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The Concubine Saga by Lloyd Lofthouse: A Book Review
My Splendid Concubine and Our Hart combined into:
The Concubine Saga
by Lloyd Lofthouse
Publisher: Three Clover Press
Category: Historical Fiction
Tour Dates: June, 2012
Available in Print and Kindle, 621 Pages
This is one of my favorite types of story--the story of a stranger in a strange land. Robert Hart, barely 20 in the mid 1850s travels from Ireland where he'd been one of a dozen children of a Wesleyan pastor to work for the British consulate in China. There his open heart and deep curiosity caused him to develop respect for this culture so unlike his own. It wasn't long before he was gravitating to living and thinking like a Chinese man.
He took two concubines--sisters who could not bear to be separated--and studied the Mandarin language and literature and the history and philosophy and religions of this ancient civilization. The elder of the sisters, Ayaou,and he are deeply in love and eventually have children together. At first he grappled intensely with his Victorian scruples, consumed by guilt over his growing attraction to the younger sister with whom he tried to maintain a brotherly sensibility. But with the sisters themselves insisting on his treating them equally he eventually succumbed if only to preserve the household harmony.
Later Robert becomes Inspector General of China's Customs service and an indispensable aide to the Emperor, guiding him as he ushers his people into the modern industrial age, introducing the railroad, telegraph and Western postal and school systems.
There were times, especially in the early chapters, when the story had more the flavor of a documentary than a novel, dwelling on the minutia of new things Robert encountered in his first year in China. These are rendered vivid and immediate but one could almost hear Robert's observations as voice overs in a film made by his eyes which had the effect of distancing as of putting a pane of glass between the reader and the scenes.
But once he encounters Ayaou the story develops an intimacy and complexity as their love blossoms and his heart opens not just to her but to her culture and his slow transformation from a self-involved youth into a man indispensable to two nations begins.
Publisher Blurb:
No Westerner has ever achieved Robert Hart's status and level of power in China. Driven by a passion for his adopted country, Hart became the "godfather of China's modernism", inspector general of China's Customs Service, and the builder of China's railroads, postal and telegraph systems and schools.
However, his first real love is Ayaou, a young concubine. Sterling Seagrave, in Dragon Lady, calls her Hart's sleep-in dictionary and says she was wise beyond her years.
Soon after arriving in China in 1854, Hart falls in love with Ayaou, but his feelings for her sister go against the teachings of his Christian upbringing and almost break him emotionally. To survive he must learn how to live and think like the Chinese. He also finds himself thrust into the Opium Wars and the Taiping Rebellion, the bloodiest rebellion in human history, where he makes enemies of men such as the American soldier of fortune known as the Devil Soldier.
During his early years in China, Robert experiences a range of emotion from bliss to despair. Like Damascus steel, he learns to be both hard and flexible, which forges his character into the great man he becomes.
In time, an ancient empire will rely on him to survive, and he will become the only foreigner the Emperor of China trusts.
Full of humanity, passion, and moral honesty, The Concubine Saga is the deeply intimate story of Hart's loyalty and love for his adopted land and the woman who captured his heart.
"My Splendid Concubine" was the love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.
In the sequel, "Our Hart, Elegy for a Concubine", he was the only foreigner the Emperor of China trusted.
Both novels have come together as one in "The Concubine Saga".
What They are Saying:
"Lofthouse believes Hart was motivated to destroy his papers not out of shame but out of privacy: 'What he had with Ayaou was something special he wanted to keep to himself. I don't think he would approve of My Splendid Concubine … but we live in a different age than Victorian England. I feel that this love story deserves to be told.' "- Anneli Rufus , East Bay Express
"My Splendid Concubine is packed cover to cover with intriguing characters and plot, a must read for historical fiction fans and a fine addition to any collection on the genre." Midwest Book Review
" For me, really, My Splendid Concubine is a love story that is rich with Chinese culture. I found the novel fascinating. It is beautifully written and so rich in details of the Chinese culture. Before this novel I did not know who Robert Hart was. I must thank Lloyd Lofthouse for this novel as now I feel I've been acquainted with a great man from history. One who respected and loved women and fought to make things better. I've also been introduced to many aspects of the Chinese culture that I didn't know and I really enjoyed that. This was a really good novel for me and I was sorry to see it end."- Darlene, Peeking Between the Pages
"As Historical Fiction books go, this is without doubt one of the best I have read in 2009, and my guess is that it is going to surpass the success that the author had with My Splendid Concubine."- Simon Barrett, Blogger News Network
"Our Hart is…a historical novel in the finest tradition, where one cannot be sure what is real and what is fiction…a most unconventional, and poignant, love story." -John H. Manhold, FascinatingAuthors.com
"Historical fiction potboiler, yes. But where the `Concubine' saga truly shines is its thought-provoking passages on relationships, attitudes and cultural differences."-Tom Carter, author of China: Portrait of a People
Lloyd Lofthouse is the author of My Splendid Concubine and Our Hart [combined in this single volume], which earned honorable mentions in general fiction at the 2008 London Book Festival, 2009 San Francisco Book Festival, 2009 Hollywood Book Festival, 2009 Los Angeles Book Festival, 2009 Nashville Book Festival and was a finalist in historical fiction for the National Best Books 2010 Awards. Lloyd Lofthouse grew up in Southern California, served in the Vietnam War as a U.S. Marine and lives near San Francisco with his wife and family with a second home in Shanghai, China.
Lloyd Lofthouse is also holding a giveaway:
Leave an approved comment on one or more Blog posts found at Lloyd Lofthouse.org or iLook China.net between May 30, 2012 and June 30, 2012 during "The Concubine Saga" Web Tour and automatically be entered into a drawing to win a limited edition, signed and numbered hard-cover copy of the novel. (NOTE: only one limited-edition, hard-cover copy is available to give away)
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Teddy Rose, 6/12/2012 8:58 AM
Thanks so much for taking part in the tour. I'm glad you enjoyed the book!
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any thoughts on that Crown Life Orr Rookie in the upcoming RE Auction spring 2019? i haven't seen that before. Oshawa Generals card. how rare??
also, what do people think that canceled Bert Corbeau card should/might go for? i have only seen recent examples in Classic as part of a set.
I have never seen that before either, but being an Oshawa citizen (born and raised) I wish my father had of picked one up years ago!
Amazing if you are an Orr aficionado. Otherwise, pretty much par for the course of similar team and regional picture issues: 1940s Parade Sportive Maurice Richard, Beehive Phil Esposito, JD McCarthy Gretzky, etc. Despite RC status, they are not going to sell for anything like the mainstream RCs do, and the Orr card is actually a juniors (not NHL) card. The same REA auction had a 1958 Omaha Cardinals Bob Gibson pre-RC that sold for $2400. There are many examples in the Zeenuts series of baseball: pre-RCs that sell for way less than the 'RC' itself.
I hadn't seen that Orr prior to the REA auction, but it's now on my hit list (along with the '58 Gibson, which was already on my radar).
14 Baltimore News Ruth on the other hand is ultra expensive. Zeenut Dimaggios pretty pricey too as I recall.
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- It is very rare and I would not put it on the same level as the Parade Sportive Maurice Richard and JD McCarthy Wayne Gretzky photos. I have seen maybe three Crown Life Orr examples in my life and I've been in this hobby for a long time. There are lots of Parade Sportive Richards and JD McCarthy Gretzkys out there.
- This Crown Life Orr is a team issue. It was not issued by a company, such as a radio station or a postcard maker. The only way to have gotten these was to attend the Oshawa Generals games (during the years Orr played for them). I believe they were either found inside the game programs or you could buy them at the concession stand.
- This Crown Life Orr is the only Oshawa Generals team issue I am familiar with, however, there might be others out there. There are lots of team issues that were never cataloged.
- Anything that gets inside a PSA holder turns into gold. Because PSA is grading them now, they will be selling for quite a bit of money (especially the high-grade examples). Collectors who are trying to complete a PSA Orr master set are going to be looking for it.
I have a similar Connie Hawkins TI from his ABA days. So rare it is known only to specialists.
I love TI's. I more or less treat them as RCs and a growing # of other collectors do too. I think there is tremendous upside to them. But then I've always liked to get TI's, postcards and other issues made at the time of or before the mainstream RCs. Just more fun for me. My collection is...eclectic.
The Zeenuts DiMaggio cards are like a few other minor league issues that have gotten enough traction to be treated as RCs. To do that it seems the card needs to be abundant enough for collectors to have a shot it one. This Oshawa Orr seems to be too scarce for that to happen.
No big deal, but here's a nice team issue a year before the Topps RC.
I was only 2 yrs old when Bobby Orr played for the Generals but I had no idea he was only 14 when he did.
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Adam, can you post a scan of the Hawkins? Sounds like a great item.
That's the one. Found it in a SF area sports writer's archive that was for sale at a postcard show.
People may not know that Hawkins started playing in 1961 for the Pittsburgh Rens, then went to the Globetrotters. So he had been playing many years and was 25 by the time he debuted in 1967 in the ABA, and proceeded to lead the league in scoring. And at the other end he was gone by age 33.
Apparently he was booted as a freshman from Iowa due to a point shaving scandal involving the team although nobody implicated him, and as a further consequence was (for a time) declared ineligible by the NBA.
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Would the q2.toList() execute a query again in SQL Server?

