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Twitter has begun rolling out Community Notes to all of its customers globally, the corporate introduced on Saturday. Beforehand referred to as Birdwatch, the function first debuted in 2021 under former CEO Jack Dorsey as means for the social media web site to fight misinformation.
Group Notes takes a crowd-sourced method to debunking deceptive tweets. Moderators who're a part of this system can append notes to tweets so as to add "context." Common customers can then vote on whether or not they discover the context "useful." Earlier than immediately, solely people within the US might see the notes. Twitter says it can begin including contributors from different areas quickly.
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Present firm proprietor Elon Musk has positioned Group Notes as a essential ingredient of his "Twitter 2.0" vision, claiming the function shall be "a gamechanger for bettering accuracy on Twitter." Nonetheless, as with all crowd-sourced function, there's the potential for Group Notes to backfire if teams use the device to advertise partisan views.
The worldwide rollout of Group Notes comes a day earlier than the relaunch of Twitter Blue. Following a disastrous first attempt at paid account verification, Twitter introduced on Saturday it might begin rolling out its revamped subscription service once more on Monday. This time round, subscribers might want to present a quantity for verification functions earlier than the corporate will add a blue checkmark to their account. Moreover, customers who change their deal with, show title and profile picture will briefly lose their blue checkmark whereas Twitter evaluations their account.
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NYC needs all Uber and Lyft automobiles to be electrical by 2030
It might not be long before every ridesharing car in New York City is electric. Mayor Eric Adams has outlined an agenda that will require "high-volume for-hire" vehicles at Uber, Lyft and similar companies to be zero-emissions by 2030. There will be "no new costs" for drivers, the administration says. The initiative would build on the city's plans to electrify
Anker charging equipment are as much as 49 % off in Amazon sale
If you're looking to buy some accessories for your phone, a bunch of Anker powerbanks, cables and chargers are on sale right now at Amazon. One of the best deals in the list is the Anker Magnetic (MagGo) Battery for the iPhone 12, 13 and 14, which is currently 36 percent off at $45. That's $25 less than its usual
Apples combined actuality headset might function full-body FaceTime avatars
is expected to reveal its long-anticipated mixed reality headset in the coming months. The device has been in the works for several years and it'll be Apple's first new product category since Apple Watch, which debuted in 2015. Many details about the device have emerged through the rumor mill. Although much of the information in his latest piece on the


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Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller said insurance claim to be filed to recoup $75 million spent to fix sinkhole, inspect line.
A tsunami of sewage caused by "human error" weakened an underground sewer line, leading to the 2016 collapse that created a massive sinkhole on 15 Mile Road in Fraser and cost $70 million to fix.
That's what Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller said Wednesday she now believes caused the Christmas Eve day 2016 sinkhole that destroyed a home and created a pit the size of a football field on 15 Mile Road near Eberlein.
She said Gary Brierley, a national expert, was hired last year to examine what caused the sinkhole, which she said is probably the "worst infrastructure disaster in Macomb County history."
The major sewer line collapse and sinkhole took nine months to fix, inconveniencing residents and businesses in Fraser and financially impacting the half-million people in the 11 communities in the county that rely on the line to carry their waste.
Miller said an insurance claim is being filed on behalf of the Macomb Interceptor Drain Drainage District, which oversees the line. If a settlement can't be reached to recoup $75 million in costs to fix the sinkhole and other problems in the line, a lawsuit will be filed in Macomb County Circuit Court, she said.
"We know now what happened," Miller said, adding that the expert has spent months examining data at a cost of about $100,000.
Miller said a large project to reline the sewer— was being done in 2014 on another large line downstream — the Oakland-Macomb Interceptor Drain, which handles waste from communities in both counties.
Gates in the line were closed to hold back sewage so the work could be done, a very common practice, she said.
When workers leave the line, the operator is to raise the gates, following proper protocols. The protocols, Miller said, are for the flow to be gradually released "maybe over several hours."
At least eight different times — and one time in particular on May 9, 2014, Miller said the flow was released in about seven minutes.
"So when that happened, that release of flow in seven minutes instead of several hours, you had a tsunami of water," Miller said.
She said the water traveled down the pipe, hit a figurative wall (where the pipe narrowed down several feet) and came back — right at the end of Eberlein — where the first house started sinking in 2016 at the site of the sinkhole.
"This thing hit this wall and was like a bomb went off," Miller said.
She said part of the line was smaller in diameter, and the impact caused hairline fractures, allowing silt to get into the top of the pipe. It took time for the problem to manifest.
Miller said she's not suggesting there was any criminal intent, calling the error "a mistake that was made."
The MIDD bonded $70 million for the sinkhole repair. Miller said the average ratepayer cost in the 11-community drainage district is about $25 per house per year for 25 years.
In January 2017, Miller theorized a hole bored into the sewer line nearly 40 years ago may have been the cause of a 2016 sinkhole, that initially resulted in three houses being condemned and forced 19 other families from their homes in an adjoining subdivision.
There were many theories, and Miller wanted an expert to review the situation, especially after two prior sinkholes on the line, including a 2004 sinkhole on 15 Mile in neighboring Sterling Heights.
Miller said Wednesday that all three sinkhole events appear to be different and unrelated.
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Orange Is The new Black star Laura Prepon was spotted trying on white dresses in NYC earlier this week.
The actress was reportedly spotted at a private fitting of a custom-made Isabelle Armstrong Haute Couture evening dress at Bergdorf Goodman prompting rumors that she might be getting ready to walk down the aisle.
However, Page Six reports Prepon was just trying to the outfit she'll wear at the Bella Magazine's All-White Party in the Hamptons, which the actress is set to host on July 26.
Prepon, 34, recently returned to the small screen in the Netflix hit series OITNB. While the actress only appeared in a few episodes of the show's second season due to scheduling, she reveled in June that she'd be "in every episode" of the series' third season.


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The Community Building Committee creates opportunities for our parents to get to know one another better, and to strengthen the bonds that Interlake kids are building each day at school. They plan events like book clubs, impromptu get-togethers, and annual Harvest Festival each November. In addition they come up with creative ways show appreciation to the amazing staff that cares for Interlake children each day.
The Technology Committee supports Interlake by helping with hardware and software as well as recommending improvements to systems, processes, and resources. They also make recommendations about internet and networking issues.
The main focus of the Facilities Committee is the quarterly work parties that keep Interlake functioning well and looking great! This committee organizes the task list and helps volunteers get things done on the day of the party. They also facilitate larger, non-work Party projects like plumbing repair, insulation, and roof maintenance.
The Fundraising Committee helps to fund the vision of Interlake. They raise funds to achieve goals not funded exclusively by tuition, such as interior/exterior beautification projects for our school, kitchen upgrades, or classroom furniture. This committee also runs the annual Auction.
This newer committee focuses on ways to enhance and talk about diversity at Interlake. At Interlake, we understand that what our children learn in these early years stays with them for the rest of their lives—we want a healthy understanding of diversity of race, gender, socio-economic, family make-up, sexual orientation, belief systems, physical abilities/disabilities, and experiences to be a part of this early learning.


