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Ironton senior cornerback Trent Hacker drops into coverage Friday during the Fighting Tigers' 55-7 victory over Gallia Academy at Tanks Memorial Stadium.
Ironton senior cornerback Trent Hacker celebrates a pass breakup Friday during the Fighting Tigers' 55-7 victory over Gallia Academy at Tanks Memorial Stadium.
Hacker chopped wood to fuel Ironton's title run
By TIM STEPHENS The Herald-Dispatch tstephens@hdmediallc.com
IRONTON — Trent Hacker was accustomed to having a football or barbell in his hands, but an ax handle was something new.
With COVID-19 limiting weight room access and workouts at Tanks Memorial Stadium, the Ironton High School standout wide receiver/cornerback became creative to get stronger during the offseason.
"One of the things we did, we were chopping wood one day just for an innovative workout," Hacker said. "That was new. I live in town, so I'd never chopped wood before."
Hacker and his teammates are willing to do whatever it takes to return to the Ohio Division V state championship game. Last year, the Fighting Tigers made it to the finals before losing 17-7 to Kirtland. This season, the plan is to leave Canton's Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium with Ironton's third state championship trophy.
"We've been going crazy," Hacker said. "Obviously with the COVID happening, we weren't allowed to come (to Tanks Memorial), but a couple of my buddies have a workout place and we hit it hard, sometimes twice a day. We'd run routes and that was important with our new quarterback (Tayden Carpenter)."
Hacker said those workouts have paid off.
"We've gotten bigger, faster and stronger," Hacker said. "I think we're looking good this year."
So does Tigers coach Trevon Pendleton, who has noticed Hacker's ability.
"We have some big-body guys like Hacker," Pendleton said. "He has some height and can run and jump."
Some teams are just happy to play, considering many large-city schools canceled their seasons. Schools in Kentucky haven't begun their seasons and a considerable number of West Virginia teams, including Spring Valley, Tolsia and Wayne, aren't playing this week because of virus outbreaks.
"I'm excited to be here," said Hacker, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound senior. "I'm glad we get to play a season and hopefully we get to go back to the state championship and win one more."
Hacker said falling short in the 2019 finals was "heartbreaking," a term he also used to describe what his final year of high school would be without football. So far, Ironton has done nothing but break opponents' hearts, defeating Portsmouth 50-3 and Gallia Academy 55-7. The Tigers will try to improve to 3-0 when they play host to Coal Grove (1-1) at 7 p.m. Friday.
Hacker has one reception for 37 yards and a touchdown this season. He has made one tackle. Ironton's starters, however, essentially have played a mere four quarters in two games.
Hacker doesn't need to pad his stats to garner attention. College recruiters already have noticed him. Athletic, Hacker can dunk a basketball and averaged 4.7 rebounds per game last season. Lake Erie College, Morehead State and Ohio Dominican have offered him.
"I'm just kind of waiting it out right now," Hacker said. "I hope to get more offers during the season."
That Hacker is starting for one of the more-powerful teams in the region and state is remarkable. That he's a college prospect is remarkable. He began playing football two years ago and earned a starting job as a junior.
"I get chills talking about it," Hacker said. "It was pretty crazy. I started playing football my sophomore year and never really thought anything about it. Then I started as a junior on a state championship game team."
Hacker caught 10 passes for 228 yards and three touchdowns as a junior. H said his route running has improved, as has his defense. Hacker said in addition to the state championship he has personal goals.
"I want to have more touchdowns and more receptions," Hacker said. "I feel like I could have produced more last year. On defense, I think I've gotten a lot better. I want to get more picks this year."
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A mathematical model proves that Bieber fever is one of the catchiest diseases of our time.
Imagine: you're the parent of an adolescent Justin Bieber fan. At some point, the musical heartthrob has probably struck fear into your heart -- the fear that your child is in the clutches of an unhealthy obsession.
What would possess someone to buy up Bieber toys, read Bieber fan fiction, watch Bieber movies, and sleep in Justin Bieber pajamas? The clinical term for this condition is Bieber fever, and according to a Canadian mathematical model, you're right to be afraid. It's even more contagious than the measles, one of the fastest-spreading diseases on earth.
To reach their alarming conclusion, University of Ottawa scientists Valerie Tweedle and Robert J. Smith? (the question mark is a part of his name -- don't ask) started with a standard tool in epidemiology called an SIR model. SIR models help researchers categorize people who are susceptible to a pathogen, infected, or recovered. In a SIR model's most basic form, patients migrate from S to I to R in a linear fashion.
Bieber fever is especially nasty, though. People who are infected with it can recover -- either through eventual boredom or through Bieber's negative media coverage -- but crucially, once they've recovered, they become susceptible to the illness all over again with exposure to positive media coverage, or by coming into contact with the still-infected. Considering the intensity with which Bieber fever often grips its victims, that means the disease is more or less self-sustaining.
Fitting all these details into a SIR model required Tweedle and Smith? to adapt it for their purposes. What they came up with was an SBR model, where the "B" stands for Bieber-infected.
Plugging in values for all these variables gets you a rough idea of how contagious Bieber fever really is. Tweedle and Smith? used a hypothetical population of 2,000 people -- about the size of a school or a small town. Toying with one of the equation's key levers, the boredom rate, the scientists found that Bieber fever is at its most contagious when it burns slowly.
In the most nuanced scenario, Tweedle and Smith? posit that interest in Justin Bieber needs to reach a media threshold, before which the infection simply spreads naturally but after which is spurred on by favorable news coverage. In this case, the blast of positive news is followed by a negative retort. The unfavorable coverage drags down the number of infected and moves them into the "recovered" category.
Or would it? In reading over the researchers' work, I think I've found a hole. As it stands, the SBR model treats the effect of media coverage as a binary: pro-Bieber coverage aids contagion; anti-Bieber coverage hinders it. But a second-order effect of (negative) media coverage is that it may wind up mobilizing Bieber supporters in such a way that it raises the likelihood of their transmitting the disease to others. After all, when a community comes under attack, the natural tendency is toward self-defense, especially if said community believes in the moral certitude of its cause.
If what I'm suggesting is accurate, then Tweedle's and Smith?'s model actually underestimates the contagiousness of Bieber fever by an unknown amount. This is scary stuff. Suppose negative media coverage engendered a countervailing response from the infected that was of equal magnitude. Then conceivably, the illness would be incurable. Sure, members of the infected would gradually grow bored of the dude by growing out of it, but not before infecting everyone else from the ages of 5 to 17. What we're looking at is a persistent generational disease that affects everyone of a certain age -- kind of like the chicken pox, only far more contagious and unpleasant.
Somebody needs to tell the CDC about this. Before it's too late.


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Q: Abstract classes (with pure virtual methods) in Cython Quick version:
How to declare an abstract class in Cython? The goal is to declare interface only, so that other classes can inherit from it, there must be no implementation of this class.
interface.pxd:
cdef class IModel:
    cdef void do_smth(self)

impl.pyx:
from interface cimport IModel

cdef class A(IModel):
    cdef void do_smth(self):
        pass

Everything nicely compiles, but when I'm importing impl.so in python I get following:
ImportError: No module named interface

Apparently the method wasn't really virtual and python wants IModel's instance
More details:
I have a cython extension class (cdef class Integrator) which should operate on any instance, implementing the IModel interface. The interface simply ensures that the instance have a method void get_dx(double[:] x, double[:] dx), so that integrator can call it every integration step in order to, well, integrate the model. The idea is that one can implement different models in cython and then interactively integrate them and plot the reults in python scripts. Like that:
from integrator import Integrator # <-- pre-compiled .so extension
from models import Lorenz         # <-- also pre-compiled one, which inherits
                                  # from IModel

mod = Lorenz()
i = Inegrator(mod)
i.integrate()       # this one's really fast cuz no python is used inside

# do something with data from i

The lorenz.pyx class should look something like:
from imodel cimport IModel

cdef class Lorenz(IModel):
    cdef void get_dx(double[:] x, double[:] dx)
        # implementation

And the integrator.pyx:
from imodel cimport IModel

cdef class Integrator:
    cdef IModel model

    def __init__(self, IModel model):
        self.model = model

    # rest of the implementation

Ideally, IModel should only exist in the form of a class definition in a cython header file (i.e. imodel.pxd), but so far I could only achieve the desired functionality by writing an ugly dummy implementation class in imodel.pyx. The worst thing is that this useless dummy implementation has to be compiled and linked so that other cython classes can inherit from it.
PS: I think this is a perfect use case for abstract classes, however, if it in fact looks bad to you, dear OOP coders, please tell me which other approach shall I use.

