican gardeners like Jaime Aleman, whom we met at UCLA. I've written about ALAGLA in periodicals, online outlets and journal articles. I've also held talks and symposia about this historic campaign, along with being profiled in magazines.
All of the aforementioned student-led and community-based campaigns couldn't be possible without MEChA. Period!
Thus, I end with a loud and clear statement: ¡Viva MEChA!
Dr. Alvaro Huerta holds a joint faculty appointment in Urban & Region Planning (URP) and Ethnic & Women's Studies (EWS) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Among other scholarly publications, he's the author of Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm (San Diego University Press, 2013) and forthcoming book Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond (Hamilton Books | Rowman & Littlefield, June 2019). He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in history from UCLA.
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require 'spec_helper'

class ChartableInController < ActionController::Base
  include Navd::Chartable
end

describe "Chartable" do
  subject { ChartableInController.new }

  [:to_chartable_structure].each do |method|
    describe method do
      it "should be available as a class and instance method" do
        subject.should respond_to(method)
        subject.class.should respond_to(method)
      end
    end
  end

  describe "#to_chartable_structure" do
    let(:meme_limit) { AppConstants.number_of_trending_memes || 10 }
    let(:seed_limit) { meme_limit + 10 }
    let(:first_top_meme) { seed_limit - meme_limit + 1 }

    let!(:show) { Factory.create(:show, :number => 33 ) }
    before {
      (1..seed_limit).each do |i|
        m = Factory.create(:meme, :name => "meme-#{i}" )
        i.times { Factory.create(:note, :meme => m, :show => show) }
      end
    }

    context "with multiple series for line chart" do
      let(:chart_def) {
        {
          ylabels: { :column => 'meme_name'},
          yvalues: { :column => 'note_count'},
          xlabels: { :column => 'number'}
        }
      }
      subject { ChartableInController.new.to_chartable_structure(Meme.stats_over_time,chart_def) }
      it { should be_a(Hash) }
      it "should have 1 show (x axis)" do
        subject[:labels].count.should eql(1)
      end
      it "should have required number of series values sets" do
        subject[:values].count.should eql(meme_limit)
      end
      it "should have required number of series legends" do
        subject[:legend].count.should eql(meme_limit)
      end
      it "should have the correct 1st data series (for example)" do
        subject[:values][:"serie1"].should eql([first_top_meme])
        subject[:legend][:"serie1"].should eql("meme-#{first_top_meme}")
      end
    end

    context "with single series for pie chart" do
      let(:chart_def) {
        {
          xlabels: { :column => 'meme_name'},
          yvalues: { :column => 'note_count'}
        }
      }
      subject { ChartableInController.new.to_chartable_structure(show.meme_stat,chart_def) }
      it { should be_a(Hash) }
      it "should have a data point for each x item (x axis)" do
        subject[:labels].count.should eql(seed_limit)
      end
      it "should have required number of series values sets" do
        subject[:values].count.should eql(1)
      end
      it "should not have a legend collection" do
        subject[:legend].should be_nil
      end
      it "should have the correct 1st data series" do
        expect = []
        seed_limit.times { |i| expect << i + 1 }
        subject[:values][:"serie1"].should eql(expect)
      end
    end

  end

end

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CPU-D monitoring tool is a little application, that shows you the usage of your own system (Picture 1). You can also customize it in many opportunities (Picture 2). This application is still in development (Beta), so it could be buggy, so I would be happy, if you give me some feedback. 🙂 If there is a new version/update available, the application will showing an info box with the link to my homepage. Please note, that Windows 7 and below havn't the Performance Counter for reading the current CPU clock! So, you will see only your maximum CPU clock.
Note: Windows or your Antivirus would probably block this application and say it's "unsafe" or a virus. The reason is, that I don't have the money to pay a digital signature. But I promise you, this application doesn't do anything to your system. It just reads your hardware!
• You are allowed to make videos or pictures with it.
• You are not allowed to claim it as your own!
• You are not allowed to redistribute it!
• If you like to share it, please share ONLY the dedelner.net link!
• You are not allowed to reupload it!
• You are not allowed to earn money with it!
• You are allowed to earn money with it in your YouTube video.
Hi, könntest du vielleicht noch eine anzeige für die GPU Auslastung und vielleicht noch eine für den GPU Takt hinzufügen?
Die Windows 7 Version 😉 Ich will noch später die Auslastung der HDD sowohl als auch wie viel Speicherplatz noch zur Verfügung steht, hinzufügen.
Hey! Nice program! But please show the GPU usage and the VRAM usage. Thanks!
I am using windows 10 64bit and I got the errors in the image bellow. From what I can tell the program is requesting something that doesn't exist. Can anyone help me fix this or have this fixed in a future update?
you said fixed crash on other language? no. it's not fixed.


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Q: UIWebView calling JS with arguments won't work I have a UIWebView with a HTML page inside. Now I want to call a JS function inside the HTML and pass some values from Objective-C variables in it.
-  (void) webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)_webView{
    NSString *selectedValue = [_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"initWithDataFromObjC(%@)", @"hello"]];

    NSLog(@"webViewDidFinishLoad %@", @"YES");
}

The JS function in the HTML file:
  function initWithDataFromObjC(param1) {
           alert(param1);
  }

When I run the App in the simulator sometimes it loads my HTML correct, sometimes it stuck and don't finished loading. But nevertheless it don't show a popup with "hello"!
If I change the coding to the following:
-  (void) webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)_webView{
    NSString *selectedValue = [_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"initWithDataFromObjC()"];

    NSLog(@"webViewDidFinishLoad %@", @"YES");
}

The JS function without any parameters
function initWithDataFromObjC() {
      alert("hello");
}

The second construct will run without any issues. But I'm wondering why I don't work properly when I try to pass in some parameters?
BR & THX,
mybecks

A: Try with:
 NSString *selectedValue = [_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"initWithDataFromObjC('%@')", @"hello"]];

or
 NSString *selectedValue = [_webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"initWithDataFromObjC(\"%@\")", @"hello"]];

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Hosur railway station (station code: HSRA) is a railway station serving Hosur,

Administration
It is one of the stations in the Bangalore railway division currently administered by the South Western Railway zone, one of the important zones  within the Indian Railways. It is officially also known by its code:HSRA.

