I'm particularly excited about our guest blogger today, because she addresses a subject I speak about, train about, and is at the foundation of my personal beliefs, which is taking responsibility of our energy. Below, Mina offers us a simple, yet very powerful practice for giving us back so much of the energy that is ours to direct toward productive and joyful tasks. I hope you accept her challenge!!
Mina refers to her Mastermind program, of which I am a member. I just love surrounding myself with like-minded women who want to create meaningful and powerful lives for themselves and for others. I was not able to take on her challenge during the Mastermind, due to my vacation, but I will take the challenge now! Please join us both in doing so!
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When I hear the word summer I am reminded of clear skies, images of kids laying in the grass looking up at the sky, and the freedom of 3 months without school to do whatever my heart desires. At least as long as my parents agreed.
It would be safe to say that for most of us as children summer brought the feeling of being carefree and fun. Today for most adults, it doesn't feel that way. The year-round responsibilities are still there and they have to be handled. Just because the kids have 3 months off doesn't mean that you do, and if you don't have children, the year-round responsibilities are still there in the summer.
So how does one experience the feeling of being carefree and having fun with all these responsibilities? How does one have a Summer of Well-Being?
If you look at the definition of Well-Being it is the state of being happy, healthy, or successful.
As a coach I have helped my clients experience happiness, health, and success. I've helped them do everything from lose the 35lbs they have been carrying for over 20 years to helping them hire an entirely new rock star staff and making their business more profitable. Having worked with thousands of people over the last 6 years creating happiness, health and success in their lives, there are quite a few things I could share with you today that would help you have a Summer of Well-Being.
However, I have a strong belief that less is more, so today I am going to share with you 1 Simple Thing you can do now to experience more happiness, health, and success in your life.
One thing that you may be doing without realizing. One thing that is affecting your life in a bigger way than you can possible imagine.
Now, I don't know you and I don't know if you are someone who complains a little, a lot, or if you are just someone who is surrounded by complainers.
If you complain a little you will want to read further.
If you complain a lot. As in, you could land the gold in the Complaining Olympics – you definitely want to read further. You may even want to read this twice.
And if you rarely complain but are surrounded by complainers, read on and then find the share button on this page to send this over to the complainers you know with a smile and a wink. They deserve a Summer of Well-Being, right?
Immediately the blissful picture you have in your mind is gone. This is what happens when we complain, we prevent ourselves from enjoying all the awesomeness that is around us.
Go to any network or social gathering and you will find that complaining has become the #1 way to communicate. It can be as innocent as complaining about the weather, the traffic, the city you live in to all the way to complaining about your job, business, co-workers, spouse or a past relationship. The challenge is that this robs you from the very happiness, health, and success that you desire. Is this true? Is complaining actually that damaging? Absolutely.
Here are 3 Things that Happen when you complain.
1) You give an inordinate amount of energy to the problem. The very thing you don't want more of you are giving your energy to. Do you ever feel happy when you are complaining? Highly doubtful. Complaining is usually accompanied by the emotions of stress, frustration, and aggravation. You are giving your emotional energy to something you don't want.
2) You burn your time. Ever been cut off in traffic or have a client or vendor wrong you and then tell the story of what happened to 15 people over the next 24 hours? What could you have been doing with that time? Complaining burns your precious time and kills productivity. Part of being successful is spending your time wisely. Where could the time spent complaining go?
3) You lower the energy of those around you. You know those people in your life that you LOVE to be around? That light up your day? When you see their number on your phone you pick it up no matter what you are doing? Do they complain very much? Not likely. People who lift us up are using their energy on things that are positive and uplifting, not replaying a recent horrible incident for anyone within ear shot. By complaining you become one of those people who lower others' energy and you lower your own. Not exactly healthy.
So what happens when you Stop Complaining? What's the upside?
I'll share with you a real life example. Recently at a Mastermind group I lead we had 40 women from 2 groups participate in a 3 day no complaining challenge. The entire group started on a Monday and committed to not complaining for 3 days.
For some the challenge seemed daunting, and for others they thought it would be no big deal as they didn't feel like they complained that much. As part of the challenge they would post in our private Facebook group about their experience.
When the women came back at the end of the month each one had the opportunity to share what happened as a result of not complaining.
"When I couldn't complain it caused me to think about what was actually bothering me and I realized the things that I have been complaining about, I complain about all the time, but I haven't been doing anything about it!
I actually did something about it.
They say that for something new to come into your life, you must make space for it. A question I posed to the group in our Mastermind was, "When you are not complaining, what will you find yourself talking about instead?" By eliminating complaining these women now had the energy to solve their problems and focus on moving their life forward!
Here are the top 3 things these women experienced and the 3 Great Things that Happen when you Stop Complaining!
1) You recognize what the actual "problem" is. Often complaining is usually a way to avoid actually dealing with a specific problem. Most of the time people complain about the same 3 things. This could a number of things: work, their body, the diet they are on, the government, a family member, or that they "don't have enough time". By eliminating complaining you have the opportunity to be with the situation and see what you would like to do about it. You allow the space for a solution to come to the surface. So let's take a look in your own life. What would you say are the top 3 things that you complain about?
2) You experience less stress and less tension in your body. Imagine if you were watching a 3 minute commercial where the entire time it showed the person complaining. At the end of it how would you feel? Probably tense, annoyed, and wanting to get away from it. When you complain, although you are not as annoyed as if you were watching someone else, you still experience the effects in your body. If you catch yourself complaining take a moment to check in. First, stop talking (just cut yourself off) and check in with your body. Are your shoulders scrunched up around your ears? Is your body tense? Is your face all contorted? Have you stopped breathing? If so relax your body. Your shoulders, arms, face, jaw… and then count back from 10. 10……..9……..8……..7……..6……..5……..4……..3……..2……..1……..
3) You connect more deeply with those around you. This means, when people walk away from a conversation with you they feel neutral or great. Not drained. I shared with the women in the groups that eliminating complaining is one of the quickest ways to create a closer connection with your spouse. It's important for women to know that because of the ingrained need that men have to make their woman happy and to fix things, when you complain to your man it makes him want to stab himself – in the eye – with a shrimp fork!
Seriously. If you are in a serious relationship there is nothing your man wants more than for you to be happy. If there is a problem he wants to "fix it" for you. When you are complaining there really is nothing to fix because it's simply venting and clearly you are not happy. The man in your life feels helpless to help you and few things are more frustrating for a man. Please note, I am not saying you cannot express your day or concerns to your man. I am talking about the ongoing, non-stop complaining that is exhausting for both parties. When you stop complaining you get to have a more pleasurable experience with the people closest to you and create a greater connection. Most people have a person they dump all their problems on. What if you stopped dumping on that person? How would that change your relationship with them?
I invite you to experience a Summer of Well-Being by starting off with a 3 Day No Complaining Challenge on Monday!
Call a few of your friends and decide to do it together. When you start to do this you will experience less stress, more connection, and solutions to what you were complaining about will finally have a chance to pop into your head.
I would love to know if you decide to do it and how it goes! Comment below and if you have any questions about how reduce complaining post them below. I am happy to answer them!
Wishing you a wonderful summer. One of sunshine, well-being, and no complaining!
Mina Shah is motivational speaker, trainer and the Founder and CEO of Smart Women Making Money. Through Smart Women Making Money she teaches women of all ages the skill set necessary to confidently and courageously speak up for what they want and create the life they have always desired.
I've had the pleasure recently of addressing many college students and professionals about the direct link between our energy and how happy, balanced and successful we feel in our lives. This concept of Energy Leadership places the responsibility of our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and ultimately, our life's outcomes, in our hands. It teaches us that despite what we may be experiencing, or who/what we are surrounded by, we have the power to lead our lives in a way that creates everything we want more of…great relationships, productivity, results, energy and enthusiasm, feelings of success in all areas of our life, health, wellness, balance, and more.
However, the question that I have been getting most is, "How can I manage all of the negativity and conflicted individuals around me? How do I not let it affect me?" Great question, and a great exercise in leading our energy.
Negativity will bring us down if we stay around it long enough. We don't fully grasp that being around destructive people will affect us, seep into us, and eventually pull us down. That's why choosing our environment is so important. In truth, the only free will we have is choosing our environment, because once we are in it, it determines how we grow. It is similar to wheat which is planted in the ground. The potential is not realized without the right soil, rain and sunlight which make up the environment…once man has chosen his environment, he is in its hands, like clay in the hands of a potter. " –Yehuda Berg.
Wise message, indeed. But, how can we fix an environment which we cannot leave in that moment (or choose not to leave)? Or, how can we help to bring about change in others knowing that in the end they must change themselves?
I'd like to suggest this process which allows us to influence change within our own power, raising our positive energetic vibrations along the way. It's all about CHOICE.
Remain a victim to it.
This option is always a choice, but one which will continue to give you feelings of loss of control, powerlessness, grief, anger, etc.
Avoid the conflict, challenge or individuals.
Get out of the situation. Limit your involvement or time spent with the individuals. You can consciously and in an empowered way choose not to get involved in certain conversations or with certain people. If you don't like smoke, don't sit in the smoking section!
Change or leave the situation.
Do what you can to intervene to bring about a resolution, or offer a positive perspective to the conversation or situation. If you don't like the music being played, suggest a new station! Or, change the channel yourself! Sometimes circumstances make it so that we cannot leave certain environments. If over time, you can't effect change or make it better for yourself, leaving may be the only answer. It may be time to consider making the changes necessary that will allow you to exit.
Alter your perspective of the experience.
Look at the situation differently and your experience of it will change. Use techniques like changing your understanding of the significance of the situation (how urgent is this, really?), becoming curious instead of furious, visualizing yourself in a different location–one that brings you peace (like a mountain top!), understanding why the person may be doing what he or she is doing, or bringing compassion into the situation instead of judgement.
Accepting a situation as it is instead of fighting it. Consider saying to yourself, "So what? In the bigger scheme in life, does this problem really and truly matter?" Simply don't assign so much value to the situation or the person. You can choose to be in the moment and see the potential learning opportunity in that moment [for you or for the other(s)]. By releasing the situation, we also release the energy of it!
We have the power to choose how we live, work, play and feel. Certainly, in our lives we are confronted with situations where we feel powerless and unable to make a change, or leave. However, we do have the power to choose how we feel about these situations, people, changes, etc. We have quite a bit of power at our disposal, we simply need the courage to access it and make those tough decisions.
Do I feel like I am powerless in this situation, or a victim to this person?
How can I "change the channel" or intervene to create a more solution-oriented environment?
How might I alter my perspective of this issue or person?
If I simply accepted the situation for what it is and/who the person is, how might that help me release the negativity I'm feeling?
What would be my ultimate outcome and what are the first steps I can take to achieve that outcome?
And, remember, small changes in actions and perceptions create HUGE shifts in our energy and in how we feel.
Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing, or situation — some fact of my life– unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment.