A: It turns out that it's not quite possible (discussion). Currently, interfaces are not supported, apparently because they are not of a critical importance: usual inheritance works quite good.

A: How to declare an abstract class in C++
declare normal class but that class must have at least 1 pure virtual function.
    ex: class abc{
    virtual void show()=0        //pure virtual funcn.no defn at all
    }

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Improvements to two Weeting community facilities can go ahead after grants totalling £7,119 were approved by Breckland councillors.
The £4,000 grant to Weeting Bowls Club will enable the toilets to be moved into the changing rooms, which are only used occasionally; this will create more space in the club area and provide improved access to a second fire escape. The toilets will also be refurbished and a new disabled toilet added.
Carol Newman, Treasurer of the Bowls Club said: "This is great news for the Club. We've had feedback from local users and visiting groups about the poor state of the toilets, so we're keen to get going with the work as soon as possible."
Cllrs William Nunn and Sam Chapman-Allen, Breckland Council ward members for Weeting with Broomhill said: "It's important that we support these community facilities, as they provide a central meeting place where residents can socialise and keep active. Providing modern and hygienic facilities as well as increasing the useable space will enable the club to attract new members and continue to thrive."
The £3,119 award to Weeting Village Hall will enable its failing heating system to be repaired and new radiators installed. Clubs currently using the hall include keep fit, knit and knatter, over 60's and a local drama group who stage shows there twice yearly.
Karen Scott, Treasurer of the Village Hall Committee explained: "There are around 20 local groups currently using the hall. Our existing gas heaters don't work properly so the hall no longer provides a comfortable environment for them in cold weather. This especially affects our older residents."
Cllr Mike Nairn, who lives in the village, supported the application: He said: "I came to Weeting in 1978 and I think that the system is the same as when I arrived. The village hall is a valuable asset within the village and wider community, and is used daily for events and activities, so I support this application wholeheartedly."
The cost of renewal is estimated at £6,238, which will provide a more eco-friendly and energy efficient system; £2,000 will be donated by the Friends of Weeting Village Hall with the balance made up from Committee reserves.


I'm very excited to announce that I've posted a new personal project on my website featuring the excruciatingly adorable, but exceptionally endangered African Penguin.
I got to spend time photographing them in the wild (thanks to Cape Town photographer and all-around wonderful guy Robert Miller) and at a very special seabird sanctuary thanks to SANCCOB.
These iconic animals are hurtling toward extinction and it means a lot to me to tell their story and give them a voice so that they might stand a chance of surviving.
This story is looking for some good homes in some wide-reaching publications, so many more pictures are available at Redux Pictures.
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Fazlur Rahman Khan: Why is this skyscraper architect so important?
Tech mistake |Today's Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the 88th birthday of Fazlur Rahman Khan, the architect known as "the Einstein of structural engineering."
From his early life in Bangladesh to the pioneering tube structure that enabled him to sculpt the modern cityscape, here are five things you need to know.
Fazlur Rahman Khan, the subject of today's Doodle, was born the son of a rural maths teacher in Dhaka
Khan was born in Bhandarikandii in Dhaka in 1929, then under British rule but part of Bangladesh since 1971.
His father was a high school mathematics teacher who encouraged him to study civil engineering, first at the Bengal Engineering College Shibpur in India and then at Ahsanullah Engineering College, University of Dhaka.
Rewarded for his academic excellence with both a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from the government of Pakistan, Fazlur travelled to the US in 1952 to commence his career in architecture.
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Khan invented the tube principle around which all modern skyscrapers are designed
Hired by the prestigious Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Fazlur quickly distinguished himself with an innovative new design for high-rise buildings known as the tube concept.
Khan proposed using the perimeter wall of a building to mimic a thin tube rather than designing structures around a solid central core, thus better enabling tall towers to withstand the impact of horizontal forces, such as high winds or earthquake vibrations. The innovation also drastically reduced construction costs and environmental impact as it required fewer materials to execute.
Khan's radical rethinking of how skyscrapers were structured proved a game-changer, allowing far taller buildings to be realised. Khan's principle meant that, in terms of architectural design, the sky was quite literally the limit – as the abundance of ever-taller towers being unveiled in the UAE today amply demonstrates.
His most famous buildings include the John Hancock Center and the Sears Tower
Fazlur's first projects to incorporate the tubular system were the 43-storey DeWitt-Chestnut Building and 35-storey Brunswick Building in Chicago, which went up in 1964 and 1965 respectively.
Their success led to the construction of Chicago's iconic John Hancock Center, designed by Khan's close collaborator Bruce Graham around a "trussed" variation on the tube design. It stands 100 storeys high and was the second-tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1968.
Perhaps Khan and Graham's greatest triumph though was the Sears Tower (since rechristened the Willis Tower), also in Chicago looking out over Lake Michigan. Completed in 1973 and standing at 108 storeys, the building remains the second-tallest in the US. A sculpture of Khan was unveiled at the site in 1998 in celebration of his contribution to his field.
Other notable Khan structures include the US Bank Center in Milwaukee, One Shell Square in New Orleans, 140 William Street in Melbourne, Australia, the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and the Hajj Terminal at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Willis Tower in Chicago (Jason Reed/Reuters)
Khan was a true visionary who foresaw the possibilities of computer-aided design
Khan died of a heart attack while visiting Jeddah on March 27 1982 and was mourned as a giant of his profession.
In addition to revolutionising our approach to the urban landscape, Khan was also an early adopter of computer-aided design in architecture – even though the technology was in its infancy during his lifetime.
Although he became an American citizen in 1967, Khan never forgot his roots and did valuable charitable work to secure emergency relief funding for Bengalis during the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971.
Khan advised engineers never to lose sight of the bigger picture
"The technical man must not be lost in his own technology," he once said. "He must be able to appreciate life, and life is art, drama, music, and most importantly, people."
The article was originally published here.
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Q: Sample limit for each hour How can I query from each HOUR in my query? I want to sample 5 records in each HOUR but I am not sure how to do so. I know I can do it manually by hardcoding hour, but I want to do it with one query. The output would be something like
hour | location
00      SF
00      DC
00      VW
01      SF
01      HI
01      KK
02      JP
02      RU
02      CN
...    ...
...    ...
23      JK
23      ON
23      CN

This is what I have so far:
select hour, location
from db.table where
     hour in ('00', '01', '02','03', '04','05', '06', '07', '08', '09', '10', '11', '12', '13', '14', '15', '16','17', '18', '19','20', '21', '22','23')
order by hour
limit 3;

A: You can use row_number():
select t.*
from (select t.*,
             row_number() over (partition by year, month, day, hour order by random()) as seqnum
      from db.table t
     ) t
where seqnum <= 5;

I'm not sure what the year, month, and day columns have to do with your question.  They are not part of the sample data.  If you want only one day, then use a where clause as you have in your query.


