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Rudolf "Dolf" von Scheliha (31 May 1897 – 22 December 1942) was a German aristocrat, cavalry officer and diplomat who became a resistance fighter and anti-Nazi who was linked to the Red Orchestra. Von Scheliha fought in the World War I and this experience defined his politics. He joined the Foreign Office, trained to be a diplomat and was sent to the embassy in Warsaw. In the years leading up to the war, Von Scheliha was placed in a position of trust in the Foreign Office.  In 1934, he was recruited by Soviet intelligence while he served in Warsaw due to financial necessity, which enabled him to pass documents to Soviet intelligence. In the years leading up to the war, he became a committed opponent of the Nazi Regime and its anti-semitic policies.

He became the director of an information department in the embassy in September 1939 that was established to counter enemy propaganda. As part of the job, photographs of atrocities against Jews and other people passed through his department that were used for propaganda. Appalled at what he saw, he began to resist, building a portfolio of worst images over several years. In January 1942, the portfolio was smuggled to London.

In June 1941, at the start of the invasion of the Soviet Union, his line of communication to the Soviets was cut off. Soviet intelligence tried several times to reinitiate communications with Von Scheliha but were unsuccessful. In May 1942, Soviet intelligence sent the agent Erna Eifler to make contact with Scheliha in Berlin, but she was captured. He was executed by hanging in Plötzensee Prison on 14 December 1942.

Early life
Rudolf von Scheliha was born in Zessel, Oels, Silesia (now Cieśle, Gmina Oleśnica, Poland), as the son of a Prussian aristocrat and officer Rudolph von Scheliha. His mother was a daughter of Prussian Finance Minister Johann von Miquel. His younger sister, Renata von Scheliha, was a classic's philologist. Rudolf wed Marie Louise von Medinger, the daughter of a large landowner and industrialist. The couple had two daughters: Sylvia, born in 1930, and Elisabeth, born in 1934. Sylvia became an engineer and Elisabeth received a doctorate in chemistry, with the latter surviving to 2016 and dying in Adliswil.

Military
He served as an army officer in World War I, volunteered after his graduation in 1915. Scheliha volunteered at the same regiment, the Cavalry Rifle Regiment, Guard Cavalry Rifle Division, that his father and uncle had served in and whose influx for officers was drawn from nobility. On 8 August 1918, he was shelled in a ditch with two brothers next to him, who were blown up, one brother died months later from the injuries. Scheliha was buried; when rescued, his hair turned grey and was suffering shell shock. His parents were shocked at the change.  He never spoke of his experiences. He was honoured for his efforts with both Iron Crosses and the Silver Wound Badge.

Career

Until 1933
After the war, he studied law in Breslau. In May 1919, he moved to the University of Heidelberg, where he joined the Corps Saxo-Borussia during that year and came in contact with Republican and anti-totalitarian circles; He was elected to the AStA, the Association of Heidelberg Associations, where he vehemently opposed too the anti-Semitic riots by the students.

After his examination in 1921, he became first clerk at the Court of Appeal; in 1922. In February 1922, Rudolf von Scheliha joined the regional office of the Foreign Office in Hamburg. After six months, he was promoted to attaché.  He began to work in the department responsible for East European affairs, in the office of Undersecretary of State  in Berlin. In December 1924, he was promoted again, when he was admitted into the diplomatic service. In following years, Von Scheliha took over tasks in the diplomatic missions of Prague, Constantinople, Angora, Katowice and Warsaw. In 1927, he was appointed to the position of legation secretary.

A few months after Adolf Hitler's appointment as Reichskanzler in January 1933, von Scheliha became a member of the Nazi Party, a requirement as a diplomat. In 1935, von Scheliha participated in the Nuremberg Rally.

1933 to 1942
From 1932 to 1939, von Scheliha was a member of the German embassy in Warsaw. In September 1939, von Scheliha was appointed director of an information department in the Foreign Office, created to counter foreign press and radio news propaganda about the German occupation in Poland. His appointment allowed him to verify the veracity of foreign reports and to interview Nazi officials. In that position, he would often protest to Nazi agencies against German war crimes in Poland. As well as being critical of Kliest, he disagreed with the brutality of Richard Heydrich and Hans Frank and started to resist.

He also helped Poles and Jewish folk flee abroad. He became aware of the atrocities committed by the Third Reich under the Nazi regime and made contact with Polish nobles and intellectuals. Working either in an official capacity, or a friend, he helped many people to escape from Poland, in some cases providing money for travel costs. He remained capable of establishing several partial contacts after the beginning of the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, utilising them to disseminate news concerning Nazi crimes abroad.

Soviet agent
In 1937, von Scheliha, who had risen to become the First Secretary at the German embassy in Warsaw, began working for the Soviet secret police, the NKVD. His first case officer, if not recruiter, was Rudolf Herrnstadt, a journalist for the left-wing Berliner Tageblatt. As Herrnstadt was Jewish, contact with von Scheliha became increasingly difficult and an intermediary who would not be recognised was needed. Ilse Stöbe, a communist who was a secretary to Theodor Wolff for the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt, agreed to act as a cutout. Herrnstadt passed the documents that von Scheliha supplied to the Soviet Embassy in Warsaw by Stöbe until September 1939.

Scheliha's motivation for espionage were entirely financial, as he had a lifestyle beyond his salary, was a long-time gambler with gambling debts and liked to keep several mistresses at once. He found that selling state secrets to the Soviet Union was the best way of providing the additional income that he needed. Scheliha was paid well for his work; in February 1938, a Soviet agent deposited US$6,500 in his bank account in Zurich, making him the best paid Soviet agent in the world. It was from the intelligence sold by Scheliha that the Soviet Union became very well-informed about the state of German-Polish relations in 1937–1939 and that in October 1938, the Reich wanted to reduce Poland to a satellite state.

Archive
Von Scheliha secretly began making a collection of documents on the atrocities of the Gestapo in 1939, particularly on the murders of Jews in Poland, which also contained photographs of the newly-established extermination camps. In June 1941, he showed the dossier to the Polish intelligence agent Countess Klementyna Mankowska, who was a member of the anti-Nazi group, the Muszkieterowie ("Musketeers") where she worked as a courier. Countess  Mankowska visited him at the Foreign Office in Berlin to make the details known to the Polish Resistance and the Allies. Mankowska writes that she was led into a large well furnished room and Von Scheliha presented a large thick folder that described the gassing of Jews and other folk.

In the autumn of 1941, von Scheliha invited his Polish friend, Count Konstantin Bninski, to Berlin, under the pretext of writing propaganda texts for the Foreign Office against the Polish Resistance. The German diplomat and historian Ulrich Sahm considered it probable in his 1990 biography that von Scheliha then passed material to Bninski containing a comprehensive documentation of crimes during the German occupation, in addition to members of the Polish resistance. Co-authored with fellow German diplomat Johann von Wühlisch, it was completed in January 1942 and was titled The Nazi Culture in Poland. The document was recorded on microfilm and smuggled to Britain, with a high personal risk to those involved. It is considered one of the most detailed contemporary accounts of the early Holocaust in Eastern Europe during the war. The document describes the persecution of the church, school and the university system; the dark role of the Institute of German Ostarbeiter as the driver of cultural rescheduling; the relocation and the sacking of libraries; the devastation of monuments; the looting of archives, museums and the private collections of Polish nobility; the subversion of Polish theatre, music and the press; and the destruction of other cultural institutions under force by the Nazi Party. The Polish government-in-exile published the document as a novel in 1944 to 1945. Around then, von Scheliha was in contact with Generalmajor Henning von Tresckow who was also becoming increasingly antifascist, as he witnessed the murder of Jews and would later take part in the 20 July plot.

