One body has been seen in the underwater wreckage of the plane that was carrying footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson.
The "substantial amount of wreckage" of the plane, which went missing on 21 January, was found on Sunday morning after a privately-funded search was started.
The flight was carrying Argentine striker Sala and pilot David Ibbotson from Nantes, north west France, to Cardiff after Sala completed his £15 million move to Cardiff City.
In a statement the AAIB said: "The remotely operated vehicle (ROV) carried out a further search of the area overnight, but did not identify any additional pieces of wreckage.
Oceanographer and marine scientist David Mearns confirmed the wreckage had been found on Sunday after "a couple of hours" of searching the seabed.
An online appeal started by Sala's agent had raised £324,000 (371,000 euros) for the private search, which Mr Mearns offered to help with.
Working jointly with the AAIB, Mr Mearns's ship and another search vessel, the Geo Ocean III, began combing a four square mile area of the channel, 24 nautical miles north of Guernsey.


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Javier Bosma Mínguez (Figueres, 6 november 1969) is een voormalig Spaans beachvolleyballer. Hij nam deel aan drie opeenvolgende Olympische Spelen en won in 2004 met Pablo Herrera de zilveren medaille. Daarnaast werd hij tweemaal tweede bij de Europees kampioenschappen.

Carrière

1992 tot en met 2000
Bosma debuteerde in 1992 in de FIVB World Tour met Antonio Alemany. Twee jaar later won hij met Santiago Aguilera de zilveren medaille bij de EK in Almería achter de Noren Jan Kvalheim en Bjørn Maaseide. In 1995 speelde hij vervolgens een wedstrijd met Javi Yuste voordat hij voor twee jaar een team zou vormen met Sixto Jiménez. Het tweetal nam in het seizoen 1995/96 deel aan zeventien toernooien en eindigde tweemaal op het podium; in Espinho werden ze derde en in Tenerife tweede. Het seizoen daarop speelden ze zeven wedstrijden in de World Tour met een vijfde plaats in Hermosa Beach als beste resultaat. Daarnaast waren Bosma en Jiménez in Atlanta actief op het eerste beachvolleybaltoernooi bij de Olympische Spelen. Ze verloren in de vierde ronde van de Amerikanen Mike Whitmarsh en Mike Dodd en werden daarna in de vijfde herkansingsronde definitief uitgeschakeld door de Canadezen John Child en Mark Heese, waardoor ze als vijfde eindigden. Eind 1996 speelde Bosma met zowel Sergio Camarero als Fabio Díez een wedstrijd; met Díez zou hij tot en met 2000 een team vormen.

Bosma en Díez deden in 1997 mee aan elf toernooien in de World Tour met twee vijfde plaatsen (Marseille en Oostende) als beste resultaat. Bij de eerste officiële wereldkampioenschappen beachvolleybal in Los Angeles kwam het duo niet verder dan de zestiende finale die het verloor van de Amerikanen Troy Tanner en Ian Clark. Het daaropvolgende seizoen behaalden ze een derde plaats in Toronto en een vierde plaats in Lignano. Bij de overige elf toernooien eindigden ze viermaal in de top tien (Klagenfurt, Oostende, Moskou en Tenerife). In 1999 bereikten ze de halve finale bij de WK in Marseille die verloren werd van de latere Braziliaanse wereldkampioenen Emanuel Rego en José Loiola. In de wedstrijd om het brons waren de aftredend wereldkampioenen Rogério Ferreira en Guilherme Marques vervolgens te sterk. Bosma en Díez behaalden verder een derde (Berlijn) en twee vijfde plaatsen (Lignano en Oostende). Bij de EK in Palma de Mallorca won het tweetal daarnaast de zilveren medaille achter de Zwitserse broers Martin en Paul Laciga. Het jaar daarop namen ze deel aan twaalf toernooien in de World Tour met een zevende (Oostende) en negende plaats (Klagenfurt) als beste resultaat. Bij de Olympische Spelen in Sydney eindigden Bosma en Díez als vijfde, nadat ze in de kwartfinale werden uitgeschakeld door de Duitsers Jörg Ahmann en Axel Hager.

2001 tot en met 2006
Van 2001 tot en met 2002 speelde Bosma samen met Antonio Cotrino. Het eerste seizoen behaalden ze in tien FIVB-toernooien één toptienplaats; ze werden negende in Oostende. Bij de WK in Klagenfurt verloren ze in de zestiende finale van de olympisch kampioenen Dain Blanton en Eric Fonoimoana en bij de Goodwill Games in Brisbane eindigden ze op de twaalfde plaats. Het daaropvolgende jaar speelde het duo negen wedstrijden met een vijfde plaats in Mallorca als beste resultaat. In 2003 vormde Bosma een duo met Pablo Herrera, maar hij speelde dat jaar ook vier wedstrijden met Raúl Mesa. Met Herrera behaalde hij een negende plaats in Mallorca en deed hij mee aan de WK in Rio de Janeiro, waar het duo in de zestiende finale werd uitgeschakeld door de latere wereldkampioenen Ricardo Santos en Emanuel. In 2004 namen Bosma en Herrera deel aan negen toernooien in de World Tour; ze behaalden een overwinning in Lianyungang en een vijfde plaats in Kaapstad. Bij de EK in Timmendorfer Strand eindigde het tweetal eveneens als vijfde. In Athene wonnen ze de zilveren medaille bij de Olympische Spelen nadat ze de finale van Ricardo en Emanuel verloren hadden. Het seizoen daarop speelde Bosma opeenvolgend met Alex Ortiz en Juan Claudio Garcia Thompson; met Ortiz eindigde hij tweemaal op de zevende plaats (Klagenfurt en Montreal). In 2006 was Bosma op acht toernooien actief met Inocencio Lario en in juli speelde Bosma in Parijs zijn laatste wedstrijd in de World Tour, waarna hij zijn beachvolleybalcarrière beëindigde.

Palmares
Kampioenschappen
 1994:  EK
 1996: 5e OS
 1999: 4e WK
 1999:  EK
 2000: 5e OS
 2004:  OS

FIVB World Tour
 1995:  Espinho Open
 1995:  Tenerife Open
 1998:  Toronto Open
 1999:  Berlijn Open
 2004:  Lianyungang Open

Externe links
  Profiel op FIVB.org
  Profiel op bvbinfo.com

Spaans beachvolleyballer
Spaans olympisch deelnemer

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Q: Is SQL Server's Full Text Search the right tool for searching phrases, not documents? 30 million distinct phrases, not documents, ranging from one word to a 10 word sentence and I need to support word/phrase searching. Basically what where contains(phrase, "'book' or 'stack overflow'") offers.
I have an instance of SQL Server 2005 (32 bit, 4 proc, 4gb) going against several full text catalogs and performance is awful for word searches with high cardinality.
Here are my thoughts to speed things up, perhaps someone can offer guidance--
1) Upgrade to 2008 iFTS, 64bit. Sql Server 2005 FTS's windows service is never more than 50mb. From what I have gathered, it uses the file system cache for looking up catalog indexes. My populated catalogs on disk are only around 300mb, so why can't this all be in memory? Might iFTS's new memory architecture, which is part of the sqlserver process help here?
2) Scale out the catalogs to several servers. Will the queries to the linked FTS servers run in parallel?
3) Since I'm searching phrases here and not documents, maybe Sql Server's Full Text Search isn't the answer. Lucene.NET? Put the catalog index on a ram drive?

A: Lucene.Net can offer very high performance for this kind of application along with a pretty simple API.  Release 2.3.2 is nearing completion, which offers additional performance increases over release 2.1.  While putting the Lucene index in a RAMDirectory (Lucene's memory-based index structure) will offer even better performance, we see great results even with the FSDirectory (a disk-based index).

A: I'm slightly surprised that FTS is creaking under this sort of load. However, if this proves to be the case, then the classic approach (Gary Kildall developed it for searching CDs!)  would be to use an inversion index. I've  used this technique for a long time with  a succession of applications. It is usually called the 'Inverted' or  'Inversion' index technique. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_indexing#Inverted_indices ). The technique scales very well and I've tested  it indexing up to 8 million documents. Even when searching through eight million documents, It gets results within three seconds if the indexes are right. Often it is a lot quicker than this.
I use an Inversion index to get (up to a bearable number of via TOP x ) a pool of the likely candidates, and then do a brute-force search of these with a regex.  It works very well.

A: As an out of the box solution i would prefer using "Microsoft Office SharePoint Server" for indexing and searching within the content of documents.
A free alternative is Lucene.Net library if you want to write your own service for indexing and searching. Writing your own full-text search service with Lucene.Net will give you all the flexibility you need (yes you can store the index on an external storage if you want to).

