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Daily Dose: Satoshi Statue
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Satoshi Nakamoto to be immortalized in bronze near the Steve Jobs statue in Budapest
A life-sized bronze statue of Satoshi Nakamoto will be erected in Budapest, with early designs depicting a figure with a featureless face wearing a Bitcoin hoodie.
CointelegraphBrian Quarmby
Bitcoin's anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto is set to be depicted in a life-size bronze statue in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.
According to local news outlet Hungary Today, sculptors, Réka Gergely and Tamás Gilly are designing the statue, and have unveiled initial plans depicting a figure with a featureless face wearing a Bitcoin hoodie.
Image: Réka Gergely
The hood is over the figure's head, and the face will be made from a reflective surface so that viewers can see themselves mirrored back when they look at the statue — emphasizing the idea that "we are all Satoshi."
Norton360 antivirus tool will allow its 13 million customers to mine Ethereum
Norton has launched a cloud-based crypto mining service for its antivirus customers, with Ethereum mining set to launch first.
CointelegraphSamuel Haig
Cybersecurity firm, NortonLifeLock, has launched Norton Crypto, a tool allowing consumers to "safely" mine cryptocurrency through its Norton 360 product. From June 3, select 360 users will be invited to join Norton's early adopter program for Ethereum mining. Norton also plans to open up the mining service to all of its nearly 13 million 360 customers in the coming months. Norton emphasized that its service allows users to mine without requiring they switch off their antivirus software.
Speaking to CNN Business, Norton noted it plans to support mining of other "top cryptos that allow our members to get the highest reward for their computing capacity" moving forward, stating:
"While the company will start slow, with a focus on helping customers safely mine Ethereum, NortonLifeLock is considering adding reputable crypto currencies in the future."
NortonLifeLock chief product officer, Vincent Pilette expressed pride in his firm becoming the first cybersecurity company offering services allowing miners "to safely and easily turn the idle time on their PCs into an opportunity to earn digital currency."
Search giant Google lifts 2018 ban on crypto exchange, wallet advertisements
Binance and FTX will soon have a new platform where they can battle it out for U.S. user mindshare.
CointelegraphAndrew Thurman
In a surprise move on Wednesday, online advertising behemoth Google lifted a nearly three-year-old policy banning cryptocurrency exchanges from using its ad services.
"Beginning August 3, advertisers offering Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Wallets targeting the United States may advertise those products and services when they meet the following requirements and are certified by Google," reads a policy update on the company's support page.
Requirements exchanges have to pass include needing to be either registered with "FinCEN as a Money Services Business and with at least one state as a money transmitter" or "a federal or state chartered bank entity," potentially opening the door to ads from services like Anchorage and Paxos.
The new policy won't open the door to the vast majority of crypto institutions, however, as "ads for initial coin offerings, DeFi trading protocols, or otherwise promoting the purchase, sale, or trade of cryptocurrencies or related products" all continue to be prohibited. News and chart aggregators as well as "signals" and analysis services also remain on the ad blacklist.
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Court recaps tortious interference elements
According to R.R. Isla Verde Hotel Corp. v. Howard Johnson International, 2005 U.S. App. Lexis 1234, tortious interference is not always present if a deal goes sour.
R.R. Isla Verde Hotel Corp. claimed that Howard Johnson International interfered with its contract to renovate and operate a hotel. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that in order to prevail in a tortious interference claim, the plaintiff must prove:
existence of a contract and knowledge thereof by the defendant,
an action on the part of the defendant to undermine that contractual relationship and
damages suffered from defendant's actions.
The Court of Appeals cited the Puerto Rico Supreme Court to the effect that the existence of a contract for a fixed period of time is indispensable. "'If what is affected . . . is a profitable financial relationship where there is no contract, the action does not lie . . .'"
The appellate court agreed that R.R. Isla Verde had failed in its burden to prove that first, indispensable requisite.
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"The Nazi invasion to the Soviet Union is a distinct and significant watershed. With the invasion, the war became a World War and the destiny of the Jews was determined: the mass-murder of the Jews began in earnest, with brutality reaching an unparalleled level."
With these words Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev opened an academic symposium marking 70 years since Operation Barbarossa - the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.
The Symposium took place with the support of the Genesis Philanthropy Group and European Jewish Fund, and the Gutwirth Family Fund.
Holocaust historians gathered together early this week at Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research to discuss various political, economic and military aspects of the war in the Eastern Front and its devastating impact on the Jews. Operation Barbarossa was a campaign that determined the outcome of the war according to Dr. Daniel Uziel, a historian working in the Yad Vashem Archives. Despite the comparative advantage maintained by the Soviets, in terms of number of troops, planes and tanks, the Germans achieved exceptional results during the first month of the Operation. Their technological superiority and the element of surprise in their initial attack gave them an unprecedented advantage. Nevertheless, the Germans suffered from logistic difficulties, exhausted troops, and internal conflicts between Hitler and the German generals regarding the war strategy. Those difficulties gave the Soviet leaders an opportunity, and time to mobilize reserves and send troops from the Far East to the area of battle. The harsh Russian winter took a tremendous toll on the exhausted Germans, who lacked the necessary supplies and appropriate winter gear. The Germans now realized that victory in the war was uncertain.
The Germans, who suffered great losses on the Eastern Front, now lacked supplies and military equipment and were in desperate need of an inexpensive manpower. Dr. Yitzhak Arad, a former partisan, chairman of Yad Vashem (emeritus) and world-renowned researcher on the Holocaust on the eastern front described the inadvertent rescue of some Lithuanian, Latvian and Minsk Jews, who were spared in order to be used as labor in the Occupied Soviet territories.
The traditional assumption that the Wehrmacht was a professional army that did not take part at the murder of the Jews was refuted by Dr. Leonid Rein, of Yad Vashem's International Research Institute. He discussed new findings proving the direct participation of the Wehrmacht in the mass murder of Jews such as the mass murder in Liepaja.
Prof. Mordechai Altshuler, of The Hebrew University Jerusalem, discussed the destruction of formerly held convictions among Jews. The Soviet Jews' belief in the invincibility of the Red Army was shattered, and the lack of stability reignited local antisemitism. The Soviet Jews, who believed that antisemitism in the Soviet Union had ended, woke up to a harsh new reality.
The Institute will hold two additional symposia this year examining different aspects of the invasion. New information has also been uploaded to the "Untold Stories" Research Project which tells the story of the murder of Jews in the occupied areas of the former Soviet Union that began with the German invasion of the former USSR on 22 June 1941.


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Truro Magistrates' Court latest - see who's been sentenced this week
Two people have been handed prison sentences at Truro Magistrates' Court this week
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It's been a quieter than usual week at Truro Magistrates' Court this week after the disruption of Monday's bank holiday.
As a result of the extra long weekend we were unable to provide our weekly live blog, but Cornwall Live's a day in the life of Truro Magistrates' Court will return on Monday (June 4).
As you know by now, Truro Magistrates' Court deals with every criminal case, with the most serious of which sent up to Truro Crown Court to be dealt with.
The remaining cases span the criminal spectrum and many are still deemed serious enough to be dealt with by an immediate custodial sentence.
There were still a handful of people dealt with at the court this week with the usual varying range of outcomes.
Police chase driver Richard Green was stabbed and beaten by step-dad aged 11 and introduced to drugs at 10
Anthony Edward Cooper
No fixed abode
Aged: 50
On May 28 in Bude assaulted a woman by beating her.
Committed to prison for 12 weeks.
Restraining order made
To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £115.00.
The entrance to Truro Magistrates' Court
Martin Jonathon Davies
Between May 8 and May 21 breached a domestic violence protection order made by Cornwall Magistrates' Court on May 7 in that he made contact through a son of a mutual friend wanting to find out the victim's telephone number.
Committed to prison for 28 days.
Truro masseur and spiritualist Edwin Nigel Jones sexually assaulted teenage boy during massages
Shane Phillip Dodds
Trevethan Road
On April 28 in Newquay were guilty of disorderly behaviour while drunk.
Fined £40. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30. To pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Lennon Louise Lewis
Green Close
Drink driving on February 25 in Truro
Fined £250. To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £30. To pay costs of £300 to the Crown Prosecution Service. 20-month driving ban.
Luke Daniel Thomas
Falmouth Road
Drink driving in Truro on April 7.
120 hours unpaid work. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 26 months.
To pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £85. To pay costs of £775 to the Crown Prosecution Service.
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The list below includes some provocative discussions related to the events in this unit's reading. Choose one of the five topics to write about. Compose a one-page essay in which you will take a first-person perspective of the situation, describe the debate in your own words, and provide a justified and academically defended argument for one side or the other. The essay will need to reflect your understanding of the time period to avoid being anachronistic, and your argument must relate to one of the viable outcomes from that time.
 As a multi-generational American citizen, in the wake of Pearl Harbor, do you support the internment of your Japanese neighbors?
 As an 18-year-old male high school senior, are you eager or fearful of going to war?
 As an 18-year-old female high school senior, are you eager or fearful of going into the wartime factories?
 effects on the U.S. isolationist policies.As this is a point of view essay, a modern perspective will not accurately address what the question is asking for. You are required to use a minimum of two reputable sources, which must be cited and referenced, only one of which can be an assigned or provided text or source. It is strongly suggested that the one selection is from the America: History and Life with Full Text database located within the Waldorf Online Library. Inappropriate resources or failure to use resources that are available in the Waldorf Online Library can lead to deductions. All sources and their use must be appropriately identified per 6th edition APA format.


