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New report claims UK lagging behind Europe in cycling infrastructure development
Posted on 29 Nov 2022 in Brands & Products News, Cycles News
A new survey of 2,000 British cyclists, which is part of a wider European report, claims that only just over a quarter of people in the UK think their local cycling infrastructure has improved in the past year.
The annual "State of the Nation" report by Shimano says that compared to the UK's 27%, an average of 39% across all the other countries involved felt that cycling infrastructure had improved. Lack of infrastructure is believed to be one of the major factors preventing people from cycling.
This research is part of the wider report which is to be used to assess attitudes and insights towards the use of electric bikes across Europe.
Speaking to Cycling Weekly, Jonathan Davis, PR and communications manager for Shimano Europe said the findings were fascinating and enabled the company to identify key trends in the e-bike market.
"We are delighted to be launching our fourth State of the Nation report. Based on a poll of over 15,500 people across Europe, it aims to examine the motivations of e-bike users and better understand the attitudes to e-bikes and cycling more widely," he said
''The findings are fascinating and allow us to identify key trends in the market. The awareness of (and even attitudes towards) those who interact with an e-bike in some way are shifting upwards."
When respondents were asked about the factors that might encourage someone to buy or hire an e-bike now compared to a year ago, economic factors such as cost of living and purchase subsidies came out as the main factors.
37% of people in the UK also cited knowing that they would reduce their environmental impact, as a factor that might encourage someone to buy or hire an e-bike, compared to 33% across Europe.
Across Europe, within those citing environmental impact as a factor in choosing e-bikes, the percentage was highest at 37% amongst the ages 18-24, and higher for women at 36% compared to 30% for men. The factor of environmental concerns also came out higher in both Italy and Spain, which could be seen as a response to extreme weather events recently seen in both countries.
Shimano has been exploring the perceptions and stereotypes that exist around e-bike usage. In the UK the main factors that came to the top of the surface were environmentally conscious people, commuters, and elderly people.


Mangdechhu hydropower plant under construction.
In 14 years, Bhutan has gone from being 30 percent to 100 percent electrified. The mountainous country has also become an exporter of hydropower to India, which gives significant income to Bhutan and reduces India's emission from polluting power generation.
Bhutan has access to the same amount of hydropower resources as Norway, but it is still one of the poorest countries in the world. For almost thirty years, Norway has collaborated closely with Bhutan to develop hydropower resources and facilitate long-term export of renewable energy to India. Measures to facilitate increased energy efficiency and development of wind- and sun energy are also included in the cooperation. Since the late 80's, Norway has contributed to the development of warning systems for natural hazards, systems for glacier measurements and the establishment of a hydrological data model for the country, as well being a significant contributor to the preparation of national plans the for use of national water resources.
Norway's ambassador to Bhutan, H. E. Nils Ragnar Kamsvåg, and the director of The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), Mr. Per Sanderud, attended a reception in Thimphu on the April 25 to honor the successful cooperation, to which NVE, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) and Norwegian have been significant contributors. Together with the Bhutanese minister of foreign affairs, H. E. Lyonpo Damcho Dorji, the ambassador launched the report 'Norwegian Energy Cooperation with Bhutan'. The report summarizes nearly 30 years of cooperation in the energy field.
The cooperation has led to many important results for the development of hydropower and thus welfare in Bhutan. Norway has funded the making of national plans for hydropower development and contributed to the planning of several hydropower plants. Bhutan has now established basic capacity, knowledge and competence that provides the fundament for a comprehensive and independent system for hydropower development, power supply, renewable energy exports and tunnels and roads construction.
A solid framework that ensures Bhutan as a hydropower nation in the future: A predictable regulatory framework in the energy sector has been developed and it's now adjusted to local conditions. In addition, a number of guidelines have been developed that fit the current law and regulatory framework, which ensures predictable conditions for investments in renewable energy, including how environmental and social conditions are to be assessed. Through the preparation of national plans, the framework is now set for how Bhutan will develop its water resources in the years to come.
Proper pricing of power: Almost 100 % of Bhutan's citizens have access to electricity today. Bhutan Electricity Authority, Bhutan's response to NVE, has created calculation methods in order to find the right pricing of electricity. The cost of electricity in Bhutan is high and the government subsidizes the prices accordingly based on advice from the regulator, so that all residents and companies in Bhutan have the opportunity to pay. One result from the calculations is that every poor household in Bhutan gets 100 kWh of free power per month.
Education is a key: The cooperation has emphasized local ownership and involvement. Master level education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim has been an important contribution to the development of skills and competence in Bhutan's energy sector.
Data quality for improved warning of natural hazards: The cooperation has resulted in structures for collection and quality assurance of hydrological data in order to create good warning systems of natural hazards such as jökulhlaups (glacial outbursts) and floods. The warning systems alert the most vulnerable and flood prone areas. The data collected is also direct input into the decision processes for future hydropower development.
Read the report Norwegian Energy Cooperation with Bhutan here.


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Why did Jesus send Paul to the Gentiles?
What was Paul's mission to the Gentiles?
Where did Paul preach to the Gentiles?
Why was Paul chosen by God?
What was Paul's mission?
Why are the letters of Paul important?
What is the mission of the Gentiles?
How did Paul help spread the teaching of Jesus?
Is Paul in the chosen?
Paul believed that his vision proved that Jesus lived in heaven, that Jesus was the Messiah and God's Son, and that he would soon return. … The Hebrew prophets, he wrote, had predicted that in "days to come" God would restore the tribes of Israel and that the Gentiles would then turn to worship the one true God.
During this time he came, by himself, to the city of Corinth, where he stayed with Aquila and Priscilla. Paul began his ministry in this city, as he did in every other city, by reasoning in the synagogue every Sabbath, persuading both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) (Acts 18:4).
So he set out to bring to justice the heretics who were betraying the God he'd worshipped his entire life. … Scripture clarifies that God specifically chose Paul, before he was born, to proclaim the Gospel, mainly, but not exclusively, to the gentiles (Galatians 1:15-16).
The goal of Paul's mission is "to win obedience from the Gentiles" ( 15:18 ), bringing them to the "obedience of faith" (1:5), a phrase referring to "the conversion and subordination to the sovereign authority of Jesus, which is the result of preaching the gospel" (Stuhlmacher, 1994, 20).
THIS IS IMPORTANT: What type of trees are in the Bible?
Paul's epistles are significant because they too convey a truth that predates them: Before there were any New Testament scriptures, there were the eye-witnesses to Jesus' resurrection. … Paul then became an eyewitness to the resurrection of Jesus, and a herald of this Good News.
The religious environment of the Gentile mission was a tolerant, syncretistic blend of many cults and myths. Paganism was concerned with success, and the gods were believed to give victory in war, good harvests, success in love and marriage, and sons and daughters.
Famously converted on the road to Damascus, he travelled tens of thousands of miles around the Mediterranean spreading the word of Jesus and it was Paul who came up with the doctrine that would turn Christianity from a small sect of Judaism into a worldwide faith that was open to all.
On the twentieth episode of All Heart with Paul Cardall, Paul is joined by the upbeat, energetic actor Noah James who portrays St. Andrew in the popular crowdfunded biblical series The Chosen.

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Flashback: Fred Trump Sr. Donates Land, Builds Synagogue in Brooklyn
Posted in: Charity, Good Guy, Good News, Grateful, Inspiration, Politics, TDS
President Trump's niece, Mary Trump, has called his father, Fred Trump Sr., a "sociopath."
Yeah, no.
Here is the account from Rabbi Shmuel Wagner, now living in Israel, the son of Rabbi Yisroel Wagner, who, in 1956, met with Fred Trump.
Note: "shul" is Yiddish for "synagogue."
Via Queens Jewish Link.
….Rabbi Yisroel Wagner survived the Holocaust and made his way to Bolivia, in South America, where he served as the rav of a Jewish community. In 1950, he and his wife moved to California and a few years later to New York, where he became a rabbi in a residential area of Brooklyn, near Brighton Beach. Fred Trump owned 31 buildings in the area, with many Jewish tenants….Reb Shmuel recalls:…the shul operated in the parking garage of one of the buildings, and began with thirty members, but it experienced tremendous growth in just a few years, to the point that it came to serve hundreds of families….
Eventually, the shul's membership grew to the point that the garage facility was no longer large enough to house the congregation. "My father had an idea," Reb Shmuel recalls. "He offered to approach Fred Trump, the millionaire landlord, although he didn't know him personally. He hoped that he could convince the man to supply an adequate space for the synagogue. He knew that Fred Trump was a generous soul, a man of faith, and he was likely to relate to the request."….Trump was very moved by the proposed idea and he proceeded to donate a piece of real estate at 723 Avenue Z, which became the Beach Haven Jewish Center, and is open and active to this very day, offering programs for youth and the elderly….
According to Reb Shmuel, not only did Fred Trump donate the plot of land where the shul was built and cover most of the expense of the construction, but he also attended the ceremony in 1956 at which the cornerstone was laid. "Fred was very moved by my father's speech at the ceremony. He was highly impressed, and he became my father's close friend." Over time, Fred Trump's donations grew progressively more generous. Many times, Rabbi Wagner would tell him about various Jewish families in the area who were poor and needy, and he would give large sums to help them out as well….
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require "rubygems"
require "bundler/setup"
require "slop"
require "mustache"
require 'socket'

class String
  def cleanup
    begin
      value = self.split(":")[1]
      ["ServerName", "ServerAlias"].each { |dirt| value.sub!(dirt, "") }
      value.strip
    rescue
      self.strip
    end
  end
end

class Service < Mustache
  attr_accessor :host, :description, :command

  def initialize(options = {})
    self.host = options[:host]
    self.description = options[:description]
    self.command = options[:command]
  end
end

# Override DNS for some sites.
# For example, BIAWA resolves to 203.153.237.135 for SSL, but blitzwing resolves to 203.153.231.81.
site_ips = Hash.new
site_ips['admin.gmep.tfgdev.com.au'] = '203.153.237.152'
site_ips['fogartywines.com']         = '203.153.237.136'
site_ips['fogartywines.com.au']      = '203.153.237.136'
site_ips['gmep.tfgdev.com.au']       = '203.153.237.152'
site_ips['imeducate.tfgdev.com.au']  = '203.153.237.150'
site_ips['shop.mastergroup.net.au']  = '203.153.237.134'
site_ips['ssl.biawa.asn.au']         = '203.153.237.135'
site_ips['www.fogartywines.com']     = '203.153.237.136'
site_ips['www.fogartywines.com.au']  = '203.153.237.136'
site_ips['www.gmep.tfgdev.com.au']   = '203.153.237.152'