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I don't understand why communities keep opening their arms to Small Smiles. Until they are rejected they will continue to slither through communities spreading abuse to the most innocent of Americans, the children. That's my opinion anyway.
A few weeks ago I noticed I kept having this person from Ithaca, NY spending lots of time on the site. Well, just this week the name of this city in NY has popped up twice. One directly related to FORBA's Small Smiles and another time, more indirectly.
The more indirect is from Greenville, SC who is trying to get books to children in low income parts of the community. The project is called "Bright Red Bookshelf".
A big dedication ceremony for the launch of the program is set for March 24th and the very first "bookshelf" will be dedicated at… Drum roll please… Small Smiles Dental Clinic!
What on earth is wrong with Leadership Greenville's head, Flavie Harton? I realize money is being thrown at them. But it coming from FORBA, that money is from the blood, sweat, puke, and rivers of tears from tiny children.
In this program, Bright Red Bookshelves are place in public waiting location…and the very first one for Greenville, SC is in Small Smiles waiting room.
One thing we know for sure, is that 'reading' is NOT something FORBA's Small Smiles heads support. ie.. the consent to tie up my child even though it might lead to death form they pressure parents to sign.
So what does this have to do with Ithaca, NY. Well, The Bright Red Bookshelf" originated in Ithaca, NY by the Family Reading Partnership.
Now the second time Ithaca has come up this week is what I shall now deem, the Big Red List, the much anticipated list of professionals who associate themselves with FORBA's Small Smiles clinics.
Those of us that know the true goings on of FORBA Small Smiles know that all that is on this website is TRUE. We also know that FORBA is trying to do damage control and reaching out to the community and try to appear like they care about kids. The only thing they care about is the money. Every morning we had little meetings to jump down our throats because we didn't get enough kids to stay and get work done after having their cleanings done. Well if they didn't need work then why bring them to the operative side. Reason? MONEY!! When is the public going to really see this. How many kids do they have to abuse before the public realizes it is only FORBA's greed that FORBA cares about. Is it going to take the death of another child to open the eyes of the public? I hope not. It is bad enough that these kids ARE TRAUMATIZED after going to Small Smiles. They pee themselves from fear and threats. They sob uncontrollably and the whole time the parent sits in the lobby thinking their child is being well taken care of. WAKE UP PEOPLE PLEASE!!! It's time parents fight back for their little ones that can't explain the real horrors that go on behind closed doors.


