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Q: Interactive line-chart with d3.js I'm trying to make an interactive line-chart with d3.js. I get the datas from two csv files (emissions.csv and gdp.csv) and I would like that when i pass with the mouse on the graph, it shows a kind of label with information on the corresponding point on the line. Now I have to pass the mouse ON the line to show the label and I can't figure out how to do what i want to do. I've found this example that shows what I want but I cant understand some of the code-lines and I can't understand how to use it on mine graph.
Here my code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>

body {
  font: 10px sans-serif;
}

.axis path,
.axis line {
  fill: none;
  stroke: #000;
  shape-rendering: crispEdges;
}

.x.axis path {
  /*display: none;*/
}

.line {
  fill: none;
  stroke: steelblue;
  stroke-width: 1.5px;
}

</style>
<body>
  <script data-require="d3@3.5.3" data-semver="3.5.3" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/3.5.3/d3.js"></script>
<script>

var margin = {top: 20, right: 80, bottom: 30, left: 150},
    width = 960 - margin.left - margin.right,
    height = 500 - margin.top - margin.bottom;

var x = d3.scale.linear()
    .range([0, width]);

var y = d3.scale.linear()
    .range([height, 0]);

var color = d3.scale.category10();

var xAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(x)
    .orient("bottom");

var yAxis = d3.svg.axis()
    .scale(y)
    .orient("left");

var line = d3.svg.line()
    //.interpolate("basis")
    .x(function(d) { return x(d.year); })
    .y(function(d) { return y(d.emission); });

var svg = d3.select("body").append("svg")
    .attr("width", width + margin.left + margin.right)
    .attr("height", height + margin.top + margin.bottom)
    .append("g")
    .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")");

d3.csv("europe_emission.csv", function(error, data) {
  if (error) throw error;

  color.domain(d3.keys(data[0]).filter(function(key) { return key !== "year"; }));

  var cities = color.domain().map(function(name) {
    return {
      name: name,
      values: data.map(function(d) {
        return {year: d.year, emission: +d[name]};
      })
    };
  });

  x.domain(d3.extent(data, function(d) { return d.year; }));

  y.domain([
    0,
    d3.max(cities, function(c) { return d3.max(c.values, function(v) { return v.emission; }); })
  ]);

  svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "x axis")
      .attr("transform", "translate(0," + height + ")")
      .call(xAxis);

  svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "y axis")
      .call(yAxis)
    .append("text")
      .attr("transform", "rotate(-90)")
      .attr("y", 6)
      .attr("dy", ".71em")
      .style("text-anchor", "end")
      .text("Emission (thousand metric tons of CO2)");

  var city = svg.selectAll(".city")
      .data(cities)
    .enter().append("g")
      .attr("class", "city");

              city.append("path")
      .attr("class", "line")
      .attr("d", function(d) {
        return line(d.values);
      })
      .style("stroke", function(d) {
        return color(d.name);
      });

    city.append("text")
      .datum(function(d) {
        return {
          name: d.name,
          value: d.values[d.values.length - 1]
        };
      })
      .attr("transform", function(d) {
        return "translate(" + x(d.value.year) + "," + y(d.value.emission) + ")";
      })
      .attr("x", 3)
      .attr("dy", ".35em")
      .text(function(d) {
        return d.name;
      });

    var mouseG = svg.append("g")
      .attr("class", "mouse-over-effects");

    mouseG.append("path") // this is the black vertical line to follow mouse
      .attr("class", "mouse-line")
      .style("stroke", "black")
      .style("stroke-width", "1px")
      .style("opacity", "0");

    var lines = document.getElementsByClassName('line');

    var mousePerLine = mouseG.selectAll('.mouse-per-line')
      .data(cities)
      .enter()
      .append("g")
      .attr("class", "mouse-per-line");

    mousePerLine.append("circle")
      .attr("r", 7)
      .style("stroke", function(d) {
        return color(d.name);
      })
      .style("fill", "none")
      .style("stroke-width", "1px")
      .style("opacity", "0");

    mousePerLine.append("text")
      .attr("transform", "translate(10,3)");

    mouseG.append('svg:rect') // append a rect to catch mouse movements on canvas
      .attr('width', width) // can't catch mouse events on a g element
      .attr('height', height)
      .attr('fill', 'none')
      .attr('pointer-events', 'all')
      .on('mouseout', function() { // on mouse out hide line, circles and text
        d3.select(".mouse-line")
          .style("opacity", "0");
        d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line circle")
          .style("opacity", "0");
        d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line text")
          .style("opacity", "0");
      })
      .on('mouseover', function() { // on mouse in show line, circles and text
        d3.select(".mouse-line")
          .style("opacity", "1");
        d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line circle")
          .style("opacity", "1");
        d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line text")
          .style("opacity", "1");
      })
      .on('mousemove', function() { // mouse moving over canvas
        var mouse = d3.mouse(this);
        d3.select(".mouse-line")
          .attr("d", function() {
            var d = "M" + mouse[0] + "," + height;
            d += " " + mouse[0] + "," + 0;
            return d;
          });

        d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line")
          .attr("transform", function(d, i) {
            //console.log(width/mouse[0])
            var xDate = x.invert(mouse[0]),
                bisect = d3.bisector(function(d) { return d.year; }).right;
                idx = bisect(d.values, xDate);

            var beginning = 0,
                end = lines[i].getTotalLength(),
                target = null;

            while (true){
              target = Math.floor((beginning + end) / 2);
              pos = lines[i].getPointAtLength(target);
              if ((target === end || target === beginning) && pos.x !== mouse[0]) {
                  break;
              }
              if (pos.x > mouse[0])      end = target;
              else if (pos.x < mouse[0]) beginning = target;
              else break; //position found
            }

            d3.select(this).select('text')
              .text(y.invert(pos.y).toFixed(2));

            return "translate(" + mouse[0] + "," + pos.y +")";
          });
      });

});

</script>

europe_emission.csv:
year,UnitedKingdom,Italy,France,Spain,Germany
2012,483423,386666,368845,276636,821717
2011,464036,413379,364819,280922,810441
2010,504997,424993,391075,280377,829401
2009,487442,414809,381992,293732,785602
2008,536733,463695,400720,333181,851111
2007,554251,475436,407254,363744,848548
2006,561128,483533,416414,356712,873246
2005,561101,488078,425740,365478,861733
2004,563962,489367,422201,350071,881743
2003,562296,486559,420492,333168,893599
2002,551553,470530,412019,328878,890875
2001,567904,468283,416267,308786,907541
2000,556667,462277,415079,308026,891515
1999,548047,458824,418193,294901,887890
1998,555499,453524,426564,271515,915176
1997,550525,442371,404884,263303,923080
1996,575026,438303,411302,250543,951863
1995,553701,444943,398480,262860,930857
1994,562061,419903,391681,249451,932485
1993,568100,427170,391484,237253,948683
1992,581828,433867,413020,245814,957561
1991,598323,434156,423121,237179,1004735
1990,591499,434656,398769,227508,1042065

A: This took me way too long to figure out, but it's your data sorting.  My link above assumed an ascending x axis values, you have descending, so your paths are draw backwards right to left.  Either sort your data, or change the search function to go right to left:
      d3.selectAll(".mouse-per-line")
        .attr("transform", function(d, i) {

          var beginning = 0,
            end = lines[i].getTotalLength(),
            target = null;

          while (true) {
            target = Math.floor((beginning + end) / 2);
            pos = lines[i].getPointAtLength(target);
            if ((target === end || target === beginning) && pos.x !== mouse[0]) {
              break;
            }
            if (pos.x > mouse[0]) beginning = target; //<-- this was end = target
            else if (pos.x < mouse[0]) end = target; //<-- this was beginning = target
            else break;
          }

          d3.select(this).select('text')
            .text(y.invert(pos.y).toFixed(2));

          return "translate(" + mouse[0] + "," + pos.y + ")";
        });

Fixed code here.


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It is estimated that electrical energy bills can be lowered by 50 to 90% . It is incredibly prevalent for nine months of the year to have only an $eight to $15 dollar electric bill based on wind speed and climate.
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Q: File Ownership changes to root after saving from a program in Ubuntu I've a file and the owner is me (userx). I opened the file with a program WebStorm.sh (sudo sh webstorm.sh). When I save the file, the owner of the file changes to root.
I do not want this program (webstorm) to change the owner of the file. Any suggestions? Thanks.

A: It's not webstorm, it's the fact that you're running as root (sudo).  Stop doing that and the owner information won't change.

