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Q: Black screen when open Time Machine on Yosemite I use a 13 Macbook with a thunderbolt display on Yosemite. Since the installation of last osx version, if I try to open Time Machine I can only see a completely black screen on laptop screen. The other screen remains with previously opened windows. So, time machine is completely unusable. I can only use ESC to exit.
Any ideas of what can be happening here?
If I don't connect my second monitor, works fine.
This is my displays configuration:

A: Unplugging my second display 'solved' the issue. Not ideal, but an adequate solution for me to get into Time Machine quickly on the odd occasion.

A: If you have this issue using Yosemite, i found a turn around:

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*Go to Preferences - Mission Control

*Uncheck "Displays have separate Spaces"

*logout and login

This will fix Time Machine to display black screen in one monitor. The side effect of this is you loose the abilitty to use monitors as separate spaces but isn't that bad.

A: Yes, the issue seems to be with handling multiple monitors and spaces. I found a surprisingly simple workaround, that worked for me, without switching anything on and off, rebooting or changing settings permanently:

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*Go into your System Preferences, Choose Displays and check the button for mirroring your two monitors (for procedure see Apple's instructions under Arrange your displaysenter link description here)

*Enter your Time Machine and do what you have to do.

*When you are finished, uncheck the Mirror displays button.

That's it. Curious to know if it worked for others?
If it did, Apple might think of just doing that. Besides, re-experimenting the past with two exactly identical images somehow adds to the mystique of the experience.

A: Yes, happens identically to me. As the second monitor is operational try ESC (if not, hold the off button for three seconds, the option menu will appear on your second menu, click sleep then space bar to exit sleep and primary monitor will return). Now switch off and unplug the secondary monitor, try again, voila, all (should) works fine.

A: Running OS X Yosemite on a Mac mini and simply hitting the off button on the secondary screen worked just fine.  No need to unplug or logoff.

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Turkey's first nano satellite was launch into space.
Turkey receives first signals from its mini satellite Grizu-263A
ISTANBUL JAN 14, 2022 - 12:28 PM GMT+3
Turkey's first mini satellite Grizu-263A is launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., Jan. 13, 2022. (AA Photo)
Designed by a team of young engineers, Turkey's first mini satellite successfully emitted its first signals, its developer said late Thursday.
"The first signals were successfully received from our satellite Grizu-263A. Our satellite is alive!!!," Grizu-263 Space Team said on Twitter.
Designed by a team of students from Bülent Ecevit University in the northern province of Zonguldak, Turkey's first PocketQube satellite project was launched into space on Thursday on U.S. aerospace company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in the U.S. state of Florida.
"Pride. We designed, manufactured, tested and launched into space. Now our satellite, Grizu-263A, is on its duty safe and sound," space team captain Çağla Aytaç Dursun said in a tweet.
The Grizu-263 Space Team has been known for its efforts on space and satellite technologies since it was established in 2016.
Backed by the country's leading steel manufacturer Erdemir, the team launched many projects that won various trophies in national and international contests.
Named after a firedamp ("grizu" in Turkish) explosion that killed 263 miners in the Kozlu district in 1992, the Grizu-263 has been working on the PocketQube satellite for the last five years.
Students in the northern province of Zonguldak watch as Turkey's first mini satellite Grizu-263A is launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., Jan. 13, 2022. (IHA Photo)
A PocketQube is a miniaturized satellite for space research that is 5 cubic centimeters (0.31 cubic inches) and has a mass of no more than 250 grams.
Grizu-263A is designed to operate in a low-Earth orbit of roughly 525 kilometers (326 miles) for four years and eight months. One of its missions will be to take photos of the Earth.
"We will break a new ground globally when we succeed in taking a photo with a PocketQube satellite," Dursun had said last week.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also praised the launch.
"I congratulate our young people, teachers and supporting institutions that showed the success of taking part in this project that was the first from Turkey," Erdoğan said on Twitter.
The Grizu-263 Space Team won first prize in Turkey's largest technology and aviation festival Teknofest in 2019, he added.
The team aims to further rev up efforts to expand its presence in international competitions.
The Grizu-263 has participated in NASA's satellite competition "AAS CanSat" since 2017. It ranked 25th in 2017 and second in 2018 and 2019. In 2020 and 2021, the team's projects ranked fourth.
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''a sole proprietorship operates a business herself or himself, keeping any profit which are made after deducting tax'' (Gowthorpe, 2011, pp.3).This form of business is well known as self-employed, it is a simplest structure to set-up in the United Kingdom law. There is no legal distinction between owner and a business. You are personally responsible for any debts and obligations that you make.you retain all your business profits after you have paid tax on them.
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This is only another rough idea, I thought about increasing the height of the tds but I had little success. In the next picture, there are 3 groups with 3 tds, but in the second tds the picot is a wee bit bigger and then rolls 5 times, the third again is a little bigger than the previous and rolls 7 times.
Start with a normal picot and one double stitch.
Start with a picot a little higher than previous tds and one double stitch.
I designed another little motif, this time it is a triangular one. I confess I already shared this with Muskaan (muskaan's T*I*P*S), last week I sent her a close up picture and she's a very talented tatter, she could count my stitches and replicated it in a nanosecond! So, for I haven't written down the pattern yet, you bet she has my full permission to post her stitches' count in her blog! Thank you, Muskaan!
I also have other WIPs started, I hope I will stay committed and finish something, sooner or later!
http://tat-calendar.blogspot.com/search?q=riego+edging+15 , I found it easily, thanks to the hard work of sweet tatters who shares their time and knowledge in Craftree.
That will be an edging for the fan, I haven't decided yet for attaching it to the fabric or if I tat more rounds that would substitute the fabric.
Hmm, I did the 4-wrap tds differently. Intersting - will h ave to try your method and compare.