A: Take a look at Apache Solr. It's a search server that wraps Lucene with a HTTP interface. Each of your phrases would map to a Solr document. 30M documents is not a lot for Solr since your documents would be very short. The final performance would also depend on how many queries/sec you need.

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Das Schwerter-Haus ist ein ehemaliges Fabrikgebäude, welches einmal auch teilweise für Wohnzwecke genutzt wurde in Dresden-Plauen, Würzburger Straße 14. Das Haus steht unter Denkmalschutz (ID-Nr. 09216040) und gilt als typisches Beispiel für die Industriearchitektur um 1910. Es wird heute als Geschäfts- und Bürogebäude genutzt.

Geschichte
In diesem Haus stellte die Dresdner Schokoladenfabrik Riedel & Engelmann viele Jahre Kakao- und Schokoladenprodukte unter den Markennamen "Schwerter-Schokolade" her. Die Produktionsräume der Fabrik waren im Erdgeschoss untergebracht. Die erste Etage und auch Teile des Kellers gehörten bis 1945 ebenfalls zur Fabrik und wurden als Lager benutzt. In den obersten Etagen waren Mietwohnungen untergebracht. Bei der Bombardierung Dresdens wurde das Gebäude zu etwa 60 Prozent zerstört, danach aber wiederaufgebaut. Die Herstellung von Schokoladenerzeugnissen erfolgte hier mit Unterbrechungen bis zum Jahre 1989. Im Jahr 1991 wurde das Gebäude an die Alteigentümer bzw. Erben rückübertragen. Es wurde anschließend umfassend saniert und zu einem Geschäfts- und Bürohaus umgestaltet. Heute befinden sich Geschäftsräume der unterschiedlichsten Branchen sowie verschiedene Arzt- und Orthopädiepraxen im Haus.

Geschichte der Chocoladen- und Zuckerwarenfabrik Riedel & Engelmann

Das Unternehmen wurde im September 1888 in der Rosenstraße 88 gegründet. Es gehörte zu den einst zahlreichen Dresdner Schokoladenfabriken. Eigentümer der Chocoladen- und Zuckerwarenfabrik waren Oswald Heinrich Riedel und Carl Rudolf Johannes Engelmann. Im Jahre 1890 erfolgte die Verlegung des Betriebes in die damals noch selbstständige Gemeinde Plauen, Falkenstraße 38. Um 1900 zog man in die Falkenstraße 54 als Cacao-, Chocoladen- und Zuckerwaren-Fabrik Riedel & Engelmann. Ab 1917 legte man sich auch noch den Beinamen Marmeladen- und Fruchtkonservenfabrik zu. Außerdem betrieb man schon das Kontor in der Würzburger Straße 14, dem heutigen Schwerter-Haus. Die Firma war seit 1901 Mitglied im Verband deutscher Schokoladenfabrikanten. Man betrieb mehrere Werksverkaufsstellen in Dresden und belieferte die Geschäfte der Stadt.

Unter dem Markennamen "Schwerter-Schokolade" produzierte man um 1905 in der Zwickauerstraße 118 verschiedene Schokoladenartikel aber auch andere Süßwaren. Die Schokoladenartikel wurden dabei auch an die Hofhaltungen vom sächsischen Königshaus geliefert. Als Anerkennung und Dank für die qualitativ hervorragenden Erzeugnisse, gestattete man der Firma um 1890 die gekreuzten Kursächsischen Schwerter auf ihren Produkten und der Verpackung zu führen. Bekannt waren die Produkte "Schwerter-Chocolade" und "Schwerter-Cacao".  Nach dem Tod der beiden Inhaber, O. H. Riedel verstarb am 12. Juli 1910, C. R. J. Engelmann verstarb am 3. August 1915, übernahm zunächst die Witwe von C. R. J. Engelmann, Helene Margarethe Mathilde Engelmann als neue Inhaberin die Firma. Geführt wurde das Unternehmen zunächst von Carl Friedrich Martin Schmidt und den beiden Prokuristen Max Emil Roßner und Ernst Hermann Näke. Die Führung des Unternehmens oblag dennoch formal den damals noch minderjährigen Töchtern der Firmengründer. Beide übernahmen erst nach dem Tod der Witwe von C. R. J. Engelmann († 15. November 1923) das Unternehmen.

Die Firma hat im Jahre 1921 Werbemedaillen aus Böttgersteinzeug sowie Biskuitporzellan in der Porzellanmanufaktur Meißen herstellen lassen. Damit wurde die "Schwerter-Schokolade" beworben. Auf der Rückseite der Medaille werden zwei kämpfende Fasane dargestellt.

Ab 1928 wurde das Unternehmen als Kommanditgesellschaft geführt. Im Jahre 1929 waren demnach Ihra Pauline Johanna verehelichte Hirschberg, ab 1931 dann verehelichte Pältz, Anna Helene Gertrud verehelichte Bormann und die Kommanditisten Max Emil Roßner, Ernst Hermann Näke, Friedrich Max Stiehl und Gustav Fritz Johannes Bormann Inhaber der Firma.

Bereits nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg kam es zu einigen Unregelmäßigkeiten in der Geschäftsführung, später gesellten sich noch wirtschaftliche Probleme hinzu, was schließlich im Jahre 1935 zum Konkurs der Firma führte. Im Anschluss wurde das Unternehmen am 1. September 1935 an die Kaufleute Walther Knaack und Max Ferdinand Hensel verkauft und blieb unter dem gleichen Handelsregistereintrag (5872), als Riedel & Engelmann eingetragen. Um 1940 änderte sich der Handelsregistereintrag in A 829. Die neuen Besitzer der Firma ließen zahlreiche Maschinen neu anschaffen und den Betrieb komplett renovieren. Man fand schnell Anschluss und bereits 1936 waren die ersten "Schwerter"-Erzeugnisse wieder auf dem Markt. Im Jahre 1941 arbeiteten in der Schokoladenfabrik 400 Personen. Wegen der Rohstoffknappheit im Zweiten Weltkrieg, vor allem an Kakao, musste die Herstellung von Schokolade und Süßwaren wieder eingestellt werden. Bis 1945 wurden nun in der Fabrik Medikamente für die Troponwerke in Köln abgepackt. Der Bombenhagel vom 13. und 14. Februar 1945 auf Dresden ließ 60 Prozent der Gebäudesubstanz in Trümmern versinken.

Nach einem teilweisen Wiederaufbau entwickelte sich 1948 eine kleine Produktion von Süßwaren auf der Basis von Rohstoffzuteilungen. Im Jahre 1959 wurde die private Firma in einen Betrieb mit staatlicher Beteiligung umgewandelt. 1972 arbeiteten dort etwa 200 Personen und es kam zur restlosen Enteignung. Durch eine Kombinatsbildung in der Form des Anschlusses an den VEB Elbflorenz Dresden verlor die Firma endgültig ihr einstiges Produktionsprofil.

In der Nachwendezeit fehlte es zunehmend an Aufträgen und die Produktion musste ganz eingestellt werden. Zudem leiteten bereits im Mai 1990 die ehemaligen Eigentümer eine Reprivatisierung des Unternehmens ein. Ein Nachfahre des Vorbesitzers Walther Knaack wurde  nun Eigentümer. Die umfassende Sanierung der Bausubstanz sowie der Umbau für ein neues Nutzungskonzept im Gebäude erfolgte. Das "Schwerter-Haus" zählt heute zu den ersten Geschäfts- und Bürohäusern der Stadt Dresden, die nach der Wende entstanden sind.

Literatur
 Carl Greiert, Festschrift 50 Jahre Verband deutscher Schokolade-Fabrikanten E. V., E. Heinrich, Dresden, 1927.
 Holger Starke, Vom Lever zum Schokoriegel in Schokoladenstadt Dresden – Süßigkeiten aus Elbflorenz, edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943444-23-0.
 Mario Kliewer, Geschmacks-Giganten Sächsische Hoflieferanten für exquisite Nahrungsmittel um 1900, Jan Thorbecke Verlag der Schwabenverlag AG, Ostfildern, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7995-0990-9.

