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If you go down to the woods…on National Poetry Day!
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We are very proud of our poetry trail in Springfield Park, the calming green space in which Alder Hey Children's Hospital is nestled.
As you stroll through our beautiful park you can take a moment to read some of the competition-winning poems. Here is a little bit of background to how these wonderful words were born...
Last year Alder Hey was privileged to be chosen as one of ten sites across the UK for a 'Tree Charter Marker' sculpture. These sculptures serve as a national monument to mark the launch of the Woodland Trust's National Tree Charter during National Tree Week in November. The Charter is a new guide for UK society to build a future where trees and people stand stronger together.
Each sculpture represents one of the principles underpinning the new charter. The 15ft sculpture, made of UK-sourced oak from the Crown Estate bears specially commissioned words by poet Harriet Fraser. The images were carved by master craftsman Simon Clements and highlight the work Alder Hey does to promote health and wellbeing through connection with the natural environment.
To celebrate, Alder Hey launched a poetry competition inviting members of the public to submit their own poems exploring the theme of trees and woods. Winning poems were printed and are now displayed permanently throughout Springfield Park.
"As Europe's only hospital in a park, the unique design of Alder Hey in the Park allows the best possible environment and experience for patients, their families and the wider community to encourage long term physical and mental health and wellbeing. This amazing partnership with the Woodland Trust allows us to celebrate our beautiful surroundings and highlight the value of the natural environment."
Alder Hey partnered up with the University of Liverpool to inspire people to think poetically about trees and the judging panel of the poetry competition included published poet and writer Harriet Fraser and Deryn Rees-Jones, a Liverpool-born poet, and Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool.
Thank you to everyone involved in this project and remembering, this National Poetry Day, the long term impact it has had.
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The Committee will provide an additional avenue of consultation and feedback to Council over the next five years on its Light Rail Support Plan. The light rail support plan proposes allocating $68M in future draft budgets, subject to detailed community consultation, to build a multi-storey car park in Kingsford, claw back street parking removed because of the light rail (such as along Anzac Parade), upgrade drainage, create new urban plazas and develop better cycleway connections.
Council will also be conducting wider consultation with all affected residents, businesses and ratepayers and use our established consultation methods such as local Precincts, www.yoursayrandwick.com.au and Council's social media channels.
Randwick Mayor Scott Nash said the Committee will look at each proposal within the plan as required and ensure it helps maximise the benefits of the new transport system for the Randwick City community.
"We welcome the introduction of light rail in Randwick City and commend the Government on funding this project. The aim of our support plan is to enhance the light rail project and make sure our community gets the most out of this once in a generation opportunity to revitalise our City," Mayor Nash said.
"This committee will look at each of the projects over the next five years, as necessary, and provide us with additional feedback and information ensuring residents' needs are considered and complementing our existing community consultation practices.
The committee was formed following a recent Expression of Interest process requiring applicants to meet specific criteria. Applicants who did not meet the criteria were discounted and the remaining candidates were drawn at random to participate in the committee.
I'd be surprised if Paul H had been on public transport once in the last twenty years, and he lives about as far away from the areas impacted as you could get!


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NIS and the Partizan Basketball Club signed a sponsorship agreement making the follow up on successful long-standing cooperation. The contract was signed at the Partizan Basketball Club headquarters in Belgrade by Kirill Tyurdenev, CEO of NIS, and Ostoja Mijailović, President of the Partizan Basketball Club.
NIS and Partizan Basketball Club cherished a long-standing partnership that turned into a general sponsorship in 2013, under which NIS became a wind at the back of one of the most successful Serbian basketball clubs to achieve victories both in domestic and European competitions. What is common to NIS and the Partizan Basketball Club is their readiness to face challenges, the winning attitude and the team spirit, whereas the continued cooperation confirms their focus on the same goal – striving for the best results, firmly believing that mutual trust and support inevitably lead to success.
"In sports, as in life, victories are essential. One of the most important victories is the possibility to preserve our core values despite everything to the contrary. Our partnership with the Partizan Basketball Club has lasted longer than a decade and has been both cherished and reinforced from one year to another. There have been both wonderful and difficult moments that we have shared and we are lucky to be able to rejoice in our successes and sports victories again this season. We wish you to finish this season just the way you started it – as champions. We will always remain your reliable partner and loyal supporter," said Kiril Tyurdenev, CEO of NIS.
Ostoja Mijailović, president of the Partizan Basketball Club, said that the renewal of the general sponsorship agreement is something of a guarantee that Partizan will achieve the results expected by the general public and those in line with the club's goals.
"The cooperation between NIS and the Partizan Basketball Club has been in place for fourteen years, and, for the most part, this sponsorship is aimed at the development of younger categories of players. Under the Jazak brand, NIS has supported the summer camp intended for our younger categories – children. This is a very important segment of Partizan, something our club is renowned for. Our goals for the next season are well-known and we would hardly have achieved them had there not been support from NIS over the recent years. NIS is a great example for other companies operating in the region, as a socially responsible company that invests in sports so that our country is presented in the best possible light across Europe and the globe," Mijailović said.
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When I was a child, my mother (a science teacher) tested her excursions during the school holidays. We didn't just go to Ballarat (an old gold town in Victoria), then, we visited the town and the museum and then walked through an old mine. We went to Vaughn Springs and panned for gold and gems. I normally sum this up as going to the beach to study the ecology of rockpools, but today I'm not interested in rockpools.
What I saw when I was a child was what mining did to landscapes. It created tunnels and hills and dredged streams deeper or reshaped them. In one of my childhood landscapes, the streams had been destroyed entirely in the search for gold. I looked at small hills and, as a child brought up on English books, I loved them. Then Mum explained those hills and I found out that, in the making of a tiny hilled landscape, everything had been destroyed. The water from local streams had been targeted to help force the gold out under pressure. Those small hills everywhere were the refuse from the urgent search for gold. There was so much destruction in the old goldfields that it wasn't until later that I learned how to interpret landscapes. Mining can leave land permanently changed.
Interpretation is important. And one never stops learning. Earlier this year, I read Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu, Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? This book questioned the way we interpret the Australian landscape historically. I realised that I'd factored mining into my interpretation of agriculture, but hadn't considered the wider ramifications of farming before the early 1800s in exactly the same place. The mining had obliterated a lot of the evidence of farming, but Pascoe found more evidence in explorer's journals and records from early European settlement.
This was in my mind when I went to Amiens this July. I only returned last week, so it's very fresh.
The cathedral in Amiens. It survived the wars.
I was investigating a heap of things for a heap of reasons, but when I began my research a few months ago, I realised that the debris of World War I lies on Somme landscape the way the debris of goldmining lies on the Victorian goldfields. I needed to understand three periods in that region (the Middle Ages, the seventeenth century, and the end of World War II) but before I could interpret them, I had to understand World War I.
My big advantage in the interpretation is that it's a centennial year: everyone was willing to talk with me and the museums were stuffed with information. There were pictures of before and after, for example, for bombed sites and for major battlefields. I could take all this out and catch a train and visit a once-destroyed town and check out the fields and wander the streets of Amiens and interpret… everything.
I thought you might like to see some of the things I saw. This is not a complete guide. Not even close to one, in fact. This is one small element and even that element is something I'll be processing what I saw until I've finished the novels I'm working on. Maybe longer. It will take far more than a blogpost to explain that landscape.
My focus today, then, is on the effect of World War I on the area of the Somme around Amiens. I went up to two trainstops away in more than one direction to see what I could see.
The first thing that struck me was the missing places. There are some complete landscape changes in the region. Some of it is the usual (villages deserted because the people moved elsewhere) but in the Somme region, there is a very disturbing type of desertion. The satellite map shows places where trains and roads still do not go. This is the worst remaining parts of the Zone Rouge. The Zone Rouge was much larger a hundred years ago, but the web tells me it will take 700 years before every part of the battlefront region from World War I is liveable again.
The Red Zone is that part of the front line that was so destroyed by battle that it needed to be mended before it could be lived in. I visited part of it that had been mended and looked at maps of those parts that I can't get to.
This is a street in a torn named Albert, which was rebuilt almost from scratch.
"You can't live here, it's dangerous" was the official word.
"It's home," said the locals and rebuilt.
I visited because that rebuild was so important to me for so many reasons. It reminded me that houses are not the only thing in a hometown. Places of beauty and places of awe make a difference, too. Albert has all of these. It was mostly built in the 1920s, but it remembers the earlier past through its landmarks.
Each place in a ruined landscape makes different decisions or has decisions made for them. I talked to a potter in Amiens, and he told me about his family. Their town was never rebuilt. There's a museum there, he said, but there are no trains or buses. Also no residents. His family moved to Amiens because there was nothing left for them.
Not everything is destroyed on or near a military front line ,even one as destructive as that in World War I. Amiens was partly destroyed, Bits of it are old. Bits of it are new. Bits of it are rebuilt in older styles, in an attempt to not lose its past. Amiens has an important history and a lot of rebuilders commemorated that history by having houses that have an earlier 'feel' or that take stones and carvings from the rubble and make them part of a home. I have hundreds of pictures of Amiens, because its way of balancing survival and rebuilding and moving forward is very much its own. This means that the city's character emerges in all the sectors of the town, whether they're the once-a-citadel or whether they're tourist sections or whether they're remnants of the nationally important seventeenth century place.
Amiens added to this complex streetscape as part of its commemoration of World War I. It has photographs of the war telling stories using the streetscape. Those pictures show us who fought; they show us the damage: they remind us that scars do not heal easily.
It's easier to think that war is past if one lives on the other side of the world. It's harder if one sees a new house where the family home once rested. It's much harder still if one looks at a plantation of pines that once held the town one's family had lived in for generations.
Something that tangles the Somme landscape is the sorrowful tourism for families of soldiers. People from outside the region want to see the destroyed landscape. Only some of them have interest in the region itself. Right now, there are Aussies everywhere, retracing the tracks of their fallen relatives. It's become a replacement industry for the region, making up for everything that was lost in World War I and then World War II.
This is not new. The extent of the tourism is something that's only a hundred years old, but the memory of war in what used to be Picardy is not new at all. This landscape is scarred because of where it is and how rich the soil is. Some of the best farmland. Old cultures, cool people. And so it has suffered in war after war after war. The stuff, in fact, of stories. Some of the great French battle epics are set in this part of France. English-speakers think of the English/French interface. Readers of Dumas think of La Rochelle. Everyone thinks of Paris. But this area has a special history and the landscape is much harder to read because of this history.
What looks like fields and forest may also be layers of buried sorrow.
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Thanks for sharing something that I don't really think about. This is a different kind of 'after' than what usually comes to mind. I often think about the people, but not the land itself. I can't imagine how difficult it is, to come back after something so cataclysmic. To rebuild; respecting the past and trying to build for the future.
As for all the photos, I would love to see more.


