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Digital Cover: Dylan Sprouse & Barbara Palvin, a Modern Love Story
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They should be nauseating. There they are, Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin, two of the world's most genetically blessed individuals, legs intertwined as they pose on a '70s shag rug. There they are, holding hands in matching bathrobes between shots. These two literally refuse to lose touch with each other. And yet, somehow, it's actually pretty damn cute.
For all their PDA, online and IRL, there's still a sense of mystery to Dylan, the 26-year-old former child actor turned adult actor and mead entrepreneur, and Barbara, the 25-year-old model who has been one of the most in-demand faces in the world for nearly a decade, as a couple. There are still many specifics unanswered. Most essentially: How did they even meet? Well, as far as love stories go, it's a modern classic: Boy meets girl at a party. Girl follows boy on Instagram. Boy slides into those DMs.
"He slid into my DMs," Palvin confirms, situated on a couch somewhere in Staten Island, New York, where the pair have just wrapped their first photo shoot together. "She followed me, so I was like, I guess I'll give her something. And I slid into her DMs," Sprouse says. "I was like, 'Hey, I don't know if you're in New York for very long, but we should hang out if you want to. Here's my number.' And she didn't message me for six months."
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Gucci pants, gucci.com; stylist's own belt. Palvin wears Nili Lotan short cami dress, nililotan.com; Cartier ring, cartier.com.
Now eight months into their courtship, the pair have their routine down. "I took my time," Palvin explains. "I knew I wasn't in a good mind-set at the time, and maybe deep inside I knew that it could be something more." She looks at Sprouse. "Now, say your part."
He's ready for his cue. "I'm not one to chase," he says. "If I get left on read after putting out my number, fuck that. I'm crying internally, but outwardly…. So I ended up booking a movie and going to China for a six-month shoot. My manager was with me and asked, 'Dylan, is there anything you wish you had wrapped up before you left?' And number one, I wish I was there for the opening of my brewery. And for the first time in six months, Barbara popped in my head, and I thought, I wish I had time to take this girl on a date. Ten minutes later, Barbara texts me for the first time in six months."
From there, well, here's the Cliff Notes: Palvin thought she had a job in China. It got canceled. She went to China anyway. The rest is Instagram history. "There's a little language barrier for me, so I was never good with texting or flirting," Palvin, who is Hungarian, says now. "With Dylan, everything seemed so easy. We had the same interests, and jokes were hitting at the right spot, and he didn't think I was disgusting or anything."
Again, Sprouse has his punch line ready: "Well, not so fast on that last part."
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Boss shirt, hugoboss.com; The Row pants, similar styles mrporter.com; Stylist's own tie. Palvin wears Alexander McQueen harness top and skirt, available at Alexander McQueen Madison Avenue; Eres bra, similar styles, eresparis.com; stylist's own socks, Cartier ring, cartier.com.
Direction by Alex Lockett. Director of photography Joshua Steen.
Barbara Palvin and Dylan Sprouse photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Boss shirt, hugoboss.com; Sprouse wears Boss shirt, hugoboss.com; The Row pants, similar styles mrporter.com; Stylist's own tie. Palvin wears Alexander McQueen harness top and skirt, available at Alexander McQueen Madison Avenue; Eres bra, similar styles, eresparis.com; Cartier earrings, cartier.com.
These two, right? So they have that going for them, a playful repartee (on shooting together for the first time, Sprouse says, "She's not so bad to work with, actually," to which Palvin replies, "Wish I could say the same about you"), and here comes another cute factor: They also happen to both be major anime fans. "We watch anime pretty much exclusively," Palvin says, going on to name so many shared programs that it would be a challenge to readers' attention spans to enumerate here.
"We've watched a few," Sprouse deadpans after Palvin finishes listing them. "I was hiding it," Palvin adds. "Well, not hiding it, but I wouldn't start off a conversation with that. In high school, I had a friend who would watch Naruto with me, but that faded away. When [Dylan] came into my life, I was like, I'm home, baby."
She has already taken Sprouse home to Hungary—twice—to meet her parents. "I wasn't nervous to meet her parents, but the truth is that there is a language barrier, obviously," Sprouse says. "Her mother speaks a very tiny bit [of English], and I am not proficient in Hungarian. I'm trying, but learning is definitely an overstatement." Palvin adds, "I taught him the most important thing, which is if you go to Hungary and they offer you pálinka"—a traditional liquor that has been described as tasting like a slap in the face—"you say yes. And if they offer you sausage, you say yes. Then you don't hurt any feelings."
In turn, Palvin has met Sprouse's family, save for one key member: Dylan's twin Cole, of Riverdale fame. "I still haven't met his brother," Palvin says. "Soon!" Sprouse shrugs. "Cole works in Vancouver. He's a very busy guy."
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Calvin Klein Jeans tank top, calvinklein.com; The Row pants, similar styles mrporter.com; stylist's own belt, Cartier watch, cartier.com. Palvin wears Louis Vuitton dress, louisvuitton,com; Cartier earrings, cartier.com.
Family gatherings should be easier going forward. The very next morning, Sprouse and Palvin were moving in together, to an apartment in Brooklyn, which will double as Palvin's first New York residence. And later that very day, she was flying off to Spain for a photo shoot.
Just like their relationship, their careers are also on the fast track. This year will see the release of the film Sprouse shot in China, Turandot, an action-fantasy flick for which he did three hours of martial arts training a day and learned to speak Mandarin. "[It was a] long shoot, and very, very difficult," he says. "I'm super excited. It's a really big movie with a lot of special effects, so that's going to take a long time." In addition to Turandot, he has three other films slated to be released this year.
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Gucci pants, gucci.com; stylist's own belt, Cartier watch, cartier.com. Palvin wears Nili Lotan short cami dress, nililotan.com; Eres bra, similar styles, eresparis.com; Cartier earrings and ring, cartier.com.
And, somewhat famously, there's also his brewery, All-Wise Meadery, which Sprouse opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, last year, and where he spends a good deal of his time now. "We just bottled our third batch, and now we're in full swing to get our bar open," he says. "Seeing people become regular customers, that for me has been the most exciting thing. It's something that I've been brewing in my bathtub since I was 16 and finally took to this scale, and people are responding to it and it's created a community of people. That's very, very special."
"He's the youngest master brewer," Palvin chimes in. A quick Google search shows that Sprouse is, indeed, the youngest master brewer of mead, a fermented beverage made with honey, in the United States. "I got him a trophy for Christmas," she adds.
Dylan Sprouse photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears Boss shirt, hugoboss.com; The Row pants, similar styles mrporter.com; stylist's own tie, Tricker's shoes, trickers.com; and Cartier watch, cartier.com.
Palvin, too, probably deserves her own trophies. Last September, it was announced that she had been named a beauty ambassador for Giorgio Armani, and just days later it was revealed that she would be walking in the 2018 Victoria's Secret Show for the first time since her debut in 2012. "It was stressful," she says of the latter. "I didn't walk for six years, and it was this big comeback so I felt a lot of pressure. But I think it had a very positive response to my body shape, so i want to keep up that message of body positivity."
"It was obviously incredible," Sprouse adds. "I saw all of the training leading up to it, which was very difficult, as you can imagine. Seeing her actually do it was a weight off of my chest as well."
And then there was the meal delivery seen around the world: Sprouse arrived at the VS show with a bag full of Shake Shack, earning him Boyfriend of the Year status—and apparently, some free food, as well. "We've actually gotten quite a few food people reach out to us and give us stuff," he says. "I'm going to be the new food guy on red carpets, just always bringing food. Check this out, we got a Dos Toros black card." He pulls out his wallet to reveal a credit card that was, in fact, black and rather heavy. "Feel this shit," he insists. "This is unlimited burritos."
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Palvin wears Valentino dress, valentino.com; Marine Serre top and leggings (worn underneath), marineserre.com; Cartier earrings, cartier.com and Prada shoes, prada.com.
But surely one cannot exist on free burritos alone, so now that they are about to enter domestic bliss, who is the better cook? Here, the day's first disagreement occurs.
"We actually both cook," Sprouse says. "She's better than me."
"No, I just cook more," Palvin shoots back. "But he's better. I know how to cook with few ingredients and make it healthy, because that's what I had to do for VS. But when he cooks, he uses everything yummy and unhealthy, so his always tastes better. I'm like, 'Here's broccoli and cauliflower soup made with water!'"
"You're a better chef because you can work with things," he replies. "I have to be by the book."
A moment of silence; a détente has been reached. And so, Dylan and Barbara rise to say goodbye, hugging everyone on the crew. And there they go back off into the world, still arm in arm.
Dylan Sprouse and Barbara Palvin photographed by Alex Lockett and styled by Jasmine Hassett for W Magazine. Hair by Fernando Torrent and makeup by Linda Gradin. Prop styling by Dorothee Baussan. Sprouse wears CDG SHIRT shirt, comme-des-garcons.com; Cartier watch, cartier.com. Palvin wears Khaite bra top, khaite.com.
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function p = noiseFitStats(varargin)
% function p = noiseFitStats(varargin)
%
% this function computes some statistics on the Noise fit as returned by
% the the noise comparison (i.e., by the function
% makenoisestatisticsfigs2_r2_compareNoise.m)
%
% the data file used is:
% /Volumes/data/riken/crfaa/fmridata/crfaa/03-Aug-2009CompareNoiseFit_nkn2.mat
% /Volumes/data/riken/crfaa/fmridata/crfaa/30-Jul-2009CompareNoiseFit_sg.mat
%
% results are not saved. But a screen print out is given.
%
% NB the program canbe called with 'fitType' set to 'nk2' to do the test on
%    the naka-rushton fit, and with 'sg' to do the test on the skewed
%    gaussian fit.
%
% franco pestilli 2009.07.31