# Override HTTP response codes for some sites.
# For example, ci.thefrontiergroup.com.au responds with 403 Forbidden.
http_commands = Hash.new
http_commands['ci.thefrontiergroup.com.au']     = 'check_http_forbidden!-H ci.thefrontiergroup.com.au'
http_commands['gasair.thefrontiergroup.com.au'] = 'check_http_auth_reqd!-H gasair.thefrontiergroup.com.au'
http_commands['hudson.thefrontiergroup.com.au'] = 'check_http_forbidden!-H hudson.thefrontiergroup.com.au'
http_commands['resque.synaptor.com.au']         = 'check_http_auth_reqd!-H resque.synaptor.com.au'
http_commands['resque.take5feedback.com']       = 'check_http_auth_reqd!-H resque.take5feedback.com'
http_commands['resque.take5temp.com']           = 'check_http_auth_reqd!-H resque.take5temp.com'
http_commands['survey.wcfs.com.au']             = 'check_http_forbidden!-H survey.wcfs.com.au'
http_commands['wiki2.thefrontiergroup.com.au']  = 'check_http_auth_reqd!-H wiki2.thefrontiergroup.com.au'
http_commands['stemlynsblog.org']               = 'check_http_raw!-H stemlynsblog.org -t 20'

opts = Slop.parse(:arguments => true) do
  banner "Usage: nva.rb -u <user> -h <host> -p <vhost_path>"
  on :u, :user=, 'User', :default => ENV["USER"] || "root"
  on :h, :host=, 'Host', :default => "localhost"
  on :p, :path=, 'Vhost path', :default => "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/"
end

begin
  host_ip = IPSocket::getaddress(opts[:host])
  sites = Array.new
  aliases = `ssh #{opts[:user]}@#{opts[:host]} "egrep -r 'ServerName|ServerAlias' #{opts[:path]}"`.split("\n")
  aliases.each do |line|
    line.cleanup.split.each do |site|
      # Simple test for a domain
      sites << site if (site.include?('.') && !site.include?('*'))
    end
  end

  sites.sort!
  sites.delete_if { |x| /^default/i.match x }
  sites.uniq.each do |site|
    puts "# Services for #{site}\n"

    view = Service.new
    view.host = opts[:host]

    view.description = "HTTP availability of #{site}"
    view.command = http_commands[site] || "check_http_raw!-H #{site}"
    puts view.render

    ip = site_ips[site] || host_ip
    ["ns0.thefrontiergroup.net.au", "ns1.thefrontiergroup.net.au", "8.8.8.8"].each do |ns|
      view.description = "dig #{site} at #{ns}"
      view.command = "check_dig_raw!-l #{site} -a #{ip} -H #{ns}"
      puts view.render
    end

  end
rescue Exception => e
  abort "ERROR: #{e}"
end

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Review of UNLEASHED (Love to the Rescue #1) by Rachel Lacey
"I like you, Cara. A lot. If I wasn't leaving town in a few weeks, I'd be courting you so hard right now your head would spin." - Matt Dumont
Series: Love to the Rescue #1
Author: Rachel Lacey
Publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing)
*I'm also trying to purchase a paperback copy, but Amazon seems to be out of stock. Go Rachel!
Purchase Links: Amazon - Barnes & Noble
What happens when you find the right one at the wrong time?
Cara Medlen has a serious case of animal attraction. And it's not because of all the foster dogs she's rescued. She's got it bad for her incredibly sexy neighbor. Her one rule: Don't get attached. It's served her well with the dogs she's given to good homes and the children she's nannied. Yet the temptation of Matt's sexy smile might just convince her that some rules are made to be broken.
Matt Dumont doesn't need his skills as a private investigator to detect disaster on the horizon. Cara is everything he thought he'd never find-gorgeous, funny, and caring. But there's no way he can start a relationship just as he's about to move to another state. Talk about bad timing. As their attraction sizzles too hot to deny, they'll have to make a decision: forget the consequences and let loose, or forget each other and let go...
If I had to pick one word to describe Rachel Lacey's debut novel... Well, I would scoff at the idea first because limiting it to one word is totally not fair. Okay, three words... Adorable. Sweet. Puppy love. Unleashed was an adorably sweet novel that left me with a serious case of puppy love. The cover is what initially drew me towards the book. I wanted to read Unleashed the moment it appeared on my Kindle, but I needed to wait until I was finished with the book I was reading at the time. But I wanted to get a feel for the book, so I gave in a little and read the first couple of chapters. Let's just say that it may have been the cover that grabbed my attention, but it was Rachel's voice and fabulous characters that stopped me from putting the book down. Don't you just love it when you finish a book in one day?
Cara Medlen has a ten year rule... She has to be in remission for ten years before she can live. Cara does everything she can to enforce her rule. Rather than having her own dog, she fosters for a local Boxer rescue. She can't risk falling in love with her handsome neighbor and decides to avoid Matt at all costs. Matt Dumont doesn't know what to think of his neighbor. Thanks to gossip flowing around their town houses, Matt believes that Cara is up to no good with her dogs and he's determined to stop her. When he realizes that his assumptions were all wrong, Matt's attraction towards Cara blooms until he can't stay away. He's drawn to Cara's beauty, but it is her good heart that wins his, He has his own reasons why he should be avoiding Cara, but he can't. With his upcoming move and her ten year rule, both Matt and Cara have to learn the importance of living in the moment.
There was not one page of Unleashed that I did not adore. Matt and Cara broke my heart and pieced it back together. Cara was amazingly selfless. She puts the well being of others before her own. It kills her to give away the dogs she's grown to love, but she knows that it is best for them to find their forever home, even if it constantly reminds her that she may never be as lucky. She desperately wants to be able to live, but she's so scared that her cancer will return and she'll lose her battle. She's seen what it does to the loved ones of other cancer patients and she can't bring herself to let that happen to anyone she loves, especially Matt. Speaking of Matt, can we please clone him? He loves his family and will give up anything for them. He loves animals and will go to great lengths to help Cara with her rescues. When it comes to Cara, Matt is incredibly gentle and so much in love. He wants to be with her for the short time, but he knows that it'll break both of them when it is time for him to move home to care for his mother. When they finally give in, they are so freaking sweet together. The tender moments they shared were so very swoon-worthy.
With her debut novel, Rachel hit it out of the doggy park. The romance was a slow build as Matt and Cara got to know each other first. They fought their attraction for as long as they could before it ignited one cold night. The ending made my heart soar. There were sugary sweet moments, funny moments (especially when Merry was around), sizzling hot moments... Unleashed had it all. I didn't want to leave Rachel's world and I was ecstatic to learn that Unleashed is the first book in a series. I can't wait for Rachel to sweep me away with the next book. I hope it'll be the first of many to come.
About Rachel Lacey
I grew up with a passion for reading and an unquenchable need to write stories of my own. As a girl, my journals and, later on, computers were always filled with snippets of stories and dialogue. These characters got inside my head and wouldn't rest until I'd written them down. The number one item on my bucket list has always been to publish a novel, and I am beyond thrilled that my dream is coming true with Unleashed.
The first thirty years of my life led me around the globe on some amazing adventures. I've been climbed by a monkey on a mountain in Japan, gone scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and camped out overnight in New York City for a chance to be an extra in a movie. These days, I'm a stay-at-home mom to my five-year-old son, and the majority of my adventures take place in the books I write. I currently live in warm and sunny North Carolina with my husband, our son, and a variety of rescue pets.
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In cataract surgery, the intraocular lens replaces the eye's natural lens.
Intraocular lenses come in a variety of materials and designs. However, there are four basic types of lenses available to replace the natural lens.
Dr. Robinson will suggest a particular type of lens and lens material best suited to the patient's individual situation and lifestyle needs.
Dr. Robinson primarily recommends qualtiy (IOLs) provided by Alcon Laboratories, Bausch & Lomb, and Abbott Medical Optics. They ensure the advantage of proven technology and predictable outcomes. Consistent design, ease of implantation and demonstrated predictability all contribute to his confidence in their product lines. Dr. Robinson also uses many other lens brands from other companies and will recommend them to suit your individual visual needs. More general product and safety information is available online at ReclaimYourVision.com.
A fixed-focus or standard lens is intended to give clear vision in one area of vision distance.
The remaining areas of vision distance usually will require prescription lens eyeglasses for clear vision. Traditionally, the replacement lens used for cataract surgery was a standard monofocal IOL. A foldable monofocal lens called the AcrySof® IQ lens (IOL) is an extraordinary lens intended for patients following cataract surgery providing excellent visual performance.
Plain monofocal lenses only correct nearsightnedness and farsightedness and do not correct astigmatism. If the patient has moderate to high ammounts of astigmatism, Dr. Robinson may use Toric Monofocal lenses to correct the pre-existing astigmatism.
A multifocal specialty lens has several rings of different powers built into it. It has a central distance zone and four additional concentric zones or rings. The part of the lens (ring) you look through will determine if you see clearly at a far, near or intermediate distance. This specialty lens feature is called pseudoaccommodation. It can provide at least two and sometimes all three ranges of clear vision distance. Often this lens is used to treat myopia, hyperopia and presbyopia and may allow for less reliance on eyeglasses.
A foldable multifocal lens called the AcrySof® ReSTOR lens (IOL) is a breakthrough lens for cataract surgery that lets patients see from near to far, usually without eyeglasses. Innovative optical technologies called apodization, defraction and refraction make the lens uniquely effective, especially when placed in both eyes. Patients experience a full range of high quality vision without the need for reading glasses or bifocals. A similar technology has been used for years in microscopes and telescopes to improve image quality and has now been patented for use in intraocular lenses by Alcon.
Another type of multifocal lens Dr. Robinson uses is called the TECNIS® (IOL) lens by Abbott Medical Optics.
An accommodative lens is hinged to work in coordination with the eye muscles. The design allows the accommodative intraocular lens to move forward as the eye focuses on near objects, and move backward as it focuses on distant objects just as the natural eye. An example of an accommodative lens that Dr. Robinson also uses is called the Crystalens® by Bausch & Lomb.


