Albania is located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea, between Greece in the south and Montenegro and Kosovo in the north. This nation's terrain is comprised of mostly mountains and hills with small plains along the coast. The natural hazards in this region are destructive earthquakes, tsunamis along the southwestern coast, floods, and droughts. The climate is mild temperate with cool, cloudy, wet winters and hot, clear, dry summers. The interior is cooler and wetter. The environmental issues in Albania are deforestation, soil erosions, and water pollution from industrial and domestic effluents.
Albania registers relatively low levels of carbon emissions due to low ownership of private cars, massive use of public transport and, most of all, a reliance on hydroelectric power. Merely 3% of the energy generation in the country comes from fossil fuels. Moreover, Andorra exports hydro generated power to Greece, thus helping its South-Eastern neighbor reduce carbon emissions. Albania ratified the Kyoto Protocol on April 1, 2005.
Austria is located in Central Europe, north of Italy and Slovenia. This nation's terrain is comprised of mostly mountains in the west and south. The natural hazards in this region are landslides, avalanches, and earthquakes. The climate is temperate; continental, cloudy; cold winters with frequent rain and some snow in the lowlands and snow in the mountains with moderate summers and occasional showers. The environmental issues in Austria are forest degradation, air pollution, and soil pollution.
Austrian government encouraged wind energy and solar power with tax concessions offered to people that install solar panels. Austria signed the Kyoto Protocol in April 1998, but it entered into force only as of May 31, 2002. Until the climate change talks held in Vienna back in August 2007, the country observed a a reduction in air and soil pollution from industrial chemicals, banning of leaded gasoline included.
Belarus is located in Eastern Europe, east of Poland. This nation's terrain is generally flat and contains a lot of marshland. There are no natural hazards in this region. The climate in the winter is cold and cool and moist during the summers. The environmental issues in Belarus are soil pollution from pesticide use and the southern part of the country is contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chernobyl' in the northern Ukraine.
To reduce its effect on climate change, Belarus has embarked on an ambitious project of electrifying its train network, and investing more in public transport. However, it relies heavily on fossil fuels for the generation of electricity, which provides 99.5 percent of the power for the country, while only 0.08 percent comes from hydropower. With about a third of the country forested, Belarus lessens its effect on global warming, although there is the threat of deforestation with many cities becoming larger, and increasing demand for timber. The Belarus government took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and accepted the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on May 26, 2005. It took effect on November 24, 2005.
Bosnia and Herzegovina are located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea and Croatia. This nation's terrain contains mountains and valleys. The only natural hazard in this region is destructive earthquakes. The climate is composed of hot summers and cold winters. Areas of high elevation have short, cool summers and long, severe winters. The coast tends to have mild, rainy winters. Some of the environmental issues in this country are air pollution from metallurgical plants, sites for disposing of urban waste are limited, and water shortages.
One of the least developed countries in Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina has one of the lowest rates of carbon dioxide emissions: only 1.2 metric tons per capita in 1992. However, in 1997 the per capita rate rose dramatically to 3.6 metric tons, and then 4.6 metric tons by 1998. Most of these emissions come from electricity production (63 percent), as 37.6 percent of the country's electricity production is generated from fossil fuels. The remainder comes from hydropower. Transportation accounts for 33 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. Despite the Bosnian War, the government was eager to join international forums, and took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and ratified the Vienna Convention in the same year. On April 16, 2007, the Bosnian government accepted the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Bulgaria is located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey. This nation's terrain is comprised mostly of mountains with lowlands in the north and southeast. The natural hazards in this region are earthquakes and landslides. The climate is temperate with cold, damp winters and hot, dry summers. Some of the environmental issues in Bulgaria are air pollution from industrial emissions, deforestation, and soil contamination.
A recession after 1989 led to a reduction of carbon dioxide emitted by energy and industry, the latter now surpassed by transportation, with a growing number of old and inefficient vehicles. Another nuclear power plant and a gas network for heating are in the works. Energy efficiency is improving by changing windows and adding insulation, although growing affluence results in larger homes and air conditioner usage. Agriculture and tourism have come to the forefront of the economy, and increase the country's vulnerability to climate change. Agriculture was marked by intensive irrigation until 1989 (10 percent of nation's area was irrigated), but recurring droughts, such as in 2007, threaten harvests. Starting 2008, Bulgaria has initiated programs of heavy investment in alternative energy, mostly wind based.
Croatia is located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. This nation's terrain is geographically diverse with flat plains along the Hungarian border and low mountains and highlands near the Adriatic coastline and islands. The only natural hazards in this region are destructive earthquakes. The climate is Mediterranean and continental with the continental climate predominating with hot summers and cold winter. The winters are mild and the summers dry along the coast. Some of the environmental issues in Croatia are air pollution from metallurgical plants, acid rains, and coastal pollution from industrial and domestic waste.
For electricity generation, 45 percent of Croatian power comes from fossil fuels, with 55 percent from hydropower. This is generated from four hydroelectric power plants, one near the Slovenian-Hungarian border at Varazdin, and the other three are at Senj, Obrova and Zakucac, along the Adriatic Coastline. As a result of this heavy use of hydropower, Croatia has a relatively low rate of greenhouse gas emissions, given the prosperity of the country and the high automobiles ownership. Croatia became independent in 1991, and soon afterward it ratified the Vienna Convention. In May of the following year, it took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on March 11, 1999.
The Czech Republic is located in Central Europe, between Germany, Poland, Slovakia, and Austria. This nation's terrain is comprised of rolling plains, hills, and plateaus surround by low mountains in Bohemia in the west and Moravia in the east consists of very hilly country. The only natural hazard in this region is flooding. The climate is temperate with cool summer and cold, cloudy, humid winters. The environmental issues in the Czech Republic are air and water pollution in areas of northwest Bohemia and in northern Moravia around Ostrava and acid rain damaging forest.
About 77.8 percent of the electricity comes from the burning of fossil fuels, with 18.5 percent from nuclear power, and only 2.5 percent from hydropower. Most of that hydroelectricity comes from the Dalescie Dam, located on the Jihlava River, which was built 1970–78. Liquid fuels account for 16 percent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, with 15 percent from gaseous fuels. By sector, electricity production accounts for 54 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, with manufacturing and construction industries causing 23 percent, and transportation, 10 percent, despite a good public transport system, the use of electric trams, and also the heavy promotion of carpooling, cycling, and car-free parts of some towns and cities.
Estonia is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Russia. This nation's terrain is marshy and consists of lowlands, which are flat in the north and hilly in the south. The only natural hazard is flooding, which occurs in the spring. The climate is maritime, wet, with moderate winters and cool summers. Some of the environmental issues in Estonia is air pollution and pollution of coastal sea-waters.
Of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, 75 percent come from solid fuels, mainly coal, and also wood; 17 percent from liquid fuels, and 7 percent from gaseous fuels, with 1 percent from cement manufacturing. Because of the cold climate in the winter, 75 percent of carbon dioxide emissions come from public electricity and heat production, with 9 percent from transportation, and 7 percent from manufacturing and construction. Global warming and climate change are causing higher average temperatures in Estonia. In addition, some of the snow has melted, creating more land for farming. However, this has led to a change in the crops that can be grown, and the warmer temperatures in the seas around Estonia have affected the local fishery industry.
Germany is located in Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark. This nation's terrain comprised of lowlands in the north, upland in the center, and the Bavarian Alps in the south. The only natural hazard in this region is flooding. The climate is temperate and marine with cool, cloud, wet winters and summers with occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind. Some of the environmental issues Germany faces include acid rain, air pollution, and hazardous waste disposal.
Germany is a leader in the fight to combat global warming. A modern nation of 82.4 million people, with a stable and diversified economy, Germany has a highly developed industrial, commercial, and agricultural infrastructure, all of which will face challenges as the climate begins to change. Like the rest of Europe, Germany expects to see more extremes in its weather patterns, with milder, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers. The nation's water supply is not believed to be at risk, and there is little fear of new diseases moving into the region; in this respect, Germany will fare better than many other parts of the planet. Germany has taken a number of affirmative steps, translated in big investments in alternative energy, to mitigate carbon emissions and develop sustainable and renewable resources.
Hungary is located in Central Europe, northwest of Romania. This nation's terrain is mostly flat to rolling plains and hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border. The climate is temperate with cold, cloudy, humid winters and warm summers. The environmental issues in Hungry are the upgrading of Hungary's standards in waste management energy efficiency, and air, soil, and water pollution to meet EU requirements, which will require large investments.
A 2006 Yale University study ranked Hungary in the second quintile according to its overall environmental health, but dependence on fossil fuels, high transport emissions, and a poor development of renewable energy sources were weak areas. The third item became especially significant when the European Union announced in 2007 that its member nations by 2020 should obtain 20 percent of their total energy from renewable energy sources, with 10 percent coming from biofuels. Hungary's Ministry of Economics and Transportation and the Ministry of Environmental Protection announced a 10-point action plan to slow global warming. The plan calls for the establishment of a National Energy Council, environmentally friendly tax changes, and a commitment to renewable energy and meeting the EU standard.
Kosovo is located in Southeast Europe, between Serbia and Macedonia. This nation's terrain is comprised of a flat fluvial basin with an elevation of 400-700 meters above sea level surround by several high mountain ranges with elevations of 2,000 to 2,500 meters. The climate is influenced by continental air masses resulting in relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns. The Mediterranean and alpine influences create regional variation and maximum rainfall between October and December.
