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Q: Changing the color of a container title for Android I realize this might be an extremely stupid question, but I have no prior experience about java development in Android. I recently noticed that WhatsApp provided a Sample App to create custom stickers and I wanted to use this as a stepping stone to get into developing.
Now I've run into the problem of wanting to change the title textcolor (I think) of the sticker packs. You can see what exactly I want to change in this picture (I'm new here, so I can't post the picture directly, sorry).
As far as i can tell this tag in the styles.xml deals with the appearance of the sticker pack. The only thing I've added to the Sample project from WhatsApp is the last line to change the textcolor.
<style name="sticker_packs_list_item_author_style">
    <item name="android:gravity">center_vertical</item>
    <item name="android:maxLines">1</item>
    <item name="android:singleLine">true</item>
    <item name="android:lines">1</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/textColor</item>
</style>

I believe it corresponds to this from the StickerPackListItemViewHolder.java, which I have not modified at all.
package com.example.samplestickerapp;

import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class StickerPackListItemViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {

    View container;
    TextView titleView;
    TextView publisherView;
    TextView filesizeView;
    ImageView addButton;
    LinearLayout imageRowView;

    StickerPackListItemViewHolder(final View itemView) {
        super(itemView);
        container = itemView;
        titleView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.sticker_pack_title);
        publisherView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.sticker_pack_publisher);
        filesizeView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.sticker_pack_filesize);
        addButton = itemView.findViewById(R.id.add_button_on_list);
        imageRowView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.sticker_packs_list_item_image_list);
    }
}

My added tag which I mentioned above seems to change the color of the publisherView and the filesizeView, but doesn't affect the titleView which I also want to change.
Ive tried using android:titleTextColor, android:textColorPrimary and android:textColorSecondary. None of those worked. I've been looking into this for hours now and was able to change the action bar and some other colors, icons and whatnot, but I can't figure this one out.
Any help would be appreciated.

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Google Glass in the Gobi: Dinosaur Nest
by AMNH on Apr 18, 2014 1:00 pm
Last summer, a team led by the Museum's Provost of Science Michael Novacek and Paleontology Division Chair Mark Norell headed to the Gobi for the joint American Museum of Natural History/Mongolian Academy of Sciences expedition. The group included Aki Watanabe, one of Mark Norell's students at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School, who was recently chosen as a beta-tester for Google Glass and who recorded video on Glass throughout the trip.
In this video, Watanabe shows his first find: a fossil dinosaur nest! (Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews and his team discovered the first dinosaur eggs known to science on a Museum expedition to Mongolia in the 1920s). Watch Watanabe extract the eggs and nest, and package it for its return to the lab for further study.

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Mall of Tripla - Building Information Modelling in a key role
Mall of Tripla was an exceptionally large-scale construction project in which the utilization of building information modelling (BIM) played a significant role.
Building information modelling meets the challenges created by a large-scale construction project
Mall of Tripla was an exceptionally large-scale construction project in which the utilization of building information modelling (BIM) played a significant role. Our role in the project was to act as an BIM Manager. Guiding, instructing and monitoring the implementation of the tools and procedures that were utilized during the project.
We made sure that the information created during the process was stored in to data models, so it could be used by every individual. Other responsibilities involved data model coordination across all design areas. What ensured the success from our behalf, is the long experience in data model-based design, extensive software expertise, and in-depth knowledge of the possibilities of the data model-based design processes.
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Multiple years of BIM experience in use
In addition to the data model expertise, strong design expertise can also be credited to each of our BIM-professional who worked on the project. Six people worked on the project full time. In addition to this, several people took part in the project along the way with tasks of different sizes and scales. Overall, our resources used in the project were significant.
Mikko Soininvaara, one of the BIM Managers who worked for the project, says that the modeling has already been divided into four different blocks due to the scope of the project. As the work progressed, the blocks had to be further divided into smaller parts.
- In total, eleven different combination models were maintained at different stages of the project. There were more than 350 different IFC files in total, Soininvaara says.
The magnitude of the project is well illustrated by the fact that in the combined models of the shopping center and parking garage alone, as about 15,000 tasks were created during the projects for these two areas alone.
Overall, the project utilized data models in a great many ways. Soininvaara mentions new interesting applications such as space-specific IFC files, which were cut from larger models with Simplebim software and offered to commercial apartment tenants as a starting point for store planning. Simplebim was also used regularly when a narrow or low slice of a neighboring block was needed to coordinate the interface of the design blocks. In difficult-to-install building services, 4D scheduling was also utilized using a data model.
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Triplan's Pasila station won the Audience Favorite award in the Tekla BIM Awards 2017 competition. In the 2019 Tekla BIM Awards, Tripla was awarded as the winner. The jury's reasoning highlighted the fact that the project had utilized information modeling in a pioneering way, with close cooperation and demonstrating a open-minded attitude. Also according to the competition jury, it would be difficult to see that the project could have been carried out without data modeling.
According to the competition jury, it would be difficult to see that the project could have been carried out without building information modelling.
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Project in a nutshell
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Citybase Apartments Unveils Brand Refresh & New Parent Company
4th December 2017 in Our Recommendations by Francis Buchanan
Serviced apartment specialist Citybase Apartments today revealed its fresh new look, upgraded website, new international locations and updated portfolio of high quality, family- and group- friendly apartments.
The formation of its new parent company – Habicus Group - was also announced, with all firms within the group undergoing a visual refresh and review of their strategic focus.
Citybase Apartments guests will enjoy a faster, more intuitive website, with enhanced user experience and more online availability. With hundreds of worldwide destinations to browse and book, or speak to an expert for inspiration and a personal set of recommendations.
The combined knowledge and buying power of Habicus will give guests a wide choice of apartments, live online availability, instant booking technology, the most competitive rates, and combined expertise of nearly 20 years' experience in serviced apartments.
Marcus Angell, Habicus Managing Director said of the decision to rebrand:
"The investment in a revised strategy for Citybase and visual identity for all our brands reflects the growth in popularity of serviced apartments amongst travellers in both the corporate and leisure markets; more and more people are now looking for an alternative to a hotel for the flexibility they offer.
We see the market as having huge potential internationally and the growing popularity of apartments suggests to us that guests are expecting and seeking a more independent and authentic experience when they visit a location. Serviced apartments can offer this, making them a great way to get a feel for a neighbourhood on your own terms."
Caroline Saunders, Habicus Group Head of Marketing looks back on the project undertaken by her team to update and position the brands for future growth:
"The launch of the new brands is a result of a 12 month rebrand project planned and executed by our in house marketing team, with design and consultancy support from design agency Fat Media.
Each of our brands is unique but share some common features that unite them. We have looked in great detail at our brands and developed the direction and strategy for each one to ensure they are not only distinct, but work in harmony as a family."
Marcus Angell reflects on the challenges posed during the course of an acquisition:
"When several companies evolve as competitors and then come together in a strategic acquisition of this kind, it is always sensible to take an objective look at external perception, market positioning and visual identity to ensure that the brands are distinct and complementary."
"These are exciting times for the brands within the Habicus Group. The reach, buying power and portfolio open to both our corporate and leisure clients is unrivalled in the marketplace and the technology and customer service, for which we are renowned, will ensure we maintain our position as the world's leading serviced apartment agents and set the foundations for international expansion and future growth."
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Naples gallery announces charitable partnership with African Parks organization for exhibition featuring Zimbabwean artist Godfrey Zonde.
Native Visions Gallery will host The Spirit Of The Stone Comes Alive exhibition featuring pieces from Zimbabwean artist Godfrey Zonde from February 28th through March 17th, 2019.
Located at 737 5th Avenue South, Native Visions Gallery is hosting this exhibition highlighting Godfrey Zonde's original pieces in an effort to both promote the talented artist and bring awareness to the charitable organization African Parks. Native Visions will donate 5% of sales to African Parks during opening night, held on Thursday, February 28th. Godfrey Zonde himself will be in the gallery on opening night from 6-9pm meeting with collectors, explaining his techniques and materials, and answering questions about his work.
Native Visions Gallery is partnering with African Parks for this exhibition to help support their mission of rehabilitating and managing African National Parks in partnership with governments and local communities. The organization's efforts include saving wildlife, protecting parks, developing the communities, encouraging tourism, and enhancing African infrastructure. Since its beginning in 2000, African Parks has established the largest counter-poaching force for a conservation organization in Africa, successfully managed 15 national parks and protected areas, and placed thousands of wild animals back into their rightful habitats.
"It is our belief that when patrons come into the gallery and speak with an artist, they make a special connection and feel more passionate about the pieces they're purchasing. We are so proud to have Godfrey join us on the opening night of this exhibition to connect with his loyal and growing consumer base," says Kelsey McShane, Fine Art Consultant of Native Visions Gallery.
Zimbabwean Master Sculptor Godfrey Zonde is adept in both realism and abstract works and is a specialist in working with many stones including springstone, serpentine, fan stone and more. Coupled with his personal attendance at various shows and his vibrant character, his list of collectors is growing rapidly. Native Visions Gallery will be displaying Zonde's pieces quite prominently during the exhibition.
The Executive Director of the 5th Avenue South Business Improvement District shares a similar sentiment about the excitement of the art exhibition. "We are very excited for Godfrey Zonde to visit the gallery and showcase his incredible pieces. As a world-renowned artist with a loyal following, Godfrey is sure to bring a crowd to the gallery on February 28th. Native Visions' art exhibition epitomizes the individuality and appeal of 5th Avenue South as a total destination," adds Bruce Barone, Jr.
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Islam Online Endorses Holocaust Denial
By gmbwatch on	 February 5, 2009 Daily
Islam Online, the Islamic news portal associated with global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, has published an article which legitimatize Holocaust denial stating that the figure of six million victims "has been questioned by many European historians and intellectuals." According to the report:
Pope Benedict XVI bowed on Wednesday, February 4, to Jewish criticism, asserting that bishop Richard Williamson must "unequivocally and publicly" recant his denial of the Holocaust. "Bishop Williamson, in order to be admitted to the Episcopal functions of the Church, must in an absolutely unequivocal and public way distance himself from his positions regarding the Shoah [Holocaust]," the Vatican said in a statement cited by Agence France-Presse (AFP). It stressed that Williamson's positions on the Holocaust were "absolutely unacceptable and firmly rejected by the Holy Father." Williamson, 67, denies that the German Nazis used gas chambers to eliminate millions of Jews during World War II. He says only 200,000-300,000 Jews were killed in concentration camps. The Vatican statement said Williamson's remarks were "not known" to Benedict when he decided to lift the excommunication of the Englishman and three other renegade bishops last month. Williamson has expressed his "sincere regrets" for any "suffering" his remarks have caused the pope, but he did not retract them. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Holocaust refers to "systematic state-sponsored killing of Jewish men, women, and children and others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II." The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million. But the figure has been questioned by many European historians and intellectuals, chiefly French author Roger Garaudy.
Roger Garuady is a well known Holocaust denier and convert to Islam with strong ties to Iran and the Arab world.
As discussed in a previous post, Youssef Qaradawi, has recently called Hitler a "divine punishment" for the Jews and said that the Jews "exaggerated" the Holocaust. Numerous posts have discussed anti-Semitism originating from the global Muslim Brotherhood.
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Conservation Alabama is celebrating 20 years of environmental protection as it gains inspiration from the past and prepares future efforts to ensure natural resources are respected, enjoyed and maintained.
Witnessing survivors wear the same clothing days after the March 3 tornadoes, Kaitlyn Willing felt spiritually led to convert her mobile boutique business into the Tornado Relief Clothing Bus.
David Kelley sat in his home on Lee Road 721 during the afternoon of March 3, waiting for potential bad weather to arrive. However, the alert he was waiting for didn't go off until it was almost too late. Four minutes before a tornado was set to arrive, he got the weather alert.