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Little Deaths was one of the random library picks which have become a rare occurrence since I started blogging. The cover caught my eye and the 1960s setting for a strange murder mystery had me itching to know more. Ruth's story hooked me in, but it wasn't until I finished and learned it was based on a real case that it really started to play on my mind.
The book centres on the murder of two small children, seemingly snatched from their bedroom in the middle of the night. The facts of the real case (like dates and court proceedings) are woven with the fictionalised names and an imagining of how the crime may have played out. What's not fiction is the reaction of the public, the condemnation of a single mother because of her promiscuity and 'immoral' ways. In reality, as in Little Deaths, Alice Crimmins was lambasted in the press and labelled the "sexpot" on trial. The central question of this case, in reality and in fiction, wasn't 'who murdered these children?', but 'how could a mother live like this?'.
Focused on these larger questions surrounding the case and Ruth's conduct, Little Deaths was literary more than thriller. Partly to blame for this condemnation of Ruth is her perceived lack of reaction to the events unfolding. We want to see grief etched across a mother's face, if there's stoic silence the public presumes guilt. Ruth was a frustrating and unlikeable character, but I couldn't help feeling sad because this aloofness shouldn't have condemned her. But Ruth is also surprisingly absent from the story. Instead there is a focus on the cops who are tailing her and investigating the case and newspaper reporter Pete, who becomes increasingly obsessed with the case. While I found this intriguing at first, I just couldn't fathom his growing fascination with Ruth and by the end it felt utterly bizaare.
This is not a murder mystery, but it is an interesting exploration of what happens after and raises some fascinating questions about what was, and in a more unconscious sense still is, expected of women. I found the setting and the writing quite evocative and it was certainly a compelling story. While I appreciate Flint's imagined conclusion for Little Deaths, I can't help but wonder now if there's someone who got away with murder in reality because a mother was on trial for her morals.


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Amateur astronomer spots rare first light from exploding star
Updated Feb 22, 2018 | 18:49 IST | PTI
Scientists have obtained the first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of a massive star
Scientists have obtained the first view of the initial burst of light from the explosion of a massive star, thanks to lucky snapshots taken by an amateur astronomer in Argentina. While testing a new camera, Victor Buso captured images of a distant galaxy before and after the supernova's "shock breakout" - when a supersonic pressure wave from the exploding core of the star hits and heats gas at the star's surface to a very high temperature, causing it to emit light and rapidly brighten.
To date, no one has been able to capture the "first optical light" from a supernova, since stars explode seemingly at random in the sky, and the light from shock breakout is fleeting. The new data provide important clues to the physical structure of the star just before its catastrophic demise and to the nature of the explosion itself.
"Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event," said Alex Filippenko, an astronomer at University of California, Berkeley in the US. "Observations of stars in the first moments they begin exploding provide information that cannot be directly obtained in any other way," said Filippenko, who followed up the discovery with observations that proved critical to a detailed analysis of explosion, called SN 2016gkg.
On September 20, 2016, Buso was testing a new camera on his 16-inch telescope by taking a series of short-exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor. Luckily, he examined these images immediately and noticed a faint point of light quickly brightening near the end of a spiral arm that was not visible in his first set of images.
Astronomer Melina Bersten and her colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata in Argentina soon learned of the serendipitous discovery and realised that Buso had caught a rare event, part of the first hour after light emerges from a massive exploding star. She estimated Buso's chances of such a discovery, his first supernova, at one in 10 million or perhaps even as low as one in 100 million. "It's like winning the cosmic lottery," said Filippenko.
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York University is a state-owned research institution of higher learning located in Toronto. IT ranks 19th among all the universities in Canada. It is working hard towards fulfilling its promises of excellence in all researches and teachings. This is an evironment of applied and professional fields in which they test the boundaries and structures of knowledge and foster critical intellect.
The scholars at York University gain knowledge from professors who are foremost in the future of world health, sustainable business interventions, and much more. It gives students the avenue to merge different areas of study where they can embark on double major or register in blended courses.
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Available Courses: All
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Eligible Applicant: International Students
Benefits of Glendon International Scholarship
The candidates who get selected by York University will be awarded $5,000 – $10,000 to aid their studies.
Eligibility for Glendon International Scholarship
To be eligible for Glendon International Scholarship, applicants must satisfy the requirements below:
Each applicant must have a 9-digit York reference number that will be received within 5 business days of applying for admission to York University.
All applicants must be international students and are expected to have a Study Permit to study in Canada.
They must have applied to an undergraduate degree program at York intended to begin in  Fall 2022.
They must have applied to York straight from high school for no over two years after graduation, and have no prior university or college studies.
They must have an outstanding academic history with a minimum "A" average or equivalent.
They Must have displayed leadership via community service or merit in the arts, sports, or other fields of individual accomplishment.
They should be nominated by their high school (schools may nominate one student only). The nominated student will be considered for the International Entrance Scholarship of Distinction, the International Circle of Scholars Scholarships, the Global Leader of Tomorrow Award, and the York University Academic Excellence Scholarships.
All applicants must communicate with their school guidance counselor, principal, or administration on the York International Student Scholarship & Award Application, and have confirmation that they are the student from that school who has been nominated.
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1 Kings 2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying; Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
ERV(i) 39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying; Behold, thy servants be in Gath.
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From "Harry Potter" to auctioneering to English, bullsh*t college majors are nothing new. But one woman is taking her bullsh*t to an entirely new level by studying UK boyband One Direction.
Millie Lovelock, a student getting her master's degree in English at Otago University in New Zealand, has specifically chosen to devote her research to the relationship between One Direction and their fanbase.
It's very remote and very helpful. Because as a young woman there's not a lot being provided to you, no one's really talking to you about your sexuality. It makes sense to retreat into this online community where you can talk about this kind of stuff.
Ultimately, Lovelock hopes to expand the minds of the general public and blur the line between high-brow and low-brow entertainment.
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New Millwall deal for David Forde
Millwall goalkeeper David Forde has signed a new three-year contract.
The 34-year-old Republic of Ireland international could have left the Den for nothing this summer and had previously been linked with a move to Celtic.
But Forde, the Lions' player of the year last season, has opted to commit his future to the south London club.
"I'm absolutely delighted," he told the club website.
"I suppose it's been an ongoing saga. Because of where the club was towards the end of the season, with the new manager (Ian Holloway) coming in, it was a bit prolonged.
"I'm chuffed that we've managed to get it sorted and it's great to be signed. Going forward I think we can be really successful."


Shells, seaweed or driftwood if you're on the beach.
This is a wonderful activity to fill a day in the great outdoors. It encourages kids to explore and interact in the natural world through hunting for interesting foraged finds before creating their very own work of art.
First of all get armed with buckets or bags and go out foraging. Take inspiration from the list above but go with what you find. If it's Autumn, gather a collection of colourful leaves or if you're on the beach be inspired by shells, stones and seaweed.
Next decide where you are going to create your work of art. If creating on a hard surface, it can be handy to give the kids a start by chalking out a pattern that they can arrange their gathered finds in. Encourage the children to look at the symmetrical patterns in nature (flower petals, spider webs, leaf skeletons) to help them engage and give them some further inspiration.
Now start to arrange your foraged finds in a circular pattern – see picture. It's useful if an adult starts or even sets out the pattern the first time you do this, to give the kids an idea of what you want to achieve. Alternatively, set them and their creativity free to develop their own nature mandala.