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Laser Wars: ScanLAB to Democratize Powder Bed Fusion?
May 7, 2021 by Joris Peels 3D PrintingMetal 3D Printing
We've all been a party to the laser wars, in which a tiny clique of powder bed fusion firms are outdoing each other on seeing how many lasers they can cram in million-dollar boxes. These companies hope that, as we saw when we went from one to quad lasers, further speed and yield improvements can be had by just adding lasers. I'm very skeptical of that because, if you add 12 lawnmowers to one lawn, you're going to have a lot of them spending time waiting for one another to pass. Laser congestion could be a real thing, as could residual heat from the different laser passes acting differently on all parts.
Meanwhile, VELO3D wishes to also bring change through illuminating the black box that is powder bed through sensors and software. Seurat aims to create a revolution, but will need Uber money to do it. One Click Metal, Meltio and LMI also wish to innovate through offering low-cost solutions, while Aerosint wants to improve the parts via gradient metal printing. Firms like DMG Mori, Trumpf and Matsuura are keen to also showcase directed energy deposition and hybrid technologies, while Sciaky and Optomec repair stuff for the U.S. government. And, of course, Markforged and BASF would like us all to consider bound metal, while ExOne, Digital Metal, Desktop Metal, HP and GE love binder jet. Then there's Farsoon over in China, and some exotics like Xjet, HoloAM and Admatec. And that's it, right? That's the happy-chappy world of metal 3D printing being rolled out by a few dozen firms.
Well, it was, until the nice people at ScanLAB rained on everyone's parade. ScanLAB is a German galvo and laser company that makes over 35,000 laser systems a year, used for everything from imaging, to laser marking, drilling and cutting. The group that owns it makes around $35 million a year in revenue. ScanLAB was founded by someone called Hans J. Langer, who subsequently went on to do nothing notable at all (*wink, wink, nudge, nudge*). Also, I once described competing in powder bed fusion to being an audience member in a chess game that Hans Langer is playing with himself. And it looks like Hans is in the mood for "Hard Mode." Just because you're winning doesn't mean that you shouldn't try with wave after subsequent wave of technology to destroy yourself.
ScanLAB is one of the largest suppliers of optics to SLA and powder bed fusion systems. In April the company released a product called fiberSYS, to no great consternation of excitement of most anyone, apart from a few close friends who were losing their minds over this. The video above has 390 views, so, suffice it to say, ScanLAB's product has not been sufficiently popularized.
The fiberSYS is described as a "Compact Scan System for Multi-Head Laser Processing Machines." The company describes it this way:
"For some years now, there has been a trend in the field of additive manufacturing (especially 3D printing in powder beds) towards the use of multi-head laser machines. This is easy to explain, as the combination of several scan heads leads to a significant increase in productivity, especially for large-scale components. SCANLAB has developed a new scan head for precisely such applications: the fiberSYS. The innovative system design, in which the position of the beam exit has been changed, allows maximum overlap between the scanners and their image fields. Other features, such as an integrated z-axis, fiber adapter and interface for process monitoring, make the scanner a handy modular system for both integrators and machine builders."
Essentially what the company has done is to provide any player who wishes to make a powder bed fusion system with the capabilities of a multi-head system do so without having to try to engineer such a system. This shortens the time it would take for anyone to make a multi-head powder bed fusion machine and radically reduces the cost of making multi-head systems. With multi-head 3D printers being significantly more productive, this is a huge advance for our market.
At the same time, this means that it would be significantly easier for you to develop a multi-head powder bed fusion machine right now than at any time in the past. The fiberSYS is a godsend to anyone wishing to enter the powder bed fusion market. It will lower the barriers to entry, make it easier and less costly to develop new machines, and make it easier to make individual manufacturing solutions. So, if you'd like to make a machine integrated into a batch-based process or a line, you could do so with this system. Or if you'd like to make a specific machine to use multiple heads to print TPU shoe insoles, this will also now be possible. Or you could make a dual laser system for printing one particular alloy or even one part. This is possible now too. You could make a specific machine for a specific polymer for a specific part to speed up build times and get much better results. Or you could find it much, much easier to start a powder bed fusion startup to compete with Hans Langer's EOS or with Hans Langer-funded desktop powder bed fusion company Sintratec, but do use Hans Langer-founded firm ScanLAB to do so, please. This is completely, totally huge news. Welcome to Hard Mode.
Tagged with: eos • fiber laser • fiberSYS • Hans Langer • laser powder bed • laser systems • metal 3d printing • PBF • powder bed fusion • SCANLAB


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LifestylePeopleThe Rural Childhood that Shaped Vera Blue
The Rural Childhood that Shaped Vera Blue
Back on the land, Australian singer-songwriter Vera Blue embraces natural classics. By Alison Boleyn.
The dogs, the damper, a French model's unabashed delight at seeing his first kangaroo... shooting among the sheep for Qantas magazine was emotional for Vera Blue. Her father, Glenn, grew up on the land with her pop, Elwyn, a lamb, barley and wheat producer who watched the sheep sales long after he sold the farm and moved to town. Elwyn died a month before the singer-songwriter spoke with us and memories of the land, flowers and family were swirling as she talked. Her grandma, Jill, won prizes every year for her garden and filled the house with blooms. And her Uncle Brad, a shearer and wool presser, breeds sheepdogs.
The country still exerts a pull on Vera Blue, who was born Celia Pavey in the NSW town of Forbes, where her mother, Donna, introduced her to Simon & Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell and played the organ at church while the Pavey girls sang. Horticulturalist Glenn played Irish music at his nursery, inflecting his daughter's voice – which rang like a bell – with Celtic touches. It was Glenn who came up with the title for Vera Blue's debut album, Perennial.
"It means everlasting," she says. "That's what the album is kind of about: a never-ending cycle of emotions and feelings that will last and pass, come and go."
Vera Blue was 16 when she wrote her first song, "experiencing what I thought was love for the first time". But now she wants to dance. With her transition in recent years from acoustic folk to electronic music (she featured twice in Triple J's Hottest 100 this year), she says, "I'm still able to play the guitar but I also have that freedom to move, to experiment as an artist, to feel what I'm feeling. And I don't have to fake it."
Not that she's changed so much from the girl who watched her friends leave Forbes, unsure if the ethereal music she was making would carry her, too, to Sydney and beyond. "Whenever I go to the country, I feel calm and grounded," she says. "The land is a reminder of who I am."
Vera Blue is touring nationally until 10 September. Her album, Perennial, is out now.
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And the Oscar goes to… Leonardo DiCaprio!!!
Poovendhiran Mohanan February 29, 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio – the Titanic actor, is one of the best in Hollywood. The American actor has won 44 awards and 4 runner ups from a whopping 161 nominations. He has been nominated 6 times for the Oscars (Academy Awards) and never won one. He has tasted every prestigious award on the planet but the most prestigious one. If we have to write about the awards he received, it will take at least a couple of pages.
So, here's the Wikipedia link to all of his awards and nominations.
Now, let us get back to the Oscars. The 88th Academy Awards will be given on 28th February, and the whole world is expecting Leo to win the award. There are tons of jokes and trolls about Leo and Oscars, heck, there are even a few games on the Play Store (Oscar Goes to… Leonardo, Leo and Oscar, etc,..), do give it a try, they're so funny.
And, some of the jokes are so crazy, a couple of my favorites:
"And the Oscar goes to…. the bear!" (The Revenant).
Let's admit it, every time this guy signs up for a movie, he gives his 100%, no one can deny that fact. But, we ought to also notice the fact that, each time when he was nominated, there was another actor, who has done much better or should I say, got a much better role, to prove himself.
Take 2014 for example, he was nominated for the best actor in the "The Wolf of the Wall Street", along with Matthew McConaughey, who has played as an AIDS patient in "Dallas Buyers Club". If you compare both the roles, McConaughey's role as HIV diagnosed is superior and that earned him the Academy Award for the Best Actor. Same was the story behind his previous nominations.
Leo DiCaprio is not the only actor who hasn't won an Oscar. There are other great actors too,.. Johnny Depp hasn't won an Oscar, Hugh Jackman – hasn't, Tom Cruise hasn't, Robert Downy Jr – hasn't, Will Smith – hasn't won an Oscar, and the list goes on and on. But, not every actor in this list has been made fun of, it's only Leonardo. Why? Because he came too close and never won the race. Because it is Leonardo, the charm of Hollywood.
Now, the 88th Academy Awards will be presented on the 28th of February, and this time too, Leonardo has very tough competitions from, Eddy Redmayne – last year's Academy Award winner, for his wonderful role in The Danish Girl, Micheal Fassbender – for playing Steve Jobs, Matt Demon for The Martian and Bryan Cranston for Trumbo. It won't be easier for Leonardo DiCaprio to snatch the Award, every actor has played their best.
So, let us just hope that he will receive the most prestigious award, at least, this time. If he doesn't, then let us respect the fact that the others have done better, and there's always next year. And we all know, he'll be back with yet another nomination with an even better performance. It is not the Oscar win that decides his performance and hard work, it is his loyal fans, and he has won their hearts long back. There are some people, whose performance can't be measured by awards, he has gone beyond the Oscars, long ago when he won the hearts of the people.
All that being said, let's wait and see if Leonardo DiCaprio wins the Oscars!
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Les arquebusiers de Grassin constituent un corps de troupe français créé par l'Ordonnance royale du . Il est levé par Simon Claude Grassin de Glatigny qui le commandera jusqu'en . Le , cette unité est supprimée et ses éléments incorporés dans les Volontaires des Flandres, régiment nouvellement créé.

L'utilisation de troupes irrégulières légères harcelant les troupes régulières françaises, en particulier par la Hongrie pendant la guerre de Succession d'Autriche,  conduisit à imaginer la levée de troupes capables de s'opposer aux houzards et autres pandours.

C'est ainsi que M. de Grassin, alors capitaine au régiment de Picardie, obtient du ministre de la guerre Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson l'autorisation de lever un corps de troupes légères – ce qui est confirmé par l'ordonnance de 1744 – sous le nom d'« Arquebusiers  de Grassin ».

Une particularité de cette unité est qu'elle est composée à la fois de troupes à pied et de troupes montées, comme d'autres corps similaires contemporains. « Si l'infanterie était formée de volontaires jeunes et lestes, la cavalerie se composait de vieux soldats ayant fait leurs preuves, qui n'abandonnaient jamais leurs fantassins ».

Le rôle dévolu à cette formation était donc, d'une part, de s'opposer aux troupes légères ennemies et, d'autre part, de mener contre les troupes régulières ennemies le même type de guerre de harcèlement, qualifié, à l'époque, de « petite guerre » par opposition à la « guerre réglée » des batailles rangées et des sièges.

Très souvent cités et loués dans les écrits de l'époque, leur rôle tactique est théorisé par Maurice de Saxe dans ses études consacrés à cette forme de combat.