NEO, originally known as Antshare, is one of the most popular Altcoins from China. NEO now ranks 6th of all cryptocurrency in terms of market cap.
DailyFintech author Saurabh Chaturvedi has already introduced the basics of NEO here. Today I will go into some details about NEO's technical mechanism and potential applications.
NEO was founded in 2014 as Antshare – a non-profit blockchain community that was designed to utilize blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, to automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts, and to realize a "smart economy" with a distributed network. They changed their name to NEO in June, 2017.
So, when we trace NEO to its origin, i.e. Antshare, we can see that Antshare was founded around the same time as Ethereum. Antshare certainly was not designed as a Chinese version of Ethereum. Besides, the goal of Antshare is to provide a smart platform for digitalized assets while Ethereum is a platform for decentralized applications. Assets versus applications is also a key difference between the two. Those reasons provide a "no" to the question in the headline.
However, Antshare's development was not as fast as Ethereum in recent years. So they have made a change in their operation and tried to be reborn with the name of NEO. That's when the term 'Chinese Ethereum' became known to the blockchain community. It's not important who invented this term, what's important is that it indeed helped NEO build its influence. So, in common parlance, NEO is referred to as Chinese Ethereum, which indicates a "yes" to the question in the headline.
With the help of dBFT consensus protocol, the NEO system can generate a new block every 15-20 seconds. Trading volumes is around 1000 TPS, which is pretty good for a public blockchain. With proper optimization, it might even reach 10,000 transactions per second.
NEO is in pursuit of its own version of smart contract, which is officially called the NeoContract. And it consists of three fundamental parts: NeoVM, InteropService and DevPack.
NeoVM is a lightweight, general-purpose virtual machine whose architecture is very close to the JVM and .NET Runtime, similar to a virtual CPU that reads and executes instructions in the contract in sequence, performs process control based on the functionality of the instruction operations, logic operations and so on. It has a good start-up speed and versatility, is very suitable for small programs such as smart contracts, can also be ported to non-blockchain systems, or integrated with the IDE to provide an optimal development experience. NeoVM's functionality can be extended, like introducing a JIT (real-time compiler) mechanism, thereby enhancing the efficiency of the implementation.
Used to load the blockchain ledger, digital assets, digital identity, persistent storage area, NeoFS, and other underlying services. They are like virtual machines that are provided for virtual machines, enabling smart contracts to access these services at run time to achieve some advanced functionality. Through this low-coupling design, NeoVM can be ported to any blockchain or even non-blockchain system used, increasing the utility of the smart contracts.
DevPack includes the high-level language compiler and the IDE plug-in. Because NeoVM's architecture is very similar to JVM and .NET Runtime, the compilers in DevPack can compile Java byte code and .NET MSIL into NeoVM's instruction set. Java / Kotlin, C# developers do not need to learn new languages and will be able to immediately start developing smart contracts in VS, Eclipse and other familiar IDE environments. This greatly reduces the learning curve for developing smart contracts, allowing us to easily build a vibrant community around NeoContract.
NeoContract can create a smart contract call tree through static analysis before running a smart contract. Through the deterministic call tree, the NEO node can dynamically fragment the smart contract to achieve theoretically unlimited expansion, which overcomes the "jamming effect" caused by the static fragmentation of other block chain systems.
NeoX is a protocol that implements cross-chain interoperability. NeoX is divided into two parts: "cross-chain assets exchange protocol" and "cross-chain distributed transaction protocol."
NeoX has been extended on existing double-stranded atomic assets exchange protocols to allow multiple participants to exchange assets across different chains and to ensure that all steps in the entire transaction process succeed or fail together. In order to achieve this function, we need to use NeoContract function to create a contract account for each participant. If other blockchains are not compatible with NeoContract, they can be compatible with NeoX as long as they can provide simple smart contract functionality.
Cross-chain distributed transactions mean that multiple steps of a transaction are scattered across different blockchains and that the consistency of the entire transaction is ensured. This is an extension of cross-chain assets exchange, extending the behavior of assets exchange into arbitrary behavior. In layman's terms, NeoX makes it possible for cross-chain smart contracts where a smart contract can perform different parts on multiple chains, either succeeding or reverting as a whole. This gives excellent possibilities for cross-chain collaborations and we are exploring cross-chain smart contract application scenarios.
NeoFS is a distributed storage protocol that utilizes Distributed Hash Table (DHT) technology. NeoFS indexes the data through file content (Hash) rather than file path (URI). Large files will be divided into fixed-size data blocks that are distributed and stored in many different nodes.
The main problem with this type of system is the need to find a balance between redundancy and reliability. NeoFS plans to solve this contradiction by means of token incentives and the establishment of backbone nodes. Users can choose the reliability requirements of the file. Files with low reliability requirements can be stored and accessed for free or almost free. Stable and reliable services for files with high reliability requirement will be provided by backbone nodes.
NeoFS will serve as one of the InteropService interoperability services under the NeoContract system, enabling smart contracts to store large files on the blockchain and set access for those files. In addition, NeoFS can be combined with digital identity so that digital certificates used by digital identities can be assigned, sent, and revoked without a central server to manage them. In the future, the old block data can be stored in NeoFS, so that most of the full nodes can release the old data for better scalability and at the same time, ensure the integrity of historical data.
The emergence of quantum computers poses a major challenge to RSA and ECC-based cryptographic mechanisms. Quantum computers can solve the large number of decomposition problems (which RSA relies on) and the elliptic curve discrete logarithm (which ECC relies on) in a very short time. NeoQS (Quantum Safe) is a lattice-based cryptographic mechanism. At present, quantum computers do not have the ability to quickly solve the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) and the Closest Vector Problem (CVP), which is considered to be the most reliable algorithm for resisting quantum computers.
Digital assets are programmable assets that exist in the form of electronic data. With blockchain technology, the digitization of assets can be decentralized, trustful, traceable, highly transparent, and free of intermediaries. On the NEO blockchain, users are able to register, trade, and circulate multiple types of assets. Proving the connection between digital and physical assets is possible through digital identity. Assets registered through a validated digital identity are protected by law.
Digital identity refers to the identity information of individuals, organizations, and other entities that exist in electronic form. The more mature digital identity system is based on the PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) X.509 standard. In NEO, we will implement a set of X.509 compatible digital identity standards. This set of digital identity standards, in addition to compatible X.509 level certificate issuance model, will also support Web Of Trust point-to-point certificate issuance model. Our verification of identity when issuing or using digital identities includes the use of facial features, fingerprint, voice, SMS and other multi-factor authentication methods. At the same time, we will also use the blockchain to replace the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) to manage and record the X.509 Certificate Revocation List (CRL).
The smart contract was first proposed by the cryptographer Nick Szabo in 1994, only five years after the creation of the World Wide Web. According to Szabo's definition: When a pre-programmed condition is triggered, the smart contract will execute the corresponding contract terms. Blockchain technology provides us with a decentralized, tamper-resistant, highly reliable system in which smart contracts are very useful. NEO has an independent smart contract system: NeoContract.
The NeoContract smart contract system is the biggest feature of the seamless integration of the existing developer ecosystem. Developers do not need to learn a new programming language but use C#, Java and other mainstream programming languages in their familiar IDE environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) for smart contract development, debugging and compilation. NEO's Universal Lightweight Virtual Machine, NeoVM, has the advantages of high certainty, high concurrency, and high scalability. The NeoContract smart contract system will allow millions of developers around the world to quickly carry out the development of smart contracts. NeoContract will have a separate white paper describing the implementation details.
Zarc Gin, an analyst for Warp Speed Capital, a Fintech/InsurTech focused Venture Capital firm based in China will be posting each Saturday to give us perspective on Blockchain, Bitcoin & Crypto within China.
Zarc brings the perspective on platforms originating from China, the regulation storm from Chinese government agencies, the role of Exchanges and Mining in China and how Blockchain can transform many markets within China.