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In science fiction, one of the most common tropes is robots have taken on the manual work humans don't want to do. Oftentimes, these robots can knock these tasks out faster and more accurately than could be expected from their human counterparts.
Today, this once futuristic-sounding idea is coming to life in warehouses across the world. Kroger announced last spring the launch of the first of 20 planned Ocado-powered automated warehouses for filling online grocery orders. The U.K.-based partner, Ocado Group, is designed to provide customers "anything, anytime, anywhere" via the Kroger Delivery service. These warehouses will use artificial intelligence and advanced robotics and automaton to cut down the time it would normally take to move goods from Point A to Point B and beyond.
However, the warehouse is only one short stop in the supply chain. To take full advantage of the benefits automation brings, the entire supply chain and its related equipment must work in perfect harmony. As this concept is still in its infancy, examples of this occurring in the marketplace today are few and far between, and those that do exist are still being engineered to have a maximum impact.
"The amount of trucking equipment technology compatible with automated warehouses is very small today," says Christian Lee, Great Dane vice president of engineering. "Much work has to be done to develop new transportation technologies for automated warehouses operations."
The future dream has to start somewhere, so here are the four key areas that need to grow to enable warehouse automation on a larger scale.
1. An End-to-End Supply Chain Effort
Automation within the warehouse or another outbound location tends to be designed either for or by the shipper. So, for a manufacturer to design trailers, truck bodies, or other related equipment to ideally operate in an automated environment, Great Dane Chief Engineer Dennis Skaradzinski says the shipper, carrier, and trailer OEM must work together to make the process work seamlessly.
This is already happening to some degree. Skaradzinski adds that Great Dane, for example, has worked with several shippers and carriers to engineer trailer solutions for beverages, potatoes, snack foods, air handling containers, and other commodities. Great Dane regularly works with its partners to design innovative solutions as warehouses continue to evolve.
"Knowing exactly how to maximize packaging into the trailer or minimize labor to load the trailer should involve working with a dedicated contract carrier and the trailer OEM to provide this solution," Skaradzinski says.
2. Linking Smart Trailers to Warehouse Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Warehouse automation is a complicated process, connecting warehouse management systems, data collection, and inventory control, to robotics and AI. According to Rick Mullininx, Great Dane executive vice president of engineering, the AI in these systems needs to use the data collected by smart trailers to function perfectly with the trailer's design.
"For the automation to work ideally, smart trailers could provide data collection on the cargo through sensors, smart pallets, or packaging," Mullininx says.
Great Dane's smart trailer telematics system, FleetPulse, already has some of this functionality. It collects data on cargo status,
GPS location, and more. Fleets can set up geofences in relation to a specific warehouse, for example, to provide location or fault alerts for an entire fleet.
"Those alerts can be sent to different groups and different locations, providing real-time information on the location of assets as well as each asset's health status," says Chris Hoyt, FleetPulse product manager. "Knowing a tire is at risk or an ABS valve has a fault before the trailer leaves the yard can save thousands in unwanted expenses."
3. Blockchain Technology
Shipment tracking is a broad topic involving many processes, participants, systems, sensors, and software applications, but blockchain technology can be used to better organize all of these events and provide more process transparency along the supply chain.
Hoyt says blockchain technology is still in its infancy in the transportation and warehouse automation space, but blockchain could be used to better optimize each step in the supply chain in the future.
"Blockchain has the potential to help provide a standard communication framework where status information transmitted from devices may be codified in a trackable event data structure and stored within blockchain in near chronological order," Hoyt says. "Transportation management systems [TMS], portals, and apps could then query 'trackable events'—such as TMS queries, telematics/sensor data, software portals, etc.—stored within a blockchain ledger to determine the current location and status of the shipment."
4. Nuanced Equipment Designs
Skaradzinski says today's trailers are uniquely designed to provide exact interior door openings, interior width dimensions, and interior height clearances based on cargo dimensions to provide the maximum cubic space and legal weight. As automated warehouses continue to advance, Great Dane's Truck Body Division Director of Sales, Mayo Rude, says that automation will be carried all the way into the cargo area itself, so humans are no longer in charge of loading carts full of goods.
This means the cargo area design of trailers and truck bodies will need to become more nuanced to exactly match what the robotics are capable of.
"As a human, you can take a cart that is 700 lbs. when it's fully loaded and nestle it into its position [on the truck]," Rude says. "So, we need to figure out: How can we provide a piece of equipment that removes obstructions and allows robotics to do the same action? That's coming."
Lee says the current traditional box shape of trailers may not drastically change to meet new warehouse automated equipment requirements, but the interior of the trailer may change to be equipped with automation devices and accessories.
"There may be design improvements as far as wall, roof, and floor configuration, and strength is also a concern," Lee says.
"More durable and lightweight materials and their application are being researched and studied."
As automation becomes more common in warehouses around the world, the design and technology on the equipment side needed to match the exact needs of these warehouses is evolving to remove obstructions and become personalized for these settings.
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Political BackgroundCandidate: Jennifer A. Whalen District: 109th Assembly District Committee Name: Friends of Whalen Committee Address: P.O. Box 453
Newtonville, New York 12128 Website: www.whalen2010.com Endorsements: Republican, Conservative Incumbent: Bob Reilly District Geography: Parts of Saratoga and Albany Counties Cash on Hand: Whalen – $47,625.84 (32 day pre primary filing)
Reilly – $27,789.98 (32 day pre primary filing) Voter Registration: Republican – 33,335 (Active)
Democratic – 28,275 (Active)
Total Active Voters (including other, 3rd parties)- 91,084
Candidate Biography
Jennifer Whalen, a former Assistant Attorney General, is an accomplished local small businesswoman and respected attorney who knows what it takes to create jobs and balance work and family life.
Jennifer believes the state needs to deliver non-partisan solutions to rebuild the economy and cut the crippling taxes that kill jobs and make it harder for families to pay their rising property tax bills.
Since 2001, Jennifer has helped the American dream of home ownership become a reality for many Capital Region families as the owner of the Whalen Group, a residential and commercial real estate firm.
Whalen has a distinguished record of public service. For seven and a half years, Jennifer served as Assistant Counsel for the New York State Racing and Wagering Board where she prosecuted cases in the thoroughbred and harness racing industries. Jennifer also served for two years as an Assistant Attorney General for the New York State Department of Law, where among other responsibilities; she helped recover taxpayer funds stolen from innocent victims by dishonest attorneys.
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Should the Galaxy let Beckham go on loan?
by David on January 3, 2011
The British media are going crazy with the prospect of David Beckham returning to the Premier League, even if it is just for a twelve week loan period. But nobody seems to be asking whether the LA Galaxy should let Beckham go out on loan again.
In the last two January transfer windows, Beckham had signed with AC Milan to keep himself fit, and also keep himself in the frame for England. Last years loan to Milan dod not end well with Beckham tearing his Achilles, and injury that KO'd him for six months, ending his dream of the World Cup and almost ruining the Galaxy's season.
Beckham will be 36 in May ans it makes no sense for the Galaxy to loan Beckham out. Beckham's international career is over, which removes that reason why he has to go on loan. The MLS season starts in late March, which means the Galaxy will start pre-season training next month. So he gets maybe 4-6 weeks off additional training if he goes to the Premier League. That is very little upside, for a move that has a lot of downside.
In his four years with the LA Galaxy, Beckham has made just 55 appearances. Over the last two seasons Beckham has started just 16 MLS regular-season games for the Galaxy. At some point the Galaxy tell Beckham to stop this preening for the European media and to devote his attention to the Galaxy, the team that pays him?
Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena is reported to be against the loan as he wants Beckham healthy and fit and ready to go when the MLS season kicks off. Something that Beckham has never done before.
So should the Galaxy let Beckham go out on loan? I don't think they should. It is not in the Galaxy's best interest. What do you think?