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Africa will need more financial help to avoid "long-lasting, terrible consequences" from the coronavirus pandemic, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, said as the fund predicted a region-wide contraction of 3.2 per cent this year, far worse than it had forecast just 10 weeks ago.
"This is the heaviest hit on Africa at least since the 1970s," Ms Georgieva said in an interview. Without tens of billions of dollars in additional support, she warned, "there can be very significant scarring that will have long-lasting, terrible consequences".
Africa had been a "continent on the move", she said, referring to several of the region's economies — such as Ghana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda and Senegal — that had been among the world's fastest-growing in recent years. "This momentum is now dramatically interrupted."
Given the rising population in sub-Saharan Africa, the region would be hit harder still in per capita terms, she said, with an expected 5.4 per cent fall in incomes that could push millions back into extreme poverty. Oil-dependent and tourism-dependent economies in sub-Saharan Africa would shrink by 4.9 per cent and 9.7 per cent respectively, she said.
"When we look at the devastation this crisis is causing everywhere, we have to recognise that it is particularly hard on Africa," Ms Georgieva said.
Many African governments have been credited with acting swiftly to stem the spread of the virus, which has so far infected a relatively low 400,000 people and killed 6,500 people.
But the economic impact has been severe because of falling commodity prices, suppressed remittance flows and a collapse in tourism and investment. The IMF also remains concerned that the virus could "spread aggressively".
Ms Georgieva said the IMF was already in the process of increasing annual average disbursements to Africa 16-fold to $16bn. "We have no intention to stop there," she said.
This year alone, the international community still had to find an additional $44bn for Africa, either through debt write-offs, grants or concessionary funding, she said.
We are in this together. If there is anyone that hasn't quite gotten it, please wake up
Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana's finance minister, is one of many African officials to complain that while richer countries have taken massive and unorthodox measures to stave off economic collapse, African countries are expected by creditors to stick by the rules. "You really feel like shouting: 'I can't breathe,'" he said.
Without naming the US, Ms Georgieva called on countries to reconsider their opposition to a new issuance of $1tn in Special Drawing Rights that would provide a liquidity boost to countries facing a sudden depletion of foreign reserves. Steven Mnuchin, US treasury secretary, has voiced Washington's opposition to an SDR issuance, akin to "printing" money, on the grounds that some funds would go to the likes of China and Iran and not enough to poor countries with low IMF quotas.
"We have not been able to gather sufficient support for a new SDR issuance at this point," Ms Georgieva conceded.
"I would not say this is off the table, but we need 85 per cent voting and we don't have it at this moment," she said, adding that those countries with strong economic fundamentals had been able to issue bonds to bridge the liquidity gap. "For weak economies, for poor countries, it continues to be a very pressing issue."
In the meantime, she said, the IMF was negotiating to reallocate some of the roughly $260bn of existing unused SDRs from rich countries to poor ones, a proposal she described as "progressing". However, African Union envoys appointed to press the continent's case say this will not be enough because African countries are eligible for only 6.8 per cent of these funds.
Ms Georgieva also called on private sector lenders to African countries, such as banks and pension funds, to join in a debt moratorium. "We are asking everybody to look in the mirror," she said, adding that rating agencies should not penalise countries that agreed debt standstills with creditors.
"We are not talking about a debt reduction and it is voluntary," she said, referring to a possible private sector debt standstill. "We are in this together. If there is anyone that hasn't quite gotten it, please wake up."
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Sally Pepermans moved from France to New Caledonia 15 years ago, and she likes to say the destination's main island, Grand Terre, looks a little like a French baguette, as it measures 220 miles long but covers just 30 to 40 miles at its widest. Pepermans now works as New Caledonia Tourism's sales and marketing manager for New Zealand, but she still spends a great deal of her time in the South Pacific nation, returning from her most recent New Caledonia visit earlier this month.
Only a 2.5-hour flight northeast of Sydney, New Caledonia often sails under the radar for many travelers considering a South Pacific vacation, but Pepermans insists overlooking the destination is a big mistake. We asked her to tell us more about the exotic tropical paradise.
What makes New Caledonia a destination that U.S. travelers would enjoy visiting?
I think it's the best-kept secret in the South Pacific to be honest with you. Our lagoons have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites since 2008, so I can tell you that the ecosystem is just exceptional in New Caledonia.
We don't have massive tourism, so we don't have pollution. And it's still this little piece of heaven, untouched and wild, but with a kind of sophistication because it's a piece of land in the South Pacific that belongs to the French government, so we have this mix of Melanesian and French culture.
Are snorkeling and scuba diving popular options for travelers?
Absolutely. Wherever you are in New Caledonia, you can enjoy fantastic snorkeling and fantastic diving, and you will see a lot of colorful coral and lots of fish. You can also see turtles very easily, and seeing dolphins is very common in New Caledonia.
Are there other tourism activities popular among travelers?
Our deep-sea fishing is terrific, and sailing and yachting is very developed. Just about everywhere you can rent a boat and go out on the lagoon.
We also have a number of well-developed land activities, such as trekking. There are lots of options throughout the country from two-hour to two-day treks. We have four golf courses, and there is a lot of horse riding. You can actually go out and gather together the cattle at a ranch, or you can go for a very nice ride in the mountains.
Additionally, we can arrange for people to do a stay in tribal accommodations [with New Caledonia's native Kanak people], where you might spend two or three nights and learn about their everyday life.
Are there other cultural activities travelers can do to learn more about the Kanak people?
We have the Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre [in the capital of Noumea], which is dedicated to the Kanak and Melanesian cultures, and there you can discover Melanesian art, culture and history. But Melanesians are everywhere, and you can still find many living in tribes up north.
You can, for example, have lunch with Melanesian people and be invited to cook with them and make bougna, which is the specialty of the island. It's made with coconut leaves, and they put a lot of potatoes, crabs and lobster in it. It's cooked for hours in a hole dug in the ground with hot stones. So, that's definitely something we can definitely organize for visitor tours.
Is New Caledonia cuisine a mixture of Melanesian and French food?
Oh, yes. The food and wine and cheese — a lot of these products are imported from France. But we do have a lot of fresh food from the islands, and then there's wonderful seafood, obviously. We have fantastic tuna and big prawns. Our blue prawns are known as some of the best in the world.
We also have good meat, as cattle is raised in an organic way, and then there are many tropical fruits, such as lychee. And then we have things like avocados, pineapples, and grapefruits all year long.
Noumea offers a really big range of options, from Asian food to the gourmet French experience, such as L'Hippocampe.
Hippocampe means "sea horse" in French, and the restaurant is definitely a gourmet French experience — very high-end, and the chef is French. But he tries to mix fresh products from New Caledonia with a little bit of flavor from France. L'Hippocampe is definitely my favorite, and it's at the Le Meridien Noumea hotel, so it's very easy for tourists to find.
Are there some must-see destinations in New Caledonia for U.S. travelers?
They have to travel to the Isle of Pines, which is known as the Jewel of the Pacific. It is one of the best places I have ever seen in my life. The trees, the sea coast, the pristine water — it's all absolutely incredible, and you get a very warm welcome from the people. It's a mix of wild with the very authentic, and very private with great luxury.
Do you have some favorite hotels or resorts you would suggest for visitors?
They just refurbished Le Meridien on the Isle of Pines. It has 49 bungalows. None of them are overwater, but they all face the lagoon, and it's very close to what we call the Natural Swimming Pool, which is definitely in walking distance from the resort.
There are many fish and coral kept inside by rocks there, so it's very safe, and it's great for snorkeling. The hotel has a great location, and the food is superb because the chef is very good. You feel like Robinson Crusoe, but with all the luxury of the Meridien brand.
Another property I like is in Ouvea, which is part of the Loyalty Islands, so you have to fly there. It's called Hotel Paradis d'Ouvea. You have a lot of privacy there with your own bungalow facing the lagoon, and you have your own swimming pool. It's really the best for honeymooners. If you want to have a second honeymoon — or just your first — it's absolutely superb.
What advice would you offer U.S. travelers wondering about the best way to actually get to New Caledonia?
Well, you can fly twice a week on Air Tahiti Nui from Los Angeles to Tahiti, and then on to Auckland before flying from there to Noumea, but there are many nonstops to New Caledonia from either New Zealand or Australia.
I think Americans spending time in Australia and New Zealand who want to experience a quick stop in France or a tropical region should think about also going to Noumea, which is just two and a half hours from Sydney. It's very easy to get to, and we have many flights.
Also, I think on top of a trip to Australia or New Zealand, a visit to New Caledonia would be like heaven. You get great food, a beautiful landscape and a chance to meet and mingle with the native Kanak people. It's not that well-known, and nowadays it's very hard to find a little piece of land that people don't visit often. Those who visit can be proud of making the trip before their friends.
Travelers are always trying to find new secrets, and New Caledonia is definitely a secret to share.
Have a long layover in Sydney, Australia, before your flight to New Caledonia? The QT Sydney hotel is a fun and sassy property worth even a one-night stay.