(Photo: John Duffy / Flickr)The State Department's decision to hand over control to the oil industry to evaluate its own environmental performance on the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has led to a colossal oversight.
API also hired Ogilvy Government Relations to lobby for Keystone XL in 2012, andone of Ogilvy's key hired guns lobbying on behalf of API on KXL is Moses Mercado. In addition to serving as a key aide to Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and as a super delegate representing Texas for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Mercado also served as campaign director in New Mexico for Secretary of State John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.


Join us as we celebrate the "Reading with the Rays" summer reading program at 11 a.m., Tuesday, July 10, at the St. Petersburg Main Library, 3745 9th Ave. N. Children, teens and their caregivers are invited to enjoy the free program, hear a story read by a Tampa Bay Rays baseball player, while interacting with the Rays Street Team and DJ Kitty.
The "Reading with the Rays" summer program allows children and teens to "read your way to the ball park" by logging hours spent reading on a game card. For every hour read, children and teens advance around bases on the game card. When they arrive at a base, they can pick up a reward at their local library. When they reach home plate, they will receive a voucher for tickets to see the Tampa Bay Rays in action!


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        /// Get the XML representing this IXQueryable object
        /// </summary>
        string Xml { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Get the element name of this IXQueryable object
        /// </summary>
        string Name { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Get the element value of this IXQueryable object
        /// </summary>
        string Value { get; }

        /// <summary>
        /// Get the text value of this IXQueryable object if the first node is a text node
        /// </summary>
        string Text { get; }
        IXQueryable Query(string xpath);
        string QueryValue(string xpath);
        IEnumerable<IXQueryable> QueryMany(string xpath);
        IEnumerable<string> QueryManyValues(string xpath);
        XElement ToElement();
        string this[string xpath] { get; }
        string this[string xpathFormat, params string[] args] { get; }
    }
}

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Bank of America, one of the world's leading financial institutions, earned the highest score of our participating companies with technical workforces of more than 10,000. Bank of America leaders tell us they are dedicated to making the financial lives of female clients and customers better, and advancing the economic empowerment of women in communities around the world.
Leaders at Bank of America believe that diversity and inclusion are key factors as they work to meet the needs of clients, communities, and employees. The company has a long tradition of supporting women's economic empowerment and leadership, and its leaders continue to find ways to attract and retain diverse women technologists.
Partnerships that support girls and young women to build a pipeline of future female talent.
Career development programs that provide mentoring and sponsorship for career advancement.
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Michele Winifred Castagna  (1944 – 17 September 2016) was a disability advocate who made a significant contribution to disability services in Alice Springs; for which she received an Order of Australia medal. She is also a former alderman with Alice Springs Town Council and served from 1984–1992.

Early life

Castagna was born in Italy and she migrated to Australia with her parents in 1947. In Australia the Castagna family worked on a remote mica mine, approx. 250 km from Alice Springs. The family were very poor and slept head-to-toe in the same bed.

In 1952, when boarding at the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Convent School, Castagna contracted polio and was the first case of polio to be admitted to the Alice Springs Hospital, although an epidemic of the virus would follow, and she was soon transferred to Adelaide by the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Polio caused Castagna to become a Quadriplegic.

Following her recovery from the virus, Castagna was placed in the 'Somerton Crippled Home' where she would stay for seven years; her only regular visit hear was her grandfather once a fortnight while, due to the expense, her parents were only able to visit every two years. Her care in this home was impersonal and she felt isolated and this gave her a passion for disability advocacy.

It was intended that Castagna would remain in care for the rest of her life, she was regularly told that she would die before she turned 30, but, with the intervention of Don Broad, her physiotherapist she was allowed to come back to Central Australia, where her family were now living in Alice Springs to live with them.

Career
Upon returning to Alice Springs Castagna started working at the Sunny Centre (now known as Acacia Hill School), which caters for students with intellectual and physical disabilities. Castagna worked with children with Down Syndrome. A local club, the Quota Club, assisted Castagna and organised volunteers to drive her to and from work. The Quota Club was eventually able to give her a motorised wheelchair; Castagna said this was life changing:

Castagna spent five years working at the Sunny Centre before being appointed the Coordinator of disability services for the Northern Territory in 1983.

In addition to her coordinator role, Castagna became an Alice Springs Town Council in 1984 and served until 1992, when she decided not to run again. She was the first alderman with a disability elected and following being an alderman continued to serve on the Council's Access Advisory Committee.

Castagna also served on a number of other boards and community groups; including:

 Being Chairperson of the Multicultural Community Services
 Convener of the Catholic Church of Refugees; aiming to bring Sudanese refugees to Australia
 Chaired the Arts Access Central Australia
 Chairperson for InCite (Alice Springs)
 Founding member of ACROD, and from 1992 the chair or what was now called the NDS NT Committee
 Chairperson of the Australian Catholic Disability Council

Throughout her life Castagna remained a strong catholic and, in Alice Springs, was an active member of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart parish; where she sang in the choir

Later life
Castagna died in 2016, at the age of 72, and was mourned by many.

Awards

 In 1988 Castagna received the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to people with disabilities in Alice Springs.
 In 2014 Castagna was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from Arts Access Australia.
 In 2015 Castagna was a state finalist to become Senior Australian of the Year.
 In 2016 Castagna was awarded the NT Arts Access Award for Excellence in Inclusive Arts Practice.

References

1944 births
2016 deaths
Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
People from Alice Springs
Australian disability rights activists

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Q: temporary table instead of joins The following query is working as expected.
But the summary table from where the data is selected is too large. The query takes a lot of time.
SELECT s.date_time AS date_time,SUM(s.requests) AS sum_requests,SUM(s.impressions) AS sum_views,SUM(s.clicks) AS sum_clicks,SUM(s.conversions) AS sum_conversions,
SUM(s.total_revenue) AS sum_revenue,SUM(s.total_revenue)  AS sum_spend,
SUM(s.total_basket_value) AS sum_bv,SUM(s.total_num_items) AS sum_num_items,SUM(s.total_pubrevenue) AS sum_pubrevenue
FROM ox_data_summary_ad_hourly AS s
INNER JOIN ox_banners AS d ON (d.bannerid=s.ad_id)
INNER JOIN ox_campaigns AS m ON (m.campaignid=d.campaignid)
INNER JOIN ox_clients AS a ON (a.clientid=m.clientid)
LEFT JOIN ox_zones AS z ON (z.zoneid=s.zone_id)
LEFT JOIN ox_affiliates AS p ON (p.affiliateid=z.affiliateid)
WHERE a.agencyid = 3 AND z.zone_type = 'application' AND z.delivery = 8
AND s.date_time>='2012-07-01 00:00:00' AND s.date_time<='2012-07-01 23:59:59'
GROUP BY date_time

