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The Destroyer é uma gravação pirata da banda britânica de rock Led Zeppelin de sua performance no Richfield Coliseum, em Cleveland, Ohio em 27 de abril de 1977. A gravação da mesa de som venho do primeiro concerto de duas noites no local, que faziam parte da turnê norte-americana da banda em 1977. O álbum é intitulado simplesmente de Destroyer.

As primeiras prensagens do vinil pirata incorretamente creditaram Seattle, Washington como o local do show. Uma edição limitada do conjunto de quatro LPs vinha com a legenda "gravado em 24 de junho 'LED ZEPPELIN DESTROYER' Um Caso Permanente e Exclusivo de Armazenamento do Zeppelin." O encarte agradecia a John Bonham por deixar os produtores piratas usarem a fita, e algumas músicas foram marcadas pela emenda aleatório para eles de segmentos de outras músicas. A qualidade de som excepcional durante a execução é descrita por algumas fontes como "quase perfeita". Foi a primeira, e por muitos anos a única, fita com gravação profissionalmente mixada a escapar da posse da banda.

Alinhamento das faixas
"The Song Remains The Same" – (3:40) (desaparece em)
"The Rover"(Introdução)/"Sick Again" – (6:44)
"Nobody's Fault but Mine" – (6:29)
"In My Time of Dying/'You Shook Me" – (11:38)
"Since I've Been Loving You" – (8:23)
"No Quarter" – (19:46) (corte)
"Ten Years Gone" – (9:14)
"The Battle of Evermore" – (6:22)
"Going to California" – (5:48)
"Black Country Woman"
"Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp" – (5:11)
"White Summer"/"Black Mountain Side" (corte) *
"Kashmir" – (8:32)
"Out on the Tiles (intro) / a.k.a. "Moby Dick"
Solo de guitarra – (9:45) (corte)
"Solo de teremim"
"Star Spangled Banner"
Guitarra
"Solo de arco de violino"
"Efeitos de solo"
"Achilles Last Stand" – (9:40)
"Stairway to Heaven" – (10:10)
"Rock and Roll" – (3:26) (fades in)
"Trampled Under Foot"

Álbuns de Led Zeppelin
Álbuns ao vivo de 1977
Álbuns em língua inglesa

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Ingo Appé (* 8. Februar 1957 in Klagenfurt) ist ein österreichischer Politiker der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Österreichs (SPÖ). Seit 2002 ist er Bürgermeister von Ferlach und seit April 2018 vom Kärntner Landtag entsandtes Mitglied des Bundesrates. Von 1. Jänner bis 30. Juni 2019 war er Präsident des Bundesrates.

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Ingo Appé besuchte nach der Volksschule in Ferlach das Realgymnasium und die Handelsakademie in Klagenfurt, wo er 1978 maturierte. Nach dem Präsenzdienst war er als EDV-Operator tätig und ab 1980 Sachbearbeiter im Gesundheitswesen in dem Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales nachgeordneten Dienststellen. 2014 wurde er zum Regierungsrat ernannt.

Seit 1982 ist er Mitglied der Landessektion VII der Gewerkschaft Öffentlicher Dienst (GÖD) Kärnten. Seit 2000 fungiert er als Präsident des ATUS Ferlach sowie als Stadtparteivorsitzender der SPÖ Ferlach, wo er seit dem 8. November 2002 Bürgermeister ist. 2016 wurde er Bezirksparteivorsitzender der SPÖ Klagenfurt-Land  und Mitglied des Landesparteivorstandes der SPÖ Kärnten. Nach der Landtagswahl in Kärnten 2018 ist er seit 12. April 2018 in der 32. Gesetzgebungsperiode vom Kärntner Landtag entsandtes Mitglied des Bundesrates, wo er dem Ausschuss für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, dem Gleichbehandlungsausschuss, dem Kinderrechteausschuss, dem Finanzausschuss und dem Gesundheitsausschuss angehört.

Im ersten Halbjahr 2019 fungierte er als Präsident des Bundesrates. 2022 folgte ihm Ervin Hukarevic als Bezirksparteivorsitzender der SPÖ Klagenfurt-Land nach.

Weblinks

 Ingo Appé meineabgeordneten.at
 Ingo Appé Landtag Kärnten
 Ingo Appé auf der Website der SPÖ

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Bundesratspräsident (Österreich)
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Bürgermeister (Ferlach)
Politiker (21. Jahrhundert)
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SIFF 2019: A Family Tour
We can forgive Liang Ying for having a morose mood. Exiled from mainland China for his work (see When Night Falls (2012) – really do see it), the director has fled to Hong Kong. What happened is that he made a movie persecuting the authoritarian government and they came after him for it, tried buying the film at festival to control its release, and now have a warrant out for his release. The artist has demurred violently and beautifully. He has created a reflexive work about a filmmaker who creates a work that doesn't go over with the government at festival and now must retract and protect their family, the cost of making art with commentary in China.
A Family Tour. Dir. Liang Ying.
The actors in A Family Tour act with an anesthetic lethargy, they speak in apocryphal sorrows, the deadening of their words and eyes brought to stark reality by the camera. The grave instinctive need for the film makes it feel thuddingly imperative. Every scene is filled with a dissonance that lands heavily with the viewer. The author has had the air knocked out of their art and now the art is suffocating, tightly wound and constricted around its own neck, gasping for the relief of artistic liberty.
The exile of a family plays out in heartbreaking quiet. There is little love or connective fanfare behind it, instead meditating on the nature of an artist's potent anger and internal rage. The censored Liang Ying has become unrelenting and twice as strong. His every shot holds an extra gravity afforded by a sad situation sadly shot. We will come to understand his pain and feel a small fraction of it with him.
Standing in for the director, Yang Shu (Gong Zhe) is traveling back to China after her exile. She's come to show her work at a film festival. Excluded for years, her family has not contacted her mother except through devices. Shu's young boy has not even met her mom. And now, her mom needs help with an operation. Using the festival as cover, the filmmaker creates tourist schemes where the family can coincidentally spend time in the same place. It sounds like it would play as farcical but is played with the stern severity that the director's personal life deserves. The cast is achingly believable in their grief. Their familial dialogue is sharp and cutting. We want to cheer them through to a social victory that is impossible.
It is hard to engage with very much Chinese art in the West. We see it for what it is – propagandist and bureaucratically controlled output – a bid for soft power through smoke and mirrors. Work like A Family Tour casts a formidable shadow over China. Liang Ying has made a thoughtful film where every moment hangs on the precipice of grief by a thread. Everything could fall out. The family may never find the unity they had before making art. It is the saddest story at the Seattle International Film Festival. And one of the most important.
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KOBI5.com > News > Health News > Oregon announces new vaccine eligibility groups, timeline
Oregon announces new vaccine eligibility groups, timeline
Posted by Grace Smith February 26, 2021
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OREGON- Today, state officials updated Oregon's vaccine eligibility timeline and while they are hopeful to offer the vaccine completely by summer, it all depends on federal rollout.
Governor Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority laying out the future of vaccine eligibility in their most expansive timeline yet.
"For the first time since the pandemic started, we can provide a timeline that will tell every adult Oregonian a date by which he or she will be able to get vaccinated," said OHA Director Patrick Allen. The next group will be eligible on March 29th.
Allen says this decision comes after the steady progress of vaccinating seniors in Oregon.
"We expect to have been allocated enough vaccines to immunize at least 75% of seniors by March 29th, weeks ahead of our original timelines," he explained.
The new eligibility groups and timelines were established with CDC guidelines and the advice of the state's Vaccine Advisory Committee.
"We looked at who's at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 and becoming severely ill, where have we seen the most frequent and prolific outbreaks, where can we address the worst inequities that this pandemic has exposed and intensified," said Rachel Banks, Director of OHA's Public Health Division.
Governor Brown seems hopeful that the state can offer vaccines to everyone who wants one, no later than the beginning of July. But that depends on the federal delivery of vaccine doses.
"While that gives us all a reason to breath a sigh of relief, it should also serve as a reminder that the finish line is in sight and we cannot let up," Governor Brown said.
Jackson County Public Heath says so far the federal vaccine supply chain is sparse. But the county's medical director Dr. Jim Shames seems hopeful that the potential approval of the 1-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine will provide a spark to the nation's rollout.
"There are a lot of people out there that have a hard time getting to a place with refrigeration for a vaccine, or are able to go and get a second shot," Dr. Shames said.
Beginning March 29, the following groups of Oregonians will be eligible for vaccination:
• Adults age 45 to 64 with underlying health conditions as defined by the CDC
• Seasonally-impacted frontline workers, such as migrant seasonal farm workers, seafood and agricultural workers, and food processing workers
• Currently displaced victims of the September 2020 wildfires
• Wildland firefighters
• People living in low-income and congregate senior housing
• Individuals experiencing houselessness
No later than May 1, the following groups of Oregonians will be eligible:
• All other frontline workers as defined by the CDC
• Individuals age 16-45 with underlying health conditions
• Multigenerational household members
No later than June 1, Phase 2 of vaccination will begin with all adults aged 45 to 64. And, no later than July 1, all Oregonians 16 and over will be eligible to receive a vaccine.
To see the most detailed graphic about eligibility groups, click here. To read the exhaustive list by the CDC, click here.
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Grace Smith February 26, 2021
Grace Smith is co-anchor for NBC5 News at 6. The Chicago native is a recent graduate of University of Miami with a Communication Honors degree specializing in Broadcast Journalism. She minored in Creative Writing and focused her senior thesis on social media usage and engagement. During her time at the University of Miami, she anchored multiple award-winning student television programs, covering everything from music festivals to the Super Bowl. Though she loved Miami's beaches, she's thrilled to be in the Pacific Northwest where she can experience all four seasons and have a real Christmas tree! When she's not at work, you can find Grace glued to any television showing live sports (especially if it's the Chicago Bears) or attempting a new recipe as she learns to cook.
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When I was a teenager, I taught myself to prefer clothing I had made over things I could buy. The clothes I made were like a sort of soft armor through which to approach the world. They fit my personality and my body better than anything I could buy. I developed this psychology about clothes shopping because I didn't have the money to buy designer clothing, and didn't want mall clothing.
Making clothing and working with fabric is a pleasure that goes deep. I started sewing when I was twelve or thirteen, which appears to be an age when one's lifelong passions appear.
Making physical and practical things in the real world is important. It keeps you grounded. It gives you common sense. It teaches you that you have creative powers and freedom to construct your own environment and how you fit into the world.
I make clothing. Other people make furniture, or houses, or food, or vegetable gardens. These are objects that can be imbued with beauty beyond their functionality, yet remain functional.
Our business Brook There grew out of my need to make things with my hands. But it is now a full-fledged being of its own, and I don't need to make things with my hands to support it anymore. It is the other way around.
So I'm starting a new project today: it's called 3×7. It's a capsule wardrobe, I suppose. But it's really about beautifying, individualizing, and spending some time building some practical objects.
In many ways, I'm a minimalist. Daniel is too. We live in a small house, which limits our ability to purchase stuff; we wear a small selection of clothes over and over until they wear out; we have one car, etc, etc.
For the past year, my actually-worn-wardrobe has been a rotating selection of similar tshirts (about 7), wool sweaters (4), button-down-shirts (3) dark jeans (1), and oxfords (1), with of course a requisite amount of outerwear (puffy jackets: 2; weatherproof boots: 2; sneakers: 1; trenchcoats: 2) All my "dress-up clothes" are outfits I made a few years back.
i.e. it's boring, and not how I *want* to be dressing.
Obviously, I'm not starting from scratch: I've been sewing for 25 years; I have a set of industrial sewing machines, and dozens of my own patterns to work from. These tools, skills, and IP (i.e. patterns) took years to develop.
For maybe a decade I had a fairly strict personal rule called "no shopping for clothing." The exceptions were for things I couldn't make: shoes, outerwear, sweaters, and handbags.
So, I'm dialing the clock back to zero, and recreating my wardrobe.
The other thing I did last year was decide to stop wearing black (well, at least not head-to-toe.) Last spring I did a wardrobe purge and put into storage or goodwill all my black clothing. Why?
The real reason was more woo-woo. I want my life to be lighter, more full of color and energy. Black represents the opposite psychologically. I felt like maybe wearing black as a default was affecting me energetically.
Of course, many of the awesome pieces I had made over the years were black, so they too went into storage.
Here's the colors for my new capsule- they flatter my skin and hair, and will be seasonally appropriate for spring through fall.
I'm somewhat fanatical about fiber content. Nothing irritates me like browsing a designer store and seeing $3000 100% polyester dresses made in China. At very least use real silk!
If you are a guy, the likelihood is that you already live in a capsule wardrobe – (just to stereotype a bit…) – as my husband does. Yet somehow when we travel, he always packs more than me.
I'm going to record this process (with my snazzy camera) and turn it into a short documentary. Stay tuned. Let me know if you have questions!
I desperately need a whole new wardrobe and I feel like it could change my life, too.
I identify with so many things you wrote in this post – thank you for sharing and I'll be back for updates.
hi Katie! Thanks so much for writing and I'll be posting videos of the project eventually. Best!