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Eliza Hittman | 101 mins | digital (HD) | 1.85:1 | UK & USA / English | 15 / PG-13
Autumn (Sidney Flanigan) is a teenage girl from rural Pennsylvania, and she's pregnant. She's young, her family clearly aren't well off, she's not in a relationship with the father — the film explains none of this to us explicitly, but it's all clear. So is it any wonder that Autumn decides she wants an abortion? Her local sex health clinic's attitude is to show her a video about why it's evil. Her conservative parents obviously wouldn't understand; especially, you think, her dad, who is at least verbally abusive. And so with the help of her cousin, Skylar (Talia Ryder), they scrape together what little money they have, throw a simple lie in the parents' direction, and set off for New York City, where Autumn can get the procedure without parental consent.
Clearly, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is not impressed by the state of things in the US of A. It's an indictment of what women have to endure to have control over their own bodies. The so-called "Land of the Free" isn't so free for some people. All this is stuff many of us know, thanks to recent political movements and counter-campaigns to change women's rights. But by showing us a 'case study', as it were, of one girl's experience, writer-director Eliza Hittman makes the real-world effect of these political decisions so very tangible. (It's interesting that the film is quite prominently a UK coproduction. One suspects that non-US influence and/or cash injection may've been necessary.)
Lest you think the film is some kind of feminist polemic, it comments on all of this without ever saying much of it explicitly. It is, if anything, a witness statement; a factually-stated case from which we infer the unjustness of the system because we are capable of empathy. (The natural counterpoint being that, of course, if you showed it to certain groups they'd not feel the same level of care or compassion, but that's their failing as human beings.) Despite the big issues at play, and these unavoidable conclusions, it's a subtle and quiet film, with much left unsaid. The scene which gives the film its title is a series of questions posed to Autumn before she can have the abortion. Some are just yes/no answers; some she can't even bring herself to respond. They're not specific enough to tell us what exactly has happened in her life, but they indicate and hint at so much. And that's ok — we don't need to know the totality of her personal experience to empathise with what she's going through now; just that she's not coming from a loving, supportive place that might make it all a bit easier.
As Autumn, Flanigan is incredible; doubly so as it's a debut performance (apparently she beat over 100 actresses for the role. Well done, casting director!) Like the film, she conveys so much with so little; so much bottled up emotion. Skylar is a great character, too: so supportive, but not incapable of feeling her own emotions. At one point, as the trip unexpectedly drags on over several days, it all gets a bit much and she has to go off by herself for a bit. That kind of behaviour helps accentuate the realness of events — even when you want to be supportive, sometimes you need a little break. No one's perfect. Ryder has a couple of minor credits to her name, but both girls deserve to go on to much more on the strength of their work here.
Some viewers will find the film's style too slow, too wandering, aimless; but, for me, that further underlined the reality. All that time spent just getting from place to place, or just waiting around until it's time — that's life. Indeed, for me, it only heightened the film's tension, which crushes in all the time, throughout. Or perhaps not tension, exactly, but worry; uncertainty; anxiety. What's going to happen? What's going to go wrong? How are they going to deal with this, that, and the other? Horribly, this is probably what it's like to be a young woman a lot of the time, especially in America. That's the film's power: it takes a real-life experience lived by so many, and it doesn't just show it to us, it makes us feel it.
At one point, a professional tells Autumn that "whatever your decision is, is totally fine, as long as it's yours." It's a moment of much-needed kindness, because, in Autumn's experience, that is not how things are — but it is how they should be.
Never Rarely Sometimes Always is available on Sky Cinema and Now TV from today. It placed 2nd on my list of The Best Films I Saw in 2020.
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2 thoughts on "Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)"
ghostof82 on November 16, 2020 at 7:31 pm said:
Hmm, this will have to go on my 'to-watch' list.
badblokebob on November 16, 2020 at 10:25 pm said:
I will say, as some kind of caveat, that Sky Cinema themselves have given it 1.5 stars — though I don't really get that, for two reasons.
(1) it's not a great way to promote your content!
(2) I can fully understand this is not a film for everyone; it's the kind of film where some people would probably say "nothing happens". But when you've got an issue like this, which is affecting people right now so acutely, doing away with movie histrionics and presenting it with a high degree of realism seems a wholly appropriate way to handle it, to me.


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Composed of ipe timber, steel piles and beams, the bridge accomplished an ADA-accepted grade change that also achieved skimmer boat clearance. At the peak of the bridge's elevation, which is also the juncture of the two pier systems, the pier widens with two aluminum grating overlooks. The overlook faces the Anacostia River and includes benches and lighting; the overlook facing DC's waterways will include interpretative graphics illustrating the history of DC's waterways, the operation systems of the current water facilities, and water quality improvement initiatives that DC water is developing. When completed, the Pier from The Yards to Diamond Teague will add another 2,500 linear foot section of the Riverwalk to the more than 10-miles completed to date.