I need to simplify the joins. Is there any way to create a temporary table for all joins and then join that table to the base table.
This is what I have tried so far.
drop table if exists test.helper;
create table test.helper
select d.network_type , d.is_network, d.bannerid, p.agencyid, z.zone_type, z.delivery , z.zoneid
FROM ox_banners as d
INNER JOIN ox_campaigns AS m ON (m.campaignid=d.campaignid)
INNER JOIN ox_clients AS a ON (a.clientid=m.clientid)
left JOIN ox_agency as oa ON (oa.account_id = a.clientid)
left JOIN ox_affiliates AS p ON (p.agencyid = oa.agencyid)
left JOIN ox_zones AS z ON (z.affiliateid = p.affiliateid);

alter table test.helper add key(bannerid, zoneid);

But it does not return the correct results when joined with the original table.
SELECT s.ad_id, s.date_time AS date_time,SUM(s.requests) AS sum_requests,SUM(s.impressions) AS sum_views,SUM(s.clicks) AS sum_clicks,SUM(s.conversions) AS sum_conversions,
SUM(s.total_revenue) AS sum_revenue,SUM(s.total_revenue)  AS sum_spend,
SUM(s.total_basket_value) AS sum_bv,SUM(s.total_num_items) AS sum_num_items,SUM(s.total_pubrevenue) AS sum_pubrevenue
FROM ox_data_summary_ad_hourly AS s
inner JOIN test.helper  AS d ON (d.bannerid=s.ad_id )
where d.agencyid = 3 AND d.zone_type = 'application' AND d.delivery = 8  and s.date_time>='2012-07-01 00:00:00' AND s.date_time<='2012-07-01 23:59:59'
GROUP BY date_time

A: Firstly, I'd replace the LEFT JOINs with INNER JOINS. Since you have a WHERE clause on ox_zones, the null values created by the LEFT JOIN will drop out anyway. Outer joins are obviously expensive, and should be avoided where possible.
On a reasonable, modern RDBMS, second-guessing the query planner by creating temporary tables is often counter-productive. Are all your join conditions indexed? Are the columns referenced in your WHERE clause indexed?


Popular smartphone game A3! is getting an anime adaptation! The news was announced on 3 February 2019 at the 'A3! Blooming Live 2019', which was a concert featuring the cast of the game. The announcement has come with a teaser visual and trailer.
The game A3! takes place at an all-male theater company names Mankai Company which is on the verge of closing down. The player takes the role of the young female general director of the company and must prepare four troupes for the big stage. Each troupe is named after a season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. After celebrating its second anniversary in January 2019, the game announced that it has surpassed a whopping 6 million downloads.
The teaser trailer shows the anime designs for the leaders of each of the four troupes: Spring's Sakuya Sakuma, Summer's Tenma Sumeragi, Autumn's Banri Settsu, and Winter's Tsumugi Tsukioka. Sakuya (voiced by Kodai Sakai) is also animated in the trailer and says 'Director! Please make us bloom!'. The teaser visual shows Sakuya as he is practicing his lines while the Mankai Company mascot, a cockatoo called Kamekichi, flies around.
The trailer also revealed the main staff members for the anime. The series will be directed by Keisuke Shinohara. Mariko Komatsu is in charge of character design and animation director. Naoki Hayashi will take care of the series composition. Τhe series will be produced under P.A.WORKS x Studio 3Hz.


Victor Ekpenyong E. AKA VT is a producer, recording and performing artist with Kingsville Africa and One rite records.
The versatile southerner developed passion for his craft at a young age. He is a Nigerian from Akwa ibom state, based in Accra, Ghana. His music is inspired by prominent artiste from around Africa, the rest of the world. With one project, "The Dawn – Boy meets world" which dropped early september 2017.


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Airports in Vietnam apply special process to receive flights from areas affected by COVID-19
** Airports in Vietnam, including Van Don International Airport in the northeast, and Can Tho Airport in the southwest, have been given special permission by the Vietnamese government to receive flights from areas affected by COVID-19. **
** All passengers undergo rigorous health examination outside of the main terminals of designated airports before beginning 14-day quarantine **
Van Don International Airport
QUANG NINH, Vietnam, March 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- At 3.30pm on March 1, Vietjet flight VJ961 carrying 229 passengers from Incheon (South Korea) touched down at Van Don International Airport in the northeast of Vietnam.
The special procedure at Van Don International Airport
This was the first flight from South Korea to land at Van Don International Airport since the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam announced that Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City would stop receiving flights from South Korea as of 1pm on March 1st, 2020.
On board flight VJ961 were 227 adults and two children, including 221 Vietnamese citizens and eight foreigners. Later that evening, at 8.40pm, flight VN415 (Vietnam Airlines) from South Korea touched down at Van Don International Airport, carrying 140 passengers, including 13 foreign passengers.
On subsequent days, the airport in the northeast of Vietnam continued to receive two to three flights from South Korea each day.
Van Don International Airport is one of only three airports in Vietnam that has been given special permission by the Vietnamese government to receive flights from areas that are considered to be epicenters for COVID-19.
The airport, which is located in Quang Ninh province, home to the world renowned Halong Bay, had already received two flights from China on February 1 and February 10 in part of a government-backed operation to evacuate Vietnamese citizens who had been living near Beijing and Wuhan.
The other two airports allowed to receive flights from affected areas are Can Tho International Airport in Can Tho city (in the southwest of Vietnam) and Phu Cat International Airport in Binh Dinh province (Central Vietnam).
On March 1, three other flights from South Korea, carrying 627 guests, also landed at Can Tho International Airport. At Van Don International Airport, as with the two special flights to evacuate passengers from China, all passengers on board both flights from Korea on March 1st went through all immigration customs as well as medical checks and disinfection procedures outside the airport terminal to minimize the risk of infection to others and ensure no impact to general operations at the airport occurred.
The International Medical Quarantine organization had also coordinated with relevant departments at the airport to oversee every single step of the process. Accordingly, passengers filled out medical declarations on board. They were also all clearly informed about all of the steps that would be taken as soon as they disembarked.
After they cleared immigration and passed through separate areas, where they were examined by medical experts and then disinfected, passengers were transferred to a specially chosen areas in military vehicles belonging to the Provincial Military Command. All passengers on board the flights will spend 14 days in quarantine. The foreign passengers coming to Vietnam from Korea would go through quarantine in Cam Pha City and Ha Long City as per the regulations of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh Province.
On receiving the two flights from South Korea, a representative of Van Don International Airport noted that the airport had now welcomed multiple flights from areas at the centre of the COVID-19 epidemic. "The process of receiving each of these flights strictly complies with all regulations regarding international quarantine, which is highly appreciated by the public," said the representative.
Similar procedures were performed at the other two airports in Can Tho city and Binh Dinh Province for all flights coming from areas considered to be epicenters for the COVID-19 epidemic.
Despite its close proximity to countries at the forefront of the epidemic, and despite mounting cases and deaths from the new strain of acute respiratory disease COVID-19 around the world, Vietnamese authorities have announced the situation in Vietnam was under control with no deaths reported.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 27, removed Vietnam from the list of destinations vulnerable to community transmission of COVID-19 citing Vietnam's comprehensive actions against the epidemic. The CDC will also send a delegation in March to enhance medical cooperation between the US and Vietnam. It also plans to establish a CDC regional office in the country.
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According to Tucson Police Department, a pole was knocked over in the incident. Police say there is currently wires down in the area.
No injuries have been reported in the incident.


