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Happy Birthday to HRH Princess Caroline of Hanover, HSH Princess of Monaco!
January 24, 2011 Alexandra 5 Comments
On January 23, 2011, HRH The Princess of Hanover, the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, Caroline, turned 54 years young. The stunning eldest daughter of the late Prince Rainier III and the late Princess Grace of Monaco celebrated her day with family and friends.
With the loss of her mother in 1982 and with the loss of her father in 2005, Princess Caroline continued to forge ahead, but not without several personal as well as health problems. She has been married three times, divorced once, currently separated, and a widow. After the death of her husband, Stefano Casiraghi on October 3, 1990, Princess Caroline's health began to deteriorate. In 1996, she began to experience hair loss. Soon, she lost it all. Though she never confirmed it in public many doctors, commenting about her hair loss, believed the beautiful Princess suffered from Alopecia Totalis, an autoimmune disorder brought on by severe stress as well as genetics.
In time her hair grew back and her health began to vastly improve.
Today, Princess Caroline is the proud mother of four, and is quite active with various charities/patronages for the Principality of Monaco including:
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Amade Mondiale
The Princess Grace Foundation
Monte Carlo Opera
The Spring Arts Festival
The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
The Red Cross
So, there you have it! A CliffNotes version of HRH The Princess of Hanover, the Hereditary Princess of Monaco, Caroline.
Happy Birthday, Princess! 🙂
To watch various video interviews of Princess Caroline please click the link: A 1985 Interview with Barbara WaWa (Walters): Part One, Part Two, Princess Caroline, Princess Caroline and Family (ABC News), Princess Caroline Marries Stefano and Another Interview
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5 thoughts on "Happy Birthday to HRH Princess Caroline of Hanover, HSH Princess of Monaco!"
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!! BEST WISHES TO HRH CAROLIBE OF OUR HEARTS !!!
Laura Johnston Sheridan says:
Love HRH Princess Caroline – would love to have her as a friend –
Dr Rick Holmberg says:
Princess Caroline, you are looking great.
Hopefully this will be a great year for you and your family
Joan Chambers says:
Princess Caroline,
Happy Birthday and many more.
jan calloway says:
Happy Birthday! You are more beautiful than ever! GOD bless you always!
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function [coordSys,as] = animEuler(h,rotSet,angs,axlabels)
% animEuler animates sets of arbitrary Euler rotations.
%
% [coordSys,as] = animEuler(h,rotSet,angs) animates the rotation of a
% dextral coordinate system using three arbitrary Euler angles (angs) about
% three axes (rotSet) in figure (h).  rotSet is an array of 3 numbers in
% the range of [1, 3] representing the three body axes, so that rotSet =
% [3,1,3] is a body 3-1-3 rotation (z-x-z convention).  Angles are assumed
% to be in degrees.  In addition to animating the rotations, this function
% plots the intermediate reference frames.
%
% The function returns the matrix coordSys, representing the direction
% cosine matrix of the Euler angle set, and the array (as), containing the
% handles of the three surfact objects representing the axes.
%
% Note: If called with no arguments, this function will animate a 3-1-3
% rotation using angles 45,30,60 in figure 1. These defaults will also be
% used in the place of null values.
%
% See Ch. 10.4.1
%
% Examples:
%     %perform the standard 3-1-3 rotation in figure 2
%     animEuler(2);
%     %preform a 3-2-1 rotation of 30 degrees each
%     [coordSys,as] = animEuler([],[3,2,1],[30,30,30]);

% Written by Dmitry Savransky 29 April 2009
% Copyright (c) 2015 Dmitry Savransky (ds264@cornell.edu)

%if no inputs given
if ~exist('h','var') || isempty(h), h = 1; end
if ~exist('rotSet','var') || isempty(rotSet), rotSet = [3,1,3]; end
if ~exist('angs','var') || isempty(angs), angs = [45,30,60]; end
if ~exist('axlabels','var') || isempty(axlabels)
    for j = 1:3
        axlabels{j} = ['$$\mathbf{\hat{b}}_',num2str(j),'$$'];
    end
end
if length(rotSet) ~= 3 || length(angs) ~= 3
    error('rotSet and angs must be 3x1 arrays.');
end

%create axes and original orientation
as = make3daxes(h);
coordSys = eye(3);
text(0,0.02,1,'$$\mathbf{\hat{e}}_3$$','FontName','Times',...
    'FontSize',24,'Interpreter','Latex')
text(1,0.05,0,'$$\mathbf{\hat{e}}_1$$','FontName','Times',...
    'FontSize',24,'Interpreter','Latex')
text(0,1,0,'$$\mathbf{\hat{e}}_2$$','FontName','Times',...
    'FontSize',24,'Interpreter','Latex',...
    'VerticalAlignment','Top','HorizontalAlignment','center')

%define rotation matrices
rotMatE3 = @(ang) [cos(ang) sin(ang) 0;-sin(ang) cos(ang) 0;0 0 1];
rotMatE2 = @(ang) [cos(ang) 0 -sin(ang);0 1 0;sin(ang) 0 cos(ang)];
rotMatE1 = @(ang) [1 0 0;0 cos(ang) sin(ang);0 -sin(ang) cos(ang)];
rotMats = {rotMatE1,rotMatE2,rotMatE3};

%perform rotations, pausing between each
axSyms = {'-','--','-.'};
for j=1:3
    rot3daxes(h,as,coordSys(rotSet(j),:),angs(j),axSyms{j});
    %update coordinate system
    coordSys = rotMats{rotSet(j)}(angs(j)*pi/180)*coordSys;
    if j~=3,pause(1);end
end

%label final axes
for j =1:3
    text(coordSys(j,1)*1.05,coordSys(j,2)*1.05,coordSys(j,3)*1.05,...
        axlabels(j),'FontName','Times',...
        'FontSize',24,'Interpreter','Latex')
end

