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I'll test some more with APan and come up with the simplest case that demonstrates the issue. It could be user error.
Any idea if IDAM can be setup as more than stereo? Was kind of hoping there was a clever trick to send four channels to AUM but if I could send it to the Mac via IDAM that would be an option for exploring.
What's IDAM? Tried googling it and not seeing anything audio-related.
IDAM is Apple's protocol for sending audio and MIDI between Macs and iOS devices.
What exactly are you trying to do between your iOS devices and Mac? Maybe there's another way to accomplish the same thing.
I want to capture 4 channels of audio to disk so that the two sets of audio pairs can receive different reverb/room simulations. I don't suppose Audulus supports Audiobus 3 (which allows apps to have multiple audio output channels). For instance Loopy can send each of its loops to separate channels in apps (such as AUM that support Audiobus 3).
I don't suppose Audulus supports Audiobus 3 (which allows apps to have multiple audio output channels).
It does support AB3, but unless I'm mistaken, you can't send more than 2 channels through IAA, and there's no AUv3 for Audulus yet.
Audulus supports both IAA and Audiobus 3, however it only offers two channels of I/O in either environment. Both Audiobus and IAA can support multiple channels so I'm hoping that Audulus will offer more than two at some point. Currently running stand-alone is the only way to get more than two channels of I/O in Audulus on iOS. Of course you could use a multi-channel audio interface on the iPad and one on the Mac.
AB3 allows for more than 2 audio channels. Both LayR Multi-Timbral (an awesome synth) and Loopy can send out multiple audio channels. I use that feature quite a bit. If Taylor isn't aware of this, it might be something not too difficult to add.
Has anyone created a module that takes a mono audio input and lets you position the audio in quad so that if you take a knob from 0 to 1, it will move the sound so that it starts at output 1 when the knob is at 0 and travels across the speakers till it finally comes back to output 1 (from output 4) when the knob is full up?
You could use the crossfade you mentioned here and just make it have 5 inputs instead of 4, with 1 being connected to the first and last inputs.
Having a hard time visualizing your module though - are you talking about a single audio input and you fade it to one of 4 outputs?
I think @espiegel123 is talking about a 4 way pan. 1 audio signal in, panning from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 to 1. It should be possible to cascade modified sine/cosine pans to build a quad pan.
I am currently using a left/right and front/back pair for my (totally phony but still fun) pseudo-quad module (basically front/back fading uses reverb as moving something into the faux distance). But, as I've thought about it, I was thinking that there are times when it would be useful to have a single knob variation that moves a sound around the perimeter (when I get an actual multioutput setup so that I could do could.
I can imagine using both types of controls for moving a sound in space depending on the situation. In the case of a knob that moves the sound on the perimeter, one could have another knob that controls distance. So, knob 1 is angle and knob 2 is radius. If that makes sense.
Btw, I think Mark (@biminiroad) might have been responding to a question higher up the thread where I was asking about how to have a knob so that it progressively adds four processes/sources as it is cranked up rather crossfading 1 to 2 to 3 to 4.
That application is for a situation (lets say wavefolding) that as you crank up a 'wavefolding/overtones' knob you can have additional processes kick in as you crank up your knob rather than crossfading between them.
It is hard for me to describe since I don't yet know what the processes are. What made me think of it is that Tony Rolando talks about the Multiply circuit in the 0-Coast as bringing in up to five square waves to active on the signal – and you notice as you crank up the 0-Coast's Multiply that you get an interesting cascading of overtones that sounds different from a lot of other wavefolders. And the Buchla Timbre control has an interesting impact different from other wavefolders that I was wondering if I could simulate by stacking some additional processes on to the basic wavefolding algorithm. I guess one could do it by having expression nodes in front of each of the processes so that each one only kicks in when a certain knob threshold is reached and mix the results.
Angle and radius sounds like a good combination. That would give you a perimeter pan and still let you select an arbitrary position if desired. A linear control would be fairly straightforward, but it would be better to maintain equal loudness. I was messing around with modifying an equal power sine/cosine pan yesterday, but it was getting pretty messy so I decided that I needed to re-think my approach. This could be a bit simpler way to visualize the problem.
I haven't gotten as far in polishing Buchaudulus as I'd hoped, but it might still be of interest. What topic should I post it in. I'll post both the core Buchaudulus and helper patches and a few demo patches along with some usage notes but won't have a full documentation page.
@biminiroad: where should I post Buchaudulus? (See previous post for caveats that make me unsure where I should post?
Thanks, Mark. I was concerned about posting it there because the posting guidelines say that it should be finished – and while BA is finished in the sense that it can be used to great effect – it is pretty unpolished (lots of inputs/outputs not labeled with 'o' 'a' and the like.
But if that is ok, I'll post it to modules/synth-voice – and you can recategorize if appropriate.
Post your work so far and when you have a more polished version post an update with the new version.
Thanks. I'll try to get some release notes together and get it up in the next week or so.


Reuters reports that Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has said that the offensive on Hudaydah that Saudi Arabia wants to launch would have heavy casualties for both Saudi-backed forces and their Houthi adversaries. The Washington Post, meanwhile, discusses the concern among U.S. lawmakers over the possibility of an attack on the port city.
Middle East Eye quotes Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who said during a visit to San'a that Yemen is facing a "famine of Biblical proportions" and condemned the continuation of armed conflict in the country as millions face starvation.
Reuters reports that despite efforts by the UAE to fund and train Yemeni forces, rivalries within Yemen are threatening the unity among the troops.
Gulf News notes that there were demonstrations in Aden today in support of former governor Aidaroos al-Zubaidi, who was recently replaced by President Hadi. AP also discusses the demonstrations, which were also in support of Yemen's southern secessionist movement. President Hadi's recent replacement of al-Zubaidi and today's demonstration are part of the ongoing tensions between Hadi and the UAE.
In an NPR interview, Jan Egeland, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, emphasized that millions of Yemeni lives are at risk due to short supply of food and medical care.
Reuters continues to follow the legal battle over President Trump's attempted travel ban. Two US appeals courts will consider next week whether the ban is constitutional.
A new draft of the Trump administration's counterterrorism strategy is discussed by Reuters as well, noting that the draft urges avoidance of open-ended military commitments and demands that US allies do more to combat Islamist extremists. Reuters highlights the disparity between this draft strategy and the policies that the Trump administration seems to be implementing in countries such as Yemen.
The Telegraph focuses on the persecution of Yemen's Baha'is by the Houthis. A number of Baha'is received threatening phone calls demanding that they hand themselves in for interrogation. Baha'is are a small and relatively new minority in Yemen. Members of the faith have long faced severe persecution in Iran.
Al Jazeera reports that over 200 cases of cholera have been reported in San'a.
It was announced today that the Sustainable Development Foundation (SDF) won the first Sharjah International Award for Refugee Advocacy and Support.
Al Arabiya reports that UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed is pushing to revive the stalled peace process and bring the parties to the conflict to the table for negotiations.
According to Reuters, the WHO has reported that 25 people died from cholera this week in Yemen.
The ACLU is suing the US government in order to obtain documentation on the January Navy SEAL raid in Yakla, al-Baydha province. The organization questions the legal and factual basis for the raid and the accuracy of the information provided by the US government on the operation.


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This week we celebrate the 49th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the brave and beautiful encyclical of Blessed Paul VI promulgated on July 25, 1968.
And 49 years later they're still trying. After all, an attack on one Sacrament is an attack on all of them, as well as an attack on Christ who bestowed them on a sinful humanity to lead them to eternal life.
European have barely more children than their childless leaders. They freely invite demographic suicide while they send hundreds of millions of dollars to Third World countries to prevent children there, while they are indundated by millions who consider them infidels.
Pope Benedict often remarked how bishops had to lead the recovery from decades of poor catechesis regarding marriage, chastity, and sexual morality.
Have we made progress in the past five years? In the past fifty?
These days, our bishops, it appears, have raised their voices in a crescendo of left-wing political advocacy; with regard to Humanae Vitae, only a precious few have recovered from the plague of "laryngitis." Who will respond to the challenge of Pope Benedict to revive and teach and celebrate the truths of marriage, chastity, and sexual morality?
In this generation, that task has fallen to the laity. We must raise good children and teach them, and pray that the next generation of bishops – our children's generation – will pick up and champion the fallen standard of the gift of Blessed Paul VI to the Church and to the world.


