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Updated 19 August, 2014 - 12:45 aprilholloway
The Mysterious Disappearance of Nefertiti, Ruler of the Nile
Nefertiti was the chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep IV), who reigned from approximately 1353 to 1336 BC. Known as the Ruler of the Nile and Daughter of Gods , Nefertiti acquired unprecedented power, and is believed to have held equal status to the pharaoh himself. However, much controversy lingers about Nefertiti after the twelfth regal year of Akhenaten, when her name vanishes from the pages of history.
In Akhenaten's new state , religion centred on the sun god, he and Nefertiti were depicted as the primeval first couple. Nefertiti was also known throughout Egypt for her beauty . She was said to be proud of her long, swan-like neck and invented her own makeup using the Galena plant. She also shares her name with a type of elongated gold bead, called nefer, that she was often portrayed as wearing.
Long forgotten to history, Nefertiti was made famous when her bust was discovered in the ruins of an artist's shop in Amarna in 1912, now in Berlin's Altes Museum. The bust is one of the most copied works of ancient Egypt.
The iconic bust of Nefertiti, discovered by Ludwig Borchardt, is part of the Ägyptisches Museum Berlin collection, currently on display in the Altes Museum. Image Source: New World Encyclopedia
Nefertiti is depicted in images and statuary in a large image denoting her importance. Many images of her show simple family gatherings with her husband and daughters. She is also known as the mother-in-law and stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun .
Nefertiti's parentage is not known with certainty, but it is generally believed that she was the daughter of Ay, later to be pharaoh after Tutankhamen. She had a younger sister, Moutnemendjet. Another theory identifies Nefertiti with the Mitanni princess Tadukhipa.
Nefertiti was married to Amenhotep IV around 1357 BC and was later promoted to be his queen. Images exist depicting Nefertiti and the king riding together in a chariot, kissing in public, and Nefertiti sitting on the king's knee, leading scholars to conclude that the relationship was a genuine one. King Akhenaton's legendary love is seen in the hieroglyphs at Amarna, and he even wrote a love poem to Nefertiti:
…And the Heiress, Great in the Palace, Fair of Face, Adorned with the Double Plumes, Mistress of Happiness, Endowed with Favors, at hearing whose voice the King rejoices, the Chief Wife of the King, his beloved, the Lady of the Two Lands, Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti, May she live for Ever and Always…
The couple had six known daughters, two of whom became queens of Egypt: Meritaten (believed to have served as her father's queen), Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten/Ankhesenamen (later queen to Tutankhamun), Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre.
A "house altar" depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters; limestone c. 1350 B.C.E., Ägyptisches Museum Berlin. Image source: New World Encyclopedia .
New Religion
In the fourth year of Amenhotep IV's reign, the sun god Aten became the dominant national god. The king led a religious revolution closing the older temples and promoting Aten's central role. Nefertiti had played a prominent role in the old religion, and this continued in the new system. She worshiped alongside her husband and held the unusual kingly position of priest of Aten. In the new, virtually monotheistic religion, the king and queen were viewed as "a primeval first pair," through whom Aten provided his blessings. They thus formed a royal triad or trinity with Aten, through which Aten's "light" was dispensed to the entire population.
During Akhenaten's reign (and perhaps after) Nefertiti enjoyed unprecedented power, and by the twelfth year of his reign, there is evidence that she may have been elevated to the status of co-regent, equal in status to the pharaoh himself. She is often depicted on temple walls in the same size as him, signifying her importance, and is shown alone worshiping the god Aten.
The Wilbour Plaque, Brooklyn Museum. Nefertiti is shown nearly as large as her husband, indicating her importance. Image source: Brooklyn Museum
Perhaps most impressively, Nefertiti is shown on a relief from the temple at Amarna smiting a foreign enemy with a mace before Aten. Such depictions had traditionally been reserved for the pharaoh alone, and yet Nefertiti was depicted as such.
Akhenaten had the figure of Nefertiti carved onto the four corners of his granite sarcophagus, and it was she who is depicted as providing the protection to his mummy, a role traditionally played by the traditional female deities of Egypt: Isis, Nephthys, Selket and Neith.
Nefertiti's Disappearance
In the regal year 12, Nefertiti's name ceases to be found. Some think she either died from a plague that swept through the area or fell out of favour, but recent theories have denied this claim.
Shortly after her disappearance from the historical record, Akhenaten took on a co-regent with whom he shared the throne of Egypt. This has caused considerable speculation as to the identity of that person. One theory states that it was Nefertiti herself in a new guise as a female king, following the historical role of other women leaders such as Sobkneferu and Hatshepsut. Another theory introduces the idea of there being two co-regents, a male son, Smenkhkare, and Nefertiti under the name Neferneferuaten (translated as "The Aten is radiant of radiance [because] the beautiful one is come" or "Perfect One of the Aten's Perfection").
Some scholars are adamant about Nefertiti assuming the role of co-regent during or after the death of Akhenaten. Jacobus Van Dijk, responsible for the Amarna section of the Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, believes that Nefertiti indeed became co-regent with her husband, and that her role as queen consort was taken over by her eldest daughter, Meryetaten (Meritaten) with whom Akhenaten had several children. (The taboo against incest did not exist for the royal families of Egypt.) Also, it is Nefertiti's four images that adorn Akhenaten's sarcophagus, not the usual goddesses, which indicates her continued importance to the pharaoh up to his death and refutes the idea that she fell out of favour. It also shows her continued role as a deity, or semi-deity, with Akhenaten.
On the other hand, Cyril Aldred, author of Akhenaten: King of Egypt, states that a funerary shawabti found in Akhenaten's tomb indicates that Nefertiti was simply a queen regnant, not a co-regent and that she died in the regal year 14 of Akhenaten's reign, her daughter dying the year before.
Some theories hold that Nefertiti was still alive and held influence on the younger royals who married in their teens. Nefertiti would have prepared for her death and for the succession of her daughter, Ankhesenpaaten, now named Ankhsenamun, and her stepson and now son-in-law, Tutankhamun. This theory has Neferneferuaten dying after two years of kingship and being then succeeded by Tutankhamun, thought to have been a son of Akhenaten. The new royal couple was young and inexperienced, by any estimation of their age. In this theory, Nefertiti's own life would have ended by Year 3 of Tutankhaten's reign. In that year, Tutankhaten changed his name to Tutankhamun and abandoned Amarna to return the capital to Thebes, as evidence of his return to the official worship of Amun.