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From kitchens to mailboxes, Touchstone Theatre has a duo of unique shows in February
By Jennifer Sheehan
"Shadows in Steam," is the second in Touchstone Theatre's "Letters from Far" series, a storytelling experience told through packages in the mail. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
From theater that comes through the mail to performances that offer food for thought, Bethlehem's Touchstone Theatre has a pair of unique events in February you won't want to miss.
Here are the details on both events:
'Shadows in Steam'
The year is 1906 and a steam locomotive pulls into the station.
Three passengers are dead, a foul smoke is puffing from the engine and there's no clear explanation for the rash of nightmares amongst the crew. Witness accounts of what happened aboard the train vary, with reports of mysterious meetings, strange noises and seemingly supernatural phenomena.
It's up to you to solve the mystery.
"Shadows in Steam A Letters from Far Story" is the second installment of the "Letters from Far" series, which brings theater to your home through the mail.
Touchstone started the innovative, interactive program last year to allow people to enjoy theater at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emma Ackerman, Touchstone's general manager and an ensemble member, the reaction to last year's "Letters from Far" was tremendous.
"The response was overwhelmingly positive and generous," Ackerman said. "There was a real willingness to engage with the material. I was a little unsure how it was going to turn out."
This year, they knew at Touchstone that with the current state of the pandemic, offering it again was important.
"We knew we needed to create content regardless of where people are safety- and comfort-wise," Ackerman said. "I wanted to keep exploring this idea of crazy, fantastical images and story ideas that speak to now in 2022 and what we're going through."
Here's how this year's story will work: As "friends" of the investigating police officer in charge of the case, you will receive an introductory letter, written statements from the survivors, and physical evidence from the investigation. The production includes six small packages, arriving to your mailbox over the course of February and March. You can follow the story along at your own pace as you dig into a pseudo-historical mystery.
Tickets, info: "Shadows in Steam: A Letters from Far Story" begins hitting mailboxes Feb. 15; the cutoff date to register by purchasing a ticket is Feb. 1. Tickets are $45 per household/mailing address and can be purchased for any US mailing address. Tickets are limited and available by phone at 610.867.1689 or online at www.touchstone.org.
"Kitchen Chronicles," a one-of-a-kind take on the powers of food and wisdom shared in the kitchen, started as a show that went directly into people's homes. This year marks its third and final installment, Feb. 10 to 20 in Touchstone's black box theatre. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)
"Kitchen Chronicles," a one-of-a-kind take on the powers of food and wisdom shared in the kitchen, returns for its third and final installment, Feb. 10 to 20 in Touchstone's black box theatre.
Mary Wright, an ensemble member of Touchstone Theatre, started the "Kitchen Chronicles" project in 2017. She began collecting stories told around the table, recipes shared through generations and wisdoms shared while washing dishes, all from Valley residents and friends from around the globe.
Those stories became "Kitchen Chronicles," the first iteration of which was shared in the spring of 2019 as small, personalized, interactive performances in people's homes. In October 2019, "Kitchen Chronicles" was part of Touchstone's Festival UnBound, performed with music, puppetry, and fresh-baked food in the studio kitchen at PBS39.
The third and final edition brings "Kitchen Chronicles" to Touchstone's home stage.
"This installment focuses a lot more on the role the kitchen can play in relationships," Wright said. "It's a little less about the relationship we have with food and more about the way we operate in a kitchen and how that affects relationships."
This also marks the first time Wright will be working with her daughter, Katie Willmorth, who is an equity actor. They will portray mother and daughter on stage, in a play exploring family recipes, the meaning of legacy, the miracle of Cool Whip, and why, hungry or not, we always end up in the kitchen.
"There's a lot about this show that surprised and delighted me," Wright said. "It's not at all your standard kitchen drama. There's a lot of whimsy, humor and theatrically magical moments, I am loving the writing of it and love performing it. I think this show is really unique and special."
Plus, she has the rare chance to work with her daughter.
"This is probably one of the few times we'll get to do something like this together," she said.
Wright has a sense of accomplishment as she nears the end of "Kitchen Chronicles."
"The thing for me has been realizing that I am not the only person that feels there's a power in the kitchen," she said. "Why do we always end in up in the kitchen? People are drawn to it and why is that? That's what this whole thing has been about."
Tickets, info: Kitchen Chronicles runs Feb. 10 to Feb. 20, with shows at 8 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $25, with $15 tickets for students/seniors and the option to Pay-What-You-Will at the door on Thursdays. Tickets are available at 610.867.1689 or online at touchstone.org
Ticket holders must show either proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test from within 72 hours. All performers and company members are fully vaccinated.
Info: http://www.touchstone.org/