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Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 Airplane Videos and Airplane Pictures
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Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 Aircraft Information
Picture - Morane-Saulnier D-3801 (GC LaFayette)
Role: Fighter
Manufacturer: Morane-Saulnier
First flight: 8 August 1935 (M.S.405)
Introduced: 1938
Primary users: French Air Force Finnish Air Force Swiss Air Force Turkish Air Force
Number built: 1,176
The M.S.406 was a French Arm�e de l'Air fighter aircraft built by Morane-Saulnier starting in 1938. Numerically it was France's most important fighter during the opening stages of World War II.
Although sturdy and highly maneuverable, it was under-powered and weakly armed when compared to its contemporaries. Most critically, it was out-performed by the Messerschmitt Bf 109E during the Battle of France. The M.S.406 held its own in the early stages of the war (the so-called Phoney War), but when the war restarted in earnest in 1940, 387 were lost in combat or on the ground (for various reasons) for 183 kills in return. The type was more successful in the hands of Finnish and Swiss air forces who developed indigenous models.
M.S.405
In 1934, the Service Technique A�ronautique (Aeronautical Technical Service) of the Arm�e de l'Air issued a requirement for a new and completely modern single-seat fighter (referred to as a C1 design), with a monoplane layout and retracting landing gear.
Morane-Saulnier's response was the M.S.405. It was the development of the Morane Saulnier Engineer in chief: Paul-Ren� Gauthier. The MS.405 was a low-wing monoplane of mixed construction, with fabric-covered wooden tail, but a bonded metal/wood material (Plymax) skin fixed to duralumin tubing. Plymax consisted of a thin sheet of duralumin bonded to a thicker sheet of plywood. Morane-Saulnier had a long history of producing warplanes dating back to pre-World War I years but in the inter-war period, they had concentrated on civil designs. The aircraft was a departure for them, being their first low-wing monoplane, first aircraft with an enclosed cockpit, and their first design with retracting landing gear. Prior to this, their most modern designs were fixed-gear parasol monoplanes.
The new 860 hp (641 kW) Hispano-Suiza HS 12Y-grs engine driving a two-pitch Chauvix�re propeller powered the first M.S406-1 prototype, which flew on 8 August 1935. Development was very slow, and the second M.S.406-2 prototype with a 900 hp (671 kW) HS 12Y-crs engine didn't fly until 20 January 1937, almost a year and a half later. With the new engine the fighter reached 275 mph (443 km/h), fast enough to secure an order for a further 16 pre-production prototypes, each including improvements on the previous version.
The result of these changes was the M.S.406. The two main changes were the inclusion of a new wing structure which saved weight, and a retractable radiator under the fuselage. Powered by the production 860 hp (641 kW) HS 12Y-31 engine, the new design was over 5 mph (8 km/h) faster than the 405, at 304 mph (489 km/h). Armament consisted of a 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.9 or 404 cannon with 60 rounds in the V of the engine and fired through the propeller hub, and two 7.5mm MAC 1934 machine guns (one in each wing, each with 300 rounds). A weakness of the MAC 1934 was its operation at high altitudes. It was found that at altitudes over 20,000 ft, the guns had a tendency to freeze. Heaters were added to the guns for high altitude use.
While the 406s were entering service in 1939, an upgrade series was started to improve the design. The result was the M.S.410, which included a stronger wing, simpler fixed radiator in place of the earlier retractable design, four belt-fed MAC guns in place of the earlier two drum-fed weapons, and exhaust ejectors for additional thrust. The added thrust boosted the top speed to 316 mph (509 km/h), an improvement of about 10 mph (16 km/h) over the 406.
Production had just started when France fell, and only five examples had been completed. Production was allowed to continue under German supervision, converting earlier 406s to the 410 standard, but many of these received only the new wings.
M.S.411, M.S.412
A single example of the M.S.411 was constructed by converting the 12th aircraft of the pre-production line with the 406 wing and the 1,000 hp (746 kW) HS 12Y-45 engine. A later modification was started as the M.S.412 with the 1,050 hp (783 kW) HS 12Y-51 engine, but this was not completed by the time the war ended.
In 1939, Hispano started prototype deliveries of the new Hispano-Suiza 12Z engine of 1,300 hp (969 kW). One was fitted to a modified 410 to create the M.S.450, giving dramatic improvements in performance, especially at altitude. However the engine did not enter production before France fell, and the similarly modified Dewoitine D.520 (the D.523/D.551) was considered a better design for the engine anyway.
The M.S.406 airframe was also used in a number of other projects. The M.S.430 was a two-seat trainer built by inserting a "plug" in the central fuselage with an extra cockpit for the trainee pilot, and using the much less powerful 390 hp (291 kW) Salmson 9 radial engine. The M.S.435 was a more powerful version with the 550 hp (410 kW) Gnome-Rhx�ne 9K engine.
Swiss variants
Picture - D-3801, a Swiss license-built copy of MS-406
In 1938, Switzerland licensed the M.S.406 for local production as the D-3800. Two of the pre-production M.S.405 samples were completed as M.S.406H and sent to them as pattern aircraft in late 1938 and early 1939. These examples had the earlier wing design of the 405, but were powered by the newer 12Y-31 engines as used by the MS.406.
Pre-production started with a run of eight aircraft from EKW with engines built by Adolph Saurer AG driving a new Escher-Wyss EW-V3 fully adjustable propeller. Instruments were replaced with Swiss versions and the drum-fed MAC machine guns with locally designed and built belt-fed guns, so eliminating the wing-bulges of the French version, and avoiding the freezing problems encountered by French guns. The first of these aircraft was completed in November 1939. The pre-production models were then followed with an order for a further 74 examples, which were all delivered by 29 August 1940. In 1942, a further two were assembled with spares originally set aside for the original production run.
Picture - Morane D-3801 J-143 (Association Morane Charlie-Fox)
During 1944, surviving aircraft were modified with new cooling and hydraulic installations, and were fitted with ejector exhausts. These modifications were the same standard as the D-3801 series, making them identical with the exception of the engine installation. At the end of the war the remaining aircraft were used as trainers, until the last one was scrapped in 1954.
D.3801/3803
The Swiss continued development of the MS.412 when French involvement stopped following the June 1940 Armistice. The Dornier-Altenrhein factory completed a prototype powered with a licenced-produced HS-51 12Y engine, generating 1,060 hp (791 kW) together with the fixed radiator and revised exhausts as tested on the MS.411, in October 1940. The new type retained the armament changes and other improvements introduced on the D.3800. This series was put into production in 1941 as the D-3801 with continued deliveries until 1945 with 207 completed. Another 17 were built from spares between 1947 and 1948. Reliability of the new engine was at first extremely poor, with problems with crankshaft bearings causing several accidents. The engine problems slowed deliveries, with only 16 aircraft produced in 1942 and a single aircraft delivered in 1943. The engine problems were eventually resolved in 1944. With 1,060 hp from the HS-51 12Y, the speed was boosted to 535 km/h (332 mph), roughly equivalent to the D.520 or the Hurricane. Weights were between 2,124-2,725 kg. After being retired from operational use as a fighter when the North American P-51 Mustang was acquired in 1948, the type remained in service as a trainer and target tug until 1959.