In February 1942, von Scheliha ended his attempts to name and send out exiled Poles as helpers for German propaganda to stop endangering them and himself. At the same time, he closed the small Polish research department foreign office, fearing for their lives. At that time he was in despair, realising his powerlessness. That spring, he travelled to Switzerland where his sister lived and provided Swiss diplomats with information on Aktion T4, including sermons by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen on the murders of the mentally ill. He also sent reports on the Final Solution, including the construction and the operation of more extermination camps and Hitler's order to exterminate European Jews. As part of the February trip to Switzerland, he banked part of his espionage earnings. It is calculated that he was paid about $50,000 for his services, but it was believed by the Germans who captured him that most of the money was consumed in domestic expenses, but at least some of it was banked. Von Scheliha made further trips to Switzerland in September and October 1942.

The extent of Soviet intelligence interest in von Scheliha was shown in May 1942 when Bernhard Bästlein assisted Erna Eifler, Wilhelm Fellendorf, Soviet agents who had parachuted into Germany in May 1942 with wireless telegraphy sets and had been instructed to find Ilse Stöbe to re-establish communications with von Scheliha. Eifler failed to contact Stöbe, who was in Dresden at the time. Eifler was arrested on 15 October 1942, Fellendorf a short time later. Another Soviet agent Heinrich Koenen was dropped on 23 October 1942 to make another attempt to contact Stöbe and von Scheliha. Koenen's mission was to pass all the material collected by von Scheliha and Stoebe to Soviet intelligence, but he was arrested in Berlin on 26 October 1942.

Unbeknownst to Stöbe and von Scheliha, the Gestapo had already started to arrest members of the Red Orchestra in August 1942. Stöbe was arrested on 12 September 1942, and von Scheliha was arrested on 29 October 1942 in the office of the personnel director of the Foreign Office shortly after he had returned from Switzerland.

Arrest and death
Suspected by the Gestapo for his critical attitude, he was charged by the Second Senate of the Reichskriegsgericht of being a member of the Red Orchestra and sentenced to death on 14 December 1942 for "treason". On 22 December 1942, he was executed by hanging in Plötzensee Prison

His wife, Marie Louise, was arrested on 22 December 1942 and taken to the women's prison in Charlottenburg. There, she was repeatedly interrogated and threatened but released on 6 November 1943. In the last days of the war, she fled with her daughters to Niederstetten via Prague. In Haltenbergstetten Castle, the former castle of the principality of Hohenlohe-Jagstberg, the family lived in a cellar mainly on mushrooms, berries and fruit.

Reappraisal

In West German historiography, von Scheliha was seen until 1986 as not a resistance fighter, but a spy in Soviet services. In the process, the acts of interrogation and Gestapo records continued to be uncritically classified as "sources" to which former Nazi prosecutors such as Manfred Roeder and Alexander Kraell, the former president of the Second Senate of the Reichskriegs Court, contributed after 1945.

Awards and honours

On 20 July 1961, the Foreign Office in Bonn commemorated eleven of its employees, who were executed as resistance fighters, with a plaque, including Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff, Ulrich von Hassell, Adam von Trott zu Solz and Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg. Von Scheliha was not mentioned because he continued to pass on information to the Soviet Union, which was considered a betrayal. Only recent research on the Red Orchestra, especially the biography by Ulrich Sahm, has revised the assessment. In response, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled in October 1995 that Scheliha had been sentenced to death not for espionage but in a sham trial for his opposition to Nazism, which overturned the 1942 verdict.

On 21 December 1995 at the Foreign Office, in a ceremony with State Secretary Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, an additional board with the inscription "Rudolf von Scheliha 1897–1942" was attached.

On 18 July 2000 in a ceremony at the new Foreign Office in Berlin, both panels were brought together and the names listed in the sequence of death dates. Von Scheliha's name leads the list. On 9 July 2014 Ilse Stöbe received the same honour at the Foreign Office.

In Neuallermöhe, a street was named in memory of von Scheliha on 5 May 1997. There is a street in Gotha named Schelihastraße, but the street is named after the Oberhofmeister Ludwig Albert von Scheliha, who owned a large garden plot on the street on which the Protestant church stands today.

Literature

  (Lars Jockheck: Rezension. In: sehepunkte. 3, 2003, Nr. 4.)

 Wolfgang Wippermann: Widerstand für Polen und Juden – Rudolf von Scheliha. [Resistance for Poles and Jews – Rudolf von Scheliha] In: Sebastian Sigler (Hrsg.): Corpsstudenten im Widerstand gegen Hitler. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014,  pp. 191–215.

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Achieving Architectural Vision With Steel Trusses: Q&A With Dennis Elledge, P.A.
For Dennis Elledge, P.A., cold-formed steel trusses were the only material that could have achieved the right aesthetic for a church sanctuary. Learn why.
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Dennis Elledge's love of beautiful buildings is one of the primary reasons he became an architect. Yet what he especially loves is the degree of problem solving and creativity that's required to produce thoughtful, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing designs. As a result, Elledge has spent more than 40 years working primarily in steel-framed and concrete construction.
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Free Jazz reviews by Stef
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Nate Wooley
The number of creative and free improv musicians who really have good promotion of their music is limited. Take Nate Wooley for instance, without a doubt one of the best trumpeters around, about whom information on his discography or performances is extremely hard to find. You can check Allmusic and you will find no information, just three albums, labeled as "prog rock", or Artistdirect mentions just one album with no information.Wooley had a website that advertises three albums, without any new information for the last six years! He now has a blog with very fragmented and infrequent information, to say the least.
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Daniel Levin Quartet – Organic Modernism (CF 212)
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In my previous review of the band's "Live At Roulette", I wrote " The music flows organically, growing as it moves along, with instruments coming and going, like birds or bees passing by, coming and going, yet all taking part in the same unpredictable yet not unfamiliar scenery. Despite the apparent freedom, it all sounds very focused and coherent and it was possibly discussed before playing, or maybe not, and these four stellar musicians are just so good and so used to playing together, that this symbiosis of fragile and raw sounds might have been created spontaneously".
I am not quite sure how to say it differently for this album : the music is moving without being sentimental. It has nothing of traditional music, yet it is drenched in familiar sounds that are organised differently, not around structure but around each other, growing organically, with subtle pulse. It can be sweet and bluesy ("My Kind Of Poetry", "Old School"), it can also be adventurous and full of expressive outbursts ("Zero Gravity", "Expert Set") … and excellent throughout. The band is Daniel Levin on cello, Nate Wooley on trumpet, Matt Moran on vibes and Peter Bitenc on bass.
Nate Wooley Quintet- (Put Your) Hands Together (CF 218 )
For the first time in many years, Nate Wooley releases an album with composed music, with an actual band, and with music that is more accessible than any of the records made under his leadership. The band is Josh Stinton on bass clarinet, Matt Moran on vibes, Eivind Opsvik on bass and Harris Eisenstadt on drums …. indeed the musicians who play regularly together in each other's bands and with equal success.
In stark contrast of some of his previous albums, Wooley's trumpet tone is voiced, deeply sensitive but within the same phrase he can switch it into screeching whispers. The compositions integrate jazz history, but then in a reverend and playful way, gently giving new dynamics and dimensions to the familiar forms, lifting them up, dusting them off, refreshing them with new power and creative angles.
The end result is a carefully crafted, fun album, with moments of playfulness ("Elsa"), deep sentiments ("Hazel"), compositional complexity ("Ethyl") or all in one ("Hands Together"). The most beautiful piece is "Shanda Lea" (Wooley's wife?), opening the album with solo trumpet, repeated halfway the record in duet with Stinton, then again as solo trumpet to end the album. On tracks like "Erna" you can hear the warm voice of Ron Miles seep through, but unlike Miles, Wooley adds some odd raw edges and in doing so also more depth in the delivery.
In short, a heart-warming and inventive album, show-casing a fantastic musician and an artist in full development. No need to praise the rest of the band: you know them already: they're among the best you can get these days, and to Wooley's credit, he leaves them lots of space.
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Q: Как изменить значение элемента многомерного массива на 2 уровне в 1 подход? HashMap<String,  List<ArrayList>> baza = new HashMap<>();

Надо в массив baza по ключу и индексу[0] добавить  объект под названием street_num, после чего удалить последний индекс из ключа
Сейчас используется способ с промежуточной переменной.
Но хотелось бы напрямую добавить объект в базу и убрать лишний без создания промежуточной переменной.
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raion.add(0, street_num);
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raion.clear();

// "key" + num_raion - ключ для hashmap
// street_num - объект который надо добавить по принципу ключ.индекс
// последнее надо удалить в ключе последний индекс

A: baza.computeIfPresent("key" + num_raion, (k, v) -> {
    v.add(0, street_num);
    v.remove(v.size() - 1);
});

И возможно, связанный список подошёл был лучше. По крайней мере избавил бы от уродливых конструкций v.add(0, ...) и v.remove(v.size() - 1).