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Australian wine exports to China continue to grow, with exports to the Greater China region growing 33% in 2016-2017 and exports to mainland China up 44%.
Releasing the figures in its export report this week, Wine Australia says the implementation of the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) at the end of 2015 has provided further impetus to an already strong market.
Now valued at around $607m AUD ($481m USD), mainland China is by far the largest market for Australian wine exports, followed by the US at $464m AUD ($378m USD).
But most impressive are the growth rates (exports to Mainland China up 44% and up 33% to Greater China); following on from the 50% growth to mainland China recorded last year.
Globally, Australian wine exports increased by 10% ($201m AUD / $159m USD) in value over the last year, reaching a total of $2.31bn AUD ($1.83bn USD). Export volumes worldwide increased 7%. The average value of exported wine was up 3%, showing a continued shift towards higher priced wines.
Australia is the world's fifth biggest exporter of wine, coming after France, Italy, Spain and Chile. But Wine Australia says the rate of export growth this year has outperformed these other countries.
Premium wines saw the strongest growth, while carbonated wines (including varieties such as Moscato) are pinpointed as another area of interest, with exports in this category doubling to $30m ($24m USD).
A decade ago, exports to China were valued at just $27m AUD ($21m USD), but that has increased dramatically with China overtaking the US as Australia's top export market for wine by value last year, a position it maintains with continued growth.
Regional variations in wine preferences: people in the east prefer earthy, rich reds; those in the west favor elegant, soft styles. Meanwhile, in the north consumers look for bold, drier reds; and those in the south prefer smoother red styles.
Greater China (mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) 'has been at the hub of the revival of Australian wine exports', with Hong Kong a vital trading hub as it has important distribution links to mainland China and beyond.
Exports to Greater China increased 33% to $721m AUD overall in 2016-2017.
With ChAFTA reducing import tariffs for Australian wine into China, however, less wine destined for mainland China is being routed through Hong Kong, meaning a decline in exports to Hong Kong while exports to mainland China increase (the value of exports to Hong Kong declined by 8% while volume declined by 15% in 2016-2017).
Australian wine exports to the Northeast Asia region also continue to grow: with value increasing by $178m (29%) to a record $797m AUD. Southeast Asia is the next biggest growing region with exports increasing by $20m (1%) to a record $162m.
Meanwhile, wine exports to the US, Australia's second largest wine export market, increased 3% to $464m AUD: the highest value since 2011-2012.
"The overall increase in value was driven by white wine exports, up 3% to $181m, and carbonated wine (mainly Moscato) increasing 10-fold to $11m in value," says Wine Australia.
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People with a sense of entitlement believe that they deserve special consideration and special treatment. They may cut in front of others waiting in line, smoke wherever they want, drive any way they want, say anything they like, and do pretty much anything they choose.
Driven by high standards of what they should get and what other people should do for them, the entitled feel chronically disappointed and offended.
So it seems only fair, from their myopic perspectives, that they get compensation for their constant frustrations. Special consideration seems like so little to ask!
After the glow of infatuation wears off, the entitled person will regard his feelings and desire as more important than yours. If you agree, you'll get depressed. If you disagree, you'll get abused – whether verbally, mentally, emotionally, sexually, physically, financially, digitally, or reproductively (more on that one later).
Very interesting article. It can be very hard to know what someone is really like at the start of a relationship so it's important to be able to spot these warning signs early. Thanks for the advice!
You're welcome. They're so easy to be overlooked because when our feelings go out there for another individual, it can be easy to ignore or make accuses for them. Also, they can easily downplay what they are really like.
Damn, I dated one like that in high school.
It certainly was extremely fun initially, but after a little while the infatuation faded and it got really frustrating to be around her.
Although I do feel that I managed to make her a better person, it was extremely taxing on my end. I would go as far as to even say that it has been the hardest relationship I've ever been in.
Absolutely love these kinds of tips to get to know and understand people better!
I learned that it is taxing trying to help an abuser. They have to want to change.
I always love reading your posts because I know I will always find something interesting.
Thanks for these great posts.
You're totally welcome Pearl. I hope anything I say helps.
Me too, however, it's not taught enough. Thank you, Marketa.
Interesting article. Relationships are rigorous – they are full of passion, anger, laughter, pain, a tumultuous array of emotions. What (I think) matters through it all, is self-respect. You have to respect yourself as an individual FIRST before forming ANY alliance – platonic, intimate, business, and the list can get longer. It has to start with you – number one – so that when the number changes to 'two' (or more) there should be a certain degree of respect left over for the next person(s). Yes, relationships can be challenging, but this is our world…we live with them…and learn.
That's very true. Sadly, some people go into relationships believing that it's an end-all. In other words, they were/are so hurt with life, how they were raised, etc., that they feel that a relationship will save them from it. They don't even know that they are to have respect for themselves. They may not know that they have low-self esteem.
Once people stop and take inventory of their value, they wouldn't just accept anything. Great comment.


This is for the Infralution.Localization.Wpf runtime dll.
If you have dynamic assemblies there will be lots of NotSupported exceptions (which normally silently get swallowed) in the method HasEmbeddedResx in class ResxExtension.
Perhaps you could check .IsDynamic there and just return null if true.
Thanks for the suggestion - we will look at that for the next release. If you want this before then you could download the source code for the Infralution.Localization.Wpf assembly from CodeProject and insert the change yourself. You would need to change your project reference to the recompiled assembly (which will have a different strong name).


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News | Purdue News
Game developed to help school counselors assess suicide risk
By Nick Rogers, Purdue University News Service
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — For school counselors, the first time helping a suicidal student can be an emotional trial by fire. To better prepare counselors for this type of charged situation, a Purdue University professor has developed a computer simulation for virtual training.
These screen captures show parts of the Suicide Risk-Assessment Game, which is designed to help train students who might one day work with young people in need of counseling. The virtual training tool was developed by Carrie Wachter Morris, a Purdue assistant professor of counseling and development. (Images provided by Carrie Wachter Morris)
Carrie Wachter Morris is an assistant professor of counseling and development in Purdue's Department of Educational Studies and a former counselor at facilities throughout North Carolina. She developed the Suicide Risk-Assessment Game, or SRAG, with the aid of a digital-content development grant from Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Purdue's central information technology organization.
Of 34 grant applications submitted in 2008, Wachter Morris' was one of 10 accepted, earning $15,000 and the use of ITaP resources toward developing the training tool.
SRAG's concept and content is hers, but a team of student developers led by Terry Patterson, an educational technologist with ITaP's emerging technologies group, oversaw the graphic design and programming.
"It wasn't only the social impact on a very serious issue that appealed to the grant committee about the idea," Patterson said. "This was a great opportunity for students to create a framework for a serious game that could be reused for other experience simulations."
Wachter Morris intends SRAG to be "an emotional equalizer" that benefits school-counseling students at Purdue and also addresses the gap between counselor training and professional expectations.
"The more we're worried about ourselves, the more we focus on us and not the clients," she said.
Statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that in 2007 14.5 percent of high school students seriously considered suicide in the previous 12 months, while 6.9 percent reported making at least one suicide attempt. A 2002 Brigham Young University survey of school counselors found 35 percent of respondents received no graduate-education training in crisis intervention, and 57 percent felt either "not at all" or "minimally" prepared for such intervention.
"As a field, we have to generate teaching tools that those without the background can effectively use," Wachter Morris said. "Studies show that students we're matriculating have spent more time during school playing video games than reading. Now that these students are entering graduate school, why not develop a tool from which they can learn in a medium with which they're familiar?"
In gamer parlance, SRAG is a beat-the-clock title: A note has been found from a student planning to commit suicide Friday after school. Players have 40 in-game hours (30- 45 minutes in real time) to assess which one of five students is at imminent risk of suicide and which one is a false risk – meaning there might be danger signs to monitor in the future, but no worry of immediate harmful action.
SRAG's scoring system requires players to forge a path to assessment rather than asking students outright if they're suicidal. Their investigation is complicated by daily tasks generally required of school counselors in the real world, ranging from lunch duty to small-group counseling. Failing to address these tasks will result in a time-consuming penalty.
Should a player not correctly identify the imminently suicidal student before the clock runs out, SRAG offers a "deus ex machina" – or "out of the blue" – element to save the student.
Wachter Morris envisions SRAG one day helping to train resident advisers in college residence halls, other mental-health professionals and, perhaps, middle- and high-school students to recognize risk behaviors.
In December, Wachter Morris introduced SRAG to nine graduate students in her school-counseling seminar – most of whom have had counseling internships and practical experience. Although some suggested efforts to improve SRAG, the students generally appreciated its accuracy and the interface. She will soon run her training program through focus groups at Purdue and in the spring will send it to campuses around the country with school-counselor programs to receive feedback from instructors and students.
"SRAG is that half-step between in-class instruction and a student in front of you where it's in the moment and you have to think on your feet," Wachter Morris said.
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Q: Azure Mobile Service InvokeApi missing in Xamarin Anybody has a clue how to Invoke a Custom API in Windows Azure Mobile Service from a Xamarin Client using MobileServices SDK for Xamarin component?
Seems that the method InvokeApiAsync is missing in MobileServiceClient class.
Thanks!
Gutemberg

A: The latest update (1.1.0) of the Mobile Services component brings it up to full feature parity with our other client SDKs, including Custom API support.