Bulgarian cuisine is representative of Southeastern Europe, sharing many similarities with the Balkans. Imagine a mix of Russian, Italian and Greek, and that's perhaps the simplest description of Bulgarian food. Interestingly, Bulgarian cuisine differs quite significantly depending on the region due to differences in traditional recipes, climates and other geographical factors affecting the growth of certain ingredients.
Salads, dairy products and filo pastry play a prominent role in Bulgarian cuisine, meaning there are many refreshing dishes perfects for the upcoming summer months. There are also ample opportunities to buy Bulgarian food in London, as well as restaurants to try the "real deal".
Shopska salad, or Shopska salata is the national dish of Bulgaria. The salad's name comes from a region called Shoplul but was actually invented in the 1960s as an incentive for tourism. Leading chefs developed many salads with names associated with particular regions, the Shopska salad was the only recipe to survive.
Hint: the salad is washed down nicely with a glass of rakija (fruit brandy).
This is a cold soup or dip made from yoghurt, cucumbers and garlic (similar to Tzatziki). This dip is ideal accompaniment to a rakia while you soak up the sun.
This grilled spicy sausage is made of minced meat is a great accompaniment to a Shopska salad. It is comparable to a Turkish kebab. Commonly the meat of choice is pork, but you can combine pork with lamb and beef for an alternative taste. It's an ideal addition to a British barbecue for a difference.
Hint: Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes before rolling into sausage shape.
Moussaka is most commonly associated with Greek cuisine, however it is also very popular in Bulgaria and other countries which formed the Ottoman empire.
Cook the onion until browned.
Add the meat, salt, pepper and paprika and fry until the meat is cooked through.
Mix the eggs and milk in a separate bowl and pour on top. Then return to oven for a further 10 minutes until the top is golden brown.
This dish is made from grape leaves which is stuffed with a combination of rice and minced meat. You can try it with tarator on top.
Fry the onion until golden brown and then add the rice, paprika, celery, oregano. Then add the water.
While the onion is frying, steam the grape leaves.
Once the water has absorbed, use the mixture to fill the leaves and shape them into small bundles.
Boil the bundles in a pot for 45 minutes (you can do this on the hob in the oven in a dish of water).
Hint: They taste great with tarator yoghurt.
Want to get cracking on these mouthwatering dishes? Find out where you can buy authentic Bulgarian produce here.


This article examines the implications of the Ecuadorian Indian movement for democratic politics. During the 1990s, the movement successfully fostered indigenous and popular participation in public life, influenced government policies, and became a contender in power struggles. But in the institutional domain, the participatory breakthrough had mixed effects. While the movement fulfilled functions of interest representation and control of state power, its involvement in a coup attempt demonstrated that its political socialization had not nurtured a sense of commitment to democracy. The evidence is discussed by reference to the proposition that civil society actors may or may not contribute to democracy. The article argues that the study of the democratic spinoffs of civil activism requires a context-specific approach that considers the particularistic orientations of civil associations and pays attention to their definition of means and ends, the institutional responses evoked by their initiatives, and the unintended consequences of their actions.


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Pakistan To Expedite Work On SEZs To Accelerate Industrialization, Job Creation, Says Iftikhar Malik
Muhammad Irfan Thu 02nd January 2020 | 12:06 PM
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United Business Group (UBG) Central Chairman Iftikhar Ali Malik Thursday said Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring industrial revolution in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 2nd Jan, 2020 ) :United Business Group (UBG) Central Chairman Iftikhar Ali Malik Thursday said Special Economic Zones (SEZs) under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring industrial revolution in Pakistan.
It would also accelerate economic development besides attracting a great chunk of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) which will help generating new job opportunities, he added.
He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of traders across here Thursday. He said that Pakistan has become a profitable land to do business because of government's tailored and well-consulted policies," says a press release issued here Thursday.
Iftikhar Malik said Allama Iqbal Industrial City of prioritised SEZ under CPEC is a game changer project in Punjab and foreign investment could steer the country out of prevailing economic crisis as the government under dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan was trying its utmost to facilitate investors by taking steps for ease of doing business.
He said that the Federal government has announced an excellent economic package for increasing economic activities while Punjab government has given new industrial policy which will help to revolutionize the industrial sector.
He said that the national economy and industrial sector were interlinked as the industrial growth helps in boosting the national economy.
He demanded the government to establish a Cottage Industrial Estate and a Trade Information Portal should also be launched to get trade related regulatory information on import-export which should connect the Pakistani business community to international markets.
He said that the cottage industry should also be housed in Industrial Estates of Punjab especially in FIEMDC in existing infrastructure or by acquiring additional land adjacent to the existing Industrial Estates.
Iftikhar Malik said new markets and new products need to be explored to reduce country's dependence on few commodities and countries. "The leading export sectors of Pakistan have their own importance in terms of earning foreign exchange and employing a major chunk of indigenous resources but we cannot overlook these facts that the share of engineering products in total global trade is almost 60%.
It is high time that we have to re-allocate our resources ad attention to engineering sector," he suggested.
He also appreciated FIEDMC Chairman Mian Kashif Ashfaq for materializing the dream of ground breaking ceremony of Allama Iqbal Industrial City.
He also said that it is good thing that FIEDMC is making efforts to provide necessary facilities to skilled workers and manufacturers besides announcing to start a process of imparting different technical and professional courses to the youth so that industrial sector could make further progress and job opportunities will be available to the people.


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Oh how I love watching these two grow up together. There is no end to the imagining and dressing up and pretending and giggling that goes on when they are together (which is of course all the time.) Their friendship is deep and true and beautiful.
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When Shawn has a day off, we all have a day off. This is why we home school them! we remind ourselves. And off we go, wherever we want to, leaving the school books behind.
Monday it was the Dole Plantation. We went all out tourist mode buying tickets for the train, the maze, the garden tour, and splurging on a theme-park-priced lunch of kalua pork.
We rode the open-air Pineapple Express through a cool mist rain shower and pineapple fields. There were also things like bananas, sugar cane, star fruit, papaya, mangoes, and coffee. Coffee.
Also the Mindanao Trees. I have no words. Let's all just stare at this wonder for a moment shall we?
The highlight for the kids was the World's Largest Maze. I'm not even kidding. Running through that maze in the blazing sun and getting hot and lost and turned in circles was their Favorite Thing. Donovan fell asleep in his stroller and Kate successfully hunted giant snail shells while the two bigs felt they'd won the day for getting all their maze stamps. Win, win, win, win.
Full Disclosure: I was pretty much done with the maze about ten minutes in but I sure got a kick out of watching them. After that we were all happy to cool off over Dole whips. It's just pineapple ice cream or frozen yogurt or something but it's called a whip so it tastes better.
These new little pineapples were really red. I don't know why. I guess they all are at first? And pineapple plants are super spiky so the job of harvesting these babies cannot be fun.
So after all that touristing we took a drive chasing rainbows in big blue skies for the rest of the day. We stopped here and there to dig our toes in the sand and watch the swelling North Shore waves. We literally drove to the end of the road and then turned around and went home. Happy.