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Gravesham Borough Council's annual firework display!
An event not to be missed. Bring your family and friends for the fireworks display on the river in front of the club starting at 2000hrs. But get down to the club early to ensure a good spot to watch!
Social will have hot dogs available to purchase and the bar is always open on the night!
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Jeff Fortenberry & Danny K. Davis
Compare the voting records of Jeff Fortenberry and Danny K. Davis in 2017-18.
Jeff Fortenberry
Represented Nebraska's 1st Congressional District. This was his 7th term in the House.
Danny K. Davis
Represented Illinois's 7th Congressional District. This was his 11th term in the House.
Jeff Fortenberry and Danny K. Davis are from different parties and disagreed on 67 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
May 22, 2018 — Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act
Oct. 12, 2017 — Providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 2266, with an amendment
July 18, 2018 — McHenry of North Carolina Amendment No. 87
July 18, 2018 — Gosar of Arizona Amendment No. 63
July 18, 2018 — Pearce of New Mexico Amendment No. 62
July 18, 2018 — Gallego of Arizona Amendment No. 51
July 18, 2018 — Lamborn of Colorado Amendment No. 49
June 28, 2018 — Gallagher of Wisconsin Amendment No. 8
June 7, 2018 — Blackburn of Tennessee Part B Amendment No. 34
June 7, 2018 — Lowenthal of California Part B Amendment No. 31
May 23, 2018 — Tenney of New York Amendment No. 19
May 23, 2018 — Aguilar of California Amendment No. 4
Feb. 15, 2018 — ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017
Dec. 18, 2017 — Keep America's Refuges Operational Act
Dec. 18, 2017 — STEM Research and Education Effectiveness and Transparency Act
Nov. 30, 2017 — Minnesota's Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act
Oct. 12, 2017 — Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017
Oct. 12, 2017 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
Oct. 11, 2017 — FITARA Enhancement Act of 2017
Oct. 11, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 324 West Saint Louis Street in Pacific, Missouri, as the "Specialist Jeffrey L. White, Jr. Post Office"
Oct. 10, 2017 — To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 25 New Chardon Street Lobby in Boston, Massachusetts, as the "John Fitzgerald Kennedy Post Office"
Oct. 5, 2017 — McClintock of California Substitute Amendment No. 3
Sept. 14, 2017 — Huizenga of Michigan Amendment No. 207
Sept. 14, 2017 — Mitchell of Michigan Amendment No. 204
Sept. 14, 2017 — Gohmert of Texas Amendment No. 195
Sept. 13, 2017 — Blackburn of Tennessee Amendment No. 174
Sept. 13, 2017 — Lewis of Minnesota Amendment No. 167
Sept. 13, 2017 — Clark of Massachusetts Amendment No. 154
Sept. 13, 2017 — Meng of New York Amendment No. 138
Sept. 13, 2017 — Flores of Texas Amendment No. 124
Sept. 13, 2017 — Polis of Colorado Amendment No. 76
Sept. 7, 2017 — Lowenthal of California Amendment No. 39
Sept. 7, 2017 — Thompson of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 15
Agreed to by a margin of 2 votes.
Sept. 7, 2017 — Yoho of Florida Part B Amendment No. 110
Sept. 7, 2017 — Austin Scott of Georgia Part B Amendment No. 92
Sept. 6, 2017 — Babin of Texas Part B Amendment No. 58
Sept. 6, 2017 — Rosen of Nevada Part B Amendment No. 38
Sept. 6, 2017 — Brooks of Alabama Part B Amendment No. 33
Sept. 6, 2017 — Budd of North Carolina Part B Amendment No. 32
July 27, 2017 — Perry of Pennsylvania Amendment No. 63
July 26, 2017 — Pingree of Maine Amendment No. 54
July 13, 2017 — Conaway of Texas Part B Amendment No. 2
May 1, 2017 — Small Business Capital Formation Enhancement Act
March 22, 2017 — Securing our Agriculture and Food Act
Jan. 23, 2017 — Kari's Law Act
Jan. 23, 2017 — Anti-Spoofing Act