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Written by Scott Joseph on 27 October 2015 on 27 October 2015 .
Now that Morimoto Asia has been open several weeks, following a very splashy and high-profile grand opening, I thought it was time to stop in at the Disney Springs restaurant and experience the it at full throttle. So I headed down with a few friends to try what is arguably the hottest new restaurant in town.
For the uninitiated — or those who don't follow challenge cooking shows — Masaharu Morimoto is a star of the programs Iron Chef in Japan and its spinoff Iron Chef America. He has several restaurants that bear his name around the world, including in Mumbai, New Delhi, Philadelphia, New York and Mexico City. Those restaurants are named simply Morimoto and feature the chef's signature Japanese cuisine. (The nearest Morimoto is in Boca Raton.)
The Disney Springs restaurant is Morimoto Asia to distinguish it from the other restaurants. Technically, the restaurant is operated by the Patina Restaurant Group, which also has the two restaurants at Epcot's Italy pavilion as well as others throughout the country, including Lincoln at New York's Lincoln Center. My sources told me that the Disney restaurant started out to be a genuine Morimoto but that the chef became disenchanted with the bureaucracy and chose to continue under a licensing agreement.
(For other photos and a video of Morimoto Asia before it opened, click this link.)
So don't visit Morimoto Asia expecting to see the Iron Chef, um, ironing. He'll undoubtedly visit from time to time, but he has left command of the kitchen to Takao Iinuma. (And let's be fair: You're not likely to see Morimoto at any of his other nine restaurants on any given night, either.)
Instead of sticking with all Japanese dishes, the menu here is pan Asian and pulls from many countries. My guests and I started with appetizers of Rock Shrimp Tempura, Tuna Pizza and Hamachi Tacos (apparently Italy and Mexico are some of the countries that were sourced.)
The rock shrimp were a table favorite. The chewy little nuggets were deftly deep fried and coated in a gochujang, a spicy Korean sauce.
We liked the tuna pizza, too, though the only resemblance it bore to a pizza is that it was round. It was closer to a tostado, the platform being a crispy tortilla. But the tuna sashimi that covered the top (not a lot of surface, to be sure) was fresh and delicious and nicely complemented with a hint of spicy peppers and anchovy aioli.
Yellowtail sashimi filled the crunchy taco shells. It also had guacamole with yuzu kosho, a seasoning made with chili peppers and yuzu, a Japanese citrus fruit.
From the sushi bar, we ordered a Spider Roll, which became one of the few food disappointments of the evening. The tempura fried soft shell crab was very good, but the roll itself was too loose and the coins too large. Not the quality you'd expect from a restaurant whose heritage is rich in sushi lore.
The restaurant's signature Peking Duck was a definite hit. Although it is not served in the three courses of a traditional Chinese restaurant, the duck nevertheless had all the appropriate elements. My guests had been tipped by the bartender while waiting to order the duck "extra crispy," which is how it was requested. The ducks are first roasted and then finished in a deep fryer for that crispy skin. The wonderful fattiness of the duck meat and the brittle skin was perfect. We made little roll-ups with the steamed pancakes and flavored the duck with the hoisin miso and apricot sweet chili sauces.
Another guest chose the Sweet and Sour Crispy Branzino, an impressive presentation of a whole fish, every bit of bone removed, served on the plate as though it was captured in mid swim (which it probably was, now that I think of it). The flesh was light and delicate, and the sweet and sour glaze was nicely balanced.
I thought the ginger soy sauce on my other guest's Braised Black Cod was a bit cloying, but otherwise this, too, was a winning choice.
For myself, I selected the Duck Ramen, an even tempered broth with bits of torn duck meat and scallions with half of a boiled egg. The egg noodles were fat and cooked perfectly and fun to slurp up with the chopsticks. (And at $15, this is one of the less costly items, so those who might bristle at the $48 Peking duck can still eat here reasonably well for less.)
The restaurant, which occupies the former Mannequins dance venue of Pleasure Island days, is gorgeous. It is also quite large, with soaring ceilings and various dining and drinking spaces on multiple levels. The signature design feature is a collection of chandeliers that cascade from the two-story ceiling that are glittery tubes of beads with stylized golden lobster traps inside.
Such a large restaurant requires a large staff, and there are many here. Too many, and yet not enough with the skills needed to work in a restaurant of this calibre. I visited the restaurant prior to its opening and witnessed mass training sessions, but either the training was insufficient or the instructions ignored. Menu and wine knowledge was lacking (the by-the-glass wine list itself, heavy with South American wines, was unimpressive; the bottle list is more varied). The booth next to ours went a long time after the guest left before it was cleared and reset. And the restroom was noticeably unkempt. Perhaps instead of standing five across at the host stand the young hostesses could be put to use clearing tables and helping to reset. It's customary for new restaurants to over hire at the start with the expectation that some staff will have to be weeded out. I suggest the weeding begin.
Disney Springs is still a construction site, with many sections, including the area immediately next to Morimoto Asia, walled off. There is no easy drop-off spot or nearby parking. The new parking garage, however, is a breeze to get into with the recently opened ramp that is accessed just off of the I-4 exit. It flies you over the surface street and into the third level of the parking garage, which handily displays the number of spaces on each level and in each row (that doesn't always work, but it's a wonderful step forward). Ironically, to avail of the valet parking at Disney Springs would have you walking much farther. Even with the closer garage parking, those with mobility issues take note.
The development of Disney Springs has held great promise to food lovers for several years. It's exciting to see the restaurants finally coming to fruition. It will be even more exciting if the promise of world class restaurants is truly realized. Morimoto Asia's food is there, and the surroundings are as impressive as any others in the area. With a little more effort in service, this could be one of the jewels of Central Florida dining.
Morimoto Asia is at 1600 E. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista. It is open for lunch and dinner daily, including late nights until 2 a.m. The Phone number is 407-939-6686.


