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use std::fmt;

#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct Position {
    pub line: u32,
    pub col: u32,
    pub file: Option<String>
}

#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct PositionRange {
    pub start: Position,
    pub end: Position
}

#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
pub struct PositionContainer<T: Clone + fmt::Debug>(pub T, pub PositionRange);

impl Position {
    pub fn new(line: u32, col: u32, file: Option<String>) -> Position {
        Position {
            line: line,
            col: col,
            file: file
        }
    }
}

impl PositionRange {
    pub fn new(start: Position, end: Position) -> PositionRange {
        PositionRange {
            start: start,
            end: end
        }
    }

    pub fn extend(&mut self, other: Position) {
        self.end = other;
    }

    pub fn extend_new(mut self, other: Position) -> PositionRange {
        self.extend(other);
        self
    }
}

impl fmt::Display for Position {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        match self.file {
            Some(ref file) => write!(f, "{}:({} {})", file, self.line, self.col),
            None => write!(f, "({} {})", self.line, self.col)
        }
    }
}

impl fmt::Display for PositionRange {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
        match self.start.file {
            Some(ref file) => write!(f, "{}:({} {})-({} {})",
                                     file,
                                     self.start.line,
                                     self.start.col,
                                     self.end.line,
                                     self.end.col),
            None => write!(f, "({} {})-({} {})",
                           self.start.line,
                           self.start.col,
                           self.end.line,
                           self.end.col)
        }
    }
}

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The 550 Maranello was launched in July 1996 during a Ferrari gathering at the Nurburgring, where Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine could test the new car on track. The Pininfarina design was a combination of current styles, paired with cues from the 456 GT, and classic lines harking back to 60s and 70s models. This combination was an identity in itself, with both aggressive and sleek curves.
All models featured a gated 6-spd transmission, which was used to propel the 485hp 5.5L V12 up to speeds close to 200mph, with 0-60mph being reached in just 4.6 seconds. It was a greatly received car by all, whilst the press sung its praises, winning it countless awards.
This very low mileage RHD model (14800 miles) is UK-supplied and finished in stunning Argento Nurburgring silver, with Nero Hide. It has full documented service history, with a very recent cambelt change and a complete Ferrari service 29 miles ago.


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Q: Installing Google V8 in CentOS 7, missing a few files I'm following these steps to compile Google V8 for v8js extension in CentOS 7:
cd /tmp

git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
export PATH=`pwd`/depot_tools:"$PATH"

fetch v8
cd v8

make native library=shared -j2

chrpath -r '$ORIGIN' out/native/lib.target/libv8.so

sudo mkdir -p /tmp/v8-install/lib /tmp/v8-install/include
sudo cp out/native/lib.target/lib*.so /tmp/v8-install/lib/
sudo cp -R include/* /tmp/v8-install/include
echo -e "create /tmp/v8-install/lib/libv8_libplatform.a\naddlib out/native/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_libplatform.a\nsave\nend" | sudo ar -M

The problem is that make native library=shared is missing the entire folder  /tools/gyp/ where libv8_libplatform.a,so I'm stuck at this step
echo -e "create /tmp/v8-install/lib/libv8_libplatform.a\naddlib out/native/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_libplatform.a\nsave\nend" | sudo ar -M  <== no file found!

I have tried make release library=shared -j2 but it comes up a new problem. There is no lib.target/libv8.so in out/Release/ directory.
Has anyone had experience installing Google V8 in CentOs 7? Could you figure out the problem?