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Oklahoma military base set to house migrant childern was once a WWII internment camp
A U.S. Army base in Oklahoma that the federal government says will temporarily house children crossing the border without their parents was used during World War II as a Japanese internment camp.
Historical data from the National Park Service and private organizations show Fort Sill was among at least 14 Army and Department of Justice facilities nationwide where Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants were interred. The Army's War Relocation Authority held about 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans in "relocation centres" during the war with Japan.
Tom Ikeda, executive director of Densho, an organization that documents the history of the United States' internment of Japanese people, referred to Fort Sill as "a place layered in trauma." He pointed to its use as a boarding school for Native American children and as a prisoner-of-war camp for Apache tribal members.
"Sites like this need to be permanently closed, not recycled to inflict more harm," Ikeda said Wednesday in a statement. "We need to stay vigilant and we need to be showing up at these places in protest. No one showed up for Japanese Americans during WWII, but we can and we must break that pattern now."
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Darrell Ames, spokesman for Fort Sill, said the post's information indicates that following America's entry into World War II the government directed the base to build internment camps for Japanese Americans, but nothing in the record reflects the camps were actually occupied by Japanese Americans. Instead, the camps were used by prisoners of war from Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Officials at the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark & Museum said they have no information about the base's use as an internment or POW camp because that part of its history is not part of its mission statement.
Shawn Iwaoka, who works in collections at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, said confusion abounds because camps were referred to by different names, including "relocation centres" or "detention camps" and because the camp at Fort Sill was much smaller than camps such as Manzanar in California, which housed thousands of people. The museum's collection includes letters a man detained at Fort Sill wrote to his wife at another camp in California with a pre-preprinted label that said "internee of war."
"The euphemisms were rampant to kind of soften what they really were. The museum's position is that they should be called concentration camps," Iwaoka said. "They were going into people's homes and forcing them to leave their property."
It's unclear exactly when the camp at Fort Sill opened, but an encyclopedia Densho publishes shows it closed in June 1942, almost seven months after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. That pushed the U.S. into war and led the government to open internment camps.
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Densho's records and the book "Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites," included on the National Park Service website, show from 359 to more than 700 people were interred at Fort Sill, including three German nationals. A guard shot a Japanese man to death while he was distraught and trying to escape. The Densho Encyclopedia says detainees lived in tents and that summer temperatures climbed to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 degrees Celsius).
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Schnabel and McKinney return for Manchester Phoenix
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Manchester Phoenix player-coach Tony Hand has secured the return of ex-NHL defenceman Robert Schnabel and battling forward Andy McKinney for the 2013-14 EPL season.
At 6'5" and 238lbs, Czech giant Schnabel was a formidable force on the blueline for the Phoenix last season, notching eight goals and 18 assists – along with 126 penalty minutes and some memorable scraps – as the team claimed the EPL playoff title.
The 34-year-old, who iced 22 times in the NHL for the Nashville Predators, also brought experience to the bench, which proved particularly useful when Hand was away on Great Britain duty.
Schnabel told Phoenix TV: "Last season was great. Winning the playoffs is special. If you win your last game of the season, you have a great summer. Hopefully, we will carry on from Coventry.
"I really enjoyed the club and the fans, who are great. Hopefully I can avoid injury and play the full season."
Hand commented: "Robert was excellent last season and really showed his experience in key games. He has great leadership skills and his role was important to the team. I thought he was great in the playoff weekend and I am very pleased to have him back again this coming season."
McKinney, meanwhile, has signed a one-year extension.
The 22-year-old's gritty, high energy style made him a big hit with the fans during in his first full season in a Phoenix jersey and he chalked up 13 goals and 15 assists for 28 points in 52 games, along with 105 penalty minutes. He spent most of the season anchoring the third line but also stepped up to centre the top offensive unit.
McKinney, who was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but was raised in Chester and played his junior hockey in the UK, has previously had stints with the EPL's Telford Tigers, the Hull Stingrays of the Elite League and the Squamish Cougars in the WHA Junior A League in Canada. McKinney also played seven times for the Phoenix during his stint with the club's English National League affiliate, the Trafford Metros, in 2009-10.
He said: "Last year was the highlight of my career so far. Winning in Coventry was awesome and it was great to get a trophy for the fans. I am really looking forward to the new season and to give it a real go for all three trophies.
Hand added: "I thought Andy had a good season with us and he worked well with different lines when we had to move things around due to injuries. His 13 goals was a good return for his efforts and the physical side of his game was important. He is a young lad and I am looking for even better things for him in the forthcoming campaign."
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A DePaul University study has found that biking around the city often is faster than other transportation options, though researchers admit that most Chicagoans are likely to wait a few months to test their results.
Researchers traveled 45 routes across the city on mass transit, Uber Pool and at a leisurely pace aboard bikes, and found that biking from neighborhood to neighborhood within the city was faster than Ubering or hopping the CTA. Downtown, where bikes have to stop more often and Ubers and transit stops are more plentiful, the bikers fared worse.
Overall, including time to lock up a bike and put on and remove a helmet, bike trips took just under 41 minutes on average, about 90 seconds longer than the average Uber trip, and 10 minutes shorter than the average trip on the CTA.
The results came as no surprise to one of the researchers who worked on the study, Riley O'Neil, a cycling enthusiast who braved freezing temperatures Monday to bike to DePaul's downtown campus from his home in Rogers Park.
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If you think about it, the inversion is a process where a portion of the brain loses its normal functions and becomes dormant. This process is usually triggered by a stressful event that activates the autonomic nervous system. The brain, however, is unable to reactivate, and the body remains in this state for a long time.
The inversion is a process that can be triggered by an acute stressor such as a car accident, a severe illness, or a life-threatening event such as a heart attack or stroke. For example, a person who is in a car accident will be able to feel the pain of the accident for a short time, but after that, it becomes increasingly difficult to feel anything.
the inversion is triggered by an acute stressor such as a car accident, a severe illness, or a life-threatening event such as a heart attack or stroke. For example, a person who is in a car accident will be able to feel the pain of the accident for a short time, but after that, it becomes increasingly difficult to feel anything.
Inversion is triggered by an acute stressor such as a car accident, a severe illness, or a life-threatening event such as a heart attack or stroke. For example, a person who is in a car accident will be able to feel the pain of the accident for a short time, but after that, it becomes increasingly difficult to feel anything.
Inversion is a real health risk, but it's actually very similar to the pain of a cut or a broken bone. It's the same thing. The reason that people don't feel pain after a cut or a broken bone is because they are still in the same place, but inversion is not a position. Inversion is a position that is not the same as the present position (e.g., in the car) where the person is.
Inversion is a state of mind. What it means is that the body is in a different position than the mind. Its really similar to a cut or a broken bone. Its the same thing. One is not the same as the other.
Inversion is a state of mind that involves a body that is out of phase with the mind. The body is stuck in a position that is not the same as the mind. Inversion is a state of mind that involves a body that is in phase with the mind. Inversion is a state of mind that involves a body that is stuck in a position that is not the same as the mind.
Inversion refers to a deep state of relaxation and is usually associated with meditation. Inversion is a state of mind that involves a body that is stuck in a position that is not the same as the mind. Inversion is a state of mind that involves a body that is stuck in a position that is not the same as the mind.
Inversion is the state of mind where you are stuck in a position that is not as your mind thinks and you are unaware of this. For example, your mind thinks that you are in a position where your right leg is bent at a 90-degree angle, but you are unaware of the position. Inversion is the state of mind where you are stuck in a position that is not as your mind thinks and you are unaware of this.
Inversion is really easy to explain and, with the help of a video, is also pretty fun to watch. I mean, even I can watch it and, at first, I felt bad for my new friend (who is, of course, a biology major), but then I realized: "Yeah, he's a biology major, too and he's not doing any better." Inversion is a state of mind where you are stuck in a position where you don't think as your mind.
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Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich and Brian Battiste, Eds, Leviathan, Broadview, 2011. Part I, Chapter XIV, pp 128-129
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Recommended: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Implicit Bias. Brownstein, Michael, "Implicit Bias", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2019/entries/implicit-bias/ (*link repaired — P)
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Q: Dynamodb query with date range issue in python boto3 I have a DynamoDB table, I need to find the records which are between the given date range.
So here is my table structure
{
"Id":"String",
"Name":"String",
"CrawledAt":"String"
}