A gold plate found in Tutankhamun's tomb depicting Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamen together
As the records are incomplete, it may be that future findings of both archaeologists and historians will develop new theories vis-à-vis Nefertiti and her precipitous exit from the public stage. To date, the mummy of Nefertiti, the famous and iconic Egyptian queen, has never been conclusively found.
The article 'The Mysterious Disappearance of Nefertiti, Ruler of the Nile' is adapted from the article: Nefertiti. (2008, December 2). New World Encyclopedia .
Top image: Nefertiti with a magic sistrum. Credit: mari-na.
By April Holloway
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April Holloway is a Co-Owner, Editor and Writer of Ancient Origins. For privacy reasons, she has previously written on Ancient Origins under the pen name April Holloway, but is now choosing to use her real name, Joanna Gillan.
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Somonai wrote on 26 January, 2019 - 13:57
A synopsis of the lives of both AknAten and NeferTiti (NabihAton and Nefare) along with mention of the two bastard sons of AknAten (the second became Tut), his mother Towi of the Sacred Mysteries, and of Meriten is to be found in The Kolbrin Bible, Book of Manuscripts 34:29-71. Nefare departed in the 15th year of AknAten's reign, and went to Lebados. The young Tut went with her. She never returned, but rather resumed her life as a devotee of the Sacred Mysteries at the shrine there to the Great God, the Light behind the light of Sol. Meriten poisoned herself rather than endure life as her dad's wife and queen. After Nefare departed NabihAton, he fell apart and was repossessed by a demon. Today he might be diagnosed as epileptic. It was strictly forbidden the royals to procreate with their own children, but not for siblings.
Recently, Nefare's tomb was identified in Turkey (Anatolia). See the scoop here with Dr Carmen Boulter https://www.darkjournalist.com/s-boulter.php
Joe Stitzel wrote on 13 February, 2016 - 00:47
She existed. egyptians had no, alter ego's. She was disgraced first by those she upset most, they came in her tomb, ruined her mouth with an axe, it is considered disgraceful to have a damaged face in the after life.And they found one just like that, with long-gated neck, I strongly believe it is her.
George Mark wrote on 3 February, 2015 - 05:22
Was Nefertiti was married to Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten? Did she actually physically exist?
DNA of mummies found in Tutankhamun's tomb shown his mother (not known but no Nefertriti), father (Akhenaten) and grandmother (Queen Tiye).
In the emptied tomb at Amarna we have an androgynous images of Akhenaten and images of Nefertiti. A famous bust buried under rubble in the sculptor's quarters.
Akhenaten dies, Nefertiti disappears with no physical proof of her existence.
Nefertiti could have been Akhenaten's female alter ego, the feminine image of himself.
Howard West wrote on 14 December, 2014 - 22:00
The pharaoh, Akhenaten knew that the sun gave unlimited power. However, his wisdom of solar power was hidden by the elite of ancient Egypt: which includes technologies, such as those found near Luxor, at the archeological site of an ancient technology promotional park known as "The city of the Horizon of Aten."
http://youtu.be/OSHFWkfVQXo
Akhenaten's City of the Horizon of Aten, contained a story of a tantalizing technology of ancient Egypt that was so Top-Secret that the priesthood of Amun of during the reign of the pharaoh Horemheb, dismantled that city piece by piece. Then those broken stones were shuffled and hidden within the Great Pylons of Karnack to conceal their prized technology: a stone riddle that could only be revealed by an earth quake and reassembled by modern computer wizardry. Orb of Aten, was a Low-Tech solar energy device that is only today becoming wide spread.
Akhenaten, showed Aten as a solar orb, a sun-globe with rays which end in tiny human hands holding golden mirrored ankhs. The Egyptians use sunshine and golden mirrors to create Low-Tech solar energy devices. However you may ask: "where is the Historical evidence?" All over Egypt, on its temple walls, its papyrus, its jewelry and especially Karnakh. Sadly, the process has been misinterpreted for centuries and hidden in the pharaoh, Horemheb's pylon.
However, Henri, Chevyer started the excavation of the pharaoh, Horemheb's pylon in 1926, finding thousands of stones that were shuffled and disjointed that had lay without a cipher for many years. The pylon had been used as a waste dump for the cleansing done by the priesthood of Amun to purge any remembrance of the city called, the Horizon of Aten. A promotional park, where the pharaoh, Akhenahten and his queen, Nefertiti, loved the pomp and ceremony: where they would bask as they showed off the power of this solar technology. Therefore, when Horemheb, became pharaoh, he took great pleasure in the disassembling of Akhenaten's solar energy promotional park, even to the point of hiding the stones inside the Pylon of Karnack. However, centuries later an earth quake would shake and crumble Horemheb's pylon to reveal the stones of that forgotten city, thousands of jumbled stone blocks that held a lost technology. However, in 1965 a group of archaeologists, including R.W. Smith began a program, to reassemble a representation of that city through photographs and a computer referencing programs. A curriculum, that would reveal the secret power, that belonged to the Aten enigma.
This giant jigsaw puzzle showed Aten Orb with three attributes, first light, secondly, heat and thirdly, in this case the golden mirrored ankh's true representation. This stone jigsaw puzzle revealed a system of concentrating sun shine. An experiment that can be done by any child, by taking two mirror and redirecting their reflections of the sun to the same point: where you double that heat and light. If you keep doing that with more mirrors you can produce some real heat, consequently, you can use the power of the sun that is easily controlled with a few magic mirrors, a form of energy that is fresh and clean. Heat, which was Aten's, second attribute. A technology that is now known as solar furnaces or heliostats. These mirrors were made of gold or of copper with a silvery, mercury finish. Reflectors that were common in other technologies of Egypt, such as in their communication system, and these mirrored ankh were a powerful tool in Egypt's concealed science.
David Doucette wrote on 27 February, 2016 - 16:49
I've always wondered about their elongated skulls. It seems that Royalty are always depicted with elaborately large headwear.
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Q: writing basic Trigger in T-SQL I want to use a trigger when an insert is made on a table and I can't create it because of an error.
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CREATE TRIGGER TblAuditLogLoggingIn.ModuleID ON dbo.GenesisOnline.TblAuditLogLoggingIn.UserID
AFTER INSERT
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    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
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END
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The error is:

Msg 8197, Level 16, State 4, Procedure ModuleID, Line 6
      The object 'TblAuditLogLoggingIn.UserID' does not exist or is invalid for this operation.

The schema is dbo.GenesisOnline.TblAuditLogLoggingIn and the columns are:

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*AuditID PK

*UserID

*ModuleID

*LoggedInDate

The trigger I am trying to create is for table TblAuditLogLoggingIn that I have created. But Management studio says it doesn't exist?

A: Okay, thanks for clarifying your question @nick gowdy. First of all SQL Server does not accept a name with a dot (.) on it. Then you cannot create a trigger based on a column that way, as mentioned by the previous answer. If you want to act on a column on your trigger you should do it like this:
CREATE TRIGGER TblAuditLogLoggingIn_ModuleID ON dbo.GenesisOnline
AFTER INSERT
AS
BEGIN
    -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
    -- interfering with SELECT statements.
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    -- Insert statements for trigger here
    IF ( UPDATE(UserID) )
    BEGIN
        -- do your stuff here
    END
END
GO

But that would almost certainly result into do your stuff here gets executed all the time. If what you are trying to do is to do your stuff if UserID meet some criteria, null for example then you can do something like this:
DECLARE @UserID int --assuming that is the type of your UserID
SELECT @UserID = UserID from inserted
IF ( @UserID is null ) -- change this to a criteria appropriate to your code
BEGIN
    -- do your stuff here
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Pilot Point is a small but diverse community, growing quickly with the expansion of the Dallas North Tollway. In their Ministry With Grant application, Pilot Point UMC shared that their local school district does not offer a choral music program to explore children's artistic and musical gifts. They requested $2,700 to jump-start their plan to reach children in the third through sixth grades and provide multicultural education through song.
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In November 2021, the program leaders completed a first incarnation of what became known as the Multicultural Fine Arts Program; however, leaders found it took longer than expected to build strong enough relationships with children and their families to gain critical mass. They used the holidays to thoughtfully discern next steps, even considering shifting toward a senior adult-focused arts ministry.
Instead, the group chose to keep working on relationships with children and families in Pilot Point ISD, meeting the initial need they had identified. Their redoubled efforts resulted in a spring offering with 12 children in choir and another nine in hand chimes and dance. The program boasts diversity in its students, teachers and planning team, and is planning its first showcase for May 1.
One of the values of the Ministry With Grant Program is giving churches the coaching and encouragement to experiment with new modes of ministry with their neighbors. While the team from Pilot Point UMC felt discouraged that their initial ideas and efforts did not net the relationships they had in mind, the leaders paused, discerned a path forward and persevered.
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The Congress president, who is getting wittier each day, actually took a dig at the saffron party when he said that the "BJP wins hands down in Karnataka".
If you are thinking that Congress president Rahul Gandhi has accepted defeat just days before Assembly elections in Karnataka, you are wrong. The Gandhi scion is a little more hard nut to crack than we all think.
When he declared the BJP winner, he didn't mean Karnataka Assembly elections but "corruption" where the saffron party defeated Congress.
"In Karnataka, when it comes to corruption, it's a "No Contest" as this graphic shows. The BJP wins hands down!" Rahul tweeted on Wednesday.
Along with the tweet, Rahul shared a picture comparing Congress' five years in Karnataka with BJP's five-year rule in the southern state.
Rahul claimed that during the 2013-18 tenure of Siddaramaiah government, Karnataka became the top job creator state in the country, while during BJP's government (2008-13), its chief minister BS Yeddyurappa was jailed in Denotification Scam.
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On one hand, Siddaramaiah government built Asia's largest drip irrigation project, on the other, Yeddyurappa government pioneered "cashless corruption" by taking bribe in cheque, the Congress leader claimed.
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Over the years, there have been many attempts to make FPGAs easier to use, and most of them now occupy the footnotes of FPGA history. So when I got a note from Stéphane Monboisset introducing me to a new FPGA design tool called QuickPlay from a company called PLDA, I was about to send a polite, "Thanks, but no thanks," when I remembered where I had last met Stéphane. It was when Xilinx was launching Zynq, and he was very successfully handling the European aspects of the launch, including the press conversations. The fact that he had moved from Xilinx to PLDA made me take it more seriously.
The context in which QuickPlay has been developed is that, while FPGAs can offer a great way of developing products and can often provide performance and other advantages over using, say, multicore processors and GPUs, they are now complex beasts. They need experienced hardware engineers to implement the intricate designs that provide the performance advantages, and projects can take a long time from initial concept to a debugged device that is ready for delivery. QuickPlay is intended to open up the development process to software people and improve the speed and quality of implementation.
It was, for me, a little difficult to get a grasp on exactly what QuickPlay is. Let's start with what it is not. It is not a complete tool chain for FPGAs – it relies on the synthesis and place and route tools from the device manufacturer. It is not an all-purpose tool; it presumes that you will be developing a system based on one of a (wide) range of boards. But it is a way of developing systems around an FPGA that is accessible to people who are not hardware experts.
Stepping back a bit, QuickPlay already has in place an ecosystem – the QuickAlliance programme – with partners who supply pre-validated IP cores and libraries in VHDL, Verilog, and C, a group of board partners and partners who provide tools that integrate into the QuickPlay design flow, and suppliers of design services.
The underlying model of the QuickPlay approach is based on how a software developer thinks – that a design is a number of functions that communicate with one another and also with the outside world. For the hardware implementation, these designs are considered kernels.
The design flow is to create a software-functional model, using C or C++ implementations of the kernels from the IP library or building them from scratch, and verifying the model using standard tools and methodologies. Once the model is clean, then a hardware engine is generated for an FPGA platform along with standard I/O.
Now clearly there is a great deal more going on under the hood. Let's go back to look at the flow in a little more detail. The QuickPlay, Eclipse-based IDE has a working space for drag and drop from libraries of functions in C or C++ or even HDL. These can be from PLDA or from the ecosystem, or they can be developed in-house. Streaming communications channels link the functions, and these can include links to memory blocks and system I/O. Parallelism is supported by merely duplicating functions.
When the system model is assembled, it can be compiled and then exercised with a test program to verify behaviour. For example, is the output from the system appropriate for the input? The IDE includes open source debugging and other tools.
Once the software model is performing according to specification, then it is mapped onto an appropriate target board with an FPGA and physical interfaces. The FPGA is implemented using the manufacturer's tools within the IDE. The board can then be exercised with a wide range of tests, in parallel with the software model. As QuickPlay has guaranteed functional equivalence between the software model and the hardware implementation, if there are any bugs in the hardware, then they also exist in the software. There is no need for hardware debugging, since fixing the software and re-targeting to the FPGA automatically fixes the hardware.
What are the benefits? We have seen that the developer doesn't need to know what is happening at much below the functions of the kernels. There is no need to worry about clock networks, timing, communication stacks and protocols or a raft of other issues that normally absorb significant energy of the hardware engineer. The implementation is correct by construction, so there is no need for hardware level verification and debugging.
This is similar to the current holy grail of creating software without software engineers. The quality lowered, the software deployment size increased, applications are sistematically slower despite the big increase in computational power.
So, honestly, I don't think it's the way to go, long-term. Future will tell.
Just a small note regarding your title "FPGAs for the Masses". I honestly was expecting something different – a radical decrease in FPGA prices from some vendor, at least for the low-volume or hobbyist market. That would be the best news around – be able to buy a decent FPGA (similar to a Xilinx Spartan6 or Altera Cyclone IV, or even newer families) for less than USD$4 a piece.
Unfortunately, I think this is not going to happen so soon. But you can buy a GHZ ARM SoC chip for only a few cents… only sales volume explains the cost difference.