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AT&T wants to put a wearable on your wrist: Check out the Healbe GoBe, Misfit Flash, and more
By Malarie Gokey	 June 17, 2015
AT&T's stores are filling up with wearables these days. The carrier just announced that it will sell six very popular and intriguing wearables in its stores from June 26, including the Case-Mate Rebecca Minkoff Notification Bracelet, Healbe GoBe, Mio FUSE Heart Rate + Activity Tracker, Misfit Flash, Withings Activité, and the Withings Activité Pop.
AT&T already sells a great number of mainstream wearables from Fitbit, Jawbone, Samsung, Timex, and others, but with these six new devices, the carrier has opened up to more unique and lesser known devices. Here's everything you need to know about each one:
Case-Mate Rebecca Minkoff Notification Bracelet – $120
Rebecca Minkoff is well-known for her handbags, shoes, and jewelry — However, her latest project is in wearables. The Case-Mate Rebecca Minkoff Notification Bracelet is a piece of smart jewelry that sends notifications to your wrist. It will vibrate for calls and texts from your preferred contacts, so as not to bother you constantly. It has a 30-day battery life, and should blend in with the rest of your jewelry pretty nicely. AT&T will over the bracelet in select stores and online for $120 on June 26.
Healbe GoBe – $300
The Healbe GoBe may very well be the most eccentric piece of tech on this list. It measures caloric intake and burn through three sensors, so that you never have to log another meal into a food tracking app again — at least theoretically. It also measures hydration, stress, sleep quality, heart rate, and blood pressure. Digital Trends exclusively reviewed the GoBe before it came to market, and found its tracking to be hit or miss, the battery life poor, and app experience buggy. Of course, Healbe has no doubt fixed the bugs that plagued our early review unit, in order to convince AT&T to carry the device. We'll post an updated review as soon as we get a GoBe from AT&T. It'll cost $300 online.
Read our full review
Mio Fuse Heart Rate + Activity Tracker – $150
Mio Fuse is a sporty wristband for gym rats who want to track their heart rate during workouts and during the day. It offers EKG-accurate heart rate monitoring through the company's patented Heart Rate Technology, but it also handles basic metrics like steps, calories, distance, and pace. The Fuse syncs with your phone via Bluetooth to connect with popular fitness apps, GPS watches, and bike computers. Its LED lights will even show you your stats. The wearable tracks 30 hours of exercise data and two weeks of daily activity data, so you can see how you're doing with your daily regimen over the course of time. It'll cost $150 on AT&T's website and in some stores.
Misfit Flash – $50
Misfit's Flash is one of the most affordable fitness trackers out there. It monitors your activity and sleep, but it can also control your music, tell the time with its LED lights, and control your smart home through IFTTT integration. You can also keep tabs on all your stats through the Misfit dashboard on the Web or in the app on your phone. The Flash's replaceable battery lasts up to six months before you need to replace it. You can stick the central disc in a number of accessories, and it comes in a variety of fun colors. It'll be at select AT&T stores and online for $50.
Read more about its abilities
Withings Activité and Pop – $450 or $150
Withings offers two different versions of its semi-smart watch, the Activité. The classic-looking watch uses a Swiss design to hide the high-tech powers it has inside. It not only tracks your activity, sleep, and distance travelled, but also automatically adjusts to time zones. Both the Activité Pop and Activité are waterproof and come with a battery that's easily replaceable and lasts about eight months. The only real difference between the two is the quality of the strap, metal casing, and the glass dome on the watch, so the Pop is the better deal. The regular Activité is $450, but the Pop is just $150. You can get both at AT&T stores and online on June 26.
Read our reviews of the Activité and the Pop
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To say that my time in South Africa exposed me to a host of rather special experiences would be selling the country short. Of course, a good deal of those experiences came courtesy of BMW. Well, not directly, but since I was a guest of the celebrated carmaker driving its made-in-country, X3 mid-sized SUV, it would be churlish not to give it due credit.
Anyway – and this is most definitely a uniquely BMW experience – I was given a behind-the-scenes look at how BMW's Rosslyn plant in the Gauteng province of South Africa works. Roughly an hour's drive out of Johannesburg, this car factory has been steadily producing BMWs for 45 years – specifically, the soon-to-be- replaced 3 Series as well as the X3 since April 2018. Of the more-than-18,000 cars produced since then, I had the privilege of driving one from Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport.
If you've never been to a modern car plant like BMW's in Rosslyn, you'd be surprised at how incredibly clean it is, and how few humans work on the assembly line. Part of the factory's upgrading works over the past three years have included the addition of a slew of robots. More than 300 of them reside in the body shop alone and the plant's spray booth is now 100 per cent automated. In spite of the increased automation, BMW says human employment has gone up, not so much from people working on the factory floor, but from the specialists required to maintain the robots.
I was asked to go to South Africa not just to visit a factory, but to experience what is surely one of the most picturesque countries on the planet. While I thought the country would be mostly low-lying, given that wide-open expanses is one of the defining traits of grassland, the fact I was some 1,400m above sea level came as a bit of a surprise. South Africa also turned out to be hillier than I expected. The Blyde River Canyon Nature Reserve, for example, contains the Three Rondavels, a trio of cone-shaped peaks, named for their resemblance to the roofs of traditional huts.
More than that is how hills also mean lots of twisty ribbons of tarmac, which is perfect for exploring what the BMW X3 can do. And again, the BMW X3 demonstrated itself to be one of the most capable SUVs on sale today. The BMW X3 can be pushed a lot harder than any SUV of its size has any right to, though the performance helps somewhat in that particular cause.
Scenery and driving is all well and good, but no visit to South Africa is really complete without the megafauna. Before you ask, the answer is no. I didn't see a lion eating an antelope, kudu, nyala or any sort of horned herbivore. In fact, I didn't see any lions, either. However I did see a herd of elephant gently grazing by roadside five metres away from the car, which is both amazing and mildly worrying. While I'm sure the BMW X3, with its comprehensive suite of modern active and passive safety measures, is remarkably crashworthy, I'm not entirely sure angry elephants are a criteria in the Euro NCAP crash test.
Spanning two provinces and bordering Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the park covers an area of over 19,000 sq km. The sights of megafauna in a megapark, jaw-dropping scenery on the drive there, plus the ballet of men and machines turning metal skeletons into complete cars, certainly made this a trip to remember. But while that's memorable, perhaps trumping them all is a road sign I saw in downtown Johannesburg: Smash & Grab Hotspot, it proclaimed in big, bold letters. I wasn't a victim, thankfully, but see what I said earlier about South Africa being special?


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Race is a myth
(idea) by qbert Fri Jan 21 2000 at 19:13:37
It has no scientific basis. In reality, separating Asians from whites or blacks from Hispanics is about as valid as separating blond-haired people from brown-haired people. It's based purely on very shallow phenotypical characteristics like melanin concentration, hair texture, and nose shape.
In fact, by the logic of most people (who believe there is such a thing as race), one could just as easily divide people into categories based on whether they have mid-digital hair or whether their big toes are longer than their second toes.
Most people define racism as the idea that there are any substantive differences among the races, but I define racism as the idea that there is such a thing as race. By this definition, almost everyone in the world is a racist. Probably the main exceptions are biologists.
(idea) by pingouin Mon Jan 24 2000 at 3:15:22
The observation comes centuries too late. The United States has a history of slavery and of the genocide or forced assimilation of indigenous peoples. Various parts of the world have had outbreaks of violent anti-semitism over the centuries. The Sudan is still killing people over race (of course, it's also a holy war). Conversely, the Ibero-American world covers the entire spectrum of the melanin (and phenotype) rainbow, as does, increasingly, the Old World.
Race is very real, politically and economically; the echoes of past "race is real" mindsets still reverberate here and now. While "race is a myth" is true and cute and all that, to make the mistake of using those four words to deliberately ignore the present realities worldwide (such as war and caste) shaped by race and racism is nearly as toxic as racism itself. And who can talk such a person down from dreaming in Technicolor?
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Jungle Shuffle is a 2014 South Korean-Mexican-Colombian 3D computer-animated adventure film directed by Taedong Park and Mauricio De la Orta. It stars the voices of Drake Bell, Rob Schneider, Alicia Silverstone, and Tom Arnold.

Plot

The film is the story of a group of coatis living in the Mexican rainforest. A young coati named Manu (Brianne Brozey) is the best friend of Sacha (Jessica DiCicco) and he is deeply in love with her. However, Manu has a reputation of being a troublemaker and Sacha is the daughter of the Coati Tribe's King (Tom Arnold) who dislikes Manu. Following an incident where a statue being made for the Coati King ends up accidentally destroyed, the Coati King exiles Manu from his kingdom never to return much to the objection of Sacha.

One year later, Manu (Drake Bell) has changed his ways and is still in love with Sacha (Alicia Silverstone). One day, Sacha is abducted by a group of poachers working for the mysterious Dr. Loco (Rob Schneider). Sacha's abduction causes Manu to team up with a spider monkey named Chuy (also Rob Schneider) to rescue her so that he can redeem himself to the Coati King.

Cast
 Drake Bell as Manu
 Brianne Brozey as young Manu
 Rob Schneider as Chuy, Great Monkey, Dr. Loco, Tuana
 Alicia Silverstone as Sacha
 Jessica DiCicco as young Sacha
 Tom Arnold as Coati King
 Joey D'Auria as Reiser
 Chris Gardner as Balaam
 Eric Lopez as Artex
 Michael McConnohie as Helms
 Steve Prince as Louca
 Eddie Santiago as Pacal
 Fred Tatasciore as Cusumba, Chimera
 Amanda Troop as Cecilia
 Debra Wilson as Kam

Crew
 Mark A.Z. Dippé - Voice Director
 Richard Epcar - Voice Director

Release
Jungle Shuffle was released in South Korea on 2 October 2014 and in the United States, via direct-to-DVD, on 10 March 2015.