History
During British regime it was a terminal station connecting Tirupattur in old narrow gauge system running via Krishnagiri, another major business centre in those old golden days. After World War II, the railway line was dismantled. Then the line was further extended to Dharmapuri via  palacode. And the line was further extended to Bangalore before 20 years ago. Now it is one of the major stop in Bengaluru-Dharmapuri BG line .

References

External links
 Hosur

Bangalore railway division
Railway stations in Krishnagiri district

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Mielniki Rzeczyckie (ukr. Мельники-Річицькі) – wieś na Ukrainie w rejonie ratnowskim, w obwodzie wołyńskim. W II Rzeczypospolitej miejscowość wchodziła w skład gminy wiejskiej Lelików w powiecie kobryńskim województwa poleskiego. Do II wojny światowej w pobliżu wsi znajdowały się chutory Chływsinko, Podostrywki i Szerszeń.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — It has a name with star power. Now, Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet needs to fuel that fame into car sales.
With new energy, processes and support from Feldman Automotive Group, employees at this large dealership are pumped to try to double or even triple sales from the level produced by the former Bobby Layman Chevrolet.
A visit last week from A-list Hollywood star and producer Wahlberg, who partnered with dealer Jay Feldman in July to buy the dealership, didn't hurt.
Case in point: Large TV screens in the service lounge and throughout the sales floor will allow Wahlberg to communicate with staff and customers.
The idea borrows from something Wahlberg does at his chain of Wahlburgers restaurants. Feldman, dealer principal of the Chevy store and CEO of Feldman Automotive Group, now with nine stores, called the system a giant FaceTime of sorts. It also will be used to give updates on Wahlberg's life including his movies.
Taking advantage of Wahlberg's social media popularity is part of the game plan, said Feldman, who met Wahlberg in 2013 in Detroit during the filming of the fourth installment of the Transformers movie series.
Going forward, Wahlberg and Feldman are interested in opening more dealerships together. They are looking for other locations, possibly in the Midwest.
The dealership will sell Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet merchandise ranging from T-shirts, hats and jewelry to key chains and license plate holders, Feldman said. And a Wahlburgers food truck will visit the store in the coming weeks to serve up burgers.
Fans also will be able to buy Mark Wahlberg customized vehicles complete with special logos stitched into floor mats and headrests.
"He's going to autograph the car for the customer," Feldman said.
Wahlberg got a chance to practice his car-selling chops on national TV last week in an appearance on the "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" in which he took a stab at selling an Equinox to the host. "We have the best deals," he told Colbert.
He also professed his love for Chevrolet, something he expanded on during his visit to the dealership.
Mark Wahlberg, left, and dealer principal Jay Feldman are looking to beef up sales and staffing.
Feldman wants to make Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet the top-selling Chevy store in Ohio. There's a way to go — the store is in the Top 25 now, Gilmore said.
To increase sales, inventory is being added. Managers are migrating the dealership management system from Dealertrack to CDK Global.Feldman employees from Michigan stores are helping build in processes that had been absent around traffic management, customer follow-up and prospecting, Feldman Automotive COO Dave Katarski said.
Mark Wahlberg, right, standing with a staff member, created lots of buzz at the store.
Wahlberg said providing the customer with an experience and the best customer service is key. He likened the dealership to the Wahlburgers business.
Justin Luckett, a salesman at the store since December, said the new owners have helped revive its energy. Customer traffic has increased tremendously, and he expects that to grow even more once advertisements kick off.
And is more traffic helping with sales?