Latvia is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania. This nations terrain is comprised of low plains. There are no natural hazards in this region. The climate is maritime, wet, and moderate during the winters. The main environmental priorities in Latvia are improvement of drinking water quality and sewage system, household, and hazardous waste management, as well as reduction of air pollution.
Over 62 percent comes from liquid fuels, reflecting the heavy use of privately-owned cars in the country, and 30 percent from gaseous fuels, with the remainder from the use of solid fuels and cement manufacturing. In recent years, the Latvian government has encouraged bicycling in the country to try to reduce dependence on cars for short journeys. The main effects of global warming and climate change on Latvia have been a rise in the average temperatures in the country, which has allowed more land to be used for arable purposes. However, it has also led to degradation of some coastal lands, and the possibility of flooding in parts of the country. The Latvian government took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and three years later ratified the Vienna Convention. Latvia signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on December 14, 1998, and ratified it on July 5, 2002. It took effect on February 16, 2005. The Latvian government has undertaken to reduce CO2 emissions by 8 percent by 2012.
Lithuania is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia. This nations terrain is comprised of many scattered small lakes, fertile soil, and lowlands. The climate is transitional, between maritime and continental with wet, moderate winters and summers. There are no natural hazards in this region. The environmental issues in Lithuania are contamination of soil and groundwater with petroleum products and chemicals at military bases.
The Lithuanian government took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and ratified the Vienna Convention in 1995. They also signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on September 21, 1998, and ratified it on January 3, 2003.
Macedonia is located in Southeastern Europe, north of Greece. This nation's terrain is mountainous territory covered with deep basins and valley; three large lakes, each divided by a frontier line; and the country is bisected by the Vardar River. The only natural hazard in this region is high seismic risks. The climate is warm, dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall.
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in May 1992, which they ratified in 1998. Macedonia also ratified in the Vienna Convention in 1994.
Moldova is located in Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania. This nation's terrain consists of a rolling steppe and gradual slope south to the Black Sea. The only natural hazards in this region are landslides. The climate is moderate in the winters and warm in the summers. The environmental issues in Moldova are heavy use of agricultural chemicals, which has contaminated soil and ground water and extensive soil erosion from poor farming methods.
In 1990, Moldova had a per capita carbon dioxide rate of emission of 4.8 metric tons, which fell steadily to 1.7 metric tons in 2003. Because of the cold winter climate in Moldova and its heavy industry, electricity and heat production accounts for 44 percent of carbon dioxide emissions, other energy industries account for 12 percent, another 12 percent is from manufacturing, and 8 percent from transportation. In terms of the source of emissions, 68 percent come from gaseous fuels, 10 percent from solid fuels, and 22 percent from liquid fuels—the latter from heavy use of automobiles. Moldova has seen a rise in temperatures that has resulted in some water shortages, and heat waves such as those in the summers of 2006 and 2007 that badly affected Moldova and its southern neighbor Romania. This has added to the demand on water supplies, and a gradual reduction of available, arable land. Further complications are caused by the formation of Transdniestra, a breakaway part of Moldova, where there are even more problems enforcing environmental controls.
Montenegro is located in Southeastern Europe, between the Adriatic Sea and Serbia. This nation's terrain comprised of highly indented coastline with narrow coastal plain backed by rugged high limestone mountains and plateaus. The only natural hazard in this region is destructive earthquakes. The climate is Mediterranean with hot dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy snowfalls inland. The environmental issue in Montenegro is pollution of coastal waters from sewage outlets, especially in tourist-related areas such as Kotor.
Poland is located in Central Europe, east of Germany. This nation's terrain comprised mostly of flat plains and mountains along the southern border. The only natural hazards this region faces is flooding. The climate is temperate with cold, cloudy, moderately severe winters with frequent precipitation and mild summers with frequent showers and thundershowers. The environmental issues in Poland include air pollution, water pollution, and the disposal of hazardous wastes.
The country's reliance on coal has meant that 76 percent of Poland's carbon dioxide emissions have been from solid fuels, with 15 percent from liquid fuels, and 7 percent from gaseous fuels. The rising average temperatures in Poland as a result of global warming and climate change have caused hot summers in Lesser Poland, a region in the south of the country. Poland has been actively involved in various schemes to introduce carbon trading, and has even managed to reduce its own emissions rate, although it is hoping to cut back further. As a result, Poland has tried to follow a project that was developed by the Global Environment Facility, by which Mexico and Norway managed to reduce their power use through widespread introduction of compact fluorescent lamps in two major cities. In the case of Poland, this would also involve the conversion of coal-fired boilers to use gas. The main problem with this has been the political power of the coal-mining areas, which has hindered many attempts to reduce the dependence on coal.
Romania is located in Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Bulgaria and Ukraine. This nation's terrain is complex. The central Transylvanian Basin is separated from the Moldavian Plateau on the east by the Eastern Carpathian Mountains and separated from the Walachian Plain on the south by the Transylvanian Alps. The natural hazards in this region are earthquakes and landslides. The climate is temperate with cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow and fog and sunny summers with frequent showers and thunderstorms. The environmental issues in Romania are soil erosion and degradation, water pollution, air pollution, and contamination of Danube delta wetlands.
For the generation of electricity in the country, 53 percent comes from fossil fuels, with 37 percent from hydropower, and 10 percent from nuclear power, with a small amount of electricity exported, and an even smaller part imported.
The heavy use of hydropower has resulted in Romania having one of the lowest per capita rates of carbon dioxide emissions: 6.7 metric tons per person in 1990, falling to 3.8 metric tons per person in 1999, and rising slowly to 4.16 metric tons in 2004. The generation of electricity contributed to 49 percent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions, with 24 percent from manufacturing and construction, 11 percent from transportation, 8 percent from residential uses, and the remaining 8 percent from nonelectricity energy industries. The source of the emissions comes from gaseous fuels (33 percent), liquid fuels (32 percent), and solid fuels (31 percent), with 4 percent from cement manufacturing. The government committing itself to a reduction of emissions by 1.2 percent as a stage toward ratification, and by another 8 percent by 2012. The Romanian government has long signaled its interest in emissions trading.
Serbia is located in Southeastern Europe, between Macedonia and Hungary. This nation's terrain is extremely varied. To the north there are rich fertile plains; to the east, limestone ranges and basins; and to the southeast, ancient mountains and hills. The only natural hazard in this region is destructive earthquakes. The climate in the north is continental and in other parts it is continental and Mediterranean. The environmental issues in Serbia are air pollution from industrial cities and water pollution from industrial wasted dumped into the Sava, which flows into the Danube.
Slovakia is located in Central Europe, south of Poland. This nation's terrain is comprised of rugged mountains in the central and northern part and lowlands in the south. There are no natural hazards in this region. The climate is humid. The environment issues in Slovakia are air pollution from metallurgical plants and acid rain, which damages forests.
Slovakia sources 35.3 percent of its electricity production from fossil fuels, with 47.6 percent nuclear power and 17.1 percent from hydro power. Because of the heavy use of coal, solid fuels account for 45 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in the country, with 34 percent from gaseous fuels, 17 percent from liquid fuels (reflecting the fact that transportation accounts for 12 percent of emissions), and the remaining 4 percent from cement manufacturing. The high amount of fossil fuels used in electricity also shows itself in the emissions by sector, with 32 percent of emissions from electricity and heat production and 43 percent from manufacturing and construction. The fossil fuels also account for the nation's relatively high sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide emissions. The Slovakian government took part in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed in Rio de Janeiro in May 1992, and ratified the Vienna Convention in 1993. The government signed the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change on February 26, 1999.
Slovenia is located in Central Europe, eastern Alps bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Austria and Croatia. This nation's terrain is comprised of a short coastal strip on the Adriatic, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed with mountains and valleys with numerous rivers to the east. The natural hazards in this region are flooding and earthquakes. The climate is Mediterranean on the coast, continental with mild to hot summers and cold winter in the plateaus and valleys to the east. The environmental issues in Slovenia are that the Sava River is polluted with domestic and industrial waste, pollution of coastal waters, and acid rain.
Almost 35 percent of the electricity comes from fossil fuels and 29.4 percent from hydropower. There is heavy use of fossil fuels, especially by the thermal electric power stations using coal to provide electricity for Ljubljana, the capital, and also Sostanj and Trbovlje. This results in electricity and heat production accounting for 42 percent of the country's carbon dioxide emissions. Apart from electricity generation, there is also heavy use of private automobiles, with 365 vehicles per 1,000 people, similar to the proportions in Germany and the United Kingdom. This leads to regular traffic congestion, especially on roads around Ljubljana and Celje, Koper, and Maribor. Combined with relatively cheap petroleum, compared with prices in Western Europe, this has resulted in transportation contributing 28 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions by sector and 48 percent of emissions by source. This is in spite of the country's small size and an excellent public transport network, with an electrified train network run by Slovenske Zeleznice; the five steam trains are maintained solely for occasional journeys for tourists. In addition, there is an extensive bus network.
The Ukraine is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland, Romania, and Moldova in the west and Russia in the east. This nation's terrain is comprised mainly of fertile plains (steppes) and plateaus with mountains being found only in the west (the Carpathians), and in the Crimean Peninsula in the extreme south. There are no natural hazards in this region. The climate is temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern Crimean coast; precipitation disproportionately distributed, highest in west and north, lesser in the east and southeast; winters vary from cool along the Black Sea to cold farther inland; summers are warm across the greater part of the country, hot in the south. Some of the environmental issues in the Ukraine are inadequate supplies of potable water, deforestation, and radiation contamination.


