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That was part of a recent note from a client, who was thanking me for the personal training I'd offered her over the last year. You'd be amazed to know how often I hear this, and I know other trainers hear it, too.
The fact is, getting in great physical shape is one of the best things you can do for your health. And enlisting the help of a fitness professional is one of the best ways you can invest in your process. You'll in all likelihood see bigger progress and have an easier (or at least more direct) route to that success. You'll also have someone supporting you and believing in you on days when you doubt yourself or are low on motivation.
This month is exactly the time of year when many folks are either starting to see some progress—or are experiencing frustration—with their New Year's fitness resolution routine. As a result, some will quit, while others will decide instead to reach out for help.
Truth be told, however, most fitness pros would be excited for you to introduce yourself and to ask them a few questions. The best ones would probably even be willing to give you a free "test drive" session to see what it's like to work with a trainer.
My advice? Take advantage of it. Get to know the trainers at your gym. If the club displays trainer bios, check them out. See whose profile and experience speak to you.
And, most of all, consider what your own needs are. What kind of trainer would be well-suited for you and your goals? Whom would you genuinely enjoy working with, and what trainer personalities might be most motivating for you?
Here are some thoughts to keep in mind as you start shopping.
When Will You See Each Other?
Let's start with the practicalities. You might have a great rapport with someone you catch on random holidays when you're off work and at the gym. But does that trainer work hours when you could regularly see him/her (i.e. once a week)?
You might really want to work with that person, but a partnership without frequent face time will likely soon get frustrating. Even if you choose to actually work together only, say, every other week, having your trainer present on the floor during your other workout times can be great for support. Your trainer can see how you're doing on your own, and you can benefit from his/her observations during your next conversation. Not to mention…never discount the motivational value of a passing high five.
Most trainers work a set weekly schedule (e.g Monday-Friday, Tuesday-Saturday, Sunday-Thursday). If you happen to have some flexibility in your weekly calendar, this might not be an issue.
Consider, too, what times of day you'd like to commit for a regular session. Trainers who work in the morning typically start at 6:00 a.m. and are done around 2:00 p.m. Some are certainly willing to work with clients earlier than 6:00, but this is generally a case-by-case scenario. Likewise, trainers who work the evening shift usually take clients until 8:00 p.m. (finishing by 9:00 p.m.). As with early morning arrangements, you may find a trainer who's willing to stay later. Don't hesitate to ask.
Will the Two of You Gel?
Now we're digging into the meat of the decision….
Rapport is essential in a fitness partnership. The fact is, if you don't look forward to the time you spend with your trainer, you won't see the benefits.
When personality is a good fit between the two of you, your work with a trainer usually transfers into a WWMTS (What would my trainer say?) model. In other words, you feel invested enough in your trainer's perspective and have enough faith in his/her direction that you start applying it outside your sessions. This is a good place to be. When a trainer can influence your decision-making and behavior outside of your in-person sessions, he/she has really earned your trust—and your business!
While shopping for your ideal trainer, you may think you want someone with a similar personality, but let yourself consider how others might work, too. Sometimes opposites attract! Don't be afraid to do some soul-searching and see what's going to be best for your needs. Maybe you'd be better off with someone who would give you messages in a different way than you'd give them to yourself.
If you find yourself on the fence, by all means browse and try out a few trainers before making a final choice. In the meantime, here are a few trainer personality types I see in action.
This kind of trainer embraces you with every step of your journey. Generous support comes naturally to them, and they're going to be there for you every step of the way with a soft touch.
They have enough energy for both of you—when you need it and when you don't! This kind of trainer always has your back and will push you every day in every workout.
This type of trainer smiles at you while letting you know you "need to get a little more serious." And he/she is serious about that!
These trainers will push you 2-3 steps further than you would on your own—pushing and pulling you, in fact! They most definitely have a whistle and a stopwatch in their drawer somewhere (if not their pocket).
This kind of trainer is something of a hybrid and has traits in common with a few of the types above. You may hate them at times but love that they know you personally and—because of that—know how to motivate you to be better. This is the ideal trainer for many people because they're not satisfied just training you for an hour. They want you to be accountable to your own success and will (in their own individual ways) educate and inspire you to change your behaviors during all of the other hours you aren't with them in an actual appointment.
I've known some people who think they want this—infinite understanding in a trainer, but that's not what will serve them in the long run. "It's ok! Everything's ok! You're ok! Pizza really is hard to resist, isn't it? At least you only ate half the pie, right?" This might seem great at the outset, but you'll probably get minimal progress (if any) here because they're going to support your excuses.
I've seen tough love work wonders for people—and their infinite gratitude for it later. However, you might meet someone who puts too much "tough" into that equation. Maybe it's continual pressure on you to be 100% perfect with your diet. Or maybe it's something like, "You mean you didn't work out at home when the snowstorm dumped four feet of snow on your driveway? No wonder you only lost 1/2 a pound this week." This isn't likely to be someone who can offer the best, balanced motivation for your program.
Trainers as a whole love to live a healthy lifestyle, but not everyone practices this the same way. And it also doesn't mean you need to do everything they do to be successful with your personal goals. "I eat organic, grass-fed, dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, sugar-free every day. It's not hard. You can do it. Plus, don't you want abs like this?" Or, "I don't do cardio at all, and I'm super ripped, so you don't need to either." Listen, everyone's metabolism is different and unique. The choices and goals that work for your trainer may or may not work for you!
Sometimes you meet a former athlete who thinks you should be one, too! That person may have been in great shape back then, and maybe they look like they still might be. The problem is, they take their identity as a trainer more from that previous athletic endeavor than from expertise about up-to-date training advances. They could love their job and have a great personality, but they might not be as knowledgeable about or committed to the latest strategies that are best for your personal needs and goals.
What Kinds of Specialties Should Your Ideal Trainer Have?
For some people this might be the most integral factor in making the best training partnership. Most trainers have been certified by a professional organization of some sort. Most also have a college degree of some kind (e.g. bachelor's, master's, and/or doctorate) in health, exercise or nutrition.
Truth be told, you really want to work with a trainer who has the specialties that complement your personal needs and goals. If you have a physical limitation or restriction, you may also want a trainer who has extensive experience or certification in that realm.
You might want to lose substantial weight or train for a fitness related performance event. Here are some examples of questions you can ask in a consultation to see if the trainer's experience and style might dovetail well with your physical or athletic goals.
I have A, B and C aesthetic goals in mind. Can this trainer both support my core intentions and offer practical perspective as well as assistance with those goals?
I want to lose a certain amount of weight/body fat. Does this trainer frequently work with clients whose primary goal is weight/fat loss? What strategies and approaches does he/she believe work effectively for this goal?
I'm recovering from a significant injury. Does this trainer have special knowledge about my type of injury and the accepted recovery techniques? Is he/she willing to build a fitness regimen that complements my rehabilitation needs? Will he/she consult my physician or physical therapy professional?
I consider myself at a maintenance point in my program. Can this trainer embrace that goal and also design a program that keeps me both motivated and at the top of my game?
My primary goal is training for my personal athletic pursuits (e.g. triathlons, etc.). Does this trainer have solid experience working with people in my situation and understand the demands of my sport?
I'm interested in developing a specific fitness capacity (e.g. speed, agility, endurance, power, strength). Does this trainer have interest in helping me with that, and what kinds of approaches does he/she use for this specific goal?
Knowledge, education, motivation and confidence are all things you should gain from each training session—no matter what your particular goal.
There are thousands of trainers to choose from at Life Time. The best place to start is by doing some research and observation. Think about what you're looking for, and see what might be available. You can always connect with a Training Manager as well to discuss your interests and to benefit from his/her expertise and recommendation.
Choosing to work with a trainer can be one of the best investments you'll make for your end goal and your overall experience. Whether your training partnership will be a short-term or long-term commitment, you should come away a better person for it.
Are you ready to invest in your success with a training partnership? Connect with our fitness professionals today.
If you enjoyed this article or learned something new, please share the post on your favorite social media channel. Thanks for reading.