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SEM Archives - Quorum Technologies Ltd
July 12, 2021by Laura Clutton
Electron microscopy techniques rely on the transfer of electrons between sample and microscope. For conductive samples, this is easily achieved – however, non-conductive, or poorly conducting samples must be coated with an electrically conductive coating to produce usable images. A high-quality coating is essential to obtain high-quality images. Quorum Technologies developed the Q Plus Series to provide researchers with a versatile and high-performance coating to rival major manufacturers, without the associated price tag.
The Role of Coatings in Electron Microscopy
Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM) work similarly to Optical Microscopes but rather than probing materials using light, they use electrons. Optical microscopes are diffraction-limited (to a maximum resolution of about 200 nm) whereas electron microscopes can produce beams of electrons with much smaller wavelenght1 and surpass the resolving power of optical microscopes by several orders of magnitude. As a result, they are the most powerful microscopy techniques in the world.
Using electrons instead of light, however, introduces other complications. Both techniques (SEM and TEM) rely on the transfer of electrons between sample and microscope; therefore, it can be difficult (or near impossible) to obtain a usable image signal from samples with poor or no conductivity. This is especially true of SEM, where samples are bombarded with an electron beam: poorly conductive or non-conductive samples will rapidly accumulate charge under these conditions, leading to image distortion as well as thermal and radiation damage to the sample. In extreme cases, the sample may accumulate sufficient charge to decelerate the primary beam, acting as an "electron mirror" and preventing an image altogether.2
To overcome this, poorly conducting samples are coated with a thin layer of metal or carbon. This makes the surface conductive, eliminating charge accumulation and enabling a better signal to be obtained by the microscope. Coating techniques are widely used for imaging biological or organic samples since these are typically non-conductive and easily damaged by the electron beam.
While the primary role of coating in SEM is to increase electrical conductivity and prevent "charging", it also has several other useful effects:
Coating a sample with a thermally conductive material such as gold, silver, copper, aluminium can reduce thermal damage from the primary electron beam.
Particulate matter and fragile organic samples can be mechanically stabilized and held in place by a thin layer of carbon.
Coating organic samples that contain trapped gas or moisture protects both sample and microscope from being contaminated by off-gassing.
Metallic coatings can be used to minimize the volume of penetration of the electron beam, localizing scanning to the very surface of a sample. This can also dramatically increase the emission of secondary and backscattered electrons.
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The Impact of Coating Quality
When working with a coated sample in an electron microscope, it is the coating itself that gets directly imaged. The quality of the coating, therefore, places a hard limit on the quality of the images that can be obtained.
When imaging very small structures (such as electrospinning fibres doped with copper nanocrystals), depositing a coating that is too thick can easily bury meaningful information. It is vital that coating thickness can be precisely controlled and tailored to the features that are being interrogated.3
In the worst cases, poor quality coating equipment introduces contamination and can irreparably damage samples. Researchers often opt for cheap coaters to save money, only to find that their costs increase due to additional microscope time and ruined samples.
However, thanks to the Q Plus Series from Quorum Technologies, it is no longer necessary to pay a premium to obtain state-of-the-art coatings.
The Q Plus Series: Affordable and High-Quality Coating
The Q Plus Series is the latest iteration of Quorum's world-leading range of coaters; offering cutting-edge sputter and evaporation coating in a single easy-to-use platform. Quorum's turbomolecular-pumped coaters are suitable for both oxidizing and non-oxidizing metals, while our low-cost rotary-pumped sputter coaters are suitable for non-oxidizing metals. The Q Plus Series is suitable for sputter coating and evaporating carbon coating for SEM, FE-SEM and TEM applications.
This new range of coaters is designed to enable researchers to exercise precise control over coating thickness, whatever their application requirements. For the highest level of performance, the Q150V Plus provides an ultimate vacuum of 10-6 mbar; removing oxygen, nitrogen and water vapour from the chamber and eliminating chemical reactions during the sputtering process. The Q150V Plus also enables the production of finer grain size and thinner coating for ultra-high-resolution applications (beyond 200,000x magnification). Low scattering enables the formation of high-purity amorphous carbon films of high density.
All models in the Q Plus Series feature a touch-screen interface as well as status LEDs and audio notifications for straightforward and intuitive control. Integrated 16 GB memory allows the storage of over 1000 recipes to be stored, and a USB port enables upgrades and downloads of log files.
To find out more about the Q Plus Series of coaters, view our brochure or get in touch with us today.
To view our latest webinars on coating technologies, we invite you to view our series here:
Practical advice in sample preparation for SEM
How to achieve appropriate metal coating quality for my application
Carbon coatings and Glow Discharge for TEM
The Diffraction Barrier in Optical Microscopy. Nikon's MicroscopyU https://www.microscopyu.com/techniques/super-resolution/the-diffraction-barrier-in-optical-microscopy.
Goldstein, J. I. et al. Coating Techniques for SEM and Microanalysis. in Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis: A Text for Biologist, Materials Scientist, and Geologists (eds. Goldstein, J. I. et al.) 461–494 (Springer US, 1981). doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-3273-2_10.
Ahire, J. J., Neveling, D. P. & Dicks, L. M. T. Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibres spun with copper nanoparticles: an anti-Escherichia coli membrane for water treatment. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 102, 7171–7181 (2018).
How to achieve appropriate metal coating quality for my application?
February 25, 2021by Laura Clutton
This webinar provides guidance on metal coating for SEM imaging. During the tutorial, you will learn what metal to choose for different applications and how coating process parameters influence coating quality.
This event is being held at 9.30 am GMT and +5.30 Mumbai time.
Practical advice in sample preparation for SEM imaging
This webinar provides general guidance to sample preparation for SEM imaging.
During the tutorial, you will learn different techniques of sample preparation as well as when and where to apply them.
We will present a workflow in preparation of a few exemplary samples to show a proper order of actions that are needed to be taken to achieve the best images in the SEM.


Pamukkale, meaning "cotton castle" in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli in southwestern Turkey. The area is famous for a carbonate mineral left by the flowing water. It is located in Turkey's Inner Aegean region, in the River Menderes valley, which has a temperate climate for most of the year.
The ancient Greco-Roman city of Hierapolis was built on top of the white "castle" which is in total about 2,700 metres (8,860 ft) long, 600 m (1,970 ft) wide and 160 m (525 ft) high. It can be seen from the hills on the opposite side of the valley in the town of Denizli, 20 km away.
Known as Pamukkale (Cotton Castle) or ancient Hierapolis (Holy City), this area has been drawing the weary to its thermal springs since the time of Classical antiquity. The Turkish name refers to the surface of the shimmering, snow-white limestone, shaped over millennia by calcium-rich springs. Dripping slowly down the vast mountainside, mineral-rich waters foam and collect in terraces, spilling over cascades of stalactites into milky pools below. Legend has it that the formations are solidified cotton (the area's principal crop) that giants left out to dry.
Tourism is and has been a major industry in the area for thousands of years, due to the attraction of the thermal pools. As recently as the mid-20th century, hotels were built over the ruins of Hierapolis, causing considerable damage. An approach road was built from the valley over the terraces, and motor bikes were allowed to go up and down the slopes. When the area was declared a World Heritage Site, the hotels were demolished and the road removed and replaced with artificial pools.
Overshadowed by natural wonder, Pamukkale's well-preserved Roman ruins and museum have been remarkably underestimated and unadvertised; tourist brochures over the past 20 years have mainly featured photos of people bathing in the calcium pools. Aside from a small footpath running up the mountain face, the terraces are all currently off-limits, having suffered erosion and water pollution at the feet of tourists.
Pamukkale's terraces are made of travertine, a sedimentary rock deposited by water from the hot springs.
In this area, there are 17 hot water springs in which the temperature ranges from 35 °C (95 °F) to 100 °C (212 °F). The water that emerges from the spring is transported 320 metres (1,050 ft) to the head of the travertine terraces and deposits calcium carbonate on a section 60 to 70 metres (200 to 230 ft) long covering an expanse of 24 metres (79 ft) to 30 metres (98 ft). When the water, supersaturated with calcium carbonate, reaches the surface, carbon dioxide de-gasses from it, and calcium carbonate is deposited. Calcium carbonate is deposited by the water as a soft gel which eventually crystallizes into travertine.
In this museum, alongside historical artifacts from Hierapolis, there are also artifacts from Laodiceia, Colossae, Tripolis, Attuda and other towns of the Lycos (Çürüksu) valley. In addition to these, the museum has a large section devoted to artifacts found at Beycesultan Hüyük that includes some of the most beautiful examples of Bronze Age craft.
Artifacts from the Caria, Pisidia and Lydia regions are also on display in this museum. The museum's exhibition space consists of three closed areas of the Hierapolis Bath and the open areas in the eastern side which are known to have been used as the library and gymnasium. The artifacts in open exhibition space are mostly marble and stone. Hierapolis is broken down into ruins.
Pamukkale is a tourist attraction. It is recognized as a World Heritage Site together with Hierapolis. Hierapolis-Pamukkale was made a World Heritage Site in 1988.
The underground volcanic activity which causes the hot springs also forced carbon dioxide into a cave, which was called the Plutonium, which here means "place of the god Pluto". This cave was used for religious purposes by priests of Cybele, who found ways to appear immune to the suffocating gas.
Tadpoles can be found in the pools.
The hotels built in the 1960s were demolished as they were draining the thermal waters into their swimming pools and caused damage to the terraces. Nowadays, water supply to the hotels are limited and they need to deposit the water used to the supply to generate.
Access to the terraces is not allowed and visitors are asked to follow the pathway. Due to the new regulations, visitors are only allowed to dip their feet into the small pools, with their footwear removed.
Tiger (Panthera Tigris): The tiger (Panthera tigris) is the largest cat species, most recognizable for their pattern of dark vertical stripes on reddish-orange fur with a lighter underside. The species is classified in the genus Panthera with the lion, leopard, jaguar, and snow leopard. Tigers are apex predators, primarily preying on ungulates such as deer and bovids. They are territorial and generally solitary but social animals, often requiring large contiguous areas of habitat that support their prey requirements. This, coupled with the fact that they are indigenous to some of the more densely populated places on Earth, has caused significant conflicts with humans.
Tigers once ranged widely across eastern Eurasia, from the Black Sea in the west, to the Indian Ocean in the south, and from Kolyma to Sumatra in the east. Over the past 100 years, they have lost 93% of their historic range, and have been extirpated from Western and Central Asia, from the islands of Java and Bali, and from large areas of Southeast, Southern, and Eastern Asia. Today, they range from the Siberian taiga to open grasslands and tropical mangrove swamps. The remaining six tiger subspecies have been classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The global population in the wild is estimated to number between 3,062 and 3,948 individuals, down from around 100,000 at the start of the 20th century, with most remaining populations occurring in small pockets isolated from each other, of which about 2,000 exist on the Indian subcontinent. A 2016 global census estimated the population of wild tigers at approximately 3,890 individuals. Major reasons for population decline include habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and poaching. The extent of area occupied by tigers is estimated at less than 1,184,911 km2 (457,497 sq mi), a 41% decline from the area estimated in the mid-1990s. In 2016, wildlife conservation group at WWF declared that world's count of wild tigers has risen for the first time in a century.
Tigers are among the most recognisable and popular of the world's charismatic megafauna. They have featured prominently in ancient mythology and folklore, and continue to be depicted in modern films and literature. They appear on many flags, coats of arms, and as mascots for sporting teams. The tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and South Korea.