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The Ritual Tour
The transitions
The round walk
The ground floor
As a result of the relationships revealed so far, there is one aspect that unites them: The castle contains a message in those rooms that are marked differently and embody a certain statement or meaning. The castle represents an organism in which a ritual action results through its passage. In the following the statements and the markings of these rooms are revealed, which determine the direction of the visitor to be taken, with which the ritual of the tour is fulfilled.
In order to understand the assignment of meanings to spaces, the remarks on the mnemonic technique of antiquity, the so-called memory art, which was taken up again in the Renaissance, are being useful. With this "Ars Memoriae" you imprint images or statements that Giordano Bruno calls 'phantasms' by assigning them to spaces that are in a particular order. Their result of making texts memorable or effective is based on fixing individual things or phenomena spatially in their affinities, opposites or correspondences – in such a way that they express a pattern, an orientation, an order or a harmony meaning which can be attributed to them. Not only the grotto, but the whole building is associated with this fundamental principle of concatenation.
There is nothing to invent in this place, everything is predetermined here to be rediscovered again. Here the figurative embellishments as well as their accompanying spatial references according to Giordano Bruno are to be understood as 'phantasms' in order to recognize their underlying order.
Quote Culianu – To the cycle of memory images:
In fact, this [memory] art requires a complete concentration that can only be acquired in solitude. It follows that one must practice the mnemonic activity in a church, in a cemetery, in an abandoned castle, avoiding all society and distraction. The parts of the place you have to memorize in a specific order. Each piece is assigned a sequence of the message or series of words to be memorized.
.Ioan P. Culianu, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance und Magie in der Renaissance, Frankfurt/M 2001. S.66
The castle is directional for the person who moves in it. The relationship between the building and its visitor is formed by traversing the interstices, the transitions that are so important because they delineate the individual areas, while at the same time giving meaning to them. The castle is a mirror image of the cosmos, its spaces pointing the way for the person who moves in it.
Quote: the doorways of Egyptian temples
The sea, hated by the Egyptians as an element of the Typhon, would have regarded [the Pythagoreans] as the tear of Kronos, thereby indicating the impure and strange nature of the sea. They too, like the Egyptian Priests, had been sacred to the doorways in which it was a crime to speak.
Theodor Hopfner, Orient and Greek Philosophy, Leipzig 1923 page 5
The tour leads through fourteen rooms in three floors – ground floor, guest floor and living floor, which have a total of twenty-three crossings. It starts at the garden portal of the castle in the southwest wing, which thus represents the ritual entrance of the castle, then leads through the viewing axis and the staircase in the north in the ritual spaces of the southwest tract. From there to the spiral staircase in the south-eastern tract down to the ritual rooms of the first floor. The tour ends in the room in the western corner of the building – in memory of the of the four most important humanists of the Renaissance whose ideas were realized in the castle.
There are six transitions on the ground floor, thirteen on the second floor – eight of them in the temple hall – and four on the first floor. The following are the descriptions of the meanings of the transitions in detail and their sequence, which discloses the consecutive numbering corresponding to those sequences of meaning, which are discussed in section 7. CODE
1.The entrance – the dedication to Venus
The starting point of the tour lies in today's back of the castle. Turning to the building, the back of the castle becomes the front, and the garden portal becomes the entrance to the building. From here, the visitor follows the line of sight that runs through the entire ground floor of the building, exposing the emptiness of its center. In the sac of the portal, the medallion "Triumphal Procession of Venus over the Waters" presents the program of the building: it is dedicated to love as the strongest force of the cosmos. The statement of this passage as the first, as the very first start of the tour is set. The different marking of the pages is shown by the solitary Amor and Venus with their entourage on the right.
2. The grotto – the space below
The grotto corresponds to the interior of the earth. The space between the statues of the two lovers, which the visitor measures through, forms the second passage of the ritual tour.
The marking results from Neptune sitting with Amphitrite on the left, which points to the contrast of the sexes in the battle of love, while the right-seated Diana with Orion alludes to their union.
3. Okeanos, the origin of water
The third passage is formed by the gate from the grotto into the courtyard, whose vestments are decorated with the representation of Okeanos, the original god of the water. The basic message of this passage consists by naming the water, which becomes its grasping point.
The two markings result from the children playing on the left, Okeanos lying under the tree with his bucket on the right.
4. The courtyard – the enclosed space
The fourth of the images is formed by the courtyard enclosed by the concentric inner walls of the building, the fountain of which, with its source, reproduces the heart of the castle, but also the centre of the whole universe. Its basic meaning corresponds to the enclosed, the delimitation of the space by the walls of the yard.
In the sense of the different sides of the ritual rooms, the south-east wall of the courtyard was adorned with a huge fresco of a giant reaching into the cornice, which disappeared in the course of the acid rain. This giant corresponds to the description of the Pimander in the corpus Hermeticum.
Quote The first book – Hermetis Trismegisti Poemander
1. Once, when I was looking at the essential things, and when my mind rose, the senses of my body were completely engulfed; like one who has been overweighted by food or tired of work, has been assaulted by sleep.
2. And it seemed to me as if I saw someone who was very tall, and of an infinite length, calling my name, and speaking to me:
3. What do you want to hear and see, and what is that you in yours? Mind to learn and recognize?
4. I spoke, who are you?
5. He spoke, I am Pomeranian, the mind, of the self-existing being, I know what you desire, and am with you everywhere. 6. I spoke, I desire to learn the essential things, to understand and to know the same nature. 7. How? 8. I spoke, I want to hear it.
5. The entrance hall – the house
The fifth of the 'phantasms' of the ground floor forms the Hall of Honour of the imperial army, a two-aisled entrance hall which is to be ritually understood as the first interior of the building. The side markings result from the contrast between the two medallions on the ceiling of the vault, which both represent the glory of Count Christian Ludwig: the over painted left medaillon the announcement as a first-born, the right in front of the staircase his heroic death as an imperial officer on August 12, 1687 in the decisive battle against the Osmans. Entering the castle from this side, it is dedicated to him.
6. The staircase – the way upstairs
From the entrance hall to the right the door to the stairwell opens up to the attic floor. The basic meaning here is the rising up, to "above". Here starts the upward counter-clockwise rotation of the visitor, which continues throughout the ritual area of the second floor. The right side here is the outer wall of the castle, which faces the inner wall of the building on the left.
In the two upper floors of the castle, all the rooms of the ritual tour are marked by the different marking of the two sides of the stucco frames of their ceilings – except the stucco ceiling of the banqueting hall, which has been lost.
7. The vestibule – the fork of the tour
This is the vestibule in front of the three festively decorated ritual rooms, in two openings lead: a mundane through the double doors and a ritual through the fake fireplace, which is located on the opposite narrow side of the room. The basic meaning of this space corresponds to the "fork" of the path, which deviates from the ritual tour. Despite the damage of the stucco ceiling, the difference between the stucco moldings of the two long sides is detectable in the presence and absence of one of the four buds.
8. The birth of Venus – The formation of love in the waters
In the ritual tour, this room is accessible only bent over through the fake fireplace at the front of the room. Through it, one enters the space of the water, in that the ceiling fresco shows a surface of water in which Venus floats on a shell and thus sets the basic meaning "water". In the sense of the different marking of the sides, the ceiling fresco is enclosed by the ornate letters R = right and L = left of the stucco frame.
9. – 16.Hermes Trismegistos – The wise of signs and numbers
There are eight transitions in this hall: The ritual performed in this hall consists of passing through eight interspaces in a marked sequence, which consists of a counter-clockwise rotation. This begins when entering from the water room in the western corner and ends in the eastern corner of the hall. The eight transitions between the four doors, the two open fireplaces and the two frescoed Hermes figures. These transitions are also referred to through the eight frescoes of passages in the open landscape in the skylights of the skylights. By the way, the sum of the ordinal numbers from 9 to 16 gives exactly the number 100.
17. The union in love – the culmination
The central ceiling fresco of this room adjoining the temple hall shows Amor, who with his arrow unites the hero Hercules depicted as a houseman with the Lydian Queen Omphale. The basic meaning of this space is the duplication that results from the union. This is the highlight of the tour.
The different side markings are indicated by the number of rose petals at the corners of the stucco frame of the ceiling fresco – twice the number six on the left and two different numbers on the right, namely six and five. In addition, on the left side seen from the castle, there is one imperial crown opposite the two goblets on the right.
18. The guestroom – the impetuous
In the adjacent visitor's room, the ceiling has different shapes of the stucco frame: on the left against the visitor's direction the plant leaf is damaged in the middle, undamaged on the right.
19. The spiral staircase – the decreasing way down
Right here the ritual tour changes direction leading clockwise down into the first floor where it ends at the opposite, the western corner of the castle. The term that fits to this space is that of decline associated with it.
20. The working room – the conclusion
With this room, the "working steps" of the tour are completed. The following rooms corresponding to the seventh day of creation serve the celebration of the tour.
In the stucco frame of the ceiling, in turn, the direction of the tour is clearly marked. Similar to the room of love upstairs four plant motives extend into the central field of the ceiling, three of equal design, the forth on the right being different: So you have one type of sprouts on the left against two types on the right side – as seen from the castle.
In view of the special significance of the room as working room for the master of the castle, the number of rosettes in the stucco frame of the ceiling on both sides is ten, and that of the broad sides is six: the space halved results on both sides 5-6-5, the double five, which is the name of God expressed in numbers, the Tetragrammaton.
21. The sleeping room – the recreation
The adjoining room due to its location in the southern corner has always been the bedroom of the owner of the castle, is identified by the portrayals of swans and serpents in the stucco moldings of the flat ceiling as sanctuary of the Kabirs: on the long sides, the kissing swans as a representation of love between Demeter and Persephone, mother and daughter; on the broadsides the fight of the swans with the serpents on the left and opposite the union of the serpents with the two swans on the right, as the serpents are being eaten up by the swans.
Source: Pausanias, description of Greece, the sanctuary of the Kabirs in Viotia in central Greece, near a sanctuary of Hercules, which is decorated in the red room above.
22. The ballroom – the festivity room
The sleeping room is followed by the recreation hall, as the temple hall above it with four doors and two open fireplaces. Documents and hotos on the walls explain the interrelations of the rooms and the figurative decoration of the castle. To distinguish the two long sides, in the middle of the stucco frame on the ceiling on the left side of a nasty mask, while just opposite a lovely mask is inserted.
Left, the nasty mask © Initiative Haggenberg
Right, the lovely mask © Initiative Haggenberg
23. The four philosophers – the room of the founders
This room in the western corner room of the first floor is the strangest room of the ritual tour, which ends here. In the stucco molding of the ceiling four crowned philosophers are incorporated. They depicture those spiritual giants on whose conceptions the pattern of the castle is based. On the north-western side of the ceiling, that is on the right side, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, facing each other, whereas Giordano Bruno and Francis Bacon on the left are turned away from each other: Ficino and Pico belong together, whereas the latter two had nothing to do with each other. This marking shows that it no longer leads into the adjoining rooms, but points outwards, into the window in the southwest façade.
These four philosophers with their juxtaposition can also be found as reliefs on the four stone slabs, which today stand in front of the main facade of castle Ernstbrunn, but originally served as a cladding of the base of an equestrian monument which stood at the entrance to the chestnut avenue of Haggenberg Castle. Their photos are displayed in the ballroom. The age difference of the two philosophers from Florence: Marsilio Ficino old, Pico presented young – is clearly recognizable. These two Philosophers in Florence were the founders of the Renaissance in Europe.
The facing philosophers Ficino with young Pico © Initiative Haggenberg
The opposing philosophers © Initiative Haggenberg
For details see link under: Openings
The visit of the castle is possible in the context of guided tours against donations.
Connoisseurs of ancient mythology welcome.
The restoration of the temple hall
Those who would like to be part of the refurbishment can do so on the special donation account IBAN: AT07 0100 0000 0503 1050 (for foreign countries BIC:BUNDATWW).
Details see link under: Journal - The restoration of the temple hall
News / Journal
The smashed Renaissance oriel of Laa an der Thaya
Jul 2, 2019 | Allgemein
The city of Laa an der Thaya lies on the northern border of Austria, which is one of the oldest borders in open landscape of Europe. It was built in the 13th century on rectangular floor plan with four large squares, which were intended as a rallying point for the...
The big challenge of these two years will be the restoration of the baroque frescoes in the temple hall dedicated to Hermes Trismegistos. Dr Hermann Fuchsberger, the actual head of the Lower Austrian Federal Monuments Office was so impressed on his first visit...
In memory of Hofrat Dr Werner Kitlitschka
We would like to join in quiet mourning of our revered patron and friend, the great supporter and admirer of Haggenberg Castle Professor Hofrat Dr Werner Kitlitschka, who passed away on Friday, 19 October 2018 in his 80th year of life. Connected to the Austrian...
"THE CODED CASTLE - SMASHED AND FORGOTTEN - NOW OPENING FOR THOSE WITH RESPECT YES LOVE FOR THE SIMPLEST - READY TO THROW THE USUAL OVERBOARD."

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Leo Ryan has been a counsellor for the major part of his working life. Early in his career he became aware of the number of female clients who were being abused by their husbands/partners/boyfriends and was determined to help.
His first book, An Extraordinary Relationship, highlights his conclusions gained from years of counselling, showing it is possible for most people to bring on the changes needed to have a great relationship.
Married for over thirty years, Leo has a son and daughter, his wife, Gunilla, has a daughter, and they have seven grandchildren. Leo gained a social work degree from Flinders University, has worked in Adelaide and Canberra, and now lives in Sydney.