I saw this recipe in a food magazine sometime ago. I thought it looked promising because it's light and easy to make, and also very healthy as it's full of vitamin C. So I decided to try it out. In the original recipe they use creamy yogurt, but I opted for a more dietetic fat-free yogurt.
Doesn't it look pretty? It was very fresh and tasty, altough I have to say that it would have been as good even without honey since the oranges are sweet enough. This recipe suits well as snack or dessert.
Peel the oranges off all the white skin and cut them horizontally in thin slices.
Lay the slices on a serving plate, sprinkle them with cinnamon and pour yogurt and honey on top.
we use to eat something like this especially on new years eve.
You cut the slices as on your picture and dispose them on a plate, put Moscatel over the slices (sweet yummy alcoholic beverage) and then the cinnamon.


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New Vintage Shorts Deliver Relevant, Exciting Reading in eBook Form
"Life is very short." —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Vintage Books and Anchor Books are pleased to announce Vintage Shorts, a program that presents timely reading from enduring classics as well as exciting original works from contemporary voices—exclusively available as eBooks.
The exciting initial offering includes a wide range of work that spans form and genre—from short stories to nonfiction pieces. Sample prose from masters such as Lorrie Moore and Margaret Atwood. Experience history in Robert Caro's brilliant account of the Kennedy assassination, and, in time for the World War I centenary, enhance your understanding of the Great War with John Keegan's How War Begins. Read never-before-published pieces such as Chimamanda Adichie's explosive essay on feminism and Alexander McCall Smith's delightful novella about an American tourist's comical trip to Ireland.
In a world where different types of media incessantly vie for our attention, Vintage Shorts provide a selection of great reading that you can enjoy anywhere—in any amount of time.
Browse a calendar of the complete offerings from Vintage Shorts's celebration of Short Story Month: May 2015, including originals by Maeve Binchy, Hari Kunzru, Carrie Brown, Alexander McCall Smith, and Patricio Pron.
Killing O'Reilly by Courtney Bowman and Nicholas Bowman | American Hunger by Eli Saslow | Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith | We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Last Days of the Civil War: The Enormous Silence by Bruce Catton | St. Patrick: The First Missionary by Thomas Cahill | The Slogan by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Going Free: American POWs in WWII Philippines by Hampton Sides | Gambling by Harry Belafonte | The Would-be Father by Charles Baxter | Behind the Christmas Tree by Stephen Nissenbaum | A Market Tale by Martin Walker | Progress: A Personal Journey in Feminism by Katharine Graham | Berlin: Wall's End by Timothy Garton Ash | The Vision by Jonathan Lethem | The Art of Snag by Zack Hample | Alive by Ha Jin | "I'll Be There for You" by Warren Littlefield | Where Climate Is Heading by Climate Central | The Spelling Bee by Alex Kotlowitz | The Comeback by Geoffrey C. Ward | The Battle of Ap Bac by Neil Sheehan | Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood | The Outing by James Baldwin | Vissi d'Arte by Lorrie Moore | How War Begins by John Keegan | Jack Firebrace's War by Sebastian Faulks | Waiting for a Goal by Bill Buford | Provence in Ten Easy Lessons by Peter Mayle | Dallas, November 22, 1963 by Robert Caro
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Killing O'Reilly by Courtney Bowman and Nicholas Bowman
A death-defying, more or less historically accurate parody of Bill O'Reilly's bestselling Killing series, from one of the writers of the Harvard Lampoon's Nightlight and one other red-blooded American.
Infamous conservative TV personality, newspaper columnist, and Great American Educator Bill O'Reilly has killed off Lincoln, Kennedy, Jesus, and Patton in his bestselling history series. But the everyman from Levittown is hardly done: herein, Vintage Shorts presents the next batch of deaths by O'Reilly. Witness the lives and untimely ends of American heroes like Ronald Reagan and Albus Dumbledore, and villains from Hitler and bin Laden to Stewart and Colbert. God bless America and Benghazi conspiracies.
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American Hunger by Eli Saslow
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
In this Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications and repercussions of America's growing food stamp program.
Saslow shows us the extraordinary impact the arrival of food stamps has each month on a small town's struggling economy, the difficult choices our representatives face in implementing this $78-billion program affecting millions of Americans, and the challenges American families, senior citizens, and children encounter every day in ensuring they have enough, and sometimes even anything to eat. These unsettling and eye-opening stories make for required reading, providing nuance and understanding to the complex matters of American poverty.
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party by Alexander McCall Smith
An all-new, never-before-published original short novel by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, about a hapless American tourist's larger-than-life comical trip to Ireland.
Cornelius P. "Fatty" O'Leary and his wife Betty plan a vacation in Ireland for his fortieth birthday, where they will tour his ancestral homeland and relax in the countryside. Almost immediately, things go terribly wrong: the seats in economy class on the plane are too small; the country hotel's dinner spread and bathroom fixtures leave much to be desired; and the down-to-earth O'Learys find their fellow guests are more than a little snobbish.
In this amusing and touching portrayal of a kindly and misunderstood soul, McCall Smith has created yet another memorable character who will become an instant favorite to his many fans.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Adichie
What does "feminism" mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
Last Days of the Civil War: The Enormous Silence by Bruce Catton
From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning history A Stillness at Appomattox, an electrifying account of the end of the Civil War—Grant and Lee's final maneuvers as four years of internecine conflict inched to a close.
"The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky." Here is the triumphant close of Bruce Catton's history of the Army of the Potomac, the major Union army that fought and ultimately won the war. In the spring of 1865, the war was in its endgame, as Grant broke through the defenses at Petersburg and chased Lee's army for the final clash. Meanwhile, Lee had one final option open to him: escape to North Carolina and join up with General Joe Johnston or otherwise accept defeat. Here are the war's final days and minutes, the race to the finish of America's bloodiest years.
St. Patrick: The First Missionary by Thomas Cahill
A selection from How The Irish Saved Civilization, everything you need to know about the historical St. Patrick, the extraordinary Iron Age man who became Ireland's patron saint.
The real St. Patrick neither dressed in green nor chased the snakes from Ireland; instead, he was a kind and courageous former slave who had been stolen from Britain during childhood and brought to Ireland. Though he escaped from slavery, he later returned in triumph to the island of his captivity. From the first volume of his widely acclaimed "Hinges of History" series, Thomas Cahill brings St. Patrick to life, and sheds light on the chaotic but starkly beautiful ancient Ireland.
The Slogan by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A selection from the admired history Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, the story of how one of feminism's most popular slogans came to life.
In the opening paragraph of an obscure 1976 scholarly article investigating the prim and proper women celebrated in Puritan funeral sermons, Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich penned the phrase, "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Since then, Ulrich's slogan has been put on bumper stickers, T-shirts, and tote bags, in greeting cards and political speeches, entering the cultural consciousness in all sorts of unexpected ways. In "The Slogan," Ulrich gives a brief history of her much-quoted words, and sketches out a primer on feminism today and the way it continues to make history.
Going Free: American POWs in WWII Philippines by Hampton Sides
From Hampton Sides's Ghost Soldiers, a gripping narrative of World War II POWs on the brink of freedom.
The men of Cabanatuan had been held by the Japanese since the Bataan Death March, in increasingly dire circumstances. With the war turning in the Americans' favor, the POWs worried that their captors would murder them all in the frenzy of an all-out withdrawal. Then one day in early January, 1945, the prison guards simply left.
For a brief moment the haggard survivors of Cabanatuan were given the keys to their prison, though swift death was promised to anyone who dared leave. The prisoners waited nervously, all while (unbeknownst to them) a daring raid was being planned which would result in their rescue or their end. This is Hampton Sides at his most riveting, a fitting tribute to these soldiers who would be prisoners no more.
Gambling by Harry Belafonte
A participant's portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, from Harry Belafonte's memoir of activism and entertainment, My Song.
Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 was one of the most segregated cities in America. It had segregated lunch counters, restrooms, and water fountains. It had a nickname, "Bombingham," for the homemade bombs detonated by local Klansmen. And it had Eugene "Bull" Connor, a racist police chief with a hair-trigger temper. It was here that Dr. King and his advisers, Harry Belafonte among them, rolled the dice on an enormous action which would rejuvenate the civil rights movement.
Harry Belafonte is one of America's greatest entertainers and also one of our most profoundly influential activists. During the 1960s he befriended MLK and began using his celebrity in support of civil rights and other social causes. This is Belafonte's personal story of fame, performance, and a lasting friendship. From stages in Vegas to political salons in New York, to the streets of Birmingham and letters from Birmingham Jail, Belafonte gives the reader a unique view of Martin Luther King, Jr. at one of his finest moments.
The Would-be Father by Charles Baxter
From the collection Gryphon, Charles Baxter's luminous story of caretaking under any circumstance.
Burrage never thought he'd be the responsible one. When his brother and sister-in-law die in a car accident, he becomes caretaker to his young nephew, a fragile boy who wants to know what the future will be. Burrage begins writing the boy's horoscope—stars, trains, and hide-and-seek—until his predictions begin to fail, in a rowboat, in the middle of a lake.
Charles Baxter is one of our finest short story writers, a modern master. The Would-be Father is one of his first published short stories.
Behind the Christmas Tree: The Surprising Story of A German Abolitionist Radical and America's Favorite Evergreen by Stephen Nissenbaum
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Battle for Christmas, here is the story of America's first reported Christmas tree: a tale of antislavery and radical German philosophy, a popular British travel writer and Boston Brahmin elites, the education of nineteenth-century children and candles blowing in the wind.
Now-forgotten chronicler Harriet Martineau immortalized what became known as the first American Christmas tree, set up in the house of her friend Charles Follen. But she neglected to explain what brought the two of them together in the first place: a passion for abolition. Martineau also failed to mention Follen's convoluted path to America, from banished German radical to Harvard professor and U.S. citizen. Stephen Nissenbaum explains all in this amusing and somewhat astonishing expose of the Christmas tree, taken from his definitive and award-winning history of Christmas in America.
A Market Tale: A Bruno, Chief of Police Story of the French Countryside by Martin Walker
A charming tale from the Périgord heartland, featuring the internationally beloved Bruno, chief of police.
Between the seventeenth-century mairie and the stone bridge over the river that winds through town, the village of St. Denis hosts its weekly market, as well-stocked with local gossip as with fresh produce and pâtés. As summer blooms, the newest talk of the town is the rapport between Kati, a Swiss tourist, and Marcel, a popular stall owner whom Kati meets over his choice strawberries. None are happier than police chief Bruno to see Marcel, a young widower, interested in love again, but as his friend's romance deepens, Bruno senses trouble in the form of Marcel's meddlesome sister Nadette. Even as Kati begins to put down roots in St. Denis, vending her delicious baking in the market, it seems the overbearing Nadette will stop at nothing to make her feel unwelcome. When her schemes reach the limits of law, Bruno takes it upon himself to set things right.
Progress: A Personal Journey in Feminism by Katharine Graham
From Katharine Graham's Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir Personal History, a stirring narrative of how the legendary publisher of the Washington Post became a feminist.With an introduction from her granddaughter, Katharine Weymouth, publisher of the Post until 2014.
Katharine Graham was the newspaper mogul who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate: but first she had to overcome the harsh expectations of a male-dominated industry, and her harshest critic of all—herself. Inheriting ownership of the paper from her father, and assuming its leadership in 1963 after the death of her husband, Philip, Graham found herself the only woman in a man's world—a world, however, that was beginning to change. From Georgetown suppers to board meetings, from The Second Sex to Gloria Steinem, this is the refreshingly honest account of how the most powerful woman in Washington came into her own.
Berlin: Wall's End by Timothy Garton Ash
A selection from The Magic Lantern, Timothy Garton Ash's classic first-person history of the Revolution of '89 and the end of the Cold War—an on-the-ground glimpse of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
"In the beginning was the Wall itself." So writes matchless chronicler and observer Timothy Garton Ash on the strange life and stranger death of the Wall that divided two worlds. Garton Ash takes the reader with him as he walks through the Wall and across no-man's land in early November of 1989, where as recently as that February a man attempting to cross had been shot dead. But November 9 ushers in a new world. Garton Ash introduces us to the East Berliners lining up for the "greeting money" offered at banks; the newfound wanderers looking for the ferry to England; and the chaotic, intoxicating political atmosphere sweeping through the reunited city. This is a vivid and enduring picture of a defining moment in history, when a wall came tumbling down.