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Journaling with a Helping Hand
You may be new to the journaling scene, but you are not alone in this adventure.
By Stephanie Yamoah, Towson University
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You're probably already familiar with the concept of journaling. You had to keep a notebook in English class, which would be used for answering and keeping track of writing prompts assigned by your teacher, as well as in science class to record the progression of an experiment. Seeing how passionate Harriet was about her spy log and the secrets it held in "Harriet the Spy" had you eager to start one of your own as a child.
Journaling is recording or compiling various occurrences, ideas, concepts, depictions, etc. onto a collection of paper. It's ironic to even define journaling, because it's completely up to each individual how they go about it. Some may like to take a chronological approach to writing, keeping track of their every day (and often every hour) lives, while others keep one solely for artistic purposes, and then again some use it to detail their traveling experiences. All of this is barely scratching the surface of the full scope of record taking.
If you take a look at history, you'll find that some people's journals have risen to popularity because of their usefulness in understanding the world we live in. Charles Darwin kept a journal while in the Galapagos Islands and filled it with drawings of the different animals as well as written accounts describing them. In his entries, he noted similarities and differences between animals of the same likeness. His entries helped him to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection, arguably one of the most important contributions to science. His articles are so important that an appeal has been launched to have the book returned to English Heritage after it was stolen more than thirty years ago.
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For even the most creative person, journaling can be challenging. The freedom of turning blank pages into whatever you want them to be may be more debilitating than liberating for those who don't know where to start. Here are four journals that are helpful for people who want to begin journaling, but need a head start.
1. "The Memory Hoarder's Journal: For People Who Want To Remember Everything"
Inside 'The Memory Hoarder's Journal' (Image via Urban Outfitters)
The easiest way to start is by recording everything you see and interact with on a daily basis. Beginners may not want to write paragraphs that explain these things in detail or to specify these things in shorthand and bulleted lists because of their lack of structure. "The Memory Hoarders Journal" solves these two issues by asking the owner to record specific things on a specific page. Each page is decorated in a way that reflects what the prompt is asking for, making the journal more colorful and helping the owner stay focused on the topic of the entry.
If you consider yourself a beginner, this book created by Jason Shapiro is a perfect fit. It doesn't require much initial creativity from the owner, especially since the main purpose of the journal is to be a memory log. The process is simple: read the prompts posed on the pages and respond to them as plainly as possible. The creativity is in the responses themselves. The notebook is mixed with prompts that ask the reader to record ordinary things such as "what I ate for lunch," as well as those on the more peculiar side such as "past bruises to remember," forcing the response to be creative.
2. "The Steal Like An Artist Journal"
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If you have a creative knack or would like to develop one, this one's for you. It develops a person's creativity by helping them build and expand on pre-developed ideas or exercises created by Austin Kleon, the creator of the journal, and his partners, whose name will come up in a search at the bottom of the page that acts as a reference. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with ideas on what to write or collect on your own, especially when that devilish writer's block sneaks up and overwhelms you.
This journal teaches to look to outside sources for inspiration. Those who own this book are considered "creative kleptomaniacs," not merely ripping off others work, but instead always collecting good ideas. Similar to "The Memory Hoarder's Journal," it encourages the owners to look at their environments for inspiration. However, instead of merely writing down what is observed, in this journal you must create something out of your observation. For example, one of the prompts instruct you to take a receipt and fill up a page about all the details you remember about the entire day of the purchase rather than listing all the things purchased at the grocery store.
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Each prompt requires you to think outside the box in order to make the journaling experience worthwhile. In some of the early pages, Kleon gives examples of how one might respond to the prompt. The examples are enough to lead you in responding to the prompt, but are not explicit enough to steal your opportunity at being creative.
3. "The Daily Artist"
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"A picture is worth a thousand words" is taken seriously in "The Daily Artist." The journal takes a more artistic approach, where all responses to the prompts are drawings. Very rarely are letters and words used to respond to the prompts, and if they are utilized, the letters themselves must be composed of tiny designs. This option is good for those who are intimidated by having to solidify sensible concepts into words and phrases and are better at expressing themselves through drawing.
Marc Johns designs each page with light springtime colors, so the pages themselves don't distract you from your contribution or creation. A simple prompt is written at the top, and the rest of the page is blank. "The Daily Artist consists of no such lines as seen in "The Memory Hoarder's Journal" and "The Steal Like An Artist Journal," leaving you plenty of space to work with. The journal is neither completely blank so that you have to start from scratch, nor full of step-by-step instructions on how to draw a certain picture like what is seen in most of the artistic journals out there. It has a balance for budding artists.
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4. "Wreck This Journal"
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When it comes to "doing whatever you want," you can't get more literal than this journal. Keri Smith's book differs from the rest because not only does it does utilize traditional methods of filling in the pages such as writing and drawing, but it also requires actual physical activities. One page tells you to draw a series of fat and skinny lines and another instructs you to "climb up high [and] drop the journal." Similar prompts tell you to "bring the book into the shower," and "stand here [on this page]. Wipe your feet, jump up and down."
The journal could be seen as a type of adventure, only the adventure it brings is one within its own pages. As you go through each page, you discover how wacky and alternative this notebook gets, and how willing you are to go along with it. Grab this book if you want to explore less conventional ways of journaling, especially if you are an action-oriented person.
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How Goat Yoga and Yoga Trends Contribute to Cultural Appropriation
6 Ways to Make Your Spotify Playlists in the New Year
Tea Time: The Wonderfully Weird Story of Kombucha
'The Magicians' New Trailer Promises a Spellbinding Season 5
How Hipsters Saved the World — Before It Was Cool
'John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch': A Misguided Artistic Feat
Looking at Past Predictions Made About 2020
Elliott Brood Is the Best Canadian Band That You've Never Heard Before
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So You've Decided To Study Abroad In Paris
5 Ways to Use Pinterest as a Creative Writer
Buy Essays Online: How to Get Professional Assistance from Experienced Writers
Why Every Budding Writer Should Participate in Camp NaNoWriMo
Writing That College Essay Last Minute? Consider Your Options
7 Habits of Successful Writers That You Should Copy Immediately
6 Reasons Why Every College Student Should Take a Creative Writing Class
Keep Track of Your Semester and Your Life With a Bullet Journal
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Remember Those Times Paul Walker Dated Teenage Girls?
The Mystique of Adam Driver: A Different Kind of Celebrity and Actor
The 10 Most Relaxing Songs in the World, According to Science, Ranked
Why We Should Keep Talking About Lia Marie Johnson
What's Happening to Lia Marie Johnson?
Texas Alcohol Laws: Can't Live With 'Em, Pass the Beer Nuts
How to Maintain Healthy Relationships as an Introvert
6 Ways to Practice Self-Care in a Dorm Room
How Typology Can Invigorate Your Fiction Writing
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May Be the Company Bourdain Keeps
Once again, Anthony Bourdain was nominated for an Emmy, for Outstanding Writing on No Reservations: Haiti, only to lose to some guy named Stanley Nelson who wrote Freedom Riders for PBS.
No Res did take home the statue for best Cinematography (well-deserved and Congratulations!), but lost as Best Nonfiction Series to American Masters on PBS.
Maybe it's just me, but are you beginning to see a pattern here? Could it be that Tony's getting no respect because being Travel Channel's "biggest star" is a dubious achievement? After all, he's shining among such stellar programming as Truck Stop Missouri, Man v. Food Nation, Mancations, Sand Castles, Ghost Adventures, and Bizarre Foods.
Bourdain has just been named a consulting editor who will acquire 3-5 books a year for for his publisher, HarperCollins, under the Ecco imprint (check out the new logo). Presumably, he'll also be writing for Season 3 of Treme, and that chef he had working for all his NYC buddies in Season 2 will stop being irrelevant and return to New Orleans.
Bourdain's career seems to be taking a decidedly literary turn, so he may have to stop treating his writing so dismissively. No longer playing that balls-and-bug-eating Andrew Zimmern's role model can only be a good thing.
On September 11, Tony did a relaxed, beer-fueled 2 ½-hour podcast with Joe Rogan. Among many things, Tony said he still wants to go to the Congo, but Mozambique is in the cards sooner.
Finally, in the Tony's Friends Department…
Marge Simpson dreams of being on Top Chef in The Simpsons' season premier on September 25, and Tom Colicchio makes an appearance. No word on Padma.
And I read this insightful opinion piece at SeaCoastOnline.com about celebrity chefs who pretend to be actors.