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SOLAR HOUSEHOLD STILL GENERATES FRESH WATER
http://www.gabrielediamanti.com/projects/eliodomestico/
http://www.gizmag.com/eliodomestico/24058/
Solar-powered oven makes fresh water from sea water
by David Szondy / September 9, 2012
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. Concerned about the lack of fresh water in the developing world, designer Gabriele Diamanti wanted a solution to desalinate water that was available to households rather than relying on giant, centralized plants. He also wanted it to be something inexpensive that could be made by local craftsman. The result is a ceramic solar still called the Eliodomestico that operates like an "upside-down coffee percolator".
The open-source design of the Eliodomestico is remarkably simple. It consists of two ceramic pieces that sit one atop the other. Inside the top piece is a black container into which salt water is poured. The sun heats the container, turning the water to steam. As pressure builds, the steam is forced down a tube into a container in the lower piece. There it condenses against the lid and collects in the basin of the container. The Eliodomestico collects about five liters (1.09 gal) of fresh water per day and costs about US$50 to build with no operating costs. The bottom container's basin is designed to be transported on the head, which is a common practice in developing countries.
NANO WATER CHIP
http://www.okeanostech.com/
http://inhabitat.com/nano-water-chip-could-make-desalination-affordable-for-everyone/
Nano Water Chip Could Make Desalination Affordable for Everyone
by Tafline Laylin / 04/10/14
With freshwater declining throughout the globe, desalination looks increasingly attractive, but current technologies are expensive, demand far too much energy and are prone to contamination. Now researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Marburg in Germany have developed a "water chip" that creates a small electrical field that separates salt from seawater. The technology, which is still under development and works at the nano scale, uses so little energy it can run off a store-bought battery.
The researchers apply a 3.0 volt electrical charge to the plastic water chip, which has a microchannel with two branches. By creating an "ion depletion zone" with an embedded electrode that neutralizes chloride ions, they are able to redirect the salts in the water down one channel, while the fresh water goes down another. "Like a troll at the foot of the bridge, the ion depletion zone prevents salt from passing through, resulting in the production of freshwater," the team wrote in a recent press release. Less energy-intensive than current desalination plants, the water chip doesn't rely on a membrane, and can be made portable so that just about anybody living near the sea can purify their own water at home.
Currently the technology purifies just one nanoliter at a time and only has a 25% efficiency rate, but the team is confident that their proof of concept can be first improved and then scaled up. A small startup called Okeanos Technologies has been created to continue developing the technology. Its head, Tony Frudakis, said in the statement that people are dying for want of freshwater, and they will persevere to prevent that from happening. "You could build a disaster relief array or a municipal-scale unit," said Frudakis. "Okeanos has even contemplated building a small system that would look like a Coke machine and would operate in a standalone fashion to produce enough water for a small village."
http://www.iwaponline.com/wst/07205/wst072050785.htm
http://www.scidev.net/global/water/news/egyptian-filters-seawater-environment.html
by Rasha Dewedar / 02/09/15
"Researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have unveiled a cost-effective desalination technology which can filter highly salty water in minutes. The technology is based on membranes containing cellulose acetate powder, produced in Egypt. The powder, in combination with other components, binds the salt particles as they pass through, making the technique useful for desalinating seawater. "The membrane we fabricated can easily be made in any laboratory using cheap ingredients, which makes it an excellent option for developing countries," says Ahmed El-Shafei, an associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering in Alexandria University, and an author of the study. The technology uses pervaporation, a technique by which the water is first filtered through the membrane to remove larger particles and then heated until it vaporises. The vapour is then condensed to get rid of small impurities, and clean water is collected. According to the research paper, published in Water Science and Technology last month, this method can be used to desalinate water which contains different types of contamination, such as salt, sewage and dirt. This kind of water is difficult to clean quickly using existing procedures.
"The undisputed champion of saltwater living, mangrove trees perch on their roots directly in the salty coastal ebb and flow. Some are so good at getting rid of salt you can drink their root-water." – http://inhabitat.com/the-biomimicry-manual-how-does-nature-make-saltwater-drinkable/
The membrane technology in combination with vaporisation can be applied in remote settings, as it requires only the membranes for the filtering process, and fire to vaporise the filtered water, the researchers say. "Using pervaporation eliminates the need for electricity that is used in classic desalination processes, thus cutting costs significantly," says El-Shafei. Pervaporation is used to separate organic liquids, like alcohols, and is one of the more common systems used in sewage treatment to separate water from organic solvents. The technology has been around since the mid-90s, Helmy El-Zanfaly, a professor of water contamination at Egypt's National Research Center. But, he says, "What is new is making the membrane locally, using materials abundant in Egypt and developing countries." El-Zanfaly adds that existing pervaporation membranes are fabricated using complicated procedures, making them unsuitable for cheap production. "The technology implemented in the study is much better than reverse osmosis, the technology currently used in Egypt and most of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa," El-Zanfaly says. "It can effectively desalinate water with high concentration of salt like that of the Red Sea, where desalination costs more and yields less." The technology can be adapted for commercial use by fabricating larger sheets of the membrane and cutting these into suitable swathes, according to El-Shafei. The next step for the team is to establish a small desalination unit as a pilot project for the technology.
SALTWATER POWERED LAMP
http://salt.ph/
http://www.core77.com/posts/38505/
https://www.techinasia.com/salt-light-poor-homes-philippines/
Philippine startup lights up poor homes with lamp powered by salt and water
by Judith Balea / Nov 13, 2014
A possible power shortage coming in the summer of 2015 has been grabbing the headlines in the Philippines this year. But this is not news for millions of poor Filipino families off-grid: they have been living without electricity. For them, life stops after dark. They close stores early and make sure to be home before sunset. The night is just for sleeping. Lighting up their homes takes a lot of effort. They need to cut wood to create fire, or walk long hours to the nearest town to buy fuel for their lamps. Aisa Mijeno witnessed this first hand when she lived with the Butbut tribe in Buscalan, Kalinga during an immersion in 2011. "People did not have access to electricity and had to walk 12 hours to reach Bontoc, a town about 50 kilometres away, to get kerosene for their fuel-based lamps," she shares in an interview with Tech in Asia. Mijeno, an engineer who has engaged in social work, says her experience in Kalinga became her motivation in creating an alternative lighting system that many wouldn't even think possible. The lighting system doesn't require electricity, batteries or even fuel to run. All it needs are two basic and natural things: salt and water.
SALt's lamp looks nothing extraordinary – it makes use of a LED bulb – but you don't need to plug it or use battery or fuel to make it light up. Dissolve two tablespoons of salt in a glass of water and pour it onto the lamp and voila, you have light for eight hours. Of course, it's easier if you live by the sea since saltwater is readily available. The lamp gives out about 90 lumens equivalent to seven candles lit up or the brightness of a low-LED bulb. Meanwhile, it has a special feature: a USB slot for charging your mobile phone. Take note however that it can only perform one function at a time – so you need to choose between lighting it up or charging your device. The product is not rocket science, says Mijeno. In fact, the whole idea behind it is taught in high school chemistry classes. "If you did the lemon-battery experiment, that's basically it. Two different metals submerged in electrolytes will produce electricity. For us, we used saltwater."
"It is an open science… so I will not be surprised if there are existing similar technologies developed out there," she adds. What's surprising, according to her, is that "no one ever focused on making this a concrete system to harness energy." After all, she explains, "Seventy percent of the earth's surface is saltwater and we still rely on other expensive means that are dependent on geography, climate, and fuel." SALt's product addresses an overwhelming need. In the Philippines alone, 16 million families are off-grid, Mijeno notes, citing a 2013 study done by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies. She says their product will keep families from turning to substitutes that are dangerous and expensive like kerosene, which is a major contributor to indoor air pollution. Not only that – it will make a big difference in their lives. It will make them feel safe, give them more hours to spend on their livelihood, and allow their children to study at night.
Mijeno recognizes that many innovators don't see the poor as a viable market that's why social enterprises are rare. "There is a certain degree of difficulty when it comes to achieving financials enough to sustain and to scale a social enterprise and/or a hardware startup," she says. She says in her case, pricing is especially tricky. "It is very difficult to find a middle point wherein we feel that we are not selling it for too much and also not underselling it." Their lamp now costs US$35 (PHP1,570) – which is quite high for a poor family who often must prioritize food over anything else. So Mijeno says they're improving the functionality and overall design of the lamp to make sure it "stands the test of time." The lamp has a shelf life of 10 to 11 years depending on the LED bulb, and they want to extend this further by making it water- and shock-proof. They are also optimizing it to produce up to 350 lumens. "Considering its use, the initial price of the lamp trumps the sustaining cost of battery and fuel-based lighting."
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Advantages Of Business Intelligence Reporting In our today's business world, there are different ways in which a business can get information about its activities. One of the ways to get information is through the business documents that are prepared periodically. The time period within which these documents are prepared usually varies according to the time span which the firm has set, it might be after 3,6 or even one year. Use of financial statements that are prepared after a given period of time is disadvantageous in that the information there is not current, situations might have changed between the period when statements were prepared and when they were used to make business decisions. Due to the advancement in technology, businesses have the ability to get information in a timely manner before it is made obsolete by the changes in the market. Real time reporting for a business helps the business to get data as it is occurring so that they can act upon it accordingly. Real time business reporting is an important tool for most businesses because it gives a business a competitive edge over the other businesses. The accuracy of data possessed by a company will determine whether it will be prosperous or not. A business that has good accurate information about what is happening is able to be more successful than one that lacks such information.
Real time business reporting does not come without a share of its own merits, the clients will be a happy lot since you actually on their issues in a speedy manner and correct foe example if it is complaints. Another advantage of real time business reporting is that it helps the company to monitor its inventory and able to make replenishment when it is needed.
Real time business reporting enables a company to take corrective action on any problematic area that might be arising in the firm. Real time business reporting is also good in that it assists the business in monitoring all the areas of its operations so that it can make any changes on its processes or activities. This system of reporting data also helps to increase the efficiency of the business, you are able to get insights or resources information about something within a short time and act on it promptly. Thanks to real time business reporting, a company is able to realize the untapped business opportunities and try to explore them so that they can get more revenues. The technology of real time business reporting can be incorporated into any kind of business whether big or small. Real time business reporting will make a business to achieve their goals and make more profits.


