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Graf Eberhard zu Solms-Lich (* 11. Februar 1530; † 30. Juni 1600 in Hirschberg) war Landdrost des Herzogtums Westfalen.

Solms war Sohn des Grafen Reinhard zu Solms-Lich und dessen Ehefrau Gräfin Maria von Sayn. Er war etwa seit 1561 Landdrost im Herzogtum Westfalen und damit Stellvertreter der Landesherrn der Kurfürsten von Köln sowie Vorsitzender der Landstände. Er war der einzige Inhaber dieses Amtes, der kein Einheimischer des Landes war oder dort Besitz hatte.

Seit Januar 1570 war er außerdem Amtsdroste von Menden. Nach anfänglichem Zögern stellte sich Solms nach 1583 gegen den von Kurfürsten Gebhard Truchsess gemachten Versuch, die Reformation im Kurfürstentum Köln und im zugehörigen Nebenland Herzogtum Westfalen einzuführen.

Einzelnachweise

Literatur
 Heinz Pardun: Die truchsesschen Wirren. In:  Heimatblätter Arnsberg. Jg. 4/1983 S. 11–26.

Weblinks
 Bernd Kirschbaum:Gerhard Kleinsorgen (1530 - 1591)
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Landdrost (Herzogtum Westfalen)
Eberhard
Eberhard
Politiker (16. Jahrhundert)
Geboren 1530
Gestorben 1600
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Barrio Logan, located less than a mile from the convention center, has been mostly left out of Comic-Con over the years. Comic-Con International recently bought a building at 16th and National in Barrio Logan. Yet no official events are scheduled to take place here.
There's not even a shuttle bus stop yet there will be Comic-Con buses running every twenty minutes down Cesar Chavez Parkway heading towards the freeway. And there will also be countless attendees using this community as a parking lot to escape the outrageous parking fees.
Yet no official activities take place here. No outreach has been done to incorporate a low income, mostly Latino community impacted every year by Comic-Con. And that is unfortunate.
We love comics and the popular arts as well. We're even known for our art. Yet, Comic-Con ignores us.
Barrio Logan ain't gonna cry about it though. We're gonna make do like we always do and create our own comic related events. Which is exactly what Border X Brewing and La Bodega have done with their upcoming comic themed exhibits Chicano-Con: Latin American Inspired Super Heroes and MARVEL vs DC.
In addition to these two events the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park —which has historical ties to Barrio Logan's famed Chicano Park— is organizing a comic book themed event and art exhibit called Comic Conga and the Logan Heights Library will be hosting a panel discussion called Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender & The Comic Book Medium.
In conjunction with these events an anonymous friend is donating over 1500 comic books that will be given away to kids and parents at Border X, La Bodega, the Centro and the Logan Library. Hopefully the free comics will encourage youth to read more, draw, write and possibly create their own comic books.
Chicano-Con: Latin American Inspired Super Heroes takes place July 3-4 and July 10-11 at Border X Brewing in Barrio Logan. Activities include an art exhibit, a comic themed movie each night, a 4th of July BBQ, a lucha libre meet and greet, kids activities, and more. Plus, beer! Though a brewery tasting room, Border X is a family friendly, community oriented space for all.
Border X encourages everyone to come in superhero attire or dressed as their favorite character.
Border X Brewing is located at 2181 Logan Ave. Visit Chicano-Con: Latin American Inspired Super Heroes for more information.
Comic Conga takes place Friday, July 10 with an opening reception from 6pm until midnight at the Centro Cultural de la Raza. Entrance is free to anyone with Comic-Con passes, $8 limited pre-sale, or $13 at the door. The gallery exhibit, curated by artivist Mario Torero, will run until Sunday, August 2.
The Comic Conga reception will feature an installation by "Rizeohmatic" and an art exhibit featuring Lalo Alcaraz of the "La Cucaracha" comic strip and the upcoming Fox series "Bordertown," San Diego Free Press editorial cartoonist Junco Canché, and Comic-Con founding member, featured panelist, and author of IS SHE AVAILABLE, Igor Goldkind. There will be live music and D.J.'s including A-Kellz, Los Cannarios, La Sucursal De La Cumbia, and Danx & Campz.
"When I hit the streets from a very young age I knew I loved comics and I collected them by the hundreds from Walt Disney to all the magnificent cartoonists from Argentina, Europe and the American heroes that now are the top movies in the medium. I have always been a cartoonist trying to pass for a fine artist," wrote Chicano Park muralist and Centro curator Mario Torero.
Centro Cultural de la Raza is located at 2004 Park Blvd in historic Balboa Park. Visit Comic Conga for more information.
MARVEL vs DC takes place Saturday, July 11 from 5pm until 10pm at La Bodega in Barrio Logan. This free, all ages, dog friendly exhibit features work by ninety different artists inspired by their favorite Marvel and DC characters. Some of the artists include Optimus Volts, Selina Calvo, ShoLove, Jorge Piña, GMONIK, Chuy Espinoza, Steve Caballero, Gabriela Cayetano, Pako Pablos, Camille Riley and many others.
La Bodega is located at 2196 Logan Ave in Barrio Logan in the historic Bank of Italy building. Visit MARVEL vs DC for more information.
Women in Comics members with panel moderator and writer Regine Sawyer of Lockett Down at bottom right.
Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender & The Comic Book Medium panel takes place on Sunday, July 11 at the Logan Heights Library. Join the panelists for a thoughtful conversation on diversity and how it impacts the multimedia industry. This event is free, open to the public, and there will be giveaways to audience members.
Panelists include artist/creator Delia Gable, webseries creator/writer Vanessa Verduga, literary educator Vanee Smith-Matsalia, Black Girl Nerds founder & blogger Jamie Broadnax, artist/webcomic creator Leen Isabel, and professional cosplayer Jay Justice. The discussion will be moderated by Lockett Down Productions Publications owner, Regine Sawyer.
The Logan Heights Library is located at 567 S. 28th St. in Logan Heights. Visit Women of Color in Comics: Race, Gender & The Comic Book Medium for more information.
Comic-Con may ignore communities like Barrio Logan therefore communities like this, and individuals who appreciate the people within, must organize events on our own. Perhaps someday Comic-Con will see the value in reaching out to us. Until then we must continue to do things ourselves. Like we have always done.
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Kevin and Karl review a podcast called SnatchThatWeave, episode entitled STW vs. EVERYBODY. Unfortunately the podcast doesn't feature snatches or even weaving for that matter which is a bummer because Kevin bought a loom specifically in preparation for this week. Thankfully, he was able to sell the loom on...
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Kevin and Karl review a podcast called Cocktails and Centaurs, episode #50 which is titled, Marijuana for your Vagina. What did we learn after listening... absolutely nothing. We do hear about shoes, fat Barbie, menstruation and a show called Pretty Little Liars. So if you consider that knowledge than we were well...
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Kevin and Karl review the Mancow Morning Show, the April 1st, 2016 episode. If you're unfamiliar with Mancow, he does a radio show out of Chicago and is apparently a self-proclaimed "American Badass". The real truth is that he and the show are the worst, most cliched version of a "morning zoo" radio program straight...
Ep08 - Joe on Joe
Kevin and Karl review Joe on Joe, a podcast all about G.I. Joe. We did something different this week and we each reviewed two different episodes to compare. Kevin listened to an episode entitled "The Vines of Evil" while Karl listened to "In The Cobra's Pit". How could there be a podcast about G.I. Joe you ask? Well...