In this table partition key as Id and CrawledAt fileds used. And also created local secondary index with CrawledAt field and it's name "CrawledAt-index"
When querying most of the articles using Id with CreatedAt. But in my case I don't know what is the Id, I only need to retrieve records for a particular date range.
Here is the code I have tried
request = {
                 "TableName": "sflnd00001-test",
    "IndexName": "CrawledAt-index",
    "ConsistentRead": False,
    "ProjectionExpression": "Name",
    "KeyConditionExpression":
        "CrawledAt between :v_start and :v_end",
    "ExpressionAttributeValues": {
        ":v_start": {"S": "2020-01-31T00:00:00.000Z"},
        ":v_end": {"S": "2025-11-31T00:00:00.000Z"} }
        }

        response = table.query(**request)

It's returning this error
"An error occurred (ValidationException) when calling the Query operation: Invalid KeyConditionExpression: Incorrect operand type for operator or function; operator or function: BETWEEN, operand type: M",

Can someone please tell me how to find data set with the given date range without providing primary key

A: You cannot do a between or any other function on a partition key, you must always provide the entire key.
For your use-case your GSI partition key should be a single value, and the crawledAt should be the sort key.
{
"Id":"String",
"Name":"String",
"CrawledAt":"String",
"GsiPk": "Number"
}

.
"KeyConditionExpression":
            "GsiPk = 1 AND CrawledAt between :v_start and :v_end"

This would then allow you to retrieve all the data in the table between two dates. But be aware of the caveat of doing this, using a single value for a GSIPK is not scalable, and would cap the write requests to approx 1000WCU.
If you need more scale you can assign a random number to the GSIPK (n) to increase the number of partitions which would then require you to make (n) queries to collect all the data.
Alternatively you can Scan the table and use FilterExpression which is also not a scalable solution:
aws dynamodb scan \
    --table-name MusicCollection \
    --filter-expression "timestamp between :a and :b" \
    --expression-attribute-names file://expression-attribute-names.json \
    --expression-attribute-values file://expression-attribute-values.json


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WWYDW(FE): Trading For A Veteran Defender
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The Oilers were dealt a big blow on Friday morning when word came out that both Darnell Nurse and Slater Koekkeok were headed to the Injured Reserve.
For a team with a blueline that's already an enigma when fully healthy, this is going to be a difficult situation to navigate. That's especially the case when it comes to Nurse, who's logging 26:06 per night on Edmonton's top pairing.
Edmonton's right side of Evan Bouchard, Cody Ceci, and Tyson Barrie remains intact, but the left side becomes very thin without Nurse. Duncan Keith will have to take on more minutes, Kris Russell will be brought in from the press box, and rookie Philip Broberg might wind up being thrown into the deep end.
On Friday's episode of The Jeff Marek Show, Elliotte Friedman talked about how he figured that Ken Holland will be willing to go all-in ahead of this year's trade deadline. He specifically mentioned the left side of the blueline as a place that Holland would likely be looking to add…
Marek: If you're Ken Holland, are you putting everything on the table for the team this year? The first-round draft picks, the high-level prospects, former first-rounders. All of it. If you're Ken Holland, are they all available this year?
Friedman: Holland said earlier this year on the Oilers propaganda show with Bob Stauffer that if they're in it, he'll trade his first-round pick. They're in the race. There's no question. So yes, I do think that's possible.
I look at their roster and I can see them adding someone like Ben Chiarot on the blueline. The other question for them is in goal. Mike Smith is competitive, he's a better player at this stage of his career than any of us thought he would be, but the issue is can he stay healthy. Only Ken Holland and the Oilers know the answer to that.
… To me, the questions are left defence, goalie, and does he go for a depth forward, like another centre or something.
That brings us to this week's What Would You Do Wednesday FRIDAY EDITION question. Given Edmonton's recent injuries, should Holland look to bring in a veteran defender earlier than anticipated? Or are the Oilers better off seeing what Broberg can do before making such a move?
The name that Friedman brought up specifically was Ben Chiarot, a shutdown defender on the Montreal Canadiens. (Unrelated, but there's something about his name that reminds me of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 Oilers.)
The Habs have fallen completely flat since their shocking run to the Stanley Cup Final last spring. They're 4-13-2 and climbing out of that hole is going to be a huge task.
Chiarot is one of three Montreal defenders, Brett Kulak and Chris Wideman being the others, who are set to become unrestricted free agents at the end of the season. If things continue going they way they are for Montreal, the Habs will surely be sellers, and Chiarot is their most significant rental option to move.
Through 19 games this season, Chiarot is second to only Jeff Petry on the Habs in ice-time, logging 23:02 per game. He logged 21:47 per game for the team last year during the regular season and was leaned on heavily in the playoffs, logging 25:15 per game, the most of any Habs defender.
We don't often see trades made in November but we could certainly see Holland pull the trigger on a deal well before the trade deadline, which is on March 21. For example, years ago, Kevin Lowe went out and added Jaroslav Spacek in late January, well before he acquired Dwayne Roloson and Sergei Samsonov for the team's playoff run.
The challenge with making a deal this early in the season is that we don't yet know which teams are going to be selling. Arizona is an obvious one as they're 2-13-2 and never had any aspirations of winning games this season. Outside of them? Montreal seems likely. Seattle seems like a possibility after their ugly start.
Apr 19, 2021; Calgary, Alberta, CAN; Calgary Flames defenseman Mark Giordano (5) controls the puck against the Ottawa Senators during the second period at Scotiabank Saddledome. Mandatory Credit: Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports
If the Kraken wind up being sellers, there's one soon-to-be free agent name really stands out as a potential addition to boost Edmonton's blueline — Mark Giordano.
Wouldn't that be something? Imagine the long-time Flames captain playing in Edmonton? Reaching his 1,000th career game as a member of the Oilers? Edmonton and Calgary meeting in the playoffs with Giordano getting into it with Matt Tkachuk? Sounds like a blast.
Anyways! We won't get too far ahead of ourselves here.
The Oilers will move forward and look to navigate Nurse's injury by giving Keith more minutes and by seeing if Broberg is ready for NHL duty. It's going to be a challenge but the hope is that the team can get by with internal options because making a trade right now won't be easy for Holland. Everybody knows the situation he's in with Nurse out and the asking prices would naturally be exorbitant as a result.
Eventually, though, it's reasonable to assume Holland will need to make an upgrade on the blueline if the Oilers are going to go on a deep playoff run. Even when fully healthy, the team's defence has been suspect and adding a high-quality veteran defender could be a game-changer.
What say you, Nation? Should Holland be looking to add a veteran defender well ahead of the trade deadline? Which defencemen do you think he should target? Can Broberg be the internal option the team is looking for? Let us know!
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import com.cloudera.oryx.lambda.KeyMessage
import com.cloudera.oryx.lambda.serving.ScalaServingModelManager

