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CEO Launches Netflix in 130 Countries During CES Keynote
By Don Levy
Netflix turned on the world, adding 130 new countries, during the time its CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings delivered the opening day keynote at CES in Las Vegas. The addition of these new markets grows Netflix's global footprint from 60 to 190 territories as the company reimagines itself as a global television network. Hastings and chief content officer Ted Sarandos covered many of the technological, economic, business and creative innovations driving their success in a world where Hastings observed, "Tune in has been replaced by personal choice." Continue reading CEO Launches Netflix in 130 Countries During CES Keynote
Apple Builds New Networks to Boost its Internet Infrastructure
By Rob Scott
Apple is quietly building new networks, part of an expanded Internet infrastructure capable of delivering large amounts of content to customers, while providing Apple with more control over distributing its online offerings. It will also lay the groundwork for handling more traffic should the company decide to move deeper into television. Apple has been moving in this direction for a while, since the inception of its iCloud service and in response to rising sales of media via iTunes and the App Store. Continue reading Apple Builds New Networks to Boost its Internet Infrastructure
Netflix in Talks with Cable Companies to Combine Services
By Chris Castaneda
Netflix is in talks with several pay TV providers, including Comcast and Suddenlink Communications, to offer its online video service as an app on pay TV set-top boxes, according to those familiar with the talks. Netflix and cable operators are competitors, but both may be open to the possible benefits in combining their services. However, some cable operators have concerns regarding Netflix technology on their network and where that may lead.
Continue reading Netflix in Talks with Cable Companies to Combine Services
Netflix Makes Super HD and 3D Options Available to All Users
By Valerie Savran
Netflix is starting to provide all of its subscribers with access to Super HD and 3D content. The company announced that it is no longer obligatory for a subscriber to have Open Connect to access higher bitrate HD streams, as well as 3D titles. Netflix may face challenges convincing ISPs to adapt Open Connect; issues related to peering and local content caching are not completely resolved. Netflix also plans to unveil Ultra HD, with four times the screen resolution of HD, in 2014. Continue reading Netflix Makes Super HD and 3D Options Available to All Users


LAFAYETTE- Businesses and schools across Lafayette will be turning red and white on Oct. 21 and 23, as part of Homecoming Week festivities at UL Lafayette.
The annual Paint the Town Red business contest will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 21. This contest will determine which business displayed the best Ragin' Cajuns interior and exterior decorations and the best skit. All participants are encouraged to "paint" their business red and white to show their support for the Ragin' Cajuns.
Judging the contest will be local media personalities. Judging will begin at 10 a.m. and winners will be announced later that day and re-announced later at the Homecoming game. The UL Lafayette Alumni Association along with Thorton, Musso, Bellimin, Acadiana Trophies, and the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce will sponsor this event.
On Oct. 23, Lafayette schools will have their chance to get in on the Paint the Town Red action, by displaying their Ragin' Cajuns sprit. Students, teachers, and faculty members are encouraged to show their Ragin' Cajuns pride by decorating their school, wearing red and white, learning Ragin' Cajuns cheers, and singing the fight song for the contest.
Preliminary judging will be from 8:15 a.m. – noon, by local media personalities. Prizes will be awarded at 1 p.m. Acadiana Trophies will sponsor the event.
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns will take on Florida Atlantic for Homecoming 2009. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. at Cajun Field on Oct. 24.


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Today I have the chance to interview a woman who is currently operating a business that actively exists in two countries. You talk about opening up another business in a different city or even a different state would be challenging. Imagine doing this in a different country. However that is exactly what Adriana Bautista did.
Adriana started a business primarily in Mexico City in 1999. She was helping people with their local and national taxes.
Her company is called LPP, Inc. and she is an International Tax Consultant. She loves taxes and analyzing numbers so much she even get a PhD in it.
In 2007 she had the idea of coming to the US to open a company doing taxes here. This idea just sat there as an idea for a few years. She was already doing US taxes for Mexican citizens that had business also in the US. Or it was for US citizens living in Mexico.
It wasn't until 2010 after a friend had her come to the US and basically tricked her into starting to officially doing business here in order to show her she did have the confidence and ability to work here, too.
And Mexican tax laws can vary differently than it does in the US.
She is also the co-author of the Spanish version of the book Trophy Effect w/ Michael Nitti.
I think you will be intrigued by this woman's story and the fact that she can do business in two different countries.
If you are on the fence on getting started then this woman's story may help you with that vital push go get started now.
She also has a passion in becoming a motivational speaker to help Latin women of abuse to overcome those tragic moments.
You can find Adriana online at www.lppinc.org.
Her website is available in both English and Spanish.
The host, Kevin A Dunlap, is an Entrepreneur Strategist. He is personally committed to helping people start and grow their businesses to new and higher levels of success. He has a coaching program where he will discover where you are in your business structure and then to create a plan to take it to the next level, even if the next level is just to start.


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Тихомир Митков Иванов е български състезател по футзал.

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Роден на 10 октомври 1981 г. във Варна. Играч на ФК Одесос (Варна) от 2006 г. Предишни отбори: ФК Делфини, ФК МАГ (Варна). Иванов е част от Националния отбор по футзал на България.