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Future Conditional Subjunctive?
I assume that "future conditional subjunctive" is not really a term. But that's pretty much what I'm asking about.
I often find myself addressing the scenario where (x) one thing "A" may happen in the future, and (y) if "A" happens, "B" will result. Often, this occurs while I'm arguing that "A" should not be allowed to happen.
I would like to write:
"If A happens, then B will result."
My colleague insists that, because we don't want A to happen, we must write:
"If A were to happen, then B would result." (Sometimes he will try, "were A to happen, . . . ")
I think both "were to happen" and "would result" are incorrect. And "were to happen" seems unnecessarily awkward.
Similarly, I'd write: "If you don't stop A, then B will happen." Colleague would write "If you don't stop A, then B would happen."
And, finally, when generally discussing what A would cause, I would just write "A will cause x, y and z." Colleague would write "A would cause x, y and z."
Colleague's reasoning is that because we do not want A to happen or B to result, we need to use the "subjunctive." Otherwise, if we use the indicative, we are somehow conceding that A will, in fact happen.
My thought is that we want to make an unambiguous statement that A will result in B. We don't want to introduce any doubt that A will not result in B.
And, I've read that there is no future subjunctive in English.
Is there a correct answer?
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MoosbruggerMoosbrugger
Conditional sentences have nothing to do with whether someone wants the condition to be fulfilled.
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I think it has less to do with what you think should happen and what is likely to happen. For example, if you are generally planning to go to the park tomorrow, you might say:
If we go to the park tomorrow, I'll bring the dog.
However, this moves (in my head, unofficially) to the subjunctive when the propositions AREN'T the true case. If your friend, for example, claimed "We are NOT going to park tomorrow!" Then I might claim:
But if we were to go, we could bring the dog!
Since the case is more counter-factual, it lends itself more to the subjunctive.
answered Jul 9, 2015 at 20:18
skazskaz
Have a look at a grammar, then such discussions won't be necessary.
– rogermue
@rogermue Agree. It is about the grammar: If x were to [verb] = If x verb in the simple past....however, people don't know that, so they "say" If x were to [verb]....It's just lack of education in how English works.
– Lambie
Obviously it is about grammar. I don't know how my answer implies it isn't. And Lambie, I don't understand what you are trying to say at all.
– skaz
@skaz You are discussing the issue without reference to the grammar of the sentences and only with regard to their supposed meaning. And you make a mistake when you say this moves to the subjunctive....Also, I am trying to say that: But if were to go, we could bring the dog = But if we went, we could bring the dog. Except I would say TAKE the dog and not bring the dog..:)
The grammar of the sentence is dependent upon the meaning...If you want to express a certain meaning you use a certain grammar. You are right, your two cases are the same. I am drawing a distinction to a non counterfactual, "If we go..."
OP said: I would like to write: "If A happens, then B will result."
My thoughts: Perfectly correct grammatically, of course - and clearly conveys the certainty of (undesirable) B occurring as a result of A.
OP said: My colleague insists that, because we don't want A to happen, we must write: "If A were to happen, then B would result."
-- "were to happen" is perhaps more 'literary'- and erudite-sounding than the simple past "happened" ... but other than whatever value that quality brings, it is (as noted by others) grammatically functionally interchangeable therewith
-- ...and, because a simple past condition always requires the present conditional in the main clause, OP's colleague's "would" is grammatically correct;
-- HOWEVER, OP is absolutely correct that it introduces a sense of mere possibility / probability of outcome B, rather than the certainty that both OP & OP's colleague are wanting to convey. Colleague has it exactly backwards.
OP said: (Sometimes he will try, "were A to happen, . . . ")
Also grammatically acceptable (it's just an inversion of "If A were to happen" with the "If" dropped, which is permissible), but unnecessarily lofty for most everyday purposes IMO.
OP said:
Similarly, I'd write: "If you don't stop A, then B will happen."
Colleague would write "If you don't stop A, then B would happen."
My thoughts: You are right. Colleague is wrong. As you obviously know and he does not, the simple present conditional always takes the simple future, not the present conditional. I've never even seen this particular error; just bizarre.
OP said: And, finally, when generally discussing what A would cause, I would just write "A will cause x, y and z." Colleague would write "A would cause x, y and z."
My thoughts: Funnily enough you yourself introduce this one by using the "would" that your colleague prefers:) Can you not simply say "A would cause x, y, and z, which is an undesirable outcome"?
OP said: Colleague's reasoning is that because we do not want A to happen or B to result, we need to use the "subjunctive."
My thoughts: Nonsense. The subjunctive does not and cannot serve that purpose. It conveys ONLY uncertainty, not desirability or undesirability of the outcome. He is being a pretentious prig, and wrong to boot. Great combo!
OP said: ...Otherwise, if we use the indicative, we are somehow conceding that A will, in fact happen.
My thoughts: More nonsense. Does he not know what "conditional" (the conditionality of the "if" clause) means?
http://www.ef.edu/english-resources/english-grammar/conditional/
GbyBlGbyBl
So, the correct language is:
"If the A is not stopped, the B will happen."
Is it ever correct to write "Were the A to happen . . . "? (Addressing a contingency in the future.)
The sentence you wrote has NOTHING TO DO WITH WHETHER THE SPEAKER WANTS THE CONDITION TO BE FULFILLED. And if you're asking a question, please edit your original question.
There are two things happening here: "If A were to happen, then B would result." (Sometimes he will try, "were A to happen, . . . ")
FIRST scenario: If you go, I will join you. [regular if idea] Grammar: Present tense in IF clause, future tense in second clause.
SECOND scenario: If you went, I would join you. [less of a probability; more unsure, aka "condition contrary to fact"] Grammar: simple past in IF clause, conditional in second clause.
The kicker: The simple past in the IF clause [if you went, if you spoke, if you sang, if you walked] for the verb happen is: If A happened, B would result.
Semantically: /If A were TO happen/ is the same thing as //IF A happened//. And that is the grammar your colleagues did not know.
NOTE: People are increasingly using what you point out: If you don't stop A, then B would happen.
But they really MEAN: If you didn't stop A, then B would happen. VERSUS If you don't Stop A, B will happen. [that is the standard grammar]
It's all about using the SIMPLE past after IF, plus would in the second clause.
But people tend to SUBSTITUTE: If A "were to" [verb] for simple past in the first clause or they use WOULD incorrectly in the second, where the future would be fine.
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All bags of rice harvested in Fukushima Prefecture in 2014 submitted for testing met the national standards for radiation, marking the first time that all bags fell within acceptable levels since the checks began in 2012.
In 2014, an estimated 10.75 million bags of rice were tested, and all were found to have less radiation than the national standard of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The Fukushima prefectural government began testing all rice grown in the prefecture in 2012 after purchasing about 190 testing devices to be used throughout the prefecture.
In past testing, about 10 million bags of rice were checked annually. In 2012, 71 bags were found to exceed the safety standards, while in 2013, 28 bags were over the standard.
Bags of rice found to have less than the standard set in the Food Sanitation Law receive labels saying that testing has been completed. Bags of rice that exceed the standards are destroyed.