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Everywhere The Tourist Was Filmed
The BBC thriller beings in South Australia but ends in a very different location.
by Orla Pentelow
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Set to air on New Year's Day, upcoming thriller The Tourist isn't your typical BBC drama. The six-part series is "full of shocking, surprising, funny and brutal turns," where "off-beat black comedy punctuates high-stakes action," says the BBC. And there's the epic cinematic shots and a budget to match. But where is The Tourist filmed?
The thriller opens with Jamie Dornan's character driving a beat-up old car in the vast, scorching Australian backlands, when a tanker truck looms closer in the rear-view mirror. As the lorry begins to speed up to him, Dornan is pushed off the road and a chase ensues across the dusty plains, resulting in an explosive, cinematic crash. And that's just the first five minutes.
Set against the glowing red outback, the story begins in South Australia, where the series was also filmed. With less strict lockdown restrictions, The Tourist is the latest and largest in a string of projects that Australian streaming platform Stan has filmed in the area. Steven Marshall, Premier of South Australia, said the 17-week long shoot for The Tourist was the biggest television production ever to be made in South Australia and is said to have created over 120 jobs for local cast and crew.
Some of the locations in South Australia were purpose built, such as the petrol station in Flinders Ranges. BBC/Stan/HBO Max & ZDF/Ian Routledge
"Securing The Tourist is a real coup for South Australia," Premier Marshall said at the time, "not only will it create hundreds of local jobs, but it will also put South Australia's remarkable landscape on show right around the world."
Whilst the majority of the filming took place in regional areas of South Australia such as Port Augusta, Quorn, Peterborough, and Flinders Ranges National Park, filming also took place in the state's capital of Adelaide.
The story of The Tourist comes from the acclaimed writers of The Missing, Baptiste and Liar Harry and Jack Williams, who own and run Emmy-winning production company Two Brothers Pictures. Set in a world populated by "quirky, enigmatic characters", the mystery thriller follows The Man's (Jamie Dornan) search for his true identity from the dusty outback of Australia, to the white-sand beaches of Bali via the city lights of Singapore.
The Tourist airs on BBC One at 9 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2022, and will be available to stream on iPlayer shortly after.
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Moneyish
Sept. 5, 2020, 9:21 a.m. EDT
45 states have been approved to offer $300 extra in unemployment benefits — only 6 have started to distribute it
An executive order by President Donald Trump called for distributing an additional $300 in weekly unemployment benefits from a $44 billion fund set aside for disaster relief
By Elisabeth Buchwald
45 states have been approved to use FEMA funds to make additional $300 weekly unemployment benefits payments, but only six had started to distribute the money as of Aug. 28. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Unemployed people in Arizona were the first Americans to start receiving an extra $300 in weekly unemployment benefits Aug. 17 under an executive order issued by President Donald Trump, and since then, 44 other states have been approved to hand out the money — but only six are doing so.
Laid-off workers shouldn't get too used to the extra cash: it will likely dry up in a matter of weeks.
The memorandum Trump signed Aug. 8 at his New Jersey golf club called for a "Lost Wages Assistance" program to distribute an additional $300 in weekly federal unemployment benefits on top of the state benefits that unemployed people typically receive. The source of that extra $300 is a $44 billion fund set aside for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan think-tank, estimates the funds won't last more than five weeks .
See: This state just became the first to pay out the $300 federal unemployment add-on called for in Trump memo
Nearly 1 million Americans who receive less than $100 a week would be ineligible for the add on benefit
There is another significant caveat — jobless Americans are only eligible for the $300 add-on if they already receive at least $100 a week in benefits from their state. Therefore, nearly 1 million Americans who receive less than $100 a week would be ineligible for the add-on benefit, Eliza Forsythe, a labor economist and assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, calculated.
The Lost Wages Assistance payments aren't automatic. States must apply through FEMA for a grant "to administer the supplemental payments for lost wages." States will have to pay 25% of the cost of delivering the extra $300. (The FEMA grants do not cover that expense.)
Don't miss: More than 30 states are preparing to distribute an extra $300 in unemployment benefits — but how long will that last?
So far no states who have applied for the FEMA grants have been rejected, Keith Turi, Assistant Administrator of Recovery at FEMA, told reporters Aug 20.
At least one governor has said her state won't apply for the FEMA grant because residents don't need the extra $300. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican and Trump ally, said she won't be submitting an application. "My administration is very grateful for the additional flexibility that this effort would have provided, but South Dakota is in the fortunate position of not needing to accept it," she said in a statement. "South Dakota's economy, having never been shut down, has recovered nearly 80% of our job losses."
Here's where things stand in states that have been approved by FEMA
Alabama received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
Based on estimates from FEMA and the U.S. Department of Labor, the Alabama Department of Labor said eligible unemployment beneficiaries could expect to receive the $300 add-on benefit "in approximately three weeks."
Alaska received FEMA's approval on Aug. 23.
Alaskans likely won't receive those benefits for at least six to eight weeks, Cathy Muñoz, Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, said.
As of Aug. 26, more than $252 million was distributed to unemployed Arizonans to make the extra $300 payments according to Arizona's Department of Economic Security.
Approximately 400,000 unemployment beneficiaries in the state have received the $300 supplemental unemployment benefit that was retroactively paid for the first week and second week of August.
Arkansas received FEMA's approval on Aug. 25.
It's not yet clear when unemployed individuals will start to receive the add-on benefit.
California received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
At first California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat and critic of Trump, did not support the executive order. Then he decided to apply for the add-on benefit. "As I say, don't look a gift horse in the mouth," he said on Aug. 10.
The Employment Development Department of California said it "will begin processing LWA payments in phases for eligible individuals in the week beginning September 7, 2020."
Colorado received FEMA's approval on Aug. 16, but the state's Department of Labor and Employment has "not yet determined what the benefit amount will be nor do we have any estimate on development timelines to reprogram our systems to pay these benefits," Cher Haavind, a spokeswoman for the department, told MarketWatch.
Connecticut received FEMA's approval on Aug. 24.
"The agency anticipates disbursement in mid-September and expects about 250,000 claimants will be eligible for the federal benefit," according to an Aug. 21 statement published by the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Delaware received FEMA's approval on Sept. 2.
It's unclear when people will start to receive the add-on benefit. The Delaware Department of Labor said it "could take weeks to get operational."
Florida received FEMA's approval on Aug. 29.
It's not yet clear when unemployed Floridians will start to receive the add-on benefit.
Georgia received FEMA's approval on Aug. 23.
It will likely take three to four weeks for the Georgia Department of Labor to start distributing the add-on benefit, said Kersha Cartwright, a spokeswoman for the agency.
Hawaii received FEMA's approval on Aug. 29.
"We're diligently building a new program within the unemployment computer system to implement and pay LWA benefits as soon as possible," said Acting Director Anne E. Perreira-Eustaquio of the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations in an Aug. 27 statement.
Idaho received FEMA's approval on Aug. 19.
"To ensure individuals who need it most are receiving the new benefit, [Gov. Brad] Little directed the Idaho Department of Labor to identify ways to ensure the $300 per week in additional benefits is also provided to individuals who receive less than $100 per week in unemployment benefits," an Aug. 19 statement reads. It's not clear if the state will have to pay out an additional $100 to every jobless resident or make up the difference so that each claimant receives at least $100 a week in benefits.
The department did not immediately respond to MarketWatch's request for a comment.
Illinois received FEMA's approval on Sept. 1.
It's unclear when people will start to receive the benefit. Approximately 55,000 unemployment beneficiaries who receive less than $100 a week from the state won't be eligible, according to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Indiana received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
"The State of Indiana, through the Department of Workforce Development, has applied for funding under this federal program and plans to begin providing it to eligible Hoosiers within the next three to four weeks," states a notice posted on the department's site.
Iowa received FEMA's approval on Aug. 14, one day after submitting an application. The state's labor department, known as Iowa Workforce Development, declined to provide details on when jobless Iowans could expect to receive the add-on benefit.
Kentucky received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
Kentucky will be contributing an additional $100 a week on top of the $300 federal benefit. That will boost unemployment benefits for every Kentuckian by $400 a week.
"While the application is approved, reconfiguring the computer systems to pay the $400 is likely to take about two weeks," a statement put out by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, states. "Therefore, benefits recipients should not expect the payments until sometime in early September."
Louisiana received FEMA's approval on Aug. 14.
More than 300,000 eligible claimants received the add-on benefit as of Aug. 26, and another 50,000 people are expected to receive it on Aug. 27. In total, the Louisiana Workforce Commission said it expected to distribute $284 million this week to make the $300 add-on payment.
Maine received FEMA's approval on Aug. 25.
The Maine Department of Labor estimates that it will take three weeks to being issuing the benefit.
Maryland received FEMA's approval on Aug. 20.
"While it will take some time to work with the federal administration to implement this new program, all claimants will receive benefit payments retroactive to their earliest date of eligibility within the new program," Maryland Department of Labor Secretary Tiffany Robinson said in an Aug. 19 statement.
Unemployment beneficiaries will start receiving the add-on benefit in late September, the agency said.
Massachusetts received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
The state has highest unemployment rate, 16.1%, in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the month of July. It's unclear when Massachusetts residents will start receiving the $300 add-on benefit.
Michigan received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
The Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency estimates that "about 910,000 Michiganders would receive at least $300 per week in supplemental benefits," according to an Aug. 18 statement.
The agency has not indicated when Michiganders can expect to receive the add-on benefit.
Minnesota received FEMA's approval on Aug. 29.
The state waiting for the U.S. Treasury "transfer LWA funding into our bank account," according to a notice posted by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. "Once we receive these funds, we expect we will be able to implement the new program immediately. The Minnesota Unemployment Insurance Program has already taken all the necessary administrative steps to implement the new program."
Mississippi received FEMA's approval on Aug. 22.
"It will be approximately three to four weeks before claimants in Mississippi start to receive these benefits," Dianne Bell, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, told MarketWatch. "Our system must be recalibrated in order to accurately provide this service," she added.
Missouri received FEMA's approval on Aug. 16.
100,000 eligible claimants in Missouri should receive the add-on benefit for the week ending Aug.1 by the end of this week, Rose Delores, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, told MarketWatch. Many should have already received it, she added.
Montana received FEMA's approval on Aug. 18.
Montana will be contributing an additional $100 a week on top of the $300 federal benefit. That will boost unemployment benefits for every Montanan by $400 a week.
Over $31 million has been distributed to unemployed Montanans, Gov. Steve Bullock said on Wednesday.
New Mexico received FEMA's approval on Aug. 15.
"It is unclear at this time when funding will become available, or how much funding is available," Workforce Solutions Secretary Bill McCamley said in an Aug. 13 statement. The state agency did not directly respond to MarketWatch's request for a comment.
New York received FEMA's approval on Aug. 23.
"We are diligently working to update our systems so we can administer the Lost Wages Assistance program and deliver supplemental benefits to New Yorkers as quickly as possible," said Deanna Cohen, spokeswoman for the New York State Department of Labor.
North Carolina received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
North Carolina Division of Employment Security said the agency "has been working to reprogram its benefits system and set up the accounting process to make payments to eligible North Carolinians as quickly as possible. Updates on a timeline for payments will be provided as more information is available."
North Dakota received FEMA's approval on Aug. 31.
"Job Service North Dakota estimates that approximately 17,600 claimants in North Dakota — about 41% of the current active claimant base — will receive the $300 benefit for three weeks before the funding is exhausted," according to a Sept. 1 statement by Gov. Doug Burgum.
"Job Service anticipates distributing the Lost Wages Assistance payments by mid-September," the statement added.
New Hampshire received FEMA's approval on Aug. 24.
It's unclear when New Hampshirites will start to receive the add-on benefit.
Ohio received FEMA's approval on Aug. 26.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said eligible unemployed Ohioans can expect to receive the add-on benefit by mid-September at a press conference earlier this week.
Oklahoma received FEMA's approval on Aug. 18, one day after submitting an application.
The Oklahoma Employment Security Commission told MarketWatch that Oklahomans could expect to receive the add-on benefit within four to five weeks and that the benefit will be "retroactive to Aug. 1, and all eligible claimants will receive back pay to that date once changes to the system have been put into production."
"Working with legacy technology to implement this benefit will hinder the agency's ability to make quick changes to the system, but our team will work as fast as possible given the constraints that exist dealing with 40-year-old technology," OESC Interim Executive Director Shelley Zumwalt said in an Aug 17. statement.
Oregon received FEMA's approval on Aug. 28.
It's unclear when people will start to receive the add-on benefit.
"We hope we are looking at a few weeks, but we're really not certain until we get a little further into the work. As we get a more solid estimate, we will certainly share that. We don't want people to have a false expectation of exactly when they will receive it," Oregon Employment Department Acting Director David Gerstenfeld said ahead of the state's approval by FEMA
Pennsylvania received FEMA's approval on Aug. 24.
It's unclear when Pennsylvanians will start to received the add-on benefits. Like many states, Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, said the state will have to reprogram its computer system to administer unemployment payments.
South Carolina received FEMA's approval on Sept. 1.
The South Carolina Department of Employment Workforce said it will take two to three weeks for people to receive the add-on benefit.
Rhode Island received FEMA's approval on Aug. 22.
The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training anticipates it will take two to three weeks to implement the add-on benefit, Margaux Fontaine, a spokeswoman for the department told MarketWatch.
Tennessee received FEMA's approval on Aug. 22.
Tennessee started issuing the aid Wednesday, Chris Cannon, a spokesman for the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, told CNBC .
Texas received FEMA's approval on Aug. 21.
Texas received $1.4 billion in funding from FEMA to distribute the $300 benefit add-on, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican said in statement. $424 million has been distributed in the form of the add-on unemployment to more than 1.7 million people as of Aug. 24, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.
Utah received FEMA's approval on Aug 16.
"We anticipate Utah will be ready to distribute within three to four weeks," Nate McDonald, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Workforce Services, told MarketWatch. "Reprogramming the system will be the biggest piece."
Vermont received FEMA's approval on Aug. 22.
The Vermont Department of Labor said it "expects to start issuing payments to eligible Vermonters in the coming weeks."
"In addition to the application submitted to FEMA for this benefit, the Governor has requested $20 million in Coronavirus Relief funding from the Vermont Legislature to provide an additional $100 per week to eligible claimants, bringing the total benefit to $400 per week, for three weeks," the Department said in an Aug. 24 statement.
Virginia received FEMA's approval on Aug. 26.
It's unclear at this time when Virginians will start to receive the add-on benefit.
Washington received FEMA's approval on Aug. 24.
"We will implement this as quickly as possible to distribute the extra payments to Washingtonians once our application is approved," said Employment Security Department Commissioner, Suzi LeVine, in an Aug. 20 statement. "Any additional funds to help unemployed workers are welcome – and we estimate that this will provide more than $400 million to families, individuals and our state's economy.
West Virginia received FEMA's approval on Aug. 27.
Initially West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said the state would be contributing an additional $100 on top of the $300 add-on benefit. However, FEMA did not indicate that when it announced the state's approval.
It's unclear when West Virginians could expect to start receive any additional benefits.
Wisconsin received FEMA's approval on Sept. 1.
"We expect programming will take approximately eight weeks," the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development states on its site.
Wyoming received FEMA's approval on Aug. 28.
It's not yet clear when people will start to receive the add-on benefit.
This story was updated on Sept. 3, 2020.
Elisabeth Buchwald is a personal finance reporter at MarketWatch. She is based in New York.