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Il suo soprannome è una parola composta dai termini alto-tedeschi kurz, "basso", probabilmente perché aveva una bassa statura rispetto a quella degli aristocratici della sua epoca, e bald, "audace", per il coraggio dimostrato in battaglia.

Biografia
I genitori di Corrado erano il conte di Niederlahngau Eberardo e sua moglie Viltrude, figlia del conte di Wormsgau Guarniero IV. Apparteneva dunque alla dinastia dei Corradinidi. Presumibilmente crebbe nel ducato di Franconia. Nel 902, dopo la morte del marito, Viltrude e i suoi figli fuggirono nel Lahn inferiore, nel territorio dei fratelli Eberardo. Corrado ereditò il titolo comitale sul Niederlahngau dal padre, ma riuscì a rivendicare solo una parte dei possessi paterni nelle regioni circostanti. Corrado viene menzionato per la prima volta il 10 febbraio del 910, quando Ludovico il Fanciullo gli concesse una curtis per finanziare, in un'area nota come Lintburk o Lintpurc, la creazione di una canonica e la costruzione di una chiesa collegiata dedicata a San Giorgio, attorno alla quale si sviluppò la città di Limburg an der Lahn. Mantenne la sua posizione anche dopo l'elezione a re di Germania del  cugino Corrado I di Franconia, che gli assegnò alcuni compiti giudiziari. Alla morte di quest'ultimo, Corrado ebbe un buon rapporto anche con i sovrani liudolfingi Enrico I e Ottone I, anche se sotto il primo sembra non aver esercitato le stesse mansioni che gli aveva assegnato il cugino. Nel 927 gli vennero affidate le contee di Ahrgau e di Lobdengau, alle quali si aggiunse nel 932 la contea di Wormsgau.

Corrado, insieme al cugino Odo di Wetterau, è ricordato soprattutto per la sua vittoria nella battaglia di Andernach il 2 ottobre 939 contro i duchi Eberardo di Franconia (anch'egli suo cugino, fratello di Corrado I) e Gilberto di Lotaringia, che si erano ribellati contro Ottone I. I due ribelli avevano razziato e saccheggiato le contee dei due leali Corradinidi, che li inseguirono e li attaccarono con le proprie forze armate quando la maggior parte del loro esercito aveva già attraversato il Reno ad Andernach. Eberardo cadde in battaglia, mentre Gilberto annegò nel Reno nel tentativo di fuggire. Secondo le Cronache di San Gallo, Corrado, a capo di venti soldati, sorprese i due ribelli mentre giocavano a scacchi sulla pianura (forse una metafora per indicare che stavano muovendo strategicamente il proprio esercito?): egli, con un colpo di lancia, affogò Gilberto nel fiume, mentre uccise con la spada Eberardo sulla riva del fiume dopo averlo accusato di leggerezza.

Come ringraziamento, Ottone I donò a Corrado dei beni per la collegiata da lui fondata, che successivamente divenne il duomo di Limburgo.

Corrado morì, secondo quando riportano gli Annali di Fulda, il 30 giugno 948 e fu sepolto al centro del coro della cattedrale di San Giorgio di Limburgo. Alla sua morte la contea di Niederlahngau fu ereditata da suo fratello, mentre il cugino Corrado il Rosso gli successe come conte di Wormsgau.

Il mito di Corrado

A causa delle sue imprese militari e della sua bassa statura, Corrado divenne una figura leggendaria. Quasi un secolo dopo la sua morte, Eccardo IV di San Gallo riporta un episodio in cui uccise un enorme slavo vanaglorioso con una lancia come un novello Davide, solo che usò nell'atto una lancia anziché una pietra. Un altro episodio avvenne quando mentre era in viaggio con Enrico I uccise un leone che si era liberato dalla gabbia prima ancora che il re riuscisse a estrarre la spada.

Inoltre, Eccardo racconta in maniera criptica che Corrado provasse disgusto per le donne e le mele, tanto che se durante uno dei suoi viaggi avesse incontrato l'una o l'altra, non voleva sostare nei loro pressi. Lo storico Wolf-Heino Struck ha attribuito a questa espressione un significato metaforico, asserendo che lo storiografo intendesse che Corrado rimase celibe più a lungo della media e fosse un sostenitore del celibato anche per i chierichi. Infatti, secondo quest'interpretazione del testo di Eccardo, Corrado avrebbe avvertito la relazione di un consacrato con una donna come una vera e propria caduta nel peccato, giustificando così il riferimento alla mela, simbolo per eccellenza del peccato originale.

Sepoltura e commemorazioni
A seguito delle modifiche apportate alla liturgia dal Concilio Vaticano II, la tomba di Corrado, realizzata nel 1235, fu inizialmente trasferita nel matroneo del duomo di Limburgo prima di trovare la sua posizione definitiva nel transetto nord. Il piano del tavolo della tomba è scolpito come una bara aperta. La figura mostra Corrado avvolto in foglie di acanto all'età di circa 30 anni, una palese allusione cristologica in onore del fondatore. I piedi della tomba da tavolo poggiano su una piastra del pavimento, sotto la quale si trovano le ossa del defunto. Ogni 30 giugno, in occasione dell'anniversario della sua morte, si tiene una messa nel duomo di Limburgo per commemorare il fondatore, per il quale, però, non è mai stato avviato un processo di beatificazione.

Bibliografia

 Eugen Stille: Limburg an der Lahn e la sua storia. Kassel 1971.

 Wolf-Heino Struck: Die Gründung des Stifts St. Georg und die Erbauung der heutigen Kathedrale in Limburg an der Lahn. In: Nassauische Annalen 1986, S. 1–32.
 Marie-Luise Crone: Konrad Kurzbold. Descrizione della vita del fondatore della St. Georgstift a Limburg an der Lahn . In: Nassauische Annalen 98, 1987, pp. 35–59.
 Wolf-Heino Struck:Nachträge zu Konrad Kurzbold, Gaugraf des Niederlahngaues und Gründer des Stiftes St. Georg zu Limburg an der Lahn († 948). In: Nassauische Annalen 101, 1990, S. 1–6.
 Matthias Theodor Kloft: "Konrad genannt der Weise". Das Gedächtnis von Konrad Kurzbold in Limburg. In: Limburg im Fluss der Zeit. Schlaglichter aus 1100 Jahren Stadtgeschichte = Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kreisstadt Limburg a. d. Lahn 1. Limburg 2010, S. 11–34.
 Adolf Morlang: D. S. F. HE. Rätselhaftes in der Limburger Grabinschrift von Konrad Kurzbold. In: Nassauische Annalen 122, 2011, S. 77–82.
 Christine Kenner: Konrad Kurzbold. In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 1/2012, pp. 27–28.