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WILLS POINT, TEXAS (ANS) — The scourge of human trafficking is accelerating in the United States at a rapid pace, according to Christian agency Gospel for Asia (GFA, www.gfa.org ).
To mark World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on July 30, GFA is sounding the alarm that the U.S. is now one of the top three nations in the world for human trafficking — the trade and sale of people for sex or forced labor. For more information, read GFA's special report on human trafficking at www.gfa.org/press/human-trafficking.
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GFA says the top three nations for human trafficking victims in 2018 were the United States, Mexico and the Philippines, according to the U.S. State Department. And, while estimates vary, the Australian-based Global Slavery Index estimated there were 403,000 people living in modern slavery in the U.S. in 2016. Of the estimated 20-30 million slaves in the world today, four out of every five are women or girls.
"As we remember all victims of this horrific trade on July 30, it's especially alarming that the United States is one of the biggest sources of human slavery," said Yohannan, adding: "But let's remember that every nation in the world is impacted by human trafficking, whether as a country of origin, transit, or destination."
The "hidden victims" of trafficking need the church to speak out for justice, Yohannan said. "We need to do all we can to help them."
GFA said that contrary to what many people assume, not all trafficking victims are smuggled across international borders. Many women and girls trafficked for sex in the U.S. are American citizens.
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"Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are lured from their home countries with promises of a new life, only to find a dark reality," Yohannan said.
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Where Have All the Pirates Gone?
Today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, matey.
Well, good luck finding anybody to talk to.
Long-time readers will recall that I followed the file-sharing subculture closely back when it was a Rilly Big Thing. So when I saw Talk Like a Pirate Day mentioned, I had to stop and think: Wow, I haven't thought about that stuff for awhile. So I took a look around. Here are some bullets to duck:
Whoever currently owns The Pirate Bay has put two domains up for auction: piratebay.org and thepiratebay.com. (The site is currently at thepiratebay.org, but as followers of file sharing know, it bounces around a lot.)
There may be a method to this madness: Go to piratebay.org and you'll see a funding pitch for The Torrent Man, an indie film about the file sharing phenomenon and the people behind it. Hey, I'd pay five bucks to see that. Or at least stream it on Prime Video.
Two of the file sharing news aggregator sites I used to check are now defunct: zeropaid.com and slyck.com. Torrentfreak.com is still out there, and maybe one such site is enough.
LAN parties, at which gamers played networked games locally to eliminate latency, are gone. (And that article is itself over five years old.) Several people have told me that purely local LAN parties were at least in part an opportunity to swap files around without worrying about the copyright cops. Modern games built on the progression model are constantly phoning home, so isolating yourself from the greater Internet is no longer possible.
Wikipedia has a list of file-sharing utilities, few of which I've even heard of. The page includes a list of defunct apps, which contains most of those I had heard of. So non-torrent peer-to-peer is still out there, though I wonder how many people are actually using it.
Torrenting is now the dominant file-sharing method. A great deal of torrenting has gone underground to private trackers, making me wonder how many casual users there still are. Government busts have gotten much more aggressive recently, greatly reducing the number of newly released files, especially games and ebooks.
I canceled my Usenet service provider account several years ago after not using it much since 2012 or so. I realized I was monitoring one or two groups and not much else. The binaries groups were all spam, most of it unrelated to the groups in which they were posted, and largely malware or porn. Shortly before I canceled my account people had begun posting large encrypted multipart files which were never adequately explained and may have been a clever backup scheme. There's probably still pirated stuff on Usenet, but bring a big shovel to find it.
There may be more to it than that, of course, but I'm only willing to explore such fringe topics for an hour or so.
Ok. Where did all the pirates go? I think a lot of them simply went legit. You can get spectacular classical music tracks on Amazon for only 99 cents, with no DRM. We rent videos on Prime for a couple of bucks, and there's plenty of good stuff on Netflix, like STTOS with improved effects. If getting media is cheap and easy, there's not a lot of reason to go through technical and sometimes hazardous contortions to steal it. I also think that most of what piracy remains is concentrated among far fewer users who hide really well.
I guess if there's no stopping it entirely, I'm good with that.
Slow-Mo Espresso
I first heard about the Espresso Book Machine in 2001, back when it was called PerfectBook 080. That machine is now old enough to vote, yet…where are they? I was talking about that question in the mid-oughts, and described what I called just-in-time bookstores (which were in fact gumball machines for printed books) in 2006. A recent piece in the New York Post suggests that the machines are indeed out there, and are in fact being installed in bookstores for on-demand printing of books.
Well, it's 2019 and ebooks have raced past the print-on-demand (POD) tortoise at about .25 C. You don't hear a great deal about POD books anymore. I used to sell quite a few in the early-mid oughts, when I mounted several titles on Lulu and Amazon's now-shuttered CreateSpace. As ebooks have become cheap and easy, POD books are a much harder sell. I wish Shakespeare & Co. (see the NYP link above) all the best, but whereas the concept sounds great on paper it may well be impossible to implement as more than an isolated and little-used oddity.
Why so? The bulk of it is simple copyright: Beyond public domain titles, the stores would have to have some sort of contractual agreement with publishers to print books, along with a usable print image. (These are generally but not always PDF files.) Publishers are reluctant for a number of reasons:
1. They don't really know how to negotiate such a contract. How much should the publisher get? How much should the store get? How much would the authors get? Under what circumstances can the contract be terminated? With book publishing in the parlous state that it is, figuring this out would not be easy. Why? Once precedents of this sort are set, they become expectations and are hard to break. Publishers have no history here, and would basically have to guess. Bad guesses could be fatal over the long run.
2. Publishers want to protect conventional bookstores and chains. Publishers and big store chains have a fragile but necessary symbiotic relationship. Small booksellers with Espresso machines would nibble away at that relationship by making big-box bookstores even less necessary than they are today. If Barnes & Noble were to shut down, there would be publisher blood in the streets of Manhattan. Espresso machines in espresso shops would just hurry that apocalypse along.
3. This is probably the big one: If a book's source file(s) escape a bookstore's control, they'll be all over the Internet, and anybody with a laser printer or access to a POD machine can create bootleg copies. This actually happened to me: The publisher print image file for my book Assembly Language Step By Step escaped its publisher's control and was everywhere, just six weeks after the book was published in 2009. Bookstores are notoriously fluky operations, with lots of turnover and quirky people. One part-timer with a thumb drive in his pocket would be all it took. I've studied file piracy in detail over the past twenty years. This is a real fear.
4. Espresso machines are not cheap. They cost about $80,000 and up depending on speed and sophistication. Most firms rent them, with periodic maintenance included in the rental. I have no good numbers for that, but Espresso uses xerographic printers and I was a Xerox repair tech forty-odd years ago. Those machines are messy and touchy. Something gets a little out of line and the machine ceases to work. So it may not be an option for tiny storefront shops, especially if publishers aren't on board.
5. Here's the insight I bring to the issue: Near-term, espresso bookstores are likely to be opportunities for small, very small, and indie publishers. It would cost a bookstore very little to host a print image that might be ordered twice a year. PDF files for mostly textual works like SF novels are very compact. (Heavily illustrated books, of course, require larger files, but not that much larger.) Small/indie press would be far more likely to cut deals with the bookstores than Macmillan or Wiley. They have a lot less to lose, and a whole lot more to gain.
So where does all this leave us? Alas, I'm nowhere near as bullish on POD as I was even six or seven years ago. I attribute this to the promotion of smartphones to mini-tablets. I myself have a "phablet" (a Samsung Note 4) and I love it. I also do exponents more reading on it than I ever thought I would back when I bought it toward the end of 2015. (And this is true evenn though I have other readers with much larger screens.) Basically, almost everybody who partakes of modern life today has an ebook reader in their pocket, and some of them are actually called "ebook readers." People have become used to reading genre fiction on small screens. It's a tougher call for technical nonfiction containing figures, photos, or code. I have read technical books on my Lenovo Yoga convertible, and it's…so-so.
Back in their heyday, the pulps were considered disposable books. You read them once, maybe kept them for a little while (the bathroom was possibly their final redoubt) and then threw them away. Fiction ebooks work like that: People read a novel once…and then, having done its job, it vanishes into the archives. It may never emerge from the archives again, but with terabyte drives in increasingly small devices, who cares? You'd have to read a lot of SFF to fill one of those.
POD will continue to make a certain amount of sense for science, tech, and history books, or any other genre that depends on fixed page-layout specifics. Reflowable tech books are just hideous. The big question is whether that sort of nonfiction is enough of a market to float a maintenance-hungry beast like an Espresso Book Machine in the basement of a bookstore. Given how long that question's been hanging in the air, my guess is that the decision's already been made.
This item may not be visible after a few more days, so catch it now: A very weird "hotspot" turned up in the satellite water temperature record at the far eastern end of Lake Superior. For a short while, water temps excursed from the 30s up to the 60s F. Instrument Error? Cargo ship on fire? UFO exploding? STORMY baiting and then rounding up firenados? No one can tell me, though I suspect that the truth is out there.
The FCC is trying to redefine "broadband" as 25 Mbps down / 3Mbps up. The big carriers are livid. And what are they saying? "Nobody needs Internet that fast!" Just like Esther Dyson said that no home computer user would ever need a CPU as fast as the 286.
The dropoff in some ebook author revenues this past fall (which many blamed on Kindle Unlimited) may have been a sales cycle thing, unrelated to Amazon.
Dare we hope that this new Facebook feature will be the end of hoaxes and hate memes? Be on notice that I intend to use it a lot.
Slashdot inadvertently invited all the Pascal-haters out of their caves for one more hatefest. Heh. Maybe not a hatefest. The emotion I pick up when C partisans' eyes roll back in their heads over Pascal is not hate, but…fear.
Angry Twitter posts are harmful to your health. Duhhh. Angry anything is harmful to your health. Anger is jack-in-the-box suicide: You can't tell quite when, but the more you turn that crank, the sooner the thing's gonna pop.
The Pirate Bay has a phoenix logo and a countdown timer on their old site, suggesting that they're coming back online on February 1. I consider this unlikely, but I've been surprised by these guys before.
From the same site: Dozens of Pirate Bay clones are not nearly as useful as the real thing.
And while we're talking about (if not like) pirates, whatever happened to Antigua's blanket permission to distribute copyrighted files? Lots of news about that in midlate 2013, nothing since.
The highest-paid YouTube video author films herself unwrapping Disney toys. That's it. And for that she earned $5M. I think I'm in the wrong damned business.
Hachette is now doing exactly the right thing (instead of exactly the wrong thing) by exploring new sales channels. In this case, it's Gumroad, a technology that allows retail sales on Twitter. I need to look more closely, but I could certainly get behind that. And–yeek!–a real use for Twitter!
"Nutrition is full of all kinds of nonsense." Boy, is it ever. (Thanks to Erik Anderson for the link.)
Ibuprofen (Advil) appears to extend the lifespan of several species, mostly way down the complexity chain from humans. Ibuprofen is not without side effects; like most NSAIDS, it hits the stomach lining harder harder than acetaminaphen (Tylenol) and I avoid it for heartburn reasons. I'd certainly like to see further research on whether the effect still exists on much lower doses.
I'm not sure torrenting was ever really safe, but with the disappearance of the real Pirate Bay and the appearance of Pirate Bay clones, the risks have definitely increased. I'm also guessing that a lot of the traffic that once ran through TPB has now gone "black" and moved to private trackers and seedboxes.
Several French publishers are suing the creators of AdBlock Plus for ruining their business model. My position: Accept financial liability for serving malware in your ads, and I'll stop blocking your ads.
My guess is that the waittress will look at you funny if you order corned-beef octothorpe.
Carol and I got our flu shots some time back, but it may do us (and you) less good than we all think. The virus mutated after work began on this year's virus, and the vaccine is nowhere near as effective against the mutated strain as it is against the others. No cons for us this season.
David Brooks generally isn't funny. But when he is, yikes! He bends it like Jonathan Swift. (If you're not behind the paywall, search for "Brooks The Thought Leader".)
Corn flakes are (mildly) magnetic. I didn't know this.
Government is your friend! Without it, how would you know enough not to buy vulgar underwear?
Sales of the Raspberry Pi board are closing in on four million. Wow. I'm an optimist, but I'll confess that I wasn't that much of an optimist!
Some ISPs have apparently begun blocking encrypted traffic (especially VPNs) because VPNs make it difficult to throttle traffic based on what that traffic is. Basically, a user of Golden Frog's VPN software started streaming Netflix in the clear and saw all sorts of stutter and other signs of throttling; the user then streamed Netflix through the VPN and the signs of throttling vanished.
Internet toll roads? More evidence.
Here's a 3-D printed pump-gun that folds and fires paper airplanes. This should be on the cover of the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog before Christmas… (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.)
Stanford University reports that GMO foods appear not to bother farm animals at all; maybe we should look harder for cause and effect in humans. Conventional wisdom can be deadly.(Thanks to Jim Fuerstenberg for the link.)
Deadly? Ancel Keys' fraudulent science (which soon became conventional wisdom, once government got behind it) has killed many millions. Fat is good for you. Sugar is deadly. (Thanks to Tony Kyle for the link.)
Adobe's Digital Editions ebook reader sends your reading logs back to Adobe. As best I can figure, it's DRM gone nuts–which is precisely what you would expect of Adobe. Don't use Digital Editions.