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332 F. 2d 105 - United States v. Hill
332 F2d 105 United States v. Hill
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Lawrence HILL, Defendant-Appellant.
United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.
R. Eugene Pincham and Charles B. Evins, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Edward V. Hanrahan, U.S. Atty., Douglas G. Brown, Asst. U.S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., John Peter Lulinski, John Powers Crowley, Asst. U.S. Attys., of counsel, for appellee.
Before DUFFY, SCHNACKENBERG and CASTLE, Circuit Judges.
DUFFY, Circuit Judge.
Two alleged sales of narcotics are involved in this case. The defendant was found guilty by a jury verdict. In the trial, the Government was required to rely largely on the testimony of one Brown who was a 'special employee' of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and was also a thrice-convicted felon, one of the convictions being on the charge of post-office safe robbery.
Defendant contends he did not receive a fair or impartial trial by reason of the trial court's advocacy for and on behalf of the prosecution, the Court's cross-examination of the defendant and defendant's witnesses, and the alleged prejudicial and erroneous instructional comment on the evidence and other comments.
We think this was a close case. Defendant, at all times, denied trafficking in narcotics. None of the pre-recorded currency nor the narcotics or paraphernalia used in connection therewith, were found in defendant's possession. The testimony of 'special employee' Brown was practically uncorroborated except for the agents' identification of defendant's voice which was heard by the agents for the first time over the telephone and a battery-powered transmitting and receiving set, sometimes referred to as a 'Fargo Device.'
We agree with the Court's statement in Gomila v. United States, 5 Cir., 146 F.2d 372, 373-374: '* * * A fair and impartial trial is guaranteed to every defendant, and fundamentally means a trial before an impartial judge and by an impartial jury. In aid of truth and in furtherance of justice, the court may question a witness,-- in fact, he may call and question a witness not used by either party,-- but in so doing the court should be careful to preserve an attitude of impartiality and guard against giving the jury any impression that the court was of the opinion that defendant was guilty. * * *'
Also pertinent is United States v. Carmel, 7 Cir., 267 F.2d 345, 350 where this Court stated: 'We realize that an alert and capable judge at times feels that he can assist in developing the evidence by participating in the interrogation of witnesses. However, he would ordinarily do well to forego such intrusion upon the functions of counsel, thus maintaining the court's position of impartiality, in the eyes of the ever-observant jurors. The record in this case reveals no justification for the extensive intervention of the able trial judge.'
A reading of the record discloses that in the case at bar, the trial court did participate extensively in the cross-examination of the defendant. The Government was represented by able trial counsel and there was no apparent reason why that counsel needed any help on the cross-examination of the defendant or defendant's witnesses. The trial court asked thirty-five questions of the defendant on cross-examination, and a number of them were so phrased that the jury might well have received the impression that the judge was doubtful of the truthfulness of many of the defendant's statements made under oath.
In contrast to the extensive questioning by the Court of defendant and his witnesses, the Court asked only two questions of Government witnesses. Defendant's counsel claims, with some justification, that each of these questions brought out answers very favorable to the Government. Defendant's counsel points out the trial court had heard the testimony of these same witnesses in a previous trial and therefore knew what the answers would be. We are reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the extensive cross-examination of the defendant and his witnesses was, under the circumstances of this case, error.
On this appeal, the Government does not, and indeed could not, contend the trial judge had not, time after time, intruded himself in the cross-examination of defendant and his witnesses, but the Government does contend that any errors were harmless and points out that no objections were made by defendant's counsel to some of the Court's questions which are now criticized.
Counsel for defendant in a criminal case, is indeed in a difficult and hazardous predicament in finding it necessary to make frequent objections in the presence of a jury to questions propounded by the trial judge. The jury is almost certain to get the idea that the judge is on the side of the Government. The cloak of impartiality which the judge should wear is destroyed.
However, the record before us shows that defendant's counsel did, on a number of occasions, the best he could in protecting his client's interest while attempting not to antagonize the jury. As an illustration we quote the following:
Counsel: 'Respectfully, Your Honor, I object to the Court's inquiry.
Court: The objection is overruled. Go ahead.
Counsel: I have to make the objections, of course, Your Honor, and so--
Court: You may make them.
Counsel: I have to make such objections, Your Honor, with the greatest delicacy.'We hold the cumulative effect of the Court's questions and statements constituted prejudicial error requiring a new trial.
Defendant offered into evidence and the Court excluded, a tape recording of his telephone voice, in order that the jury might have the benefit of comparing his voice thereon with his alleged voice on the Government's recording.
Inasmuch as a new trial will be held, the question probably will again be raised as to the admissibility of the recording of his voice which plaintiff had made. If such recording were made by a 'Fargo Device' and a proper foundation is laid as to the manner and conditions under which the recording were made, we suggest that a question of credibility is involved.
Reversed and remanded for a new trial.


The Apple tax case has thrown the spotlight on Ireland's industrial policy and some of its negative consequences. For more than fifty years, Irish industrial (or development) policy has centred on the attraction of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment). FDI has increasingly meant US MNEs (Multi-National Enterprises) most recently in the software/internet sectors. Such firms now provide a very significant proportion of total employment in Ireland. Not only are these jobs a crucial part of the national economy, but also, because they are often relatively skilled, usually well paid and provide a regular income, they have also contributed to reducing economic inequality in Ireland.
Within the overall strategic prioritisation of FDI, tax incentives appear to have played an ever increasing role. On the one hand Ireland's tax regime – and in particular the 12.5% corporation tax – has become a symbol of national sovereignty. On the other hand critics abroad claim that Ireland is engaged in a 'race to the bottom' or even worse, has become a tax haven for multi-nationals. The policy runs the risk of creating a zero/sum competitive relationship between Ireland and other member states. Less obviously, the reliance on this 'Tax-Based Industrial Policy' has deleterious effects within Ireland, the undermining of the rights of Irish workers due to a lack of trade union representation within the sphere of US MNEs, thanks in part to political lobbying is one such downside.
For some time growing popular anger at MNE tax evasion has pushed national states towards international co-operation. Within the OECD the BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) Package aims to curb some of the most egregious practices. The attempts by the EU to develop a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) also aim at increased transparency and reduced tax competition between member states. Such international measures put the spotlight on Ireland's role as US MNE's tax haven of choice: as international commentators have pointed out, the Irish 'national business model ' appears unsustainable.
TASC together with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS) aim to investigate and analyse key themes related to the area of FDI. This project, with the input of acknowledged experts will consider the following themes – the quantity and quality of jobs within the foreign-owned sector, a history of tax based Irish industrial policy and the mechanics of the Irish corporate tax regime as we understand it in 2017. International experts will add contributions and insight from the perspective of European experiences of FDI.
The project aims to stimulate informed public discussion underpinned by evidence-based research. Throughout the lifespan of the study TASC will be hosting public events (please see events) whereby discussion and debate will occur in parallel to the reserach process. The project will be led by Professor James Wickham.


