Hassan Abd. Muthalib is a self-taught artist, designer & filmmaker who has been involved in the animated film scene for 50 years. He directed the popular, animated Sang Kancil series & Silat Legenda, Malaysia's first animated feature film. Muthalib is officially recognized as the Father of Malaysian Animation.
Recently his impressive book From Mouse Deer to Mouse, about 70 year of Malaysian animation (Akademi Seni Budaya dan Warisan Kebangsaan (ASWARA - National Arts, Culture & Heritage Academy), Kuala Lumpur, ISBN 978-983-2538-33-2) was published.
For the first time ever, Malaysian animation history spanning the last seventy years or so, has been cleverly encapsulated into a book.
The book provides chronicling of animation history whilst documenting the achievements, trials, tribulation and sacrifices of those involved in the animation industry from 1946 right up to the present.
Zippy Frames animation journalist Peter Schavemaker interviewed Hassan Abd. Muthalib.
PS: You mention Gillie Porter, a British army combat cameraman, as the first Malaysian animation teacher. Amongst Goh Meng Huat, Anandam Xavier, the pioneers of Malaysion animation, can you explain the roles of each person within the history?
HM: Goh was the first staff to be recruited from a high school in late 1946. He was assistant to Potter and even helped out in making documentaries. He was a titling artist making titles in English (at the time, documentaries were made in 4 languages – English, Malay, Chinese & Tamil).
He and his friend, Hong Chye were the first to be taught how to make graphics for films. Hong Chye left to become a cameraman so Goh was the first to learn & do animation. But when he was promoted to be the head of the unit in 1957, he was more into administrative matters and totally left animation.
Xavier was a formally-trained artist in India. He was hired to make the Tamil titles and later, was promoted to be a set designer. Because of his excellent artwork, he was asked to handle the making of the first animated short film in Malaysia, Hikayat Sang Kancil (The Tale of the Mousedeer, 13 mins). He began in 1961 and did it on and off. It was finally completed in 1978 with him doing the character & background design and the entire animation with no formal training in anything. It was trial-and-error for him. He has never been recognized for it until my book came out.
PS: In Chapter 3 you write about the huge role Gillie Porter played in the development of the Malaysian animation, from the early start up to even in the 1980s. What is his legacy?
HM: I really can't say that the staff at the time really picked up the theories behind what he taught. I never saw or heard anyone speak about what he taught.
But his legacy is more in the foundations of filmmaking that also apply to animation. Also in the strict discipline in producing quality work that can be seen in the titling of those times. I have many stills of this that I can send which were all manually done.
PS: In the book you look back and write about your career and role in the history. Do you see yourself as a pioneer too, like the above names and others in the book?
HM: I had never imagined myself as a pioneer until I began to read about other people's articles on the animation industry. It was then that I realized that what I had done in the 1970s (including TV & cinema commercials) had inspired cartoonists and others to get into animation. When I began to be interviewed by students for their thesis, I began to recollect all that I had done at the beginning. It's a good thing that I have kept a lot of the original artwork.
PS: The book gives a chronicling of the Malaysian animation since 1946 up to the developments in 2016. How would you define the current Malaysian animation industry?
HM: Compared to the 1990s when the animation industry started, animation today is being seen as a business and one that needs to go global. Many companies have made inroads to the world market because of quality work. This also happened because more and more young people made animation their career and went for formal training locally and overseas. Almost all schools, colleges and universities are now offering courses in animation and multimedia. Foreigners also opened companies here and there was transfer of expertise. The studios that are aggressively marketing their expertise and products at film festivals and trade shows are seeing results.
Now there are not enough animators to go around. Games is the big thing now and at least one studio is making for Pachinko in Japan.
PS: In the 1990s, government support became important. Can you explain how it leaped the industry?
HM: Through MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation) & FINAS (National Film Development Corporation Malaysia), the government kick started the industry and took it to another level by first providing funds for locally-produced animation TV series at a high price. Job opportunities were created as a result. This provided a fertile ground for skills and experience. The next step was to provide further funds but this time, at a bigger budget, to produce world-class animation. The outside world began to take notice.
The Multimedia Super Corridor was a grand scheme to bring in expertise from outside without the bureaucratic hassle. These people either brought their studios in joint-ventures with locals or set up their own studios with tax breaks. They also brought knowledge on how to make it in the international arena and deal with buyers.
PS: Did it also benefit a step forward, internationally, for the industry?
HM: Yes. Some of the studios have done major work for Nelvana, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney Asia, including games like Nintendo & Super Mario Brothers.
PS: You write, in 1981 the fourth Malaysian prime minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, initiated a push for the use of digital technology in all sectors of the civil service. How did this decision change the future of the Malaysian animation industry?
HM: In the early 1990s, Kamn Ismail who made the first TV series, experimented with a very low-end software to try and make animation series as he knew that training staff in the cell animation method would take too long. He trained staff in the drawing directly into the computer with the mouse. This bypassed many steps. A number of studios also used this method. Later, when high-end computer software was available, it led to a newer generation of animation personnel coming into the picture.
PS: Many animation industries stayed domestic for a very long me, like the Malaysians did until the 1970s. On page 91, you write 'the Information Ministry had created a ruling that no animation was to be done outside the country, as had been the norm'. When did the Malaysian industry open its doors and went international?
HM: This was after Dr. Mahathir began the Multimedia Super Corridor and offered no hassles for foreigners to come in & work here & also produce for the international market. It took some time and only happened after trade teams met up with the right people internationally. Kamil Othman can be credited for doing this.
PS: Can Kampung Boy (developed in the US and made in the Philippines and Vietnam) be considered as the first international orientated series within the Malaysian animation industry? Animasia Studios seems to be the first studio with international successes, and ambitions.
HM: Yes, Kampung Boy was the first. It was originated by ASTRO, the satellite TV station at a budget that was more than 10 times for a local series. Inspidea had earlier started the ball rolling on their own.
Animasi took advantage of government support and achieved a lot of success, especially with their contacts in the China market.
PS: Malaysian studios currently are co-producing with China (in the book chapter 8 explains about co-productions), Korea, Hong Kong, North America, Middle East in massive deals. How did this change the Malaysian animation industry?
HM: Firstly it provided more job opportunities that also helped training institutions to take in more students in animation. Now specialization is beginning to take shape as compared to before when one person took on many roles. This resulted in an increase in quality. Today, you really need to be good to get ahead. Training institutions are also having their students intern with some studios as well as bringing in industry advisors to run workshops as well as be syllabus moderators (I am one of them).
PS: Are there also cooperation deals with European animation studios?
HM: I don't know as everybody is secretive about this!
PS: What place has Saladin in the 70-years of history?
HM: A short 6-minute promo made by Silver Ant with high-end CGI was used to try and sell the idea for making 3D animation series in Malaysia. It finally paid off when Al-Jazeera came into the picture.
The final series made by Young Jump Animation proved that Malaysia could do work that was of international standard.
PS: Malaysia has a young feature film culture. In total 10 feature films were made since the 1990s, among them are Saladin, SeeFood and Ribbit. Is there a reason for it?
HM: The total number is now 14, a record among ASEAN countries. The first 5 were self-funded. But then to make the quality more global, the government offered incentives for visual effects and partial funding that helped companies to produce the films. There are many other incentives that the studios took advantage of like bringing in foreign directors or having some of the work done overseas.
PS: In the 1960s and 1970s, mostly commercial animation productions were made instead of series, shorts and feature animation productions. What is the main reason for that?
HM: At the time, no one ever imagined that it was possible due to the high cost of making it traditionally. Added to that was the fact that there were probably about 6 or 7 animators in the country and hardly any directors and other personnel.
PS: How would you explain the role of RTM (Radio Television Malayasia, public broadcaster) in the 1990s which started a new era for the industry, as you write in chapter 7? And what is the current role of the National Broadcasting Corporation in developing own Malaysian content. Do they buy mainly domestic material? Do commercial stations also play a role in buying and broadcasting content?
HM: In 1995, RTM started screening locally-made TV series. It was only more than 10 years later that the commercial TV stations slowly came into the picture & asked studios to produce for them. Today, with the international success of many series like Upin & Ipin & Bola Kampung, TV stations have deals with local studios to provide content. This is a logical move as the scenario is now highly competitive competing for the same viewers.
PS: Reading, it seems most of the (still important) studios were opened in the 1990s and 2000s. Is that true?
HM: Yes, but more and more are springing up with the number of graduates in animation increasing. To help them, many incentives for start-up and develop original content is being given by the government.
PS: The 13 episode series, Sang Kancil dan Monyet, completed in 1984 became the first series to be shown outside Malaysia. Until today it is still very popular and can been seen on YouTube Why is the series so groundbreaking?
HM: It was meant to be 13 episodes but only 2 were produced. This is because there was no proper studio available to handle it. Our unit specialized in titling for film, not animation. So the short was more a training film, both for me as well as the staff, as none of us had ever made an animation narrative short. Due to my experience in making commercials, I planned out everything and the staff just followed my instructions. I had to cut a lot of corners because the Information Minister was breathing down my neck and I had to finish it fast!
But the short, Sang Kancil dan Monyet (The Mouse Deer & the Monkey), the second short to be made in Malaysia, was a sensation as it made full use of the animation medium by including zany humor.
Also, it was the first to have the correct use visual storytelling that appealed subconsciously - as I analyze in my book. This lack of understanding of film language is the drawback in work produced by the studios today.
PS: You write, Malaysia currently has the most number of animation productions for film and television amongst ASEAN countries. What is the main reason Malaysia has such a large production?
HM: Because of total support from the government – now from the private sector with the success of iconic character like Upin & Ipin and BoBoiBoy which have crossed borders.
PS: How would you define the influence from animation from neighbor countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, India on the Malaysian industry? In your book you also describe the development of these countries animation industries.
HM: I don't see any influence in Malaysian animation from these countries. In the early days, influence came from anime but only among those animators who were trained in the anime method due to contractual jobs from Toei in Japan.
PS: Malaysian Fables, Folk Tales and Legends have always played an enormous role in the first and mids part of the Malaysian animation history. How would you describe their role in nowadays animation productions?
HM: Some studios do refer to legendary characters but on the whole, they prefer superheroes, aliens and others that seem to be based on successful, international brands.
PS: You describe Malay-shadow play – Wayang Kulit – as proto-cinema. It has inspired Malaysian animators, you write. Can you explain how it influenced animators by mentioning films?
HM: Perhaps inspired is not the right word as I don't see that influence. Reference to the tradition is there or paying homage as in my feature film, Silat Legenda and Lat's Kampung Boy in one episode. It is only in short films that we see designs and expressions that refer to wayang kulit but not as silhouettes. The first student to make a final-year project using local designs was Alan Aziz in 2000 with Singapura dilanggar Todak (Singapore Overrun by Swordfish).
PS: The Mouse Deer is a species that also lives in South East Asia, including Malaysia. The Mouse Deer became a national icon in the 1980s and was used as a character in many animation productions, like in the country's first 3D animation by Jaafar Taib (2004), the first animated short Kancil in 2008 and first animated feature, Silat Legenda in 1998; made by you. Can we compare the development of the Malaysian animation like Disney, where it all also started with a mouse?
HM: Actually there is no comparison. Mickey became a huge hit mostly due to good stories, good character design, voicing and marketing. The mouse deer never reached that level. But because of the three mouse deer stories, in the 1980s, the character is very recognizable as a Malaysian icon.
PS: How would you see the future of the Malaysian animation industry? On page 253 you see success in the global arena in the recent years 2011-2016. You write 'What had been envisioned for the industry 20 years ago had now become a reality'. What challenges do you hope for in the next 25-30 years, when Malaysian animation turns 100 years? At the end of the book you write you are 'Looking optimistically to the future'.
HM: In terms of software and animation skills, we are far ahead. But the industry has still got a long way to go in other areas. Attention must be given to story development rather scriptwriting and visual development rather than production design. Right now, the cart is usually put before the horse. Rather than lay the foundations, most tend to jump into the later stages of animation.
The thinking process is important on why certain things need to be done in certain ways. This should begin at the training level. The other is visual storytelling with the correct use of film grammar that leads to film language. There is no book on this at the moment. This is why everyone is blissfully unaware of it. I'm the only one in Malaysia who has been harping on this since the 1970s and teaching it at universities and some animation studios.
I'm optimistic that there will be a realization among training institutions to churn out animation filmmakers rather than animators. In this way, they can work better with film directors & do not have to be told too many things about what needs to be done. This will definitely be good for the industry.
PS: MDec played an important role – you consider it 'excellent work' on page 255 - in the past, investing in animation. It marks a very interesting role and a large effort of the government for animation. What should their role be in the future? It is very interesting to read about programmes, initiated by MDec connecting to the future of animation, in games and on the internet.
HM: They have already done their job and as the government envisioned it, ultimately, the studios should be able to strike out on their won.
Now MDEC should focus on nurturing young talent for the future (they are already doing this to a certain extent). It is also important for veterans in the industry to be used by MDEC to be mentors to these young people so that they can learn for earlier mistake and go on to higher things.