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
observer  =[];
filename  =[];
adaptation=[];
fitType   =[];     % load the naka-rushton fit or the skewed gaussian fit
savePlots =[];     % 1 saves the plot in the current dierectory
dispFit   =[];     % if 1 the plot is displayed
numBoots  =[];     % number of bootstrap samples
saveFig   =[];     % if 1 saves a figure
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% set default variables:
getArgs(varargin,{...
 'observer',{'fm' 'fp' 'jg'}, ...
 'adaptation',[0 28 100], ...
 'dispFit',0, ...
 'saveFig',1, ...
 'fitType', 'nk2', ... % 'sg' or 'nk2'
 'filename',[date,'allNoise.mat']});

defaultDataFolder = '/Volumes/data/riken/crfaa/fmridata/crfaa';

% load the proper file.
[sigma offset r2] = loadData(defaultDataFolder,adaptation(1),fitType);

meanR2 = mean(squeeze(r2),1);
steR2  = std(squeeze(r2));

% make one t-test for each visual area:
for v = 1:size(sigma,2)
 thisSigma = squeeze(sigma(:,v,:));
 diffSigma = diff(thisSigma,[],2);
 [H0_sigma(v) p_sigma(v)] = ttest(diffSigma);

 thisOffset = squeeze(offset(:,v,:));
 diffOffset = diff(thisOffset,[],2);
 [H0_offset(v) p_offset(v)] = ttest(diffOffset);
end

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% (A) compute the average sigma across observers %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Mv1234_sigma = squeeze(mean(squeeze(sigma),2));

% make one test across visual areas and observers:
% sigma:
thisSigma_a = squeeze(sigma(2:end,:,1));
thisSigma_a = thisSigma_a(:);
thisSigma_d = squeeze(sigma(2:end,:,2));
thisSigma_d = thisSigma_d(:);
diffSigma_all = diff([thisSigma_d,thisSigma_a],[],2);
[H0_sigmaAll p_sigmaAll] = ttest(diffSigma_all);
disp(sprintf('Mean Sigma Distributed %1.3f.',mean(thisSigma_a)))
disp(sprintf('ste  Sigma Distributed %1.3f.',std(thisSigma_a)/sqrt(3)))
disp(sprintf('Mean Sigma Attended    %1.3f.',mean(thisSigma_d)))
disp(sprintf('ste  Sigma Attended    %1.3f.',std(thisSigma_d)/sqrt(3)))
disp('%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%')

% offset
thisOffset_a = squeeze(offset(2:end,:,1));
thisOffset_a = thisOffset_a(:);
thisOffset_d = squeeze(offset(2:end,:,2));
thisOffset_d = thisOffset_d(:);
disp(sprintf('Mean Offset Distributed %1.3f.',mean(thisOffset_a)))
disp(sprintf('ste  Offset Distributed %1.3f.',std(thisOffset_a)/sqrt(3)))
disp(sprintf('Mean Offset Attended    %1.3f.',mean(thisOffset_d)))
disp(sprintf('ste  Offset Attended    %1.3f.',std(thisOffset_d)/sqrt(3)))
disp('%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%')

diffOffset_all = diff([thisOffset_d,thisOffset_a],[],2);
[H0_offsetAll p_offsetAll] = ttest(diffOffset_all);

disp('%% <T-Test Across Visual areas and observers> %%')
disp(sprintf('%%    Offset p = %1.12f    %%',p_offsetAll))
disp(sprintf('%%    Sigma  p = %1.12f    %%',p_sigmaAll))
disp('%% <T-Test Across Visual areas and observers> %%')

% nested anova test:
doAnova = 0;
if doAnova
 s_factors = {{[sigma(:,1,1)]' [sigma(:,1,2)]'} ...
  {[sigma(:,2,1)]' [sigma(:,2,2)]'} ...
  {[sigma(:,3,1)]' [sigma(:,3,2)]'} ...
  {[sigma(:,4,1)]' [sigma(:,4,2)]'}};
 nestedanova(s_factors);

 offset_factors = {{[offset(:,1,1)]' [offset(:,1,2)]'} ...
  {[offset(:,2,1)]' [offset(:,2,2)]'} ...
  {[offset(:,3,1)]' [offset(:,3,2)]'} ...
  {[offset(:,4,1)]' [offset(:,4,2)]'}};
 nestedanova(offset_factors);
end

keyboard

% plot a bar graph of the r2 values:

%%%%%%%%%%%%
% loadData %
%%%%%%%%%%%%
function [sigma  offset  r2 filename] = loadData(defaultDataFolder,adaptation,fitType)

% find adaptation index:
if adaptation == 0
 adp = 1;
elseif adaptation == 28
 adp = 2;
elseif adaptation == 100
 adp = 3;
else
 keyboard;
end

% load the file
[filename vars2load] = makeFileName(defaultDataFolder,fitType);
data = load(sprintf('%s',filename),vars2load{1});

% collect all noise estimates in on array
for o = 1:size(data.noise,2) % for each observer
 for v = 1:size(data.noise,3) % for each visual area
  r2(v,o,1) = data.noise{1,o,v}.bestFit.r2; % these are the r2 of Dnoise-2-Dcrf
  r2(v,o,2) = data.noise{2,o,v}.bestFit.r2; % these are the r2 of Dnoise-2-Acrf
  r2(v,o,3) = data.noise{3,o,v}.bestFit.r2; % these are the r2 of Dnoise-2-Acrf

  sigma(v,o,1) = data.noise{1,o,v}.k;
  sigma(v,o,2) = data.noise{3,o,v}.k;

  offset(v,o,1) = data.noise{1,o,v}.responseOffset;
  offset(v,o,2) = data.noise{3,o,v}.responseOffset;
 end
end

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% makeFileName %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
function [filename vars2load] = makeFileName(defaultDataFolder,fitType)

switch fitType
 case {'nk2' 'nakarushton'}
filename = [defaultDataFolder,'/03-Aug-2009CompareNoiseFit_nkn2.mat'];
 case {'sg' 'skewedgaussin'}
filename = [defaultDataFolder,'/30-Jul-2009CompareNoiseFit_sg.mat'];
otherwise
keyboard
end
vars2load = {'noise'};