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A Case of Bourdain Burnout
My waning interest in Bourdainia has been a long time coming. Travel Channel stomped on my last nerve with this one-and-a-half-page ad in Entertainment Weekly for the new Cuba episode of No Reservations, which airs tonight…
Season premiere? Season 8? What happened to Season 7, which disappeared after 8 episodes nearly 3 months ago? Was Tony's trip to Haiti just filler?
And what's suddenly so fucking special about Cuba? Andrew Zimmern was there for the first episode of Bizarre World — in 2009. Here's the dramatic full page of Tony's EW ad…
And there's another one floating around, with Tony sitting on a curb in Havana.
Anyway, TC, you win. Figuring out when No Res will air is a game for your ideal demographic — young males who think road trips to BBQ competitions contitute "travel."
The Bourdains themselves now run a slick PR machine on Twitter @NoReservations and @OttaviaBourdain, and most of Tony's friends and crew tweet. Tony regularly tweets pictures and links to articles about himself. Eater.com does regular posts about him, with his cooperation.
I feel as if Cats Working's job is done.
Several years ago, I asked Tony for a Cats Working interview. He declined, saying he didn't want to endorse a blog that discussed his personal life.
That was long before he embraced the blogosphere, Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, but I've never seen him utter "Cats Working" to a soul unless he was talking to me.
I've grown wary of much of his hyperbole. I thought chef Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter, was spottily disingenuous and certainly not a book Tony should have wished he had written.
I just watched both seasons of Treme, the HBO series about post-Katrina New Orleans that Tony has called one of the greatest shows ever, if not the greatest. In Season 2, he wrote the scenes for the chef character, Janette, who moved to New York and worked for Bourdain's network of BFFs: Colicchio, Ripert, and Chang. They all had cameos.
Bourdain was asked to write for Treme so those marginally relevant scenes would be authentic.
Here's a news flash: Only the tiny fraction of the population who actually works in restaurants knows (or cares). And if they're as poorly paid as Tony says, it's unlikely they get HBO anyway.
Sad to say, I found Tony's work kind of lifeless, except for the scene where Janette tosses a drink in Alan Richman's face. Some of his dialog was even retread.
If Bourdain writes for Season 3, I'm taking a miss. Not because of him, but because too many of the characters have such terrible diction, I've spent, literally, hours watching scenes where I caught one word in 10 with the volume maxed out, and had no idea what was happening.
Ditto for Top Chef, where Tony sometimes guest-judges. Watching hard-working chefs sabotaged so their dishes can be pooh-poohed by nitpicking snobs is not my idea of entertainment. Host Tom Colicchio seems like a nice guy, but I'll never take his opinion seriously until he sheds the bimbo sidekick, Padma.
I knew my disaffection was complete when saw that Tony's getting a new Travel Channel series, 24-Hour Layovers, and thought, "Now they're sweeping the cutting-room floor."
But apparently not. Tony tweeted he went to Singapore and Hong Kong for new shows.
If TC ever actually airs it, I'll watch, just to see if Tony & ZPZ really can put Samantha Brown to shame. Poor Samantha. She's like TC's Rodney Dangerfield.
From now on, I'm letting Tony do his own thing and expanding our horizons here. If there are any interesting Bourdain developments that he doesn't totally scoop me on, I'll share them. But you can better get the latest news straight from him — and tweet him directly @NoReservations.
Bourdain fans, I hope you'll still stick around, but if you don't, the cats and I thank you for stopping by.
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Bourdainia Galore!
I'm playing catch-up with DVDs of Treme, the HBO New Orleans series Anthony Bourdain has been writing for. After the first 2 episodes of Season 1, I'm still waiting to feel hooked, but I'm optimistic. Luckily, the Internet teems with video clips of the restaurant scenes Tony is doing for Season 2, which is airing now.
For example, here's the scene of food critic Alan Richman taking a drink in the puss. Richman wrote about that later in GQ and actually seemed to be a good sport about it.
Tony also gave Tom Colicchio and Eric Ripert cameos with lines, and then Tom talked to Esquire about the experience.
A video of Tony speaking to HuffPost Food has been surfacing in pieces. He discussed which foods he'd like to see more of in the U.S. and modified his stance on bacon. He also talked about things he'll never do — which we've already seen him do — and manages to lump Jay Leno in with strolling through steaming bat guano and being mounted by an Uzbek masseur.
In this video clip from PopEater, Tony talks about celebrities.
Last week, Bourdain was in Australia for the Sydney Writers' Festival and did a video interview with MUmBRELLA where, among other things, he shared his thoughts on the value of Facebook and Twitter.
At the Sydney festival, he appeared in a sold-out session on May 19 with AA Gill. Links to the full audio are under May 21 at 3 p.m., but they seem screwed up. Click "Download" to just listen.
If you don't want to do that, Book Thingo provides a written recap and a snippet of illicit video taken from the audience.
Here's a recap on another appearance Tony made at the festival called "Medium Raw," which also sold out.
While rooting around for the festival stuff, I found a phone interview Tony did with ABC Sydney back in July 2010 that I don't recall ever hearing.
On the literary front…
Bourdain will be a contributor to a new quarterly food journal, Lucky Peach, edited by David Chang and others, which debuts June 14. Each issue will have a theme, and the first one is ramen. According to the site, it's the sister project to "an iPad app produced by Zero Point Zero that will feature more than two hours of videos, plus recipes, art, and essays." Right now, the site is features a conversation on mediocrity among Bourdain, Chang, and Wylie Dufresne.
Tucson Weekly is critical of Bourdain's involvement with Treme (2nd paragraph from the end). The writer seems to have an outdated image of Tony's persona, but from the clips I've seen on Eater, I find myself relating somewhat to his unfoodie perspective. But that's fodder for a future post.
I found this fascinating site on tumblr called Fuck Yes, Tony Bourdain! It's devoted to photos, video clips, and quotes.
Finally, Travel Channel posted a video clip of Tony discussing his job with his adult niece, Isabelle.
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Congratulations, Top Chef Richard Blais
What a relief! The producers let Richard Blais and Mike Isabella cook without playing any childish sabotage games.
Well, almost. The kink of having them assemble potluck kitchen staffs from among the losers could have been disastrous. But neither of them got stuck with Marcel, and Mike caught Jamie on a day when she was in the mood to cook , so it worked out.
And Richard beat Mike fair and square, although there were moments I feared Mike's that pepperoni sauce would top Richard's grainy first batch of foie gras ice cream. Even though pepperoni sauce sounds more appealing to me than liver ice cream. Who in hell, besides cats, would want that? Especially as a dessert? Yeecchh!
As much as I've grown to loathe Tom and Padma, they did the right thing. Mike has had his moments, but Richard was obviously and more consistently superior in both innovation and execution.
In the after-show festivities, poor Fabio Viviani wasn't chosen "Fan Favorite." But if he had to lose to anybody, I'm glad it was Carla Hall. I can thank Fabio for my new Nutella addiction.
There's still a reunion show to come, complete with an uncomfortable Real Housewives-like exchange between Colicchio and what's-her-name, the first cheftestant out who told the press Colicchio's a sell-out.
And over at America's Next Great Restaurant, I'm still rooting for Joseph Galluzzi and his Saucy Balls, although his menu put him in the bottom 3 last week, and this week's promos indicate he may jump the shark going gangster. But if he goes, so do I. I'm meh on the other concepts and judge Steve Ells' nerdiness is starting to annoy me.
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"Top Chef" Bottoms Out
After 79 episodes, all that remains of this season's Top Chef All-Stars is one more cook-off and a reunion. Can anybody remember the first dozen chefs? They must all be retired by now, driving everybody at "the home" crazy repeating glorious tales of the time they puréed peas on TV for "this really famous bald guy — not Brynner, not Savalas, aw, you know — he had this really tall girlfriend called Pardner."
In last week's faux finale, Antonia inevitably got the boot. Seriously, a woman was never going to win this. Stephanie Izard has been the lone female Top Chef since the show started, right?
If Top Chef demonstrates anything, it's that celebrity chefdom is a boys' club. Martha, Rachael, Giada, Ina, and Paula are mere tokens, too prissy, cute, sexy, or motherly to ever cut it in a real kitchen.
Mike benefited from the Quickfire challenge's sadistic twists by getting to choose how Richard or Antonia would suffer. Predictably, Mike went after Antonia because he wants the final finale to be between men — him and Richard.
If Mike ever found a baby robin languishing on the sidewalk, he'd stomp it to death and laugh. Even when he's crowing about being on top, Mike never lets self-confidence make him pass up an opportunity to do someone dirty. Gracious and fair aren't in his vocabulary.
So Antonia had to cook with canned goods while physically tethered to Carla (in a cameo appearance) à la sack race, and Richard had to prepare hot dogs with one hand and overdid it with the ketchup.
Mike was limited only by having one pot and losing his utensils after his dish was essentially finished. And guess what? His prowess at shooting fish in a barrel won Mike the Quickfire.
The Elimination challenge involved preparing a "Last Supper" for 3 accomplished chefs. Max Silvestri at Eater shredded that absurd challenge name admirably, so I'll let him have at it.
Even after Wolfgang Puck declared Richard made Wolfgang's dead mother happy with his strudel, spaetzle, and goulash, Colicchio couldn't resist an "It's not hot enough" kvetch.
Antonia was supplied with rancid fish to serve Masaharu Morimoto, so she presented Plan B fish (tuna) beautifully in a bento box. Morimoto found her miso soup too salty, and Colicchio damned the whole meal as having "too much flavor."
Too much flavor. Does he ever listen to himself? He single-handedly made "bland" a 4-letter word.