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  def consume(updateIterator: Iterator[KeyMessage[String,String]]): Unit = {

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  def getModel: AnyRef = {
    None
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}

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Pratt receives $25M from FAA for work on quieter, cleaner engines
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East Hartford-based jet engine-maker Pratt & Whitney will get $25 million from the Federal Aviation Administration — and invest another $25 million of its own money — to help develop quieter, cleaner-burning aircraft propulsion technology.
In a statement, the manufacturer said the combined $50 million will be used to design an "ultra-quiet" engine fan and advanced combustion systems that will increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions.
The funding represents the third phase of the FAA's Continuous Lower Energy, Emissions and Noise initiative, which has been working to develop and implement improved jet engine technology in collaboration with major industry players such as Pratt, General Electric, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce since 2010.
Pratt & Whitney received prior CLEEN awards in 2010 and 2015, which supported the development of new compressor and turbine technology.
"We are honored to continue to partner with the FAA to explore advanced engine technologies and deliver additional significant fuel savings and environmental benefits," said Frank Preli, who serves as vice president of propulsion and materials technologies at Pratt. "This third award is a result of our proven track record over the last 11 years, working on FAA CLEEN I and II strategies and deliverables."
Pratt & Whitney is a subsidiary of Waltham, Massachusetts-based Raytheon Technologies Corp.
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A closer relative to the Italian frittata than a Mexican flour or corn tortilla, a Spanish tortilla is so much more than the sum of its humble parts. Potatoes are the star, but tortillas welcome variation. The tortilla makes an excellent breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, or crowd-pleasing tapa.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into small slices or pieces. Do the same with the onions. In a medium bowl mix the potatoes, onions, and 1/2 teaspoon salt by hand. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Fry the potatoes and onions on low heat and cover with a lid for 5 minutes to let them soften. Turn up the heat for another 5 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the stove and drain off any excess oil.
Meanwhile break the eggs into a medium bowl. Add the remaining salt and milk and whisk vigorously until frothy. Add the potatoes and onions to the eggs and mix until fully integrated.
Clean the frying pan and return to stove. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil on a high heat and pour in the mixture, moving it around in the pan to help the tortilla to rise. Fry until golden brown, stirring occasionally until it has set. Then turn down the heat to allow the inside to cook. After a few minutes turn up the heat in order to brown the tortilla. When it's cooked place a large plate over the frying pan and flip the tortilla onto it. Return to the pan and fry the other side until golden brown.
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Greenfield: Criticizing BLM is Unforgivable, Killing Jews is Understandable
Daniel Greenfield Send an email April 24, 2021
In 2019, Rina Shnerb, a 17-year-old girl who had been hiking in Israel with her father and brother, was blown up by a bomb. Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, who ran a charity that handed out clothes and food to the poor, had enough time to kiss Rina on the forehead, before she died.
"I will say of the LORD, who is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust," the Rabbi at her gravesite chanted the words of Psalm 91. "Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked."
Abdel Razeq Farraj, who was indicted for authorizing the attack, had been named as a career PFLP terrorist who had served 6 years in prison and had been arrested six times. The year that Rina was murdered, Farraj took part in an Adalah youth event in partnership with a PFLP affiliate.
Adalah is one of the anti-Israel hate groups funded by the New Israel Fund (NIF).
According to an NGO Monitor report, the NIF has directed $720,481 to Adalah. George Soros' Open Society Foundation, who has also funded J Street, is another major donor.
Last fall, Beth Badik, a J Street supporter who serves on the regional committee for the anti-Israel NIF, and Barbara Penzner, a Reconstructionist cleric who had signed a J Street petition opposing a ban on BDS and another calling for engagement with a terrorist government, demanded that the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston kick out the ZOA.
The Zionist Organization of America is the country's leading pro-Israel group so Badik and Penzner's animosity toward it and to Morton Klein, its unapologetically pro-Israel leader, was understandable. The anti-Israel Left had spent generations trying to seize control of the organizational establishment of the Jewish community in order to cut off support to Israel.
And they didn't have far to go.
Badik, who is a supporter of one anti-Israel group and affiliated with another, also sits on the JCRC of Boston's Israel & Global Jewry Committee.
What was bizarre was the accusation in Badik and Penzner's op-ed, "We're Calling for ZOA to Be Kicked out of Boston's JCRC", the petition backed by J Street, the NIF, and a number of other anti-Israel groups, and the JCRC's final response affirming the bizarre accusation that Morton Klein, the son of Holocaust survivors, was supporting white supremacists.
Their evidence was that Klein (pictured above) has called Black Lives Matter "a Jew hating, White hating, Israel hating, conservative Black hating, violence promoting, dangerous Soros funded extremist group of haters" and correctly noted that its ranks are "filled with hatred against Jewish people."
Not only had the Boston JCRC and Jewish organizations failed to condemn the BLM riots which had vandalized synagogues and assaulted Jews, especially in the Fairfax Pogrom in Los Angeles, but they had decided to treat criticism of the black supremacist hate group as racist.
If the Boston JCRC had any standards, it's the anti-Israel organizations calling for ZOA's removal which should have been condemned and kicked out of any Jewish community alliance.
Beginning with J Street.
Rep. Ilhan Omar had attended J Street's gala dinner and praised an exhibit smearing Israel. It's chosen to honor Jimmy Carter who had falsely accused Israel of being an apartheid state.
While the anti-Israel groups were attacking the ZOA for opposing BLM, neither they nor the Boston JCRC seemed particularly interested in actually defending Jews against antisemitism.
The anti-ZOA petition was obsessed with social justice, election integrity, and the other shibboleths of a leftist establishment that is incapable of actually talking about Jewish issues as an end, not a means.
J Street, which was behind the petition, had defended Rep. Ilhan Omar, even as ZOA and Klein had condemned her antisemitic tweets. Just as J Street has called for making a deal with Hamas. The J Street campaign to oust the ZOA attacked it for condemning George Soros while neglecting to mention that Soros had been a major funder of the anti-Israel organization.
If JCRC Boston and J Street consider Klein's statements provocative, what of Soros' belief that the "resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe" is caused by Israel and that the "attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views." What are these except typical antisemitic tropes and defenses of antisemitism?
Has J Street ever been asked to condemn these statements by its own backer?
And if "rhetoric that has been associated with antisemitic tropes" is a cause for expulsion, then how can the Boston JCRC justify letting any Soros-funded group remain in its umbrella group?
And it gets worse.
The Boston Workmen's Circle, one of the groups petitioning to kick the ZOA out, proudly notes in its own literature that members of the Workmen's Circle included Communists and that "The first member expelled from the Workmen's Circle was kicked out in 1901 for working on behalf of the Republican Party." A member of the group recently wrote an angry open letter to Chelsea Clinton celebrating the fact that one of her heroines was a Marxist and a Communist.
Even though the Communists killed countless Jews and ethnically cleansed the Jewish communities under their rule, forcibly closing synagogues, imprisoning and killing Rabbis, and banning the entire Hebrew language, that doesn't get you condemned by the JCRC.
The BWC even held an event featuring "longtime BWC member Alice Rothchild".
Rothchild is a radical anti-Israel activist who is a member of the anti-Israel JVP BDS hate group that was considered too extreme even for the Boston JCRC.
Rothchild has described herself as a "self-hating Jew", falsely claimed that "the anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism that can now be found in Muslim countries began almost entirely with the founding of the State of Israel", and posted on an antisemitic site that, "If I believed in a wrathful God, I might wonder why the Jewish National Fund forests were burning?"
"Hamas has produced horrific suicide bombers and incredible social service agencies building schools and hospitals and caring for the forgotten population. Hamas grew out of a response to Israeli oppression during the First Intifada," Rothchild was quoted as saying.
According to the JCRC, uplifting the voices of the worst sorts of deranged antisemitism from the Left isn't a problem, but Morton Klein condemning BLM, Soros, and other Jewhaters is a crisis.
The Badik and Penzner op-ed argued that failing to kick out the ZOA would "convey an astonishing lack of empathy, decency and basic compassion, for people of color, for immigrants and Muslims". The only astonishing thing here is the utter lack of interest in Jewish interests by leftist activists who claim to be Jewish and even more falsely to speak on behalf of Jews.
Where is their basic compassion, their empathy and decency toward the Jewish synagogues and small businesses hatefully assaulted by Black Lives Matter rioters, and for the Jews of Israel living under the shadow of Islamic terrorism?
The New Israel Fund, in which Badik plays a role, and which is one of the leftist groups that demanded the expulsion of the ZOA, has funded BDS organizations and groups linked to terrorism. The lack of basic compassion, empathy, and decency that is required to be a member of the New Israel Fund is astonishing. As is the disinterest from the Boston JCRC.
Criticizing Black Lives Matter is unforgivable no matter how many synagogues they trash, but Jewish lives are worthless to organizations with 'Jewish' in their names, but not their hearts.
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Global Efforts Must Be Strengthened to End the Preventable Burden of Pneumonia: The Forum of International Respiratory Societies
On World Pneumonia Day, Nov. 12, the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS), of which the American Thoracic Society is a founding member, calls for urgent and expedited progress to end the preventable burden of pneumonia.
Pneumonia is the single biggest infectious killer of adults and children – claiming the lives of 2.5 million in 2019, including 672,000 children. Boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly nine million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases by 2030.
Most pneumonia deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and many are preventable. Exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution, poor nutrition and lack of vaccination remain major modifiable risk factors for childhood pneumonia. With health facilities struggling with COVID-19, many do not have an adequate supply of oxygen and only one in five children in low-income countries can access oxygen when they need it. On this World Pneumonia Day, FIRS is asking governments to urgently step-up efforts to strengthen prevention and provide affordable medicines and oxygen to these communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic, with almost 241 million cases globally and 4.92 million deaths to date, has highlighted the importance of pneumonia. Furthermore, it has underscored the disproportionate burden of pneumonia, in low- and middle-income countries and particularly in marginalized communities. Exposed to high levels of air pollution and with poor access to vaccinations and affordable medicines and oxygen therapy, these vulnerable populations carry a huge burden of illness and death.
To end the preventable burden of pneumonia we must work together to:
Raise awareness about pneumonia, the leading killer of young children.
Strengthen, accelerate and sustain interventions to prevent and treat pneumonia.
Focus on equitable access to, and delivery of, comprehensive pneumonia prevention and control programs.
Design strategies to reach vulnerable populations to improve their access to available interventions.
FIRS calls on governments to:
Improve equitable and sustained access to effective pneumonia prevention and control interventions.
Strengthen health systems that promptly and effectively deliver strategies to reduce pneumonia deaths, including provision of effective antibiotics and oxygen delivery systems.
Increase support for strategies to prevent pneumonia including immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and COVID-19 vaccines, reducing exposure to tobacco and air pollution, and increasing access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
Support research on innovative diagnostic, prevention and treatment strategies.
Together, we can end preventable deaths from pneumonia.