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Q: mongodb update add each map structure's value There is a map data {"a": 2, "c": 4: "d": 0},
and a document in MongoDB:
{
    ...
    Score: {
        "a": 1,
        "b": 2,
        "c": 0,
    }
}

The updated document:
{
    ...
    Score: {
        "a": 3,
        "b": 2,
        "c": 4,
        "d": 0,
    }
}

Is what I wanted, now this works well:
bson.M{"$inc": bson.M{"Score.a": 2,....}},

How can I use a map without knowing its keys to update the document in MongoDB? Map to struct? Or use MongoDB .map function?

A: If you have the map value, you know its keys, you can loop over them, and build the "dynamic" update document manually.
This is how it could look like:
m := map[string]int{
    "a": 2,
    "c": 4,
    "d": 0,
}

incDoc := bson.M{}
for k, v := range m {
    incDoc["Score."+k] = v
}
updateDoc := bson.M{"$inc": incDoc}

Printing the result with
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", updateDoc)

Output would be:
bson.M{"$inc":bson.M{"Score.d":0, "Score.a":2, "Score.c":4}}

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Will the week's sea ice be thin or thick or not there at all? New kinds of satellite data and better computer modeling will provide crucial information to Arctic Ocean communities and industries.
The Arctic region's waterways are increasingly open for business, but that requires a better idea of where the sea ice will be. Collection of Dr. Pablo Clemente-Colon, Chief Scientist National Ice Center.
At the end of March, when Arctic sea ice hits its lowest extent for the season, scientists will turn to 40 years of satellite data to determine if 2018 is a year for the history books. Already, sea ice extent was at a record low for February, and it's been the warmest winter on record so far.
Increasingly, however, as global warming rapidly changes daily life in the Arctic, governments and scientists are placing a greater priority on using new technologies to make better predictions of seasonal sea ice, not just analyzing the past.
"We want more regional, fine-resolution information of where the sea ice might be," said Helen Wiggins, program director for the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, which oversees the Sea Ice Prediction Network.
In January, scientists, government officials and industry representatives from around the world met in Tromso, Norway, to discuss improving sea ice forecasting in the Arctic.
The region's waterways are increasingly open for business, with ships embarking earlier and returning later in summer, and researchers want to understand exactly how northern communities and industries use current sea ice predictions and charts to plan their operations and reduce economic and safety risks. This activity is only expected to increase in the coming years, as the European Arctic, the Northwest Passage and some areas in the Northern Sea Route experience less and less summer sea ice.
Most industries that operate in the Arctic, such as oil and gas or commercial fishing, require daily to three-day forecasts on where the sea ice edge is – the boundary between ice and open water. Tourism operators, on the other hand, might want seasonal information years ahead so they can plan when and where their cruise ships will go. Inaccurate or insufficient sea ice information can create situations where, for example, passenger ships or commercial vessels are entombed in ice and ultimately damaged or forced to abort their journey.
And while sea ice forecasts have traditionally provided information on the extent and movement of the ice, communities and industry also want to know about the concentration of the ice – is it thick, multiyear ice? Or slushy new ice that's easy to break through?
In the 1990s, Elizabeth Hunke, a developer at the United States Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, created the model we use today to predict sea ice patterns in the Far North. Scientists input information on wind direction, ocean currents, air temperature, solar radiation, humidity and sea surface temperature, and then see what the model churns out. "Typically, we run it alongside an atmospheric model or with an ocean model," said Hunke. Primarily, the model predicts the melting and growing of the sea ice, and the motion of the sea ice – how wind and ocean currents are pushing the ice around. Depending on what information is used, Hunke's model can provide information for different time scales – a week, a month, a season or a millennium.
Over the past 20 years, refinements have been made to the model, but there has never been one big overhaul. "It's used by a lot of groups for very long-range climate situations – thousands of years – but these are 'projections,' not specific predictions of what's going to happen on January 1, 2100," she said. Shorter-term predictions require in-depth knowledge of what the atmosphere is doing.
It's these shorter-term predictions, on what will happen weeks or months from now, that sea ice forecasters want to improve.
New data will help make such improvement goals a reality. NASA's long-planned IceSat-2 satellite is expected to launch later this year to gather three-dimensional information on the thickness of sea ice – something that has long evaded forecasters. The new polar-orbiting satellite NOAA-20, which launched in November 2017, is also gathering critical sea ice information, providing observations down to less than a quarter-mile (0.4km) resolution. It can use moonlight to observe what the sea ice is doing at night.
Ultimately, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) intends to add sea ice prediction to the overhaul of the U.S.' current worldwide weather forecasting model, which makes predictions up to 16 days into the future. By including sea ice, which impacts global weather patterns, the nation is highlighting the importance of understanding how and where ice moves.
While sea ice forecasting has seen and will continue to see considerable advances, not all people are even able to use existing forecasts. The Sea Ice Prediction Network was created in 2013 and has been facilitating discussions and workshops between forecasters and users around the world over the past four years to determine how science can better serve the public.
In Tromso, forecasters learned that different industries used information differently. Fisheries, for example, might need their data in a different format from those working in oil and gas. Sea ice charts need to be available online to be downloaded to ships at sea or provided in high-resolution radar image maps that can aid in real-time navigation.
As an example of making sea ice predictions useful, Wiggins points to a novel project for northern communities – the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook. This project provides forecasts for ice and weather to help subsistence hunters in Alaska predict where and when to hunt walrus. In turn, hunters can also share photos and reports to help other communities know what's happening on the ground, and provide validation for how well government sea ice forecasts are performing. She hopes these kinds of data-sharing projects could help ease daily life for the people who are expected to experience among the most rapid and dramatic effects of climate change.
"It's becoming more and more important to be able to provide people who live and work in the Arctic and who deal with ice to be able to predict [patterns] – for cost, for planning, for safety," she said.


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Q: Trigger custom js script by using Magento observer I need to trigger some custom js script in Magento for following actions,
1) customer account creation (customer_register_success)
2) Add to cart action (checkout_cart_product_add_after)
3) Remove a product from cart
4) Successful checkout
For now, I have created a module to observe customer_register_success and checkout_cart_product_add_after events and it is working as expected.
But, I am struggling to trigger the custom script on the particular event, please let me know suggestions to trigger the script.
Thanks in advance!


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text:
from __future__ import print_function
from mock import patch
import pytest
import os
import shutil
import tempfile

class Directory:
    def __init__(self, directory):
        self.directory = directory

    def __getitem__(self, name):
        path = os.path.join(self.directory, name)
        assert not os.path.relpath(path, self.directory).startswith('..')
        return File(path)

class File:
    def __init__(self, path):
        self.directory = os.path.dirname(path)
        self.path = path

    def fill(self, content):
        if not os.path.exists(self.directory):
            os.makedirs(self.directory)
        with open(self.path, 'w') as f:
            if isinstance(content, (list, tuple)):
                content = '\n'.join(content)
            f.write(content)

    def append(self, content):
        if isinstance(content, (list, tuple)):
            content = '\n'.join(content)
        self.fill("%s\n%s" % (self.content(), content))

    def content(self):
        with open(self.path) as f:
            return f.read()

@pytest.yield_fixture
def tempdir():
    """ Returns an object for easy use of a temporary directory which is
        cleaned up afterwards.

        Use tempdir[filepath] to access files.
        Use .fill(lines) on the returned object to write content to the file.
    """
    directory = tempfile.mkdtemp()
    yield Directory(directory)
    shutil.rmtree(directory)

@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
def mock():
    try:
        from unittest import mock
    except ImportError:  # pragma: nocover
        import mock
    return mock

@pytest.yield_fixture
def ployconf(tempdir):
    """ Returns a Configfile object which manages ploy.conf.
    """
    yield tempdir['etc/ploy.conf']

@pytest.yield_fixture
def os_execvp_mock():
    with patch("os.execvp") as os_execvp_mock:
        yield os_execvp_mock

@pytest.fixture
def yesno_mock(mock, monkeypatch):
    yesno = mock.Mock()

    def _yesno(question):
        try:
            expected = yesno.expected.pop(0)
        except IndexError:  # pragma: nocover
            expected = '', False
        cmd, result = expected
        assert question == cmd
        print(question)
        return result

    yesno.side_effect = _yesno
    yesno.expected = []
    monkeypatch.setattr('ploy.common.yesno', yesno)
    return yesno

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this is a great example as to how good they look after being professionally restored. We can make exact copies of the original signs where they are either damaged or missing.
These traditional old cast street nameplates are attached to planed oak backing plates & sturdy oak posts that really add character to any rural area.
Just look at these sad looking old cast metal & pressed aluminium street nameplate signs. It would be so much more cast effective to restore them just like the one featured at the top of this page. It is almost criminal to replace these character signs with modern versions.
A fine example of a run down looking cast metal street nameplate badly in need of a refurbishment. The cost of restoring these signs is so much cheaper that replacing them with new signs. Where you have a case of only one of these signs is left in situ we can make exact copies of the originals to provide a complete set for any high street, when in place they look as if they have always been there.
We can restore these signs at a very competitive cost which works out to be just a fraction of the cost of a modern replacement.
Our lovely old towns & villages would really benefit from saving & restoring these traditional cast street nameplate signs. We can carry out their restoration to a very high standard.