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Q: Using SELECT for simple BOOLEAN evaluation I want to test some evaluations without working on any table.
For example, you can write
SELECT 1+1
>2

I want to achieve something like this:
SELECT 2 > 1
>FALSE

I know that most engines don't have the concept of a boolean data type, but I don't know how their internal work (even if I guess everything <> 0 is true, like in C). Anyway, the format of the response really doesn't matter, whether it's true/false or 0/1

A: SELECT
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A: SELECT CASE WHEN 2 > 1 THEN cast(0 as bit) ELSE cast(1 as bit) END

A: Edit:
SQL Server 2012 (Denali):
SELECT IIF(2 > 1, 'TRUE', 'FALSE')

A: SELECT CASE WHEN 2 > 1 THEN 'True' ELSE 'False' END

A: In Mysql and Oracle and apparently SQL-Server you can use nullif (ignore the from dual for SQL-Server) so, assuming you take null as true then you can deal with equality testing this way without a messy case statement or having to deal with strings.
SQL> select nullif(1,0) from dual;

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SQL> select nullif(1,1) from dual;

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A: Simply use :
SELECT expr1 condition expr2

Eg.
SELECT 1 < 2 # returns 1

Returns 1 if condition evaluates to true, 0 otherwise.
Tested successfully on:

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*MySQL 5.7 (Percona XtraDB Cluster)


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Das Munda cor meum ist ein Gebet, das in der heiligen Messe im Römischen Ritus dem Evangelium vorausgeht. Es gehört zu den leise gesprochenen Privatgebeten und wird vom Diakon bzw. Priester gebetet, bevor er das Evangelium vorträgt; die Intention des Gebetes ist es, diesen Dienst trotz der eigenen Verfehlungen würdig zu verrichten.