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Български състезатели по футзал
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summative or headline roundup
Some cabinet officials in Germany's ruling coalition want to levy a fee from those aggregator sites like Drudge Report or Yahoo! News and other services that supposedly profit unduly by leveraging the reporting of other agencies, baiting readers to their own mastheads then trickling off like Plinko bearings to the primary sources. This idea is only as of now a suggestion, but framers have been working on legislation since 2009 and similar plans have already been discussed in the States—with the Drudge tax, and has the support of some German publishing-houses (Verlag) and much hand-wringing and vocal protests on the opposing side. Lawmakers want these asymmetric earners (through front-page ads) to share profits with the makers of their content, the journalists. It seems like a fair proposition, at first, glance but the reasoning, I think, quickly folds. Aggregators don't intercept potential advertising revenue (although I suppose, for example, if a reader first encountered some tempting resort ad in Pago Pago, the reader probably wouldn't click on it a second time when mirrored on the newspaper's web site) but feed and drive visitor traffic, and surely, in turn revenue.
If news- aggregators with high-visibility are targeted for skimming too much off the top, what's to prevent this tariff from creeping to any link or the adjudging, rating, following or otherwise liking or disliking of social-networking sites? This proposal is like a shadowy, non-codified once-and-future ACTA or Son of SOPA, meant to de-vitalize the internet because the entertainment industry feels it's turnover is being infringed upon. And there would of course be consequences, like the spectrum of what's newsworthy shrinking and the feeder-services might be only willing to do business, find what's fit to print, with its partners and affiliates.
catagories: America, Europe, Germany, networking and blogging
prosopagnosia or lost-and-found
This strange news item from Iceland has already been circulating the internet, concerning a solitary foreign woman who visited the volcanic canyon of Eldgjá as part of a bus tour through the southern highlands, but I think the idea is pretty intriguing and bizarre. After a hike, she freshened up and changed her clothing and jacket. This act, which went unnoticed and made her unrecognisable to her fellow travellers, and a miscounting of the number of passengers on board by the driver and guide, caused a panic to ensue. The woman, draped now with the cloaks of something other than mistaken identity, did not recognise herself in the description of the missing passenger and certainly did not consider herself lost. Maybe, like in another historic case in Iceland mentioned in the article, she even participated in her own search-party.
I am glad everything turned out fine and it is starting to sound like an urban legend, but I think it begins to highlight some important questions. Of course, this is a rare and frightening occurrence but I do wonder if there is not some mechanism responsible that's a contemporary cog of inattentiveness and private, not shared perceptions. Like people saying, "without pictures, it didn't happen," and the ability to readily tag and label everything for processing and easily convey under most circumstances, documentary evidence, I wonder if our senses and personas are somewhat spoilt and skewed. I wonder if that means there will be more such incidents in the future.
catagories: Iceland, psychology
One activity to try at home (preferably without witnesses) is to repeat one's name until becomes meaningless. I can remember a schoolmate doing this as a little kid and I couldn't identify the point for her perspective when the repetition became a transcendent thing, numb and unthinking like a trance, but for me it was when "Rosie" intoned turned into "Zero."
It can be an interesting experience, to lose oneself—akin to trying to reconcile an optical illusion, and I think just as interesting are venues, formats and presentation that somehow always either require rehearsal or become invisible altogether. There's the traveling mat of one's commute or household inventories that fade into the background, not looked at any longer (though one might notice their alteration or absence quicker than one would expect), but with the former, there are processes, no matter how dull or stale and imprinted to memory that don't become obedient reflexes, something done in one's sleep. Job searching, no matter how automated and centralized it is made, cherry-picking from a database rather than patrolling a beat or rustling the classifieds, seems to be one of those things.
Even something important and demanding is prone to distraction, and possibly because there is such a wide and raw focus with the unknown and expectations, makes the process, the search even more of a vehicle for the stickier burrs that refuse to stay in the background and are obnoxious cheerleaders that make it easier to miss other steps and details.One gets around the glitches and limitations soon enough, but still the slightest things refuse to flag. There was one phrase that ran through every vacancy announcement that I took a second, considered look at, describing the city where the job was located, as the Nice of the North. That repeating characterization drove me really to distraction. I suppose because it was a constant amid a lot of variables. While I think that is an apt and creative comparison and I do not consider myself a sophisticate, I do have to wonder at this effort to impart this bare fact to prospective employees. I wondered if the targeted audience would think of the city in Southern France rather than struggling to understand the moniker, something like calling New Orleans the Big Easy. I am glad that I have secured a position in the Nice of the North, though, so I will not need to face these daily diversions and am wishing everyone else the same luck, success and escape as well.
catagories: France, Germany, labour, psychology
brica-braca or the long now
Photographer David Johnson, via the astounding Colossal, the blog of Art and Visual Ingenuity, had a chance to experiment with new techniques and captured some blooming, long-exposure images of fireworks, during the International Firework Show held in Ottawa in early August.
Lax and taut by turns with the focus, he managed to capture the stages of bursting unseen, like some colourful and exotic fruit gone explosively ripe.
tv tray or serialization
As a little kid, I can remember being very engrossed, as I think a lot of kids were, at the breakfast table with the ingredient lists and nutritional information on the back and sides of cereal boxes.
Letting my coffee cool a bit this morning, I wondered if people, especially kids, indulge in this sort of distraction. I bet parents would regard this innocent distraction more welcome than the chamber music of texting or the private dinner-theatre of web-browsing. I'm guilty too, not always able to pull myself away from the screen (it's funny how so much of our time is spent staring at quadrilaterals—cereal boxes too—but without even seeing the rectangular frame. I do continue to pour over food labels but the message has changed a little: the names of the additives don't seem quite like a sea-monkey kingdom potion (although not everything need be a sinister let-down and there's some magic yet to be found in preparation and the recipe but there are more hacks and fillers rather than kitchen-witchery) and thinking about the provenance, packaging and the poly-lingual labeling is more interesting. I suppose, in the end, there's not too much difference in how one chooses to take one's morning briefing.
catagories: environment, food and drink, graphic design, networking and blogging
Mostly just to see something that we had not had the chance to see before and take out the camper in fair weather but partly also to check out the environs further afield of my future workplace, H and I took a weekend trip through the Rheingau. The region was outstandingly beautiful, opening into a vast landscape of vineyards climbing trellising upwards from the manicured banks of the Rhein, gently sloping and peopled heavily with palaces and cloisters and villages reminiscent of the French countryside.
Not to disparage the fine cities that sprawl to form a megalopolis from Frankfurt to Wiesbaden to Köln and beyond, but we had not experienced anything else in the area. Surely, we are saving a lot to explore for later but did visit some of the defining destinations points that came in quick succession as soon as we left the city-limits.
One attraction that we found was the Niederwald Monument, personifying Germania and built to occasion the unification of imperial Germany after the Franco-Prussian wars, windswept at the summit of the Rheinish terroir, and among a collection of Empire colossal monuments commissioned and built all in a shared spirit, like the gallery of greatness at Walhalla, the Monument to the Battle of the Nations (Das Völkerschlachtdenkmal bei Leipzig), or the Barbarossa Monument (der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal) in Kyffhäuser meant to intimate that the then new emperors were the legal successors to the Holy and Roman Empire of the Germans. I suppose that I am taken with this chauvinism precisely because I've been raised with my own for a long time now. Since I came to Germany, I have lived in a few places but none outside of Bavaria—or even Franconia.
Not that I regard people in Hessian or anywhere else as more or less German or anything, there is a certain attitude and dialect that one becomes accustomed to and can learn not to see. There are some aspects and trappings of common heritage and identity that can make what's familiar or excused or unapologetic rather heavy-handed when just a little less familiar when seen in others. I guess I have a little trepidation but I'm sure it's my imagination magnifying things. In any case, I am glad that we were able to visit the countryside first as tourists.
catagories: Germany, travel
a mass of incandescent gas
Via the ever excellent Boing Boing, National Geographic reports on the singular roundness of the Sun. It is in fact on average the most perfectly spherical object known to man. The globes of the planets and satellites of course strive to this same figure but due to the tugging of other objects and their own rotation and compositions have settled mostly for a slightly oolong shape.
The article does not directly rate other, distant stars but seems to suggest that an astral body of a different class and age would not maintain a circular form. Scientists believe being able to better measure the tiny, hair's breadth imperfections could better anticipate solar-induced weather conditions on Earth, like eruptions that disrupt communication or even the cycle of ice-ages. I wonder if astronomers have the ability to see if a far away star's silhouette is round or distorted. Could that be a better indicator of a brood of planets—or specifically those that could harbour familiar biology, than watching for other types of perturbations? Does the reciprocal tug of a constellation of planets produce this perfect shape? Were the outline of a star proved to be a positive indicator of earth-like worlds, it would be a bit like the progression of the ancient astronomers from Ptolemy to Copernicus to Kepler, which saw the centre of the universe move from the Earth, to the Sun, to a point somewhere in between, the heavens not orbiting around the centre of the Sun but rather some fulcrum that was the sum negotiation of everything pulling against everything else.
catagories: space science, Turkey
distinguishing signs of vehicles in international traffic
For the old Lady, the T-3 Transporter, we never made good on designs to decorate her with those luggage-label bumper-stickers of places we've traveled to with her. And with Silver Lady, the California T-5, we were wavering on the idea.
Touring around Norway and seeing the moose icon on campers and motor-homes (på norsk, Bobil), we tried to find a small, discrete version for ourselves, but we were unsuccessful. There isn't so much real-estate along the roof on this one. Instead, we thought we could do something subtle to frame the rear window, maybe, with little symbols, where some families display their children's names in Germany or advertise the fact that they graduated in 2009 (Abi— for Abitur or Schulabschluss), of the places we've been.
One often sees an image of the German North Frisian island of Sylt or Usedom in the Baltic (pictured), which look for all things like a peeled banana or graceful yoga pose and a marauding shark, respectively, until one is told what they are. How's that for a Rorschach test? It would be relatively easy to print out transparencies and stickers be creative with how one represents his travel destinations.
In somewhat related news, the German Minister of Transportation announced his support to permit municipalities within a county (Gemeinde unter einer Landkreis) to break from tradition and issue their own license plates (Kraftfahrzeugkennzeichen), not with the prefix of the surrounding county but personalized for their locality with whatever letter combination, not already claimed, they see fit. For instance, the village of Markt Unteroberbergburgmühlebach-an-der-Strasse would be no longer under the tyranny of parent East Allgäu county with its non-specific OAL affix but could try UOB or NBG, etc. Police officials, on the other hand, warned of absolute chaos and if politicians want to appeal to local patriotism, they'd be better off with bumper stickers.
catagories: camping, Europe, France, Germany, graphic design, language, Norway, transportation, travel
blacklisted or clutter-free: a cautionary tale
I did not notice that the four year anniversary for PfRC came and went without ceremony on my part but it did not pass without acknowledgement and observation. I received a message from the advertising platform notifying me that my account had been suspended over suspect or fraudulent click-activity. This was an unfortunate condemnation and I was more than a bit taken aback. I agree with the characterisation of wanting to maintain integrity all around for the advertising environment, and understand their inability to provide more details, since disclosure about how clicks are policed would give real fraudsters a work-around.
A few errant but curious clicks on my part to billboards on my own site (generally for products and services that I found interesting or ironic, and I would naturally be presented with ads tailored to my taste) or family and friends throwing some support and a known case of one irresistibly mocking political campaign that choose to establish residence on my site that was tagged daily—out of righteous vengeance, begrudging the party a few pennies—or even legitimate case of illegitimate redirecting of traffic—studying statistics and the internet chains of causality (which is another interesting aspect our blogging, aside from the fun of sharing and learning something in the process—knowing what drives traffic and who visits, as well as what ads are posted and how well they can match up to ones content)—since quite a few shady detour-services do stop by, I see, could be the source of this non-compliance with stated policy but of course I can't know for sure. Maybe I had racked up just one too many penalties or tabs were kept from the beginning, however, I don't think it was all ballot-stuffing. Like I said, I understand the importance of integrity and legitimacy, and I think that it is a losing proposition all around, should a publisher's account go dark—not over the revenue, but over the opportunities lost to marketers and perhaps lost chances to enrich the place called the internet. It's not like a struggling and bankrupt postal service loving junk-mail since it gives them something to deliver. The search engine achieved and maintains dominance and real utility for its complex search algorithms and I'm sure works the publicity programme with the same expertise. The service does offer an appeals process, which I completed—trying to be contrite and honest, but ultimately they notified me that my request for reinstatement was disapproved. It's not so nice to be permanently punished, but as I said, the important factor for me is the sharing and discovery (while surely that's cold comfort for those who earn a significant income from it) and of course will continue to blog, though it does feel at the moment a little diminished without that little extra element. I've been more preachy than usual and no one asked for an essay on why I am being punished but if I am to be made an example of, I wanted to stress to others the importance of keeping things wholly above-board and in as far as possibly policing one's blog for violations.
catagories: networking and blogging, privacy
frost giants or manheimr steamroller
Here's a clever and cute depiction of the nine worlds of Norse mythology, linked together by the cosmic tree of life, Yggdrasill. The legend of the map is accepted by most, the populations of each planet, like Manheimr home world to the humans or Jötunheimr for the Giants and with the same cast of characters, like the Squirrel, Ratatoskr, a mercurial figure that spreads gossips and carries insult from world to world, the different creatures assaulting the tree and the Eagle perched high above and stirring the winds on Earth with its wings. There is quite a bit of disagreement, apparently, on how these realms are arranged and relate to one another.
Were there supposed to be three levels, triads grouped together and clinging to the tree, like the chthonic, mundane and Olympian hierarchies of Greek mythology—or something completely different?
It is interesting, I think, how there are nine distinct regions and the Earth is acknowledged as just one among these—like the ninish planets of the Solar System, and that the Sun and Moon are not figured into the cosmology. Here is also an illustration from Carl Gustav Jung's Red Book (Liber Novus) representing a similar archetype but perhaps as a tree of self-actualization. Having devoted sixteen years of work and reflection to this tome in order to better understand and explore his own theories on the collective unconsciousness and myth-making, I am sure that Jung also wondered about the ways we could map the universe and firmly believed in the importance of imagery and imagination.
catagories: Germany, graphic design, Norway, psychology
voracious or conqueror worm
Something with a voracious appetite has unfortunately been snacking on our geraniums, which is a little surprising since they're supposedly odious things to eat and even release chemicals that create a fire-wall for mosquitoes that the pests will avoid. That's why they're grown in window boxes, to keep intruders out. Examining the holes, we first wanted to blame a snail but then wondered how a snail would manage to reach the balcony. After some more investigation, we found the culprit feasting away, a poisonously green Hawk Moth caterpillar (Pappelschwärmer).
Gently, humanely, it was displaced to another buffet to complete its metamorphisis into that strange humming bird-like insect. The flowers are surviving as well. This would also account for those mysterious microscopic pellets—caterpoo.
catagories: environment, plants
frühstücken oder morgen post
I really liked this tableau by Danish artist Laurits Andersen Ring, recently featured on the English Wikipedia home-page as a featured image.
Productive from the fin d'siècle until the 1930s, Ring's style and subject matter helped define the Socio-Realism movement, which embraces such iconographic works as Grant Wood's American Gothic, the anonymous and evocative profiles of the Great Depression in America (like the photograph of Migrant Mother [DE]) and the cavalcades of propaganda art from different confessions and persuasions yet all with common ways of portraying, lensing society. Focusing on the craftsmanship of the furnishings and small details really complete the scene, which is also pregnant with symbolism that slowly emerges. The allegorical is a subtle thing and can tell stories that are inexhaustible, noting the way the way shadows dapple, the copy of the page, the halo of greenery at the woman's head, the intention of the palette and so on. Taking a moment to appreciate the unfolding reminds one that links do not allegory make.