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The concept of Advance Format storage devices, with their underlying 4k sector sizes, is one which can cause a certain amount of confusion to newcomers. This is unfortunate, because once you understand the basics it is actually very simple – and the same rules apply across all 4k devices, regardless of vendor. Sadly, some of those vendors who do not yet support Advanced Format have taken the predictable route of attempting to use it as a method of attacking those that do. It is of course in their interest to confuse things further. At the time when I wrote this page, I worked for a vendor whose products did support Advanced Format, so this page was my attempt to bring clarity to the subject. To keep things simple, the page you are reading will discuss the basics, while the deep dive page will be a deep dive for those who like to look under the covers.
If you really want things simplified, to the extent that you don't want to understand what's happening and just need answers, you can skip right down to the section called "So What's The Answer? What Do I Do?".
Like many newer disk technologies, Violin Memory flash arrays have a 4k sector size rather than the traditional 512 byte sector used on legacy disk drives. This larger sector size allows for higher capacity storage as well as the potential for improved performance, which is why it has been embraced by the likes of Western Digital, HGST and Seagate via a collective industry group called IDEMA. Not all software is able to handle 4k sector sizes, so Advanced Format storage systems have two options for presenting their storage: emulation mode (known as "512e") and native mode (known as "4k"). What does this mean? Well, it means that the size of a sector – i.e. the smallest possible amount of data which can be written or read – increases eightfold from 512 bytes to 4k. This has many positive advantages, because while you may think you are writing just x bytes of data to your storage system, you are in fact writing x + n, where n accounts for additional metadata such as address marks, sync marks and error correction codes (ECC) – everything in the image above that isn't "data". I'm not going to cover what these other components do but if you are interested you can read a good high-level explanation here. ECC is of special interested though, because more complex codes allow for an improved ability to detect and correct errors… but they also require more space (which increases the size of n) and in the legacy model ECC was limited to just 50 bytes. The upshot of this is that as disk drives grew larger, the amount of capacity lost to metadata (i.e. our value n) increased. The simple goal of Advanced Format is therefore to increase the efficiency of data storage by increasing the ratio of x to n. It achieves this simply by packing in eight times more data for each sector, reducing the capacity required for metadata – although it also increases ECC to 100 bytes (but 100 bytes for every 4k is still more efficient than 50 bytes for every 512 bytes). As a result of this change, Advanced Format drives allow more capacity to be used for data (known as improved format efficiency) and offers the potential for improved error detection and correction. Everyone's a winner, right? Well, almost everyone… what about anyone with code that relies on sectors being 512 bytes in size?
For the sake of argument, imagine you own a house with the postal address 221 Baker Street. This number, i.e. 221, is the physical address of your house. However, at some point you decided to split your house into four separate apartments, each of which now requires its own postal address. There isn't room in the existing Baker Street numbering scheme for you to assign new numbers to these extra addresses, since 220 and 222 Baker Street already exist. So what's the answer? Simple, you assign each apartment a letter: 221A Baker Street, 221B Baker Street, 221C Baker Street and 221D Baker Street. Of course, it's entirely likely that the house has one single letter box at the front, labelled 221 – you can consider this the physical address – but each internal property has a logical address of 221A, 221B, etc. For the purposes of getting a letter delivered to this letter box, you can see that it would be possible to use either the physical or logical address and still be successful.
Advanced Format offers a similar dual addressing system: physical sectors, which are always 4k in size, have a physical block address. In the first method, which is called native mode (also known as "4k"), I/O operations correspond directly to the 4k physical sectors*, meaning no I/O can ever be less than 4k in size. There is more to say about this, but I'll come back to it later. However, the most important thing to know about native mode is that applications, operating systems and so on need to understand how it works. In Linux, for example, I/O calls to 4k are subtly different to "normal" 512 byte I/O calls. So what happens if your application or OS doesn't support native mode? The alternative is emulation mode, (also known as "512e") which is shown in the image above. For the purposes of backwards compatibility, in 512e the storage system has to effectively pretend that each sector is 512 bytes when in reality it is 4k. Just like in the example using postal addresses above, a logical address layer is used to translate between the 512 byte logical block addresses expected by the application or OS and the 4k physical block addresses that the underlying storage uses. In the example shown in the image above an I/O to any of the 512 byte logical sectors shown in red/pink will be translated into an I/O to the 4096 byte physical sector shown in blue. This seems pretty simple – and it is in most cases, but there are a couple of important phenomena to consider as a consequence of introducing this logical to physical translation layer.
* In native mode the concept of logical block addresses still exists, but they map one to one with physical block addresses. So while technically any I/O operation is directed at a logical block address, for the purposes of this high-level discussion it's convenient to imagine that they don't. Life is like that sometimes.
In emulation mode, an I/O is issued to logical block address L1 – and this is translated to physical block address P1. But what is actually happening underneath? Well, a process reading data in a block of 512 bytes will actually cause all 4k of a physical sector to be read, with any other unwanted blocks then discarded. This process is called partial read and is essentially an inefficiency. On a disk system it may cause significant performance problems, although on flash it is far less of an issue unless taking place very frequently. Of more importance is the corresponding action during a write: a process writing data in a block of 512 bytes causes much more additional unseen work to take place in the background, since the storage system has to read all 4k of data into memory, change the single 512 byte block in question and then write the whole 4k sector back to persistent storage again. This is called a partial write and the action required is known as a read modify write operation. In large numbers, this is potentially much worse news for performance.
Another consideration of emulation mode is the alignment of logical sectors to physical sectors. If, for example, a number of write I/Os issued to storage do not begin at the start of a physical sector, misalignment results in additional writes as the last logical block overlaps into a new physical sector – and consequently results in at least one extra I/O, which will be a partial write. We call this a misaligned I/O (or alternatively unaligned I/O – the terms are synonymous). By its very nature, misaligned I/O can cause big problems with performance simply because it massively increases the amount of I/O taking place, as well as causing partial I/O pretty much everywhere. Fortunately it's very easy to avoid misalignment by doing do simple things: starting in the right place and using the right I/O size. Of course, an even easier method is to use native mode, where misalignment is not possible in the first place.
To recap, there are two choices in Advanced Format: native mode and emulation mode. Emulation mode offers backwards compatibility, meaning you can use it without requiring your application (which includes databases) or operating system to support it. However, emulation mode also opens up the possibility of partial or misaligned I/O which can affect performance if the right precautions are not taken. Native mode on the other hand pretty much guarantees there will be zero partial or misaligned I/O, but comes with its own caveat that applications (which, again, include databases) and operating systems must explicitly support it.
With respect to Oracle Support, I don't entirely agree with all the content of this document. For example, the statement "Oracle in 11.2 is 4kb sector aware so will avoid this performance degradation" with regard to misalignment is, in my opinion, inaccurate and potentially misleading. If it were true, this page would be about two paragraphs long and would finish with the words, "Just use Oracle 11.2 and everything will be ok". To save you pressing Page Down, it doesn't.
If the redo log file is being added to a 4KB sector disk with 512-byte emulation, then you can specify either 512, 1024 (or 1K), or 4096 (or 4K) as the block size, depending on your platform.
One of the simplest ways to configure Oracle for use on Advanced Format storage is therefore to use 512e emulation mode and then simply override the online redo log size to 4k through the use of this parameter, as described in Oracle's FAQ.
Hopefully this makes things a little clearer with regard to Oracle's support of advanced format, as well as showing that it is acceptable to use the _DISK_SECTOR_SIZE_OVERRIDE parameter in these situations.