The D.3802 was based on the MS.540, with a new engine, the Sauer YS-2 (1,250 hp). The prototype flew in the autumn of 1944. This aircraft had several shortcomings, but it was capable of 630 km/h. 12 were produced and saw limited use with Fliegerstaffel 17 and some other units.
The last development of this aircraft was the D.3803, with Sauer YS-3 (1,500 hp), and modified dorsal fuselage (with an all-round visibility canopy). The D.3803 was armed with three HS-404 20 mm cannons (one in the nose, two in the wings), plus up to 200 kg bombs and rockets. Despite not having a powerful engine, the type reached 680 km/h at 7,000 m. The performance was impressive, but the last development of this 1935 fighter design had several shortcomings and was not entirely successful. Its development was halted as P-51D Mustangs became available.
Finnish variants
Picture - Finnish Morane-Saulnier MS.406, MS-325 of 2/LeLv 28, based at Viitana, winter 1941-1942
Mx�rkx�-Morane
France sent 30 Morane-Saulnier to Finland, between 4 and 29 February 1940. By 1943 Finnish had received an additional 46 M.S.406s and 11 M.S.410s purchased from the Germans. By this point, the fighters were hopelessly outdated, but the Finns were so desperate for serviceable aircraft that they decided to start a modification program to bring all of their examples to a new standard.
The aircraft designer Aarne Lakomaa turned the obsolete "M-S" into a first rate fighter, the Mx�rkx�-Morane (Finnish for Bogey or Ogre Morane), sometimes referred to as the "LaGG-Morane". Powered by captured Klimov M-105P engines (a licensed version of the HS 12Y) of 1,100 hp (820 kW) with a fully adjustable propeller, the airframe required some local strengthening and also gained a new and more aerodynamic engine cowling. These changes boosted the speed to 326 mph (525 km/h). Other changes included a new oil cooler taken from the Bf 109, the use of four belt-fed guns like the M.S.410, and the excellent 20mm MG 151/20 cannon in the engine mounting. However, supplies of the MG 151 were limited, and several received captured 12.7mm Berezin UBS guns instead.
The first example of the modified fighter, MS-631, made its first flight on 25 January 1943, and the results were startling: the aircraft was 40 km/h (25 mph) faster than the original French version, and the service ceiling was increased from 10,000 to 12,000 m (32,800 to 39,360 ft).
Originally it was planned to convert all the 41 remaining M.S.406s and M.S.410s with the Soviet engine, but it took time, and the first front-line aircraft of this type did not reach LeLv 28 until July/August 1944. By the end of the Continuation War in 1944, only three examples had been converted (including the original prototype). Lieutenant Lars Hattinen (an ace with six victories) scored three kills with the Mx�rkx�-Morane. More fighters arrived from the factory, though, and the Mx�rkx�-Moranes took part in the Lapland War as reconnaissance and ground attack aircraft. Not all the Mx�rkx�-Morane conversions were completed before March 1945, when the entire re-engining programme was halted. After the end of the war, the total was brought to 41, which served as advanced trainers with TLeLv 14 until September 1948. In 1952 all remaining Finnish Moranes were scrapped.
In late 1930s a war with Germany was clearly looming, and the Arm�e de l'Air placed an order for 1,000 airframes in March 1938. Morane-Saulnier was unable to produce anywhere near this number at their own factory, so a second line was set up at the nationalized factories of SNCAO at St. Nazaire converted to produce the type. Production began in late 1938, and the first production example flew on 29 January 1939. Deliveries were hampered more by the slow deliveries of the engines than by lack of airframes.
By April 1939, the production lines were delivering six aircraft a day, and when the war opened on 3 September 1939, production was at 11 a day with 535 in service. Production of the M.S.406 ended in March 1940, after the original order for 1,000 had been delivered to the Arm�e de l'Air, and a further 77 for foreign users (30 for Finland and 45 for Turkey). Additional orders for Lithuania and Poland were canceled with the outbreak of the war.
The MS 406 equipped 16 Groupes de Chasse and three Escadrilles in France and overseas, and 12 of the Groupes saw action against the Luftwaffe. The aircraft was very manoeuvrable and could withstand heavy battle damage, but was outclassed by the Bf 109 and losses were heavy (150 aircraft lost in action and 250-300 lost through other causes). After the armistice, only one Vichy unit, GC. 1/7, was equipped with the MS. 406.
Germany took possession of a large number of M.S.406s and the later M.S.410s. The Luftwaffe used a number for training, and sold off others. Finland purchased additional M.S.406s (as well as a few 406/410 hybrids) from the Germans, while others were passed off to Italy and Croatia. Those still in French hands saw action in Syria against the RAF, and on Madagascar against the Fleet Air Arm. Both Switzerland and Turkey also operated the type; the Swiss actually managing to down a number of both German and Allied aircraft, 1944-1945.
Before the Pacific campaign proper, Vichy authorities in French Indochina were engaged in a frontier war against Thailand, during 1940-41. A number of M.S.406s stationed in Indochina downed Thai fighters before the French Air Force abandoned the theatre. Some examples of the M.S.406 were captured by the Thai Air Force.
In Finnish service
The M.S.406 had a parallel career in Finland. In February 1940 the first 30 French fighters were allocated to LeLv 28, commanded by Major Jusu. These aircraft received the Finnish designations MS-301 to MS-330. They were used in combat during the Winter War, against the USSR and carried out 259 operational sorties and shoot down 16 Soviet aircraft. In modified form, the M.S.406 were later involved in the Continuation War. Between November 1939 and 4 September 1944, Lv28 scored 118 aerial victories flying the Morane M.S.406 (the unit flew Bf 109Gs for a time, as well). The unit lost 15 aircraft. Total Finnish kills amounted to 121. The top Morane ace in all theatres was W/O Urho Lehtovaara, with 15 of his 44.5 total kills achieved in Moranes. The Finnish nicknames were Murjaani (blackmoor), a twist on its name, and Mx�timaha (roe-belly) and Riippuvatsa (hanging belly) for its bulged ventral fuselage.
Bulgarian Air Force received 20 aircraft in 1942.
Nationalist Chinese Air Force ordered 12 aircraft in 1938 and they were shipped to Haiphong, but diverted to Escadrille EC 2, which fought against the Japanese and Thai in December 1940 One or two aircraft may have reached the Chinese Air Force
Independent State of Croatia
Zrakoplovstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske received over 15 aircraft.
Ilmavoimat received 76 M.S.406 and 11 M.S.410
Arm�e de l'Air
Vichy France Germany
Luftwaffe operated captured aircraft.
Regia Aeronautica
Lithuanian Air Force ordered 13 Moranes, but none were delivered.
Polish Air Force ordered 160 aircraft, but none were delivered, due to the fall of Poland.
Polish Air Force in exile in France operated at least 91 aircraft in several training and combat units:
Groupe de Chasse de Varsovie
Section no.1 Łaszkiewicz GC III/2
Section no.2 Pentz GC II/6
Section no.3 Sulerzycki GC III/6
Section no.4 Bursztyn GC III/1
Section no.5 Brzeziński GC I/2
Section no.6 Goettel GC II/7
Jasionowski Koolhoven Flight
DAT section Krasnodębski GC I/55 based at Chx�teaudun and x�tampes
DAT section Skiba GC I/55
DAT section Kuzian based at Nantes
DAT section Opulski based at Romorantin
DAT section Krasnodębski based at Toulouse-Francazal
Centre d'Instruction d'Aviation de Chasse at Montpellier
Ecole de Pilotage No 1 (Chasse) at Etampes
Ecole de Pilotage at Avord
Centre d'Instruction at Tours
Depot d'Instruction de l'Aviation Polonaise at Lyon-Bron
Montpellier Flight
Swiss Air Force
Turkish Air Force received 45 Moranes. At least 30 of them were originally intended for shipment to Poland and had Polish stencilling.
Royal Thai Air Force operated several captured aircraft.
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Royal Yugoslav Air Force ordered 25 aircraft, but the fall of France precluded their delivery