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require 'spec_helper'
describe Auth0::Api::V2::Guardian do
  before :all do
    dummy_instance = DummyClass.new
    dummy_instance.extend(Auth0::Api::V2::Guardian)
    @instance = dummy_instance
  end

  context '.guardian_factors' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_factors method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_factors)
    end

    it 'is expected to respond to a get_guardian_factors method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:get_guardian_factors)
    end

    it 'is expected to get /api/v2/guardian/factors' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:get).with(
        '/api/v2/guardian/factors'
      )
      expect { @instance.guardian_factors }.not_to raise_error
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_enrollment' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_enrollment method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_enrollment)
    end

    it 'is expected to call get request to /api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ENROLLMENT_ID' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:get).with(
        '/api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ENROLLMENT_ID'
      )
      expect { @instance.guardian_enrollment('ENROLLMENT_ID') }.not_to raise_error
    end

    it 'is expected to raise an exception when the enrollment ID is empty' do
      expect { @instance.guardian_enrollment(nil) }.to raise_exception(Auth0::MissingParameter)
    end
  end

  context '.delete_guardian_enrollment' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a delete_guardian_enrollment method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:delete_guardian_enrollment)
    end

    it 'is expected to delete /api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ENROLLMENT_ID' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:delete).with('/api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ENROLLMENT_ID')
      @instance.delete_guardian_enrollment('ENROLLMENT_ID')
    end

    it 'is expected not to delete /api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ENROLLMENT_ID if enrollment_id is blank' do
      expect(@instance).not_to receive(:delete)
      expect { @instance.delete_guardian_enrollment(nil) }.to raise_exception(
        Auth0::MissingParameter
      )
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_sms_templates' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_sms_templates method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_sms_templates)
    end

    it 'is expected to call get request to /api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/templates' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:get).with(
        '/api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/templates'
      )
      expect { @instance.guardian_sms_templates }.not_to raise_error
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_update_enrollment_verification_templates' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_update_enrollment_verification_templates method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_update_enrollment_verification_templates)
    end

    it 'is expected to patch /api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/templates' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:put).with('/api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/templates', 'BODY')
      @instance.guardian_update_enrollment_verification_templates('BODY')
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_sns_provider_config' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_sns_provider_config method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_sns_provider_config)
    end

    it 'is expected to call get request to /api/v2/guardian/factors/push-notification/providers/sns' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:get).with(
        '/api/v2/guardian/factors/push-notification/providers/sns'
      )
      expect { @instance.guardian_sns_provider_config }.not_to raise_error
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_update_sns_provider_config' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_update_sns_provider_config method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_update_sns_provider_config)
    end

    it 'is expected to patch /api/v2/guardian/factors/push-notification/providers/sns' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:put).with('/api/v2/guardian/factors/push-notification/providers/sns', 'BODY')
      @instance.guardian_update_sns_provider_config('BODY')
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_twillo_provider_config' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_twillo_provider_config method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_twillo_provider_config)
    end

    it 'is expected to call get request to /api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/providers/twilio' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:get).with(
        '/api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/providers/twilio'
      )
      expect { @instance.guardian_twillo_provider_config }.not_to raise_error
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_update_twillo_provider_config' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_update_twillo_provider_config method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_update_twillo_provider_config)
    end

    it 'is expected to patch /api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/providers/twilio' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:put).with('/api/v2/guardian/factors/sms/providers/twilio', 'BODY')
      @instance.guardian_update_twillo_provider_config('BODY')
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_create_enrollment_ticket' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_create_enrollment_ticket method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_create_enrollment_ticket)
    end

    it 'is expected to post /api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ticket' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:post).with('/api/v2/guardian/enrollments/ticket', 'BODY')
      @instance.guardian_create_enrollment_ticket('BODY')
    end
  end

  context '.guardian_update_factor' do
    it 'is expected to respond to a guardian_update_factor method' do
      expect(@instance).to respond_to(:guardian_update_factor)
    end

    it 'is expected to patch /api/v2/guardian/factors/NAME' do
      expect(@instance).to receive(:put).with('/api/v2/guardian/factors/NAME', 'BODY')
      @instance.guardian_update_factor('NAME', 'BODY')
    end
  end
end