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Das Gebet nimmt Bezug auf die Berufungsgeschichte des Propheten Jesaja:

5 Da sagte ich: Weh mir, denn ich bin verloren. Denn ein Mann unreiner Lippen bin ich und mitten in einem Volk unreiner Lippen wohne ich, denn den König, den HERRN der Heerscharen, haben meine Augen gesehen.6 Da flog einer der Serafim zu mir und in seiner Hand war eine glühende Kohle, die er mit einer Zange vom Altar genommen hatte.7 Er berührte damit meinen Mund und sagte: Siehe, dies hat deine Lippen berührt, so ist deine Schuld gewichen und deine Sünde gesühnt.

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Das Munda cor meum folgt im Ordo Missae unmittelbar auf Graduale und Alleluja bzw. Tractus und gegebenenfalls die Sequenz, die der Zelebrant früher rezitierte und die heute vom Lektor und der Choralschola vorgetragen werden. In Messfeiern, in denen der Zelebrant selbst das Evangelium liest oder singt, betet er das Munda cor meum – bis zur Liturgiereform nach dem Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil tief verneigt vor der Mitte des Altares. Im Levitenamt dagegen kam die Verkündigung des Evangeliums dem Diakon zu. Dieser sprach das Munda cor meum kniend auf der Epistelseite des Altars. Danach erfolgte die Bitte um den Segen zur Verkündigung des Evangeliums und die Evangelienprozession. Während der Verrichtung des Gebetes wurde meist von einem Ministranten das Messbuch von der Epistel- auf die Evangelienseite des Altares übertragen und vom Chor der Gesang von Alleluja bzw. Tractus beendet. In der heutigen Messe mit Diakon erbittet der Diakon weiterhin den Segen vom Zelebranten, aber ohne vorheriges Munda cor meum.

Seit dem 11. Jahrhundert ist das Munda cor meum als Bestandteil des Ordo missae bekannt. Jedoch war es noch im 16. Jahrhundert nicht überall in Verwendung; in einige Eigenriten von Ordensgemeinschaften ist es nie aufgenommen worden.