Whoops. Silly boy. Adobe isn't the only one doing this. Once it becomes general knowledge, more and more people will pirate ebooks and sideload them, which will ultimately hurt publishers and retailers more than covert data mining will help. (Thanks to Esther Schindler for the link.)
Lazarus/FreePascal 1.2.6/2.6.4 has been released. The damned thing is getting good.
The Great Lakes' water temps are about four degrees colder than average, (and six degrees colder than this time last year) after some lakes didn't shed the last of their ice until June. It's going to be an interesting winter here on the weather front.
Scott Hanselman thinks that I might as well be Thomas Watson. (Go to 1:30 on the video and watch for a bit.) Alas, not only do I not think there will never be more than five computers in the world, there are already over five computers in this room. (Thanks to Ben Oram for noticing.)
18 English words that should never have gone out of style. "Spermologer" doesn't mean quite what you'd think. Nor do "pussyvan" and "wonder-wench." Me, I'd add "cerate" to the list. Look it up. (Thanks to Dermot Dobson for the link.)
It's a Long Way from Antigua via Amphioxus
Something occurred to me this morning, regarding the whole business of the li'l teeny island of Antigua setting up a legal pirate's marketplace of Other People's Stuff: Dare you to get it out of there.
I looked and did not find any current indication of how much bandwidth connects Antigua (or lord knows, Barbuda) to anywhere else. (Five-year-old data here.) So picture it with me: The day after the island's government launches a dollar store for digital content (or licenses three dozen pirate wannabees to do it themselves) everybody in creation storms down there to get Windows 7 or the Five Gazillion Pack of ebooks for the price of an Egg McMuffin. What happens next?
Really: Nothing. The island's Internet connection, no matter how good it is, goes belly-up from the stampede.
Now, don't bother reminding me that Antigua was doing a fine business in online gambling, and to do that they needed a decent connection to the world. Sure. But how much bandwidth do you need to place bets or play what amounts to animated board games? The big deal in pirated content these days is movie and TV rips, and those are ginormous compared to anything you'd see on a gambling site. Individual ebooks or music tracks could move reasonably well, assuming everybody didn't go there at once. Which they will. However, even a relatively small number of people downloading the last forty episodes of How I Met Your Mother would bring whatever Antigua considered a backbone to its knees. An amphioxus has more backbone than a squid. But just about anything has more backbone than an amphioxus.
I wonder if anyone will set up a seedbox host provider there. Torrent like hell 24/7 with all the other seedboxes, and then take a year to download it all back home.
Not likely. All this leads me to conclude that Big Media isn't making a great deal of noise about this because they already know it won't work. Some handful of people might fly there with a fat laptop and encrypt a terabyte of TV shows to make it look like unused hard disk space. On the other hand, people coming back from Antigua with a laptop and no tan will be looked at very carefully by US customs.
So there's less here than meets the eye. It'll still be interesting to watch, and I reserve the right to be completely wrong. Bandwidth physics is one helluva harsh mistress.
Pirates of the Caribbean, V2.0
I originally thought it was a hoax when I heard about it this past January. It sure sounded like one. But it's for real: The World Trade Organization has given the otherwise unexceptional Caribbean nation of Antigua permission to sell US copyrighted content, without any payment to copyright owners.
It's revenge, people. Antigua was making a pretty good living in online casinos until 2001, when the US outlawed online gambling. What was a $2.4B annual business dropped by two thirds. (Apparently, two thirds of the world's stupidity lies within US borders.) I'd be temped to say that nothing of value was lost, which may have been true unless you were Antigua. So Antigua went to the WTO asking for compensation for the loss. The WTO gave them all American copyrights, free of charge. There's a $21M cap on the annual take, but as best I can tell, no time limit on the grant. Basically, Antigua can sell anything copyrighted in the US at all.
This is the plot of a comic novel. It reminds me of nothing more than The Mouse That Roared, which was a 1959 sendup of nuclear weapons politics. A US firm creates a clone of the signature wine of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, which is a nanoscopic country somewhere in Europe, probably bordering San Marino on one side and Liechtenstein on the other. The Duchy goes for the throat and declares war on the US, expecting to lose and make up for lost wine revenues in foreign aid. Instead, the country accidently captures the horrible Q-Bomb from a secret lab (with a bumbling crew of Robin Hoodish bowmen) and the US surrenders.
Except that this time, it's real. Buried in my notes on possible novels is something I called TC Pirates in Paradise that dates back to 2006. A disgruntled engineer slips something extra into his company's "smart" wall-wart product: a powerline networking system that sets up a hidden filesharing node every time it's plugged into the wall. Nobody notices at first. He leaves the company, and nothing happens until a billion file-sharing wall warts have been sold into the wild. Then he reveals the secret, and all hell breaks loose.
Ok, not my best idea, and people would get annoyed at me for making fun of piracy. But man, this could be a marvelous high-tech farce with a title like Pirates of the Retail Channel. The whole business was made possible by a loophole in WTO rules that allows intellectual property to be used in punitive trade settlements. The glass on your irony meter will shatter explosively when you realize that the treaties that allow this are the same treaties that US copyright interests pushed for years ago and occasionally use against other countries. If those guys didn't know what a "petard" was before, they're sure as hell reaching for the dictionary now.
Antigua didn't create its own online casinos. It licensed other people to create them, and took a cut of the profits. One wonders if they're going to license Pirate Bay clones and do the same thing. Certain issues are unclear, primarily whether they'll be able to strip DRM. On the other hand, who would stop them? (They could just download pre-stripped copies from Usenet and sell them.) What sort of prices are we going to see? Would they dare to become the Five Below of online commerce? Windows 7 for $5? And how soon before DRM-stripped items would show up on the rest of the pirate ecosystem? Is it any wonder that Adobe is giving up on selling boxed software?
No, I don't approve. But man, I giggled. Politics is its own punishment, as the US copyright lobby is figuring out about now. If Rockhound57 and HockWards need to flee the country, well, Antigua would be the logical place to go.
Popcorn anybody? Let's watch.
The length of the Earth's day varies more than I would guess, and the cause seems to be a certain amount of slosh in our molten core.
PC World is shutting down its print edition. I still have early copies of both PC World and PC Magazine in boxes, including issues from those heady days when the PC universe was exploding like a supernova and the magazines could be an inch thick and heavier than some small dogs. If I could still make money in magazines I'd still be in magazines making money, but that train has left the station, the station has been razed, and the tracks sold for scrap.
I smell careers burning.
Which might be one reason the Chicago Tribune's owners are doing this.
And yet another reason (among many) for this.
On a whim I went out and checked the Adobe CS2 download link that got so much attention this past January. Gone. I guess they calculated that anybody who was entitled to it already had it, and all the rest were pirates. I wonder if they understood that genii don't return to their bottles once let loose.
How about some extreme swimming pools? Damn. I'd just like to have a really boring swimming pool right now.
Or maybe nine peculiar (old) vending machines. Read the comments, which contain more cool vending machine links. I saw beer vending machines on Japanese streets when I visited Tokyo in 1981. It shouldn't be too long before a modern descendant of the Book-O-Matic actually prints and binds your book from scratch, while you watch. Alas, it will cost more than a quarter.
Speaking of descendants: I knew this. Did you?
Bill Higgins sent a link to some sort of German WWII tank training manual, written in German rhyme and illustrated in a very surreal fashion, including God carrying a tank on one shoulder and a chubby redheaded Aryan angel in leather boots, holding a cannon rammer. The Jaegermeister stag-and-cross is there too, which might explain a few things. Yet another reason I should have taken German in high school.
Speaking of Jaegermeister: I asked my nephew Matt what it tastes like. His answer: "You don't want to know." When pressed, he added, "Malort." Only a little research confirmed that, yes, I really don't want to know.
Choice is always good.
UPDATE: A little research on the Panther Primer shows that the figure I thought was God is St. Christopher; the angel in red braids is St. Barbara, and the guy chasing the buzzard is St. Hubert, who was a master hunter…a Jaegermeister. Siegfried is in there too, as are some Classical Greek figures. German tank crews must have been a pretty educated bunch.
An Ebook Piracy Mystery
For the most part, the ebook pirates have forgotten about me. Five or six years ago, I was all over the pirate sites. Now I'm not even on the Pirate Bay, and haven't been for some time. Binsearch shows that the last time I was uploaded to Usenet was almost a year ago. It's enough to give a guy a complex. (It's certainly enough to make me feel like I need to write more books.)
So last week the backchannel sent me a link to an article about how several major textbook publishers have subpoenaed a couple of Usenet service providers demanding the identities of two prolific Usenet uploaders operating under the pseudonyms Rockhound57 and HockWards. Both upload technical books to a certain newsgroup devoted to technical nonfiction.
Boy, do they.
I fired up my newsreader and took a look. I'd been there before, and have gladly downloaded crufty scans of old Heathkit and classic tube gear manuals and the occasional supreme oddity, like the German-language service manual for the Nazi V-1 flying bomb. There are scans of military field manuals and much other odd junk, plus all the spam, trollery and asshattery we've been accustomed to seeing in newsgroups since, well, there were newsgroups. (I first got on Usenet in 1981.) Rockhound57's posts are, for the most part, academic science books of almost vanishing narrowness. If you're ever curious about Dipetidyl Aminopeptidases in Health and Disease, well, Rockhound57's got it. Ditto Automorphisms and Derivations of Associative Rings. I actually thought that "cobordism" in Algebraic Corbordism was a typo. Then I looked it up. Man, if you can make head or tail of that one, you're a better geek than I.
If you think about what those books (and they are indeed books, and not articles) have in common, you may understand some panic on the part of the big presses: Those books have very, very small audiences and very, very high cover prices. Algebraic Cobordism has a cover price of $99. Small potatoes. Hold on to your manifolds: Automorphisms and Derivations of Associative Rings will cost you $269. I'm not exaggerating when I suggest that there are maybe 500 people on Earth who might conceivably buy such books, most of them starving graduate students. (I suspect that the publishers make what money they make selling to university libraries.) Having perfect PDFs flitting around on Usenet is an academic publisher's worst nightmare.
But that leads us to a very important and completely unanswered question: Where did all those perfect PDFs come from? Not a single one of the titles I spot-checked is available as an ebook on Amazon. These copies are not slap-it-on-the-glass pirate scans. They are as perfect as the print images we used to generate for our books at Coriolis and Paraglyph. If they're not being sold, how did the pirates get them to begin with?
I can think of a couple of possibilities:
They're DRM-stripped versions of e-texts that aren't sold on Amazon but rather through heavily protected textbook sales channels like Adobe's.
They're the print book equivalent of "screeners," sent out for review, proofing, indexing, etc.
They're downsampled print images lifted somewhere along the pipe leading from the publisher to the printing presses.
My gut is going with #2, though #3 is certainly possible. Publishing services have been thoroughly commoditized. Most publishers use freelancers for proofing and editing, and many outsource layout itself. Any time a print image goes outside a publisher's doors, there's the chance it will "get legs."
That said, I boggle at how many perfect PDFs were uploaded by those two chaps. We're talking literally tens of thousands. Are there that many leaks at the major presses? Or is something else going on here? I still can't quite figure it. I do know that a number of backchannel sources have told me that ever more file sharing is being done locally and off-Net, often by passing around now-cheap 1TB SATA hard drives. There's no stopping that. Publishers need to start taking a very close look at their own internal processes. Pulling production back in-house might help, but it wouldn't be a total solution, at least as long as desktops have USB ports. Problems don't always have solutions, and piracy is probably one of those increasingly common nuisances.
There were times when I miss being in publishing. Alas, there are other times when I'm glad I'm not.
Ars has the best article I've yet seen on the recent ruling in the Apple ebook price fixing trial. Insight: Publishers get less under agency than they do under wholesale, but they're willing to accept it to keep control of pricing. Book publishing is a freaky business. This may not work out as planned for the publishers.
Also from Ars: Weird search terms that brought readers to the Ars site. I used to publish these too, but I don't get as many as I once did. Web search has always been a freaky business. I guess the freakiness just wanders around.
The sunspot cycle still struggles. Cycle 24 will be freaky, and weak–even with our modern tendency to count spots that could not be detected a hundred years ago.
Not news, but still freaky if you think about it: The Air Force tried building a flying saucer in 1956. The aliens are still laughing at us.
Actually, the best flying saucers are all triangles. In the greater UFO freakshow, these are by far my favorites.
There's a quirk in the insurance industry that will allow young people to opt out of the ACA and still get health insurance–while paying much less they would buying traditional health policies under ACA. Life insurance policies often allow for accelerated payouts of benefits while the insured is still alive. My insight: Such a policy would be a way to finesse limited enrollment windows by paying for catastrophic care until enrollment opens again. (Which would be no more than ten months max.) And you thought publishing was a freaky business.
We thought we knew how muscles work. We were wrong. Human biology is always freakier than we thought.
As is washing your hair–in space.
Streaming is the ultimate end of the DRM debate. Music, movies, sure. Could one stream an ebook? Of course. Would people accept such a system, or would they freak out? Well, we thought DRM for serial content was dead, too. (Book publishers have become much more aggressive against piracy lately. More tomorrow.)
And finally, if you want freaky, consider the humble cicada killer, which vomits on its own head to keep from frying in the summer. We had them living under our driveway in Baltimore. I didn't know what they were and they scared us a little until I called the county ag agent, who said, "They're cicada killers, but don't worry. They're harmless." I immediately called Carol at work to give her the good news. The receptionist at the clinic wrote down: "Jeff called. The things living under your driveway are psychotic killers, but don't worry. They're harmless."