References

External links

 CG MAKERS  Jungle Shuffle
 Westbridge University
 Avikoo Studios

2014 films
2014 animated films
2010s adventure films
South Korean adventure films
South Korean animated films
Mexican adventure films
Mexican animated films
Animated adventure films
Jungle adventure films
Films set in Mexico
Films set in 1960
2010s English-language films
2010s South Korean films
2010s Mexican films

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Main Page Results Overall standings Stage Details Live report Previous Stage
Stage 21 - Sunday, May 28: Museo Del Ghisallo � Milano, 140 km
"Seven key moments"; Mission 1 of 2 complete
F�rster pi� forza on the Corsa Venezia
By Anthony Tan in Milano, with additional reporting from Tim Maloney
Ivan Basso kisses the spoils
As a 28-year-old, handsome Italian, with a loving family, a healthy newborn son, an adoring public and now pretty in pink, Ivan Basso has a lot of reasons to be happy today.
"I'm really, really happy today. I think it was a beautiful Giro, and this is a really special moment in my career," were some of the first words from the 2006 winner of the Giro d'Italia.
As Gerolsteiner's Robert F�rster outsprinted Axel Maximiliano Richeze, Olaf Pollack and a blocked-off Paolo Bettini to conclude the first of the formalities on Milano's Corso Venezia, it then became time to think about one of the last: awarding the final maglia rosa of the 89th Giro d'Italia.
But first, a comment from today's winner, who took the best win of his six-year career: "Twenty days are harder than two hundred metres!" F�rster joked.
"The Giro this year was harder than the last few years. I had a few problems in the beginning with my shoulder; I crashed in the Niedersachsen [Rundfahrt] and had some problems, but each day, it got better - and the last day was the best day," he smiled.
Explaining the timing of his sprint with Ongarato's surprise attack inside the final kilometre, F�rster explained: "Twelve hundred metres before the finish [team-mate] Krauss was in front, and I said to him, 'No, no, it's too early'. Then came two guys from Milram in front of us, and I said to Krauss, 'Go in behind the second Milram rider'; he [Ongarato] was fast, but Krauss managed to close the gap.
"The wind was from the front; the last sprint I did four days ago, I went too early in the headwind and I remembered this, telling myself, 'It's the wrong time to [sprint for the] win.' One hundred and eighty metres from the finish line, I knew that was the right moment to start sprinting."
A sweet win for Robert F�rster
"I'm sorry I couldn't win the stage today; it was hard to pass there!" Bettini exclaimed with a wry grin. "But it's a big satisfaction for me to win the ciclamino again here in Milano."
Standing on the podium, looking resplendent, Basso showed an Armstrong-like dominance throughout. From the moment he took his first maglia rosa on May 14 - leaving the entire field behind on the Maielletta, just over a week into the race - he never looked like being beaten. Not by Savoldelli, not by Simoni, Cunego, Gutierrez Cataluna... Not anyone.
His massive margin over the two other podium place-getters says a lot. Without taking anything away from 31 year-old Spaniard Jos� Gutierrez Cataluna, nine minutes and eighteen seconds is not in the same league. And whether he likes the description or not, twelve minutes ahead of a champion like Gilberto Simoni is simply extra-ordinary, out of this world.
Said Basso of Gutierrez Cataluna's performance: "He was very good in this Giro. He made good tactics, because he didn't answer to all the attacks, but only managed his advantage [to the others]."
Simoni (l) and Basso
Speaking of what 34 year-old Simoni termed 'extra-terrestrial' qualities - very much a point of contention after yesterday's gargantuan mountain stage to Aprica - it, not surprisingly, continued to be a talking point today.
"I don't want to speak about it; it shows a lack of respect for me and my team. We showed we are great and we are the best, and I am proud of my win and proud of my Giro," said Basso at the post-race press conference.
About the spectator yelling some not-so-nice words at him, he replied: "Nobody can ruin my happiness. I'm really happy, and I know the Italian public are with me; people like me because they know I am the same on the bike and also with my family - I am real, I am not constructed, I am sincere."
Sport, as in life, creates winners and losers. Winners are grinners, losers are not. And Simoni, six years his elder and a two-time winner, doesn't like losing one bit. On the other hand, second overall in the Giro d'Italia is Gutierrez Cataluna's greatest-ever career performance, and looking at the faces on the final podium, the mixed messages reflected this.
Asked who his greatest rival was, Basso didn't hesitate: "Simoni - I have no doubt it was Simoni.
"He's won the Giro twice and has finished on the podium. But I was very consistent; there were seven key moments in this Giro and each of these seven key moments, I took a little bit of time. I don't think I 'killed' this race [in one go]. I am not an alien, I made my win little by little."
Resplendent in pink,
For the rest, Damiano Cunego can be satisfied with fourth, who came good towards the end, albeit a little late. Defending champion Paolo Savoldelli, fifth on the final classifica, will need to search for answers regarding his allergy, and whether he still has what it takes to win the Giro. And the sixth place of Sandy Casar gives a little hope to French cycling, something the country so desperately needs in their search for the next Fignon or Hinault - but 23'53 is nevertheless a long way down.
"I had a good start to the Giro, then I had a lot of problems and it didn't go so well for me," said Savoldelli, "but I managed to ride [well] towards the end of the Giro, defend my position and finish fifth. So now I'll try to prepare well for the Tour de France."
As for Basso, it's one Grand Tour down and one to go. After a week's vacation and spending some time with his newborn son Santiago, he, along with his trainer, team manager and confidant Bjarne Riis, will sit down and work out exactly how to go about winning the Tour de France.
"Now I only want to see my baby, then we will see," said Basso about his build-up to La Grande Boucle, and who he will take with him. "Let's see what Riis says; I don't know, but my team here was great, from the first day to the last day, physically and also in terms of morale. I'm sure they would still be here if things went badly.
"This Giro has taken a lot of energy, more than last year, because I've had the stress of leading the race. But our project is to do both this year, and we are convinced we can also do well in the Tour [de France]; we don't know [for sure], but we will try."
They have exactly thirty three days. And their time starts now.
Riis and Basso hatch their plan
On a partly cloudy morning in the tiny village of Magreglio, high above the Lecco arm of Lago di Como and atop the Madonna del Ghisallo climb, 151 riders started the final stage of the 89th Giro d'Italia at 13:48, with 140km left to race.
It would be mostly a procession until the Giro riders hit Milano for 12 laps of a 4.8km circuit. The gruppo was just cruising along with the first hour covered in the average speed of 30.4km. Big Paolo Forniciari (Lampre-Fondital) took two intermediate sprints in Usmate and Bernareggio. Next was the Gazzetta 110 sprint in Cambiago with the sprint line right in front of Colnago's World HQ. Bettini took the points towards the maglia ciclamino.
After two hours, the average was 32.7km and right after the sprint, Gabriele Missaglia (Selle Italia) took off solo and quickly gained 2'45. He was going for more points in the Fuga Piaggio breakaway classification but the gruppo woke up quickly and began to chase. When Missaglia realized he had committed a booboo, he sat up and was caught on the outskirts of Milano. CSC led into the city and onto Corso Venezia with Ivan Basso resplendent in his maglia rosa. A tired Henk Vogels (Davitamon-Lotto) crashed as the first lap began but got up with no serious consequences and rejoined the gruppo compatto.
After one lap in Milano, Quick.Step's Davide Bramati went ahead of the gruppo with 48km to go. It was Bramati's last race in a 16 year career. After the Giro d'Italia, Bramati would become a direttore sportivo with Quick.Step. The 37 year-old Brama, who had been a key gregario for riders like Pavel Tonkov, Johan Museeuw, Tony Rominger, Paolo Bettini and Tom Boonen among others, cruised just ahead of the gruppo as all the riders gave him a well-earned standing ovation to one of the most experienced and respected riders in the sport of cycling.
CSC escort Ivan Basso through Milan
With seven laps to go, CSC was still riding easy tempo on the front with speedster Giovanni Lombardi leading the way for CSC, each rider with pink Selle Italia saddles and pink handlebar tape. This was the status quo until five laps to go, when CSC stepped on the gas and the speed went over 40km/h, with big Jensy Voigt taking his turn at the front.
Milram's sprinter Lorenzetto crashed on his right side and could just not chase back because the speed was now close to 50km/h. As the 150 riders crossed the line to start the penultimate lap, it was Voigt again hammering away again at the head of one long, multi-coloured line of riders, with Saunier Duval's Lobato riding last wheel and Lorenzetto lapped with 10km to go.
CSC was still flying as the final lap began, but Quick.Step's Bettini and T-Mobile's Pollack had now moved up with 5km to go. Milram was going to give it ago with Elia Rigotto, as was Gerolsteiner for Frosi F�rster. As expected, CSC peeled off with 3km to go and Milram hit the front with an attack by Cortinovis to make the others chase. Bettini, Pollack, Vogels, Forster, Richeze and Rigotto were vying for position as the last kilometre started and Milram took over from Gerolsteiner.
Basso sprays the champagne
Ongarotto's Milram teammate left a gap and Ongarotto jumped early with 500m and got a good gap, but a Gerolsteiner chased him down and Frosi Forster sprinted left with 200m to go with a powerful jump. Bettini was boxed in on the left and tried to sneak by on the left between Forster and the barriers, but the experienced German wasn't letting the Italian through.
F�rster took the win, the third at this year's Giro d'Italia for Gerolsteiner. Behind Forster on the right, Panaria's Richeze rode an excellent sprint to out drag race Pollack for second, with the T-Mobile German in third. Bettini raised his hands in frustration as he couldn't pass Forster, but his points gave him the maglia ciclamino of best sprinter.
Among a blizzard of pink confetti, Ivan Basso put on his final maglia rosa, then took the final podium with Phonak's Guitierrez Cataluna and Gilberto Simoni, who wouldn't shake Basso's hand, this time in congratulations, for the second time on Sunday. Besides Bettini taking the maglia ciclamino, his Quick.Step team-mate Juan Manuel Garate won the maglia verde of best climber. Paolo Savoldelli took the maglia blu for best combined rider, while Phonak cleaned up in the team classifications, winning both the team GC and team points at the 89th edition of the Giro d'Italia.
Resplendent in pink, Ivan Basso enjoys the final stage safe in the knowledge he'll be 2006 Giro d'Italia champion