The Hirose River flows right through the city of Sendai (Japan).
It flows between valleys with a depth of a few to tens of metres. It is said to symbolize the strong will of the million citizens who live in the city of Sendai to preserve the natural environment.
The River also serves to connect citizens to their past. About 250 years ago, several hundred thousand people had starved to death in a famine. Every year then, lanterns are floated down the River to console the spirits of those who perished.
Sendai is one of 21 local governments in Japan that are currently Members of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. For more information on ICLEI and its activities in Japan, please visit www.iclei.org/japan.
Source: Sendai New, March 2007.


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NET4GAS General Partner to Conference "Our Nature"
For the fourth time, NET4GAS is the general partner of the Conference Naše příroda ("Our Nature"), this time on the topic of Biodiversity of Agricultural Landscapes. It is held on 28 November 2018 in Olomouc. For more information, please visit www.konference-priroda.cz.


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My Southern Family
ABT 1700 - ____
ID Number: I55905
Original Submitter (General Source): [S1670]
RESIDENCE: ENG
RESOURCES: See: [S1670]
Family 1 : Walwyn HEREFORD
[S1670]
Back to My Southern Family Home Page
© 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000. Josephine Lindsay Bass and Becky Bonner. All rights reserved.
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Leva Lee ALVIS
5 Dec 1889 - 18 Mar 1963
ID Number: I9915
RESIDENCE: Hawkins Co. TN & Lee & Washington Cos. VA
BIRTH: 5 Dec 1889, Eidson, Hawkins Co. Tennessee
DEATH: 18 Mar 1963, Virginia
BURIAL: Knollkreg Cem, Abington, Washington Co, VA
RESOURCES: See: [S321]
Father: John M ALVIS
Mother: Ruth PARROTT
Family 1 : David Charles LONG
MARRIAGE: 24 Dec 1908, Lee Co. Virginia
_John M. ALVIS ______+
| (1814 - 1860) m 1835
_Charles C. ALVIS C.S.A._|
| (1838 - ....) m 1865    |
|                         |_Naomi HART _________
|                           (1821 - 1900) m 1835
_John M ALVIS _______|
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|--Leva Lee ALVIS
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|_Ruth PARROTT _______|
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[S321]
William BRYANT
RESIDENCE: Patrick Co.VA
Family 1 :
Louisa BRYANT
Spouse: Elizabeth
Effie F. CLOUSE
RESIDENCE: Blatebury, MO
Father: W. B. CLOUSE
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth PURL
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_W. B. CLOUSE _________|
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|--Effie F. CLOUSE
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|                        _John Cunningham PURL Jr._|
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|                       |                          |_Elizabeth "Betsey" COGHILL _+
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|_Sarah Elizabeth PURL _|
(1853 - ....) m 1870  |
|                           _Thomas HANKS _______________+
|                          | (1791 - 1882) m 1812
|_Susan Ann HANKS _________|
(1828 - 1915) m 1849     |
|_Sarah "Sallie" TANDY _______+
(1791 - 1862) m 1812
Jean Carol GARVEY
!LIVING
Dr. James PORTER
TITLE: Dr.
RESIDENCE: Frostburg, MD
Family 1 : Mary Catlett GIBSON
Issue: I. Lucy Porter((8)). Married, in Maryland;.II. Glissen Porter((8)). Married Hattie Hollingsworth, Winchester, Va.
Sons of The American Revolution: ALEXANDER SHAW PORTER, deceased (9653). Son of G. Ellis and Alcinda Esther (Gibson) Porter; grandson of Minor and Elizabeth Pendleton (Shackleford) Gibson; great-grandson of John and Lucy (Tutt) Shackleford; great2-grandson of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Pendleton) Tutt; great2-grandson of Charles Tutt, Lieutenant Sixth Virginia troops.
Beata Baltzardotter (Brita) SALINIUS
1618 - 17 Dec 1693
RESIDENCE: Sweden
BIRTH: 1618, Sweden
DEATH: 17 Dec 1693
RESOURCES: See: LDS (AFN:BKW3-N5) [S3148]
Family 1 : Charles Christopher SPRINGER Sr.
MARRIAGE: 15 Oct 1654, Sweden
Charles Christopher SPRINGER Jr. "the Immigrant"
Jacob SPRINGER "the Immigrant"
Brita Berta "Beaton Jacobine "Hendrixson SALINAS (Wife) b. 1626 in Sweden;
Brita SALINIUS (AFN:BKW3-N5) or Beata Baltzardotter * Salina (Wife) b. 1618 in Sweden
Father: Baltzar * Salinus b. 1587 in Danzig, Poland; Mother: Anna * Larsdotter b. 1587
Buried at the church at Marisfred? She after the death of her husband the Queen
Dowager of Sweden appointed her as royal housekeeper, located at Gripsholm castle, across the lake Malar from Stockholm. Was she a Hendrickson and previously married to a Salinus? or a Jacobine?
RESIDENCE: Hardin Co. KY
RESOURCES: See: [S1079] [S1682]
Family 1 : Ruthy RAWLINGS
MARRIAGE: 13 Jun 1805, Hardin Co. Kentucky
+John SWAN
From: Kentucky Explorer Magazine Queries For May 1997: Swan-Rawlings: Seeking dates and burial places for Thomas Swan, 1777-1845, of Hardin Co., Ky.; his wife, Ruth Rawlings, whom he m. on 6/13/1805, Hardin Co.; her father, Stephen Rawlings, of Elizabethtown, Hardin Co., d. after 11/2/1830; his wife, Abigail Rawlings, d. 9/1814. Need names of the Swan children.
Margaret E. Smith
420 Brown Ave.
Osawatomie, KS 66064-1320
George Elias SWARTZ
RESIDENCE: Scranton, Lackawanna, PA & Elmira, Chemung Co. NY
BIRTH: 16 Jan 1890, Scranton, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania
DEATH: 29 Jan 1955, Elmira, Chemung County, New York
BURIAL: 2 Feb 1955, Woodlawn Cem, Elmira, Chemung County, New York
RESOURCES: See: LDS [S1472] [S2574]
Father: Benjamin Miller SWARTZ
Mother: Mary Etta SWARTS
Family 1 : Cecile FARNSWORTH
LDS: Film Number: 2034671 (AFN: 1N9J-TBW).
6 Roberta Swartz b: Private +Frank Saganario b: Private m: Private; *2nd Husband of Roberta Swartz: +Raymond T. Ano, Sr. b: Private m: Private
7 Judith Ano b: Private +Claude Charles Rhone, Sr. b: Private m: Private
8 Claude Charles Rhone, Sr. b: Private
7 Raymond T. Ano, Sr. b: Private
6 Richard Swartz b: Private +Cora Greene b: Private m: Private
_Baltas (Leobathasar) SWARTZ (SCHWARTZ) _+
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_Elias M. SWARTZ ____|
| (1812 - 1859) m 1832|
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_Benjamin Miller SWARTZ _|
| (1851 - 1940) m 1874    |
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|--George Elias SWARTZ
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|_Mary Etta SWARTS _______|
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George L. UPSHAW Jr.
1828 - ____
RESIDENCE: Elbert Co. GA
BIRTH: 1828, Elbert Co. GA
RESOURCES: See: [S125] [S142] [S828]
Father: George L. UPSHAW Sr.
Mother: Elizabeth TATE
_Forrest UPSHAW _____+
_John UPSHAW Sr._____|
|                     |_Ann_________________
|                       (1725 - 1795) m 1749
_George L. UPSHAW Sr._|
| (1797 - 1832) m 1820 |
|                      |                      _Larkin GATEWOOD ____+
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|                      |_Amy GATEWOOD _______|
|                        (1757 - 1826) m 1776|
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|--George L. UPSHAW Jr.
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Benjamin James WEBB
13 Sep 1760 - 1827
RESIDENCE: Wilkes and Burke and Ashe Co. NC and Overton Co. TN
BIRTH: 13 Sep 1760, Wilkes Co. North Carolina or Beaver Dam, Ashe Co. North Carolina
DEATH: 1827, Spring Creek, Overton Co. Tennessee
Father: James Crittenden WEBB
Mother: Susan Elizabeth COFFEY
Family 1 : Jane COFFEY
MARRIAGE: ABT 1792, North Carolina
Elizabeth WEBB
Title: Genealogy Records of Overton County, TN Deeds
Text: Deeds Book F, pg. 219 Indenture 18 December 1827. Jame Webb, John Webb, Thomas Webb, James Webb, Elizabeth Webb, Hubbard Johnson of Overton County, Tenn, and James Hooten, Jesse Brown and Reubin Mart of Ashe Co. NC, of one part to John Johnson of Overton Co. Tennessee, for and in consideration $1353, paid John Johnson coveys 570 acres land on Spring Creek in two tracts Grant No. 384 and 2797. All signed.
James Crittenden WEBB b. 30 May 1788
John C. WEBB b. 30 May 1788 in Burke Co., North Carolina
Nancy WEBB b. About. 1790 in North Carolina
Sidnea WEBB b. 1792
Elizabeth WEBB b. 1794 in North Carolina
Thomas Crittenden WEBB b. 20 Jun 1798 in North Carolina
Elijah Clawson WEBB b. 17 Jan 1802 in North Carolina
Patsy WEBB b. 1810 in North Carolina
Broderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1048
_William WEBB ________+
_William Warren WEBB _______|
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_James Crittenden WEBB __|
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|--Benjamin James WEBB
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Millicent WINN
RESIDENCE: Caroline Co. VA
Father: Benjamin WINN Sr.
Mother: Ann TAVERNER
Millicent WINN b: 1750 d: 1822 + Thomas COLEMAN. [S2261]
_Michael GUINNEY WINN _____________|
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_Benjamin WINN Sr.___|
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|--Millicent WINN
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|                      _John TAVERNER Jr._________________|
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|                     |                                   |_Elizabeth "Eliza" COLE _
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|_Ann TAVERNER _______|
|                                    _Samuel TRAVERS _________+
|                                   | (1660 - ....) m 1685
|_Rebecca TRAVERS of "Exeter Lodge"_|
(1690 - 1740)                     |
|_Frances ALLERTON _______+
(1668 - ....) m 1685