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By Ben Lorica and Mike Loukides.
A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see "Related resources" at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. Along the way, we described a new job role and title—machine learning engineer—focused on creating data products and making data science work in production, a role that was beginning to emerge in the San Francisco Bay Area two years ago. At that time, there weren't any popular tools aimed at solving the problems facing teams tasked with putting machine learning into practice.
About 10 months ago, Databricks announced MLflow, a new open source project for managing machine learning development (full disclosure: Ben Lorica is an advisor to Databricks). We thought that given the lack of clear open source alternatives, MLflow had a decent chance of gaining traction, and this has proven to be the case. Over a relatively short time period, MLflow has garnered more than 3,300 stars on GitHub and 80 contributors from more than 40 companies. Most significantly, more than 200 companies are now using MLflow.
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How this new online battlefield changes how conflicts are fought and unfold.
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Mediabase, the leader in radio station airplay monitoring, has announced the promotion of Minal Patel to Project Manager. Minal joined Mediabase in 2008 as the Director of Client Services and has advanced through various departments in the company, bringing an energy and attention to detail that will serve her well in her new role.
Minal's experience includes stints at Loud Records, Billboard, Atlantic Records and Premiere Radio Networks.
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Med tech in Ireland paints a healthy picture
by Claire O'Connell
3 Sep 2012336 Views
With Ireland fast becoming a global epicentre for the med-tech industry, today we are launching a new series to explore how the sector has evolved in the country, taking a look at key areas, such as connected health. Here we provide an overview of Ireland's med-tech sector.
Do you wear contact lenses? You probably know someone with diabetes who needs to inject themselves with insulin. Perhaps a loved one has had a new lease on life thanks to a hip implant or a stent. Medical technology improves and saves millions of lives around the world each year.
But did you know that Ireland is a global hub for the industry? The medical technology sector on the island has been leaping up the charts: it now employs around 25,000 people directly. In addition, 2011 saw exports of €7.3bn – up 16pc on the value for 2008, despite the global economic downturn. So how has Ireland managed it, and where to now?
Ireland is leading the field when it comes to medical technology, according to Barry O'Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland.
"Seventeen of the world's top 25 medical-technology companies have invested significantly in Ireland and there is a strong established cluster incorporating foreign and indigenous companies," he said recently. "A number of these indigenous companies have been acquired by multinationals, demonstrating the capability and innovation of the sector."
Tax, talent and technology
Looking back, the strength of medical technology in Ireland today emerged thanks in part to the foreign direct investment encouraged by the IDA in the final decades of the 20th century. The combination of tax, talent and technology helped to develop a strong capability in medical device manufacturing in Ireland – but it didn't stop there.
Recent years have seen a move towards higher-value manufacturing and global companies siting international support services in Ireland, as well as a mushrooming of indigenous businesses. Irish sub-supply companies, in particular, have thrived in an environment where they can work with multinationals and build their own strengths in design and development, explains Brian O'Neill, head of life sciences at Enterprise Ireland.
"We have hosts of Irish companies that are now not just supplying the multinationals but they are being the innovators; they are designing, developing and commercialising – this is a real evolution of the sector," he says, citing recent figures that reflect the growth.
"Our indigenous exports last year were up about 14pc in the sub-supply space and about 15pc in the OEM product space, plus employment growth was up 8pc in both segments. It's a highly vibrant area."
The relatively clear-cut regulatory landscape makes Europe an attractive market, adds O'Neill, and Ireland's reputation draws attention. "Internationally, anybody who knows the medical-technology industry knows Ireland is a global hub of excellence," he says. "We get calls every week from entrepreneurs, businesses and funds asking about the Irish system and Irish support for medical technologies."
Ireland's key med-tech strengths
Vascular, orthopaedics, ophthalmics, diagnostics and hospital and home products are some of the sub-sectors where Ireland is doing particularly well, according to Sharon Higgins, director of the Irish Medical Devices Association, a business sector in IBEC.
One of the big, overarching trends she is seeing at the moment is convergence, where technologies are coming together in new products or services. The emerging field of connected health is a case in point, where information technology opens up possibilities, such as remotely monitoring patient health.
"That is bringing new people and players to the sector," says Higgins.
Staying competitive
But while Ireland may boast impressive metrics and green shoots, med tech is a global business and healthcare systems are under pressure, so remaining internationally competitive is key. Various programmes in Ireland are now looking to boost innovation by encouraging entrepreneurs and businesses to link with academic researchers and with clinicians who can see the opportunities for new products and solutions.
There's also a drive in Ireland to continue to build international relationships with industry and organisations, such as the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic in the US, which have global reputation and reach.
Over the coming months, in this series we will be talking to experts in Ireland and overseas, to entrepreneurs and innovators, to companies large, medium and small about their work and their insights on the sector. Because med tech is part of Ireland's future.
As the IDA's Barry O'Leary puts it: "It is clear from the trends in the industry that Ireland is well placed as a global player in the medical-technology sector and will be a major contributor to global healthcare and the global economy in years to come."
Med-tech image via Shutterstock
Med tech in Ireland
More than 200 companies have a presence in Ireland, about half are multinational, half are indigenous. You can see a map of them here.
The sector directly employs around 25,000 people – that's the highest number per capita for any European country.
In 2011, the medical-technology industry in Ireland rolled out investment plans worth more than €170m and announced 875 jobs.
About half of medical technology companies in Ireland expected to recruit additional employees during 2012, according to a sentiment survey.
Siliconrepublic.com is hosting Med Tech Focus, an initiative which over coming months will cover news, reports, interviews and videos, documenting Ireland's leading role in one of the hottest sectors in technology.
Related: Enterprise Ireland, Technology Transfer, life sciences, medtech, IDA Ireland, Ibec
Dr Claire O'Connell is a scientist-turned-writer with a PhD in cell biology and a master's in science communication
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Lindsey coaches running and has a podcast and is expecting her fourth son any day. She happens to be my running coach, and I once got to be a guest on said podcast. I also got to connect with her family when I was in Indianapolis in May. We met for family photos on the Monan Trail, where she and her husband run, often with their boys in jogging strollers.
Seeing a family interact in a place that is meaningful to them produces photos that illustrate their collective identity. The boys were so at ease on the trail, full of personality. If something stands out to me about Lindsey and Glenn, it's how much they seem to enjoy their boys. They are patient, encouraging, enthusiastic and easy going. This is not a family who takes themselves too seriously; they are quick to laugh. Hugs and high fives go a long way. I cannot wait to see how a fourth little man adds to the mix. In the meantime, this session makes me smile.
Last week I attended a workshop on storytelling, and the speaker said that it's often small nuances that happen in the midst of our big life-changing stories that pack the most punch. He said looking there helps us find the stories within a story that illustrate human connection on the deepest level, drawing listeners in. That resonated.
With Mother's Day approaching these photographs of my sister and my nephew on the eve of my niece's birth kept coming to mind. Meghan's attentiveness towards and concern for Jameson as she prepared for the arrival of her daughter clarified so much of what makes her an incredible mom to both her kids. She knew he was on the precipice of change and wanted his transition to be smooth. She wanted him to know he was loved, he was ready and his place was secure. And the conflicting emotions of anticipating a beautiful change in her little family alongside of letting go of the sweetness of a season ending so a new one could begin- they showed up. Is that not the never-ending stuff of motherhood?
Maggie's birth and newborn photos are a blog not yet written, but for the lead up to Mother's Day I wanted to share these few simple photos, because they move me, and I hope they do the same for you.
Anya taking her time to warm up. Bowen coaxing Anya to smile. The whole family pulling each other close, closer, "how close can you go?" Laughing. Laughing. Laughing. I want to see these moments, to allow families to live them in front of my lens, so they (and I) remember the truth of their story long after the photographs are taken.
I've been photographing the Song family for years, and every year seems that much sweeter than the last. This session moved me, and I'm grateful to get to share it. Here's to contagious grins and belly laughs and bear hugs and perfect-though-not days made permanent with the click of my shutter. If you are interested in seeing your family through my lens, please don't hesitate to reach out.
I photographed Ingrid and her family last fall, and this brave girl and her incredibly courageous family are facing her leukemia with remarkable grace. I wanted to share these photos now, because Ingrid has had a really tough month, having spent a huge chunk of time in isolation as her little body, immunocompromised, battles infection. If you're the praying type, say a prayer for this sweet girl. I love her stunning smile and princess heels and the way Klaus adores her. I look forward to a day down the road when I can update these photos with a healthy survivor story. In the meantime, in the midst of it all, Ingrid shines.
Our pre-session phone consult covered a variety of topics including twins with a best friend dynamic worth capturing. We talked about getting family photos that showed love and life being lived, about connection and quiet. We also discussed places that feel like their own around Dallas and landed on Fair Park for a warm afternoon spent in the sun.
I witnessed that twin thing that is a pair ten-year-olds somehow both childlike and wise beyond their years in the way they seem to know each is a great gift to the other. By the end of the shoot I felt like I'd know this crew forever, and I am thrilled to share the results. The best of sessions are a collaboration between photographer and subjects and when it's good, it's so very good.
Side note: if you follow me on social media you may have noticed my husband and I have relocated to New England. Dallas friends, have no fear. I will boomerang back for photos (I have 5 portrait weekends available in 2017). If you're in New England, particularly Connecticut, Boston or Cape Cod, I'd love to hear from you! I look forward to continuing to capture families, newborns and the beautiful moments of life here, there and everywhere.
When Jaime's mom heard I would be in Kentucky over the holidays, she reached out to see about a gift session. Jaime is my cousin, and I hadn't met her baby yet, so I was thrilled at the prospect. My time was limited, so arrangements were made on the one day that worked for both of our schedules. That day the temperature hovered in the high 20s- not ideal for photographing a young family with a toddler, but as Jaime and I texted, she insisted it would be fine. And she was right; it was more than fine.
Little James couldn't have been more thrilled to be outside with both of his parents to play with, and Jaime and Adem laughed their way through our time. We all fussed over James' hands (were they too cold?), but really the chill couldn't be the focal point when love shone so clearly in every frame of their session. I have so many favorites and narrowing it to a few to blog was difficult. I adore this session.
If one thing is for certain it's that our move is so fast approaching that my heart hurts some days and feels infinite with excitement others. Holding that in tension feels about right and in the midst of lots of planning and preparing, life happens, good old everyday life. Every day. Here is a month of whirlwind travel and photo shoots and learning my job in Connecticut and trying to savor the present tense in Texas while preparing for a future in a new place. It's a lot of bittersweet these days, but the bitter comes because we've got a lot of goodness here to say goodbye to.