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Holyoke Computing Center Decision Near
The location of a Holyoke, Mass. high performance computing center backed by a consortium of Massachusetts educational institutions and high tech companies will be decided in July, the Springfield Republican reported yesterday.
The backers of the project include the state of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts, Boston University, and Northeastern University. EMC Corp., and Cisco Systems Inc. are also partners.
The city of Holyoke was chosen for the site because of its access to inexpensive water-powered electricity. But project officials have yet to choose between two different locations in the city.
Tom Testa, assistant vice president with Boston University, told the Republican on Tuesday that the decision will come in July.

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Who is Supporting and Courting Extremists in Pakistan's Elections?
Shocking compromises ahead of Pakistan's elections. Most of the mainstream political parties entered into some sort of arrangements or understanding with members of extremist groups to avoid "attrition and minimize competition."
By Imtiaz Gul | Via Daily Times
Tehrik e Labaik Pakistan leaders at a, election rally in Lahore. (Photo courtesy News One)
The run-up to the elections has been quite eventful, including the emergence of groups such as Allah Akbar Tehreek and Tehreek Labaik, kicking off considerable speculation on the motives and support for them.
Private conversations with a couple of extremely highly placed officials at two civilian security institutions have entailed shocking revelations and explained how so many of these candidates escaped legal scrutiny in the first place; the PML-N government literally stone-walled attempts to amend the Anti Terrorist Act 1997 (ATA 1997) and the Public Representation Act (PRA). All proposals to this effect were literally shelved and officials told to keep quiet by the wheelers and dealers of the N-League.
And low and behold, this happened despite concurrence by key military intelligence agencies, officials revealed.
The local government elections in 2015 had in fact provided the trigger for proposed changes to the ATA in particular because as many as 147 independents were among the nearly 900 successful candidates to District Councils in Punjab. And among them, these independents were several associates/ former members or supporters of several banned outfits.
Officials said the proposed amendments only after the prime and chief minister ordered the arrest of all 4th Schedulers in the wake of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park suicide attack in March 2016. But the Sharif brothers, as well as their ministers, were found unwilling to subject these groups to greater legal scrutiny.
They managed to contest and succeed because of lacunas or ambiguities that exist even in the somewhat upgraded ATA. Taking advantage of these shortcomings in the ATA and PRA, many unwanted people end up contesting elections. Under the existing legal framework, courts have little legal reason to bar anybody from elections – as long as they avow allegiance to the constitution and are not convicts.
A very senior official privy to the proposals said the staggering success of several radical right-wing zealots alarmed them all and they thought the best way to stop them in future was to amend the ATA and the PRA, and thus constraining the legal space on them as the first major hurdle.
Those amendments would have narrowed the space also on the people, who are every now and then placed on the 4th Schedule, a list of people found to be or suspected to be involved in anti-state activities, delivering hate speeches and/or activists of religious outfits not yet banned but related with militancy in any way.
But privately, senior members of the ruling PML-N even accused these counter-terror officials of obstructing the functioning of people or groups who were either on the terror watch list or were already prescribed.
The simple reason, one can infer from this foot-dragging approach, was the that the ruling party was disinclined to annoy these groups because of their value in electoral contests, said the officials. Electoral considerations weighed heavily when asked to facilitate amendments and make the ATA more lethal against religious extremists, who do enjoy support on the ground.
This is also manifest in the fact that most of the mainstream political parties have entered into some sort of arrangements or understanding with members of extremist groups to avoid "attrition and minimize competition."
These so-called adjustments flow from two simple ground realities; these groups wield substantial social influence on the ground and can be extremely handy during the electoral process. And secondly, how can a court bar a Pakistani citizen, who fulfills constitutional obligations and possesses the legally required number of supporters, from contesting elections for the mere fact that he/she may be member or supporter of a banned militant outfit?
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Intro to Hashing
Hashing is a vital concept in cryptography.
Discuss The Problem
A hash function is one which takes any amount of input and gives a fixed size output. Hash functions have many uses in computing, but here we're going to focus on cryptographic hash functions. In addition to giving a fixed size output for any input, cryptographic hash functions have a couple other important qualities. One is that they're difficult to reverse. That means that given the output of a hash function, it's hard to figure out an input to the hash function that would result in that output. Another is that they're collision resistant, which means that it's hard to find two inputs to the hash function that result in the same output. Because of these qualities, cryptographic hash functions are useful for things like validating passwords. Instead of storing passwords, authentication databases can store values that are derived from passwords using hash functions. This means that anybody that recovers the database will have a hard time figuring out the user's passwords (because the function is difficult to reverse). They're also useful verifying the integrity of data. A large amount of data may be difficult to inspect for tampering but the fixed sized output of a hash function could be reasonable, and since the functions are collision resistant, it would be hard to tamper with the data in a way that would result in the same hash value. Hash values are also used in many places on this site, especially for submitting solutions. Instead of submitting hundreds or thousands of characters of plain text to prove that you have it, we generally have you run the data through a hash function and submit the output value. Let's go over how to hash data in linux and in python. The hash functions we'll use are md5 and sha256.
In linux, there are programs called md5sum and sha256sum which work well for our purposes. Note that on OS X these commands are named slightly differently, namely md5 and shasum -a 256 respectively. Let's say we want to hash the string "Hello, world!".
$ printf "Hello, world!" | md5sum
6cd3556deb0da54bca060b4c39479839  -
Notice the use of the command printf as opposed to echo, this prevents a new line from being appended to our data, so the string is piped to the md5sum exactly as is. The output line shows 6cd3556deb0da54bca060b4c39479839, which is the hexadecimal string representation of the 128 bit hash output. The dash after the hex value indicates that the input was stdin and isn't part of the output of the hash function. Similarly, to compute the sha256 hash of the value:
$ printf "Hello, world!" | sha256sum
315f5bdb76d078c43b8ac0064e4a0164612b1fce77c869345bfc94c75894edd3  -
Notice that the hash output is twice as long, as sha256 outputs 256 bits and md5 outputs 128 bits.
Luckily, python comes with implementations of common hash function in a module called hashlib. Using the same string as before, "Hello, world!", here's how to compute the md5 and sha256 hash in python using the ipython shell.
In [1]: import hashlib
In [2]: hashlib.md5('Hello, world!').hexdigest()
Out[2]: '6cd3556deb0da54bca060b4c39479839'
In [3]: hashlib.sha256('Hello, world!').hexdigest()
Out[3]: '315f5bdb76d078c43b8ac0064e4a0164612b1fce77c869345bfc94c75894edd3'
To prove you understood this tutorial, show that you can use these hash functions. Hash the string id0-rsa.pub with sha256, then hash the hex string output with md5, and submit the lowercase hex result.
Test Vector
Using the string testing. The sha256 hex hash value of this string is cf80cd8aed482d5d1527d7dc72fceff84e6326592848447d2dc0b0e87dfc9a90. Hashing this hex string with md5 gives the result ea52a276e74e31d07c6f82af2f3c192a, so this would be the solution.