A: There isn't currently a way to invoke a Custom API from a Xamarin Client using the Mobile Services component.  The component is currently being updated, however, so that functionality should be there very soon.

A: Used this in a sample project recently and can verify that LoginAsync work and is included in the Azure Mobile Services SDK for Xamarin.


Reading is not a chore. Reading is theft. It is robbery. Someone smarter than you has spent years struggling to solve a problem or researching a new idea. You can steal that hard earned knowledge and make it yours just by reading her book. And you won't be arrested.
Sam Harris says, "We read for the joy and benefit of thinking another person's thoughts." Read good books and you can enjoy and benefit from the thoughts of brilliant people. You can "steal" the time and energy they invested in writing what they have learned.
Here's a list of books I read in 2018. At the end of this post is commentary on the best five books I read.
The Blue Zones – Dan Buettner – 2008, 303 pages [7.5] – Analyzes five ares of the world that have long life-expectancy rates and offers nine lessons learned from these people groups.
Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste NG – 2017, 336 pages  – I enjoyed her first novel better. The story of families growing up in the upscale neighborhood of Shaker Heights.
The Midnight Line – Lee Childs – 2017 – ___ pages  – I like the protagonist, Jack Reacher, and this book (the 30th in the series) had an interesting plot.
The Power of Moments – Chip and Dan Heath – 2017 – 295 pages [8.5] – I like everything the Heath brothers write. They combine good research with accessible writing. This book unpacks the importance of, and how to orchestrate, pivotal moments.
The Couple Next Door – Shari Lapena – 2016, 308 pages  – A totally worthless novel. The only reason I finished it is because I was on a transatlantic flight with nothing else to do.
A Little History of Religion – Richard Holloway – 2016, 237 pages [7.5] – A concise and accessible survey of world religions. I really enjoyed this book.
Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu – translated by Arthur Waley – c. 300 BC – 89 pages  – The first great classic of the Chinese school of philosophy called Taoism. I did not understand most of this book; it was similar to reading dense, opaque poetry.
How to Read a Book – The Art of Getting a Liberal Education – Mortimer Adler, 1940, 389 pages  – Good thoughts on the subject but 389 pages became tedious.
Why Buddhism Is True – The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment – Robert Wright, 2017, 301 pages [6.5] – I'm wanting to learn more about meditation, but this book didn't help much.
The Consequences of Ideas – R.C. Sproul, 2000, 203 pages,  – A good survey of the philosophers who have influenced Western thought.
Command and Control – Eric Schlosser, 2013, 485 pages,  – Incredibly documented (there are 98 pages of footnotes), it tells the history of the U.S. nuclear age. It's scary to know how many times we've been close to a nuclear holocaust.
100 Greatest Scientific Experiments – Robert Cave, 217 pages  – Fun book to read; lots of pictures.
Don't Believe Everything You Think – The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking – Thomas Kida, 2006, 237 pages  – This was my second time to read the book. It is accessible and interesting.
The Words Lincoln Lived By – Gene Griessman, 1997, 136 pages, [6.5] – 52 short chapters on character traits that Lincoln exhibited.
The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey – Blanchard, Oncken and Burrows, 1989, 130 short pages,  – This is a dumbed down version of a great HBR article published in November, 1999. I recommend reading the article.
White American Youth – Christian Picciolini, 2017, 172 pages, [4.5] – A boring autobiography. I loved the podcast where Sam Harris interviewed Picciolini but didn't like his book.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century – Timothy Snyder, 2017, 126 pages  – An insightful read given our current political climate. Anarchy could happen in the U.S.
My Life as an Experiment: One Man's Humble Quest to Improve Himself – A.J. Jacobs, 2009, 244 pages  – Jacobs is engages in participatory journalism: he immerses himself in whatever he's writing about. The book is entertaining but not very informative or helpful.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace – Jeff Hobbs, 2014, 402 pages  – The title describes the book. Lessons to be learned about race, culture, the drug wars, bad decisions.
The Strange Order of Things – Antonio Damasio, 2018, 244 pages  – Damasio is a brilliant physician/scientist but this book leans more toward the professional than the lay-person so I had a hard time understanding a lot of his ideas.
The CEO Next Door – Elena Botelho and Kim Powell, 2018, 254 pages  – Based on 17,000 interviews of top executives; a good read on leadership even for those not aspiring to be a CEO.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion – Jonathan Haidt, 2012, 371 pages [6.5] – It was difficult for me to keep up with his thinking; my bad. It is written more for the professional than layperson.
Math in Bite-Sized Chunks – Chris Waring, 2018, 188 pages  – I like books that give an overview of important topics, and this book did that with math. 27 short chapters on topics like: percentages, algorithms, averages, correlation, etc.
Commonwealth – Ann Patchett, 2016, 322 pages [7.5] – Patchett is a wonderful novelist. I did not connect with this book as well as I have her other novels. My favorite so far: State of Wonder.
You Are Here – Thich Nhat Hanh, 2001, 140 pages  – A poorly written, rambling book.
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari, 2014, 416 pages  – A concise, selective, history of mankind. You won't agree with everything he says (but that can be said of most books), but his explanation of certain areas of history are enlightening.
Deep Influence – T.J. Addington, 2014, 256 pages  – I did not learn anything new from this book. Granted, I've read many books on leadership, but I yearn for fresh thoughts.
No Middle Name – Lee Childs, 2018, 471 pages  – The protagonist, Jack Reacher, continues to amaze and amuse.
The Happiness Hypotheses – Jonathan Haidt, 2006, 246 pages  – This book gave me a lot to think about. He combines ancient wisdom and modern truth.
The E Myth – Why most small businesses don't work and what to do about it – Michael Gerber, 1995, 268 pages [5.5] – Based purely on anecdotal thoughts. I only benefited from chapter 8 – The Franchise Prototype.
How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan, 2018, 414 pages [7.5] – A well-researched book on recent medical advances in psychedelic treatments.
The Number – A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life – Lee Eisenberg, 2006, 255 pages  – Rambling, self-absorbed writing. A lot of words that said nothing.
Philosophy in Bite-Sized Chunks – Lesley Levene, 2017, 181 pages  – A series of two page summaries of many famous philosophers from Anaximenes to Foucault.
Farsighted – Steven Johnson – 2018, 218 pages  – Another amazing book by Johnson. The theme is how to make wise long-term decisions, but just the final chapter on the value of reading literary fiction makes the book worth reading. I immediately ordered George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch.
The Coddling of the American Mind – Luianoff and Haidt, 2018, 281 pages  – The authors investigate three myths—What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people—and show how the myths have adversely affected social structures.
Solving Tough Problems – An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities – Adam Kahane, 2007, 232 pages . Primarily autobiographical, Kahane teaches good lessons about how to solve major, protracted problems (ex. aparthaid in South Africa).
The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah, 2018, 438 pages  – This novel takes place in rural Alaska. It's interesting and teaches a lot about life.
The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Probable – Taleb, 2010, 379 pages  – I tried to read this book eight years ago but didn't have the intellectual endurance. I made it through this year, but will read again in eight years.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Harari, 2018, 318 pages  – Harari is a historian and futurist. In this book he prognosticate about what life will be like in the coming decades.
Habits of a Happy Brain – Breuning, 206, 211 pages [6.5] – A readable, but somewhat folksy, book on the four "happy chemicals" – dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphin.
Lost Connections – Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions – Johann Hari – 2018, 261 pages  – Hari is a journalist so his writing is engaging. This is a terrific book.
Negotiation – HBR Press – 2003, 147 pages  – As expected from HBR, a deep dive into this topic.
The Last Samurai – Helen Dewitt – 2000, 530 pages  – Supposedly, one of the great novels of the last 100 years. It's hard to follow. I tried to give up on it several times, but finished it and I'm glad I did. A story about a child prodigy and his search for his father.
Fiction – The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah, 2018, 438 pages  – This novel takes place in rural Alaska. It's interesting and teaches a lot about life. One of the advantages of reading fiction is that, sometimes, we witness an entire life, or even several generations, and we see the longterm implications of decisions and values. In this book, the protagonist struggles with codependency with an abusive spouse. At times, it's painful to read, but there's a realistic and instructive conclusion.
Psychology/self-help – Lost Connections – Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions – Johann Hari – 2018, 261 pages  – Hari is a journalist so his writing is engaging. He discusses nine causes of depression and solutions. Lots of stories illustrate each main point. Planet earth would benefit from reading this book.
General interest – The Coddling of the American Mind – Luianoff and Haidt, 2018, 281 pages  – The authors investigate three myths—What doesn't kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between good people and evil people—and show how the myths have adversely affected social structures.
General Interest – Farsighted – Steven Johnson – 2018, 218 pages  – Another amazing book by Johnson. The theme is how to make wise long-term decisions. Just the final chapter on the value of reading literary fiction makes the book worth reading. I immediately ordered George Eliot's novel, Middlemarch.
History – Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari, 2014, 416 pages  – A concise, selective, history of mankind. You won't agree with everything he says (but that can be said of most books), but his explanation of certain areas of history are enlightening.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article on why it's a good to have more books in your library than you can possibly read.
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When teaching the Lead Well workshop, I ask delegates to consider the difference between a thermometer and a thermostat. A thermometer merely reflects the temperature of a room; a thermostat has the ability to change the temperature. Leaders are like thermostats; they visualize a better future and take the initiative to make necessary changes.
Often, initiative must be paired with courage because you will inevitably pursue things that you have never done before, and that can be intimidating. Also, when other people follow your initiatives, you'll sense a responsibility toward their effort and well-being, and that also takes courage.
Initiative requires a bias-to-action and a frustration with passivity. It likes movement.
Don't always sit in the passenger seat. Be the driver.
The year 2019 lies before us like a blank sheet of paper. Write out some goals and objectives for the next 12 months. Don't succumb to doing the same-old-same-old. Start small and go slow, but do start and keep moving.
When I first started my career as a minister, a friend gave me some good advice about maintaining a healthy balance of three types of relationships: takers, balanced, and givers.
"Don, there are some relationships that will constantly drain you; you're always giving to them but they seldom give to you. These are takers. You can't totally avoid them (particularly in the ministry) but if they represent the majority of your relationships, you'll burn out and lose all hope for humankind.
"In other relationships there will be a nice reciprocity; you give to them and they give to you. These associations are normal, healthy, and balanced.
In life, it's important to have a healthy balance of these three relationship-types. If you only have "takers" they will drain you dry. Balanced relationships, in which there is a mutual giving and receiving, should be the dominate type. And be extremely grateful if you have those rare friends who delight in freely and unconditionally giving to you with no thought of return.
I think I can live a reasonably sane life if I maintain a ratio of 30/60/10 (30% of my relationships are takers, 60% are balanced, 10% are givers).
For a moment, consider what type of person you are to other people.
Are you primarily a taker; high-maintenance and selfish?
Or do you strive to maintain balance in your relationships—you're sensitive about the give and take ratio of relationships and work toward equilibrium.
Name several adult relationships in which you are, by choice, the primary giver.
I now express deep appreciation to these people in my life who have given more to me than I have given to them: Dean F., Mike F., David H., John M., Chuck S., Jay W., Ruth M., and others.