Weblinks
 Warum gekreuzte Schwerter ein Bürohaus in Plauen zieren. auf dnn-online.de (kostenpflichtiges Angebot)

Einzelnachweise

Plauen (Dresden)
Kulturdenkmal in Dresden
Denkmalgeschütztes Bauwerk in Dresden


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Miley Cyrus Obssessed With Winning Back Liam Hemsworth's Love: He's Moved On!
By Siyana Riley
According to a new report from Life & Style magazine, Miley Cyrus is 'obsessed' with winning Liam Hemsworth back. It may have been months [and even years] since the couple was last happy together, but that hasn't stopped Miley from pining after her ex-fiance. And even though it's been over a year since they officially broke up, it reportedly wasn't Miley's choice to call off the engagement.
Although Liam's already moved on by rebounding with several starlets [Eiza Gonzalez and Nina Dobrev, just to name a few], Miley has yet to find a steady relationship to replace Liam in her heart. I mean, they were engaged for three years and together for five years, and clearly Miley was still hung up on Liam. But what she was she to do, beg him not to leave her? Of course not. The girl has her pride, after all.
That being said, Life & Style's sources claim that Miley is still hung up on Liam, explaining, "She constantly talks about Liam whenever she's hanging out with her friends. They could go to a club together and she would randomly say, 'This party would be so much more fun if Liam was here.'" Apparently, she's willing to do anything to win him back, even if it means stopping her wild-child antics in the press.
Aww, this is a little sad, isn't it? Liam was the one who allegedly cheated on Miley with January Jones [and possibly a plethora of other women], and yet she's the one who's still hung up on him. Granted, it was Liam who called off the engagement and who pushed for the split, which probably left Miley in an extremely vulnerable emotional place. She hasn't risked a rebound relationship with anyone, and you can't really blame her for that. She really got her heart broken with Liam, and it's unfortunate that she wants to get back together with him.
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David Mwangi on Conducting Jack Daniel's Tennessee Campus Virtually and Providing Support to Local Bartenders
by David July 20, 2020
written by David July 20, 2020
The Jack Daniel's Tennessee Campus is a bartenders' mentorship program that provides participants with the opportunity to learn more about the bar-tending profession. This program was inaugurated in Kenya for the first time this year.
The launch, which was set for March, was derailed due to the global pandemic. However, the Jack Daniel's team embraced the virtual space, choosing to conduct the intensive program entirely online.This has imparted valuable skills and a new mindset to the bartenders to prepare for the future. The mentors included Nidal Ramini, Jack Daniel's Head of Advocacy, Brian Owango, Managing Director of Aqueous, Paul Gichohi, Director of Nairobi Bar School and David Mwangi Mutunga, Jack Daniel's East African Brand Ambassador.
We spoke to David Mwangi Mutunga on what the three weeks of training were like for the 60 bartenders, the preparedness to engage in a virtual space and making craft cocktails with Jack Daniel's whisky.
Kenya was among the first African countries considered for the launch of the Tennessee campus. What do you think makes our beverage industry unique for such opportunities?
The Kenyan whisky market is growing and we thought it wise to develop skills of our bartenders to compete more favourably and gain more entrepreneurial skills. In the past we have held activations such as Brothers of the Grill which have performed well so when this opportunity came up, we knew our market was ready.
Conducting such a program online takes time and preparation especially during this pandemic. Were bartenders open to learn in a different environment?
Yes. It was very encouraging because we got a very high attendance rate. About 90% of the bartenders were present throughout the entire program. This has shown us that people are willing to learn virtually. Jack Daniel's provided resources to the participating bartenders to ensure that there was smooth training. This included Internet data allowance, shopping voucher and other essentials. Prior to the pandemic, Tennessee Campus was slated to be a physical training program but bartenders were able to adjust to the new virtual learning environment.
Jack Daniel's Tennessee Campus program took bartenders through The Art of Entrepreneurialism, The Art of Creativity and Delivering Quality and Consistency. Could you briefly take us through what the idea was for each area of mentorship?
The aim was to change the mindset of bartenders to see more entrepreneurial opportunities in the alcoholic beverage industry. This training also elevates the bartenders' brand which can open more financial opportunities for them. Creativity is mostly seen in the cocktails they make and the experience they give their consumers. This program helped shape the bartenders' perception of how to make their products and service better. We also encouraged bartenders to take inspiration from the Jack Daniels' way of doing things to deliver quality, exceptional service and consistency. Bartenders will additionally be getting financial compensation as a means to help them generate the much needed income. They will also receive accreditation to certify their participation.
Has the response been positive from the bartenders and is it something you look forward to doing again in the future?
The response has been great. We hope to do this again but it will depend on what the next chapter looks like post the pandemic.
Creating craft cocktails has been on the rise with consumers seeking finer experiences. What makes Jack Daniel's one of the best whiskies to use as the base for cocktails?
Jack Daniel's is made in the oldest distillery in the United States. The whisky is filtered through maple charcoal before bottling, making it one of the most versatile out there. Jack Daniel's blends well with a huge variety of flavours, making it one of the best additions to any cocktail. Craft cocktails have been on the rise and this is due to the fact that consumers want to get involved in the process and learn. This adds a fun dimension to cocktail making and Jack Daniels, thanks to its impressive range, enhances the experience.
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Una càmera d'un sol ús és una càmera simple que està destinada a fer-se servir només una vegada. La majoria utilitzen lents d'enfocament fix. Algunes estan equipades amb una unitat flash integrada i, fins i tot, hi ha versions impermeables per a realitzar fotografia submarina. Les càmeres porten al seu interior pel·lícula de 35 mm o un cartutx APS.

Mentre que algunes d'aquestes càmeres contenen un cartutx com s'utilitza en càmeres normals, altres tenen la pel·lícula enrotllada en un rodet. Es lliura tota la càmera per al seu revelat. Algunes de les càmeres són reciclades, és a dir, recarregades de pel·lícula i revenudes. Les càmeres es retornen per revelar-les de la mateixa manera que les càmeres de cinema.

En general, la càmera d'un sol ús representa un retorn al model de negoci pioner per Kodak per a la seva càmera KODAK, predecessora de la càmera Brownie.

Història

Una empresa anomenada Photo-Pac va produir una càmera de cartró a partir del 1949 que disparava 8 exposicions i que s'enviava per a revelar a través del correu. Les càmeres eren cares i sovint es deixaven a casa per a guardar-les de manera segura, però llavors no es tenien en el moment en què es presentaven belles escenes. Frustrat amb les oportunitats fotogràfiques perdudes, H.M. Stiles havia inventat una manera de tancar pel·lícula de 35 mm en un recinte barat sense el costós mecanisme de transport de pel·lícules de precisió. Va costar 1,29 dòlars. Tot i que avui dia és increïblement similar a les conegudes càmeres d'un sol ús, Photo-Pac no va fer-se un lloc permanent al mercat.

El 1966, una companyia francesa anomenada FEX va introduir una càmera de baquelita d'un sol ús anomenada "Photo Pack Matic", amb 12 fotos (4 x 4 cm).

L'actual càmera familiar d'un sol ús va ser desenvolupada per Fujifilm el 1986. La seva línia Utsurun-Desu ("Fa fotos"  ) o QuickSnap utilitzava pel·lículea de 35 mm, mentre que el Fling de Eastman Kodak de 1987 es basava en pel·lícula 110. Kodak va llançar una versió de 35 mm el 1988, i el 1989 va canviar el nom a la versió 35 mm per FunSaver i va deixar de produir el Fling 110.

Al Japó, l'Utsurun va ser llençat el 1986 per 1380 iens i va ser àmpliament acceptat. A causa de l'atractiu immediat, empreses com Konica, Canon i Nikon aviat van produir els seus propis models. Per mantenir-se competitiu, Fuji va introduir funcions avançades al model original com la fotografia panoràmica, la impermeabilització i la inclusió d'un flaix. Algunes càmeres tenen, fins i tot, una funció de zoom manual que funciona canviant dues lents davant l'obturador.

Usos comuns
Les càmeres d'un sol ús són molt populars entre turistes i persones que viatgen per tot el món per guardar imatges de les seves aventures.

Des de finals dels anys 90, les càmeres d'un sol ús s'han tornat cada vegada més populars en els casaments. Normalment es col·loquen en taules a la recepció del casament per ser utilitzades pels convidats per capturar la seva perspectiva única de l'esdeveniment. Solen estar disponibles en colors per combinar amb el tema del casament com ivori, blau, blanc, or, etc.

Els anomenats "kits de càmera d'accident" que contenen càmeres d'un sol ús  es porten cada cop més en vehicles per a prendre imatges com a evidència després d'un accident. L'absència de bateries permet un ús instantani fins i tot després d'un emmagatzematge prolongat, per exemple, en un guanter.