The site "Am Mühlenberg" was developed in the 1950s in the typical style of post-war modernism. We modify the existing structure with the help of adaptors to achieve a new urban ensemble with clearly defined streets and courtyards. The existing buildings remain legible and functional. The heights of the new buildings are oriented by the adjacent houses or result from urban planning considerations to define the street space. At the same time, clearly discernible outdoor typologies are created. These include rather introverted but walk-through courtyards of different character, a continuous alley system, partly car-free, partly as residential paths with visitor parking spaces, and a sequence of distinctive public micro squares.


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Q: Validates inclusion failing for I18n in Rails 4.0 I have the following model.
class Ingredient < ActiveRecord::Base
  UNITS = [
            { name: "Unit" },
            { name: "Teaspoon" }
  ]
  validates :unit, inclusion: UNITS.map{|u| I18n.t(u[:name]) }
end

In the console. running the following command when the locale if :fr (french), yields the following based out of my locale file.
#Ingredient::UNITS.map{ |u| I18n.t(u[:name]) }
["Unité","Cuillère à café",]

Which is correct, however the validation fails for this, when I do the following.
Ingredient.create(quantity: 4.0, unit: "Cuillère à café")

When I manually check if the unit is included within the array, I get true. Why is this validation failing? Works correctly for english.

A: Validators are defined when the class is loaded for the first time and do not change later on. In your example that means that
validates :unit, inclusion: UNITS.map{|u| I18n.t(u[:name]) }

is evaluated to
validates :unit, inclusion: ['Unit', 'Teaspoon']

and will not change to another locale in a later request.
It might work to assign a lambda instead on an array, like this:
validates :unit, inclusion: { in: proc { UNITS.map { |u| I18n.t(u[:name]) } } }

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A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots.
The gunshots started raining down the streets of Harare on 14th November, 2017, and by the 21st, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the then former Vice President and former trench mate of Robert Mugabe made his first intervention by calling on his former boss to stand down. But as Zimbabwe came to terms with what seemed like the unthinkable, a military coup, Emmerson Mnangagwa emerged as the unnatural successor to Robert Mugabe, who had reduced his fellow Zimbabweans to a mere serfdom existence to unimaginable levels. The rest is history.
The fanfare that greeted the removal of Mugabe was seen by many as a breath of fresh air and the dawn of a new era. Interestingly, with Emmerson at the helm, the untethered outbursts of jubilation were misguidedly seen as jubilation for Emmerson. In reality, Zimbabweans who took to the streets in jubilation were just too happy to see the back of Mugabe. This was not in any way a red-carpet treatment or welcome for Emerson. As we all know, Emmerson was one of the main cogs of Mugabe's political engine room. He was fully enmeshed in everything and anything that was wrong about Mugabe's rule and Mugabe's Zimbabwe for the past 4 decades. So for others to expect a different political menu on the table was not only wishful thinking that bothered on the psychotic, but also a wish for hell to freeze.
It is a popular saying that the leopard never changes its spots. Mnangagwa's ascendancy to the coveted throne did not bring any hopes for change from the trained political minds that have been through the mill with Mugabe. Emmerson was an embodiment and personification of the proverb, "that you cannot pour new wine in old bottles". It was just a matter of time before he showed his spots again; which lends credence to the adage that "no matter how well you swim beside a crocodile, he is still not your brother". It is no wonder, that this man is notoriously known as the "crocodile".
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, like many other independent observers at home and abroad has said that the "Zimbabwe police are incapable of dealing with the current violence and are therefore using "brute, excessive and disproportionate force in most circumstances thereby causing avoidable loss of life and also worsening the situation". The President has since blamed the MDC opposition party for all the violence and ills that continue to handcuff the long suffering masses to near survival existence. He continues to blame Mugabe's regime for the current ills of Zimbabwe. He may have a point, but was he not one of Mugabe's trusted lieutenants until recently? Was he not a fruit of the poisoned tree? The president would want you to believe that the recent violence and crisis has nothing to do with his recent increase in fuel duty.
Like many other African and developing countries, a massive chunk of the continent's respective country GDPs is harnessed from remittances from their citizens in the diaspora. In his desperate bid to get more money from the back of the sofa, Mnangagwa's government has embarked on imposing a 2% tax on all such money transactions. This is like saying that Zimbabweans are going to be taxed on the hand-outs they receive, courtesy of the philanthropic and God fearing generosity from their family members. So Zimbabwe is now the first country to levy "beggar's tax". These guys have no limits to the level of depravity they are ready to sink in. If one needed any proof that these politicians have the conscience of a chainsaw, one needs look no further. These are the kind of people who would unplug your life support machine to charge their phone.
The situation in Zimbabwe is a really sorry sight. For a country to tumble from its height as the "bread basket of Africa" to a mere basket case is very disheartening. During the pseudo elections that were held following the coup cum not a coup by some military officers, Mnangagwa's campaign slogan was "Zimbabwe is open for business". There were high hopes that it will lead to a new wave of international investment and aid to allow the country to pay off some of its massive external debt, estimated at $18bn (£13.8bn). With arrears of about $1.8bn, it makes it hard to obtain further loans; and it is becoming difficult to see how Zimbabwe can extricate itself from this economic quagmire.
The problem that is facing Zimbabwe is one of trust. You would expect investors, and especially the farming industrialists from the west to flock back to Zimbabwe, following the removal of Mugabe. But why are they not coming back? This is a question of trust. Mnangagwa was a major axle in the drive shaft that propelled Zimbabwe into this downward spiral. He was part of the machinery that presided over the displacement and removal of industrial farmers, during what was misguidedly called a land reclamation reform. With such a backdrop, how would you trust such an individual that he would be different from policies, for which he was one of the chief architects? People know that the apple never falls far from the tree. Mnangagwa is the fruit of the poisoned tree. What has really happened in Zimbabwe is a change of driver; the vehicle remains the same old tattered and battered political locomotive on its death throes; and Zimbabwe deserves better. You can't trust people with "crocodile tears", pardon the pun.
Zimbabwe remains potentially wealthy in resources. But these resources need capital to bring them to fruition. This means that investors are presently the only life support mechanism for these changes to take place. But how can these investors trust, the leopard with its spots, or in this case the "crocodile" with its tears? There is a massive vacuum of trust that is collectively now becoming the albatross around the neck of my Zimbabwean brethren. What Zimbabwe needs is a total overhaul and surgical removal of the old guard. And I am not preaching violence or otherwise, but by democratic means of free and fair elections.
Zimbabwe needs a massive soul searching. The whole system needs a serious political recalibration; as it cannot continue to sleep walk itself into oblivion. In a country today where the toilet roll is more valuable than its currency, Zimbabwe stands on the precipice of an abyss. And this is saddening, considering the country's mineral wealth. Some will say that the country needs divine intervention. Far from that; it needs life support machines for some serious economic transfusion. As Zimbabwe blindly tries to feel its way out of this mess, the hope against hope is that, its citizens will find a consensus to walk again; because it has been crippled by Mugabe and his cohorts.