This was our first intercity bus ride in Iran and I must say that it was a very pleasant one. The bus used was a Scania, and reminiscent of the buses I took in New Zealand several months before. At US$6, it was definitely a steal. They even gave us snacks and juice onboard. We left Shiraz at 8 in the morning, and by 2 in the afternoon we were dropped off at Yazd's bus terminal. We then took a taxi to Kohan Kashaneh Hotel which was again recommended by Antoine. We arrived without having made any prior reservation, which was just great. We were quoted a room price of under US$30 per night including breakfast. The hotel itself is situated near some of the sights in Yazd but is hidden within its maze-like streets. It is set in a historic house with a classic Persian courtyard / garden in the middle and an underground well.
my hotel in yazd – kohan kashane — highly recommended!
As the sky was very gloomy that day, we decided to just spend the rest of the afternoon walking around the old city. Compared to Shiraz, it was quite compact and the locals here looked much more conservative as well. Most women were wearing the black full-body cloth, although even at that extent, none of them had their faces covered like in the Arabian countries. We walked up to iconic Amir Chakmaq near the main commercial area of the old city. A guy with a good command of English approached us – I was to learn later he was a refugee from Afghanistan. Hanging around Amir Chakmaq frequently to meet tourists and practice his English, the guy has met tourists from many countries but was quick to admit that I was the first from the Philippines. We chatted for quite a bit. He complained about how Afghans were marginalized in modern Iranian society, doing the jobs which the locals are unwilling to do. He also shared with me his desire to be an English teacher in Korea or elsewhere in the Far East. But what really surprised me was his wide knowledge of the outside world – including things which I thought the government would have censored. IIt soon turned dark – he meant to invite me to his family home around 10 kilometers from the city, but as I wanted to stay in Yazd the whole time, I declined and went back to my hotel.
The following day, we started our proper tour of the city. We started by going to the Zoroastrian Fire Temple which was located at the edge of the old city. Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions and is based on the teachings of Zoroaster. It used to be the state religion of Persia during the Pre-Islamic period. today it has a few thousand followers left. A Zoroastrian who was at the temple grounds approached me. I tried to ask him how Zoroastrians today are treated in modern Iranian society. He remained coy and refused to answer me directly. What I do know is that officially, Zoroastrianism is one of the officially recognized minority religions by the Iranian government and as such, they are allocated one seat in parliament. But things may not be black and white.
Not wanting to discuss these things with me, I decided to leave the guy and make a move. I then proceeded to Dolatabad Gardens. Although I had been to 3 gardens in Shiraz, I decided to check this one out due to the UNESCO World Heritage designation. Going in, I found the grounds to be less impressive than those I saw in Shiraz. The summer pavilion however, is quite unique. It has a very tall wind tower used for ventilation that can be seen from most parts of the city. Octagonal-shaped, the pavilion is flanked by stained-glass windows and a symmetrical pattern on its ceiling. This was my introduction to the many other impressive, symmetrical ceilings/domes that I would witness later on in the trip.
After seeing Dolatabad, I was pretty much satisfied with Yazd and decided to just walk around town for the rest of the day. Yazd is a very easy place to get "lost" in, due to the same clay-colored buildings inside the old city as well as the unmarked maze-like streets so my objective for the rest of the day was just to get lost. However, it did not take long to get a good overall sense of the place. There were many picturesque landmarks to observe – including the Masjid Jameh (Friday Mosque), the dome of the Rokamdin mosque as well as the tall clock tower. Another trademark of the city is that it has so many historic houses that are converted as hotels, so no matter where one ends up going, it would be inevitable to come across one of these lodgings along the way. Many of them are also worth a visit and have stunning courtyards. In some cases, the hotel staff would be happy to give a tour of their hotel for free.
I watched the sunset from the Hosseinieh, the only high building that I could climb up to. From above, it was easy to appreciate the unique city skyline consisting of water reservoirs and wind towers competing for attention with the islamic minarets, which are unique to Iranian desert cities like Yazd due to the harsh weather conditions.
That evening, I capped my tour of Yazd by visiting the Zurkaneh or the traditional Persian gym (translated as: house of strength). Though modern fitness centers are common nowadays in Iran, the Zurkaneh is the traditional exercise facility for the men of this country. The exercise activities are like performances – the men gather in a circle and conduct their synchronized exercises to the tune of a leader on a stage with drums who chants Persian epics. This adds an en-trancing touch to the entire spectacle – this Persian style exercise which historically was used to train warriors for battle.
It sounds really mundane that I capped my visit to Yazd by going to a fitness center. But I suppose this also came to symbolize what I thought of the city. It takes everyday, mundane things and adds a unique touch to them due to the harsh geographical location – from the clay material of most buildings that creates the great desert city atmosphere to how water is stored to sources for ventilation during the hot summer months. Yazd is exotic to a T.
Malek o Tojjar – the most decorative hotel in Yazd, hands down!
Orient Hotel – nice place to have a rooftop view over Yazd. Jameh Masjid and other nearby attractions are close by.
I was in Yazd for five days last year – it's such a beautiful city. If you have the chance, you should try to get out to Kharanaq, a lovely old and abandoned mudbrick citadel where one little old woman still lives. It's wonderful! Love the photos.
Thanks for the recommendations. 5 days! Wow, Yazd is really a fantastic city.
wow! Pictures palang parang fantasy na. ganda!
Iran is really one destination that I highly recommend. It is not at all the country which most people think it is. It is cheap too.
excellent post i never knew Iran was so beautiful.
It was very nice to read. In fact it is a new knowledge for me – Yazd. Thank you for writing about that. And the photos are also great, they really convey the feels of the place. Well done !
Love ly post and pictures, especially that of the dome.


These beautiful tasting traditional Cornish Pilchard fillets are a limited edition put together by Cornwall's oldest pilchard processors in collaboration with the world's oldest sardine cannery, in Brittany.
Caught in the clear waters of the Western approaches using traditional techniques, the fish are caught in prime conditon. To capture the traditional flavour, they have been filleted and flash fried before being canned, with selected virgin olive oil, using techniques perfected since 1853.


Around the holidays, I find canned pineapple on sale at several stores in my area. I try to pick up a few cans at this time. On Black Friday, my girls and I made a stop at the local drug store, where we found 20-oz cans for 99 cents. I may find a better price, as we get closer to Christmas. At the very least, I should be able to find about this same price, perhaps with a limit. So, I can get more, if I want. Knowing this, on Friday, I limited my purchase to 10 cans.
As I open each can, I strain off the liquid, and save this in a glass jar in the fridge, to use later. Canned pineapple juice can be used in sweet and sour dishes, as part of a teriyaki marinade for meat, or, my favorite, as a beverage. I make orange-pineapple juice, combining the salvaged pineapple liquid with orange juice. I get a kick out of the knowledge that my family thinks this is one of those "festive" treats that I provide for Christmas and New Year's morning. When what I'm really doing is salvaging something that others might just throw away.
Pineapple juice can be stored in the refrigerator in a glass jar for up to 7 days. If I don't think we'll use it within 7 days, then I freeze it. Stored in the freezer, canned pineapple juice will be at it's best for drinking, if used within about 2 months, but I've used it in marinades 6 to 9 months after putting it into the freezer, with no issues other than some frost in the container.
Some throw that juice away??!!?? I can't imagine!
Hard to believe, isn't it, Carol?
Ha ha. Is this one of those things that you would have to hide if you wanted to save it for making orange-pineapple juice? I bet it would make great popsicles in summer!
I saw canned pineapple in 15 oz cans (Libby) at Dollar Tree over the weekend. So, hopefully your dollar store will also have some.
The juice is a lovely freebie.
I hope your day is off to a wonderful start, Sara!
I save the juice from canned pineapple as well. Well, I save it, or someone drinks it right away. It is definitely never wasted!
I love orange pineapple juice! When I was a teenager, I think Dole, or maybe Tropicana, made 100% juice blends that were sold in cartons in the orange juice section. There was strawberry orange banana, orange pineapple banana, and orange pineapple. My sister and I loved these! My mom used to buy a carton for special weekend breakfasts. I haven't seen those sold in years. Now, I'm thinking I should save some pineapple juice for pineapple orange juice. Yum!
I'm wondering if you know anything about how to use raw sugar? My husband had a 50 lb bag of raw sugar on his truck that had a small hole in it, so the store refused it. We are allowed to keep things like that, or else his employer just has to throw it away anyway. I'm going to package it in smaller containers and put it in (somehow make it fit in) my pantry. I've been trying to find info on the web for what to do with it. There are conflicting opinions on if it's good to bake with. Some say it makes cookies and cakes more dry and doesn't work well. I was thinking we could use it to sweeten tea and coffee. My husband isn't sure he would want it in his iced sweet tea. He's used to the granulated white sugar, and he tasted this raw sugar and says it tastes faintly of molasses. Any ideas?
I also have 18 8 ounce packages of cream cheese...down from 36...dated 12/14/16. I've been using as much as I can, but I'm starting to get concerned about the date. Again, there is conflicting info on the web, but have you had luck keeping cream cheese in the refrigerator past the date. I don't think freezing is recommended. It seems like you may have blogged about this topic before, but I can't find it. Maybe you know where I can find your previous post?
Freeze the cream cheese. It does fine in the freezer, then can be pulled out to use in any capacity, as a spread or in baking. I do it all the time. When thawing, it does weep a bit, but not enough to matter.
With the raw sugar, I'd try it out, half and half with white sugar in a batch of muffins, to check. It's worth a try. I would also think it would be good in non-dry things, like pudding. I'd bet it would make great butterscotch pudding, if it tastes a bit like molasses. Also, use it in granola. Anything you might use brown sugar in, I'd try it in that. Personally, I'd like it in coffee, as I like blackstrap molasses in coffee. Your husband might just get used to the taste, especially if he uses it half and half to begin with.
Good luck with this, Angie. Have a great day!
Lili, that's wonderful that I can freeze the cream cheese! I'm so happy about this. I can extend my Christmas/New Year cheese ball making. My husband also loves the no bake 'cheesecake' that is made with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice. Hmmm...now I can make my own sweetened condensed milk when I make his cheesecakes, thanks to your post yesterday!
Thanks so much for the tips about trying the raw sugar! I think I'll take your advice and try muffins with a half and half mix with white sugar. I also think I'll try banana since it's so moist. Maybe I can use it in fruit and pumpkin pie also. I'll definitely use it in my coffee and hot tea. I think I'll use it in my husband's sweet iced tea also. I'll start with a quarter of the raw sugar and see if he notices a difference, and maybe work up to half. I hate to waste it.
You have nothing to lose with the raw sugar, trying it in small amounts. My guess is that in many recipes it won't even be detected, especially if used half and half. Another possibility with it is homemade pancake syrup. What a windfall, if you can this work out for you.
Have a lovely evening, Angie!
Yes, homemade pancake syrup...I hadn't thought of that either. Thanks.
We are blessed with a lot of free food from my husband's new job. That's where the cream cheese came from also. The company is very generous with having their drivers keep or donate things like that. That's where the cream cheese came from also.
Most times, we donate a portion to church, as they help feed 14 needy families in the community. For donating, it needs to be individually packaged with a good date.
Things that are close to the date, or even a little past we will keep if we can use it, and share with family if we can't use it all. I guess it's a bonus of the job.
What a nice perk, instead of throwing food out!
I was one of those thoughtless people who threw away canned pineapple liquids....shame, shame. However, today I would not do this anymore, after becoming a loyal follower of your blog. Now I look at EVERYTHING twice before I throw away.
I think the thing is, until you realize that something has value, it just doesn't register to use it. And that's what the liquids from canned fruits/veggies are to most folks, something they never knew had possibilities.
I was staying with a friend's aunt several years ago, and she took me to task for dumping canned fruit juice down the drain, as she liked to use it as part of the liquid in jello. It was basically sugar water, so in my mind it wasn't worth saving, but she had different ideas!
Using the liquid from canned fruit in jello is a great one, especially if making from scratch with unflavored gelatin. Then the fruit liquid could serve as part of the sugar in a recipe. I'll have to remember that.
yes, the sacrifices we make for our children! I'm now very much in the mood for some pineapple juice. I may have to open another can!
Have a great evening, Kris!
Great way to save money. I can't imagine throwing the juice away.
I know! To us, we look at the can of pineapple as fruit and juice. But I think a lot of folks see fruit and this unknown liquid.
I hope you're having a wonderful evening, Belinda!