Sesquicentennial Scholar and 1958 Gustavus alumnus James McPhersonGustavus alumnus, Civil War historian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author James McPherson '58 will return to his alma mater April 15-17 as a Sesquicentennial Scholar.
Besides visiting several History Department classes during his visit to campus, McPherson will speak publicly during the College's Monday, April 16, daily chapel service at 10 a.m. in Christ Chapel. His talk will be titled "Two Sesquicentennials: New Beginnings" and will address how the founding of Gustavus provided leadership for a people making a new beginning in a new country and compare it to the new beginnings for Americans – black and white, Northern and Southern – generated by the Civil War. Following his talk in Christ Chapel, McPherson will sign books in the President's Dining Room in the C. Charles Jackson Campus Center from 10:30-1130 a.m. McPherson's chapel talk will be live-streamed on the Gustavus website. Both the chapel talk and book signing are free and open to the public.
On Tuesday, April 17, McPherson will speak at Interlachen Country Club in Edina at an event that is also open to the public. McPherson's lecture will be titled "Why the Civil War Still Matters" and will address the ways in which the war's impact on America is still being felt today. Those interested in attending this event, which will include a reception at 4:30 p.m., McPherson's lecture at 5 p.m., and a book signing at 6 p.m., should RSVP by going online to gustavus.edu/go/mcpherson, or by contacting the Gustavus Office of Alumni Relations at 507-933-7511….
For more information about McPherson's visit to Minnesota as Gustavus Adolphus College's Sesquicentennial Scholar, go online to gustavus.edu/go/mcpherson or contact Gustavus Professor of History Greg Kaster at gkaster@gustavus.edu.
Renown Rutgers-Newark History Prof. Clement A. Price on Friday was named vice chairman of the president's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation by President Obama.
Price is Rutgers' Board of Governors Distinguished Service professor of history and the founder and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers-Newark. The professor is involved in many historic and cultural institutions in New Jersey. He currently serves as the chairman of the Save Ellis Island Foundation and the Newark Education Trust, and is a member of the state Historical Commission, the state Council on the Arts, and the Newark Black Film Festival. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in history at the University of Bridgeport and his doctorate in history from Rutgers.
Price was one of five people appointed to federal posts and advisory positions by Obama.
Obama also appointed, the former president of the University of South Florida to the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. She received her bachelor's degree from Rowan University in Glassboro.
Historian Erik Seeman has been named director of the UB Humanities Institute.
Erik R. Seeman, PhD, professor of history at the University at Buffalo and a noted historian of the Americas, has been named director of the UB College of Arts and Sciences' Humanities Institute, an association that has developed an international reputation for innovative cross-disciplinary research, teaching and community programs in the humanities.
Seeman was appointed by E. Bruce Pitman, PhD, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences to a three-year term that began July 1.. He will succeed Tim Dean, PhD, professor of English, who has held the position since 2008. Carrie Tirado Bramen, PhD, professor of English, will continue as executive director of the Humanities Institute, a position to which she was re-appointed in 2010.
In making the appointment, Pitman said, "Since its founding in 2005, the Humanities Institute has served as a bridge across disciplines within the university and as a bridge from UB to the larger community.
The institute focuses on interdisciplinary research and education in the fields of history, literature, languages and cultural studies, philosophy and, more broadly, the fine arts, media studies, architecture and other disciplines.
In his new position Seeman will direct a broad range of programs that include research fellowships and awards, lecture series, a seminar series featuring new faculty members, interdisciplinary research workshops, support for publications, a distinguished scholars-in-residence program, the Scholars in the Schools program, the Scholars at Hallwalls program and an annual conference for international scholars that in the past has covered such topics as the meaning of madness and human trafficking.
Seeman said he looks forward to building on the success of the previous directors, but also wants to take the institute in new directions.
A historian and former director of the National Portrait Gallery is returning to the Smithsonian Institution to serve as acting director of the National Museum of American History.
Marc Pachter retired from the Smithsonian in 2007. On Wednesday, the museum complex announced he will return Aug. 15 to temporarily replace Brent Glass, who is leaving the American history museum.
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero recently announced the appointment of Debra Steidel Wall as Deputy Archivist of the United States, effective July 3, 2011.
Ms. Wall is a twenty-year veteran of the National Archives. For the past four years she has served as Chief of Staff, providing exceptional leadership and effective management for the agency. She has been actively involved in creating and implementing the "Charter for Change," the roadmap for the transformation of the National Archives.
As Deputy Archivist, Ms. Wall will be instrumental in achieving the goals of the transformation. An early priority will be helping to build new leadership into effective executive and management teams. She will also assist the Archivist in achieving an open and inclusive work environment; encouraging creativity and investing in innovation.
Prior to serving as Chief of Staff, Ms. Wall was Senior Special Assistant to the Archivist from 2005-2007. In 2000, she was appointed Director of the Lifecycle Coordination Staff, where she led staff responsible for developing policies, processes, systems and standards relating to the life cycle of records. She has also served as the initial manager of the Archival Research Catalog database and other information technology projects, as Deputy Director of the Information Resources Policy and Projects Division, and worked as an archivist in the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video unit. Debra joined the National Archives in 1991 as an archivist trainee and holds an undergraduate degree in history and government from Georgetown University, and a graduate degree in film from the American University.
Foundation Professor Scott Casper, chair of the Department of History at the University of Nevada, Reno, has accepted the position of interim dean of the University's College of Liberal Arts and will assume his duties July 1.
Casper has been at the University since 1992, served as the history department's chair for five years, and as the department's director of graduate studies before that. He has received several honors, including the Professor of the Year from the prestigious Carnegie Foundation in 2008, and the Nevada Regents' Teaching Award in 2005.
We hope that when former Rutgers University president and future $335,000-a-year history professor Richard L. McCormick sits down to write his "What I did this summer" essay, it includes some soul-searching, and a sense that he should turn down the gig or do it for a whole lot less money.
It's absurd that the retiring university president will earn so much to be a history professor. After stepping down as president next year, McCormick will take a year off — while being paid handsomely — before returning to the school as a history teacher.
Stanford Law School said that commercial legal historian Robert W. Gordon has been named professor of law and will begin teaching this fall.
Stanford Law School said Thursday that commercial law scholar George G. Triantis and legal historian Robert W. Gordon have been named professors of law and will begin teaching this fall.
The appointments of Triantis and Gordon come on the heels of the appointment of James Cavallaro as professor of law and director of the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic of the Mills Legal Clinic.
Davidson College announced its new president this afternoon.
Rice University historian and administrator Carol Quillen was appointed as the college's 18th president, reports DavidsonNews.net.
She will take the place of Tom Ross, who left Davidson College last year to become president of the University of North Carolina system.
Quillen is currently an associate professor of history and vice president for international and interdisciplinary initiatives at Rice University in Houston.
She's the first woman appointed president, according to DavidsonNews.net, and the first non-Davidson graduate to become president since the 1940s.
Prominent New Zealand historian Professor James Belich has been appointed to one of the top jobs in the world in his field.
Professor Belich will take up the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth and Imperial History at Oxford University in the United Kingdom in October this year.
He is currently Professor of History at Victoria University's Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
The Beit Professorship provides research leadership in Commonwealth, imperial and global history and is awarded to a historian of exceptional and international reputation.
The position was established in 1905 and Professor Belich will be the seventh historian to hold it.