Sovint tenen lents de plàstic barates, qualitat de pel·lícula qüestionable, distàncies focals fixes, però ràpides i facilitades per "apuntar i disparar", lo qual fa que la càmera d'un sol ús sigui popular entre molts fotògrafs que gaudeixen de l'estil "menys que perfecte" que ofereixen aquestes càmeres, en un allunyament de les imatges digitals, que també es pot observar en l'augment de la popularitat de la"lomografia". Això també ha provocat diversos projectes de tipus "lost art" en que es deixen càmeres d'un sol ús en espais públics amb un missatge perquè qualsevol persona que trobi la càmera es faci fotos i, després, la deixi de nou o la passi a una altra persona. El baix cost de les càmeres les converteix en una eina perfecta per a aquest tipus de projectes.

Digital
Les càmeres digitals d'un sol ús (i també càmeres de vídeo digitals d'un sol ús) estan disponibles en alguns mercats; per exemple, els Estats Units van tenir la introducció d'una càmera digital el 2004. Les càmeres digitals d'un sol ús no han tingut l'èxit dels seus homòlegs, possiblement per culpa del procés (sobretot en comparació amb l'ús normal de la càmera digital) i la mala qualitat de les imatges en comparació amb una càmera digital típica o una càmera d'un sol ús. Normalment, la pantalla mostra el nombre de fotografies restants i, un cop finalitzada, la càmera es torna a la botiga. Els fitxers digitals s'extreuen de la càmera i, a canvi de mantenir la càmera, s'imprimeixen o s'emmagatzemen en CD (o DVD en el cas de la càmera de vídeo  ) per al client. Gairebé totes les càmeres digitals d'un sol ús han estat piratejades amb èxit  per eliminar la necessitat de retornar-les a la botiga. Les motivacions d'aquest tipus de pirateria inclouen estalviar diners i, més freqüentment, el repte de superar imposicions artificials (com ara un límit de 25 dispars en una memòria interna que pot emmagatzemar 100 imatges).

Altres usos
Els flaixs d'alta tensió d'algunes càmeres de vegades s'extreuen i s'utilitzen per alimentar dispositius com ara pistoles de bobina, armes d'atordiment, projectes de comptador Geiger casolans  i dispositius EMP "Zapper RFID".

Problemàtica
Les càmeres d'un sol ús no inclouen zoom de cap tipus, a més d'estar construïdes amb materials de baixa qualitat, que no garanteixen bons resultats. És habitual obtenir fotografies desenfocades, així com amb colors estranys.

Referències

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Archival cache of Paul Collins hits the spot
Written by The Barman on 22 November 2020 .
Another World (The Best of The Archives) - Paul Collins & The Beat (Alive Natural Sound)
Paul Collins must be a hoarder. Probably a bit of OCD in there too, if you'll excuse the long-distance and unqualified psychoanalysis. It goes with the pop songwriter turf. And this collection of previously unreleased recordings attests to it.
These songs are from Collins' sock drawer and they go all the way back to 1980. Don't let the demo quality of some of them deter you. There's more than the occasional fleck of gold among the 18 tunes. In fact, it's a rich vein. For example, "Hey DJ" outstrips the previously released version - by a long way.
No need to go into the back story in detail. Collins does that in the liners. This review is the expurgated version. The album comprises digital transfers from cassettes that were carted around the world. In case you didn't know, Collins has plied his trade everywhere since his early days with Peter Case in The Nerves, with The Beat being a an enduring brand name for the man and a number of line-ups. For the most part these cast-offs, woodshedded works-in-progress and curios are substantial in their own right.
The title track gets star billing from its writer and rightly so. It's almost ethereal in the deft lightness of what ended up on tape, put to four tracks in Spain in 1985 during one of Collins' many overseas residential spells. It's swathed in Collins' brother Patrick's guitar jangle, and features some gorgeous vocal harmonies.
"Let's Go" heads right back to the garage and stands out for its raw energy. In spite of its rough as guts sonic quality, you might just mistake "If All Things Were Equal" for a Flamin' Groovies song. Then there's the strikingly Holly-esque "This Heart" (a 1987 outtake) and the sparse but catchy pop of "Baby Baby" (a 1983 demo).
No need for a tr4ack-by-track. You can do your own exploring. Despite (or because of) its archival nature, the collection showcases what Collins does in a way not hithertoo heard. What he does is write great pop songs that are rich in melody and hooks, propelled by his guitar and tailor-made voice. You don't have to be a fan of Paul Collins to "get" this collection. You just need to like guitar power pop music and have two ears. .
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Q: What's the difference between these 2 implementations of prototypal inheritance? What's the difference between these 2 implementations of prototypal inheritance, and considering that we're working with 2 different "prototypes" (the prototype property that's only on functions, and the internal prototype), and how do these implementations differ in their prototype chain lookup? Also, does the first implementation (using the prototype property) rely on our use of the new operator?
Assigning to a functions's prototype property and using the new operator:
function foo() {}

foo.prototype.output = function(){
   console.log('inherits from Function.prototype property');
};

bar = new foo();
bar.output();

Storing a function in an object literal and using the Object.create() method:
var foo = {
  output: function(){
    console.log('inherits from the internal prototype');
  }
};

var bar = Object.create(foo);
bar.output();

A: The main difference is in the way it is used, and the dangers associated.
The first one forces you to use new when you want to create a new object. The syntax is fairly ugly (SomeConstructor.prototype.method), and it bears one major flaw: calling a constructor which adds properties (this.name = nameParam...) without new will apply the construction to the global object. The behaviour of the constructor is weird (create new object which delegates to SomeConstructor.prototype, then apply the constructor to the new object, then if the constructor returns something replace the object by the something). Plus, in your example, foo itself is not usable, you have to create a new object in order to access its functionalities.
The second one, Object.create, doesn't force you to use any syntoxic quirk. You don't have the global pollution risk. The object foo has functionalities that can already be used without creating a new object, and bar will simply borrow these functionalities. This kind of pattern can also make it easier to implement factories (without news to replace everywhere) and object pools if needed.
Eric Eliott talks about it very well, and Kyle Simpson wrote a whole book about prototype delegation!
Now, here's how the lookup happens:

*

*With the constructor, the lookup is done on Constructor.prototype (not the actual internal prototype of the constructor, but its prototypeproperty. If you find it confusing, congratulations, you are human). Additional properties are set in the constructor function. foo itself is not used for the lookup, foo.prototype (again, not the same as foo.__proto__ which points to Function) is the one used for it.

*With Object.create the lookup is done on the object itself (foo). There's no prototype non-prototype property on the object.

There's very funny diagrams on this page of Kyle Simpson's book which explain the thing further.
More on new in this question: Is JavaScript's "new" keyword considered harmful?

A: OK, first of all, in case you didn't know, Object.create is based upon the following pattern proposed by Douglas Crockford (read more here):
function create (proto) {
  function f () {}
  f.prototype = proto;
  return new f();
}

Now, you must be aware that the above code does not yield the same result in case you pass null as parameter.
The ECMAScript algorithm for creating new objects (read more here) states that if the prototype of a function is set to null (or any non object), when you're trying to use new f() syntax, the newly created object will inherit from Object.prototype.
If you use Object.create(null), the newly created object will have its [[Prototype]] internal member set to null, which means the prototype chain will stop there (your object doesn't get hasOwnProperty and other stuff from Object.prototype as normal object would).
var o1 = create(null);
var o2 = Object.create(null);
Object.getPrototypeOf(o1) === Object.prototype // true
Object.getPrototypeOf(o2) === Object.prototype // false
Object.getPrototypeOf(o2) === null // true

A: The first example - foo, is a function.
The second example - foo is an object.
in the second example, bar becomes an new instance without a constructor.
See - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/create, to add the constructor.

As a side note, it common best practice that constructors should begin with a capital letter.