would in either case have shown so gorgeous, so brilliant.
no doubt about that. The world's a puzzling place.
Away from his father –farther, always farther.
Speed up. Please stop, I thought. Mixed feelings. Trite.
Away on years, as I stood behind that bike.
Nor were my sentiments ever entirely trite.


But the pontiff apparently sees their senior status as a plus rather than a liability, because he urged the cardinals to share the insights they've accumulated in their years of service with the young.
It wasn't the first time that a pope had dispensed his views on the issue of aging. And they've spoken from experience: Over the past century, according to this chart, the average age of those who've ascended to the papacy has been 66, and three of the popes have been over over the age of 70 (76-year-old John XXIII in 1963, 78-year-old Benedict XVI in 2005, and now Francis I).


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Mix 94.1 on the hunt for host to replace Deluca
Aug 24, 2015 at 11:23 AM Aug 24, 2015 at 11:31 AM
The man on the air with Kathy Vogel today on Mix 94.1's morning show was not her new permanent sidekick.
The man on the air with Kathy Vogel today on Mix 94.1's morning show was not her new permanent sidekick.
Mike Izik is filling in temporarily and is not the replacement for Pat DeLuca, Mix 94.1 operations director John Stewart said Monday. Novakovic has been the regular fill-in personality at the station for more than two years.
"We're taking it on a day-to-day and show-by-show basis with these two," Stewart said. "I'm all for keeping continuity with Kathy. There's no timetable for this thing."
Want ads for the morning co-host position have been placed in the major radio trades, and Stewart already has received 100 applications, he said.
After two years with the show, DeLuca's contract with the show was not renewed.
Regular Mix 94.1 morning-show segments, such as Michaela Madison's Celebrity Slap and Repository entertainment editor Dan Kane's weekend entertainment preview have been put on hold.
"We're stripping it down and seeing where it goes," Stewart said about the show.

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UK Fellow, Medieval Studies, elected in 1996
Dame Jinty Nelson FBA
About this Fellow
Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/emeritus/nelson.aspx
Emeritus Professor, King's College London
Past Appointments
Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Medieval History, King's College London University of London, 1970
Emeritus Professor, King's College London University of London, 2017
British Academy Appointments
Vice-President, 1999 - 2001
Member of Council, 1998 - 1999
About our Fellows
British Academy Fellows
The British Academy is a fellowship of around 1,400 leading national and international academics elected for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the British Academy elects to its Fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication.
British Academy Sections
On election, all Fellows are assigned to one of 18 broad disciplinary Sections spanning the humanities and social sciences. Fellows may also become members of an additional Section, according to the range of their scholarly expertise.
Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe 1986
The Frankish world 1996
Rulers and ruling families in early medieval Europe 1999
Other Medieval Studies Fellows
Professor Robert Bartlett
Professor Nigel F Palmer
German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures
Professor Paul Brand
Professor Charles Burnett


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Bahar İnce
HKC-307
bahar.ince@boun.edu.tr
www.meg.boun.edu.tr
http://engy.com.tr/
Interest Areas:
Microbial ecology and environmental biotechnology
Bioenergy systems and waste to energy
Microbial products in bioreactors
Ph. D., School of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, GB, 1994
M.S., School of Civil Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, GB, 1990
B.S., Environmental Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, TR, 1988
Academic Career:
Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2002- Present
Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 1996-2002
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Engineering, Istanbul University, Istanbul, 1995-1996
Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Division of Environmental Engineering, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 1991-1994
Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 1988-1989
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The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK): "Determination of biochemical methane potentials and microbial community dynamics during anaerobic co-digestion of commonly cultivated cereal crops and cow manure, composting of the digestates, and investigation of the effect of final products on the ecosystem", 2016-2019.
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) & The Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF): "Improvement of Anaerobic Biodegradation Efficiency of Petroleum-derived Wastes", 2016-2019.
Boğaziçi University, Scientific Research Projects Fund (BAP): "Enhancement of biomethane production of anaerobic digesters using rumen fluid of cattle", 2016-2017.
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK COST): "Improvement of biomethane potential of anaerobic digesters using specific rumen bacteria and hydrolytic enzymes", 2014-2016.
Boğaziçi University, Scientific Research Projects Fund (BAP): "Determination of the effect of hydrolytic enzyme addition on acidification and biomethane production in two-phase anaerobic digestion of oxytetracycline-medicated cattle manure", 2014-2015.
Akyol, Ç., Aydin, S., Ince, O., Ince, B., 2016. "A comprehensive microbial insight into single-stage and two-stage anaerobic digestion of oxytetracycline-medicated cattle manure", Chemical Engineering Journal, 303, 675-684.
Aydin S., Ince B., Ince O., 2016. "Assessment of anaerobic bacterial diversity and its effects on anaerobic system stability and the occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes", Bioreseource Technology, 207, 332-338.
Akyol Ç., Turker G., Ince O., Ertekin E., Üstüner O., Ince B., 2016. "Performance and microbial community variations in thermophilic anaerobic digesters treating OTC medicated cow manure under different operational conditions", Bioresource Technology, 205, 191-198.
Shahi A., Aydin S., Ince B., Ince O., 2016. "Reconstruction of bacterial community structure and variation for enhanced petroleum hydrocarbons degradation through biostimulation of oil contaminated soil", Chemical Engineering Journal, 306, 60-66.
Aydin, S., Ince B., Ince O., 2015. "Development of antibiotic resistance genes in microbial communities during long-term operation of anaerobic reactors in the treatment of pharmaceutical wastewater", Water Research, 83, 337-344.
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New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) may soon take a call on the methodology for allocation of coal mines for commercial mining, an official source said.
"The CCEA may soon take a decision on methodology for coal block allocation for commercial mining," the source said on the condition of anonymity. A discussion paper on the modalities for allocation of coal mines through auction route was earlier placed in the public domain for comments.
The government plans to put under the hammer 5-6 coal blocks for commercial mining by private players. Coal Minister Piyush Goyal had earlier said that enabling provisions have been made in the Coal Mines (Special Provisions) Act, 2015 for allocation of coal mines by way of auction and allotment for the sale of coal. Commercial mines are allocated without specifying the end use and allow private entities to sell the fuel to buyers across sectors such as power, cement and steel.