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London, South Kensington
GBP 4,375
GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000
Peter Pan, 1953
Tinkerbell sulks, gouache on trimmed celluloid, applied to a gouache preliminary production background, signed and inscribed on the mount in red pencil To Gilbert Harding, With Best Wishes, Walt Disney, with additional inscription in blue ballpoint pen for Paul and for Sean + for their Mother - Jo, from one who wishes he'd never grown up, Gilbert Harding; accompanied by a black and white photograph of Gilbert Harding as a panellist on the BBC panel show What's My Line?; and a document concerning the provenance
Image 5x5in. (13x13cm.)
Sight 8x10in. (20x25cm.), framed
Caitlin Graham
cgraham@christies.com
Ruth Carreras
rcarreras@christies.com
Lot Essay
Gilbert Harding regularly appeared on the BBC television panel show What's My Line? as a panellist, having been the presenter of the very first episode in 1951. A panel of four had to guess the unusual occupations of a number of challengers. On 12th April, 1953, Harding was a panellist when Walt Disney made an appearance as a celebrity challenger. As Harding had no children himself, he gifted the cel to Jo, the wife of the show's producer T. Leslie Jackson.
Christie's would like to thank animation consultant Pierre Lambert for his assistance with the animation in this sale.
Please note the background is a preliminary production background.


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Q: MySQL NFL QB rating - possible to set a minimum and maximum value if a sum adds up beyond a set range? I am trying to calculate the NFL's quarterback rating in MySQL. I have my four categories, but I need to be able to set a limit on each of them. If it adds up to a negative number, it needs to be 0. And if it adds up higher than 2.375 I need it to be 2.375.
How can I add a minimum and maximum value to each of these four queries?
ROUND(((sum(case when pass_result='C' then 1 else 0 end)/sum(case when run_pass='P' then 1 else 0 end))-0.3)*5,3) AS 'Rule 1',
ROUND(((sum(gain)/sum(case when run_pass='P' then 1 else 0 end))-3)*0.25,3) AS 'Rule 2',
ROUND((sum(case when series_end='Touchdown' then 1 else 0 end)/sum(case when run_pass='P' then 1 else 0 end))*20,3) as 'Rule 3',
ROUND((2.375-(sum(case when pass_result='IN' then 1 else 0 end)/sum(case when run_pass='P' then 1 else 0 end))*25),3) as 'Rule 4'

A: You can use the functions GREATEST() and LEAST():
LEAST(GREATEST(ROUND(((SUM(pass_result='C') / SUM(run_pass='P'))-0.3)*5,3), 0), 2375) AS Rule1,
LEAST(GREATEST(ROUND(((SUM(gain)/SUM(run_pass='P'))-3)*0.25,3), 0), 2375) AS Rule2,
LEAST(GREATEST(ROUND((SUM(series_end='Touchdown') / SUM(run_pass='P'))*20,3), 0), 2375) AS Rule3,
LEAST(GREATEST(ROUND((2.375-(SUM(pass_result='IN')/SUM(run_pass='P'))*25),3), 0), 2375) AS Rule4

When you apply GREATEST() to a x value like:
GREATEST(x, 0)

then the if x is negative the result is 0.
When you apply LEAST() to a x value like:
LEAST(x, 2375)

then the if x is greater than 2375 the result is 2375.
I also simplified the code by using only the boolean expressions inside SUM() instead of the CASE expressions, because boolean expressions are evaluated as 1 for true and 0 for false.


Grasshoppers Archives - What's That Bug?
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How you want your letter signed: Don't mind.
This is definitely a Grasshopper in the family Acrididae, and it is an immature nymph. We will attempt to provide you with a species identification.
These are immature Grasshoppers and immature individuals often look very different from adults, and there is often. We will make an effort to provide you with an actual species identification.
I figured they were juveniles but still couldn't find their species. Thank you for any help you give with this and for your help with bug identification in general.
Subject: What type of Grasshopper?
Your letter to the bugman: Spotted this extremely large colorful grasshopper in a local park. Would like to know exactly what it is.
This is an Eastern Lubber Grasshopper, a flightless species that often appears in great numbers. Your individual is a light colored individual. There is also a dark variation of the Eastern Lubber.
Your letter to the bugman: Found this mighty bug flapping around in my office late one night. For reference my middle finger is a shade over 3.5 inches, so this rather sturdy grasshopper is close to 3 inches in length. I believed grasshoppers to prefer open plains to city centre life. I've certainly never seen one this large before.
We believe we have identified your Grasshopper as an Egyptian Grasshopper, Anacridium aegyptum, thanks to The Insects of Southern Spain where it states: "Egyptian Grasshoppers are sometimes mistaken for locusts, but the diagnostics for the former are the vertically striped eyes and the pronuptum, the shield type shape behind the head … is distinctly ridged, like plates of armour." Nightengale Trails has some nice images as does TrekNature.