I sometimes watch "The weakest link" (i don't think it's on in the US) but anyways, there was a woman who came on once and she was straight-edge and vegan and she wore her edge, and I thought that was really cool. Living in England, I consider myself unlikely to come face to face with many straight-edge people.
I'm sure that girl must have been called Mary?
I remember she used to have a Straight Edge distro on myspace or something and she said she was going to be on the show.
There are plenty of straightedge people in england, they don't all go on the weakest link though!!!
there was an american version of the weakest link on in the US for a while. that's all I have to contribute to the conversation.


Looking for a wine holiday with a difference ? Ever wanted to see for yourself how the wines that you love are made ? A lot of the wineries or quintas in Portugal understand this and are keen to share their passion for wine with wine enthusiasts.
Take a flight to Porto, have a look around that wonderful city and then travel north up to Minho, a land of misty granite ridges and deep valleys down to the Atlantic. Sample refreshing spritzy vinho verdes with flavours of citrus, apple and peach. Stay at Quinta da Portela, an impressive manor house on the Caminho de Santiago in the Lima Valley and let your host Han Geelen guide you through the local wines over a lovely dinner sourced from local produce. (Hangeelen@msn.com).
Further up the Douro Mafalda Almeida of Miles Away project specialises in arranging bespoke tours of the Douro Superior, home of some of the original Douro pioneers. Mafalda can arrange visits to Quinta Noval with its iconic whitewashed terraces and delicious velvety ports or Vesuvio, an imposing quinta with an impressive wine cellar and one-time home of the famous Dona Antonia Ferreira who tamed great tracts of the Upper Douro in the 18 century (see cover photo).
Also Quinta do Bom Retiro , a tranquil retreat for the Ramos Pinto family and Ervamoira at the furthest extremity of the Douro. This vast wine estate in the remote Douro Superior has incredible historical artefacts dating back to Roman and even Palaeolithic times. Round off this perfect road trip at Monte de Xisto you can enjoy a night under canvas in the Hemingway-style 'fly camp' with spectacular views of the river below and an open air candle lit dinner of local cuisine and wines from the exclusive wine estates in the area.
Just a selection of the fabulous wine travel options – what are you waiting for !!