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Altri progetti

Morti nel 948
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Q: Can't play video using Widevine DRM with DASH streaming URL We are implementing one video Roku channel and in that, we want to use the Widevine DRM with DASH Streaming URL to play the video.
   I followed the documentation given by Roku development forum but it is not working.
My current code is:
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videoContent.StreamFormat = "dash"
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videoContent.drmParams = drmParams

HttpAgent = CreateObject("roHttpAgent")
HttpAgent.AddHeader("Authorization",AuthorizationTokenString)
m.VideoPlayer.setHttpAgent(HttpAgent)

m.VideoPlayer.content = videoContent
m.VideoPlayer.control = "play"

I referred the following link to find out the way.
https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Content+Protection#ContentProtection-Widevine-BETA
https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/Content+Meta-Data#ContentMeta-Data-ExampleofconfiguringadashstreamwithWidevineDRM
Please let me know if I am missing something here and help me out solving this issue.

A: Have you added this to your channel's manifest?
requires_widevine_drm=1
requires_widevine_version=1.0

In addition, when creating your video node, according to https://developer.roku.com/en-gb/docs/references/brightscript/components/rourltransfer.md

In order for your web server to perform the steps above to authenticate your Roku Streaming Player, your application needs to call the following functions before performing any https requests:

In your code it will be:
HttpAgent.SetCertificatesFile("common:/certs/ca-bundle.crt")
HttpAgent.InitClientCertificates()
HttpAgent.AddHeader("X-Roku-Reserved-Dev-Id", "")

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In his veto message, the President said he disagrees with the amnesty provision which may be prone to fraud in the future.
He asked Congress to pass a tax amnesty bill with more safeguard measures, including lifting bank secrecy, improving the automatic exchange of information, as well as provisions to ensure truthful declaration of net worth and assets.
"I believe that, ultimately, the original objective will not be met under the proposed framework. Without the provisions breaking down the walls of bank secrecy, setting the legal framework for us to comply with international standards on exchange of information for tax purposes, and safeguarding against those who abuse the amnesty by declaring an untruthful asset or net worth, a general amnesty that is overgenerous and unregulated would create an environment ripe for future tax evasion, the very thing we wish to address," Duterte said in his veto message.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on Friday announced the President has vetoed parts of the bill, but did not immediately list down the provisions and why they were struck down.
The Tax Amnesty Act aims to enhance revenue administration and collection in the country. It also seeks to make the tax system more" equitable" by simplifying compliance requirements.
The law is said to complement Republic Act 10963 or the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion.
Meanwhile, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Monday said Malacañang is confident lawmakers will respond positively to Duterte's request on the tax amnesty bill.
"Ayaw niya ng general tax amnesty. Kasi nga, that will encourage them not to pay taxes in the future," Panelo said in his weekly media briefing.
He added Duterte's request to lifting the bank secrecy rule will help make sure taxpayers applying for amnesty will not get away with paying less than they should.
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III meanwhile slammed the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) regarding the tax amnesty veto. He said the development is a "testament that we need to revitalize or even upgrade" the PLLO.
"This is the Nth time that we do not know what the Executive dept (department) wants from us," Sotto said.
"Like all the other bills vetoed, we could have addressed the provisions that (the executive department) does not want to execute. The (legislative department) does not consult a crystal ball to know," he added.
Aside from the tax amnesty, Duterte also recently vetoed the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund bill, as well as the bill reconstituting the Philippine Coconut Authority.


Taking it on the road with food allergies.
Over the years, new families are dealing with food allergies and others are finding my blog for the first time. I love sharing recipes with my readers, but I also think that it is important to share some of the experience I've gained as a mom with a food-allergic child.
I am going to launch a series of food allergy posts that will run a couple per month over the next several months. Some are posts that I've written in the past that I hope might find a new audience, and some are new. Over the years, we've had mixed experiences with food challenges, finding the right allergist, traveling, sleep overs, field trips and more.
I hope that you will add your experiences through comments on the post or on the Welcoming Kitchen Facebook page. We can all learn together.
We just got back from a trip across the country. Two boys, one dog, one mom and one dad.
When we started on this food allergy journey, I would have been totally freaked out about having to travel with such restrictions. Seven years later, it's old hat.
A few tips and tricks I've learned along the way made it a lot easier for us to have a great trip, and maybe they'll help you, too.
1) Plan, plan and plan (and make lists)! When you know that you can't just stop at the rest stop and pick up a quick bite, you have to think about what you'll need before hand and get it all ready. Write it down! Shop, cook, and use your freezer to spread out the work.
2) Bring a variety of snacks -- sweet and savory-- and drinks so that you don't have to munch on the same old trail mix for hour after hour.
3) Take advantage of help when it's available.
Cookies are a fun treat in the car!
How do these tips translate into a real-life vacation?
The first part is obvious. Write down what foods, drinks and medications you need to make your travel enjoyable and safe. Then, write down shopping lists divided by store, so that you get all the ingredients you need in one shopping trip. Make sure you have all the medications you are going to need. For us, that's not just EpiPens and Benadryl, but allergy medicines and inhalers, too.
We also pack our own soap and shampoo, even when we're going to a hotel or family member's house that will have them. When you have a nut or milk allergy, fancy soaps can be dangerous!
The second part is fun. Part of the joy of traveling by car is eating stuff you wouldn't normally get to enjoy with such abandon! For this trip, I baked zucchini muffins and blueberry muffins. I baked them in papers so they'd travel better, then wrapped them in sets of four in aluminum foil and popped those in freezer-safe bags. I froze the muffins as I made them, so that I wouldn't have to be overwhelmed with work at the last minute.
I also baked up a double batch of granola. I made little sandwiches with Sunbutter and jelly and others with hummus. I bought some chips and dry cereal and juice boxes. We had non-dairy milk boxes and coconut waters for the grown-ups. We had grapes and apples. We also got squeezable pouches of apple sauce and apple/banana sauce and fruit leathers.
Each boy got a snack pack, which was his own bag filled with little bags of the snacky-type foods. That way, they got to have a little control over what they ate and when. I gave out the muffins in the morning and the sandwiches at lunch time.
The third part is crucial. We look for help from hotels that we stay at. Whenever possible, we choose hotels that have a refrigerator and a microwave when we're going to be there for more than one day. This does not have to be a big, extravagant hotel. Last summer we stayed at a Holiday Inn Express with a kitchenette that worked out great. On this trip, we stayed one night at the beginning of our trip and one night at the end at a little motel near my mother-in-law's and it had fridge. I could unpack my cooler and the ice pack and re-chill everything while we slept.
Fruit is a safe and readily available snack on the road.
We ate dinner at my mother-in-law's house. She was not comfortable buying all the food we would need for dinner, as she doesn't have the experience we have in reading labels. So, we brought pasta and sauce and cookies with us, and she provided salad and fruit--foods she could feel confident providing.
Before we left, I emailed my sister-in-law with a short shopping list. I listed brand names of the basic foods I would need to get my family started when we arrived in Virginia. This was a life saver. After traveling for two days, I didn't have to jump in the car again to go grocery shopping. My boys had Beanadillas (refried beans, Daiya and tortillas) for dinner with fruit and more of the cookies I had baked in Chicago. Later, we were able to go shopping together, so that we could make meals that would work for everyone.
That just left the return trip. Again, my sister-in-law took me shopping and hung out with me while I baked more muffins (zucchini and apple pie) and made more sandwiches. I also made a Mexican Lasagna for us to take with us to my mother-in-law's on the way back.
We really had a wonderful vacation, and I can tell you that I didn't worry about food at all. I have followed these tips for short trips to hotels, car trips, plane travel, and camping.
Please share any tips you find helpful in the comments.
Kim and Megan, I'm going to tell all my friends with allergic children about this post. It's the perfect introduction to your site for them. Your tips give parents encouragement and freedom.
Jean, Thank you for your support!
I'm a little nervous as we're taking our first trip since identifying our son's allergies. And we're flying....for thanksgiving! Of all the holidays, it's a food one. Ha! Just our luck. You've made a very thorough list that I'll need to reference before we go.
Good luck! It's easier than you think!
Thank you so much for this! We're doing a lot of travelling and road trips these days, and posts like this are always so helpful! I could never road trip without our trusty cooler and pre-made food. The key is planning ahead for sure!
That's so awesome that you make vacation a fun "splurge" time even with allergies!