catagories: antiques, graphic design, Wikipedia
energie wende
There are curious trees and reefs being cultivated across the plains of Germany, planted in response to the country's plans to wean an energy hungry public and industrial sector off nuclear power.
Tilting at these gigantic windmills that form well-landscaped corridors that line the Autobahnen or at the expansive arrays of solar panels that are spreading across hill and field, I find the scale of substitution, replacing the smoke-stacks and cooling towers with alternative and passive means, quite impressive works of engineering—chasing and harnessing forces of nature that wouldn't otherwise go unused and unappreciated but still without robbing its intended, but seeing this infrastructure grow still does excite some seeds of doubt and skepticism.
I believe that we are moving in the right direction, of course, but I do wonder what sort of green-washing might be undue distractions and skewed motivators: bio-fuels, depending on the source, do not ultimately affect less environmental impact, taking into account resources diverted for raising crops, destined for the tank and not the plate plus the extra kilometers potentially driven due to the cheaper price or false-comfort of being more ecologically friendly at the pump or residential insulation and energy-efficiency modernization programmes that are a boon to the construction and home appliance sectors but may yield diminishing returns for the environment and consumers.
Some very clever people, I am sure, have mulled and processed these returns but the effectiveness rings somehow less than expert. I suppose that the sleek and clean housing and the installation of windmills are quickly off-set and solar arrays are on fallow fields and are rotated, rather than taking up agricultural land and produce enough power to negate the impact, but one does have to wonder about the notion of risk-free, renewable power. Being human is a dirty-business that's very taxing on space and resources and consumers and providers ought to work always towards innovation and break-through, but yet mindful that making do with less is ultimately the most efficient use of resources.
catagories: environment, Germany, nuclear policy, technology and innovation
abstract-concrete
Via the always splendiferous Neatorama, artist Fuchsia Macaree (the link is no longer) shares a brilliant visual logographic alphabet of a treasury of poetic foreign words that have no equivalents in English, like T for the Scottish term Tartle, the act of hesitation upon forgetting someone's name, or P for the Russian Pashlost, which is a self-satisfied vulgarity masquerading as high morality—plus more to learn with everything else from Age-Tori to Zhaghzhagh.
There a lot of novel, neat words that are pretty lyrical and that I had not heard before, but this is not an exhaustive presentation of things that defy translation. What would you include in an alphabetical format?
Idiosyncratic and family pet-names names for things and concepts or a how about list of the weird jingo and abbreviations of concepts hard to visualize thrown around freely at the office, those words that would be completely foreign sounding and unassailable to a non-native speaker?
catagories: Britain, Europe, Germany, graphic design, Japan, language, Norway
verkehrsverhältnis
On roadways throughout Europe and beyond, vacation season cues traffic congestion and traffic jams (Staus). The phenomena of herding over multiple lanes, however, is an interesting one, though the study and wonder while one is in the middle of things unfolding and taking interminably long to reconcile itself does not make the occurrence merely academic. Still trying to understand the causes of such viscosity is part of the journey.
I was not expecting such stop-and-go traffic conditions in Denmark, but these signs that indicate lanes merging that look like an awareness-ribbon along their highways seemed to signal without fail a bottleneck. It is understandable, I suppose considering this country of just five million is being descended upon by travelers coming and going could spur some relative over-cautiousness, which is probably just an extension of being polite and courteous. The display was more acute and regular there, but most Staus pass without explanation or incident with the hesitation and the snowballing reactions of being put in and taken out of formation. Often times, the only delay visible is from people rubbernecking at a scene in the opposite lane. Everyone should be safe and patient, and of course that goes a long way to minimize a true accident, since the occasion for rushing is almost always before one leave home. Sometimes I think the whole mess could be sorted out in no time with a holographic traffic warden directing cars to stay on course and discouraging second-guessing and hesitation. Driving, however, is a taxing and unnatural activity and one ought to acknowledge the compensation and tactics needed to keep traffic flowing may not always be instinctual.
catagories: Europe, psychology, transportation
WWII week: nacht und nebel
There is nothing more difficult to face than inhumanity become concrete. The dishonor, ostracizing, terror, torture, enslavement and disregard were unique in scale and system, but not without painful precedent and legacy, since it is the quality of dismissive otherness that empowers one group to do this to another. Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Romani, Freemasons, the Poles, the Russians, homosexuals, handicapped people, communists, anti-social types, political dissidents and other undesirables all could be stripped of their humanity in fact because it was decided with sanction that never shared it with the oppressors in the first place, on whatever grounds.
Why this was allowed to continue and to what extent the civilian population of Germany and the rest of the world were morally complicit is a question, I think, no one is equipped to fully articulate. What will people believe—not only that it is a dutiful thing to deprive another of his rights on such baseless grounds—the everyday struggle we have with our own petty judgments and prejudices are most certainly successors to all the strife and hate of history but the best any of us can do is strive to be better and positively influence others—but also the sanitized reports that enforced the euphemisms?
I wonder what it is that people want to believe or what is easier to reconcile quickly slips into truth and fact. Today, some former concentration camps are hallowed grounds, memorials to unthinkable loss and cruelty that are unflinching testimony. Like the words on the gate of Dachau, Arbeit Macht Frei, the inscription on the gate of Buchenwald is a double-entrende: Jedem Das Seine could mean "to each his own."
> When the gate closes and the words are facing the inmates of this largest concentration camp near Weimar, that housed all kinds, the meaning could also be "you get what you deserve." Nacht und Nebel is the moniker for the overarching Nazi war programme to eliminate all elements that threatened state security ("die deutsche Sicherheit gefährden") through rendition (being disappeared—night and fog, the term is a spell summoning the powers of sword and magic helmet of Wagner's Ring Cycle), and of course the existence of such detention facilities was an open secret, vexing with the constant disorientation of transporting internees all over occupied territories, separating families and neighbours, so no witnesses could give the same account for what was happening or the missing might be remembered. Let us hope that we begin to see through such cloaks of the lowest charisma and never forget that a share of humanity is necessarily a share of otherness.
catagories: Europe, Germany, psychology, religion, Wikipedia
ragnarok or five minutes til midnight
The archeological site and ancient royal estate of the coastal town of Avaldsnes in Rogaland County in western Norway offered many engrossing and diverse themes. There was the natural majesty of the narrow cove and shipping lane, the on-going excavations from the age of the Vikings, the uniting and venerable residence, the cultural museum, hidden underground to preserve the landscape, all dominated by the medieval church of Saint Olav, which served for a long time as a landmark for sailors passing through the strait. There's a lot going on here. The church, though, I think is most storied: according to tradition, it was built by future king and saint Olaf Tryggvason, who converted to Christianity on the sage advice of a fortune-teller he met while pillaging in Cornwall. The chapel royal was an important symbol and hastened acceptance by the people.
Curiously, the tallest and one of the last remaining standing stones of an earlier era is planted very close by and over the centuries as the foundations settled, now leans precariously close to the gothic-style edifice. Locals regard this pillar as jomfru Marias synål, Mary's Needle, and lore has it should the stone come in contact with or break the stained glass window, the Day of Judgment is nigh. I refused to touch this doomsday rock, though it looked pretty solid and there's a story that a priest once climbed it and chiseled it down a bit already when it was looming too close. I don't know if that's true but one could see that the window had been reinforced. What an ominous yet little-known thing to have among one's attractions and heritage.
catagories: Norway, religion, travel
wordmark
Apparently the typeface Baskerville is one of the more comforting and believable in the font kingdom, even if just barely so. Maybe all job and university applications, résumés, curricula vitæ will be appearing in classic, transition font from now on for claiming that slight edge. Heretofore, I can't think of any corporate logos or brand identity that uses Baskerville either—for that matter. Perhaps the trust element is in its quiet novelty, something just a toe over the familiar and instantly recognizable.
catagories: graphic design, psychology
Heaven forbid that one should have to pee while one is out and about. Quite a lot of places are ill-equipped for a potty-emergency, having to ask for a key or produce change or simply be met with refusal. Norway, for being sparsely populated faithful provided, however, immaculate, public conveniences at every turn and in some unlikely and remote spots—like some TARDIS for the beleaguered, but that's not the case everywhere. The local, the English language daily, reported in both its Swiss and German (the stories are no longer available but please visit the German and Swiss dailies) editions stories on advances in lavatory etiquette, albeit on opposite ends of the spectrum. First, researchers in Switzerland were lauded for their reinvention of the toilet, a prototype designed for the developing world but suitable anywhere—sanitary and clean without plumbing or electricity, inexpensive and environmentally friendly with some very clever and promising engineering elements.
Meanwhile, in Köln marketers are promoting an item similarly off the grid, called the pocket urinal for gentlemen and ladies. This sort of tetra-pak receptacle was originally developed for construction workers and gliding enthusiastic who cannot easily leave their posts, but has been endorsed by the city for Carnival time and other festivals when too many revelers are less willing to hold it or wait for one of the too few bathrooms. This too is a clever idea but not nearly as ecologically kind nor inexpensive—relatively.
catagories: lifestyle, Norway, technology and innovation
extra-territoriality or diplomatic cul-de-sac
Despite the fact that they risk contravening the Vienna Conventions, and duly arbitrated international treaties always trump the local laws and policies of their signatories, authorities in the UK stand poised to forcibly take Wikileaks founder Julian Assange into custody and won't allow him to simply leave the Ecuadorian mission, despite the country's decision to extend him sanctuary and safe passage.
Ostensibly, the police want to enforce an international warrant calling for Assange's extradition on behalf of the Swedish court to answer for charges—though the case is seemingly becoming not such a foregone conclusion, the plaintiffs having changed their stories several times. Rather than motivated to uphold relations (especially since Britain is threatening to infringe on Ecuador's diplomatic license), it seems that the Foreign Office is either acting out of revenge or in thrall to American designs on the gad-fly. The US is not beyond courting an ambassadorial incident, especially if it can be affected by proxy. Assange fled because he feared that there was the very real possibility that he would be delivered up to the Americans, and apparently the Ecuadorian government agreed with that assessment.
This situation is tense and makes for a complicated Venn diagram of exclaves and enclaves, whose respect is dabbled with at everyone's peril, and a complex triangulation, wherein all the factors are not known: Assange merited the wrath of the State Department by releasing caches (with the help of others) of dirty-laundry indiscriminately but specifically the gossip committed to paper of the embassy-set, having since disclosed that there would be more damning revelations to come, distributed freely but under the lock and key of his life-lines, insurance policy and the UK has already, I believe, shown its hand and revealed outside pressures by threatening and overstepping what is accorded to Ecuador and the aim is extraordinary rendition to the US. The exposure of Wikileaks purposed to help put an end to such opaque and secret negotiations, and Quito's stand with transparency ought to be defended and praised.
catagories: America, Britain, foreign policy, networking and blogging, privacy
WWII week: overlord
To say more on the subject of fascination, though probably no original observations and nothing not said before, the intrigue of this era—harking back to times of empire and conquest and projected forward to dystopian and speculative futures, can be distilled in that hypothetical unease and the human capacity to imagine things, outcomes as otherwise.
A torrent of strategizing and contingencies, death and destruction mechanized by infernal machines and armies and whole populations won and marshaled, and yet the best-laid stratagems and technical organization, like these emplacements along the beaches of Normandy (plus the formidable challenge that the line of defense conjured) hard-fought and great costs but overcome by brute force and sheer determination.
The pillboxes wedged into the cliffs and dunes have expansive footprints that form a strange undulating terrain where the beach grasses are reclaiming parts of the foundations. To experience these old shells of war really does make one wonder how things might have turned out differently—only for the want of chance and accident.
catagories: America, Britain, Europe, France, Germany
baby boom or luck dragon
In as far as such things can be arranged and planned, many couples of Chinese and Mongolian heritage try to time marriage, a year in advance, and child birth to coincide with the auspicious sign of the Dragon. The birth rate in China spikes by some ten percent at this point in the twelve year cycle, and because of the increased demand and scarcity and partially because of some shrewd retailers, prices sharply increase for all things pertaining to the baby industry. Dragon babies are consequently more expensive than babies born in other years but that's nothing that can be deferred and I am sure that providence more than makes up for the extra investment.
catagories: Asia
WWII week: autobahn nagelbett
The massive public works project that created the system of Autobahnen that crisscross Germany were realized shortly after Hitler seized power. Overseen by the administrator Fritz Todt, who would later supervise the defenses of the Atlantic Wall stretching from Spain to Norway, construction began in 1933.
The labour aspect of the infrastructure scheme was not directly appreciable since the jobs-market had essentially recovered before war broke out, and neither were the roads of military or strategic significance—rather the network did boast morale, allowing Germany to set the standard again in modern transportation. Several years ago, we found the ruins of a lost Autobahn hidden in the forests of the Rhön: Route (Strecke) 46 was one of the first stretches of roadway built and linked Fulda and Würzburg. Ultimately, the highway was replaced by A7, which runs parallel to old asphalt to an extent but incorporates, regionally, other important regional connections.
catagories: Bavaria, Germany, transportation
forever blowing bubbles
Shopping cart here has perhaps an overly simplistic view of the European financial landscape but does pose an interesting choice. I think matters are still relatively ratcheted down for a summer of tourists skimping on the souvenirs and a bit of muted enthusiasm for travel in general. I do think, however, there are some dangerous undercurrents that ripple and bellow in the belated season, like some strange mirage or fata morgana come too late. There are swirling simooms of dissonance that might prove to pull the eurozone asunder with their contradictory forces. Rather than structural weakness in underlying markets or an experiment disproven but rather because on the one hand, investors, seeking shelter, are inflating a bubble of Germany's relatively robust economy, while simultaneously, supporting the isolation, quarantine of broader institutions by encouraging locally-funded initiatives.
Ripe for chaos, Germany as an anchor of the eurozone's single currency fronts quite a bit of appeal, industry more sustainable than the husks of manu-facturing or market nervousness elsewhere, but that too could be oversold. Meanwhile, in order to contain potential losses should the euro be splintered into the Mark, franc, lira and peso again, activity is quietly being limited to sources in-country and involvement across borders, save berthing extra money for safe-keeping, which really benefits no one in the long term and damages the good-turn done for regional entrepreneurs and business at the same time. For example, an Italian multi-national corporation is shoring profits in Germany (perhaps buying up debt and real estate) and elsewhere while directing its affiliates in France to only solicit from French partners, as if the denomination was imminent I hope that this familiar tug-of-war does not escalate further.
catagories: economic policy, Europe, Germany, labour
WWII week: plongeur
Part of the fascination with World War II in the European theatre is the sheer inexhaustibility of the subject, the depth of material for reflection, portrayal and reissue plus the varied aspects of that horrendous and frightening time—replete with tangents, like into the occult, and technical achievements carried forward by the fight.
Other battles and campaigns, I am sure, are equally boundless and rich but living memory, fastidious documentation, and the indelible and recognizable footprint besides probably feed this interest. Places can be likewise infinite, celebrated throughout very different histories: La Rochelle's harbour, where a fleet of German U-Boots was berthed and penned, was half a century earlier the selfsame site where the first experimental submarine, le plongeur (the diver), was tested. Before that, revolts in La Rochelle were instrumental in ending the slave trade and abolished the practice in French colonies. And before that, the city was chief among old world ports for trade with the new world. And before that, La Rochelle was witness to Cardinal Richelieu and the French Religious Wars and a stronghold of the Knights Templar. In part, because of the intensity of these submarine operations, La Rochelle was among the last cities liberated—Germany retaining pockets of control at major ports after the general surrender.
catagories: France, Germany, technology and innovation