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What do you see as the themes of Sorcery in this edition? Is Sorcery meant to be a dangerous tool that has a price? Or is it meant to be fairly reliable and something anyone would reasonably want to use?
Sorcery isn't inherently unreliable or dangerous, not any more so than any other magic in the setting. What I think of as the quintessential element of sorcery is its strangeness - becoming a sorcerer makes you a stranger, weirder person in some way, and wielding the power that sorcery gives you to solve problems is much stranger and less straightforward than other methods.


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Written by: Marc Schultz
Published on: Sep 29, 2016
A full-time staffer since 2009, Michelle Landwehr has been Chief Operations Officer at The Samfund for a year, helping the Boston nonprofit to better carry out its mission: supporting young adults who have beaten cancer recover from the financial impact of treatment. We spoke to her from the organization's offices, located just around the corner from the city's iconic South Station.
My un-official title: Big Picture Person.
My role, the short version: Keeping my eyes on the ball.
My role, the long version: Program planning and implementation, data management and evaluation, working on the strategic plan and general operations. The CEO and I spend a lot of time together on big-picture stuff, but also on the day-to-day details—it's a balance of the two.
Because we're a small shop, the implications for any one role are wide. I handle a lot of operations considerations for our team of five, but we work collaboratively on many issues. We all do some writing in terms of grant proposals, but we've also begun a foray into academic writing, and just had our first paper published, in the journal Cancer Medicine.
Most challenging part of my job: Like most staff at a small nonprofit, I'd say the most challenging aspect is time. There are never enough hours in the day to achieve everything we want to.
Most rewarding part of my job: Seeing the impact among young adult cancer survivors. Our funds go directly to individuals who need financial support following cancer treatment, and it's incredible to see what they can accomplish with just a little bit of help. And it goes beyond the immediate impact, like people getting to stay in their homes: with an 11-year history of distributing grants, we get to see what people go on to do years after being funded.
What the role requires: Experience in the nonprofit world. Experience managing and evaluating programs. Because of the type of organization we are, the role also requires a sense of humor, compassion, and empathy. Someone who can keep a lot of balls in the air at once, but also the humane characteristics to connect with the mission.
How I got here: I've been friends with CEO Samantha Watson since college, and we worked together briefly after college for another nonprofit. She started The Samfund in 2003, and I was involved from the beginning as a volunteer. A few years in, while living in New York, I started working part-time as a consultant, helping out with the grants program. When we agreed to make it full time, I moved back to Boston and I've been working here since.
Before I got here, I was doing public health work in the nonprofit sector in a very different capacity—including researching family court data and conducting reproductive health research, but the skills I picked up transferred well. It made a lot of sense for me to end up here.
At the top of my to-do list: I'm always trying to improve our grant application process, in terms of applicants and reviewers. For the first time this year, we're offering grants twice a year, and we're trying to hone that process to make it as scalable as possible.
My top goal for the year: It would be fantastic to publish another paper, and to collaborate with another organization or researcher for it. We have one in the works about family-building among cancer patients.
Why I'd recommend my job to others: The exciting thing about being part of a small organization, and growing into a new position, is the flexibility and opportunity to learn—to make of it what you'd like to see.
The Samfund helps young adult cancer survivors across the U.S. overcome the financial impact of treatment and achieve their goals, providing direct financial assistance and free online support and education. Since 2005, they've awarded over $1.6 million in grants, helping beneficiaries keep their homes, pay off medical debt, build families, and more. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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Machine Gunn Kelly had St Andrews alive and moving, as the sold out crowd jumped in unison, the walls of the hall seamed to contract like a beating heart. Throwing down his best and even tossing in a few Eminem songs, MGK celebrated his birthday with style and with about a 1000 fans. He puts on a high intense show that has fans looking like wet rats by the closing song. This is a must see show so get out and see the music!


There are so many great shows and experiences to enjoy in the World Showcase area of Walt Disney World's Epcot theme park. You can experience a variety of different cultures and cultural stories in a way unlike you can anywhere else. We learned from Disney Parks Blog that starting on March 6th, 2019 guests will be able to see the story of Disney•Pixar's Coco come to live at the Mexico pavilion in the World Showcase. This experience will be brought to us all, courtesy of Mariachi Cobre.
Mariachi Cobre will also still delight guests with their performances of traditional mariachi music as well, so guests will still get to this popular experience, too. The new performance will be around just in time for the Epcot International Flower & Garden festival, so be sure to check it out while you can!
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Sue Marsdon is a local artist, chair caner, mail artist and friend who has stayed in or house to look after Lyra when we've been away in the summer. This was Sue's Christmas card to me, a beautifully composed photo of some of my stuff, used and washed by Sue then hung in an aesthetic line. It makes me want to run outside with my shoes off. Unfortunately that might result in frost bite, so I will blog instead.