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Revealed: London is the most unequal place in the UK
New research shows there are vast regional variations when it comes to wealth - with single-parent families among the hardest hit.
By Adam Parsons, Business Correspondent
Line 18: Money, class and power across the UK
London is by far the most unequal region in Britain, with a greater slice of the nation's poorest and richest residents than anywhere else.
New research for Sky News, carried out by the Office for National Statistics, has revealed that the value of property owned by households in the capital has gone above £1tn for the first time, with more than a fifth of London households having total wealth of more than £1m.
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But almost exactly the same proportion of Londoners live in the poorest households, with total wealth of under £20,000.
The term 'wealth' includes the value of equity you have in a property, as well as savings, pension pot and possessions.
Sky News analysis shows pronounced regional variations, with households in South East England having more than double the wealth of those in the North East.
Scottish and Welsh households have, on average, more money than regions in the North of England or in either the West or East Midlands.
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Image: Many of England's most deprived areas are in the North West
Our research shows that the poorest households in Britain are single-parent families in Wales and London. In both regions, couples with dependent children have 20 times the household wealth of single-parent families.
The richest are those inhabited by pensioners in London and the South East.
And there is one slice of society that now has median average wealth of well over £1m: households in the South East with no children, and where one resident is above pension age and the other below it. Their average wealth is £1,139,000 - the highest in the country.
Across London and the South East, about one in five households has a wealth of more than £1m - a much higher proportion than anywhere else in the country.
Is wealth just about having money?
These two regions now account for 43% of the value of all properties across the UK, even though they only include around a quarter of the nation's households.
That means that people who own, or partly own, a property in either of those regions are very likely to have more property wealth than their counterparts in the rest of the country.
For the first time, our analysis has confirmed that London households now own property worth more than £1tn, and it is that property wealth that has boosted the capital's bank accounts, as well as sharpening the distinction between the city's haves and have-nots.
High property values also mean that the cost of living in the South East is higher than the rest of the country.
Rapping in England's most deprived area
As part of our research, we looked closely at differences across the nation. An economic model, called the Gini Coefficient, is used to analyse inequality in societies around the world. It runs from 0, where everything is owned equally, to 1, which means one person owns everything.
We already know that Britain as a whole scores 0.62, but what about the different regions? Sky News commissioned the ONS to use that method to build a picture of inequality across Britain.
What we discovered if that London is the most unequal place in the country with a Gini score of 0.67.
At the other end of the scale, the South West of England comes out as the most equal region - it scores 0.56.
But the single most unequal slice of the entire British economy is actually the property market in the North East of England, which returns a remarkable Gini score of 0.97, suggesting that huge amounts of property wealth is concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of people.