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Report on Colima (Mexico) — February 2002
Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, vol. 27, no. 2 (February 2002)
Managing Editor: Richard Wunderman.
Colima (Mexico) Growth of the lava dome at the end of 2001 spawning new lava flows
Global Volcanism Program, 2002. Report on Colima (Mexico) (Wunderman, R., ed.). Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network, 27:2. Smithsonian Institution. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN200202-341040
19.514°N, 103.62°W; summit elev. 3850 m
A new lava flow began on 14 February 2002 on the SW flank of the central crater of Volcán de Colima (figure 46). On 22 February 2002, the flow was 200 m long and had a volume of ~720,000 m3. The rate of magma extrusion at the surface was ~0.9 m3/s. The lava flow emerged from the summit lava dome after the dome had filled the crater in early February (figure 47). Starting on the evening of 4 February, frequent incandescent avalanches descended along the SW, S, and W slopes and into the ravines of La Lumbre, El Zarco, Cordoban and San Antonio and preceded the lava flows. The number and intensity of the rockfalls increased rapidly (figure 48). Rocks traveled as far as 1-3 km from the crater. Pyroclastic flows reached 1-2 km in length on 9 February; they descended the S and SW flanks.
Figure 46. A N-looking aerial photo taken on 14 February 2002 shows the upper slopes of Volcan de Colima (foreground) and the snow-covered cone of Nevado de Colima (background). Colima's lava dome appears as a dark mass filling the crater and bulging upwards; a dense plume of white steam hangs over the eastern summit. Elongate plumes emerge from lava flows and avalanches coming off the dome and descending radially oriented chutes (left center). This photo was taken by M. Breton. Courtesy of Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima.
Figure 47. A photo of Volcan de Colima taken on 5 February showing the lava dome filling and capping the summit. Lava flows began about 9 days later (see previous figure). The photographer was M. Breton. Courtesy of Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima.
Figure 48. A seismogram recorded at station Soma (EZV4), which is located 1.7 km NW from the Colima crater. The sporadic, impulsive events shown on this record of 10 February 2002 were produced by rockfalls and pyroclastic flows. Courtesy of Red Sismológico RESCO, Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima.
With the beginning of intensive rockfalls in early February, the authorities of Colima State evacuated the nearest village, La Yerbabuena, which is located 8 km S of the crater. About 200 persons evacuated during 5-11 February. During the remainder of February and into March, landslides and incandescent avalanches continued to travel down the S, SW and W flanks, extending 2-3 km from the summit. Dark block lava was also seen, flowing down the E, W, and SW flanks and extending as far as 2 km from the summit.
The lava dome began to grow slowly at the beginning of May 2001 (BGVN 26:05). At the end of October, a spine-type extrusion, 60 m high, formed on the N part of the dome (BGVN 26:10). It was destroyed one month later. Around that time, the situation changed as the lava extrusion rate increased from 0.05 to 1.0 m3/s and lava began to fill the crater. The rate of magma extrusion increased sharply in October 2001 (figure 49), and by the end of January 2002, the total volume of the dome was estimated as 1,450,000 m3. The increased rate of dome growth occurred during a period of very low seismicity accompanied by a continuous deformation of the volcano's surface. This deformation was interpreted as inflation that could reflect the injection of new magma at depth.
Figure 49. The history of Colima dome growth in 2001-2002. The volumes were estimated from air photos. Courtesy of Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima.
Geological Summary. The Colima complex is the most prominent volcanic center of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt. It consists of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the high point of the complex) on the north and the historically active Volcán de Colima at the south. A group of late-Pleistocene cinder cones is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of the complex. Volcán de Colima (also known as Volcán Fuego) is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide scarp, breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris avalanches. Major slope failures have occurred repeatedly from both the Nevado and Colima cones, producing thick debris-avalanche deposits on three sides of the complex. Frequent recorded eruptions date back to the 16th century. Occasional major explosive eruptions have destroyed the summit (most recently in 1913) and left a deep, steep-sided crater that was slowly refilled and then overtopped by lava dome growth.
Information Contacts: Observatorio Vulcanológico de la Universidad de Colima, Universidad de Colima, Ave. 25 de Julio 965, Colima 28045, Colima, México.


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Honda Exec: High Auto Prices May Drop, but Not Dramatically
by Tom Krisher
A 2021 Pilot sports-utility vehicle is flanked by a 2021 CR-V as they sit on the otherwise empty apron in front of the showroom of a Honda dealership Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. (Source:AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Honda expects its factories to make more vehicles this year despite a computer chip shortage and supply chain troubles. But because it's starting the year with so few vehicles at dealers, the company expects U.S. sales to fall below last year's numbers.
The company expects U.S. new vehicle prices to ease a bit from the record of more than $46,000 in December as automakers increase production, but Executive Vice President of National Operations Dave Gardner said prices won't fall to where they were before the pandemic.
A shortage of new vehicles brought on by the global chip shortage has forced Honda and other automakers to cut factory production at a time when demand is strong. That has crimped the supply of new vehicles, in some cases driving prices higher than the window sticker.
Honda, with its Acura luxury brand, expects to sell somewhere around 1.4 million vehicles in the U.S. this year, which would be short of last year's 1.47 million. Last year, the automaker started with 300,000 vehicles in its U.S. inventory. Today it has only about 20,000, Gardner said.
"I think we're expecting that we're going to be able to build more than we were last year, but the pipeline has been emptied to such a degree," he told reporters Wednesday.
Edmunds Executive Analyst Jessica Caldwell says Honda's situation is typical of the rest of the U.S. industry. She expects production increases, but says automakers have 75% fewer vehicles on dealer lots than in a normal year. And many of those already have been sold.
As a result, people currently are paying an average of $700 over the sticker price for an average of $46,426. "I think that overage that we're seeing is probably going to come down," she said.
Gardner said Honda continues to see shortages of chips, and that ports are still clogged, slowing the flow of parts to the point that Honda has at times had to pay extra for air freight shipments. The omicron variant of the novel coronavirus also is starting to hit factory workers, affecting production, he said.
Honda also announced Wednesday that it will roll out an all-new HR-V subcompact SUV this year, followed by an all-new CR-V compact SUV, and a new Pilot larger SUV.
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Scotland under-20 travel to French Pyrenees for World Championship preparation
Scotland under-20 will today leave for Font Romeu, an elite training centre in the French Pyrenees mountain range, as part of their preparations for the forthcoming World Rugby Under-20 Championship.The programme is funded by Erasmus+, a European Union project providing funding for education, training, youth and sport, and will give the squad a chance not only to work on their rugby, but also to develop other skills as they immerse themselves in a different culture throughout the trip.The 10-day high altitude training camp will culminate in a match against their French counterparts, who will also be at the same venue as part of their World Championship preparations.With both teams basing themselves at the French camp, it gives players and management an opportunity to work together in exchanging ideas and philosophies, as well as enjoying the culture on offer.Sean Lineen, Scottish Rugby's Head of Age-Grade and Women's Coaching, said: "Scottish Rugby would like to thank Erasmus+ for their funding, and giving our under-20 players the opportunity to travel to Font Romeu for their development as a team and as individuals. "These talented young men are at an important point in their careers and lives, and this is a great opportunity for them to grow as players and as people. "From a rugby perspective, the preparation camp prior to the World Championship will prove invaluable for the players, coaches and management alike, as they look ahead to a month of intense competition."Earlier this week, Head Coach John Dalziel announced his side for the World Championship, in Manchester, however two of the inclusions, Robbie Nairn and Zander Fagerson, are unable to travel, the former through injury and the latter through pro-team commitments.Replacing them is Gloucester's Alex Craig and George Watson's College's Lewis Berg.