I can do up to 6th part (If you open the new .spr file you should be able to see the change if you did everything successfully above). I can see big sprite when i open new spr file. But when i move it to data folder and run game. Card sprite still same as before :( BTW i'm trying this for iRO chaos server.


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Hundreds sign petition to save Brighton nursery
Posted On 07 Dec 2022 at 12:01 am
More than 1,200 people have signed a petition to save a council-run nursery in Brighton from closure.
Bright Start Nursery, at the Old Slipper Baths, in Barrack Yard, North Road, is listed in Brighton and Hove City Council's draft budget for closure to save £104,000.
According to the budget report, the nursery building requires "significant" work – and there are 42 other nurseries within two miles.
Bright Start has places for 50 children from three months to four years old and employs 15 staff.
The petition, Save Bright Start – Brighton's City-Centre Council-Run Nursery, on the Change.org website, said that it was one of "very few" nurseries locally to provide year-round care for babies and young children from 8am to 6pm daily.
A father of two, Guy Coulson, said that parents at the nursery had started a campaign to raise awareness alongside the petition to try to persuade councillors to change their minds.
Parents are concerned about the effects of another change for their children after many of them had a disrupted start to their lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Coulson's sons Joe, three, and Zach, one, attend the nursery, which he described as their first community, adding that it would be "broken up" if Bright Start were to close.
He said: "It has been brought to my attention that the council runs two nurseries in Queen's Park – two prestigious nursery schools, the apex of early years facilities – Tarnerland and Royal Spa.
"It seems grossly unfair that that part of the city has such generous coverage and the North Laine is to be left with nothing.
"Our children have been through a challenging enough start in life thanks to covid.
"I do appreciate the perilous position the council is in but communities are worth fighting for – and where there's a will, there's a way.
"The Greens do not seem to have the will to fight for our children, our community. Where is the engagement? Do the Greens care more for the planet than the humans inhabiting it?"
An "equalities impact assessment" went before members of the council's Policy and Resources Committee last Thursday (1 December) along with the draft budget.
The assessment said that 17 per cent of the children qualified for the "early years pupil premium", a quarter of the families were on low incomes and 38 per cent had special educational needs and disabilities.
The petition said: "The staff at Bright Start also have specialist knowledge and training in dealing with a range of children with complex medical, disability and special educational needs.
"At a time when many of the other services for children with additional needs are being squeezed, closing down the nursery will mean depriving them of one of the few remaining sources of support available to them."
A co-opted member of the Policy and Resources Committee, Anusree Biswas Sasidharan, said that many people had contacted her about the threat to Bright Start Nursery.
She said: "It is really concerning because it has such a high number of children who are SEND (special educational needs and disabilities).
"It is concerning that a lot of parents find it very difficult to find a place for their children – and there are concerns, if this is no longer a provision available, that they will struggle to find suitable places."
At the same meeting, Green councillor Hannah Allbrooke, the deputy leader of the council, said that she did not stand for election to make the "awful decisions" that the council faced next year.
She said: "My vision is rather than closing nurseries, we keep them open and we keep them flourishing."
The petition is on the Change.org website.
'Hastings Fat Tuesday' will feature over 300 live performances


Fig. 1. Joseph, from the genealogical sequence in the choir clerestory of Canterbury Cathedral. By kind permission of the Chapter of Canterbury.
The talks are supported by The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral in association with the University of Kent, and will take place in the Canterbury Cathedral Stained Glass Studio. Arrive at 6.30pm in the Cathedral for a guided tour of the windows (or at 5.30pm for Choral Evensong beforehand). Each talk will begin at 7.00pm. Tickets cost £8 per talk or £35 for the full series. Entrance is free for school students and teachers. Booking is required. For further details and to book tickets, see the Cathedral website.


Jon and Sandy Spallino of Redondo Beach, California are the world's first consumers to lease a fuel cell car.
The Honda FCX is an hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle certified by Honda for regular daily use.
The Spallinos are living in the Los Angeles area, will be among the first to utilize the first of California's Hydrogen Highway refueling stations, a statewide infrastructure offer hydrogen refueling station access to private individuals.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state's commitment to a Hydrogen Highway in April of this year, creating a public and private partnership to build California's Hydrogen Highway by 2010.
The Honda 2005 FCX model is powered by Honda's originally developed fuel cell stack (Honda FC Stack) with the breakthrough capability to start and operate at sub-freezing temperatures as low as -4 degrees Fahrenheit, along with increased performance, range and fuel efficiency compared with earlier models. The FCX was the first fuel cell vehicle to be listed in the EPA's fuel economy guide in 2003. The 2005 FCX carries an EPA city/highway rating of 62/51 miles per gallon and a range of 190 miles.
More details in this Honda press-release.


US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's (above) smiles during his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh were deceptive for he has bluntly told him to complete the investigation into the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi within a few days, Axios reported on Thursday.
The US ultimatum comes amid a Turkish newspaper report that one of the suspects involved in Khashoggi's disappearance died in a suspicious car accident in Riyadh.
According to Axios, Pompeo told the crown prince on Tuesday that he should get to the bottom of the truth behind Khashoggi's disappearance within the deadline to avoid Saudi Arabia looking like a rogue state before the world.
After his Saudi visit, Pompeo headed to Ankara where he held talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu about the missing journalist.
Khashoggi, a harsh critic of Saudi policies, went missing on Oct 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to gather documents for his upcoming marriage with his Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz.
He left his cell phone with Cengiz outside the consulate and instructed her to call his friends and an Erdogan aide if he fails to come out. Cengiz called them up after waiting for him for 11 hours.
Turkish investigators immediately started a probe. According to a top official, they soon found video tapes of a team from Saudi Arabia entering the consulate ahead of Khashoggi's visit on Oct 2 and leaving the building after a few hours in a black Mercedes parked outside.
The audio tapes proved that Khashoggi was interrogated and beaten up soon after entering the building. After Khashoggi is silenced, a forensic head from Saudi Arabia asks the consul-general Mohammad al-Otaibi, to leave the room. He then tells other members of the team to listen to some music as he starts dismembering Khashoggi's mortal remains, the official said.
Reports said Pompeo asked Turkish authorities for the audio recording of Khashoggi's death. One report said the audio recording was handed to Pompeo while another said he was only briefed about the tapes pointing to Khashoggi's brutal murder.
In the meantime, the Turkish daily Yeni Safak said on Thursday that local police will extend the search for Khashoggi to a forest in Istanbul and a farm house in the neighbouring Yalova province.
According to the newspaper, Turkish forensics experts found evidence of murder during long searches on the ground floor at al-Otaibi's residence in Istanbul on Oct 17 and Oct 18. Al-Otaibi went to Saudi Arabia on Oct 16 for some unknown reason.
Video tapes show the Saudi team proceeding from the consulate in a black Mercedes to al-Otaibi's home nearby. CCTV cameras have captured the Mercedes parked at the Consul's garage. The Saudi team spent hours at the Consul's home before heading to the Istanbul airport where two private jets were waiting for them to Riyadh.
According to the newspaper, the investigators are expected to excavate an area in Istanbul's Belgrad Forest and a farm house in Yalova.
Yeni Safak also reported on Thursday that one of the suspects involved in Khashoggi's disappearance died in a suspicious car accident in Riyadh.
The victim, Mashal Saad al-Bostani, a lieutenant of the Saudi Royal Air Forces, was among the 15-member Saudi team that arrived at the consulate on Oct 2.
In the audio recording, al-Otaibi tells the interrogators at the consulate to "do it" somewhere outside the consulate. Or else, he will be in trouble. He is then told by someone in the team to shut up if he wants to live when he goes back to Saudi Arabia.


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Q: Changing visibility of a button I have the following button on every page:
  Start

and a popup form which has the following button
   <input type="button" value="Log in" onClick="assignValue()";/>

clicking this calls:
        function assignValue(){
              sessionStorage.setItem("booleanLoggedIn", true);
      }
And I'm hoping that the value associated with key "booleanLoggedIn" is true for the whole session, so that:
window.onload = function(){
    var loggedIn = sessionStorage.getItem('booleanLoggedIn');
     if (loggedIn){
     document.getElementById('myButton').style.visibility="visible";

    }

means that as long as the user is logged in, the button "Start" will appear on the page?
But this is not working correctly, and I have no idea why. I know that the value "true" is getting stored correctly..