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Have you heard? We reveal the hot restaurant openings and closures of the season
Wednesday, May 28th, 2014 by Kelly Pluke
The slow months of the winter season can often usher in changes in the restaurant industry. Closures, renovations, relocations and new openings are part and parcel of this time of year.
As our dynamic industry grows, newcomers are welcomed and old legends are celebrated. We've seen Chris Erasmus, former executive chef at 2013 Top 10 restaurant Pierneef à La Motte, move on to pursue his dream of opening his own spot. We really look forward to seeing what Chris has in store at forest-to-table-themed Foliage.
Another hot bit of gossip was around the opening of a new bistro in Cape Town's Foreshore. With a chef who trained under Heston Blumenthal and worked at The Fat Duck and The Pot Luck Club, Borage is getting some worthy attention.
The movers and shakers in the culinary world tend to be a hot topic at dinner parties, sometimes leading to unfounded and off-the-mark rumours. To help you get your facts straight, we've rounded up a list of confirmed openings, closures and other changes at notable eateries around the country.
Contrary to some unfounded rumours, Bistrot Bizerca is alive and well in its new spot on Heritage Square.
Borage, a new restaurant on the Cape Town's foreshore, is not owned by Heston Blumenthal as talk would have it. Rather, head chef Frank Marks worked under Heston Blumenthal at The Fat Duck (former no. 1 restaurant in the world) and at The Pot Luck Club before opening Borage.
Movements and closures in Johannesburg
The Four Seasons Hotel will be opening at the end of 2014 in Johannesburg. There will be five new locally inspired restaurants, bars and lounges. The culinary team will be presided over by executive chef Dirk Gieselmann, a native of Germany and most recently of the three Michelin star L'Auberge de I'll in Illhaeusern, France. Passionate about seasonality and local provenance, Dirk is currently foraging the farms and markets of the city and surrounding countryside and acquiring the best possible ingredients on which to base his menus.
Pierneef à La Motte
Movements and closures in Cape Town
The Butcher Shop and Grill (Sandton) will open a branch in Mouille Point in the near future.
Caffe Milano in Kloof Street will close at the end of May. Chef Giorgio Nava is planning to reinvent this space as Carne Bistro. The change comes in order to meet the demand for lunches and to handle the dinner overflow from Carne SA, which is a smaller space. The new menu will include daily specials and the fare will be somewhat lighter than that of Carne SA.
The Greenhouse will say goodbye to head chef Gerald van der Walt, who is joining the team at The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Français. Read the full story here.
Harbour House Group has welcomed Spanish chef Andres Condé as group executive chef from June 2014. Condé worked previously at elBulli, where he was second in command to Albert Adrià. More recently Condé was Head Chef at the Michelin-starred Tickets tapas restaurant and the adjoining 41° Bar in Barcelona, both owned by the Adrià brothers.
La Colombe will end its tenure at Constantia Uitsig at the end of June due to the estate being sold to new owners. La Colombe will move to new premises in Constantia and plans to be up and running again by September. Watch this space.
The Five Flies has closed down after unsuccessfully changing owners.
Mr Pickwicks has closed its doors in Green Market Square and opened in Kloof Street.
Newport Market and Deli in Mouille Point has closed down.
River Café on the Constantia Uitsig estate closed at the end of April. Neil Grant of Burrata has confirmed that he will be taking over, changing its name (still a secret) and opening the doors again in September or October.
The Tearoom at the Company's Gardens will be closing at the end of July. It will be replaced by Haarlem & Hope, a new restaurant under the management of the Madame Zingara staff. (Also under the Madame Zingara helm are Café Paradiso, Café Mozart, Sidewalk Café and Bombay Bicycle Club.
Carl Penn (executive chef of Peddlars on the Bend) will be opening a new Portuguese restaurant in Woodstock in the old Don Pedro's spot.
La Colombe in Cape Town
Movements in KwaZulu-Natal
Jackie Cameron will be leaving 2013 Top 10 restaurant Hardford House to start her own school of food and wine. Read the full story here.
Movements and closures in the Winelands
Barouche in Stellenbosch will be closing down on 31 May.
No. 10 restaurant Pierneef à La Motte has appointed Michelle Theron as executive chef as from May 2014. (She takes over from Chris Erasmus, who resigned to open his own forest-to-plate restaurant called Foliage.)
At Overture, Adele Grewar, who was chef Bertus Basson's sous chef at our no. 7 restaurant, has moved on from the restaurant to pursue a career in Australia.
Temporary closures (for winter or renovations) in the Western Cape
Balducci's at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town will be closed for renovations for a month from 29 June until end-July.
Barefoot Cook in Hermanus is closed until 2 September.
Bella Napoli in Onrus is closed until 13 June.
Bientang's Cave is closed until 28 June.
Country Kitchen on the Mont Rochelle estate will be closed for refurbishment until August 2014. (The estate has been bought by Virgin and added to the brand's Limited Edition collection of luxury hotels.)
The Bungalow at Clifton in Cape Town will be closed for winter until 1 September.
De Grendel Restaurant in Plattekloof, Cape Town, will close for renovations from 30 June to 14 July.
Dunes Beach Restaurant and Bar will be closed from 17 June to 27 June.
Harvest Restaurant at Laborie will close from 9 June to 24 June.
The Kitchen at Maison in Stellenbosch will be closed from 2 June to 4 August.
Makaron at Majeka House in Stellenbosch will close its doors from 26 June to 31 July.
Mange Tout on the Mont Rochelle estate will be closed for refurbishment until August 2014. (The estate has been bought by Virgin and added to the brand's Limited Edition collection of luxury hotels.)
Marianas in Stanford will close for winter from 15 June.
Overture in Stellenbosch will be closed from 25 August to 10 September.
Pierneef à La Motte in Franschhoek will be closed from 17 June to 11 July.
The Red Table Restaurant at Nederburg outside Paarl will close from 18 June to 8 July.
The Restaurant at Newton Johnson in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley will be closed for winter from 2 June to 3 July.
Rust en Vrede in Stellenbosch will be losed from 8 June to 9 July.
Savoy Cabbage in Cape Town will be closed from 26 May to 18 June for their annual break and a major kitchen refurbishment. (The Offal Festival will run from the 23rd June until the 5th July.)
Springfontein Eats in Stanford will be closed for July and August months.
The Tasting Room will close from 9 June to 7 July.
Terroir will close from 30 June to 17 July.
The Test Kitchen by Luke Dale-Roberts (no. 1 restaurant in SA) will close from 1 July to 15 July.
Tokara in Stellenbosch will close its doors from 26 May to 9 June.
Wakame and Wafu in Mouille Point have closed for renovations until further notice.
Makaron in Stellenbosch
New restaurants in Cape Town
Bocca, a new venture by Neil Grant of Burrata, will open in Bree Street in August.
Borruso's Too in Plumstead is the new sibling of the popular Borruso's Kenilworth.
Café Society in the city centre is a gourmet burger restaurant that also serves breakfast, flat breads and cold meat tapas.
Casa du Sol Grill House in Claremont is a Portuguese-themed restaurant boasting fresh, innovative cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere.
Charcoal Dining is an upmarket bistro located in Gardens with a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
The Depot in the heart of Woodstock is the new venture of the previous owners of Brewhoo. They serve coffee and light meals.
The Dining Room in Sir Lowry road is the new venture by Karen Dudley of The Kitchen.
Hard Pressed Café is a 'vinyl café' situated in the new Portside Tower in Bree Street. Stop by for a quick cup of coffee or hang out for a few hours listening to great tunes.
Isola, a new Italian Trattoria with a wood-fired oven, has opened in the city bowl.
The Local Grill (with branches in Parktown North and Boksburg) has opened a new branch in Woodstock.
The Lunch Depot is a new lunch spot with great coffee on the foreshore.
Street Food, developed by the creators of Chefs Warehouse and Canteen and situated in the same building, provides daily take-away meals. There is no set menu as the meal options change each day.
Thornton Whites Gastro Bar opened on Cape Town's foreshore at the beginning of April.
Queen of Tarts has opened a little branch in the Absa Building on the Foreshore.
Charcoal Dining
New restaurants in Johannesburg
310 Sustainable Eatery in Paulshof strives to serve tasty meals using fresh ingredients from local farmers and suppliers in the area.
Cielo Lounge Bar on the banks of the lake in Benoni offers a tranquil setting with an eclectic atmosphere.
Well-known Parkhurst eatery Coobs has opened a bar next door. The Library at Coobs is an upmarket bar serving wine and tapas, and is also available for private dining.
Social on Main kitchen and cocktail bar opened in April. They serve platters, steaks, homemade burgers, salads, flatbreads and boards to share.
Coobs
New restaurants in Pretoria
A new branch of the popular Asian fusion restaurant Beluga opened in Pretoria in April.
Black Bamboo in Ashlea Gardens celebrates the synergy between food, wine and art. Their carefully selected wine list boasts an interesting selection of wines from around the country.
The Burgh Bistro in Pretoria East offers hearty home-style meals and pride themselves on giving personal attention and outstanding service.
Countless Ours in Centurion offers a cosy atmosphere thanks to a built-in fireplace and hearty winter cuisine.
Harissa Bistro, located at The Club Centre in Hazelwood, has a comfy and casual atmosphere and serves dishes like tandoori kingklip with coconut dhal and apple chutney.
New restaurants in Durban
Crusts Café and Restaurant, a small, privately owned family restaurant, serves light meals such as pasta, pizza, steaks and burgers.
Thava Continental, the third branch of the Thava Group of Restaurants, specialises in Indian and continental cuisine.
New restaurants in the winelands
The Pop-up Bacon Bar has opened in Franschhoek: They are a pop-up project of The Bacon of the Month Club celebrating a menu of all things bacon. It will be open until the end of July.
Strandcafe in Strand: They serve specialties from German-speaking countries in combination with Illy coffee, pancakes and more.
Strandcafe
Have we missed any openings or closures? Let us know in the comments.
Chris Erasmus
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Any truth to the rumour of a new Harbour House opening on Muizenberg beach towards the end of winter?
Hi Susan. We've phoned Harbour House and await their confirmation! Thanks for the heads-up.
Posticino opened in Hout Bay.
Was there the other evening and it is very nice too!
Caroline Bagley
Savoy Cabbage Hout Street Cape Town is closed until 18th June for their annual break and a major kitchen refurbishment. The Offal Festival will run from the 23rd June until the 5th July.
Thanks, Caroline! We'll update the Savoy Cabbage listing accordingly.
CarlPenn
Our opening date is to follow very shortly and myself and FOH partner Rui Boia look forward to hosting Cape Town.
ps. Restaurant name is Alcantra