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Begin with an overnight stay in captivating Marseille and relax along the remarkably blue water of the Mediterranean Sea. Take a wondrous European river cruise through beautiful views of France along the Rhône and Saône Rivers with guided sightseeing in the well-known French treasures and some hidden gems too! Embark your ship in Port St. Louis, France, and sail to Arles—famous for inspiring the paintings of Van Gogh and site of a 1st-century Roman Amphitheatre. On a guided tour of historical Avignon, see the 14th-century Palace of the Popes—the largest Gothic fortress in the world. Take a tour of historical Avignon, see the 14th-century Palace of the Popes—the largest Gothic fortress in the world.
Take a guided walk through a medieval treasure of Roman ruins and a fascinating 16th-century castle in the city of Tournon, beautifully nestled among vineyards. Visit Lyon, France's gastronomic capital and a showcase of medieval and Renaissance architecture at the junction of the Rhône and Saône Rivers Visit the popular Place des Terreaux and stand in front of the famous fountain seen on postcards. This French river cruise holiday would not be complete without a stay in Paris—one of the world's most romantic and vibrant cities! Discover its true heart on a guided walk through the sites of Paris' rich history or take a tour to see the iconic landmarks of the Louvre Museum, Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower, and more.
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Queer Stream: Beacon Hill the Series returns April 17th
Since we're all inside and could use a mental break from the chaos, we've launched Queer Stream, a series of short essays highlighting great queer TV and film you can stream right now. Today we're talking about our very own web series Beacon Hill the Series! And, since the series returns with Season 2 this Friday, April 17, we wanted to give you a chance to catch up on Season 1 now.
When Sara Preston moves back home to Boston to help her grandfather who just had a stroke, she finds that he has a new wife her age. But that's not all that seems off in Beacon Hill. Her mother and brother are a mess—and her ex, Katherine Wesley, a State Representative, is embroiled in political schemes concocted by Sara's grandfather, a Massachusetts State Senator.
It seems unlikely that Sara and Katherine can put the past behind them—but maybe they can find a new future. That is, if the political machinations, family crises, and press spotlight on them don't make it impossible.
This independent web series is filled with politics, drama, intrigue, and a lot of queer love. Sara and Katherine have a ton of chemistry–and the new cast featuring Nadia Bjorlin as Sara and Marem Hassler as Katherine only compounds on the two women's crackling chemistry.
If you're looking for positive queer representation, look no further. We've got you covered with Beacon Hill the Series, where passion and politics collide.
Queer stream Beacon Hill the Series at: Reel Women's Network: Season 1 and Season 2 (pre-order)
Queer characters: Sara, Katherine, Diane, Louise, Tina and more!
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HomeGENERALAK Party Kars Deputy Arslan Tells TCDD Draft Law
AK Party Kars Deputy Arslan Tells TCDD Draft Law
21/03/2013 GENERAL, INSTITUTIONS, HEADLINE, TURKEY, TCDD
ak party kars deputy arslan tcdd explained the draft law
AK Party Kars Member of Parliament Ahmet Arslan, on the draft TCDD bill prepared by the government, the parliament sent: Answered questions about what the new TCDD draft law envisages opening the railway to the private sector and the restructuring of the sector.
QUESTION: The bill was referred to parliament. What is intended with this bill?
AHMET ARSLAN: With this project, the monopoly will be lifted and liberalized, and the sector is aimed to open up to competition. We need to give an example of the aviation industry in order to better understand our people. A lot of actors in the aviation industry now. In the past it was monopoly. Now there is a regulation unit in the aviation industry. Civil aviation general directorate. A regulator is a supervisory body that checks and examines whether people are working according to the rules. There's a unit running the airports. The general directorate of state airfields keeps airports ready as airplanes can come and go, take passengers and take passengers again. But public squares have a task that people usually don't know. The airplanes have a signal system that controls the routes, the routes, the descent to the airports. So there's air traffic. It is the general directorate of state airfields that direct and manage air traffic. They also have flying companies, ie transport companies. Turkish airways were monopolized in the past. Instead, many private companies were established. The sector was opened to market, liberalized and opened to competition. As such, many players are coming out. I said it so that it would be especially in people's minds.
TCDD TRANSPORT IS NO ONLY
Republic of Turkey will become your state iron railway infrastructure company. In other words, he will make all the lines, make the tracks, make his station, make the logistic center, especially the electricity, the signal will make the state railways again. The trains on the rail network go with a signal system. Signal system in the Republic of Turkey following the state railways, the state railway infrastructure operator will do as general manager. However, there is a new company, which owns the train, runs the train, carries the cargo and the passenger. Its name is TCDD transportation AS. TCDD transportation AS is being established with the current bill. The reason why this name is not different is the TCDD name in the world. TCDD is also an operating company because the world knows TCDD especially in terms of transportation. TCDD transport is no longer a monopoly. Railways are not a monopoly on infrastructure investments, as they can do business, they can now carry locomotives, wagons, trains, freight and passengers, carry passengers, bring their own locomotive, own train, own wagon in the private sector, and now on these lines the railway use these lines to give the rent.
RAILWAYS HAVE BEEN DETACHED TO TWO COMPANIES.
QUESTION: Will the state railways continue to provide transportation services within this structure?
AHMET ARSLAN: Railways are now separated into two separate companies. First, electricity, signal, infrastructure investments are maintained, repaired, ready for operation and control, is a company that controls the signal. Secondly, a new company is established which departs from the railway. It is the operating company that carries freight and passengers on these lines. But in other companies like this, they can become a transportation company by the private sector. In the name of freight and passenger transport, the business provides the railway infrastructure.
PRIVATE SECTOR IS PRACTICAL, FAST AND DYNAMIC
QUESTION: How will this make the private sector attractive, how will the private sector enter this system?
AHMET ARSLAN: The railways are now operating. He keeps his train, his locomotive, his wagon ready to run and he carries cargo and passengers. However, it does it with state or public practicality, or does it with public status. For example, railroad trains carry rail train. The block is ready to load the private sector wagon in train transportation but it is still choosing its own speed. In the new system, companies will install the wagon itself if they wish, or they will enter the system whenever they want to get the necessary permission from the railroad. Here is the joke; while working, our train is running, while finding the element to the train, any element of the maintenance of a man to keep him in his stead while you are moving with the speed of the private sector. However, the next day when the railroad makes a decision that can not apply this decision. Because it has to comply with a legislation, permits procedure, man-taking procedure and a waste of time. The railroad makes a prediction to prevent this. Within the framework of this prediction, the man, locomotive and wagon are already contained. But when this prediction cannot be fulfilled, some of them become idle. But the private sector is not. If the private sector needs to make a prediction, but the next day needs a new car, if there is a need for a locomotive, it has the opportunity to decide on the evening and make the need for it in the morning. Therefore, private sector is the practical or private sector speed and dynamics. The important thing is to attract the private sector into the sector in terms of speed, dynamics and practicality, to open the sector to competition as in aviation, to liberalize and to carry a lot more cargo and passengers, our people will benefit more from this, the network will become widespread.
THE ROAD ROAD INVESTMENT IS EXPENSIVE ACCORDING TO THE ROAD ROADS
QUESTION: What is the share of railways in the transportation network?
AHMET ARSLAN: The share of railways in the transportation network does not compare with the 50 years ago. The reason 1950 is the average 135-136 km per year up to the years. Made of railroad, freight transportation made especially with these lines. In 50-70, 80 has a share of transportation in 50, while 2003 has been abandoned due to neglect of the railway. Even the existing ones have not been transformed with an electric signal and their maintenance has not been done sufficiently. 120 km. the speed of the lines has been reduced instead of renewing the lines as a train has been accelerated. Therefore, the 60 year of this negligence, 50'li freight transport, 70 passenger transport of the percentage of 5'lerin have been sentenced. We know that the railroad investment is expensive initially, but it is very cheap. Because you use the railroads for a hundred years, the attitude of the care must be taken, but like roads, there is no need to completely renew the 5 ı 6 over the years. Therefore, to make the railroad more common means that rail transport becomes cheaper and passenger transport becomes cheaper. For instance, the high speed train between Eskişehir and Istanbul was opened. Now the passenger's 90'in over the train uses and goes by train. So if you offer the service, our people prefer a lot. Moreover, when the high-speed train Ankara came to Istanbul, you went to Esenboğa airport, you waited for the plane, you went to Atatürk airport, you came to the city center a few hours maybe 5 hours. But not so. When you get out of the high-speed train, you are in Haydarpaşa at 3 hours. Therefore, railways are a more preferable type of transportation. Just use it well. In this sense, the private sector dynamics to be put into service.
TCDD TRANSPORTATION IS ESTABLISHING A COMPANY.
QUESTION: State railways will be divided into two to direct traffic and the other will determine the price. How will the private sector enter?
AHMET ARSLAN: Current state railways will provide infrastructure services and manage traffic. TCDD transportation company is also established. This company will run business. However, apart from this, the headquarters of the Ministry of Transport has the General Directorate of Railways. The 15 was established about a month ago. This is the regulation unit. There is such a regulation within the ministry of transport to ensure that tariffs stay within certain limits, that everyone can work in this sector by competing equally, and that the infrastructure operator does not provide an extra price for their own transportation.
CENTERS ABROAD IN PLACE NO LONGER HAVE A LOT OF TURKEY
QUESTION: Especially in the name of freight transport will be a density in Istanbul and Izmir. Are there targeted centers or how will the regional centers be?
AHMET ARSLAN: There is 16 logistic center in the investment program of the general directorate of railways. The aim here is to disseminate certain load centers all over Turkey. Therefore, in Sivas, Erzurum, Kars, logistics centers to be able to do, where the cargo to be met and from there to ensure the correct distribution. The new railway network requires this. Now, Turkey just west railway network not improve East of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars with the ingenuity of Central Asia, Kars, Iğdır, you can go to Iran with Nakhchivan ingenuity, to the south of a line out of Mus from Erzincan downloads, Kirkuk Kayseri further downward downloads The network is expanding. Therefore, in the east, a structure that broadens the network is followed. Not surprisingly, in many parts of Turkey it has now centers abroad. For example, Erzincan-Trabzon is one of them. There is a better improvement of it than there is in Samsun. Again, a new railway is made to Bartın Zonguldak side. They are always able to spread these loads all over Turkey to develop and lament, it is made in order to expand the project. This will not only be held in Istanbul in Izmir as before.
CRIME CRISIS
QUESTION: Who will be responsible for train accidents, how will these problems be solved?
Ahmet Arslan: This service is currently being carried out by the public. However, the new system will be in the private sector in business administration as it will no longer be free. In the event of a railway accident, there is an accident-related delegation. This is envisaged in the public bill. There are representatives of the Ministry, representatives of the transport company, and an accident-incursion committee with the infrastructure operator. It will be in this work from the beginning of the Crimean Delegation and how to report, how to make the determination of the question marks are also left to stay in the bill.
PENSION FUNCTIONS EM
QUESTION: This project provides for employees.
AHMET ARSLAN: Especially in the sense of train, locomotive and wagon operation, the employees of the railways will be transported to TCDD. Therefore, if the people in this company who are competing with the private sector practicality are full of retirement and want to retire, there is a substance to improve the personal rights of the persons in the 3 month. Thus, those who have retired will be paid more and they will leave if they want to leave. The company will thus gain a more competitive status and structure with the private sector.
ONLY THE SECTOR IS LISTENING
QUESTION: In a context, the railways will be privatized just like in the airways and in the name of citizens, there will be more than one option to get to the service area. Naturally, there will be many questions and doubts in humans. There are concerns. Does this bill cover all these perturbations?
AHMET ARSLAN: If you say privatization on behalf of the job people are right to be nervous. However, the sector's opening to competition and its liberalization is definitely not privatization. That was the aviation industry. Turkish airways were so small that everyone feared. However, the species has grown a lot in companies other than airlines, but the airline was opened because of the competition was the giant of the world. The railroads keep their current structure. The operator of the railroad maintains its position as a public company under the name of TCDDTicam. Only the private sector can work on the lines, the right is brought. For example, when 9 – 10 was opened to competition years ago, 8 million passengers were transported on 25 million international lines. Today Turkey annually 120 million passengers. If you think about the employment and added value created by this sector, it is good to say that we are open to competition and that we are liberalized. It really preserves the current public structure on railways. Only the sector is free. The private sector is able to enter the system in order to make transportation, so people can be successful in this respect.
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This weekend DEBRA supporter Miles Crossley has completed the third of three amazing cycle challenges to #FightEB, finishing the London to Paris cycle ride on Saturday 28 July.
Miles devised the three challenges to raise awareness of the condition and funds for DEBRA on behalf of his son Mason, who has EB.
He says: "I'm doing this to raise money to help DEBRA find a cure and end this horrific condition and ultimately create life changing results for those affected. DEBRA also support us, and I'm doing these challenges to help DEBRA support other people suffering from EB and their families."
Miles began his epic mission with the The Fred Whitton cycling challenge on 13 May covering 112 miles with 12,000 ft of climb.
Undaunted, Miles designed the second challenge himself, cycling the height of Everest – 23,000 foot – in one day.
And finally, Miles took on the London to Paris cycle ride , a three day endurance effort in the baking heat, totalling 325 miles.
Miles will be talking about how he came up with the triple cycle challenge LIVE on Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2 on Sunday, 29 July. Listen here or catch him later on iPlayer Radio.
By taking on the unique challenge, Miles is aiming to raise £7,500 for DEBRA. Read his story and help him reach his target here.