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A new-born baby girl was found dead yesterday morning in a veld on the corners of Mc Cobe and Park street in Fickburg in the Free State.
ER24 paramedics were returning to their branch at approximately 10h35 when they were flagged down by local authorities.
Upon arrival, paramedics were lead into the veld where they found a new-born girl lying wrapped in black plastic bags.
Paramedics assessed the patient and found that she showed no signs of life. Nothing more could be done for the child and she was declared dead on scene.
It was evident to paramedics that the child had been dead for some time.
The details are not yet known but local authorities were on the scene to investigate further.


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(sub)Urban Projections multi-media festival returns to Hult Center
Performing Arts by Rachael CarnesPosted on 04/14/2016
Kid Koala's 'Nufonia Must Fall'Photo by AJ Korkidakis
The (sub)Urban Projections Digital Art & Media Festival returns April 21 with a two-night multi-sensory, multi-discipline experience.
Sponsored by the city of Eugene in partnership with Harmonic Laboratory, the festival — now celebrating its fifth year — seeks to "champion emerging artists, cultivate community and generate vibrancy in downtown Eugene."
This year's offerings include "Ritual," starting at 8 pm Thursday, April 21, and featuring the work of more than 60 local artists, thinkers, educators and innovators.
"Ritual" brings together digital art technologies like projection mapping with more traditional artistic forms like dance, music and visual art, including 18 visual-art installations placed throughout the Hult Center lobby's seven levels and elevator.
"It will be immersive to say the least," the city of Eugene's public art manager Isaac Marquez says, adding that the city "is proud to provide this platform for risk-taking and experimentation with our local talent, because it demonstrates how Eugene is participating in this moment the arts are having right now."
And, after Thursday's happening, don't miss "Nufonia Must Fall" at 8 pm Friday, April 22. Based on the 2003 graphic novel of the same name by Canadian scratch DJ, music producer and graphic novelist Kid Koala (aka Eric San), "Nufonia" is animated in real time, with a live soundtrack provided by Mr. Koala and the renowned Afiara Quartet, all under the direction of filmmaker K.K. Barrett.
"This is a large, projected silent movie being scored live," says Barrett, production designer for such iconic films as Her, Where the Wild Things Are, I Heart Huckabees and Being John Malkovich.
In "Nufonia Must Fall," the 2D world of San's charming graphic novel about a cute little robot that falls in love is translated into puppets and miniature sets ranging in size from 1 to 10 inches. These are manipulated live onstage under exquisite filmic lighting, and the resulting moments are captured on camera and projected for the audience.
"You're getting to see the making-of down below the screen, as everything comes together above the action," Barrett says.
Adds San: "The show is dynamic and fun. It's like there are 15 of us on one surfboard."
San studied classical piano as a kid, "and almost majored in physics in college," he says.
As a self-proclaimed "turntablist," San says he figured out how to elevate seemingly simple scratching — a technique used to produce distinctive percussive or rhythmic sounds and sound effects by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable — to create new melodies and tone. "From chipmunk range to whale song," he explains.
And, as an artist, San's earliest introduction to drawing was his dad. "My father's not an artist," he says. "He's a scientist. But he could draw battleships very well."
(When San was bored in a restaurant, he says, "my dad would just draw.")
San's own work plays with the intersection between these two seemingly disparate art forms — visual art and music — that, for him, are inexorably intertwined.
"Sound and light are just part of the same spectrum," San says. "We've all seen and experienced music that can really move you, the same way line, shape, a look, movement, dance can have that effect. They can't be separated."
When he's drawing, San says, he can't help hearing a musical score develop in his head, and that when he's writing music, he sees pictures.
And when visual art and music come together onstage?
"It becomes a very urgent event," San says.
Adds Barrett: "Through the acting, the sets, story, the audience is a part of the ensemble. If they're not connected, if they're not included, it's like having a band member sit one out."
'Ritual'. Photo by Dmitri von Klein
"Ritual" fills the Hult Center lobby starting at 8 pm Thursday, April 21; FREE, but tickets with timed entry are required and available at hultcenter.org. Tickets ($26-$62) for "Nufonia Must Fall", 8 pm Friday, April 22, are also available at hultcenter.org.
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John H. Bigelow ~ Photography: Two new ones and one I rediscovered.
What a thrill this week to see these two Polyphemus Moths mating on the grass by our back door. I've never before had an opportunity to photograph one in the wild ...and then this!
Through the summer I waited for these beautiful Yellow Swallowtail to show up and there were none. I called a couple of experts and discovered that they have seemed to almost disappear and for no known reason. They thought it might be a cycle and then, just when I gave up looking, God sent this ...and it was newly hatched!
I thought I'd lost this photo of a neighbors cat. He/she has the most beautiful deep blue eyes that match the color of the Iris.


Bahrain has the most mature telecoms market in the Middle East, according to BuddeComm.
The independent research and consultancy company, which is well regarded for its intelligence reports, has recently launched it's Telecoms Maturity Index. The TMI analyses the broadband, mobile and fixed line markets of a country as well as a range of economic parameters to rank it on a scale of 1 to 100 and compare it to its region.
Bahrain is the top-ranking country in the Middle East with a Telecoms Maturity Index score of 70. The UAE scored 67. The top three 'market challengers' are Lebanon with a score of 52, Jordan (52) and Saudi Arabia (45).
The main disparities between market leaders and challengers are the GDP per capita, the level of urbanization, the level of economic stability, the mobile penetration and the mobile broadband penetration which appear to be high for the market leaders but moderate for the market challengers. Fixed broadband penetration remains low for both categories.
The report said that expansion by operators from more developed markets into the region several years ago has benefited the Middle East market overall, with six international operators now in the market. These operators have brought valuable experience, infrastructure, services, investment and solutions to the region, to compete with the nine dominant domestic players.
This increased competition has been a challenge for some operators, along with other challenges which include large capital expenditure and skills requirements for new infrastructure roll out, variances in regulatory environments and prevailing economic conditions.
BuddeComm also highlighted that many mobile operators are facing increased challenges in the sector, due primarily to regulatory reforms, liberalisation, Over-The-Top providers, economic and civil conditions, the lifting of sanctions (Iran) and mobile market saturation.
In many cases governments and operators have attempted to curb or stop the disruptive influence of Over-The-Top players, the analyst company noted; however, this has had limited success as it can be difficult to regulate such prohibitions and citizens often turn to VPN solutions to access such services.


To get all the information regarding your wi-fi connection, you must use this application. It can help you in finding the access points of wi-fi along with the provision of details about the connected devices.
Additionally, if you are aiming to find the generic wi-fi password for a connection, you can get it through Acrylic Wi-Fi. It can be helpful especially if you are in search of a connection that has lesser overlapping. The signal quality of the link along with the data usage by each of the connected devices can be displayed for you in the form of charts and graphs.
Security details regarding a particular wi-fi connection can also be managed through this application. Information like MAC address, vendor type, RSSI, channel type can also be viewed if the wi-fi connection details are accessed through this utility.
The friendly interface makes all these functions quite easy to use, which can help you in optimizing your wi-fi usage and needs.
Acrylic Wi-Fi is an application to find the access points and monitor the signals and devices connected to a wi-fi network.


What are the existing and anticipated traffic patterns of the area to be covered?
Are there any potential water issues that could affect the area to be covered? If so, how impermeable to water and moisture is your carpet backing?
What are the most durable fibers (Olefin, Nylon) and how do they compare in their ability to withstand stains?
What fiber density and weave are better suited for heavy foot traffic (such as in offices, hotel rooms, etc.), for wheel chairs (like hospitals, senior living facilities), or food carts (such as institutional dining halls)?
Are there any sound factors that require your floor covering to have sound absorption qualities?
Commercial carpeting may be purchased 'by the roll', or as individual tiles that can be replaced easily if damaged.