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After 10 years' existence, Naïo Technologies is consolidating its status as the agricultural robotics leader by being the first company in the world to certify that its large scale agricultural robots will be operating unsupervised in fields from the spring of 2022!
Naïo Technologies Unsupervised Work of its Full Range of Robots
Article from | Naïo Technologies
01/25/22, 05:43 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Agriculture, autonomous
After having certified the little farming assistant Oz in 2015, it's now the turn of Dino, dedicated to weed in large-scale vegetable fields, and Ted, dedicated to the viticulture sector, to be capable of working in complete autonomy without any human supervision.
What does autonomy mean for an agricultural robot?
"Real autonomy, as requested by our clients, means being able to leave the robot to work alone in a field in order to get on with tasks with a higher added value", explains Matthias Carrière, Manager of the Sales and Clients pole. "The challenge lies in delegating a simple, repetitive task to your robot, just in the same way you would leave a robot vacuum cleaner or a robot lawnmower to do its work", he adds.
Drawing on its 10 years' experience in the automation of mechanical weeding with now more than 250 robots circulating worldwide and 60,000 hours of work carried out, Naïo Technologies is today in the process of making its fleet of agricultural robots totally autonomous in the field.
Dino and Ted, certified to work unsupervised in 2022
We were waiting impatiently for it and now it's here. Following five years of research and development and the filing of two requests for patent, Dino and Ted have been fitted with safety systems allowing them to operate unsupervised all over Europe from the spring of 2022. And that hasn't been easy!
Owing to their weight and speed, they are naturally potentially more dangerous. We have had to ramp up our efforts in order to comply with the European Machine Directive and to respond to our clients' requests in terms of using our robots unsupervised. We have created brand new, hugely reliable safety systems which specifically respond to the constraints of the farming world.
These solutions will be introduced at the sixth edition of the International Agricultural Robotics Forum (FIRA) to be held on 7, 8 and 9 December in Toulouse, France.
Technical and legal challenges to be taken into account
For Cédric Seguineau, Quality, Safety and Environment Manager at Naïo Technologies and Chairman of the PT4 Safety of Autonomous Functions working group at the CEMA (the European syndicate for agricultural machinery), there were challenges to be met in order to comply with the European legal context and to allow the use of our robots in complete security.
"With autonomy, new risks appear which are not formally identified in current regulations. We have had to start again with a blank page, re-do our risk analyses and invent specific mechanisms to manage two major risk factors in particular: colliding with a person and exiting the authorised working area (leaving the field and going onto a road, for example). The first relies on systems for the detection of obstacles and identification in order to distinguish a human being from a vine plant, even among vegetation. The second can be managed with so-called geofencing modules which check that the robot is staying within an area set by the user at all times."
This represents several years' work with engineering teams and safety specialists such as Dintec and Bureau Véritas who have allowed us to bring a technical response to these challenges, while guaranteeing our robots' reliability.
Franck Jung, System Engineering Director at Naïo Technologies, presents the latest results:
"Every day, we strive to eliminate the risks related to using our machines. One of the main risks is exiting the working area, which will be eliminated next spring thanks to the geofencing system. It's a dedicated security system which will verify that the robot is permanently within the authorised working area thanks to continually updated positioning data.
Regarding Ted, the straddling robot for vineyards, the risk remained of straddling a human being present among the rows of vines. We are currently finishing the integration of an innovative safety system based on mechanical sensors. This very simple, robust device, for which we have filed a patent, has shown very satisfactory results during trials among vines. It will allow us to deliver the first 100% autonomous Teds with no human supervision required, from the spring of 2022!"
Connected robots to ensure quality and peace of mind
Our teams haven't stopped at the "legal minimum" in order to guarantee people's safety. Beyond being able to leave a robot to work alone in a field, you have to be able to ensure efficiency for clients in the work it undertakes. Being able to delegate a task with complete peace of mind is a capital challenge for farmers.
In order to do this, we are also developing connected services which allow the safety of crops and the quality of the work carried out by our robots to be continuously guaranteed.
Clément Fraisier-Vannier, Software Engineering Director and user experience specialist, recalls the fundamentals of our connected services:
"The main objective of the robots is to carry out high quality work in complete autonomy. To this aim, since last year they have been connected via 4G in order to be able to send data directly from the field, allowing the real-time supervision of one or several machines and having a history of the work carried out on the fields. This collected data (in accordance with Data Protection law) also allows us to develop artificial intelligence which takes note of the quality of the work carried out. This future software brick will allow the robot to continually adjust and improve its work. It therefore becomes more autonomous and intelligent, allowing the farmer to check the quality and/or progress of the work carried out in order to develop the trust between him or her and the machine and give the peace of mind of a job well done."
Thanks to these latest innovations, Naïo Technologies intends to retain its leader status by always bringing more added value to its clients. See you at the FIRA for more technical details about these new developments and to discover the future robots which will extend our current range from 2022 onwards.
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Adam Strube - bass - Who would have guessed that I would become a true low bass by age 18? I don't think anyone except my mother and God had an inkling.
David Brundage
Bass David Brundage has appeared in many of the Washington DC area's most prominent venues including the four theatres of the Kennedy Center.
Highlights of some previous seasons include the Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar with the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko and the University of Maryland Symphony, a Faure Requiem, and the Kennedy Center's Messiah Sing-a-Long. 2006 saw his debut with the Chattanooga Opera as Monterone in their production of Rigolettoand a featured solo with the principal trumpet player of the National Symphony, Steven Hendrickson, in "The Trumpet Shall Sound" from Messiah.
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The young American Bass, Kevin Thompson, possesses a commanding stage presence and a voice with extraordinary range, depth, and color.


Berry is a people and industry leader with over 15 years of experience, specialising in technology, innovation and experience design. He has extensive experience in business management, corporate and business development, digital, marketing, finance and operations.
Berry's experiences have enabled him to work in fast growth environments, from start-ups and first stage companies through to established multi-nationals. He has been involved in establishing three start-ups, and has worked and lived on three different continents.
It's a fantastic challenge to work with large and complex institutions across the education and government space and help them adapt rapidly to meet expectations of students and citizens.
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Film Review – Three Summers
Posted by mrjabbatron on October 30, 2017
I was a big fan of Ben Elton's debut novel Stark. As a 16 year old back in 1989, I found the environmental comedy that satirised both rich and greenies a ripping read.
The last book of his I read was 2001's Dead Famous, a dark tale of the dangers of Big Brother style reality TV.
This gifted wordsmith who gave us TV classics like The Young Ones and Blackadder has been busy in the ensuing years, primarily writing fiction for books and the small screen, and in the last year has directed his second feature length film, Three Summers.
Three Summers – Photograph by David Dare Parker
An ensemble comedy that embraces the diversity of modern Australia, Elton has created a heap of characters with their own agendas who collide in a colourful fashion as they interact wth each other over the course of three summers at a folk music festival.
With a huge cast of familiar Aussie faces including Deborah Mailman as Pam, the leader of the local AA chapter, Magda Szubanski as Queenie, the DJ of the festival radio station, Michael Caton as Henry, a Morris Dancer longing for the olden days, John Waters as Eamon, an alcoholic folk musician, and father to the lead female character Keevey, played by Rebecca Breeds, who steals every scene she is in.
Keevey, the feisty lead singer of an Irish folk band meets a folk music-hating Theremin player Roland (Robert Sheehan) and sparks literally fly.
Ben Elton is so skilled at writing characters and scenarios that are both very funny, but also very relatable and with poignancy that is revealed as the story plays out.
All the players in Three Summers have a story below the surface. Whether it is a death in the family, addiction issues, fear of failure, or racist beliefs, everybody has something else going on to generate entertaining friction.
As a "new Australian", (Elton emigrated to Western Australia with his Aussie partner in 2010), he is in a good position to make acute observations about our cultural quirks and he makes a stack of great points as well as delivering plenty of laughs.
It's hard not to like this distinctly Aussie film that serves up romance, music and comedy in an easily digestible package.
3 & 1/2 Stars – "Colourful, Chaotic Comedy with Plenty of Laughs."
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For a more tart lemonade use 6-7 lemons. For a sweeter beverage use 1 cup sugar. You can also omit the lemon peels in the glass for a milder lemonade.
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Gummy bear giant Haribo to build first North American plant in Pleasant Prairie [Wis.] with 400 jobs.
Premium chocolate sales have gained by 5% year-over-year.
Mondelez plans to spend $65 million to open or improve nine research and development labs across the globe. The centers will be located in key markets for the company like East Hanover, N.J.
"Grimaldi Candy Co. expanding to major national retailers…company expects to see continued growth into 2016 and beyond.
"If last year's appetites for Halloween treats are any indication of this year's sentiments, American food retailers are in for a treat. Last year, sales of seasonal Halloween chocolate candy reached $217 million, up 12%.
Hershey ranked second on a list of the world's 100 most powerful brands, beating out Apple, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, and American Express. Only Coca-Cola is more powerful, according to the CoreBrand survey of business executives.
Blommer Chocolate Co. saw demand increase by double-digits last year and as a result, the company is expanding its processing capacity.
"US Halloween confectionery sales outshone expectations in 2013…confectionery sales grew 3.8% on last year to $4bn.