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Ode to a Nightingale Questions and Answers Marks 2
March 12, 2022 March 1, 2022 by BROJEN DAS
1. To what elements are Keats's odes—'Ode to a Nightingale' and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' are addressed ?
An ode is a verse form in the form of an address. Ode to a Nightingale is addressed to a nightingale, a little bird of nature. Ode on a Grecian Urn, on the other hand, is addressed to a marble vase of ancient Greece.
2. Did Keats hear any song of the nightingale?
While staying with his friend Brown in the latter's place at Hampstead, Keats heard the song of a nightingale that had built its nest in a nearby little forest. Of course, Keats did not write the poem, while listening to the bird. He actually wrote it one morning, after hearing this song possibly for several nights.
3. What was the immediate impact of the song of the bird on the poet ?
The immediate effect of the song on Keats is one of stupefication and bewilderment. The poet was possessed of a sense of drowsiness and he seemed to have passed into oblivion.
4. 'Lethe words had sunk'-What does the poet mean by this?
Lethe, according to the classical mythology, is a river of forgetfulness. The souls of the dead were supposed to be immersed in it to make them forget their past life. Keats refers to the term in the sense of utter forgetfulness that the song of the nightingale has caused to him.
5. Which is the 'light-winged Dryad' and why?
Keats means by the 'light-winged dryad' the little bird, nightingale. The 'dryad' is the goddess of the forest. The poet likens the nightingale to this, because the bird lives in the forest and has little light wings.
6. What is meant by 'a beaker full of the warm South'?
Keats means here a beaker, full of wine, manufactured in the Southern part of Europe, such as Provence of France. This is a tropical, rather warm, region.
7. What is blushful Hippocrene?
Hippocrene, according to the classical mythology, was a fountain in Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses. The water of that fountain was supposed to give a poetical inspiration. 'Blushful is used here in the sense 'blushing' , 'red-glowing. The expression is used by Keats in the sense reddish wine.
8. She stood in tears amid the alien corn' -Who did stand and what was the alien corn ?
The reference is here to Ruth, a character in the Old Testament, who, after her husband's death, followed her mother-in-law Naomi to Judah. 'Alien corn' means the cornfield of a foreign land. The cornfield of Judah where Ruth worked is meant here.
9. What does the poet want to forget ?
The poet wants to forget the deep tragedy of human life. There is nothing comfortable or hopeful in the world of man. Old age and youth are equally subjected to decay. Love and beauty are equally transitory. Sorrows and suffering are too common and deep here. The poet seeks to escape all this. So he wants to forget the bitter tragedy of human life.
10. "Tender is the night, ……….". -How does the poet present the night?
The poet reaches the forest of the nightingale by the flight of his poetic fancy. He has a highly romantic imagination of the place. The night is, perhaps, sweet and lovely. The moon shines overhead. It is just in the central position of the sky. It is surrounded by numerous stars. The moon seems to be the queen of the fairies. The stars that surround it are the fairies.
The entire description of Keats is imaginary. He imagines the beauty of the night. He also thinks that he is sitting just under the tree wherefrom the nightingale sings.
11. "Thou wast not born for death …………."—What does this signify?
Keats looks upon the nightingale as too beautiful to die. Of course, he actually means here not any individual bird, but its song which represents the entire class of the nightingale. The song of the nightingale is a thing of beauty. It is, therefore, a joy for ever. Its appeal remains ever fresh and forceful.
It is not subjected to any change or decay. In human society, there is the sad conflict between one generation and another. But the nightingale's song lives above all conflicts and competitions. It has the same appeal to all classes at all times. It remains a delight to the rich and the poor, the old and the new. Its appeal is universal.
12. "Forlorn ! the very word….." 11-Who does say this and where? To what 'the very word' is likened?
Keats in his poem Ode to a Nightingale says this. The word 'forlorn' (meaning loneliness) is likened to 'abell' in the conclusion of the poem.
13. "Forlorn ! the very word….."-Bring out the poet's feeling here.
The poet's fancy of the romantic world of the nightingale is disturbed by the hard reality of his life. The very word 'forlorn' of the previous stanza reminds him of the forlorn condition of his own life. It brings him back to the hard reality of his present situation. He realizes that his dream of the nightingale has come to an end. His imagination can no more last. In fact, man's imagination has not as much power as it is usually thought. It cannot long stand against the rough reality of life.
14. What is Hemlock? Why does the poet refer to it?
Hemlock is a poisonous plant. Its juice has a highly sedative effect. Keats refers to 'Hemlock' in order to indicate his mental state on hearing the song of the nightingale.
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Q: convert mysql result to array or hash SQL query:-
Class Test
def self.execute_mysql(host, database, query)
    Net::SSH.start('test.com', user, forward_agent: true) do |ssh|
      ssh.exec!("mysql -ppassword -utestuser -h #{host} #{database} -A --execute '#{query}'")
end
end

Command to run:-
result = Test.execute_mysql('app', 'sample', 'select * from foo')

result string:-
id  name address age
1   ram US 25
2   sam US 30
3   jack India 32
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.
.
.
100 Peterson US 27

result variable returns as string class. Suppose it returns 100 records.How can i loop through each record ?

A: are you looking for something like this?
 > result
 => "id  name address age\n1   ram US 25\n2   sam US 30\n3   jack India 32"
 > result.split(" ").each_slice(4){|e| print e }
 => ["id", "name", "address", "age"]["1", "ram", "US", "25"]["2", "sam", "US", "30"]["3", "jack", "India", "32"]

A: The answer to your question depends on a lot of things, and you carefully need to put a lot of checks to make it robust.
I'll however post a simple answer based on some assumptions to get you started on.
res =  "id  name address age
        1   ram US 25
        2   sam US 30
        3   jack India 32"

arr = []
res.each_line {|line| arr << line.split(" ")}
arr
# => [["id", "name", "address", "age"], ["1", "ram", "US", "25"], ["2", "sam", "US", "30"], ["3", "jack", "India", "32"]]

Now you can easily iterate over the arrays to access particular attribute.

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The CIELAB color space, also referred to as L*a*b*, is a color space defined by the International Commission on Illumination (abbreviated CIE) in 1976. (Referring to CIELAB as "Lab" without asterisks should be avoided to prevent confusion with Hunter Lab). It expresses color as three values: L* for perceptual lightness and a* and b* for the four unique colors of human vision: red, green, blue and yellow.  CIELAB was intended as a perceptually uniform space, where a given numerical change corresponds to a similar perceived change in color. While the LAB space is not truly perceptually uniform, it nevertheless is useful in industry for detecting small differences in color.

Like the CIEXYZ space it derives from, CIELAB color space is a device-independent, "standard observer" model. The colors it defines are not relative to any particular device such as a computer monitor or a printer, but instead relate to the CIE standard observer which is an averaging of the results of color matching experiments under laboratory conditions.

The CIELAB space is three-dimensional and covers the entire gamut (range) of human color perception. It is based on the opponent color model of human vision, where red and green form an opponent pair and blue and yellow form an opponent pair. The lightness value, L*, also referred to as "Lstar," defines black at 0 and white at 100. The a* axis is relative to the green–red opponent colors, with negative values toward green and positive values toward red.  The b* axis represents the blue–yellow opponents, with negative numbers toward blue and positive toward yellow.

The a* and b* axes are unbounded and depending on the reference white they can easily exceed ±150 to cover the human gamut. Nevertheless, software implementations often clamp these values for practical reasons. For instance, if integer math is being used it is common to clamp a* and b* in the range of −128 to 127.

CIELAB is calculated relative to a reference white, for which the CIE recommends the use of CIE Standard illuminant D65. D65 is used in the vast majority industries and applications, with the notable exception being the printing industry which uses D50. The International Color Consortium largely supports the printing industry and uses D50 with either CIEXYZ or CIELAB in the Profile Connection Space, for v2 and v4 ICC profiles.

While the intention behind CIELAB was to create a space that was more perceptually uniform than CIEXYZ using only a simple formula, CIELAB is known to lack perceptual uniformity, particularly in the area of blue hues.

The lightness value, L* in CIELAB is calculated using the cube root of the relative luminance with an offset near black. This results in an effective power curve with an exponent of approximately 0.43 which represents the human eye's response to light under daylight (photopic) conditions.

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CIE standards and documents are copyright by the CIE and must be purchased; however, the formulas for CIELAB are available on the CIE website.