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Q: how to make card deck and carousel overlapped soo im trying to make a website that look like this

u can see theres a white background between my yellow background and my carousel. is there anyway to make the background behind my card deck not white instead the same color my carousel?
HTML

Card 1

Card text 1

Card 1

Card text 1

Card 1

Card text 1

Card 1

Card text 1

Card 1

Card text 1

CSS
#card-deck {
  padding-top: 190px;
  height: 450px;
  width: 1200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#card-deck .card {
  padding-left: 20px;
  padding-right: 20px;
  max-width: 300px;
  text-align: center;
}

#card-deck .card h5 {
  color: orange;
}

A: Edit: We need to make your card container float over the two elements, because setting background-color to the card element, covers the background below it.
To do this, we need modify the #card-deck

*

*position:relative so we could adjust its position according to its parent div

*add top:30px; to position it 30px below its initial position

*remove the height and padding properties as we're going to rely on the cards' height

*add z-index:1 to position it over the other elements

Use this css for the #card-deck
#card-deck {
  width: 1200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  position:relative;
  top:30px;
  z-index:1;
}

Here's the updated fiddle;
https://jsfiddle.net/8y4ojb5t/

A: Its because you forgot # to background-color.
Your css:
#backcolor{
    background-color: F1F0F0;
}

Use this:
#backcolor{
    background-color: #F1F0F0;
}

Your image is cutting because of container-fluid 's padding left and right. So you have to remove that padding.
Try this css:
 .container-fluid{
         padding-left: 0;
         padding-right: 0;
    }


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CAST: Prachya Pinkaew, Tony Jaa, Petchtai Wongkamlao, Bongkoj Khongmalai, Xing Jing,
CAST: Garth Jennings, Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly, Jennifer Saunders, Jennifer Hudson, Garth Jennings, Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Kroll, Beck Bennett, Jay Pharoah, Nick Offerman,
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CAST: Peter Jackson, Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell, Kyle Chandler, Lobo Chan, Thomas Kretschmann, Evan Parke,
King Creole
CAST: Michael Curtiz, Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dean Jagger, Dolores Hart, Vic Morrow, Paul Stewart, Brian G. Hutton, Liliane Montevecchi, Jan Shepard,
Sing Street
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Drunken Master
CAST: Woo-ping Yuen, Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang,
Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist
CAST: Steve Oedekerk, Steve Oedekerk, Fei Lung, Leo Lee, Ling Ling Tse, Lin Yan,
CAST: Jack King,
CAST: Aaron Sorkin, Rob Lowe, Moira Kelly, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, Janel Moloney,
CAST: Gore Verbinski, Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, Brian Cox, Jane Alexander, Lindsay Frost, Amber Tamblyn, Rachael Bella,
CAST: Antoine Fuqua, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane, Stellan Skaarsgard,
CAST: Mark Sandrich, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel,
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
CAST: Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ming Na, Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Ving Rhames, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Jean Simmons,
The Way of the Dragon
CAST: Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall, Ing-Sik Whang, Tony Liu, Unicorn Chan, Malisa Longo, Fu Ching Chen, Di Chin, Wu Ngan, Robert Chen,
King Kong Vs. Godzilla
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Quebec City researchers pave the way for novel treatment of pulmonary hypertension
(24 October 2010: VIDYYA MEDICAL NEWS SERVICE) -- A Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher has discovered what could be the first truly effective breakthrough in the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary hypertension, a devastating, life-threatening condition which results in an enlargement of the heart.
"We have discovered an early warning system in a protein called PIM-1," Dr. Sébastien Bonnet told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.
Dr. Bonnet has established that the PIM-1 cells can be used as markers of pulmonary hypertension.
"Blood samples were taken from patients to measure PIM-1 expression in the blood," says Dr. Bonnet, who is a professor at Laval University and a researcher at Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec. "We were surprised to find that the greater the PIM-1 levels, the more severe the pulmonary hypertension in the patient."
He says this opens the doors to using regular blood tests to look at PIM-1 levels. "If there is a slight increase in PIM-1, we will know that something is going on." This is important since the condition is under-diagnosed and often not discovered until it is in a late stage. Without earlier treatment it has a very poor prognosis. The condition has traditionally been diagnosed by a six minute walking test.
PIM-1 also offers the opportunity to move beyond the diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension to treatment. By blocking the PIM-1 protein, researchers were able to reverse the condition.
"This is a remarkable finding," says Dr. Bonnet. "We have found that using gene therapy to inhibit the inappropriate activation of this protein is a novel and effective therapy that can reverse the disease altogether."
Before this discovery there has been no agent to reverse the disease. Current drug treatments can improve quality of life but to this date there has been nothing that can cure the disease.
"Pulmonary hypertension is a rare but life-threatening condition," says Heart and Stroke Foundation spokesperson Dr. Beth Abramson. "These are often very sick individuals. By the time a patient gets to a doctor, the disease is usually well established." Individuals at increased risk of developing pulmonary hypertension include those with a family history and people with a history of blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism).
She recommends that patients pay particular attention to any symptoms like shortness of breath or extreme tiredness. "There are treatments that can help patients live longer, healthier lives."
Pulmonary hypertension is abnormally high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries, the arteries which carry blood from the heart to the lungs. The condition makes it more difficult for blood to flow to the lungs, causing shortness of breath, fatigue, and swelling of the feet and ankles. It can make everyday tasks almost impossible.
The number of Canadians with pulmonary hypertension is difficult to estimate, because it is under-diagnosed and the early symptoms are common to other conditions such as asthma and general fatigue. In addition, few studies have been conducted.


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Q: Kanbanish visualization and workflow management for multi-project, multi-team department I'm trying to think of a simple (and agile in nature) way to visualize a large department's work and bottlenecks, with the idea of gradually improving the process once we have the necessary data.
The problem is that we have multiple groups of developers working on multiple projects. Some developers are cross-project and some projects are cross-team. Developers are very set in their ways (we don't want to force C# or Java developers to learn Delphi 6 during pair programming).
Another issue is that a very small QA team is shared between all developers/projects.
I need ideas for how to organize a Kanban (or similar) taskboard so that stories are categorized by project (or team?) but that the WIP limits are still applied across the board.
Also, how would the standup meetings go? Including everyone in a single meeting would take up too much time and result in information overload, but splitting the meeting makes us lose out on a lot of the transparency that agile enforces.
So, any ideas related to taskboards and standup meetings are welcome.
Also, alternatives to Kanban with the same level of prescription as Kanban (in other words not much) are very welcome.

A: Eylean Board could be a solution in this situation. Eylean board offers data slicing in visual level and in data level. Arrange by rows, columns, categories, assignments. It supports task grouping into categories which can work as different projects and may be placed into different rows of the task board. Any of these options leaves ability to apply WIP limits across the board. The app itself was built to suite kanban so you should find helpful.

A: Corey Ladas over at Lean Software Engineering has a few articles on how to design a Kanban board for various workflows. I also highly recommend the kanbandev mailing list - the community is pretty mature, but searching through the archives should prove useful.
For standup meetings, keep in mind that Kanban does not prescribe the standard Scrum-style standup (What did you do yesterday, what did you do today, any blockages?). These can still be useful to do with smaller groups, but with a larger team (you never mention how large - 20? 200?) you can just focus on the blockages. What people are currently working on is visible for all on the board, and the next priority (i.e. What will I do next?) should be in some sort of "Ready" queue, which is pulled from according to your different classes of service.