In our article (linked above) that predicted the key features of the Galaxy S9, we mentioned Samsung's proprietary ISOCELL stacked sensor was at the centre of its strategy for their new phones.
Between the three video advertisements, Samsung teases the abilities of the upcoming phone, without ever showing the actual phone. It's obvious that Samsung is trying to hint at the abilities of the camera on the Galaxy S9, as seen with the motif of the round hole in the "9" at the end of each video resembling the view through a round lens. What do you think?
Everything's pretty fast, so we're assuming its got to do with how fast the Galaxy S9 can acquire focus and how responsive the phone's shutter is. Or maybe it's hinting at a real telephoto option as a second lens. Now, that would be cool.
Mobile cameras have faced hardware constraints limiting them to contrast detection. Sensors detect the muddled colours at the edges of the out-of-focus subject in question and adjust the lens elements to ensure a sharp, instant transition between the colours at the edge. This poses a problem in low light, where colours are more difficult to differentiate. It also is an issue in certain scenarios like when background and foreground colours are the same. ISOCELL's phase detection autofocus pixels promise professional-level autofocus speed and reliability in low-light and difficult situations.
Obviously hinting at the Galaxy S9's low-light performance. See how the deer in the middle of the "9" lights up right at the end?
With current sensor technology, the low-light performance on phones is limited by the small sensor size due to ever-shrinking chassis dimensions. A quick word on camera technology: pictures are made by an aperture (the opening of the lens), the shutter speed (how long the sensor "sees" the scene) and ISO (how "sensitive" the sensor is).
I've worked extensively in the photography scene, and ISO is a touchy issue. Bump up the sensitivity, and you're bound to pick up some 'noise'. A sensor trying to take a picture of a dark scene is like a microphone trying to pick up a tiny noise – there's bound to be some stray noise picked up. Even if the room is dead quiet, the sound of the electronics alone makes a "shhhh" noise.
Bigger cameras with bigger sensors can bump their sensitivities up with fewer consequences as the information is not sampled over a tiny area. Image stabilisation (electronic and optical) is now a staple on mobile flagships like the Galaxy S9, so longer shutter speeds like 1/2 could already be pretty sharp.
That leaves us with aperture. Many phones have pretty wide apertures of f1.8 or f1.7. Samsung's little-known luxury clamshell smartphone, the W2018, sports the world's widest aperture on a smartphone at f1.5, and a variable-aperture mechanism with a second setting at f2.4 in sufficient light for greater depth of field. It would be little issue to port that variable-aperture technology on to the Galaxy S9.
Leaks indicate that Samsung will launch the phone on the 26th of February. The company has revealed that the announcement will come at Mobile World Congress at Barcelona at the end of the month, but had not specified further details.
Preorders would commence on the 1st of March, and shipping will begin on the 16th that month, according to Twitter leaker Evan Blass.