CIELAB coordinates

The three coordinates of CIELAB represent the lightness of the color (L* = 0 yields black and L* = 100 indicates diffuse white; specular white may be higher), its position between red and green (a*, where negative values indicate green and positive values indicate red) and its position between yellow and blue (b*, where negative values indicate blue and positive values indicate yellow). The asterisks (*) after L*, a*, and b* are pronounced star and are part of the full name to distinguish L*a*b* from Hunter's Lab, described below.

Since the L*a*b* model has three axes, it requires a three-dimensional space to be represented completely. Also, because each axis is non-linear, it is not possible to create a two-dimensional chromaticity diagram. Also, it is important to understand that the visual representations shown in the plots of the full CIELAB gamut on this page are an approximation, as it is impossible for a monitor to display the full gamut of LAB colors.

The red-green and yellow-blue opponent channels relate to the human vision system's opponent color process. This makes CIELAB a  Hering opponent color space. The nature of the transformations also characterizes it as an chromatic value color space.

A related color space, the CIE 1976 L*u*v* color space (a.k.a. CIELUV), preserves the same L* as L*a*b* but has a different representation of the chromaticity components. CIELAB and CIELUV can also be expressed in cylindrical form (CIELChab and CIELChuv, respectively), with the chromaticity components replaced by correlates of chroma and hue.

Since the work on CIELAB and CIELUV, the CIE has been incorporating an increasing number of color appearance phenomena into their models and difference equations to better predict human color perception. These color appearance models, of which CIELAB is a simple example, culminated with CIECAM02.

Perceptual differences

The nonlinear relations for L*, a* and b* are intended to mimic the nonlinear response of the visual system. Furthermore, uniform changes of components in the L*a*b* color space aim to correspond to uniform changes in perceived color, so the relative perceptual differences between any two colors in L*a*b* can be approximated by treating each color as a point in a three-dimensional space (with three components: L*, a*, b*) and taking the Euclidean distance between them.

RGB and CMYK conversions

In order to convert RGB or CMYK values to or from L*a*b*, the RGB or CMYK data must be linearized relative to light. The reference illuminant of the RGB or CMYK data must be known, as well as the RGB primary coordinates or the CMYK printer's reference data in the form of a color lookup table (CLUT).

In color managed systems, ICC profiles contain these needed data, which are then used to perform the conversions.

Range of coordinates

As mentioned previously, the L* coordinate nominally ranges from 0 to 100.  The range of a* and b* coordinates is technically unbounded, though it is commonly clamped to the range of −128 to 127 for use with integer code values, though this results in potentially clipping some colors depending on the size of the source colorspace. The gamut's large size and inefficient utilization of the coordinate space means the best practice is to use floating-point values for all three coordinates.

Converting between CIELAB and CIEXYZ coordinates

From CIEXYZ to CIELAB

where, being t = , , or :

X, Y, Z describe the color stimulus considered and Xn, Yn, Zn describe a specified white achromatic reference illuminant. for the CIE 1931 (2°) standard colorimetric observer and assuming normalization where   , the values are:

For Standard Illuminant D65:

For illuminant D50, which is used in the printing industry:

The division of the domain of the  function into two parts was done to prevent an infinite slope at . The function  was assumed to be linear below some  and was assumed to match the  part of the function at t0 in both value and slope. In other words:

The intercept  was chosen so that  would be 0 for : . The above two equations can be solved for  and :

where .

From CIELAB to CIEXYZ

The reverse transformation is most easily expressed using the inverse of the function f above:

where

and where .

CIEHLC cylindrical model

The "CIELCh" or "CIEHLC" space is a color space based on CIELAB, which uses the polar coordinates C* (chroma, relative saturation) and h° (hue angle, angle of the hue in the CIELAB color wheel) instead of the Cartesian coordinates a* and b*. The CIELAB lightness L* remains unchanged.

The conversion of a* and b* to C* and h° is performed as follows:

Conversely, given the polar coordinates, conversion to Cartesian coordinates is achieved with:

The LCh (or HLC) color space is not the same as the HSV, HSL or HSB color models, although their values can also be interpreted as a base color, saturation and lightness of a color. The HSL values are a polar coordinate transformation of what is technically defined RGB cube color space. LCh is still perceptually uniform.

Further, H and h are not identical, because HSL space uses as primary colors the three additive primary colors red, green and blue (H = 0, 120, 240°). Instead, the LCh system uses the four colors red, yellow, green and blue (h = 0, 90, 180, 270°).  Regardless the angle h, C = 0 means the achromatic colors (non saturated), that is, the gray axis.

The simplified spellings LCh, LCh(ab), LCH, LCH(ab) and HLC are common, but the letter presents a different order. HCL color space (Hue-Chroma-Luminance) on the other hand is a commonly used alternative name for the L*C*h(uv) color space, also known as the cylindrical representation or polar CIELUV. This name is commonly used by information visualization practitioners who want to present data without the bias implicit in using varying saturation. The name Lch(ab) is sometimes used to differentiate from L*C*h(uv).

Where CIELAB is used

Some systems and software applications that support CIELAB include:

 CIELAB is used by Datacolor spectrophotometers, including the related color difference calculations.
 CIELAB is used by the PantoneLive library.
 CIELAB is used extensively by XRite as a color space with their hardware and software color measuring systems.
 CIELAB D50 is available in Adobe Photoshop, where it is called "Lab mode".
 CIELAB is available in Affinity Photo by changing the document's Colour Format to "Lab (16 bit)". The white point, which defaults to D50, can be changed by ICC profile.
 CIELAB D50 is available in ICC profiles as a profile connection space named "Lab color space".
 CIELAB (any white point) is a supported color space in TIFF image files.
 CIELAB (any white point) is available in PDF documents, where it is called the "Lab color space".
 CIELAB is an option in Digital Color Meter on macOS described as "L*a*b*".
 CIELAB is available in the RawTherapee photo editor, where it is called the "Lab color space".
 CIELAB is used by GIMP for the hue-chroma adjustment filter, fuzzy-select and paint-bucket. There is also a LCh(ab) color picker.
 Future support for CIELAB is planned for CSS level 4, however at present it is only supported in Safari 15.

Hunter Lab

The Hunter Lab color space, defined in 1948 by Richard S. Hunter, is another color space referred to as "Lab".  Like CIELAB, it was also designed to be computed via simple formulas from the CIEXYZ space, but to be more perceptually uniform than CIEXYZ.  Hunter named his coordinates L, a and b. The CIE named the coordinates for CIELAB as L*, a*, b*  to distinguish them from Hunter's coordinates.

Hunter Lab Math
L is a correlate of lightness and is computed from the Y tristimulus value using Priest's approximation to Munsell value:

where Yn is the Y tristimulus value of a specified white object. For surface-color applications, the specified white object is usually (though not always) a hypothetical material with unit reflectance that follows Lambert's law. The resulting L will be scaled between 0 (black) and 100 (white); roughly ten times the Munsell value. Note that a medium lightness of 50 is produced by a luminance of 25, due to the square root proportionality.

a and b are termed opponent color axes. a represents, roughly, Redness (positive) versus Greenness (negative). It is computed as:

where Ka is a coefficient that depends upon the illuminant (for D65, Ka is 172.30; see approximate formula below) and Xn is the X tristimulus value of the specified white object.