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3RB Awards the Eighteenth Du Cann Memorial Prize
Congratulations to Samuel Parsons, winner of this year's Gray's Inn Moot Competition, and of the Three Raymond Buildings Du Cann Prize for Excellence in Advocacy.
Richard Du Cann QC was one of the foremost – and formidable – advocates of his generation, a student and later a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn, who practised from these Chambers for 40 years. As well as having a distinguished career at the Bar, he had a long association with the Inns of Court School of Law, including serving as Vice-Chairman of its governing body and chairing its Finance Committee. He died in August 1994 and it was only fitting that Chambers should honour his career by the setting up of an award.
For the first ten years, the prize of £1,500 was known as The Du Cann Memorial Prize for Excellence in Advocacy. It was administered by the ICSL and awarded annually to the student obtaining the highest aggregate mark in the Advocacy Assessments on the Bar Vocational Course.
Since 2008 we have been proud to associate our award with the Gray's Inn Moot Competition, and we take great pleasure in attending the finals and witnessing the skills of the winner first-hand.
James Lewis QC, a Master of the Bench of Gray's Inn, presented Samuel with the annual prize of a cheque for £1,500 plus a copy of Richard Du Cann's book, the Art of the Advocate, which is commended to all students as essential reading, even today.
Samuel graduated from Hertford College, Oxford, in 2013 with a degree in Music. He converted to law at City University, where he achieved a Distinction in the GDL, and is currently in his BPTC year. He was awarded the Bedingfield Scholarship and a Residential Scholarship at Gray's Inn.
Samuel will be studying for a Masters at Harvard Law School in 2015-16, before commencing pupillage at South Square.
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National Parks In Belgium: 6 Places To Explore The Wildlife In The Cockpit Of Europe
Rajeshree Goswami
Whether you're searching for an end of the week break or a more drawn out excursion, Belgium has a lot to offer to tourists. On the off chance that you plan a visit to Belgium, the outing is not complete without taking a visit to the Belgian national parks. The national parks in Belgiumare not less than a visual joy. These national parks are stunning, and with such a significant number of alternatives, it tends to be overwhelming to choose.
Top 6 National Parks In Belgium
A complete list of Belgian nature regions would continue for pages as they are many in numbers, so here are just a couple of the largest ones. These are the ones you truly shouldn't miss.
1. Hoge Kempen National Park
Hoge Kempen National Park: nature in the entirety of its greatness! The National Park in the Belgian region of Limburg is a unique nature reserve protecting and looking after 5700 ha of timberland and heathland. The park extends over the regions of Dilsen-Stokkem, Zutendaal, Maasmechelen, Lanaken, Genk, and As.
The park offers a great view with broad pine woods amongst purple blooming heathland, large lakes filled with rocks and extracted sands. The high peaks also offer a great view to the visitors.The Hoge Kempen is home to more than 6,000 types of fauna and flora. One can witness vultures, falcons and other prey birds swooping in between the trees. Nightjars, deer's, smooth snakes and creepy crawlies including grasshoppers, lion ants, and European honey beewolves are all to be found here.
There are various dragonflies and butterflies, including swallowtails, purple hairstreak, and popular chief of naval operations, silvery heath, chalk slope blues, and Weaver's fritillaries. The park has five gateways through which guests can enter. Each gateway has a guest focus, parking, an inn and plenty of space to eat and be engaged. Each gateway is themed and offers an alternate view of the park.
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2. De Zoom– Kalmthoutse Heide
'De Zoom– Kalmthoutse Heide' is a cross-border park on the Belgian– Dutch border. It is a unification of two previous parks, the 'Kalmthoutse Heide' in Belgium and 'De Zoom' in The Netherlands, together stretching out over 37.50 square kilometers. A vast area of the premises of the park is masked with heathland.
The cross-border park is overseen by a novel commission in which both Flemish and Dutch associations are spoken to. The cross-border park is claimed by the territory of Flanders, the region Kalmthout, Staatsbosbeheer, Natuurmonumenten, and a few private proprietors. The best-known area of the cross-border park falls in Belgium, in the north of the area of 'Antwerp.'The Dutch part falls in the district 'Woensdrecht' and stretches from the outskirt to the towns Huijbergen and Putte.
As we stroll in the 'Kalmthoutse Heide', we can see some surprising species, for example, Smooth snake, Viviparous reptile and Crested Newt, and additionally Moor frog. Uncommon butterfly species are Green hairstreak, Grayling, Silver-studded blue, Checkered captain and Clouded yellow.
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3. Burdinale and Mehaigne National Park
The 'Valleys of the Burdinale' and 'Mehaigne National Park' includes 42 sq. mi or 11,000 hectares in 'Wallonia.' It is roughly triangular in shape with the two base points set apart by the towns of Huy and Andenne, which sit seven miles separated on the River Meuse.
The highest point of the triangle is at Hannut, 15 miles toward the northwest. The park is named for the two streams: the 'Burdinale' and 'Mehaigne.' Each of the two waterways has its own character, which gives the park an extraordinary assortment of amazing scenes. There are forest ecosystems, bogs and meadows as the valleys open out.
The park includes numerous zones of exceptional beauty, some of which are recorded in the Europe-wide Natura 2000 list of extraordinary zones of biodiversity. Alongside the area is filled with pleasant homesteads, watermills, and palaces in the midst of a rich social and building blend. With its incredible diversity, the Burdinale and Mehaigne Park is the ideal base for a vacation, especially if you adore rustic settings, legacy, and extraordinary natural beauty.
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4. The Nature Park of the Two Ourthes
The 'Nature Park of the Two Ourthes' is a piece of the schistose massif of the Rhine basin and lays on the absolute oldest rocks of Belgium . It is arranged in the upper east of the area of Luxembourg along the outskirt with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Its area of 76,000 hectares covers the lofty slants of the Ourthe valley.
The source of the Eastern Ourthe is arranged in the town of a similar name close to the region of Gouvy. The stream at that point gales its way through the farmland to the residential community of Houffalize. The Western Ourthe quickly courses through Sainte-Ode and among Tenneville and Bertogne to at last join with the other part of the stream close Le Hérou.
Subsequent to having converged to shape the Ourthe, the two streams stream towards the delightful town of La Roche-en-Ardenne, winding through a scene portrayed by lush inclines and commanded by impressive rock formations.
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5. The Zwin
'The Zwin' is a nature reserve at the 'North Sea' drift, on the Belgian-Dutch outskirt. It comprises the passage zone of a previous tidal bay which amidst the Middle Ages associated the North Sea with the ports of Sluis and Bruges inland.
The Zwin delta was framed initially by a storm that got through the Flemish drift in 1134, making a tidal channel that achieved somewhere in the range of 15 km inland and was likewise associated, through another passage, to the opening of the 'Scheldt' further north-east. The new watercourse offered access to the ocean to the inland city of 'Bruges', which thus rose to end up one of the principal medieval port urban areas of Europe. The towns of 'Damme', 'Sluis' and 'Sint Anna ter Muiden' were likewise situated on the Zwin. But from the end of the thirteenth century onward, the channel was influenced by dynamic silting, which eventually made the waterway wind up unusable and remove the harbor of 'Bruges' from the ocean.
The existing nature reserve was established in 1952. It encompasses a region of 1.25 square kilometers in 'Knokke-Heist', Belgium and 0.33 square kilometers in Sluis, Netherlands. It is recognized for its substantial varieties in salt-resistant flora, for example, ocean lavender. It is also well known for bird spectators. There is a small zoological garden with some real household bird and it is one among the few of the spots in Belgium with a populace of white storks.
However, in March 1986 it was announced the 'Wetland of International Importance.
Suggested Read: 32 Places To Visit In Belgium In 2022 That Make The Country Irresistible
6. Eifel Nature Park
The coldest and most far-flung nature reserve in Belgium is the house of the most mysterious untamed life. Other than your standard wild pigs and deer, the High Fens has pulled in wildcats and the dark grouse, and since the new millennium, the lynx has again been located here without precedent for three centuries. Its intelligent nature and the district's regular low-hanging fogs imply that you'll unlikely detect the plumy-eared cat; however, his inconspicuous nearness unquestionably adds to the supernatural character of the place. Some portion of the parks fields, which extend the distance over into the German areas of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz, goes back to the last Ice Age.
The 'Hohes Venn Eifel' nature park, which crosses international borders, connects 'North Rhine-Westphalia', Rhineland Palatinate' and eastern Belgium in the north of the 'Eifel.' The nature park is mostly occupied by dim blue lakes and waterways, gurgling watercourses and wide dams, and in addition thickly forested mountain ranges.
The 'Eifel National Park reaches out over a region of approx. 110 square kilometers amidst the 'Hohes Venn Eifel' nature park. The protected zone offers undisturbed living space for wild felines and dark storks, among different creatures. In the late spring, the yellow sweeper blooms turn the 'Eifel National Park' brilliant. Also, the southern zone of the 'Eifel National Park' is even home to a few kinds of orchid, for example, the moorland spotted orchid.
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Gran parte di ciò che è noto della vita di Bellini e della sua attività di musicista proviene da lettere scritte al suo amico Francesco Florimo, incontrato come compagno di studi a Napoli.