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Q: c++ sort object vector I've a question regarding sorting of object in a vector
my object consists of x,y and civ. so I would like to know how do I sort the value of the civ in an descending order but at the same time retaining the value of x and y attached to it..
original
X: 4 Y: 5 CIV: 10
X: 3 Y: 2 CIV: 30
X: 3 Y: 3 CIV: 05

sorted
X: 3 Y: 2 CIV: 30
X: 4 Y: 5 CIV: 10
X: 3 Y: 3 CIV: 05

missionplan.cpp
for(int j=0; j < 5; j++)
    {
        for(int i = j; i < topfive.size(); i++)
        {
            if(topfive[i].getcivIndex() < topfive[i].getcivIndex)
            {
                topfive[i].swap(topfive[i]);

            }
        }
        pointtwoD = topfive.at(i);//display all data starting from the first index
        pointtwoD.displayPointdata();
    }

A: You have a misktake in your code.
if(topfive[i].getcivIndex() < topfive[i].getcivIndex) //The second i should be j
{
     topfive[i].swap(topfive[i]); // which should be topfive[j].swap(topfive[i])
}


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Merck to Buy OncoImmune Amid Covid-19 Vaccine Development
By Dave Sebastian
Merck & Co. is buying the biopharmaceutical company OncoImmune, which has reported positive results from a late-stage study of a coronavirus therapeutic candidate, for $425 million in cash.
The acquisition is the big drugmaker's latest in its catch-up in the most important vaccine chase in modern history. Earlier Monday, AstraZeneca PLC and the University of Oxford said their Covid-19 vaccine was as much as 90% effective in preventing infections without serious side effects in large clinical trials, and a shot created by Moderna Inc. and one jointly made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE were found to be more than 90% effective in their own late-stage trials.
Under the deal, expected to close by the end of the year, OncoImmune shareholders would be eligible for milestone- and sales-based payments, the companies said Monday. OncoImmune will also spin off an entity involving certain rights and assets unrelated to the vaccine to a new entity owned by existing shareholders before the acquisition, with Merck investing $50 million and becoming a minority shareholder in it, the companies added.
Patients with severe or critical Covid-19 who were treated with a single dose of OncoImmune's vaccine candidate, known as CD24Fc, had a 60% higher probability of improvement than those treated with the placebo, OncoImmune said of its interim analysis of data from 203 participants, or 75% of the planned enrollment in its phase 3 clinical trial. The dose reduced the risk of death or respiratory failure by more than 50%, the Rockville, Md., company added.
Merck, based in Kenilworth, N.J., is a longtime maker of vaccines and antivirals, including human papillomavirus shot Gardasil. The company in September said it had begun testing one of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidates in healthy volunteers. It laid out a Covid-19 vaccine program in late May, at a time when several rivals had developed vaccines and begun testing them on healthy volunteers.
For the vaccine, Merck in May said it was acquiring privately held Austrian company Themis Bioscience. The vaccine was developed by the French research nonprofit Institut Pasteur and licensed to Themis. Merck's other coronavirus vaccine effort takes the form of a partnership with the scientific-research organization IAVI, whose experimental vaccine uses the same technology that is the basis for Merck's Ebola Zaire virus vaccine.
Health authorities have eyed vaccines as the antidote needed for the world to begin returning to normal. They are crucial to ensure that enough people are protected against the virus so it can't spread easily, even to those who aren't immune. Some 200 Covid-19 vaccines are in development around the world, according to the World Health Organization, each one promising to protect people from the deadly coronavirus and allow them to go back to work and school. Nearly 50 candidates, based on different technologies, are in clinical trials.
Write to Dave Sebastian at dave.sebastian@wsj.com
Corrections and Amplifications
This article was corrected at 8:21 a.m. ET because it misstated that OncoImmune reported positive results from a late-stage study of a coronavirus vaccine candidate. OncoImmune reported positive results from a late-stage study of a coronavirus therapeutic candidate.
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Friend who recommended Yola said sometimes there are tech issues, and you sometimes need to try later if something isn't working right... but 3 days to activate e-mail is seriously bad and I'm half thinking Yola is a con, I've paid for e-mail and I want to use e-mail, I also want to add my e-mail address to my website and business cards.
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【BRI Ambassador Interview】 Osama Elmagdoub: BRI Can Be Considered as a Global Comprehensive Development Plan
Sun Chao
"The Suez Canal Economic Zone is an Egyptian Initiative that was not related to the Belt and Road Initiative at the beginning. However, it is now being connected to it."
The second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on April 25-27 is China's most important diplomatic event of the year hosted on home soil. Over the last six years, 123 countries and 29 international groups have signed cooperation documents for jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). However, what has the BRI brought to other countries? China Focus has launched a series of in-depth dialogue column, "BRI Ambassador Interview," jointly with the DRTT Group and China Development Observation to present the real thoughts of the ambassadors of the Belt and Road countries and leaders of some international organizations or their representatives in China. Today, we have an exclusive interview with Osama Elmagdoub, Ambassador of Egypt to China.
Alexandria of Egypt's close connection with the Silk Road probably dates back to over 2000 years ago, when Chinese porcelain and silk were shipped across the Indian Sea and Red Sea, and made stops in Alexander before reaching Rome, making Alexandria a trading hub and a center of cultural exchanges between the East and ancient Europe.
The Future for Egypt and China Is Very Promising
Sun Chao: How do you see the future of the bilateral relationship?
Osama Elmagdoub: I believe the future for Egypt and China is very promising. The Belt and Road Initiative launched by President Xi Jinping is very interesting, and it reflects the Chinese vision of the world for the coming 20 to 25 years. We have followed this Initiative since its launch, and we strongly support it. I believe Egypt will play an important role in helping this Initiative succeed for the benefit of not only Egypt and China, but also of the whole world.
Sun Chao: What is your expectation for the future of China-Egypt economic relations?
Osama Elmagdoub: Well, first of all, the volume of trade is very modest. There should be much more than that. Secondly, although the number looks great, 10 of the 11 billion is China's export to Egypt, and only one billion is Egypt's export to China. Therefore, we are working to improve that, and make some degree of balance in the trade and investment between our countries.
I think until now, the real Chinese investment in Egypt has not exceeded $1 billion dollars. We are fixing this problem through several projects that we have signed, allowing more investment and projects in Egypt to be executed by Chinese companies.
China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (Photo/CRI)
Suez Canal Economic Zone Coincides with the Belt and Road Initiative
Sun Chao: What is your opinion on the Belt and Road Initiative?
Osama Elmagdoub: I think it is a brilliant idea. What makes it brilliant is not because it is some kind of an economic initiative, but because it focuses primarily on something that is very important for participating countries, which is infrastructure, because infrastructure goes a long way in promoting inter-connectivity and trade, and is in the best interests of all countries.
It can also be considered as a global comprehensive development plan. I think it would be a very important plan for economic development worldwide.
The Suez Canal Economic Zone is an Egyptian Initiative that was not related to the Belt and Road Initiative at the beginning. However, it is now being connected to it. Basically, it is establishing an economic zone that includes factories, and logistic stations for maritime transportation and ports. There are four ports that are to be constructed along the economic zone to improve or rehabilitate existing networks, and become a proper vein of trade and cooperation and inter-connectivity between Europe, Africa and Asia. That is why President Sisi is interested in doubling the passage of the Suez Canal from the beginning, which could reduce the time of crossing for the ships, and prevent the impeding of traffic in the canal, increasing the flow of trade through the Suez Canal. Hence, this is the general idea of the economic zone. The idea is basically the same with China's economic zones.
Sun Chao: What are your country's future plans to enhance the understanding and friendship between people of these two countries as part of the efforts to contribute to the initiative?
Osama Elmagdoub: Besides the Suez Canal Economic Zone, we are working with China to explore cooperation in other aspects based on the Belt and Road Initiative.
I think that cultural aspect in relations between Egypt and China is very important and significant, because these two countries have strong cultural heritage. We are busy this year with the Belt and Road Forum, and we are also busy with the participation of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the margins of the BRICS Summit. There is also the dialogue with the emerging and developing economies that has been organized by China as the current president of the BRICS this year.
Then, there is the China-Arab Trade Exhibition that will take place in Ningxia. As a guest of honor, we will be offered by the Chinese government a wing in the exhibition of one thousand square meters to present our different aspects of culture, tourism, trade and others. They are also building in the rose garden, which is a very famous 2,000 square meter garden in Ningxia, as a permanent wing for Egypt.
Sun Chao is the editorial board member of China Development Observation, Vice President of the DRTT Group, and author of the New Order: Ambassadors' Views on the Belt and Road Initiative.
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'Crysis 3' maxes out current hardware, already a next-gen game
Josiah Renaudin
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli not only believes that the upcoming Crysis 3 is the best looking console game this generation, but also claims the game is a next-generation title.
In a recent interview with VideoGamer, Yerli talked at length about his studio's technical achievement and how it just looks better than what's currently out there.
"Crysis 3 is absolutely maxing out the consoles. There is absolutely not even 1% left," Yerli said. "No game will ever look technically better than Crysis 3 on these consoles, flat out. Most games are not even anywhere near Crysis 2 technically. I'm not talking about art style – art is subjective – but the pure fact of what we have been cramming in with Crysis 2 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, I've yet to see a game do that still today."
Just how pretty is it? Yerli explains that the PC version of the game will be comparable to the graphical capabilities of the consoles expected to launch next year.
"That's why we said [two years ago] that Crysis 3 is next gen ready already," Yerli said. "We did that without knowing the specs [of next-generation consoles], but it's not going to be much more than what we have done so far. And it turns out we were pretty much right."
Look to see all the game's sharp graphics when it releases February on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
What do you think about Crytek's game? Will it really be that pretty? Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below!
When not writing about all the latest and greatest happenings in the video game industry, you can find Josiah on PSN, XBLA or Steam (Lionheart377). He has a soft spot for classic, turn-based RPGs, but also spends a great deal of time jumping from platform to platform and shooting dudes in the head.