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I'm trying to think of a simple (and agile in nature) way to visualize a large department's work and bottlenecks, with the idea of gradually improving the process once we have the necessary data.

Maybe not the expected answer but this is exactly what value stream mapping is for:

(source: killen.org)
And this is where you should start.
Have a look at Mary Poppendieck material on this subject (e.g. this presentation, this one, or her books).

A: In Agile projects, it's a common practice to visualize and share project status using charts or diagrams on boards. While no single document delivers all of the ammunition agile teams need to get the rhythm, this set of visual materials offers an easy framework to help guide software development teams through the various agile cycles.
A variation of the Kanban, an easy way to represent these cards, with some enhancements to this representation and a synchronized use of the concept, ArabiaGIS introduced the Sync Kanban concept.
The Sync Kanban is composed of a board for each project where the team leader or the responsible developer will try to represent the project status and the features progress with pies.
for complete description: http://www.jaftalks.com/Home/Show/Sync-Kanban-Agile-Project-Management

A: I believe it is impossible to have a physical or (any other) board that shows projects, teams and development flow simultaneously. Moreover, there is no software that provides good team-level visibility, almost all project management tools built on top of Project concept, and little use Team concept.
I've been thinking about this problem for 2 years and came up with a solution that we are going to implement in TargetProcess, but we are not there yet. The basic idea is to allow to filter and group work flexibly by teams or by projects to provide bird-eye view and zoom in to see details for particular project or particular team. I can't imagine how it can be done on physical kanban board.
Here are some ideas.


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After a 3-hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City, your excursion of Mekong Delta Region begins by taking a horse cart to a performance site where Vietnamese traditional music (a folk-art form from Southern Vietnam accredited by UNESCO in 2013) can be heard. Then you will taste the wonderful flavor of a seasonal tropical fruit.
Next, you will hop on a small hand-rowing boat (the main mean of transportation in Mekong Delta) to observe the local life from both sides of the creek. A home lunch will be served with honey tea. Then learn how to make coconut candies from a workshop. Our air-conditioned vehicle will take you back to the modern Ho Chi Minh City.


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Jules Le Gall est un ouvrier de l'Arsenal de Brest, militant anarchiste, syndicaliste et franc-maçon né le  à Brest et mort en déportation à Buchenwald le 13 ou le .

Biographie

Engagement syndical
Jules Le Gall est le fils d'Eugène Le Gall et d'Émeline Charpentier, il entre dans la vie active comme chaudronnier à l'Arsenal de Brest. Il travaille alors avec Victor Pengam avec qui il cofonde en 1903 un des premiers groupes de la jeunesse syndicale qui compte par la suite une soixantaine de jeunes adhérents, tous ouvrier de l'Arsenal. A la suite des grèves de mai et , se crée la bourse du travail de Brest dont il est secrétaire et Victor Pengam le trésorier. En , il est délégué de la Confédération générale du travail (CGT) lors du congrès confédérale de Bourges. En , il est poursuivi en justice pour , son procès se conclut par un acquittement en , il continue ses activités de délégué de la CGT.

Engagement libertaire
Pacifiste convaincu et internationaliste, il défend le droit d'asile pour les anarchistes espagnols Durruti et Ascaso, accueille à Brest des exilés pourchassés dans leur pays comme l'ukrainien Nestor Makhno et l'italien Pio Turroni, et participe activement aux manifestations en faveur de Sacco et Vanzetti.

Il participe dans les rangs républicains à la guerre civile espagnole, aux côtés de Louis Lecoin et Sébastien Faure.

Engagement maçonnique
Jules Le Gall est initié en franc-maçonnerie en  au sein de loge brestoise appartenant au Grand Orient de France, . Il y côtoie plusieurs élus de la ville, au sein d'une loge fortement engagée dans l'action sociétale comme les phalanstères fouriéristes, la ligue de la régénération humaine de Paul Robin ou encore par des aides à la Ruche de Sébastien Faure. Le combat pour la laïcité crée une dynamique avec les militants libertaires et les libres penseurs. Sa loge soutien son projet de maison du peuple pour laquelle il lance une souscription en 1920. Il participe régulièrement aux travaux de la loge et produit de nombreuses synthèses de qualité  sur l'anarchisme qu'il juge mal expliqué dans la société, la laïcité mais aussi sur le symbolisme, il s'expose comme un orateur de qualité et occupe plusieurs postes d'officier. Il est élu vénérable maitre le  et engage la loge dans un rapprochement avec une autre loge  dont il partage avec le nouveau vénérable l'avocat Jean-Louis Laloüet, les idéaux pacifistes. Il réalise ensemble la fondation d'une société qui prend le nom de Club philosophique qui achète un immeuble pour le reconstruire et donner un temple commun aux francs-maçons de Brest. Durant les mouvements de grève de 1935 ou deux ouvriers meurent, les deux loges se mobilisent et soutiennent le mouvement en réunissant des fonds pour les familles des grévistes tués. Jules Legall reconduit pendant neuf ans quitte la charge de vénérable à la veille de la guerre.

En , dénoncé comme franc-maçon, il est convoqué par la police allemande qui le questionne sur l'activité de la loge des Amis de Sully. Leur but étant d'avoir la liste des membres et de confisquer le temple à leur profit. Il est finalement arrêté chez lui le , les Allemands exigent la liste complète des francs-maçons de Brest. Son refus de répondre entraine son incarcération à proximité de Nantes à la prison maritime des Rochettes. En  il est transféré  au camp de Royallieu à Compiègne, il est ensuite déporté avec  politiques au camp de Buchenwald après avoir été blessé lors d'une tentative d'évasion organisé par ses amis. Porteur du matricule 44186, il meurt en déportation le 13 ou le  probablement d'une gangrène.

Posterité
Sa tombe au cimetière de Saint Martin de Brest disparu, la ville de Brest donne son nom à un jardin en 2008, en rappelant dans la délibération et sur la plaque ses engagements d'anarchiste et de franc-maçon.

Notes et références

Annexes

Articles connexes
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Bibliographie
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Anarchiste français
Syndicaliste français du XIXe siècle
Syndicaliste français du XXe siècle
Personnalité de la franc-maçonnerie française
Naissance en décembre 1881
Naissance à Brest
Décès en juin 1944
Décès à Buchenwald
Mort en déportation
Décès à 62 ans


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Q: Can tuple literals in C# 7.0 enable aspect oriented programming I'm referring to tuple literals as described here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/08/24/whats-new-in-csharp-7-0/#comment-321926
Love the tuple literal idea.
However I foresee a lot of looking up the order of the items in return tuples and would like to know how we can get around this.
Wouldn't it make more sense for example to have the name of the item in the tuple be the identity defining aspect, instead of the order? Or is there a way to do this I'm not seeing?
For example: suppose NextEmployee() is some library method that I don't have the source code of, and isn't particularly well documented, and suppose it returns (firstname: "jamie", lastname: "hince", id: 102348) to me, and I say:
(string lastname, var _, int __) = NextEmployee(); // I only need the last name

The compiler would either happily assign firstname to lastname, or warn or error about it. Why not just map lastname to lastname?
I'd see that allowing for more loosely coupled architecture, if we didn't have to remember the index of lastname in the tuple, and could just ask for an aspect "lastname" like that.

