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Formed in August of 1942, the 101st Airborne Division fought the Germans all over Western and Central Europe. The division's first combat was in support of the D-Day invasion. Show More
Formed in August of 1942, the 101st Airborne Division fought the Germans all over Western and Central Europe. The division's first combat was in support of the D-Day invasion. The night before the invasion, men from the 101st Airborne jumped and rode on gliders into Normandy. Despite being widely dispersed because of bad drops, and taking severe casualties, the men of the 101st Division fought with valor. They seized the bridge and area around Carentan, fought for their objectives, and severely disrupted German forces. After the battle for Normandy, the division fought in Operation Market Garden. Despite initially capturing many of their objectives during this operation, the men of the 101st were gradually pushed back by fierce German counter attacks. After retreating, the division held "Hell's Highway" and the town of Veghel while facing severe German attacks. After Market Garden, the division was sent into Bastogne, where they held their lines despite continuous German attacks and encirclement during the Battle of the Bulge. During the final days of World War II, the division captured the Eagle's Nest, Hitler's mountain retreat in Berchtesgaden. After being deactivated following World War II, the division was reactivated to fight in the Korean War. During the Vietnam War, the division fought in battles such as Hamburger Hill and Firebase Ripcord. The elite soldiers, especially a specialized unit called "Tiger Force," were greatly feared by the North Vietnamese, who warned their soldiers not to engage with the 101st. The division fought during Desert Storm and provided peacekeeping forces in Somalia and Kosovo. The division has also fought in the War on Terror, fighting against Islamic terrorists during multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A.R. McCahan
Cold War | 124th Signal Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, Mechanized
Back in the States and commanding a Signal Battalion, engineer Mac McCahan wrote an article on nodal communications systems that was groundbreaking. He used off the shelf gear and existing installations and improved service for all users. (3:43)
His expertise in satellite communications landed Mac McCahan a position at the headquarters of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. That expertise was put to good use on an ill fated mission during the Iran Hostage Crisis. (6:00)
There was no doubt Mac McCahan was a problem solver. He developed a scheme for bit stuffing that made incompatible gear work together. Should have been a patent right there. Then he encountered a problem that was projected to cost one million dollars and take a year to fix. Would he do it in half the time for half the money? Think again. (8:10)
The Generals kept asking, why do we lose our satellite link during the heavy tropical rain in the Philippines? The answer, according to communications engineer Mac McCahan, is in the true shape of a raindrop, a shape which is not what you might think. (2:53)
Mac McCahan has a message for all who served in a support role instead of a combat unit. First, consider yourself lucky, and second, your service was just as necessary and contributed just as much as anyone's. (2:11)
Al Mampre
WWII | E Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
There was no way paratroop trainee Al Mampre wanted to be a medic. So, naturally, he became a medic. On his first jump into Holland, he had an unusual experience under fire involving civilians and cherries. (3:09)
Medic Al Mampre was wounded when he went to the aid of a soldier who was in the open, with no cover at all. He was impressed with the Dutch civilians who ran, unarmed, out to help him. He recovered and stayed with the Allied push all the way to Bastogne, which he allowed was, "A little chilly." (6:35)
It was the best duty he ever had. Al Mampre was in charge of health care for visiting dignitaries in a luxury hotel in Berchtesgaden. He learned to love the speckled trout and how to dodge MP's in a big Packard. (3:20)
He knew it was somewhere and he found it. In a tunnel under a hotel, Al Mampre found hundreds of bottles of booze hidden by the Nazis. What he didn't expect was when a woman flanked by two MP's came in and pointed to a seat cushion he was using. (2:50)
Al Mampre says the medics were fastest on the mountain, fastest on the obstacle course and better on the firing range, except for him. He tells how a sergeant in his outfit inspired the story of the Band of Brothers. And he reveals his parting comments to his commanding officer and his girlfriend's premonition. (5:25)