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Augusta GA Realtor Jim Marshall brings many years of project management and home inspection background to the field of real estate. He has an international background with prior residency in Quebec, Canada and Great Britain. He came from California to join his family, two military sons, both stationed at Fort Gordon.Jim's Marine Corps training and dedication says, "Get It Done" and that is what he will do to his utmost ability. He will give his clients the best possible service and satisfaction. He joins his wife, Rose Marie, a successful real estate agent with Blanchard and Calhoun. Together they offer a "2 for 1" approach working as a team to help people fulfill their dreams of home ownership. Buyers and sellers will receive the best value for their money.Jim is a member of the National, Georgia and Greater Augusta Associations of REALTORS.


BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to visit Billings on Friday to talk about the nation's drug crisis.
The Billings Gazette reports Sessions will deliver his remarks to law enforcement partners at the Rimrock Foundation starting at about 1:15 p.m. The news media will be allowed to attend, but the Department of Justice says he will not take questions after his formal speech, which is not open to the public.
Sessions is also scheduled to speak in Fargo, North Dakota, on Friday.
During a speech in North Carolina last week, Sessions said the federal government will continue to provide state and local law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to reduce opioid abuse, adding that ending the drug crisis is a top priority for President Donald Trump's administration.


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"Some things can only be felt in music... music with a blues feeling."
In the midst of the massive volumes of material documenting the history of blues music and its creators in Chicago, there is a small but very unique story concerning an artisan whose apprenticeship caused a revival of Chicago blues that boosted the careers of nearly every active seminal blues artist in Chicago during the 1960s to the 1980s.
In the 1940s, born the oldest of 10 children on a working dairy farm in northern Wisconsin, Bob Riedy grew up to become for a while, one of the most active blues promoters, entrepreneurs, and piano players in the city of Chicago. While attempting to fulfill his apprenticeship among the inventors and masters of Chicago Urban Blues, his efforts helped bring new life to the whole genre.
At one time or another, every seminal Chicago Urban Blues Master who was active during the late 1960s to the early 1980s (from Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf to the lesser known but integral Chicago Urban Blues Artists) was either a member of Bob's band or was backed by his band at one time or another. He created jobs where there were none, putting together bands for himself and others even when it was not financially feasible to do so. He made recordings of the Chicago blues artists when the established record companies would not. Chicago Urban Blues artists played on Bob's recording sessions and he played on theirs. Many times he came to recording sessions with arrangements, backup musicians from his band, and even spare musical instruments he had repaired to make sure the session and artist had everything needed.
By the early 80s, Bob found gigging and promotion increasingly difficult. Neighborhood bars he developed into successful blues clubs over many years were now in their prime and ripe for take over by corporations and individuals who had an agenda different than his own. The result was that clubs that took years to build and become popular were now being rapidly harvested by those who did not share Bob's views on presenting blues. He realized that after nearly 20 years, he did not have the means on a musician's pay to stop the takeovers of any of the blues clubs. Also, without the jobs he created, he could not continue maintaining a fulltime band on payroll. His philanthropic effort had run its course.
Bob simultaneously gave up live performance, behind the scenes promotions and booking, left the hustle of Chicago, and ironically returned to a pastoral life in the rural Midwest. Today, even though he does continue work through his foundation; he rarely performs in public. But most every evening as you pass his farmhouse you can still hear Bob working at his craft. His apprenticeship continues.
The Original Bob Riedy Chicago Blues Band presents: Chicago Blues Review, Saturday, June 11th, 8 p.m.


The Missive Maven: Rainbows for sale!
Here's an update on some new rainbow items I have for sale in my etsy shop. First up, these awesome vintage 80s rainbow hearts postcards, which I love and am using them all up myself already. I'm loving these really fun, simple happy rainbows to send through the mail. The rainbow beams ending in hearts. The front has the rainbow with a space for address and stamp, and the back is completely blank for your message. Each postcard is roughly 4x6 inches, and they're for sale in lots of 10.
Also, I now have multiple color options for these awesome Zebra super marble rainbow gel pens, which I'm also using a lot of myself! They're great on postcards, and the rainbow colors really stand out.