For some years, Oracle has been providing the ASMLib kernel library for Linux. Although this library is optional, Oracle recommends its use in the Database High Availability Guide based upon two claimed benefits: simplified device management and a reduction in system resource usage. When using 4k devices in native mode, a third benefit can be added to this list: without ASMLib, the use of ASM with 4k devices is apparently impossible. Simply put, at this point in time 4k ASM diskgroups only work on Linux with the ASMLib driver [More detail on ASMLib can be found on the deep dive page]. But what about if you aren't using 4k but instead have opted for 512e? ASMLib still brings value here, because I/Os through ASMLib seem to always remain 4k in size, while non-ASMLib I/Os appear to sometimes get fragmented when passing through direct I/O calls in Linux. This is why ASMLib is recommended even for emulation mode: it allows avoidance of partial I/O, which in turn aids performance.
With the exception of ACFS, a very simple and practical solution is to simply create a small ASM diskgroup using 512e storage (such as one named +SYSTEMDG) and locate SPFILEs, OCR and voting disks on this.
The running theme of this page is that there are two choices available: emulation mode and native mode. What the list above is telling you is that if, for some reason, you are using a kernel version which is older than those listed, you have no choice but to use emulation mode. Again let me reiterate, that is not a problem – and if you follow the recommendations coming up next you shouldn't suffer any performance degradation.
It All Sounds Confusing. Should I Panic?
No. It isn't that confusing, in fact it's really quite simple because there are just two options to choose from: emulation mode and native mode. In some situations, e.g. an older Linux kernel or a version of Oracle prior to 11.2, you cannot use native mode… but emulation mode works every time. Don't get confused by all the commentary you'll find on this subject, or the rogue flash vendor who seeks to use this confusion to try and make their product sound more appealing. It's clear that 4k is not a performance issue because, apart from anything else, Violin Memory arrays are 4k-based systems and they have a huge array of world-record benchmarks in the bag.
So What's The Answer? What Do I Do?
It's very simple. You have two choices, either of which will give you the best performance with very little added complexity.
Present all of your LUNs from storage using 512e (emulation mode). Do not partition them.
That's it. If you used ASMLib then you should find that this configuration causes no partial I/O at all. If you chose not to use ASMLib then there will be some partial I/O, such as during ASM rebalances. I cannot see why anyone would not use ASMLib, but some companies have strange procedures which are hard to change or bypass.
Present all but one of your LUNs from storage using 4k (native mode). Do not partition them.
Now create an additional 512 byte LUN (or more, if you so desire) which will be used as a +SYSTEMDG diskgroup.
Install Grid Infrastructure. At the ASM diskgroup creation screen, create only the +SYSTEMDG diskgroup. If installing a cluster, use this for OCR and voting disks.
That's it. This solution gives you guaranteed zero partial I/O from your main diskgroups and automatically sizes redo logs as 4k.
Oracle ASMLib is highly recommended for the Emulation Mode option and mandatory for the Native Mode one, so it's worth mentioning this extra detail. As discussed in more detail on the deep dive page, when using ASMLib in the above methods it is essential to set the ORACLEASM_USE_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE parameter to true rather than its default value of false. This is achieved either by running the command "oracleasm configure -b" or by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm and then restarting the driver. According to My Oracle Support note 1530578.1, support for this parameter came in with version oracleasm-support-2.1.8-1.
Of course, my advice is for educational purposes only and you should thoroughly test anything you do before putting it into production. Also, I am duty-bound to say that you should seek permission from Oracle Support before setting any underscore parameters … but then you knew that, right?
Great article. Exactly what i was looking for.
ASMCA automatically detects the underlying sectorsize, so you can use asmca also.
Very good article. Just want to understand how this 4k sector size correlates to page size and RAID stripe size?
That's a difficult question to answer as it depends on the storage system. I can only answer in the case of Violin Memory, which uses vRAID – a flash-optimized RAID technique based loosely on RAID3. In vRAID, each 4k physical block is stored as 4 x 1k blocks spread across different VIMMs (Violin Intelligent Memory Modules, the individual and replaceable cards within a Violin array). Parity is stored as a fifth 1k block on another VIMM.
I mentioned RAID3 just there – if you look up the RAID definitions on Wikipedia it describes RAID3 as "byte-level lstriping". This is actually incorrect, the official RAID standards as documented by the SNIA (http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/ddf) do not make this distinction. Violin's vRAID algorithm uses block-level striping with a dedicated parity. In the case of flash this becomes advantageous because the parity data can be used to respond to I/O requests even if a single VIMM from a RAID set is unable to respond due to being in the middle of an erase cycle. This patented technology allows Violin to avoid the so-called "write-cliff" suffered by other flash vendors where write performance nose dives as the pool of available clean flash blocks runs out.
We found with suse 11.1 with updates, kernel 2.6.32.54-0.3-default, we had to export 512B LUNs from Violin. We tried ext3 and xfs with 4096 Byte LUNs but Oracle failed to install with default setting: FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS=SETALL. Unless we exported 512B LUNs, with 4096 Oracle default setting mentioned had to be disabled (disabling asynchronous and direct I/O).
Any idea why considering the linux kernel version? This was standard Oracle 11gr2 with patches.
The issue is with Oracle using direct I/O on filesystems – in fact in My Oracle Support note 1133713.1 it mentions that for Linux systems the values of DIRECTIO and SETALL will not work with 4k devices. It's very annoying and I'd like to understand it deeper (I have the outline of a blog post in the waiting) but for now the best solution is to use 512 byte LUNs since, if you follow best practice, there will be no performance loss.
Actually, the real best solution is to avoid filesystems altogether and use ASM… but I guess that's not an option?
Thanks. This sounds exactly like our situation. At one of our sites FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS was set to async, leaving the Violin 4K Block LUN, and here on left coast we wanted Direct I/O and to use default parameters OOTB for Oracle so we re-created/exported a new Violin LUN with 512byte block and that, too, was a solution.
We cannot use ASM, which I've recently just read about, because we're in a rather well defined application test environment in a QC/Performance lab. I'm a systems guy working with Oracle specialist on sles 11.1 system. if we have enough time we'll try Solaris 10.
It also depends on which filesystem you use if you are running the DB on a FS. Solaris UFS+ for example defaults to 4k, ZFS to 128k and VxFS to 1024k except if the filesystem is bigger than 2TB in which case it goes from 2048-8192k depending on exactly how big the FS is.
I have a related question to you. You have mentioned an importance of storage "Alignment" with higher applications levels. I wonder if it is possible to verify if current setup has a right "Alignment". I particular I am looking into ODA setup and testing LGWR IO on SSD disks . I wonder if there is a way to verify that the IO blocks are aligned or not?
The answer to your question is, it depends. Some flash memory storage will give you an insight into the types of I/O activity taking place, while other systems will not. The least friendly (at least in my opinion) is the humble solid state drive (SSD) since this merely pretends to be a hard drive and speaks to the host via a protocol such as SAS or SATA. In these situations there is little you can do other than check the alignment of your partitions using tools like fdisk.
Once you stop using "flash-pretending-to-be-disk" and start using proper flash, such as PCIe flash cards or all-flash arrays, you start to get new options available to you. I can't speak about other vendors' products but in the case of Violin we have tools and utilities to show detailed information on partial or unaligned I/O, both for our PCIe cards and the arrays themselves. This is what I use.
I stumbled in here because I've been pulling my hair the last couple of days trying to get the Intel 910 SSD card (4k) to work with Oracle, and I finally managed to setup ASM (with ASMlib) but got bitten by the "no-spfile-on-4k-ASM"-bug so now I can't complete the oracle db installation. I hate my life.
How do I rebuild my disks to use 512e instead of 4k?
If you run "fdisk -l " you will see the logical and physical block sizes. A 512e configuration would be 512 logical and 4096 physical, while 4Kn would be 4096 logical and 4096 physical.
Surprised you are trying to move from ASM, I find it the perfect method of getting the best performance from my storage.
Ok. Great. Then I don't have to bother looking for a "512 downgrade solution", since it's not up to some simple configuration stuff.
It was very late when I wrote my comment (I'm in Sweden), and I later realised that the Intel 910 SSD reported itself as 512 / 4096, meaning 512e (logical). So I could always just skip the ASM, which I finally got working, and partition the disks (4 of em) with start sector 2048 (=aligned), or change the parameter for ASM and go with the reported logical block-size there.
My life is better now.
The way that you have done it makes sense, because as long as your partitions are aligned (I prefer not to have partitions at all) your I/O will all be 4k.
However, I still prefer the alternative method of using 512 byte everything (that means ensuring the ORACLEASM_USE_LOGICAL_BLOCK_SIZE parameter is set to true in /etc/sysconfig/oracleasm) and then overriding the size of all redo logs to be 4k using the _DISK_SECTOR_SIZE_OVERRIDE=TRUE parameter and the BLOCKSIZE 4096 clause of the statement to create a logfile group.
The reason I prefer that method is that it avoids all the stupidity with the SPFILE.
It's I who should say "thanks", you made me try another time – and now I'm up and running!