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Parent Zoom Meeting (Q&A with the Head Teacher) – Friday 22nd January 12pm
Parents & Carers Information
Home Learning Area
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Mental Health Guidance and Leaflets around COVID 19.
Changes to the school day
Following on from meetings with students and discussions with local Primary Schools, we have recognised that some families have difficulty in arriving at school for 8.35 a.m. This is often due to transport limitations, or to the logistics of dropping younger siblings at Primary Schools.
We have therefore agreed that after half term, there will be changes to the school day, as follows:
PERIOD START FINISH
Period 1 8.50 a.m. 9.50 a.m.
Period 2 9.50 a.m. 10.50 a.m.
Break 10.50 a.m. 11.05 a.m.
Period 3 11.05 a.m. 12.05 p.m.
Period 4 12.05 p.m. 1.05 p.m.
Lunch 1.05 p.m. 1.40 p.m.
Form 1.40 p.m. 2.00 p.m.
Period 5 2.00 p.m. 3.00 p.m.
Therefore, when we return after the holidays on Monday 1st June, students will be expected to be at their first lesson at 8.50 a.m.
We hope that this will enable parents and carers to have more time to accommodate getting their children to school.
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Are you covered to ski off-piste?
If you listened to BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme today, you may be digging out your insurance policy's terms and conditions to check whether you're covered to ski off-piste.
Following a spate of recent avalanche deaths and warnings from officials in the French alps to be vigilant if skiing off-piste, the radio programme covered the issue of disputed insurance claims and cautioned that some ski policies could fail to cover you when you need them most.
You and Yours highlighted the 20 off-piste skiing deaths in the Alps since Christmas and spoke to Chris Radford from Henry's Avalanche Talk a company providing avalanche safety training for skiers. He has carried out research into when people are covered or not covered by various insurance companies in the event of an accident and found the answers were not always clear. In general he got a very helpful response from specialist companies run by skiers providing insurance for skiers and less clear responses from larger more generalist companies.
Rest assured, the BMC's Alpine & Ski policy does cover off-piste skiing and makes no distinction of whether you are with a guide. It covers up to £10,000,000 for medical expenses. Snowboarding in Europe is covered without additional premium and can be added to worldwide policies at an additional cost.
Listen to the full interview on BBC iPlayer.
Extreme skiing is in the excluded list of current BMC policies.
What is the definition of extreme skiing? Is it above a particular grade of descent? Or perhaps a grade in certain conditions? Or perhaps only for ungraded new descents? Anything in Anselme Baud's book is considered extreme?
Without an upfront definition, modern skiers, , might unwittingly compromise their insurance cover doing stuff that is considered 'extreme' by piste skiers but not by the current ski mountaineering community.
I'm sure extreme ski accidents are very rare indeed, the hurdle of the first turn acts as a great 'wally stopper'!
A clarification of the definition would offer reassurance that the underwriters will not try and wriggle out of claim that they conveniently consider extreme.


The City of Berkeley. bums smell, streets smell, people smell. You can smell pot in the streets, the streets haven't been paved in years. Everyone cares so much about their own achievements and their resume. But in fact, so many people don't matter on this campus.
If you're looking for social life here, it is very minimal besides all the same groups smoking and drinking their lives away. Normal stores (not markets) close at around 6pm, leaving the students in their homes on weekdays.
As for classes, so many of them are insignificantly boring. On a side note, the city operation of berkeley is very poor.
Berkeley could be one of the worst places for drivers with all the one-way streets, many stop signs, unpredictable roadblocks, up and down hills, and the lack of parking for any sort of event. There is actually three respectable things about UC Berkeley, and they are the libraries, faculty, and the Campanile (clock tower).
One advice too all of you students looking to attend berkeley, is to STAY AWAY. A pessimestic environment will turn you into a pessimist.


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PM Modi to meet ministers selected for coveted portfolios at his residence
Earlier in the morning, the prime minister held a final round of consultations, with BJP president Amit Shah, to give shape to his council of ministers before sending the list to the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
UPDATED: May 30, 2019 13:29 IST
Modi will take oath along with his new council of ministers at 7 pm (Image credit: Reuters)
Ministers selected for oath of office will meet Narendra Modi at his residence at 4.30
Modi will take oath along with his new council of ministers at 7 pm
The BJP has refrained from making any official comment about the likely members
Ministers selected for oath of office will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence at 4.30 on Thursday, shortly before the swearing-in ceremony, sources said. Capping a landslide election victory, Modi will take oath along with his new council of ministers at 7 pm.
Earlier in the morning, the prime minister held a final round of consultations, with BJP president Amit Shah, to give shape to his council of ministers before sending the list to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. As the party geared up for the celebrations, Shah's Akbar Road residence was decked up. BJP general secretary (organisation) Ram Lal was among those who met Shah at his residence.
Modi and Shah have held several rounds of discussions in the last two days ahead of government formation.
Shah, the architect of BJP's victory of 303 seats in the Lok Sabha, is believed to be among those who will join the Modi cabinet and is tipped to get either Home or Finance, sources said.
Other senior party leaders such as Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh Tomar, Prakash Javadekar, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dharmendra Pradhan and Smriti Irani are also likely to join the second Modi government after being its members in its first avatar.
The others tipped to get a ministerial berth include Sadananda Gowda, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Jayant Sinha, Giriraj Singh, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Thawarchand Gehlot, Dilip Ghosh, Jitendra Singh and Purshottam Rupala.
Sources said Modi government 2.0 is likely to showcase the party's newfound strength in different regions.
BJP allies like Shiv Sena, JD(U), AIADMK, LJP, Akali Dal and Apna Dal are set to be represented in the government. Each NDA ally is likely to get one cabinet berth, sources said. The Shiv Sena has confirmed its leader Arvind Sawant, who defeated Congress heavyweight Milind Deora from Mumbai, will be its nominee in the council of ministers. Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Badal, who was Food Processing minister in the earlier government, will be in the new council of ministers as well, sources said.
The Lok Janshakti Party has already passed a resolution recommending its president Ram Vilas Paswan as the party's representative in the Modi government. The JD-U is likely to nominate either Ram Nath Thakur or Santosh Kushwaha, sources said.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's decision to opt out on health grounds has fuelled speculation about who will get his coveted portfolio. Railway Minister Goyal, who filled in for Jaitley and presented the populist pre-election budget, is being seen as a key contender.
The BJP has refrained from making any official comment about the likely members of the government, with its leaders asserting that it is the prime minister's prerogative.
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Za slovensko narečje glej članek Prekmursko narečje.