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import Immutable from 'immutable'
import 'whatwg-fetch'
import actionTypes from '../actionTypes/userActionTypes'
import { push } from './routerActionCreators'
import URIS from '../constants/routeUris'

//--- SIGN UP USER -----------------------------------------------------------//

const postSignupBefore = () =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.PHONE_NUMBER.BEFORE })

const postSignupSuccess = user =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.PHONE_NUMBER.SUCCESS, user })

const postSignupFail = error =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.PHONE_NUMBER.FAILURE, error })

/**
 * @param   {Object}  phoneNumber, firstName
 */
export function postSignup(userFields = {}) {
  return async dispatch => {
    dispatch(postSignupBefore())
    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8085/api/user/phoneNumber', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: new Headers({
        'Content-type': 'application/json',
        Accept: 'application/json',
      }),
      body: JSON.stringify(userFields)
    })
    const result = await response.json()
    const immutable = Immutable.fromJS(result)
    if (/^2[0-9][0-9]$/.test(response.status)) {
      dispatch(postSignupSuccess(immutable))
      dispatch(push(URIS.SIGNIN.VALIDATE.path))
    } else {
      dispatch(postSignupFail(immutable))
    }
  }
}

//--- VALIDATE USER ----------------------------------------------------------//

const postValidateDeviceBefore = () =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.VALIDATE_DEVICE.BEFORE })

const postValidateDeviceSuccess = user =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.VALIDATE_DEVICE.SUCCESS, user })

const postValidateDeviceFail = error =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.VALIDATE_DEVICE.FAILURE, error })

/**
 * @param   {Object}  token  User token for authentication
 */
export function postValidateDevice(userFields = {}) {
  return async dispatch => {
    dispatch(postValidateDeviceBefore())
    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8085/api/user/validateDevice', {
      method: 'POST',
      headers: new Headers({
        Accept: 'application/json',
        'Content-type': 'application/json'
      }),
      body: JSON.stringify(userFields)
    })
    const result = await response.json()
    const immutable = Immutable.fromJS(result)
    if (/* TODO: remove ! */ !/^2[0-9][0-9]$/.test(response.status)) {
      dispatch(postValidateDeviceSuccess(immutable))
      dispatch(push(URIS.SIGNIN.PROFILE_BUILDER.path))
    } else {
      dispatch(postValidateDeviceFail(immutable))
    }
  }
}

//--- LOGOUT USER ------------------------------------------------------------//

const logoutBefore = () => ({ type: actionTypes.LOGOUT.BEFORE })
const logoutSuccess = () => ({ type: actionTypes.LOGOUT.SUCCESS })
const logoutFailure = () => ({ type: actionTypes.LOGOUT.FAILURE })

export function logout() {
  return async dispatch => {
    dispatch(logoutBefore())
    const successful = true
    if (successful) {
      dispatch(logoutSuccess())
      dispatch(push(URIS.SIGNIN.LOGIN.path))
    } else {
      dispatch(logoutFailure())
    }
  }
}

//--- GET USER ---------------------------------------------------------------//

const getUserBefore = () =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.GET_USER.BEFORE })

const getUserSuccess = user =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.GET_USER.SUCCESS, user })

const getUserFail = error =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.GET_USER.FAILURE, error })

export function getUser() {
  return async (dispatch, getState) => {
    const token = getState().$$userStore.get('token', null)
    dispatch(getUserBefore())
    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8085/api/user', {
      method: 'GET',
      headers: new Headers({
        Accept: 'application/json',
        'Content-type': 'application/json',
        Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`
      })
    })
    const result = await response.json()
    const immutable = Immutable.fromJS(result)
    if (/^2[0-9][0-9]$/.test(response.status))
      dispatch(getUserSuccess(immutable))
    else
      dispatch(getUserFail(immutable))
  }
}

//---  POST USER -------------------------------------------------------------//

const postUserBefore = () =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.POST_USER.BEFORE })

const postUserSuccess = user =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.POST_USER.SUCCESS, user })

const postUserFail = () =>
  ({ type: actionTypes.POST_USER.FAILURE })

export function postUser(userFields = {}) {
  return async (dispatch, getState) => {
    const token = getState().$$userStore.get('token', null)
    dispatch(postUserBefore())
    const response = await fetch('http://localhost:8085/api/user', {
      method: 'GET',
      headers: new Headers({
        Accept: 'application/json',
        'Content-type': 'application/json',
        Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`
      }),
      body: JSON.stringify(userFields)
    })
    const result = await response.json()
    const immutable = Immutable.fromJS(result)
    if (/^2[0-9][0-9]$/.test(response.status))
      dispatch(postUserSuccess(immutable))
    else
      dispatch(postUserFail(immutable))
  }
}


