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David & Goliath Underdogs Misfits & The Art of Battling Giants
Автор: Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative and dazzling book yet.
Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.
Or should he have?
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath examines Northern Ireland's troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw David and Goliath draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we think of the world around us.
"Truly intriguing and inspiring, especially when Gladwell discusses 'desirable difficulties'....Gladwell's account of the journey of Dr. Emil 'Jay' Freireich is unforgettable." Los Angeles Times
"Provocative....David and Goliath is a lean, consuming read....The book's most crafty, engaging chapter ties together the Impressionist movement and college choices to highlight the fact that gaining admission to elite institutions, which we typically perceive as an advantage, is no guarantee of success." San Francisco Chronicle
"As always, Gladwell's sweep is breathtaking and thought-provoking....I've long admired Gladwell's work." New York Times
"David and Goliath readers will travel with colorful characters who overcame great difficulties and learn fascinating facts about the Battle of Britain, cancer medicine and the struggle for civil rights, to name just a few topics upon which Mr. Gladwell's wide-ranging narrative touches. This is an entertaining book." Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating....Gladwell is a master of synthesis. This perennially bestselling author prides himself on radical re-thinking and urges the rest of us to follow suit." Washington Post
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. Prior to that, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He lives in New York.
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Dorjee Sun, Ulu Masen and The Burning Season
Posted on 8 March 2013 30 January 2020
At a presentation at the 2012 meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Dorjee Sun talked briefly about his involvement in forest protection and carbon trading. "We made front page of Time magazine with our project in Indonesia".
Sun didn't mention the project name: Ulu Masen. And perhaps not surprisingly, he didn't mention that no carbon credits have been sold from the project or that the project itself is stalled.
"We started off from an investment background. We've been investing into environmental projects for six-seven years now, ranging from clean technology, all the way through to carbon credits and forest protection. We made the front page of Time magazine with our project in Indonesia, "Banking on Trees" and we've also been finalists in a number of different awards. And we won the carbon financing deal of the year."
At that point, Sun quickly changes the subject: "But what was really interesting was in 2008, I saw this and I had to take a photo. It was just amazing. Just the sheer amount of biomass outside of this palm mill." Sun has now set up a company called Carbon Agro and is hoping to cash in on Clean Development Mechanism projects aimed at reducing emissions from waste associated with oil palm production.
Dorjee Sun first visited Indonesia in January 2007. Initially, he wanted to set up a reduced deforestation carbon trading project in Papua. While he was in Indonesia, he met LeRoy Hollenbeck, who from 2005 to 2008 was an advisor to the then-governor of Aceh, Irwandi Yusuf. Hollenbeck is a US citizen who has worked for three decades in Indonesia. During this time, he has worked for USAID, FAO, UNDP, spent six years as senior manager for Freeport McMoRan's Sustainable Development Department, and after advising Irwandi, Hollenbeck spent a couple of years as the senior advisor to the Vice President of ExxonMobil's Public Affairs Department.
In April 2007, the governors of Aceh, Papua and West Papua held a summit in Bali, backed by the World Bank, during which they offered to stop forest destruction and asked for international carbon financing in return.
Shortly after this declaration Sun bought a controlling share in an Australian company called Carbon Pool. In 2006, Carbon Pool had sold avoided deforestation carbon credits to mining giant Rio Tinto. Sun hoped to persuade Rio Tinto to invest in his REDD projects in Aceh and Papua.
In mid-2007, Sun flew to the US to hold meetings with investors, including hedge funds, companies and rich individuals. A documentary film written and directed by Cathy Henkel, "The Burning Season", follows Sun as he tries to raise funding for the Ulu Masen project.
Although the film has its flaws, it is fascinating. It's difficult not to be infected by Sun's enthusiasm and energy, if not his conviction that raising money through carbon trading is the way to save the forests of Ulu Masen. The film has four themes:
Dorjee Sun and the Ulu Masen project;
A farmer in Jambi clearing land for a small oil palm plantation;
Lone Droscher-Nielsen's work in Kalimantan in an orangutan rescue station she set up and runs; and
The UNFCCC negotiations and the meeting at the end of 2007 in Bali.
The four themes are shuffled and dealt almost at random in the film. A large part of the film consists of Dorjee Sun running around looking for funding for the Ulu Masen carbon trading project. Shots of Sun in meetings with bankers are contrasted with farmers in Jambi clearing forest to plant oil palm, or with tragic shots of starving orangutans in Central Kalimantan. But the film does not clearly explain that Dorjee Sun's fund-raising is for a project in Aceh in north Sumatra and that this project has nothing whatsoever to do with stopping the clearance of forests in Jambi in Sumatra or in Central Kalimantan.
The film shows Dorjee Sun at a luxury resort in Bali for the Governors' Roundtable on Climate Change. The voice-over explains that Sun has a "grand plan" to reverse the global trend of deforestation. He hired John-O Niles to work for Carbon Conservation. Niles had previously been an adviser to the Coalition of Rainforest Nations and now works with the Tropical Forest Group, an NGO that promotes carbon trading as a way of conserving forests, and addressing climate change.
At one point Sun says,
"How do we just get the three govs that we need in a room to sign a couple of documents that we want? Fingers crossed, if we get that signed we've got our project for 500,000 hectares which could potentially convert into like 200 million tons."
Then he turns round and waves his arms round and eats an apple. It's all very dramatic.
Meanwhile, Sun has meetings with the three governors attempting to persuade them to give Carbon Conservation exclusive options on the carbon stored in the forests. Irwandi says, "I want to save the forests. No matter how. And you are the experts." The three governors sign Carbon Conservation's document. "to prevent all logging in their provinces". Frank Momberg of Fauna and Flora International is right in front of them, photographing the signing ceremony. Carbon Conservation's Sun and Niles talk about the deal:
Niles: "It's a historic document. Three governors have committed to reducing deforestation as long as they get the carbon credits. And Dorjee got it across the line, with the sign."
Sun: "And then, the part that we love. 'Carbon Conservation Proprietary Limited will be the preferred supplier of carbon trading and marketing services within the provinces of Aceh, Papua and West Papua.' So that's the cool thing."
Niles: "We're talking about somewhere between 300 and 500 million tons of carbon credits."
Sun sets himself a deadline of the UNFCCC meeting in Bali at the end of 2007 to announce his first significant financing deal. Here's Sun:
"The business model of this business is so cool. It's the more forest that we manage and protect, the more money we make. I mean, bring it on, baby! Like if we could have millions and millions of hectares under our management protecting forest and farming carbon, this could be a hugely profitable and yet hugely well intentioned company that does good."
The film leaps to Jambi and Achmadi, the oil palm farmer who wants to expand his area of plantations. Then to Central Kalimantan, Lone Droscher-Nielsen and the orangutans. Then we're in Jakarta, where Patrick Anderson, who now works with the Forest Peoples Programme is asking, "What can we do in a situation that's actually going to make a difference now this year or next year? Because forests don't have that long."
Then to Arnold Schwarzenegger, then-Governor of California, talking about climate science and Al Gore telling us that deforestation counts of 20% of global emissions. Dorjee Sun in an airport. Dorjee Sun talking. Dorjee Sun looking at maps in front of a helicopter. Dorjee Sun flying in a helicopter over "untouched rainforest".
The film gives the impression that Dorjee Sun could stop deforestation and climate change single-handedly, if only he could get the funding.
In Aceh, Governor Irwandi drives out to a remote village to confront illegal loggers. "If new forests are opened up, I'll thrash you," he jokes with the villagers. This is the first time in the film that we've seen the villagers living in the Ulu Masen area. Unfortunately the film-makers did not interview them. Instead we get a commentary from Irwandi, followed by the voice-over telling us that,
"Irwandi will need a major shift here in Indonesia for Dorjee's scheme to work. Forests will need to be seen as more valuable standing than chopped down. For this to happen, new revenue must be found for those who live near the forests. It will also need the central government to reverse its support for the big logging corporations."
The film makes the same mistake as Sun. Instead of finding out from the villagers in Ulu Masen what they think and what they want, the solution is to make forests more valuable through carbon trading.
Sun has a meeting with lawyers Baker McKenzie in Australia. "The offset market at the moment has had such a bad press, especially in Europe," Paul Curno a Partner at Baker McKenzie tells Sun. This and a comment from Patrick Anderson provide the only suggestion in the film that trading the carbon stored in forests is problematic:
"If this leads to a trading mechanism, so the carbon is buyable, so an industrial emitter, whether that's Australia or a factory in Australia, could, instead of making the investment to clean up their factory, they can buy cheap carbon from Papua at $4 a ton, and then not have to clean up their business back home. Also the carbon then becomes theirs theoretically, and they could sell it on the market, and so it might well be that the profits of the efforts in Papua or Aceh are actually going to be made as the years go ahead, by the large industrial companies and governments."
Less than one minute of the 90-minute-long film is spent discussing the problems associated with carbon trading. Then Sun is in an airport again: "Sydney to Jakarta to Jayapura to Jakarta to Hong Kong to London to New York to D.C. to Chicago to L.A. to San Fran and then to Santa Barbara and back to Sydney, all in that one bag."
Sun has a meeting with the governor of Papua, Barnabas Suebu. Also present are FFI's Frank Momberg and Irwandi's advisor, LeRoy Hollenbeck. The film then shows Hollenbeck in Aceh talking about setting up a meeting between Governor Irwandi and Governor Schwarzenegger.
Then we're watching Dorjee Sun in an airport. Again.
"So where to from here? It's really easy actually, we need six things. Four things. Three things, actually. One: We've got the local support so we just need to legitimise that with legals. Two: We've got investors ready, we've just got to get them in. Three: We need the structure."
Perhaps more than anything in the film, this reveals Sun's failure to grasp the complexity of the problem he's got himself involved in. An agreement with the Governor of Aceh is "local support" as far as he's concerned.
At a meeting with investors in San Francisco, Governor Irwandi explains how he sees REDD:
"The developed countries produce a lot of carbon. And we need something that can absorb the carbon. And only the forest and the soil under the forest could absorb the carbon. Let me name it as carbon septic tank. At the moment we are providing a free septic tank. What I want is to start reforestation. Some financial assistance to start community forest. And I think within six years we will have a bigger septic tank."
A little later in the film, Sun is in London, meeting Andrew Mitchell of the Global Canopy Programme. Mitchell arranged a meeting with Abyd Karmali of Merrill Lynch Bank. Dorjee was happy with the meeting:
"We knocked it out of the ball park. They didn't let me out of the board room until like 8pm. And by the end of it they said that they were prepared to move literally hundreds of millions of dollars and sign an agreement by Friday so we can announce it to the whole world at the Green Governor's dinner. And so I'm kind of delirious because I actually feel hopeful again."
And then it's December 2007 and the UNFCCC meeting in Bali. Sun and Hollenbeck sit down with Irwandi to get him to sign off on another document with Carbon Conservation before a meeting with Merrill Lynch. Hollenbeck explains to Irwandi that,
"You've got hundreds of thousands of people that are looking up to you now, having been popularly elected, to produce results and one way to produce results is to attract investment but do it simultaneously with making sure that the local people are part of the process. That it's all done in partnership with the local population. And that's what we'll say in this document."
In an interview, Sun says that, "The vast bulk of that money will go to local communities in order to prevent them from deforesting." (It's interesting to contrast this with what Sun said in 2008 once he'd signed an agreement with Merrill Lynch: "Ultimately we've been trying to think about ways where it's not hand-outs. So the money will get to the people by the forest, but we feel that it's actually damaging to give them money without recourse, without strings, because if it seems as though it's money for free then people won't appreciate it, they won't invest it, they won't learn the skills required to actually create a meaningful life.")
Irwandi signed the deal with Carbon Conservation. Merrill Lynch however wanted to wait to see what comes out of the UNFCCC meeting regarding forests. Andrew Mitchell was also in Bali. "I hope that forests will be included in carbon markets after 2012 and that the process to do that will begin this week," he said during a side-event.
The Bali footage includes the delaying tactics of the US negotiators and Kevin Conrad's response: "We ask for your leadership. We seek your leadership. But if for some reason your not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please, get out of the way." Eventually, the Bali Road Map was agreed and forests were included. "This is a paradigm shift," Conrad said after the meeting.
Despite the excitement at the time, progress on REDD has been painfully slow and since then governments have taken practically no meaningful steps to address climate change through the UNFCCC.
Merrill Lynch subsequently signed an agreement with Carbon Conservation for a minimum commitment of US$9 million. The film ends with a meeting between Governor Irwandi and Governor Schwarzenegger. Sun, of course, is ecstatic.
But no carbon credits have been sold from Ulu Masen and the REDD project is currently at a standstill, if there is a project at all.
This post is part of a series about Aceh and Ulu Masen. REDD-Monitor gratefully acknowledges funding from World Rainforest Movement and the Samdhana Institute to cover the costs of the trip to Aceh in December 2012.
3 thoughts on "Dorjee Sun, Ulu Masen and The Burning Season"
TreeFellas says:
Have you had a reply yet from Nicholas Stern as to whether he still thinks that REDD is the 'cheapest and easiest' way to tackle climate change??
Robert Jereski says:
I really don't understand the neutral tone of this piece, as if Dorjee Sun and Merrill Lynch are not fully aware or recklessly unaware of the fallacy of carbon forestry as a means of addressing climate change.
Small farmers focused on while the polluters who would purchase carbon credits (many invested in undoubtedly by Dorjee's partners at ML etc) are off the hook.
We know this is crap.
Chris Lang says:
@Robert Jereski – Thanks for this. The post is a review of a film, "Burning Season", made during 2007. Part of the reason that the film is so fascinating is that it doesn't seem to occur to anyone in the film (apart from Patrick Anderson and the lawyer at Baker McKenzie) that there may be problems with carbon trading.
This is the first time I've written a film review – perhaps that explains the "neutral tone". Actually, neither the film nor the Ulu Masen project focussed on small farmers. Both might have been much better if they had done so. It's not often that I'm accused of being "neutral", but I think it would be tiresome if every post on REDD-Monitor were to include a paragraph explaining what's wrong with carbon trading.
There's no shortage of articles on REDD-Monitor explaining what's wrong with carbon trading, here, for example. You'll probably like this post: The Top 10: What's wrong with REDD? or this one: Forests, Carbon Markets and Hot Air: Why the Carbon Stored in Forests Should not be Traded.