Specifications (M.S.406)
Picture - The D-3801 preserved at the Mus�e de l'Air et de l'Espace
Data from The Great Book of Fighters
Crew: one pilot
Length: 8.17 m (26 ft 9 in)
Wingspan: 10.62 m (34 ft 10 in)
Height: 2.71 m (8 ft 10 in)
Wing area: 17.10 m� (184.06 ft�)
Empty weight: 1,893 kg (4,173 lb)
Loaded weight: 2,426 kg (5,348 lb)
Powerplant: 1 x� Hispano-Suiza 12Y31 liquid-cooled V-12, 640 kW (860 hp)
Picture - D-3801 J-276 at Fliegermuseum Dx�bendorf
Maximum speed: 486 km/h (303 mph) at 5,000 m (16,400 ft)
Range: 1,000 km (620 mi)
Rate of climb: 13.0 m/s (2,560 ft/min)
Wing loading: 141.9 kg/m� (29.1 lb/ft�)
Power/mass: 260 W/kg (0.16 hp/lb)
1x� 20 mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404 cannon
2x� 7.5 mm MAC 1934 machine guns
Related development
Morane-Saulnier M.S. 450
Comparable aircraft
Seversky P-35
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Botquin, Gaston. M.S.406 (Monografie Lotnicze No. 28) (in Polish). Gdańsk, Poland: AJ-Press, 1996. ISBN 83-86208-46-5.
Botquin, Gaston. The Morane Saulnier 406. Leatherhead, Surrey, UK: Profile Publications Ltd., 1967. No ISBN.
Breffort, Dominique and Andr� Jouineau. French Aircraft from 1939 to 1942, Vol.2: from Dewoitine to Potez. Paris, France: Histoire & Collections, 2005. ISBN 2-915239-49-5.
Brindley, John. F. French Fighters of World War Two. Windsor, UK: Hylton Lacy Publishers Ltd., 1971. ISBN 1-85064-015-6.
Comas, Mathieu et al. Le Morane-Saulnier MS 406 (Historie de l'Aviation series, No. 5 (In French). Boulogne-sur-Mer, France: Lela Presse, 1998 (new edition 2002). ISBN 2-95094-854-5. (2nd edition ISBN 2-91401-718-9.)
Comas, Mathieu et al. Additif & correctif x� l'ouvrage Le Morane-Saulnier MS 406 (in French). Boulogne-sur-Mer, France: Lela Presse, 2002.
Green, William. War Planes of the Second World War, Volume One: Fighters. London: Macdonald & Co.(Publishers) Ltd., 1960 (tenth impression 1972). ISBN 0-356-01445-2.
Green, William and Gordon Swanborough. The Complete Book of Fighters. New York, Smithmark, 1994. ISBN 0-8317-3939-8.
Gunti, Peter. "Neutral Warriors: The Morane Saulnier MS.406 in Swiss Service". Air Enthusiast. Forty-three, 1991. pp. 10-17. ISSN 0143-5450.
Gunti, Peter. "Alpine Avenger". Air Enthusiast, Forty-seven, September to November 1992, pp. 22-27. ISSN 0143-5450.
Keskinen, Kalevi, Kari Stenman and Klaus Niska. Hx�vittx�jx�-x�ssx�t (Finnish Fighter Aces) (in Finnish). Espoo, Finland: Tietoteos, 1978. ISBN 951-9035-37-0.
Keskinen, Kalevi, Kari Stenman and Klaus Niska. Morane-Saulnier M.S. 406/Caudron C.714, Suomen Ilmavoimien Historia 4 (in Finnish). Helsinki, Finland: Tietoteos, 1975. ISBN 951-9035-19-2.
Jackson, Robert. Aircraft of World War II: Development - Weaponry - Specifications. Enderby, Leicester, UK, Amber Books, 2003. ISBN 1-85605-751-8.
Marchand, Patrick and Junko Takamori. Morane-Saulnier MS 406, Les Ailes de Gloire No.7 (in French). Le Muy, France: Editions d'Along, 2002. ISBN 2-914403-14-3.(second edition -No.7r- ISBN 2-914403-23-2).
Neulen, Hans Werner. In the Skies of Europe: Air Forces Allied to the Luftwaffe 1939-1945. Ramsbury, Marlborough, UK: The Crowood Press, 2000. ISBN 1-86126-799-1.
Pelletier, Alain. French Fighters of World War II. Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 2002. ISBN 0-89747-440-6.
Ries, Karl. Deutsche Luftwaffe x�ber der Schweiz 1939-1945 (German Luftwaffe over Switzerland 1939-1945) (in German). Mainz, Germany: Verlag Dieter Hoffmann, 1978. ISBN 3-87341-022-2.
Stenman, Kari and Kalevi Keskinen. Finnish Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces 23). Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-85532-783-X.
Morane-Saulnier M.S.406 Pictures
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CBE launches global tender for consultancy to study Arab electronic payments system - Daily News Egypt
Business CBE launches global tender for consultancy to study Arab electronic payments system
CBE launches global tender for consultancy to study Arab electronic payments system
32% of Egyptians deal with banking system, post offices, Hussein says
Hossam Mounir April 30, 2018 Be the first to comment
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) will launch a global tender in May 2018 for the selection of a consultancy office to prepare studies on the launch of an Arab system for electronic payments, according to Ayman Hussein, deputy governor of the CBE for payment systems.
Hussain explained, during his participation in the annual conference of the Union of Arab Banks, that the new system aims to launch a system of settlement and acceptance of payments between Arab countries, in order to facilitate movements of remittances of workers abroad, and it is expected to be completed in 2020.
The CBE recently activated the electronic linkage system between Egyptian banks and members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) through a regional system of clearing and settlement of payments.
In another context, Hussein revealed that the number of mobile money transfer wallets rose to about 9.6m, noting that the proportion of accounts that activate the service is about 10%.
According to Hussein, the new banking law includes a special section on payment systems and support for financial technology, pointing out that it aims is to make the CBE supervise non-banking entities concerned with payments.
Hussein pointed out that 32% of Egyptians deal with the banking system and Egypt Post, with plans to increase that ratio.
He added that the CBE is working on the launch of NFC technology for electronic payment services, and it is scheduled to discuss it at its board of directors meeting at the end of June.
"The CBE is working on rules for the governance of information systems, which include the rules of disaster recovery and business continuity, which are targeted before the end of this year," according to Hussein.
He added that the CBE has set up a centre to protect the banking sector by raising banks' awareness in the event of any anticipated risks. Most of the time, the warnings are long enough to allow banks to avoid the risk.
Hussein pointed out that the CBE is preparing a training programme for all individuals specialised in the field of information security in the banking sector, in cooperation with 12 international training institutions in that area, pointing out that the completion of the programme plan, is targeted within two years. It aims to train 100 individuals.
Topics: Arab electronic payments CBE Central Bank of Egypt system
https://wwww.dailynewssegypt.com/2018/04/30/cbe-launches-global-tender-consultancy-study-arab-electronic-payments-system/
$1.6bn Egypt's exports to COMESA countries last year
COMESA encourages member states to adopt full digital technologies to reduce digitisation disparities in economic sectors in region
COMESA opens investigation into FIFA over World Cup broadcast rights
Remittances record $17.3bn in 8 months: CBE
UAB calls upon banks, Arab financial institutions to exert greater efforts to spread fintech, curb risks
UNB-Egypt, Dar El Maaref launch Young Economist book series
AIBK signs partnership agreement with Fawry to provide e-payment services
EGP 25bn value of financial transactions via Fawry: Baseera
Intensive cooperation between government, private sector in transforming to cashless economy
Egypt conducts first 5G test today
CBE, MasterCard discuss pushing digital payments in Egypt
Mamish, Nasr discuss UAE's Bin Omeir plans to increase investments in Egypt
Visa Everywhere Initiative attracted Egyptian startups, innovators: Visa GM for North Africa and Levant
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Christopher Graham Collins  (born 28 January 1957), professionally known as Frank Skinner, is an English comedian, actor, presenter and writer. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was named Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. His television work includes Fantasy Football League from 1994 to 2004, The Frank Skinner Show from 1995 to 2005, Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005, and Room 101 from 2012 to 2018. Since 2009 he has hosted The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio, broadcast live on Saturdays and later released as a podcast.