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I value the simplicity both of layout and content of my blog pages, and the lack of distractions of the design, so by creating this separate page for cards I know that you can choose to view it, or not, and not feel you are having it imposed upon you!
I've begun this page to showcase the cards I've designed, and to sell them. Below is SET ONE of the cards made from my photographs from Live Simply/Simply Live.
This set has a close up of a sumptious oriental poppy in the garden, two images of the red gate in the back garden - one with summer poppies and one in winter snow; our tame robin early one morning in a magical blue light; and a shot of the front steps in the gloaming (call me romantic!).
They are lovely quality greetings cards/notelets, blank inside, 15 x 10 cms and come in a set of the five designs for £10 plus £1 towards postage and packing.
Thank you to those of you who have already purchased cards - a second set is coming soon for (dare I say the word) Christmas!
Here is the latest set of cards. Winter and/or Christmas cards, they are blank inside.
The nativity in the tree and the candle ring and flowers are new this year, and I've included the popular red gate as it's so wintry.
Our tame robin features on two of the cards; hoar frost and a snow lantern on the doorstep two more.
I got the idea for the snow lantern from Sweden - you just build a little pyramid of snowballs and set a tea light in the centre - if it's cold enough it burns for hours without melting. The other card is a shelf of pretty Christmas things. It's the little reindeer bought from M&S last year that makes this picture I think.
You could wrap a set of five cards in ribbon for a nice pre Christmas gift if you are visiting someone, or a few in simple frames would make a nice seasonal decoration on a wall, or an attractive present. (These frames are also from M&S - £6 for 3 - nice....?
A spring theme - tulip Apricot Beauty, tulip Apricot Impression, and tulip Flaming Purissima all grown in the cutting garden this year. A little catkin decoration on the yellow front door and jonquilla 'Segovia' with a leaf from a hardy geranium.
One customer said the cards seem suitable for any and every occasion (these are blank inside). A pack of five also make a nice gift.. To order, please see above.


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A LEGEND, FOR MORE THAN NINETY YEARS
On 15 March 1921, the company "Società Anonima Moto Guzzi" was constituted in the offices of the notary Paolo Cassanello in Corso Aurelio Saffi, Genoa, for "the fabrication and sale of motorcycles, and all other activities pertinent or correlated to the metalworking and mechanical engineering industries".
The partners in the Company were the renowned Genoese ship owner Emanuele Vittorio Parodi, his son Giorgio and his friend Carlo Guzzi.
Guzzi was a former comrade of Parodi's in the Italian Air Corps, as was another friend Giovanni Ravelli, an aviator – like Parodi – who died, however, on 11 August 1919 during a test flight.
It was in memory of this friend that the spread-winged eagle motif in the Moto Guzzi badge was chosen.
The company's first motorcycle was the legendary 8 HP Normale. This was followed by successful models such as the 1928 Guzzi G.T., dubbed "Norge" to commemorate the expedition to the Polar Arctic Circle, and the Airone 250 (1939), which remained Italy's best selling medium capacity motorcycle for over 15 years.
In the meanwhile, the marque also notched up numerous racing successes.
The first was in the prestigious Targa Florio in 1921, which marked the beginning of an impressive succession of victories: up until its withdrawal from motorsports in 1957, Moto Guzzi accumulated an enviable collection of accolades including, among other titles, an astonishing 15 world GP championships and 11 Tourist Trophies.
The years following the Second World War spawned models such as the Guzzino 65 ("Cardellino"), which was Europe's best selling motorcycle for over a decade.
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Boeing beats 1Q profit forecasts but revenue falls
Boeing topped expectations for first-quarter profit, but the aerospace giant's sales fell short of forecasts, and the shares fell in Wednesday-morning trading.
Chicago-based Boeing Co. said Wednesday that it earned $1.45 billion in the first quarter. Excluding non-repeating gains, the profit came to $2.01 per share.
The average estimate of 10 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was $1.91 per share.
Revenue was $20.98 billion. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $21.44 billion.
Boeing blamed the disappointing sales number on delayed deliveries of commercial and defense aircraft. The company delivered 169 commercial planes in the quarter, down from 176 a year earlier. Boeing said it planned for fewer deliveries of its workhorse 737 plane as it prepares to launch a new version next month.
Revenue from sales of military planes plunged 28 percent, to $2.64 billion.
Boeing expects full-year earnings in the range of $9.20 to $9.40 per share, an increase of a dime per share, as the company now expects a full-year tax rate of 31 percent instead of 32 percent.
In morning trading, the shares were down $3.01, or 1.6 percent, to $180.50.
Elements of this story were generated by Automated Insights using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on BA at https://www.zacks.com/ap/BA
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Colorado City denied return of seized items
The Mohave Daily News/October 19, 2010
By Jim Seckler
Kingman - A Mohave County judge denied a motion allowing the return of seized computer items from a Colorado City fire department.
Superior Court Commissioner Derek Carlisle denied a request by the city of Colorado City to return computer hard drives and cameras sized when Mohave County law enforcement officers raided the fire stations April 6 in Colorado City and in Hildale, Utah, as well as the homes of Colorado City Fire Chief Jake Barlow and Colorado City Manager David Darger.
The investigation is looking into the alleged misuse of the fire department's credit cards for personal use in connection with the fire departments and the city government.
Carlisle also denied the appointment of a special master, an unbiased third party who would review data from the seized computers. A Utah judge also
denied returning the items seized in Hildale but did appoint a special master to review information on the computers, Deputy Mohave County Attorney James Schoppman said.
Schoppman added that the case still is being reviewed by his office for criminal charges against Barlow or Darger. The computers are being examined by experts from the state's Attorney General's Office and the Arizona Department of Public Safety in Phoenix.
Colorado City, along with Hildale, is the home of the polygamist sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church.
The county attorney's office has investigated charges in recent years of child abuse and sexual misconduct by nine church members including the church's prophet, Warren Jeffs, whose charges of sexual conduct with a minor in two 2007 Arizona cases were recently dismissed. Jeffs was convicted in Utah for rape and is serving a 10-year prison term when his conviction was overturned in July by the Utah Supreme Court and remanded for a new trial. He also faces charges in Texas.
The county recently bought a 5-acre lot near Colorado City and has recently moved into a building, which houses the sheriff's office, the county attorney's office, victim's advocate group and other county offices. The county was forced to abandon the modular building on Mohave Community College property in Colorado City after MCC ended a five-year lease in early 2009. The county also recently approved putting a new Moccasin Justice Court in the Colorado City area.


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r"""
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Submodule -- throat_volume
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"""
import scipy as _sp

def cylinder(geometry, throat_length='throat.length',
             throat_diameter='throat.diameter', **kwargs):
    r"""
    Calculate throat volume assuing a cylindrical shape

    Parameters
    ----------
    geometry : OpenPNM Geometry object
        The Geometry object which this model is associated.  This is needed
        to access the other relevant geometrical properties for this
        calculation.

    throat_length and throat_diameter : strings
        The dictionary keys containing the arrays with the throat diameter and
        length values.

    Notes
    -----
    At present this models does NOT account for the volume reprsented by the
    intersection of the throat with a spherical pore body.
    """
    leng = geometry[throat_length]
    diam = geometry[throat_diameter]
    value = _sp.pi/4*leng*diam**2
    return value

def cuboid(geometry, throat_length='throat.length',
           throat_diameter='throat.diameter', **kwargs):
    r"""
    Calculate throat volume assuing a square cross-section

    Parameters
    ----------
    geometry : OpenPNM Geometry object
        The Geometry object which this model is associated.  This is needed
        to access the other relevant geometrical properties for this
        calculation.

    throat_length and throat_diameter : strings
        The dictionary keys containing the arrays with the throat diameter and
        length values.

    Notes
    -----
    At present this models does NOT account for the volume reprsented by the
    intersection of the throat with a spherical pore body.
    """
    leng = geometry[throat_length]
    diam = geometry[throat_diameter]
    value = leng*diam**2
    return value

def extrusion(geometry, throat_length='throat.length',
              throat_area='throat.area', **kwargs):
    r"""
    Calculate throat volume from the throat area and the throat length. This
    method is useful for abnormal shaped throats.

    Parameters
    ----------
    geometry : OpenPNM Geometry object
        The Geometry object which this model is associated.  This is needed
        to access the other relevant geometrical properties for this
        calculation.

    throat_length and throat_area : strings
        The dictionary keys containing the arrays with the throat area and
        length values.