Riis and Basso hatch their plan for world domination - 'First we take the Giro, then the world!'
CSC escort Ivan Basso through Milan during the final stage
Robert F�rster (Gerolsteiner) is rewarded for his efforts furing this Giro with a win in the final stage
Gerolsteiner's Robert F�rster wins the final stage sprint in Milan
A sweet win for Robert F�rster as he takes the sprint for stage 21
Thanks, big man! Robert F�rster thanks on of the deities for his win in Milan
A cup and some flowers... reward for Robert F�rster's stage 21 win
And some kisses, of course!
Pink, pink, pink for Ivan Basso as he celebrates on the podium
Final podium kisses for Ivan Basso in Milan
Basso sprays the champagne as he celebrates overall victory in Milan
The final podium (l-r): Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval), Ivan Basso (CSC) and Jose E Gutierrez (Phonak)
Simoni (l) and Basso on the podium in Milan
Ivan Basso holds aloft the Giro champion's trophy after dominating the race
Ivan Basso kisses the spoils of victory in the Giro d'Italia
1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                     3.56.03 (35.585 km/h)
2 Axel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
3 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team
4 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic
5 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone
6 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram
7 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R Prevoyance
8 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner
9 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance
11 Gr�gory Rast (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
13 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner
14 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
15 William Bonnet (Fra) Credit Agricole
17 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Milram
19 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas
21 Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto
24 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank
26 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick Step-Innergetic
27 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
30 Addy Engels (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic
31 Victor Hugo Pena Grisales (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems
34 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram
35 Jos� E. Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems
37 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
44 Evgeni Petrov (Rus) Lampre-Fondital
46 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
48 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC
50 Arnaud Labbe (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
55 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas
56 Dario Andriotto (Ita) Liquigas
57 Sandy Casar (Fra) Fran�aise des Jeux
58 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank
61 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC
64 Andrea Noe' (Ita) Liquigas
67 Emanuele Sella (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
68 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone
71 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) T-Mobile Team
72 Jose Cayetano Julia Cegarra (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears
73 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir
78 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas
81 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto
83 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir                                0.17
86 Mickael Delage (Fra) Fran�aise des Jeux
87 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram                                    0.20
88 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                                    0.23
92 Jonathan Patrick Mc Carty (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems
94 Benoit Joachim (Lux) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
96 Alessandro Cortinovis (Ita) Team Milram
99 Arnaud Gerard (Fra) Fran�aise des Jeux
100 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Fran�aise des Jeux
102 Charles Wegelius (GBr) Liquigas
103 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile Team
104 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
107 Mikel Pradera Rodriguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears
108 Martin Elmiger (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
109 Fortunato Baliani (Ita) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
110 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC
112 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
113 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance
118 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems
119 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic
120 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni
121 Jos� Antonio Garrido Lima (Spa) Quick Step-Innergetic
122 Jose Serpa (Col) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni
123 Francesco Bellotti (Ita) Credit Agricole                               0.30
124 Ivan Ramiro Parra Pinto (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone
125 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
126 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto                                       0.34
128 Carl Naibo (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance                                       0.39
130 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic                             0.41
131 Torsten Hiekmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                    0.52
133 Alessandro Vanotti (Ita) Team Milram
136 Joerg Ludewig (Ger) T-Mobile Team
138 Carlos Sastre Candil (Spa) Team CSC
140 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni           1.13
141 Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio (Mex) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
142 Ruben Lobato Elvira (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir
143 Iker Flores Galarza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
145 Amael Moinard (Fra) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone
146 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
147 Anton Luengo Celaya (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
148 Ivan Mayoz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
149 Sergiy Matveyev (Ukr) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                        1.53
150 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto                                 2.26
DNF Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram
1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                          25 pts
3 Axel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                   20
5 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                      12
6 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram                                             10
7 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2R Prevoyance                                        9
8 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                              8
9 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance                                           7
14 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                                            4
15 Stefan Schumacher (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                       3
20 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic                             1
1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic                                   5 pts
2 Mickael Delage (Fra) Fran�aise des Jeux                                     4
3 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                                             3
4 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic                             2
5 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni                1
6 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic
17 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                          12
2 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                           6
3 Axel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                    5
7 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                       2
9 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram                                              1
1 Robert Forster (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                           4 pts
1 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni             14 pts
1 Gerolsteiner                                                         11.48.09
2 Team Milram
3 Quickstep-Innergetic
4 Phonak Hearing Systems
5 Ag2R Prevoyance
6 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears
7 Credit Agricole
9 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
10 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
11 Saunier Duval-Prodir
13 Liquigas
15 Davitamon-Lotto
16 Liberty Seguros-W�rth Team
17 Team CSC
18 Francaise Des Jeux
19 Cofidis                                                                 0.30
21 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni                                   1.09
22 Euskaltel-Euskadi                                                       1.59
1 Gerolsteiner                                                               41 pts
4 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare                                                  19
5 T-Mobile Team                                                              18
7 Cofidis                                                                    16
11 Saunier Duval-Prodir                                                       7
12 Francaise Des Jeux                                                         5
13 Liquigas                                                                   2
14 Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears                                             1
18 Lampre-Fondital
22 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni
Final General classification
1 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC                                            91.33.36 (38.54 km/h)
39 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears                1.26.35
1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic                                 169 pts
4 Olaf Pollack (Ger) T-Mobile Team                                          104
59 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram                                         10
64 Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2R Prevoyance                                          9
1 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic                                  22 pts
3 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                                            22
22 Benoit Poilvet (Fra) Credit Agricole                                     109
23 Francisco J. Vila Errandonea (Spa) Lampre-Fondital                       109
26 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis, le Credit par Telephone                    101
19 Credit Agricole                                                          102