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Purity Stores (California)
Established in the San Francisco area in 1929, this chain operated at least as far south as Fresno and as far north as Fort Bragg, although most of its stores were along the coast, many of them in small towns. The owners, the Niven family, liquidated the chain in 1972 and now operate a Nothern California winery. The Fort Bragg location was still operating as the last remaining Purity store, with original signage in place, as late as 2003.
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May 7, 2019 at 7:35pm
Purity also had stores in Fortuna and Eureka, so Eureka was the most northern store. The Purity in Fortuna is what is now Rays Food Place. Prior to being Rays it was Food Mart, but it was built as Purity. Eureka had two stores , one in Henderson center, that building which had a major remodel , is now Joanne's Fabric. The store in downtown Eureka is currently Picky Picky Surplus on the corner of 6th and E street. It was built as a Purity, then became many other things afterward including Bonanza 88, Yellow Front and Factory To U. Seems like it was other things too, but it was built as Purity.
November 2, 2021 at 10:01am
I can remember walking to and from the Purity Grocery Store in Henderson Center as a kid. Mom didn't drive, so would load my younger brother and I in the Western Flyer wagon and pull us to the store, the grocery's road in wagon on the way home and we walked.
Dennis Howard
I was asst Mgr of the 6 and E Purity store in 1967 and 1968, always wondered what it ended up being after Purity.
September 2, 2019 at 11:21pm
Did Purity sponsor some kind of televised home participation game show? I seem to remember something like that in the late 60s.
Patsy Hudspeth
My dad worked for Purity Grocers for many many years. He did everything from stocker, produce, produce manager, assistant manager, manager, to trouble-shooter. He was good at it all and never missed a beat. Our family survived the earthquake early years ( I was a baby ) in Eureka Calif. But Purity was not so lucky and I think I have bkack and white photos of the damage it did to the store but they quickly repaired and then I think we moved so dad could tend to another store perhaps his own in Pixley Ca. Not a Purity though I know he worked at the one in Los Gatos, and Portervile many years ago. We lost daddy in 2007 ( Comanche, Tx. ) and mom in 2017 (Comanche, Tx.
It was a horse race game, and the currier service delivered the wrong week to the TV studio, and almost everybody won, I was the asst Mgr in Red Bluff when it happened and in 15 minutes we had hundreds of customers coming into the parking lot with their 10,000 winners. It actually put Purity out of business.
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May 26, 2020 at 6:31pm
Purity had a store in San Luis Obispo, CA. They also had a game where you received a horse race ticket for buying groceries. The results of the race were given just before 8pm on Saturday in a sort-of long commercial. My mother won some 50 cent pieces that she kept for over 60 years.
Patsy A. Hudspeth
July 15, 2020 at 11:24pm
my father worked for Purity stores for many many years from being a stocker, assistant manager, produce manager, troubleshooter, you name it he did it. he works at the one in Eureka when they have their big earthquake it pretty much destroyed the store we survived it I was just a baby I don't remember the earthquake itself that I remember my crib going from one side of the room to the other and I was saying weeee. He worked at Purity in Los Gatos California Porterville California just all over Purity stores I can't say enough about how great they were!
Kate Gonzales
My husbands grandfather worked as a butcher for Purity Stores in Hollister, CA in 1940s – a detail we found on his draft card for WWII.
KV Bunker
Purity in Fort Bragg continues to operate under the name as of January 2021.
Lorraine Fry
Were there any PURITY stores in or near San Jose, California, in the late '50s / early '60s? I have a vague memory of shopping with my Mom at an unfamiliar market when I was very young, and when I asked her the name of the store, I think she answered, "Purity." But she doesn't remember such a place anymore. Maybe somebody out there does?
I think that you'll find there is a page on the site dealing with San Jose stores:
https://www.groceteria.com/place/california/san-jose/
Newark California had one. The facade on the roof had P along the top. They closed and another grocery store opened but the P was in the cement design of the building that it stayed until the tore
Newark had one Newark Blvd and mayhew landing
Kerry M.
September 23, 2021 at 7:07pm
There was a Purity store in downtown Palo Alto on a side street off of University Ave.
Burt Codispoti
The CoOp in Arcata was also a Purity, even further north than Eureka.
Alf Doten
Yep…….glad Burt chimed in. Purity (the new store) is the Arcata Co-op. Just adjacent on the NE corner of 9th & I Street was the original Purity with its small parking lot in the back that probably dated from 1940. It became Hensel Hardware but the building burned in the 1990's and the present structure bares no relation to the original building. Old Purity stores are identifiable by their distinctive "quansit hut" curved roof and adjacent small parking lots that transitioned well into hardware stores and garden shops.
December 2, 2021 at 6:44pm
Do you have any information on the metal private parking plaques in the asphalt at the current Arcata Co-op parking lot? Wondering the history of them.