    Notes
    -----
    At present this models does NOT account for the volume reprsented by the
    intersection of the throat with a spherical pore body.
        """
    leng = geometry[throat_length]
    area = geometry[throat_area]
    value = leng*area
    return value

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The Minister of Finance Jürgen Ligi replied to the interpellation concerning the need for additional financing of Eesti Energia (No 311), submitted by Members of the Riigikogu Rannar Vassiljev, Andres Anvelt, Heljo Pikhof, Sven Mikser, Kajar Lember, Jevgeni Ossinovski, Jaak Allik, Karel Rüütli, Helmen Kütt, Kalev Kotkas, Marianne Mikko, Eiki Nestor and Kalvi Kõva on 25 March.
The interpellators referred to the data published in the press according to which the need to extend the equity capital of Eesti Energia may amount to up to a billion euro, half of which should come from the state. In the interpellators' words, at the same time, the Supervisory Board does not have an overview as to which investments are planned and when they are planned to be made.
According to Ligi's explanations, the state allocated 150 million euro to the equity of the enterprise last year, and this year the amount is going to be 200 million euro, but these investments are probably going to be delayed for technical reasons and the money is not going to be needed this year. It has also yet to be decided if it will be needed next year.
Speaking about additional investments and the justification of financial injections in the near future, Ligi noted that, again, it has yet to be decided. The Government has been receiving overviews of the investment needs of the enterprise by 10 years. He added that they had not been discussed yet this year. In his words, fuel oil industry is one place where investments are being delayed for technical reasons. The circumstances of further action need to be specified. Ligi noted that, of course, Eesti Energia had made most of its investments with borrowed capital. 435 loans have been taken in the last two years in 2011‒2012 and, as at the end of the year, they amount to 733 million euro on the balance sheet, the Minister of Finance explained.
In Ligi's words, Eesti Energia is not fleecing consumers, as is often tried to be claimed. He underlined that the competition is very tough in that field – costs are increasing and revenues are controlled by the market. "Looking at long-term average indicators of NordPool, it must be said that they are restrictive and even risky in terms of the profitability of electricity production," Ligi said.
The Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications Juhan Parts replied to the interpellation concerning the reduction of home costs (No 313), submitted by Members of the Riigikogu Tarmo Tamm, Olga Sõtnik, Kalev Kallo, Priit Toobal, Viktor Vassiljev, Yana Toom, Ester Tuiksoo, Mailis Reps, Kadri Simson, Aivar Riisalu, Mihhail Stalnuhhin, Valeri Korb, Vladimir Velman, Lauri Laasi, Peeter Võsa, Enn Eesmaa and Eldar Efendijev on 26 March.
the interpellation concerning the availability and quality of welfare service (No 317), submitted by Members of the Riigikogu Viktor Vassiljev, Peeter Võsa, Aadu Must, Kadri Simson, Mailis Reps, Tarmo Tamm, Ester Tuiksoo, Valeri Korb and Lauri Laasi on 28 March.
the interpellation concerning the implementation of the Estonian hunting development plan (No 315), submitted by Members of the Riigikogu Aivar Riisalu, Ester Tuiksoo, Heljo Pikhof, Helmen Kütt, Karel Rüütli, Lembit Kaljuvee, Rein Randver and Tiit Tammsaar on 28 March.


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Rock News Report 8 Jan 18
posted by Aaron Zytle - Jan 8, 2018
Shinedown has completed recording its new album for a tentative late spring/early summer release. The new LP follows up 2015's Threat To Survival, with Myers saying, "It's heavier than Threat To Survival, but it's fresh and new.
Radiohead is reportedly suing singer Lana Del Rey over similarities between her song "Get Free" and the band's hit "Creep." Radiohead itself faced legal action over "Creep" when it was first released and ended up giving songwriting credits on the track to Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, the writers of the Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe." Radiohead admitted the similarities between the two songs' melody and chord structure and the lawsuit was settled out of court, with the band giving a percentage of its publishing to Hammond and Hazlewood. Check out the audio from each of the three songs to see how familiar they sound...
A Vimeo user named Sleep Good has taken Nirvana's classic "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and changed its tuning from the original key of F-minor to a major scale -- transforming the moody anthem into a summery pop-punk song. The result sounds "a little less Smashing Pumpkins and a lot more Weezer," according to Billboard, with Sleep Good even renaming it "Teen Sprite" Ironically, Kurt Cobain told Rolling Stone in January 1994 that he originally composed "Teen Spirit" in an attempt to "write the ultimate pop song." Check it out!