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The Sukte are one of the clan of Zomi people in Manipur state in India, and a former subject of the Guite until before they claimed their independent chieftainship under the military cover of Pawihang in the mid 19th century CE. They were listed as Salhte in the 1947 Constitution where they are among the groups given Adivasi status.  They are commonly referred to as the Zomi by others, but they use the name Sukte for themselves.

Only five people were counted in this ethnic group in the 1981 census.  However the leader of the youth group for the Zomi claims there are 3,500 Sukte currently.  The Sukte are agriculturalists, growing primarily maize and rice.  They are mainly Christian in religion.

See also
Sukte language

Sources
article on the Sukte
http://www.e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=news_section.opinions.Correction_to_a_misleading_article
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ctd
http://manipur.nic.in/planning/DraftMSDR/Draft_SDR_pdf/Chapter%203_Demography.pdf
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-chin-tiddim.html

Ethnic groups in Northeast India
Kuki tribes
Scheduled Tribes of Manipur
Ethnic groups in South Asia

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Just before the games are about to begin at the Atlanta Olympics, a deadly team of terrorists led by Kalal (Andrew Divoff - WISHMASTER) mount a precision attack on the Aquatic Center and succeed in taking the US Womens Swimming team hostage. The terrorists seal off the center and wire all the exits with powerful explosives. Unbeknownest to them, they have missed a janitor (Linden Ashby - MORTAL KOMBAT) whom is trapped in the sprawling complex. Working against the clock, the FBI enlists the help of the mysterious Leo (Rutger Hauer - BLADERUNNER), who coordinates his efforts with the trapped janitor to stop the terrorists in their tracks.


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Lupita Nyong'o Speaks Out About Not Being Allowed to Wear Makeup in High School
"It doesn't actually change whether or not she's able to take in the information being given to her in the classroom."
By Zoë Weiner
Before Lupita Nyong'o was winning Oscars and smashing box office records, she had another important role, as a young woman standing up for fellow female students's right to express themselves through makeup.
"I went to an all-boys school for high school, and they had girls in the last two classes. This is a school with 700 boys and a handful of girls," she said in an interview with InStyle. "At one point, there was an archaic rule that said that girls could not wear makeup to school. I was angry that the powers that be were trying to basically oppress and control the small female population. It infuriated me to the point that I started a petition."
While Lupita admitted that personally, she had no interest in wearing makeup at the time, she "did not think it was right" that other girls who wanted to were denied the opportunity. "I said to myself, 'Look, if a woman wants to wear makeup to school to feel confident in an environment where she's a minority, why not? It doesn't actually change whether or not she's able to take in the information being given to her in the classroom,'" she continued.
Another important beauty memory that resonates with her to this day? Trying on foundation for the first time. "When I was about 18, my mother let my aunt give me a makeover," Lupita explained. "She had lighter skin than me and didn't have my foundation shade. I actually don't remember my shade existing, or at least I didn't see it. She applied this lighter foundation to my face and just caked it on. I cried. I was expecting the kind of makeover you see in the movies, but it was far from that." Luckily, with brands from CoverGirl to Fenty Beauty and Jouer releasing inclusive shade ranges when it comes to complexion products, we hope that experiences like Lupita's will be hopefully be a thing of the past.
Now, the modern beauty muse (and current Lancôme ambassador) says that her early, outspoken ways had a lot to do with shaping her current relationship with beauty. "For me in my life now, I think makeup has become an accessory," she explained. "It's something that I enjoy. It's not the thing I rely on to feel beautiful, and I hope that a lot of women feel the same. Makeup is something that can accessorize, just as much as a hat or a pair of earrings. It adds to the reflection of your own beauty."
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On behalf of Student Affairs I would like to thank you for being part of the Missouri S&T campus community. I sincerely hope your experience this year will be rewarding, successful, and filled with the excitement of new learning opportunities. The Division of Student Affairs supports the academic mission of Missouri S&T by preparing our students to assume roles of leadership through campus involvement and service.
Your college years present important experiences along with significant choices, some which can threaten your success; among them are the high risk use of alcohol. It is critical that every student be equipped to monitor drinking patterns, identify significant risk factors and be familiar with the resources available. For this reason, I am asking that every student complete the S&T Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO before returning to campus this fall.
But I don't drink alcohol! ... What value is this program to me?
Our most recent data indicates that over a third of S&T students under the age of 21 do not drink alcohol. Of those who choose to drink, most keep their BAC at a .04 or below. (Missouri College Health Behavior Survey [MCHBS] 2012, N=450).
The eCHECKUP TO GO program is designed specifically for college age students and provides personalized, evidence-based education and online prevention intervention strategies regarding the use of alcohol. Student Affairs programs and services support the creation of an environment which fosters integrity, respect, trust, openness, fairness, quality performance and accountability. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle and having the support of your family contributes a great deal to your success and brings vitality to the S&T campus community.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the eCHECKUP TO GO online module which is linked from our Student Wellness website: http://studentwellness.mst.edu. We appreciate your commitment to becoming a knowledgeable, compassionate and productive member of the campus community.


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Французская почта в Египте — сеть почтовых отделений Франции в Египте в XIX веке и начале XX века, предназначенных, прежде всего, для содействия коммерческим и торговым интересам, нуждавшимся в почтовой связи между Францией и населёнными пунктами на востоке.

Развитие почты
В Египте работали четыре французских почтовых отделения (в Александрии, Каире, Порт-Саиде и Суэце), но только два (в Александрии и Порт-Саиде) остались после 1890 года и только для них эмитировались почтовые марки (о выпусках почтовых марок см. в следующем разделе).

Александрия
Французское почтовое отделение в Александрии открылось 1 мая 1837 года (по сведениям «Энциклопедии истории почты», в 1830 году). В 1857—1876 годах использовались французские почтовые марки. В почтовом отделении с 1852 года применялся номерной точечный ромбический фигурный почтовый штемпель с номером «3704», обозначенным , а в 1863 году корреспонденцию стали гасить номерным штемпелем с номером «5080», составленным . Почтовое отделение было закрыто 31 марта 1931 года.

Каир
Французская почтовая контора была открыта в Каире в ноябре 1865 года. В 1872 году она была преобразована в почтовое отделение. Для гашения почтовых отправлений использовался номерной точечный ромбический фигурный штемпель с составленным большими цифрами номером «5119». Почтовое отделение было закрыто в марте 1875 года.

Порт-Саид
Отделение французской почты в Порт-Саиде было открыто в июне 1867 года. В 1867—1899 годах использовались французские почтовые марки. В почтовом отделении применялся номерной точечный ромбический фигурный штемпель с номером «5129». Почтовое отделение было закрыто 31 марта 1931 года.

Суэц
Французская почтовая контора была открыта в Суэце в ноябре 1862 года. Применялся номерной точечный ромбический фигурный штемпель «5105» с цифрами большого размера. Почтовая контора прекратила работу в декабре 1888 года.

Выпуски марок

Франция выпускала почтовые марки для каждого из двух почтовых отделений (в Александрии и Порт-Саиде), как правило, в одно то же время и с одними теми же общими характеристиками, с надписью или надпечаткой для первого почтового отделения слова  («Александрия»), а для второго —  («Порт-Саид»).

Первый выпуск вышел в 1899 году; он представлял собой надпечатку названия почтового отделения (указанного выше) на находившихся на тот момент в обращении почтовых марках с рисунком типа Саж, в общей сложности 15 номиналов от одного сантима до пяти франков. Нехватка марок номинала в 25 сантимов в Порт-Саиде привела к появлению надпечатки нового номинала на 10-сантимовых марках:  («Порт-Саид / двадцать / пять»). На нескольких из них были дополнительно сделана надпечатка числа «25» красного цвета.

Первыми почтовыми марками, на которых была сделана надпись с указанием данных почтовых отделений, стали французские почтовые марки образца 1900 года,  которых был изменён с целью включения названий почтовых отделений. Почтовые марки 15 номиналов вышли в обращение в 1902 и 1903 году.