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DirectIndustry e-Magazine - #33 - AERONAUTICS - DirectIndustry e-Magazine
Your Monthly Dose of Engineering Innovation
REPORT. Flying Towards Industry 4.0
VIDEO. VR Takes to the Skies at Paris Air Show
McLaren F1: On Your Marks, Get Set, Print!
IMMEDIATE BOARDING FOR THE AERONAUTICS OF THE FUTURE
Special Aeronautics, in Partnership with AeroExpo. Fully embracing Industry 4.0 is vital to the aerospace industry. That means accepting a cultural change as well as investing in technology.
Paris Air Show 2017. One of this year's themes is more evident inside the exhibition halls than on the tarmac. We're talking about virtual reality. Emerging from the world of gaming, VR has found a ready welcome in the aircraft industry.
Formula 1. Parts for cars, planes, boats and now F1 racing cars can be 3D printed, even trackside. DirectIndustry e-magazine met the McLaren F1 team in their London headquarters.
Sensors Expo. Read our coverage of the fair dedicated to sensors and sensor-integrated systems that takes place in San Jose, California.
Summer Reading. How will the world be in 2038? In her prospective essay, Virginie Raisson questions today's technological revolution, from Hyperloop to Blockchain.
This Issue's Highlights
The real thing we are lacking in aerospace is moving towards having a real digital mindset.
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VR has found a ready welcome in the aircraft industry.
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IT : Hardware / IT : Software
A Rafale breaks the sound barrier above the head of the new French president. We're at the Paris Air Show, the must-be-there event in international aeronautics. Every two years, exhibitors introduce and demonstrate the latest in heavenly speedsters.
One of this year's themes is more evident inside the exhibition halls than on the tarmac. We're talking about virtual reality. Emerging from the world of gaming, VR has found a ready welcome in the aircraft industry. Initially used for prototype design, it's ever more common in situational simulation.
Watch our report from the fair.
More info on simulation softwares on AeroExpo.
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McLaren has formed a partnership with Stratasys to make small F1 racing cars parts, even trackside.
By Mike FarishJul 4
Courtesy of McLaren
Printing, Marking and Engraving
Parts for cars, planes, boats and now Formula One racing cars can be 3D printed. McLaren has formed a partnership with Stratasys to make small parts, even trackside. DirectIndustry e-magazine met the McLaren F1 team in London to discuss the first-ever racetrack print trial that took place at the Bahrain Grand Prix...
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Olikrom is a Bordeaux startup that manufactures coatings containing intelligent pigments which react to external stimuli. The pigments make temperature- or pressure-related alterations visible to the naked eye, and are designed to improve industrial safety. Offering significant advantages to the aeronautical sector, the technology has prompted a partnership with Airbus. DirectIndustry e-magazine met with CEO Jean-François Létard at the Paris Air Show.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: What's an intelligent pigment?
Jean-François Létard: They are materials which change conformation and reorganize themselves, changing color in response to termperature, light or pressure. Our job is to find the right formula such that the modification occurs in a way that satisfies an industrial safety need.
Alterations cause these pigments to shift from one state to another. We determine the temperature, the pressure or the light characteristics that will provoke the state shift.
DI e-magazine: But sophisticated electronic systems already exist to detect anomalies. Why this development?
Jean-François Létard: Yes, but they don't offer the possibility of observing the anomaly immediately. Our system saves time and locates the anomaly right away.
DI e-magazine: Can you describe your partnership with Airbus?
Jean-François Létard: Airbus approached us with two requirements. The first was to detect abnormally high temperatures around the engines during long flights. The second was to detect impacts caused by falling objects or collisions with birds, or dents on structural elements caused by baggage-loading equipment. Our technology is already in use on an A380.
Olikrom's coatings also react to light.
DI e-magazine: Does that mean your coatings are custom made in response to client needs?
Jean-François Létard: The materials are formulated to react to a particular alteration by changing color. For example, we can program them to react to a temperature of 120° or one of 60°. We can program the reaction to be reversible or not. Thus, we can program them to change when the chosen energy level is exceded just once. This is the type of material we use in the aeronautical sector.
We can combine two colors with two temperature thresholds in a single coating. We create the pigment as a function of the specifications submitted to us and integrate it into the paint or the ink.
DI e-magazine: Could you be more specific about the contents?
Jean-François Létard: No, I can't! Keep in mind that some of our materials are for both civilian and military use.
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Virginie Raisson is director of Lépac, a research lab specializing in predicting the future. She has just published The World in 2038, a prospective essay on possible world futures, including political, climatic, medical and technological scenarios. From Hyperloop to Blockchain, she questions the role of technology and what it offers society. Raisson shared her opinions on today's technological revolution with DirectIndustry e-magazine.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: Why 2038?
Virginie Raisson: This book follows on an earlier work published five years ago, called 2033. Why 2033? Trying to foresee the future, we often think in terms of generations—20 or 25 years. I began work on the first book in 2008. Adding 25 years brings us to 2033.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: Is technological progress liberating, menacing or dangerous?
Virginie Raisson: For me, technology is a tool for managing transition. It should allow us to solve problems, such as those linked to resource depletion. Technology accompanies societal evolution, but never liberates the society.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: But today, technology rules every aspect of our lives. Algorithms are everywhere. It's the reign of big data, of technology.
Virginie Raisson: I don't think so. Algorithms are based on confirmed facts, on real information that will be used for additional calculations and predictions. But an algorithm can't take into account the irrational or happenstance. We still have trouble predicting tomorrow's weather! I think we more attention to algorithms and their presumed capabilities than they warrant today. Technology is essential so long as it meets a need. The great technological advances were those that responded to a demand. What's different today is the exponential speed of innovation and discovery. But these technologies should make sense for society.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: Is that why you express doubts about Hyperloop as a future transportation system?
Virginie Raisson: Exactly. Take the high-speed train. We're not building any more in Europe. They're only being built in China, for example, because we realized it doesn't offer the kind of service we need today. At one time, it answered a need. But today, speed isn't the only factor. You only need to look at the ROI of high-speed lines.They're all losing money, except Paris-Lyon and Tokyo-Osaka. To sum up, technology must meet a need, and our efforts and investments should focus on those needs. That means Hyperloop must be considered in this light.
DirectIndustry e-magazine: In contrast to Hyperloop, you talk about Bitcoins and Blockchain as technological advances that might meet specific needs for more secure internet communications.
Virginie Raisson: Indeed. Our societies rely more and more on networks and interconnectedness. Looked at in this way, Blockchain follows in the same vein as societal evolutions launched by the internet. Blockchain arrives at the right moment to accompany an evolution in which society is based more on individual than on collective behavior. And it offers increased security. In addition, it represents progress with lower costs.
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Homegoing: Transforming the Datafication of Black Death into the Recovery & Restoration of Black Humanity
We have been counting Black lives lost to COVID-19 for close to a year. Assiduously combing through death announcements, obituaries, social media, and memorial projects, we scrape and extract whatever we can to tally the scores of people that COVID-19 has cruelly robbed Black families and communities of over the course of the pandemic.
Our goal? Initially, we counted out of sheer helplessness as we watched COVID-19 run unchecked in many Black communities across the United States. Counting eased our anxiety about our privilege…our ability to work and attend school from home. However, over time, we grew to understand our counting as an assignment, as Rene Payne, founder, and director of included, a multi-disciplinary creative studio that designed the COVID Black website, would say. Yet, we had been called to not simply chronicle Black life cut short by the pandemic, but to recover and restore Black humanity from COVID-19….to provide a "Homegoing"…a space where Black people's humanity is fully realized.
In many ways, our labor has been unexceptional…commonplace in its prevalence in the history of humankind. Jacqueline Wernimont, author of Numbered Lives Life and Death in Quantum Media writes, "Counting the dead has long been a crucial activity for the living." The regular drumbeat of COVID-19 mortality numbers through data dashboards, data trackers, and charts and graphs represent how inured we are to the datification of death.
Memorial projects such as Faces of COVID and numerous efforts across the United States to honor the dead seek to ameliorate the habituation of quantitative COVID-19 data. These projects compel us to stop and recognize the humanity and the stories of people who have succumbed to the disease
However, chronicling the stories and lives of Black people who have passed is never simple. It is always bound up with negotiating the dehumanization that is a mainstay of the daily existence of Black life. Poet, Claudine Rankin, writes, "Historically, there is no quotidian without the enslaved, chained or dead black body to gaze upon or to hear about or to position a self against." Thus the shroud of structural anti-Black racism that functions as the core of the disproportionate number of Black people who have succumbed to COVID-19, hovers above projects that seek to memorialize those who have passed on. For example, The Undefeated's project, Honoring Black Lives Lost to COVID-19, preface their profiles of Black lives with the following statement:
Honoring Black lives lost to COVID-19
"We're dying because we're disproportionately considered "essential" workers (with jobs deemed critical to the everyday functioning of society, but without the pay grade, safety protections, or regard the term would imply), which puts us at greater risk of exposure. We're dying because we're underinsured. We're dying because doctors don't believe us when we say we're sick. We're dying from the American experiment, which is like the Tuskegee experiment writ large. Even in its most quotidian iterations — commuting, working, going for a jog — it carries the risk of death for Black people."
The data that we collected told a story similar to what The Undefeated proclaimed. We found that much of it revealed that Black people who die from COVID-19 are often essential workers, employed in positions where they are much more likely to interact with the public than their white counterparts. Others suffer from the burden of comorbidities, further manifestations of structural racism that creates Black American vulnerability to COVID-19. Despite the importance of our data analysis, we endeavored to move beyond the datification of Black death for the simple awareness of long-established white supremacist structures that harm Black people. Instead, we sought to use data to recover and restore Black humanity. "Homegoing" represents our efforts in this regard.
Homegoing
A technology of recovery drives "Homegoing" and transforms both existing quantitative and qualitative data on Black death into a visual restoration of Black humanity. The project is grounded in the cultural history of enslaved African people who viewed death, despite its painful resonance, as a celebration and an occasion to return "home," …a release from earthly misery. In a similar vein, "Homegoing" uses data on the loss of Black life to create a site of remembrance that honors Black life in its fullest and richest form and provides a refuge from the totalizing oppression of racism in American society
How did we accomplish this? First, we have carefully curated biographical profiles for 500 Black people who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Yet, rather than focusing on their last days as they struggled to breathe or documenting their efforts to get tested, we have strategically chosen to weed out any mention of the pandemic in most cases. While we know this information is critical to understanding how structural inequity contributed to many Black Americans' death, "Homegoing's" goal is to highlight and celebrate Black life in its full bloom as an act of resistance. Like historical homegoing services, "Homegoing" rejects the anguish of racism as a defining feature of Blackness. Nonetheless, our inclusion of the original source of the death announcement affirms our commitment to revealing the full complexity of Blackness..the joy and the pain…in the United States.
Black people's denial of the long reach of racism in the afterlife is also represented in the gold data symbols floating upward. They represent a transition…a journey to a place free of the violent effects of racism and other forms of oppression… that many Black Americans believe their loved ones experience after their passing. The length of the symbols corresponds to the lifespan of the person. For example, shorter symbols signify a shorter life…our youth, while longer symbols convey longevity….our elders. Our emphasis on age is a nod, in part, to many Black Americans' recognition of their African cultural ancestry in their veneration of the elders…the ancestors…as a sign of respect.
When one runs the cursor over the data symbols they light up in red as does a corresponding photograph of a person. We chose the color red as it also calls on our West African cultural heritage, specifically Ghana, where red is worn by many individuals at funerals to "show how deeply they feel about the loss of their loved one." We hold each person's life in "Homegoing" in the highest regard. Our use of red reflects the deep, collective connection that Black people feel to one another, irrespective of an established personal relationship.
Clicking on the symbol prompts a profile to appear which offers deeper insight into the person's life. Each person is referenced by a title preceding their surname. We have used no first names. Over the course of their presence in the United States, White Americans assumed, "without permission, that they have the right to call Black people by their first names" and often refused to give surnames to enslaved African people to designate them as less than human...as lacking selfhood. We seek redress by ensuring that no one in "Homegoing" suffers this indignity.
We hope "Homegoing" offers some solace to Black families and communities unable to have traditional funeral and homegoing services due to social distancing and restrictions on public gatherings. We hope it will serve as a space for Black people to collectively grieve, celebrate, and honor their loved ones' transition. Just as importantly, we seek to transform the datification of Black death into a process of recovery and restoration of Black humanity.
Whether you have lost someone or not to COVID-19, we ask you to join in "Homegoing" by Remembering Black lives and Restoring Black humanity.
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Sinovac Named One of China's Top 10 Most Competitive Companies Listed Overseas in 2009
Monday December 21, 2009, 8:00 am EST
BEIJING, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVA), a leading provider of biopharmaceutical products in China, announced today that Sinovac was selected by China Business Media as one of China's Top 10 most competitive companies listed overseas for 2009. The honor was given to Sinovac at the 2009 China Business Annual Meeting on Enterprise Competitiveness.
The "Competitiveness Measure" is the measuring model developed by the experts from the Research Center of Chinese Industries and Enterprise Competitiveness and China Business Media. The model evaluates the competitiveness of Chinese listed companies through the criteria including the listed companies' sales revenue, net assets, net profits, the sales revenue, growth rate of net profits, and return on net assets in the past three years. The evaluation result will become an objective and authoritative reference for management and investors.
Sinovac, an independent company publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Market, shares a position on the list with some of China's large "State-owned Enterprises" such as China National Offshore Oil, PetroChina, China Mobile (Hong Kong), China Unicom, and China Petroleum & Chemical. Completing the Top 10 list are Yingli Green Energy Holdings Co., Ltd., Gushan Environmental Energy Limited, LDK Solar Co., Ltd., and Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd.
Mr. Weidong Yin, Chairman, President and CEO of Sinovac, remarked, "We would like to thank China Business and the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for bestowing this designation on our Company as it recognizes our collective and successful efforts to develop and commercialize vaccines within a competitive marketplace."
The Annual Meeting on Enterprise Competitiveness has been held since 2003 and is China's only economic forum combining theoretical research and economic practice. The key contents of the annual meeting include: issuing the research results of the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and China Business Media; releasing survey results on the competitiveness of listed Chinese enterprises based on analysis of annual report data; and inviting well-known entrepreneurs, economists, and governmental officials to discuss the hottest economic issues for the current year.
Sinovac Biotech Ltd. is a China-based biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the research, development, manufacture and commercialization of vaccines that protect against human infectious diseases. Sinovac's vaccine products include Healive(R) (hepatitis A), Bilive(R) (combined hepatitis A and B), and Anflu(R) (influenza). Panflu(R) and PANFLU.1(TM), Sinovac's pandemic influenza vaccine (H5N1) and H1N1 vaccine, have already been approved for government stockpiling. Sinovac is developing vaccines for enterovirus 71, universal pandemic influenza, Japanese encephalitis, and human rabies. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Tangshan Yian, is conducting field trials for independently developed inactivated animal rabies vaccine.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by words or phrases such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this press release contain forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about Sinovac's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward- looking statement. Sinovac does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable law.
Helen G. Yang
Tel: +86-10-8289-0088 x9871
Email: info@sinovac.com
Janine McCargo
Email: jmccargo@theruthgroup.com