Craig T Blake
My Dad was the store manager for that loser company when they decided to close his store in San Anselmo, CA, around the year 1960. What did they offer him? A job as a "checker" at half his former salary and quite a ways from San Anselmo. Smartly, he went and formed a partnership with two others and they bought a large supermarket in nearby Santa Venetia.
John D. Kaylor
November 8, 2021 at 12:30pm
I remember my dad working for Purity Stores in Gilroy, Ca. He was their chief mechanic at the warehouse facility. so many memories of me going with him on the road to repair those Peterbilt rigs broken down along the highways. Not to mention the sawdust on the floors of the Quonset hut grocery stores or the free banana someone would always give me when I got to visit the warehouse on the south end of town. 65 years ago went by so fast.
MARK R HUBBARD
There was a Purity Market in Santa Maria, CA in the 60's as I recall.
Gary E Estep
We had one in Chico. It became a Safeway and now the building is a sporting goods store.
We lived on Hillsdale St. in the early 50's
My mother my sister Martha and l walked to Purity store. What memories of old eureka days
We had a Purity in Watsonville.
All-Purpose Guru
For furthest north, there was a Purity store on South Broadway in Yreka, California. The building is still there and now houses the Siskiyou News newspaper.
Incidentally, the building next door was the first Safeway in the area.
Lori Conser
I worked in the Yreka building for 10 years as a reporter and editor of the Siskyou Daily News back in the 90s and early 2000s. I didn't know it was a Purity store (although I did know that it used to be a grocery story) until yesterday when I came across an old picture from the 1940s that one of my authors (I work in book publishing now) wanted to include in his family biography. His ancestor, John Niven was a founder of the Purity stores. I took one look at the picture and recognized the building immediately! Uncanny!
I remember a Purity grocery store in Healdsburg, CA in the 1970's. It was on Center Street, in the little shopping area at the corner of Center St. and Piper St. My parents used to get their groceries there all the time. That store has changed hands/businesses several times over the years. I think after Purity it may have been Molsberry's Market? That's a Sonoma County business. Then sometime after Molsberry's it was a Long's Drugs and is now currently a CVS drugstore. I've probably missed one or two businesses in between those I listed.
Phetsy
September 18, 2022 at 1:35am
I remember going to the Purity in Merced with my grandfather to get their peach pies, which Papá loved (and so did I).


Soils in the Waituna catchment generally are poorly drained due to the fine sediment (clays and silts) in the soil. This sediment reflects the mudstone, siltstone and claybound gravels that sit beneath.
This soil type, along with the low-lying topography, means much of the developed land in the Waituna catchment is likely to include extensive artificial drainage (mole, tile and surface drains).
The major soil types found in the Waituna catchment are organic, podzol, gley and brown. The distinct line between Brown soils (upper catchment) and others (lower catchment) clearly shows the shoreline from 70,000 to 130,000 years ago. The key difference in soil characteristics across this boundary is drainage. Brown soils are generally more well drained compared to Organic, Gley and Podzol soils which are all poorly drained and can often become waterlogged.
Land development in the Waituna catchment has required artificial drainage.
Originally, groundwater and extensive wetland areas (like the Awarua Plains) stored and slowly released excess rainfall to surface waterways, acting like a natural water filter and sponge. With the onset of artificial drainage however and historic clearance of wetland vegetation, water now flows much more rapidly into streams. This reduces summer stream flow, and the opportunity for natural biochemical, or filtering processes to improve water quality.
The wetland is fed by a combination of direct rainfall, groundwater and streams passing through the wetland to the coast. These streams drain into the Waituna Lagoon which traps sediment and nutrients. The wetland plays a general role in the recharge and discharge of groundwater, the maintenance of water quality. It is of great importance in supporting aquatic and terrestrial food chains. Environmental monitoring shows that water quality in the lagoon and the creeks that flow into it are under stress because of many years of land development in the catchment and changes in lagoon water levels.
As the Waituna lagoon fills with water, the relatively flat nature of the old marine terrace that marks the lower half of the catchment causes drainage water to bank upstream which also waterlogs the surrounding soils. The different soil characteristics between the northern half and southern half of the catchment can result in different environmental impacts for the same landuse activity.
Land development in Waituna has included the drainage of wetland areas and the clearance of indigenous vegetation (link to Waituna catchment page). In the 1950's, the main tributaries to the lagoon were straightened and Government schemes encouraged people to clear and develop the surrounding land. These factors pose the risk of the lagoon becoming eutrophic (murky water dominated by algal slime).