Considerato, al pari di Gioacchino Rossini e Gaetano Donizetti, il compositore per antonomasia dell'era del bel canto italiano, in particolare dell'inizio del XIX secolo, Bellini fu autore di dieci opere liriche in tutto, delle quali le più famose e rappresentate sono La sonnambula, Norma e I puritani.

Biografia

I primi anni a Catania

Bellini nacque a Catania (nel Regno di Sicilia), presso un appartamento in affitto di Palazzo Gravina Cruyllas, in piazza San Francesco d'Assisi, il 3 novembre del 1801, figlio di Rosario Bellini e di Agata Ferlito. Era figlio e nipote d'arte: suo padre era infatti un compositore minore, mentre il nonno paterno, Vincenzo Tobia Nicola Bellini, era un rinomato compositore di musiche sacre, originario di Torricella Peligna (nell'Abruzzo Citeriore, una regione del Regno di Napoli), già attivo a Petralia Sottana e trapiantato, in seguito alla sua scritturazione da parte di Ignazio Paternò Castello, a Catania, dove visse presso via Santa Barbara.

Bellini dimostrò precocemente il suo interesse nei confronti della musica e intorno all'età di 14 anni si trasferì a studiare dal nonno, il quale ne intuì l'alta predisposizione verso la composizione. Intorno al 1817 la sua produzione si fece particolarmente intensa, per convincere il senato civico a concedere una borsa di studio per il perfezionamento, da effettuarsi al Real Collegio di Musica di San Sebastiano, dopo una supplica datata al 1818.

Nel 1819 ottenne la borsa di 36 onze annue grazie all'interesse dell'intendente del Vallo, il duca di Sammartino. Partì da Messina, ospite dello zio padrino Francesco Ferlito, il 14 giugno e giunse al porto di Napoli dopo cinque giorni di tempesta, scampando fortunosamente a un naufragio.

Gli studi musicali a Napoli

A Napoli fu allievo di Giacomo Tritto, ma, conosciuto Nicola Antonio Zingarelli, preferì seguire quest'altro, il quale lo indirizzò verso lo studio dei classici (Palestrina, Paisiello e Pergolesi su tutti) e il gusto per la melodia piana ed espressiva, senza artifici e abbellimenti, secondo i dettami della scuola musicale napoletana. Tra i banchi del conservatorio ebbe come condiscepoli Saverio Mercadante ed il musicista patriota Piero Maroncelli, ma soprattutto conobbe il calabrese Francesco Florimo, la cui fedele amicizia lo accompagnerà per tutta la vita e dopo la morte, allorché Florimo diventerà bibliotecario del conservatorio di Napoli e sarà tra i primi biografi dell'amico prematuramente scomparso.

In questo periodo Bellini compose musica sacra, alcune sinfonie d'opera e alcune arie per voce e orchestra, tra cui la celebre Dolente immagine, il cui testo è attribuito alla sua fiamma di allora, Maddalena Fumaroli, opera oggi nota solo nelle successive rielaborazioni per voce e pianoforte.

Nel 1825 presentò al teatrino del conservatorio la sua prima opera, Adelson e Salvini, come lavoro finale del corso di composizione. L'anno dopo colse il primo grande successo con Bianca e Fernando, andata in scena al teatro San Carlo di Napoli col titolo ritoccato in Bianca e Gernando per non mancare di rispetto al principe Ferdinando di Borbone.

L'anno seguente il celebre Domenico Barbaja commissionò a Bellini un'opera da rappresentare al Teatro alla Scala di Milano. Partendo da Napoli, il giovane compositore lasciò alle spalle l'infelice passione per Maddalena Fumaroli, la ragazza che non aveva potuto sposare per l'opposizione del padre di lei, contrario al matrimonio con un "suonatore di cembalo".

Esperienze nel nord Italia

Sia Il pirata (1827), sia La straniera (1829) ottennero alla Scala un clamoroso successo: la stampa milanese riconosceva in Bellini l'unico operista italiano in grado di contrapporre a Gioachino Rossini uno stile personale da cui prende la bellezza proprio quest'ultimo, basato su una maggiore aderenza della musica al dramma e sul primato del canto espressivo rispetto al canto fiorito.

Meno fortuna ebbe nel 1829 Zaira, rappresentata a Parma per inaugurare il nuovo Teatro Ducale (oggi Teatro Regio di Parma) e la cui rappresentazione riscosse scarso successo. Lo stile di Bellini mal si adattava ai gusti del pubblico di provincia, più tradizionalista. Delle cinque opere successive, le più riuscite sono non a caso quelle scritte per il pubblico di Milano (La sonnambula, e Norma, entrambe andate in scena nel 1831) e Parigi (I puritani, 1835). In questo periodo compose anche due opere per il Teatro La Fenice di Venezia: I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), per i quali adattò parte della musica scritta per Zaira, e la sfortunata Beatrice di Tenda (1833).

Parigi, gli ultimi anni e la morte
La svolta decisiva nella carriera e nell'arte del musicista catanese coincise con la sua partenza dall'Italia alla volta di Parigi. Qui Bellini entrò in contatto con alcuni dei più grandi compositori d'Europa, tra cui Fryderyk Chopin, e il suo linguaggio musicale si arricchì di colori e soluzioni nuove, pur conservando intatta l'ispirazione melodica di sempre. Gioachino Rossini, che viveva a Parigi, lo considerava il suo pupillo. Oltre a I puritani, scritti in italiano per il Théâtre-Italien diretto da Rossini, a Parigi Bellini compose numerose romanze da camera di grande interesse, alcune delle quali in francese, dimostrandosi pronto a comporre un'opera in francese per il Teatro dell'Opéra di Parigi.

La sua carriera e la sua vita furono però stroncate a meno di 34 anni da un'infezione intestinale amebica, probabilmente contratta all'inizio del 1830.

Bellini fu sepolto nel cimitero di Père-Lachaise, con un monumento funebre realizzato da Carlo Marochetti, dove rimase per oltre 40 anni, vicino a Chopin e a Cherubini. Rossini fu tra coloro che portarono il feretro. Il 23 ottobre 1876 la salma, traslata dal Père Lachaise, fu inumata nel duomo di Catania con una cerimonia descritta dall'amico compositore Francesco Florimo.