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Amazon's Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements
Ring, Amazon's doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information.
by Samantha Cole
Jun 6 2019, 5:05pm
Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is using video captured by its doorbell cameras in Facebook advertisements that ask users to identify and call the cops on a woman whom local police say is a suspected thief.
In the video, the woman's face is clearly visible and there is no obvious criminal activity taking place. The Facebook post shows her passing between two cars. She pulls the door handle of one of the cars, but it is locked.
The video freezes on a still of the woman's face from two different angles: "If you recognize this woman, please contact the Mountain View Police Department … please share with your neighbors," text superimposed on the video says. In a post alongside the video, Ring urges residents of Mountain View, California to contact the police department if they recognize her:
Do you live in 94040 (or nearby)? Mountain View Residents: Do you recognize this woman? On May 22, this woman was caught on camera breaking into a vehicle at a Mountain View home near Castro St and Miramonte Ave. If you have any information on the whereabouts of this woman, please contact the Mountain View Police Department at 650-903-6344 (Case Number: 19-3742). And please share this post, so we can all stay alert.
The post is popping up on some people's feeds as sponsored, as it did on Jon Hendren's Facebook feed:
Sponsored posts are advertisements that are paid for by the company, and typically are targeted to a specific audience. Hendron lives in the Mountain View area. Ring confirmed to Motherboard that it did sponsor this post.
Amazon purchased Ring in 2018. The company sells surveillance camera systems, and recently filed two patent applications for facial recognition technology in its cameras that would automatically alert law enforcement to "suspicious" people. Its "Neighbors" app has become a de-facto private neighborhood watch, in which people who own Ring surveillance cameras (and others who simply have the app) discuss "suspicious" activity in their communities.
A post on the the Mountain View Police Department's websites details the incident and also shares an image from the Ring camera. "Footage obtained from a neighbour's home captured a woman who is believed to be the suspect in the theft," the post says. The woman is suspected of stealing someone's purse and wallet from inside a car, and making a series of purchases around town with those stolen credit cards.
A spokesperson for MVPD told Motherboard in an email that "while we did not ask Ring to post footage, the additional outreach, and the additional eyes that may see this woman and recognize her, are most welcome and helpful!" A spokesperson for Ring told Motherboard in an email that its Facebook post encourages communities to work with local cops to "help keep neighbourhoods safe."
"Alerts are created using publicly posted content from the Neighbors app that has a verified police report case number," the company said. "We get the explicit consent of the Ring customer before the content is posted, and utilize sponsored, geotargeted posts to limit the content to relevant communities."
Police departments request information from private companies all of the time. But Ring's call to action shows how Amazon advertises Ring as a vigilante extension of law enforcement.
Read more: Amazon's Home Security Company Is Turning Everyone Into Cops
Ring is also using the image of a woman who is innocent until proven guilty and calling her a thief in ad that it's paying to get in front of a targeted audience in order to sell more home surveillance equipment. The company doesn't claim to know for certain that she's committed a crime, and the police have yet to catch or convict anyone on this case. Amazon has also sold Rekognition, its facial recognition software, to cops around the country, which is worth keeping in mind as the company sells internet-connected residential surveillance cameras.
This isn't the first time Ring has worked with the cops: Publicly-available content on the Neighbors app, a social platform for Ring users that acts as a virtual "neighborhood watch," is open for law enforcement to peruse. Cops can request content from users about locations, dates, and time frames of specific incidents. Users get push notifications from the police about crimes in their area, and view where it happened on an interactive map.
Previously, Motherboard has found that a lot of what happens on Neighbours to be predictably ugly. Racial profiling abounds on the platform, coded as public safety and efforts toward the greater good. When someone reports a crime on Neighbours and says they've filed a police report, a Ring employee will sometimes reply to encourage that user to share the case number and officer's contact information. Once they have a case number, they claim, Ring can use the video to help law enforcement.
The Intercept has also reported that Ring built a portal within Neighbors for law enforcement to request and access camera footage and talk with users directly about cases.
Ring plays into people's mistrust of strangers. The company's official Twitter feed is a mix of cute animal videos and goofy moments caught at the front door, but that's not why people purchase surveillance systems. Posting an un-anonymized video of a person suspected of a crime—not a convicted criminal, but a still-innocent person in the eyes of the law—and then imploring users to snitch, is another step toward what Amazon's really selling: an always-on surveillance state as a way to placate our fears.
This article originally appeared on VICE US.


In the United States, food waste accounts for 67% of all waste that is hauled to landfills. No matter how good recycling efforts may be in other areas, there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to food waste. When people think of food waste, they usually think of table scraps. However, there are other culprits as well. Spoiled foods like overripe produce and moldy bread often wind up in the trash. Coffee filters, coffee grounds, and tea bags are also regularly discarded. Taken together, these organic materials create tons of unnecessary landfill waste each year. Fortunately, there are a few simple steps you can take to help minimize food waste in your own home.
First, only buy what you will actually eat. Most families buy far more food than they can reasonably consume before it goes bad. To help reduce uneaten foods, buy smaller quantities of specialty foods from the bulk bins. Not only will you assure that you have just enough to make that new recipe, you will also save some money in the process.
Meal planning is another way to control the amounts of food you purchase. By planning several meals that use similar fresh ingredients, you can use up perishables before they go to waste. Finally, composting is a great way to put those discarded table scraps, egg shells, coffee filters and grounds, and the occasional piece of moldy bread to good use. See the infographic for even more facts about food waste and how you can help.
It saddens me to see such a high number of food waste per person. While we doour best not to waste food, I see some very helpful tips and ideas here that can help us improve like starting a compost pile.
I would really to create more recycling jobs! Recycling is my thing, but I will pay more attention to our food waste too. Thanks, great tips!


The Google Cloud Platform is expanding to include five additional datacentre regions and three subsea cables, as the search giant's pledge to invest $30bn in building out its cloud infrastructure gathers pace.
The company is set to open the first two regions – the Netherlands and Montreal – in the first three months of 2018, with several more to follow in Los Angeles, Finland and Hong Kong, confirmed Google Cloud's vice-president, Ben Treynor, in a blog post.
"At Google, we have spent $30bn improving our infrastructure over three years, and we're not done yet. From datacentres to subsea cables, Google is committed to connecting the world and serving our cloud customers," he said.
Its datacentre expansions suggest adoption of Google's public cloud services is showing no signs of slowing, after 2017 saw the firm opening around one new region a month to keep up with demand.
The company plans to follow up these openings by commissioning three subsea cables in 2019 that will respectively connect Chile to Los Angeles, the US to Denmark and Ireland, and Hong Kong to other communication hubs in Asia.
Google outlines next phase of enterprise cloud development, including rolling out machine learning across its portfolio and building out its global datacentre presence.
The Chile to Los Angeles connection, dubbed Curie, is of particular significance to the firm, as it reportedly marks Google out as the first non-telco to build a private intercontinental cable.
"Owning the cable ourselves has some distinct benefits. Since we control the design and construction process, we can fully define the cable's technical specifications, streamline deployment, and deliver service to users and customers faster. Also, once the cable is deployed, we can make routing decisions that optimise for latency and availability," said Treynor.
The remaining two cables will be constructed in collaboration with a number of other parties, with the US to Denmark and Ireland deployment featuring the input of Facebook, Aqua Comms and Bulk Infrastructure, for example.
When the three are complete, the number of cables Google owns and operates around the world to support its cloud platform and online services will total 11.
"These new investments expand our existing cloud network. The Google network has more than 100 points of presence and over 7,500 edge caching nodes. This investment means faster and more reliable connectivity for all our users," said Treynor.