Along with David Baddiel, he provided vocals and wrote the lyrics for "Three Lions", the official song in collaboration with Liverpudlian indie band The Lightning Seeds, to mark the England national football team's participation in the 1996 European Championship (which was hosted in England); he also reprised his role to release two subsequent versions of the song for the England team's involvement in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2010 World Cup. The 1996 version is the only song ever to have four separate stints at number one in the UK singles chart with the same artists, the most recent coming in July 2018 following England reaching the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup.

Early life
Skinner was born on 28 January 1957 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, and grew up in a council house in neighbouring Oldbury. He was the youngest of four children born to John Collins (1918–1990) and his wife Doris (1919–1989).

Skinner wrote in his autobiography that his father, who was born in West Cornforth, County Durham, played for Spennymoor United before the Second World War, and met his mother in a local pub after Spennymoor had played West Bromwich Albion in an FA Cup game in 1937. However, club officials and historians could not find his father in their records.

Skinner attended Moat Farm Infant School from 1961 to 1964, St Hubert's Roman Catholic Junior School from 1964 to 1968, and then Oldbury Technical Secondary School from 1968 to 1973. He passed two O-levels in summer 1973 and took A-levels in English language and art, along with several O-level resits, at Oldbury Technical School Sixth Form. He subsequently took 4 A-levels (including English language and literature) at Warley College of Technology and graduated from Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University) in 1981 with a degree in English. This was followed by a Master's degree in English literature at the University of Warwick in Coventry the following year.

Despite his given first name of Christopher, his parents called him by his middle name Graham; all his friends referred to him, and some still do, as Chris. Skinner once explained that whenever someone called at his house to ask if "Chris" was there, his mother would say yes, only to then turn around and shout for "Graham". He adopted the stage name Frank Skinner when the actors' union Equity told him there was already a singer from Burnley on their books called Chris Collins. He took the name from a member of his late father's dominoes team.

Career
After graduating, he spent three-and-a-half years on unemployment benefit before finding work as a lecturer in English at Halesowen College. In 1987, he decided to give stand-up comedy a try on the side. Skinner performed his first stand-up gig in 1987 and made his television debut a year later. In 1990, he co-wrote and starred in the comedy variety show Packet of Three on Channel 4 but continued to see his reputation as a stand-up grow. Before becoming a full-time performer in 1989, he suffered a bout of influenza in September 1986 that made him give up drinking, and he remains a high-profile recovering alcoholic.

Skinner won the 1991 Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, beating Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard. He has worked with David Baddiel, notably on the popular late-night entertainment show Fantasy Football League from 1994 to 2004 and on Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned from 2000 to 2005. The duo also co-wrote and performed the football song "Three Lions" with the Lightning Seeds and the England national football team for Euro 1996, and re-recorded it for the 1998 World Cup. The song reached #1 in the UK charts both times. In 2001, he released his autobiography Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner, which became a bestseller. The accompanying TV show, Frank Skinner on Frank Skinner, in which Skinner showed where he lived as a child and interviews with Skinner, his friends and family members, was recorded and shown on ITV in 2001. In July 2018, "Three Lions" re-entered the charts at number 1. Fans were celebrating the progress of England at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with the phrase "it's coming home" featuring heavily on social media and television.

In 1998, he took part in a documentary titled A Little Bit of Elvis. He paid over £11,000 at auction for a shirt which he believed was worn by Elvis Presley at his famous 1956 Tupelo concert. Skinner visited the US to find out if the shirt was the genuine article. After a slightly awkward conversation with Dave Hebler, Presley's bodyguard, it appeared the shirt did once belong to Presley, but it was not worn at the concert. Skinner is a lifelong fan of Elvis and used to buy the Elvis Monthly magazine.

From 1995 to 1998, Skinner had his own chat show on BBC One, which ended when the BBC refused to meet pay demands of a reported £20 million. After a short break, the show found a new home at ITV in 1999, where it ran until late 2005. He has appeared in a number of self-written sitcoms, including Blue Heaven (1994) and Shane (2004).

In 2000, he appeared as Buttons in the ITV Panto adaptation of Cinderella. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. In 2005, Skinner announced he was going to leave behind his television work in favour of returning to the stand-up comedy circuit. A second series of Shane had been made, but never shown.

In February 2006, he received an honorary degree from the University of Central England (now Birmingham City University). Skinner and David Baddiel covered the 2006 FIFA World Cup by podcast for The Times. The podcasts received a nomination for the 2007 Sony Radio Academy Awards.

In 2007, he performed a new live stand-up tour, his first for 10 years, starting at a warm-up gig at the Swindon Arts Centre, continuing through to the Edinburgh Festival for 2 weeks at The Pleasance, the venue where he won the Perrier Award, and a 69 date national tour including three sold-out homecoming performances at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in the autumn.

In November 2008 and in the light of senior broadcasting figures such as ITV boss Michael Grade and Terry Wogan calling for TV to reduce its use of vulgar language, Skinner decided to experiment with removing swear words altogether from his stand up live act although stated that it would be a shame if 'clever swearing' was lost. He also stood in for an ill Paul Merton as a team captain on 21 November edition of Have I Got News for You.

From March 2009, Skinner started to present the Saturday Morning Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio with his co-hosts Emily Dean and Gareth Richards (who was succeeded by Alun Cochrane in June 2011). The show is produced by Avalon Television. After an initial 12-week stint proved very popular with the listeners, Skinner's contract was extended until summer 2010. The show is still running, with Emily Dean and a guest as co-hosts.

Skinner plays the banjo ukulele and in 2010, he contributed ukulele parts to a song by Fairport Convention called "Ukulele Central" which featured on their album Festival Bell. A great admirer of George Formby, he hosted a BBC Four TV documentary, Frank Skinner on George Formby, which aired on 27 October 2011.

In 2011, he wrote and performed a Radio 4 comedy series, Don't Start, with Katherine Parkinson. Each episode was based on an argument between Skinner's character Neil and Neil's girlfriend Kim. Skinner said each episode was only 15 minutes as it was "too intense" to be any longer. Don't Start returned for a second series in 2012, and aired its third and final series in 2015-2016.

From 2012 to 2018, Skinner was the host of BBC show Room 101. In August 2013, he was a team captain on the BBC comedy show I Love My Country.

A longtime fan of Doctor Who, Skinner appeared alongside Peter Capaldi's Doctor in the 2014 episode Mummy on the Orient Express. He subsequently featured in the 2019 Big Finish Productions audio release The Sinestran Kill, the first episode of Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Season 8.

In 2015, Skinner also appeared in the inaugural season of Taskmaster where he tied for second place with Romesh Ranganathan behind Josh Widdicombe, who won the series.

In 2020 he began a podcast, Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast, in which he analyses and discusses his favourite poems.

Skinner was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to entertainment.

Personal life
Skinner married in 1990, but the marriage was annulled shortly after. He and his longtime partner, Cath Mason, have a son, Buzz Cody (b. 2012).

Raised Roman Catholic, Skinner reconnected with the faith in his 20s, and remains a practising Roman Catholic. He is also a supporter of West Bromwich Albion, and regularly attends games.

He was a victim of the credit crunch in the late 2000s after investing in AIG, losing millions of pounds as a result. He eventually got most of the money back.

Skinner stopped drinking alcohol at age 29, having become concerned when he changed from having sherry for breakfast to Pernod. He started performing stand-up comedy shortly afterwards. He has said that he has never been able to replace the "white heat of joy" he got from alcohol and that his social life has never recovered from stopping drinking.

In 2019, Skinner told The Times that he had always voted for the Labour Party, but said he would probably vote for the Green Party at the next election.

Publications

Books
In October 2001, Skinner's autobiography, Frank Skinner by Frank Skinner, was published. In August 2009, he released a book centred on his return to stand-up after ten years - Frank Skinner on the Road: Love, Stand-up Comedy and the Queen of the Night. In September 2011, The Collected Wisdom of Frank Skinner; Dispatches from the Sofa was published. It consists of his weekly columns for The Times, written from 2009 to 2011. In September 2020, he released a book, How to Enjoy Poetry. In it, he uses one poem ('Pad, Pad' by Stevie Smith) to explore the art of poetry. Skinner, who is a practising Christian, released a book of prayers, A Comedian's Prayer Book, in 2021.