This Potato or Noodle Spatzle / Press in Coated Aluminium is one of the classic products from the Westmark range. The press has a large capacity for the preparation of Spatzle noodles or potatoes. It can also be used to prepare purees, spaghetti-ice, mashed potatoes or as a fruit press. The handle of the Spatzle / Press is flat and has three notches which allows it to be used over a range of different sized saucepans. By removing the hinge pin, it is splits into two parts for easy cleaning - it is dishwasher safe. The Spatzle / Press is 40cm/15.7in long, 9.5cm/3.7in wide and 11cm/4.3in high.


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I changed my Twitch PW & now it's in an endless "recovery" mode on Keymailer, how do I fix this?
Do I have to disconnect and reconnect just because I changed my password? Or is there a way to just re-login?
Usually it should work right away, but sometimes the system does act up. If you still have to recover it, disconnect and reconnect your account, you won't loose any of your progress so far.


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Malaysia Medal - MP Questions MoD
North Thanet's MP, Roger Gale, has today tabled a written parliamentary question calling on the Secretary of State for Defence (Des Browne) to confirm that the Queen has approved the wearing of the newly-awarded Malaysia medal alongside the other military campaign medals worn by forces veterans.
The move follows concern and disappointment from recipients whose delight at receiving both the medal and the news of Royal approval was tarnished by reports suggesting that the MoD had indicated that the Malaysia medal could not, in fact, be worn alongside others.
"It looks as though the Palace has sent out one message and the Government another" says Roger Gale. "Personally, I would trust the Palace but I hope that the Secretary of State will reflect on the matter and confirm that the veterans can wear their medal with the pride that they deserve".


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I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Monday March 23rd — 11:25 (CET) —
"What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don't. There are whole worlds around us that we've never glimpsed." Greil Marcus — Monday March 23rd — 11:25 (CET) —
The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Monday March 23rd — 11:25 (CET) —
The Company of People
The Company of People is an international community art project which showcases a collection of work by Marlene Marino, Agnes Thor, Chiara Balza & Nicholas Haggard a.o.


Pili Pop: Kids Learning English Made Fun!
9/10 - Easy and enticing way to get your child to learn basic English speaking skills. The game is immersive and rewarding, strategically developed to provide them linguistic development through a very fun and interactive adventure.
A small group of developers based in Paris have created an award winning app targeted to children to help them learn English. Pili Pop (official site here) was designed with the main purpose of facilitating your child's English language learning. Available on iPhone and iPad, Pili Pop makes learning fun by seamlessly incorporating the exercises into fun games for kids. Specifically designed for children aged 5 to 10, the app takes children on a globe trotting adventure to keep them engaged while they learn.
Pili Pop uses a method that combines hearing and speaking, while being immersed in the game. Children are brought to practice pronunciation after hearing the words versus reading them, taking advantage of early age neural plasticity. The voice recognition works well and is matched with a fun game reward system, keeping your kid progressing through the game, while remaining interested as a result. At this time, more than 40+ activities are available, with new ones added every month.
Two types of games are used to teach; 'Expression Games' with voice recognition in order to practice and develop pronunciation. And, 'Comprehension Games' for kids to learn and understand native English speaking and definitions.
The content is developed and produced by language experts, and includes hundreds of words used in simple daily vocabulary use such as clothes, colors and fruits, with a progression into full sentences. Parents can even consult their child's generated monthly progress reports via email.
Compression Games – This is one of the major features that give it a higher cutting edge in the market. The games are programmed to help your child master various native English voices.
Expression Games – These games are tailored to improve child's pronunciation using integrated speech recognition.
Audio Dictionary – This is comprehensive resource that they can use to search and know the meanings of various English words in a fly.
Monthly Progress Reports – As the name suggests, these are monthly performance reports that parents and guardians can use to gauge progress and performance of the child on a monthly basis.
Sleek Interface – The efficiency of any mobile application is dependent on the quality of its interface. The developers worked smart to come up with a sleek and simple interface that is easy to navigate for both new and experienced users. No prior experience is required to derive maximum utility from this application.
Pili Pop is an advanced iTunes application that you can count on to help your child master the English language faster. The method used to disseminate the information makes the whole learning process fun and more effective, while providing the necessary tracking tools for parents to follow progress and achievements. A 7 day trial is available, and while paid iPhone and iPad versions cost $2.99 to $4.99, similarly priced in-app purchases are available as advanced levels, adding long term value to your child's English learning.


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Historic Sites of Manitoba: Brandon Times Building / Lone Cigar Factory / Bank of Montreal Building (121 Tenth Street, Brandon)
This two-storey brick building on Tenth Street in Brandon was constructed in 1891 as office space for the Brandon Times newspaper. From 1907 to 1917, it housed the Lone Cigar Factory. The building was also the first home of the Bank of Montreal in Brandon.
The former Brandon Times building (March 2021)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Bank of Montreal Building (940 Rosser Avenue, Brandon)
Manitoba Business: Brandon Times
Manitoba Business: Bank of Montreal
This page was prepared by George Penner and Gordon Goldsborough.


To play off Lawrence O'Donnell's analogy during MSNBC"s post-debate coverage, President Obama looked like the defense attorney during the first presidential debate. Mitt Romney looked like the aggressive prosecutor, and he was quite successful in that role tonight. I'm not talking about whether you agree on any issues of substance, I'm simply talking about debate style and body language. Mitt Romney aggressively directed his attention right at President Obama on multiple occasions. President Obama on the other hand seemed to focus most of his attention toward moderate Jim Lehrer or the camera.
President Obama clearly decided not to go on the offensive in this debate. Where was Mitt Romney's "47 percent" remark? Where was immigration? Or how about women's rights? And is Bain Capital now old news? I realize the direction of the debate was steered by Jim Lehrer's questions, but there is nothing stopping a candidate from speaking his mind on any domestic issue, which was the focus of this debate.
Maybe team Obama thought the best approach for the first debate was to play it safe, but they better adjust course for the next debate. While Romney still has a huge uphill battle because there are so few undecided voters left in this election, two more debates like this could have an impact.


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PMC: Tests negative for swine flu
Pocono Record
Tests for two cases of the flu at Pocono Medical Center have come back negative for swine flu, the hospital announced on Friday.
Earlier in the week, two people at the hospital tested positive for Influenza A. Doctors believed it was just the regular flu, but samples were sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Health for testing.
There are no other suspected cases of the swine flu at the hospital at this time, nor are there any regular flu cases.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania health officials say they're now investigating six probable cases of swine flu in the state.
The Department of Health said Friday that they were looking into two additional cases.
One is a 28-year-old Montgomery County man who hadn't traveled in the past month and didn't know of any contact he may have had with an ill person.
The Lower Merion Township resident became sick Tuesday.
Officials later said a 39-year-old woman from Philadelphia was the state's sixth suspected case.
The department says it's doing 20 to 30 tests a day for swine flu.
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Q: iptables destination NAT from one range to another I am trying to make destination NAT from one range (192.168.2.0/24) to corresponding ip addresses in another range (192.168.1.0/24).
I have managed to do this ip by ip
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -d 192.168.2.1 -p all -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.1
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -d 192.168.2.2 -p all -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -d 192.168.2.3 -p all -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.3
etc..