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Professional Women Interior Decorators in Britain, 1871 - 1899
Garrett, Miranda (2018) Professional Women Interior Decorators in Britain, 1871 - 1899. PhD thesis, University of the Arts London.
Garrett, M, Final Submission Form (1MB)
Professional Women Interior Decorators in Britain, 1871 to 1899 (16MB)
Garrett, Miranda
This thesis recovers the histories of the women working as professional interior decorators in the later years of the nineteenth century and, by reassessing their contribution to the field, challenges the masculinized history of British interior decoration. Examination of documentary and archival sources, including trade directories, census records, periodicals and newspapers, has revealed that at least nineteen female-run interior decoration firms were active in Britain between the years of 1871 and 1899. Scholarship on the history of British interior design, however, is dominated by the histories of men. Only one female firm is mentioned with any regularity: that of cousins Agnes (1845–1935) and Rhoda Garrett (1841–1882). Although, typically, the Garretts receive a cursory mention, their female contemporaries are consistently overlooked. This study redresses the balance, focusing on case studies of three pioneering firms: those run by the Garrett cousins (active c.1874 to 1905), Charlotte Robinson (1859– 1901, active 1884 to 1901) and Caroline Crommelin (1854–1910, active 1888 to c.1903). These pioneering entrepreneurs were part of a growing network of women who, in the late nineteenth century, forged new roles in interior decoration. As a result, the thesis also considers the Garretts, Robinson and Crommelin's less well-documented female competitors. Through extensive new research, it significantly enriches our knowledge of the Garretts' work and reveals, for the first time, the professional biographies of Robinson and Crommelin. The case studies are approached thematically, with chapters focusing in turn on the women's motivations and training, professional spaces, promotional activity and clients and commissions. By discussing the Garretts alongside their direct female rivals, our understanding of the cousins' contribution is substantially enhanced. Further, by positioning the Garretts, Robinson and Crommelin alongside their male competitors, the significant contribution of women to nineteenth-century interior decoration is asserted for the first time.
Colleges > Central Saint Martins
http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14242


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Q: How to register constraint configurations under different reuse identifiers.and Auto layout suggestions. My custom cell scrolling in table view is very choppy.
I have a custom cell which looks some what like the image attached.
Each of the coloured views are complex views (has many subviews in them).
I have added constraints for each view and at cellForRowAtIndexPath I change the constraint.constant values to show the view based on the data i need to show. I also change the width constraint of the views depending on the data i need to show.
The reason i chose this approach was because the middle yellow view can be one of six views all having this base configuration. I initialise a the view add it as a child of yellow view and pin the child view to this yellow parent view.
Many of these views get hidden / unhidden based on the data provided. For that i change the width / height constraint to zero.
I have used different reuse identifiers for all the 6 views that the yellow view can hold, this way I don't end up re-initialising them always.
My scroll performance is very choppy. I profiled the app and I see most of my CPU is used for AutoLayout system calls like updateConstraintsNecessary etc.
Please help with .
1) suggesting how to reduce the autolayout calls in table view scrolling for smooth scrolling.
2) according to this https://www.prolificinteractive.com/2015/08/19/troubleshooting-table-view-performance/ - How to register constraint configurations under different reuse identifiers without making new Nib's because all views in the picture below except the yellow are common.
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A: Found a way. Moved away from the XIB, had just a .h and a .m.
I am currently using
- (instancetype)initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyle)style
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With this I get a way to only have those constraints / views inited which I need for a reuse identifier and not having to change constraints at runtime.

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DETROIT POLICE CHIEF APPLAUDS FATAL SELF-DEFENSE SHOOTINGS!
By Robert Gehl via DOWNTREND
Fatal self-defense shootings are on the rise in Detroit and far from criticizing them, the city's police are applauding the trend!
In the past, Detroit Police Chief James Craig defended his residents' Second Amendment rights, saying an armed citizenry will make Detroit safer. He was roundly criticized in liberal circles, but stood his ground.
After reports of the increase in fatalities from self-defense shootings, Craig doubled down in support of his citizens' Constitutional Rights.
[He] said at a press conference last week that in his 37-year career, he's never seen as many homeowners defending themselves by shooting intruders. Craig told The News in January he felt the crime rate could be lowered if more "good Americans" were armed, because he said criminals would think twice about attacking.
"It does appear more and more Detroiters are becoming empowered," Craig said. "More and more Detroiters are getting sick of the violence. I know of no other place where I've seen this number of justifiable homicides. It's interesting that these incidents go across gender lines."
Most recently, a Detroit homeowner shot two men trying to break into his home. If ruled self-defense, it would bring the number of fatal shootings to 10 since the beginning of the year. There were only 15 justifiable fatal self-defense shootings in all of 2013.
"People who are faced with a dangerous situation are taking matters into their own hands," Craig said. "We're not advocating violence; we're advocates of not being victims. We're advocates of self-protection. We want people to be safe.
"This should be a message to those who continue to perpetuate violence on Detroiters that enough is enough. You've got to be concerned about good Detroiters who aren't going to stand for it," Craig said. "Detroiters are fed up and they are taking action."
Perhaps under Chief Craig, Detroit can finally get a handle on its runaway murder rate. One wishes all law enforcement officers understood the importance of an armed citizenry.
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When we lived in Cleveleys in the UK I had put my name on the waiting list to join the Cubs group. However, because I was friendly with a boy who had been thrown out for bad behaviour my name never seemed to make it to the top of the list. So when we moved from Lloyd Leas to Wittering Road and the Scout Hut was just over the road from the old Changi Post Office at the end of Wittering Road my father put our names down for the Cubs. He came back a week later and told me that there were spaces in the Scouts and that I would be allowed to join although I was not quite yet 11 years old. I went along to my first meeting and joined Kestrel patrol, shoulder flash colours Blue and Green. It was the start of a long involvement that was memorable, challenging and most of all enjoyable. I can still remember those early days of learning to tie knots, simple first aid, starting with the four basic points of the compass N,E, S and W expanding it to 8 Points with NE, SE, SW, NW and then further subdividing the compass to give the points in-between NNE, ENE, ESE, SSE, SSW, WSW, WNW and NNW, learning all those symbols and all about contour lines so that you could read a map and setting it to magnetic north. These were amazing days and I soaked it up like a sponge. It wasn't too long before I had passed my Tenderfoot badge and underwent my investiture into the movement. Then started the work on my second class badge with more knots, lashings, and first aid.
Although we were only there for a few more months we were present for a few events. One was a fund raising event in the field next to the old post office. There were many different stalls set up where you paid money and tried to win it back by overcoming the challenge that had been set. There were all the old favourites like the bendy copper wire circuit with the copper loop that you had to negotiate around the bends without touching the bent copper wire and completing the circuit causing the buzzer and lights to light up. Funny, you never seem to see that nowadays. Then there were the coin rollers where you won a prize depending on which card you managed to land your coin on cleanly. Probably the most fantastic contraption was the rolling horse made of small metal barrels mounted on a central shaft with well lubricated bearings. The idea was to get from the horse's tail where there was a fixed barrel over the rotating barrels to the fixed barrel by the head. Not many people managed to do it. I think that the only one who did was an airman who managed to do some sort of leap frog movement that leapt him over the rotating barrels. He had several tries before he managed to perfect his technique and probably spent more than he eventually won.
One night we all caught a bus over to RAF Seletar for a campfire singsong. There were benches all around the fire built up in tiers so that everyone could get a good view of the fire. I think that all the Scout Groups from all the armed forces stations on the island had been invited and it was a really big occasion. I can't remember all the songs but I do remember, Ging Gang Gooley, You'll never go to Heaven, Quartermaster's Stores. The Yanks are Flying Fortresses at Forty Thousand Feet was a particular favourite with its gory refrains about jumping without a parachute and being scraped up off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam.
Without a doubt though, the biggest event we ever had was what was known as a "Soap Box Derby" on the hill of Cranwell Road. It was organised by the Scouts leaders and boys and their fathers built carts with pram or pushchair wheels and the boys raced them down the hill. I managed to scrounge a set of pushchair wheels from somewhere and my dad got a steering mechanism put together in the station workshops that bolted onto a lightweight plywood frame. That was then painted up in Kestrel Patrol colours with broad bands of Blue and Green. In preparation for the event one of the Wing Commanders who was associated with the Scout Group arranged for road closures and diversions. Traffic approaching from the city direction met a road closure sign at Calshot Road just by the swimming pool at Selarang and was diverted along Changi Road and past the guardroom to emerge and turn right by the Astra Cinema. There was a similar diversion in the opposite direction. There was a happy, competitive atmosphere as we lined up for the race. Each cart was allowed a pusher to get you started and my mother was my pusher, and could she push. I flew off very quickly and was just in the lead for a while. Unfortunately there were quite a few casualties, including myself. I was in the lead as we had built a really slick, lightweight and streamlined cart with small pushchair wheels. I was really flying down the hill and the tyres must have overheated and expanded off the wheel rim and my cart just turned over and I ended up in the grit and clay at the edge of the road with badly grazed elbows and knees. So it was home for a quick bath full of antiseptic and then straight round to sick quarters near the guardroom to get bandaged up. I think I was in bandages for about a week that had to be changed daily but no lasting damage was done apart from some scars that took a few years to go.
My scouting continued when we moved to RAF Tengah but as they say, "that is another story" and I think some of it was covered in my piece on leisure time.