Mike lucked out again — in spades — with no-brainer fried chicken and biscuits for Michelle Bernstein (whoever she is). He wrapped an egg yoke in dough and called it the "biscuit," and the coating fell right off his dried-out chicken.
Richard was pronounced safe, but Mike and Antonia were sent back to the kitchen to prepare "one last perfect, totally gratuitous bite" because clearly Mike's food wasn't supposed to be that much worse than Antonia's.
So Mike produced a glob of lobster topped with raw beef. Comments ranged from, "the lobster didn't 'wow' me," to "the beef was bland," his curry was "over-spiced," and someone actually "despised" his olive-caramel sauce.
Antonia cooked grouper. Tom, who'd been wearing a look of pained constipation the entire episode, offered the only real criticism, calling the fish "very aggressively" spiced.
So naturally, Antonia had to lose because Mike has a penis.
For the finale, I'd love to see Mike and Richard cook their best in a well-equipped kitchen without spoiled ingredients so someone can win honorably. Fat chance of that.
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Top Chef Finals Take a Nasty Turn
Top Chef spared no expense to fly the last 5 all-stars to the fabulous Atlantis resort in Nassau in exchange for the privilege of misleading, sabotaging, endangering, and utterly exhausting them.
In the Quickfire, the cheftestants went head-to-head with the winners of their respective seasons, cooking outdoors in the sun (why?) on several nonworking burners. Carla couldn't finish her rice, and Padma pounced on it as incisively as when she revealed to the nation that Target doesn't sell coconuts.
For the Elimination, the chefs were told they were cooking for Bahamian royalty and logically assumed bluebloods would expect high-end fare. They planned accordingly with lamb and lobster and fantasized about working in a palatial kitchen for a change.
But the police escorted them to a nondescript fish restaurant where a bunch of nobodies in colorful costumes were dancing on the sidewalk. Ha, ha! "Royalty" was the "King of Junkanoo," Bahamian Mardi Gras.
They had to cook in the restaurant's cramped, ill-equipped kitchen, only to see 2 ½ hours of prep work go up in smoke — literally — when an unused deep fryer ignited. They evacuated while their food was marinated in fire-extinguishing chemicals.
With a shrugging "shit happens" attitude, Colicchio told them to go right back and start over from scratch. The show must go on.
They were tired, they'd had a bad scare, and they had to return to the same sucky kitchen. Any idiot could have predicted the results.
The judges must have still rankled from the excellent dishes served across the board the previous week because they were in full backlash, hunkered down in one of the restaurant's booths like a bunch of mean girls. Eric Ripert even joined in, albeit with a few gratuitous swipes at fairness.
The only adult at that table turned out to be the King of Junkanoo.
At one point during the disappointing dinner, Gail and Padma wondered aloud if the chefs might be "a little disheartened" by the night's events.
Let's see… being flat-out lied to about the diners, having their food ruined in a senseless grease fire, consigned to cook in yet another craphole, or being forced to make their dishes twice?
If any judge dared to say anything even halfway complimentary, he or she was immediately drowned out with nitpicky bitching.
I have never wanted so badly to hit each of them upside the head with a skillet.
In the end, they hated EVERYTHING. The King of Junkanoo, who seemed to mostly like the food, must have felt like a total idiot.
Colicchio began the elimination by dismissively conceding the challenge was "tough," but assured them the rest would be. Then he had the nerve to ask why they didn't all rethink their dishes — once they realized they'd gotten a total screw job on who'd be eating them — while they were waiting to hear the outcome of the fire.
I'm sure Colicchio is a real prince in person, but if there were an Emmy for "TV's Most Sadistic Prick," he could win it (with stiff competition from Jillian Michaels on Biggest Loser).
To every chef's credit, nobody blamed the the show's obvious failure to prepare. That would have been unsportsmanslike. But it was open season for the judges to tear up food that miraculously came out as well as it did in spite of every effort to sabotage it.
Padma was offended by the sweet apple chip garnish on Carla's pork. Gail was irate that her portion of Carla's pork was raw, although that piece seemed to be a one-off. This was after Carla had tried in vain to deep-fry, then grill it BECAUSE THE KITCHEN DIDN'T HAVE A FUCKING OVEN.
Sweet potatoes put Carla's dish over the top, and the judges' unanimously damned it as "too much like a dessert."
To hear them tell it, you'd think Carla slathered pork in chocolate ice cream and Nutella with Hershey's sauce on top.
Tiffany also made pork. Ripert thought it should have been "more complex" and Gail found it "unmemorable." Tif's sides were dirty rice, curried slaw, and tomato jam. Ho-hum. THEM again?
Gail kvetched that Mike's chicken was dry. Ripert thought Richard's cannelloni was "too soft," but it was another one-off complaint.
Antonia put pork in her polenta, which Gail said turned the pork into "mystery meat" like school cafeterias serve. (Spoken like a true mean girl.)
In the end, Mike's dry chicken won and Carla went home for being too sweet.
I've revised my prediction for the final challenge. The remaining chefs will be presented with a larder stocked with rotting produce, decomposing meat, and bug-infested starches. Padma will purr, "Your final challenge, chefs, is to use these ingredients to prepare a dish that's fresh, healthful, and delicious."
I would love to see the final 3 get the last laugh by poisoning every judge just a little, even though Padma undoubtedly would relish the chance to puke off a few more pounds.
7 Comments	| Food, TV	| Tagged: Carla Hall, Eric Ripert, Gail Simmons, Padma Lakshmi, reality TV, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef All-Stars	| Permalink
Bourdain to Curtail Road Trips
Anthony Bourdain's hard heart melts at his daughter Ariane's tears whenever he leaves on yet another personal appearance marathon, so he's severely curtailing his gigs in the future. I've only found 3 more through 2011, and 2 of those are with Eric Ripert.
It's not that interest in Tony as a speaker is waning (although he plans to develop a lot of new material). Last night he sold out the 1,250-seat Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, Calif. In fact, he broke the record for selling out faster and sooner than anybody, so Gallo held a video simulcast to the overflow crowd for the first time ever.
The rest of us have one more week until Season 7 of No Reservations begins in Haiti. Here's Travel Channel's promo clip.
To verify last week's contention that Travel Channel is dissing Tony, last Friday night watching Ghost Adventures, I timed Bourdain and Zimmern's commercials from 7:30 – 10 p.m. with a stopwatch. Here are the results:
Bourdain 4 spots 1:30
Zimmern 6 spots 3:00
Zimmern got one full-minute ad, Bourdain didn't, and all but one of Zimmern's ads were at least 30 seconds long. Overall, it felt like Zimmern was in my face all night.
Palm Springs Metromix got an interview with Tony before his February 19 Palm Desert appearance, and he mentioned the possibility of Zamir getting a spinoff series.
And last week Tony returned to judge Top Chef All-Stars…
We need a new word for "ridiculous" after last week's elimination challenge. The cheftestants were forced to raid a closed Target to assemble complete cooking workstations from store merchandise and prepare meals for 100 employees by 3 a.m.
Bourdain paid tribute to the utter absurdity of the situation by showing up in a sweater he picked up at Mr. Rogers' estate sale.
In the end, Angelo went home for over-salting potato soup, after Dale skated by on the same offense the week before.
The rationale was that Dale's saltiness was merely annoying, where Angelo's was lethal. I think tastebuds were destroyed.
I'm not sticking up for Angelo. I never liked him and I was glad he went. But the judges took us one step closer to the no-time, no-food challenge so they can pick the winner based on what he/she might have cooked.
And then Padma got uncharacteristically feisty when Mike mistakenly asserted his soup contained "fresh coconut milk." She repeated, "Fresh?" as if everybody knows you can't get fresh tropical produce at Target.
Gee, Padma, maybe Mike was a tad confused after running a marathon all night on no sleep, feeding an army with crappy portable appliances on a folding table. He'd have spent all his time draining coconuts if he could have.
Padma's misplaced aggression probably arose from the sting of Sesame Street Muppet Elmo's "TMI!" when she tried to tell him where cinnamon and cardamom come from.
But the night's true douche moment was Colicchio and Bourdain's reaction to learning Tiffany used creole seasoning in her jambalaya.
"You used a PREPARED seasoning?" A spice BLEND? From a JAR?"
Oh, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph! The unspeakable horror… dried herbs. Mixed TOGETHER!
McCormick, Mrs. Dash, and Emeril, there's a special corner in hell waiting just for you.
Tony, back from his "overseas hiatus" in Pennsylvania, blogged for Bravo about Angelo's downfall.
Later, defending the judges' decisions in a post-show interview with Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch, Bourdain heaped praise on Colicchio, lest anyone forget he's an American treasure…
"Tom Colicchio is a giant of the industry. He changed the world of cooking…. He's a one man Rushmore."
Now, readers, raise your hand if you'd ever heard of Tom Colicchio before Top Chef, and name one thing he's said or done that has changed the way you cook.
Coming up empty? Me, too. This is the sort of cliquish foodie-with-head-up-ass statement that makes people like B.R. Myers write nasty things about foodies.
To top it off, Eric Ripert tweeted that he's never been in Target, and wonders how someone could even prepare Top Chef-worthy cuisine from ingredients purchased there. Take that, Middle America. I wonder if Ripert has Target confused with 7-Eleven?
In Top Chef recaps…
BestWeekEverTV did it with great illustrations.
And Max Silvestri at Eater was hilarious, as always.
We end on some disappointing news…
Tony blogged that his new graphic novel, Get Jiro, is looking great, but publication has been pushed off to some time in 2012. No reason given.
11 Comments	| Bourdain, Entertainment, Food, Travel, TV	| Tagged: Andrew Zimmern, Anthony Bourdain, Eric Ripert, foodies, Get Jiro, No Reservations Haiti, Padma Lakshmi, Tom Colicchio, Top Chef All-Stars, Travel Channel	| Permalink