Prekmurski knjižni jezik ali prekmurska knjižna norma (prekmursko Prekmörski, ali Prekmürski kniževni jezik) je bil jezikovni standard slovenščine, ki se je razvijal na podlagi prekmurskega narečja. Nastal je v začetku 18. stoletja in trajal do konca druge svetovne vojne.

Razvoj knjižne norme

Od prve polovice 16. stoletja so že bili različni rokopisi v prekmurščini, ki so ustvarili prekmursko knjižno tradicijo (stara martjanska pesmarica). V slovenskem jezikovnem območju je bila knjižna prekmurščina edini knjižni jezik, ki je ostal po oblikovanju enotnega slovenskega knjižnega jezika. Marko Jesenšek piše, da prekmurski knjižni jezik v liriki, prozi in publicistiki prekmurskih avtorjev ter v nekaterih časopisih še vedno živi. V liturgiji ju uporabljata prekmurska evangeličanska in binkoštna Cerkev ter katoliška Cekev v slovenskem Porabju na Madžarskem. Knjižna prekmurščina si je veliko elementov izposojala iz drugih slovanskih in neslovanskih jezikov, kot iz kajkavščine, gradiščanščine, nemščine, madžarščine, latinščine, srbohrvaščine, osrednje in štajerske slovenščine ter nekaj iz češčine in slovaščine. Hkrati je vplivala na kajkavski, štajerski in gradiščanski jezik. Pomembna postaja prekmurskega knjižnega jezika je bila, ko sta Štefan Küzmič in Mikloš Küzmič prevedla Novo zavezo Svetega pisma. Avgust Pavel je poskusil napisati slovnico prekmurščine, vendar madžarizacija ni dovolila izdaje.

Do 21. stoletja je veliko slovenskih jezikoslovcev menilo, da prekmurščina ni knjižna norma, temveč odklon od slovenskega jezika. Politika je večkrat omejila delovanje knjižne prekmurščine, pogosto so argumentirali na šovinistično vendsko vprašanje, ker se je pod vplivom madžarizacije več prekmurskih avtorjev poskusilo čim bolj odtujiti od slovenščine.

Ker je med kajkavščino in prekmurščino veliko podobnosti, so se prekmurski avtorji trudili bližati kajkavskemu knjižnemu jeziku, predvsem tisti avtorji, ki so delali od časa Franca Temlina do časa Jožefa Košiča. Knjižna kajkavščina je po letu 1850 prenehala, vendar če bi ostala, takrat prekmurski knjižni jezik še naprej bi bližal kajkavščini.

Prekmurski knjižni in pogovorni jezik v 19. stoletju je vplival na gradiščanski jezik. Najpomembnejši gradiščanski pisatelj v tej dobi je bil Jožef Ficko, rojen na Boreči. Ficko je svoje slovenizme (prekmurizme) koristil v gradiščanskem jeziku in vplival tudi na prisičko narečje.

Po prenehanju knjižne kajkavščine so kajkavski Hrvati v Medžimurju dolgo časa brali prekmurske knjige. V Medžimurju so se tudi naročili na časopis Prijátel Imreta Augustiča.