The Vision by Jonathan Lethem
From Jonathan Lethem's classic collection, Men and Cartoons, a haunting, playful story about dress-up, superheroes, Mafia, love and treachery.
"I first met the kid known as the Vision at second base, during a kickball game in the P.S. 29 gymnasium," the narrator, Joel, explains. Decades later the Vision returns to his old Brooklyn neighborhood, no longer a young boy who dresses up in superhero costumes but a confident adult. But at a party with several mysterious visitors the Vision reveals some secrets still lingering, as the partygoers turn from party games to the uneasy weight of truth. This is an exemplary story from a modern master—poignant, witty, and entirely original.
The Art of Snag by Zack Hample
From Zack Hample's The Baseball, this is the definitive, always-entertaining, never-fail guide to successfully snagging baseballs at Major League games.
Luck—or hard work and skill? Zack Hample has caught more than 7,600 baseballs from the stands of 51 major league stadiums. His snags include Mike Trout's first career home run and Barry Bonds's 724th; the last homer hit by a Met at Shea Stadium; and a regular old Cubs-Reds contest from which Hample walked away with 36 balls. You, too, can do what Zack does, whether you're at Opening Day batting practice or Game 7 of the World Series. From a baseball expert and skilled raconteur, The Art of Snag tells you what to wear, how to talk, where to go, and what exactly you need to do to become the (Skillful? Just plain prepared? Either way, legal) proud owner of a Major League baseball.
Alive by Ha Jin
From one of our most celebrated contemporary writers, winner of the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner Award: Ha Jin's staggering story Alive, from the collection The Bridegroom.
Tong Guhan is a regular businessman, husband, and father, trying to find a job for his daughter and an apartment for his son in rural China. He's next in line to be Vice Director of the cannery where he works. One morning in late July he makes the eleven hour train trip from Muji City to Taifu, to conduct business for his company that he hopes will finally lead to a promotion and the easy life. The events that follow are nothing short of astonishing, as the very earth shifts under Guhan's feet. This is Ha Jin's moving, strange, captivating story of an earthquake and a common man, the ties of family and the powers of circumstance: the perfect introduction to an internationally acclaimed modern master.
"I'll Be There for You" by Warren Littlefield
A behind-the-scenes look at Friends, one of the most popular TV shows of all time—a wide-ranging interview with the cast and creators, excerpted from Top of the Rock, by former NBC President of Entertainment Warren Littlefield.
It was a little show originally called Six of One, whose pilot only tested decently with audiences—but all of that would soon change. "I'll Be There for You" presents a colorful, funny, and enlightening oral history drawn from the actors and creators of Friends. Outlining the whole history of the show, from first episode to last, including testimonials straight from the studio floor, this selection reveals the personal side of the "Shakespearean soap opera," including how the actors dealt with fame, helped to create their roles, negotiated and grew together as one family, and (of course) how Joey became Joey.
Where Climate Is Heading by Climate Central
A selection from the much-praised climate change primer Global Weirdness, written by Climate Central, the nonprofit, nonpartisan source for all things climate-related: a straightforward, unbiased, peer-reviewed, roll-up-your-sleeves practical account of what we can expect from climate change in the future.
Over the last several decades, human greenhouse gas emissions have begun to change the global climate. We know this for a fact, as we know other facts like the existence of CO2 in the atmosphere caused by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas; the rising levels of that C02 in the atmosphere; the rising temperatures and sea levels across the globe. But what concrete facts do we know about the future of climate change? In Where Climate Is Heading, Climate Central provides the best depiction we have of how our planet is likely to be affected by climate change over the coming years. This is a primer for the future, about what to expect in a changed world—the future of hurricanes, the movements of populations, the new normal for food supplies. Nuanced and careful, this is essential reading for every voter and citizen of Planet Earth, an unprecedented chance to peer into the future, accurately.
The Spelling Bee by Alex Kotlowitz
A selection from Alex Kotlowitz's masterpiece of immersive reportage There Are No Children Here, the harrowing coming-of-age story of two children in Chicago's Henry Horner Public Housing Complex. In The Spelling Bee, as Pharoah returns to school, his dreams come up against the realities of his neighborhood.
Pharoah is small of stature, has a stutter, and frequently reads at night until his eyes hurt. He has his mother's open and generous smile, and his father's charm and keen intellect. As he enters fourth grade, he sets a solemn goal for himself: to become a spelling bee champion. Award-winning journalist Alex Kotlowitz follows Pharoah for two years, as he tries desperately to succeed at school while navigating the perils of his devastated neighborhood, a place marked by deep need and neglect, along with unrelenting violence. For Pharoah, spelling is just the beginning. This is a dramatic and groundbreaking portrait of poverty, the story of growing up in the other America.
The Comeback by Geoffrey C. Ward
Franklin Roosevelt contracted polio in the summer of 1921, resulting in permanent paralysis from the waist down. One year later, he went back to work. Noted historian Geoffrey C. Ward, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Parkman Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, who is himself a polio survivor, investigates the courage and character of the man who became the greatest president of the twentieth century.
The Comeback, a selection from A First-Class Temperament, the second volume in Ward's monumental biography that began with Before the Trumpet, is the story of one extraordinary man's struggle to regain his feet and reenter public life. Before his illness, FDR's political future had seemed bright. He knew that pity was poison, that if the public understood the extent of his disability his career would be at an end. Roosevelt, therefore, had to teach himself the impossible: how to walk—or seem to walk—again. This is that journey, following the future president from his disastrous attempt to return to his law office to his triumphant march down the aisle at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, where, leaning on his crutches, he delivered the triumphant "Happy Warrior" speech for ill-fated presidential candidate Al Smith and was hailed as a hero. It was FDR's new beginning.
The Battle of Ap Bac by Neil Sheehan
In the opening years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American military advisors and their South Vietnamese allies were facing down the Viet Cong. The confident Americans were there to do what seemed elementary: help the South Vietnamese army defeat a ragtag guerrilla enemy. They were assured of swift success. But one officer, John Paul Vann, saw darker omens for the future—and in the Battle of Ap Bac, the Viet Cong proved him correct.
Encapsulating the great terrors, mistakes, ironies, and courageous acts of the Vietnam War, The Battle of Ap Bac recounts the clash in which the Viet Cong first won their spurs. It is an exciting, terrifying, fast-paced portrait of close-contact warfare in the rice paddies, the story of John Vann's attempt to singlehandedly change the terms of battle and avoid the relentless killing grounds of Vietnam that lay ahead. A key selection from Neil Sheehan's masterpiece, A Bright Shining Lie—which remains the preeminent history of the Vietnam War—it offers a prescient warning for current conflicts between powerful forces and underestimated foes.
Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood
The author of such towering novels as The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood creates worlds just as vividly in her short fiction. In the title story from her acclaimed collection of linked stories Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood takes us to the farm.
Newly arrived city slickers, like Nell and Tig, shouldn't have animals; a notion corroborated by the true farmers down the road: for them, livestock would mean dead stock. But Tig's two boys will be at the farm on weekends, and it would be good for them to know where their food comes from. First come the chickens, then the ducks; before Nell knows it the cows have arrived, too. And soon Nell finds herself becoming a different woman than she ever thought she might be.
The New York Times notes that "The tremendous imaginative power of [Atwood's] fiction allows us to believe that anything is possible"—this applies as much to her fantastically imagined worlds as it does to the life of a family in the countryside.
The Outing by James Baldwin
In James Baldwin's classic short story, The Outing, from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip of prayer and, more importantly, romance.
Every summer, the Harlem Mount of Olives Pentecostal Assembly gives an outing, around the Fourth of July. There is boating, testifying, and illicit steps towards young love. Delving deeply into the church community he would depict in Go Tell It On The Mountain, this is Baldwin at his most compassionate, investigating the sexual ambivalence and towering religion of a group of young children on their way up the Hudson. The Outing is the perfect introduction to an American master.
Vissi d'Arte by Lorrie Moore
A classic Lorrie Moore story from her beloved collection Like Life, Vissi d'Arte is funny, bright, a little sad, biting: a brokenhearted love song to art and New York City.
Harry is a playwright who lives in Times Square. His bathroom floods; his surgeon girlfriend has left for the Upper West Side; and trucks have started idling outside his window at nighttime, where the hookers had always been. He is the type of man who lives for art, and someday his majestic, monumental, unfinished play will come rushing out of his head. Here is the perfect introduction to a much imitated, but never eclipsed, true American voice. In the words of The Plain Dealer, "There's no other writer quite like Lorrie Moore."
How War Begins by John Keegan
From the dean of modern military historians, John Keegan: a key selection from his masterpiece, The First World War. The road to World War I, from the death of the archduke to the first salvos of battle, an incredibly thorough and straightforward account of how a supposedly rational liberal Europe became engulfed by war.
Everyone remembers the powder keg, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife by Serbian national Gavrilo Princip; but what about the fact that a full month elapsed between Princip's deed and the actual beginning of war? Or that the German Kaiser spent much of that time on his imperial yacht Hohenzollern, on his annual cruise in the Norwegian fjords? John Keegan explains in careful and fascinating detail how exactly the war began, taking the reader through this fateful and exciting month of diplomatic back and forth, last-minute near-saves, and ultimate failure.
Jack Firebrace's War by Sebastian Faulks
A dispatch from the underground world of Birdsong, a story of love and World War I.
In a stagnant war of trenches and barbed wire, there is one final desperate front: underground. Jack Firebrace is part of an elite group of British tunnellers, miners by profession, without the military training of infantry but facing unfathomable dangers just the same, forty-five feet underground with several hundred thousand tons of France above their heads.
Birdsong, published to international critical and popular acclaim, has become the canonical novel of romance and devastating violence in World War I. In this selection, we are introduced to Jack Firebrace, one of the novel's central characters, and are given an unforgettable portrait of the lives of soldiers in an unimaginable position.
Waiting for a Goal by Bill Buford
A selection from the beloved bestseller Among the Thugs, Waiting for a Goal pinpoints the actual soccer amid the rampant hooliganism.
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs, and themselves. Their dislikes encompass the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express their feelings in ways that range from petty vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. And for nearly a decade, from World Cups to beer halls, Bill Buford was one of them.
Among the Thugs is the terrifying, definitive account of football hooliganism, a hall of fame sports book but also a paragon of immersive journalism. In Waiting for a Goal, Buford shepherds the reader into the stands, directly over the pitch, bringing the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter S. Thompson to bear on the most beautiful game there is.
Provence in Ten Easy Lessons by Peter Mayle
No one knows Provence like beloved author Peter Mayle, and in this delightful collection—adapted from Provence A-Z: A Francophile's Essential Handbook—he distills his decades of living in France into ten essential lessons for visitors. Abandoning the well-trodden "best of" routes that can be found in any tourist guide, Mayle highlights local features vital to an authentic Provençal experience. From ruminations on the unique charms of each season to the art of the siesta, Mayle brings the warmth and beauty of the province vividly to life. And, of course, food and wine also get their due, as Mayle expounds the merits of pastis and a good rosé, explores the mystery of traditional market shopping, and more.
Evocative and intimate, Provence in Ten Easy Lessons is charming yet practical reading for ticketed passengers and armchair travelers, alike.
Dallas, November 22, 1963 by Robert A. Caro
This account of the Kennedy assassination ("the most riveting ever," says The New York Times) is taken from Robert A. Caro's brilliant and best-selling The Passage of Power.
Here is that tragic day in Dallas alive with startling details reported for the first time by the two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Just as scandals that might end his career are about to break over Lyndon Johnson's head, the motorcade containing the presidential party is making its slow and triumphant way along the streets of Dallas. In Caro's breathtakingly vivid narrative, we witness the shots, the procession speeding to Parkland Memorial Hospital, the moment when Kennedy aide Lawrence O'Donnell tells Johnson "He's gone," and Johnson's iconic swearing in on Air Force One. Compelling.