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Chamber Music presents: Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul on violins; Jessica Thompson on viola; and Thomas Kraines, cello.
Praised by The New Yorker as "a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets," the Daedalus Quartet has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles. Since winning the top prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2001, the Daedalus Quartet has impressed critics and listeners alike with the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances.
The quartet is made up of members Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul on violins; Jessica Thompson on viola; and Thomas Kraines, cello.
The program for the Gualala Arts Center performance includes Janacek "Kreutzer sonata", Anna Weesner, "The Space Between" (2008), and Beethoven, Op. 18, No. 4.
The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet's "insightful and vibrant" Haydn, the "impressive intensity" of their Beethoven, their "luminous" Berg, and the "riveting focus" of their Dutilleux. The Washington Post in turn has acclaimed their performance of Mendelssohn for its "rockets of blistering virtuosity," while the Houston Chronicle has described the "silvery beauty" of their Schubert and the "magic that hushed the audience" when they played Ravel, the Boston Globe the "finesse and fury" of their Shostakovich, the Toronto Globe and Mail the "thrilling revelation" of their Hindemith, and the Cincinnati Enquirer the "tremendous emotional power" of their Brahms.
Since its founding the Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world's leading musical venues; in the United States and Canada these include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Great Performers series), the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Boston's Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Abroad the ensemble has been heard in such famed locations as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan.
The Daedalus Quartet has won plaudits for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music, most notably the compositions of Elliott Carter, George Perle, György Kurtág and György Ligeti. Among the works the ensemble has premiered is David Horne's Flight from the Labyrinth, commissioned for the Quartet by the Caramoor Festival; Fred Lerdahl's Third String Quartet, commissioned by Chamber Music America; and Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 4, commissioned by the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. In 2013, the Fromm Foundation awarded a commission to the Daedalus Quartet and composer Huck Hodge; the quartet will premiere Hodge's new work, based on the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, Carl Jung, and the contemporary Buddhist poet Ko Un, in April 2016.
The Quartet has also collaborated with some of the world's finest instrumentalists: these include pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Simone Dinnerstein, Awadagin Pratt, Joyce Yang, and Benjamin Hochman; clarinetists Paquito D'Rivera, Ricardo Morales, and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald Weilerstein.
To date, the Quartet has forged associations with some of America's leading classical music and educational institutions: Carnegie Hall, through its European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) Rising Stars program; and Lincoln Center, which appointed the Daedalus Quartet as the Chamber Music Society Two quartet for 2005-07. The Daedalus Quartet has served as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006. In 2007, the Quartet was awarded Lincoln Center's Martin E. Segal Award. The Quartet won Chamber Music America's Guarneri String Quartet Award, which funded a three-year residency in Suffolk County, Long Island from 2007-2010.
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Frederick M Hocker's hypothetical reconstruction of a tenth-century bireme dromōn, based on the few contemporary documentary sources. An Arab heavy warship would have looked similar in many respects.
Arab ships were similar enough to Byzantine warships that they were often referred to as dromōns as well, in both Greek and Arab sources, and the Greek terms chelandion, galea, and dromonarion also found their way into Arabic naval terminology, with shalandi one of the most common Arabic terms for large, dromōn-like ships. The main Arab ships were considered to be larger, heavier and slower than their Byzantine opponents. Arab types that do appear to be more specific include shalandi, shīnī and ghurāb for galleys and musattah for a large, decked galley common in later periods, especially in the Crusades. Another Arabic type of note is the harrāqa, or 'fire ship', which is the type most often equipped with Greek fire.
By the middle of 1944, Vlassov's formation, the Russkaia Osvoboditelnaia Armiia (ROA – the Russian Army of Liberation) was not an army in the sense of a military organization. Units that bore its name were mostly commanded by German officers, and were dispersed all over Europe. General Vlassov and his Russian National Committee had no influence whatsoever, and were not recognized by the German Government. In July 1944, however, Himmler, seeing the dire situation the Reich was in, decided to meet with Vlassov (the Reichsführer-SS at this time had great power, being Chief of the SS, Chief of the Police, including the Gestapo, Minister of the Interior and, since the attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944, also Commander of the Reserve Army). Because of the attempt on Hitler's life, the meeting did not take place until 16 September 1944. Himmler agreed to the creation of a new committee called the Komitet Osvobozhdeniia Narodov Rossi (KONR – Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia), and to the creation of the KONR Army under General Vlassov's command. The committee and army were to embrace all Soviet citizens living under German rule, in order to unite their political and military activities in the fight against Bolshevism. To begin with, five divisions were to be organized from among POWs and workers brought to Germany from the occupied territories in the East (by this time, the Red Army had entered Poland, reached East Prussia and was at the Yugoslav border).
The representatives of the non-Russian nationals, who wanted to sever all ties with Russia and create their own independent states, were against the idea of the KONR Army. Despite Himmler's threats, the Ukrainians, White Ruthenians (a former province in eastern Czechoslovakia), Georgians and Cossacks refused to join the KONR.
On 14 November 1944, the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia held its inaugural meeting in Prague. The Prague Manifesto was proclaimed detailing KONR's aims: the overthrow of Stalin's tyranny, the liberation of the peoples of Russia from the Bolshevik system, and the restitution of those rights to the peoples of Russia which they had fought for and won in the people's revolution of 1917; discontinuation of the war and an honourable peace with Germany; and the creation of a new free people's political system without Bolsheviks and exploiters.
All decisions and instructions had to be "coordinated" with the appropriate German commissar. Nevertheless, the publication of the Prague Manifesto made a deep impression on many Russians. First of all, it brought forth a great number of voluntary applications for service in the KONR Army, a number that surpassed all expectations. On 20 November, for example, 60,000 applications were received. Large numbers of volunteers from among POWs and Soviet refugees who had left their native lands voluntarily with the retreating German armies, preferring a wandering life in strange and perhaps unfriendly lands to a return under the NKVD yoke, were received. Bizarrely, desertion from the Red Army to the Germans increased after the publication of the manifesto, despite the looming defeat of Nazi Germany.
The KONR Army had begun to form in November 1944, accompanied by shortages of arms and equipment. As a result of the deteriorating military situation in the East, the five divisions were reduced to two. Despite his difficulties, Vlassov formed an army headquarters, two motorized divisions, one reserve brigade, an engineer battalion and support units – a total strength of 50,000 men. On 28 January 1945, he officially took command of the army.
The 1st KONR Division, under the command of General Sergei Kuzmich Bunyachenko, was given the name 600th Panzergrenadier Division. Its organization began in November 1944 at Muensingen, and operational readiness was reached in mid-February 1945. The nucleus of the division consisted of the remnants of the 30th SS Waffen Grenadier Division (Russian No 2), which had been greatly reduced during the fighting in France, and the remnants of the infamous Kaminski SS division. When the rabble of the latter formation arrived at the camp where the division was being formed, gangs of armed and unarmed men in all kinds of uniforms, accompanied by women in gaudy dresses, spilled out of the railway carriages. At the sight of them, Bunyachenko exclaimed in anger: "So this is what you're giving me – bandits, robbers, thieves. You'll let me have what you can no longer use!" Amazingly, despite acute shortages of arms, equipment and supplies, at the beginning of April the division reached the front on the River Oder.
The 2nd KONR Division, under the command of General G. A. Zveryev, was named the 650th Panzergrenadier Division. Its formation began in January 1945 in Baden, some 69km (43 miles) from the camp of the 1st Division. Owing to the shortages in arms and equipment, it never really reached operational readiness. The nucleus of the division consisted of a few battalions withdrawn from Norway, and some recently captured Russian prisoners. In addition, the KONR Army's headquarters, the reserve brigade, the engineer battalion, the officers' school and other units, in all some 25,000 men, were being formed in the same area as the 2nd Division. The organization of the 3rd Division was begun in Austria, but its strength apparently never exceeded 2700 men.
In mid-April 1945, the 1st Division was given the task of capturing the Soviet bridgehead in the area of Frankfurt-on-Oder. This bridgehead had been previously attacked by the Germans, but without success. The attack of the 1st Division also failed, with heavy losses owing to lack of adequate artillery and air support. After the failure of this attack, Bunyachenko withdrew the division on his own authority, and a few days later began the march towards the frontier of Czechoslovakia, together with other Russian volunteers – more than 20,000 men in all. On the way, the Germans tried in vain to induce him to obey their orders. At the end of April, the division reached the frontier of Czechoslovakia where Vlassov himself joined it.
On 2 May, they stopped short of Prague where they were informed that the army's headquarters, 2nd Division and the remaining formations of the KONR were on their way through Austria to Czechoslovakia.
At this time, Prague seemed to be the objective of both the American and Soviet armies which were approaching from two directions. This induced the Czechoslovak National Council to call for an uprising against the Germans, which began on 5 May. On the same day, the Czechs implored the Allies by radio to come to their aid because Prague was threatened by the Germans. Receiving no reply to its appeal, the council turned for help to General Bunyachenko. On the morning of 6 May, the 1st Division joined the fight, and by the evening had cleared Prague of SS troops. The Czechs greeted Vlassov's men joyfully, but the next day Bunyachenko was informed that Prague would be occupied by the Red Army, not by the Americans as he had expected, and that the Czechoslovak National Council was being replaced by a pro-Soviet government headed by Eduard Benes. The latter demanded that the forces of General Vlassov were either to await the Red Army's entrance in order to surrender, or leave Prague as soon as possible. On the morning of 8 May, General Bunyachenko's troops began to march towards the same area from where they had come only four days before.
A few days after leaving Prague, the 1st KONR Division laid down its arms in the Czech village of Schluesselburg in the American zone. On 12 May, Bunyachenko was informed that Schluesselburg would be included in the Soviet zone, and that the local American commander did not consent to letting the division march beyond the new demarcation line. The only possible solution, suggested the Americans, was that the soldiers of the KONR might try to cross over to the American zone individually. General Bunyachenko immediately disbanded the division, advising his subordinates to try their luck on their own. During the flight, however, many were shot by Soviet troops and the majority were captured by the Red Army. Some 17,000 of them are said to have been deported to Russia, where they suffered death or life imprisonment. General Vlassov himself fell into Soviet hands on 12 May.
The 2nd KONR Division split into two parts; the greater part, together with the Pannwitz's Cossack corps, surrendered to the British on 12 May in Austria, to be interned in the area of Klagenfurt. One regiment of the 2nd Division and the army's headquarters reached the American zone after a long and weary journey, and were interned at Landau in western Bavaria. Thus ended the saga of the ROA.
The possible importance of the Sassanian influence on naval developments in the Middle East has only recently been considered. During their brief occupation of much of the eastern Mediterranean littoral, they had extended as far as to occupy the Greek island of Rhodes, plus some Anatolian coastal towns, though they almost certainly used captured Syrian, Cilician, Egyptian or Greek ships to do so.
The subsequent Muslim conquest of many of the same regions brought the Arabs to the shores of the Mediterranean for the first time as a great military power and as the inheritors of Sassanian naval traditions. On the other hand the Arabian peoples had a far more active naval heritage than their initially cautious attitude to the Mediterranean might suggest. The pre-Islamic Yemenis and perhaps Omanis had, for example, been raiding Sassanian territory by sea since at least the 4th century AD while various other tribes from both the Gulf and Red Sea coastal regions of Arabia had similar maritime traditions. Here it is worth noting that, following the first wave of Islamic conquest, these same Yemeni and other coastal Arab tribes were often selected as garrison troops for strategic coastal bases including Alexandria.