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Sei Whale Balaenoptera borealis
Threats and conservation status
The third largest whale species after blue whales and fin whales, sei whales are one of the most poorly understood of all baleen whales. Although they were heavily hunted in the modern whaling era, their current distribution, migration patterns and behaviour are not well studied. Two sub-species are recognized: B. b. schlegelii in the Southern Hemisphere and B. b. borealis the Northern Hemisphere1. Due to their primarily offshore distribution and their unpredictable seasonal movements, sei whales are not often the main target of whale watching activities. However, they can be observed during whale watching tours where their seasonal habitat overlaps with that of more predictable species like humpback whales, gray whales or minke whales.
Sei Whale A4 Fact Sheet
Sei whale viewed through the water from the deck of a ship. Image: IWC-POWER.
Not to be confused with
From a distance sei whales could be confused with other rorqual whales like blue, fin or Bryde's whales. They should be easy to distinguish from fin whales due to the latter species' unique colouring. However, differentiation from Bryde's whales and Omura's whales is extremely challenging and it is likely that even the scientific literature contains a number of misidentifications. The sei whale head is slightly turned down at the tip of the rostrum, and the Bryde's whale has three parallel ridges running from the blowhole to the tip of the rostrum, where the sei whale only has one.
Sei whales are widely distributed in open ocean waters in temperate and sub-polar regions, appearing to favour areas with temperatures between 8-18 degrees Celsius2. As such, they appear to be absent from a band around the equator and do not range as far toward the poles and ice edge as other baleen whale species. One of the least well understood baleen whales, they are often confused with Bryde's whales at sea, which may have confused earlier understanding of their global distribution3,4. Although there is documented seasonal movement between higher latitude summer feeding areas and lower latitude winter calving areas, these areas are not predictable and stable as those of many other baleen whale species. Sei whales can be present in an area one year –and not the next.4
Sei whales are native to the following countries and territories: Angola; Argentina; Australia; Bahamas; Bermuda; Brazil; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Congo; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; French Southern Territories; Gibraltar; Greenland; Haiti; Iceland; Ireland; Japan; Kenya; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Madagascar; Mauritania; Mexico; Morocco; Namibia; New Zealand; Northern Mariana Islands; Norway; Peru; Portugal; Réunion; Russian Federation; Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (Tristan da Cunha); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Turks and Caicos Islands; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Western Sahara.
Sei whale range-wide distribution. Adapted by Nina Lisowski from Jefferson, T.A., Webber, M.A. and Pitman, R.L. (2015). "Marine Mammals of the World: A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification," 2nd ed. Elsevier, San Diego, CA. Copyright Elsevier: http://www.elsevier.com
Sei whales are predominantly skim feeders, swimming close to the surface with mouths open and throat pleats extended to skim large quantities of plankton form the water and filter it through their baleen plates. Their preferred prey is tiny planktonic crustaceans called copepods, but they are also known to feed on krill or small shoaling fish.3
Social Structure Reproduction and growth
Sei whale seasonal movements are less preditable and less well defined than many other species. Much of what is known about sei whales has been learned from whaling data, as scientists on board whaling vessels kept careful records of catch locations, the size of whales that were caught, and their reproductive status (e.g. were females that were caught pregnant, and if so, at what stage of development was the fetus?). From this data we know that, as with other baleen whales, sei whales usually give birth in mid winter in the lower latitude or warmer areas of the species' range. Gestation is thought to be 10-12 months, and calves are thought to wean at 6-9 months after they have migrated to colder waters with their mothers.
Copepod, the favoured prey of sei whales. Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copepodkils.jpg
There is no reliable information on natural predators of sei whales, although it is presumed that, as for other baleen whales, only killer whales would be large enough and strong enough to hunt and prey on sei whale calves, if not adults.
Since the cessation of commercial whaling, there is very little information on current threats to sei whales. Although ship strikes and entanglement in fishing gear may affect this species to some degree, these threats are likely to be less prevalent in their open ocean habitat than they are in the coastal areas where other whales and dolphins are at greater risk.
Once blue whale and fin whale populations began to decline in response to modern whaling in the first half of the 20th century, whaling fleets set their sights on sei whales. They were one of the last whales to still be hunted, with an IWC agreement to cease catches in 1975 in the North Pacific and 1979 in the Antarctic3. Commercial hunting of Sei Whales ceased in the late 20th century, but catches under Special Permit resumed in the North Pacific in 2004 at the level of 100 per year, and increased to 134 per year in 2017. Global populations were thought to have been reduced by as much as 80% in the 1900's, creating the rationale for the IUCN to designate the species as Endangered on the Red List of Threatened species. The species is listed under Appendix I of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS).
Sei whales and whale watching
Sei whales are not often the primary target of whale watching tours, but , they can be observed during whale watching tours in many prime whale watching areas where they occur, such as the Northeast coast of the United States, South Africa5 and British Columbia, Canada6.
Sei whale in the Gulf of Maine. Photo courtesy of Whale and Dolphin Conservation USA.
Sei Whale in the North Pacific. Image: IWC-POWER
Committee on Taxonomy, List of marine mammal species and subspecies. Society for Marine Mammalogy, www.marinemammalscience.org, consulted on 11 October 2017. 2017.
Reilly, S.B., et al., Balaenoptera borealis, in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2008, http://www.iucnredlist.org/det... Downloaded on 9 October 2017.
Horwood, J., Sei whale, Balaenoptera borealis, in Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, W. Perrin, B. Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen, Editors. 2009, Elsevier: San Francisco. p. 1001-1003.
Jefferson, T.A., M.A. Webber, and R.L. Pitman, Marine Mammals of the World: a Comprehensive Guide to their Identification. Second Edition. 2015: San Diego: Academic Press.
Best, P.B. and C.H. Lockyer, Reproduction, growth and migrations of sei whales Balaenoptera borealis off the west coast of South Africa in the 1960's South African Journal of Marine Science, 2002. 24 p. 111-133.
Gregr, E.J. and A.W. Trites, Predictions of critical habitat for five whale species in the waters of coastal British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, 2001. 58: p. 1265-1285.


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Lehoczky Zsuzsa (Szeged, 1936. július 18. –) a Nemzet Színésze címmel kitüntetett, Kossuth- és kétszeres Jászai Mari-díjas magyar színművésznő, érdemes és kiváló művész, a Halhatatlanok Társulatának örökös tagja. Nagybátyja Lehotay Árpád (született Lehoczky), első férje Tichy Lajos válogatott labdarúgó, edző volt.