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Computational knowledge. Symbolic programming. Algorithm automation. Dynamic interactivity. Natural language. Computable documents. The cloud. Connected devices. Symbolic ontology. Algorithm discovery. These are all things we've been energetically working on—mostly for years—in the context of Wolfram|Alpha, Mathematica, CDF and so on.
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It's been quite an amazing thing seeing this all start to work. And being able to create tiny programs that deploy computation across different systems in ways one had never imagined before.
This is an incredibly fertile time for us. In a sense we've got a new paradigm for computation, and every day we're inventing new ways to use it. It's satisfying, but more than a little disorienting. Because there's just so much that is possible. That's the result of the unique convergence of the different threads of technology that we've been developing for so long.
Between the Wolfram Language—with all its built-in computation and knowledge, and ways to represent things—and our Universal Deployment System, we have a new kind of universal platform of incredible power. And part of the challenge now is to find the best ways to harness it.
Over the months to come, we'll be releasing a series of products that support particular ways of using the Wolfram Engine and the Universal Platform that our language and deployment system make possible.
There'll be the Wolfram Programming Cloud, that allows one to create Wolfram Language programs, then instantly deploy them in the cloud through an instant API, or a form-based app, or whatever. Or deploy them in a private cloud, or, for example, through a Function Call Interface, deploy them standalone in desktop programs and embedded systems. And have a way to go from an idea to a fully deployed realization in an absurdly short time.
There'll be the Wolfram Data Science Platform, that allows one to connect to all sorts of data sources, then use the kind of automation seen in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, then pick out and modify Wolfram Language programs to do data science—and then use CDF to set up reports to generate automatically, on a schedule, through an API, or whatever.
There'll be the Wolfram Publishing Platform that lets you create documents, then insert interactive elements using the Wolfram Language and its free-form linguistics—and then deploy the documents, on the web using technologies like CloudCDF, that instantly support interactivity in any web browser, or on mobile using the Wolfram Cloud App.
And we'll be able to advance Mathematica a lot too. Like there'll be Mathematica Online, in which a whole Mathematica session runs on the cloud through a web browser. And on the desktop, there'll be seamless integration with the Wolfram Cloud, letting one have things like persistent symbolic storage, and instant large-scale parallelism.
And there's still much more; the list is dauntingly long.
Here's another example. Just as we curate all sorts of data and algorithms, so also we're curating devices and device connections. So that built into the Wolfram Language, there'll be mechanisms for communicating with a very wide range of devices. And with our Wolfram Embedded Computation Platform, we'll have the Wolfram Language running on all sorts of embedded systems, communicating with devices, as well as with the cloud and so on.
At the center of everything is the Wolfram Language, and we intend to make this as widely accessible to everyone as possible.
The Wolfram Language is a wonderful first language to learn (and we've done some very successful experiments on this). And we're planning to create a Programming Playground that lets anyone start to use the language—and through the Programming Cloud even step up to make some APIs and so on for free.
We've also been building the Wolfram Course Authoring Platform, that does major automation of the process of going from a script to all the elements of an online course—then lets one deploy the course in the cloud, so that students can have immediate access to a Wolfram Language sandbox, to be able to explore the material in the course, do exercises, and so on. And of course, since it's all based on our unified system, it's for example immediate that data from the running of the course can go into the Wolfram Data Science Platform for analysis.
I'm very excited about all the things that are becoming possible. As the Wolfram Language gets deployed in all these different places, we're increasingly going to be able to have a uniform symbolic representation for everything. Computation. Knowledge. Content. Interfaces. Infrastructure. And every component of our systems will be able to communicate with full semantic fidelity, exchanging Wolfram Language symbolic expressions.
Just as the lines between data, content and code blur, so too will the lines between programming and mere input. Everything will become instantly programmable—by a very wide range of people, either by using the Wolfram Language directly, or by using free-form natural language.
There was a time when every computer was in a sense naked—with just its basic CPU. But then came things like operating systems. And then various built-in languages and application programs. What we have now is a dramatic additional step in this progression. Because with the Wolfram Language, we can in effect build into our computers a vast swath of existing knowledge about computation and about the world.
If we're forming a kind of global brain with all our interconnected computers and devices, then the Wolfram Language is the natural language for it. Symbolically representing both the world and what can be created computationally. And, conveniently enough, being efficient and understandable for both computers and humans.
The foundations of all of this come from decades spent on Mathematica, and Wolfram|Alpha, and A New Kind of Science. But what's happening now is something new and unexpected. The emergence, in effect, of a new level of computation, supported by the Wolfram Language and the things around it.
So far I can see only the early stages of what this will lead to. But already I can tell that what's happening is our most important technology project yet. It's a lot of hard work, but it's incredibly exciting to see it all unfold. And I can't wait to go from "Coming Soon" to actual systems that people everywhere can start to use…
Will it be compiled or interpreted?
noko
great post. Seems wolfram is on the way ahead of competition. We get not big data but big information with a new (meta?) programing language. Can't wait to test it. I hope wolfram will also connect or tap into other sources of information in an easy way. great stuff!
I'm super impressed by the power and expressiveness of the Mathematica language and can't wait to see what is in store. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your contribution to mathematical analysis in the form of the Mathematica toolset that has enriched my ability to perform experimental/computational mathematics research and even write leisure programs like stock analysis with beautiful interfaces using Dynamic[] and Plot[] and whatnot. You are a true visionary Stephen.
Fantastic. I think you are way ahead of the curve.
Great artist tool
Dave Needham
February 3, 2014 at 12:33 am 02/03/2014 at 12:33 am
I just hope it is affordable to author in!
February 13, 2014 at 11:32 am 02/13/2014 at 11:32 am
It's an exciting prospect. However, this will be contingent upon this system being affordable. There must be a free version that has a fairly robust implementation so that the hobbyist/ learner programmers can build useful programs, and also have an inexpensive version for the small hobbyist/consumer ones.
July 1, 2014 at 10:13 pm 07/01/2014 at 10:13 pm