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Yet the real problem with Till's premise is not that it's obvious, but that it's hard to imagine an alternative. How exactly would one plan for unforeseeable changes? Architecture Depends purports to answer, but Till's idea of an answer is so inchoate and oblique that it's easy to forget, for pages at a time, what the original question was.
The end products of this dizzying metaphysical detour are two concepts which Till believes can lead us towards an architecture that collaborates with entropy instead of resisting it: slack space (space easily adapted to different uses) and thick time (time filtered through human experiences and perceptions). And how should architects employ these concepts? By "infusing the process of design with both experiences and hopes;" by reflecting on the world's "social and temporal exchanges" during the design process; by "taking the conditions of the everyday into account"… suggestions that are hard to argue with, in the same way that a cloud is hard to wrestle with.
Setting aside the issue of whether this suggestion is realistic, it still doesn't give any clearer picture of what kind of building design could actually account for future adaptation, soiling, or weathering. By the end of the book, Till has anticipated this criticism too. "So, I hear you say, what does this… architecture actually look like?" he asks. But his answer is a coy demurral: "If I showed you pictures it would shut down what is meant to be an open argument." Fair enough. But it would still be nice to have the sense that Till himself has any idea.


Sustainable management of renewable resources in a changing environment: an integrated approach across ecosystems.
SUSTAIN has its own website at www.sustain.uio.no!
In this project three of the strongest scientific groups within ecology and evolution in Norway will join efforts to study combined impacts of environmental change and harvesting across marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. This effort will counteract the currently profound fragmentation within Norwegian environmental science and establish collaboration networks for a new generation of scientists and managers. The project will follow an innovative strategic foresight protocol to link the scientific results with the decision-makers and will output an edited book and a synthesis paper, in addition to high-level and broad audience scientific publications.
Terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems are currently all affected by major anthropogenic stressors, like climate change and harvesting. Yet, the interactive effects of these stressors remain poorly understood, and they are generally studied separately within each system.
In SUSTAIN we address the general question of how combined anthropogenic and climatic changes affect different harvested ecosystems (particularly, but not only, in Arctic regions), and how management strategies can be improved to ensure sustainable exploitation and resilience. We aim at developing frameworks for sustainable management strategies for harvested ecosystems under a changing environment that contributes to ecosystem resilience, in particular with respect to impacts of climatic changes, as well as to other stressors and their interactions.
We do this in collaboration of a panel of end users, made up by managers, decision-makers and other institutions involved in the management of harvested ecosystems. The whole process is structured following a Strategic Foresight Protocol.
The project establishes a new national network that includes the strongest environmental research groups in Norway: the team led by Prof. Nils Chr. Stenseth at the University of Oslo; the one led by Prof. Bernt-Erik Sæther at the Norwegian University of Science and Techonology, in Trondheim; and the one led by Prof. Rolf Anker Ims at the University of Tromsø. All three teams obtained top rank in recent assessments performed by the Norwegian Research Council (NRC). This effort counteracts the profound fragmentation within Norwegian environmental science and establishes collaboration networks for a new generation of scientists and managers.
This project is the result of a cooperation between groups at the UiO, NTNU and UiT.


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Ådal is a valley in the municipality of Ringerike and was a former municipality in Buskerud County, Norway.