The other opponent color axis, b, is positive for yellow colors and negative for blue colors. It is computed as:

where Kb is a coefficient that depends upon the illuminant (for D65, Kb is 67.20; see approximate formula below) and Zn is the Z tristimulus value of the specified white object.

Both a and b will be zero for objects that have the same chromaticity coordinates as the specified white objects (i.e., achromatic, grey, objects).

Approximate formulas for Ka and Kb

In the previous version of the Hunter Lab color space, Ka was 175 and Kb was 70. Hunter Associates Lab discovered that better agreement could be obtained with other color difference metrics, such as CIELAB (see above) by allowing these coefficients to depend upon the illuminants. Approximate formulae are:

which result in the original values for Illuminant C, the original illuminant with which the Lab color space was used.

As an Adams chromatic valence space

Adams chromatic valence color spaces are based on two elements: a (relatively) uniform lightness scale and a (relatively) uniform chromaticity scale. If we take as the uniform lightness scale Priest's approximation to the Munsell Value scale, which would be written in modern notation as:

and, as the uniform chromaticity coordinates:

where ke is a tuning coefficient, we obtain the two chromatic axes:

and

which is identical to the Hunter Lab formulas given above if we select  and . Therefore, the Hunter Lab color space is an Adams chromatic valence color space.

See also
 Color theory
 Opponent color theory
 HSL and HSV
 RGB color model
 CMYK color model
 CIECAM02
 HCL color space

References

External links
 Demonstrative color conversion applet
 CIE Colorimetry 15-3 CIE Technical Report Colorimetry 15 third edition (2004). An authoritative reference.
 Whitepaper on understanding colors by X-rite.

Color space
1976 introductions


Federal Labor Member for Reid, John Murphy and Federal Member for Grayndler, Anthony Albanese today announced a re-elected Rudd Labor Government would provide $500,000 for the complete refurbishment of facilities at Centenary Park in Croydon.
"As the home ground of several local clubs, local families depend on Centenary Park but its old toilets, change rooms and canteen are no longer adequate to meet the needs of thousands of local residents from Burwood, Croydon and Ashfield who use it each year," Mr Murphy said.
Mr Albanese said the upgrade will include modern toilets, change rooms and a canteen and will be designed to fit in with the heritage values of the surrounding area.
"This refurbishment of Centenary Park builds on the funding we have already provided in 2010 to expand the children's playground. High quality community infrastructure strengthens communities and our investment will keep more people working locally and help cater for growing participation in community sports," he said.
Centenary Park is the home ground of the Burwood Football Club, the Ashfield Croydon Centenary Cricket Club, Ashfield Lawn Bowls Club and is used by West's Sports Club for their popular spring and summer football competitions.
The commitment will be delivered through the Government's Liveable Communities Program that is already included in the budget.


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If you have not seen it then please check out our new website. We added various guides, documentated props, added interactive examples and much more.
EditorContainer now uses Portals to render the editors outside the grid component. Previously the editor was rendered inside the grid component and this had caused a myriad of bugs like this where editor is not visible on the last row.
ReactDataGrid is now bundled using Babel7 and webpack 4 and all the other build tools have also been upgraded.
ReactDataGrid V5 brought about a large rewrite of the core architecture with the main goal to improve performance of the grid. These performance issues were most noticeable in use cases where many rows and columns needed to be rendered to the screen, as well as when custom cell formatters were used to display the cell content. For cell formatters which were expensive to render, this could dramatically degrade grid performance for operations such as scrolling and cell navigation. It was clear to the naked eye that these issues were present in some of our production applications. We needed a solution to measure and solve the performance problems once and for all.
We needed a way to measure the performance for each situation and ensure that the changes made would significantly improve these measurements.
Before optimizing an application, it is critical that you start with a benchmark, such that you can be sure the changes you make are actually improving performance. One of the best tools for measuring performance and identifying perf issues is the Performance tab of the Chrome dev tools. Note: since RDG v5 was released, the React team have released a new profiler tool to more easily measure performance. I will demonstrate how we used the chrome dev tools, as well as how the new profiler tool could be used to solve our performance issues.
Here is the example that we will run our benchmarks against. The version of the grid is v4.0.9, the last version before the major architecture changes in v5. The grid has 100 rows and 50 columns all using a custom formatter.
The image below shows a recorded flame chart which is the result of navigating the first 15 columns from right to left with the arrow keys. For a detailed explanation of how to use the chrome perf tools to analyse runtime performance, please click here.
FPS chart This chart provides an overview of the frame rate across the duration of a recording. In general, the higher the green bar, the better the frame rate. In this case, the average Frames Per Second (FPS) is very low, approximately 10FPS. For smooth animations, we should at least be trying to achieve a frame rate of 30FPS.
User timing section This lets you see which components exactly get mounted, updated, and unmounted, how much time they take relative to each other. The UserTimings section shows the whole component hierarchy is being rerendered multiple times. This is probably a good place to start to look to improve.
Here we can see that there are a significant amount of Cell updates for each cell change. Could there be a way to make this more efficient?
As previously mentioned, it is now possible to use the React profiler to analyse the performance of React applications. See here for a description on how to use the tool.
Looking at the flame chart above shows that the Canvas and Row components are taking the longest time to render and commit. This is due to the amount of children Cell components that Row needs to render. This confirms our previous theory that the majority of the rendering work is being done by Cell. This means that if we have a grid with a lot of cells, each with a custom formatter then that is quite a bit of overhead for the cell navigation operation.
The ranked chart view represents a single commit. Each bar in the chart represents a React component (e.g. Row, Cell). The chart is ordered so that the components which took the longest to render are at the top. Here we see the Cell component is taking the longest portion of the rendering time.
By the time the navigation operation has finished, we can see that the Row component has been rerendered 17 times. Each one causing an update to its child Cells. This is completely unnecessary and will be our starting point for a solution.
So far we have investigated that the Row and Cell components are being updated many times each time we change a cell using the keyboard. One way in which we can prevent a component from updating is to implement a shouldComponentUpdate function. Use shouldComponentUpdate() to let React know if a component's output is not affected by the current change in state or props. If the function returns false based on new props and state, then the component will not update when its input changes.
As a best practice, these functions should be simple and efficient. Checks aren't free, and doing lots of checks can slow down your application. At the time of v4, both Cell and Row implemented shouldComponentUpdate functions that were neither simple or efficient.
This shouldComponentUpdate was becoming so overly complex that it caused unnecessary Cell renders when navigating with the keyboard. It also caused quite a few bugs, whereby Cells were not rendered when they were supposed to be.
If you have some expensive calculations in the render method of a component that is rendered multiple times, you might reduce the number of calls by an order of magnitude by off-loading these calculations to a higher-level component. Looking at the Cell component in v4, we saw that at a high level it had the following responsibilities.
Looking at the above list we thought of ways in which we could make Cell navigation more efficient by moving some of these responsibilities to a higher level component, one which would not be rendered as many times as the Cell component. We came up with a proof of concept for this called the InteractionMask.
Since there is only one InteractionMask, we thought that this could take a lot of the weight off the Row and Cell components and thus speed up grid interactions. Our initial benchmarks were very successful and we decided to implement the functionality in v5.
See the Implementation Notes for a more detailed description on how the InteractionMask works.
Average FPS > 3x higher. Each frame is consistently rendered above 30FPS, making the navigation operation appear much smoother.
Minimised component mounting/updating. The UserTiming section is much more streamlined than before. In fact, now no Rows or Cells are rendered when we change cells with the keyboard. Only the InteractionMask and its child the SelectionMask are rerendered.
Reduced scripting time The scripting time from the initial benchmarks have been significantly reduced.
The flame chart shows that Row and Cells components are only rendered once, and are not updated when we change Cell position with the keyboard.
The rank chart now shows the InteractionMask is the component which took the longest to render. The Cell component no longer appears on this list.
As a result of these enhancements, we are now able to remove the complex shouldComponentUpdate functions from both Row and Cell, greatly simplifying the source code for these components, without affecting performance.
There are some great community tools to investigate and resolve performance issues in React applications. We have looked at both the Performance tab of Chrome dev tools and the React Profiler. Before starting any performance optimizations it is vital to create some benchmark tests to ensure that any implemented changes are in fact improving the performance of your application. After that, a proof of concept should be undertaken to check whether your strategy improves the performance or not. We have looked at two strategies to optimize performance in the post, minimising renders both by implementing a shouldComponentUpdate function, as well as moving expensive code to a higher level component. In a future post, we will look at the strategies we used to improve scrolling performance in the grid. Stay tuned!!
Lastly, many thanks to Aman Mahajan for all his contributions on these performance improvements.