Xbox community manager Larry Hryb (aka Major Nelson) has announced the official reveal date and time for Microsoft's next generation Xbox – 19.00 SAST, Tuesday, 21 May 2013.
"On that day, we'll share our vision for Xbox, and give you a real taste of the future. Then, 19-days later at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, we'll continue the conversation and showcase our full lineup of blockbuster games," said Hryb.
The reveal event will be attended by industry press, and live Internet streams of the event will be available through Xbox.com, Xbox LIVE, and broadcast on Spike TV for US and Canada.
Rumours have been swirling for months around the new console, codenamed Durango.
Contentious rumours include always on Internet connection requirements, backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 games, the exact specifications of the hardware powering the console, and of course the official name of the device.


For courses taught in Russian – Russian level at least C1. More information: HSE Factsheet.
Applying to the host university: usually once a year, deadline in April (applications for the next academic year). If not all student places are filled, an additional competition may be announced in (for the spring semester of the current academic year).
Students selected by the UT grant committee to HSE must send their application documents also to HSE.
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New N.Y. State Law Allows Kids To Bring Anti-Asthma Nebulizers Onto Athletic FieldsA new law goes into effect Wednesday that will help some kids – and their parents – breathe easier.
Lyft To Pay $300,000 For Violating New York State Regulatory LawsRide-hailing service Lyft will pay $300,000 to settle allegations that it violated New York state laws.
Victims Urge N.Y. State Lawmakers To Strengthen Penalties For Sex TraffickingSex trafficking victims gathered in Albany Tuesday, sharing their stories and urging New York state lawmakers to pass stronger criminal penalties for forcing someone into sexual servitude.
New York State Law Taking Effect Friday Makes U-Turns In School Zones IllegalHempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray and State Sen. Charles Fuschillo were joined by Old Mill Road Elementary School students in Merrick, Long Island on Thursday to unveil a new sign advising drivers of the law.
Russian Punk Band Supporters Fight New York State Law Banning Masks In PublicThree women who were arrested in a protest supporting the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have launched an attempt to overturn a New York state law forbidding wearing masks in public.