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The English art-rock band Alt-J constructs songs like it is trying to finish an argument. Every element is applied methodically and with irrefutable logic. On Alt-J's latest LP, This Is All Yours, the guitar and keyboard parts are understated — they just sort of hang there, like dry ice. They might appear to be ineffectual, but then you notice how the wan musical window dressing allows Alt-J's (surprisingly) excellent drummer to make grand entrances and dramatically raise the emotional temperature at each song's midpoint, a predictable but undeniably effective demonstration of dynamics. Then there are the lyrics, a muddled litany of fanciful gobbledygook — to quote one of the more memorable lines, "I'm gonna bed into you like a cat beds into a beanbag." And yet, because said gobbledygook is reduced to an indecipherable warble by the group's sad-elf vocalist, it also achieves a kind of grandeur. A song need not articulate a message more profound than "hey!" or "whoa-oh!" and there are a lot of hearty heys and whoa-ohs in Alt-J songs.
By the end of each track, Alt-J has intricately laid out a convincing case for the listener to feel something. If you're not moved, you better have a strong rebuttal.
Alt-J is currently bigger in its home country than it is here — so big that after its 2012 debut, An Awesome Wave, won the U.K.'s prestigious Mercury Prize and sold one million copies worldwide, an Alt-J backlash started to brew. Alt-J was swiftly dismissed with the usual epithets affixed to ascendant, overly studious rock groups whose members resemble disheveled IT drones — "bland," "boring," "normal." The scrutiny and accompanying career pressures have been blamed for the departure of founding bassist/guitarist Gwil Sainsbury in January. But the remaining members of Alt-J are prepared to win the "normal" argument as well. "I quite like people thinking that we're normal, cos we are," drummer Thom Green recently insisted to the Guardian. "… To me, the coolest bands are Portishead and Radiohead, who are completely normal." Like I said, logic.
Stateside, there are signs that Alt-J is making inroads: The group's highest-profile fan is Miley Cyrus, who incorporated Wave's catchiest song, "Fitzpleasure," into a set piece for her Bangerz tour. After offering to remix her song "4×4," Alt-J sampled Cyrus's vocal on "Hunger of the Pine," a smoldering, slow-building standout on the new record. Actually, describing an Alt-J song as "slow-building" might be redundant — even more than the debut, Yours favors deliberate, ponderous pacing and slow-release hooks that sink in over multiple listens.
Alt-J conceives its albums as brainy, multipart suites that are consciously presented as high-art installations. Sometimes this means Alt-J takes forever to get to the point: Just as Wave opened with "Intro" and then segued into one of several "Interlude" tracks, Yours is heavy on the throat-clearing. For instance, there's a four-minute song called "Arrival in Nara" that announces the arrival of the next track, "Nara," which then points to the album-closing "Leaving Nara." At times it's not clear whether Yours is a concept record or a series of GPS directions for navigating the south-central region of Japan.
No matter its high-minded affectations, Alt-J is just as calculating when it comes to fortifying its commercial prospects as it is with building majestic cathedrals of murmuring, maximalist Muzak. Along with the promotional coup of a Miley cameo, Alt-J went along with its American record company's request for a grabby radio single by producing "Left Hand Free," an uncharacteristically bluesy and thoroughly junky toss-off with a riff made to soundtrack a Chili's menu and a hilariously inept organ solo that suggests Alt-J either has a very dry sense of humor or owes an apology to the Black Keys for unintentionally ripping off and inadvertently satirizing Turn Blue.
"Left Hand Free" seems destined to become Alt-J's "Creep" — the popular favorite that is subsequently never played in concert. (Though, to be clear, "Creep" is a much better song.) Yours's other early single, "Every Other Freckle," which I hear constantly whenever I'm tuned to satellite radio, is more representative of the album and Alt-J overall, with its addictively buzzing synths, big drums, and choir of angelic aliens belting heavenly harmonies. It's what I imagine Imagine Dragons's inevitable "experimental" period will sound like.
By the way, Alt-J slagged "Left Hand Free" in that Guardian interview — "I tried to make the drums as clichéd as possible," Green said, which is a very British drummer thing to say — so if the song hits, Alt-J can enjoy the spoils of a crappy radio hit while holding it at arm's length. Like I said, methodical.
While listening to This Is All Yours, I couldn't help but fixate on a word I try not to use much anymore: indie. It sounds indie in a way that most records of its ilk don't anymore.
Surely, there are still artists who choose to operate on the fringes, forgoing commercial rewards in the pursuit of singular, idiosyncratic artistic visions. But as a word used in the common parlance to separate a large subset of semi-popular artists from a smaller body of popular pop artists, "indie" feels awfully extraneous in the post-Haim era. If there's any daylight between these two groups, it seems now to be more of a matter of success or failure in the marketplace than aesthetic design. Of course, it's possible that whether it was used as a noun or an adjective, indie never had much meaning — it has been used incongruously to denote business independence for bands signed to major labels, artistic outsiderdom for artists embraced by the mainstream, and hip cachet for marketers cravenly pushing products on young, urban, corporate-mandated demographics. But as imprecise if convenient shorthand, indie used to be semi-useful as a descriptor of a certain sound.
Indie still evokes a set of polarizing musical signifiers: folk-based, prog-influenced, punk-affiliated, ultimately pop-friendly but initially difficult-seeming and non-immediate. Perhaps that description makes you feel warmly nostalgic for your non-married, non-parenthood years. Maybe it makes you want to punch a bearded barista in the face. Either way, that version of indie no longer accurately represents whatever we're calling music for college-educated, upwardly mobile, predominantly white listeners now. The last time indie truly lived up to the indie caricature was 2009, the year of Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective, Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors, and Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear.
I realize that it might seem strange to write about the relatively recent past as if it were ancient history. It's also worth acknowledging that the aforementioned bands are still active and more than capable of continuing to produce great albums. You could go one step further and assert that the fusion of electronic music and R&B with knotty folk-rock that distinguishes those LPs contributed to the DNA of current tastemaker fodder like FKA twigs and How to Dress Well. It certainly appears to have also influenced This Is All Yours, which might as well be called Merriweather Bitte Veckatimest Pavilion.
The difference between Alt-J and indie's class of 2009 is the element of surprise — before those albums were codified by legions of imitators, they seemed bracingly original and legitimately forward-thinking. In the case of Alt-J, the appropriation of classic indie tropes is akin to the modern flash Eric Clapton supplied to ancient Robert Johnson songs, though Yours can't successfully rescue every late-aughties anachronism. For instance, it used to be relatively commonplace for an indie band to put a flute solo on an album; when Alt-J deploys softly trilling pipe music at the heart of This Is All Yours (for an instrumental snootily titled "Garden of England," no less), the preciousness is almost too potent for contemporary palates. What once conveyed elegance now seems cartoonishly stuffy, like wearing a monocle.
Alt-J sticks its landing more squarely on "The Gospel of John Hurt," an oddball electro-folk anthem inspired by the stomach evacuation scene from Alien, which swells from irregular guitar-picking and digitally distorted vocal burbles to a stately death march buoyed by a steady, finger-snap pulse. Wherever Daniel Rossen is, he might want to double-check his archives for pilfered demos.
Perhaps the truest comparison for Alt-J isn't Grizzly Bear or Radiohead but another buzzy British outfit slavishly devoted to reinvigorating faded traditions, Mumford & Sons. Like Mumford, Alt-J is a superficially quirky and preternaturally disciplined pop act. Both bands write formally perfect songs — they may, in fact, be secretly Swedish, or have access to a room of chain-smoking Swedish monkeys banging out hits behind typewriters. They're also similarly oppressive. The reason why perfection is difficult to dispute is because it's impenetrable. Perfection doesn't allow for dispute. This Is All Yours doesn't offer any personal access points; it merely dictates a set of predetermined reactions. By the end of the album, you'll be too tired to argue. You may, instead, just want to go to sleep.


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It's great to have an automatic or semi-automatic bread making machine at home. You can make your own bread according to your specifications....no salt....no sugar....you can choose the flour you want etc. Needless to say it takes some experimentation to do so. You must have the patience and time, these are two things I have plenty of. I bought myself a bread making machine which has its book of recipes but I had to do some changes.... I am now presenting you with a "Fait Accompli" just in case you a bread machine. By the way it is a De Longhi which can be switched to a mini oven when needed.
When you get the right recipe then you can use your mixer and oven. I haven't tried it yet. Here how it goes using the bread machine for 1 kg of spelt bread. Please bear with me I will present you with proper instructions for mixer/oven use.
- 400 ml hot water 37 degrees C.
- 50 gm rye flour. (Alevri Sikaleos).
- 50 gm flax (linarosporo) seed.
- 40 gm sesame seeds ( toast it if you wish).
- 35 gm pumpkin seeds (kolokithosporo).
- 50 gm sunflower seeds (iliosporo).
- 30 gm fresh yeast.
- 1 tsp. baking powder.
- Water @ 37 degrees.
- Whole meal spelt flour, rye flour, flax, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, honey, baking powder and finally fresh yeast broken in small pieces by hand.
- Start mixing on speed 2.When everything is mixed increase speed to 3 – 4.
- Mix for 5 minutes.
- Transfer dough to your bread maker's mold having already mounted the paddle.
- Insert in your bread machine with switch on bread making.
- Push button to start.
- Quickly choose AU 7, 1kg, medium browning.
- Push again to start.
- It will start, stop a few times till it starts to work continuously.
- After about 50 minutes the machine will beep.
- Quickly take out from oven, transfer dough on to the kitchen table.
- Wash the mold, take out the paddle, dry the mold, put some oil on the bottom for the bread not to stick.
- Return mold with dough to the bread making machine shape with your hand and press start.
- Let the bread rise and cook.
- At the end of the cycle, the bread machine will beep, and clock will go of and on for a few minutes. Then it will beep again and shut down.
- When you hear the final beep. The bread is ready.
- It should just drop off.
- Let the bread cool down.


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Antibody was affinity purified using an epitope specific to CDK11 immobilized on solid support. The epitope recognized by A300-310A maps to a region between residues 50 and 100 of human Cell Division Cycle 2-like 2 using the numbering given in SwissProt entry Q9UQ88 (GeneID 728642). The epitope that is recognized by A300-310A is also found in CDC1L1 (Gene ID 984).Immunoglobulin concentration was determined by extinction coefficient: absorbance at 280 nm of 1.4 equals 1.0 mg of IgG.
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Q: A method using different flavors of it's own private members class A{

private:

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  std::vector<class X> flavor2

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Now I want to call useVectorOfX() from another class, giving it either flavor1 or flavor2 depending on need. I can think of three ways -
Way 1: Use Getter Methods; but it seems unnatural for class A to get its own data through a Getter Method.
class B{

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Way 2: Make the two vectors public (dirty)
Way 3: Separate Methods?
class B{

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A: What about way 1 in a more descriptive format:
class A {
public:
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        flavor1 = 0, // used as array index, first element must be zero
        flavor2,
    } vector_flavor;
    static const int number_of_flavors = 2;

    void useVectorOfX(vector_flavor flav){
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        // ...
    }
private:
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}

A object; // lol
object.useVectorOfX(A::flavor1);

A: I would go for option 3. Using
void useVectorOfXForFlavor1(){
    useVectorOfX(flavor1);
}

seems perfectly reasonable.

A: What about something like:
std::vector<class X> flavors[2];
...
public:
  void useVectorOf(int X) { useVectorOf(flavors[X]); }
private:
  void useVectorOf(std::vector<class X> &v) { ...; }

Using an enum rather than a plain int would be nicer.

A: use
class B{

public:

  A *a = new A();
  a->useVectorOfX(a->getFlavor1());
}

this is better because you create only one method and and you dont decrare members of the class public unnecessarily.

A: You've got all the technically correct answers, but the real issue here is the interface design, so I'd like to address that.
First, passing object's own private data as a parameter it its own method is ... well, bizarre, to say the least. Seems that you are trying to solve a low-level issue by exposing your internal implementation details to the user, and making him dependent on any internal changes.
My first question would be "is the useVectorOfX method really designed to work on any vector<X>?