I hope you had a wonderful weekend with friends and family - sad that they go so fast, and Monday has to lurk again right around that corner.
In the sporting world, this weekend was primarily about the US Open, and when it came to drama, it was sorely lacking this time around. Tiger who? Yes, 22 year old Rory McIlroy completed the rare wire to wire win, with no late hole drama, as happened in the Masters. Nope, in fact, his 16 under score won it by 8 strokes, and the score was 4 better than Tiger's romp back in 2000. 12 new US Open and Congressional records were set by Rory with his performance. Hard to say if Tiger can overcome the injuries of late - if not, we may be seeing what is next already.
Inter-league baseball was the other major weekend highlight, two good games in Wrigley got the hyper-attention of the media, the rubber match tween the Yanks and Cubs is going on now. The Dodgers finally broke their 5 game losing streak, getting a run in the bottom of the 8th to beat Houston 1-0 this afternoon. Finally looks like there will be a resolution to the ownership mess soon - Dodger Nation is hoping that it leads to someone else. Tomorrow the Tigers come to Chavez Ravine, so LA gets a taste of inter-league round 2.
We are now down to 75 days (and counting) until college football returns, and there has been no new news over the weekend concerning the NFL talks. There has been news, but it's about players getting in trouble or throwing verbal barbs back and forth. Maybe tomorrow.
Tomorrow brings us the 3rd Slam of the tennis year, as we go to the Sedge's old homeland for a fortnight at Wimbledon. The draw was yesterday - and shall we say, it generated a lot of buzz on the world wide web. Why? Opening round match (Tuesday), Isner v. Mahut - Part Two (or four). They of the epic 3 day, 70-68 5th set match to open the tournament last year. This edition should be nowhere near as dramatic - but if it goes to a 5th, stop what you are doing and turn on the tv.
Tonight also sees the US soccer team advancing to the Gold Cup semi-finals with their 2-nil win over Jamaica. That result, much better. The US U-17 kids are currently playing in their World Cup, and tonight they knocked off the 'Checa' Republic 3-0 in group play. A good day for USA soccer all around.
All right gang, Monday creeps for me as well - I will be away from the Mac for much of this week, so I'll be using the mobile Blogger app on the Droid. Tech marches on, just like The Eternal Season!


We encountered a red-haired woman—the Vampire Vivian.
Moreover, she solicited food the moment she met us.
First, we met at the Bailey Town near the sea, then we met in the city of Alveil, so this meeting will make it the third one, but… she's frightfully intimate.
Unmindful of my uneasiness, Vivian took out something and flaunted it before me.
Does she think that I will give her food anytime as long as she compensates me?
Vampire special-made hair growth agent.
If properly spread and rubbed onto the head before sleeping, you will be bushy in the morning!
Affects only the head. Has no effects even if spread by mistake on other places.
When I appraised what Vivian took out, I was at a loss for words.
Why a hair growth agent!? Eh? There's nothing strange going on top of my head, right? I don't need to use this, do I?
I felt relieved by hearing Vivian's words and on top of that, I ended up agreeing with her without thinking.
Do I get on the negotiations obediently…?
Although I don't need it now, in the future… I might really need it in the future!
Besides, what Vivian said is true as there are surely many people who would want this hair growth agent. That being the case, I might be able to negotiate for some high-class ingredients with this.
Yeah, I won't be at a disadvantage by having it!
When I asked if she has any requests, Vivian's expression was clearly plastered with delight.
Anyhow, I can't let Vivian eat here, so I thought about what to feed her while walking.
There was space to rest on the benches, so I took out a pre-made Katsudon from my Infinite Storage and handed it over to Vivian.
When Vivian received the Katsudon, she retrieved a spoon from her own bag, and started bolting down the food.
Vivian opened her eyes wide while chewing.
She finished it in the blink of an eye and moved onto the Dorayaki.
She promptly finished one of the three pieces of Dorayaki I gave her and she soon moved onto the second one.
It seems that Allen and Elena got hungry from seeing Vivian go "Delicious, so yummy" while eating the Dorayaki. It was just the right time for a snack, so when I gave the two Dorayaki as well, they immediately bit into it.
The children have completely hit it off with Vivian and the three looked at me expectantly.
Even if you ask me why~ If I had to say then I thought that I could make it at any point in time so I delayed it off instead? I thought I made a failure when I saw Allen and Elena so disheartened, so I should make it when I am free.
At times like this, nothing is better than changing the topic. I decided to bring up the matter of medicine to Vivian.
Successfully changing the subject, Vivian rummaged through her bag.
I remember Vivian saying that it was "a spare medicine" when she gave it to me before, so now that I met her, I have to confirm because there's nothing to lose!
Apparently, Vivian did have Enerunrun♪ on her.
Even though I told her to make up the price, she didn't demand money.
Moreover, ten Dorayaki for one nutrient supplement… is she fine with that?
… It seems that I wasn't able to change the topic after all. Moreover, the payment didn't change from Dorayaki.
Allen and Elena looked at me with puppy eyes.
Even though they just ate Dorayaki for the snack~ It might be my fault, but the two grew into gluttons. No, I am also extremely fond of delicious things, so it's only a natural result that the children were influenced by me.
Now then, Cream Dorayaki, huh~ I have a stock of custard cream, and I can make the Dorayaki pancakes immediately.
That being the case, we have moved to the inn Vivian stayed at.
***I don't remember Takumi ever leaving the Guardia Country (other than the Gaya Forest), nor any character named Miranda. This might be a Light Novel-only event or possibly the author's mistake.


GEORGI RUSAFOV - Georgi Rusafov is a graduate of the National Dance High School in Sofia, Bulgaria studying under Peter Koldamov. After graduation he joined the National Opera and Ballet Sofia Bulgaria. Mr.Rusafov received advanced Vaganova master education for teaching ballet and choreography at the Bulgarian National Music Conservatory (P.Vladigerov). Mr. Rusafov has won several ballet awards and has participated in the International Ballet Competitions – Varna, and Helsinki. Mr.Rusafov has performed as a soloist and principal dancer with the Bulgarian National Opera and Ballet, and Estonia National Ballet. He was a principal dancer with Milwaukee Ballet, Northern Plains Ballet and Omaha Ballet Theater and company member with Ballet Arizona. Toured in Spain, Greece, Egypt, Germany, Holland, Italy, and all over the United States as a star principal dancer. Mr.Rusafov also is Master Ballet Class teacher. He has taught Master Ballet Workshops at New Mexico, Washington DC, Florida, New York and many other places at USA and Europe.
TARA RUSAFOV - Ms. Rusafov began her training with Mary Moe Adams and the Adams Ballet Academy in Tempe. She continued her professional training at Yen-li Chen Ballet School in Chandler under the direction of Yen-li Chen. She also trained with the director of dance at Ball State University, Marek Cholewa. Ms.Rusafov was a dancer with Ballet Arizona for eight years and performed many ballets including Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Apollo, Serenade, Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations and many more. Ms. Rusafov also danced roles in the Nutcracker including Spanish, Chinese, Marzipan Snow, and flowers. Ms.Rusafov also danced with Nova Ballet and was featured in Adiemus by David Palmer and Yanis Pikieris, Writhe by Michael Cook, Beyond by Adam Houghland, Another by Robert Dekkers and Milieu by Robert Dekkers.


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Franz Mesmer - Father of Hypnosis
It was Mesmer who gave the world the word 'Mesmerism' - but unfortunately, although it is doubtless true that it was he who was the father of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, it was also he who contributed to the bad reputation that hypnosis suffers even to this day.
His own reputation has now been more or less redeemed but some of his ideas were so far ahead of their time that in keeping with many other visionaries, he was to a certain extent, ostracised by his peers.
How Mesmer 'thought of' Hypnosis.
Franz Mesmer was born in 1734 in south-western Germany, although he is often referred to as a 'Viennese' physician.
His advanced thinking is best exemplified by his introduction of pain control via hypnosis - or rather what we might nowadays call hypnotism.
Chemical anaesthesia was not introduced until 1846. Consequently, prior to that date surgery was a terribly painful and harrowing experience - which meant that those on the receiving end would do practically anything to dull the pain – anything from being knocked unconscious to using alcohol or any other chemicals to dull the pain.
Otherwise, it was a case of having to endure the unimaginable agony of being operated upon in a fully conscious state. Until proper analgesic was introduced, pain control was very much a hit and miss affair.
France Mesmer introduced some rudimentary trance-related ideas about pain control in the early 1800s. Although there were some surgeons who used his techniques, as soon as reliable analgesics were introduced in the mid-1800s, his methods gradually disappeared and were not properly revived until the latter part of the 20th century.
We mentioned Mesmer in our part 1 of History of Hypnosis series - read it now.
Mesmers Theory of Hypnosis.
Even though Mesmer is credited with being a pioneer of hypnosis, his ideas were not based on what we now understand to be the conscious and subconscious.
He was influenced by Newton's Gravitational Theory and he believed in patients being adversely affected by gravitational tides.
One of his most celebrated cases involved curing a patient through the use of magnetism. It is now recognised that although both he and the patient believed that it was magnetism which was drawing the illness from her body, it is now generally accepted that the patient's miraculous recovery was more likely produced by the 'suggestion' that the illness was somehow removed by magnetism, plus Mesmer's combination of touches and hand gestures.
How Mesmer Invented Stage Hypnosis.
It was Mesmer who inadvertently went into show business by demonstrating his extraordinarily new technique all over Europe and being one of the earliest people to be seduced by the cult of celebrity.
Unfortunately this alienated him from the medical establishment who even then were very conservative and consequently he was denounced as a charlatan.
There is little doubt that he was using hypnosis without realising it and all the attached mystery, showmanship, exotic hand gestures etc will doubtless have contributed to his subjects going into trance.
Eventually, people would have gone into trance, because they would have expected to go into trance!
Animal Magnetism.
It was he who coined the phrase 'animal magnetism' as he believed in the tidal influences of the planets on the human body through a mysterious universal force which could be affected by magnetism.
The magnetism aspect of his success was no more crucial to the process than a modern hypnotist swinging a pocket watch or pendulum in front of a patient's eyes in order to assist with the hypnotism or Mesmerism process.
Needless to say, his claims were tested by the medical establishment. Unsurprisingly they were proved to be false because even he did not realise that it wasn't the magnetic 'Mesmeric pass' which was creating a trance-like state - but his own interaction with the patient.
In later life, Mesmer re-established himself in Paris and the show business aspect of his work amplified as 'Mesmeric salons' were created all over the city with Mesmer's manner and extravagant dress adding to the mystique.
Hypnosis was Recognised as a Real Fenomenon.
Although Mesmer did seek some sort of endorsement from the French Academy of Sciences as well as the French medical establishment – his demonstrations were greeted with a certain amount of derision. However the French Faculty of Medicine was eventually convinced because the more enlightened members realised that this was a real phenomenon that they were witnessing.
Mesmer continued his obssession with the theory of 'animal magnetic ether' with the quite reasonable theory that just like gravity or magnetism, this was an invisible 'force' which could only be observed through its effects. Obviously, this was very difficult to either prove or disprove.
Mesmer soon acquired followers (or disciples) and Mesmerism became what can only be described as a huge 'craze'.
Eventually even the French establishment turned on Mesmer because they really could not confirm the ' causes' of Mesmerism and eventually Mesmer moved to England and then other parts of Europe.
Luckily, Mesmerism continued as a craze because it was definitely producing results and Mesmer's legacy was taken up by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and eventually passed and formalised by another Viennese doctor named Sigmund Freud.
There is little doubt that because Mesmerism was not properly understood even by Mesmer, it was not he who was able to make the link between the mind's amazing power over the body.
That was left to others and even now, the exact 'mechanism' of the hypnotic trance is not fully understood – although the medical establishment certainly does recognise Mesmer's pioneering contribution to psychology.
Today, we know how hypnosis works, we can define hypnosis - and we can even help you try it out yourself. The free download is here.