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Accommodation types: Heritage
Location: Hong Kong Hong Kong East Asia
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Most tourists leave Hong Kong with an impression of a fascinating but overcrowded and hectic metropolis. While this is true of some districts — Mong Kok is one of the most densely populated places in the world, for example — that's just one side of the city. Venture a little bit off the beaten track and you'll discover a whole other Hong Kong: untouched nature, paradise beaches and authentic culture.
One of the local favourites for a laid back getaway is Lantau Island. Criss-crossed with hiking trails, the island offers a welcomed break from the hustle and bustle of the city. This is also where you'll find one of the last strongholds of Hong Kong's traditional way of living. Tai O is a picturesque fishing village that quite literally retained its authentic flavour — the villagers still make a living selling seafood products, including the famous dried shrimp paste.
Between the hiking, visiting the Tian Tan Buddha monument and wandering the narrow streets of Tai O, it's impossible to fully experience Lantau Island in just one day. If you want to truly discover this part of Hong Kong, you'll find a peaceful base at Tai O Heritage Hotel.
Set in a former British police station built in 1902 to protect the shore from pirates, the hotel is an impressive conservation effort between the Development Bureau of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation Limited. With help from researchers and conservation specialists, the historic building was turned into a luxury hotel while retaining most of the original features, such as floor tiles, fireplaces and the wooden doors. The hotel lobby is particularly curious for visitors: housed in the former detention center it still features two original cells. Make sure to join one of the daily guided tours to learn all about the former police station and the conservation process.
With only nine rooms, Tai O Heritage Hotel is a truly tranquil spot. Each suite is named after a place, person or object that are connected to the building's history. If you want to know the function of your room, simply read the sign outside the door — you might be staying in a former office or an officers' bar.
The hotel restaurant is also deeply rooted in history. The glass-roofed Tai O Lookout takes it name from the original watchtower of the police station and is furnished with antique furniture salvaged from a historic Hong Kong tea house. If you don't have time to stay at the hotel overnight, drop in for an afternoon tea to sample some of the excellent cuisine and admire the panoramic views. A Western-Chinese fusion tea set takes inspiration from local flavours: from savoury bites made with shrimp paste and dried fish to mountain begonia desserts, everything is delicious.
Despite the peaceful location, there's plenty to see in the area. Tai O is known as "Venice of the Orient" for a reason — houses built on stilts and the idyllic backdrop of green hills make it particularly picturesque. Take a boat cruise to admire it from the water and continue on foot through the narrow alleys lined with food stalls. Visit the shrimp paste factory if you're curious how this famous condiment is made and follow one of the many hiking trails to get lost in the lush nature. To experience Tai O's culture at its most vibrant, visit during the Dragon Boat Festival, a holiday celebrated with great pride.
While staying at Tai O Heritage Hotel, don't hesitate to ask staff about the area. Many of the people working here are local villagers who will happily share their stories. Tai O used to have a population of 30,000 but the number dwindled to just 3,000 as many young people left. The hotel is part of the efforts to conserve the intangible heritage of the Tai O community by providing jobs, promoting local culture and improving the lives of the villagers.
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posts brought to you by the category "cbc"
posts brought to you by the category "cats" ← ∴ → posts brought to you by the category "censorship"
Tortilla tortilla tortilla?
 boulevard St. Laurent, Montréal, September 2003
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/c/cbc ←
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/m/music
Norm Walsh : Vicious Circle
I maintain however, that using [URLs] as names is confusing because it violates the niave users expectation that they're addresses.
Meanwhile, I am distilling some especially choice words for the numb nuts who think that the best way to handle the problem of resolving URNs is to start hacking the DNS table...
http://norman.walsh.name/2003/07/29/circle
karl:humpty dumpty != aaron:omelette
This is not an N3 problem. It is an interface problem and since every single Semantic Weenie I've ever met invariably ends up saying people aren't going to write this stuff, machines are it's a very real problem. If, in the context of writing recipes, we're going to say that people can just write and the computer will figure out how to translate an ingredient in to a URI then I, as the code-monkey, suddenly have to become an arm chair linguist, keep up with every imaginable derivation of a word and maintain a potentially enormous lookup table in memory every time the user does, well, anything. I happen to think that having something like URIs for things like ingredients is a good thing. But you are out of your fucking mind if you think anyone is going to write URIs or some specialized subset of a language that is URI-friendly. This segs nicely into the whole URI as identifier thing in the first place. I am told that there is no requirement that a URI actually be resolvable; that it might be is only a courtesy. Prompting me to remark, during a different conversation :
Okay, so we've gone from well-formed trees to loosey-goosey graphs and from URIs actually pointing to something to simply being really long phrases with a bunch of arbitrary and meaningless cruft tacked on at the beginning. Got it.
I can appreciate that if you don't think that URIs need to be resolvable (let me just ask: what streak of madness and slapstick cleverness inspired you to choose URIs as the basis for your unique identifiers?!) you are not constrained by the sorts of naming conventions we out here in, well, URI-land live with every day :
Are for generating the former from the latter (URI -> title) I'm willing to investigate it, but I fear that it will fall prey to various character encoding and filesystem-related naming "issues", particularly if the resources at the end of each URI actually exist.
(I preemptively slap, upside the head, the second greasy propeller head who suggests I simply maintain a very complicated set up rewrites for mapping all this stuff back to machine readable filenames.)
The Semantic Web is doomed if I, as tool-maker, have to throw an exception every time your grandmother writes something with two adjancent dots or eggs instead of egg .
http://www.la-grange.net/2003/07/10.html#rdf
My apartment smells like a fucking swimming pool
and that's all I'm going to tell you right now.
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/r/recipes
Norm Walsh : Generalized Metadata in your Palm
RDF crunchiness for all your synching needs.
http://nwalsh.com/docs/articles/extreme2002/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/a/axkit
Kate L. Pugh : Find::File::Rule::MP3Info.pm
http://search.cpan.org/author/KAKE/File-Find-Rule-MP3Info/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/a/adjacking
Me : HTML::RSSAutodiscovery.pm 1.1
Added a locate method which implements an ultra liberal RSS locator . Why Because you shouldn't need all that white space to do cool stuff ;-) As always, until the CPAN listings are updated you can grab a copy over here . see also : docs
http://search.cpan.org/author/ASCOPE/HTML-RSSAutodiscovery-1.1/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/p/physics
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/r/radio
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/08/15.html
http://perl.aaronland.info/html/rssautodirectory/HTML-RSSAutodiscovery-
↳ 1.1.tar.gz
http://perl.aaronland.info/html/rssautodirectory/docs.html
I did not got to Quebec City for the FTAA, in April 2001,
I watched in on TV .
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/w/whos_on_first
http://aaronland.net/photos/2001/ftaa/
I have a somewhat irrational dislike of the other teams in the Original Six,
and I have always hated the Bruins only slightly less than the Leafs (sic). But, you know, Boston won the game last night because they played better hockey. That Robby Ftorek sent a player out to peg Richard Zednik (real video; try to ignore John Davidson being an apologist and just generally a sycophant) with a minute left to play and a 5-2 lead says to me that Boston doesn't think they can't actually win the series. And that they are a bunch of classless thugs.
http://cbc.ca/clips/ram-lo/zednik_richard0424.ram
Caterina Fake : "I was astonished, upon moving to this country,
that Canadians didn't know how to deface their own currency ."
http://www.caterina.net/2002_03_01_archive.html#75044702
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/h/halifax
"They told us CBC Radio doesn't create enough buzz.
They want a radio service that has people talking around the water cooler." As happy as I am to see Sheilagh "You're so sweet, you make my teeth hurt" Rogers get the axe, it sounds like the CBC brass is off on a 120 second goosechase. Last month, I wrote a letter to the staff at WBUR's The Connection that, more or less, sums it up for me :
For 18 months I lived on Martha's Vineyard and pined for the CBC, every day feeling grateful for the advent of Internet radio.
Eventually, I moved back to Montreal and life was good. I remember hearing the announcement that Dick Gordon was leaving the CBC to assume hosting duties at The Connection and thinking it was "our" loss.
[Even] before his departure, Sheilagh Rogers had taken over the flagship morning show, on Radio One. Long story short, I simply can't stand to listen to her. My only solace has been to write increasingly venomous letters whenever she and the production staff fall prey to a pique of especially sugary and empathetic nonsense. Not a happy situation any way you look at it.
But over Thanksgiving, driving down to the Island, we were stuck in traffic on Storrow Drive and I was fiddling with the radio dial and I heard Dick Gordon interviewing Alastair McCloud.
And once again, every day I am grateful for the advent of Internet radio.
You guys rock. You have no idea how happy it makes me to find an intelligent radio program, broadcast daily, with a serious host and interesting guests.
And for someone who moved back to Montreal partly because it is, seemingly, the only place to find a decent baguette on the whole continent [an entire] hour devoted to bread is like manna from heaven.
Meanwhile, did you ever think you'd live to see a member of the CRAP party say : "[ The House is] exactly the sort of programming the publicly funded broadcaster should be doing." ?
http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020326/452419.
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/p/pkd
http://120seconds.com/index.cfm
http://www.theconnection.org
http://www.cbc.ca/news/radionews/thehouse.html
Tony Collen : "[H]ere's the BlogML discussion group."
Which got me thinking about DocBook again ; what it can already do and what it can't do in a weblog context...
workflow -> /article/
@status
categories -> /article/articleinfo/subjectset/
# subjects even have a weight attribute. bonus!
issn -> /article/articleinfo/
via -> /article/
ackno
footnotes -> /article/
...DocBook has more ways to specify dates and authors than you'll ever care about. DocBook can head, deck and lead . DocBook has hooks up the wazoo for denoting formatting (lists, code entries, etc.) DocBook also has hooks for indexing specific words or passages which has got to be a good thing for the people trying to make life easier for Google. Problems with DocBook include : the lack of an ID attribute which make permalinks pretty hard; the inability to create nested relationships (for example, comments or footnotes each with permalinks; the lack of any sort of root level href element for a blog/article; can be time and CPU intensive to munge. Interesting... see also : W3C, Requirements for a Web Ontology
http://www.manero.org/blogml/forum/list.php?f=1
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/b/better_living
http://www.actsofvolition.com/index.cfm?section=board&id=527#targ10
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/article.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/subject.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/issn.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ackno.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/note.html
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/2002/03/08.html
http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/indexterm.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-webont-req-20020307/
The dictified dictionary.com word of the day is : lenity
Lenity \Len"i*ty\ (-t[y^]), n. [L. lenitas, fr. lenis soft, mild: cf. OF. lenit['e]. See {Lenient}.] The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to {severity} and {rigor}. His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too severe. --Macaulay. Syn: Gentleness; kindness; tenderness; softness; humanity; clemency; mercy. web1913
lenity n : mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant [syn: {lenience}, {leniency}, {mildness}] wn
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&Query=len
↳ ity
The random pseudodictionary.com word of the day is : adunyaha
A variation of "duh," to be used only under extreme circumstances.
ex. A. Neil Armstrong went to the moon. B. Adunyaha.
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/d/daml
O'Reillynet : IPsec Tunneling Between FreeBSD Hosts
see also: the FreeBSD Diary on stunnel
http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a//bsd/2001/12/10/ipsec.html
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/s/shoes
http://www.freebsddiary.org/stunnel.php
Michael Graham : Palm::Progect.pm
" is a helper class for the Palm::PDB package. It allows you to load and save Progect databases. ... This module was largely written in support of the progconv utility, which is a conversion utility which imports and exports between Progect PDB files and other formats."
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Palm-Progect
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/g/greedheads
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/m/mc_jobs
Brian Llyod : Web Services for Zope
http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/WebServicesForZope
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/b/branding
Butthole Radio
"Listen to non-stop MP3 streaming of rare and live Butthole Surfers tracks." Today is turning out to be one those listen to the Butthole Surfers kind of days. Hey.... hey! Hey... hey... heeey-yeyeey... Hey!! (streaming mp3)
http://unabart.dyndns.org:8002/listen.pls
Using the Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir Attack to Break WEP
"We implemented an attack against WEP, the link-layer security protocol for 802.11 networks. The attack was described in a recent paper by Fluhrer, Mantin, and Shamir. With our implementation, and permission of the network administrator, we were able to recover the 128 bit secret key used in a production network, with a passive attack. The WEP standard uses RC4 IVs improperly, and the attack exploits this design failure. This paper describes the attack, how we implemented it, and some optimizations to make the attack more efficient. We conclude that 802.11 WEP is totally insecure, and we provide some recommendations."
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is parse
| source : web1913 | Parse \Parse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Parsed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Parsing}.] [L. pars a part; pars orationis a part of speech. See {Part}, n.] (Gram.) To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by government or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically. Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it over perfectly. --Ascham. | source : wn | parse v : analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence) | source : jargon | parse [from linguistic terminology] vt. 1. To determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or other utterance (close to the standard English meaning). "That was the one I saw you." "I can't parse that." 2. More generally, to understand or comprehend. "It's very simple; you just kretch the glims and then aos the zotz." "I can't parse that." 3. Of fish, to have to remove the bones yourself. "I object to parsing fish", means "I don't want to get a whole fish, but a sliced one is okay". A `parsed fish' has been deboned. There is some controversy over whether `unparsed' should mean `bony', or also mean `deboned'.
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&Query=par
↳ se
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/m/mozilla
The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is commodious
| source : web1913 | Commodious \Com*mo"di*ous\, a. [LL. commodiosus, fr. L. commodum convenience, fr. commodus. See {Commode}.] Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. ``A commodious drab.'' --Shak. ``Commodious gold.'' --Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. --Acts xxvii. 12. Syn: Convenient; suitable; fit; proper; advantageous; serviceable; useful; spacious; comfortable. | source : wn | commodious adj : large and and roomy; "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions"; (`convenient' is archaic in this sense) [syn: {convenient}] [ant: {incommodious}]
http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*&Query=com
↳ modious
Online visitation rights?
I have to tell you that having watched the evolution of marriage over the course of my life, it is an institution desperately in need of re-thinking. Notwithstanding the protests of linguists and philosophers who will argue that you can't simply change the meaning of a word, the idea is so completely out of touch with people's actions and the laws and norms governing our lives, that something has to give. On bad days it is hard not see the whole thing as either, at best, the picture of wishful thinking or, at worst, of hypocrisy.
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/05/06/visitation/index.html
Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark : Rethinking the design of the Internet
The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world. "This paper looks at the Internet and the changing set of requirements for the Internet that are emerging as it becomes more commercial, more oriented towards the consumer, and used for a wider set of purposes. We discuss a set of principles that have guided the design of the Internet, called the end to end arguments, and we conclude that there is a risk that the range of new requirements now emerging could have the consequence of compromising the Internet's original design principles. Were this to happen, the Internet might lose some of its key features, in particular its ability to support new and unanticipated applications." (pdf)
http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/PR_whitepaper_v2.pdf
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/n/network
The XSLT Standard Library
"provides the XSLT developer with a set of XSLT templates for commonly used functions. These are mostly implemented purely in XSLT. ... Goals of the 'xsltsl' project include: (1) Provision of a high-quality library of XSLT templates, suitable for inclusion by vendors in XSLT processor software products. (2) Demonstration of best practice in XSLT stylesheet development and documentation. (3) Provide examples of various techniques used to develop XSLT stylesheets (i.e., a working FAQ). 'xsltsl' uses XML Namespaces, so there is no need to worry about clashing template names."
http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/
Christian Stocker : XML_sql2xml
"takes an sql-query, a pear::db_result or an array and gives you back a xml string or object representing the data. You get a more or less decent result with just the basic settings, but it's also highly configurable, so you can almost get what you want. And furthermore, if you have joined queries, this class tries to detect the relationship and gives you back a nested xml out of that. This does not always work right, but you can customize the relationship between the tables, as well. The automatic relationship detection does only work with mysql at the moment. But the class itself can be used with any db supported by the pear database abstraction class." via more like this
http://www.nomad.ch/php/sql2xml/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/m/man_the
http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis
A guy named Blars : mod_access_rbl
"allows you to restrict access to web pages based on MAPS RBL style DNS servers."
http://www.blars.org/mod_access_rbl.html
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/a/americaland
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/s/scrabble
Josh Goldberg : traceroute.cgi
"takes numbers from traceroutes and turns them into midi files. wooooo hooooooooooooo. not great music but it works"
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~jqg4967/cgi-bin/traceroute.cgi
Personally, I'm not sure that a guy incapable
of putting together an Ikea shelf by himself is the most qualified person to write about the company, but then what do I know?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/11/22/ikea/print.html
Tres Seaver : FSDump
"is an early cut at a bridge between quick-to-develop "through-the-web" [Zope] code (folders, DTML, ZClasses, etc.) and easy-to-manage filesystem code. In this initial version, it will create filesystem analogs for its parent folder, and all objects of the types it knows about in that folder."
http://www.zope.org/Members/tseaver/FSDump/
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/2/20010911
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/e/emacs
Perlmonks : Parsing and spewing CSS
"So here is my plan: create a default external style sheet with default settings and then use perl to query a database for a user's style settings and produce a <STYLE> element with all the individual customizations at the top of the html page. Is there an easier way to do this?"
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/a/age_of_access
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/r/rituals
"[S]tarting today, Tim Peters, Barry Warsaw, Jeremy Hylton, Fred Drake and myself are working for Digital Creations. We will be spending part of our time on core Python development (including Jython and Mailman) and part of our time on Python infrastructure improvements that also benefit Zope." mmmmm.... whitespace.
http://www.python.org/digicool.html
Perlmonks : japhy's Obfuscation Review
"so that you understand what's going on, and get some ideas as to how to better obfuscate your programs."
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/e/economics
Macworld : "Seeing the Cube for the first time
is an experience that no recitation of the specs can possibly describe. Almost totally smooth except for the ports and vent, the Cube could almost pass as a paperweight on most users' desks. But because of its excellent digital audio capabilities, ability to play DVD-quality movies either off of DVD discs or by using QuickTime streaming via a high-speed connection to the Internet, the Cube is just as likely to end up in the home entertainment center. Combine it with an array of third-party USB-based peripherals, and you could easily see the Cube becoming the tiny translucent center of a audio/video/web surfing/game-playing system to make the most hard-core digital convergence naysayer fall to his knees and beg forgiveness." I think Apple deserves to bask in the sun, atleast for the day. They may still be scum suckers , like all the rest, but they give better head than anyone else out there.
http://macworld.zdnet.com/2000/07/19/cube.html
http://cubethemovie.com/
http://www.apple.com/hardware/gallery/cubeflip0719_480.html
DHTML Lab : Where does the tummy-rumbling come from?
I had no idea that "The string argument of document.write() is exported as a text file to [Navigator's] cache on your hard disk. The text file is read back and the contained HTML rendered in the layer." and that consequently "Navigator can handle thousands of layers in a single page with no problem, but may choke with too many document.write's."
http://webreference.com/dhtml/column21/addendum10/3.html
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/f/francophonie
Jean-Louis Leroy : Tangram.pm
"is an object-relational mapper. It makes objects persist in relational databases, and provides powerful facilities for retrieving and filtering them. Tangram fully supports object-oriented programming, including polymorphism, multiple inheritance and collections. It does so in an orthogonal fashion, that is, it doesn't require your classes to implement support functions nor inherit from a utility class." Neat, but why is it called Tangram?
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Tangram-1.11
"To people who say that W2K isn't a great server OS, let's show them what people can do, without a degree in rocket science."
http://www.scripting.com
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/o/os_x
Rich Mackin : Satan Has Your Nose
http://home.earthlink.net/~richmackin/Dunnostuff2.html
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/r/rsi
Cerebus.org
http://www.cerebus.org
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/h/home
Palm Infocenter
considers entire OS modules for the new Visor PDAs. Neat! via ars technica
http://www.palminfocenter.com/articles/linux_visor.asp
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/p/photography
http://www.arstechnica.com/
We are one people, one resolve, one orgasm.
http://www.geocities.com/~director95/ibrator6.html
Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission
"The Commission is issuing a direction to cable carriers with respect to the resale of retail Internet Services...This resale must be provided at a discount of 25% from the lowest retail Internet service rate charged by the cable carrier to a cable customer in its service area during any one month period."
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/TELECOM/DECISION/1999/D9911_0.txt
Advanced Book Exchange
27 countries, 51 independent book stores, 14 million titles.
http://www.abebooks.com
Live Ani DiFranco MP3s
of questionable legality.
http://www.anidifranco.org/downloads/body_downloads.html#audio
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/n/nattering_nabobs_of_negativism
Hemp News
a hemplog. Meanwhile, the Globe & Mail asks : Do you know what's in your hempburger?
http://hemptech.com/cgi-bin/nu4m/hempNEWsmaker/home.cgi
http://globeandmail.com/gam/National/19990727/UHEMPN.html
Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque wants to
give 200-year-old streets newfangled high-tech monikers like "pixel."
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/990724/2645032.html
Philip Gourevitch
"The best reason I have come up with for looking closely into Rwanda's stories is that ignoring them makes me even more uncomfortable about existence and my place in it."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/readings/french.html
http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/categories/t/talking_heads