Po prvi svetovni vojni je politik in katoliški duhovnik Jožef Klekl skupaj z drugimi pomembnimi prekmurci, kot so bili evangeličanski senior Števan Kovatš, zahteval jezikovno avtonomijo za Prekmurje, vendar je slovenska oblast izpodbila prošnjo. V tem času se je prekmurski knjižni jezik obnovil. Različni časopisi kot so bile Novine, Mörszka krajina, Düševni list, koledarji Kalendar Srca Jezušovoga, Evangeličanski kalendar in knjige Hodi k oltarskomi svestvi, Molite bratje! so ustvarili tako imenovani drugi prekmurski neologizem.

Maks Pleteršnik je predlagal širitev slovenskega knjižnega jezika s prekmurskimi besedami. Pleteršnik je v svojem slovarju zbiral veliko prekmurskih besed od Mihaela Bakoša, Aleksandra Terplana in pertoške rokopisne pesmarice. Stanislav Škrabec je odklonil prekmurizme v slovenskem knjižnem jeziku. Tako je menil, da je prekmurščina in vzhodna štajerščina (ki jo je izoblikoval Peter Dajnko) nista knjižni normi, temveč jezikovni separatizem, odcepitev od slovenskega jezika in naroda. V resnici se prekmurski knjižni jezik ni oddaljil od slovenščine in vzhodnoštajerski jezik je hotel tvoriti prehod med osrednjo in vzhodno slovenščino.

Prekmurski knjižni jezik v 20. stoletju
Med največjimi zagovorniki prekmurščine so bili evangeličani, predvsem njihov senior Števan Kovatš, ki se je v svojem slavnostnem govoru ob vkorakanju madžarske vojske 16. aprila 1941 zelo zavzel za prekmurski jezik. Prekmurščino so ohranjali z Evangeličanskim kalendarjem in Düševnim listom ter seveda z bogoslužjem v prekmurskem jeziku. Oblast je poskušala bogoslužja v prekmurščini preprečiti, vendar so se evangeličani sklicevali na svoje zakone, po katerih mora biti božja beseda podana vsakemu človeku v njemu razumljivem jeziku.

Božidar Borko je v časopisu Murska straža pokazal, da vprašanje knjižne prekmurščine v slovenskem področju leta 1919 ni bilo mogoče prikazovati ozko v narečnih okvirih, ampak je potrebno upoštevati tiste vzroke, ki so v cerkvi, kulturi, politiki, literaturi in jezikovni zgodovini. Ti vzroki so vplivali na to, da se je v panonskem prostoru ohranila knjižna prekmurščina. Ta jezik pa je različen od osrednjeslovenskega jezika v glasolovju, oblikoslovju, skladnji in besedju. Zato se delitev na dva tipa slovenskega knjižnega jezika kar sama ponuja. Borko je nastanek in razvoj prekmurskega jezika razumel kot zgodovinsko in kulturno-politično vprašanje, vprašanje zgodovine slovenske knjižne norme, vprašanje jezika v šolstvu, ter odnost med Prekmurci in Kajkavci.

Po drugi svetovni vojni je slovenska komunistična stranka prepovedala, da bi se na uradnih mestih uporabljalo prekmurščino. Disciplinska komisija je lahko obtožila ljudi, ki so na javnih mestih govorili prekmursko. Vilko Novak se je spominjal (1997): »Po drugi vojni leta 1956 sem prvi prišel uradno na Madžarsko in v Porabje in tam govoril slovensko v našem narečju … Zato sem bil napaden v domačem prekmurskem okolju. Temu je sledila dveletna disciplinska preiskava, ki mi ni mogla dokazati nič slabega. Me je pa ovirala pri mojem strokovnem napredovanju.«

Prekmurska abeceda

Pred letom 1914

Po letu 1914

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 Porabsko narečje#Porabsko narečje kot pokrajinski knjižni jezik

Viri in literatura

 Marko Jesenšek: Prekmuriana, Cathedra Philologiae Slavicae, Balassi Kiadó, Budapest 2010. ISBN 978-963-506-846-3
 Marko Jesenšek: Poglavja iz zgodovine prekmurskega knjižnega jezika, Bielsko-Biała, Budapest, Kansas, Maribor, Praha 2013. ISBN 978-961-6656-93-1
 Franc Kuzmič: Stranke v Prekmurju med obema vojnama, Kronika Ljubljana 39. letnik, 1991.
 Vilko Novak: Izbor prekmurskega slovstva, Ljubljana 1976.
 Nikola: Benčić: Književnost gradiščanskih Hrvata, Zagreb 1998. ISBN 953-6260-05-0
 Brane Jeranko: Slovenec - književnik gradiščanskih Hrvatov, Jezik in slovstvo 1977/1978