Nelle varie tappe che segnarono il ritorno in patria, il feretro del compositore fu accolto ovunque con calore e commozione. Giunto infine nella sua città natale, vennero celebrate le solenni esequie, a cui parteciparono migliaia di catanesi, alcuni parenti del compositore (tra cui due fratelli ancora in vita), e una folta rappresentanza di autorità civili, militari e religiose. In onore del ritorno in patria delle sue spoglie, la sua città natale riprodusse l'Arco di Trionfo di Parigi in ricordo del soggiorno francese del musicista.

La tomba fu realizzata dallo scultore Giovanni Battista Tassara, mentre il monumento cittadino fu opera di Giulio Monteverde.

Heinrich Heine lo descrive così: «Egli aveva una figura alta e slanciata e moveva graziosamente e in modo, starei per dire, civettuolo. Viso regolare, piuttosto lungo, d'un rosa pallido; capelli biondi, quasi dorati, pettinati a riccioli radi; fronte alta, molto alta e nobile; naso diritto; occhi azzurri, pallidi; bocca ben proporzionata; mento rotondo. I suoi lineamenti avevano un che di vago, di privo di carattere, di latteo, e in codesto viso di latte affiorava a tratti, agrodolce, un'espressione di dolore». Secondo Heine, Bellini parlava francese molto male, anzi: «orribilmente, da cane dannato, rischiando di provocare la fine del mondo».

Stile
La musica di Bellini è un singolare connubio tra classicità e romanticismo. Classicista era la formazione ricevuta a Napoli, basata sui modelli di Palestrina, della scuola operistica napoletana, di Haydn e di Mozart, e anche una personale tendenza a valori poetici come armonia e compostezza. Romantico era invece il pathos delle sue opere, l'importanza che le passioni e i sentimenti assumono nelle vicende rappresentate. Il punto di raccordo fra le due tendenze è la melodia, che senza venir meno a una classica sobrietà crea atmosfere sognanti, sensuali e malinconiche, vicine al romanticismo del tempo. Tale talento nel cesellare melodie della più limpida bellezza conserva ancora oggi un'aura di magia, mentre la sua personalità artistica si lascia difficilmente inquadrare entro le categorie storiografiche.

Legato a una concezione musicale antica, fondata sul primato del canto, sia esso vocale o strumentale, il siciliano Bellini portò prima a Milano e poi a Parigi un'eco di quella cultura mediterranea che l'Europa romantica aveva idealizzato nel mito della classicità. Il giovane Wagner ne fu tanto abbagliato da ambientare proprio in Sicilia la sua seconda opera, Il divieto d'amare, additando la chiarezza del canto belliniano a modello per gli operisti tedeschi e tentando di seguirlo a sua volta.

All'interno di una sorta di Bellini renaissance, la musica del compositore catanese ha attirato nel XX secolo l'attenzione di diversi compositori d'avanguardia come Bruno Maderna e, soprattutto, Luigi Nono, che l'hanno riletta al di fuori delle categorie operistiche, concentrando l'attenzione su una particolare concezione del suono, della voce e dei silenzi le cui radici - secondo musicologia contemporanea - affonderebbero nella musica della Grecia antica e dell'area del Mar Mediterraneo piuttosto che nella moderna tradizione musicale europea.

Fortuna
Già nel 1827, Bellini ottenne riscontri positivi con Il Pirata. Successivamente, sia I Capuleti e i Montecchi, rappresentata a La Fenice nel 1830, che La sonnambula, a Milano nel 1831, raggiunsero nuove vette trionfali. Norma, data a La Scala nel 1831, non andò altrettanto bene fino alle successive rappresentazioni. La carriera di Bellini si concluse con il trionfo de I puritani a Parigi.

In una lettera di Giuseppe Verdi, datata 1869 e indirizzata a Florimo, il grande compositore esprime la sua ammirazione nei confronti del compositore catanese:

"Sono poi completamente d'accordo con voi, caro Florimo, nelle lodi che tributate a Bellini. S'egli non aveva alcune delle brillanti qualità di qualche suo contemporaneo, aveva ben maggiore originalità, e quella tal corda che lo rende tanto caro a tutti, e che nel tempio dell'arte lo colloca in una nicchia ove sta solo... Lode a lui e lode grandissima"

A proposito di Bellini, il critico londinese Tim Ashley ha detto:

Omaggi

 Vincenzo Bellini era raffigurato sulle banconote da 5000 Lire italiane. Sul retro il personaggio di Norma.
 Nel 1967 gli è stata dedicata una specie fungina: il Suillus bellinii (Inzenga) Watling.
 La Pasta alla Norma prende forse il nome dalla sua celebre opera.
 A Catania il Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini prende il suo nome.
 A Catania il Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini fu inaugurato nel 1890 in suo onore.
 A Palermo gli venne dedicato il Conservatorio di musica di Stato - poi dedicato al compositore palermitano Alessandro Scarlatti con il nome di Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti.
 A Napoli gli è stato dedicato un teatro, una piazza con scultura ed una sala del conservatorio presso il quale studiò.
 L'aeroporto di Catania è intitolato a Vincenzo Bellini.
 La principale villa comunale di Catania, il Giardino Bellini, è stato intitolato in sua memoria.
 La vita di Vincenzo Bellini è stata oggetto di due film biografici intitolati "Casta diva", entrambi diretti da Carmine Gallone rispettivamente nel 1935 e nel 1954.
 Gli è stato dedicato l'asteroide 18509 Bellini.

Composizioni
Tutte le composizioni di Bellini saranno pubblicate nella Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini, Milano, Ricordi, 2003 sgg.