*

*yes: you probably should have 2 methods, doSomething(const vector<X>& clientsData) and doSomething() // using your private data

*no: second question: "is this (semantically, from user's perspective, not code-wise) the same operation"?

*

*yes: use one method with modifier, as per @nightcracker, e.g. doSomething(A::highPrecision)

*no: use 2 methods as per @Bo. This will allow you to change the internal implementation in the future in a user-transparent way


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Reactions to Hobby Lobby Case From Conservative Leaders
Posted by Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) 0sc on July 01, 2014
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:
Today's Supreme Court decision makes clear that the Obama administration cannot trample on the religious freedoms that Americans hold dear. ObamaCare is the single worst piece of legislation to pass in the last 50 years, and I was glad to see the Supreme Court agree that this particular ObamaCare mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Becket Fund Press Release:
"This is a landmark decision for religious freedom. The Supreme Court recognized that Americans do not lose their religious freedom when they run a family business," said Lori Windham, Senior Counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and counsel for Hobby Lobby. "This ruling will protect people of all faiths. The Court's reasoning was clear, and it should have been clear to the government. You can't argue there are no alternative means when your agency is busy creating alternative means for other people." The decision also has important implications for over 50 pending lawsuits brought by non-profit religious organizations.
Speaker John Boehner:
Today's decision is a victory for religious freedom and another defeat for an administration that has repeatedly crossed constitutional lines in pursuit of big government. The President's health care law remains an unworkable mess and a drag on our economy.
Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman:
The central issue of this case was whether the federal government can coerce Americans to violate their deeply held religious beliefs, and thankfully the Court has upheld the proper limits on the government's power. The fact that Americans had to bring this case in the first place reveals once again just how intrusive ObamaCare is.
Texas Senator Ted Cruz:
This ruling is a repudiation of the Obama Administration's untenable position that people with sincerely held religious beliefs should be forced to comply with an unconstitutional mandate while a parade of waivers, exemptions, and delays are granted for purely commercial and political interests. In making this ruling the Court relied on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was passed with broad bipartisan support, proving the strength and necessity of the legislation and showing the nation the effectiveness members of Congress can have when they work together to protect religious liberty.
Curt Levy, President of Committee for Justice:
Finally, today's decision is another legal setback for President Obama's "pen and phone" strategy of focusing on aggressive, unilateral executive branch actions – rather than working with Congress – and comes just four days after the Court unanimously rejected his attempt to expand the president's recess appointment power. The contraception mandate at issue in Hobby Lobby was not contained in the ObamaCare law enacted by Congress; instead it was the result of aggressive rule making by President Obama's Department of Health and Human Services.
Jay Sekulow, ACLJ:
The court clearly recognized that closely-held corporations enjoy religious liberty rights just as they enjoy rights to free speech. American citizens do not lose their religious freedom when they form a corporation and try to live out their religious values in the conduct of their business.
Ed Whelan, The National Review:
This ruling will not lead to the parade of horribles that the dissent trots out. Justice Ginsburg, in her wildly overwrought dissent, offers a compatible reading on this narrow point, as she asserts that the government has shown that there is no less restrictive means that would "satisfy the challengers' religious objections to providing insurance coverage for certain contraceptives.


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"Classrooms" are certainly in session. Back in 2014, Google launched Classroom, a productivity and assignment management tool for teachers and students. This January, Apple followed suit with its own "Classroom App," designed to help educators manage students' iPads.
Now, Microsoft is launching its own "Classroom," available for free to all Office 365 Education users.
Microsoft's Classroom operates much like a lightweight learning management system—similar in some respects to what Google's currently offers. Each Classroom is an online homepage where teachers can create student groups, distribute assignments and files, and share events and reminders via Outlook. The tool is also integrated with students' OneNote Class Notebook, a digital binder where students can take and share notes, complete assignments and organize class materials.
Also, Microsoft Classroom is integrated with 25 different learning management systems including Canvas, Edmodo, Schoology and Brightspace. This means grades on assignments delivered via Classroom can automatically feed into supported third-party gradebooks. There's also a "School Data Sync" feature that connects to schools' student information systems, including two of the most popular choices, PowerSchool and Infinite Campus, and automatically updates class student rosters in Classroom.
Classroom is just one of a dizzying platter of updates for Microsoft's education customers announced today. Other new releases include "Microsoft Forms," which allows teachers to create surveys and quizzes and analyze responses in an Excel spreadsheet. There's also a "Take a Test" app that allows teachers to lock down students' Windows devices so that they cannot access websites, local files, or have copy and paste privileges when taking tests online.
The company has also boasts an education-specific app store with thousands of apps, which can be provisioned to Windows devices.
To those who have been following Apple's and Google's education efforts, many of Microsoft's new features may sound similar. But what Microsoft may lack in timing, or brand appeal, it makes up for with owning one of the most coveted sources of kids' attention: Minecraft.
There are more details about Microsoft's plans for its $2 billion block-building blockbuster. In June, educators can get early access to Minecraft: Education Edition, available for free on Windows 10 and OS X El Capitan in 11 languages and 41 countries. This version, designed for use in classrooms, allows teachers to keep track of students' activity. Students will also get a camera tool to take photos of their creations and store them in online portfolios.
Will these updates help Microsoft get its groove back in the U.S. education market? Only 22 percent of all K-12 devices shipped in 2015 ran the Windows operating system, according to market research firm, Futuresource Consulting. The company fares much better in the global market, however, accounting for 43 percent of all devices shipped.


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Radulf van der Beeke (Breda, 2e helft 14e eeuw – Tongeren, 3 november 1403) was deken van het kapittel van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Tongeren. Hij was een letterkundige en specialist in de Roomse liturgie, alsook lesgever in de priorij van Corsendonck. Hij was één jaar rector van de universiteit van Keulen.

Andere namen
 Radulf van Breda
 Radulf of Roland van Tongeren
 Latijn: Radulphus de Rivo

Levensloop

Radulf werd geboren in Breda, in het hertogdom Brabant. Dit moet in de tweede helft van de 14e eeuw plaats gevonden hebben. Zijn broer Lambert was pastoor van Groot-Zundert en 2 neven werkten voor de prins-bisschop van Luik.

Radulf studeerde theologie in Rome. Hij zou er les Oudgrieks gehad hebben van Simon Atumanos, de latere aartsbisschop van Thebe. Vanaf 1372 was hij werkzaam als kanunnik in het prinsbisdom Luik, meer bepaald in het kapittel van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Tongeren. In 1381 kreeg Radulf de bevordering tot deken van het kapittel, een functie die hij behield voor de rest van zijn leven. Nochtans was hij vele malen afwezig in Tongeren.

Van 1382 tot 1383 verbleef Radulf opnieuw in Rome. Hij keerde terug met aantekeningen over oude geschriften en met enkele zeldzaam te vinden boeken. Zo bezat hij een originele Oudgriekse tekst van het Nieuwe Testament, waarvan later Erasmus gebruik zou maken. Van 1396 tot 1399 studeerde hij aan de universiteit van Keulen. Gedurende 1 jaar was hij er zelfs rector (1397). Finaal behaalde hij de diploma's van meester in de vrije kunsten (artes), doctor in de rechten en, wat later, doctor in het kerkelijk recht (1399). Hij werkte kortstondig aan de kerkelijke rechtbank van Keulen (1398). Nadien keerde hij terug naar Tongeren. Hij gaf les aan de priorij van Corsendonck in het hertogdom Brabant. Hij reorganiseerde het kapittel van Tongeren en eiste van eenieder kerkelijke discipline. Het verwaarlozen van de lectuur van de getijden kon hij niet verdragen. Hiervan zijn nota's van zijn hand teruggevonden.

Radulf stierf in Tongeren in 1403. Hij werd begraven in het klooster van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw, vlak aan de kapel van Allerheiligen. Zijn testament bevatte schenkingen van manuscripten aan meerdere kapittels in het prinsbisdom Luik.

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Radulf schreef meerdere werken, naast het verzamelen van manuscripten en boeken. Hij was een kerkjurist en kroniekschrijver. Zijn bekendste werk is de Historia Episcoporum Leodiensium, ofwel de geschiedenis van de bisschoppen van Luik. Dit werk kende later, nadat de boekdrukkunst was uitgevonden, vele herdrukken. Andere werken handelden over de Roomse liturgie, met onder meer getijdengebeden, psalmen en kerkelijke kalenders. Hij schreef ook een Oudgriekse grammatica.

Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 14e eeuw
Persoon in het prinsbisdom Luik
Zuid-Nederlands theoloog (voor 1830)
Zuid-Nederlands kanunnik (voor 1830)
Zuid-Nederlands hellenist (voor 1830)
Latijns schrijver
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