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Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000
Period and place for...
2(1)In section 2 (effect of notification requirements), in subsection (1), for "14 days" there is substituted "three days".
(2)For subsection (5) of that section there is substituted—
"(5)A person may give a notification under this section by—
(a)attending at any police station in his local police area, and
(b)giving an oral notification to any police officer, or to any person authorised for the purpose by the officer in charge of the station,
and a notification under subsection (2) above may also be given by sending a written notification to any such police station".
(3)This paragraph applies in relation to any person—
(a)whose relevant date falls after commencement, or
(b)whose relevant date falls before commencement but in whose case the period mentioned in subsection (1) of that section has not begun.


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The Gathering Storm by Alan Jones @alanjonesbooks @RandomTTours
August 18, 2021 August 18, 2021 Sarah Hardy
'Kiel, Northern Germany, 1933. A naval city, the base for the German Baltic fleet, and the centre for German sailing, the venue for the upcoming Olympic regatta in 1936.
The Kästners, a prominent Military family, are part of the fabric of the city, and its social, naval and yachting circles. The Nussbaums are the second generation of their family to be in service with the Kästners as domestic staff, but the two households have a closer bond than most.
As Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party claw their way to power in 1933, life has never looked better for families like the Kästners. There is only one problem.
The Nussbaums are Jews.
The Sturmtaucher Trilogy documents the devastating effect on both families of the Nazis' hateful ideology and the insidious erosion of the rights of Germany's Jews.
When Germany descends ever deeper into dictatorship, General Erich Kästner tries desperately to protect his employees, and to spirit them to safety.
As the country tears itself apart, the darkness which envelops a nation threatens not only to destroy two families, but to plunge an entire continent into war.'
The Gathering Storm is the first book in the Der Sturmtaucher, The Shearwater Trilogy. My one bit of advice would be to not let the length of the book put you off. It can feel a bit daunting when you see a big page count but the author skillfully draws his reader straight in and takes them back in time in the run up to World War 2 starting.
The story focuses on two families, the Kastners and the Nussbaums. The Kastners are a German family who are quite well to do due to General Kastners standing within the community and his work. The Nussbaums are a Jewish family of which Miriam and Yosef work for the Kastners with Miriam being cook and housekeeper and Yosef being a driver as well as general handyman around the property. They have two children, Manny and Ruth.
These are two families who have got on well over the years and their children have played together as well as celebrated birthdays together and at times the families felt like good friends rather than an employer and employee. So many historical books to do with the Holocaust and World War 2, tend to focus on the time during the war rather than the build up to it. This author has meticulously taken time so the reader can feel the uncertainty and strain that the time before puts on the Jewish community. It was awful to read of how businesses and schools would turn on anyone that was not just Jewish, but even married to a Jew or anyone helping them. The pressure that was put on people to have nothing to do with them and the contempt that so many started to show. It really can be quite a heartbreaking read at times. It also had me change my mind on some characters.
Maria, the General's wife, was one such character who went steadily down in my estimation. With the threat of war getting closer, in some ways I could understand her fears for herself and her own family but the way she changes towards the Nussbaums, I found it hard to accept. The General on the other hand is a man with compassion, who goes above and beyond.
The story flicks mainly between the General and Yosef and his wife. It was interesting to see how the two families deal with the upcoming issues and I began to feel the fears and feelings that they were experiencing. There are also memos that make the presence of the upcoming war felt and it also added to the realisticness of this story. You can certainly see that the author must have spent a great deal of time researching as it felt all too real.
The Gathering Storm couldn't have been a more perfect title for this book. You can feel the war brewing and it is a story that will have a deep impact on it's reader. My emotions are already in overdrive in the time leading up to the war, so I can only imagine how much heartache and horrors that are awaiting me in the second book in the trilogy. The author has created characters that I felt really invested in and their story had me hooked throughout. The pacing was spot on and I was fully engaged. I couldn't wait to pick this book back up and devoured it with every given opportunity. It is highly informative and historically correct as well as being an utterly brilliant read. Very different from the author's previous novels but an absolute must read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction set during and around World War 2.
Alan Jones is a Scottish author with three gritty crime stories to his name, the first two set in Glasgow, the third one based in London. He has now switched genres, and his WW2 trilogy will be published from August to December 2021. It is a Holocaust story set in Northern Germany.
He is married with four grown up children and four wonderful grandchildren. He has recently retired as a mixed-practice vet in a small Scottish coastal town in Ayrshire and is one of the coxswains on the local RNLI lifeboat. He makes furniture in his spare time, and maintains and sails a 45-year-old yacht, cruising in the Irish Sea and on the beautiful west coast of Scotland. He loves reading, watching films and cooking. He still plays football despite being just the wrong side of sixty.
His crime novels are not for the faint-hearted, with some strong language, violence, and various degrees of sexual content. The first two books also contain a fair smattering of Glasgow slang.
He is one of the few self-published authors to be given a panel at the Bloody Scotland crime fiction festival in Stirling and has done two pop-up book launches at previous festivals.
He has spent the last five years researching and writing the Sturmtaucher Trilogy.
To find out more, please visit https://www.alanjonesbooks.co.uk/
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The new Apple TV remote or is it the new iPhone Nano?
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