As change approaches I want to remember the wealth of community and experiences Texas provides us (and will continue to albeit from afar).
February 1: At the end of a walk wherein we decided to put an offer on the home that will be ours at the end of March.
February 2: So many airport days, already, this year.
February 3: Uncle Jono brings the laughs.
February 4: I spy the naughtiest packing, er, helper.
February 5: How to Sunday.
February 6: My in-laws have 5 (!!!) dogs. I married into a family of animal rescuers. My father-in-law found Saunie in a Sonic parking lot, hence her name, and she's the happiest girl.
February 7: Treasure hunting at the yard.
February 9: I've been photographing the Poes since they wed, and they're moving just days before us, meaning this is our last shoot for a while (but I refuse to believe that it's the last one ever).
February 11: Somehow, inexplicably, Nadine turned five this month.
February 12: I spy evidence of a rainy DC layover.
February 13: Week two at Connecticut Children's was marked by cold and snow and more cold and more snow.
February 14: If Valentine's Day is spent on a work trip away from your Valentine, I highly recommend butter cookies and hot cocoa alongside a good book and comfy pjs.
February 15: Olivia's family shoot last summer was when her mama mentioned a photography job at the hospital where she works. That referral led to our decision to move, so of course we had to have a winter ice cream to celebrate.
February 16: Six days away from home. Three books. Good math.
February 21: View from the morning walk with the best dog in the world.
February 22: Ty needed some samples for his research.
February 23: Jenny and Josh's engagement session. I met Jenny at an American Heart Association workshop I taught on smart phone photography, and she is one of my final Honey and Salt weddings. Talk about bittersweet. These two, though, are stunning.
February 24: Packet pickup for the Cowtown Half Marathon, Zeke's first! He did awesome. I don't have a photo of him racing the Sunday after this photo, because I got to run with him.
February 25: Jack, after assisting with communion at his parents' vow renewal.
February 27: Outside looking in at her near-constant perch.
February 28: Spring approaches. Fast.
I'm working my way through favorite 2016 sessions, and this was a morning of singing and dancing, of running and laughing, of kids being kids and of parents delighting. I love the easy rapport we've built through several years of sessions, and I love little Anya's serious disposition in the beginning this time around. I love Bowen's determination to include his little sister. Here is a family comfortable being themselves, and I suspect what you see through my camera lens in these photos is what you get on any give Saturday. I love when that's what comes through in a session.
A Cape Cod holiday marks summer time festivities for many a New England family. When my vacation aligned with a weekend these regular clients were going to be holidaying, we arranged to meet up for their annual session. The evening we did photos looked like sunshine and warmth, a perfect backdrop for low-key family photos. It felt like a vacation session from beginning to end: beautiful and full of life, relaxed and finishing all too soon. It's been summer weather in Texas this week, and that's made me want to share all the good stuff of warm weather sessions from 2016. Enjoy!
Emily emailed a few days before her maternity session and asked if I thought we could do a few photos using her in-laws' pool. We'd planned a morning session in their backyard. August in Texas, well, it's hot. The pool sounded like the perfect ending for the shoot. The anticipation of baby girl number two alongside of delight in big sister number one filled every frame of our time together, and I especially love that towards the end Emily suggested a family jump into the pool. Those photos turned out downright magical, and with the thermometer still pushing 90 in mid-October, revisiting these photos for the blog seemed pretty perfect.
Allison and Adam first contacted me before their firstborn arrived, and from the time we did that initial maternity session they've wanted photographs that reflect the simple beauty of everyday life. Our sessions have been conversational and low-key, allowing me glimpses into a family's growth and change over time. When we did family photos last year, Allison told me she was expecting twins, and we pencilled in a newborn session. I never imagined when booking that session that their newborn session would shift to a family session a few months later. The boys arrived early, and their precious Sam never left the hospital. You can read more of their story on their blog. I found myself amazed at the extraordinary courage this family displayed.
I am so glad Allison and Adam decided to do this session at home, letting the nuances of their family shape the session's flow. Home often trumps the most interesting of locations, because it's so decidedly specific and familiar. This session was passing boys back and forth, reading stories, tickling bellies and a demonstration of the great love that belongs uniquely to one family. The desire to honor Sam was an integral part of this session, and we did some photos in his memory. That said, the truth is they honor Sam all day every day in the way they love and care for one another and his brothers. It is beautiful to see.
"...Where I am now is that I want REAL... even if the cost is imperfect pictures where the darkness is captured along with the light." I heard a quiet yes resonate in me as I read her email. I knew their session would be something special from the moment Caitlin shared her heart. And it was. It really was. We hiked the muddy woods the children love. We wandered and talked and paused and laughed. It was incredibly not perfect. It was incredibly real and raw. Mostly it was incredibly beautiful.
This session makes me want to capture these kinds of photos for all the families I work with. They move me. I hope they move you.
Shelly and Justin were some of my first clients, and I'm amazed at all the goodness in their lives. I've had the privilege of capturing so many significant moments. This session, Riley's six-month and Cooper's three-year session, took place a couple of months after both significant dates. That meant Miss Riley was sitting up and Mr. Cooper had even more words than you can imagine a precocious kiddo having. I love these kids. I love this family.
We played and laughed and carried on, and towards the end Justin headed to the playground with Cooper so that Shelly and Riley could do a few nursing shots. They are among my favorites from this beautiful family in all of our years together. I love her chubby hand reaching up, her feet kicking wildly, the sun setting in the distance. It was one of those sacred moments in my little corner of the world when everything seemed just right.
In January, my dear friends welcomed their third daughter, beautiful Rosie. I cannot believe I'm just now blogging these photos. I'm mesmerized how wide-eyed this sweet nugget was then (and she remains so now). I'm amazed that this is the third little miss in this family that I've captured through my lens. I love that Ellie, Mae and Rosie get to grow up with the gift of each other and that they belong to two of my favorite people. Revisiting these photos makes me want to photograph All. The. Babies. and also makes me so grateful for friends who entrust me with documenting their families as they grow and change.
Real talk: the families who sign up for a session at the day's end when the light is golden and beautiful have regular kids, meaning kids who get tired and are sometimes a *wee bit* grumpy towards the end of the day. When Andrew and Alex arrived for family photos they'd had a big day, so we spent a few minutes just kinda being. Real talk, part two: almost any kids, given the undivided attention of their parents at the park will warm up and get distracted from said end-of-day *ahem* challenges. A little bit of play, a whole lot of laughing, some fast running and a good bit of interacting created one of my favorite spring family sessions this year. So much love shines through in these photos.
If your photo shoot feels a little crazy while in process, have no fear. Good stuff is happening, and it looks like what is uniquely beautiful in any given family, through a camera lens. I love this job.
Jessica and Sam's dynamic duo of brothers will expand into a trio in a few short weeks, and I got to take a few photos as they await the arrival of their new guy. It was the muddiest day, and the boys were so excited to have an excuse to get their feet dirty and play. I've done sessions with this crew for several years, so the kids know me. I love that the familiarity yields stunning results every time, and I love that I'm getting to watch a family grow and change and make room for one more. Such a sweet time. I cannot wait to post newborn photos soon!
Just a reminder that I'm running a maternity and newborn special through August, so if these photos appeal to you and you or someone you know is expecting in that time frame (or in the fall... the special can be extended by paying a retainer while it is running), I'd love to hear from you. Pricing starts at $425 for 20 digital files, a $125 savings with the option to upgrade to the full gallery. Maternity sessions are minis priced at $275, a $75 savings and include 10 digital files with the option to upgrade to the full gallery. Some restrictions apply. So excited to fill my summer calendar with beautiful bumps and babies!
Poppy's arrival meant two-year-old Violet graduated to a new role of big sisterhood. I love seeing the way a family grows and expands not just in number when a newborn comes home. Hearts open wide and even the tiniest toddlers discover they are capable of great big love. Violet's busy, big-girl-self nestled alongside of sleepy Poppy was not the only magic moment at the session, but it is a good place to start in sharing a family's warm welcome of a second beautiful daughter.
Newborn sessions are day in and day out among my favorites, and in sharing this session I want to share that I am running a newborn special through the summer. Full newborn sessions with all digital files are $550 (a $300 savings) or with 25 digital files are $425 (a $125 savings). Maternity options are also available. If you or someone you know is due June through August, I'd love to hear from you. I want all families to have beautiful photographs like Poppy's sweet session!
"To live would be an awfully big adventure." -J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan A friendship forged during twenty-something globetrotting fueled by passion and marked by adventure started with a whole lot of wandrelust. It's fitting, then, that these days my friendship with Carla looks like everyday explorations with three inquisitive minds. We may not be collecting passport stamps these days, but our conversations remain rich. The time we get together these days, fleeting because of the many miles between DFW and the PNW, is something of a sacred space for me.
I learn a lot from Carla. She's wise in her relationships. Her marriage is full of grace and kindness. Her intentionality with her children- genuine consideration for each little personality and heart- is something I hope to emulate in motherhood some day. The places she takes her brood on any given day invites imagination, wonder and an appreciation for what is beautiful on this good earth. While we didn't manage a single family photo during my last trip, what we did capture tells a whole lot of story about what really matters in the life of my dear friend. Revisiting these photographs inspires and delights me.
It's their bond that she loves seeing, Kristy, Luigi and Lucia's mama, told me. "I love the way Luigi loves his little sister. And she absolutely adores him, stares at him in complete wonder." I caught glimpses of their mutual affection all throughout our time taking Lucia's one-year photos. They giggled at each other, and Lucia's pure joy every time Luigi walked into the room put smiles on everyone's faces. I loved that I captured each child's spark as well. Luigi has a mischievous grin, and he was delighted when we went outside to explore for a few minutes, just the two of us. From the front porch of the Italian-style villa, a visual tribute to his dad's homeland, Luigi called out, "watch me!" as he posed. Five is such a fun age for the camera. Little Lucia is in that stage where she crawls so fast she can't be bothered to walk, and her curls and cheeks pulled me right in. She's a bubbly girl, eyes ever exploring to take in the great big world. This session was all goodness, and I'm delighted to share it.
Few captures rival photographs from the first day's of a baby's life. I've been working with Shelly and Justin since before they were married, so getting to document the arrival of their second born was so special. I got to show up not only as a photographer but also as a friend. Seeing the first time Dad held his daughter and Cooper realized he was a big brother made my eyes water, and watching the natural way Shelly transitioned from mom of one to mom of two inspired me. The love in this family multiplied right in front of my camera lens. I don't have a lot of words to describe this type of session; the photos tell the whole story. I'll just say if you're interested in having these types of photos made when your baby arrives, I'd love to hear from you. A first 24 or 48 session allows you the opportunity to have permanent visual reminders of one of the most incredible times in your life.