Opere liriche

 Adelson e Salvini (febbraio 1825, Teatrino del Conservatorio di San Sebastiano, Napoli - in 3 atti)
 seconda versione: modificata a più riprese ma allestita solo il 23 settembre 1992 al Teatro Bellini di Catania (in 2 atti)
 Bianca e Gernando (30 maggio 1826, Teatro San Carlo, Napoli)
 seconda versione: Bianca e Fernando (7 aprile 1828, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova)
 Il pirata (27 ottobre 1827, Teatro alla Scala, Milano)
 La straniera (14 febbraio 1829, Teatro alla Scala, Milano)
 Zaira (16 maggio 1829, Teatro Ducale di Parma, Parma)
 I Capuleti e i Montecchi (11 marzo 1830, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia)
 La sonnambula (6 marzo 1831, Teatro Carcano, Milano)
 Norma (26 dicembre 1831, Teatro alla Scala, Milano)
 Beatrice di Tenda (16 marzo 1833, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia)
 I puritani (24 gennaio 1835, Théâtre Italien, Parigi)

Composizioni vocali da camera
 Dolente immagine, versi di Giulio Genoino (?)
 Quando verrà quel dì (1828?)
 Venticiel che l'ali d'oro
 Sei ariette da camera dedicate a Marianna Pollini (1829)
 Malinconia, ninfa gentile, versi di Ippolito Pindemonte
 Vanne, o rosa fortunata
 Bella Nice, che d'amore
 Almen se non poss'io, versi di Pietro Metastasio
 Per pietà, bell'idol mio, versi di Pietro Metastasio
 Ma rendi pur contento, versi di Pietro Metastasio
 Guarda che bianca luna (1832), versi di Jacopo Vittorelli
 Vaga luna, che inargenti (1833)
 L'abbandono (1833-34)
 La ricordanza (1834), versi di Carlo Pepoli
 Odia la pastorella (1834), versi di Pietro Metastasio
 O crudel che il mio pianto non vedi (1835?)
 Rêve d'enfance, versi di Émilien Pacini
 Les joyeux matelots
 Viens, prier enfant, di attribuzione incerta, versi di Bay-Harale
 Dalla guancia scolorita, canone per soprano e tenore (1835)
 Toujours verser des larmes! (1835), versi di Napoléon Crevel de Charlemagne
 Chi per quest'ombre dell'umana vita (1835), canone libero a quattro voci, versi di Giovanni Guidiccioni
 Le souvenir présent céleste (1835)

Perdute
 Mancar mi sento il cor
 Numi, se giusti siete, versi di Pietro Metastasio
 Amore, versi di Carlo Pepoli
 Malinconia, versi di Carlo Pepoli
 La speranza, versi di Carlo Pepoli
 Alla luna, versi di Carlo Pepoli

Arie e cantate

 Fenesta ca lucive (vedi) musica su parole di Giulio Genoino pubblicata nel 1842 dalle edizioni Girard
 T'intendo, sì, mio cor, versi di Pietro Metastasio, per 4 soprani, senza accompagnamento
 No, traditor non curo, aria per soprano e pianoforte (probabilmente in origine per soprano e orchestra)
 Sì, per te gran nume eterno, cavatina per soprano e orchestra
 Gioite, amiche contrade, aria di Cerere, per soprano e orchestra
 E nello stringerti a questo core, aria per voce e orchestra
 Torna, vezzosa Fille, cantata
 Imene, cantata epitalamica per soprano, due tenori e orchestra (1824?)
 Quando incise su quel marmo, scena ed aria per contralto e orchestra, versi di Giulio Genoino (?) (1824?)
 Giacché tu dei lasciarmi, scena ed aria per voce e pianoforte

Musica sinfonica
 Capriccio, ossia Sinfonia per studio in Do minore
 Sinfonia in Si bemolle maggiore
 Sinfonia in Do minore
 Sinfonia in Re minore
 Sinfonia in Re maggiore
 Sinfonia in Mi bemolle maggiore
 Concerto per oboe e orchestra

Musica per pianoforte
 Allegretto in Sol minore
 Capriccio in Sol maggiore per pianoforte a 4 mani
 Polacca per pianoforte a 4 mani
 Sonata in Fa maggiore per pianoforte a 4 mani
 Pensiero musicale (edito da Francesco Paolo Frontini)
 Tema in Fa minore (1834 circa)
 Capriccio ad uso della Signorina Luisella D'Andreana

Musica per organo
 Sonata in Sol maggiore

Musica sacra

Tutte le composizioni sacre di Bellini risalgono al periodo degli studi, ovvero sono state scritte prima del 1825.
 Compieta (perduta)
 Cor mundum crea in Fa maggiore, per voci soliste e organo
 Credo in Do maggiore, per 4 voci e orchestra
 Cum sanctis
 De torrente
 Dixit Dominus per solisti, 4 voci e orchestra
 Domine Deus
 Gallus cantavit
 Gratias agimus in Do maggiore, per soprano e orchestra
 Juravit
 Kyrie
 Laudamus te
 Litanie pastorali in onore della Beata Vergine per 2 soprani e organo
 Magnificat per 4 voci e orchestra
 Messa in Re maggiore per 2 soprani, tenore, basso e orchestra (1818)
 Messa in Sol maggiore per 2 soprani, tenore, basso e orchestra
 Messa in La minore per soprano, contralto, tenore, basso, 4 voci e orchestra
 Pange lingua per 2 voci e organo
 Qui sedes
 Qui tollis
 Quoniam per tenore, 4 voci e orchestra
 Quoniam per soprano e orchestra
 Salve regina in La maggiore, per 4 voci e orchestra
 Salve regina in Fa minore, per basso e organo
 Tantum ergo in Re maggiore per contralto e orchestra (1823)
 Tantum ergo in Mi maggiore, per voci soliste, coro e orchestra (1823)
 Tantum ergo in Fa maggiore, per 2 voci e orchestra (1823)
 Tantum ergo in Sol maggiore, per soprano e orchestra (1823)
 Tantum ergo con Genitori in Sib maggiore, per soprano e orchestra
 Tantum ergo con Genitori in Mib maggiore, per soprano e orchestra
 Tantum ergo con Genitori in Fa maggiore, per 2 soprani, 4 voci e orchestra
 Tantum ergo in Fa maggiore, per soprano e orchestra
 Tantum ergo con Genitori in Sol maggiore, per coro e orchestra
 Te Deum in Do maggiore, per 4 voci e orchestra
 Te Deum in Mib maggiore, per 4 voci e orchestra
 Versetti da cantarsi il Venerdì Santo per 2 tenori e orchestra
 Virgam virtutis

Onorificenze

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Scuola musicale napoletana
 Real Circolo Bellini
 Giardino Bellini a Catania
 Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini a Catania
 Teatro Bellini in Adrano
 Teatro Bellini a Napoli
 Teatro Bellini a Palermo

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Francesco Paolo Frontini e Mario Rapisardi per V. Bellini - con autografo
 Calcedonio Reina, V. Bellini, Battiato 1902
 Anna Tedesco, , in Oilproject, su www.oilproject.org.
 Bellini, Vincenzo, Microsoft® Encarta® Enciclopedia Online 2008
 Classicaonline - biografie - Bellini, Vincenzo, su www6.upcom.it
 Karadar Classical Musik, Bellini, Vincenzo, su www.karadar.it.