In response to the challenge by new Arab-Islamic fleets, a more powerful Romano-Byzantine navy would emerge in the late 7th century. The 'Battle of the Masts' would not be the last naval encounter between these two rivals. Indeed, later Byzantine attempts to retake Egypt would convince Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria and subsequently the first Umayyad Caliph, of the need for a full Islamic navy in the Mediterranean.
The first such fleet was built in Egypt, where all qualified sailors were registered for naval service. Although many of these sailors were in fact Christians, the bulk were Yemeni in origin and Muslim in religion. The new fleet used Tyre and Acre as forward bases while Iranian and Iraqi shipwrights were brought from the Gulf to build and man the new or restored shipyards at Acre, Tyre and Beirut.
Other naval bases and fleets were established in newly conquered Tunisia and rather later in Libya; the resources of wood, iron and tar essential for medieval naval warfare all being available in North Africa. From the early 8th century onwards these new Islamic fleets undertook almost annual raids against Byzantine territory and islands in the western Mediterranean, mirroring the annual raids undertaken on land.
If there were any real differences between Byzantine and early Islamic warships, it would seem to have been in the increased height of the forecastle of the latter. This was soon being used to mount stone-throwing engines and to provide an advantage when boarding enemy vessels. The main fighting ship was a galley called a shini which, like the Byzantine galleys of the day, had between 140 and 180 oarsmen. It is also important to note that, with very few exceptions, the oarsmen in medieval galleys, be they Christian or Muslim, were paid volunteers not slaves.
By the mid-8th century such galleys defended themselves against the terrifying Byzantine incendiary weapon known as 'Greek fire' using various systems of water-soaked cotton, and would shortly use Greek fire themselves. However, the vessels of the rival naval powers remained remarkably similar, as there was an exchange of both technology and terminology between them.
The main difficulty facing any Islamic fleet continued to be a lack of timber. Indeed, this lack of resources may have stimulated the construction of larger ships, which were better able to defend themselves and were no longer regarded as expendable assets. Certainly, there was also a change from the hull- or skin-first method of construction to the more economical frame-first method, although this change would not be truly complete until the 11th century.
Barbarossa's fleet wintering in the French harbour of Toulon, 1543.
During the mid- to late fifteenth century, the Kingdom of Portugal took the early lead in exploring the world via the oceans. They were looking for trade routes to bypass the famed Silk Road to China, as well as ways of obtaining rare spices and other products that were being monopolized by the Venetians. By 1500, Portuguese colonies or trading posts had been planted on the west African coast (Angola) and the east African coast (Mozambique). These colonies were used as stepping stones on the way to the Indian subcontinent. Fort Kochi, on the southwest coast of India, was established by the Portuguese in 1503. The Portuguese managed to establish trading agreements with several Indian rulers, with mixed results. By 1508, the Europeans had managed to get on the wrong side of a coalition of various nations, including the Calicut, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk sultan of Egypt and the Ottoman Empire.
A Portuguese fleet of 21 vessels had been dispatched to the Indian Ocean in 1505 to add some muscle to their nation's presence in that area. They were under the command of Portugal's First Viceroy, Dom Francisco de Almeida, who had been appointed to represent the interests of Portugal in India. In opposition, the Ottoman sultan had provided some galleys to Egypt, in order to counter Portuguese interdiction of the Malabar timber trade from India. The Mamlûks – with some technical assistance from the Venetians – disassembled these galleys in Alexandria and reassembled them in the Red Sea below Suez. These galleys then had to navigate the Indian Ocean, a dicey situation considering that the galleys were constructed to sail on the Mediterranean Sea. Mostly hugging the coast, the Turkish- Mamlûk fleet arrived off the coast of Gujarat, one of the Muslim kingdoms on the coast of India. The Sultan of Gujarat had previously contacted the Ottomans, recommending that a sufficient naval force could help tip the balance of power and allow large portions of India to be added to the Ottoman Empire. The only major force standing in the way of that plan was the Portuguese.
The Portuguese fleet, now numbering 18 vessels, left Fort Kochi in late 1508 and sailed north along the west Indian coast, seeking the Ottoman-Mamlûk fleet. They stopped at various ports along the way, either picking up provisions or attacking enemies, giving their soldiers experience. Ottoman admiral Mir Hussein Pasha, probably following standard Mediterranean tactics, anchored his fleet in the harbor of the port of Diu. This port had a fort with its own artillery, which Hussein Pasha hoped to use to support his fleet. The Ottoman-Mamlûk fleet had received reinforcements from the Sultan of Gujarat and the ruler of Calicut. However, these reinforcements were small, shallow-draft vessels little better than fishing boats. Eventually, on February 2, 1509, the Portuguese fleet discovered the enemy fleet in Diu's harbor and prepared to attack the next day. The Turkish fleet was anchored in the inner harbor of Diu, with a treacherously narrow and shallow channel to navigate. However, the Portuguese found an 18-year odd native who was familiar with the channel and offered to help in exchange for his freedom.
One bergantim (brigantine), a smaller, two-masted vessel with a square sail on the foremast and lateen-rigged on the other. At this time period, it was probably also equipped with oars.
As mentioned above, the Portuguese vessels had a large complement of fighting men, trained for sea battle, armed with arquebuses and primitive grenades. The Turkish fleet marines, trained for fighting in the Mediterranean, wore almost no armor and were mainly archers. Also, the Portuguese ships sat higher in the water, and were almost impossible to board. Further, their cannon could bombard any enemy vessel attempting to approach them for boarding action.
The battle started at about 11 a.m., when the prevailing winds and the incoming tide were favorable. The Portuguese began a major bombardment of the artillery batteries guarding the port and the Turkish fleet. Then, when the Turkish and Gujarati vessels refused to leave the "safety" of the harbor – as Almeida anticipated – the Portuguese moved in to engage the enemy.
The superiority of the state-of-the-art European vessels became obvious as, for the next six hours, the Portuguese blasted the enemy vessels with full broadsides, grappled and boarded the enemy ships, capturing two Turkish naus, two Gujarati naus and the two Turkish gales in bloody hand-to-hand fighting. In addition, two Turkish naus, 2 Gujarati naus and two Turkish caravelas were sunk. By five o'clock, the wind began to change and Almeida ordered his fleet – which lost no ships despite one of his naus sustaining heavy damage – to leave the harbor with some of their prizes.
The next day, Viceroy Almeida demanded the return of the men captured at the battle of Chaul, which was accomplished within the hour. He further demanded reparations of 300,000 gold xerafins (about 180,000 rupes). The ruler of Diu offered to give his port to the Portuguese, but Almeida turned that offer down, as he felt it would be too expensive to rule – but he did leave a garrison in the city. The Portuguese fleet stayed in the area for several days; the ruler of Diu, grateful that the Europeans did not loot his city, almost daily sent them a boat loaded with "… sheep, hens, eggs, oranges, lemons, cabbages, etc." as well as rich gifts. Almeida refused a gift of a brocade tapestry and a string of pearls, which he instead sent home to the Queen of Portugal. Nine days after the battle, the Portuguese fleet headed back south.
Casualties from the battle amounted to 32 Portuguese dead, and about 300 wounded. The combined enemy dead were estimated at 3000 killed and an "even larger" number of wounded. The Egyptian and Turkish prisoners were treated…well, badly. Almeida, in retaliation for his son's death, ordered most of them to be hanged, burnt alive or torn to pieces by tying them to the mouths of cannons, then firing them. Writing about the battle afterwards, the Viceroy said, "As long as you may be powerful at sea, you will hold India as yours; and if you do not possess this power, little will avail you a fortress on the shore." Several of the captured Turkish and Gujarati vessels were sold as prizes, with portions of the money distributed to the fleet sailors and marines.
Among the more long-standing reminders of this fight were three royal battle standards of the Mamlûk sultan of Egypt captured at this battle. They were sent home to Portugal, where to this day they hang in the Convent of the Order of Christ in the city of Tomar, formerly a stronghold of the Knights Templar.
Later generations of Europeans, from the seventeenth century on, would grow increasingly confident, even complacent, regarding their military superiority over the East (excepting such scares as the 1683 siege of Vienna). There was no such confidence in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Then, a long string of battlefield victories indicated that the Muslim world, particularly the wealthy, populous, militant and expanding Ottoman Empire, had every chance of stretching its grasp to seize first Sicily or Vienna, then Naples and Rome, and finally all of western Europe. This was by no means an improbable, or even unlikely scenario. The sultan planned for it, sending his armies and fleets west. In response, the European powers fretted, drew themselves together in a sequence of Holy Leagues and prepared for the sultan's blows. Only the most powerful of Christian princes, 'his most Catholic majesty' the King of Spain, could direct his own sustained offensive east to match and meet the Turk.
The battles of East versus West were of course fought along the shores of the Mediterranean and the banks of the Danube. But there were more exotic, farther flung points of conflict as well: the Renaissance struggle between Muslim and Christian European was the first truly global war. Portuguese exploration into the Indian Ocean in search of pepper, cloves and nutmeg (and also the fabled Eastern ally for the war against the Moors, 'Prester John', eventually identified as the black Christian king of the Ethiopian highlands) brought the age-old conflict of crusader and Ghazi to the monsoon-lands of Asia and East Africa. In 1498 Vasco da Gama made landfall in India. The Portuguese governors 'of India' (their brief actually included the whole of the Indian Ocean) who followed da Gama brought the customs of the Iberian Reconquista – fire and sword – to the work of carving out a maritime empire: this was no mere commercial creation. Afonso da Albuqerque seized Hormuz in 1509, Goa in 1510 and Malacca on the Malay Peninsula – gateway to the spice wealth of the East Indies – in 1511. These were all Muslim cities. Between 1503 and 1513 the Portuguese almost annually raided into the Red Sea; in 1517 they almost seized Jiddah, the very port of Mecca. The Mameluke sultan in Cairo (until 1517) and thereafter the Ottoman sultan had to respond to these provocations. In 1508 a Mameluke fleet co-operating with Indian Muslim rulers surprised the Portuguese at Chaul off the coast of India, but this Muslim-allied fleet was destroyed the following year. In 1538 a large Ottoman army landed at Diu in India, but failed to take the Portuguese city despite the support of a massive siege battery of 130 guns. In 1552 the Ottomans attacked but failed to retake Hormuz; Portuguese counter-raids reached Basra in southern Iraq. In 1567 as many as forty Ottoman ships arrived at Sumatra to aid the Muslim sultan of Atjeh. Significantly this expedition coincided exactly with a peak in Ottoman activity against the Christian powers in the Mediterranean. This was indeed a world war.
According to Herodotos (6.15.2), the 100 Chiot triremes at Lade in 494 BC each carried 40 picked hoplites serving as epibatai Herodotos (7.184.2) mentions that Persian triremes carried, in addition to native marines, 30 additional fighting men who were Persians, Medes or Sakai, the last of whom were a nomadic people of central Asia, highly valued for their archery skills. Every Persian ship was supplied by Persian subjects, including Phoenicians, Egyptians, Carians, Cypriots and Greeks, among others. The non-seafaring Persians supplied only admirals and marines. The last were probably on board to ensure the loyalty of the ship's company and for that reason they were undoubtedly carried in battle.
The ten epibatai on an Athenian trireme had the highest status in the ship after the trierarchos. They are mentioned second in the Decree of Themistokles, and this is the position they occupy in the 4th-century crew lists (IG 22 1951.79-82). Thucydides notes that they joined the trierarchos in pouring libations at the ceremonial departure of the Sicilian expedition (6.32.1).
One reason for the Athenian practice of taking only a few hoplites on deck to serve as marines was that the crew's pulling efficiency was seriously jeopardized if there were too many people moving about topside. Such movement inevitably caused the ship to roll. Under oar, therefore, the epibatai had to be seated (Thucydides 7.67.2), and the procedure appears to have been to keep them centred on the middle line of the ship. Once the vessel had stopped to board an enemy vessel, the epibatai would leap up to fight once the ships grappled. In his speech before the final sea battle in the Great Harbour at Syracuse, the Athenian commander Nikias revealed another reason: 'Many archers and javelineers will be on deck and a mass of hoplites, which we would not employ if we were fighting a battle in the open sea, because they would hinder us through the weight of the ships in exercising our skill.' (Thucydides 7.62.2) Weight, particularly on deck, prevented the triremes doing what they did best, namely, conducting the tactical manoeuvres in which speed and agility were essential.
The four toxotai were distinct from the ten epibatai, namely they were not carried on deck. An inscription (IG I2 950.137), dated to 412/411 BC, gives them a descriptive adjective, paredroi, meaning 'sitting beside'. It seems that they were posted in the stern beside the trierarchos and kubernetes and acted as their bodyguard in action. The helmsman would certainly have been vulnerable and would have needed protection, being too busy to defend himself. The Athenian playwright Euripides (Iphigenia among the Taurians 1377) talks of archers stationed in the stern, giving covering fire during an embarkation.