Morena - Thank you, Jana! I knew I could count on you!!
Sneak Peeks for the Cooper Family!
Michele - Jana! These turned out really good! God Bless this family!
stephanie - These are just beautiful and made me cry. What a gift to them!
Lisa Remey - What a beautiful family!! Love the momments you caught! I'd so trust you with the precious momments in time!!! Love the red fingers and toes!!!
Michelle Mouton - Holy Cow! You are able to capture the essence of love and happiness; so obvious in this family! What talent you have! Love this!
merdith cooper - Holly is doing great!!!!! Im so proud of her. Thank you thank you so much for coming ,for the pictures,for your kindness. I cant stop crying the pictures are perfect as Holly would say. Jana,there no words to express my gratitude, you have captured a special moment for my family and i will treasure the day we meet the most amazing BROWN-EYED GIRL.
Lorri - Holly is such an amazing little girl. After everything she has been through she is never without a smile on that cute little face. I am so blessed to be able to call Holly and Heather my little cousins. These are wonderful pictures!
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Зразковое () — бывшее село в Александрийском районе Кировоградской области Украины, исключено из учётных данных 09.12.2010.

Население по переписи 2001 года составляло 3 человека. Исключено из учётных данных 09.12.2010. Имело почтовый индекс — 28054, телефонный код — 5235, код КОАТУУ — 3520382604.