Is any way that I can specify source & destination range in single line ?
Thanks!

A: You should try this:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ppp0 -d 192.168.2.0/24 -j NETMAP --to 192.168.1.0/24

The following references may help you:
Iptables massive 1:1 NAT
http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/netfilter-extensions-HOWTO-4.html

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— японский политический деятель, нынешний мэр города Нагано, столицы Префектуры Нагано, в центре Японии. Като выиграл свои первые выборы мэра как независимый 27 октября 2013 года, набрав 56 424 голоса по сравнению с 34 656 голосами, занявшими второе место. 29 октября 2017 года Като была переизбрана на второй срок, получив 69 778 голосов. На своих вторых выборах его поддержали ЛДП, Комэйто и Демократическая партия.

Като окончил старшую школу Нагано префектуры Нагано в 1961 году. Затем он окончил факультет естественных наук. Политическая экономия и экономика в Университете Васэда в 1965 году. Он работал в нескольких корпорациях, прежде чем стать председателем Торгово-промышленной палаты Нагано в 2007 году. В 2009 году он стал директором Shinano Railway.

В качестве мэра Като возглавил городское правительство, инвестировавшее 1 миллиард йен в Университет Нагано, префектурный университет, который открылся в городе Нагано в 2018 году. Одна из причин, по которой Като поддержал префектурный университет, призвано побудить университетскую молодежь оставаться в префектуре после окончания учебы.

Като, как мэр Нагано, и его коллега из близлежащего города Мацумото поддержали предложение Японского геронтологического отделения Общество переопределит возраст пожилых людей с 65 до 75 лет или старше. Като заявил, что пожилые люди «обладают большей физической и психологической выносливостью, чем раньше».

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Главы городов Японии

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Subject: RE: [Caml-list] introspection & CLR ?
When time permits I plan to implement a .NET CLR compiler for Caml.
that interoperability between functional languages is practical in .NET.
code Caml implementation: you don't get something for nothing.
nick@microsoft.com or crusso@microsoft.com for details.
Subject: [Caml-list] introspection & CLR ?
1) are there plans to equip OCAML with object introspection?
2) what are the plans regarding OCAML & CLR?


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Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition (WiiWare)
12th Jul 2012 (USA), 700 points
12th Jul 2012 (UK/EU), 1,000 points
Review Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition
Hopping mad
Frogger reached its 30th anniversary last year so, as is tradition for gaming birthdays, Konami has marched out a new edition of the arcade classic. Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition sets out to bring multiplayer and new play styles to the franchise, but it's not quite all it's croaked up to be. It's split up into eight modes – six game...
Wed 18th Jul 2012
The classic coin-op's mix of skill and timing returns in its most challenging form yet, as Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition updates the core mechanics, but adds a wealth of new content and ideas.
With the game currently celebrating 30 years of car-dodging, log-jumping, and road-traversing, players can jump into the action with classic and brand-new game modes including Tile Capture, Battle Royale, Freak Out and more that expand the challenge of Frogger's style of run-and-dodge gameplay.
Sun 24th Jun 2012
Finally some good news for Wii Ware
jhuhn
Sat 7th Jul 2012
Things will start to get hyper when it comes to the US region on July 12, 2012 for only 700 Wii points.


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Yesterday we looked at the necessity of being able to self-feed your self in Scripture. Today we look at your ability to self-feed yourself in prayer. In today's video, Curtis talk's about our need to pray, prayer as evangelism and the importance of prayer walking. I agree with him completely. The more seriously I take my calling to be a disciple and to make disciples, the more seriously I understand the absolute necessity of prayer if I in any way want to be successful. And at the heart of of building a church that desperately wants to make disciples has to be a heart of prayer. It can't just be a church with a prayer ministry, it has to be a church that prays. And who is the "Church?" You an I. We need to pray.


Adult Forum - George W. Fisher, "Seeing the Sacred in Creation: Reading the Bible through the Eyes of Science"
George Fisher is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Johns Hopkins University and a retired faculty member of the Ecumenical Institute of St. Mary's Seminary. His professional life was devoted first to studying Appalachian geology, then to exploring the interplay between scientific and religious understandings of nature. In retirement, he continues to write on connections between the Earth sciences and our Biblical tradition. The Old and New Testaments both remind us that our religious ancestors sensed sacredness in creation from the very beginning. For Christians, the Incarnation is the clearest evidence of that opportunity. Modern science can enrich our ability to see the sacred in nature, and deepen our understanding of scripture. As an example, I will reflect on Jesus' parable of the sower from an ecological perspective, which allows us to see the parable as a metaphor for successive stages of spiritual development that can lead to personal transformation, rather than three failures followed by a single success.
Adult Forum - Hentzi Elek, "Lent 2018: Into the Wilderness"
Adult Forum - Dr. Rhetta Wiley, "Stories of Faith and Wisdom"


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Gerardo Mello Mourão (* 8. Januar 1917 in Ipueiras; † 9. März 2007 in Rio de Janeiro) war ein brasilianischer Dichter, Politiker, Journalist, Übersetzer, Essayist und Biograf. Er war eine bedeutende Figur der brasilianischen epischen Poesie sowie der gesamten lusophonen Literatur.

Zu seinen bekanntesten Werken gehören Invenção do Mar: Carmen sæculare (1997) und Os Peãs (1982). Er war auch bekannt für seine Beschäftigung mit ideologischen Bewegungen des 20. Jahrhunderts wie Faschismus und Kommunismus. Aus diesem Grund wurde Mourão 18 Mal festgenommen. Er wurde auch im Gefängnis gefoltert. In Deutschland hat sich der Übersetzer aus dem Brasilianischen Curt Meyer-Clason um sein Werk verdient gemacht.

Familie
Mourão war verheiratet mit Lea de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão, mit der er drei Kinder hatte, darunter den unter dem Künstlernamen Tunga bekannten Bildhauer. 2014 erhielt die Universitätsbibliothek der Universidade Federal do Ceará seine Privatbibliothek mit 13.000 Bänden als Geschenk.

Werke
 Poesia do homem só (Rio de Janeiro: Ariel Editora, 1938)
 Mustafá Kemel (1938)
 Do Destino do Espírito (1941)
 Argentina (1942)
 Cabo das Tormentas (Edic̜ões do Atril, 1950)
 Três Pavanas (São Paulo: GRD, 1961)
 O país dos Mourões (São Paulo: GRD, 1963)
 Dossiê da destruição (São Paulo: GRD, 1966)
 Frei e Chile num continente ocupado (Rio de Janeiro: Tempo Brasileiro, 1966)
 Peripécia de Gerardo (São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1972) [Prêmio Mário de Andrade de 1972]
 Rastro de Apolo (São Paulo: GRD, 1977)
 O Canto de Amor e Morte do Porta-estandarte Cristóvão Rilke [tradução] (1977)
 Pierro della Francesca ou as Vizinhas Chilenas: Contos (São Paulo: GRD, 1979)
 Os Peãs (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1982)
 A invenção do saber (São Paulo: Paz e Terra, 1983)
 O Valete de espadas (Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara, 1986)
 O Poema, de Parmênides [tradução] (in Caderno Lilás, Secretaria de Cultura da Prefeitura do Rio de Janeiro: Caderno Rio-Arte. Ano 2, nr. 5, 1986)
 Suzana-3 - Elegia e inventário (São Paulo: GRD, 1994)
 Invenção do Mar: Carmen sæculare (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1997)
 Cânon & fuga (Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1999)
 Um Senador de Pernambuco: Breve Memória de Antônio de Barros Carvalho (Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 1999)
 O Bêbado de Deus (São Paulo: Green Forest do Brasil, 2000)
 Os Olhos do Gato & O Retoque Inacabado (2002)
 O sagrado e o profano (Florianópolis: Museu/Arquivo da Poesia Manuscrita, 2002)
 Algumas Partituras (Rio de Janeiro: Topbooks, 2002)
 O Nome de Deus (Confraria 2 anos, 2007)

Übersetzungen ins Deutsche
 Pikbube. Roman. Aus dem Portugiesischen von Curt Meyer-Clason. Mit einem Nachwort von Goffredo Jommi. (= Rowohlt Paperback; 24). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1963. Originaltitel: O Valete de espadas.