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Young Adult and Kids' Books – book reviews for children
Bookchooser
Lucky dip!
Arthur and the Forbidden City by Luc Besson (2002)
Part two of the Minimoys adventure
Have you read Arthur and the Minimoys? If you have, you'll know that we left Arthur deep underground, shrunk to the size of a Minimoy, along with his two new friends, about to engage in a struggle to the death against the evil Maltazard!
I'll say this for the Princess Selenia and her chirpy brother Betameche, they certainly keep the action lively:
Betameche, Selenia's brother, lagged behind. He still had his backpack, filled with thousands of things, all of which were useless except in weighing him down so he wouldn't fly away.
'Beta, come on! Time is wasting,' his sister called out in the grumpy way she always spoke to him.
Betameche let out a huge sigh. 'I'm tired of carrying everything,' he complained.
'No one asked you to bring half the village,' the princess replied acidly.
'We could each take a turn carrying, couldn't we? That way I could rest a little, and we could move faster,' Betameche offered.
Selenia came to a sudden stop and looked at her brother. 'You're right. We'll save time. Give it to me!'
Betameche took off his backpack and handed it to his sister who, in one swift movement, threw it into the abyss.
'There! Now you will be less tired and we will travel faster,' the princess announced. 'Let's go!'
Of course, by now you will know that Arthur and Princess Selenia are more than just good friends. Arthur is so deeply smitten with the princess that he will willingly follow her to the ends of the earth. In fact, he's already done just that. Now all he needs to do is find Maltazard in the Forbidden City and prevent his evil attack on the Minimoy Kingdom, find Grandpa, find the family fortune, and find his way back to his own back garden - all within the next 72 hours.
Naturally it can't all go perfectly:
The door to the prison opened suddenly, so violently that everyone jumped. Darkos was very fond of this kind of theatrical entrance. He loved to play villains who came onstage always at the worst moment, throwing a monkey wrench into the plot.
'How are you all? Not too hot? he said, detaching a piece of ice that was hanging from the ceiling and putting it into his mouth.
'The temperature is perfect,' replied Selenia...
She's a cool customer, that princess. If you want to know how they get on you'll have to read the books. A quick and light-hearted read.
What can I read next?
This story is split over two books so you will need to read them in sequence:
Arthur and the Minimoys
Arthur and the Forbidden City
The flow of this story really reminds me of another successful film series by Walt Disney. You might like to have a look at this story by Margery Sharp, which amused me enormously:
Also, the Bookchooser has found these books with a similar profile:
Stravaganza: City of Stars by Mary Hoffman (Score: 89%)
Arthur and the Minimoys by Luc Besson (Score: 89%)
The Changeover by Margaret Mahy (Score: 89%)
Exodus by Julie Bertagna (Score: 89%)
Count Karlstein by Philip Pullman (Score: 89%)
Arthur and the Forbidden City features in these lists:
Books with a touch of magic
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Human sacrifice in Louisiana. The crimes of Clementine Barnabet, leader of the Church of Sacrifice, who confessed to participating in 35 murders in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas. Sacrifices humains en Louisiane. Illustration for Le Petit Journal, 21 April 1912.
In January 1911, 605 Western Avenue in West Crowley, Louisiana was the scene of a horrific murder of an entire family. Officer Ballew, the first to arrive found a Walter Byers, his wife and small son all lying in bed with their skulls split wide open. The sheets underneath them were drenched in blood. The front door was locked which indicated the murderer had entered through an open window. There was no need to search for the murder weapon since in a corner of the room next to the head of the bed, was a bucket full of blood and a bloodied ax propped next to it.