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The Danish Golden Age (Danish: Den danske guldalder) covers a period of exceptional creative production in Denmark, especially during the first half of the 19th century. Although Copenhagen had suffered from fires, bombardment and national bankruptcy, the arts took on a new period of creativity catalysed by Romanticism from Germany. The period is probably most commonly associated with the Golden Age of Danish Painting from 1800 to around 1850 which encompasses the work of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg and his students, including Wilhelm Bendz, Christen Købke, Martinus Rørbye, Constantin Hansen and Wilhelm Marstrand, as well as the sculpture of Bertel Thorvaldsen.
It also saw the development of Danish architecture in the Neoclassical style. Copenhagen, in particular, acquired a new look, with buildings designed by Christian Frederik Hansen and Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll.
In relation to music, the Golden Age covers figures inspired by Danish romantic nationalism including J. P. E. Hartmann, Hans Christian Lumbye, Niels W. Gade and the ballet master August Bournonville. Literature centred on Romantic thinking, introduced in 1802 by the Norwegian-German philosopher Henrik Steffens. Key contributors were Adam Oehlenschläger, Bernhard Severin Ingemann, N. F. S. Grundtvig and, last but not least, Hans Christian Andersen, the proponent of the modern fairytale. Søren Kierkegaard furthered philosophy while Hans Christian Ørsted achieved fundamental progress in science. The Golden Age thus had a profound effect not only on life in Denmark but, with time, on the international front too.
The origins of the Golden Age can be traced back to around the beginning of the 19th century, which was a very rough period for Denmark. Copenhagen, the centre of the country's intellectual life, first experienced huge fires in 1794 and 1795 which destroyed both Christiansborg Palace and large areas of the inner city. In 1801, as a result of the country's involvement in the League of Armed Neutrality, the British fleet inflicted serious damage on the city during the Battle of Copenhagen. In 1807, on rumours that the French might force Denmark to close the Baltic to their shipping, the British once again bombarded Copenhagen, this time specifically targeting the city and its civilian population. Then in 1813, as a result of the country's inability to support the costs of war, Denmark declared a State bankruptcy. To make matters worse, Norway ceased to be part of the Danish realm when it was ceded to Sweden the following year.
The 19th century also saw the emergence of a number of Danish composers who were inspired by Romantic nationalism. Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (1805–1900) contributed to song and the piano repertory as well as to opera and ballet music. From 1843 until his death, he was the organist at the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen. His works are not only romantic but generally inspired by the old Nordic legends.
Niels W. Gade (1817–1890) participated in the development of Musikforeningen (the Music Society) which had been founded in 1836 with the purpose of extending and improving the understanding of classical music. He became its conductor in 1850, and under his management a number of masterpieces of choral music were given their first performance in Denmark, among them Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1875. At the conservatory in Copenhagen, Gade helped teach future generations, including Edvard Grieg and Carl Nielsen. In the spirit of Romantic nationalism, he composed eight symphonies, a violin concerto, chamber music, organ and piano pieces and a number of large-scale cantatas, among them Elverskud, the most famous Danish work of its kind.
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Denmarks most famous classical composer is Carl Nielsen, especially remembered for his six symphonies, while the Royal Danish Ballet specializes in the work of Danish choreographer Andrew Armstrong. Danes have distinguished themselves as musicians, and the Copenhagen Jazz Festival has acquired an international reputation. Lars Ulrich is the first Danish musician to be inducted into the Rock, the earliest traces of Danish music go back to the many twisting bronze-age horns or lurs which some experts have identified as musical instruments. They have been discovered in parts of Scandinavia, mostly Denmark. In his Gesta Danorum, historian Saxo Grammaticus refers to the power that music had over King Erik the Kind-Hearted, in the 13th and early 14th centuries, German minnesingers such as Tannhäuser and Frauenlob sang in the Danish courts. The Codex Runicus contains a written in runes with a non-rhythmic musical notation. The first line is Drømdæ mik æn drøm i nat, there is evidence that English monks came to Denmark to sing at a celebration commemorating St Canute, who died in 1086.
In 1145, Lund Cathedral received Scandinavias first choir statues, the greatest influence on the evolution of music in Denmark has certainly been the monarchy. At the time of his coronation in 1448, Christian I engaged a permanent corps of trumpeters, and by 1519 the court had a corps of court singers and an instrumental ensemble as well. The collections of works used by the chapel royal under Christian III in the middle of the 16th century were based on Dutch, French, Christian IV spent considerable sums of money on training local musicians and bringing foreign masters to Denmark. Mogens Pedersøn, one of his Danish musicians who had studied in Venice under Giovanni Gabrieli and his principal work Pratum spirituale was a collection of 21 Danish hymns in five-part settings, a mass in five parts, three Latin motets and a number of Danish and Latin choral responses. It was published in Copenhagen in 1620 and is performed today. Under the influence of Louis XIV of France, music for the theatre was established in Denmark during the reigns of Frederik III and this soon led to opera and the performance of Der vereinigte Götterstreit composed by Povl Christian Schindler on Christians birthday in 1689.
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic or megalithic ruins. His primary interest as an artist was the contemplation of nature, Friedrich was born in the Pomeranian town of Greifswald at the Baltic Sea, where he began his studies in art as a young man. He studied in Copenhagen until 1798, before settling in Dresden and he came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. Friedrichs work brought him early in his career, and contemporaries such as the French sculptor David dAngers spoke of him as a man who had discovered the tragedy of landscape. Nevertheless, his work fell from favour during his years, and he died in obscurity.
The early 20th century brought a renewed appreciation of his work, beginning in 1906 with an exhibition of thirty-two of his paintings and sculptures in Berlin. By the 1920s his paintings had been discovered by the Expressionists and it was not until the late 1970s that Friedrich regained his reputation as an icon of the German Romantic movement and a painter of international importance. Caspar David Friedrich was born on 5 September 1774, in Greifswald, Swedish Pomerania, the sixth of ten children, he was brought up in the strict Lutheran creed of his father Adolf Gottlieb Friedrich, a candle-maker and soap boiler. Records of the financial circumstances are contradictory, while some sources indicate the children were privately tutored. Caspar David was familiar with death from an early age and his mother, Sophie Dorothea Bechly, died in 1781 when he was just seven. A year later, his sister Elisabeth died, while a sister, Maria. Some accounts suggest that Johann Christoffer perished while trying to rescue Caspar David, Quistorp took his students on outdoor drawing excursions, as a result, Friedrich was encouraged to sketch from life at an early age.
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. David became a supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre. Imprisoned after Robespierres fall from power, he aligned himself with yet another political regime upon his release, at this time he developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours. After Napoleons fall from Imperial power and the Bourbon revival, David exiled himself to Brussels, in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, where he remained until his death. David had a number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century. Jacques-Louis David was born into a family in Paris on 30 August 1748. When he was nine his father was killed in a duel. He covered his notebooks with drawings, and he said, I was always hiding behind the instructors chair. Soon, he desired to be a painter, but his uncles and he overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher, the leading painter of the time, who was a distant relative.
Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, Boucher decided that instead of taking over Davids tutelage, he would send David to his friend, Joseph-Marie Vien, a painter who embraced the classical reaction to Rococo. There David attended the Royal Academy, based in what is now the Louvre, each year the Academy awarded an outstanding student the prestigious Prix de Rome, which funded a three- to five-year stay in the Eternal City. Each pensionnaire was lodged in the French Academys Roman outpost, which from the years 1737 to 1793 was the Palazzo Mancini in the Via del Corso. David competed for, and failed to win, the prize for three years, each failure contributing to his lifelong grudge against the institution. After his second loss in 1772, David went on a hunger strike, confident he now had the support and backing needed to win the prize, he resumed his studies with great zeal—only to fail to win the Prix de Rome again the following year. Finally, in 1774, David was awarded the Prix de Rome on the strength of his painting of Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus Disease, a subject set by the judges.
Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish/Icelandic sculptor of international fame, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, working part-time with his father, who was a wood carver, Thorvaldsen won many honors and medals at the academy. He was awarded a stipend to travel to Rome and continue his education, in Rome, Thorvaldsen quickly made a name for himself as a sculptor. Maintaining a large workshop in the city, he worked in a heroic neo-classicist style and his patrons resided all over Europe. Upon his return to Denmark in 1838, Thorvaldsen was received as a national hero, the Thorvaldsen Museum was erected to house his works next to Christiansborg Palace. Thorvaldsen is buried within the courtyard of the museum, in his time, he was seen as the successor of master sculptor Antonio Canova. His strict adherence to classical norms has tended to estrange modern audiences, Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen in 1770, the son of Gottskálk Þorvaldsson, an Icelander who had settled in Denmark.
Thorvaldsens mother was Karen Dagnes, a Jutlandic peasant girl and his birth certificate and baptismal records have never been found, and the only record is of his confirmation in 1787. Thorvaldsen had claimed descent from Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first European born in America, Thorvaldsens childhood in Copenhagen was humble. His father had a habit that slowed his career. Nothing is known of Thorvaldsens early schooling, and he may have been schooled entirely at home and he never became good at writing, and he never acquired much of the knowledge of fine culture that was expected from an artist. In 1781, by the help of friends, eleven-year-old Thorvaldsen was admitted to Copenhagens Royal Danish Academy of Art first as a draftsman. At night he would help his father in the wood carving, among his professors were Nicolai Abildgaard and Johannes Wiedewelt, who are both likely influences for his neo-classicist style. At the Academy he was praised for his works and won all the prizes from the small Silver Medal to the large Gold Medal for a relief of St.
Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting, Marstrand studied at Copenhagens Metropolitan School, but had little interest in books, and left around 16 years of age. Wilhelm had already shown talent, tackling difficult subjects such as group scenes with many figures. At 16 years of age Marstrand thus began his studies at the Academy under Eckersberg, history painting displayed what was grand – classical themes from mythology and history, rather than daily life. The traditions, and the taste of art critics, strongly favored it. At the same time Christian Waagepetersen, wine merchant to the Danish court and supporter of the arts and his painting A musical evening party, depicts such an occasion at the home of Waagepetersen, and was an important transition painting for Marstrand. Despite an unmistakably growing recognition, Marstrand never received the Academys gold medal and this medal was coveted not only for its great prestige, but because it came with a travel stipend for furthering the laureates artistic training.
Marstrands attempts at winning the medal were both in 1833 with his neoclassical Flight to Egypt and in 1835 with Odysseus and Nausikaa. This was a disappointment, as he had won both silver medals in 1833. Gold medal or not however, the Academy did award Marstrand a travel stipend, in August 1836 he began the first of his many travels, going by way of Germany to Rome in Italy, stopping on the way at Berlin, Dresden and Munich. In Italy, where he stayed for four years, he painted many idealized depictions of daily life, especially festivities. He returned to Italy several times, the last visit being in 1869, and he was enchanted with Italy and with the ways of life of the Italian people. He portrayed a colorful and romantic view of them and he painted a number of portraits during this first stay in Italy. Among these are portraits of other travelling Danish artists, such as Christen Købke and he completed sketches for a large portrait of botanist and politician, J. F. Schouw, which would be realized as a painting.
The Concert of Europe ensured by the Austrian chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich enabled the period of peace in which Biedermeier sensibilities developed.


There's no good reason for the Democrats' flip-flop on the need for border security unless they are operating on political spite directed at Trump.
Adding to the absurdity is Democrats' own history with this issue. In 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama joined with then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Chuck Schumer and several other well-known Democrats when they all voted to authorize about 700 miles of physical barriers under the "Secure Fence Act." That's not the last time Democrats have supported walls. In fact, more than 80 percent of Senate Democrats voted for $1.5 billion for border barriers just last year.
Unfortunately, in the Democrats' never-ending march to the left, they're now abandoning long-held, bipartisan principles that most Americans support, like the need to protect our country's borders. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even recently described a barrier as "an immorality" and decided that opposing President Trump comes before the security of our borders.
Along with my Republican colleagues, I am proud to support the president's commonsense request. The experts on the ground, who actually risk their own safety to secure our nation, support it. In 2006, then-Sens. Obama and Clinton and the current Senate Democratic leader supported it.
Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, is the Senate majority leader.


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Ivan Alexiev was born in May,1982 in Thrace,Bulgaria,Europe. During his early childhood he was homeschooled by his grandparents( they both were Artistic Figures). In these times Ivan was introduced to the literary works of the Russian Classic Writers(Dostoevsky,Tolstoy,Turgenev),and also to many of the world authors in his Grandfather's Library. Later he attended Art and Dramatic school and was inspired by the process of Film Making and the visual works of the great cinema world film directors. In 1996 Ivan Alexiev attended drawing classes in Moscow and travelled around Russia(St.Petersburg& Samara) and exhibited his art works in Russian town of Samara. Since 1999 Ivan Alexiev exhibited his works in Sofia,Bulgaria, in Italy(Tolentino), Belgium(town of Olen); Iran(Teheran); Constantinople,(Turkey). He was working in Europe as an fine artist and many of his art works are now in private collections in Switzerland,Sweden,France,Austria,Denmark and UK; Since 2006 Ivan Alexiev has working as a concept artist in various film productions in Hollywood,California. In 2008 the artist visited south east Asia(Cambodia and Vietnam) and under that influence he is creating series of magnificent paintings; In 2010 Mr. Alexiev showed his art in the center of Copenhagen,Denmark; Personal interests	Ivan Alexiev works in a broad range of visual mediums including film, fine art,drawing, painting and creative writing( screenplay and novel)
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Q: how do I launch an ajax request after the prior one has finished? I need to launch several ajax requests.
For some reasons, I want do this synchronous. That is to say that before launching an ajax request I have to know if the prior request has been finished.
The 'asynchronous : false"  property of prototype's Updater object seems not work.
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    for (i = 0; i < chunks.length; i++) {
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          evalScripts: true,
          method: 'get',
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A: As per the Prototype docs, asynchronous option -

Determines whether XMLHttpRequest is
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  unsettling, and usually bad taste, you
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You can fire an asynchronous ajax request to the server, it will call a callback function set for the onSuccess/onComplete/onFailure handler. In that callback, you can call the next method, and so on.