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17. Letnia Uniwersjada – międzynarodowe zawody sportowców-studentów, które odbyły się mieście Buffalo, w stanie Nowy Jork, w Stanach Zjednoczonych. Impreza została zorganizowana między 8 a 18 lipca 1993 roku. W uniwersjadzie wzięło udział 3582 zawodników ze 118 krajów, którzy rywalizowali w 12 dyscyplinach. Nad organizacją zawodów czuwała organizacja FISU.

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Sporty obowiązkowe

Polskie medale
Reprezentanci Polski zdobyli w sumie 8 medali. Wynik ten dał polskiej reprezentacji 14. miejsce w klasyfikacji medalowej.

Złoto
  Robert Korzeniowski – lekkoatletyka, chód na 20 km – 1:22:01
  Renata Katewicz – lekkoatletyka, rzut dyskiem – 62,40
  Urszula Włodarczyk – lekkoatletyka, siedmiobój – 6127

Srebro
  Adam Kurek, Radosław Panas, Witold Roman, Andrzej Solski, Mariusz Sordyl, Krzysztof Stelmach, Andrzej Stelmach, Jarosław Szalpuk, Andrzej Szewiński, Mariusz Szyszko – siatkówka

Brąz
  Rafał Sznajder – szermierka, szabla
  Artur Wojdat, Artur Przywara, Krzysztof Cwalina, Rafał Szukała – pływanie, sztafeta 4 × 100 m stylem dowolnym mężczyzn – 3:25,94
  Marek Kolbowicz, Jarosław Nowicki, Robert Zaborski, Piotr Bujnarowski – wioślarstwo, czwórka ze sternikiem
  Izabela Wiśniewska – wioślarstwo, jedynka

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Durham Foundry is able to offer rapid prototyping for small batch castings. We have applied modern CNC pattern making techniques normally associated with volume production to reduce the time for the patterns and castings and have achieved a total lead time of 5 weeks for a ten sets of gearbox castings which included patterns, castings, machining and gear cutting. This has nearly halved the customers previous lead time.
Three of sets of pattern equipment ready for moulding. All the patterns were multiple imprints to reduce the overall moulding time.
A closer view of one of the gear case patterns. Using CNC pattern making, the patterns could be produced without having to use cores for the internal shape. If we had, it would have slowed the process down.
A mould for one of the gear cases. All the method was integral with the patterns making the moulding operation quick and straight forward.
The moulds being cast. The whole set of castings were made and cast in two days. Using individual loose patterns, this would have taken over a week.
The set of castings ready for machining. In total there were forty castings which made up into ten gear boxes with two different designs.
One of the internal quadrant castings in machining prior to gear cutting. The whole supply was finished in five weeks from receipt of the solid model files for pattern making.


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<refmiscinfo class="source">GIFLIB</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">GIFLIB Documentation</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>gifpos</refname>
<refpurpose>change GIF screen size or reposition images</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>

<cmdsynopsis>
  <command>gifpos</command>
      <arg choice='opt'>-v</arg>
      <arg choice='opt'>-s
      		<replaceable>width</replaceable>
      		<replaceable>height</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice='opt'>-i
      		<replaceable>left</replaceable>
      		<replaceable>top</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice='opt'>-n
      		<replaceable>n</replaceable>
      		<replaceable>left</replaceable>
      		<replaceable>top</replaceable></arg>
      <arg choice='opt'>-h</arg>
      <arg choice='opt'><replaceable>gif-file</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title>Description</title>

<para>A program to change GIF screen size and/or reposition images.
No test is made to make sure changes will generate valid GIF files
(i.e. images are still confined to screen etc.)</para>

</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Options</title>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>-v</term>
<listitem>
<para> Verbose mode (show progress).  Enables
printout of running scan lines. </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-s width height</term>
<listitem>
<para> Set the new screen dimensions, so for example `-s 1000 800'
will set screen to width of 1000 and height of 800.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-i left top</term>
<listitem>
<para> set image relative to screen position, so for example `-i 100
80' will set image left position to 100 and top position to 80. This
sets the position of the first image only.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-n n left top</term>
<listitem>
<para> set image n relative to screen position, so for example '-n 3
100 80' will set the third image position as in 2.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>-h</term>
<listitem>
<para> Print one line of command line help, similar to Usage
above.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>If no GIF file is given, gifpos will try to read a GIF file from
stdin.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Author</title>

<para>Gershon Elber.</para>

</refsect1>
</refentry>

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Biografia

Infanzia
Secondo una citazione del Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou dell'anno 1110 Ugo viene ricordato come il figlio del capostipite della dinastia dei Lusignano e primo signore di Lusignano, Ugo I, mentre della madre non vi é nessuna citazione.Di Ugo I di Lusignano, di cui non si conoscono gli ascendenti, nella stessa citazione viene definito cacciatore (Hugonis Venatoris).

Matrimonio
Della moglie di Ugo non si conoscono né il nome né gli ascendenti; il Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou ci informa che ebbe almeno un figlio.

Signore di Lusignano

Di Ugo si hanno poche notizie. Lo storico americano, Sidney Painter, nel suo The Lords of Lusignan in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries lo considera un personaggio reale e non leggendario.

Nella stessa citazione del Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou Ugo viene definito Caro (qui fuit Cari), e secondo un'altra citazione del Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, riferita all'anno 1025, Ugo viene citato ancora col soprannome di Caro (Hugonis Kari) e viene ricordato come il costruttore del primo Castello di Lusignano (qui extruxit primus castrum).

Morte
Di Ugo il Caro non si conosce la data esatta della morte; a lui succedette il figlio Ugo detto il Bianco (Hugonis Albi).

Discendenza
Ugo dalla moglie ebbe almeno un figlio:
 Ugo detto il Bianco († 1012), che fu Signore di Lusignano

Note

Bibliografia

Fonti primarie
  Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou.

Letteratura storiografica
  The Lusignan family in the 11th & 12th centuries

Voci correlate
 Lusignano
 conti di Poitiers
 duchi d'Aquitania

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Signori di Lusignano


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Home Economy Host Papua New Guinea urges respect for trade rules ahead of APEC summit
Host Papua New Guinea urges respect for trade rules ahead of APEC summit
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The leader of Papua New Guinea, host of this year's APEC summit, Friday urged respect for international trade rules by "countries large and small" as spats between the US and China threatened to overshadow the gathering.
As leaders from Asian Pacific nations prepared to fly in to Port Moresby for their annual meeting, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill appeared to call his guests to order on damaging trade rows.
"Smaller economies, countries like Papua New Guinea, place considerable reliance on international trade and especially the international trade rules," stressed O'Neill.
"We suffer when rules are broken or ignored and we benefit when rules are followed by all countries, large and small," he added.
The world's top two economies have been engaged in a spiralling trade conflict that economists have warned could be catastrophic for the global economy.
Washington and Beijing have slapped tit-for-tat tariffs worth billions of dollars on each other's goods and both sides have threatened to escalate the conflict if needed.
China is pushing a trade deal with other Asian powers like Japan and India — a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) — after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the rival Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The TPP is still alive even without Washington — and will come into effect in December — but RCEP, if realised, will be the world's biggest trade deal.
Beijing had hoped to have the meat of the deal done by the end of this year, but the timetable has now slipped to 2019.
Foreign ministers meeting ahead of the APEC summit, which kicks off on Saturday, failed to agree immediately on a joint statement amid disagreements over language on reforming the World Trade Organisation.
The United States is thought to be pushing for tough language criticising the WTO and urging root-and-branch reform but appears to have run into opposition.
O'Neill seemed to come to the WTO's defence, saying that Papua New Guinea was "playing an increasing role, like everyone else, in international forums such as the WTO". "We must continue that. We must continue to benefit from such arrangements," said the prime minister.
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package com.github.haixing_hu.util.buffer;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import javax.annotation.concurrent.Immutable;

import com.github.haixing_hu.io.exception.InvalidFormatException;
import com.github.haixing_hu.io.exception.SerializationException;
import com.github.haixing_hu.io.serialize.BinarySerializer;

import static com.github.haixing_hu.CommonsMessages.UNEXPECTED_NULL_VALUE;
import static com.github.haixing_hu.io.InputUtils.*;
import static com.github.haixing_hu.io.OutputUtils.*;

/**
 * The {@link BinarySerializer} for the {@link FloatBuffer} class.
 *
 * @author Haixing Hu
 */
@Immutable
public final class FloatBufferBinarySerializer implements BinarySerializer {

  public static final FloatBufferBinarySerializer INSTANCE = new FloatBufferBinarySerializer();