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package au.com.intercel.ems.energyanalyst.utils;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.Days;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException;

import au.com.intercel.ems.energyanalyst.domain.Customer;
import au.com.intercel.ems.energyanalyst.domain.DailyRecord;
import au.com.intercel.ems.energyanalyst.domain.DailyRecordRepository;

/**
 * The Class EnergyAnalyst.
 *
 * This class provide analytic computation service.
 */
public class EnergyAnalyst {

	/** The Constant WINDOW_SIZE. */
	private final static int WINDOW_SIZE = 7;

	/** The Constant of Shanghai kgCO2/kWh coefficient.
	 * Value extracted from 2010 年中国区域及省级电网平均二氧化碳排放因子*/
	private final static double SH_CO2_KWH_COEFFICIENT = 0.7934;

	/**
	 * Gets the daily standby energy.
	 *
	 * It calculates the daily standby energy in the unit of kWh.
	 *
	 * @param records the collection of daily records
	 * @return the average daily standby energy in the unit of kWh
	 * @throws JsonParseException the json parse exception
	 * @throws JsonMappingException the json mapping exception
	 * @throws IOException Signals that an I/O exception has occurred.
	 */
	public static double getDailyStandbyEnergy(Collection<DailyRecord> records) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {

		DailyRecord[] recordsArray = records.toArray(new DailyRecord[records.size()]);

		double sumOfStandby = 0;
		for(int i=0; i<WINDOW_SIZE; i++){
			sumOfStandby += recordsArray[recordsArray.length - 1 - i].getStandbyPower();
		}

		return sumOfStandby/WINDOW_SIZE;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the daily average energy consumption.
	 *
	 * It calculates the daily energy consumed in the unit of kWh.
	 *
	 * @param records the collection of daily records
	 * @return the daily average energy consumption in the unit of kWh
	 * @throws JsonParseException the json parse exception
	 * @throws JsonMappingException the json mapping exception
	 * @throws IOException Signals that an I/O exception has occurred.
	 */
	public static double getDailyAverageEnergyConsumption(Collection<DailyRecord> records) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
		DailyRecord[] recordsArray = records.toArray(new DailyRecord[records.size()]);

		double sumOfConsumedEnergy = 0;
		for(int i=0; i<WINDOW_SIZE; i++){
			sumOfConsumedEnergy += recordsArray[recordsArray.length - 1 - i].getTotalConsumedEnergy();
		}
		return sumOfConsumedEnergy/WINDOW_SIZE;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the average daily CO2 emission.
	 *
	 * @param averageDailyConsumption the average daily consumption in the unit of kWh
	 * @return the average daily carbon emissions in the unit of kg
	 */
	public static double getAverageDailyCarbonEmissions(double averageDailyConsumption) {
		return averageDailyConsumption * SH_CO2_KWH_COEFFICIENT;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the customer type.
	 *
	 * @param records the records
	 * @return the customer type
	 */
	public static String getCustomerType(Collection<DailyRecord> records) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return null;
	}

	/**
	 * Sort the map
	 *
	 * @param unsortCustomerMap the unsorted customer map
	 * @return the sorted customer map
	 */
	public static Map<String, Double> sortByComparator(Map<String, Double> unsortCustomerMap) {
		// Convert Map to List
		List<Map.Entry<String, Double>> list =
			new LinkedList<Map.Entry<String, Double>>(unsortCustomerMap.entrySet());