Stand-up VHS and DVDs

References

External links
Official Website
The Frank Skinner Show on Absolute Radio
Audio and transcript of conversation with Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

1957 births
Living people
20th-century English comedians
21st-century English comedians
Alumni of Birmingham City University
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Comedians from Birmingham, West Midlands
English autobiographers
English male comedians
English male television actors
English Roman Catholics
English songwriters
English television talk show hosts
Epic Records artists
Labour Party (UK) people
Male actors from the West Midlands (county)
People from Oldbury, West Midlands
People from West Bromwich
Members of the Order of the British Empire

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My 65th Miss Universe Hot Picks #1 – Pre-Preliminary Competition
The 65th Miss Universe fever is finally on full swing and the delegates from around the globe are trying to out-stage each other while trying to play nice! Hah! Just this week, we've witnessed the Terno Fashion Show from some of the ladies who graced the beautiful historic Vigan to showcase the beautiful ternos created by Filipino designers. Then there's was the Governor's Ball, Their photoshoots from different historic sites in the metro as well as visits in the beautiful Boracay Island, Cebu and Batangas. With more press releases, videos and photos available for fans and pundits, let me present to you my first hot picks for this Manila edition of the Miss Universe beauty pageant!
Mariam Habach of Venezuela
At this stage of the competition, Miss Venezuela for me is the most ready to become the new queen – charisma and performance-wise. Her simplicity and unconventional beauty is refreshing from the usual brunette-filled Venezuelan delegates sent by their great national director Osmel Sousa to this pageant. Her posture and contagious smile is a thing of beauty that you can't help but fall for her. Mariam came prepared to battle it out to the finish here in Manila!
Maxine Medina of the Philippines
Admit it or not, Miss Philippines' beauty is a beauty that is very hard to ignore. She exudes confidence and a hint of mystery whenever she struck a pose – until she opens her mouth that is, as per pageant pundits' usual criticism. To be fair tho, I think we're too critical of Maxine because we're comparing her to Pia and whether or not she'll be able to carry on the latter's legacy. I still believe that there is a big fat chance for the host-nation to snag a back-to-back win equating Venezuela's record back in 2008-2009. After all, Maxine has the hometown advantage and with a smooth performance, albeit, a most probably less than confident answers in the Q&A round – she could probably pull it off.
Raissa Santana of Brazil
This Amazonian goddess is everywhere! Like literally every event! She's such a stand out that you can't help but be mesmerize by her modelesque bone structure and captivating smile! I'm only placing her as my third pick for the crown at this point because I'm still not sold with her overall presentation. It's too finesse for me and I want her to be more vibrant and more natural!
Kiran Jassal of Malaysia
Miss Malaysia may not be getting much hype compared to her ASEAN counterparts such as Thailand, Indonesia, and her roomie Miss Philippines but she's definitely someone to watch out for. She's a real stunner in pictures and in motion and it may look like she's playing it under the radar for now but come preliminaries, I've a feeling that she'll be in everyone's list afterwards. I actually think that she's way better than Deborah Henry – the most prominent Malaysian delegate in memories who got snubbed during the 2011 edition of the pageant. Like Deborah, she's got an amazing personality, stunning looks (way better than Miss Henry, IMHO) and good communication skills to boot. Will her sash prevent her from entering the top 16? I hope not.
Chalita Suansane of Thailand
Chalita is definitely a force to reckon with in the Manila edition of the pageant. She came prepared and ready to fight it out like Miss Venezuela and the other three in my top 5! She's by far my 'ultimate spoiler' for the crown! She's very polished, though not the prettiest candidate, she's one scene-stealer that has a very likable personality to boot!
Andrea Tovar of Colombia
Andrea Tovar is no Adriana Gutierrez. The latter is personable whilst Andrea has this superior air about her. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to project but at times, it's almost as if she's already won the crown when in fact she hasn't even step up her game performance-wise. I was expecting more from her and so far she's giving me such lackluster performance that I'm relegating her to 6th place. Why is she still in the top 10 despite non-personable aura I've mentioned? Well, she's Miss Colombia and Miss Universe loves their controversy. She's a definite shoo-in for the semis plus her beauty is truly undeniable that truly separates her from others. Thing is, she really needs to work the crowd. After all, nobody wants a villain queen.
Deshauna Barber of the USA
Facially, Deshauna Barber isn't the most conventionally beautiful delegate in the bunch but her background as US military and her subpar communication skills matching her vibrant personality makes her the most interesting girl to talk and listen to which I think is a big plus for whoever will win the Miss Universe crown!
Kezia Warouw of Indonesia
Indonesia is up for the country of the year in 2016 and a win here will cement their newfound status last year. It's not an impossible feat because the reigning Indonesian queen is a breathtaking beauty that is both relatable and personable! I am still waiting for her spark to go full on but I've a feeling that she will deliver when it matters most.
Hawa Kamara of Sierra Leone
This debuting lass from the West African nation of Sierra Leone is already endearing a lot of pageant fans around the world as she struts with her natural hair on flick, she's definitely stealing the spotlight from the more hyped candidates. She's also very dear to Filipino pageant fans as the OFW's and local fans helped her preparation for the pageant which include her flight to Manila as well as her wardrobe for the duration of Miss Universe. And she didn't disappoint so far as she is both luminous in pictures and in motion. I'm not sure if Miss Universe is ready to crown another African queen after Leila Lopes' victory in Brazil but if Sierra Leone delivers the goods come finals night, I'm pretty sure that everyone will be celebrating with her win!
Caris Tiivel of Australia
It's very simple how Miss Australia landed as my 10th pick. She's the prototype of the Miss Universe Australia in recent years and I can totally see her eclipsing some of the powerhouse Latinas to make it all the way into the top 5. She's beautiful, a good communicator and very polished. Although I haven't envisioned her winning just yet, I've a feeling that if she step it up in the prelims – there's a big possibility of that happening.
Bubbling Up…
Stephanie Geldhof of Belgium
Kristal Silva of Mexico
Sal Garcia of Dominican Republic
Camila Barraza of Kosovo
Jaime-Lee Faulkner of Great Britain
Le Hang of Vietnam
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When I was a sixth grader at Bryn Mawr, I was honored (and surprised!) to win the Julia McHenry Howard award for citizenship. Since then, the theme of citizenship has been a driving force and interest in my life. While at Bryn Mawr, I worked at the Kurt Schmoke Committee for Re-Election and had an internship at the Baltimore Development Corporation; later, I interned at the White House and served as a volunteer at the 1996 Democratic National Convention. I knew by the time I left Bryn Mawr that I would pursue a career at the intersection of community, policy, and economics, which led me to study economics in college, get a graduate degree in policy, and take on public service as a career.
I have been working with non-profit organizations for nearly 20 years. First, I worked for Safe Horizon in NYC, serving victims of crime and abuse, both children and adults. I had a variety of roles there in program, finance, and development, and I was privileged to be part of the 9/11 response. Later, I worked on community development and housing services in the Long Island region as part of the Community Development Corporation of Long Island, ultimately overseeing the daily operations for the organization. I was also lucky enough to be part of the organization's multi-year response to Superstorm Sandy. My current role at Little Flower combines my social service background and my commitment to working with vulnerable people. I believe strongly that an individual response to need with an eye to community impact is the most effective way to meet our mission. Throughout my career, having strong and accomplished women as mentors has been essential.
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ASUS selects OT-Morpho's eSIM for the first Microsoft Windows 10 tablet computer compliant with GSMA specifications
OT-Morpho, a world leader in digital security and identification technologies, today announced that ASUS has selected its embedded SIM (eSIM) to enable cellular connectivity for the new ASUS Transformer Mini, a hybrid tablet computer running with Windows 10 that will be launched this summer. The ASUS Transformer Mini will be the first computer device available on the market with an eSIM solution compatible with GSMA Phase 2 specifications for consumer devices.
DakOTa 4.0 eSIM contributes to enhance the Always Connected Windows user experience. It has been designed in compliance with the GSMA specifications to ensure the best compatibility with MNO networks worldwide and thus allow the largest coverage capabilities. It fully addresses the specific subscription management needs for consumer devices. Validated for Microsoft Windows 10, it enables device makers such as ASUS to offer greater connectivity capabilities for laptops, notebooks and other personal computer devices using Windows OS.
To stay connected anywhere, users will no longer need to buy various SIM cards when travelling. The eSIM will enable ASUS Transformer Mini owners to download the subscription they need by selecting one of the available cellular networks directly from their device. Furthermore, thanks to the initial cellular connectivity embedded in their device, they will be able to connect to the Microsoft Data Market place to select the subscription of their choice wherever they are, even if they do not have access to WiFi.
We position ourselves as a champion of connectivity in the personal computer space and we are excited to provide our customers with access to cellular connectivity anytime, anywhere.
S.Y. Shian, COO & Head of PC Business Unit at ASUS.
We are very pleased to take part to the first GSMA Phase 2 eSIM deployment in personal computers with ASUS. Our close collaboration with Microsoft, notably with the two test labs we recently opened in the US and in Asia, allows us to offer the best-in-class support to our OEM customers for the integration of the eSIM technology to tablets, laptops and notebooks.
Yves Portalier, OT-Morpho, Vice President & General Manager, Telecom, Morpho.
Together with OT-Morpho, we anticipate the tremendous potential that eSIM technology has to transform connectivity usage in the personal computer space and we are working hand-in-hand to facilitate its deployment with the Windows 10 platform. We are very pleased to support ASUS in delivering extended cellular connectivity capabilities to their customers.
Roanne Sones, General Manager, Strategy and Ecosystem for Windows and Devices at Microsoft
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Evaluating artificial reef performance: approaches to pre- and post-deployment research
Tom Wilding, Martin Sayer
The deployment of large man-made structures in inshore coastal areas has the potential for causing significant hydrographical and biological changes in the receiving environments. Often the ability to determine changes resulting from significant impacts has been compromised by the lack of pre-deployment data. The Loch Linnhe artificial reef is a 42 000 tonnes reef complex that is proposed for deployment in the period 2001-2004. A series of baseline data sets were generated in the 4 years preceding construction to facilitate multi-parameter post-reef deployment comparisons. Hydrographical data included a detailed assessment of tidal current dynamics over the complete spring-neap tidal cycle. Sedimentological research included broad-scale remote acoustic surveys coupled with sediment granulometric analysis. Seasonal changes in oxygen levels through the sediment column were also determined. The existing biological community at the proposed site was assessed through monthly diver observation and remote sediment grab sampling. These data sets will form the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of reef impacts and performance to be made post-reef construction. (C) 2002 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
S222-S230
ICES J MAR SCI
59 Supplement
https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.2002.1266
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MARINE-SEDIMENTS
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I like the atmosphere, the service is always fast and friendly. The beer, wine, and mixed drinks selection are also good. I mostly visit for a couple libations. I have had the appetizers 5 times there since they opened and have never been impressed with any of them. I will try an entree someday, though.
First time here and I enjoyed it very much. My friends and I spent the whole day tubing, and this was the best ending to such a great day. The pizza was delish and the waitress was very friendly. Fyi, they have really good mozzarella sticks...like they're really good. That's all I can say since I've only been once. But it was a great experience and would love to visit again.
I think the subs, and pasta dishes are average. The pizza preparation is different as they put the "toppings" under the cheese. They are great for groups, families, or delivering a post game or performance gathering.