Origine historique, organisation et rôle sur le champ de bataille

À sa création, à Metz, le corps se compose de 300 cavaliers répartis en six compagnies, donnant deux escadrons, et 900 hommes répartis en neuf compagnies à pied. Pour constituer ce régiment, les compagnies franches de Bidache, Dulimont, Vandal et de Bayet, ainsi que les compagnies de dragons de Romberg et de Bidache, furent supprimées.
Cette unité est l'une des premières constituées pour se livrer spécifiquement à cette « petite guerre » – à l'instar des Chasseurs de Fischer levés en 1743 – et initiera la lignée des troupes légères jusqu'à la Révolution et au Premier Empire.

Le corps sera porté à  hommes par les ordonnances du  et du .

Le rôle auquel cette troupe est destinée est double. En premier lieu, s'opposer aux troupes légères ennemies, en particulier celles alignées par l'armée de Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche - comme le redoutable régiment de pandours levé par Franz de Trenck -  et qui avaient particulièrement gêné l'armée française. En second lieu, porter la même gêne dans les rangs et le dispositif de bataille de l'armée ennemie, en attaquant ses lignes de communication, ses postes, son ravitaillement, etc.

Composition des troupes

Composition des troupes à pied

Il y a neuf compagnies de même composition. Les deux compagnies de grenadiers apparaissent en 1745, avec l'augmentation des effectifs.
 État-major de l'unité
Il se compose d'un colonel, un lieutenant-colonel, un major, trois aides-majors, un aumônier, un chirurgien.

 Arquebusiers
Chaque compagnie se compose d'un capitaine, un capitaine en second, un premier lieutenant, un lieutenant en second, un lieutenant réformé, quatre sergents, un fourrier, deux cadets, un capitaine d'armes, quatre caporaux, quatre anspessades, dix grenadiers, soixante-douze arquebusiers et deux tambours.

 Grenadiers
Ils apparaissent à l'origine, à raison de dix par compagnie. Ils ne sont réunis en compagnie que pour les manœuvres. Entre-temps, les grenadiers restent dans les compagnies. En 1745, ils sont groupés en deux compagnies.
Pour chaque compagnie, on trouve un capitaine, un capitaine en second, un premier-lieutenant, deux sergents, trois caporaux, trois anspessades, trente-six grenadiers et un tambour.

Composition des troupes à cheval
Les six compagnies d'origine ont la même composition. L'augmentation des effectifs de 1745 va voir passer de six à huit le nombre de compagnie. Mais cela se traduira par le doublement de l'effectif des compagnies colonelle et lieutenant-colonelle.

Pour la compagnie colonelle et lieutenant-colonelle :

un capitaine en premier, deux capitaines en second, un premier lieutenant, un lieutenant en second, un cornette, deux maréchaux des logis, quatre cadets, six brigadiers, quarante-six arquebusiers et un trompette.

 Pour les six autres compagnies :

un capitaine, un lieutenant, un cornette, un maréchal des logis, deux cadets, trois brigadiers, quarante-six arquebusiers et un trompette.

Uniformes

Les descriptions d'uniformes données ci-dessous sont basées sur l'ouvrage de François II Chéreau (1717-1755), fils de François Chéreau: Nouveau Recueil des troupes légères de France levées depuis la présente guerre, avec la date de leur création, le nombre dont chaque corps est composé, leur uniforme et leurs armes. Dessiné d'après nature sous la direction des officiers. Présenté à monseigneur le Dauphin par son très-humble et très-obéissant serviteur F. Chéreau (Paris, 1747).

Uniforme du fusilier
L'uniforme est un habit en drap bleu de Roy, bordé de mouton blanc, parements noirs, boutons de cuivre jaune, collet et veste garance, culotte en drap bleu, guêtres de toile grise, bonnet rouge bordé de bleu, plaque de cuivre sur le devant, plumet blanc, et cocarde bleue et rouge.

Les soldats sont armés d'un fusil, d'une baïonnette et d'un sabre d'abordage.

Uniforme du cavalier
Il est similaire à celui du fusilier. Bottines à la dragonne. Le manteau est rouge. Il porte aussi une aiguillette aurore, bleue et rouge.

Il est armé d'un sabre, d'un mousqueton et d'une paire de pistolets.

La chabraque (tapis de selle) est en drap rouge, galonnée de bleu. Rouge est aussi le reste de l'équipement de cheval.

Drapeaux et étendards
Infanterie

Le drapeau d'ordonnance des compagnies à pied est illustré ci-contre

Sous l'Ancien Régime, à la fin du règne de Louis XIV, les régiments d'infanterie étaient dotés de trois drapeaux : le drapeau blanc royal - marquant symboliquement le fait que depuis ce souverain, le Roi était colonel-général de l'infanterie, le « drapeau colonel(le) » ou « drapeau de la compagnie colonelle » - agrémenté des armoiries et de la devise du colonel-propriétaire - et le drapeau d'ordonnance. .
Troupes montées
D'après un article des « Carnets de la Sabretache » (n° 1 de 1893, page 43), les guidons de cavalerie des Arquebusiers de Grassin sont à avers rouge portant le chiffre du roi, couronné, et à revers vert portant en son centre un soleil. Le corps possédait trois de ces guidons.

Campagnes des arquebusiers de Grassin

Les arquebusiers de Grassin vont s'illustrer durant toute la guerre de Succession d'Autriche : ils participent activement aux grandes batailles rangées comme Fontenoy ou Raucoux et se distingueront aussi lors des sièges comme à Huy (). Ils opèreront souvent de concert avec une autre unité de troupes légères, les fusiliers de La Morlière.

Bataille de Fontenoy

Lors de cette bataille, les « Grassins » sont postés dans le bois du Barry, sur l'aile droite des colonnes anglo-hanovriennes. Ils vont interdire à ceux-ci d'utiliser ce couvert pour menacer la ligne française. En revanche, les cavaliers, trop peu nombreux, ne furent que peu utiles. C'est pour cette raison que les effectifs du régiment seront augmentés après la campagne<ref>Belhomme, op. cit., tome III, p. 158.</ref>.

Le , deux bataillons du Régiment d'Auvergne occupent, avec les Arquebusiers de Grassin, l'« abbaye d'Affelghem » (sic).

 Bataille de Mesle

Cette bataille illustre parfaitement l'utilisation des « Grassins », telle que prévue par le maréchal de Saxe. Ils sont d'abord utilisés comme éclaireurs pour l'avant-garde de du Chayla. Ils vont se retrancher dans la « cense de Massenem », dont les alliés n'arriveront pas à les déloger. Ils se retrouveront dépassés par l'armée ennemie.

En fin de journée, ils tomberont sur les arrières de l'armée alliée, occupée à des duels de mousqueterie avec la ligne française. Ils pillent les bagages et menacent la ligne de retraite, décidant de la retraite de l'armée alliée.

 Bataille de Raucoux

Dans cette bataille, les « Grassins », associés aux fusiliers de La Morlière, sont à l'aile droite, rattachés aux troupes du comte d'Estrées. Par leur action en tirailleurs sur le flanc gauche de la ligne adverse, normalement couverte par des ravins et des chemins creux, et qu'ils débordent, ils favorisent la prise du village d'Ans, contribuant au retrait de l'aile gauche puis du gros de l'armée ennemie. Dans ces combats, les « Grassins » s'opposent à des troupes légères, pandours et croates.

En fin de journée, les « Grassins », avec les troupes légères, s'en prennent à l'artillerie hollandaise qui se retire. Ils s'emparent de vingt-deux pièces et « de plus de soixante chariots d'artillerie avec les attelages ». Ils sont aussi chargés d'attaquer et chercher à détruire des ponts sur la Meuse par lesquels l'armée ennemie est en train d'effectuer sa retraite.

Article connexe
Infanterie légère
Simon Claude Grassin de Glatigny
Johann Christian Fischer
Chasseurs de Fischer

Notes et références
 Notes

 Références

 Annexes

 Sources et Bibliographie

 Albert Depréaux, Les affiches de recrutement du  à nos jours, J. Leroy et Cie, Paris, 1911  Lien Gallica
 Sandrine Picaud-Monnerat : La petite guerre au , Paris, 2010, Économica, 685 pages, .
 Victor Belhomme, Histoire de l'Infanterie en France, 1895, Paris et Limoges, Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, tome III, 528 pages.
 Michel Pétard : L'Homme de 1748, les arquebusiers de Grassin in revue Uniformes, n° 91, , page 24.
 Liliane & Fred Funcken : L'Uniforme et les Armes des soldats de la guerre en dentelle (), Casterman 1975 pour le Tome 1  et 1976 pour le Tome 2 .
 Revue Figurines'' n° 71, .

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* In April, Peggy Noonan endorsed a U.S. attack on Syria and was outraged that President Obama hadn't intervened. Now that the president wants to launch strikes, Noonan no longer realizes Syria is in the midst of a civil war and now opposes a military strike. How very typical.


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China Construction Bank (, дословно «Кита́йский строи́тельный банк»; сокращённо  или CCB) — один из крупнейших банков Китая и мира. Входит в «Большую четвёрку» крупнейших государственных банков Китая (наряду с Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China и Bank of China). В рейтинге Forbes Global 2000 за 2019 год занял 3-е место среди двух тысяч крупнейших публичных компаний мира, в том числе 3-е место по размеру активов, 4-е по прибыли, 28-е по рыночной капитализации и 28-е по выручке. С 2015 года входит в число глобально системно значимых банков.

История
Банк был основан 1 октября 1954 года под названием People's Construction Bank of China («Народный строительный банк Китая»). Он находился в подчинении Министерства финансов КНР и служил для распределения фондов, предназначенных для строительства и развития инфраструктуры. В 1979 году банк перешёл в подчинение Государственного совета и постепенно начал приобретать функции коммерческого банка. 26 марта 1996 года название было изменено на China Construction Bank («Китайский строительный банк»).

В сентябре 2004 года с одобрения Комитета по надзору за банковской деятельностью КНР банк стал акционерным коммерческим банком China Construction Bank Corporation. 27 октября 2005 года было проведено первичное размещение акций класса H на Гонконгской фондовой бирже, было выпущено 30,459 млрд акций, их размещение принесло HK$71,578 млрд ($9,24 млрд). 25 сентября 2007 года акции класса A были размещены на Шанхайской фондовой бирже.

Деятельность
Сеть China Construction Bank насчитывает 15 тысяч отделений на территории материкового Китая, также 10 отделений за её пределами: в Гонконге, Сингапуре, Франкфурте, Йоханнесбурге, Токио, Сеуле, Сиднее, Тайбэе, Нью-Йорке и Хошимине и ряд дочерних банков, таких как CCB Principal Asset Management (услуги управления активами), CCB Financial Leasing (кредитование), CCB Trust (трастовый фонд), CCB Life (страхование), Sino-German Bausparkasse (китайско-немецкий строительный кооператив), CCB Asia (Азия), CCB London (филиал в Великобритании), CCB Russia (филиал в России), CCB Dubai (филиал в Дубае) и CCB International. У банка более 92 тысяч банкоматов.