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Monaco comfortably get the job done against Dortmund
Updated / Wednesday, 19 Apr 2017 22:27
Radamel Falcao celebrates his goal at at Stade Louis II
Monaco 3-1 Dortmund (6-3 on agg)
Monaco secured their place in the semi-finals of the Champions League with a 3-1 win over Borussia Dortmund at Stade Louis II.
Kylian Mbappe, Radamel Falcao and Valere Germain were on target as Monaco scored three goals for the fourth consecutive Champions League match.
The Germans were up against it in the second leg having lost 3-2 at home last week, the match played a day later than originally scheduled after three bombs exploded close to the Dortmund bus, leaving defender Marc Bartra in hospital with arm injuries.
Although the Spaniard was able to attend the return match in Monaco and sit with his squad on the bench as well as deliver the final part of what was most-likely an emotional team talk, there was to be no fairy-tale ending as the Ligue 1 leaders completed the job with another impressive victory.
Following a five-minute delay to kick off after the Dortmund team bus had been held up by police en route to the stadium, Mbappe fired the hosts into an early lead.
Dortmund midfielder Nuri Sahin hit a post with a free-kick before Falcao headed in a second for Monaco on 17 minutes to all but end the match as a contest.
German midfielder Marco Reus netted a consolation for Dortmund at the start of the second half, with Monaco substitute Germain adding a late third for Leonardo Jardim's well-drilled outfit just moments after coming on.
Dortmund were earlier left unimpressed by their delayed arrival, which the Bundesliga club said in a post on Twitter was because the bus had been stopped by police "for approximately 20 minutes without justification".
Whatever the reasons behind the travel issues, there was nothing but support for Dortmund inside the ground.
Before kick-off, the home fans showed solidarity by unveiling a banner which read: "BVB: You Will Never Walk Alone" as the anthem played out around the Stade Louis II.
When the action got under way, hopes of a recovery from Dortmund were dealt an early setback when Mbappe swept Monaco in front after just three minutes.
Defender Benjamin Mendy charged forwards down the left and shot from just outside the penalty area.
Dortmund keeper Roman Burki could only parry the ball, which fell straight to Mbappe and the 18-year-old coolly slotted into the bottom left corner.
The Germans then needed three goals without reply, and came agonisingly close to reducing the deficit when Sahin curled a 20-yard free-kick over the wall but against the inside of the post before the ball bounced along the goal-line and away.
Monaco then doubled their lead on 17 minutes following a flowing break when Thomas Lemar curled the ball into the Dortmund box from the left and Falcao dispatched a diving header into the bottom right corner.
Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel decided to make an attacking change after 26 minutes, when 19-year-old forward Ousmane Dembele replaced defender Erik Durm.
The Germans regrouped at the interval, with Tuchel again switching formations as Marcel Schmelzer replaced Sahin at the start of the second half to fill in at left-back with Raphael Guerreiro shifting to midfield.
The RTÉ panel praised Monaco's fearless attitude after reaching the Champions League semi-final pic.twitter.com/8txtYvEveo
— RTÉ Soccer (@RTEsoccer) April 19, 2017
Reus, who had missed the first leg with a hamstring injury, pulled a goal back within three minutes when he smashed a cross from Dembele into the top corner after the teenager had charged down the right.
As the hour mark passed, Monaco had a great chance to put the tie out of reach when a long ball found Falcao in space, but although the Colombian twisted past defender Matthias Ginter, he could only stab the ball over both the keeper and the crossbar.
With nine minutes left Monaco substitute Valere Germain, who had only just come on for Mbappe, swept the ball in at the far post following a run down the left by Lemar.