В 1919 году проблема снабжения, связанная с увеличением объема пересылаемой корреспонденции (в связи с девальвацией золотого франка), побудила администрацию использовать в Александрии почтовые марки Порт-Саида.

В 1921 году на почтовых марках была сделана надпечатка нового номинала в египетской валюте, по курсу примерно 2,5 сантимов за мильем. Известны несколько типов надпечатки. В Александрии местные надпечатки выглядят как  («4 Милл.») и т. д., в то время как в Порт-Саиде —  («4 / мильема»), при этом цифра набрана типографским шрифтом «гротеск». Вскоре после этого в оба почтовых отделения поступили надпечатки, сделанные в Париже; текст надпечаток:  («4 / мильема») и т. д. На новом выпуске надпечаток в 1925 году добавились чёрные полосы для запечатки номиналов во французской валюте.

В 1927 году и в 1928 году была выполнена перепечатка марок прежних рисунков, но с другими номиналами в мильемах, начиная от 3 м до 250 м.

В 1928—1930 годах в обоих почтовых отделениях использовался совместный выпуск доплатных марок.

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Египет
Организации, основанные в 1830 году
Появились в 1830 году в Египте
История почты Египта
История Александрии
История Каира
История Порт-Саида
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Исчезли в 1931 году


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Wall Street awaits consumer spending report
Americans are paying more attention to how much they spend on each box of cereal, tank of gasoline and pair of pants — and Wall Street is, too.
This week's data on the U.S. consumer, particularly the Commerce Department's Wednesday report on January retail sales, are going to be monitored closely by investors for clues to how sunken home prices, high energy costs and job cuts are affecting spending.
"Retail sales are a big indicator at this point of the mindset of the consumer," said Kim Caughey, equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group. Government data and company executives alike have suggested that U.S. consumers are having to pare back their discretionary spending to buy necessities.
After the generally dismal sales figures reported by individual retailers last week, economists polled by Thomson Financial/IFR last Friday predicted that the government would say that overall retail sales dipped 0.3 percent in January after a similar slump in December.
"If it comes in well below what's expected, that could send the market into another tailspin," said Jennifer Ellison, principal at San Francisco-based Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, which manages $2.1 billion in investments.
Then on Friday, the University of Michigan will release its preliminary February reading on consumer sentiment. It is not a perfect predictor of how Americans will spend their money, but it will serve as the most up-to-date reading on how they are feeling about the economy.
"It's pretty widely anticipated that consumer sentiment is declining," Ellison said.
After posting its best week since March 2003, the Dow Jones industrial average last week logged its worst week since that same volatile month due to a sharply contracting service sector, uneasiness about bond insurers and other worrisome signs that the housing and credit markets may keep stifling growth.
The Dow fell 4.40 percent last week, the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 4.60 percent, and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 4.50 percent. The Dow stands 14 percent below its Oct. 9 record close of 14,164.53, but remains about 4.7 percent above the 15-month lows it sank to in January.
Many market watchers say it is practically inevitable that the Dow will retest its lows — essentially, fall back to those levels while investors wait and see if it falls further or bounces back up. Wall Street is hoping the bulk of the weakness in the economy has passed, whether it counts as a recession or not. If it's mostly over, the stock market may have already hit, or neared, its bottom.
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Earnings from companies this week — including Hasbro Inc., General Motors Corp., Coca-Cola Co., Deere & Co., Vonage Holdings Corp., and Goodyear Tire & Rubber — could be indicative of spending patterns by both individuals and businesses.
Discussions about the global economy from the weekend's Group of Seven meeting in Tokyo of the world's finance ministers may also move the market this week.
According to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt, stock markets around the globe lost a combined $5.2 trillion in January, one of the worst ever starts to the year. Emerging markets on average dropped more than 12 percent, and all 26 developed markets tumbled as well, by an average of nearly 8 percent.


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(Bloomberg) — Iran, where beaches are segregated by gender and alcohol is banned, is getting its first foreign-branded seaside hotel, complete with swimming pools, bars and a spa.
The Gran Melia Ghoo hotel will form part of a new district being built in the resort of Salman Shahr. It will compete with a property being built by Rotana to become the first luxury hotel operated by an overseas company in Iran since Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution forced Hyatt, Sheraton and owners of other brands to flee in 1979.
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Still, some of the biggest hotel companies are holding back. U.K.-based InterContinental Hotels Group Plc, owner of the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands, currently has no plans to expand to Iran, a spokesman said. U.S.-based Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc., is also holding off, despite seeing "significant potential for hospitality growth," the company said in an e- mailed statement.
While the the UN, U.S. and European nations lifted sanctions connected to Iran's nuclear program in January, other restrictions tied to accusations of terrorism and human rights abuses remain.These prohibit U.S. companies from doing business with certain Iranian counterparts.
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Now, they're back:

However, they're using a link to a forum, where they posted the original bigasoft.com URL that's probably now blocked on Super User.

Would it be a suitable alternative to "hellban" these? Let them post with their original spam URLs, but mark these posts as deleted immediately (and don't show them that they're deleted).
On the other hand, this makes it harder to show spammers that we delete their posts at all. Therefore, would this introduce more harm than good?

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Home Blu-Ray/DVD Blu-Ray Review: Inception
Blu-Ray Review: Inception
Shaun Beckerman
Like so many people, I saw Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece Inception during it's opening weekend in the theater. It quickly rushed to the top of my favorite movies, and one of the my first thoughts upon exiting the theater was that I couldn't wait for the sure-to-be spectacular Blu-Ray release. Not only was I eager to revisit the film again and again, but for the first time in a long time, I was genuinely excited to discover how some of the mind-blowing special effects were achieved.
Well, Warner Bros. has finally released a 3-Disc set, including a DVD of the film, and two Blu-Ray discs. The first Blu-Ray contains the film itself, and the option to view it in "Extraction Mode." This is a feature in which the film will periodically switch to a behind-the-scenes documentary pertaining to the sequence you are currently viewing. You can also choose to view all of these segments isolated from the film.
There are a lot of great segments in this feature, and I was thrilled to find that most of the sequences I was curious about got a closer look. For example, there is a segment detailing, in full, how they achieved the infamous hallway fight featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Much like 2001: A Space Odyssey, this sequence was shot on a 360 degree rotating set. I assumed it was something like that, but to actually see the sequence being shot from the outside of the set was amazing.
However, they don't just focus on the obvious big set-pieces. There are also moments in the film that seem more subtle, but in reality, required just as big an undertaking. Whether it be the impossible stairs, the flooding of the castle, or even the gravity-defying maneuvers around the hotel room, almost any moment you would be curious about gets a feature.
The second disc is nothing but special features. There is a pretty cool one called "Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious," hosted and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I don't usually care for "educational" features that peripherally relate to a film's theme but not to the film itself. However, this one was really fascinating. It explores all aspects of dreams, and does so in a fast-moving, creative way. There is a lot of great insight from several scientists in the world of dream study, and even some interesting analysis from Christopher Nolan, Leonardo DiCaprio, etc. It's obvious in watching this feature that it isn't simply a marketing tool, but a project that Gordon-Levitt was genuinely interested in making, and a topic that everybody involved was interested in exploring.
The other big feature is a motion comic that serves as a prequel to the film. It's an interesting experiment, but honestly, I'd have rather just read an actual comic. The story was interesting enough, but it was kind of slow moving (literally), and I found myself getting bored, wishing I could just read ahead. Rounding out the disc are several selections from Hans Zimmer's brilliant score (there is no justice if he doesn't get at least an Oscar nomination), all presented in 5.1, as well as concept art (I wish there was more), promotional art (some great pieces I had never seen before), and the brilliantly cut together trailers and tv spots.
A masterpiece of modern filmmaking, Christopher Nolan has topped himself in every way. It works as cerebral drama, all-out action, completely original sci-fi, etc. He has combined genres on such an epic scale, this is one of the few Summer blockbusters that I would classify as art. It really doesn't get much better than this.
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Q: Sort after a specific date php I have this simple code that collects data from my mysql database:
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY dato ASC") or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($get)) {
while($show = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {

}
} else {
echo "No results";
}

But the list is now over 200 items, and i would like to sort them on dates, så that i have forexample.
26/08-2015
1. line
2. line
3. line
4. line