Zunanje povezave
Marko Jesenšek: Stične točke pri oblikovanju slovaškega in prekmurskega knjižnega jezika
Marko Jesenšek: Prekmurska publicistika med knjižno normo in tradicijo
Anita Markoja: Razvoj prekmurskega knjižnega jezika med obema vojnama

Prekmurščina

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A Halloween piece, completed in October of 2003, originally for the October page of the Computer Art Calendar I did that year. Since there was almost no time before Halloween, I took it down right afterwards. But we had a few copies, so I took them to shows, and people liked it.
So I decided to leave it up!
Done with Lightwave 7.5®, using a Vue 4 sky, and retouched a tiny bit in Adobe® Photoshop® (mostly for the hair and ground fog.) This time, I made all of my own models, including the girl.
This print is now available only from my Zazzle store. (The signed prints have been sold out.) Prints from Zazzle aren't signed, but you can choose any size you want, printed on any of the various Zazzle papers (from cardstock to canvas.) Prints come without a frame or mat, but you can have them framed if you want to.
So, go to the Boo! print in the Zazzle store.


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Winston Churchill said there was only one battle that really scared him in the Second World War.
Only one battle that, if we lost it, we'd lose the war.
As an island, we can't grow enough food to feed 50 million people.
97% of our imports come by ship.
If the Atlantic convoys stopped, we would start to starve after three weeks.
If the U boats could sink enough ships, we'd have to surrender.
That battle lasted six years.
During the course of it, they sank 3,500 merchant ships.
The main reason it was eventually won was cracking the Enigma code.
The code that was supposedly unbreakable.
By breaking it, the British were able to reroute their slow-moving convoys around the 'wolf packs' of up to thirty waiting U Boats.
The Enigma code was changed every day.
So it had to be broken on a daily basis.
And there were up to 150 trillion possible combinations.
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  npm install moment-taiwan
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If you want to work with Taiwan calendar system , you can use Bradwoo8621's plugin `moment-taiwan`.

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```js
m = moment('104/01/01', 'tYY/MM/DD') // Parse a Taiwan date
m.format('tYY/MM/DD [is] YYYY/M/D') // 104/01/01 is 2015/01/01