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28054, Кировоградская обл., Александрийский р-н, с. Добронадиевка, ул. Ленина, 20

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 Зразковое на сайте Верховной рады Украины
 Административно-территориальное устройство Кировоградской области

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Q: Any other Caltrops? This question has been edited.
The regular tetrahedron is a caltrop. When it lands on a face, one vertex points straight up, ready to jab the foot of anyone stepping on it.
Define a caltrop as a polyhedron with the same number of vertices and faces such that each vertex is at distance 1 from most of the corners of the opposing face. Are there any other caltrops besides the tetrahedron?
Use these 5 values in the list of vertices that follow.
$\text{C0}=0.056285130364630088035020091792834$
$\text{C1}=0.180220007048851841582537343751297$
$\text{C2}=0.309443563867344767680227839435148$
$\text{C3}=0.348675924605445651138054435209609$
$\text{C4}=0.466391197450500551933366795454853$

verts =(
  (C1,C1,C4),(C1,-C1,-C4),(-C1,-C1,C4),(-C1,C1,-C4),(C4,C1,C1),(C4,-C1,-C1),
  (-C4,-C1,C1),(-C4,C1,-C1),(C1,C4,C1),(C1,-C4,-C1),(-C1,-C4,C1),(-C1,C4,-C1),
(C3,-C0,C3),(C3,C0,-C3),(-C3,C0,C3),(-C3,-C0,-C3),(C3,-C3,C0),(C3,C3,-C0),
  (-C3,C3,C0),(-C3,-C3,-C0),(C0,-C3,C3),(C0,C3,-C3),(-C0,C3,C3),(-C0,-C3,-C3),
(C2,C2,C2),(C2,-C2,-C2),(-C2,-C2,C2),(-C2,C2,-C2));

The resulting polyhedron has the following appearance, arranged so that each of the three types of faces is on the bottom:

Here's a transparent picture showing the 48 unit diagonals.