This is the last step in the tutorial for mapping processes - and you are getting very close to completing the first chapter. Believe me, the last part on audio prompts is gonna be a piece of cake.
But before you get there, you should try to tackle this section. Even though we will focus on integrations and even if you are not planning to implement babelforce with any helpdesk or CRM, we warmly recommend this part. It will give you a much deeper understanding on how to design process maps - and who knows, maybe you do decide to integrate your call flows later on anyway!
So let's stop where we started last time. Let's take the example the last section ended with, the unhappy caller trying to reach support. It's any easy case because only one thing happens at the time.
Just to keep in mind: this example works again with tags. Some helpdesks or CRM might use different filters - you can exchange tag with groups or (custom) fields- what ever applies for your integration and what ever you need for your reporting and agent experience.
So what do you see in the process map?
In this single map you see everything that might be happening to your call - in babelforce as well as in your helpdesk.
Let's again just focus on the helpdesk part. We have quite a few options here.
And that's it! It's not really difficult, is it? Play around with the call-flow you would like to implement and design the call flow map that matches your processes best!
Let's move on to the last part of this chapter: Audio prompts.


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Bergwald werden im Allgemeinen alle Wälder in Berggebieten genannt, die sich bis zur Waldgrenze erstrecken.

Vegetationsökologisch werden jedoch nur solche Wälder als Bergwälder bezeichnet, deren Waldbild sich aufgrund des Gebirgsklimas (und davon verursachten weiteren Standortverhältnissen) extrazonal von der typischen Vegetation der Klimazone unterscheidet, in der das Gebirge liegt. Das sind die Wälder der montanen Höhenstufe (und zum Teil) einschließlich der Gehölzvegetation der subalpinen Höhenstufe bis zur Baumgrenze.

Die klimatischen Bedingungen und eine meist exponierte Lage mit starker Sonneneinstrahlung machen sich in der Wuchsform der Bäume und in der geringen Zuwachsgeschwindigkeit bemerkbar. In Europa sind die Bergwälder viel Schnee in langen Wintern ausgesetzt. In Bergwäldern kommen Baumarten vor, die an nährstoffarme Böden, starke Witterungsschwankungen und teilweise starke Reliefenergie angepasst sind.

Bergwälder (englisch Mountain-Forests, oder auf dem Afrikanischen Kontinent auch Scarp-Forests) kommen bis auf die unbewaldete Antarktis auf allen Kontinenten vor. Die Höhe über dem Meeresspiegel, bei der die Pflanzenformationen der Tieflandwälder von der planaren- und kollinen Höhenstufe in die montanen übergehen, variiert weltweit.

Die Biologische Vielfalt von Bergwäldern (insbesondere humider Gebirge) sowie der Reichtum an endemischen Arten (sowohl Pflanzen als auch Tiere) ist aufgrund der kurzen Distanzen zwischen den unterschiedlichen Klimaten bezogen auf die Fläche in der Regel sehr groß, sodass etwa alle fünf Megadiversitätszentren der Erde tropische Bergwälder sind.

Bergwald ist oft auch Schutzwald für die Dörfer und Verkehrswege im Tal, in diesen Fällen wird er nicht für die wirtschaftliche Nutzung gefällt und zum Bannwald erklärt.

Alpen
Im Bergmischwald der Alpen sind die Buche, sowie in den höheren Lagen als Gebirgsnadelwald die Gemeine Fichte, die Europäische Lärche und Kiefern-Arten bestandsbildend, in den südlichen Teilen auch Eichen-Arten und die Edelkastanie. Dazu kommen beigemischt Weiß-Tanne, Zirbelkiefer, Berg-Ahorn, Linden-Arten, die Gemeine Esche, Vogelbeere, Echte Mehlbeere und Grün-Erle vor.

Nach dem Ende der letzten Eiszeit waren vor etwa 7000 Jahren zwei Drittel der Alpen bewaldet. Durch Rodungen für die Schaffung von Siedlungsgebieten und durch die Nutzung der Bäume ist dieser Anteil heute auf etwa ein Drittel zurückgegangen. Und auch diese Waldflächen sind großteils durch die menschliche Nutzung beeinflusst. Das bedeutet, dass der Waldbestand dort forstwirtschaftlich genutzt und gepflegt wird. Der einzige größere Rest eines Urwaldes in den Alpen ist der Rothwald im Wildnisgebiet Dürrenstein in Niederösterreich. Daneben gibt als kleine Reste (ca. 9–40 ha) den Scatle Wald in Graubünden und bei Derborence im Wallis, eventuell noch der Bödmerenwald im Kanton Schwyz. Die Wälder des Schweizer Nationalparks sind dagegen z. B. durch Wiederbewaldung nach Grosskahlschlägen für die Saline Hall in Tirol hervorgegangen.

Das Holz der Alpenwälder wurde bereits seit dem Mittelalter intensiv genutzt. In Genua und Venedig wurden die Schiffe der Flotten damit gebaut. Als Grubenholz wurden große Mengen im Bergbau eingesetzt. Auch viele Handwerker stellten ihre Gerätschaften aus Holz her. Dazu kam der Bedarf für den Hausbau und die Wohnungseinrichtung sowie als Energieträger. Jedoch wurde auch bald die Bedeutung des Waldes als Schutz- und Bannwald erkannt. So wurde zum Beispiel der Wald oberhalb der Schweizer Gemeinde Andermatt bereits 1397 urkundlich unter Schutz gestellt. Durch den Einsatz verschiedener anderer Materialien neben dem Holz ist der Holzverbrauch im 20. Jahrhundert deutlich zurückgegangen. So gibt es heute wieder viele Gebiete, wo der Holzzuwachs größer ist als die Holzentnahme (z. B. in der Steiermark).

Bayerische Alpen

Der Bayerische Alpenraum ist mit rund 250.000 Hektar Bergwald knapp zur Hälfte bewaldet. Davon sind 147.000 Hektar Schutzwald nach dem Waldgesetz für Bayern (BayWaldG).

Übersee

Neue Welt

Bergwälder kommen sowohl in Südamerikas Anden, wie auch in Nordamerika, vor allem in Kanada vor. In der Sierra Nevada (Kalifornien) stehen dichte Bergwälder mit Küsten-Kiefer (Pinus contorta, engl. Lodgepole Pine) und Pracht-Tanne (engl. Red Fir), bis sich in der subalpinen Zone Gebiete mit Whitebark Pine ausbreiten.

In Südamerika leben eine Reihe endemischer Arten in Bergwäldern. So sind die Osthänge der Anden von Cochabamba in Bolivien bis nach Salta, Jujuy und Tucumán in Argentinien das Verbreitungsgebiet der Bergwald-Kreischeule. Die Eule kommt ausschließlich in Bergwäldern von 1000 bis  vor. Bergwald-Kreischeulen, die größere Höhenlagen bewohnen, ziehen aber vermutlich im Winter in niedrigere Lagen.

Afrika
Die größten zusammenhängenden Bergwälder finden sich in der Mitte des Kontinents. Im Süden Afrikas weist Angola große Waldgebiete auf. Hier kommen u. a. die Baumarten White Stinkwood (Celtis africana), Forest Bushwillow (Combretum krausii) und Umzimbeet (Millettia grandis) vor. Die Natal Cycad (Encephalartos natalensis) kommt auf steinigem Grund in Südafrika vor.

Asien

In Asien finden sich an allen höheren Erhebungen bewaldete Gebiete. In Zentralasien kommen meist isolierte aride Waldgebiete vor (Mongolian Govi und im Altay-Gebirge). Auch auf den Inseln Südostasiens finden sich große Gebiete von meist tropischen Bergwäldern.