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And That Happened: Thursday's Scores and Highlights
By Craig CalcaterraJun 4, 2010, 6:05 AM EDT
Astros 6, Nationals 4: A walkoff two-run homer for Carlos Lee. The Nationals helped set it up, however, when Cristan Guzman lost
a Lance Berkman liner in the lights and had it bounce in front of him
allowing Michael Bourn to score.
Braves 4, Dodgers 3: The best kept secret in baseball? Kris Medlen. The youngin' who somehow made it OK for the Braves to lose Jair Jurrjens pitches a strong seven and a third innings to help Atlanta to its ninth straight win. The Dodgers' pitchers' streak of scoreless innings ended in the first when Troy Glaus doubled singled in Martin Prado.
Marlins 3, Brewers 2: Josh Johnson took a tough loss against Halladay
last weekend — when the other dude throws a perfect game whaddaya gonna
do? — but he was strong again yesterday, giving up one run on seven
hits in seven innings and striking out eight. Because he toils for the
Marlins it's possible that he's more of a secret than Kris Medlen,
although given just how damn good he is there's no excuse for it.
Tigers 12, Indians 6: Rick Porcello falls a mere seven hits a walk a few
errors and about three innings short of a perfect game. I really hope
Bud Selig does something about this. It's a shame that we were all
deprived of seeing history.
Mariners 4, Twins 1: King Felix picks up his first win in eight starts. Maybe almost getting his head taken off by a Justin Morneau comebacker woke him up. Casey Kotchman set a major league record for consecutive chances without an
error by a first baseman. He's now at 2,008, breaking Kevin Youkilis' old record of 2,002.
White Sox 4, Rangers 3: Carlos Quentin dropped a routine flyball allowing a run to score and got booed. A couple innings later he hit a two-run homer that proved to be the game winner. Oh, and Freddy Garcia has the most wins of any White Sox starter. Which is . . . unexpected.
Angels 5, Royals 4: One out and the bases loaded in the sixth inning. The ball is hit to Allberto Callaspo at third. Callaspo steps on the bag to get the runner from second and then throws home to Jason Kendall. Kendall fails to realize that there is no longer a force at home so he doesn't try to tag the runner. Rather, he merely steps on the plate and the run scores. Mind you, Kendall's veteran savvy and leadership is the primary reason he's making $6 million between this year and next.
Athletics 9, Red Sox 8: Thirty-two hits between the teams, four of which were Oakland homers. The A's hadn't previously hit more than two in a game this season. The A's lost two players to injury, but the Red Sox had two guys gunned down at home. Advantage: Oakland.
Yankees 6, Orioles 3: Eight straight down the toilet for the Orioles who, depending on which reports you believe this morning, have either fired Dave Trembley or are about to. I do a weekly Friday morning radio spot on WNST in Baltimore. I wonder what we'll talk about today?