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PUSHES BY the KMT for a referendum on food imports from radiation-affected areas in Japan and air pollution are ironic appropriations of referendum reform in Taiwan. This is in line with broader attempts by the KMT to imitate tactics of Taiwanese civil society.
Namely, the KMT, which has ruled over modern Taiwan for most of its history after World War II, is probably more responsible than the DPP for the variety of factors that contribute to contemporary air pollution issues in Taiwan. And while the KMT may embrace the issue of food imports from radiation-affected areas in Japan as a way to try and sabotage attempts by the DPP to build closer relations with Japan to counter China, in line with the anti-Japanese aspect of the KMT's Chinese nationalism, the KMT does not dare to confront issues regarding nuclear power in Taiwan as a whole. After all, the KMT was who instituted nuclear power in Taiwan and policies during KMT administrations have remained beholden to Taiwan's powerful nuclear industry, even as KMT politicians include former president Ma Ying-Jeou have vowed to phase out nuclear power in Taiwan.
But the KMT has opportunistically leapt onto these issues to oppose the present Tsai administration. Notably, during the KMT's long years in power, the environmental movement served as an incubator of dissent against the KMT, particularly the anti-nuclear movement. And so, now that the KMT has found itself the political opposition in the truest sense of the word for the first time since its election defeats in 2016 presidential and legislative elections, it has taken to mimicking past stances of the DPP–never mind that this easily opens the KMT up for criticism.
Along such lines, it is ironic for the KMT to adopt the tactic of calling for a referendum when this was historically called for by the pan-Green camp against KMT administrations, as a way to settle social issues ranging from nuclear power to Taiwanese independence. The KMT notably also embraced calls by progressive Taiwanese civil society groups and Third Force parties to lower the benchmarks needed for referendum, but this was purely opportunistic.
However, since the Sunflower Movement in 2014, the KMT and members of the pan-Blue camp have notably sought to mimic protest tactics from the movement, such as attempts to storm the Legislative Yuan. The KMT oftentimes seems to take the view that the DPP engineered the Sunflower Movement through the clever use of protest "techniques" and in that way believes that if it mimics these "techniques" it can attain similar success to the DPP in 2016 presidential and legislative elections.
This would be no different in the case of referendum, through which the KMT hopes to regain momentum leading up 2018 local elections as an election strategy. In particular, as referendum requires mass mobilizations across Taiwan, the KMT hopes to draw upon its local party cadres across Taiwan.
It is unknown how much traction that the KMT will gain with the public at large, but the KMT party organization served as an instrument of social control during the one party authoritarian period, and the KMT's party network continues to be vast. It is reported that the KMT has ordered local level politicians to reach quotas for their areas.
As with the recall campaign that NPP chair Huang Kuo-Chang barely survived due to opposition against his support of gay marriage, it remains to be seen if civil society activists will find it difficult to combat measures that they themselves have pushed for. The referendum system may be a powerful means of instituting a form of direct democracy through organic, local participation, but particularly seeing as Taiwan is a country which has had long-standing issues with vote buying, it is also possible for the referendum system to be gamed. Party organizations could potentially win out over organic voting, no matter what activists may wish for, and referendum would always likely involve intersections between party organizations and voters.
At the same time, it is not only the KMT attempting to mobilize in favor of referendums, with referendums called for by civil society groups and Third Force parties on the issue of controversial changes to the Labor Standards Act by the Tsai administration, as well as by anti-gay groups regarding gay marriage, and pro-independence groups calling for a change of referendum laws so that a referendum on issues of unification/independence can be settled. Referendum, then, will continue to be a site of political contestation in Taiwan.


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Un cinq-mâts ( ou  en anglais) est un navire à voiles doté de cinq mâts, soit d'avant en arrière le mât de misaine, le grand mât avant, le grand mât central, le grand mât arrière et le mât d'artimon.

Classification
Comme les autres voiliers à plusieurs mâts, les cinq-mâts se subdivisent en :
 Le cinq-mâts barque porte des phares carrés sur quatre mâts et le mât d'artimon porte une voile à corne surmontée d'un flèche.
 Le cinq-mâts carré porte des phares carrés sur ses cinq mâts.
 Le cinq-mâts goélette porte un phare carré sur le mat de misaine.
 La goélette à cinq-mâts correspond au five-masted schooner en anglais.

Voiles/Gréement d'un cinq-mâts carré
Mâts
A. Mât de Misaine
B. Grand Mât Avant
C. Grand Mât Central
D. Grand Mât Arrière
E. Mât d'Artimon
Voiles
 Clin Foc
 Grand Foc
 Faux Foc
 Petit Foc
 Voile d'étai de Grand Cacatois Avant
 Voile d'étai de Grand Perroquet Avant
 Grand Voile d'étai Avant
 Voile d'étai de Grand Cacatois Central
 Voile d'étai de Grand Perroquet Central
 Grand Voile d'étai Central
 Voile d'étai de Cacatois Arrière
 Voile d'étai de Perroquet Arrière
 Grand Voile d'étai Arrière
 Diablotin (voile d'étai de perruche)
 Voile d'étai d'Artimon
 Petit Perroquet Supérieur
 Petit Perroquet Inférieur
 Petit Hunier Supérieur
 Petit Hunier Inférieur
 Misaine
 Grand Cacatois Avant
 Grand Perroquet Supérieur Avant
 Grand Perroquet Inférieur Avant
 Grand Hunier Supérieur Avant
 Grand Hunier Inférieur Avant
 Grand Voile Avant
 Grand Cacatois Central
 Grand Perroquet Supérieur Central
 Grand Perroquet Inférieur Central
 Grand Hunier Supérieur Central
 Grand Hunier Inférieur Central
 Grand Voile Central
 Grand Perroquet Supérieur Arrière
 Grand Perroquet Inférieur Arrière
 Grand Hunier Supérieur Arrière
 Grand Hunier Inférieur Arrière
 Grand Voile Arrière
 Perruche
 Perroquet de Fougue Supérieur
 Perroquet de Fougue Inférieur
 Voile Barrée
 Brigantine

Exemple de Cinq-mâts
Concernant les cinq-mats goélette, 146 ont été construits :
 75 cinq-mats goélette sans moteurs construit entre 1896 et 1922
 71 cinq-mats goélette avec moteurs auxiliaire construit entre 1916 et 1918

Navires modernes ou gréement anciens encore existant
Le Wind Surf (ex-Club Med 1) (1990), goélette à cinq-mâts.
Le Club Med 2 (1992), goélette à cinq-mâts.
Le Royal Clipper (2000), cinq-mâts carré.