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To Embrace the Future——New Year Speech by Chairman of Wingtech Technology
Dear Colleagues of Wingtech and Nexperia,
At this fine and beautiful day, together we celebrate Chinese New Year.Tomorrow we will usher in the year of the OX. I wish you a happy new year, good health and a happy family!
In 2020, we had forged ahead in adversity. At the begining of the year we met with the outbreak of COVID-19. As we'd just resumed production in China, the virus has started to spread overseas. The whole industry and the external environment are not peaceful. The price rise, shortage and trade war were with us the whole year, creating a lot of obstacles for us, but also allowing us to see and seize a lot of opportunities, laying a solid foundation for Wingtech to continue to maintain high-speed growth in the future.
Semiconductor Business Ushers in its Highlight Moment
I took over as the CEO of Nexperia in March 2020, and significantly promoted the performance of Nexperia from the historical low point in the first and second season 2020 to the new high point in the third and fourth quarters. We've also achieved unprecedented growth. Now Nexperia and Wingtech are just like a family. Many of their work, such as customers, products and supply chain, has begun to benefit from synergy.
In 2020, we have set up two new global R&D centers to strengthen product development. One in Penang, Malaysia, providing us with a strong entry point into the simulation market. Another one in Shanghai, providing strong support for all the divisions of Nexperia. This is a strategic place for us, because it is close to the new wafer factory in Shanghai, so that our customers and local partners can participate in our R&D more deeply. In addition, we have expanded our sales force in China, Europe and the United States to better serve our global customers.
In terms of wafer and assembly and test, we continue to invest in European Fabs and back-end facilities in Asia to expand production capacity and strengthen our IDM advantage. The new 200mm technology will be introduced at Nexperia's European Fabs in Hamburg (Germany) and Manchester (UK). The Hamburg Fab will also increase investment in new third-generation semiconductor technologies. We have strengthened our test and assembly capabilities in Guangdong, China, Seremban, Malaysia and Cabuyao, Philippines, including advanced automation and system level packaging (SiP) technology. This year, we completed a private placement of 5.8 billion yuan, increased capital expenditure, and provided a lot of funds for the automation production line and SiP project of Nexperia (China) Co., Ltd. We also have a long-term plan to build four new fabs. The first is Shanghai Lingang 12 inch wafer factory, which is under construction. It is planned to be put into production in 2022, and the annual output is expected to reach 400,000 pcs.
In addition, we have established the purchasing team of Nexperia China, which will help Nexperia develop new supply chain in China to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Our global customer development is progressing very smoothly. Many 5G, IoT and automotive customers have started to import products from Nexperia, and Nexperia has signed strategic cooperation agreements with many of our essential clients.
At present, the demand of semiconductor market is growing in an all-round way, and there may be a huge demand gap in the next few years. Our factory is running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. At the same time, we continue to invest to expand production capacity. It is estimated that we can not fully meet the growing demand of customers, and the delivery time of each product line is constantly lengthening. I want the semiconductor business to achieve $10 billion in sales by 2030 and $3 billion in sales by 2023. At present, the management is full of confidence in the realization of this strategic goal.
Transformation of Communication Business from Service Company to Product Company
In 2020, our communication system integration business has experienced a turning point from quantitative change to qualitative change, realizing the transformation from ODM service company (professional solutions) to great product company.
We have launched a drastic structural reform, set up a product center, a supply center, a central research institute, an applied research institute, and an ark laboratory. We have also linked up with Nexperia, integrated the products, customers, and supply chain resources of communication and semiconductor businesses, increased investment, carried out large-scale technological innovation, and achieved mutual empowerment.
Now we have very good customers and products in the fields of mobile phone, tablet, laptop, IoT, automotive electronics, etc. A large number of new technologies and products are in the intensive research and development stage, and will be launched in 2021.
What we are particularly proud of is that with the innovation ability of Wingtech, we have taken a historic step. We have successfully pitched a North American carrier client and other new customers representing the highest standard of the industry, expanded production capacity in large scale domestically and abroad, and entered into areas that competitors can't set foot in. All these have laid a solid foundation for the sustainable growth of Wingtech in the next 10 years.
Break the Industry Boundary to Create Greater Value
The development of 5G, IoT and new energy vehicles has brought a lot of new demands and created great opportunities for us. Our various types of semiconductor chips and devices, 5G, IoT, automotive electronics will be on the market in a large scale in 2021.
We are investing heavily in our portfolio of high-voltage power devices, SiC, GaN, system packages and analog ICs to promote product development and continue to expand our portfolio. Our 650V gallium nitride (GaN) technology, which has been automotive qualified, will begin mass delivery to numerous automotive customers in 2021. SiC products have now delivered their first wafers and samples, and are already being tested by heavyweight customers, with 72 product releases planned for this year and next.
SiP will be one of our key directions in 2021. As a global leader in semiconductor chip design, wafer, assembly & test and system integration, we will apply SIP packing technology on a large scale in automotive, consumer and industrial products.
We're still discussing whether we're going to move into new areas, and we'll have more to reveal.
We believe that from 2021, Wingtech will enter the stage of high-speed large-scale innovation, and you will see that Wingtech will have many excellent products, and continue to enhance the competitiveness of our semiconductor business and communication system integration business.
We will continue to increase investment to ensure that the company will maintain a compound growth rate of more than 30% in the next few years. Wingtech's system integration business will be the world's first, and Nexperia will also be the global first in the fields of analog, logic and power devices. Our goal is to achieve global expansion and become the world's number one in each segment.
This year, we offered a large-scale equity incentive, accelerated the disposal of the former legacy real estate business, and recruited a large number of research and development staff in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Malaysia and other places. Although the resulting additional expenses affected our profit, but for the future growth of Wingtech reserves strength.
Wingtech is not the kind of company that is willing to be mediocre. When we transformed from IDH 13 years ago, we became the first ODM company in China. When we made huge sacrifices 6 years ago to restructure and go public, 3 years ago, we took a huge risk to develop new customers and opened up a new market of 200 million units for the whole industry, 2 years ago, when everyone thought it was impossible to buy Nexperia for 33.8 billion CNY, the largest and most successful semiconductor acquisition in China we made. In 2020, we've once again entered into the field where they can't imagine. Every strategic adjustment of Wingtech is to create greater value for customers, industry and society.
Dear colleagues of Wingtech and Nexperia, only those who truly believe that they can change the world can really change the world. The biggest growth space in history, the best development opportunity has been in front of us. Let us work together to break the boundaries of ourselves and our company, to create greater value for our customers, partners and society, to reap success and realize our dreams.
Let us work together hand in hand, pursue our dreams and embark on a great new journey together!
Chairman of Wingtech Technology
Chairman of Nexperia
Chinese New Year Eve
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Email: PR@Wingtech.com