27/08-2015
5. line
6. line
7. line

Instead of
1. line
2. line
3. line
4. line
5. line
6. line
7. line

Which i get now
The date i sort after is a mktime date.
$dato = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d'), date('y'));

A: try this with where condition
$dato = mktime(0, 0, 0, date('m'), date('d'), date('y'));

$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE date > $dato ORDER BY date ASC") or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($get)) {
    while($show = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {

    }
} else {
    echo "No results";
}

A: Use this
$currentDate = null;
$get = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY dato ASC") or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($get)) {
while($show = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {
if($currentDate != $show['dato'])
     echo "

";
$currentDate = $show['dato'];
}
} else {
echo "No results";
}

A: Use this,
$get = mysql_query("SELECT DISTINCT(DATE(`date`)) as dt, t.* FROM table t ORDER BY 1") or die(mysql_error());
if(mysql_num_rows($get)) {
    $prevDT = "";
    while($show = mysql_fetch_array($get)) {
        if (strlen($prevDT) < 0 || strcmp($prevDT, $show['dt']) != 0){
            echo("
");
            echo($show['dt']."
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            $prevDT = $show['dt'];
        }
        echo($show['field']."
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    }
} else {
    echo "No results";
}


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Connectivity key to solving SA's education crisis
By Vino Govender	 3 July 2019 No Comments
Vino Govender
Having adequate levels of education and digitals skills capacity and capability is pivotal in ensuring that South Africa maximises the benefits of the so-called fourth Industrial Revolution. However, this is a big challenge that South Africa faces while trying to meet the educational needs of its growing population. The challenge is made worse by the living conditions of most of the population in rural areas who live in poverty, which often determines their access to quality education. Technology, and more specifically always-on, reliable connectivity, presents a compelling solution.
The latest School Monitoring Survey from the department of basic education highlights issues such as a high number of vacant teacher posts and the availability of adequate teacher skills for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the Stem subjects). Implementing alternative models to address this capacity deficit is, however, not an option. Current and emerging digital technologies will have to take a more prominent role on the strategic road map of primary and secondary education.
Imagine creating a whole science lab where pupils can carry out experiments, especially if their schools don't have the facilities or supplies
The Microsoft and McKinsey and Company report, "The Class of 2030 and Life-Ready Larning: The Technology Imperative", groups education technologies into three broad categories: collaboration platforms, AI, and augmented or virtual reality. While the emphasis of the report is on addressing the quality of education in poorer schools, these technologies can extend and increase education and learning capacity, and with scale, reduce the overall cost of delivering these services to learners in the entire education system.
Collaborative platforms connect teachers and students from different locations together to teach and learn, whether in a classroom setting or at home. In the US, Netflix has, for example, developed a series of curriculum-based science, maths and history programmes specifically to support and enhance learning in the classroom — and to support home schoolers. Platforms such as Slack for Education also offer online communities where teachers can get support and resources to enhance their teaching. Task and lesson planning apps help teachers prepare and organise. They also enable co-working and learning among pupils and enable parent participation.
Immersive learning experiences include online resources, such as game-based programmes, that simply make learning more fun and engaging, creating better and more enriching learning interventions. Other more advanced technologies offer VR experiences. Imagine creating a whole science lab where pupils can carry out experiments, especially if their schools don't have the facilities or supplies. And what could be a more powerful teaching tool than an immersive programme that is so realistic that it evokes an emotional response.
One of the things that AI and machine learning tackles is the shortage of teachers. In their paper, "Why Not Robot Teachers: Artificial Intelligence for Addressing Teacher Shortage", two professors from the University of West London describe the issue of global teacher shortage as "a grave one that has serious implications for the future of education". An AI-based teaching solution could function as a tutor for learners that need additional educational support. It can also automate time-consuming tasks, such as marking and grading, which would leave more time for teachers to focus on other aspects of teaching — to the benefit of learners — with personalised and adaptive programs that use AI and machine learning to cater to specific learner needs and each individual's learning pace.
Perhaps the most compelling advantage of using these digital technologies is its flexibility. Educational content can be adapted to suit the language, devices and network capabilities of end users. This helps to deliver and assess the learning more effectively and efficiently. Existing content that is available globally can be re-purposed to suit the requirements of local curriculum standards. This can fast-track the implementation of policy decisions such as introducing coding and robotics into South Africa's national school curriculum. Introducing technology to schools not only aids teaching and learning but also equips learners to function in a technology-driven work world.
Always-available, reliable connectivity is a foundational component in leveraging digital technologies for education. The aim is to level the education playing field by making sure that every child is well taught; laying the groundwork for this connectivity will need significant investment. It will take great effort to make it available to every school. Fibre, or fibre-supported technologies such as high-quality Wi-Fi, is widely accepted to be the best mediums for this kind of connectivity. In March 2018, according to information provided by the National Education Infrastructure Management System, more than 9 000 primary schools and over 5 000 high schools in South Africa were still without Internet connectivity. This will need to be addressed soon to ensure that our young people don't fall further behind.
Governments around the world, including South Africa, have put 4IR at the top of their agendas
Getting connectivity to schools is a priority, and DFA, through its wholesale, open-access fibre model, is playing a role in making its fibre network available for the roll-out of the SA Connect initiatives that are aimed at connecting a range of government institutions, including schools. We, and many others in the industry, are rolling out or planning to roll out some form of programme to ensure that underprivileged schools have access to high-quality connectivity. A number of schools are already on our network, and through our CIVH group as well as other wholesale clients, we aim to increase this number in future.
Governments around the world, including South Africa, have put 4IR at the top of their agendas and are making significant investments into technology-enabled solutions to societal issues, including education. The joint and collaborative efforts of all telecommunications providers and ecosystem participants will go a long way toward providing these solutions and creating tomorrow's technology- and 4IR-enabled workforce.
Vino Govender is executive for strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and innovation at DFA
DFA SA Connect Vino Govender
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I can't start this post off by saying 'so, a week in to Six Weeks to OMG', because I've found myself adapting the plan quite a lot, in all honesty. The cold baths are a thing of the past. I cannot bring myself to carry on doing them, and unless someone can actually prove they really do aid weightloss in a proper trial, I don't think I'll be bothering. I chalk it up as one of those extreme fitness tips that can only make you miserable in the short term, like wheatgrass shots (BLEGH). Really, you have to evaluate for yourself each individual aspect of the plan – and Fulton says himself you can pick what you like from his ideas – and decide whether you think they're worth the effort.
Another thing that's a thing of the past is skipping breakfast. I can't do that, either. I like eating breakfast, and I have plenty of time to do it, so why not?
I am keeping up low carbs, plenty of exercise before meals, where possible, and balloon blowing. Oh, and lots of coffee and tea, but that's par for the course.
I had a great weekend, though – which is code for 'I slipped up'. My plan was to have a low carb Chinese takeaway (chicken in black bean sauce), but I also ate a bag of prawn crackers, and half a tub of ice cream. Then on Sunday, I ate a great deal of popcorn, and a cup of rice, along with some Cajun salmon. Amazingly, despite this, I managed to lose 1lb at least so far (I didn't weigh myself at the very start – too scared!).
My low-carb food requirements have led to me checking out some of the Atkins snack range, including the Indulgence bars (coconut and caramel and peanut…or something like that!), and the chocolate shake. All of them are fine, but very over priced. They seem to have cornered the market, though – there are literally no other sweet snack foods that are low carbs. Most health food snacks are loaded with them, because they're cereal based. That's a bummer. You can buy them online at a reduced price if you hunt around, though – Amazon seems like the best place.
Anyone else following this plan with any progress to report?
I am too following the plan. I'm currently on week 4 and it has been somewhat hard, but doable. The cold showers were a bit of a challenge at first, but being that it is summer and it's very hot during the day as is, I welcome these cold showers to keep cool. I usually start a bit warm, then gradually decrease it until it gets cold enough for me to handle. After a while your body adjusts and you don't feel the cold water anymore.
I was an avid breakfast eater. I would have breakfast at home and then again at work, breakfast was a must for me. But after stopping the breakfast in the morning and drinking only black coffee til late breakfast or lunch time, I realized that my breakfast eating in the morning were only but a bad habit; i didn't need breakfast, I wasn't going to pass out like I thought I would. It was all in my head. The black coffee helps curb my appetite and by 11am I would have my first meal, which would be some breakfast meal or light lunch like a sandwich.
I have lost close to 5-6lbs and I have noticed my stomach is much flatter. I do workout 3-4 a day, so that helps keep my body in shape. I am really enojoying this plan, because I don't feel like I'm being force to change much. I still eat what I want (in moderation). I do have my weak days, but I don't overinduldge.
I feel you have to make the OMG or any other diet work for you. Do what works best for you.
*Correction: workout 3-4 times a week (not a day) lol.