Navires disparus

Cinq-mâts barque :
Le France I (1890), cinq-mâts barque à coque acier. Abandonné en 1901 lors d'une tempête, il est devenu un bateau-fantôme.
Le  (1891), cinq-mâts barque allemand.
Le Flora (ex Potosi) (1895), cinq-mâts barque chilien qui sombra avec sa cargaison de charbon, en 1925, au large des côtes de la Patagonie.
Le R.C. Rickmers (1906), cinq-mâts barque qui fut coulé, en 1917, par le sous-marin allemand U-66.
Le France II (1913), cinq-mâts barque français. Il s'échoua sur le récif de Ouano en Nouvelle-Calédonie, le , par temps calme. En 2006, l'épave de la coque métallique est toujours visible.
Le Kobenhavn (1921), cinq-mâts barque à coque acier. Il disparut en mer le .

Cinq-mâts carré :
Le Preussen (1901), cinq-mâts carré allemand, navire marchand fut victime d'un abordage dans la Manche par un paquebot à vapeur en 1910. En voulant gagner Douvres pour réparer il s'échoua sur la côte à l'est de Douvres.

Cinq-mâts goélette :

Le Star d'Écosse (ex Kenilworth- quatre mâts de 1887), regréé en cinq-mâts goélette en 1941. Il fut coulé par un sous-marin allemand en 1943.
Le John B. Prescott 1898), cinq-mâts goélette franche américaine (2454 Tonneaux).
Le MD Cressy (1899), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il coula en mer le .
Le Helen W. Martin (1900), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il échoua sur la côte du Danemark le .
Le William C. Carnegie (1900), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il fut détruit à Long Island le .
L'Oakley C. Curtis (1901), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il fut converti en chaland en juillet 1930.
Le Martha petit p. (1901-1923), cinq-mâts goélette en bois.
Le Cora F. Cressy (1902), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il fut coulé à Brême comme brise-lames.
Le Paul Palmer (1902), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Coule après incendie sur la côte du Nord-Est aux États-Unis en 1913.
L'Elizabeth Palmer (1903), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Après une collision avec le vapeur Washingtonian il coula en 1915 avec celui-ci.
Le Maryland (ex Kineo) (1903).
Le Grace A. Martin (1904), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il coula au large de Martinicus Rock (Maine) durant une tempête, le .
Le Davies Palmer (1905), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il fut détruit dans le port de Boston en 1909.
Le Fannie Palmer II (1907), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il coula le  à l'ouest de Gibraltar.
Le Governor Brooks (1907), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il coula en 1921, au large de Montévidéo Uruguay.
Le Fuller Palmer (1908), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il sombra en 1914.
Le Carl Vinnen (1922), cinq-mâts goélette sur le Rio de la Plata - 1930/31.
Le B. Edward Winslow (ex St Johns NF) (1918), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il coula aux Bermudes en 1928.
Le  Joseph S. Zemen (1919), cinq-mâts goélette en bois. Il fit naufrage dans la baie de Penobscot (Maine) le .

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Gréement carré
Liste des plus grands voiliers
Trois-mâts
Quatre-mâts
Six-mâts
Sept-mâts

Liens externes

 Registre alphabétique des voiliers

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Type de bateaux
Type de gréements
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Fitch Ratings says the outlook for global growth has been dented by a series of recent weak data releases, but not dismantled. The broad contours of the agency's December 2018 Global Economic Outlook (GEO) forecasts for 2019 - with above-trend growth in the US and policy easing preventing growth dipping below 6% in China - still look intact. The eurozone outlook has weakened more significantly but some recovery in growth in 1H19 still looks likely after a very disappointing 4Q18.
A string of weak data releases since the GEO was released in early December have raised market concerns about the risk of a sharp downturn in global growth in 2019. Most dramatically, business sentiment in the manufacturing sector has seen a widespread deterioration across multiple geographies. Fitch's economics team's latest chart of the month shows the (unweighted) average manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the 20 economies covered in the GEO and suggests that the upturn in the global manufacturing cycle seen from 3Q16 petered out in 2H18, consistent with the slowdown also seen in world trade through 2018.
This deterioration in the global manufacturing cycle has its roots mainly in the slowdown in growth in China, which became evident from the middle of last year and followed earlier credit tightening. China's share of world GDP has continued to grow rapidly in recent years and its domestic economic cycle now has much more pronounced effects on the rest of the world than in the past. The current slowdown in China is substantial - particularly when measured in terms of nominal GDP growth, which peaked at nearly 12% y/y in early 2017 and likely fell below 9% y/y in 4Q18. Moreover, the latest slowdown has been reflected in consumer spending to a greater extent than in the past, including in car sales, which recorded a 4.3% decline last year. China accounts for around a third of global car sales and it seems likely that global auto sales - a key component of world manufacturing - declined last year for the first time since 2009.
However, our 2019 forecast for China's real GDP growth of 6.1% still looks achievable despite recent weakness in the data. Retail sales, industrial production, profits and trade growth have all fallen further since early December but fixed asset investment growth has recovered in the last three months with infrastructure investment - which led the initial slowdown - returning to positive y/y growth. New housing starts also continue to grow robustly. Moreover the latest credit data showed tentative signs of stabilisation with aggregate financing to the real economy (adjusted to exclude equity and include local government bonds) growing 10.3% in December compared with 10.4% in November. This followed several months of much larger declines in the annual growth rate.
Policy in China has been eased further with the recent cut in banks' required reserve ratios and the authorities' commitment to tax cuts and supporting infrastructure spending has become more vocal in recent weeks. Our current baseline forecasts also assume that US tariffs on USD200 billion of Chinese imports will rise to 25% in early 2019, a shock that may be avoided if trade talks make further progress.
Manufacturing indicators in the US have also deteriorated but private sector demand still looks robust and 'now-cast' estimates of 4Q18 GDP based on high frequency data are pointing to annualised growth of around 3%, roughly in line with the December GEO. Strong job gains and rising nominal and real wage growth continue to support the consumer and lead indicators of business investment suggest prospects are still for decent growth in 2019, albeit at a slower rate than in 2018. The tightening in financial conditions has been modest and the Fed now looks likely to raise rates in 2019 by less than the three hikes predicted in the December GEO. The Federal government shutdown could take a toll on growth in 1Q19 but for now our working assumption is that fiscal policy continues to provide support to US domestic demand growth in 2019 as a whole.
There is a more material threat to our 2019 eurozone growth forecasts. Eurozone PMI's have seen the largest falls in recent months and this has been corroborated by weak 'hard' industrial production data in the large member states. The December GEO forecast that 4Q18 GDP would rebound to 0.5% is not supported by the incoming data - instead this now points to another quarter of very subdued growth similar to the 0.2% expansion seen in 3Q18.
However, a number of temporary factors - including disruptions to car sales and production related to new emissions standards, weather related complications to domestic trade flows in Germany and social protests in France - have likely played a part in weak eurozone activity in 2H18. This suggests that some recovery in sequential growth should be seen in 1H19. Tightening labour markets and rising wage growth should also remain supportive of consumer spending. Nevertheless the slowdown in world trade and fading credit impulse now look likely to see eurozone growth heading back down towards potential (estimated to be below 1.5%) more quickly than previously expected. The possibility of a no-deal Brexit adds further downside risks. The weaker activity outlook reinforces our expectation that the ECB will likely modify its forward guidance on interest rates soon and possibly consider other accommodative moves related to bank financing.
Fitch will release its next quarterly GEO in March 2019.