В структуре активов основную часть занимают выданные кредиты, в 2018 году — 16,23 трлн юаней из 28,13 трлн (из них 5,83 трлн — ипотечные кредиты); на финансовые инвестиции приходится 6,95 трлн (из них 5,1 трлн гособлигации), на депозиты в центральных банках — 2,5 трлн. Объём принятых депозитов в 2020 году составлял 20,61 трлн юаней, по 9,6 трлн вклады корпораций и частных лиц, зарубежные — 501 млрд.

Процентный доход в 2020 год составил 989,5 млрд юаней, расход — 413,6 млрд юаней, чистый процентный доход составил 575,9 млрд юаней из 714,2 млрд юаней выручки банка. Также банк занимается управлением частными капиталами, на 2020 год активы под управлением составляли 1,78 трлн юаней, число клиентов частного банкинга превысило 160 тысяч.

Банк выпускает собственные платёжные карты, на 2018 год было более миллиарда дебетовых карт и 144 млн кредитных карт, объёмы транзакций по ним составляли 21 трлн и 3 трлн юаней соответственно.

Дочерние компании

 China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited — гонконгская дочерняя компания с 47 отделениями, в основном обслуживает китайские и транснациональные корпорации, хотя есть и розничный бизнес; на конец 2018 года активы составляли 395 млрд юаней, чистая прибыль за год составила 3 млрд юаней.
 China Construction Bank (London) Limited — филиал в Великобритании, основанный в 2009 году; обслуживает торговые операции между КНР и Великобританией; активы — 4,8 млрд юаней.
 ООО «Чайна Констракшн Банк» (China Construction Bank (Russia) Limited) — в 2013 году China Construction Bank стал третьим китайским банком, открывшим филиал в России (после Bank of China и Industrial and Commercial Bank of China). Уставной фонд ООО «Чайна Констракшн Банк» составил 4,2 млрд рублей. Имеет лицензии на банковскую деятельность, операции с драгметаллами и операции на фондовых рынках; активы — 2,5 млрд юаней.
 China Construction Bank (Europe) S.A. — европейская дочерняя компания была создана в 2013 году в Люксембурге, имеет отделения в Париже, Амстердаме, Барселоне, Милане и Варшаве. Обслуживает крупные компании, работающие на китайском рынке; активы — 9,8 млрд юаней.
 China Construction Bank (New Zealand) Limited был основан в Новой Зеландии в 2014 году, имеет лицензии на оптовые розничные банковские услуги; активы — 5,25 млрд юаней.
 China Construction Bank (Brasil) Banco Múltiplo S/A создан на основе купленного в 2014 году бразильского Banco Industrial e Comercial S.A.; предоставляет оптовые и розничные банковские услуги; активы — 33,2 млрд юаней.
 China Construction Bank (Malaysia) Berhad — малайзийская дочерняя компания была основана в 2016 году, ориентирована на китайско-малайзийскую торговлю и финансирование инфраструктурных проектов в Малайзии; активы — 7,3 млрд юаней.
 PT Bank China Construction Bank Indonesia Tbk создан на основе купленной в 2016 году 60-процентной доли в индонезийском банке PT Bank Windu Kentjana International Tbk (остальные 40 % акций обращаются на местной бирже); имеет полную банковскую лицензию, 94 отделения на большинстве крупных островов; активы — 7,7 млрд юаней.

 CCB Principal Asset Management Co., Ltd. — дочерняя компания по управлению активами, созданная в 2005 году совместно с Principal Financial Services, Inc. (25 %) и China Huadian Capital Holdings Company (10 %); на конец 2018 года активы под управлением составляли 1,62 трлн юаней, собственные активы — 6 млрд юаней.
 CCB Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. — дочерняя компания, занимающаяся лизингом (самолётов, промышленного оборудования); основана в 2007 году; активы — 147,4 млрд юаней.
 CCB Trust Co., Limited — дочерняя компания, через которую предоставляются трастовые услуги; основана в 2009 году, треть акций принадлежит Hefei Xingtai Financial Holding (Group) Co., Ltd.; активы — 22,3 млрд юаней.
 CCB Life Insurance Company Limited — страховая компания, основанная в 1998 году China Construction Bank (51 %), China Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) (19,9 %), the National Council for Social Security Fund (14,27 %), China Jianyin Investment Limited (5,08 %), Shanghai Jin Jiang International Investment and Management Company Limited (4,9 %) и Shanghai China-Sunlight Investment Co., Ltd. (4,85 %); активы — 132,4 млрд юаней.
 Sino-German Bausparkasse Co., Ltd. — совместное предприятие с германским банком Bausparkasse Schwaebisch Hall AG (ем принадлежит 24,9 % акций); принимает сберегательные вклады для накопления с целью покупки недвижимости и выдаёт ипотечные кредиты; активы — 25,8 млрд юаней.
 CCB Futures Co., Ltd. — дочерняя компания для брокерских операций с фьючерсами; 20 % акций принадлежит Shanghai Liangyou (Group) Co., Ltd.; активы — 7 млрд юаней.
 CCB Pension Management Co., Ltd. — созданная в 2015 году дочерняя компания по управлению пенсионными фондами, 15 % в ней принадлежит Фонду национального совета по соцобеспечению; на конец 2018 года активы под управлением составляли 442 млрд юаней, собственные активы — 2,76 млрд юаней.
 CCB Financial Asset Investment Co., Ltd. — инвестиционная компания, созданная в 2017 году; активы — 32,76 млрд юаней.
 CCB International (Holdings) Limited — инвестиционная компания, основанная в 2004 году в Гонконге; активы — 84,1 млрд юаней.

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It was another game, another ailment against Sheffield United, with Pontus Jansson becoming the latest Leeds United player to suffer one this season.
Even better, Gaetano Berardi is fit and ready to come in. The fan favourite suffered a potentially season-ending ruptured hamstring back in October, but he's battled hard to get back to full fitness in four months and played regularly for the Under-23s, looking sharp.
Berardi earned rave reviews for his performances in the early weeks of the season, striking up a strong partnership with Liam Cooper as Jansson took time to get up to speed following the World Cup.
If you're looking at win rates - yes (Jansson (52%), Berardi (63%), but Pontus has statistically been one of the Championship's best performing players this season. Unfair weighting of games (Pontus 33, Berardi 9). Sure Keith Andrews will be all over this.
Leeds have a better win percentage with Berardi over Jansson this season, but as pointed out above, Jansson has played a lot more games - so it's unfair to compare based off wildly different sample sizes.
Berardi has played in nine league games, completing close to 90 minutes seven times - winning four, drawing two and losing one, whilst keeping three clean sheets. Since then he was substituted off after 27 minutes against Ipswich after suffering an injury, which Leeds went on to win 2-0, while he returned for the final seven minutes of the 1-0 win at Bristol City.
That's a win percentage of 63%, while Jansson's is 52%.
The Swedish international has started 29 games this season, appearing off the bench twice. With 2599 Championship minutes completed, he's played almost four times as many minutes as Berardi, who clocks up 658.
With Berardi on the pitch, Leeds have conceded six goals in 658 minutes, averaging one just one conceded every 109 minutes. 35 goals have been conceded with Jansson on the pitch, averaging one every 74 minutes.
According to WhoScored.com , Jansson comes out on top for most key defensive metrics, compared to Berardi - or at least, is a lot more active.
Jansson makes 2.4 tackles per 90 minutes, whereas Berardi averages just 1.7, which is the same as Liam Cooper. He also comes out on top in terms of interceptions, averaging 2.5 per game, while Berardi averages 1.4 - while Cooper (1.1), Jansson (1.2) and Berardi (1.0) are all more or less the same when it comes to fouls committed per 90.
To put those numbers in context, Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk - widely considered to be the standout defender in England this season - averages 1.1 tackles per game, 1.2 interceptions and just 0.4 fouls per match. Sometimes, less is more.


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VDARE.com attacked for moderation!
Patrick Cleburne
VDARE.com is, of course, taboo in the MSM and even, with rare exceptions, in the Big Foot Blogosphere - although there is a gratifying willingness to appropriate our arguments (without acknowledgement) when convenient.
This stems from the allegation of extremism promoted by the thuggery of the SPLC (amongst others, we suspect).
So we have to note coming under attack for centrism even if the argument were not worthy of attention (which it is).
The Countenance Blog (recently spun out of the St Louis Council of Conservative Citizens website) feels Tom Tancredo was mistaken in speaking at the NAACP Convention, and that VDARE.com was wrong to praise him:
This was a stupid thing for Tancredo to do, and a stupid thing for such a usually reliable source of information and opinion like V-Dare to praise, though V-Dare has a history of pandering to blacks on the immigration issue…there are lots of white people in many places of the country that have not yet been afflicted by mass Mexicanization, but are heavily black. So most white people in places like Mississippi, or Cleveland, Ohio, or even here in St. Louis, who don't understand the furor over immigration because they haven't experienced its effect, do have first-hand experience with blacks.
What Tancredo and V-Dare have just done is to flip the bird to white people who would be on their side on the immigration issue once they experience Mexicans and Latin Americans, by endorsing the NAACP and all the crime and violence committed by the racial minority that the NAACP represents, which such white people and voters are far more likely to have experienced.
Pandering, of course, means seeking ingratiation by supplying a party with what they want. Pointing out to Blacks that the mass immigration is bad for them as well as for Whites simply does not fit the dictionary meaning. Compliance Blog chose the wrong word.
Perhaps Missouri is an exception, but, alas, Compliance Blog seems to be at least a decade out of date about the Mexican invasion. The most far flung areas now seem to suffering inundation.
Blacks, of course, certainly do create problems for the other Americans, particularly crime. It is silly to say that we "endorse" this. And their leadership is indeed dubious. But as Peter Brimelow said in Alien Nation, whatever may be said about "Afro-Americans", they are unarguably a type of American. Establishing that there is common cause on the crucial issue of mass immigration is the rational thing to do.