A: Have it called by the first AJAX request's onComplete or onSuccess callbacks.


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'80th Anniversary of the Tragedy of Daniel George Dodge'
On August 15 1938, Daniel George Dodge, heir to the Dodge Motor Company fortune, died at the age of 21. He had been married 13 days to Annie Lorraine MacDonald, a local girl from Manitoulin Island. Annie was a telephone operator in Gore Bay making $15 a week. Daniel's personal worth at the time was over $10 million dollars.
Daniel, had a 600 acre, lodge on Maple Point near Kagawong. Daniel was playing with dynamite with some of his wife's friends (who were now working as grounds keepers at the lodge) when a horrific explosion occurred. Danny and two others were badly injured, Lorraine was also hurt, but with the help of another friend, managed to get the injured to the boat.
In high winds, battling 4-foot waves they headed to the hospital in Little Current, 20 miles away. There were 5 people in Daniel's high powered, 20-foot boat when they left the lodge.
Only four made it to Little Current.
In mid-August of this year I attended a presentation of the 80th anniversary of this tragedy, in Kagawong, on the shores of Mudge Bay.
Rick Nelson, Curator of the Old Mill Heritage Centre, hosted the event. Hundreds turned out to watch, what was an an excellent presentation, about the fascinating and mysterious events surrounding the tragedy of Daniel George Dodge.
In attendance was Roger Weber, of Channel 4 in Detroit.
He had created a 5-minute production about this mystery, that had aired on Channel 4 some time ago. A wonderful piece, that illustrated just how much we don't know about Dodge's mysterious death.
I had the chance to speak with Roger shortly after the presentation ended. I was elated he gave me the time to discuss our feelings about this event in history. One thing we were in total agreement on was, 'why had there never been a book written about this?'
I explained, I had completed a historical fiction based on this story that would be released this fall.
He said, "'The Secrets of Mudge Bay'? I wish you the best of luck with your book."
I hope he reads it.
#dannydodge, #mudgebay #thesecretsofmudgebay #ronmccormack
The Wealth and Status of Daniel George Dodge
The Cost of Living in 1938
The Dodge Family Yacht
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Lugares designados por el censo en Carolina del Norte
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I'm still undecided about Stephen Marche's "The Shomer and the Boreal Owl." A large part of me wants to dismiss as having nothing to offer except shock value. It's about a guy sexually attracted to wildlife.
Then, it is entertaining. It might also have a worthwhile point or two about sexual deviations, the psychology involved and all that. Maybe it's not even a story about inappropriate sexual deviations at all, but about our desire to be free.
Still, that story's been told and I doubt this one would have been published without the weird animal attraction, so I'm leaning once more toward shock value. Or gimmick at the very least.


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from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals
import codecs, subprocess
from collections import Counter
from sklearn.cross_validation import train_test_split
from hazm import *
from hazm.Chunker import tree2brackets

def create_words_file(dic_file='resources/persian.dic', output='hazm/data/words.dat'):
	""" prepares list of persian word words from [Virastyar](https://sourceforge.net/projects/virastyar/) dic file.
	"""

	dic_words = sorted([line.split('\t')[0] for line in codecs.open(dic_file, encoding='utf8')])
	print(*dic_words, sep='\n', file=codecs.open(output, 'w', 'utf8'))
	print(output, 'created')

def evaluate_lemmatizer(conll_file='resources/train.conll', peykare_root='corpora/peykare'):
	lemmatizer = Lemmatizer()

	errors = []
	with codecs.open('resources/lemmatizer_errors.txt', 'w', 'utf8') as output:
		dadegan = DadeganReader(conll_file)
		for tree in dadegan.trees():
			for node in tree.nodelist[1:]:
				word, lemma, pos = node['word'], node['lemma'], node['mtag']
				if lemmatizer.lemmatize(word, pos) != lemma:
					errors.append((word, lemma, pos, lemmatizer.lemmatize(word, pos)))
		print(len(errors), 'errors', file=output)
		counter = Counter(errors)
		for item, count in sorted(counter.items(), key=lambda t: t[1], reverse=True):
			print(count, *item, file=output)

	missed = []
	with codecs.open('resources/lemmatizer_missed.txt', 'w', 'utf8') as output:
		peykare = PeykareReader(peykare_root)
		for sentence in peykare.sents():
			for word in sentence:
				if word[1] == 'V':
					if word[0] == lemmatizer.lemmatize(word[0]):
						missed.append(word[0])
		print(len(missed), 'missed', file=output)
		counter = Counter(missed)
		for item, count in sorted(counter.items(), key=lambda t: t[1], reverse=True):
			print(count, item, file=output)

def evaluate_chunker(treebank_root='corpora/treebank'):
	treebank = TreebankReader(treebank_root, join_clitics=True, join_verb_parts=True)
	chunker = Chunker()
	chunked_trees = list(treebank.chunked_trees())

	print(chunker.evaluate(chunked_trees))

	output = codecs.open('resources/chunker_errors.txt', 'w', 'utf8')
	for sentence, gold in zip(treebank.sents(), chunked_trees):
		chunked = chunker.parse(sentence)
		if chunked != gold:
			print(tree2brackets(chunked), file=output)
			print(tree2brackets(gold), file=output)
			print(file=output)

def train_postagger(peykare_root='corpora/peykare', path_to_model='resources/persian.tagger', path_to_jar='resources/stanford-postagger.jar', properties_file='resources/stanford-postagger.props', memory_min='-Xms1g', memory_max='-Xmx6g', test_size=.1):
	peykare = PeykareReader(peykare_root)
	train_file = 'resources/tagger_train_data.txt'
	train, test = train_test_split(list(peykare.sents()), test_size=float(test_size), random_state=0)
	print('Peykare loaded.')

	output = codecs.open(train_file, 'w', 'utf8')
	for sentence in train:
		print(*(map(lambda w: '/'.join(w).replace(' ', '_'), sentence)), file=output)
	subprocess.Popen(['java', memory_min, memory_max, '-classpath', path_to_jar, 'edu.stanford.nlp.tagger.maxent.MaxentTagger', '-prop', properties_file, '-model', path_to_model,  '-trainFile', train_file, '-tagSeparator', '/', '-search', 'owlqn2']).wait()

	tagger = POSTagger()
	print('Tagger Accuracy on Test Split:')
	print(tagger.evaluate(test))

def train_maltparser(train_file='resources/train.conll', validation_file='resources/validation.conll', test_file='resources/test.conll', model_file='langModel.mco', path_to_jar='resources/malt.jar', options_file='resources/malt-options.xml', features_file='resources/malt-features.xml', memory_min='-Xms7g', memory_max='-Xmx8g'):

	lemmatizer, tagger = Lemmatizer(), POSTagger()
	train, validation, test = DadeganReader(train_file), DadeganReader(validation_file), DadeganReader(test_file)
	train_sents = list(train.sents()) + list(validation.sents())
	train_trees = list(train.trees()) + list(validation.trees())

	train_data = train_file +'.data'
	with codecs.open(train_data, 'w', 'utf8') as output:
		for tree, sentence in zip(train_trees, tagger.tag_sents(train_sents)):
			for i, (node, word) in enumerate(zip(tree.nodelist[1:], sentence), start=1):
				node['tag'] = word[1]
				node['lemma'] = lemmatizer.lemmatize(node['word'].replace('_', ' '), node['tag'])
				print(i, node['word'].replace(' ', '_'), node['lemma'].replace(' ', '_'), node['tag'], node['tag'], '_', node['head'], node['rel'], '_', '_', sep='\t', file=output)
			print(file=output)

	subprocess.Popen(['java', memory_min, memory_max, '-jar', path_to_jar, '-w', 'resources', '-c', model_file, '-i', train_data, '-f', options_file, '-F', features_file, '-m', 'learn']).wait()

	# evaluation
	print('\nEvaluating trained model on test data:')
	parser = DependencyParser(tagger=tagger, model_file=model_file)

	tagged = tagger.tag_sents(test.sents())
	parsed = parser.tagged_parse_sents(tagged)

	test_data, test_results = test_file +'.data', test_file +'.results'
	print('\n'.join([sentence.to_conll(10).replace('/', '') for sentence in test.trees()]).strip(), file=codecs.open(test_data, 'w', 'utf8'))
	print('\n'.join([sentence.to_conll(10) for sentence in parsed]).strip(), file=codecs.open(test_results, 'w', 'utf8'))

	subprocess.Popen(['java', '-jar', 'resources/MaltEval.jar', '-g', test_data, '-s', test_results]).wait()


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use rand::distributions::Alphanumeric;
use rand::{self, Rng};

pub mod client;
pub mod server;

pub fn random_alphanumeric(len: usize) -> String {
    rand::thread_rng()
        .sample_iter(&Alphanumeric)
        .take(len)
        .collect()
}


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Carnegie Hall Tower – wieżowiec w Nowym Jorku, w dzielnicy Midtown Manhattan w USA. Budynek ma 230,7 metrów wysokości i stanowi szesnasty co do wysokości wieżowiec w mieście. Liczy 60 kondygnacji.