Shawls of Paisley design were in fashion for nearly 100 years, from around 1780 until the 1870's. During this time millions were woven, embroidered and printed in Kashmir, Persia, India, Russia, USA and Europe, in France at Paris and Lyon, Austria in Vienna, in England at Norwich and in Scotland at Edinburgh, Glasgow and Paisley itself. It was the woven Kashmir shawls which first caught women's imagination, with European manufacturers quick to emulate by weaving or printing. Paisley produced shawls the most economically and for the longest period, the name becoming synonymous with the place of manufacture.
Shawls have been woven in Kashmir since about the eleventh century, but the industry producing what we refer to as a Kashmir shawl is thought to have begun during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (Fig 2,3). During the fifteenth century Persian replaced Sanskrit as the official language and the world 'shawl' derives from the Persian shal, denoting a class of woven fabric rather than an article of dress. During its history Kashmir experienced Mughal, Afghan and Sikh invasions, all of which left their stylistic influence on the shawl.
The Mughals, who inhabited the vast Central Asian steppe, conquered Kashmir in 1586. Under their rule the arts blossomed and the shawl industry grew. Weavers were brought in from Eastern Turkestan where the type of weave later used for Kashmir shawls was practiced. Persian men had traditionally worn narrow waist girdles of shawl fabric, as part of male dress, while the Indians wove wide shoulder mantles for male attire. These were usually given as prestigious gifts, and one can clearly see the honour in which they were held by looking at miniatures of the period, where the proud owner is seen wearing such an accessory. From about 1775 Kashmir shawls were acquired by travellers, explorers, military personnel and members of the East India Company who appreciating their beauty and warmth, brought them back as presents. In Carola Oman's life of Sir Walter Scott, The Wizard of the North, it is recorded that Scott's French bride Charlotte Carpentier was given a Kashmir shawl in 1797 for her trousseau which cost 50 guineas (£50/ $100), a huge sum.
The earliest design on Kashmir seventeenth and eighteenth century shawls was a single flowering plant complete with roots, inspired by English herbals (books with plant illustrations) which reached the Mughal court during the seventeenth century (4). This design gradually developed into an upright spray of flowers, and by around 1800 became the stylised cone-shaped motif known as the boteh, which we now tend to call the Paisley pine. The shape of the motif changed over the decades, from a small squat cone to a very elongated curve (5).
There are many theories about the boteh or pine motif; Paisley Museum's explanation seems perhaps the most logical. The pattern can be traced back to ancient Babylon, where a tear-drop shape was used as a symbol to represent the growing shoot of a date palm. The palm provided food, drink, clothing (woven fibres) and shelter, and so became regarded as the 'Tree of Life', with its growing shoot being gradually recognised as a fertility symbol.
By the mid-nineteenth century demand in Europe for Kashmir shawls was enormous and the demand could not be satisfied. Before 1850 one man would weave a shawl on a hand loom. After this date several men or boys would weave a small section of a shawl, which would be cut out and pieced together, a patchwork of small pieces, and sewn into a shawl by a shawl tailor or rafugar. An order worked in this way could be completed in one-and-a-half months instead of the two to three years it would take to weave a shawl. Another even quicker method to increase production was to embroider shawls, either partially combining this technique with woven shawls or completely embroidering.. Amazingly, with both these methods joins cannot be detected and the design flows over the whole shawl.
The European manufacturers were not slow to realise the potential of the shawl market, with Britain taking the lead. Both Edinburgh in 1790 and Norwich in 1792, began to imitate Kashmir shawls on hand looms; Paisley followed in 1805 (6). Paisley introduced an attachment to the handloom in 1812, which enabled five different colours of yarn to be used, instead of just two colours, indigo and madder, thus better imitating the Kashmir shawls. Agents were sent from Paisley to London to copy the latest Kashmir shawls as they arrived by sea and, in eight days imitations were being sold in London for £12, the original Kashmir shawl costing £70-100.
The two basic differences between Kashmir shawls and their imitators are the type of cloth and the weaving method. The Kashmir shawls being woven from hair, were lighter and smooth with a natural sheen, whilst the European shawls, until the end of the 1830's, were woven from silk or wool which made them much heavier and less fine (6,7).
Methods of weaving were quite different in Kashmir and Europe. In Kashmir the shawls were woven in the twill tapestry technique, which is similar to weaving a European tapestry. The wefts (horizontals) which form the pattern do not run right across the fabric, but are woven back and forth around the warp (vertical) threads, where each particular colour is needed. Woven with goat's fleece, the finest softest fleece, shah tus (king's wool) came from beneath the coarse outer hair of the underbelly of wild central Asian goats (8). These goats had such hair as a protective layer against the extreme cold in the high altitudes of the Himalayan region at 1,500 ft. In spring, the goats would rub themselves against the bushes from where it was collected. This quality of fleece was used only for the most expensive shawls. The majority being woven from pashmina , hair from the underbelly of domesticated goats. The best fleece was left the natural cream colour, whilst the darker pashmina was dyed with natural vegetable dyes.
The early British shawls had warp (vertical) threads of cotton or silk. These threads were strong and could bear the strain of being lifted to introduce the pattern threads of the weft (horizontal) thread. These could be of wool, cotton or silk. Wool was not strong enough for use as a warp until the French invented a yarn of wool fibres spun round a silk core. This, together with the invention of the Jacquard loom at the turn of the nineteenth century, enabled more intricate patterns to be woven and established the French as leaders in the field. The first all-wool shawls were not made in Paisley until 1823.
Up until the 1820's when the Jacquard loom was introduced into Paisley, weaving was a cottage industry, with a weaver owning his own handlooms. He lived typically in a single storey house with a passage through the middle; on one side were his living quarters, comprising one or two rooms plus a loft, on the other side a weaving shop with up to four looms.
The weaver, who was always a male, carried out almost all the different processes involved in weaving a shawl, often preparing the simple designs of the early period and making the cards which defined the pattern, as well as selling the shawls. Sometimes a merchant financed the materials and provided transport whilst an agent acted as middle man between the two. With the introduction of the drawloom, which required a drawboy to pull the ropes controlling the overhead harness, the weaver would call out his instructions. The shawl was woven with the underside facing the weaver so if these instructions were misconstrued, defects might not be noticed until a few hours later.
The finished shawls would be taken to the merchant who only paid the weaver if he was satisfied with the quality. The shawl would then be clipped to remove the loose threads at the back, washed, stretched and pressed to give a surface sheen. The Jacquard loom, introduced to Paisley in the 1820's, used punched cards instead of a drawboy, eliminating human error and reducing the workforce on a loom to one. These looms, much larger and more expensive, changed a cottage industry into a factory based one. Now there was a division of labour and people were employed for particular skills.
The Geffrye Museum is one of my favourite museums. It has displays of English urban domestic interiors from 1600 to the present day in a series of period rooms. Primary collections of English furniture and panitings. There is a walled herb garden and a series of period gardens.
Meg Andrews is a buyer of rare, unusual and interesting antique costumes and textiles and have been dealing for 25 years. Prior to this she established the Costume and Textile Department at Sotheby's. Her article chapter on Symbolism and Status - Costumes and Textiles from China and Japan was published in the Embroiders' Guild's book Treasures of the Embroider's Guild about their Far Eastern Collection, 1991. She has contributed chapters on Furnishing Textiles for the Regent Academy's, Regent Street book on Understanding Style from the Regency to the 1960's. Wrote regularly the Saleroom Column for Embroidery magazine for 13 years. She has also written articles on Chinese Insignia, Sleevebands and Manchu & Han Shoes for antique and embroidery magazines.


General Discussion / Re: Does everyone use an Industrial Serger on boat covers?
I have never used one. For the seams I use a hot knife to cut the fabric for Sunbrella and then either fold under and stich or sometimes use binding depending on if it is an edge or just a seam.
I have a customer that wants me to replace about half of his eisenglass. How can I do this and get the zippers to match up? Should I also replace the zipper half in the window pieces that I am not replacing? I am also concerned about getting the new pieces to fit good without wrikels etc. so what is the best way to pattern the replacement windows?
It is a 31-19, manufactured around 1930 I think.
Hey, I never thought of using Spandex to do canvas work! Very nice work! My covers look like my old face...wrinkled! We would love to learn more about your methods.
The Business Of Upholstery / Re: Estimating: 2 passes, 3 passes ?
Thanks Mike, Anything I can learn to help set prices is a big help. This has always been a big challange for me.
The Business Of Upholstery / Estimating: 2 passes, 3 passes ?
I was looking in my Marine Fabricator Magizine (Jan/Feb) which has a MFA Time Standards Manual toward the back of the publication. There are charts that give the hours that it should take to fabricate various items. For example a boat cover for a 24' boat shows 10Hrs for 2 passes 16Hrs for 3 passes and 18 Hrs for 4 passes.
What exactly do they mean by passes?


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LIVINGSTON, Scotland, May 10, 2011 — Fibre Photonics Ltd., a maker of near- and mid-infrared fiber optic cables and immersion probes, relocated last month to Eliburn Office Park in Livingston.
The larger production facility, designated analytical chemistry laboratory and larger office space will enable future growth and development, the company said.
Fibre Photonics is now looking to recruit analytical chemists to work with its pharmaceutical, chemicals, and food and drink customer base. In addition, product managers and production technicians will be required to manage and produce both existing and new products for immersion spectroscopy.
The company's new address is: 3 Eliburn Office Park, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6GR. Tel: +44 845 557 6450; Fax: +44 845 557 6451.