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Abgeordneter (Brasilien) für Alagoas
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Salt Caverns Store Hydrogen for the Mobility Revolution
By FuelCellsWorksDecember 26, 2020 5 min read (936 words)
December 26, 2020 | 5 min read
In the HyCAVmobil project, DLR is researching how hydrogen can be stored safely and sustainably in salt caverns. It will then be used in vehicles with fuel cells.
The DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems will test the purity of the hydrogen when it is fed in and out under controlled, real conditions.
A requirements analysis and special operating concepts serve to integrate the hydrogen cavern into the existing energy system in the best possible way.
Focus: energy, energy storage, hydrogen
In the HyCAVmobil (Hydrogen Cavern for Mobility) project, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is researching and evaluating how hydrogen can be stored in salt caverns and then used in vehicles with fuel cells. Tests on a laboratory scale are followed by tests on a test cavern operated by the energy company EWE.
"Green" hydrogen has enormous potential as an energy carrier: It can store electricity from renewable energies and can be reliably stored for a long time. Large storage facilities will be an essential part of a future hydrogen infrastructure. With their help, seasonal peaks in demand, such as the beginning of the heating season or dark doldrums, can be safely covered. "Germany already has natural gas storage facilities in underground salt caverns. Together with EWE gas storage, we are examining how we can also use these storage facilities for hydrogen. To do this, we examine and optimize materials, components, modes of operation and user requirements, "explains Prof. Carsten Agert, Director of the DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems in Oldenburg.
In the Brandenburg town of Rüdersdorf near Berlin, EWE gas storage is building a small cavern storage facility in the salt rock at a depth of around 1,000 meters. Only hydrogen is to be stored there. Construction will begin in early 2021. First research results are expected in 2022. "As an energy service provider , EWE sees itself as having a special responsibility. The energy sector must offer industry and other private and commercial consumers alternative and, as far as possible, CO 2-free energy, " emphasizes EWE CEO Stefan Dohler.
DLR will then test the purity of the hydrogen when it is fed in and out under controlled, real conditions. With 500 cubic meters, the cavern has about the volume of a single-family house. The scientific findings can be transferred to caverns with 1,000 times the volume. "The aim of the project is to be able to use some of the 'large' EWE natural gas caverns as storage for hydrogen in the future," explains project manager and DLR researcher Dr. Michael Kröner the long-term perspective.
High quality hydrogen for electromobility
Drives with fuel cells are a sustainable alternative wherever petrol, diesel, kerosene or heavy oil are used today. Hydrogen for fuel cells must be of particularly high purity. Even the smallest impurities affect the functioning of the fuel cell. Pressure and temperature in combination under the specific conditions of the salt cavern can have an influence on the materials used, for example metals or sealants. If substances are released from this, they can contaminate the stored hydrogen. That is a question that the
DLR Institute for Networked Energy Systems is investigating. In the first step, the DLR researchers simulate the salt cavern in terms of pressure and temperature. "Under laboratory conditions we have the advantage that we can precisely determine the purity of the hydrogen before and after storage with the help of trace gas analysis, "explains Michael Kröner. "In our high-pressure test reactors we can test the reaction of many materials with hydrogen in combination with gas analysis". It is important here whether the hydrogen still meets the high quality and purity requirements for fuel cell mobility after it has been stored in the cavern. If the hydrogen is contaminated, the project team is also investigating physical gas filter processes.
These can restore the purity of the gaseous hydrogen. "In our high-pressure test reactors we can test the reaction of many materials with hydrogen in combination with gas analysis". It is important here whether the hydrogen still meets the high quality and purity requirements for fuel cell mobility after it has been stored in the cavern. If the hydrogen is contaminated, the project team is also investigating physical gas filter processes. These can restore the purity of the gaseous hydrogen. "In our high-pressure test reactors we can test the reaction of many materials with hydrogen in combination with gas analysis". It is important here whether the hydrogen still meets the high quality and purity requirements for fuel cell mobility after it has been stored in the cavern. If the hydrogen is contaminated, the project team is also investigating physical gas filter processes. These can restore the purity of the gaseous hydrogen.
Further questions are which systems and regulations are necessary to feed the hydrogen in and out under pressure in the cavern and how stable renewable energies can continuously supply the necessary electricity. It would also be conceivable to produce and store sustainable hydrogen directly on site using electrolysis. Against this background, DLR is modeling the upstream power grids at the cavern location and determining requirements and operating concepts in order to integrate the hydrogen cavern into the existing energy system as best as possible.
The HyCAVmobil project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) with a total of almost six million euros as part of the National Innovation Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology, of which DLR receives one and a half million euros. The funding guidelines are coordinated by the National Organization for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NOW) and implemented by Project Management Jülich (PtJ).
Source: DLR
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If you would like to read the first part in this articile series please go to Remote Exchange Monitoring and Reporting using Email (Part 1).
In the first part of this article series, we developed a basic script to gather information about our Exchange infrastructure in situations where we would normally not be able to. However, using Message Tracking Logs we are a bit limited as we cannot look into the message body or attachments, only its subject. In this final part, we will develop a similar script but that uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) instead, further expanding the script's capabilities.
This second script will rely on Exchange Web Services (EWS) so it can be run from any non-Exchange machine as long as it has the Microsoft Exchange Web Services Managed API 2.2 installed. Similar to the first script, this one will look out for any emails arriving at a particular mailbox named monitoring. If it finds any, it will get the subject of the email, run it in the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and compose a new email to the original sender with the output of the script/cmdlet.
Additionally, we will only process emails that are sent from a particular sender ([email protected] in this case) to avoid any rogue users or hackers to gain unauthorized information about our environment.
While the first script searched the Message Tracking Logs every 15 minutes in search for new emails between these two users, this script will go through the monitoring mailbox's Inbox folder, search for any of these emails, process them and then delete them.
First, we start by defining the parameters this script will use. We can specify the monitoring mailbox (in this case [email protected]) and the allowed sender ([email protected]). Depending on which mailbox you chose to read emails from, ensure you have the right permissions to access it!
Instead of [email protected] for example. To overcome this, we need to load what is known as FirstClassProperties for the emails we will be processing.
The set of first-class properties and elements that are returned by the EWS Managed API EmailMessage.Bind method and the EWS GetItem operation is slightly different than the set of first-class properties and elements that is returned by the EWS Managed API ExchangeService.FindItems method and the EWS FindItem operation which I will be using in this script. The first-class properties returned by the FindItems method and FindItem operation are a subset of the properties returned by the Bind method and GetItem operation. Luckily for us, the Sender and From properties are amongst them.
The runCmdlet function is identical to the one used in the first script, so I will not cover it again.
Once the function runs the cmdlet and sends the email to the original sender, we delete the email so the next time the script goes through the Inbox folder, it does not process the same email again. The next method will move the email to the Deleted Items folder as we can see from DeleteMode. The possible methods are: MoveToDeletedItems, SoftDelete or HardDelete.
Now, when we process an email, the $email.Body variable will contain the email's body in text format.
In this two-part article series we developed two scripts to monitor and report on Exchange remotely using emails. In the first part, we developed a basic script that uses Message Tracking Logs, which can be somewhat limited if we want to run complex cmdlets or even full scripts. In this final part, we developed a similar script but that uses EWS instead, further expanding the script's capabilities.