A: Tuples are intended to be just a bag of variables. As variables, you can assign any value assignable to the variable type regardless of the variable name.
The names are only an indication as variable names are. The only difference in return values is that the compiler persists the name of the tuple elements using TupleElementNames attribute.
In fact, even in the presence of the names, the compiler warns you if you don't use the same names as, usually, it's a mistake and still valid syntax:
(string firstname, string lastname, int id) NextEmployee()
    => (apples: "jamie", potatos: "hince", oranges: 102348);
/*
Warning CS8123 The tuple element name 'apples' is ignored because a different name is specified by the target type '(string firstname, string lastname, int id)'.
Warning CS8123 The tuple element name 'potatos' is ignored because a different name is specified by the target type '(string firstname, string lastname, int id)'.
Warning CS8123 The tuple element name 'oranges' is ignored because a different name is specified by the target type '(string firstname, string lastname, int id)'.
*/

The syntax your using here:
(string lastname, var _, int __) = NextEmployee();

is not tuple declaration syntax, but tuple deconstruction syntax that creates a LastName variable, a _ variable and a __ variable.
These are all equivalents that produce the same result:

*

*(var lastname, var _, var __)  = NextEmployee(); // or any combination ofvarand type names

*var (lastname, _, __)  = NextEmployee();
To declare a tuple to receive the return of the method, you would need to declare a tuple variable:

*

*(string firstname, string lastname, int id) t = NextEmployee();

*var t = NextEmployee();
But it seems your intent is to ignore the LastName and id values:
(_, string lastname, _) = NextEmployee(); // declares a lastname variable and ignores firstname and id

But if you really write (string lastname, _, _) = NextEmployee();, then you are assigning a local string variable named lastname with the value of the returned string "variable" firstname.
Just remember, tuples are not entities. They are sets of values. If the library you are using uses tuples as entities, be aware that chances are something else might be wrong with that library.

A: Why not? Well because the underlying runtime doesn't even know about the names.
The compiler would have to do it during compilation. And where do we stop? What about typos, capitalization, etc?
In my opinion, the way it currently is right now is okay.
If you feel different about this subject, ask your question over at the official language design repository on github by raising an issue:
https://www.github.com/dotnet/csharplang
Paulo explained the technical details pretty well already so I'm not going to repeat that.


It's true I tell ya!
Over the course of writing Brewing Britain and throughout my drinking career I have heard many a tall tale, always told most earnestly and always told at least two or three pints into the evening. I've started to call these tales pub facts, they sit on that line between total crap and the truth. This is the start of my collection of some of my favourites and I hope that by immortalizing them as the written word these tales and facts will stay alive for a lot longer.
This pub fact always starts about a friend of a friend and he or she notices that their pet Boa constrictor has been not been eating any food for the last week or so. Slightly concerned they both visit the vet who reassuringly says that the snake is showing no signs of ill health and that as a precautionary method they should keep an eye on it and report back if there is no change.
Being a pampered snake it is allowed to go where it likes in the house and is not kept confined. Just like a beloved pet dog the snake normally sleeps at the bottom of the owners bed. After a further week the snake is still not eating and to add to the strange behaviour it has started to sleep like a human, head on a pillow and outstretched on the bed beside its dutiful owner.
This time an old and wise snake expert who lives down the road is called upon. He solemnly listens to the snake owner as he tells him how the snake has now gone three weeks without eating and is lying prostrate on the bed. Looking alarmed and animated the old and wise expert tells the owner that he must get that snake out of the house immediately as his life is in great danger.
The wise expert explains how the snake is measuring himself up against the owner to ensure that he is long enough to ingest him. Content that he is he is making room inside his belly by starving himself as soon as there is enough empty space, probably in the next day or two the snake will turn on the person that has nurtured him for all of these years and the owner will be slowly digested!
The next day the snake is put down and the owner has a lucky escape.
There is always someone who has done something better, bigger or more impressive than you or I. This collection of stories takes that a stage further and explores the far reaches of human achievement some of the stories question the very fundamentals of what it is to be human.
Prahlad Jani is an 85 year old man living in India. Whilst his age is impressive it's certainly not something of extraordinary merit. What is that seemingly unremarkable Hindu holy man has managed to go without food for the last 70 years. On top of that he says he can walk for hundreds of miles without feeling in the least bit tired.
Instead he had trained himself to get all of his energy from the sun hitting the back of his throat. He needs only open his mouth for 20 minutes a day facing the sun and he is fully sated.
A few years ago NASA got wind of this and were of course very interested. This could make a huge difference to space travel, imagine if astronauts didn't have to eat anything. Think of the possibilities, we could live on other planets and not have to worry about growing food, we could use the stars to feed ourselves. Under the guise of a press conference, allowing the worlds media to also be present to keep everything under wraps, NASA persuaded Jani to be put under lock and key for two weeks without any food or water in order to run a series of experiments on him. He agreed and after two weeks without any nourishment he said, 'I am strong and healthy, because it is the way God wants me to be.' He put his ability to go without food down to a religious experience he had at age 11, when he decided to devote his life to the Hindu goddess Amba. In return Amba feeds Mr Jani with an invisible 'elixir' that gives him everything he needs.
NASA could only conclude that this man was an evolutionary mutant. He was the next step in human being, something we could become. They also concluded that he was lying about his age and that this man was over 200 years old. They are currently looking for astronaughts from around the Indian sub continent.
There is a pig farmer living in Vietnam called Thai Ngoc who in 1973 came down with a fever. He never truly recovered from the fever as it robbed him of the ability to get a decent bit of shut eye and as such for the last 40 odd years (and they have been odd), Thai hasn't slept a jot of sleep. He has tried everything from sleeping pills, mediation to drinking until blackout. Nothing works.
If you or I went for longer than a couple of nights without sleep we would start hallucinate and possibly start losing our mind too. Thai seems to suffer no ill affect from his lack of slumber, both physically and mentally. Indeed, he can even carry bags of rice weighing the same weight as a grown man two miles every day.
Anyone who has ever studied Tai Chi will be away of the benefits. Greater relaxation, higher levels of fitness and suppleness but your £5 a session down the local village hall could be adding years onto your life, 200 years to be precise. A fella called Mr. Li Qing Yun who was born right back in 1677 and lived through the reign of nine Emperors until 1933 would testify to that. He also put down his longevity to a drink of "wolfberry juice" that he had every day. Also known as gogi berries these berries do indeed contain a whole host of good stuff for lowering cholesterol, removing toxins and helping to maintain good functioning of the organs.
Perhaps mine should be a pint of gogi berry juice next!
Let me know in the comments below if you liked these pub facts as I have a load more!


Luca Pesaro was born in Italy in 1971, but he has spent most of his adult life in the US or UK. Being a proud UWCer, he likes to think of himself as just another random citizen of the world.
After spending a few years gaining a degree (LSE) and masters (Bocconi University) in the pseudo-science that is Economics, he got bored, jumped the gun and became a derivatives trader in financial markets, first with the tragic Lehman Brothers, then with a bunch of other banks, somehow always managing not to blow up. He wrote his first novel in Italian in the mid-nineties, but then decided English worked much better for the type of stuff he liked to read and write, and switched. (Easy to do, he has forgotten most of his written Italian).
Recently he has decided to dedicate himself fully to his great passion since the age of eight – writing, mainly Fiction, but anything that amuses him at any given time. Zero Alternative is his first English novel, and he is hard at work on his second thriller, A Game of Kings.
He is married to the awesome Francesca and they have two children, Asia and Joshua, who always manage to annoy, surprise and delight beyond any reasonable expectation.


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Chinese travelers facing more countries' COVID-19 testing requirements amid outbreak
China is grappling with an explosive outbreak of COVID-19 as health officials relax their draconian "zero-COVID" containment policy, prompting several countries around the world to mandate testing for Chinese travelers.
The United States cited the rise in infections as well as the Chinese government's "lack of adequate and transparent epidemiological data and viral genome sequences" in announcing a testing requirement last week.
Passengers prepare to board a flight at an airport in north-central China's Jiangxi province.
(AP Photo / Ng Han Guan)
Italy also mandated testing for Chinese travelers last week after more than half of all passengers on flights arriving at Milan's Malpensa airport tested positive for COVID-19.
COVID IN BEIJING "PEAKS" AS HOSPITALS, FUNERAL HOMES ARE FILLED
The European Union will hold an integrated crisis response meeting on Wednesday to decide whether to impose entry restrictions on the 27-nation bloc.
Travelers walk through a terminal hall at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, on March 23, 2022.
(REUTERS/Tingshu Wang)
Australia announced on Monday that travelers from China, Hong Kong and Macau will be required to undergo pre-departure testing for COVID-19.
"This decision has been taken to safeguard Australia from the risk of potential new emerging variants, and in recognition of the rapidly evolving situation in China and the uncertainty surrounding emerging viral variants," the Australian Department of Health explained.
Residents line up outside a pharmacy to buy coronavirus antigen test kits, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China, on December 15, 2022.
(China Daily via REUTERS/File photo)
Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, India and other countries have implemented similar restrictions on arrivals from China.
China's zero-covid strategy kept millions locked up for weeks at a time, but the government began to loosen that policy last month after mass protests.
Paul Best is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. Story ideas and tips can be sent to Paul.Best@fox.com and on Twitter: @KincaidBest.