		// Sort list with comparator, to compare the Map values
		Collections.sort(list, new Comparator<Map.Entry<String, Double>>() {
			public int compare(Map.Entry<String, Double> o1,
                                           Map.Entry<String, Double> o2) {
				return (o1.getValue()).compareTo(o2.getValue());
			}
		});

		// Convert sorted map back to a Map
		Map<String, Double> sortedMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, Double>();
		for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String, Double>> it = list.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
			Map.Entry<String, Double> entry = it.next();
			sortedMap.put(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue());
		}
		return sortedMap;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the energy usage prediction.
	 *
	 * Predicts the energy usage of specified user for specified dates
	 *
	 * @param customer the customer
	 * @param dailyRecordRepository the daily record repository
	 * @param startDate the start date specified
	 * @param endDate the end date specified
	 * @return the energy usage prediction in the unit of kWh
	 */
	public static double getEnergyUsagePrediction(Customer customer, DailyRecordRepository dailyRecordRepository, String startDate, String endDate) {
		double energyUsagePrediction = Double.NaN;

		SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");
		try {
			Date start = dateFormat.parse(startDate);
			Date end = dateFormat.parse(endDate);

			if (start.compareTo(end)<0){
				System.out.println("start is older");

				Map<Date, Double> historicalEnergyUsage = getHistoricalEnergyUsage(customer, dailyRecordRepository, start, end);

				int numberOfRecords = historicalEnergyUsage.size();
				double historicalEnergyUsageSummation = 0;

				for(double record : historicalEnergyUsage.values()){
					historicalEnergyUsageSummation += record;
				}

				int totalNumberOfDays = Days.daysBetween(new DateTime(start), new DateTime(end)).getDays() + 1;

				energyUsagePrediction = historicalEnergyUsageSummation + ( customer.getAverageDailyConsumption() * (totalNumberOfDays - numberOfRecords ) );

			}else if(start.compareTo(end)>0){
				System.out.println("end is older");
			}
			else if (start.compareTo(end)==0){
				energyUsagePrediction = customer.getAverageDailyConsumption();
			}
		} catch (ParseException | IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		return energyUsagePrediction;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the historical energy usage records.
	 *
	 * Read the database and returns all recored energy usage between the specified dates.
	 *
	 * @param customer the customer
	 * @param dailyRecordRepository the daily record repository
	 * @param start the start date specified
	 * @param end the end date specified
	 * @return the historical energy usage records
	 * @throws JsonParseException the json parse exception
	 * @throws JsonMappingException the json mapping exception
	 * @throws IOException Signals that an I/O exception has occurred.
	 */
	private static Map<Date, Double> getHistoricalEnergyUsage(Customer customer, DailyRecordRepository dailyRecordRepository, Date start, Date end) throws JsonParseException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
		Map<Date, Double> historicalEnergyUsage = new HashMap<Date, Double>();

		Collection<DailyRecord> historicalDailyRecords = dailyRecordRepository.findByDateBetweenAndUidIs(start, end, customer.getId());

		for(DailyRecord record : historicalDailyRecords){

			historicalEnergyUsage.put(record.getDate(), record.getTotalConsumedEnergy());
		}

		return historicalEnergyUsage;
	}

}


I almost forgot to blog about our batch's acquaintance party dubbed as "An Evening of Black and White". It was held last August 16, 2008 at Katips Bar and Grille in Quezon City. Well, it's better late than never, as they say. That was one of the three milestones in our entire stay at UP-TMC. Our next activities would be the year-end party (Christmas Party to our Catholic friends), and the summer activity.
Though we already developed camaraderie during the series of workshops we attended last summer, we still need to "party" since it is a tradition at the TMC. Said event was spearheaded by the hardworking Batch 2008 Officers. It is not easy to organize activities like this 'coz it entails lots of preparation –from concept/theme to date and venue to games and tokens. Kudos to you, guys! We would like to express our gratitude to two of our professors (one of which is also the Executive Director of the unit) and some senior students who graced the occasion. Your words of encouragement and inspiring messages mean a lot to us.
As part of the Information Committee, I assisted in conceptualizing the website for our batch and eventually to other MTM students. It was launched during the party. Here's the screenshot of our website.
Certainly, it was a night filled with fun and laughter!
Black, white AND violet!! Hahaha....oh I miss attending reunions. My high school batch will be having the Silver Jubilee next year. I'll miss kasi I'm here.
Hay....anyway, visiting you here Wena. I hope you and your little angel are both doing great.
Btw, please accept my sympathy for the passing of your Aunt. May she rest in peace!
Thank you so much, Juls. we really had fun that night. my friends even wanted to have coffee kaya lang gabi na, i told them na hintay na ako ng dalagita ko hehehe. high school reunions are great too. but i also missed attending such for a number of times.
i really wanted to go home to attend the wake. all my titos and titas here living here in manila went home, so para reunion na rin.
will be hopping to your site in a while... see yah!


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The White Tiger: Booker Prize Winner by Aravind Adiga pdf - GOOGLE BOOK Free eBooks for Life!
The White Tiger: Booker Prize Winner 2008 is a classic novel which lays light on a person of the deprived section of the society, who is desperate to come out of his misery and lead an independent life. In order to free himself from the clutches of social and financial misery, he indulges in the negative and shady activities and is unapologetic about them as he pompously justifies them. The protagonist, Balram Halwai, was born and brought up in a small village. Though he was a bright student, Balram had to discontinue his studies due to bad financial position of his family.
He starts working at a tea shop with one of his cousins. Being an ambitious person, he learns to drive cars and becomes a chauffeur. As a result he moves to the capital, Delhi for his new job. Coming from a small village and suddenly moving into a metro city is a cultural shock for him. Experiencing corruption and the likes, he gets influenced by the negativity and murders his owner for money. He then shifts base to Bangalore, starts own business with the stolen money and becomes well-to-do. With such an account as its background, this book is narrated in a dark yet hilarious way.
The book indulges into the details about the country's corruption scene in a light as well as sarcastic tone. This edition is available in Paperback and can be ordered online at Amazon India. The book won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and also made its way into the New York Times Best Seller list.
Aravind Adiga is the writer of this novel. He was born in October 1974, in Chennai. Besides being an Indian author, he is a journalist. His other authored editions comprise of; Between The Assassinations and The Last Man in Tower.


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Tim Hortons buys naming rights to Hamilton stadium: report
According to a CFL source requesting anonymity, Tim Hortons has purchased the naming rights for the new stadium being built in Hamilton to stage the soccer event for the 2015 Pan American Games.
Building would be called Tim Hortons Field
The Canadian Press · Posted: Jul 12, 2013 7:30 AM ET | Last Updated: July 12, 2013
New stadium, new name.
There's no indication how much Tim Hortons paid for the rights or the length of the agreement but both the restaurant chain as well as the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats will unveil details of the deal Friday at a news conference.
The Ticats are playing their home games at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ont., while the new stadium is being built and is scheduled to move into the new facility in time for the 2014 CFL season.
The new $145.7-million, state-of-the-art facility is being built on the same grounds that the Ticats' long-time venue, Ivor Wynne Stadium, used to stand,
The new stadium, which will reportedly be called Tim Hortons Field, will be home for the soccer competition for the 2015 Pan American Games.
The facility will have permanent seating for 22,500 spectators with the ability to be expanded to 40,000 seats for major events.
Ivor Wynne Stadium was demolished following the 2012 CFL season after 84 years of existence to make way for the new venue.
Tim Hortons is the largest publicly-traded restaurant chain in Canada and one of the biggest in North America in terms of market capitalization.
As of March 31, Tim Hortons had 4,288 systemwide restaurants, including 3,453 in Canada and 808 in the U.S.
Too late to fix design of 'high school' stadium for Pan Am games
Hamilton's new Pan Am Stadium unveiled