I had the privilege of attending a LEAD seminar at the College of Education last week where graduate students hosted disability advocates Sarah Castle and Ann Cody. These women described effective advocacy and the policy making process. A crucial component is a lucid legal understanding. Advocates need legal expertise, and you can build a better understanding of legal and social policy by engaging in these groups in your local community. Check out their advice for being an effective advocate in the PowerPoint link below, and please email me this summer to let me know how you are advocating in your community – I'd like to spotlight these endeavors by Pre-Law students next Fall.
Ann Cody, MS, CDSS: As Director of Policy and Global Outreach for BlazeSports America, Ann Cody oversees the Washington, D.C. office, develops relationships with major national and international partners, shapes the organization's policy efforts, and supports the organization's sport development initiatives overseas.
As a Washington veteran and Paralympic sport expert of two decades, Ann has extensive knowledge and experience in sports management and governance, community-based sports, policy and advocacy, international development, as well as governmental and international affairs.
Ann is widely known and respected throughout the world as a leader in sport and human rights. She has led a number of national and international advocacy initiatives on sport with a focus on girls and women with disabilities. Through her leadership, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) established a policy on gender equity and several initiatives aimed at increasing participation by women in Paralympic sport and the movement. Ann's significant international sport network and project experience anchors BlazeSports' international programs in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Ann serves on the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board and is the highest ranking American and highest ranking woman in the IPC worldwide. She is a member of the International Olympic Committee 2018 Evaluation Commission. Ann holds a bachelor of fine arts and a master of science degree in leisure studies and therapeutic recreation from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign. She is a Paralympic Gold Medalist in Athletics and competed on three U.S. Paralympic Teams (Basketball '84, Athletics '88, '92).
Sarah Castle is a four-time Paralympian, as well as a recently licensed attorney. Sarah is presently employed by the United States Attorney's Office as a Special Assistant US Attorney. She also serves as a member of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) Board of Directors, and is a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Athlete Advisory Council. She was recently asked to be a panel speaker at the NCAA National Convention, and spoke on the importance of inclusion of adapted athletic programs in the NCAA.
In 2002, Sarah began college at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While there she was a member of the Women's Wheelchair Basketball Team and won 5 National Championships, in addition to earning her Bachelors of Arts and Masters of Arts in Political Science and Civic Leadership. As a part of the Civic Leadership Graduate program, Sarah interned for United States Senator Ken Salazar (presently Secretary of the Interior) and for B & D Consulting, where she worked on disability issues. In 2008, Sarah joined the Campaign for Real Choice in Illinois as a Community Organizer, and helped organize initiatives around the state of Illinois promoting the rights of people with developmental disabilities.
Sarah is also a four-time Paralympian. She competed in the 2000 Sydney and the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games in swimming, and in the 2008 Beijing and the 2012 London Paralympic Games in wheelchair basketball. While unsure if she will pursue a fifth Games, Sarah is presently spending her free time coaching a junior wheelchair basketball team in Kansas City and working with the University of Missouri Wheelchair Basketball team on development. She is also actively involved in working with children with disabilities and their families, teaching skills and providing guidance about ways to help children with disabilities achieve independent lifestyles.
There's no better time to build the habit of solid finals preparation than now. So as you prepare for this round of finals see if you can implement these strategies so that 1L . . . and 2L . . . and beyond . . . don't seem so overwhelming.
Decided not to go to law school but still want to explore the field? The Project Assistant (PA) Program at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP, in Chicago (www.kirkland.com) is a 1-2 year program where the PAs work with legal assistants and attorneys on specific projects in any number of departments within the law firm. Participants in the program are typically individuals that are thinking about going to law school but who want to work in a legal setting first. No prior legal experience is needed, but the K&E folks want people who are not afraid of technology, who are comfortable working with Excel, PowerPoint, etc., and who are willing to work hard, take initiative and be creative. The salary is described as competitive. There is no identified deadline for submitting a resume, but as openings occur (late spring/early summer is a big turnover time for this program so they are looking now) candidates are contacted. If you are interested in this program, please email your cover letter and resume to: Nicole Kopel, Recruiting Specialist, Kirkland & Ellis, LLP (nicole.kopel@kirkland.com) and mention your interest in the Project Assistant Program in your cover letter.
Networking is such a buzz-word we fear it has lost its true value. What is the value of networking? It is purely about learning. Building relationships, pushing yourself to strike up conversations, asking meaningful questions, and getting a personal store of contacts cannot possibly be over-rated. Students who push themselves to do these things well continue to find opportunities – even in markets like today. The Pre-Law Advising Center hosts many networking events – ones to learn effective strategies and EVERY event that we hold which leads to another contact. Place yourself at the top of the networking game by attending ones like the one where we recently hosted Pam Bloomquist.
Take advantage of opportunities to meet law school deans, professors, and professionals. When they come to campus, go meet them. They might remember you and thus take notice of your application above other applications.
Suzi Blanco is a graduate intern in the Pre-Law Advising Services office and Division of General Studies where she has focused on social media and outreach to students. She will graduate in May 2013 with her Master's degree in Higher Education and will continue working with students as an academic advisor in the School of Chemical Sciences.
This posting was written by Stanley Richards, UIUC Class of 2012. He graduated with a BA in Political Science and BS in Public Policy in Law. He is a Student Director for the Yale Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project and Online Editor for the Yale Journal of Regulation. He is currently trying out for the Yale Law Journal.
I am glad I did not consult many online "resources" before coming to law school. Any basic Internet search on "law school preparation" or some variant of this yields a plethora of links to websites and posts created by people and institutions of questionable credibility. Much of the advice and "myth-busting" does more to encourage anxiety than to mitigate it. I was excited by this opportunity to blog because I want to tell those of you who are applying to law school or that have already been accepted a little bit of inside knowledge that I have gained as a Yale 1L. Most of this will ease any concerns you future lawyers have; I have selected mostly those things I wish I knew before going to law school.
I think the most important discovery I have had is this: three years in law school is a very short amount of time. The timeline for firm jobs and clerkship placement makes this time even shorter and more hectic. If you are gunning for a firm job you will be likely be interviewed for it the summer before your 2L year and be extended a permanent offer of employment the summer before your 3L year. Interviews for clerkships in the federal courts continue to be moved further and further earlier in the calendar. Law students, therefore, will have only about one year to really make their mark and build their resumes to impress their future employers. For instance, the firms that will interview me this coming summer will only have two semesters worth of grades to look at (in fact, only one semester of "real" grades because Yale Law does not do traditional grades first semester 1L year)! So, 1Ls are well advised to be prepared to do a lot their first year. It is not like undergrad wherein one can cruise the first year doing Gen-Eds and getting acclimated to campus life, planning to pull up their GPA in subsequent years if need be. You will be rewarded later for getting involved in clinics, secondary journals, and doing meaningful substantive research your 1L year.
Secondly, there are so many opportunities in law school. Popular myth has it that law school is a combative and a zero-sum game. This is just not true. Do not get me wrong, there are passive-aggressive people. There are "gunners" who just ask too many questions in class and do not give others a chance to talk. But, on the whole, considering law schools tend to be full of ambitious people, the atmosphere is relatively collaborative. With the numerous journal offerings, research opportunities with professors, clinics, and courses, there are plenty of places where people can succeed and make their mark. I remember being concerned that I would lose in this zero-sum game and being intimidated by the numerous students from very elite schools or who seemed to have saved the world three times over before coming to law school. I realized within a few weeks such anxieties were ill-founded and that there was plenty of opportunity to succeed.
Third and finally, write early and write often. Student scholarship is a big deal and it is not limited to the particular institution's law journal. Professors are often eager to work with equally eager students, and it is excellent in interviews to be able to speak about one's research.
These are just a few of the many things about Yale Law that have surprised me. I will admit that some of these observations may speak more to the reality at Yale than at law schools generally, but I think many law students who were very anxious before 1L year will agree with a lot of what I am saying.
Thanks to those who came out tonight for our event between the UIUC College of Law and the UIUC Pre-Law Advising Services Center! We hope that everyone left feeling more empowered in the process of navigating the financial issues that accompany attending law school.
We post this link here for you to take advantage of the incredible resources hyperlinked within – all you will need to be educated and empowered! Remember that the Heather Jarvis webinar is available through our recent blog post!


6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as awitness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 (John bore witness about him, and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.'") 16 And from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
These verses tell us that the light (who is the Word) is very God. They tell us that John the Baptist was not the light but was a man who witnessed to it. They are clear that certain people did not receive the light but those that did became children of God. Finally, it tells us that the light is Jesus Christ, the one who has come from God and is himself both very God and very man. As v18 makes clear, and John makes explicit later in this gospel and in his letters, he who knows Jesus Christ knows God.
That is why Christmas is so vitally important. The incarnation of Jesus Christ is the moment when God made himself known to man. Not by revelation through human transmission, which he had done at many times in various ways, but God himself became man and dwelt among us. He entered into our world to make God fully known. Jesus said to his disciples "If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him." (John 14:7).
If you are looking for God, if you want to know what he is like, look to Jesus Christ. He was the one sent from the Father, God with us, to make God known. If God exists, it is surely important that we know what he is like and that which he requires. If Jesus Christ is the one who has made God known, then his understanding of how we have peace with God and right standing in his sight is truly the only view of any significance. And Jesus' view was very simple: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6).
This Christmas time, consider who Jesus Christ really is. He is the one who makes the Father known and gives life to all those who receive him and believe on his name. Why not make this the merriest Christmas of all and find forgiveness for sin, peace with God and life in Jesus Christ?


For luxury lodges Scotland Craiganour Perthshire is one of the finest.
Craiganour Lodge in Highland Perthshire is one of the finest examples of a Victorian hunting lodge anywhere in Scotland. One of the factors which make it such an exceptional luxury lodge in Scotland is the stunning interior which has an elegant and contemporary sophistication. The property is set in around 21,000 of beautiful estate land, with the views from the property taking in Loch Rannoch which is just to the south.
With nine king and twin bedrooms – all of which have their own en-suite bathroom – Craiganour Lodge can sleep up to 18 guests. (The twin rooms can be changed to king if required.) However, if your party is smaller than this number then you'll still have exclusive use of the lodge for your stay, thus ensuring complete privacy.
Your booking will include all meals which are expertly prepared by our chef, and enjoyed in the splendour of Craiganour's vast dining room – the table of which can seat up to eighteen. Elsewhere in the Lodge there is a very comfortable drawing room for relaxing in after dinner or after a walk through the stunning scenery the lodge resides in, plus a common room with Sky TV and a Bose music system.
Whilst staying at the lodge our resident housekeeper will ensure that your stay is as comfortable and relaxing as possible, and although always available to assist in any way she can, your privacy is of course entirely respected and therefore you'll very much feel your family, friends or other group members will have the property to themselves.
As with many luxury lodges Scotland, there's lots to see and do when you stay at Craiganour such as fishing, mountain biking, boating, walking and bird watching. The lodge is also close to the towns of Aberfeldy and Pitlochry, with the city of Perth only one and a half hours away by car.


I offer a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends, for an easy fixed rate of $20/hr.
On the first visit, I normally deep-clean, then rotate special attention to each room on the next scheduled cleanings; monthly, weekly, or bi-weekly, to keep your home or business looking its best.
One-time or occasional jobs are welcome.
Please feel free to request special cleaning jobs, such as laundry, dishes, polishing, etc.
I come on-time, in a discrete car with my own cleaning-supplies available, (and will happily use yours, if you prefer).
Please call or text me with questions or to schedule a visual estimate and discuss your specific needs.
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Share your thoughts on "Beautiful" by Kidz Bop.
This song was meant to be the personal manifero of self indulgence for every 13 year old all over the U.S. and well, it had really great response. Talking about massive airplay, and Christina's unique voice just dancing on a few piano chords. I've got one question to ask though: What happened to Christina Aguilera's career?
I think this song is pretty straightforward and simple in lyrics except for this part that seems rather personal almost. I think it talks about a void that a person has, a space where there should be something and you don't know really what it is, but you know that until you have that something missing then the happiness can't happen. It's weird, really. But that is what the pieces of the puzzle refer to.