Bio: Listana is a five piece female-fronted progressive-symphonic metal band from Istanbul, Turkey. The band prioritized live performance from its onset and performed in more than 30 local and international concerts. After the habitual lineup changes and demo recordings, their output is gathered together in an EP album, released digitally under the name "Unveiled". The band consists of Fulya Çelikel (vocals/keyboards), Alp Soğancı (guitars), Ali Göktürk (keyboards), Kaan Seyithanoğlu (bass) and Ozan Gümrükçü (drums).
Listana was founded a couple of years ago by current members Kaan, Fulya and Alp. Essentially we see ourselves as amateur musicians and all we wanted in the beginning was to develop our musical skills further by playing covers. Our meeting up is an ordinary story: internet forums, Facebook, the search for missing members. The extraordinary part of the story unfolded when music sort of transformed our lives: we ended up being great friends who shared everything and endured hardships together. Just to give an idea about how important the group turned out to be for us: Fulya and Alp ended up falling in love and getting married. Music is just an excellent an escape from our tough daily routines, we have university instructors, students and engineers among us. Of course we played in other bands before (at least some of us), but it was never this fulfilling and experience to bring new meaning to our existence. That's why we chose the name "Listana" for this alternative reality, where we just be cool and make music and forget about traffic and professional life and responsibilities. The name originates from an Amin Maalouf novel and has a quasi-historical-fantastical feeling to it, but still is Istanbul.
Genre: Actually we didn't choose the genre; the genre chose us. We like the candour of being able to play everything we have recorded on the stage, it can be said that we do not take much benefit of the wonders of the recording technology. The simple, clean sound of a single- guitar band without backing tracks, with some adventurous polyphonic textures and of course soloing appeals very much to us. Performing progressive metal means challenge most of all, but also novelty and our statement of standing against the mainstream. It would have been an easier journey if we simply played trash metal or something.
Evolution of musical and thematic elements: Our own music emerged in time from the endeavour to assimilate whatever we see as good music into our sound world. Some bands start their career directly with song writing; it did not evolve that way with us. We needed the hands-on "feel" to decide about the sound we wanted to have. For example, we have many older versions of "Birth of a Dream": we tried out brutal vocals, a more episodic song, operatic singing style, more aggressive, distorted female vocals for the demo version, composed symphonic tracks, you name it. Nevertheless, as Leonardo da Vinci very wisely said centuries ago, "we knew the song was complete once there was nothing else to take out". The song, as everything else, is in its most refined, simple form now. In terms of discourse, there are epic themes, a lot of dream/alternative reality stuff and some personal reflections in the songs.
Ideas about the album: Well, admittedly, we still could not find the right path to follow. Each of the four numbers are different from each other: Birth of a Dream has a symphonic-power sound, Hasret is quite proggy with a lot of modulations and time-signature changes, The Legend of Hellespont has an epic atmosphere almost like Rhapsody of Fire's slower songs, and Elveda is very classically symphonic metal. There are two languages, three different tonalities, perhaps too much variety to claim coherence. We just hope the audience will direct us to the sound which happens to be our best.
Composers: All lyrics are written by Fulya, our singer and keyboardist, she's also done a lot of arranging and composing for Unveiled. Kaan has laid out the foundations of the two English numbers, and both Alp and Ozan contributed to their own instrumental writing. Alp wrote all his own solos and all the guitar work of "Elveda". For the upcoming album, we have recruited Ali, an excellent keyboardist, so we'll have even more creative energy. Already we can boast more guys' voices in the upcoming album: Ozan, Kaan and Ali have already started writing some hot sizzling stuff.
Inspirations: Initially all we wanted was to play some music to challenge our skills as instrumentalists, so who better than Dream Theater and Symphony X and Kamelot and Angra and all those fantastic bands to look up to?
Preference; cater to the audience or music for its own sake: We still wish to believe there is a way to do both. Nevertheless, we don't believe in diluting the music just to make it more listenable: those modulations, virtuosic solos, complicated layers are there because they are needed for the discourse we need to express. No one likes it too disjunct and avant-garde in the band, though, so we have a whole bunch of very sing-along melodies, which we hope will appeal to the audience. We are very excited to see how the listeners will respond.
Anything else? The main question is how to proceed from here. What we would like to have is to write a deep, philosophical concept album next, but perhaps this is not the way to go. Perhaps we should just stay this way, multifaceted like the city that provided the inspiration to us, engendered the music at the first place. All we know is that we deeply love what we do and we need the listeners' support. It is thrice as difficult in Turkey as it would have been in other places and every bit of enthusiasm: be it constructive criticism, support and who knows, perhaps eventual admiration, will enlighten our path. We thank everyone involved, especially the Lady Herself for this very stimulating interview. May Music always be there to beautify our lives!
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Allianz Subalpina è stata una compagnia assicurativa operante su tutti i rami nel mercato italiano a partire dal 1928. È stata una delle prime trenta compagnie italiane avendo raggiunto quasi un milione di clienti. Dal 2007 Allianz Subalpina è diventata una divisione di Allianz S.p.A. e continua ad operare in tutti i rami assicurativi attraverso l'utilizzo di una rete di agenzie con il proprio nome.

Storia dell'azienda

Nel 1928 viene fondata a Torino l'Unione Subalpina di Assicurazioni.

Nel 1962 l'Unione Subalpina di Assicurazioni entra a far parte del gruppo RAS che ne acquisisce il controllo totalitario.

Nel 1995, a fronte di una ristrutturazione societaria, il Consiglio di amministrazione delibera l'incorporazione di Allianz Pace di Milano, una società assicurativa attiva nel ramo Vita e Danni. A fronte di questa operazione la ragione sociale viene cambiata in Allianz Subalpina.

Nel 2001 RAS acquisisce il controllo totalitario di Allianz Subalpina (in precedenza Allianz deteneva direttamente azioni per il 21,81% del capitale sociale).

Il 1º ottobre 2007 Allianz ha dato il via ad una riorganizzazione che ha portato la nascita di Allianz S.p.A., filiale italiana che ha conglobato in tre divisioni le preesistenti RAS, Lloyd Adriatico e la stessa Allianz Subalpina (i cui marchi sono stati tuttavia mantenuti in uso).

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Aziende della città metropolitana di Torino
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The M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, made possible by a gift from Sumir Chadha '93, was dedicated at Princeton University on April 27.
The center will bring together scholars and students from all disciplines to broadly explore contemporary India, including its economy, politics and culture. It is named in honor of Chadha's grandfather, a distinguished physician who served as the director general of Health Services for India.
The center will be led by a distinguished scholar to be announced at a later date.
Shown at the dedication of the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, from left to right, are: Stephen Kotkin, the John P. Birkelund '52 Professor in History and International Affairs and director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies; Peter Wendell '72; Kush Parmar '02; Princess Padmaja Kumari Mewar; Sumir Chadha '93; Sanjay Swani '87; Preeti Swani; and Princeton President Christopher L. Eisgruber.