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Disturbances in Islington overnight
Aimee Brannen
Published: 10:55 AM August 9, 2011 Updated: 7:52 PM October 15, 2020
Islington escaped the worse of London's disturbances overnight but there have been a number of small pockets of trouble reported.
Shops across the borough including Sainsbury's in Liverpool Road, Islington, closed early amid fears of violence and looting, and some were even boarded up as a precaution.
Bike store Micycle in Barnsbury Street, Islington, is understood to have been targeted by youths on bikes and footage was uploaded to Twitter of the incident. Food City in Essex Road, Islington, also fell victim to attacks.
There have also been reports of a fire breaking out in Tesco in Stroud Green Road, Finsbury, but it appears that a nearby business was in fact affected and the surrounding flats evacuated.
The Vue cinema at the N1 Centre in Parkfield Way, Islington, is thought to have been evacuated for the second night in a row.
Mobs of hooded and masked youths were also spotted in Upper Street and a group of youths are thought to have attacked a van in Rotherfield Street, off Essex Road, Islington.
One eyewitness said: "We were going down Upper Street at about 10.15pm when we saw a group of about 10 guys walking along the pavement with hoods up. Then we stopped at the traffic lights just by the N1 Centre and another bigger group of young guys crossed over and started walking in the road.
"There were about 30 of them with hoods up and scarves covering their faces. It was pretty intimidating. They all seemed to be heading towards the N1 Centre."
It is however understood that police managed to disperse the majority of trouble and the thugs instead headed to nearby Camden.
The previous night trouble included looters trying to break into Carphone Warehouse in Holloway Road, Holloway, while two police cars were vandalised, with one in Holloway Road having its windscreen smashed. A gang of up to 40 youths stormed the N1 Centre in Parkfield Street, Islington, stealing biscuits from a coffee shop.
Our reporters are currently on the scene to establish the scale of last night's damage.


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London Eye is een reuzenrad in Londen, Engeland. Het rad is 135 meter hoog, heeft een diameter van 120 meter, weegt 1.700 ton en heeft 32 gesloten capsules.

London Eye werd gebouwd in 1998 en was bij de opening het grootste reuzenrad ter wereld. Inmiddels hebben enkele andere reuzenraderen London Eye al overtroffen in hoogte. Sinds maart 2014 is de High Roller in Las Vegas (Nevada) het hoogste reuzenrad (167.6 meter).

Het rad staat in Londen op de zuidelijke oever van de Theems, tegenover het Palace of Westminster. London Eye is gebouwd in opdracht van British Airways ter gelegenheid van de millenniumwisseling, gevierd bij het begin van het jaar 2000, en wordt daarom ook wel Millennium Wheel genoemd. Het rad was, door technische problemen, pas later in dat jaar toegankelijk. Een ri in het reuzenrad duurt 30 minuten (één keer rond, gemiddelde snelheid: 0,26 m/s) en biedt een ruim uitzicht op Londen en het landschap daaromheen. Het rad draait zo langzaam dat het voor in- en uitstappen van de passagiers niet stilgezet hoeft te worden. Om het rad vanaf de grond te zien draaien, moet men doodstil blijven staan. Bovenin kan men bij helder weer zeven graafschappen, drie luchthavens, dertien voetbalstadions en 36 bruggen over de Theems zien. London Eye is het op drie na hoogste bouwwerk van Londen waarvan de top bereikbaar is, en draait per jaar ongeveer 6000 keer rond.