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Carolina: From Strength to Strength
We began representing Carolina* in approximately mid-2019, after her asylum claim had been refused by the Home Office. She was later dropped by her previous representatives, as it was their opinion that her case was not strong enough to merit legal aid.
Carolina, unrepresented and with the likely and intimidating scenario of having to appear before a judge and the Home Office on her own, was urgently referred to ourselves by her friend.
Taken on by one of our lawyers, it was a very complex case with two countries involved, and on face value appeared very difficult to win. When we first met Carolina, she was visibly stressed and anxious. She found it extremely difficult to speak about certain aspects of her case, so we endeavored to make her feel as safe and comfortable as possible.
In her country of origin, Carolina had been a victim of serious and appalling levels of domestic violence at the hands of her family and husband, to whom she was forcibly married. In fear for their lives, she and her new partner fled to another country on a different continent with their child.
Having lived in the second country for four years, Carolina claimed asylum here in the UK on the basis that a family member of her previous partner had tracked her and her children down. She was at the time in the UK visiting a sister when her partner became aware that individuals were asking around the community for her – he instantly telephoned Carolina to warn her and advised, for the sake of her and her children's lives, that she not return.
We were able to help Carolina win her case by carefully preparing her appeal to the Tribunal, including obtaining an expert psychiatric report and considerable country and medical evidence. Our lawyer who prepared the case also represented her at the Tribunal. We were all so relieved when the judge granted her refugee status.
Not unlike many refugees, Carolina is a very skilled and able woman. She is a trained nurse, and had worked as such before she arrived in the UK. She has looked after her three young boys on her own here for nearly a year and a half, an incredible testament to her strength.
Since obtaining refugee status approximately 6 months ago, Carolina has began to build her life here. At first, it was difficult, moving into a small house that at the time was not big enough for her and her three children. Having to raise them without her partner being here with her has also taken its toll.
However, she has since been able move to a new house, which she tells us is much more suitable. Now she has a garden, her three children are able to play and release some energy, giving her a well earned break.
Carolina looks forward to training as a nurse again, and by following her natural caring instincts, is currently doing her best to support an elderly, disabled man who lived above her in her previous accommodation.
Her three young boys are in school, enjoying their lives and are looking forward to life here. She tells us that they are involved in lots of after school clubs and other activities. It is wonderful to hear, as the impact an asylum claim can have on children is very rarely discussed.
A particularly heart wrenching moment in Carolina's case was when one of her children asked her, during her ongoing asylum claim, why she does not smile anymore. Thankfully, Carolina can now smile and bring up her children without fear here in the UK.
Asylum Justice are currently preparing a Family Reunion application for Carolina, to bring her partner over to the UK. This is often the reality for refugees, arriving here without their family members, having to wait to be reunited. She remains in constant contact with her family and she tells us her children cannot wait for their father to join them.
We are the only charity in Wales that are able to do Family Reunion applications without any charge. Due to Family Reunion being no longer covered by legal aid, refugees in Wales must either come to us, prepare it themselves (despite it being a complex application), or pay solicitor fees they simply cannot afford.
Asylum Justice would like to thank Carolina for her patience and strength. In cases such as these, it is a privilege to be able to represent a strong, resilient and inspirational woman, such as Carolina.
*Please be aware we have not used the individual's real name.
A lovely card given to one of our lawyers, Hussein, by a client who we recently represented at appeal. She was granted refugee status and can now build a life here with her beautiful three young boys. ⭐💖 pic.twitter.com/dAvnQUtOLg
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ACC's Swofford on new basketball tournament format, potential cable channel
By David Teel
Virginia defeated Duke in last year's ACC tournament championship game. (Streeter Lecka / Getty Images)
At last check, the cheapest ticket on StubHub for Saturday night's ACC basketball tournament final was $80.13. In the lower deck inside the baselines: Anywhere from $583-$1,540.
The week is young, and prices figure to dip as tipoff nears, but still.
"Based on the ticket requests," ACC commissioner John Swofford told me, "I can already tell you the demand for semifinal and final tickets is beyond anything I've seen in a long time. I think that has something to do with the Friday-night, Saturday-night format, as well as the anticipation of the teams that could be playing."
Few know the event as well as Swofford. He's been commissioner since 1997, this after 17 years as athletic director at North Carolina, his alma mater.
During his AD tenure, in 1982, the ACC moved the tournament's championship game from its traditional Saturday night slot to Sunday afternoon, while shifting the semis from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. The reason, even back then, was television.
Just as television concerns dictated this year's return to the old format.
With ESPN its sole national broadcast partner, the ACC didn't have the Friday-Saturday option for decades. That's because the network dedicated those nights to the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden, where the semis and final became New York staples.
But then the Big East splintered for football reasons, with Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville moving to the ACC. And the new Big East, comprised of non-football, private schools such as Georgetown and St. John's, signed a TV deal with Fox Sports, opening ESPN's Big Monday during the regular season and the network's prime time Friday and Saturday slots during the tournament.
The ACC wisely jumped in, much to its coaches' liking.
Yes, the move means an earlier start to the tournament, Tuesday now that the ACC has mushroomed to 15 teams. And that's inconvenient, if not untenable, for many spectators hoping to attend early-round games as well.
But the overarching benefits prevail.
# Prime time attracts more television viewers.
# A Saturday final isn't suffocated two hours later by Selection Sunday's NCAA tournament bracket unveiling. The champions, and their fans, can actually revel in the accomplishment.
# Teams that make the NCAA tournament have an extra day to prepare and coordinate logistics. The hassles of playing a Sunday final, traveling home and heading back out Tuesday for Wednesday advance NCAA news conferences are considerable.
The ACC boasts the nation's Nos. 2 and 3 teams in Duke and Virginia, plus No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 14 Louisville and No. 19 North Carolina. And those rosters include cinch All-Americans such as Jahlil Okafor, Malcolm Brodgon and Jerian Grant, not to mention Hall of Fame coaches Mike Krzyzewski, Rick Pitino and Roy Williams.
So Swofford's right: Friday and Saturday nights could be epic.
"The comments that I've gotten back have been nothing but positive," he said, "certainly from coaches, and from fans as well."
# During our conversation last week, I asked Swofford about a proposal pitched recently on SI.com by Pacific 12 deputy commissioner Jamie Zaninovich. He advocates making men's basketball a one-semester sport, which would delay the season's start until mid-December and the Final Four until early May.
The idea is not new, but as a former member of the NCAA tournament selection committee, Zaninovich wields additional credibility. The traditions of March Madness and the familiar rhythms of the sports calendar notwithstanding, I love the notion.
Too much of college basketball is overshadowed by college football's burgeoning popularity. And after the smash debut last season of the College Football Playoff, that shadow is only going to grow.
Tipping off in mid-December, after final exams and before football's bowls, would give basketball an exclusive window. Conference seasons would commence after the Super Bowl, again providing more oxygen.
Swofford isn't quite as enthusiastic.
"I think it's worth talking about," he said. "Obviously it would be a radical departure from what we all know. But one of the things that I feel is weak with our current setup in basketball is it doesn't come out of the blocks at the beginning with a lot of notoriety or energy.
"It just seems to me the game deserves something better than that. I don't know what 'better than that' is, but you can identify that as one of the problems. Identifying how to fix that is a different story … and if we could get to the point where we had one starting date to celebrate the beginning of the season, I think it would be really great for college basketball."
Shifting dates for the NCAA tournament may not be possible until after 2024, when the NCAA's 14-year television contract with CBS and Turner expires.
"The practical aspects of the media contracts: That's probably a pretty steep hill to climb," Swofford said. "But I do think it's worthy of discussion, and it may lead to some solutions that are less radical."
Here's another way to enhance college basketball: For all its excesses, ESPN is where the NCAA tournament belongs. The network owns the regular season, and its exclusion from the tournament makes little sense.
CBS' Jim Nantz is a gold-standard broadcaster, but he doesn't parachute into basketball until March. His December-February assignments are the NFL and PGA Tour. ESPN has talent dedicated to the game, and it shows.
# Any conversation with Swofford must include an inquiry about a potential ACC channel, in concert with ESPN, dedicated to the league. Indeed, not asking would bring the wrath of the Twitterverse.
"We continue to explore it, and there's no substantive news to report about it at this point in time," he said with a chuckle, "and we'll probably say very little about it until there is."
Swofford's preference for understatement here is rational. Ratcheting up expectations and/or negotiating in public serve no one's interests.
But safe to say ACC and ESPN officials are encouraged by the SEC Network's successful rollout, which bodes well for an ACC launch in 2016 or '17.
# The 62nd ACC tournament, my 32nd, tips off at 1 p.m., Tuesday with Boston College-Georgia Tech, followed by Virginia Tech-Wake Forest.
The Daily Press limo awaits to rush Comrade Wood and me to Greensboro Coliseum, so I'm out. Talk to you on Twitter in a few from courtside.
I can be reached at 757-247-4636 or by email at dteel@dailypress.com. Follow me at twitter.com/DavidTeelatDP
Here's a link to my blog and Daily Press print columns.
At the risk of shameless self-promotion: My book, "Press Pass: Thirty Years of Bylines, Headlines and Deadlines," is available here.


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