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The lower head shots were taken on his 7th birthday!
Pics above do not do him justice! He is an amazing boy with wonderful structure, extremely heavy bone, effortless movement and a heart of gold! His temperament is, without question, exactly what a true Newf should be! He is the most loving, gentle soul you could hope to find. I am very happy to have Baloo as part of my family :) He has a very bright future ahead!
Special Thanks to Debbie Wright and Paige Tilford for handling Baloo!
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Binungan Mine
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SINARMAS MSIG TOWER, Lantai 8. Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 21. RT 012 RW 001 Kel. Karet, Kec. Setiabudi
Mines & projects in Indonesia
Coal (thermal)
Production and operational data has not been publicly available since 2014.
Owners & OPERATOR
Pt Berau Coal Energy Tbk. (operator)	 100 % Direct
Through PT Berau Coal, the Company has evolved into one of the largest thermal coal producers in Indonesia.
Pre-Tertiary, Eocene and Oligocene sedimentary rocks are present in the Tanjung Redeb area but none are found in the Berau Coalfield (Lati, Kelai and Binungan areas). The Eocene and Oligocene sediments are dominantly marine, fine grained clastic rocks with rare volcanic units, although non-marine sandstones and minor coal deposits occur immediately above the basal Tertiary unconformity.
The oldest rocks present in the Berau Coalfield are of Miocene age and belong to the Sterile Formation. This formation is composed of marine mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. The sandstone is massive and fine- to very fine-grained and it is interbedded with mudstone and siltstone. Burrows are common in all lithologies.
The Sterile Formation conformably underlies the coal-bearing Berau Formation although the contact between the formations is difficult to place in the Berau Coalfield. The Berau Formation, at least 400 metres thick, contains interbedded mudstone, siltstone, sandstone and coal. Shell fossils, plant impressions, coal flakes and burrows are common, particularly in the mudstone.
The coal measures of the Tarakan Basin occur in the Berau Formation which contains at least 19 seams. The thicknesses of the seams range from a few centimetres up to 4.5 m with dips of 5° to 20°. Exposure of the seams is good and they can be traced in three geographic areas which correspond to structural zones formed by post Miocene folding - Kelai, Lati and Binungan.
PT Berau Coal, the main operating subsidiary of the Company, owns a 118,400 ha mining concession area located in the Berau Regency, approximately 300 kilometers north of Samarinda, the capital city of the East Kalimantan province. The concession area is based on a letter from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources No. 178.K/40.00/DJG/205 dated 7 April 2005 and valid until 2025, with possible extension options, 2 x 10 years.
PT Berau Coal has three principal open cut mining operations; Lati, Binungan, and Sambarata, located in an 118,400 hectare concession area.
The coal is extracted using hydraulic excavators and loaded into dump trucks. From the mine it is transported over an all weather haul road, a distance of some 11 kilometres to the coal processing plant. The coal is crushed blended and placed onto stockpiles. It is then loaded into barges.
From the Binungan mine the coal is blended to produce the brands of Ebony and Mahoni/Mahoni-B.
Total mineable coal resources delineated to-date in Binungan Blocks 1-4, Block 5, 6 & 7 are in excess of 1.954 million tonnes.
Mining is similar to that of Lati. From the mine the coal is transported to the curshing plan a distance of some 2.5 kilometres.


On Wednesday night, CreateVoice (the youth collective at the Victoria & Albert Museum) had our quarterly meeting with the Director of the V&A, Martin Roth. This time, rather than our usual discussion session, Martin had kindly arranged for a few of us active on the Director's Meeting programme to attend the opening night of Photo London. Held at Somerset House, Photo London's programme spans all aspects of photographic practice, featuring exhibitions, talks, book signings, screenings and works exhibited by many of the world's leading galleries. The opening night was incredibly busy (we spotted Boris Johnson, and one of my favourite photographers Susan Derges was apparently around as well), filled to the brim with amazing photography of all kinds.
The exhibiting galleries had an incredible variety of artists on show, and it was particularly difficult to get around to see them all in our limited visit - however, I definitely picked out a few favourites. I loved Flore's Series Choses vues aux Royaume de Siam (shown by Galeria Blanca Berlin): a series of tiny square photographs created using a silver gelatine and gum bichromate process, resulting in a dreamy and atmospheric set of vignettes. Also on display were Sacha Goldberger's humourous yet beautifully executed images of comic book characters photographed in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings which - justifiably - went viral last year, as well as David Yarrow's spectacular photograph Mankind II, featuring the cattle of the Dinka tribe in Sudan against the cultivated smoke they use to keep away mosquitoes. I was absolutely bowled over by an image from Sohei Nishino's Diorama Maps series: Hockney-esque photomontages of truly mammoth proportions, built of the streets and landmarks of cities to make a map of each.
Alongside the galleries, there are also exhibitions: I popped into Beneath the Surface, which the V&A was commissioned to produce, as well as the show of Sebastiao Salgado's work Genesis in Platinum. Both of these shows were beautifully produced, as expected, and definitely worth seeing. The tickets for the event are a little pricey at £20/£17 (I was glad to be a guest!) - but you get a lot for the money.