m.twYear() // 104
```

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    factory :today_order do
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end


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O  (também conhecido como volfrâmio ou wolfrâmio) é um elemento químico de símbolo W e número atômico 74.

Um metal de cor branco cinza sob condições padrão, quando não combinado (o tungstênio é encontrado na natureza apenas combinado com outros elementos). Foi identificado como um novo elemento em 1781, e isolado pela primeira vez como metal em 1783. Os seus minérios mais importantes são a volframita e a scheelita. O elemento livre é notável pela sua robustez, especialmente pelo fato de possuir o mais alto ponto de fusão de todos os metais e o segundo mais alto entre todos os elementos, a seguir ao carbono. Também notável é a sua alta densidade, 19,3 vezes maior do que a da água, comparável às do urânio e ouro, e muito mais alta (cerca de 1,7 vezes) que a do chumbo. O tungstênio com pequenas quantidades de impurezas é frequentemente frágil e duro, tornando-o difícil de trabalhar. Contudo, o tungstênio muito puro é mais dúctil, e pode ser cortado com uma serra de metais.

A forma elementar não combinada é usada sobretudo em aplicações eletrônicas. As muitas ligas de tungstênio têm numerosas aplicações, destacando-se os filamentos de lâmpadas incandescentes, tubos de raios X (como filamento e como alvo), e superligas. A dureza e elevada densidade do tungstênio tornam-no útil em aplicações militares como projéteis penetrantes. Os compostos de tungstênio são geralmente usados industrialmente como catalisadores.

O tungstênio é o único metal da terceira série de transição que se sabe ocorrer em biomoléculas, usadas por algumas espécies de bactérias. É o elemento mais pesado que se sabe ser usado por seres vivos. Porém, o tungstênio interfere com os metabolismos do molibdênio e do cobre, e é algo tóxico para a vida animal.

História
Os primeiros relatos de que se sabe hoje fazerem referência a ocorrências deste elemento remontam ao século XVI. Nessa altura, os mineiros que extraíam minério de estanho nos Montes Metalíferos relatavam a existência de um mineral que acompanhava o minério de estanho, e que reduzia o rendimento da extração deste metal a partir do minério. Johann Gottlob Lehmann, em 1761, foi o primeiro a fundir cristais puros de volframita em nitrato de sódio. A existência do tungstênio seria proposta, pela primeira vez, em 1779, por Peter Woulfe, o qual após examinar a volframita, concluiu que este mineral continha uma nova substância. Em 1781, Carl Wilhelm Scheele descobriu que um novo ácido, o ácido túngstico, podia ser obtido a partir da scheelita (então chamada tungstenita). Scheele e Torbern Bergman sugeriram que poderia ser possível obter um novo metal por meio da redução deste ácido. Em 1783, Juan José e Fausto Delhuyar descobriram um ácido obtido da volframita que era idêntico ao ácido túngstico. Mais tarde nesse mesmo ano, na Espanha, os irmãos conseguiram isolar o tungstênio por meio da redução do seu ácido com carvão vegetal, sendo-lhes creditada a descoberta deste elemento, publicada em setembro de 1783 na obra Analisis quimico del volfram, y examen de un nuevo metal,que entra en su composicion.

As primeiras aplicações do tungstênio começaram a ser desenvolvidas em meados do século XIX, química (1847) e aços (1855), e no início do século XX, filamentos (1903) e carbetos (1913).

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o tungstênio teve um papel significativo nos negócios políticos de bastidores. Portugal, como principal produtor europeu do elemento, foi pressionado por ambos os lados, devido às suas jazidas de minério de volframita. A resistência do tungstênio a altas temperaturas e a sua capacidade de aumentar a resistência de ligas metálicas tornavam-no uma matéria-prima importante para a indústria do armamento.

Etimologia
O termo "tungstênio" tem origem nos termos nórdicos tung sten, significando "pedra pesada", utilizados por Axel Fredrik Cronstedt em 1757 para designar o mineral que hoje se designa scheelita, descoberto na Suécia em 1750. É usado em muitas línguas como nome deste elemento. O termo "volfrâmio" (ou "wolfrâmio"), usado em muitas línguas europeias (sobretudo línguas eslavas e germânicas), deriva do mineral volframita. Este, por seu lado, deriva do alemão "wolf rahm" ("fuligem de lobo", "creme de lobo"), o nome dado ao tungstênio por Johan Gottschalk Wallerius em 1747, e do qual derivou também o símbolo químico do elemento, W. "Wolf rahm" por sua vez deriva de "Lupi spuma", o nome usado por Georg Agricola para este elemento em 1546, traduzido para português como "espuma" ou "creme de lobo" (a etimologia não é certa), e é uma referência às grandes quantidades de estanho perdidas na extração deste metal devido à presença de volframita no minério que continha o estanho.

Características

Propriedades físicas