These money games for kids teach valuable lessons while still being fun.
When was the last time your kids saw you pay for something in cash?
Maybe it was at a local restaurant that doesn't accept credit cards, or when you took out a few quarters to buy pretzels from a vending machine.
But chances are your kids rarely see bills and coins exchange hands. What they're more likely to observe is a plastic rectangle being swiped on the side of a small digital box that somehow magically lets you leave the store with whatever you came to buy.
Living in a digital world, it's difficult for kids to deduce what really happens when adults pay for things. For all they know, the plastic rectangle you pass through a credit card reader is only slightly different than the Go Fish cards used during your last family game night.
Sure we could start paying for everything in cash – just so our kids understand how physical money works. But let's be honest – credit and debit cards are easy.
Besides, kids tend to learn better by doing things themselves. So playing money games that teach kids the different values of bills and coins, how to handle money, and even economics and entrepreneurship is a great way to introduce these concepts.
The following is a list of money games for kids that can help your children better understand American bills and coins. Besides using the real thing, these money games are the next best thing.
The counting money games listed below are arranged according to kids' understanding of counting coins and bills. The first few games are best for beginners while subsequent games help kids practice their knowledge.
While not entirely a game, Money Match Me can be a fun way for kids to test their knowledge of American coins. One card shows a group of coins that need to be matched with both a numeric and written description. For example, a picture of three quarters would be matched with a card that says both 75¢ and "Seventy-five cents". These cards can be a great way to introduce coins to children. Further skills of adding and subtracting and making change can be acquired with some of the other games listed below.
If your kids need practice counting money and distinguishing between different coins and exchanging coins, the Money Bags game can help. As players move along the board they collect money from the bank but are constrained to specific coins. The game ends when the first player has moved through the spaces and reaches the last "End" space. The winner is the person who has the most money. While dollar bills are used in this game, the primary focus is on coins.
If your child has basic money and math skills but could use a bit more practice handling bills, Moneywise Kids could be a great game to play. The objective of Moneywise Kids (which is actually two games in one), is to let children experience what it's like to handle money, make change, and practice spending and saving money. In the first game, players race to see who can reach $100 in savings first. A bit of complexity is added to the second game since in addition to collecting $100, players also have to collect six Moneywise Markers which include paying for medical expenses, transportation, housing, taxes, clothing, and food. Since the focus is on adding and subtracting with different denominations of bills, this game is solidly educational, but thankfully also fun for kids to play.
To see the full list of Money Counting Games for kids click here.
To see the full list of Budgeting Games for Kids click here.
Apps provide another opportunity for kids to learn how to count coins and bills. Plus, they're interactive and kids can play with them independently.
While there are numerous apps that provide counting money games, the two listed below are really all you need. Not only do these apps teach kids how to count coins but they have the added benefit of being free.
Counting Coins is a simple app that helps kids practice working with U.S. pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are four ways to play: 1) Match the value: try to make the same value as the coins shown on the screen using a different combination of coins, 2) Make the total: use the correct coins to make the total shown, 3) How many cents?: Type in the value of the coins shown, and 4) Show values: this feature tells kids the values of one or a combination of coins. This is the perfect app to introduce the concept of coins to kids. Be sure to also check out the follow-up app: Counting Bills and Coins.
Peter Pig's Money Counter allows kids to count and sort coins in three different games. Users can choose their skill level and whether or not they want to win rewards along the way. In the first game, kids place coins in the jar with the correct sign such as 25¢, 10¢, 5¢ and 1¢. In the second game, kids count a selection of coins and the press a circle with the correct amount. The third game has kids count from two groups of coins and then decide which amount is greater. These games are all fun ways to learn how to count although children might need help at first to figure out what they're supposed to do in each game.
Cupcake! is my favorite kid app ever. I'm serious: ever. This program is so well-thought out and has a great balance of entertainment and teaching kids (and really teaching them, not "teaching" them) a number of entrepreneurial, math, and money lessons. The gist of Cupcake! is that kids run their own cupcake bakery but have to first buy supplies (and be aware of prices and sales), design two cupcakes, and set the price of the cupcakes. Once the cupcakes are made and ready to be sold, customers come into the bakery and give their orders with a twist such as "I want 9 cupcakes but 1/3 should be chocolate." And to round it all out, the bakery owner (that's your kid) has to deliver the cupcakes while navigating a grid. So much value jammed into one little app.
Motion Math's Pizza is also a great app and if you have a kid who's more interested in pizza than cupcakes (there are some out there!), this could be a better match. Just like Cupcake!, Pizza is an entrepreneurial game that lets kids run their own pizza store. The pizza owner has to balance buying enough ingredients to meet the needs of customers, setting a profitable price, and being able to do mental math fast enough to keep customers satisfied. This is also a great app that's worth the price.
Freefall money is the perfect app for kids who are still trying to figure out the difference between coins. The game begins with a few coins on the table and the child has to type in how much they are worth. The following questions include putting the correct amount of money into a piggy bank and determining how much groupings of coins are worth. At the end, the child can pick out their fish as a prize to keep in their virtual fish tank.
To see the full list of Money Games Apps click here.


Across Asia, consumer culture is increasingly shaping everyday life, with neoliberal economic and social policies increasingly adopted by governments who see their citizens as individualised, sovereign consumers with choices about their lifestyles and identities. One aspect of this development has been the emergence of new wealthy middle classes with lifestyle aspirations shaped by national, regional and global media – especially by a range of new popular lifestyle media, which includes magazines, television and mobile and social media. This book explores how far everyday conceptions and experiences of identity are being transformed by media cultures across the region. It considers a range of different media in different Asian contexts, contrasting how the shaping of lifestyles in Asia differs from similar processes in Western countries, and assessing how the new lifestyle media represents not just a new emergent media culture, but also illustrates wider cultural and social changes in the Asian region.