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River City 21 18 .538 5½
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River City 5, Gateway 2, 7 innings
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Women's Reproductive Rights Are Not Up for Debate
For Immediate Release: April 5, 2018
After the Atlantic hired Kevin Williamson, NARAL launched a campaign to #FireKevin, due to his advocacy for capital punishment for anyone who's had an abortion. Following reports that Williamson is no longer at the Atlantic, NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue issued the following statement:
"Women's health, wellbeing, and rights are under near-constant attack, yet men like Kevin Williamson are given the benefit of the doubt, second chances, and national platforms. Extremists like Williamson deserve condemnation, not a byline to espouse racist, misogynist, right wing extremism.
"One in four women will have an abortion, something that the majority of Americans support as an option and something Kevin Williamson believes should be punishable by death. Williamson's statements are cruel and dangerous in the current climate. That's why NARAL members spoke out and petitioned The Atlantic to fire extremist bigot Kevin Williamson.
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This Saint had many useful sayings that she used to say to the nuns. One of her sayings: 'I never set my foot upon the step of the ladder, and I never go up to the next step without thinking I may die before I raise my leg so that the enemy might not entice me with the hope of a long life.' And she also said: ' IT is better for a man to show mercy even to satisfy men for the time will come that it will be to satisfy God.' She also had many other sayings written in the Paradise of the Fathers. She stayed on the banks of the river in a cave for sixty years fighting a great fight and no one saw her until she departed to the eternal bless and she was eighty years old. May her prayers be with us. Amen.
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What to see in Estella
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Along this urban Jacobean journey the walkers can appreciate the majority of monuments on offer in Estella. In the XII century, and as the consequence of an economic boom in the enclave and on the route itself, a number of religious buildings were constructed on both sides of its main street.
The route enters the town and leaves, on the left, the old walls of the enclave known as the new Jewish area. Upon entering Calle Curtidores, of medieval origin, and walking a few meters the route arrives at the Church Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro, its construction began in the late twelfth century and is notable for its XIV portal. Next to the church there is a figure of Santiago.
A few meters further to the right stands the bridge known as Puente de la cárcel (the prison bridge), built in 1973. The original bridge was destroyed, bombed by Liberals in 1973 in the 3rd Carlist War during which the city blocked. The Carlist Wars involved three civilian battles that took place in Spain in the XIX century between the extreme Carlists, supporters to the throne of Carlos María Isidro of Borbón and his descendants-an alternative branch of the Bourbon dynasty-, and the liberal supporters of Isabel II of Spain. The Third Carlist War took place between 1872 and 1876.
Almost opposite the bridge, and through an underground tunnel, the pilgrims reach Calle Santa María from which they access the neighbourhood of Elgacena, where it is believed that the seat of old Jewish quarter was situated, the third most important in the ancient Kingdom of Navarre after the Jewish communities of Tudela and Pamplona. On the left is the impressive former convent of Santo Domingo, with its Gothic church founded by Theobald II in 1259.
Currently it is nursing home, closed to the public. A little higher is the church of Santa María de Jus del Castillo (named so for its location at the foot of the fortress of Belmecher), constructed in the late XII century on the site of an ancient synagogue. With a Roman apse and a Baroque facade, inside houses the current Centro de interpretación del Románico y del Camino de Santiago (centre of roman interpretation and of the Camino de Santiago), which, exhibits different artwork and models that help interpret these two important monuments from the middle Ages and discover the rich heritage of the ancient Kingdom of Navarra.
The centre is open from Easter week until the 30th of September, Tuesday to Saturday from 11.30 to 13.30 and from 17.30 to 19.30 hours, and on Sundays, from 11.30 to 13.30. The rest of the year visits can only be known made through prior appointment made by phoning 948550200 or caminodesantiagoestella@yahoo.es, with groups of at least five people).
Now back on the official Jacobean way, along the ancient Rúa of the pilgrims, where they will find various Gothic arches that give access to shops and hostelries open at the foot of the Camino. A few metres away, and on the right, the former Governor's Palace is situated, inside the (constructed in the early XVII century) Museum of Carlismo, a premises which seeks to recover patrimonial, of research and scientific dissemination of this political movement (open Tuesday to Saturday from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00 and on Sundays and public holidays from 11.00 to 14.00.
Entry is free for pilgrims with the credential). Passing, immediately after the Casa de Cultura Fray Diego de Estella, a plateresque palace built in the XVI century the authentic monumental centre is reached. On the right, in the square Plaza de San Martin, it has a beautiful fountain of jets (Fuente de los chorros), a pretty XVI century Renaissance fountain, popularly known as Fuente de Mona, and at one end of the square, the Palace of the Kings of Navarre, the only example of Romanesque civil architecture in this autonomous region.
On one of the capitals of the columns on the left side of the arcaded façade recalls the legendary battle that took place between the French knight Roland and the Islamic giant Ferragut (As told in the itinerary Logroño- Najera on the French Way). Today the palace is home to the museum Museo Gustavo de Maeztu, a legacy to plastic and graphic art from Estella.
In the vicinity of the square visitors will encounter the building that was the town council until the XIX century. Its Baroque façade includes classical columns and pilasters and, on its main floor, two shields of the city. Situated close by and reached from a steep staircase is the church of San Pedro de la Rúa, built in 1968, one of the most beautiful Romanesque monuments in Navarre. During the middle Ages, it was used as a cemetery for pilgrims.
Here a Greek bishop was buried in the XIII century, famous for carrying the relic of San Andrés he has been the patron of the city since its discovery. Among the most unique aspects of the temple are its tall defensive tower and beautiful late Romanic portal with an arch of Arab influence. It is also worth mentioning the star, symbol of the city. The most unique area of the temple is, however, the twelfth-century cloister, of which only two of the four galleries have been preserved after the destruction caused by the bombing of the ancient XVI century castle.
It is a square building of late Romanesque style. The decoration of its capitals combines iconography of the Camino of Santiago with other plant and animal themes. The cloister can also be accessed from an elevator located below on the street itself. If the Walker continues along the street Calle San Nicholas they will reach, a few meters later, the Puerta de Castilla (door of the castle), a unique portal situated at the foot of the medieval city walls, from here they will be outside the old medieval enclave.
But, despite not being on the road itself, Estella hides historic corners that are well worth visiting. Among them the beautiful old railway station of narrow gauge (Estella-Lizarra) stands out, located in the Plaza de la Coronación, completed in 1927, it remained in operation until 1967. Roman inspired, its windows are reminiscent of the Palace of the Kings of Navarre.
Currently it is the bus station. As a construct of interest, and related to the pilgrimage, the Basilica of Our Lady of Puy is notable, perched on a hill, from where the whole city can be seen. It was built where legend places the appearance of an image of the Virgin. First a chapel was erected, then a Baroque church and, in the XX century, a star-shaped basilica that recreates an intense light effect which allegedly, was produced on the discovery of the carving.
Tradition relates how in 1085, some shepherds, drawn in by a group of stars made their way to the top of this mound where they discovered, hidden in a cave, the image of the Virgin. It is likely that this Marian devotion attracted French pilgrims to Santiago, since in France it has a great devotion. It is also worth remembering that, from Le Puy, the Podense way, one of the most popular pilgrimage routes to Santiago traditionally popular in France begins.
In the summer, and for those pilgrims who arrive early to the city, a pleasant visit is to the park Los Llanos, bathed by the river Ega. Pilgrims can cool off in the pool known as the Agua Salada (salty water), a natural pool with medicinal properties located on one of the banks of the river.
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Un lugar donde poder dormir en Estella: Hostería de Curtidores, buen lugar y buen trato!
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A multi-regional representation of China's agricultural sectors
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SinoTERM, a multi-regional CGE model of China
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Drought, regions and the Australian economy between 2001-02 and 2004-05
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Search begins for Dougherty's replacement
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The university has hired a search firm to help find a replacement head basketball coach after Neil Dougherty wasn't retained for his seventh season, the athletics director said.
Athletics director Danny Morrison said TCU hired Dallas-based Eastman & Beaudine Inc. for support with the search for a new head coach. The university also used the firm in 1997 to search for a replacement for then-retiring athletics director Frank Windegger, which ended with the hiring of Eric Hyman.
Hyman served TCU for more than seven years and was named the 2003-04 Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal National Athletics Director of the Year before leaving to occupy the same post at University of South Carolina in 2005.
Dougherty, who came to TCU as a highly regarded assistant after seven years at the University of Kansas, was informed Sunday afternoon that he would not return to the team next year, Morrison said. Morrison did not give an exact date when the decision was made.
"We evaluate every coach at the end of every season," Morrison said.
The TCU Athletics Media Relations Department has denied the Daily Skiff interviews with any TCU coach or player except regarding upcoming opponents.
"We appreciate Neil's contributions to TCU over the last six years," Morrison said in a statement released Sunday. "He cares deeply about the student-athletes and always had their best interests at heart. He put a lot of time and effort into the job, and we wish him the best in the future."
Dougherty declined to comment at his home Monday, but his colleagues spoke volumes about the coach's performance on and off the court.
Roy Williams, current University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill head coach whom Dougherty served under at Kansas, said he trusts Dougherty immensely.
"He's really one of the great young coaches in college basketball," Williams said. "He's a great young man, a great coach and the kind of guy I would want my son to play for. That's as great a compliment as I can give anybody."
Eddie Fogler, former head coach at Vanderbilt University and South Carolina whom Dougherty served under from 1989 to 1995, said Dougherty's ability to relate to parents and student-athletes makes him a great recruiter.
"Parents have a great comfort level with Neil – his whole family background is terrific," Fogler said.
Brigham Young University head coach Dave Rose said Dougherty faced a tough challenge in changing conferences and playing the farthest distance of any other Mountain West Conference school. Although Rose is 5-0 against TCU since it joined the conference in 2005, he said TCU was a consistent and well-coached basketball team under Dougherty.
"(Dougherty) is such a personable guy," Rose said. "When you sit down and talk with Neil, after five or 10 minutes you feel like you've known him all your life."
After six seasons at TCU since joining the team in 2002, Dougherty's career record of 75-108, which includes three last-place conference finishes, ranked 309 out of 320 among Division I coaches in winning percentage for coaches with at least five years experience, according to NCAA records.
TCU finished this season 14-16 overall and 6-10 in conference play with a 198 RPI, which is a computerized index for ranking teams, earning a seventh-place finish in the conference, the team's best since it joined the MWC in 2005. The team's season ended with an 89-88 loss to eventual conference champion, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the conference tournament quarterfinals.
The Horned Frogs posted a 21-14 record in Dougherty's third season when the team was a member of Conference USA, the team's most wins since the 1998-99 season, which included a berth in the National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals. TCU posted season records of 6-25 in 2005-2006 with a 287 RPI and 13-17 in 2006-2007 with a 182 RPI, respectively, both last-place conference finishes.
According to TCU's latest tax filing, Dougherty was the second-highest paid employee in the 2005 reporting period other than officers, directors and trustees at the university, earning $492,452 in compensation and $95,665 in employee benefits behind head football coach Gary Patterson, who earned $1.1 million in compensation and another $101,081 in employee benefits.
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Linden is a city in and the county seat of Marengo County, Alabama, United States. The population was 1,930 at the 2020 census, down from 2,123 at the 2010 census.