Diagonals $(13-16, 14-15, 17-19, 18-20, 21-22, 23-24)$ have a length of about $~0.98620444$. I'm not sure of the maximum length, and don't have exact values for coordinates.
That's one more caltrop.  Are there any others?
Rahul pointed out that some faces of my initial caltrop weren't exactly planar. This new version fixes that error, but I had to sacrifice 6 unit diagonals. A stronger caltrop would have each vertex at distance 1 from all corners of an opposing face, instead of most corners.

A: There is a caltrop on 76 points.

Points 1, 13, 25, 29, 41, and 53 are as follows:
{0.0833`, 0.0833`, 0.4930122817942774`}
{0.32530527130128584`, -0.20709494964790603`, 0.32530527130128584`}
{0.28875291001058745`, 0.28875291001058745`, 0.28875291001058745`}
{-0.2142`, 0.40369721678726284`, -0.2142`}
{-0.07272969962634213`, 0.35355339059327373`, -0.35355339059327373`}
{0.07587339432355446`, 0.44185`, -0.23402687345687453`}

This caltrop generates a solid of constant width. The polyhedron has 150 unit diagonals, is self-dual, and has tetrahedral symmetry.

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Alaska-Yukon Expedition: The Halfway Point: Should I Care?
Before I began this trip in March my friend Buzz Burrell remarked that he thought "the crux" of it was the first two weeks, when I'd be facing severe winter conditions. If I could get through that, he seemed to say, I'd be in the clear, like a rock climber who makes it through a route's toughest sequence and has easy-going thereafter. But I remember thinking, "In the clear? Are you kidding? What about skiing across the Alaska Range, or pushing through the Wrangell's early-season, or paddling across Icy and Yakutat Bays--those sections have just as much potential to put an end to my trip as he first two weeks do."
Writing this from Haines, I'm happy to report that I've made it through the first two weeks and a number of ensuing challenges. But being "halfway there" is different than "almost there," so I'm well aware that there are still ample opportunities ahead for the wheels to fall off.
My biggest concern is meeting the ambitious mileage goals that will get me back to Kotzebue when the weather is still good. If I'm slower than I thought, or if I hit a major snag somewhere, I'll be trying to paddle down the Kobuk as it's freezing up. And avoiding stupid stuff— e.g. running into a sweeper or breaking a toe on a rock—is key as well. As another friend Forrest McCarthy pointed out, in Alaska a trip is not over until you're placing your order—i.e. it's easy for things to go wrong out here, so pay attention all the way until the end.
However, while I'm not going to celebrate wildly tonight because I've reached Haines and am at the halfway point of this trip, I do think it's a good opportunity to acknowledge the experience I've had to date. It's been a phenomenal trip so far. (I'll elaborate later.) And because of Haines' geographic location (the end of the Lost Coast, near the beginning of the Yukon, my last major US town) it's also a good opportunity to mentally transition towards the final major leg of this trip -- from Whitehorse to Kotzebue -- which I suspect is going to change my definition of wilderness forever.
Back on foot. In the wilderness. Alone.
Best of luck on this last half!
I love traveling so much! My dream is to travel the world and visit my favorite countries.
Great to see you made it to the half-way point. Been checking about once a week and have felt for you a few times as I read your blog. Best of luck as you continue on this amazing trek.
Good luck for 2nd hal journey, dan stay safe for us tell us more. and always waiting for more interesting story for the next days, thanks very-very much.
Your adventures have been truly inspirational and they are all about pushing the limits. Good luck and stay safe for the rest of the expedition.
Good luck on the 2nd half of the journey! Think how lucky you are to be able to attempt such an awesome wilderness experience. It's beyond the realm of most people to even think about anything close to this experience! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! You're the man, keep it up. This must be incredibly challenging mentally considering what you've faced and the unknown to come. Cherish it. Stay Safe.
Awesome running into you yesterday! I didn't expect it to happen in Haines, AK but I guess things like that happen in the last place expected. Hope the second half continues smoothly.
We've never spoken or met, but I have followed your adventures the past few years. It's really great to see people going beyond the "norm" and pushing pre-concieved ideas of a wilderness experience to new levels. Your travels have helped me realize my own potential. Thanks Andy, Thanks National Geographic.
I have really enjoyed following your journey so far. The National Geographic updates, your Twitter updates, and your website have been inspirational. Wishing you the best in the second half of your journey.


I plan to buy just a few of the high res recordings vs. the box set. Which Tosca is the better performance - the 1953 with Giuseppe di Stefano as Mario Cavaradossi, or the 1964/5 with Carlo Bergonzi? I'd imagine that the later recording would have better sound quality, but I think there's no way of knowing until someone listens to both remastered versions.
Last edited by RobertKC; Aug-10-2014 at 16:54.
The 1965 Tosca is much better than you would think, one of the very last recordings made by Callas but still essential IMO, Gobbi is great here.
Last edited by DarkAngel; Aug-10-2014 at 17:37.
The 1953 Tosca is indisputably one of the greatest opera recordings ever made, tout court. The sound, though mono, is pretty good, and could be even better in its latest transfer, which is out next month. It's definitely the one to go for.
I have an affection for the later one, though Pretre's conducting is nowhere near as masterful as De Sabata's and Callas's top is extremely unstable by this time, most of the top Cs squally and unpleasant on the ear. Gobbi's voice has also lost some of its bloom. That said, they are still two great artists and still bring more to their roles than any other singers I know. Bergonzi is a mellifluous Cavaradossi, but Di Stefano is more characterful, and in his very best voice on the De Sabata. This Pretre one, though, is probably only for Callas completists.
Last edited by GregMitchell; Aug-11-2014 at 09:06.
Thanks DarkAngel and GregMitchell for the recommendation. I've checked with Presto Classical and they don't have an availability date for the 24bit/96kHz FLAC file for the 1953 Tosca. I'll download it as soon as I'm aware it's available.
Update: I've just received an email update from Presto that says that there was an error in their newsletter, and that the Callas recordings will NOT be available to the consumer in 24bit/96kHz format. The Presto representative says that the recordings were remastered in 24bit/96kHz but are being made available only in CD format (i.e., 16bit/44.1 kHz). It will be interesting to see in the future if they offer a 24bit/96kHz FLAC download or Blu-ray audio disk.
There still seems to be some mystery about the possible availability of a 24bit/192kHz FLAC download - the Amazon description states: "Maria Callas's complete discography (for the first time joining her EMI Classics and Warner Classics recordings) has been remastered and re-released across a broad product suite, including a deluxe complete box set, individual recordings, a compilation, two vinyl releases and a digital product suite."
Presto Classical stated about a week ago that "The 24/96 recordings are going to be made available as FLAC downloads alongside the formats we already offer" - but now they say CD only.
I'd like to have this recording, buy I'd rather invest in the highest quality product, so I'll think I'll wait until Sept 23 and see if the high-res download becomes available.
Last edited by RobertKC; Aug-11-2014 at 22:29.
Last edited by DarkAngel; Aug-14-2014 at 16:57.
Don't have ITunes, but I trust your judgment on the sound.
Champing at the bit DA?
I hope the cds come down that much.
Even Karajan and Culshaw said when recording Tosca that they could no hope to compete with Sabata. The Pretre is in direct competition. Just how a EMI, with a less than good Puccini conductor, hoped to compete is beyond me.
Last edited by DarkAngel; Sep-08-2014 at 01:51.
Let's hope this is the definitive edition.


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Pope Francis on Tuesday released a video message accompanying his prayer intention for July, which this month is "For priests and their pastoral ministry". In his prayer intention for the month of July 2018, Pope Francis said: "Let us pray together that priests, who experience fatigue and oneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests." It has become the custom of Pope Francis to release a video message detailing his prayer intention for each month.
The tiredness of priests... Do you know how often I think about it? Priests, with their virtues and defects, work in many different areas. Working on so many active fronts, they cannot remain inactive after a disappointment. At such times, it's good for them to remember that the people love their priests, need them, and trust in them. Let us pray together that priests, who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests. The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network of the Apostleship of Prayer developed "The Pope Video" initiative to assist in the worldwide dissemination of monthly intentions of the Holy Father in relation to the challenges facing humanity.