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Home History This Week in History: Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2019
This Week in History: Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2019
Dianne Hermann
by Dianne Hermann
"No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by
human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit."
President George H. W. Bush
Week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3, 2019
1878 – George W. Coy is hired in New Haven, Connecticut, as the first full-time telephone operator at the first telephone exchange.
1915 – The Coast Guard is created by an act of Congress to fight contraband trade and aid distressed vessels at sea.
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first TV appearance. He performed on the Dorsey Brothers Stage Show with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey.
1985 – USA For Africa records the song "We are the World." The song is written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones. It sold more than 20 million copies. Watch the official star-studded video:
1986 – The Challenger, on the 25th Space Shuttle mission, explodes 73 seconds after liftoff. All crewmembers were lost. The space shuttle program was halted for 32 months. The first space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster was the Discovery in September of 1988.
1990 – The San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos 55 to 10 in Super Bowl XXIV. It is the most lopsided game in Super Bowl history.
2013 – John Kerry succeeds Hillary Rodham Clinton as the U.S. Secretary of State. The current Secretary of State is Rex Tillerson.
1845 – Edgar Allen Poe's narrative poem "The Raven" is first published once upon a midnight dreary. Poe died mysteriously in 1849 at the age of 40.
1879 – The Custer Battlefield National Monument in Montana is established. Lakota, Sioux, and Cheyenne warriors killed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and over 200 troops of his 7th Cavalry troops on June 25, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River.
1936 – Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson are the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Watch actual footage of the 1939 opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame:
1975 – The first American Annual Comedy Awards is held and lasted two years. It was hosted by Alan King, who founded the American Academy of Humor. The American Comedy Awards began on Comedy Central in 1987 and lasted until 2001. NBC revived the awards ceremony in 2014. The award statue was renamed "The Lucy" starting in 1989 after the death of Lucille Ball.
1995 – The San Francisco 49ers become the first team in National Football League (NFL) history to win five Super Bowl titles when they defeat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. The Pittsburgh Steelers now hold that record with six Super Bowl wins. The New England Patriots, in this year's Super Bowl, also have five Super Bowl wins.
2002 – In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes the "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, which includes Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. Listen to his chillingly accurate prediction:
1798 – The first brawl in the House of Representatives takes place when Congressmen Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold fight on the House floor. Although a committee investigating the incident recommended they both be censured, the House rejected the motion. Lyon also was the only person ever elected to Congress while in jail. He was found guilty of violating the newly enacted Alien and Sedition Acts, and as such, was the first person to be convicted. He spent four months in jail. During the presidential election of 1800, it was Lyon who changed his vote to break the tie that allowed Jefferson to be elected.
1815 – The Library of Congress, burned by the British during the War of 1812, is reestablished with 6,487 books bought from Thomas Jefferson at a cost of $23,950.
1835 – Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to be the victim of an assassination attempt when Richard Lawrence's gun misfires in the Capitol Building. Jackson clubbed Lawrence with his cane. The prosecuting attorney during the trial was Francis Scott Key. British-born Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was institutionalized until his death in 1861.
1862 – The U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, is launched. The Monitor and the USS Virginia (formerly the Merrimack) engaged in the first ironclad battle on March 9th. Neither ship sustained serious damage but the Monitor sank in bad weather off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina later the same year.
1962 – Two members of the Flying Wallendas high-wire act are killed when their 7-person chair pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. The Wallenda family started as circus performers in the 1780s in Europe. Watch a video of the family and accident (first 2 minutes) and the next generation pyramid (at 5:35):
1989 – The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closes over security concerns. The embassy reopened in 2002 following Operation Enduring Freedom. It was attacked by the Taliban in September 2011 and again in April 2012.
2003 – Richard Reid, aka the Shoe Bomber, is sentenced to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. He pleaded guilty to eight counts related to the terrorist attempt to ignite a bomb in his shoe on a flight from Paris to Miami, Florida, on December 22, 2001. U.S. airlines subsequently required all airline passengers to remove their shoes prior to boarding aircraft. Reid is now 45 years old.
1851 – Mr. Gail Borden announces the invention of evaporated milk. He patented the process of condensing milk in a vacuum.
1865 – Congress passes the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America by declaring that, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
1905 – The first auto to exceed 100 mph is driven by A. G. MacDonald at Daytona Beach, Florida.
1949 – "These Are My Children" airs as the first daytime soap opera on TV. It ran for 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 2 months.
1958 – Explorer I is launched as the first successful U.S. satellite. It orbited Earth carrying instruments to measure cosmic rays, micrometeorites, and its own temperature. It transmitted data until May 23, 1958, and reentered Earth's atmosphere in 1970 after orbiting 58,000 times.
1964 – A U.S. report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer.
1984 – Newscaster Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network. Newman died in 2010 at age 91. Watch Newman in a 1983 brief:
1990 – McDonald's opens its first fast-food restaurant in Moscow, Russia. There are now 36,900 McDonald's restaurants in 120 countries.
2000 – Baltimore Ravens football player Ray Lewis and his companions were involved in a fight that led to the death of two men. Murder charges against Lewis were changed to obstruction of justice in exchange for his testimony against his companions. Lewis was sentenced to 1-year-probation and fined $250,000. On January 28, 2001, Lewis was named MVP of the Super Bowl champions Baltimore Ravens. Lewis was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 2018.
1790 – The Supreme Court convenes for the first time in New York City.
1898 – Travelers Insurance Company issues the first auto insurance policy in the U.S.
1906 – The first federal penitentiary building is completed in Leavenworth, Kansas. It was the largest maximum-security prison in the U.S. until 2005 when it was downgraded to a minimum-security prison.
1953 – "General Electric Theater" premieres on TV, a show later hosted by Ronald Reagan.
1960 – Four freshmen from North Carolina A&T University stage the first civil rights sit-in at a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's store. A section of the lunch counter is now in the Smithsonian Museum. Watch a History.com feature about the sit-in:
1961 – The first full-scale test of a U.S. Minuteman-I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is successful. A total of 800 ICBMs were delivered to U.S. military bases.
1989 – Princess Diana of England visits New York City for three days. It was her first visit to New York and her major official trip without her husband, Prince Charles. Princess Diana died in 1997 at age 36. Watch a report about her visit:
2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas and Louisiana during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard. It was Columbia's 28th mission. Space Shuttle flights were suspended for more than two years.
2004 – Janet Jackson has a "wardrobe malfunction" when her breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII (38), resulting in U.S. broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines. You decide:
1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican-American War. The U.S. acquired Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona for $15 million.
1863 – Samuel Clemens uses the pen name Mark Twain for the first time. Twain means two and mark twain signifies a safe depth of two fathoms (12 feet) of the Mississippi River.
1925 – Dogsleds reach Nome, Alaska, after a 1,000-km relay carrying emergency serum for a diphtheria epidemic. The Iditarod Race is a re-creation of that relay. A statue of Balto, the lead dog, stands in New York City's Central Park. Watch a Smithsonian Channel history of the Iditarod as it honors that 1925 lifesaving relay:
1935 – The lie detector, invented by Leonarde Keeler, is first used in court in Portage, Wisconsin. Two criminals were convicted of assault after the polygraph test results were read in court.
1954 – President Eisenhower reports the detonation of the first H-bomb. It actually happened in 1952.
1974 – The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time. General Dynamics has built over 4,500 of the F-16s. It is a single-engine supersonic fighter aircraft developed for the U.S. Air Force.
1980 – The FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes and political favors. One senator and six representatives were convicted after their trials in 1981. Abscam came from the name of the fake company (Abdul Enterprises) the FBI used to target (scam) corrupt politicians.
2004 – It is reported that a white powder had been found in an office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention later confirmed that the powder was the poison ricin. Two other letters were found in October and November 2003. No one has ever been arrested.
1690 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony issues the first paper money in (what would later become) America.
1870 – The 15th Amendment is passed. Although it declared that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" poll taxes and literacy tests kept the 15th Amendment from being fully applied until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed.
1876 – Albert Spalding starts sporting goods company with $800, manufacturing the first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football.
1882 – Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo from the London Zoo for $10,000. In September 1885, while touring with "The Greatest Show on Earth," Jumbo was hit and killed by a train in Toronto, Canada. The Ringling Brothers/ Barnum & Bailey Circus closed in 2017.
1913 – The 16th Amendment is ratified, authorizing a federal income tax.
1930 – Former president William Howard Taft (1909-1913) resigns as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court for health reasons. Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921, making him the only president to also serve on the Supreme Court. Taft died the following month at age 72.
1953 – J. Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show. Watch Muggs in action on the Today Show:
1973 – President Richard Nixon signs the Endangered Species Act into law.
1984 – The first baby conceived by embryo transplant is born in Long Beach, California. The embryo was conceived in one woman's womb and transferred to another woman without using test tube fertilization. The baby boy was born 38 weeks after the procedure was performed.
1990 – Jockey Billy Shoemaker retires at age 58 after 40,350 horse races with a 22% win record, making him the winningest jockey. He was paralyzed in an auto accident in 1991 and trained horses from his electric wheelchair. His record has since been eclipsed by jockeys Laffit A. Pincay, Jr. and Russel A. Baze. Shoemaker died in 2003 at age 77.
2002 – The New England Patriots beat the St. Louis (now LA) Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI by 20-17. Tom Brady was the MVP.
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Allenatori di calcio (3)
Andrej Daňko, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore slovacco (Michalovce, n.1948)
Andrej Komac, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore sloveno (San Pietro-Vertoiba, n.1979)
Andrej Panadić, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore jugoslavo (Zagabria, n.1969)

Allenatori di calcio a 5 (1)
Andrej Dobovičnik, allenatore di calcio a 5 e ex giocatore di calcio a 5 sloveno (Celje, n.1967)

Allenatori di hockey su ghiaccio (1)
Andrej Hočevar, allenatore di hockey su ghiaccio e ex hockeista su ghiaccio sloveno (Lubiana, n.1984)

Allenatori di pallacanestro (1)
Andrej Urlep, allenatore di pallacanestro sloveno (Lubiana, n.1957)

Allenatori di sci alpino (1)
Andrej Jerman, allenatore di sci alpino e ex sciatore alpino sloveno (Kranj, n.1978)

Arcivescovi cattolici (1)
Andrej Szeptycki, arcivescovo cattolico ucraino (Prylbyči, n.1865 - Leopoli, †1944)

Attori (6)
Andrej Bagar, attore, regista teatrale e politico slovacco (Trenčianske Teplice, n.1900 - Bratislava, †1966)
Andrej Fajt, attore sovietico (Nižnij Novgorod, n.1903 - Mosca, †1976)
Andrej Kostričkin, attore sovietico (San Pietroburgo, n.1901 - Leningrado, †1973)
Andrej Lavrent'ev, attore sovietico (n.1882 - Leningrado, †1935)
Andrej Panin, attore e regista sovietico (Novosibirsk, n.1962 - Mosca, †2013)
Andrej Popov, attore sovietico (Kostroma, n.1918 - Mosca, †1983)