History
Settled prior to 1818, the community was first known as "Screamersville", since the cry of wild animals could still be heard during the night. It became the county seat in 1819 and was then known as the "Town of Marengo". This was changed to "Hohenlinden" in 1823, to honor the county's earliest European settlers, French Bonapartist refugees to the Vine and Olive Colony. The name commemorated the battle in 1800 at Hohenlinden, Bavaria, where the French defeated the armies of both Austria and Bavaria. The spelling was later shorten to just Linden.

Geography
Linden is located in central Marengo County at  (32.301154, −87.792650). It is  south of Demopolis, the largest city in Marengo County,  west of Thomaston, and  north of Thomasville.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which , or 0.94%, are water. The city drains north to Chickasaw Bogue, a west-flowing tributary of the Tombigbee River, and south to Sycamore Creek, a tributary of Chickasaw Bogue.

Demographics

At the 2000 census, there were 2,424 people, 938 households, and 662 families living in the city.  The population density was .  There were 1,084 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makeup of the city was 52.43% White, 46.20% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.33% Asian, and 0.87% from two or more races.  1.07% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 938 households 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% were married couples living together, 22.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% were non-families. 27.8% of households were one person and 14.4% were one person aged 65 or older.  The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 2.98.

The age distribution was 27.7% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 19.5% 65 or older.  The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.4 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.3 males.

The median household income was $22,303 and the median family income was $30,733. Males had a median income of $38,964 versus $17,857 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,536.  About 23.8% of families and 29.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 46.8% of those under age 18 and 19.0% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census
At the 2010 census, there were 2,123 people, 877 households, and 555 families living in the city.  The population density was . There were 1,013 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 51.1% White, 46.7% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.2% Asian, and 0.9% from two or more races. 2.0% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Of the 877 households 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.7% were married couples living together, 21.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 36.7% were non-families. 34.3% of households were one person and 14.7% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.25 and the average family size was 2.88.

The age distribution was 20.8% under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% 65 or older. The median age was 42.6 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.0 males.

The median household income was $20,145 and the median family income was $35,714. Males had a median income of $30,833 versus $25,000 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,701. About 31.1% of families and 31.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 41.1% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those age 65 or over.

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 1,930 people, 672 households, and 349 families residing in the city.

Transportation
 U.S. Highway 43
 State Route 28
 State Route 69

Linden is accessed by way of one U.S. Highway: US 43 which runs north-south through the city as Main Street connecting the city to Demopolis to the north and Thomasville to the south. SR 28 runs east-west through the city as Coats Avenue connecting the city to US 80 to the northwest and the towns of Thomaston and Camden to the southeast. SR 69 runs north-south through the city cosigned with US 43 before leaving US 43 at the far south end of town heading southwest towards Myrtlewood and connecting to Butler by way of SR 10.

In her 2021 State of the State address, Governor Kay Ivey confirmed that her administration would be moving forward with a long proposed plan to expand US 43 to four lanes from "Thomasville to Tuscaloosa." Upon completion, the expansion to US 43 will most likely pass around Linden by way of a bypass.

Media
The Linden Leader, a weekly newspaper, is based in Linden.

Education
The city runs its own citywide school system, Linden City Schools.  It also had one private school, Marengo Academy, founded in 1969; one of many segregation academies as they are known, which cropped up in the South after segregation was made illegal. Marengo Academy closed in 2019.