Életpályája
1949–1956 között a Szegedi Nemzeti Színházban táncosnő volt. 1956–57-ben a kaposvári Csiky Gergely Színházban játszott. 1957–1962 között ismét a Szegedi Nemzeti Színház tagja lett. 1962 óta a Budapesti Operettszínház művésze.
Ének- és tánckészsége, sajátos humora kiválóan érvényesült szubrettszerepekben. Musicalekben és operettekben egyaránt szerepet kapott. 11 évesen (1947) már a Szegedi Nemzeti Színházban játszott, ahol William Shakespeare: Szentivánéji álom című vígjátékában Mustármagot alakította. Emlékezetes alakítást nyújtott Kálmán Imre: Csárdáskirálynő című művében, ahol Cecíliát alakította. Olyan nagy színészekkel játszott együtt, mint például Honthy Hanna, Németh Marika, Feleki Kamill, Latabár Kálmán, Sárdy János és Rátonyi Róbert.

2021. május 11-én választották a nemzet színészévé Törőcsik Mari helyére. A kitüntetést 2021. június 13-án vette át a Rómeó és Júlia előadás után a Nemzeti Színházban Vidnyánszky Attilától.

2021 nyarán bejelentette, hogy visszavonul a színpadtól. 2021. szeptember 27-én a budapesti Operettszínházban a 85. születésnapjára rendezett gálaműsor keretében lépett utoljára színpadra.

Színházi szerepei

Filmjei

Játékfilmek

 Nyáron egyszerű (1963)
 Fotó Háber (1963)
 Szerencsés flótás (1965)
 Nyári játék (1967)

Tévéfilmek
 A cigánybáró (1968)
 Elméletileg kifogástalan házasság (1969)
 Tyúkfürösztés (1971)
 Különös vadászat (1973)
 Mozgó fényképek (1974)
 Őfelsége Bözsi (1974)
 Boccaccio (1977)
 Ő meg én (1979)
 Patika (1994–1995)
 Hello, doki! (1996)
 Barátok közt (2000)
 A tigriscsíkos kutya (2001)
 Pasik! (2002)
 Hóesés a Vízivárosban (2004)
 Szuromberek királyfi (2007)

Szinkronszerepei
 A hazug lány: Sophie, Juliette húga - Macha Méril

Díjai, elismerései
 Jászai Mari-díj (1966, 1974)
 Érdemes művész (1981)
 Kiváló művész (1989)
 Déryné-díj (1993)
 A Budapesti Operettszínház örökös tagja (1994)
 A Magyar Köztársasági Érdemrend tisztikeresztje (1995)
 Örökös tag a Halhatatlanok Társulatában (2003)
 Kossuth-díj (2004)
 Kálmán Imre-emlékplakett (2018)
 A Nemzet Színésze (2021)

Jegyzetek

Források

 Madách Színház

További információk
 75 éves Lehoczky Zsuzsa
 Jegy.hu
 Duna TV
 A Halhatatlanok Társulata

1936-ban született személyek
Magyar operetténekesek
Kossuth-díjasok
Magyar színésznők
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Varalakshmi Vratam is a popular ritual observed by married women in South India and Maharashtra. Pujas and prayers are offered to Goddess Lakshmi – the goddess of wealth and prosperity on the day. There a couple of popular stories associated with Varalakshmi Vratam. The most important among them are story of Charumati and that of Shyamabala.
According to Skanda Purana, once Goddess Parvati asked Lord Shiva about a vrata that will be beneficial to women. Lord Shiva then mentioned the importance of Varalakshmi Vrata, which is most beneficial Vrata for women.
To illustrate the importance of the Varamahalakshmi Vrat, Lord Shiva narrated the story of Charumati.
Pleased with Charumati's devotion to her husband and family, Goddess Lakshmi appeared in her dream and asked her to perform the Varalakshmi Vratha. She explained to her the procedures of the Vrata.
The pious Charumati invited all her neighbors, friends and relatives and performed the Varalakshmi puja as directed by Goddess Lakshmi. Soon after the puja, all the people who participated in the puja were blessed with wealth and prosperity.
Another popular story associated with Varamahalakshmi Vrat is that of Shyamabala. King Bathrasiravas and Queen Surachandrika had a daughter named Shyamabala. She was married to a prince of neighboring kingdom.
Once when Shyamabala was in her parent's palace, she saw her mother, Queen Surachandrika, driving away an old lady. The old lady had asked the Queen to perform Varalakshmi puja but the queen did not like a beggar advising her regarding pujas and therefore drove her out.
A kind-hearted Shyamabala invited the old lady and listened to the greatness of Varalakshmi Vrata. When she returned to her country, she performed the Vrata as directed by the old lady. Soon her kingdom started prospering and the prince was appreciated for his good governance.
But parents of Shyamabala had to undergo numerous sufferings and there was suffering all around. The king and queen lost all his wealth and people started revolting against their rule.
Hearing about the suffering in her parent's kingdom, Shyamabala sent pots of gold but the moment Queen Surachandrika set her eyes on them they turned into ashes.
Upon hearing this incident, Shyamabala realized that all this is the result of her mother driving out the old woman from the palace. She realized that the old woman was Goddess Lakshmi in disguise.
According to another story in the Hindu scriptures, the origin of Varalakshmi Vratha is associated with a game of dice played between Lord Shiva and Parvati. Goddess Parvati who was winning all the games was accused of cheating by Lord Shiva. So they decided to appoint Chitranemi, a gana of Shiva, as the umpire.
Chitranemi ruled in favor of Lord Shiva and this angered Goddess Parvati who cursed him to be a leper. Shiva asked Parvati to forgive Chitranemi and she agreed to revoke the curse if he watched Varalakshmi Vratha performed by pious women. The tradition of Varalakshmi Vratha started from then onwards.
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Officials remind revelers that setting off your own fireworks is illegal — and can be dangerous
By Karen Kucher
July 1, 2019 4:31 PM PT
SAN DIEGO —
"Fire in the hole!"
After yelling out that warning, a San Diego Fire-Rescue bomb technician on Monday detonated a blasting cap inside a watermelon, sending gooey bits of fruit flying about 30 feet. A few minutes later, he blew up a blue surgical glove filled with hamburger, splattering meat and bits of plastic onto the ground.
The explosive demonstrations, staged at the fire training facility near San Diego International Airport, were designed to give the public a dramatic reminder of the danger of fireworks and other pyrotechnic devices.
"Fireworks are associated with Fourth of July and celebrating our independence but the risk is that little bit of fun... could dramatically alter somebody's life," said San Diego Fire-Rescue Capt. Jeff Ring, who leads the bomb squad. "It could change them physically. It has the potential to end their life.
"Let the professionals do it. It is just not worth the risk."
The sale, possession and use of fireworks is illegal everywhere in San Diego County, with laws on the books prohibiting fireworks in the unincorporated areas dating back at least 40 years.
All 18 cities in the region enacted similar laws over the years, largely out of concerns that the devices can easily spark wildfires, San Diego Fire-Rescue Deputy Chief Doug Perry said. Only permitted events, like the Big Bay Boom fireworks show and other professional displays, are allowed.
Depending on the violation, offenders could face up to six months in prison and a $1,000 fine, or up to a year in jail and up to $25,000 in fines, Perry said.
San Diego's location leaves it in a somewhat vulnerable spot.
Residents can easily obtain fireworks by driving south to Mexico, or north to Orange County and beyond, where some jurisdictions allow the legal sale of so-called "safe and sane" fireworks.
To be legal, those fireworks must bear a logo from the state fire marshal and include such items as sparklers, snaps, smoke balls and snakes. Such fireworks can only be sold in the state for about a week around the Fourth of July, with exact dates varying by jurisdiction, said Cal Fire spokesman Jon Heggie.
"There's no place within San Diego County where any type of fireworks, including safe and sane, are legal, and that includes the beach," Heggie said.
Fire officials cautioned that those who buy fireworks in Mexico should be aware that they may be manufactured with lax quality control or regulatory oversight. As a result, devices contain varying amounts of powder and some might have fuses that light quicker than expected.
Border-crossers also could be arrested for bringing such items into the county, Perry said.
Bomb technicians often are called upon to pick up fireworks and other explosive devices found by residents or confiscated by police, Each year, the department blows up a couple hundred pounds of fireworks, Ring said.
Sometimes the materials are destroyed on site if they are determined to be too dangerous to move. That's what happened June 19, when a backpack containing nine commercial mortars was discovered in the San Diego riverbed in the Mission Gorge area. In that case, a technician in a bomb suit placed the mortars in a containment vessel and set them off, he said.
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