Siehe auch
 Bergwaldprojekt
 Alpenflora

Einzelnachweise

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5 Sync Licensing: TV / Movies / Video Games 3 Song placements 3 Publishing Deal 2 Management Deals 1 Sync Licensing: Advertising 1 Compilations 1 Labels / Record Deals
11 Negotiable or N/A 3 Non-Exclusive 1 Exclusive
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TALUS Seeking Pop and Electronic Artists for Representation
TALUS is currently accepting submissions from Pop and Electronic (EDM) acts.
Artists, Songwriters, & producers may apply.
We are only interested in passionate individuals who we see potential and marketability beyond the scope of their genre.
Submit your BEST music! We will thoroughly listen and critique each submission.
- Tim White - Producer/CEO - TALUS
Seeking Songwriters/Producers for Publishing Deal
Sanaa Music Publishing, a new UK Music Publishing Company (administered by BMG) is looking for new talent. We are seeking Top 40 Songwriters and Producers. Previous notable placements ideal, but not required. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration.
Sanaa Group Inc., an umbrella company that comprises of London-based Music Business Education and Music Consultancy & Publishing Firm Sanaa Music Group.
- Ryan J. Bruce / Sanaa Music Group
Deal Type: Publishing Deal
Similar Sounding Artists: The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Drake, Justin Bieber/Timberlake, Beyonce, Frank Ocean, Avicii, Adele, Rihanna
Library Music Opportunity
We are looking for master quality Instrumental tracks for possible inclusion in a well established Mood Music Library. All styles including Orchestral, Electronic, Soundtrack, Jazz, Pop, Hip Hop and World Music will be accepted for submission but must be finished product to a high standard of production.
We are looking forward to listening to some great music. Thanks again.
- Dean Hart / Afrikan Cowboy Publishing
Compensation: $500+ Based on Placement
Similar Sounding Artists: N/A
Hit Quality Hip Hop, Dance, R&B & Rap/Pop Beats Wanted
Hit Quality Hip Hop, Dance, R&B & Rap/Pop Beats Wanted for Lyrical Collaboration and Song Placement Opportunity. Looking for a few Hit Quality Tracks to Collaborate a potential Hit song! Think Katy Perry, Lady Gaga,Jay-Z, Dr.Drey, Fifty Cent, Eminem, Pitbull, Rihanna, Madonna, Usher, Justin Beiber, Cascada, Wiz Khalifa, Maroon Five, Drake, Black Eyed Peas, LMFAO, Pink etc.
- Holly Steele
new Seeking for Pop radio hit for female artist - sounds like Carly Rae Jepsen, Meghan Trainor, Taylor Swift
Seeking for Pop radio hit for female artist - sounds like Carly Rae Jepsen, Meghan Trainor, Taylor Swift
I'm seeking a pop radio song (mainstream) with a catchy hook and interesting verses for our female artist. She loves songs by Carly Rae Jepsen (I Really Like You etc..), Meghan Trainor (her songs positive vibe and mood) and Taylor Swift (her songs like Style, Blank Space). But she is open to other artists within midtempo Pop with great melody. We need a great topline for airplay as possible!
She would like a cheerful song to which "the leg walks alone" :)
Theme: happy, love, target
Moods: warm, cool, proud, elevated, light, sublime, positive
Tempo: midtempo
Vocals: female, 32 y.o.
Looking for publishing deal or buyout song / master licence or rights for re-produce instrumental. Song will be released worldwide in digital, promotion, music video too.
Please share with me demos or finals, as high quality as you can :-)
Budget - open for negotiations - about $1000 . May be higher, if song will be absolutely great :-)
- Piotr Baranowski - Talent Scout / Music Director - MyMusic Poland
Seeking Producers, Songwriters & Artists for Publishing Deals
I'm looking for the best producers, songwriters and artists that have placements, or pending placements in the pipeline, for a publishing deal with newly funded publishing and management company. The ideal producer/songwriter/artist will also have some radio airplay and/or online streaming #s. Major sync placements also a plus. If you think you have what it takes to join the team of amazing artists submit your best song(s)/track(s) here.
Genre Accepted: Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, Dance, Electronica, EDM, Rock, Jazz, etc. - Non-Genre specific if it's a great song.
- Terence LeMaile / Brand B Sports
Deal Structure: Multiple: Exclusive long term, Co-Publishing, Administration, 1off Deals, Joint Venture
Compensation: $500+ dependent on deal structure + advance
Transgender Reality Show Project Needs Music ASAP
We got the green light and seeking fast, runway/house type, edgy music for a new reality show project. We've gone from shopping this Reality Show to several networks, to the networks FINALLY negotiating for the project, so we know we are relatively close to closing this deal. We need music for this project asap. It is a Transgender project so as an artist you already know what we're seeking. Do not wait or hesitate because we need a lot of music! All the best!
- Minelva "Mimie" Acosta / M.I.A. Entertainment Group
Seeking Engineers, Producers, Content Creators for Publishing & Management Company
I'm looking for the best engineers, producers, and content creators for a newly funded publishing and management company. These signed creators will be focusing on digital content properties that need servicing through the music industry. All genres welcome, just looking for talent. Being in LA is also a plus. Please submit your best work for consideration.
Deal Type: Management Deal
Deal Structure: Management signing deal structure - Flexible and negotiable. Depending on situation
Compensation: $500+ / Negotiable - dependent on deal structure + advance
Producer Mr Mig looking for REMIXERS
Producer/Remixer Mr Mig looking for REMIXERS
If you think you have what it takes as a programmer, producer, remixer to blow up dance floors around the world then Multi-Platinum Producer/Remixer/Engineer Mr. Mig may be looking for you. Mr. Mig's productions and remixes for artists like Beyonce, Katharine McPhee, Michelle Williams, Usher, LeAnn Rimes, Wynter Gordon, and many others have topped Billboard charts countless times and now he wants to find the next member of the MigTight productions family! Please, Send your BEST work only. (5 submissions per person maximum)
Pravda Music looking for indie, dance, alternative music
Pravda Music is currently looking to license INDIE/ALTERNATIVE ROCK for television projects. They're looking for bands in the vein of: Beach House, Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Death Cab For Cutie, The XX, Muse etc. Some of their ongoing projects include MTV/VH1 programs, CW programs, network, and cable programs, as well as major and independent films, film trailers, and advertisements.
Seeking Writers (Music)
M.I.A. has already secured placements on several upcoming projects and currently still working with the established/popular artists, that cannot be named at this time.
SEND US SOME OF YOUR MUSIC AND LET US REACH OUT TO "YOU."
Lyrics should be edgy and competitive, with catchy and memorable melodies.
MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
Seeking Writers/Producers for Reality Show
We are looking for Top Line Producers and Writers to appear in a Reality TV series documenting the inside of the music industry. We have already received interest from Major TV networks such as TVOne, Bravo, Centric as well as AME. We are looking for BIG sounds and Big personalities. There will be opportunities for synching your music in this show as well as guest appearances. View a clip here: Hot Boys Of Atlanta 2013 Season 1 sizzle reel
Songs about Feeling Good, Giving it Your All, Going the Distance etc. for TV Show
New TV Series is looking for Motivational Songs with messages of Ambition, Reaching for your dreams, Hope, Desire, Joy, Making it Big, Going for it, Never giving up etc. Songs that are selected will gain world wide exposure and licensing opportunities.
Seeking Hip-Hop/Rap Tracks for Compilation Album
Lloydmobile Productions (Steve Jennings) is looking for 15 quality tracks to feature on a compilation album. This album will be distributed worldwide digitally with the potential for physical placement in 3,300 stores. We are looking for the best hip-hop/rap to feature Please do not submit to this dropbox If your music is not Hip Hop/Rap.
- Steve Jennings - 101 Distribution / Arena.com
Deal Type: Compilation / Exposure Opportunity
Compensation: $0
Looking to License New Material
I am currently now looking for new material to license EPs/Singles. The license agreement will be licensed in Canada. The License Agreement is very detailed and outlined. If I like what I hear, I will contact you with the full details. I will also let you know the next steps to move forward. If we decide to license your EP/Single, then a proposal will be sent via email for you to review. Please submit professionally mastered/edited material ONLY!! This will give you the best shot to be selected for this opportunity.
HR Publishing works closely with industry leading motion picture and TV music supervisors, advertising and label executives and publishing agencies in order to maximize the use of its catalog material through licensing. We are constantly exploring new and innovative ways to promote our catalogue titles as well as our artists, songwriters and emerging talent on our active rosters.
- Aaron Husband / Higher Reign Music Group (HRMG)
Deal Type: Licensing / Exposure Opportunity


The Chicago White Sox announced on Monday that they have claimed Ryan LaMarre off waivers from the Minnesota Twins.
LaMarre, 29, was designated for assignment by Minnesota on July 2 and teams had one week to put in a claim for him.
The Chicago White Sox only had 38 players on its 40-man roster, so no corresponding move was made to make room for LaMarre.
With an altered mental approach, a change of scenery and his new-found health, LaMarre has reached the place he's dreamed about since he was a young boy - a Major League Opening Day roster.
The White Sox didn't announce that he was moved to the Charlotte Knights' Triple-A roster, so the implication might be that he will stick around with the big club to begin his time in Chicago.
LaMarre, a Cincinnati Reds second-round draft pick in 2010, bounced between the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Oakland Athletics organizations the past three years before he earned a non-roster invitee spot to Minnesota's spring training.
LaMarre parlayed that opportunity into his first spot on an Opening Day roster after batting .400 in the spring with two home runs and 10 RBI.
The former University of Michigan outfielder was in the midst of the best season of his career, batting .263 (26-99) with five doubles, eight RBI and seven runs scored in 43 games with the Twins.
LaMarre had a number of highlights this season including a start in Minnesota's home-opener, his first career walk-off hit in Puerto Rico and his first trip to Comerica Park where he was able to play in front of nearly 200 friends and family members.
Chicago has a two-game series starting on Tuesday night against the St. Louis Cardinals before a three-game set with Kansas City leads into the all-star break.


Use "Export to CindyJS" from the File menu to create such a page.
1) You will notice that the dependent points are drawn using bright colors instead of the dim colors Cinderella uses.
so the default color scale factor for dependent points is 0.7 instead of the default 1.0.
clip: "none",	// line endpoint clipping; other choice is "end"
overhangLine: 1.1,	// applies only to lines and then only if clip value is "end"
2) The pos: [ ... ], values are only needed for "Free" points including those on lines, circles and conics and for selection of point intersection results.
Note that "CircleByFixedRadius" becomes "CircleMFixedr" and the radius value needs to be added.
You will need to get the radius value from the formula in a "Construction Text" window.
Also note that you are not able to stretch the circle, only move it.
4) Freelines are drawn randomly. Refreshing web the page moves them about.
5) Depending on pos value PointOnCircle? crashes when used with conic.
Instead of doing a "Reached refinement limit, giving up."
Removing the throw makes the code work with no discernable problem.
Changing the "F" pos value to [ 4.0, -3.9959345057221376, 1.5715851232332456 ] makes the example display.
6) Generally there are mismatches for the type values.
"LineByFixedAngle", "Dist", "EuclideanMid", "Dist", "Text", "ConicParabolaPL", "ConicInSquare" and "Arc" are not implemented yet in CindyJS.
For multiple point intersection results you can use the pos or index value to select an object from the output collection.
For all multiple conic results you need to change type from "SelectP" to "SelectConic" and add an index value to select a conic not a point from the output collection.
7) Clicking does not highlight anything.
So you do not always realize that you are really just dragging the nearest movable point.
The point being dragged does not jump under the pointer either but remains at a constant xy offset from the pointer while dragging it.
Sorry, my fault, I mixed up two things - there is a "gitlab" for Cinderella which is non-public and I added an account for you there (you should have received a mail, if not, let me know by sending a mail to me). And there's the CindyJS github, which is public. I did not create an account for you there, probably aelkins is somebody else.
In any case - your report is in the system ;-) and will be taken care of, I hope.
Thanks! I found the email messages in my junk mail folder. My email filter is set to exclusive, so I've now added cinderella.de domain to allow them through.
I've dressed up and sepatated the issues and submitted most them for now as #89-#93.
Since you did not provide a link, I googled for [gitlab cinderella] and came up with https://github.com/CindyJS/CindyJS/issues/16 which says "Manually migrated from GitLab? issue 3". Google also finds "yields the element which has last been moved" at http://issuehub.io/?label%5B%5D=Cinderella+compat which says "Login with Github".
I see that the user name aelkins is taken at github.com however my hotmail is not recognized by https://github.com/password_reset. I do not know how to see or change my email address on this forum so I do not know what you may have used.
At least now I have access to the non-minimized version of the source from https://github.com/CindyJS/CindyJS/archive/master.zip 8,371,408 bytes.