Notable people
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader
William J. Alston, United States Representative to the Thirty-first Congress
Frank Evans, professional baseball player in the Negro leagues
Autherine Lucy Foster, civil rights trailblazer; first African-American student at the University of Alabama
Sean Richardson, safety for the Green Bay Packers
Roy Rogers, professional basketball player and coach

References

External links

Cities in Alabama
Cities in Marengo County, Alabama
County seats in Alabama
Populated places established in 1823
1823 establishments in Alabama

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Amazon and Microsoft collaborate to help AI assistants communicate
Written on Sunday, 10 September 2017 08:01
Amazon and Microsoft announced that Alexa, Amazon's AI personal assistant, will soon be able to communicate with Cortana, the personal assistant for Windows 10, and vice versa. Users of Amazon's Alexa-controlled Echo speaker will be able to turn on their device and say, "Alexa, open Cortana," or turn to their Windows 10 device and say, "Cortana, open Alexa."
The two US technology giants said Alexa and Cortana will begin talking to each other later this year. Under the agreement, Microsoft customers first will be able to access Alexa via Cortana on Windows PCs, and later on Android and iOS devices, said Andrew Shuman, corporate vice president, Cortana Engineering.
Alexa customers will be able to access Cortana's unique features like booking a meeting or accessing work calendars, reminding you to pick up flowers on your way home, or reading your work email – all using just your voice. Similarly, Cortana customers can ask Alexa to control their smart home devices, shop on Amazon.com, interact with many of the more than 20,000 skills built by third-party developers, and much more.
"Ensuring Cortana is available for our customers everywhere and across any device is a key priority for us," said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft. "Bringing Cortana's knowledge, Office 365 integration, commitments, and reminders to Alexa is a great step toward that goal."
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, said, "The world is big and so multifaceted. There are going to be multiple successful intelligent agents, each with access to different sets of data and with different specialized skill areas. Together, their strengths will complement each other and provide customers with a richer and even more helpful experience."
Tractica analyst Mark Beccue speculates that Amazon and Microsoft have mutual interest in developing the ability for their AI assistants to communicate, because neither company has enough presence in the mobile space to stand alone.
He told TechNewsWorld: "Neither Microsoft nor Amazon have the market penetration that Apple and Google do. Their virtual assistants are not very multimodal yet. Maybe they feel stronger together."
Both Amazon and Microsoft have their own strengths that they can bring to the table; for example, Microsoft is stronger in productivity and search, whereas Amazon is known for e-commerce and has a vast ecosystem of skill applications, including many related to smart home technologies.
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Alibaba enter AI market with launch of voice assistant similar to Amazon's 'Echo'
Written on Sunday, 09 July 2017 08:58
Chinese e-commerce colossus Alibaba has taken its first venture into developing artificial intelligence home devices by launching its voice assistant speaker, which has drawn comparisons to Amazon's 'Echo'.
Alibaba's voice assistant which will be a low-cost device has been named 'The T-mall Genie' after its e-commerce platform T-mall. It will retail at $73.42 which is significantly less than that of its US competitors Amazon and Google's Alphabet which range between $120-$180 dollars.
The 'smart home' voice assistants are activated by voice commands to perform daily tasks such as searching for weather reports, changing music, using AI to control other 'smart home' devices. China's top technology firms have all expressed their ambitions to become global leaders in relation to AI – which has been evidenced by companies like Amazon and Alibaba increasingly competing in the same markets.
China's search engine colossus Baidu, has also invested heavily in emerging technologies, and recently announced its investment with the Chinese government for an artificial intelligence lab, whilst it recently launched its own device which was based on its own Siri-like 'Duer OS system'.
Alibaba's 'T-mall Genie has been specifically programmed to use Mandarin as its language and will only be available in China. It is activated when a user recognized by the system utters the words 'T-mall Genie' in Chinese. In a demonstration which was streamed live, engineers ordered the device to perform a series of tasks such as order some Coco-Cola, play music, add credit to a phone and activate a smart humidifier and TV.
In addition to its foray into AI devices, Alibaba has continued to invest heavily in offline stores and big data capabilities in an effort to capitalize on the entire supply chain as part of its retail strategy. Analysts have claimed it has striking similarities to strategies already adopted by Amazon.
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Nokia and China Mobile extend ultra-broadband access and intelligent home services across China
Written on Sunday, 18 June 2017 08:52
Nokia and China Mobile are deploying millions of home gateways to provide residential customers across 29 different provinces in China with access to fiber-based ultra-broadband applications and intelligent home services.
"This important announcement furthers Nokia's role as a key technology provider in China," said Federico Guillén, president of Nokia's Fixed Networks Business Group. "Our home gateway solution provides China Mobile with the ultra-broadband access technology they need to capitalize on IoT and deliver new services that support their evolving customer needs. We are very pleased to continue our close work with China Mobile and look forward to helping them deliver on their commitments."
Under this contract, China Mobile will deploy home gateway units with Nokia's solution to over 30 million users during 2017. Using established fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks, which bring greater service experiences and gigabit speeds to customers, the new gateway will extend internet coverage in the home and enable IoT communications between devices and sensors. The ability to flexibly add software functions and enhanced analytics capabilities allows China Mobile to deploy and deliver a new intelligent home experience and associated services.
"China Mobile is progressing fast as a converged telecommunications operator -- with more than 31 million FTTH subscribers -- and has proven it can successfully leverage its extensive fiber access network to deliver ultra-broadband applications such as 4K TV services and Gigabit access to customers across various provinces," said Roland Montagne, principal analyst at IDATE.
Roland added, "With the addition of intelligent home gateway technology, China Mobile will be able to further differentiate its services, providing consumers with enhanced internet coverage in the home and a more seamless experience for connecting various devices and sensors."
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LG lives up to the hype by revealing its Hub Robot and Airbot at CES 2017
Written on Thursday, 05 January 2017 13:37
LG had big plans for CES 2017 and didn't disappoint the crowds. The South Korean tech giant unveiled its latest innovative robotic helpers that go far beyond your average kitchen appliances. LG's Hub Robot, for example, was revealed as well as its Mini-sized counterpart. The robots can control smart home devices, play music, offer advice on commuting times, and overall make life a bit easier. LG appears to be competing with the Amazon Echo, by also revealing its Airbot assistant.
The LG Hub Robot features a circular "face" with a screen displaying what looks like eyes perched atop a white body. The robot can re-orient itself to face the user and move along to music that it's playing. The screen can also display images and videos, although how exactly it accesses these wasn't disclosed by LG.
LG's Airbot is able to guide wayward travelers through busy airports. It can also provide useful travel information on its large display, and talk you through steps to get through an airport when you get lost – perfect for traveling children. The Airbot is already being used by travelers at South Korea's Incheon airport, according to reports, so it seems likely that we could see it in action in other airports around the world in the future.
Unfortunately, there's no guarantee of when that will happen, or how much the robots will cost. LG hasn't revealed such details yet. LG has teased the Hub Robot before, and also announced other home appliances at the press conference, including a smart fridge featuring Alexa, Amazon's voice assistant, and a robot lawnmower.
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Amazon launches new smart home device
Amazon has announced details about developing a new smart home device aimed at fending off competition from market competitors Google and Apple. The world's largest online retailer is planning to capitalize even further on the surprising success of its voice-controlled home gadgets by introducing a new premium Echo-like speaker to the marketplace.
The new smart home device will have a touchscreen measuring around seven inches, a major departure from Amazon's existing cylindrical home devices that are controlled and respond mostly through the voice-based Alexa digital assistant. Those who have developed the new device hope it will make it easier to access content such as weather forecasts, calendar appointments and news.
The latest Amazon speaker will be much larger in size and will tilt upwards so the screen can be seen when it sits on a counter and the user is standing. High-grade speakers will make the smart home gadget sound much better than other Echo devices currently on the market. Amazon's new smart home Echo device is expected to be announced as soon as the first quarter of 2017, although the company, which has its HQ located in Seattle Washington, declined to comment.
So-called smart home gadgets are one of the latest computing battlefields fought over by the largest technology companies. However, they have so far failed to match the popularity of smartphones and personal computers. Amazon's hardware track record has also been mixed, with the disappointing launch of the Fire Phone in 2014. Its Echo speakers have been a surprise hit though, with Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimating US sales of more than 5 million units since 2014.
Amazon's planned expansion of the Alexa-powered line coincides with growing competition from Alphabet's Google Home speaker and Apple's interest in building a home device using its Siri digital assistant. The new Amazon device will use an optimized version of Fire OS, the software that runs Fire TV set-top box.
Nokia announces new Smart Home solution allowing operators to deliver IoT services
Written on Wednesday, 15 June 2016 06:35
Nokia recently announced a new Smart Home solution that lets network operators quickly offer new services to residential customers seeking a digital home solution for the Internet of Things. The solution supports an array of sensors, plugs and other connected devices essential for the delivery of home security, automation and smart metering services, providing customers with a fully integrated, simple, plug-and-play experience.
With the number of IoT connected devices expected to grow from 1.6 billion in 2014 to between 20 and 46 billion by 2020, network operators are seeking new ways to help subscribers leverage the Internet of Things in all aspects of their lives. Providing operators with a single box solution, Nokia's smart home gateway lets subscribers easily monitor and control everything inside the home with a smartphone or a tablet, including temperature and motion sensors, door and window sensors, smoke detectors, light switches and security cameras.
Jonathan Collins, Research Director for Smart Home at ABI Research said: "The broad Smart Home market is still fairly young. As a leading IoT segment there is clear potential for rapid growth and with that, new revenue opportunities for network operators. However, critical to growth will be providing interoperability between myriad devices. Increasingly operators must ensure that the residential smart home device they deploy can support multiple protocols in a single device, including Wi-Fi, ZigBee and Z-Wave."
To help streamline and simplify installation in the home, the Nokia Smart Home solution provides network operators with three key elements. The first element is a single device that acts as an Optical Network Terminal (ONT), residential and smart home gateway. The second is a mobile application (on IOS and Android) to control the home. Finally, an end-to-end IoT management platform controlling the Smart Home ecosystem, with some predefined use cases and management of all smart devices in the home.
Available to all network operators by the end of 2016, the new smart home gateway provides a fully integrated, simple to deploy solution to other over the top (OTT) technologies and can help network operators capture a piece of the growing smart home market, which is forecast to grow 24% to $39 billion between 2015 and 2020.
It also adds to Nokia's IoT portfolio which, over the last six months has grown to include more network infrastructure including IoT services, specialized vertical solutions, IoT devices, IoT Community, along with the recently announced IoT platform and gateway.
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Q: RegEx not containing specific numbers group GoLang I am using GoLang RegEx to find a specific number in a message
Invite code for the server ABC
your code is: 4361858022791184384