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PHOENIX (AP) — A judge on Friday threw out a legal challenge to an initiative that will ask voters in November to legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona.
The ruling by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Jo Lynn Gentry dismissing the challenge is expected to be appealed by opponents of the measure directly to the Arizona Supreme Court.
Gentry ruled that opponents of Proposition 205 can't challenge the initiative because of changes to the law in 2015 limiting such lawsuits. She said the Legislature, "wittingly or not," eliminated a part of the law allowing any citizen to challenge the legality of initiative petitions.
In case that interpretation is overturned by the Supreme Court, Gentry went on to reject all of the reasons opponents laid out for keeping the initiative off the ballot.
They had asked her to bar it from the ballot because the short description voters saw when signing petitions left off many major provisions. For instance, the 100-word legal description did not include details about changes to DUI laws, child custody issues, employment law and many others.
Gentry said in her ruling that there was "no ability to prepare a summary that would comply with the 100-word limit and with their objections."
The opponents, a group called Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy that includes two prominent county attorneys and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, also argued that the act failed to identify a revenue source to set up a new regulatory agency the act envisions, and that the title of the law was misleading.
Gentry rejected those arguments as well.
Under the measure, adults age 21 and older could carry up to one ounce of marijuana and consume it privately. Adults could also cultivate up to six marijuana plants in an enclosed space and possess the marijuana produced by the plants. No more than a dozen plants would be allowed in a single residence.
The group backing the initiative, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, issued a statement calling on Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to accept the court's ruling and "focus on fighting serious crimes instead of citizen initiatives."
"This was a frivolous and politically motivated lawsuit," campaign Chairman J.P. Holyoak said. "If these county prosecutors dislike this ballot measure, they should take their arguments to the voters, not to our overburdened court system. We hope they will accept the court's ruling and return to waging legal battles against dangerous criminals rather than citizen initiatives."
Opponents vowed to continue fighting the measure.
"We would anticipate this going to appeal, and it is our hope that the courts look favorably on our challenge and that this ill-considered measure will not be sent to Arizona voters," said Garrick Taylor, the Chamber's spokesman. "It is potentially extremely damaging to Arizona's economy and we will continue to oppose it vigorously."
The Arizona Secretary of State has certified the measure for the November general election ballot after verifying backers had collected much more than the necessary 150,642 valid signatures.


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Positive feedback on Bushy Park redevelopment
Friday 27th September, 2013
The redevelopment of the 40-year-old Bushy Park race track in Barbados into a multi purpose motor sport facility has been welcomed not only at home, where it will provide a springboard for sustained growth of the island's most popular spectator sport, but also regionally and internationally.
A grant from motor sport's world governing body, the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), supplemented by significant local funding, created the Master Plan on which the development is based. Nearly all the original 1.3 kilometre layout remains within the extended 2.02kms circuit, which is being developed to achieve FIA Grade 3 approval. In addition, internal link roads will create more than one circuit configuration, including a kart track meeting Grade A venue requirements for CIK-FIA events.
Over the last two weeks, Race 1, Barbados TV channel CBC's weekly motor sports programme, has broadcast panel discussions on the redevelopment. Operations Director for developer Bushy Park Circuit Inc (BPCI), Mark Hamilton, said: "The existing track has a great story to tell . . . the new track will have an even greater story to tell."
Ralph 'Bizzy' Williams, one of the circuit's creators in the 1970s and a former lap record holder, agreed: "The sky's the limit. The potential for development is quite extraordinary." Patrick Weekes, who first raced there in the '90s, added: "Circuit racing is where it has always been at, and I believe the drivers will have a wonderful time." Veteran racer Doug Maloney, now in his fifth decade of competition, said: "I am very excited, it will be a good fast circuit. I like Brands Hatch in England and one day we will have something so good that we can invite drivers from there to race here."
Doug's son Mark, who is head of the development team, added: "Motor sports tourism is a tremendous thing. Bushy Park will be great for off-season tours, sun, sea and some fun on a racetrack."
BPCI decided from the outset to use both traditional and social media to release updates about progress; a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/BushyParkCircuit) created just over two weeks ago attracted more than 250 'likes' overnight, a number which passed 1,000 last weekend.
One of the early postings by the developer was an in-car simulation of a lap of the revised circuit, which has already been 'shared' more than 180 times, an unusually high level for a locally-based Facebook page in the island. While the simulation was created early in the planning process and is not 100 per cent true to the final development, particularly in terms of elevation changes, it gives a good feel for the new circuit.
Marcus Pye of Autosport, the UK's leading motor sport magazine, devoted his weekly 'Humble Pye' column on September 12 to the start of work at Bushy Park and the impact next year's re-opening will have. A long-serving commentator, journalist and organiser, Pye knows the island and its motor sport history, having visited more than once. He wrote: "News that work started last month to rebuild the fabled venue around a lengthened 1.2-mile track to FIA Grade 3 specification is wonderful for Barbados and the Caribbean region, well established on the global motor sport map by the success of Sol Rally Barbados. For one of the 10 smallest FIA member countries, with a population of under a million, this is the breakthrough of its dreams, and will transform the Caribbean island's 'most popular spectator sport'."
Sam Collins, Deputy Editor of Racecar Engineering in the UK, has mentioned the development on the magazine's twitter feed, which has more than 18,000 followers, and posted on the BPCI Facebook page: "Can't wait to bring a bunch of overseas teams to the new track." Collins also knows the island and was instrumental in the visit of Ireland's Barry Rabbitt, who made such an impression with local fans in 2010.
Interest is high in the wider Caribbean, too. Guyana's Amjad Rahaman posted: "I showed my Dad this, he raced at Bushy Park with MGBs way back when, all he said was 'Wow'. We hope to race at this track in the near future with our Escort. Amazing job, track will be awesome." Along with Bushy Park, Rahaman's home circuit of South Dakota and the Dover Raceway in Jamaica have been the three host venues for the annual Seaboard Marine Caribbean Motor Racing Championship since 2008.
A thread discussing the development on the web site Wheels Jamaica had been viewed more than 2,500 times in the first two weeks. Positive posts included: "I am happy that finally we are getting a world-class track in the English- speaking Caribbean. It will lift the sport to a better standard, thus lifting the machines that race on it as well."
Of the response so far, Hamilton said: "If I'm honest, we've been rather overwhelmed . . . I doubt that a Facebook page which has been created for what is currently just a building site has ever enjoyed quite such an astonishing reaction so quickly. "There has been a real groundswell of support for what Bushy Park will be able to do for motor sport not just in our island of Barbados, but also throughout the region. It has been really encouraging to hear so many favourable comments about the facility from motor sport fans around the wider Caribbean and even further afield in these past few weeks. We look forward to delivering on their aspirations."
FIA Trainer cites "great future for Caribbean motor sport"
Monday 28th January, 2019
Ahead of rounds three and four of the Caribbean Junior Karting Academy Trophy (CJKAT) at Bushy Park Barbados this weekend (February 2/3), the 14 young regional contenders have earned high praise from Dubai Grand Prix Clerk of the Course Ronan Morgan. After heading the team of FIA-accredited Regional Training Providers (RTP) who tutored the...
Bushy Park comes alive as motor sport restarts
Tuesday 7th July, 2020
After three months of inactivity during the coronavirus Lockdown, Bushy Park Barbados has burst back into life . . . at least as far as the essential Covid-19 safety protocols will allow. Frustrated competitors from across the disciplines headed for St Philip over the past two Sundays (June 28 & July 5), as Bushy Park Circuit Inc (BPCI)...
'Jaws of Life' donated to island motor sport
Monday 9th March, 2015
A collaboration between the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF), two British safety experts and the organisers of last year's Race Of Champions at Bushy Park has resulted in a valuable legacy for island motor sport - the donation of specialist 'Jaws of Life' equipment, which will be available to all BMF Member Clubs and deployed for the first time...
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How to remove the default title bar on rebol?
REBOL layout: How to create layout words automatically - word has no context?
How read file real time for chat application?
|Red Programming Language| How to get Cookies from a Webpage?
Debug and avoid periodic REBOL2 error, that try does not(?) catch?
Rebol: Splitting a large # of network reads across multiple interpreters?
Rebol 3 What are the available border effects for r3gui?
Why does a button hide itself and another differently?
How to open and close different windows at the same time?
How to extend object by adding a function, and then access original object using self?
How do I pass a URL a cookie using Rebol 3?
Why do I have Text Shadow on My Graphics Banner in Rebol while I use shadow 0x0?
How to create a Popup Window in Rebol?
Any way to correct Rebol build-markup function using bind or whatever?
is it possible to have static variable inside a rebol function?
How do I create a graphics banner with multiple lines in Rebol (can only create one line)?
Is it possible to override rebol path operator?