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"Attack on Titan" Chapter 93 might see Reiner's death and Marley's counterattack to get the coordinate. Marley succeeded in winning the war against Mid East Allied Forces, but a strong realization has hit them. The founding Titan power must be retrieved as soon as possible.
The Mid-East Allied Forces have successfully made a weapon that can kill a Titan in one bullet. To defeat the Mid-East Allied Forces, Marley did not use any Titans except for Mule and Jaws. Mule successfully destroyed the top gunners of the enemy with his new armored attire. Jaws ripped the railway to prevent the future supply of ammunitions for the anti-titan artilleries. But the best part of "Attack on Titan" chapter 92 is of course when it began to rain Titans.
Zeke's roar has the ability to turn mindless humans into Titans, Korea Portal has learned. With the strategy, the falling Titans destroyed the infrastructures and also destroyed the remaining Eldian survivors. Reiner engaged in the attack but was soon stopped by the anti-titan bullets. Has it not been for Galliard, he might be dead by now. Reiner shielded Zeke when the latter was attacked by anti-titan bullets which caused him fatal damage. "Attack on Titan" chapter 93 might see his death.
Marley's enemies are now getting stronger, as reported by Celebeat. It is obvious that an attack in Wall Maria is imminent. "Attack on Titan" chapter 93 might reveal what the Survey corps has been doing in the past four years. One thing is for sure, Eren is in danger once again. It is also very interesting to know what kind of training he's been put under in these past years.
If Reiner will die on "Attack on Titan" chapter 93, another military asset will be gone for Marley. After the end of the female and colossus Titans, Eren and the rest of the gang needs to prepare for the imminent war.


The Green New Deal has been championed by advocates for getting the country running on purely renewable energy right away. Some 600 environmental groups had demanded the initiative set out to ban not just fossil fuels, but also nuclear, biomass power, and large-scale hydroelectricity. So when the resolution made its long-awaited debut on Thursday, it came as a surprise to some that the door was left open for nuclear power and even fossil fuels with carbon capture.
But it was likely the key to getting an impressive group of Democrats to get behind the deal. Senators Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren have signed up as co-sponsors, and all of them just happen to be running for president in 2020.
So just like that, the most aggressive climate policy proposal we've seen in years has the de facto backing of the Democratic party.
The Green New Deal doesn't mention 'nukes,' but it doesn't use the words solar or wind, either. The non-binding resolution, unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, and Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts, calls for "clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources." In wonk-speak, zero-emission is code for nuclear power or fossil fuels with carbon capture.
Climate science opponent Lamar Smith will retire from Congress.


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CASINO is a computer program system for performing quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) electronic structure calculations that has been developed by a group of reseachers initially working in the Theory of Condensed Matter group in the Cambridge University physics department, and their collaborators, over more than 20 years. It is capable of calculating incredibly accurate solutions to the Schrödinger equation of quantum mechanics for realistic systems built from atoms. This helps us understand and predict the nature of the Universe (as well as, you know, helping us to design drugs and superconductors and write grant applications). Other highly accurate methods are known that can do this of course, but what makes CASINO important is that – given a big enough computer – it can carry on doing this for systems containing hundreds or even thousands of atoms. These many atoms can form isolated giant molecules or groups of molecules, or they can be the repeating unit in an infinite crystal periodic in one, two, or three dimensions. Because of their inferior scaling with system size, competing methods of comparable accuracy generally struggle to handle more than a few tens of atoms.
CASINO is also important because QMC is one of the few methods genuinely capable of exploiting the power of modern computer hardware. The man in the street has probably noticed that computers stopped becoming faster because of increasing CPU frequency many years ago, and almost all modern performance improvements are down to increasing parallelism. The world's fastest computers now have in excess of a million processor cores, and even your phone probably has at least four. You might expect that if you double the number of processing cores then the code would go twice as fast. Sadly for most popular methods in computational electronic structure – such as density functional theory – this stops being true very quickly as too much interprocessor communication is required. If you run the calculations on much more than a thousand cores, then they often start to slow down. Modern versions of CASINO, by contrast, have been shown to exhibit essentially perfect parallel efficiency when accumulating statistical averages on machines with hundreds of thousands of cores in all of its various modes of operation. The largest such CASINO calculations that we are aware of have been done are up to 524288 cores on Japan's K-computer by Mike Towler – our good friend and colleague Ryo Maezono tells me the local sysadmins were 'shocked'. The following diagram shows the ideal parallel efficiency achieved on up to 120000 cores of JaguarPF (a now defunct Cray XT5 at Oak Ridge National Lab) with CASINO (the red curve is for an earlier version of CASINO). The second graph is the one for the K computer up to over half a million processor cores.
We would add similar data for common DFT codes but it usually wouldn't be visible on this scale.
The QMC research program that culminated in CASINO as we know it today was begun in the early 1990s by Richard Needs, who had obtained inspiration from a short period working in the United States. He developed his initial ideas in collaboration with Guna Rajagopal and Matthew Foulkes and a number of early postdocs and students. Their initial test codes were gathered together and generalized into the first QMC program capable of treating any arbitrary system (named 'CASINO' after a suggestion from Paul Kent) by Mike Towler, who had arrived in Cambridge in late 1996. The first public version of CASINO was published in 1999. Absolutely fundamental improvements and generalizations of the code were made by Neil Drummond (from 2002) and Pablo López Ríos (from 2004). Needs, Towler, Drummond and López Ríos are now considered to be principal authors of the code, and all four of them continue to be at the heart of the project today. Sadly, CASINO was thrown off the Cambridge TCM group computer systems in September 2019 at the insistence of local computer management, despite Richard still working in the group, and as a result it is no longer possible to refer to it as the 'Cambridge quantum Monte Carlo code' .
Over the years, valuable additional contributions to the software base have been made by students, postdocs, and other people working in collaboration with us. A reasonably complete set would include Andrew Porter, Randy Hood, Andrew Williamson, Dario Alfè, Gavin Brown, Chris Pickard, Rene Gaudoin, Ben Wood, Zoltán Radnai, Andrea Ma, Ryo Maezono, John Trail, Paul Kent, Nick Hine, Alexander Badinski, Matthew Brown, Ken Esler, Andrew Morris, Norbert Nemec, Robert Lee, Priyanka Seth, Bohshiang Jong, Lucian Anton, Katie Schwarz, Pascal Bugnion, Jonathan Lloyd Williams, Elaheh Mostaani, Mike Deible, Vladimir Konjkov, Albert Defusco, Blazej Jaworowski, Marcin Szyniszewski, Ryan Hunt, David Thomas, Chung-Yuan Ren, Darryl Foo, Graham Spink, John Jumper, Katharina Doblhoff-Dier, Kayahan Saritas, Kevin Gasperich, Lars Schonenberg, Richard Dawes, Rodrigo Vargas-Hernandez, Thomas Whitehead and Tom Poole. (Please let me know if I've missed any out.)
CASINO is written entirely in standard-conforming Fortran 2003 using modern software design methods (yes, urban metrosexuals – Fortran is modern! Try writing this in Ruby on Rails or whatever is fashionable nowadays, and watch how quickly Fortran blows you out of the water). It's supposed to be easy to use, easy to install, and easy to read and understand. It contains a self-documenting help system and comes with a helpful manual and examples. The distribution comes with a very large number of utilities and additional programs to help with analysis, running the code, and preparing the input. It is straightforward to mount CASINO across a variety of platforms (including workstations, weakly-linked clusters, massively parallel supercomputers, laptops and PCs. The Android app is in preparation). It uses standard MPI functions to work on parallel machines, but will work without it on single processors (having its own 'fake' serial MPI library). It can also make use of shared memory (Systems V, Posix, or nasty, buggy Blue Gene/Q Posix) whereby all MPI processes on, say, each 16-core node are able to access a common copy of selected large arrays, and OpenMP (which we use to implement a 'second level' of parallelization in which each MPI process can spawn a number of threads which parallelize over stuff like the number of electrons or orbitals).
For interested people who know what it means, a technical listing of CASINO's scientific capabilities is as follows:
Variational Monte Carlo. Wave function optimization achieved with variance minimization, accelerated variance minimization, energy minimization, and minimization of the mean absolute deviation of the set of local energies from the median.
Fixed-node/fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo (pure or branching)
Reptation Monte Carlo.
Applicable to finite systems such as atoms and molecules and also to systems with periodic boundary conditions in 1, 2 or 3 dimensions (polymers, slabs/surfaces, crystalline solids) with any arbitrary crystal structure.
Capable of using methods – called 'linear scaling QMC' in the literature – in which the time to move an electron scales linearly with the system size (but where the time taken to get the energy per simulation cell to a specified error bar in fact scales as the square of the system size. This is still very good compared to high accuracy quantum chemistry methods where the 'gold standard' methods scale as N^7).
Can be used with different types of particles (electrons, positrons, 'holes', do-it–yourself particles with arbitrary mass and charge..) and combinations of such particles.
Real or complex wave functions
The code may use orbitals expanded in a variety of basis sets in the determinantal part of the many-electron trial wave function:
(1) Plane-waves (periodic systems) – even though inadvisable in QMC as it adds a factor of N to the scaling with system size.
(2) Blip functions, i.e., cubic splines on a regular grid (periodic and aperiodic systems) produced by a tranformation from plane-waves.
(3) s, sp, p, d, f or g Gaussian basis functions centred on atoms or elsewhere (aperiodic or periodic systems) with appropriate cusp corrections in the case of all-electron calculations.
(4) Slater functions centred on atoms
(5) Atoms or diatomic molecules with numerical orbitals interpolated from a grid.
Uses flexible Slater-Jastrow many-electron wave functions, where the Slater part may consist of multiple determinants.
Support for 'compressed determinant expansions', which allow a large reduction in the computational cost of calculations using multi-determinants by using simple algebraic properties of determinants to combine the terms into fewer, more complex objects.
Backflow correlations (also in inhomogeneous systems).
Pairing wave functions and geminals .
CASINO has established links to various other software packages via a generic interface for each basis set type. This allows us to use a variety of different techniques – such as Hartree-Fock or density functional theory – to generate trial wave functions – which are the starting point for QMC calculations. In certain cases (e.g. excited states) it is also desirable to generate multi-determinant trial wave functions via standard quantum chemistry methods such as CIS/CISD/TD-DFT/CASSCF methods. Thus, any system that can be treated with any of the programs listed below can in principle also be handled within QMC, and CASINO can usually be used to 'make the answer better'.
Plane-waves/blips
For calculations with plane-waves or blip function basis sets we can use
(1) PWSCF (part of the Quantum Espresso package) – this has the most advanced built-in support and can even do blip transformations natively.
(2) ABINIT
(3) CASTEP
(4) MCEXX
(5) GP
With Gaussian basis sets we have used the following programs to calculate trial wave functions:
(6) CRYSTAL (95/98/03/06/09/14). DFT/HF for molecules and systems periodic in 1,2 or 3 dimensions.
(7) GAUSSIAN (94/98/03/09). Huge quantum chemistry package for molecules.
(8) GAMESS-US
(9) TURBOMOLE
Additional links with MOLPRO, CFOUR, and PSI4 are in development.
For calculations with Slater basis sets we use
(10) ADF
Numerical orbitals
Converters are provided for the numerical atomic HF code A2SP2K, and the diatomic code 2DHF.
Non-local pseudopotentials with s, p, d non-locality, and core polarization potentials. Possibility to use Casula non-local scheme.
Computation of ground and excited state energies.
Computation of forces on atoms in VMC or DMC (Gaussian basis sets only).
Coupled DFT-DMC molecular dynamics calculations (with the PWSCF code).
Computation of various expectation values such as pair correlation functions, density matrices, densities and spin densities, localization tensors, dipole moments, momentum density, and structure factors.
Periodic Coulomb interactions computed either with standard Ewald methods or with our MPC (modified periodic Coulomb) interaction which is both faster than the Ewald method and exhibits smaller 'Coulomb finite-size effects'. Twist averaging. Coulomb finite size effects also computable with alternative structure factor method.
Spin-polarized calculations (e.g., of magnetic solids).
Non-collinear spin systems (for a restricted set of cases
And apart from all that it's just way cooler than any other QMC code, especially the one that Lucas wrote.