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When I was checking on some older posts, it suddenly struck me that I haven't lately posted many non veg dishes. I haven't been cooking many new non veg dishes at home off late. The usual Andhra Chicken, Chicken Pulusu or the Chicken Biryani gets done on most days. So I decided it was time I ventured into a new thought I might at least make a new dish. Chettinandu cuisine is always a favorite cuisine for hubby dear as it's supposed to be spicy. But then if I have to make it very spicy, kids may not eat it. So I took the middle way and made it suitable for all. I was told there could be little more spice, but I guess it's alright.
Chettinadu cuisine, for those of you who are not familiar, is famous for its hot, spicy non vegetarian dishes. Well there are some of my favorite vegetarian dishes too. But the non veg dishes get more predominance from the many hotels that have sprung up in recent times in the city. Chettinadu Chicken is one of the most sought of curry in this section.
I checked out my recipe file and came across this recipe. Though it is almost similar in using fennal and poppy seeds, as we normally make in Andhra, we don't grind anise star along with the masala as some of the recipes might cite. I have kept the spices to minimum, trying to make it palatable for the kids also. This may not be the authentic chettinad style chicken. But since in chettinad style, all the whole spices are roasted and ground added freshly to the gravy, I assume I haven't deviated much on that ground. I made these this weekend, finally posting it today.
Wash and chop chicken into bite size. Allow it to drain.
Roast the masala to be ground, allow to cool. Then grind it to a smooth paste, adding water as required.
Heat a kadai, saute onions, add ginger garlic paste, then chicken. Cook on high flame. Let the moisture from the chicken evaporate.
Add the tomatoes, red chili powder, turmeric. Cook for 5 mins. Then add the ground masala. Continue cooking till the masala turns colour and the gravy thickens.
Transfer the gravy to a pressure cooker, add major part of the coriander leaves and cook for 2 whistles or till done, then add garam masala, remaining coriander leaves.
When making gravy, it's always good to cook in a kadai, then pressure cook. To save on cleaning the vessels, you can saute and pressure cook in the cooker, but somehow the taste differs by cooking it separately.
Add major part of the coriander leaves before pressure cooking for the aroma to steep into the gravy, you can save little for the final garnish.
A very inviting meal !!!!
Nice version and delicious chicken curry !!
Valli it is amazing to see how you cook so many non-veg dishes when you dont even eat an egg. Curry loks delicious.