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require 'test/unit'

# begin require 'rubygems' rescue LoadError end
# require 'ruby-debug'; Debugger.start

# Test breakpoint commands
class TestBreakpoints < Test::Unit::TestCase

  @@SRC_DIR = File.join(Dir.pwd, File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
    defined?(@@SRC_DIR)

  require File.join(@@SRC_DIR, 'helper')
  include TestHelper

  def test_basic
    testname='breakpoints'
    Dir.chdir(@@SRC_DIR) do
      script = File.join('data', testname + '.cmd')
      assert_equal(true,
                   run_debugger(testname,
                                "--script #{script} -- ./gcd.rb 3 5"))
    end
  end
end

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DURGA PRASAD versus ADMINISTRATOR NAGAR PALIKA TIZ
DURGA PRASAD v ADMINISTRATOR NAGAR PALIKA TIZ - CSA Case No. 404 of 2000 [2006] RD-RJ 3266 (19 December 2006)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN
AT JAIPUR BENCH, JAIPUR
S.B. Civil Second Appeal No.404 Of 2000
Durga Prasad Vs. Nagar Palika Tizara & Others.
Date Of Order ::: 19.12.2006.
Hon'ble Mr. Narendra Kumar Jain J.
Mr. R.K. Mathur, Counsel for plaintiff-appellant
By the Court :
Heard learned counsel for the plaintiff- appellant.
The plaintiff-appellant filed a suit for permanent injunction in respect of the disputed property in the Lower Court, which was dismissed. The judgment and decree passed by the Lower Court has been affirmed by the First Appellate Court also.
I have heard the learned counsel for the plaintiff-appellant and after considering his submission in the light of the judgment and decree passed by both the Court below, I find that the controversial issues involved in the present case are relating to the question of facts and there is a concurrent finding of fact by both the Courts below, which cannot be interfered with by this Court in second appeal under Section 100 of the C.P.C.
No substantial question of law is involved in this second appeal and the same is accordingly dismissed at the admission stage itself with no order as to costs.
(Narendra Kumar Jain) J.


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La métanie est un geste liturgique pénitentiel qui accompagne souvent la prière, notamment chez les chrétiens d'Orient. Le terme provient du grec metanoia : « conversion ».

On distingue la petite métanie où l'on s'incline en touchant le sol de la main droite et la grande métanie où l'on se prosterne totalement en touchant le sol avec le front ; les deux se terminent par un signe de croix. Quand on se redresse on inspire en disant intérieurement « Seigneur Jésus Christ », en accueillant Sa Vie, et quand on se baisse on expire en disant intérieurement « prends pitié de moi pécheur ».

Notes et références

Liens externes
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Q: Regex pattern to find all matches for suffixes, end quotes and words in English POS tagged corpus I'm working on an NLP project where I have been given a POS tagged dataset of sentences to work with. The format of the dataset (shall be providing example sentences too) is
('word', 'pos_tag')
unless if the word has a single quote (affixes like 're,'s,n't and also '' for end quotes) in which case the format is
("word", "pos_tag")
The code segment I am using to process this data set is as follows
def corpus_reader(filepath):
 pattern = '\(\'(\w+)\', |(?<=\").*?\", '
 sentences = []
 with open( filepath ) as f:
     corpus = f.readlines()

 for line in corpus:
    temp = re.findall( pattern, line )
    sentences.append( temp )

return sentences

The pattern consists of two patterns cond1|cond2 to detect.
cond1 matches and extracts all the words in the corpus.
cond2 is meant to match '', n't, 's and 're which are enclosed within double quotes like i have mentioned before, but the second condition doesn't work to do that.
Desired result is for a list of all the pos tagged tokens
Could someone please provide the correct regex pattern to use to detect the cases I have mentioned?
Here are example sentences that are to be parsed that contain 're, n't, 's and ''

[('We', 'PRP'), ("'re", 'VBP'), ('talking', 'VBG'), ('about', 'IN'), ('years', 'NNS'), ('ago', 'IN'), ('before', 'IN'), ('anyone', 'NN'), ('heard', 'VBD'), ('of', 'IN'), ('asbestos', 'NN'), ('having', 'VBG'), ('any', 'DT'), ('questionable', 'JJ'), ('properties', 'NNS'), ('.', '.')]
[('', ''), ('We', 'PRP'), ('have', 'VBP'), ('no', 'DT'), ('useful', 'JJ'), ('information', 'NN'), ('on', 'IN'), ('whether', 'IN'), ('users', 'NNS'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('at', 'IN'), ('risk', 'NN'), (',', ','), ("''", "''"), ('said', 'VBD'), ('T-1', '-NONE-'), ('James', 'NNP'), ('A.', 'NNP'), ('Talcott', 'NNP'), ('of', 'IN'), ('Boston', 'NNP'), ("'s", 'POS'), ('Dana-Farber', 'NNP'), ('Cancer', 'NNP'), ('Institute', 'NNP'), ('.', '.')]
[('The', 'DT'), ('U.S.', 'NNP'), ('is', 'VBZ'), ('one', 'CD'), ('of', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('few', 'JJ'), ('industrialized', 'VBN'), ('nations', 'NNS'), ('that', 'WDT'), ('T-7', '-NONE-'), ('does', 'VBZ'), ("n't", 'RB'), ('have', 'VB'), ('a', 'DT'), ('higher', 'JJR'), ('standard', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('regulation', 'NN'), ('for', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('smooth', 'JJ'), (',', ','), ('needle-like', 'JJ'), ('fibers', 'NNS'), ('such', 'JJ'), ('as', 'IN'), ('crocidolite', 'NN'), ('that', 'WDT'), ('T-1', '-NONE-'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('classified', 'VBN'), ('*-5', '-NONE-'), ('as', 'IN'), ('amphobiles', 'NNS'), (',', ','), ('according', 'VBG'), ('to', 'TO'), ('Brooke', 'NNP'), ('T.', 'NNP'), ('Mossman', 'NNP'), (',', ','), ('a', 'DT'), ('professor', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('pathlogy', 'NN'), ('at', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('University', 'NNP'), ('of', 'IN'), ('Vermont', 'NNP'), ('College', 'NNP'), ('of', 'IN'), ('Medicine', 'NNP'), ('.', '.')]
[('', ''), ('What', 'WP'), ('T-14', '-NONE-'), ('matters', 'VBZ'), ('is', 'VBZ'), ('what', 'WP'), ('advertisers', 'NNS'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('paying', 'VBG'), ('T-15', '-NONE-'), ('per', 'IN'), ('page', 'NN'), (',', ','), ('and', 'CC'), ('in', 'IN'), ('that', 'DT'), ('department', 'NN'), ('we', 'PRP'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('doing', 'VBG'), ('fine', 'RB'), ('this', 'DT'), ('fall', 'NN'), (',', ','), ("''", "''"), ('said', 'VBD'), ('T-1', '-NONE-'), ('Mr.', 'NNP'), ('Spoon', 'NNP'), ('.', '.')]