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Onderdelen van de attractie zijn in verschillende delen van Europa gefabriceerd. Het ontwerp en de fabricage van de stalen velg en de poten (310 ton zwaar) is gedaan door het Nederlandse Hollandia in Krimpen aan den IJssel, ook de aandrijving en besturing is in Nederland ontwikkeld en gebouwd (door de firma Bosch Rexroth). Een deel van het staalwerk, waar onder de wielomtrek, is door Hollandia uitbesteed aan Mercon Steel in Gorinchem. De installaties komen van POMA, een Frans bedrijf gespecialiseerd in onder andere het ontwerp en de bouw van skiliften. Het glaswerk voor de cabines komt echter uit Italië. Tsjechië nam de fabricage voor de 23 meter lange en 335 ton zware middenas en naaf voor zijn rekening. Duitsland kreeg de opdracht voor het fabriceren van de lagers. Het gehele project en de installatie van de London Eye is uitgevoerd door Hollandia, dat het project in handen kreeg nadat Mitsubishi de opdracht teruggaf omdat er rekenfouten waren gemaakt.

De architecten zijn het echtpaar David Marks en Julia Barfield en Frank Anatole, Nic Bailey, Steven Chilton, Malcolm Cook en Mark Sparrowhawk. London Eye werd op 31 december 1999 geopend door de Britse minister-president Tony Blair, maar voor het publiek ging het reuzenrad wegens technische problemen pas in maart 2000 open. Sinds de opening wordt het beheerd door de Tussauds Group en gesponsord door British Airways. In 2000 werd Londen Eye bekroond met de Nationale Staalprijs, Categorie D Infrastructuur en overige staalconstructies.

Het aantal cabines, 32, komt overeen met het aantal boroughs in Londen. Vanwege een driejarige sponsor-overeenkomst met het Franse energiebedrijf EDF werd begin 2011 een van de cabines geheel oranje geverfd. Dit leidde tot (politieke) onrust.

Vervoersverbindingen
Het dichtstbijzijnde metrostation is Waterloo, hoewel Charing Cross, Embankment en Westminster ook op loopafstand zijn.

De verbinding naar de nationale spoordiensten wordt gemaakt op London Waterloo Station en London Waterloo East Station.

London River Services wordt georganiseerd door Thames Clippers en City Cruises, die stoppen bij de London Eye-pier.

Externe link
 Officiële website

Bouwwerk in Londen
Reuzenrad
Merlin Entertainments Group

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In some cooling magmas, crystals can grow up to a yard in just one day, according to a new study.
Aquamarine, emerald, garnet, zircon, and topaz are but a few of the crystalline minerals found mostly in pegmatites, veinlike formations that commonly contain both large crystals and hard-to-find elements like tantalum and niobium.
Another common find is lithium, a vital component of electric car batteries.
"This is one step towards understanding how Earth concentrates lithium in certain places and minerals," says Patrick Phelps, a graduate student at Rice University and coauthor of the paper in Nature Communications. "If we can understand the basics of pegmatite growth rates, it's one step in the direction of understanding the whole picture of how and where they form."
Pegmatites form when rising magma cools inside Earth. They feature some of Earth's largest crystals. South Dakota's Etta mine, for example, features log-sized crystals of lithium-rich spodumene, including one 42 feet in length in weighing an estimated 37 tons.
The research attempts to answer a question that has long vexed mineralogists: How can such large crystals be in pegmatites?
"In magmatic minerals, crystal size is traditionally linked to cooling time," says Cin-Ty Lee, professor of geology and chair of the earth, environmental, and planetary sciences department at Rice. "The idea is that large crystals take time to grow."
Magma that cools rapidly, like rock in erupted lavas, contains microscopic crystals, for example. But the same magma, if cooled over tens of thousands of years, might feature centimeter-sized crystals, Lee says.
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"Pegmatites cool relatively quickly, sometimes in just a few years, and yet they feature some of the largest crystals on Earth," he says. "The big question is really, 'How can that be?'"
1 How fast do crystals grow?
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How fast do crystals grow?
When Phelps began the research, his most immediate questions were about how to formulate a set of measurements that would allow him, Lee, and coauthor Douglas Morton of the University of California, Riverside to answer the big question.
"It was more a question of, 'Can we figure out how fast they actually grow?'" Phelps says. "Can we use trace elements—elements that don't belong in quartz crystals—to figure out the growth rate?"
It took more than three years, a field trip to gather sample crystals from a pegmatite mine in Southern California, hundreds of lab measurements to precisely map the chemical composition of the samples, and a deep dive into some 50-year-old materials science papers to create a mathematical model that could transform the chemical profiles into crystal growth rates.
"We examined crystals that were half an inch wide and over an inch long," Phelps says. "We showed those grew in a matter of hours, and there is nothing to suggest the physics would be different in larger crystals that measure a meter or more in length. Based on what we found, larger crystals like that could grow in a matter of days."
Pegmatites form where pieces of Earth's crust are drawn down and recycled in the planet's molten mantle. Any water that's trapped in the crust becomes part of the melt, and as the melt rises and cools, it gives rise to many kinds of minerals. Each forms and precipitates out of the melt at a characteristic temperature and pressure. But the water remains, making up a progressively higher percentage of the cooling melt.
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"Eventually, you get so much water left over that it becomes more of a water-dominated fluid than a melt-dominated fluid," Phelps says. "The leftover elements in this watery mixture can now move around a lot faster. Chemical diffusion rates are much faster in fluids and the fluids tend to flow more quickly. So when a crystal starts forming, elements can get to it faster, which means it can grow faster."
Surprising, but feasible
Crystals are ordered arrangement of atoms. They form when atoms naturally fall into that arranged pattern based on their chemical properties and energy levels. For example, in the mine where Phelps collected his quartz samples, many crystals had formed in what appeared to be cracks that had opened while the pegmatite was still forming.
"You see these pop up and go through the layers of pegmatite itself, almost like veins within veins," Phelps says. "When those cracks opened, that lowered the pressure quickly. So the fluid rushed in, because everything's expanding, and the pressure dropped dramatically. All of a sudden, all the elements in the melt are now confused. They don't want to be in that physical state anymore, and they rapidly start coming together in crystals."
To decipher how quickly the sample crystals grew, Phelps used both cathodoluminescence microscopy and laser ablation with mass spectrometry to measure the precise amount of trace elements that had been incorporated into the crystal matrix at dozens of points during growth. From experimental work done by materials scientists in the mid-20th century, Phelps was able to decipher the growth rates from these profiles.
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"There are three variables," he says. "There's the likelihood of things getting brought in. That's the partition coefficient. There's how fast the crystal is growing, the growth rate. And then there's the diffusivity, so how quickly elemental nutrients are brought to the crystal."
Phelps says the fast growth rates were quite a surprise.
"Pegmatites are pretty short-lived, so we knew they had to grow relatively fast," he says. "But we were showing it was a few orders of magnitude faster than anyone had predicted.
"When I finally got one of these numbers, I remember going into Cin-Ty's office, and saying, 'Is this feasible? I don't think this is right,'" Phelps recalls. "Because in my head, I was still kind of thinking about a thousand-year time scale. And these numbers were meaning days or hours.
"And Cin-Ty says, 'Well, why not? Why can't it be right?'" Phelps says. "Because we'd done the math and the physics. That part was sound. While we didn't expect it to be that fast, we couldn't come up with a reason why it wasn't plausible."
The National Science Foundation supported the work.
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WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a leading cybersecurity and IoT company announced that it will launch its WISeCoin in Q4 2018. WISeCoin will be funded by an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) with forthcoming private pre-sales starting in Q3 2018.
The company says that demand for WISeCoin is expected to be high as WISeKey is a well-established cybersecurity IoT platform with over 4,000 large enterprises already using its technology and the OISTE Cryptographic RoT which has been actively used since 1999 by over 2.6 billion desktops, browsers, mobile devices, SSL certificates and IoT devices. To date, WISeKey has raised $4 million in convertible debt for the pre ICO of WISeCoin and is considering a potential total WISeCoin utility token in the range of between $50 million to $100 million, subject to demand and market conditions.
The WISeCoin development team inherits WISeKey Semiconductors R&D and expertise with more than 25 years' experience delivering secure hardware modules, semiconductors, RoT, Crypto keys, crypto wallets and digital identities that protect sensitive data for governments and private corporations in 75 countries. Among other applications, WISeKey's chips are widely used by global telecommunication, manufacturing and healthcare organizations as well as by bank cards. The same certified technology is now available in WISeCoin embedded VaultIC lightweight hardware security modules. WISeCoin VaultIC chips' cryptographic security is a powerful anti-counterfeiting tool used to identify and authenticate any item online using a contactless Near Field Communication (NFC) technology through an Android or Apple iOS based smartphone.
WISeCoin ICO will be based on a strict due diligence and admissions process, as well as a high-quality digital asset exchange. The WISeCoin technology and WISeCoin Hardware Wallet was introduced to the attendees of the Davos Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Gathering, who received a WISeCoin Wallet, a contactless hardware enabled wallet designed to offer security and ease of use for cryptocurrency users.
WISekey Blockchain technology has triggered innovations in many countries since its introduction in 2016. Today, cryptocurrencies have become a global phenomenon, so much so that even central banks are trying to create their own cryptocurrency systems. To this end, WISeKey is helping private and public customers around the world to create their own cryptocurrency with WISeCoin, a cutting edge Blockchain identification platform for people and IoT objects, a revolutionary design and state-of-the-art cryptographic security system.
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Each connected object is equipped with WISeKey's Secure Element, called VaultIC184, consisting of a tamper resistant, easy to integrate silicon chip, based on a state-of-the-art secure microcontroller, thus transferring the burden of device security to WISeKey's highly secure Personalization Center. WISeCoin can become a payment alternative for the new decentralized IoT ecosystem payment economy.
The WISeCoin technology is currently being tested in several industries (such as connected cars, commodity trading, pharma, food security, and tobacco) and during the next 6 months will be used in selected case studies that are currently using the WISeKey PKI and Blockchain technology, and then will be gradually offered to the market globally.
Providers of Digital Identities for people and objects, and members of the WISeKey Cryptographic Platform will be rewarded with WISeCoins for concluded transactions and will be able to use WISeCoins to acquire products and services from other members of the WISeKey platform creating a trusted ecosystem in accordance with countries' regulatory frameworks.
WISeKey is the only vendor in the industry providing an integrated PKI Blockchain, Crypto currency solution that combines a back-end certificate and device management system with a hardware RoT, a Secure Element (highly secure crypto chip) that protects the digital identity and certificates, to bring trust to the transmitted data through secure authentication of the device and related encryption of the data channel. This mechanism which creates and deploys digital certificates, as well as a "Security Broker" that manages communications by verifying the security level of the messages and implementing security and business rules (such as renewing certificates, managing attributes and other key capabilities) make a real difference when deploying securely to large numbers of connected devices.
WISeKey's Blockchain Digital Identity technology was selected by BBC as one of the Five African tech trends to look out for in 2018 – http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41899173. WISeKey's cryptographic RoT empowers IoT manufacturers and chipmakers to add digital identities certificates to their chips at the hardware level to encrypt communication and authenticate the devices on Blockchain.
WISeKey has combined WISeCoin with its CertifyID (https://account.wisekey.com) integrating Digital Identity with Blockchain technology. CertifyID acts as a Digital Identity dual factor authentication based technology that sits on top of a Blockchain. The CertifyID Blockchain is constantly growing as new blocks are added to it with a new set of recordings. Each CertifyID node gets a copy of the CertifyID Blockchain and gets downloaded automatically upon joining the CertifyID network. The system is completely decentralized and can be operated on a national or local level by using a distributed identity ledger run by trusted parties and spread across the Blockchain.
At the heart of the WISeCoin deployment is the OISTE Cryptographic Root of Trust which has been actively used since 1999 in over 2.6 billion desktops, browsers, mobile devices, SSL certificates and Internet of Things' devices. The OISTE WISeKey Cryptographic Root of Trust is ubiquitous and universal, and a pioneer in the creation of Digital Identities.