I am using this RegEx
([0-9]){19}

I want to delete any message which does not contain any invite code.
So that people can only send invite code to that specific place and specific action can be performed. And useless messages get deleted automatically.
I tried to negate it, but it also ignores other numbers.
I want a regex that captures every message which does not contain exactly 19 digits number.

A: FindString returns an empty string on failure, and Find returns nil. So
you could test against that:
package main
import "regexp"

const s = `Invite code for the server ABC
your code is: 4361858022791184384`

func main() {
   re := regexp.MustCompile(`\d{19}`)
   find := re.FindString(s)
   if find == "" {
      panic(re)
   }
   println(find)
}

*

*https://golang.org/pkg/regexp#Regexp.Find

*https://golang.org/pkg/regexp#Regexp.FindString


Cook County's Highway Department, responsible for 557 miles of roadway, is a political patronage "dumping ground" where do-nothing administrators thrive and shoddy record-keeping of supplies has left the door open for theft.
That's according to county Inspector General Patrick Blanchard, whose conclusions were based on a survey of more than a dozen highway department managers.
His office found that just 65 percent of bosses felt comfortable disciplining staff while there were employees without a job description, hurting morale and wasting taxpayer money.
In one case, there was an administrator who surfed the net for months before being assigned a "small task," according to the report.
The inspector general's office has "received information from management and employees that the [h]ighway [d]epartment employs a large number of unutilized or underutilized employees," Blanchard wrote.
One boss who took the survey said a "significant headcount reduction" is in order considering the county is facing a $487 million budget deficit in 2011.
While Blanchard praised construction staff for keeping up-to-date progress reports on projects, monitoring productivity of administrative staff was almost non-existent for administrative staff.
His report mentions that light equipment and maintenance supplies have gone missing because of shoddy record-keeping and that there's "credible evidence" of theft. A criminal investigation is ongoing in one case.
Blanchard recommends an audit of the 350-staff highway department, which is under the authority of newly-minted Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
She has already announced that she intends to conduct such audits.


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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 5 : Devaswom Commissioner and Chief Executive officer of Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) N Vasu on Tuesday said the Board will consider the explanation submitted by Sabarimala Tantri Kandararu Rajeevaru on conducting 'purification' rituals in Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala on January 2.
Earlier, the TDB asked an explanation from Tantri for closing the Ayyappa temple to perform purification rituals after the entry of two women between 10 and 50 years of age.
It may be noted that the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front criticised the purification ceremony held by Tantri following the entry of women, terming it as anti-women and violation of Supreme Court verdict.
In its September 28 verdict, the SC allowed women of menstruating age to enter the temple.


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If European deflationary fears disappear, and it turns out we are not taking the Japanese road, then a significant price reassessment could be in the works for several asset classes, primarily bonds. Based on today's reaction, stock investors may get scared at first (the rise in yields today has seen a simultaneous large slide on European stock markets), but overall this should be taken as good news. Europe getting back on its feet is a positive development for stocks, too.