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Hurricane season's last gasp? Forecasters tracking tropical disturbance
Only one week remains in the hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season.
Author: Alex Sosnowski (AccuWeather)
Published: 9:38 AM EST November 24, 2020
Updated: 9:39 AM EST November 24, 2020
Only one week remains in the hyperactive Atlantic hurricane season, a season that began ahead of schedule and went on to generate more named storms than any other in history.
All has been quiet in the Atlantic basin since Hurricane Iota charged into Nicaragua as a Category 4 storm with 155 mph winds on Nov. 16. But as is the case in such a prolific season for tropical development, another area of disturbed weather bears watching even as many Americans have the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday on their minds.
After Iota, which became the only Category 5 (160-mph) hurricane of 2020 in the Atlantic prior to making landfall, the next name on the list of tropical storms in the Greek alphabet is Kappa and forecasters are eyeing a candidate for that letter in the coming days over the central Atlantic.
An area of disturbed weather centered about halfway between the Bahamas and Bermuda will track northeastward and merge with a cold front on Tuesday near Bermuda, according to AccuWeather hurricane expert Dan Kottlowski.
Credit: AccuWeather
The tropical outlook for Nov. 26-28.
"Recent information shows little or no support for any tropical development with this feature through Tuesday. But, as the southern part of the front stalls a few hundred miles to the southeast of Bermuda around Thursday, where either the same disturbance or a new one that forms may become better organized," Kottlowski explained.
At present, AccuWeather meteorologists believe the chance of the disturbance becoming a tropical or subtropical depression is low, or about 30%, but that could change as the week progresses.
A subtropical system has both tropical and non-tropical characteristics. Subtropical systems may draw in a considerable amount of dry air into their circulation, may be more spread out in nature, when compared to tropical systems and may have a poor structure overall.
Strong westerly steering winds would likely keep any system that forms so far out in the Atlantic away from North America and most land areas in general.
Thus far there have been 30 named storms, which is the most on record. The prior record-holder was the 2005 season with 28 systems of tropical storm strength or greater. The 2020 season has also tied 2005 for the record number of tropical depressions with 31.
Should a depression form in the area southeast of Bermuda later this week or at some other point in the Atlantic in the weeks ahead, 2020 would be in sole possession of the record-high number of tropical depressions. The 2005 season holds the record for hurricanes with 15 and major hurricanes (Category 3 or stronger) with seven. So far in 2020, there have been 13 hurricanes with six of those reaching major hurricanes status.
The season will officially conclude Nov. 30, but forecasters caution that it's not unrealistic that a post-season storm could form in December. In the 2005 season, there were two named systems that roamed the Atlantic in December, including one, Epsilon, that became a hurricane.