Basho4Humanity | Letters from Basho: Introduction ( Introduction to this site ) | English collection of Basho's linked verse, tanka, haiku, letters, prose, letters, and spoken word about humanity - with commentaries to enable the ordinary reader to understand and enjoy Basho's words.
believed to be Shakespeare's lament for his eleven-year-old son Hamnet who died the year the play was written.
For Basho, in contrast, we have the ocean of his journals and essays, but even more revealing are 229 letters confirmed as authentic. Many of these surpass one page. Also, Japanese anthologies provide voluminous commentaries on every person, place, thing and idiom mentioned. These are a goldmine of information about Basho as well as about his society – and these letters should be studied in anthropology and sociology courses worldwide.
Well now, Old Soha still has Sodo's book.
I asked him to return it quickly.
Would you tell him again?
And please give the same message to Jokyu.
Things have not changed very much in 300 years. Not-giving-back-things-we-borrow is universal and timeless. We travel through Basho's mind to meet his neighbors.
Although we have abundant poetry from Basho age 20 or 21 in 1665, and prose from age 28 in 1672, the earliest extant letter is from 1681 -- when Basho was 37 years old in a society that considered age 40 to be "old." The letters in the six years from 1681 to 1686 number only 18 -- according to Kon Eizo's Basho Letter Anthology. (The 60 letters in this collection are given with their numbers in this anthology of 229 letters, found in any major library in Japan, so readers of Japanese can easily find the original.) From the next three years, 1687 to '89, we find 34 letters.
Only from 1690, after he finished his famous journey to the Deep North and began his two year leisurely sojourn in the Kansai area, did Basho's letter writing came into full bloom: from Spring of 1690 to Autumn 1691, he wrote 70 letters. In winter 1691, he returned to a more busy life in Edo, but continued his letter habit; in his two and a half year in Edo he wrote 60. Then, on his final journey in the five months from June 3rd to the end of autumn, he wrote 29 letters including some of his longest. Letters in this collection from these five months fill one third of this collection. Finally, in winter on his deathbed he wrote one letter to his brother, and dictated his Will which mostly personal messages to friends and followers, and therefore included in letter anthologies.
Some authors consider Basho's journal Oku no Hosomichi – which I translate A Narrow Path in the Heartlands -- the highlight of his work, and discuss only the years up to and including that journey in 1689 recounted in the journal. They skip over the years from 1690 to the summer of 1694, then discuss a few haiku written that autumn approaching his death. Those four and a half years, however, produced three-quarters of his letters, and much of his linked verse. In these years of his maturity (age 45 to 50) considered "old age," Basho emphasized youthfulness and unconventionality (see Letters 1, 14, 62, and 140).
In many of his letters to followers, Basho includes haiku or renku he recently wrote. This way is how he shared verses with them, teaching them by example. A number of letters to different people, including Letter 57 to Sampu, contain this poem which Basho recognized as the birth of his poetic ideal of karumi, or Lightness.
While I include some of these verses, I leave out the majority, since the focus of this book is the letter communications, and unless the verses directly relates to the letter content, I do not want to dilute these letters with haiku which may not interest you.
Ensui was the poetry name of Basho's childhood friend Soushira, the oldest son in a prosperous merchant family in their home town. his sake factory-and-shop was called Uchi no Kami which means "The divine within." In 1689 Soushira retired from the business and shaved his head to take the Buddhist name Isen. Basho calls him by any of the three, but whatever Basho calls him, we call him Ensui.
He was four years older than Basho, and I suspect that Ensui was in some way Basho's mentor. Basho's older brother Hanzaemon was only about 18 when their father died and he became head of the household, too busy to hang out with 12 year old Basho. Ensui became sort of a 'big brother' at this time – maybe. Or maybe not.In any case Basho and Ensui must have had fun together in those days. I say this because in his letters to Ensui, Basho is so much fun, so quirky and himself. To know Basho, the warm affectionate Basho, read the Letters to Ensui.
Basho wrote seven letters to Ensui, one to Ensui and Somu, and one to Ensui and Doho. In each of the letters to Ensui in this collection, you may notice a common ingredient: Basho to Ensui always mentions food -- in particular the special foods of their hometown.
A large, expansive feeling from Basho's childhood friend.
When Basho first met Kyokusui in 1689, this wealthy 29-year old samurai in Zeze (Otsu), on the southern shore of Lake Biwa, joined his school of poetry. The next year, after Basho finished his long journey to the Deep North, he went to his hometown Iga, but then decided Zeze was where he wanted to be. He seemed to draw energy from the people of Zeze – Chigetsu, Otokuni, Shado Masahide, and especially Kyokusui and his infant son Takesuke.
Kyorai was born in Nagasaki, the second son of a doctor of Chinese medicine. When he was eight, his family moved to Kyoto; it is said, he walked with his father – a bit of personal history which may have endeared Basho to him. Like most second sons in Japan's household system –like Basho – Kyorai had no role to fill in his household, so he had to reach out to find things to do. He went back to Kyushu to practice martial arts, but grew tired of that, so he returned to Kyoto. No doubt he helped out in the clinic as his older brother took over father's practice; the father died in 1687. He got a cottage in Saga, west of Kyoto, far enough from big brother to not be restrained by his family's reputation.
Kyorai became the leader of the Basho school in the Kyoto area, so letters to Kyorai often discuss his role as proxy for Basho in the Kyoto area. Three letters to Kyorai appear in this book, including the complete text of the longest letter Basho ever wrote.
Sumo wrestlers have to move boldly and decisively, for even a slight-second of inattention will lose the match, but city living may be more confusing than encountering a 300-pound behemoth.
Soon after Basho first came to Edo in 1672, a man named Sugiyama Kensuke, the head of a wholesale fish merchant in downtown Edo, supplier of fish to the shogun's castle, supported the young poet. As the years passed, his son Sampu took over the business and continued to support Basho. Sampu gave Basho one of his warehouses to live in, and when that place burned down in a citywide fire, built him another hut. Basho gave that second hut away in 1689, and Sampu and others built him a third hut in 1692.
Sampu seems to have brought the humor in Basho; Two essays, INTENTLY I IMAGINE THE SCENE and THE NIGHT OF TANABATA –reveal the laughter and fun these two shared. Basho had much confidence in Sora, but Sora was just a poor guy struggling to get by; Basho's confidence in Sampu was far greater because Sampu was rich and powerful. In letter 208 to Sampu, Basho acknowledges that people think he only favors Sampu for his money, but Basho reassures him of his deep appreciation for Sampu's talent and spirit. Here is one of his haiku which may (or may not) be feminist.
When I began compiling the works of Basho, I focused on works about women and children – and so, at first, all I studied was the eight letters to two women, Uko and Chigetsu, and the letters which mention Basho's teenage grandnephew Jirobei, grandnieces Masa and Ofu, the children of his friends Kyokusui and Uko, and the granddaughter of Ensui. For many years, I thought this was a lot of letters.
When I expanded my Basho studies to include all of humanity, I reached out to the rest of his letters to Ensui and Kyokusui, revealing his close bonds to this merchant four years older and samurai 16 years younger. Also I found much human feeling in Basho's letters to his older brother Hanzaemon, wealthy patron Sampu, frequent traveling companion Sora, good friends Kyorai and Ranran, neighbor Ihei, and Kyokusui's younger brother Dosui. Note that the material in Letters from Basho are still only one quarter of Basho's letters. I have searched for what Basho calls "lightness and interest" (karumi to kyou). I have searched among the letters for information about Basho's older sister, her son Toin, his "wife" Jutei and their three children, and translated these sections, often without translating the rest of the letter.
brings great joy which does not diminish.
Basho enjoys seeing Lightness appear in his follower's poetry; he cherish this evidence of his contribution to their minds. Scholars who have little or no knowledge of Basho's letters tell us Lightness was one of many techniques Basho used, or that it was a phase he went through in his final years. From the letters we learn that Lightness (or whatever he called it) was the essence of his poetic vision throughout the 13 years in which he wrote letters – and I will go further to say that Lightness was the essence of his consciousness throughout his 30 years of poetry and prose, and throughout his life.
There are letters from each of the four seasons from 1690 to 1694 which comprise 80% of this book; reading these in sequence we feel of the passage of the seasons for these five years.
Since the original form of these letters uses so many now-obscure characters and grammatical forms I cannot read most of the letters in their original form. I translate from a translation into modern Japanese – either by my research assistant Shoko or by scholar Tanaka Yoshinobu – however once I have that modern translation, I can figure out much of the original.
Sometimes I see places where the modern translator has taken the words away from the original to make them easier-to-understand; in my translations I always search for a way to more closely follow the original and still be understandable. Two examples from letter 124 to Kyokusui will illustrate. In the beginning of the letter, Basho literally writes your kindness is in my heart. Tanaka translates that to modern Japanese for "I appreciate your kindness." Of course that is what Basho means, however I prefer to give you Basho's actual words and let you figure out his meaning. Furthermore his concrete words can take on deeper meanings as we explore them as he wrote them.
At the end of the letter, Basho says I met with Kikaku and we gossiped about you The word "gossip" (uwasa) is actually there in the Japanese. Tanaka apparently feels this word is not suitable for the great poet-saint, so he changes it to "we spoke about you." Again, I follow Basho in using unconventional, interesting words. My aim is to give you exactly the information in the original, no more, no less – to reproduce Basho's words in English with nothing (or very little) from my mind or another mind to "help you understand" – though I do strive to fix up the grammar so Basho's words are coherent in English.
My efforts for your understanding have gone rather into the commentaries there on the same page as Basho's original. You never need to look in the back of the book for the clues to Basho's riddles; instead look immediately before or after the translation. Japanese also rely on commentaries on the same page to find Basho's hidden meanings. In my commentaries I have followed documented evidence from Japanese Basho scholars, however from that base I fly freely through the worlds of knowledge to make Basho more entertaining, or more inspiring in the 21st Century.
Literary scholars may not approve of my "having fun with Basho"—they may not like the jokes and anecdotes and stream of consciousness wandering—but this book is not "only for scholars" but rather more for ordinary people who like reading to be fun, and enjoy learning about humanity.