Thanks and gratitude to all attempts of answering and helping

A: I would use:
(               # start of capture group 1
  (?<=\(')      # first alternative: positive lookbehind: ('
  [^']*         # zero or more characters other than '
  (?=',)        # positive lookahead: ',
|               # start of second alternative:
  (?<=\(")      # positive lookbehind: ("
  [^"]*         # zero or more characters other than "
  (?=",)        # positive lookahead: ",
)

See Regex Demo

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5 Things People Do On YouTube That Strangely Go Viral
Liang Hwei
We love YouTube. It's the friendly video platform full of music videos and movie trailers, where we check out cat videos and skits about things only Singaporeans would understand. But what we often forget is that it's also a vortex of strange trends fueled by strange people, satisfying the deep hidden part of us that watches weird things — and likes it.
There are tons of things that people film themselves doing and put on YouTube, but here are the top 5 things that we have showed that we like — although we're not quite sure why.
1. Touching random stuff with a mic set on high sensitivity
If you're confused, don't worry. It is one of those things that you have to watch in order to understand.
The makers and loyal viewers of these videos are firm believers of ASMR, or Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), which is a strange perceptual phenomenon characterized as a distinct, pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, or back. This feeling is usually achieved by bringing a microphone to a high sensitivity, so you can hear the most minute of sounds like the hush from hair brushing or a hand running across a piece of felt cloth.
It is said to bring a relaxing and soothing feeling to some, which explains the virality of these videos, prompting more people to set up YouTube channels dedicated to ASMR.
If you think about it, it would seem really odd for these people to do what they do in real life. It's definitely something that can only exist on YouTube.
2. Eat. A Lot.
Yes, it is a girl, eating. By herself. Not only that, but the amount that she eats is abnormally large for a single person, and she does so for hours. To a live audience.
This is the latest trend that has sprung up in Korea, especially amongst singles who live by themselves and often do not have an eating companion when they tuck into their dinners.
The Diva Eating Show isn't the only eating show (or MokBang) there is — Choi Ji-hwan, a 24-year-old Korean man is one of the most popular 'eating hosts' around, with 260,000 subscribers tuning in to his nightly shows to watch him, well, eat.
Who would have thought that anyone would enjoy watching someone else eat? I didn't.
3. Building Houses In The Sims
We all know the Sims. We've played at least one version, controlled the characters as if we were gods, or drowned or starved a Sim for the fun of it. But while we had fun playing it, people are now having fun watching it instead.
As part of the latest craze in watching people play games (Pewdiepie would prove its virality), people are now tuning in for what we thought was the most boring part of the Sims — building houses.
These building videos last anywhere between 20 minutes and a full hour, depending on the houses people build — they can be something as modest as a treehouse, to a luxurious bachelor's penthouse. It's a bit odd that people are willing to spend that much time watching someone else build a house on a computer game when we can hardly stand watching YouTube videos lasting longer than three minutes, but YouTubers like TheSimsSupply or Deligracy have amped up around 23 million views each.
And you have to admit, the houses that are built look spectacular.
4. Try To Hypnotise People
This one is a tricky one. The science behind hypnosis is one that is highly debated, and yet some people on YouTube are claiming to be able to hypnotise their viewers. With a swirling background and a voice-over that says affirming phrases to you, these videos try to compel you to do a range of things from getting over your bad habits to not being able to move.
One channel, UltraHypnosis, has already gotten over 26 million views, and many other hypnosis channels have also sprung up.
Does it work? Some people in the comments section have certainly said so — but then again, how many people will give up 20 minutes of their lives to stare at a YouTube video of a pink swirl?
5. Make tiny food in a tiny kitchen
What's better than watching someone cook a meal? Watching someone cook a tiny meal, apparently. With a little stove heated with candles, little pots and pans, little spoons and forks, and even a little gravy bowl to pour syrup over your pancakes, this could be the smallest cooking show around.
There is no reason why anyone would like this show unless they have an appreciation for all things tiny, and this is as tiny as it gets. While some of the foods are not edible and are meant to be used as decoré, others are edible and can probably be swallowed within a fraction of a mouthful. (Talk about cutting down on your food portions!)
These videos are only a few minutes long and are usually made in absolute silence, other than the sound of the scrapping of a bowl or the actual sizzling of oil on a pan.
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Spanish Military Call for 'Dignified Remunerations' in Madrid
As scheduled, the demonstration of Spanish military, called by the three main professional associations, was held on 16 October under the moto: dignified remunerations. The march passed through the city center of Madrid to the Parliament building, where the representatives of AUME, ASFASPRO and ATME took the floor. The influx of protesters was considerable and media coverage on the event has been significant, considering the demonstration a remarkable success.
The Spanish military are tired of having their requests for updated salaries ignored year after year. and the point had been reached at which a demonstration in the streets was necessary.
The Spanish military has been making headlines in the media for a long time, showing citizens in uniform supporting all kinds of crises with their efforts, particularly in the last two years (pandemic, fires, snowfall, border control in Ceuta and Melilla, evacuation of Afghanistan …). On all these occasions, they have more than demonstrated their professionalism and excellent training. No matter how painful, harsh, dangerous or tense the situation may have been.
At the same time, they contue to remain in the very poor situation of having low wages for a long time (almost two decades without any real update). All political parties represented at the Parliament have recognized this is unfair. The Defense Minister herself publicly acknowledged recently that the military have low wages.
Unfortunately, once again, authorities have taken advantage of the discipline of members of the armed forces to keep them at the tail of public remunerations, totally ignoring their repeated demands. The latest State budget made it possible to give them a few crumbs and nothing more. There is no political will or even a little respect by supposedly highly valued professionals.
Tired of this endless unfair situation for themselves and their families, the main professional associations (ASFASPRO, AUME and ATME) decided that a demonstration in Madrid was the next step to claim loud the Right to perceive an adequate salary to their professional performance. A professional armed forces can no longer only compensate their soldiers only with some honorific pins and beads.
Professional respect begins with adequate compensation. Members of the Spainsh Armed Forces are unable to pay their electricity bills and provide adequately for their children – this cannot continue.
Speaking on this issue, EUROMIL President Emmanuel Jacob stated
"As in many European countries, military personnel are deployed in Spain to perform various tasks. As military personnel, we realise that it is in the public interest not only to protect but also to assist society, our nations and its peoples when necessity compels us to do so. However, this deployment of defense personnel also requires respect and an obligation for compensation and social protection on the part of the competent authorities. The unconditional deployment of military personnel in Spain and elsewhere in Europe has limits. Correct social protection, good working conditions and correct compensation are an absolute must.
That is why EUROMIL is supporting its member association AUME and its Spanish partner organizations on the occasion of their demonstration on 16 October. The Spanish Government must realize that proper consultation with the representatives of the defense personnel is more than urgently needed in this matter! No one benefits from a military whose primary wealth, namely the human factor, cannot count on proper recognition for its efforts."
For more information please contact AUME.
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