Previous message: [amsat-bb] Re: FW: [PNWVHFS] Need A Big Dish?
Some satellite tracking software shows whether a satellite is in sunlight or not.
I assume that this is to know whether it's being powered by the solar cells when the battery is defunct.
Is there any other reason to know whether a satellite is in sunlight or the shade?


Just think of all those special events such as Birthdays, Christmas, Anniversaries, Mothers and Fathers Day when you would like to give family or friends a great surprise. A Trial Flying Lesson could be just the answer.
A trial lesson gives you an opportunity to experience flight in a light aircraft, to handle the controls and manoeuvre the aircraft. Trial lessons are available from between 30 minutes and an hour in the air – making it an exciting and affordable present for someone else – or for you to see if flying is something you might like to consider taking up as a hobby or profession.
The trial lesson will be given in one of our fleet of Piper Aircraft. You will have a briefing on the content of the flight and then your instructor will go through all the aircraft controls telling you what affect they have to the aircraft in flight. Depending on how much time you have you may be able to choose where to go on your flight – possibly over Stonehenge or maybe over your own home if you are local enough. During the flight you will take control of the aircraft and depending on how much you have absorbed you may be able to fly back to airfield and even position the aircraft for landing.
If all this sounds a bit tame you can always go for an aerobatic trial lesson in our Super Decathlon – pull a few G's and turn your world upside down!


Making the international move overseas? Take time to plan ahead to make it easier to settle in.
The number of international removals is on the rise as more and more people choose to live overseas. It's an exciting time, but it also comes with a host of challenges, and it's not unusual to start feeling homesick. Here are a few tips to make the move less of a wrench.
First, you're not alone – far from it. Everywhere you look in the world migration is up. UN statistics suggest there are more than 244 million international migrants living and working abroad – an increase of 40% since the year 2000. The percentage of the world's population classed as migrants is rising steadily. One report found a 15% uptick in the number of professional migrants over the year. Many of these are people moving from areas such as Asia and Africa into Europe and the USA, but the richer countries are also seeing people move away. The UK is one of the world's largest exporters of migrants with only China and India having more people living overseas. The US and France have both seen recent increases in the number of people living abroad.
Whether you're moving away for good or only a short time, settling into a new country is a big challenge – one which can be daunting as well as exciting. If you're not adequately prepared it can be stressful and it won't be long before you're considering hitting reverse and heading back home. To avoid this, follow these simple steps.
1) Learn the language: If the country you're moving to doesn't speak English as the first language it helps to at least have an idea of it before you make the move. Learn the basics so you can navigate basic life. Locals will appreciate the effort and you'll soon pick it up.
2) Take care of the details:There will be basic things such as bank accounts and utilities which need to be sorted out. Make sure these are in place before you move so that you experience as little disruption as possible. Moving home is hard enough as it is – it's even more difficult if you have to go without home comforts in the early months.
3) Stay in touch with friends: It's a big wrench especially if you're moving alone, but thanks to the wonders of modern technology, there are more way to stay in touch than ever. Skype, email and Google Hangouts are just some of the ways you can keep talking with your friends and family.
4) Make friends: The sooner you get out into the local community and make friends, the better it will be. Don't just stick to expat circles – as tempting as that may be. Get out and make friends with the real locals.
5) Join expat communities: That said, expat communities can be useful. They will understand what you're going through and can ease you through the introductory process.
6) Learn the customers: Even if you're in a country which shares a language and has a similar way of doing things, there will still be differences. Learn the customers and etiquette to reduce the stress of making the move.
Last but not least, recognise that this might not be an easy process and be prepared for the challenges when they come. You will probably go through several stages. At first everything will be new and exciting. Then you may hit a buffer. Something will happen which you wont expect. Maybe someone in the family isn't settling in well or something happens which makes you miss the comfort and security of home. Either way – be prepared, don't panic and you'll be fine.
Settling into a new country is like everything in life. It's daunting at first, but if you prepare well, all that nervousness will soon give way to excitement.


Buffet breakfast in Hotel. Drive from Delhi to Chandigarh .Upon arrival check in at the hotel. Afternoon sightseeing of Chandigarh which includes visit to Rock garden followed by panoramic sightseeing. Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Morning drive to Manali .Upon arrival proceed to check in at the hotel .Afternoon at leisure & explore Manali on own. Overnight at the hotel.
Post breakfast proceed to visit Manali which includes visit to Hadimba temple, Bijli temple, Gayathri temple, Vashist hot water spring. Afternoon at leisure for independent activities .Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Full day excursion to Rohtang Pass with Packed lunch .Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Drive from Manali to Jispa Enroute visit Keylong, Khardung monastery along with the local village of Keylong. Upon arrival in Jispa check in at the hotel .Afternoon procced to explore Jispa .Overnight at the hotel.
Early breakfast in hotel. Drive from Jispa to Sarchu .Upon arrival procced to check in at the Tent. Afternoon at leisure for independent activities .Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Today we drive from Sarchu to Leh, Enroute visit Hunder & Hemis monastery .Upon arrival check in at the hotel. Afternoon visit local markets .Overnight at the hotel.
Morning buffet breakfast in hotel. Morning sightseeing of Leh which includes visit to Thiksey Gumpa followed by visit to Indus valley monastery .Afternoon explore Stok village .Overnight at the hotel.
Post breakfast visit Stok Palace & Gompa followed by visit to Shankar Gompa .Afternoon visit Tibetan refugee camp which is a important Centre for Buddhism studies. Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Drive from Leh to Uleytokpo Enroute visit Phyang & Likir monastery .Upon arrival in Ulleytokpo proceeds to check in at the tent .Overnight at the Tent.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Same day excursion to Rizong monastery along with Lamayuru monastery. Overnight at Uleytokpo.
After breakfast drive from Uleytokpo to Basago Enroute visit the famous Basago monastery .Upon arrival check in at the hotel .Afternoon visit Basago castle .Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel. Morning drive from Basago to Leh & check in at the hotel .Overnight at the hotel.
Buffet breakfast in hotel .In time transfer to airport for flight for onward journey.


It's all very well for director Simon Godwin to project his Antony and Cleopatra into the modern era but for one gaping hole in the logic. Whilst the costumes and the weaponry (Kalashnikovs, really?) may be 21st Century, neither the Italy nor the Egypt of today, save for their respective antiquities, resemble anything like their illustrious glories from millennia past. This play skips over the inconvenient modernities that Italy is broken and Egypt impoverished, but misquoting Mark Twain, why let the facts get in the way of a good story?
And truly, this is a ripping yarn. As "a pair so famous", Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo are the titular magnificents. Perfectly cast, Fiennes the grizzled, patrician warrior Antony bears a love for Cleopatra that is almost tangible in its devotion. As much as Fiennes brings an impasssioned wisdom to his role, so too does Okonedo command the stage with a powerful petulance, their mutual, eternal devotion well elicited by Godwin.
There is fine supporting work too. Tim McMullan's Enobarbus is a work of art in itself, his description of Cleopatra's Royal Barge and of her beauty, delivered with a rarely encountered richness. In a neat gender-twist, Katy Stephens takes on Agrippa, creating a brief but plausible chemistry with Enobarbus as she outlines her plans for Antony's wedding to Octavia, while in Cleopatra's court, Gloria Obianyo is a touching Charmian.
The technical values of the production offer up our National Theatre at its very best. Michael Bruce's music (delivered beautifully by the side-staged 5 piece band) draws from a variety of themes, with just a delicious hint of Ron Goodwin too during a military moment.
Hildegard Bechtler's set design proves to be a veritable chocolate box of surprises. Making fine use of the Olivier's drum revolve (even if some of the below level scene-shifting could be quieter) Bechtler effortlessly shifts the action to and fro across the Mediterranean, even creating an ornate pond in Cleopatra's palace. Elsewhere, in place of his originally scripted galley, Pompey (Sargon Yelda) is given a submarine from which to command his fleet. And a nod to the heart-warmingly cute (and non-venomous) milk snake, called upon to double as an asp, which comes close to stealing the final scene!
At three and a half hours all in Antony and Cleopatra is a long haul, but with Fiennes and Okonedo making Shakespeare's verse sing, there are moments here to be savoured.