Cavalieri della Legion d'onore
Compositori d'opera
Compositori romantici
Compositori Ricordi
Gruppi e musicisti della Sicilia
Sepolti nel cimitero di Père-Lachaise


Our Sunday worship is held each week at 10:30 a.m.
There will be no Sunday school on December 25th or January 1st.
This festive service will include the biblical story of Jesus' birth and lots of carols and special music. As we near the end of our service we will pass the light of Christ throughout the congregation and sing Silent Night together. We will go forth, singing Joy to the World. Nursery will be provided.
This beautiful service will be built around the biblical story of Jesus' birth and lots of congregational carol singing. Special music will be provided by organ and piano, the Rivertown Ringers, and the Church Choir. The service will end with a quiet celebration of the birth of our Savior as light is passed throughout the congregation and we sing Silent Night.


My go to Pho place in West Hollywood. Go here at least once a week!
Incredible fish pho, food comes out quickly and is delicious. Staff are all lovely too.
Off-menu special - fish pho with vermicelli noodles. Slippery slope.
3/10/2015 by Doyle L. Wynn Jr.
Off menu item is the chicken fried rice. I eat it twice a week.
The Banh Xeo Chay (Vietnamese vegetarian crepe) is delicious! It's come with peanut and fish dipping sauce, so if you're veg or vegan be sure to tell them.
One of my favorite restaurants in all of West Hollywood. Great food, impeccable service, and a perfectly okay ambience. Say hey to Sue for me!!
The fish pho is amazing. The people who work here are so nice and it's a great experience!
Get app F. Rollin will treat you right. Best Pho I've ever had.
Great Pho at great prices. The owner is extremely nice!
Love the #10 Lemongrass Chicken...and also the Fish Soup...amazing. Please support this great spot!
Ask for the special fish soup (not in the menu). It's taste great and it's very healthy!


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The Dangers Of Masks
by bill - 2021-04-12 09:10:04 ( in life, health, covid, masks) [php version]
These blue surgical masks pervade our lives. "Health Canada has issued a warning about blue and gray disposable face masks, which contain an asbestos-like substance associated with "early pulmonary toxicity." The warning is specific to potentially toxic masks distributed within schools and daycares across Quebec. Health Canada (and full praise to them)...."discovered during a preliminary risk assessment that the masks contain microscopic graphene particles that, when inhaled, could cause severe lung damage."
Reports are that "for a while now, some daycare educators had expressed suspicion about the masks, which were causing children to feel as though they were swallowing cat hair while wearing them. We now know that instead of cat hair, children were inhaling the equivalent of asbestos all day long.".It appears to be a substance known as graphene. What is indeed alarming is that "the SNN200642 masks that were being used all across Canada in school classrooms had never been tested for safety or effectiveness." This is indeed a catastrophic failure by the regulators as these surgical face masks are linked to early pulmonary toxicity."
Read the rest here: https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2021/04/the-dangers-of-masks
"We now have hundreds of thousands of so-called 'cases', 'infections' and 'positive tests' but hardly any sick people. Recall that four fifths (80%) of 'infections' are asymptomatic (1) Covid wards have been by and large empty throughout June, July, August and September 2020. Most importantly covid deaths are at an all-time low. It is clear that these 'cases' are in fact not 'cases' but rather they are normal healthy people."
Read the rest at corbettreport.com/november-open-thread/#comment-96787
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ISRAEL - JUST THE FACTS: If You Support The "Palestinian" Cause, You NEED To Watch This!
If You Support The "Palestinian" Cause, You NEED To Watch This!
It's always attractive to support the underdog.
When it comes to sports, the thrill that comes with betting against the favorite with odds that would make it worth it is all well and good, but when it comes to real life situations, you might just be betting on your morality.
There are endless demonstrations, movements and calls for boycott in order to support the supposed plight of the Palestinian people. The problem is, the Palestinian narrative is a fabricated one and one that is used to justify Islamic terror.
For those of you who still believe in a diplomatic compromise as a solution to the Israeli-Islamic conflict, please read History Of Israel (Palestine) 101. I have offered $1,000 to any anti Israel activist who finds a single lie in the post above. This post has been out for over 4 years and so far, no has succeeded.
Help me keep the shield strong.
Please DONATE to help us keep fighting 4 Israel!