Calciatori (24)
Andrej Babčan, ex calciatore cecoslovacco (n.1956)
Andrej Eščenko, calciatore russo (Irkutsk, n.1984)
Andrej Fábry, calciatore slovacco (Topoľčany, n.1997)
Andrej Hesek, calciatore e giocatore di calcio a 5 slovacco (Bratislava, n.1981)
Andrej Hodek, calciatore slovacco (Bratislava, n.1981)
Andrej Ilić, calciatore serbo (Belgrado, n.2000)
Andrej Kadlec, calciatore slovacco (Ilava, n.1996)
Andrej Kerić, calciatore croato (Vinkovci, n.1986)
Andrej Kotnik, calciatore sloveno (Nova Gorica, n.1995)
Andrej Kramarić, calciatore croato (Zagabria, n.1991)
Andrej Kvašňák, calciatore cecoslovacco (Košice, n.1936 - Praga, †2007)
Andrej Lovás, calciatore slovacco (Ružomberok, n.1991)
Andrej Lukić, calciatore croato (Nova Gradiška, n.1994)
Andrej Mrkela, calciatore serbo (Enschede, n.1992)
Andrej Prskalo, calciatore croato (Pola, n.1987)
Andrej Pečnik, ex calciatore sloveno (Dravograd, n.1981)
Andrej Porázik, ex calciatore slovacco (Bratislava, n.1977)
Andrej Rendla, calciatore slovacco (Banská Bystrica, n.1990)
Andrej Čaušić, calciatore croato (Osijek, n.1990)
Andrej Čičkin, calciatore russo (n.1977)
Andrej Đokanović, calciatore bosniaco (Istočna Ilidža, n.2001)
Andrej Šimunec, calciatore croato (Osijek, n.1995)
Andrej Šupka, ex calciatore slovacco (Trenčín, n.1977)
Andrej Željazkov, ex calciatore bulgaro (Radnevo, n.1952)

Cestisti (4)
Andrej Magdevski, cestista macedone (Skopje, n.1996)
Andrej Mangold, cestista tedesco (Hannover, n.1987)
Andrej Maslinko, cestista macedone (Skopje, n.1997)
Andrej Štimac, ex cestista e allenatore di pallacanestro croato (Fiume, n.1979)

Ciclisti su strada (2)
Andrej Teterjuk, ex ciclista su strada kazako (Almaty, n.1967)
Andrej Zinčenko, ex ciclista su strada russo (Samara, n.1972)

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Andrej Dundukov, ex combinatista nordico sovietico (Južno-Sachalinsk, n.1966)

Compositori (2)
Andrej Očenáš, compositore slovacco (Selce, n.1911 - Bratislava, †1995)
Andrej Šifrer, compositore e cantautore sloveno (Kranj, n.1952)

Critici letterari (1)
Andrej Mráz, critico letterario, storico della letteratura e drammaturgo slovacco (Bački Petrovac, n.1904 - Bratislava, †1964)

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Andrej Kostelanec, direttore d'orchestra e arrangiatore russo (San Pietroburgo, n.1901 - Haiti, †1980)

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Andrej Hauptman, dirigente sportivo e ex ciclista su strada sloveno (Lubiana, n.1975)

Editori (1)
Andrej Uršič, editore, giornalista e politico sloveno (Caporetto, n.1908 - Lubiana, †1948)

Fondisti (3)
Andrej Astaščin, ex fondista sovietico
Andrej Krasnov, fondista russo (n.1994)
Andrej Parfenov, fondista russo (Troicko-Pečorsk, n.1987)

Giocatori di calcio a 5 (4)
Andrej Afanas'ev, giocatore di calcio a 5 russo (Sverdlovsk, n.1986)
Andrej Linevič, ex giocatore di calcio a 5 kazako (n.1968)
Andrej Rutar, giocatore di calcio a 5 sloveno (Tolmino, n.1987)
Andrej Tkačuk, ex giocatore di calcio a 5 russo (Mosca, n.1974)

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Andrej Meszároš, hockeista su ghiaccio slovacco (Považská Bystrica, n.1985)
Andrej Sekera, hockeista su ghiaccio slovacco (Bojnice, n.1986)
Andrej Tavželj, hockeista su ghiaccio sloveno (Jesenice, n.1984)

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Andrej Kiska, imprenditore e politico slovacco (Poprad, n.1963)

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Andrej Rublëv, pittore russo (n.1360 - Mosca, †1430)

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Andrej Sládkovič, poeta, critico letterario e traduttore slovacco (Krupina, n.1820 - Radvaň, †1872)

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Andrej Babiš, politico e imprenditore ceco (Bratislava, n.1954)
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Andrej Hlinka, presbitero e politico slovacco (Černová, n.1864 - Ružomberok, †1938)
Andrej Kmeť, presbitero, botanico e etnografo slovacco (Bzenica, n.1841 - Martin, †1908)

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Andrej Dobrovol'skij, regista russo (Mosca, n.1950)
Andrej Kavun, regista russo (Leopoli, n.1969)
Andrej Kravčuk, regista e sceneggiatore russo (Leningrado, n.1962)
Andrej Proškin, regista russo (Mosca, n.1969)
Andrej Razenkov, regista russo (Mosca, n.1967)
Andrej Razumovskij, regista sovietico (Mosca, n.1948 - †2013)
Andrej Ėšpaj, regista sovietico (Mosca, n.1956)
Andrej Šal'opa, regista russo (Leningrado, n.1972)

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Andrej Dejev, schermidore russo (Sverdlovsk, n.1978)

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Andrej Drukarov, sciatore alpino lituano (Vilnius, n.1999)
Andrej Križaj, ex sciatore alpino sloveno (Jesenice, n.1986)
Andrej Miklavc, ex sciatore alpino sloveno (Kranj, n.1970)
Andrej Šporn, ex sciatore alpino sloveno (Kranj, n.1981)

Scrittori (6)
Andrej Belyj, scrittore, poeta e filosofo russo (Mosca, n.1880 - Mosca, †1934)
Andrej Budal, scrittore, giornalista e traduttore sloveno (Gorizia, n.1889 - Trieste, †1972)
Andrej Georgievič Bitov, scrittore russo (Leningrado, n.1937 - Mosca, †2018)
Andrej Kurkov, scrittore ucraino (Leningrado, n.1961)
Andrej Longo, scrittore italiano (Ischia, n.1959)
Andrej Nikolaidis, scrittore montenegrino (Sarajevo, n.1974)

Slittinisti (1)
Andrej Ročilov, ex slittinista sovietico

Tennisti (2)
Andrej Martin, tennista slovacco (Bratislava, n.1989)
Andrej Čerkasov, ex tennista sovietico (Ufa, n.1970)

Vescovi cattolici (3)
Andrej Glavan, vescovo cattolico sloveno (Soteska, n.1943)
Andrej Karlin, vescovo cattolico austriaco (Stara Loka, n.1857 - Maribor, †1933)
Andrej Saje, vescovo cattolico sloveno (Novo Mesto, n.1966)

Violinisti (1)
Andrej Korsakov, violinista, insegnante e direttore d'orchestra sovietico (Mosca, n.1946 - Mosca, †1991)

Andrej


water as needed to thin.
Seperate the ribs by slicing between each rib.
Place in a pot, cover with water, and bring to a boil.
Boil for two to three minutes, remove from heat, drain, and rinse in cold water.
Put the garlic into your blender/food processer.
Peel the onion, ginger, and pear, then cut into pieces small enough for your blender/food processer and add to garlic.
Add just enough water to be able to blend into a smooth paste.
If you don't have a blender/food processer, you can do a very fine mince of the onion, garlic, pear, and ginger, or mash them with mortar/pestle.
Add all marinade/sauce ingredients to a mixing bowl and mix well. The resulting mix should be like a thick paste.
Cut the peppers in half from top to bottom, then thin slice into "threads".
Cook the ribs about 6 to 8 on each side, until a light char begins to show.
Heat oven to 350 and cook the ribs for about an hour, turning only once.
Marinate for about 1 hour.
Place the ribs and all the marinade/sauce into a large pot/pan.
Add 1/4 cup water and mix.
Heat over high heat until the sauce begins to boil, then reduce heat to low.
Simmer for one hour, turning and mixing often to keep the ribs covered in sauce and prevent burning.
Garnish the ribs and serve with steamed rice and banchan.


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(765) Mattiaca est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale.

Caractéristiques
Il a été découvert le  par l'astronome allemand Franz Kaiser depuis l'observatoire d'Heidelberg. Sa désignation provisoire était 1913 SV.

Nom
Le nom Mattiaca est dérivé de Mattiacum, le nom latin de Wiesbaden.

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Astéroïde de la ceinture principale
Planète mineure découverte en 1913
Objet céleste découvert par Franz Kaiser
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On July 1, 1862, President Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act. This act created the Union Pacific Railroad and authorized government loans and land grants to aid in the construction of the nation's first transcontinental railroad, which would connect Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California. As the Union Pacific raced west across prairies, mountains, and basins in 1867 and 1868, the Territory of Wyoming and many of its southern towns and cities were founded, including Laramie. In 1869, the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific at Promontory Summit, Utah, and the transcontinental railroad was complete. This is the story of the railroads of Laramie, a fabled place along the Union Pacific's Overland Route.
With the help of local historians from the Laramie Historic Railroad Depot Organization and the Laramie Plains Museum, as well as local photographers and photo archivists, authors Lawrence Ostresh and Jerry Hansen tell the story of Laramie and Albany County railroads and trains.


Treasure Island Beach Resort in Baloy Beach, Olongapo City. This is a great place to hang out during the day and meet expats. If you want to learn more about the area, come to Treasure Island. Good food, too!
Yet another view of the pool and Subic Bay the Treasure Island Beach Resort. You can see the jacuzzi!
Yep! It's a bathroom! Instant on water heaters on each room ensure an unlimited supply!
The main room. The bathroom door is visible. The bed is built on a stone frame - no squeaking or moving across the room!
This is the second room in my suite at the Treasure Island Beach Resort. Ample for working on the laptop. It has a second TV (not visible here) so it's good for letting "visitors" watch a different channel. Very important at times!
The entrance to Treasure Island Resort from Baloy Beach Road. Ample, Secure Parking!
ask lang po kung magkano entrance fee (adult/children) and cottage good for 10 persons. tnx.