Are you a candidate for the Weekly Garden Gnome award? This recognition is given to a player who in their role as the server's partner does not move at all, and could be easily mistaken for that little concrete statue that sits motionless in your yard. As the server's partner, you have the first real opportunity to make a difference in a point by getting your opponents off balance. One thing that you know for sure is that the return is going to travel to your left, right, or above you. Make a habit of "challenging" every ball which means wherever the return goes, turn your shoulders and make at least some effort to hit it. Of course staying balanced is very important so don't feel a need to go too far. Moving a foot or two on every ball puts additional pressure on the receiver as their target is now smaller. Add in "the poach" which is defined as an aggressive move to volley that the partnership plans in advance, and you now have opponents who need to be much more careful with their returns.


Seven years ago Bourbon Dolphin capsized during a rig move. It was a tragedy that sent waves thorough the offshore industry but have the lessons been learned?
It is still dark early on the morning of 30th March 2007 in Scalloway, Shetland as Norwegian Captain Oddne Remoy boards the Bourbon Dolphin for the first time. Bourbon Dolphin is less than a year old, painted in the distinctive green and white house colours of Bourbon Offshore Norway. She flies the Norwegian flag.
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority, PSA, says that it is going to carry out its own investigation into a hydrogen incident early on the morning of Thursday 7 August, which led to the discharge of stabilised oil to the sea from the Eldfisk FTP field terminal platform.
PSA says its decision to launch its own investigation "reflects the seriousness of the incident and the information received about it. Among other goals, the inquiry will seek to establish the course of events, identify the direct and underlying causes, and follow up ConocoPhillips' own investigations of the ESD and leak".
After studying five helicopter accidents in the North Sea over four years the UK Parliament's Transport Committee has called for a full pubic enquiry into whether commercial pressures are putting offshore workers at risk. It also criticised 'regulatory inertia' on the part of the European Aviation Safety Agency. EASA.
Says the Transport committee: "A full, independent, public inquiry must be convened to address whether commercial pressure from oil and gas companies affects the safety of offshore helicopter operations. This inquiry must also examine the role of the Civil Aviation Authority".
Deepwater Horizon – More Tragedies In The Pipeline?
Accident Investigation, accident reporting, explosion, fire, Offshore Comments Off on Deepwater Horizon – More Tragedies In The Pipeline?
Effective compression, a phenomenon not previously identified as a problem with drill pipe during well operations, lead to the failure of the Blow Out Preventer, BOP, to shut off oil and gas flow on the Deepwater Horizon. The phenomenon caused the pipe to buckle almost as soon ss the explosion began which suggests the danger still exists in other blow-out preventers currently in use.
Says the US Chemical Safety Board , which hs relesed its draft report on the incident: " The blowout preventer that was intended to shut off the flow of high-pressure oil and gas from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico during the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, 2010, failed to seal the well because drill pipe buckled for reasons the offshore drilling industry remains largely unaware of".
The blowout caused explosions and a fire on the Deepwater Horizon rig, leading to the deaths of 11 personnel onboard and serious injuries to 17 others. Nearly 100 others escaped from the burning rig, which sank two days later, leaving the Macondo well spewing oil and gas into Gulf waters for a total of 87 days. By that time the resulting oil spill was the largest in offshore history. The failure of the BOP directly led to the oil spill and contributed to the severity of the incident on the rig.
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority looks at the 25 anniversary of the Piper Alpha tragedy this year in the latest issue of its annual Status and Signals publication. In all its gruesomeness, Piper Alpha contributed insights and an understanding of risk to the international industry.
The publication also takes a closer look at other accidents and near misses which have contributed to a better grasp of safety – from the 1977 Ekofisk Bravo blowout to the Gullfaks C well incident in 2010.
Says PSA: "The primary reason for focusing on the most serious incidents is the PSA's belief in the value of learning and experience transfer. Although it can be painful to revisit major accidents and critical incidents, such a review can help to reduce the risk of experiencing new ones".
Meanwhile, Lord Cullen is to be keynote speaker at the Oil & Gas UK safety conference to be held in the summer to mark the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster.
Swire Oilfield Services has warned of potential door hinge failure on its AMF Mini containers AMF 651 to AMF 1104. The wrong grade of steel was used in the hinge assembly which could result in hinge pin failure.
Users have been advised to quarantine units and Swire is recalling them for repair where necessary.


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Facist camp in the jungles of Brazil
'Dogs herded us like cattle. I was just No23 to the Nazis' — Aloisio Silva, former child labourer
By OLIVER HARVEY, Chief Feature Writer in Brazil
6th May 2014, 9:21 am
A FORGOTTEN Nazi labour camp has been discovered hidden in the Brazilian
jungle.
Swastikas can be seen on bricks that were used to build the Cruzeiro do Sul
ranch, 150 miles west of Sao Paulo — where England will play Uruguay in the
World Cup on June 19.
During the 1930s the sprawling compound was notorious for its use of black and
mixed-race orphans who were forced into slave labour.
It was owned by industrialist Osvaldo Rocha Miranda, a leading member of the
Brazilian fascist group Acao Integralista Brasileira, and a Nazi
sympathiser.
The Sun has explored the long-abandoned and overgrown compound.
Wading through undergrowth into its ruined Santa Teresinha chapel, our local
village guide reeled back in fright as a screeching owl flapped out.
With the humid air thick with mosquitos, the villager pointed to a place where
the secluded church's outside wall had begun to crumble.
The bricks came away easily, each embossed with an unmistakable symbol — the
Nazi swastika.
Lee Thompson
In a nearby derelict cowshed we again found brick after brick bearing Adolf
Hitler's emblem — each a stark reminder of the grim history of Cruzeiro do
Sul, or Southern Cross.
With dusk gathering, we met farmer Jose Maciel, who discovered the bricks when
a pigsty toppled down.
He said: "I thought I was dreaming. I knew exactly what the symbol meant. But
why here? Why so far from Europe?"
Bearded Jose, 57, also found a cache of fading black and white photos
preserved in a metal cylinder in one of the buildings.
There was a photo of the ranch's football team, proudly flying the swastika.
Another was of a bull from the farm, also branded with the Nazi motif.
It was only when history professor Sidney Aguilar Filho was shown the
bricks that the ranch's dark past was revealed.
Following years of painstaking research, he discovered the ranch and other
nearby properties had been run as a brutal fascist fiefdom by Rocha
Miranda's wealthy family.
In the 1930s, 50 black and mixed-raced boys aged around ten had been taken
from a Rio orphanage with the promise of a better life at the Rocha Miranda
family's property.
Instead they were forced to work as slave labourers. Known by numbers rather
than names, the terrified children were beaten and forced to make fascist
salutes to their masters.
In the nearby town of Campino do Monte Alegre — 150 miles west of Sao Paulo —
we met one of the former slaves.
The pain of those years are etched into Aloisio Silva's lined face.
Still lucid at 91, he said: "We were promised there would be sweets and we
would ride horses, but we were lied to.
"Instead we were made to work the land. We were beaten with horse whips and
sticks. We were slaves."
Aloisio, who was taken to the ranch in 1933 aged ten — a few months after
Hitler seized power in Germany — added: "There were guard dogs so we
couldn't run away. They were used to herd us like cattle. I was just No23 to
the bosses.
"Every Sunday morning we would march and make the fascist salute. At the time
I had no idea what Nazism was."
Another surviving slave, 89-year-old Argemiro dos Santos, said recently: "They
didn't like black people at all. There were photographs of Hitler and you
were compelled to salute."
Pre-war Brazil had strong links with Nazi Germany — they were economic
partners and Brazil had the biggest fascist party outside Europe, with more
than 40,000 members.
Today, relatives of the long-dead Rocha Miranda brothers say their forebears
stopped supporting Nazism well before the Second World War.
Maurice Rocha Miranda, Osvaldo's great nephew, denies the claims about the
farm orphans. He told a local paper they "had to be controlled, but were
never punished or enslaved".
Another distant relative — who asked to remain anonymous — told The Sun: "It
wasn't just here that a stick was used to discipline children. It was used
in every school in that era.
"They built a school for the children at the ranch and educated them. People
hear the word Nazi and go crazy."
Last night Professor Filho, 45, who interviewed a number of surviving orphans,
insisted: "They weren't paid for their work, their freedom was restricted
and they were controlled through violence. They were slaves."
The AIB disintegrated after an attempted coup in 1938 and the ranch's harsh
regime was relaxed in the 1940s, with the orphan slaves either fleeing or
taking paid work on the farm.
But elderly locals say that in the 1930s the estate was being developed as a
South American retreat for German Nazis.
Retired restaurateur Carmo Gomes said: "There are rumours that the ranch was
to become a Nazi colony in Brazil if Germany won the war.
"It's only hearsay, but people in the town remember rumours of lots of
blond-haired visitors. They would have been welcomed at the ranch."
The notion is not as fanciful as it sounds.
The SS sent an expedition to the Brazilian Amazon in the 1930s to explore the
possibility of an Aryan outpost.
The Nazis believed they were destined to colonise and settle parts of the
world, much like the pioneers of the American West.
Dr Otto Schulz-Kampfhenkel, an SS officer and leader of the expedition, wrote
to Nazi boss Heinrich Himmler: "The two largest scantily-populated but
resource-rich areas on earth are in Siberia and South America.
"They alone offer spacious immigration and settlement possibilities for the
Nordic peoples."
He added of the Amazon region: "For the more advanced white race it offers
outstanding possibilities for exploitation."
Yet the plan was doomed to failure. One of the three-man team — Joseph Greiner
— died from "fever" in 1936. His grave was marked by a 9ft wooden cross
etched with swastikas. Himmler then lost interest in the bizarre plan.
After the war the Cruzeiro do Sul ranch passed out of the Rocha Miranda
family's hands. It is now a sugar cane farm.
Farmer Jose Maciel — responsible for unearthing its secret — said: "People
told me I was mad when I said Nazis had lived here.
"Now I believe the church is a monument to those who toiled there — and a
reminder of a fallen evil empire."
Haven for men of evil
NEARLY 2,000 Nazis fled to Brazil after the Second World War, including
Auschwitz concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele, who oversaw hideous
experiments on prisoners.
He first escaped to Argentina, then moved on to Brazil in 1960. He drowned
while swimming off the Brazilian coast in 1979.
Former SS officer Gustav Wagner – linked to the murder of 152,000 Jews at the
Sobibor concentration camp in Poland – also fled to Brazil.
In 1978 a West German government request to extradite him was denied by
Brazil's supreme court due to one mistake in the paperwork.
In 1980 Wagner was found dead with a knife in his chest in Sao Paulo. An
official report found he had committed suicide but there was speculation he
had been killed by Nazi hunters.