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Numerify Closes $27.5M Funding Round Led By DAG Ventures
Continued market adoption drives latest investment for accelerating customer acquisition and expanding AI capabilities
San Jose, Calif., October 16, 2018
Numerify, a provider of AI-powered IT Business Analytics, today announced it closed a $27.5 million funding round led by DAG Ventures, with support from existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Tenaya Capital. As part of the financing, DAG Managing Partner Nick Pianim has joined Numerify's board of directors. The funding will help the company grow its enterprise customer footprint and accelerate the introduction of new analytic solutions that embed artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities.
The funding follows a year of strong growth for Numerify in which it more than doubled its software subscription bookings and expanded its enterprise customer list to include the top 5 companies in 11 different verticals. The Numerify platform has also continued to expand its technological lead in the market with 20 issued and pending patents. These patents have been instrumental in delivering new solutions that span IT Plan, Build, and Run processes, such as the recently-launched, AI-powered Change Success solution. Additionally, customer satisfaction continued to hit new heights with strong expansion in both adoption and usage.
"We have a successful track record of investments in pioneering software companies scaling their market presence," said Nick Pianim, Managing Director of DAG Ventures. "Numerify's broad adoption in several of its blue-chip customers demonstrates the Numerify IT Business Analytics solution as being essential to any enterprise with a digital transformation initiative looking to ensure their IT investments are being deployed in the most operationally-effective manner possible. Numerify's AI-powered technology and strong solution focus have given it a leading position in the market, and I look forward to working with the Numerify team to drive further rapid growth."
The 2018 Gartner CIO Survey indicates that 54% of CIOs have a digital transformation-related initiative in place. Forward-thinking IT organizations are focusing on innovation, improving operational efficiencies, and leveraging IT business analytics to uncover opportunities for value creation. As data volumes increase and business users seek deeper insights, the use of machine learning automation through the data and analytics workflow is emerging as a key requirement. These trends are expected to drive significant investments in big data and analytics, with IDC forecasting worldwide spend to reach $260B by 2022.
"Our recent market research shows that business analytics has become imperative for IT organizations as they seek to improve business alignment, adopt agile principles, and accelerate innovation," said Howard Dresner, Chief Research Officer of Dresner Advisory Services. The industry veteran, who coined the term "Business Intelligence" continues, "Deeper analysis of IT people, process, and project data is central to driving change and achieving these goals, and we're seeing IT leaders rapidly increase adoption of the analytics practices that have been common to the rest of the business for years. My conversations with organizations confirm that IT leaders need a business analytics lens that allows them to run IT like a business."
"Numerify has emerged as a leader in the IT Business Analytics space by delivering a complete solution suite that our customers can use to run a high-performance IT organization," said Gaurav Rewari, co-founder and CEO of Numerify. "Our vision is that through a full fleet of targeted and interconnected applications spanning all of IT's plan, build, and run activities and the key source systems that underpin them, Numerify will deliver to data-driven IT leaders the same powerful and transformational business analytics that their peers in sales, marketing, and finance enjoy. This round of funding will help us achieve that vision."
To Learn More about Numerify:
Webinar | Why IT Needs Real BI featuring, Howard Dresner
Forbes Article | 6 Principles of Data-Driven IT
Event | Gartner Symposium booth #550
Event | Service Management World booth #306
Event | BMC Exchange NYC
Event | TBM Conference
About DAG Ventures
DAG Ventures leads mid-stage and growth financing rounds into promising portfolio companies of select, proven early-stage VC partnerships. Aside from our highly focused investment model, we believe in differentiation through service. Our firm is built to deliver consistent, expeditious and superior service to our most important constituencies: our LPs, portfolio companies and select early-stage VC partnerships.
DAG Ventures was spun-off in 2004 from Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, a private equity investment firm focused on investments in the communications and media industries. Today, with support from a diverse, global set of LPs, DAG Ventures manages $1.8 billion across a portfolio of over 160 companies in a wide array of technology sectors.
IT Business Analytics Leader Launches Solution to Help IT Leaders Reduce Service Management Costs and Risks
Numerify, the leader in IT Business Analytics for the Global 2000, today announced the release…
IT Business Analytics Leader Launches Solution Enabling Enterprises to Reduce Operational Disruptions
Total Economic Impact Study Finds Numerify IT Business Analytics Delivers 214 Percent Return on Investment (ROI)
Numerify, the leader in IT Business Analytics for the Global 2000, today released a commissioned…


Yes, it's about that time of year again: time to review your 2015 accomplishments – more specifically, the resolutions you made at the start of the year – and make your 2016 list.
How's the year gone for you? Did you take your healthy resolutions to heart … or are you doomed to repeat them (unsuccessfully) in 2016? Here's a simple game plan for success in the new year: health and wellness resolutions that are manageable, achievable and make you feel great!
The 30-Minute Rule: No matter the day, no matter the deadlines, find at least 30 minutes (at once or in 10-minute blocks) to be physically active. Whether it's taking an after-dinner stroll, biking to work, walking the dog or playing tag with the kids, find ways to inject motion into your daily life.
Keep the Couch Clean: Limit your television time (and especially your kids' time) as much as possible. In general, there's a direct correlation between time spent on the couch and two unhealthy habits: moving less and snacking more.
It's a Water World: And we don't just mean in the sense of drinking more, which has numerous health and weight-loss benefits. We also mean swimming more (exercise), taking more relaxing baths (stress relief) and when weather permits, enjoying more outdoors time with friends and family.
Time Outs Aren't Just for Kids: Stress can be a killer, both literally and figuratively. From a resolution perspective, it can waylay even your best efforts, putting you in an irritated, agitated mood in which you'd rather sit on the couch and eat a gallon of ice cream than stick to "the plan." When you're feeling stressed, take a time out; a few deep breaths, a quick walk and a little time to process your thoughts can go a long way.
Make 2016 your best year ever by taking these and other healthy-living tips to heart. Don't think you can do it alone? Then make your resolutions with your partner or a friend and encourage one another to shared success. You'll both be grateful you did.


Despite the fact that Abbott and Costello films and the odd History channel documentary make up the extent of my knowledge about mummies, I've always been intrigued by the very concept of mummification and all that it entails. Yes, I'm far from an expert on the topic, but I am always willing to learn a little more about the burial processes of these ancient peoples.
Well, one thing that I've recently learned is that not all mummies came from Egypt. Nope, mummies have been found in places like Russia, Italy, Denmark and Greenland, to name but a few. At any rate, the mummies that recently caught my eye are those that were found in Peru, from the Chinchorros culture. Yes, it's amazing that these preserved bodies have been found and yes, it's amazing that these mummies even exist at all, but something that I really find amazing are the tattoos found on a particular mummy that was excavated in the Chiribaya Alta in southern Peru.
The mummy itself is a female, and dates back 1,000 years. The tattoos on the mummy are particularly diverse and shed more light on the concept of ancient tattoos while perhaps offering larger conclusions about what exactly the purpose of some of the tattoos could have been.
'The female mummy in the study is much more recent, from about 1,000 B.C., and bore tattooed animals like "birds, apes, reptiles in addition to symbols." Rings were tattooed on four of the fingers with soot.
Acupuncture points tattooed on the body 1,000 years ago? Wow, I don't care what anyone says – that's more than a little advanced. Today we all pat ourselves on the back because we can access the internet on our mobile phones, but hell, mummification, tattooing and knowledge of acupuncture points kind of indicates pretty educated and advanced cultures from long before any of us were ever around. I'm sure that's only the tip of the iceberg, too. Actually, I'm surprised that these cultures had time to tattoo and learn different acupuncture points. After all, when you're dealing with mummies, I can see it being really easy to get all "wrapped up" in your work! Get it? Wrapped up? Hahaha haha, oh man, that's rich.
Anyway, I thought I'd drop some science on y'all today, along with your daily dose of tattoo info. If you're interested in learning more about these mummies and their crazy tattoos, then you should check out this article and this one as well.