What can I say about this amazing international wedding - it was the even of the year for me! Incredible couple - beautiful Polish girl and handsome English gentleman, match made in heaven :) The day was filled with fun, laughter, love, great food and excellent company.
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Creator: McAlister, Cecil
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Army troops marching at Fort Larned, Kansas
Creator: Kansas. Centennial Commission
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Date: 500-1100 CE
This arrow point was recovered from a Keith phase Early Ceramic period archeological site in Pawnee County. Archeologists consider corner-notched points to be the earliest form of arrow points that are found in the Great Plains. The notches aided in hafting the arrow point to the arrow shaft.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad time table number 28
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This timetable was for the exclusive use of the employees of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and included the eastern, Arkansas Valley and Wichita divisions.
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Creator: Wittick, George B.
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Creator: Kelley, F.O.
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These two photographs show the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad depot in Rozel, Kansas. In the first photograph gran bins and a grain elevator are visible. The second image shows the structure in its later years. The station has been moved to Ellinwood, Kansas were it was refurnished and is privately owned.
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Atlas and plat book of Pawnee County, Kansas
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The atlas contains an outline map of the county, plats of all the townships with owners' names; Kansas state map showing automobile roads, and maps of the Panama Canal, the United States and the world.
Automobile Club of Wichita Year Book
Creator: Automobile Club of Wichita, Kansas
The Automobile Club of Wichita published this year book for the years 1909-1910. Its content reflects that automobile travel was a recent introduction to the lives of Kansans. It includes advertisements from automobile dealers, garages, and other businesses in Wichita, Hutchinson, Newton, Winfield, El Dorado, Dodge City, Yates Center, Iola, Independence, Topeka, Emporia, Garden City, and Lawrence. It also lists the officers and board of directors of the club, its constitution and bylaws, the Kansas law regulation the use of automobiles, two Wichita ordinances (#2875 and 3002) related to the use of cars, and rules of the road. The bulk of the yearbook provides driving routes to and from various cities and towns in Kansas, as well as Colorado and Oklahoma. An index to the routes and maps is on pages 22-23. These driving routes include specific directions and include references to many small towns and local landmarks, etc. The yearbook also lists Wichita residents that own automobiles, their license numbers and the type of automobile they own. The booklet concludes with a list of members of the automobile club.
Baptist Church in Larned, Kansas
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Beaver dam, Pawnee County, Kansas
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Sketch from Harper's Weekly of a beaver's dam on Pawnee Fork between Fort Larned and the Cheyenne village, 30 miles west of the fort.
Bird's eye view of Larned, Pawnee County, Kansas
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This is a colored brid's eye view of Larned, Kansas, the county seat of Pawnee County. It had a U. S. Land Office and was on the route of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railroad. It does not contain a legend to buildings. Street names are visible. The inset in the lower left corner depicts the Larned House and the one in the lower right pictures the 248彩票网. The image was drawn by D. D. Morse.
Broadway Street in Larned, Kansas
These are photographs of Broadway Street in Larned, Kansas. One view is from the North showing many 248彩票网站s lining the unpaved street. The other view is Broadway looking North from the railroad tracks. It shows the Larned business district including the lumberyard, pedestrians in the street and a horse and buggy.