O tungstênio na sua forma impura é um metal de cor branca a cinza, frequentemente frágil e difícil de trabalhar, mas quando puro, pode ser facilmente trabalhado. Pode ser cortado com uma serra de metais, forjado, trefilado, extrudido ou sinterizado. Dentre todos os metais na forma pura, o tungstênio tem o mais alto ponto de fusão (3 422 °C), a menor pressão de vapor e (a temperaturas acima de 1 650 °C) a maior resistência à tração. Apresenta o menor coeficiente de expansão térmica entre todos os metais puros. A pequena expansão térmica e os elevados ponto de fusão e resistência do tungstênio devem-se a ligações covalentes fortes formadas entre os átomos de tungstênio pelos elétrons 5d. A ligação de pequenas quantidades de tungstênio com o aço aumenta muito a resistência deste último.

O tungstênio, quando exposto ao ar, forma na sua superfície um óxido (sempre trióxido de tungstênio, WO3) protetor quando formado entre os 327 e os 400 °C, porém pode ser oxidado em alta temperatura.

Propriedades químicas
O tungstênio elementar é resistente ao ataque de ácidos, bases e oxigénio.
O estado de oxidação mais comum do tungstênio é +6, porém exibe todos os estados de oxidação desde −2 até +6. A combinação típica do tungstênio é com o oxigênio, formando trióxido de tungstênio amarelo, WO3, solúvel em soluções aquosas alcalinas originando íons tungstato, WO42-.
Os carbetos de tungstênio (W2C e WC) são produzidos ao aquecer tungstênio em pó com carbono. W2C é resistente ao ataque químico, embora reaja fortemente com o cloro para formar hexacloreto de tungstênio (WCl6).

Em solução aquosa, o tungstato dá origem a heteropoliácidos e ânions de polioxometalato sob condições neutras ou ácidas. À medida que o tungstato é submetido à ação do ácido, começa por produzir-se "paratungstato A", um íon solúvel e metaestável, W7O24−6, que com o tempo se converte no ânion menos solúvel "paratungstato B", H2W12O42−10. A acidificação adicional produz o ânion muito solúvel metatungstato, H2W12O40−6, após o que é atingido o equilíbrio. O íon metatungstato existe na forma de um agrupamento simétrico de doze octaedros tungstênio-oxigênio conhecidos como ânion de Keggin. Muitos outros ânions existem como espécies metaestáveis. A inclusão de um átomo diferente, como o fósforo, no lugar dos dois hidrogênios centrais do metatungstato, produz uma ampla variedade de heteropoliácidos, como o ácido fosfotúngstico (H3PW12O40).

O trióxido de tungstênio pode formar compostos de intercalação com os metais alcalinos. Estes compostos são conhecidos como bronzes; um exemplo é o bronze de sódio-tungstênio.

Isótopos
O tungstênio de ocorrência natural consiste de cinco isótopos cujas meias-vidas são tão longas que podem ser considerados estáveis. Teoricamente, todos eles decaem para isótopos do elemento 72 (háfnio) por emissão alfa, mas tal apenas foi observado para o 180W com uma meia-vida de (1,8 ± 0.2)×1018 anos; em média, isto resulta em cerca de duas emissões alfa do 180W em um grama de tungstênio natural, por ano. Não foi observado o decaimento dos outros isótopos de ocorrência natural, restringindo as suas meias-vidas a:
182W, T1/2 > 8,3×1018 anos

183W, T1/2 > 29×1018 anos

184W, T1/2 > 13×1018 anos

186W, T1/2 > 27×1018 anos

Foram caracterizados outros 30 radioisótopos artificiais, dos quais os mais estáveis são 181W com meia-vida de 121,2 dias, 185W com meia-vida de 75,1 dias, 188W com meia-vida de 69,4 dias, 178W com meia-vida de 21,6 dias, e 187W com meia-vida de 23,72 h. Todos os restantes isótopos radioativos têm meias-vidas menores do que 3 horas, e a maioria deles tem meias-vidas abaixo dos 8 minutos. O tungstênio tem também 4 meta-estados, sendo o mais estável 179mW (T½ 6,4 minutos).

Ação biológica
O tungstênio, com número atômico 74, é o mais pesado elemento químico que se sabe ser biologicamente funcional, seguido pelo iodo (Z = 53). Embora não o seja nos eucariotas, o tungstênio é usado por algumas bactérias. Por exemplo, enzimas chamadas oxirredutases usam o tungstênio de modo similar ao molibdênio ao usarem-no num complexo tungstênio-pterina com molibdopterina (a molibdopterina, apesar do nome, não contém molibdênio, mas pode formar complexos tanto com o molibdênio como com o tungstênio usados pelos seres vivos). As enzimas utilizadoras do tungstênio tipicamente reduzem ácidos carboxílicos a aldeídos. Contudo, as oxirredutases de tungstênio podem também catalisar oxidações. A primeira enzima que se descobriu requerer tungstênio requer também selênio, e neste caso o par tungstênio-selênio pode funcionar de modo análogo ao par molibdênio-enxofre de algumas enzimas que requerem cofator de molibdênio. Sabe-se que uma das enzimas da família das oxirredutases que por vezes usa o tungstênio (a formato desidrogenase H bacteriana) usa uma versão selênio-molibdênio da molibdopterina. Embora se saiba que uma xantina desidrogenase bacteriana contendo tungstênio pode conter tungstênio-molibdopterina, bem como selênio não ligado a proteína, não foi ainda descrito de modo definitivo um complexo tungstênio-selênio.

Outros efeitos bioquímicos
No solo, o tungstênio metálico oxida produzindo-se o ânion tungstato. Pode ser importado de modo seletivo ou não seletivo por alguns organismos procariotas e poderá substituir o molibdato em certas enzimas. O seu efeito sobre a ação destas enzimas é em alguns casos inibitório e em outros positivo. Pensa-se que uma enzima portadora de tungstato nos eucariotas seria inerte. A química do solo determina como o tungstênio é polimerizado; solos alcalinos causam tungstatos monomêricos; solos ácidos causam tungstatos poliméricos.