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At Beaulieu Heath, the New Forest Flying School was taken over by the military. Calshot was one of the coastal stations which helped to defend the Channel. Many pilots learned to fly at Calshot with an excellent war record.
The Forest is some 93,000 acres (145 square miles) in area and is the largest unenclosed area in Southern England. The New Forest consists of a mixture of native deciduous and coniferous woodland, heaths, bogs, streams and estuaries. Ponies, cattle and pigs are allowed to roam freely, but are privately owned. The true origins of the New Forest ponies are a mystery but legends say that they swam ashore from a wrecked Spanish galleon.
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Casillas had one save in Wednesday's 4-1 loss to Liverpool.
Casillas will finish the campaign on a low note with a total of six goals allowed over the two legs versus Liverpool. The keeper will finish the campaign averaging 2.2 saves per match but merely held one clean sheet in 10 starts.
Casillas made one save and conceded two goals during Tuesday's 2-0 loss to Liverpool.
Casillas made zero saves and conceded a goal in a 3-1 win against AS Roma on Wednesday.
Casillas allowed two goals while making seven saves during Tuesday's 2-1 loss to Roma.
Casillas made four saves and conceded two goals in a 3-2 win against Galatasaray on Tuesday.
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Zilupe (en latgalio: Sīnuoja) es una villa letona, capital del municipio homónimo en el este del país.

En 2016 tiene 1634 habitantes.

Se ubica unos 2 km al oeste de la frontera con Rusia. Por el sur de la villa pasa la carretera E22, que une Riga con Moscú.

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 Información sobre Zilupe en el sitio web de la Municipalidad de Zilupe

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Culture x July 7, 2016
A Newcomer's Perspective on "Voltron: Legendary Defender"
Recently released on Netflix, the anime reboot has hints of "Avatar," but riffs on more complex themes.
By Shiloh McKinnon, Reed College
"Voltron" Offers a Minimal Aesthetic, Robust Characters and Several (Forgivable) Plot Inconsistencies
Two weeks ago, I saw a picture of a character with a scar across his nose, a shock of white hair, and what could only be described as "kind eyes."
Little did I know that I was looking at Takashi Shirone, better known by his nickname Shiro, and the fandom's name for him, "Space Dad."
When I asked a couple of my friends if the show was worth watching though, they had no idea what I was talking about. "Voltron?" they said, "You mean the 80's anime?"
It turns out that's a much harder question to answer than I would have expected. Of course, I wasn't talking about the 80's mech anime, but it turns out that "Voltron: Legendary Defenders," the series I was asking about, is actually a reboot of that cartoon.
It came out on Netflix two weeks ago and was produced by the same studio that did "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and "The Legend of Korra." Well, all of that was enough to get me to watch it and, having binge-watched the series twice in the same week I'd say that was a pretty good idea on my part.
Mr. Robot Fans: If You Didn't Understand the Twist at the End of Season 1, Here's Why
Without giving too much away, "Voltron" is about a bunch of kids who accidentally end up bonding with and piloting five individual lion shaped spaceships that combine to form Voltron, a mech dude that is consistently referred to as the "Universe's Strongest Weapon."
The kids (and Shiro) are expected to use this weapon to slowly destroy the Galra Empire, a colonizing force that has already taken over more than half the galaxy. At least they have the help of Allura, the princess from the alien planet of Altea, who helps these humans navigate and understand the technology and some local cultures.
From the Studio That Brought You "Avatar"
If you're familiar with "Avatar: The Last Airbender," you're probably already starting to see familiar themes. Environmentalism isn't quite as big of a deal in this show as it is in "Avatar," but there's an incredibly charming plot line that focuses on the symbiotic relationship between a planet-sized creature and its inhabitants.
The story that the plot really slams home though, is the anti-colonization narrative. Rather than just pointing at the Galra and saying these are the bad guys, the show demonstrates how the Empire devalues its colonized people and resources. And y'know there's a gladiator arena too, in case you weren't absolutely positive they were evil.
But enough of the overarching themes of the show, let's talk about the looks.
If you've been paying attention to cartoon network lately, the thought of a reboot of a well-loved cartoon may have you clutching your chest in panic. I can assure you, this show is at least a hundred times more intelligent than "Teen Titans: Go," and is well edited and drawn, unlike the new "Scooby Doo" or "Powerpuff Girls."
In fact, although the character's personalities are a little trope-y (mostly in the fact that the yellow Hufflepuff character is the largest, a demonstrable coward and food focused) the designs are great, from the five main humans to the various different alien species. The ships are really cool too, and if the Galra ships are ten times as big as everything else, well that just increases the drama in the fight scenes.
The animation overall is quite simple, but it's clean, and the show knows how to make its style work.
One of my favorite things about the funny moments in "Voltron" are the expressions that everyone makes, especially when reacting to terrible jokes or pickup lines. Seriously, every screenshot from this show is gold. If nothing else, it makes fantastic expression-drawing practice.
Everyone Speaks English?
As much as I love Voltron though, I have one major complaint.
Literally everyone in the galaxy speaks the same language.
The show establishes that Galra and Altaean written languages are different—one of the characters even comments on having to translate some text in order to read it—but everyone speaks English! And trust me, it's not just a "Well, these aliens are speaking English so an English-speaking audience knows what they're saying" vibe when they speak—every character, human and alien, reacts to the words.
This wouldn't be that bad, except that the individual ships that make up Voltron are called "Lions." Now I'm a nerd that's particularly into sci-fi, so my suspension of disbelief can stretch quite a bit, but when the Alteans are constantly making jokes about animals that don't exist on Earth, there is no conceivable reason for them to consider Voltron made of "lions."
But I guess that's what we get when we watch a reboot of the 80's show that brought anime to the United States.
Space Dad and the Space Kids
I mentioned that I started watching the show (and convinced a number of my friends to watch with me) because of Shiro.
I'm going to suggest that you do the same.
"Voltron: Legendary Defender" is well paced and constructed, but I hesitate to call it a mech anime because that's just not its focus. Really, the show is about Team Voltron, five homesick kids and a traumatized barely-adult that are trying to stop an evil almost bigger than they can imagine.
And the best part? The show balances that huge responsibility with humor. One of my favorite episodes involves a food fight, serious PTSD and an exploding star and they're all important to the plot.
All in all, I loved "Voltron: Legendary Defender" and highly recommend it, especially if you're looking to interact with a fandom afterwards. There are already some fantastic fan theories floating around the internet and some fantastic fan art.
That said, it's not a high power anime. Voltron gets formed maybe once an episode, and it's usually in the last five minutes. If you're looking for giant robots fighting giant robots, this might not be the series for you. Though the individual lions do get to do some pretty awesome stuff. It is an action oriented cartoon after all.
So, are you intrigued by Space Dad? Interested in dynamic relationships built on both desperation and trust? Do you like the idea of five nerds banding together to try and save the Universe? Then you should probably check out "Voltron." After all, it's on Netflix!
Why You Should Binge-Watch 'Voltron' This Week


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Q: Is there any point in encrypting files that users have uploaded to my site? This is just a question to put out there as I am unsure if there is a benefit to this or not. However I am thinking about encrypting the files that are uploaded to my site (As they could potentially contain users names and addresses along with some other personal data). However it occurred to me that the only way hackers could get hold of these files would be to gain control of the server and if they did that then they would have access to the encrypted files and also the database connection strings etc. Once they have those then they could easily decrypt the files.
The traffic itself is protected with SSL and I am not interested in using public key encryption as that is not something that would work for the users. So is it worth the extra effort and hassle of encrypting the uploaded files?

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Summer holidays are the devil in disguise. Being on holiday break for such a long time has changed me.
I usually only drink on the weekend or if my friends and I go out to a tavern or a party. But during the holidays, every day is worth celebrating. It's a 7-day weekend and my friends and I have been raising a glass to freedom every day!
But I'm starting to dread getting back to reality. Thinking about books and deadlines makes me sweat. I'm not sure how I'm going to quit the party lifestyle when term starts.
Drinking is the only way I can relax and forget reality.
Thing is, when you go back home after term, everyone comes and tells you their troubles. They're happy to share because it helps them feel better – but now you're carrying that load and that's why you feel sad.
Alcohol is like a counselor. You turn to it when you have problems. When you're tipsy or drunk you feel carefree, cool and clever. But it's not real.
Your problems – and your brother's problems and your neighbours problems and their children's problems – are all still there in the morning. And sometimes they can seem even bigger.
Holidays are a time to let loose. But when alcohol is involved, celebration can turn to the blues pretty fast. Instead of using more alcohol to fix that, look hard at the source of the problem and tackle it with a clear head. If you need help to do this, there are people who care.


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Q: Zookeeper CLI - Read Znode with space Is it possible to read a znode with a space in it through Zookeeper CLI?
I've 2 values under regions ('us-west 1' and 'us-east')
 [zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 11] get /regions/
 us-west 1   us-east

I can read 'us-east'.
[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 11] get /regions/us-east
null
cZxid = 0xa
ctime = Tue Jul 10 12:41:49 IST 2012
mZxid = 0xa
mtime = Tue Jul 10 12:41:49 IST 2012
pZxid = 0x1b
cversion = 9
dataVersion = 0
aclVersion = 0
ephemeralOwner = 0x0
dataLength = 0
numChildren = 9

But not 'us-west 1'
[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 11] get /regions/us-west 1
Node does not exist: /regions/us-west

I tried options like '%20', '\ ' , '+' etc.. for the space, but nothing worked.

A: Please try zookeepercli, as follows:
$ zookeepercli --servers srv1,srv2,srv3 -c create "/demo_only 1" "the value"
$ zookeepercli --servers srv1,srv2,srv3 -c get "/demo_only 1"
the value

zookeepercli is free and open source.
Disclaimer: I'm author of this tool.

A: It looks like you will not be able to do that from the ZK command-line client. The Zookeeper Java client (which is the one you are using, probably) separates commands (e.g. get) from their parameters (e.g. /regions/us-west 1 in your case) by parsing whitespace characters, as you can see in the code provided with the client (e.g. zookeeper-3.3.5\src\java\main\org\apache\zookeeper\ZooKeeperMain.java):
public boolean parseCommand( String cmdstring ) {
    String[] args = cmdstring.split(" ");
    if (args.length == 0){
        return false;
    }
    command = args[0];
    cmdArgs = Arrays.asList(args);
    return true;
}

Since they are splitting by a " ", unless you discover a way to overcome that split call by some sort of escaping when calling the get command, you won't be able to retrieve those nodes using this client. The code above interprets your 1 in a get call as if it were the watch parameter, as you can see in the get command syntax:

get path [watch]

I recommend you to use a different character, like '_' for example, instead of the whitespace on the znodes naming. If that is not an option, you will either need to modify the ZK Java client yourself, or use another client.

A: There's an open issue in JIRA for this feature, but a workaround is to pass a command on the command-line instead of using the interactive console:
$ zkCli.sh -c get "/regions/us-west 1"