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College of Engineering, CE, Pune
Address: Wellesely Rd, Shivaji nagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411005
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In June 1865 Mr. Theodore Cooke, M.A , who held that appointment for 28 years was appointed Principal. The foundation stone of the new college was laid by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Bartle Frere, on the 5th August 1865.
College was affiliated to University of Bombay in 1866. In 1868 the College moved to the New Buildings. The college was divided into three departments for matriculated and unmatriculated students.
In 1879 two new classes, an Agricultural class and a Forest class , were added to the college , and the name of the college was changed from " The Poona Civil Engineering College " to " The College of Science".
Thanks to the vision in setting up such an establishment at Pune, the credit for most of the civil infrastructure in India goes to the alumni of this college, starting from none other than the most towering and illustrious engineers, Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvarayya, in whose honor "Engineers Day" is celebrated. The school became "Poona Civil Engineering College", and subsequently in the year 1916, the nomenclature was changed to the "College of Engineering, Poona". It was initially affiliated to the University of Bombay for a degree of Licentiate in Civil Engineering known as LCE and later to the University of Pune. The degree programs in civil engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering were started in 1908, 1912 and 1932, respectively. From then on, the college has gone on expanding adding new departments and new wings by the year.
In 2003, the college got autonomous status, thus giving it the freedom to set its own curricula and manage its own finances. This has been the biggest change as far as pedagogy at COEP is concerned.
Today, COEP offers nine UG and twenty-three PG programmes, and has more than 3200 students enrolled in its various courses.
Course Name: MTech Civil
Course Description: MTech (Civil) [specialization in: Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Management, Environment and Water Resource Engineering]
Candidates will be considered eligible for admission to various M.Tech. programmes on the basis of their qualifying examination with at least 55% marks [open] and 50% marks [reserved category] and valid GATE score in the subjects as detailed below
Qualifying examination: BE/B.Tech. in any branch of Civil engineering domain.
Rs. 800 /- for open,
Rs. 400/- for SC/ST/OBC candidates and
Rs. 2000/- for Foreign National candidate
IT IS MANDATORY TO FILL THE ONLINE APPLICATION FORM ON THE WEBSITE [www.coep.org.in] ONLY ON LINE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR ADMISSIONS.
· Candidates need to read carefully the information brochure before filling the on line application form.
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Course Name: MTech Civil [specialization in: Town and Country Planning]
Course Description: MTech (Civil) [specialization in: Town and Country Planning]
Qualifying examination: BE/B.Tech. in any branch of Civil engineering domain OR B. Arch/ B. Planning / G.D. Arch/ New Diploma in Architecture (Five years full time) awarded by Government of Maharashtra with one year's Practical Experience/ARIBA
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The Representatives of the Palestine Committees in Lebanon, desire to submit this memorandum to you in respect of the mission you have been entrusted with under the United Nations decision of December 14, 1950.
The refugees wish to place on record their bitter disappointment, doubts and fears in the earnestness of the United Nations to carry out their decisions and redress a small part of the great wrong done to them. For, despite the lapse of about three years since their compulsory exodus, the United Nations decision of December 11, 1948, decreeing the return of the refugees to their fatherland, has not been executed, and, appears to have been a mere anaesthetic. This apathy on the part of the United Nations has led the refugees to believe that due to the great influence the Jews have on some Great Powers, the U.S.A. and Great Britain in particular, the United Nations has become a tool in the hands of the Zionists.
For three years, the great majority of the refugees have been living on their own resources and on advances from relatives and friends, the UNRWA's assistance being only symbolic. In Palestine they were enjoying a high standard of living equal to that enjoyed by Europeans. It is there are inhuman that the UNRWA should offer this meagre ration worth only one dollar par person per month on which an animal can hard live. Even this insignificant ration has been the subject of many complaints by the refugees, being of a poor quality and is being distributed by a very elaborate and extravagant administration which is incompatible with the nature of the work and services rendered.
Now that the refugees have drained all their resources and are on the verge of starvation, humiliation and annihilation, they have become the prey of desperation that would soon drive them to embrace and follow political ideas that are adverse to the principles of the Democracies and thus become a dangerous element in this part of the world. The refugees therefore, request you to consider this grave situation before it is too late. The manner in which the United Nations is handling this problem is dangerous. In our opinion, it is only covering a burning furnace with a thin layer of ashes.
The return of every person to his fatherland, home and property, is fundamental and is his natural indisputable right, Moreover, this principle: has been decreed and guaranteed by the Charter of the "Rights of Man" sponsored by the Democracies. In our case, it has been affirmed by time United Nations decisions of December 11, 1948 and December 14, 1950. Though the first decision has been neglected for two years, the refugees still hope for the last time that the United Nations will show at this critical hour some of the determination and courage it has shown in Korea. The refugees emphatically insist on their return to their homeland. They believe that this is the only natural solution for their problem. They would warn you that artificial solutions will not survive but would only breed chaos and disturbances. It was such artificial solutions imposed on certain parts of Europe that had partly contributed to the ruin of the-League Nations and the break out of World War II.
The idea of reintegrating part of the refugees in some of the countries in which they now live temporarily is fantastic and impractical. The refugees insist on their return to their homeland, and the Arab countries, for social, economic and political reasons, look forward to the day when all refugees will return to their homes. The refugees will never surrender their heritage, nor will they sell their sacred historic trust for any price. There is nothing in International Law or usage that would permit any authority in the world to expel a peaceful nation from its own country where it had lived for thousands of years in order to be replaced by sheer force, by a foreign people, whatever the reason may be. And what impression can a refugee have of "Democracy" when the major Democratic countries were responsible for his dispersion. And what kind of a democracy are we living under, when a refugee, only a few yards away from his home cannot go back to it to live a peaceful and a free life, the life of the "five freedoms" broadcast by the President of the U.S.A. not long ago. And how can the refugee in the camps suffering the pangs of hunger, cold and disease, after having lost home, property and country, refrain from hoping for a better mode of life under any other regime.
(a) Compensation for the loss of career and loss of income from established industry, trade, profession, vacation and other business undertakings that were practiced by the refugees in Palestine.
(b) Compensation for loss and damage to holdings and properties caused by aggression, and through the enforced absence of the owners.
(c) Compensation does not apply to properties and holdings, movable or immovable, since these have practical values that can by no means be included within the term compensation.
(a) The immediate payment of the balances frozen in banks, and the accumulated proceeds of their properties administered by the Jewish Custodian of "Absentee Property".
(b) The immediate abrogation of discriminate legislation enacted by the Jewish authorities in respect of their properties inasmuch as such legislation is incompatible with the provision of the present truce and the natural rights of the property owners. This is all the more so, since the said Authorities themselves treat those owners as absentees.
(c) Since refugees are absentees, the duties of the Jewish Custodian of "Absentee Property" be terminated and replaced by a committee composed of the refugees themselves under the auspices of the United Nations. The proposed committee will administer the properties and pay the income therefrom to the owners wherever they may be, and advise your Commission and any other competent body on all matters relating to the refugees.
The refugees have become very tired of commissions and memoranda. Their patience has been exhausted. Three years have elapsed and their case has not advanced a single iota. The refugees believe that memoranda have failed to contribute towards the solution of their problem. We, therefore, request to have a personal contact with you in accordance with the United Nations decision of 14 December 1950, to discuss this important case which affects the destinies and fates of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. As we are the people meet concerned, we believe we should have a decisive say in the matter, and this can only be done effectively through personal contact to exchange views as to the best means to arrive at a fair and, just solution.
(a) The speedy return of refugees to their fatherland, homes and properties.
(b) Compensation for all losses and damages sustained by the owners as explained in para. 5.
(c) The immediate release of all blocked balances and accounts.
(d) The abrogation of all legislative and administrative measures adopted by the Jewish Authorities against the refugees and their properties.
(e) The constitution of e committee to replace the Jewish Custodian as proposed in pare 6 (c).
(f) Due to the general complaint of the refugees to arrange for an investigation into the machinery and operation of UNRWA.
(g) Arrangements for our contact with your Commission as explained in para. 7.
In conclusion, the refugees feel that they have been the victims of a wrong policy, favouritism and aggression. Never in history has such an aggression been inflicted upon a small body of people like us by such a large and a responsible group as the United Nations. To expel a small and a helpless nation out of its homeland and replace it by "chosen people from all parts of the world" has not been heard of even in the dark ages. The damage done, moral, social and material is truly great. Consequently, we realize that the United Nations will encounter great difficulties in settling this problem as the magnitude of the problem is proportionate to the magnitude of the aggression.
However, there is only one way open to that World Organization to restore peace in the Middle East. It is by ending favouritism and resolving courageously to redress the wrong that has been done at any cost. For the United Nations to take this right step, it has to be, not only guided by you, but stimulated to realize what amount of human suffering is allowed to continue by their indifference and delayed action. They will have to see that the Palestine Case is a catastrophe in which humanity itself has suffered. Therefore, the task before you, Gentlemen, is difficult, but very great. You share the responsibility with the United Nations to find an equitable solution, and whatever line you take will be recorded in history. It is a unique opportunity offered to only three chosen men to say the truth and stand for justice regardless of the consequences.
The refugees, therefore, firmly believe that if the United Nations will, without fear or favour, deal with the case, with all fairness and firmness, our problem will be solved and justice will prevail.