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England Project
In early 1588, the King of Spain, Philip II of Habsburg, had been maturing for some time the idea of an attack on England, a nation he ruled the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I of prickly relationship with the country. The project, unlike other reviews, was not intended primarily to punish the pirates (such as Francis Drake), but to build a Spanish domain geo-political and religious Europe. Felipe II, years ago, had already begun their attacks against Protestantism supporting Irish resistance and attacked Holland, a Protestant country, putting in serious trouble the role of empire in the continent. However, it was the execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots Catholic, which decided to build a navy special: The Great and Felicissimo Spanish Armada. preparations began in fact two years ago. Concerned about the success of a naval and landing of troops on English soil, King Philip II consulted with different voices authorized at the time. One of them, the most renowned seaman of his nation, Alvaro de Bazan, Marques de Santa Cruz, believes that the naval project is not only feasible, but given the difficult time of the English crown, it is very easy.
Unfortunately for Spain, the experienced seaman dies in the midst of preparing the project took command, inexplicably, the inexperienced and marine disqualified Duque de Medina-Sidonia, Alonso de Guzman Lord. Until today, is unknown because Philip II entrusted this enormous responsibility. a At that time, although in a much smaller scale than it has tried to show, the assault of the English pirates and was an uncomfortable problem.


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Les Contrées nocturnes () est le deuxième épisode de la deuxième saison de la série HBO de medieval fantasy . L'épisode est diffusé le . Il est écrit par David Benioff et D. B. Weiss, et réalisé par Alan Taylor.

Résumé
Davos Seaworth et son fils, Matthos, recrutent le pirate Salladhor Saan et sa flotte pour les rejoindre dans la guerre. Melisandre séduit Stannis Baratheon, lui promettant un fils s'il se donne entièrement au Seigneur de la Lumière.

Tyrion Lannister échange des menaces à peine voilées avec Lord Varys. Le Petit Conseil ignore les conditions de paix de Robb Stark, ainsi que la demande de la Garde de Nuit pour plus d'hommes et leur rapport de rencontres avec les morts-vivants. Lorsque le commandant de la Garde de la Ville, Lord Janos Slynt, refuse de révéler qui a ordonné la purge des enfants bâtards du roi Robert Baratheon, Tyrion l'exile à la Garde de Nuit, le remplaçant par Bronn. Cersei affronte Tyrion, qui réalise que le roi Joffrey Baratheon a ordonné la purge, avertissant sa sœur qu'"il sera difficile de régner sur des millions de personnes qui veulent votre mort".

Le cheval de Rakharo retourne au camp de Daenerys Targaryen portant sa tête coupée, laissant Irri dévastée et expliquant que son âme ne reposera jamais avec les ancêtres puisqu'ils n'ont pas brûlé son corps. Ser Jorah Mormont explique qu'il s'agit d'un message d'un autre khal refusant d'accepter le règne d'une femme sur un khalasar, et Daenerys jure de se venger.

De retour dans son pays natal, Theon Greyjoy tente de séduire une jeune femme, Yara. À Pyke, Theon présente à son père Balon l'offre de Robb qui fera de Balon le roi des îles de fer. Balon refuse, souhaitant prendre sa couronne avec Yara, révélée être la sœur de Theon, à la tête de sa flotte. Theon se rend compte que l'intention de Balon est de prendre le Nord pour lui-même.

Les gardiens de la ville recherchent Gendry dans la caravane mais sont refoulés par Yoren. Gendry dit à Arya qu'il sait qu'elle est une fille, et elle révèle qu'elle est en fait Arya Stark après avoir appris que son père avait rencontré Gendry avant son exécution.

Samwell Tarly demande à Jon Snow d'emmener Vère, l'une des filles-épouses de Craster, avec eux mais Jon refuse. Gilly est enceinte et Jon se demande ce qui arrive aux fils de Craster. Cette nuit-là, Jon suit Craster emmenant un nouveau-né dans les bois et voit un marcheur blanc récupérer le bébé, mais Craster assomme alors Jon.