The municipality was created in 1857 by a split from Norderhov. At that time Ådal had a population of 2,382. On 1 January 1964 Ådal was merged with Hønefoss, Tyristrand, Hole and Norderhov to form the new municipality Ringerike. Prior to the merger Ådal had a population of 3,442.

Traditionally the Ådal parish has been divided three ways. Ytre Ådal includes  the village of Hallingby and is the site of  Hallingby school and    Hval  Church  (Hval kirke).   Øvre Ådal includes the village of  Nes, Ådal and is the site of Nes school, Ringmoen  school and  Nes Church  (Nes kirke).  Vestre Ådal is the site of  Viker Church and the  Ådal Mountains (Ådalsfjellene),  a small mountain range which stretches from Ådal to  Vassfarfoten  on the border with Vassfaret and Sør-Aurdal in Oppland.

Sperillen
Sperillen, the 33rd largest lake in  Norway,  is located in Ådal. The rivers Begna (from Begnadalen) and Urula (from Hedalen) flow into the lake from the north. At the south end of the lake, there is a dam located near Ringmoen. The lake is well known for its fisheries and is one of the few within Norway with a commercial fishery.

Viker Church
The first church located at Ådal was a Stave church built during the 15th century. It is mentioned in Diplomatarium Norvegicum in 1462. Before the 17th century it was related to Hole and then connected after the Protestant Reformation to Norderhov parish. By 1700 Ådal needed a new church to serve the growing needs of its parish.

Viker Church (Norwegian: Viker Kirke)  is located on the west shore of Sperillen Lake. The church dates to 1702. The pulpit, altar and crucifers from the old Stave church were saved and placed in the new church. The church has an open interior ceilings and wood walls that are oiled.  The wooden exterior is dark brown. The altarpiece is from 1720s. The baptismal font is from 1728 and has an octagon top and bottom. The church tower has two bells, dating to 1721 and 1842. Because it is situated in the middle of a forested area, it is difficult to see Viker Church from a distance.

The name
The Old Norse name of the district was Árdalr. The first element is the genitive case of á for 'river', the last element is dalr meaning 'dale or valley'.

References

External links
Sightseeing 	Ådal Map 1907
Ådal in America
Emigration from Ådal
Farms in Ådal
A little bit about AAdal

Former municipalities of Norway
Valleys of Viken

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The Amazon Appstore will support Android App Bundles soon
Starting in August, Google will require new apps submitted to the Play Store to come
Starting in August, Google will require new apps submitted to the Play Store to come in the Android App Bundle (AAB) format instead of the APKs that were used until now. Amazon is not going to be left behind, the company announced that it is working on AAB support for its Appstore (which will also be the default source of Android apps on Windows 11).
The Amazon Appstore will continue to accept APK submissions from developers, in fact the submission process will not change. Bundles have several advantages over APKs as they make for smaller app downloads and enable dynamic features such as on-demand loading.
Size reduction is one of the biggest advantages of Android App Bundles (more info here)
However, not all features of bundles will be available at launch, Amazon says that some features will be enabled incrementally over time. More details will be available once Android App Bundle support in the Amazon Appstore gets closer to launch.
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Pine Bay Lodge is a family run secret hideaway set deep in Swedish Lapland. The small hotel retains its Swedish Red Cottage style, is simple yet cosy, and packs in a lot of traditional charm. With only 11 rooms, there's a boutique hotel vibe.
Expect evenings in the cosy restaurant serving locally sourced traditional meals, a wood-fired sauna (as is customary in Scandinavia), and a hot-tub that enjoys breathtaking views overlooking the Lulea archipelago.
Outside Pine Bay Lodge comes into its own offering guests the chance to fully immerse themselves in Swedish culture and experiences. Discover the full joys of the exhilarating active winter lifestyle found in this part of the world. From winter skills classes, snowmobiling, husky sledding, hovercrafting (unique to Pine Bay Lodge and sister property), reindeer herding or ice fishing, to name but a few. Here you are truly living the winter dream.
Pine Bay Lodge can be taken exclusively for your whole family or party - ask a Sandgroues Travel consultant further information.
The beautiful Pine Bay Lodge is located on 30 minutes from the northern Swedish city of Lulea on the coastal edge of the Lulea Archipelago. This charming family run small hotel built in a traditional style has a homely feel and warm and cosy atmosphere. At the heart of the guesthouse you will find a large open plan area including the cosy dining room, spacious lounge with a big roaring fire place and plenty of comfy chairs to relax in. To really embrace the traditional way of doing things in this part of the world you will find a wood-fired sauna facility.
At Pine Bay Lodge guests will note how the staff take exceptional pride in the quality of the food and wines served. The Head Chef Frans Hedblad and his dedicated team prefer using traditional methods and locally sourced produce. You will have a taste of Swedish Lapland experiences culinary delights such as reindeer, moose, cloudberries, arctic char and even local caviar along with many more inspired and delicious dishes. Wines are carefully paired with your chosen main.
Activities on offer at the hotel are second to none in this part of Scandinavia. Being set on the frozen archipelago Pine Bay Lodge is not short of winter adventure action. Couple these activities with the superb scenery and ease of access and a visit here is hard to beat. Take the snowmobiles out to reach the outermost islands, enjoy a high class cooking class, or a winter skills class in the tranquil pine forests with an expert guide. Drive a team of Huskies across the tundra, race over the ice in a hovercraft and of course, hunt out the world famous Northern Lights with your professional local guide on a snowshoe walk.
(The Northern Lights seen over Pine Bay Lodge, Swedish Lapland).
The Lulea archipelago had in total around 1,300 island but only 100 residents, this is a truly wilderness environment. The location of Pine Bay Lodge in the Bothnian Sea is such that during winter the water freezes up and a layer of ice over a metre thick forms linking all the islands.
Day time activities such as snowmobiling, winter skills classes or husky sledding often include lunch out in the wilderness, however lunch is available at the guesthouse on arrangement should you not be out on the ice.
Pine Bay Lodge benefits from the use of its own exclusive Hovercraft. Take a tour with your host out onto the ice pack and speed across the tundra to some of the remote islands. Enjoy listening to your guide pointing out the sights over the intercom and be sure to savour the experience of floating past icebergs.
Guests arriving at Lulea Airport are met by their Sandgrouse Travel representative and taken directly by private transfer to Pine Bay Lodge. This is about a 30 minute drive.
Similarly those arriving by overnight train from Stockholm can be met at Lulea Centralstation and taken directly via private transfer to Pine Bay Lodge. Also around a 30 minute transfer by private car.