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François GUYOT. Professeur Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris France
(Bio)Mineralogy
Bio)mineralogy for planetary sciences – My research has since its beginning been focused on the application of mineralogy (i.e. the study of naturally occuring solids, of their genesis and of their interactions with their environment) and mineral physics (condensed matter physics applied to mineralogy) to important (at least in my eyes) problems of Earth and planetary sciences.
High-pressure mineralogy of planetary interiors – My research background has been built on the study of mineralogy and properties of deep Earth. Under the impulsion of Dr Jean-Paul Poirier, I mostly applied transmission electron microscopy to the study of high-pressure diamond-anvil cell samples, then a pioneering approach, and derived from these data properties and models of the Earth lower mantle. Motivated by the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, I am still pursuing in that field of research in main collaboration with Guillaume Fiquet (ERC advanced grant PLANETDIVE).
Biomineralization by prokaryotic microorganisms– In close collaboration with Philippe Gillet (then at ENS Lyon, France, now at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) and with Karim Benzerara (then PhD student at IMPMC, now research director at IMPMC, Paris), I started to apply the very same mineral physics concepts as those used in planetology to the study of biomineralization by prokaryotic microorganisms. This was initially done in the context of finding traces of life in extreme environments with possible applications to Mars sample returns and to extra-terrestrial samples. In the recent years, I have pursued research on biomineralization mainly on iron oxides and applications of magnetotactic bacteria in collaboration with Edouard Alphandéry (IMPMC Paris and the startup Nanobacterie), Jennyfer Miot (then PhD student at IMPMC, now researcher at IMPMC Paris), and recently Zoher Gueroui (ENS Paris). I also have participated to researches about phosphate biomineralization by bacteria in collaboration with Julie Cosmidis (then PhD student at IPG/IMPMC Paris) and Karim Benzerara (IMPMC, Paris). In this field, I have initiated geochemical work on magnetotactic bacteria with Matthieu Amor (then PhD student IMPMC Paris now at UC Berkeley with Pr Arash Komeili) and Vincent Busigny (IPG Paris). I am still participating into this research with the aim of better modeling the elemental and isotope compositions of magnetites and greigites in microbial cultures and in the environment.
Environmental biomineralogy – I have also applied the concepts of mineralogy, biomineralization and mineral physics to environmental studies, mostly focused on fundamental and applied issues in CO2 capture, storage and valorization, in collaboration with Bénédicte Menez (IPG Paris) in the framework of the IPG, Total, Schlumberger CO2 center in Paris. This drove researches on fundamental processes at the mineral water interface that I am pursuing with Damien Daval (then PhD student at IPG Paris and ENS Paris, now researcher at LHYGES Université de Strasbourg). The new issue of finding ways of valorizing CO2 being inspired by natural processes, especially with regard of H2 generation and CO2-H2 interactions, has led me to collaborate with several researchers, mainly Isabelle Martinez (IPG Paris), Vincent Milesi (then PhD student IPG Paris now at Total), Fabrice Brunet (IsTerre, Université de Grenoble, France), and colleagues at IFPEN in Rueil, France (Virgile Rouchon, Laura Créon then PhD student, Valérie Beaumont, Eric Deville, Julia Guelard PhD student, Christele Vacquand then PhD student, Olivier Sissmann, Alain Prinzhofer). The CO2 and H2 problematics both require strong geochemical modeling. I have an ongoing collaboration regarding applications of the Chess Code with Jérôme Corvisier and Laurent de Windt (Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau) and modeling of stable isotope fractionations by subsurface biomass with Magali Ader (IPG Paris), Bénédicte Ménez (IPG Paris), Caroline Thaler (then PhD at IPG Paris now at MNHN Paris) and Giovanni Aloisi (CNRS, UPMC, Paris). Some ab initio modeling of CO2 and H2 reactivity at mineral surfaces are also required to investigate the difficult question of specific properties in aqueous solutions at the vicinity of mineral surfaces. I participate to this latter research lead by Marco Saitta and Fabio Pietrucci (IMPMC, Paris).
Hydrothermal biomineralization – In the years coming, I would like to focus on one single research projet in which I wish to apply the multiple skills acquired and mentioned above. This new project is entitled : « Biomineralization in Hydrothermal Conditions by Hyperthermophilic Microoganisms ». It has fundamental ambitions such as to determine whether mineral traces of biological activity at high pressure and temperature in hydrothermal systems can actually be identified with important implications for finding new traces of life in the rock record and for the search of auto-organization phenomena in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial samples. It also aims at determining whether mineral phases can inform us about the biodiversity in the hottest parts of these hydrothermal systems, present and past, at investigating the questions of adaptation of life to extreme temperatures and at understanding the mechanistic and ecological meanings of the high temperature limits of life. It also has potential applications such as possible improvement of hydrothermal synthesis of solids by assistance of hyperthermophilic organisms or gains in bioleaching industrial processes by using hyperthermophilic microorganims. This project will strongly benefit from the proximity of researchers pursuing their own projects at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, particularly Sylvain Bernard (IMPMC, Paris), Adrienne Kish (MCAM, Paris), Jennyfer Miot (IMPMC, Paris) and Laurent Rémusat (IMPMC, Paris). It will also benefit from appreciated assistance in knowledge of hyperthermophilic organisms by Aurore Gorlas (Université Paris Sud) and Erwan Roussel (IFREMER Brest).


Munich Re Automation Solutions Ltd today announced the availability of a ready-made and state of the art underwriting rule set in the ALLFINANZ underwriting rules engine. The comprehensive starter rule set integrates the essence of Munich Re's global experience and provides the basis for speed, efficiency, reliability and correctly-priced portfolio in life insurance automated risk assessment.
The ALLFINANZ Expert Rule Set is a comprehensive starter rule set with over 600 medical, residency & avocational rules as well as 13,000 occupations. The rule set provides clearly understandable questions and decision trees to guide the applicant through each step of the underwriting process, rules that underwriters can easily change and customise to match their product portfolio and underwriting philosophy.
The rule set operates with rules optimised for automated underwriting and is designed to ensure that the majority of applications are processed straight through and to improve risk safety. It brings vast amounts of knowledge into practice-oriented forms and clear rules to reach swift, risk-based decisions. The ALLFINANZ Expert Rule Set is evidence-based and regularly updated and enhanced by experienced underwriters and Munich Re medical doctors.
Whether for life or disability covers, critical illness, long term care or personal accident products, the ALLFINANZ Expert Rule Set is suitable for the entire life insurance product spectrum.
More information about the rule set is available here (PDF, 753 KB).


The final vehicle from 1013 is 60709 which is the First class vehicle from the set.
Like many other vehicles from the unit it is still at St Leonard's waiting to be restored.
The other DMBSO from 1013 is 60019 which is under restoration at St Leonard's.
work on this is progressing and it is hoped it will be back on the main line some time in 2014/15.
60018 is now part of unit 1001 and often runs on the main line, it is seen here approaching Tilehurst near Reading in 2012 on a return from a trip to the Dean Forest Railway.
In the late 80's/ early 90's before the the preserved unit entered service on the main line a three car unit ran on the Swanage and Kent & East Sussex lines.
The trailer was 60527 which had a very quick repaint before re-entering service and apart from that is still in withdrawn condition.
The next vehicle which will appear on the main line is 60528 which is seen at St Leonard's in 2012 nestled alongside spare engines.


With the Fermob Balad Lamp, illumination and great design is promised wherever you want it to go. The cordless portable lamp features a dominant opal polyethylene shade with a powder-coated aluminum handle, and a rechargeable battery. At the bottom of the handle is a round button that you push to customize the illumination. In addition to incorporating a bit of Fermob's refreshing color palette, the handle makes the Balad easy to carry and suspend. The Fermob Balad Lamp's crisp and modern design allows the lamp to transition with ease from one area to the other, indoors or outdoors.
Balad Lamp is rated 4.7 out of 5 by 3.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Susie81 from Great outdoor lamp This is a very functional and easy to use lamp. It looks great on a table and the handle makes it easy to carry around or hang. There are three different light options to choose from. It gives a nice glow at night.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Daph from Great outdoor light A great way to brighten your outdoor patio. This lamp has a beautiful design, very easy to charge and can goanywhere in your patio. We love it.
Rated 4 out of 5 by lightdoctor from FERMOB led lighting Overall a great piece. the light output is good, but not outstanding. The light is a soft white which is pleasing. I with the base had a little more weight for stability.


SimplyNoRisk: Early retirement: how much?
First of all you will need to calculate what your expenses are going to be. We are not taking into account that during the first years of retirement you will expend more than the last years. It´s a fact if health care is insuranced. Imagine you will need 25000 USD a year.
Second, you have to decide how many years you are going to live after retirement. Be conservative on the estimation as it wouldn´t be nice to run out of cash, before... There are many calculators that can get you an approximation of your life expectancy. Search on internet.
Third, for every 30 years of living, multiply the needed amount by 50. If we retire at 65 and plan to live 30 years, we should have 25,000x50=1,250,000$ prior retirement. If we retire at 40 and plan to live 50 years then 25,000x50x50/30=2,083,333$.
Fourth, the investment of this money should be conservative typed, but not all bonds, as it should have some nice percentage of dividend stocks to take care of inflation.
Doing it this way, which by the way is hard, there are less possibilities to run out of money.