Homer's Iliad was my introduction to the classics. In the ninth grade I wandered the halls of school clutching an interlinear translation of the Iliad, which did wonders for my nonexistent popularity. I thought of casts for an all-star Hollywood version of the epic: Charlton Heston as Achilles? (Seven-year-old Brad Pitt never occurred to me.) Later, I went to college, struggled through a few declensions, and read long stretches of the poem in Greek – even committing the first thirty lines to memory, from which I can still summon them up with some prompting.
The Iliad for me in the 1970s, after I abandoned my unreadable interlinear, was E.V. Rieu's prose Penguin Classics translation. I still remember a bizarre comment from Rieu's introduction, something to the effect that he'd tried to make Homer's characters real for modern readers, even though one should not expect to find a woman like Briseis of the lovely cheeks on a street corner in Piccadilly. To a 12-year-old in New Jersey, Piccadilly was far more remote than ancient Troy, so I had no idea what Rieu was talking about. But he certainly got the story of the Iliad across, with its epitheted gods, its duels (ending in death from a single stroke or poke), its boasts and its lavish gifts.
Later, after I'd studied some Greek, I was deeply impressed by Richmond Lattimore's verse translation. Homer's epics, though full of brutally quick action, are written in long, stately lines, and Lattimore tried to offer one long stately English line for every one of Homer's. Since Homer is also full of verbatim repetition – at the level of passages, speeches, whole lines, and stock phrases – Lattimore's translation was also full of verbatim repetition, offering a stark contrast to the elegant variations of modern poetry. Though his language was 20th-century, Lattimore's translation conveyed a remote, archaic literary culture. Though I "worked with" the translation constantly, as a proxy for my slowly-improving Greek, I rarely sat down and read long passages of Lattimore at a clip. It was the kind of translation that needed to be retranslated into everday language as you read.
And then I did other things for 25 years. The world of learning is impossibly immense. Anybody who says they're currently current with all reaches of world, or Western, or even a single national literature, is not being honest with themselves. They may have a good memory for plot or verbal details, but active engagement with a wide range of texts can only exist piecemeal and sequentially in any single brain. For a quarter-century, I was aware that a poem called the Iliad existed. I knew that the poem was about the wrath of Achilles, and that somebody named Diomedes ran around killing Trojans for the greater part of the poem while Achilles was on the sidelines (smart move by Homer: make your hero mysterious). I knew that Achilles's friend Patroclus would die at the hands of Hector, and that Hector would be killed in turn by the newly-motivated Achilles, and that Hector would then be ransomed back to the Trojans and properly buried, after an inexplicable break of an entire Book for exciting sporting events.
But there were a hundred other things about the Iliad I had forgotten, and many thousands that I never knew. Recently, thanks to some retirements at my university and my general reputation as an insufferable know-it-all, I was assigned a dusty Western Civ course that was about to pass from the curriculum forever, but needed to be delivered to the last few English majors still graduating under an "old catalog." And I thought, hey, I was a Classics minor in college, I'll teach the Iliad. Or some of it, at least: books 22 and 24, the climactic death and ransoming of Hector that bracket the proto-Olympic-Games in Book 23.
In my course anthology, the Iliad translator is Stanley Lombardo. At first, I didn't think much of his translation. It lacked the Greekness of my old interlinear, the aplomb of Rieu, or the austerity of Richmond Lattimore. Nor was it as deft as the versions of Homer by Robert Fagles that I'd read in the meantime: Fagles's wonderfully fluid and even translations convey Homer's stories as if through a pane of glass. I was put off by Lombardo's decision to separate Homer's distinctive "epic similes" into blocks of lyric verse in italics, bracketed off in a sense from the main text. And of course, as some reviewers have taken Lombardo to task for, I found his translation too colloquial. "They're still galloping way the hell out there," says the swift Ajax to Idomeneus during the chariot race (454). That does not sound like the glory that was Greece. But then I thought: if your translation of the classics doesn't sound too colloquial, it probably isn't colloquial enough. I mean, hell, I was a Classics minor during the Carter Administration. If I insist that Homer in English stay where he was in the Lattimore or Fagles versions, pretty soon we'll need footnotes to the language of our translations – which defeats the purpose of translation.
Moreover, I was so slow in returning to Homer that Lombardo's Iliad itself was 15 years old by the time I read it. No doubt there's some highschooler right now who finds Lombardo's version as stilted as, in 1971, I found my turn-of-the-20th-century word-by-word interlinear version. Lombardo does not evenly deploy his colloquialisms; but he tries to elevate the language of the characters where appropriate, and to lower it where appropriate (making the "lesser," faster Ajax, for example, into a kind of street kid compared to the more refined Nestor or Odysseus).
Lombardo's English works. In verse, it conveys the story as breathlessly as Rieu did in prose. I even find Lombardo's Catalog of the Ships interesting: that long order of battle for the Greek armies in Book Two of the Iliad that is the acid test of a translator's ability to keep an audience awake. Homer himself nods through most of the Catalog, but Lombardo gives him effective digs in the ribs.
Eerily, I found the best confirmation of the quality of Lombardo's Iliad in the thirty lines of Book One that I know by heart in Greek. As I read his first thirty lines, the Greek played in counterpoint in my head. I know very few originals well enough to see if a translation meshes well with them, and when I do, the translation is usually somewhat oblique or opaque: it takes a while to recognize the original beyond it. After thirty lines, the effect died out, because my Greek died out, but that's a strong indication that the power and fidelity of Lombardo's English may continue throughout.
The Iliad itself remains an uneven, often impossibly wonderful, unimaginably contingent thing. As so many critics have noted, here we were at the dawn of Western literary history, and something unprecedented manifested itself in such exuberance and beauty that you can't even figure out how it was done. The representation of reality in the Iliad is bizarre and stylized: it's a brutal grown-up war presented at times like a series of playground fistfights. The characters' motivations are obscure; the things they value or take joy in confuse us.
The scene works so well on several levels that other texts and authors would scarcely think of: two men ravaged by war, realizing that indeed one still must eat, and reinforcing the necessity with an allusion classical even to them. There's nothing like it.
Aside from the big set-piece battles of councils and the strange interludes (like the nighttime raid on the Trojan lines by Odysseus and Diomedes in Book 10), mysteries abound in the Iliad, and it's often better to cherish the mystery than to seek academic explanation. The Shield of Achilles in Book 18 is such a detail, and among the most famous. Why should Hephaestus create so intricate a work of art at this crucial juncture in the story? Granted that he's a god, and can make something miraculous in the time it takes a human to begin a thought. Still, why are the various designs on the Shield – most of them non-military, and all of them generalized and inscrutable – so appropriate to the task Achilles needs it for, or indeed worthy of description at all, since they'll never be described again? Yet this glorious digression has been the source of a whole tradition of art in itself, not least John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
But the more minor mystery I picked up on this time through is the Wall. In Book 7 of the Iliad, the Greeks, Achilles-less, decide to construct a fortification around their camp of ships. (Why this hadn't occurred to them in the nine previous years is another Homeric mystery.) It takes them about an afternoon to build something that the god Poseidon worries about with a Tower-of-Babel-like jealousy: "Fame of this will reach as far as Dawn spreads light," he tells his brother Zeus (7:466, p. 141). Zeus responds that as soon as the wall has served its purpose and the Greeks have gone home, Poseidon has his permission to sweep it away with storms.
Turns out that it's a pretty crappy wall. Hector and the Trojans no soon attack than they smash a breach in it: in fact Hector does this single-handedly at the end of Book 12, by throwing a single rock at the wall, albeit one of those rocks that no two men could lift today, yada yada. But by Book 15, the Greeks have chased the Trojans back through the breach, and all is well. Still, the wall retains a mystical quality. The opening fifty lines of Book 12 are all about how Zeus's promise of the wall's eventual destruction comes to pass.
I thought of the wall at the Trojan beaches when I was at Vicksburg, Mississippi earlier this year, tramping around earthworks that the Union and Confederate armies had thrown up, not quite as fast as the Argives at Troy, but without much thought to making them Pyramid-like or anything. Those great earthworks are there 150 years later, slowly settling; in far more than the ten years prophesied for the Greek wall, they will also be gone, but they will far outlive me. It occurs to me that Homer (whoever Homer was) had just such ruins in mind: the gradually-disintegrating temporary works of people in the process of trying to reach quite a different goal than that of wall-building.
Homer. Iliad. Translated by Stanley Lombardo. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997.