I really enjoyed Indecisive when it came out a little while ago. I'm am therefore glad that the band have produced a worthy follow-up. The music video directed by Mauro D'Amato will go a long way to attract attention for this cool new track from what is fast becoming one of Malta's better known new bands.
It's not everyday that Rolling Stone picks a Maltese band to include on their website, even if it is the Italian edition. Well, that's exactly where most people will be watching the video for this new release nosnow/noalps. The band has gone through some interesting and exciting changes over the past year or so, but it remains fairly clear that Nick Morales is the leading light for this band.
Ruth Abela always has a place on the MMI podcast. I've included her band from Barcelona at least one other time (if not twice) and I was delighted to discover that there's even a video for this song. As you would expect I'm also nominating ToffaHamra Y Los Mechones for the MMI 2013 Listener's Picks Poll in the overseas category.
I have a feeling that I may have missed note somewhere telling me that Hunters Palace have recorded some new tracks this year. I'm not even sure how I found out about these 2013 tracks just now to include them on this edition of the MMI podcast. In any case, I'm really pleased to be able to nominate this stuff for the MMI 2013 Listener's Picks Poll top online releases category.
I find that there some sort of similarity in my mind's ear between the music of Luke Azzopardi and the output of Hunters Palace. It therefore comes as an easy segue to include his music on this week's podcast immediately after that of Hunters Palace. In truth, there's probably no real relationship between the two, and he has a more varied style because his experimentation is mainly with genre rather than tone, noise, form, and so on.
I been waiting for a music video to go with this song all year. I now see that there's a new song from Monroe called We Will Rise. So, while I could be wrong, I think they've moved on. I'm rather disappointed by this but I still like the song enough to include it on the MMI podcasts and nominating it for the MMI 2013 Listener's Picks Poll.
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Standards for Time-limits for Tendering CH
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Public Construction Commission(行政院公共工程委員會)
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This Standards is prescribed pursuant to Article 28 of the Government Procurement Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act").
In open tendering procedures, an entity shall prescribe a reasonable tendering period from the date of publication of the notice on the Government Procurement Gazette until the closing date for receipt of tenders, by taking into account the nature of the subject procurement and the time required for tenderers to prepare and submit tenders.
The tendering period referred to in the preceding paragraph shall not, unless otherwise prescribed by this Standards or by any treaty or agreement to which this nation is a party, be less than the following time-limits:
1. 7 days for procurement of a value not reaching the threshold for publication;
2. 14 days for procurement of a value reaching the threshold for publication but not reaching the threshold for supervision:;
3. 21 days for procurement of a value reaching the threshold for supervision but not reaching the threshold for large procurement; and
4. 28 days for large procurement:.
With respect to invitation to tender in the subsequent steps pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 42 of the Act, an entity shall prescribe as necessary a reasonable tendering period, provided that this period shall not be less than 7 days.
An entity conducting pre-qualification evaluation in selective tendering procedures shall prescribe a reasonable tendering period from the date of publication of the notice on the Government Procurement Gazette until the closing date for receipt of documents, by taking into account the nature of the subject procurement and the time required for tenderers to prepare and submit qualification documents.
1. 7days for procurement of a value not reaching the threshold for publication;
2. 10 days for procurement of a value reaching the threshold for publication but not reaching the threshold for large procurement; and
3. 14 days for large procurement.
Where an entity invites tender from those suppliers who have passed the pre-qualification referred to in the first paragraph, the provision set out in paragraph 2 of the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to the tendering period from the date of invitation to tender until the closing date for receipt of tenders.
In open selection of suppliers pursuant to subparagraphs 9 or 10 of paragraph 1 of Article 22 of the Act, the provision set out in Article 2 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the tendering period from the date of publication until the closing date for receipt of documents.
In open solicitation pursuant to subparagraph 11 of paragraph 1 of Article 22 of the Act, an entity shall prescribe a reasonable time-limit of at least 10 days for the tendering period from the date of publication until the closing date for receipt of documents. With respect to the subsequent open solicitations, an entity shall prescribe as necessary a reasonable time-limit, provided that this time-limit shall not be less than 5 days.
Article 4-1
Where a state of urgency duly substantiated by the entity renders impracticable the time-limits in question referred to in Articles 2 to 4 to a procurement of a value reaching the threshold for publication, an entity may reduce the time-limits for tendering but shall in no case be less than 10 days. The foregoing shall also apply to the circumstance where reduction of time-limits for tendering referred to in Article 9 is overlapping.
In open solicitation for suppliers to submit written quotations of prices or proposals pursuant to Article 49 of the Act, an entity shall prescribe a reasonable tendering period of at least 5 days from the date of publication until the closing date for receipt of documents.
In limited tendering that does not involve the process of open selection or open solicitation, an entity shall prescribe as necessary a reasonable tendering period.
Where an entity amends or supplements the content of the tender documentation prior to the closing of tendering period, the tendering period shall be extended as necessary.
In the event that the amendment or supplement referred to in the preceding paragraph is not substantial and that all tenderers have been informed of such amendment or supplement through a published or written notice 5 days prior to the prescribed closing date, the entity may elect not to extend the tendering period.
Where an entity cancels or suspends a tendering procedure prior to the closing of tendering period and then re-tenders or resumes the procedure within 6 months without making substantial changes in the tender documentation, the tendering period for the re-tendering or resumed procedure may, by taking due account of the number of days elapsed from publication of the notice or invitation to tender until the cancellation or suspension of the tendering procedure, be shorter than that originally specified, provided that this tendering period shall not be less than 3 days for procurement of a value not reaching the threshold for publication, and 7 days for procurement of a value reaching the threshold for publication.
Where an entity cannot proceed with the opening of tenders, nullifies the tender, revokes the contract award or rescinds the contract after the closing of tendering period, and re-tenders within 3 months thereafter without making substantial changes in the tender documentation, the provision set out in the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis.
An entity conducting procurement may, unless otherwise provided by any treaty or agreement to which this nation is a party, reduce the tendering period in accordance with the following circumstances:
1. where the draft tender documentation has been made available for public viewing prior to the tendering procedure and no substantial changes have been made to its content, the tendering period may be reduced by 5 days, provided that the reduced time-limit shall not be less than 10 days;
2. where electronic dissemination of the tender documentation is undertaken pursuant to Article 93.1 of the Act and has been stated in the tender notice, the tendering period may be reduced by 3 days, provided that the reduced time-limit shall not be less than 5 days; or
3. where electronic submission of the tender documentation is undertaken pursuant to Article 93.1 of the Act and has been stated in the tender notice, the tendering period may be reduced by 2 days, provided that the reduced time-limit shall not be less than 5 days.
An entity conducting procurement may, unless otherwise provided by this Standards or by any treaty or agreement to which this nation is a party, upon approval of the head of the entity or the person authorized by the head, prescribe a reasonable tendering period based on the characteristics and actual needs of the subject procurement, if any of the following circumstances applies:
1. where qualified suppliers on the permanent list of qualified suppliers established in advance pursuant to Article 21 of the Act are being invited to tender, and a tendering period has been otherwise provided for in the documentation for qualification of suppliers;
2. where procurement is conducted by a government-owned enterprise for the purposes of commercial resale or production of goods or provision of services for resale, and it is necessary to reduce the tendering period considering the characteristics or actual needs of the subject procurement;
3. where procurement involves raw materials, raw supplies, or agricultural or mineral products of which the market price is fluctuating; or
4. where the subject of procurement is widely sold by suppliers in the market, and the contents of the tender documentation and tenders are simple.
Where the tendering period or the time-limit for receipt of documents prescribed in this Standards is stated to be calculated from the date of publication of the notice or invitation to tender, the date shall be calculated as one day.
With respect to the tendering period or the time-limit for receipt of documents referred to in the preceding paragraph, if the closing date for receipt of tenders or documents specified in the tender documentation expires at a time corresponding to the close of business on that day, it shall be counted as one day. If the date expires at a time before the close of business on that day, it shall not be counted as one day.
In the event that the closing date for receipt of tenders or documents falls on a regular weekly holiday, national holiday, or other non-business days, the date shall be extended to the next day.
In the event that the closing date for receipt of tenders or documents falls on a business day and that for some reason the office closes on that day before the prescribed closing time for receipt of tenders or documents, the time and date shall be extended to the same time on the next business day.
Non-business days that fall on any date in the prescribed time-limit but not on the last day shall be counted as one day.
This Standards shall take effect from the date of promulgation.
Note:In case of discrepancies between the Chinese version and this English version, the Chinese version shall prevail.
Web site:Laws & Regulations Database of The Republic of China


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An Evening with Ambrose Parry
Ambrose Parry's The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying are historical crime novels set in Victorian Edinburgh. They use the city's vibrant scientific and medical past, including illustrious figures such as Dr James Young Simpson, to create the world they inhabit.
Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. Chris Brookmyre is an international bestselling and multi-award-winning author and Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years' experience, whose research for her Master's degree in the History of Medicine revealed the material upon which their novels are based.
At this event, Chris and Marisa will discuss their work, their influences, and the medical stories from Edinburgh's past which have inspired them the most.
Tickets for this event cost £5. Bookings are available through Eventbrite.
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