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Coyer Speaks at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Conference on Radicalization and De-radicalization
The German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) organized a conference on radicalization and de-radicalization on October 2, entitled "Mind the gap: Radicalization and De-Radicalization in Theory and Practice". The conference aimed to bring together academics and practitioners working on different aspects of the problem. Participants and speakers discussed differences and similarities between European states in tackling radicalization and de-radicalization, reasons and motives that drive radicalization and the differences between right-wing, left-wing and religious radicalization.
Kate Coyer, who is director of CMDS' Civil Society and Technology Project, leads the Center's work on the Virtual Center of Excellence for Research in Violent Online Political Extremism (VOX-Pol), a five-year project supported by the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme Network lead by Dublin City University. At the conference, she spoke about the current trends, challenges and concerns with countering violent extremism initiatives, including the limits of content removal as a strategy and the lack of evidence to the effectiveness of counter narratives. She also drew attention to the importance of supporting local programs and peer to peer efforts, and the need to work creatively across sectors.
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"My teaching gives you the greatest freedom and therefore cannot be proclaimed with the sword and chains of darkest slavery. For, what shall, can and will give man the supreme freedom of life, he must acknowledge and accept absolutely freely. Thus I have not used any compulsion with any of you, but merely called to you: "Whoever is willing, let him come, hear, see and follow Me!" Let all of you take an example by Me! To force through my almightiness all men on earth in a moment to accept My teaching and obey My will would be as easy for Me as it is to determine in a moment with an immutable 'must' the road all other creatures have to walk in strict accordance with My will. But would men thereby gain a truly happy moral freedom for their lives? I tell you: None!
Therefore, all the commandments I ever gave people were not so much commandments as suggestions by My eternal love and wisdom. Thinking to honour me thereby, men turned these suggestions into strict commandments, threatening temporal and eternal punishment in case of non-observance. Moses himself added many things in order to gain more respect from the Jews for the revealed will of God. Others did likewise, and the present Pharisees have reached the peak, not just of stupidity, but also of wickedness. And that Judaism is now in such a bad way is the inescapable consequence of the fact that My freely-given suggestions were changed by people into 'must' laws.
The free will of man will always accept enlightenment of intellect with pleasure and deep gratitude as a grace from above. Once man recognises and understands the plain truth of My teaching and My kind fatherly will with an unconstrained mind, he will also voluntarily establish a free 'must' law for himself and observe it. And only that will be of true benefit for his soul.
However, a 'must' law imposed upon men will give them, instead of My blessing, only the hard yoke and the heavy burden of the curse and make of them once more slaves of sin and judgement. And that because, firstly, a 'must' law for the free-will of man is totally against My divine order and never enlightens man, but makes him all the more ignorant. Secondly, the lawgivers promptly assume a higher power, exclusively for them, soon become proud, arrogant and tyrannical and add to the laws they claim to be 'purely divine', their own evil laws as a to them 'newly revealed divine will', the observance of which they consider more important than the observance of the purely divine commandments. This then results in the darkest superstition, idolatry, hatred against other beliefs, persecution, murder and devastating wars. Men justify all this with utter nonsense so that in the end they believe to have done God a good service when they commit the greatest crimes and mis-deeds against their fellowmen who do not share their faith. And responsible for this are solely the givers of 'must' laws.
I have now explained this to you openly and clearly, for in My heavens there governs only the greatest freedom and because of that the greatest unity, which is achieved through pure love and the greatest wisdom. Now you know in complete freedom and without inner compulsion what you have to observe as disseminators of My Gospel."
[Claims the Pharisee:] "if the good person is compensated for his good actions, for his patience of pain and suffering of all kind, with an everlasting reward, also the malefactor, living in continuous luxury on this earth, should receive everlasting punishment"
The Pharisee continues on to argue that without a belief in heaven and hell people will have no inducement to do good and not bad. And the idea that also people who are bad on earth can also end up blissful offends his sense of justice.
"If you believe that either hell or heaven are serving as a motivation to prevent people from doing evil and guide people to do good, you are still filled by an utterly wrong belief; for the very evil person laughs about your hell and your heaven, and the very good is good also without your hell and without your heaven. Since heaven and hell as put by yourself, are really suited to make every person as evil as possible."
"Since who does good for only the reward, lends his money against high interest, and who does this, has no neighbourly love and even less so any love for God. For who does not love his neighbour, whom he can see, how can he love God whom he cannot see?"
"Already in the beginning the people acted badly, when the elders described to their children hell as hot as possible and painted heaven with all colours of light and all indulging comfort for human senses. Thereby they effectuated a kind of fear for God, which however never turned into any true love for God and the neighbour because hell was much easier to attain, but degenerated into an even bigger fear in weaker souls and with the stronger souls of more inner light it effectuated a complete indifference towards God and towards their fellow men."
"See, all this is a result of such feeling of justice in the human soul, which always just like you preaches to the people with the sharpest words, that God always rewards the good in heaven, but as a consequence of His relentless justice, He also punishes the evil forever in the most terrifying hell with most unheard tortures forever without any relief! O you fools! Does there exists a father with only a little love for his children, who would throw one of his children, who committed a mistake against his order, for the rest of his life into a dungeon and on top of it punishes him daily for as long he lives?! If no human father could do this, who basically as a person is bad, how much less will the Father in heaven do such, who is the everlasting and purest love and goodness Himself!"
"But I say to you, that in future among My true followers, no punishment not even temporary penalties should exist, although until now it said: 'Life for a life, eye for an eye and tooth for tooth.' If someone slaps you in the face, do not hit him back, but hold for him the other cheek, so that he can give you another slap, otherwise he cannot have peace with you, and that there will be peace and unity between you! If someone has struck you and you have lost an eye, do not do the same to him, but forgive him and as someone suffering, you will better his heart.
"with the abolishment of the capital punishment I cannot completely agree with; for if on the life of a person is not again placed the life of the murderer, soon nobody would be sure of his life anymore. Only the certain capital punishment prevents many from committing the greatest atrocities!"
"Yes, this is again your opinion, however I have in this regard a completely different opinion! A tiger bears another, equally so a lion, a panther and a hyena.
If a raw, entirely beastly neglected person, driven by his beastly passions, kills a person, the killed would have the actual right, to also kill his killer; however, a third, to whom the killer has never done any harm, has actually no right at all, to take revenge at the killer on behalf of the victim. However, since such an animal person can also become dangerous for other people, he can be hunted down. If he is caught, he should be held in a good prison, give him education and endeavour to make a person out of him!"
So no capital punishment! (not a surprise, given Moses' 'thou shalt not kill') Also, do our prisons aim to help reform people? Or are they they simply to punish offenders and keep them separate from the community?
"In hell the fire of haughtiness is the greatest and in heaven only the light of the highest humility and modesty shines, and the soft fire of love warms and enlivens everything. Do you understand this?"
Once again, we see that heaven and hell are states within each of us, and no-where outside of man. Now do you really think such a teaching comes from the heart of a mere mortal, or is such teaching in fact evidence of the divine?
The author, Matthew, draws his ideas from writers such as C.S Lewis, Jakob Lorber, Emanuel Swedenborg and others.


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Q: A relation satisfied by the real Jordan form of a $2 \times 2$ matrix with complex eigenvalues Let $A$ be a $2 \times 2$ matrix with complex eigenvalues, $\lambda_1 = \alpha + i \beta$ and $\lambda_2 = \alpha - i \beta$ ($\alpha, \beta \in \mathbb{R}$). We know that $u + iv$ is an eigenvector associated with the eigenvalue $\lambda_1$, where $u$ and $v$ are vectors with real coefficients.

Show: If we have the matrix $P = \left[ {\begin{array}{cc}
   u & v \\
  \end{array} } \right]$, then $P^{-1} A P = \left[ {\begin{array}{cc}
   \alpha & \beta \\
   -\beta & \alpha \\
  \end{array} } \right] =: J$, the real Jordan Canonical Form for $A$.

I don't know how to approach the problem. Since I don't know $P^{-1}$, I would consider $AP = PJ$ and then substitute A with $\tilde{P}\tilde{J} \tilde{P}^{-1}$, $\tilde{P} =  \left[ {\begin{array}{cc}
   u + iv & u - iv \end{array} } \right] $ and $\tilde{J} = \left[ {\begin{array}{cc}
   \alpha + i \beta & 0 \\
   0 & \alpha - i \beta \\
  \end{array} } \right] $. Unfortunately, I couldn't came up with $\tilde{P}^{-1}$. Would appreciate some hints.

A: Assuming that $A$ is a matrix with real entries, we have\begin{align}A.(u-vi)&=\overline A.\overline{(u+vi)}\\&=\overline{A.(u+vi)}\\&=\overline{(\alpha+\beta i)(u+vi)}\\&=(\alpha-\beta i)(u-vi)\end{align}and therefore $u-vi$ is an eigenvector of $A$ with eigenvalue $\alpha-\beta i$. So\begin{align}A.u&=A.\left(\frac{u+vi}2+\frac{u-vi}2\right)\\&=\frac{(\alpha+\beta i)(u+vi)+(\alpha-\beta i)(u-vi)}2\\&=\alpha u-\beta v\end{align}and a similar computation shows that $A.v=\beta u+\alpha v$. Therefore, the matrix of $w\mapsto A.w$ with respect to the basis $(u,v)$ is $\left[\begin{smallmatrix}\alpha&\beta\\-\beta&\alpha\end{smallmatrix}\right]$.

A: Like you say, it suffices to show $A P = P J$, so we don't have to bother with computing inverses.
Hint By definition, we have $$A (u + i v) = \lambda_1 (u + i v) = (\alpha + i \beta) (u + i v) = (\alpha u - \beta v) + i (\alpha v + \beta u) .$$
On the other hand, by linearity we have
$$A (u + i v) = (A u) + i (Av) .$$