Description: Have you ever wanted your project to just "hibernate" until someone picks it up or moves it? It's a great strategy for dramatically extending the battery life of a widget that doesn't need to be active all the time. The Wake-on-Shake board is designed to make it really simple to do just that!
The Wake-on-Shake, based on a concept by Nitzan Gadish of Analog Devices, combines the ATTiny2313A with the ADXL362 low-power MEMS accelerometer to cut power to your project for long periods of time, all the while waiting for a shake or a bump and sipping <2uA at 3.7V! With power consumption that low, the limiting factor for lifespan in most devices will be aging-related self-discharge of the batteries.
The board is easy to use, you basically connect it as a power switch between your device and a power source (2.0-5.5V). By default, the board will activate the load when it experiences a mild bump or tilt; the load will be powered for 5 seconds after that. Using a serial data connection, the sensitivity can be increased or decreased, as can the delay time. Additionally, the "WAKE" pin allows the load to control when it goes back to sleep. By pulling the wake signal high (to at least 2.7V), the load will remain energized until it releases the pin.
Note: While it is possible to connect the load to the on-board serial port, allowing the load to access the ADXL362 and EEPROM storage of the ATTiny2313A, caution must be exercised when doing this to avoid sourcing current to the load through the serial port data lines on the ATTiny2313A, which could damage the ATTiny2313A as well as causing excessive off-state power dissipation.


Recently, I was in Speyside for a few days seeing friends and visiting distilleries. It's what I do on my days off. I think the pick of the distilleries I visited was Aberlour, because their standard tour was such good value and the tour guide was very knowledgeable. The tour cost 12 quid and that included a two hour tour and a tasting of 6 single malts. I'm sure they are not making much money by running such a good value tour, but I think it is the best way to run a distillery tour. If people have taken the time to come and visit your distillery, show them the best of your hospitality. By doing so, you could be gaining customers for life. They will go home and tell their friends and family about this fantastic whisky that they tried, and about how amazing the tour was.
Here's the thing I think some distilleries still don't consider; the distillery visitor centre is a prime selling opportunity. Get folks in, give them a fair bit of information about your distillery, be generous with the drams and then let them loose in your distillery shop. When I was at Aberlour, they had two "bottle your own" whiskies that you got to taste on the tasting flight at the end of the tour. I bought a bottle of the 16 year old Bourbon cask matured Aberlour, as I thought it was lovely. Other people on the tour bought bottles too, because they enjoyed the tour, enjoyed the drams and realised they could only buy these bottlings on the tour. A unique, special souvenir for their trip to a distillery.
The tour highlighted some interesting nuggets of information. Aberlour was founded by one James Fleming in 1879. A man who had suffered ailments throughout his life, but had still managed to make a reasonable fortune from trading grain. He used that money, and his grain knowledge/contacts to build and run Aberlour distillery. A very generous man who was known for his philanthropy, he built a community hall and left enough money to build a hospital and a bridge over the River Spey.
I also learnt some interesting information regarding one of my favourite Aberlour bottlings. The cask strength beast that is a'bunadh has quite an unusual beginning. The story goes that in 1975, they were building new stills at the distillery when they discovered a time capsule containing a bottle wrapped in a newspaper from 1898. The workers polished off most of the bottle, but enough was saved to create a replica. A'bunadh is that replica.
Nose: Zesty, hints of lime, brown sugar, vanilla. A floral, fresh aromatic note. Slight note of a sugar syrup or that artificial sweetness you get with Haribo sweets. Quite a sweet oaky nose. Heather honey too.
A fresh, lively nose. One of the breakfast whiskies. Now to taste.
Palate: Lemoney, honeyed, spicy and sweet. A cracking wee dram that I won't be adding water too. Doesn't need it I tells ya!
Finish: Vanilla and a nice oakiness.
Overall: I have tasted quite a few Aberlours in my time, and I have enjoyed them all. I have practically finished this bottle, which shows how much I appreciate it. Aberlour's qualities seems to be in buying and selecting high quality casks. The consistency throughout their range is brilliant. There is nothing remarkable in their process. Quite short fermentations, no crazy finishes or unusual peating. Just good whisky which is filled into clearly excellent casks.
Go visit them. Buy their whisky. Simple really.
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Q: Dart C Interoperability. Pass an array of integers to C function I am learning Dart now and I playing with Dart's Interoperability with C. I am able to use a C method with two int params. Code below:
hello.dart
import 'dart:ffi' as ffi;

typedef sum_func = ffi.Int32 Function(ffi.Int32 a, ffi.Int32 b);
typedef Sum = int Function(int a, int b);
...
final dylib = ffi.DynamicLibrary.open(path);
final sumPointer = dylib.lookup<ffi.NativeFunction<sum_func>>('sum');

final sum = sumPointer.asFunction<Sum>();
print('3 + 5 = ${sum(3, 5)}');

hello.c
int sum(int a, int b){
    return a + b;
}

hello.h
int add(int x, int y)

hello.def
LIBRARY   hello
EXPORTS
   sum

This all works really well, but I also want to have an max C method, which takes an int array as an input and returns the biggest number. How can I do this? I've implemented all the required code in C, but I am not sure how do I "link" it with Dart. Could anyone help me please?

A: First, I really want to say that I am not a C programmer and especially when it comes to pointers I am not even pretending I have a fully understanding of how to do this kind of things the most optimal way.
With this out of the way here is my solution based on the primitives example found here:  https://github.com/dart-lang/samples/tree/master/ffi/primitives
primitives.dart
import 'dart:ffi';
import 'dart:io' show Platform;

import 'package:ffi/ffi.dart';

typedef max_func = Int32 Function(Pointer<Int32> list, Int32 size);
typedef Max = int Function(Pointer<Int32> list, int size);

void main() {
  var path = './primitives_library/libprimitives.so';
  if (Platform.isMacOS) path = './primitives_library/libprimtives.dylib';
  if (Platform.isWindows) path = r'primitives_library\Debug\primitives.dll';
  final dylib = DynamicLibrary.open(path);

  final list = [1, 5, 3, 59030, 131000, 0];
  final listPtr = intListToArray(list);

  final maxPointer = dylib.lookup<NativeFunction<max_func>>('max');
  final max = maxPointer.asFunction<Max>();
  print('${max(listPtr, list.length)}'); // 131000
  malloc.free(listPtr);
}

Pointer<Int32> intListToArray(List<int> list) {
  final ptr = malloc.allocate<Int32>(sizeOf<Int32>() * list.length);
  for (var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
    ptr.elementAt(i).value = list[i];
  }
  return ptr;
}

primitives.h
int max(int *listPtr, int size);

primitives.c
#include "primitives.h"

int max(int *listPtr, int size)
{
  int currentMax = *listPtr;

  for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
  {
    if (currentMax < *listPtr)
    {
      currentMax = *listPtr;
    }
    listPtr++;
  }

  return currentMax;
}

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I like to talk. I especially like to tell stories. There is a lot of talking in the world these days, and I believe an even more relentless desire to connect. I suppose that's what social media is all about. Yet I still don't think people truly feel connected even when they are tweeting and addicted to their Facebook pages all day. I wonder about all of the mindless and heartless babbling (read that as hatin' talk). "What is the purpose"? "Why am I doing this?" are the questions I pose to myself more frequently these days. These questions particularly pertain to my speech and my conversation. As Miquel Ruiz ask in his book, The Four Agreements, is my speech impeccable?
So I decided to start blogging. This is not the first time. I tried blogging several years ago in an attempt to encourage my students to write more. It seemed that they expressed a desire to become better writers (especially after they received feedback on their college papers from me). But when I asked them how often they wrote, it appeared that writing was a required pastime. To encourage my students, I told them that if they blogged I would blog. The issues that emerged from a course on Race and Ethnic Identity were ripe for commentary and I also promised extra credit. None of us blogged for very long, quickly losing steam as the semester rolled along. However, not surprisingly, the best final grades in the class went to those students who blogged until the end.
Now I have a topic that I am passionate about and perfect for a blog. How does one acquire and maintain a peaceful heart? Having a heart transplant eighteen years ago set me on a path to understanding that possessing a peaceful heart is the key to happiness. Most people believe that happiness is linked to having things; a nice car, big house, large bank account, fame, "having the life" if you will. If there is one thing I learned recovering from three heart surgeries (one of them the transplant) and a kidney transplant is that none of things I listed could prevent the suffering I experienced nor could they help much in my recovery. Yet there are lessons to be learned and resources and people everywhere that helped me uncover the peace in my heart and the subsequent joy that emanates from it. Peace and inner joy are inextricably linked and they both reside in the heart.
Thus, I will be blogging about what I've learned and continue to learn about this "secret." I wish I could say that I will blog every day but that is creating certain expectations and "stress" both of which are likely to disrupt the peace in my heart. I vow to blog as least once a week hoping to get that frequency up to 2-3 times a week. My commitment and goal stems from an urging in my spiritual heart to help others find and maintain the peace in their hearts. Let the journey continue.