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Prolefeed je izraz koji na engleskom doslovno znači "prolski" ili "proleterski unos", a koji je prvi iskoristio George Orwell u svom romanu Tisuću devetsto osamdeset četvrtoj. Njime se opisuje djelatnost tzv. Prolske sekcije (engl. Prolesec) Ministarstva istine koja je zadužena za zadovoljavanje kulturnih potreba, odnosno pružanje zabave za prolove, odnosno niže klase koju čini najširi dio stanovništva fiktivne države Oceanije. To se postiže izdavanjem novina i časopisa čiji se sadržaj sastoji samo od sportskih vijesti, crne kronike i horoskopa, erotskih filmova i romana te sentimentalnih pjesama koje komponiraju mehanička računala. Posebnu podsekciju Proleseca čini tzv. Pornografski odjel ili Pornosec u kojem se proizvode pornografske knjige, a čije je posjedovanje i čitanje najstrože zabranjeno članovima šire partije.

Izraz prolefeed je poput mnogih drugih poslije ušao u širu upotrebu da bi se njime označili "plitki" i "bezvrijedni" sadržaji u suvremenoj pop-kulturi.

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Gore, more than before
Filed under: Politics — admin @ 2:02 am
I almost called this post "The Last Temptation of Barack Obama," but that would have been slightly deceptive. In this case, the Temptation is not Obama's but my own. Does one drain the chalice and support Obama for no reason other than the rapture he has inspired? And more broadly, is the Left as a whole compelled to get on the Obama train before they're left behind?
You'd have to be a fool to deny the possibility but I have a feeling we'll all be there to meet the Obama train when it pulls in at the station in Denver this August, and with the prospect of a deadlocked Democratic Convention before us.
When Bill Clinton called Obama's candidacy "the biggest fairytale" he's "ever seen," he was mistaken. Obama's candidacy is the second biggest fairytale we've ever seen. The biggest fairytale is the true story of every horned and spiky thing that has ever spewed out of Bill Clinton's triangulatin', prevaricatin' mouth.
Like it or not, everything in Hillary's candidacy proceeds from Bill's legacy of lies, betrayals, and corporate whoredom. Hillary is good on the issues, but her chief campaign and media consultant is the PR guy for Blackwater. Hillary would support campaign finance reform and a ban on lobbying but if she did, how could she raise the hundreds of millions of dollars necessary to get her elected so she could do all the wonderful things she's always dreamed of doing for us.
Hillary still invokes her days working at the Children's Defense Fund under Marion Wright Edelman, but Edelman cut off the Clintons' when Bill went after kids on Welfare in 1996, to please his new Republican friends in the House.
Hillary now cries when reminded of her youthful idealism working at the Child Study Center in New Haven, but I don't think she's crying wistfully about the road not taken, rather she's crying about the compromises she's had to make along the highway to power. Hillary and Bill would say that they had to make those compromises "to maintain their viability in the system," that they made those compromises for us.
The rest of us might say, of course, who asked them? The Clinton's live in a cocoon of self-deception and though I'm sure they regard themselves as "good people", when Bill and Hillary walk through a room there is a faint whiff of sulfur in their wake.
From a Democratic Party perspective though, the biggest problem with Hillary is not so much that she's in league with the forces of darkness as that she can't beat John McCain. The reason she can't, is because Republicans won't vote for her, most Independents won't vote for her, and people like me won't vote for her.
Basta! We've had enough.
Obama can beat McCain, and will if given the chance. The prospect of beating Hillary and McCain should be enough to get everyone on board the Obama train.
Personally though, I am ambivalent. The Obama campaign has been brilliantly executed, a true phenomenon. Obama is a genuinely charismatic guy. The Obama people have out organized the Clinton and Edwards people on the ground, and their candidate is a seamless fit with his message. But what is this campaign actually about?
It's about "change" they tell us.
Still, when Obama says "we've got to go forward, and not go back," I wonder how this would sound if there weren't ten thousand people screaming in approval. We're told that Obama's campaign is different, singular even. However much of Obama's message is vaguely reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, or the first Bill Clinton campaign, and like Clinton and Carter, Obama is coming at his Democratic primary opponent from both the Right and the Left simultaneously.
The one difference, and the telling difference between these campaigns, is that Obama IS the change that everyone else has talked about up until now. We know this because Obama tells us so, and one assumes he genuinely believes it. Obama is a black person who doesn't scare white people, but embraces them. When he talks about a new era of unity, he believes that too and so might we all.
It follows though, that the difference with Obama's campaign, is that it's more a belief thing than a political thing; a messianic thing even, and with ten thousand people screaming, "Yes, he's the One," who am I—or you—to say no?
So, let me just say it. No, I don't feel like playing the fool for Barack Obama.
I've been a John Edwards supporter this election, but now it's time for Gore, more than before.
Al Gore has many things to recommend him. As opposed to Hillary, he actually is quite experienced. Hillary's supposed 35 years of experience consists of exactly seven years of elective office.
As opposed to Obama, Gore really is a candidate of systemic change, and he's got the Nobel Prize to prove it.
Gore has been writing and talking about the slide of the culture into a televised, corporate consumptionist abyss, and the dangers this poses to a democratic republic.
Gore was among the earliest and most vocal to attack Bush and Cheney on the illegal, immoral recklessness of going into Iraq, and he's been on them ever since.
Gore is not only the best Democratic candidate who could be put up at this point, he might end up being the only alternative at a deadlocked convention.
A Gore-Obama ticket would be a winning Democratic combination— for a change—in November.
In part 2 of this post, I'll discuss ideas, tactics and strategies— crackpot and otherwise—for making this happen.
Why We Will Miss John Edwards
Filed under: Politics — admin @ 11:24 am
John Edwards was a flawed candidate and the media made sure to tell us all about his flaws from the very beginning. He was vain and liked expensive haircuts. He was an opportunistic rich guy, who, even though he talked about poverty and class, was building the biggest house in North Carolina.
He was supposedly a late convert to his class based populism and had voted as a Southern moderate in the Senate. He was ambitious and wanted to run for President from the time he first campaigned for the Senate in North Carolina.
I don't know John Edwards but I can see there's probably some truth in these charges. Personally though, the reason I will miss John Edwards in this race is simply because now I don't have anyone to vote for.
What was different about Edwards was that he was running against the system, whereas Hillary IS the system and Obama would like to be.
Edwards took strong stands early that became progressively stronger as the campaign wore on.
Edwards made clear that the Insurance companies were the reason we didn't have Universal Health Care and that they would have to be beaten to get it. He asserted that the system in Washington was rigged by corporate power to protect corporate interests.
Edwards made clear that the interests of Wall Street were not the interests of Main Street; that fairness to the tax code had to be restored; that every trade deal had to put workers and wages first. Edwards proposed Public Financing of political campaigns. He asserted that the corporate lobbyists would have to be driven from the halls of the Capitol if we were to have a chance at real change, but noted that real change also demanded "corporate power be put at the service of democracy and not the other way around."
Edwards proposed capping greenhouse gases and "ratcheting down the cap every year" if we were to have a chance at stopping global warming. He was honest enough to say upfront that sacrifice was going to be required from all of us if we were stop ecological disaster, but also that the bottom line on Wall Street was going to have to be weighed against a standard of sound environmental practice and policy.
These were pretty radical positions, but the way Hillary and Obama ended up mimicking many of them you wouldn't have known that one candidate was running against the system and the other two were running to be in charge of it.
However this was supposed to be a change election. It was important for Hillary and Obama that Edwards not outflank them on the Left by too much lest he be identified as the REAL candidate of change. So rather than a verb, change became, in this election, first a noun, and then a commodity.
It was so disgusting to watch—and so effective—that we should probably count on this kind of Hillary-Obama newspeak becoming a feature of future Democratic primary campaigns from now on.
In fairness to Hillary-Obama, it is also possible that Edwards did not mean to get so far ahead of himself, that he would have preferred to situate himself closer to the political center. It is possible that Edwards was actually forced to the hard populist positions he ended up embracing by the soft center-left focus of the other two campaigns.
It is possible, but nevertheless the fact remains that Edwards went there and the other campaigns were dragged far beyond their consultant driven comfort zone because of it.
In leaving the race, Edwards maintained that we are at a transformational moment—that there is no going back. I think this is true though we can be sure that whoever the eventual nominee is will try to go back. On the real side we know that Hillary is a creature of the corporate status quo and Obama, like Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter before him, has a genuine emotional need for compromise and consensus politics.
But I think events will outrun them. As Humphrey Bogart once said to Paul Henreid, "Well Mr. Laszlo, it seems like Destiny has taken a hand."
Limited Substitution
Filed under: Sports — admin @ 11:23 am
It's the day after the Super Bowl and a stunningly good game it was. What with the Giants' upset win over the Patriots it would seem like a bad time to talk about what a mess Pro Football is.
Nonetheless . . . every society gets the spectacle they deserve—for the Elizabethans it was bear baiting and the public theatre—for us it's Pro Football.
It wasn't always this way. Football once was a sport, not a spectacle and a great sport too; as great an American contribution to the world as baseball and basketball. The legendary fighter Archie Moore once said of fried chicken that it was the perfect food; you could eat it hot, eat it cold, eat it at home or take it with you. Similarly football was a great game to play or watch. And you could watch live or watch it on TV. You could play it with four or five others or you could play a full eleven-man to a side game. The sad thing is I can remember pretty clearly when it started to change.
College Football was always a big deal in America, but not so the Pros.
Television's discovery of Pro Football—which is usually pegged to the nationally televised 1958 NFL championship when the Baltimore Colts, led Quarterback Johnny Unitas, upset the New York Giants—basically created the modern game. My father always maintained that this was because the ad guys in New York began following the Giants after this and saw not only what a great game it was, but what a great vehicle for advertising. And surely no one who grew up in the Sixties can forget Julie London tonguing her cigarette in the back of a cab—"you get a lot to like in a Marlboro"—or those nightmarish Prestone anti-Freeze commercials
The problem kicked in sometime after the first Super Bowl in 1966 when instead of being a sport that was televised, Pro football became a made-for-television entertainment. The relationship of Pro Football before 1970 and Pro Football after, is roughly equivalent to the difference between homemade (cayenne and salt marinated) fried chicken and Chicken McNuggets.
Indeed when you tell people now that all home games were by rule blacked out locally until the mid 70's—or that the Philadelphia Eagles NFL championship game in 1960 was blacked out on local Philadelphia television—they look at you like you must have just winged in from a parallel universe.
However as commercial as Pro Football had become by 1980, it's nothing compared to what it became later.
Everything in the Reagan era of course, was turned into a commodity whose raison d'etre was how much it could bought or sold for. By the late Eighties this dedicated economic equation had taken direct hold of Pro Football and there was a trickle down effect to College Football and even big time High School programs.
Part of the commodity effect was the increasing specialization of play, but the more important part was the specialization of size and weight. In 1980 there were five players in the NFL 300 pounds or over, there are now over three hundred and fifty players who weigh 300 pounds and over.
The species is getting bigger, but not that much bigger.
The steroid scandals and investigation of recent years have almost laughably been aimed at Major League Baseball, but steroid use in baseball is a more or less victimless crime, since you are not directly assaulting anyone except perhaps the record book. In football you are aiming your steroid or HGH enhanced body at another body and attempting to commit mayhem upon it.
The widespread use of anabolic steroids, so called designer drugs and Human Growth Hormone in the NFL is not necessarily because players want to use these substances. The average career of an NFL player is about four years and the competition for roster spots more or less compels it. And so we have not just 330 pound Offensive linemen, but 325 pound Defensive lineman, and 250 pound outside linebackers, not to mention some monster defensive backs. Not all, but lots of these guys are juiced.
The burgeoning size of the Pro linemen and linebackers has created a premium on size in the college ranks. In most big-time College programs, the offensive line now averages at least 300 pounds while the defensive line probably averages about 285. These are twenty and twenty-one year olds we're talking about, whose bodies are not finished growing. How many of these linemen and linebackers are taking steroids is difficult to say, but we know anecdotally at least, that many, if not the majority are.
While some High School football players are experimenting with steroids, many High School athletes—and some middle school kids— in every sport are taking a water retention drug called Creatine.
The idea of Creatine is that by retaining water and mass, you can, by weightlifting, more easily turn that mass into muscle.
The upshot of all this, is that first, we have an impending health crisis in the Professional Ranks with many players at risk of obesity, hypertension, kidney and heart disease, diabetes, and likely early mortality. However more profoundly, at the college and high school football level we have a public health emergency on our hands, since steroid use and abuse effect not hundreds of players, but hundreds of thousands.
We can't go back and change what football's become, but we can change the course of the game going forward.
One idea would be a return to limited substitution.
Limited Substitution was a scheme that was widely used by the NCAA in Fifties and Sixties. It basically means an end to platoon football. It means that your offensive team is also your defensive team.
The problems with limited substitution are fairly obvious and we'll get them to them in a moment.
The benefits of Limited Substitution are manifold.
The main demand playing both ways makes on a player is increased endurance. For linemen it means that rather than playing at your heaviest weight, you pretty much have to play at your lightest. You then have a reverse domino effect where players, instead of going for size and strength first, are going for speed and endurance first.
There's no way a normal human being can play both ways at 300 pounds (though ex Eagle and Raider Bob Brown did one year in college at Nebraska, but Hall of Famer, Bobby Brown is not a normal human being).
In a two-way system your average lineman would go from 300+ pounds to about 260 in fairly short order. In addition we would soon see the return of the 220 pound outside linebacker and the 220 pound tight end.
It might not cut down on injuries in pro football, but it would radically cut down on the use of, or need for steroids in the game.
The downside of limited substitution is that some guys who are great linebackers might only be mediocre receivers or running backs. And what about Quarterbacks? How could Tom Brady or the Manning Boys even play at the Pro level if they also had to play free safety too?
Here are the fixes I would put into "limited substitution" to remedy some of these problems. Classic limited substitution only allowed for the substitution of two players at each change of possession. I would allow for four new players to come in, and I would also allow for two more players to be allowed to come in, on third downs. This would allow for certain specialty players, like quarterbacks, to come off the field on defense, as well as allowing for five defensive backs on 3rd down and other specialty defenses and offenses.
I would also allow for two injury timeouts a game per team and increase the number of regular time outs from three to four a half.
There still could be a problem with punters and kickers, but I'm glad it's not my problem.
Since the Pros are not really interested in the problems of their players or even with their game itself, as long as its making money, one would not introduce Limited Substitution in the Pro Ranks first, but in colleges, especially Division II and III colleges. We could then introduce Limited Substitution into D1, and from there, after it had shown its worth, into the Pros.
Every society may get the spectacle it deserves, but it doesn't mean we have to like it.
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John Schjelderup Giæver (31 December 1901 – 9 November 1970) was a Norwegian author and polar researcher.