"The Best of Southern Food"
Julia's Talley House prides itself on being part of the Troutman community for decades. We are happy to provide the highest quality fried chicken, along with many other Southern favorites. We remember what Southern hospitality used to feel like, and we want to remind you.
You can enjoy our food either cafeteria or family style. The family style meal rivals the Sunday dinner of anyone's grandmother, and we're sure you would agree. We're so sure, in fact, that we hope you bring your own grandma. Bring your whole family, actually, because it's a whole heap of food!
We've learned a lot in the years since 1979, most notably, the way to make the perfect piece of fried chicken. But we haven't forgotten the good stuff, like how to make sure our customers leave happy, full, and feeling like they just ate with family.
"Delicious home cooking with all the fixins… Staff is always super sweet. Go for dinner and get the family style where they bring massive amounts of food to your table or go through the buffet line like K&W cafeteria and pay for what you want.
We are pleased to offer catering for all of your important events!


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Le N 6 est un sous-marin de la classe N, en service dans la Regia Marina lancé en 1918 et ayant servi après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Caractéristiques
La classe N déplaçait 277 tonnes en surface et 363 tonnes en immersion. Les sous-marins mesuraient 45,9 mètres de long, avaient une largeur de 4,28 mètres et un tirant d'eau de 3,17 mètres. Ils avaient une profondeur de plongée opérationnelle de 40 mètres. Leur équipage comptait 2 officiers et 21 sous-officiers et marins.

Pour la navigation de surface, les sous-marins étaient propulsés par deux moteurs diesel Sulzer de 325 chevaux-vapeur (cv) (239 kW) chacun pour les N 1 à N 4 et Tosi de 350 cv  (257 kW) pour les N 5 et  N6 entraînant deux arbres d'hélices. En immersion, chaque hélice était entraînée par un moteur électrique Ansaldo de 200 chevaux-vapeur (147 kW). Ils pouvaient atteindre 12,5 nœuds (23,1 km/h) pour les N 1 à N 4 et 13,5 nœuds (25 km/h) pour les N 5 et N6 en surface et 8,2 nœuds (15,1 km/h) sous l'eau. En surface, la classe N avait une autonomie de 1 300 milles nautiques (2 400 km) à 8 noeuds (14,8 km/h) pour les N 1 à N 4 et 1 485 milles nautiques (2 750 km) à 8,5 noeuds (15,7 km/h) pour les N 5 et N6; en immersion, elle avait une autonomie de 45 milles nautiques (83 km) à 2 noeuds (3,7 km/h) pour les N 1 à N 4 et 50 milles nautiques (92 km) à 2 noeuds (3,7 km/h) pour les N 5 et N 6.

Les sous-marins étaient armés de deux tubes lance-torpilles à l'avant de 45 centimètres, pour lesquels ils transportaient un total de 4 torpilles. Sur le pont arrière se trouvait un canon de 76/30 mm Model 1916 pour les attaques en surface.

Construction et mise en service
Le N 6 est construit par le chantier naval Cantieri navali Tosi di Taranto (Tosi) de Tarente en Italie, et mis sur cale le . Il est lancé le  et est achevé et mis en service le . Il est commissionné le même jour dans la Regia Marina.

Historique
Le N 6 est  entré en service plusieurs mois après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale.

Il est basé à Tarente et y reste deux ans, de 1919 à 1921, date à laquelle il est transféré à La Spezia.

Il est employé dans des formations basées dans le port ligurien et parfois à La Maddalena.

Radié  le , il est envoyé à la casse.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
  Giorgio Giorgerini, Uomini sul fondo. Storia del sommergibilismo italiano dalle origini a oggi, Mondadori, 2002, .
  Aldo Fraccaroli: Italian Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1970. .
  Robert Gardiner, Randal Gray: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. London: Conway Maritime Press, 1985. .
  Franco Favre, La Marina nella Grande Guerra. Le operazioni aeree, navali, subacquee e terrestri in Adriatico, Gaspari Editore, 2008, .

Liens internes
 Liste des sous-marins de l'Italie

Liens externes
  Le N 6 sur le site betasom.it

Nom de bateau
Sous-marin de la Regia Marina
Sous-marin italien de la Première Guerre mondiale
Navire construit à Tarente
Classe N (sous-marin italien)
Bateau lancé en 1918
Navire démoli en 1935

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Looking at the Registry Cleaners ads, they all want to Boost / Improve Speed / Speed Up the computer / Increasing Performance of the system / Removing BSOD / Fix Errors, crashes, and freezes / (...) by cleaning the registry.
Registry Cleaners are useless. On a brand new Windows installation, all these cleaners will detect +100 errors to solve (From Empty keys to File Association errors ... ).
In February Microsoft Malware Protection Center reported RegCure from Paretologic (a MS Certified Partner) as Program:Win32/RegCure.
Program:Win32/RegCure is a program that is promoted as a system optimization tool. This program may display deceptive or fraudulent claims about files, registry entries and/or other items on the system.


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Duck-Billed Dinos Gave T. rex a Run for Its Money
Hadrosaurs could outrun tyrannosaurusesbecause of the layout of the herbivores' tail muscles
By David Godkin on February 1, 2015
Credit: COURTESY OF NIROOT PUTTAPIPAT
Pity the hadrosaur. The duck-billed dinosaur had no horns, armor or tusks for defense when Tyrannosaurus rex was on the hunt. And it was too big to escape by climbing a tree or burrowing into the ground. To top it all off, the herbivore was slow of foot. Luckily, the layout of a hadrosaur's leg and tail muscles may have helped it escape the massive jaws of tyrannosaur predators.
T. rex would win in a sprint, but a hadrosaur would outrun it in a longer race, paleontologist W. Scott Persons argues in a study about the dinosaurs' caudofemoralis muscles, published in November 2014 by Indiana University Press. The left and right caudofemoralis of theropod dinosaurs were large tail muscles anchored to the upper leg bones. Contractions would swing a hind limb backward, propelling the dinosaur forward. T. rex fossil impressions show that its caudofemoralis muscles were attached to the femur near the hip socket. Extrapolating from 3-D computer modeling of modern-day reptiles "means the physical distance the muscle has to contract to swing the leg through a single arc is very, very short," Persons says. Short contractions allowed it to take fast, long strides.
In contrast, the hadrosaur's similarly sized caudofemoralis muscle was attached much farther down on the femur, making the muscle contraction considerably longer, which in turn made its strides shorter and slower. Advantage: T. rex.
An extended race, however, would yield a different result. The proximity of T. rex's caudofemoralis muscle to its femur also meant the carnivore had to expend enormous amounts of energy to swing its leg, so it tired quickly. (Imagine the effort required to open and close a door if the doorknob were positioned three inches from the hinge.) For the hadrosaur, superior leverage and slower muscle contractions would mean that it tired less over great distances.
Thus, the only chance T. rex had to nab a hadrosaur was to take it by surprise, Persons notes. But unlike a big, agile cat, which can slink through high grass to sneak up on its prey, T. rex's size would have easily given it away. With a head start and the push of its leveraged legs, the duck-billed dino would live to run another day.
This article was originally published with the title "Hadrosaur Gave T. rex a Run for Its Money" in Scientific American 312, 2, 19 (February 2015)
Recent Articles by David Godkin
How Did the Ancestors of Modern-Day Birds Survive?
Bats in New Zealand Set Up "Time Shares"
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GoldWave is a popular and professional digital audio editing tool that includes every possible function you could want from an audio editor. You can use this program to do about anything you want related to digital audio. From the most basics, like playing your favorites songs, to more advanced things like analyzing audio with frequency and amplitude visuals using spectrograms, waveforms, and other useful graphs, or remastering old vinyl and tape recordings.
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