  @Override
  public FloatBuffer deserialize(final InputStream in, final boolean allowNull)
      throws IOException {
    if (readNullMark(in)) {
      if (allowNull) {
        return null;
      } else {
        throw new InvalidFormatException(UNEXPECTED_NULL_VALUE);
      }
    }
    final FloatBuffer result = new FloatBuffer();
    final int n = readVarInt(in);
    if (n > 0) {
      result.buffer = new float[n];
      for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
        result.buffer[i] = readFloat(in);
      }
      result.length = n;
    }
    return result;
  }

  @Override
  public void serialize(final OutputStream out, @Nullable final Object obj)
      throws IOException {
    if (! writeNullMark(out, obj)) {
      FloatBuffer buffer;
      try {
        buffer = (FloatBuffer) obj;
      } catch (final ClassCastException e) {
        throw new SerializationException(e);
      }
      writeVarInt(out, buffer.length);
      for (int i = 0; i < buffer.length; ++i) {
        writeFloat(out, buffer.buffer[i]);
      }
    }
  }

}


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Taking instructions to sell property across the complete spectrum from cottages to country houses.
Being able to provide a service beyond our clients expectations. The variety of people and property is fascinating.
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Q: Why is New-SelfSignedCertificate is missing parameter -Type? I try to sign my ps.1 file and wanted to create a code signing certificate but my New-SelfSigningCertificate does not have the parameter -Type in the function.
I use PowerShell 5.1.
When I use Get-Help, the description oddly enough also displays much less parameters than on the microsoft website. Opening the online help via Get-Help does not work because the URI is not specified.
The Help content:
SYNTAX
    New-SelfSignedCertificate [-DnsName <string[]>] [-CloneCert <Certificate>]
    [-CertStoreLocation <string>] [-WhatIf] [-Confirm]  [<CommonParameters>]

Am I using an outdated version? Is this command only properly available in Win 10 or Server 2016?


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Ryom Tae-ok (born February 2, 1999) is a North Korean pair skater. With her skating partner, Kim Ju-sik, she is the 2018 Four Continents bronze medalist, the 2017 Asian Winter Games bronze medalist, 2016 Cup of Tyrol bronze medalist, and 2016 Asian Open Trophy champion.

Ryom and Kim were the first North Korean figure skaters to win a medal at an ISU event.

Kim Hyon-son coaches the pair in Pyongyang.

Programs
(with Kim Ju-sik)

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series

With Kim Ju-sik

With Kim Mun-song

With O Chang-gon

Detailed results

With Kim Ju-sik

Small medals for short and free programs awarded only at ISU Championships.

ISU Personal best highlighted in bold.

References

External links

 Confession of Gold Medallists at The Pyongyang Times

1999 births
Figure skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea
North Korean female pair skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Pyongyang
Figure skaters at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic figure skaters of North Korea
Asian Games medalists in figure skating
Four Continents Figure Skating Championships medalists


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Close to the big shopping area in Diagonal Avenue, and the upscale L'illa Diagonal Shopping Mall, just a walk away.
Flooded with natural light, the dark wooden flooring and the white walls, provide a comfortable and contemporary atmosphere. And the ultimate luxury... your own private terrace with a dining table with 6 chairs and deck chairs, to sunbathe... maybe you'd rather be outside all the time!. If you're looking for a cool, spacious, bright, and ideal apartment for your visit - this is the place!. Relax in the super comfortable leather sofa, for an after lunch TV session.
The noise will never be an issue here, both for the QUIET street where it is located and also for its hight, it stands on the 8th floor of a post modern building with a lift/elevator. The main door opens into a mirrored entrance foyer, with the separate kitchen on your right and an open space in front of you, holding the dining and living areas.
Two double bedrooms, a full bathroom with shower cabin, a spacious living & dining area, a fully equipped kitchen, and a sunny private terrace as the cream on top.
• Bathroom (ensuite and shared for both bedrooms): with walk-in shower cabin (rainfall shower head). Heated towel rail and hair dryer. There is no limit of hot water because there is a central heater. Fresh towels, hand soap and bath gel provided.
Fully equipped laundry closet with washer, iron and ironing board. Fresh towels and bed linen are included.
• A working or reading space, with a nice desk, where you can take care of your business away from home. You will also find some books, for your entertainment.
A clean, fully fitted kitchen with all utensils and dishwasher - just in case you get the urge to experiment with fresh ingrediens from the excellent local markets and supermarkets in the area (just a step away).
For guests travelling with children, we can provide a baby cot and a high chair, free of charge, and we are happy to provide information on stuff to do with kids of different ages in Barcelona and recommend a good babysitter. If you are a family with children, please let us know the age of your children to know if you need baby cot.
Let's go for a walk... What's in The Area?
Welcome to the Nou Eixample Esquerra's district, one of the most trendiest residential areas, full of services. Historically, the Vell Eixample (Old Eixample) and the Nou Eixample (New Eixample) formed part of a single district, today, its division is due to the size and increasing of population.
This unique district is home to the Joan Miró's Park, one of the largest of the city, which highlights the iconic "Dona i Ocell" (Woman and Bird) sculpture by the catalan artist. At one end, it is located the old bullring, Las Arenas, nowadays converted into a shopping mall, where you will find a lift that takes you up to the rooftop to contemplate a priceless view of Plaça Espanya and the Montjuic's Park.
Let yourself be surrounded by amazing less touristic spots where the locals still hang out!
Two blocks away from the apartment, there is L'Illa Diagonal Shopping Mall, the prefect place to go shopping!, or the incredible Cervantes' Park, the largest one specialized in rosebushes... Both, located in Avinguda Diagonal, an 11 kilometres avenue, that as its name indicates, crosses diagonally the entire city of Barcelona. Nor away from Barcelona's stadium, Camp Nou, or practical amenities such as Sants Train Station, you will find yourself right in the right spot!
The Penthouse... being on this terrace, you will feel as if you float above the neighborhood.
Electronics: Two flat screen TV sets.
Attractions Nearby: Camp Nou, L'lla Shopping Center, Sants train station, Joan Miró's Park, Diagonal Avenue, Plaça Francesc Maciá, University area and the main Medical Centers in Barcelona such as Hospital Clínic, Dexeus, Sagrat Cor-l'Aliança, Barraquer, Quirón Hospital.
• Ria del Braganza - C/ Nicaragua, 104 - traditional Galician cuisine.
• Kenko - C/ Calàbria, 280 - traditional Peruvian restaurant.
• Yashima - Avenue de Josep Tarradellas, 145 - superb traditional Japanese cuisine.
A recepção no local foi muito boa com dicas sobre o funcionamento da casa e do local! O apartamento era muito confortável com todas as facilidades disponíveis, além de ser bonito e bem localizado!
The apartment was great for a family of 3. Second bedroom is on a smaller side and would be a bit tight for 2 people if they don't want to sleep together. There's literally everything on the same block - from supermarkets to banks to restaurants. And a lot of other things are a short walk away: metro is 1 block away and train station is a 10 min. walk, Plaça España and Paseig de Gracia are 25 min. walk or a short metro ride away, etc.. Our questions were answered promptly and a minor problem with parking was resolved without issues. A thing to note for those traveling with car - if your car is bigger than, say, VW Polo you are better off renting a space at a Saba garage 100m away than using the spot that belongs to the apartment. A tiny bit less convenient but actually saves time and especially nerves ;) The host was kind enough to refund us the parking fees that we were able to reuse for the other garage.
Felt welcomed all the way. Info from the host was provided prior and during the stay. Great people to deal with. Very responsive.
Good location near 2 metros, walking distance to Via Diagonal, and Eixample is well planned out by Municipality, so lots of convenience. Felt safe as well.


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