Jónsbú Station in NE Greenland was named after him.

Personal life
He was born in Tromsø in Troms, Norway. He was the son of lawyer John Schjelderup Giæver (1864–1914) and his wife Thyra Høegh (1879–1954). He was the great-great-great-grandson of Jens Holmboe.

John Schjelderup Giæver married Oddbjørg Jacobsen in March 1940 and they had a son in April the same year. However, the marriage was dissolved. Giæver married Anna Margrethe Gløersen in 1948; this time they had a daughter, born 1954.

Career
He took his secondary education in Trondheim in 1920, and then moved back to Tromsø. He started a newspaper career, as sub-editor of Tromsø Stiftstidende from 1921 to 1922. He was editor-in-chief in Vesteraalens Avis from 1922 to 1928 and Tromsø Stiftstidende from 1928 to 1929. He lived as a trapper in north-eastern Greenland from 1929 to 1934. In 1935 he was hired as secretary for Norges Svalbard- og Ishavsundersøkelser, the Norwegian institution for exploration of Svalbard and the Arctic Sea, later renamed into the Norwegian Polar Institute.

During World War II, he first fled to London where he worked as a secretary for the exiled government. From 1941 to 1944, he served with the Royal Norwegian Air Force-in-exile at Little Norway, Canada. In 1944, with the rank of Major, he was sent to Northern Norway to participate in the successful liberation from Nazi occupation. In 1947 he returned to the Norwegian Polar Institute as secretary, and from 1948 to 1960 he was office manager. However, he was still involved in the field as well, leading the wintering party of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition from 1949 to 1952.

Giæver published several books. His literary career began with Illgjerningsmand (A Misdeeder) (1921), which was translated into German in 1923. His book Maudheim. To år i Antarktis (1952), describing the Antarctic Expedition was translated into English, French, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, German and Croatian.  From 1955 on he renewed his literary authorship with numerous books of documentary and partly autobiographical topics, covering Arctic trapping, fishing and warfare.

Other books include Ishavets glade borgere (1956); Langt der oppe mot nord (1958), Rabagaster under polarstjernen (1959), Fra min barndoms elv til fjerne veidemarker (1960), Fra Little Norway til Karasjok (1964), Med rev bak øret (1965), Dyretråkk og fugletrekk på 74° nord (1967), Lys og skygger i sjøgata (1969), Den gang jeg drog av sted (1970) and Soldøgn og mørketid (1971).

Giæver was awarded the Maudheim medal in 1952 and the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Medal in 1956, both for his leadership in the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition. He also held the St. Olav's Medal With Oak Branch, the Defence Medal 1940 – 1945, the Haakon VII 70th Anniversary Medal and Knight first class of the Order of Vasa. He also received the King's Medal of Merit in gold and he was a member of the Explorer's Club in New York. In 1952, he was awarded the 25th Silver Wolf, the highest commendation of Norwegian Scouting.

He died in November 1970 in Oslo.

See also
Adolf S. Jensen Land
Jonsbu

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