Production

Scénario
L'épisode a été écrit par David Benioff et D.B. Weiss, basé sur le matériel original du deuxième livre de la série de George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings. Il comprend la majeure partie de l'intrigue des chapitres Arya II, Tyrion II, Arya III, Theon I, une partie de Daenerys I, Tyrion III, une partie d'Arya V, une partie de Tyrion V, une partie de Jon III et une partie de Theon II (chapitres 6 , 8–12, 19–20, 23–25 respectivement).

L'une des principales déviations par rapport aux livres a été la suppression du personnage du nouveau commandant de la City Watch, Ser Jacelyn Bywater, son rôle a fusionné avec le Bronn déjà introduit. Un autre personnage qui a été exclu était Aeron Damphair, qui n'était pas présent pour accueillir son neveu Theon aux Îles de Fer. Au lieu de cela, il a été reçu par sa sœur, dans une scène qui s'est déroulée bien plus tard dans les livres.

De plus, certaines scènes qui ne sont que subtilement impliquées dans l'original ont été rendues explicites dans l'épisode. Les scènes représentant Craster livrant un fils nouveau-né aux White Walkers et la relation sexuelle entre Stannis et Melisandre ont été écrites dans la série par les producteurs.

L'épisode a été réalisé par Alan Taylor, ce qui en fait le quatrième épisode qu'il a réalisé pour la série. Taylor dirigerait trois autres épisodes de la série, dont deux dans la saison deux et un dans la saison sept.

Lieux de tournage
L'épisode présente le nouvel emplacement de Pyke, le siège du pouvoir des Greyjoys sur les îles de fer. Les scènes qui s'y déroulent ont été filmées à Lordsport Harbour, Ballintoy, dans le comté d'Antrim en Irlande du Nord. Le tournage au port a eu lieu les 18, 19 et 22 août 2011, et à partir du 15 août, l'accès du public à la zone était limité. Les commerçants et les pêcheurs locaux, qui devaient temporairement amarrer leurs bateaux dans la ville voisine de Ballycastle, ont été compensés par la production.

D'autres endroits en Irlande du Nord ont été à nouveau utilisés, y compris les intérieurs du studio Paint Hall à Belfast.

Accueil
"Les Contrées nocturnes" a reçu des critiques positives de la part des critiques. L'agrégateur de critiques Rotten Tomatoes a interrogé 12 critiques de l'épisode et a jugé que 83% d'entre elles étaient positives avec une note moyenne de 8,5 sur 10. Le consensus critique du site Web se lit comme suit: "Plus morose que la première et pleine d'intrigues sombres, 'The Night Lands ' présente aux téléspectateurs de nouveaux lieux exotiques à Westeros et offre des moments cruciaux pour les personnages." [13] Matt Fowler d' IGN a noté l'épisode 8 sur 10 et l'a qualifié de "suite satisfaisante à la première remplie d'événements moins que monumentaux". Il a qualifié l'épisode de "grand épisode réservé", le comparant à l'épisode de la première saison " The Kingsroad ".Dans une critique destinée à ceux qui ont lu les romans sources, Emily Van Der Werff de The A.V. Club lui a donné un A- et a fait remarquer : "C'est un épisode fort et confiant de la série, et il nous emmène assez facilement des Terres Rouges à Beyond the Wall à Melisandre et Stannis faisant l'amour sur une table d'exposition géante, apparemment sans transpirer." Elle a également commenté positivement les thèmes de l'épisode, qui, selon elle, étaient la définition d'un bon leadership et le côté négatif du patriarcat. De plus, le critique a pensé que l'épisode était révélateur du passage de la série "d'une émission ridiculement divertissante" à "quelque chose du niveau de Breaking Bad ou Mad Men.

D'un autre côté, Patrick Koch de What Culture était plus critique à l'égard de l'épisode. Dans son classement des 40 premiers épisodes de Game of Thrones (saisons 1 à 4), Koch a placé "The Night Lands" au numéro 40, qualifiant l'intrigue de Greyjoy sur Pyke de "extrêmement inintéressante". Simon Abrams, écrivant pour Slant Magazine , a donné à l'épisode une critique mitigée par rapport à la première, se référant à "The Night Lands" comme "un peu décevant" et "pas aussi thématiquement pertinent que l'épisode de la semaine dernière." Dans son récapitulatif d'épisode pour Entertainment Weekly, James Hibberd a noté que la quantité de sexe dans la première saison de Game of Thronesétait "probablement le plus grand sujet de débat parmi les téléspectateurs" et a observé que cet épisode "aurait pu être l'heure la plus axée sur le sexe à ce jour". En effet, l'épisode a été écourté par le diffuseur Etisalat basé à Dubaï lors de sa diffusion initiale en raison de préoccupations concernant la nudité. Selon The National, les épisodes précédents avaient été diffusés sur Etisalat avec "un montage minimal".

Liens externes

 "'Game of Thrones' casts Theon's fierce sister"
 "Game Of Thrones: Ranking All Episodes From Worst To Best"
 "Ballintoy blockbuster! World-wide smash 'Game of Thrones' will use local harbour"
 "Sunday Cable Ratings: 'Game of Thrones' Leads + Atlanta 'Housewives,' 'Mad Men,' 'Khloe & Lamar,' 'Army Wives,' 'The Client List' & Much More"
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USSD codes to get talktime loan on all major Indian telecom services including Airtel, Aircel, Idea, BSNL, Vodafone, Reliance, Tata DOCOMO, and Telenor.
Nowadays many telecom companies are providing their users with the smart Value-added services (VAS) like Talktime loan. Such a facility is quite useful when you're unable to top up your talktime balance.
What the heck actually is Talktime loan?
Also know as emergency recharge, it is a value-added service that allows you to take a small, short-term credit balance loan directly from your telecom carrier. Now this comes in handy when you are out of money or don't have access to recharge voucher hubs.
Note: The term loan in this article is referred to mobile talktime balance only.
It is obvious that you have to pay back the loan amount to your service provider later with some additional service charges. Airtel was the first to introduce a balance loan service in India in the year 2009.
Again reply with 1 and you will receive the loan within a few seconds.
Note that you've to pay back Rs. 12 on the next recharge.
Note that Rs. 12 will be deducted from your account next time you top-up your talktime.
A few users know that Vodafone provides 3 types of balance loans on prepaid connections: Rs 5, Rs. 10, and Rs. 25. And unlike Airtel, it allows you to take loan regardless of your current balance amount. That's cool!
The simplest way to get a credit loan of Rs. 10 on Vodafone is to send an SMS to 144 with CREDIT in the message body.
For a loan of Rs. 5 or 25, you need to call 1241 from your Vodafone prepaid and follow the instructions on the call.
Note that on the next recharge, you have to pay Vodafone Rs. 6 for Rs. 5, Rs. 12 for Rs. 10, and Rs. 28 for Rs. 25 loan.
To get the loan, you need to dial *150*03# from your Idea prepaid number and follow the instructions. You'll have to pay Rs. 5 next time when you recharge your balance.
Tata DOCOMO has just started this facility since Feb 2015 and you may now get a balance loan of Rs. 4, provided your DOCOMO connection is at least 3 months old and you have current balance below Rs. 5.
To get the loan, dial the toll free USSD *369# on your DOCOMO powered mobile handset OR SMS LOAN to 369. Rs. 5 will be recovered from your account the next time you recharge.
Telenor (previously Uninor) prepaid customers may simply dial *141# to and follow the directions flashed on their mobile handset to get the credits of Rs. 5 as loan.
Reliance India Mobile allows its prepaid "Mobile" and "Hello" customers to enjoy credit loans from Rs. 5 to 15 under it's VAS Simply Suvidha. To get the loan, send YCR to 51234 and follow the instructions that will flash up on your mobile screen. Its a subscription-based service, so whenever you want to opt-out or unsubscribe from it, just send NCR to the same number i.e. 51234.
Being the eldest of all telecom providers in India, BSNL finally allows its users to ask for credit loan of Rs. 10. Send an SMS CREDIT to 53738 to get the loan, but make sure your current balance is less than Rs. 10 and more than NILL (0).
If you recharge your talktime within 24 hours, Rs. 10 will be deducted from your balance. Else 1 rupee extra (net Rs. 11) will be deducted later.
That's it. I'll keep you posted about the changes providers do in the respective service numbers. Like, share or comment if this post has helped you to get an emergency recharge.