O tungstato de sódio e o chumbo foram estudados pelo seu efeito sobre as minhocas. Descobriu-se que o chumbo era letal em doses baixas e que o tungstato de sódio era muito menos tóxico, mas o tungstato inibia completamente a sua capacidade reprodutiva.

O tungstênio foi estudado como antagonista metabólico do cobre biológico, num papel similar à ação do molibdênio. Descobriu-se que os tetratiotungstatos podem ser usados como compostos de quelação do cobre biológico, de modo similar aos tetratiomolibdatos.

Aplicações

Aproximadamente metade do tungstênio é consumido para a produção de materiais duros (carbeto de tungstênio), sendo a outra aplicação importante o seu uso em ligas e aços. Menos de 10% é usado na produção de compostos químicos.

Materiais duros
O tungstênio é usado sobretudo na produção de materiais duros baseados no carbeto de tungstênio (WC), um dos carbetos mais duros, com um ponto de fusão de 2 777 °C. WC é um bom condutor elétrico, mas W2C não tanto. WC é usado na fabricação de abrasivos resistentes ao desgaste, ferramentas de corte e lâminas de perfuradoras, serras circulares, e ferramentas de fresadoras e tornos mecânicos usadas nas indústrias de metal-mecânica, transformação de madeira, mineração, petróleo e construção e representa cerca de 60% do consumo atual de tungstênio.

A indústria de joalheria fabrica anéis de carbeto de tungstênio sinterizado, compósitos de carbeto/metal de tungstênio, e também de tungstênio metálico. Por vezes os fabricantes e retalhistas referem-se ao carbeto de tungstênio como um metal, mas trata-se realmente de um material cerâmico. Por causa da dureza do carbeto de tungstênio, os anéis feitos deste material são extremamente resistentes à abrasão, e mantêm um acabamento brilhante por muito mais tempo que os anéis feitos com tungstênio metálico. Contudo, os anéis de carbeto de tungstênio são frágeis, e podem fissurar com um impacto forte.

Ligas
A dureza e densidade do tungstênio são utilizadas para obtenção de ligas de metais pesados. Um bom exemplo é o aço rápido, que pode conter até 18% de tungstênio. O ponto de fusão do tungstênio torna-o um bom material para aplicações como bocal do motor de foguetes Superligas contendo tungstênio, como Hastelloy e Estelite, são usadas nas lâminas de turbinas e em peças e revestimentos resistentes ao desgaste.

Armamento
O tungstênio, geralmente em liga com níquel e ferro ou cobalto para formar ligas pesadas, é usado em penetradores por energia cinética como alternativa ao urânio empobrecido, em aplicações nas quais as propriedades pirofóricas do urânio não são requeridas (por exemplo em munições de armas ligeiras concebidas para penetrarem proteções pessoais). De igual modo, as ligas de tungstênio têm sido também utilizadas em obuses de artilharia, granadas e mísseis, para criar estilhaços supersônicos. O tungstênio também tem sido usado em explosivos de metal inerte denso, na forma de pó denso para reduzir danos colaterais ao mesmo tempo que aumenta a letalidade dos explosivos num raio pequeno.

Aplicações químicas
O sulfeto de tungstênio (IV) é um lubrificante de alta temperatura e é um componente dos catalisadores de hidrodessulfurização. MoS2 é mais vulgarmente usado em tais aplicações.

Os óxidos de tungstênio são usados em esmaltes cerâmicos e os tungstatos de cálcio/magnésio são largamente usados em lâmpadas fluorescentes. Cristais de tungstatos são usados como cintiladores em física nuclear e medicina nuclear. Outros sais de tungstênio são usados nas indústrias química e de curtumes.

A incorporação de tungsténio aumenta as propriedades catalíticas dos catalisadores de óxidos mistos do tipo Mo5O14 para a oxidação do propileno em ácido acrílico. O ácido tungstofosfórico suportado pode ser usado como catalisador.

Outros usos
Aplicações que requerem a sua alta densidade incluem dissipadores de calor, pesos, contrapesos, lastros de quilha para iates, lastros de cauda para aviões comerciais, e lastros em carros de corrida da NASCAR e Fórmula 1. É um material ideal para uso em maços para rebitagem, onde a massa necessária para obter bons resultados pode ser conseguida com uma barra compacta. Ligas de alta densidade de tungstênio com níquel, cobre ou ferro são usadas em dardos de alta qualidade (para permitir um menor diâmetro e logo agrupamentos mais apertados) ou em iscas artificiais (contas de tungstênio permitem que a mosca se afunde rapidamente). Alguns tipos de cordas de instrumentos musicais são enroladas com fios de tungstênio.

A sua densidade, semelhante à do ouro, permite que o tungstênio seja usado em joalheria como uma alternativa ao ouro ou à platina. O tungstênio metálico é mais duro que as ligas de ouro (embora não tão duro como o carbeto de tungstênio), e é hipoalergênico, o que o torna útil para a fabricação de anéis resistentes aos riscos, especialmente em desenhos com acabamento escovado.

Eletrônica
Dado que retém a sua resistência a altas temperaturas e tem alto ponto de fusão, o tungstênio elementar é usado em muitas aplicações de alta temperatura, como filamentos de lâmpadas, tubos de raios catódicos e válvulas termiônicas, resistências de aquecimento, e tubeiras de foguetes. O seu alto ponto de fusão torna o tungstênio também apropriado para usos aeroespaciais e a altas temperaturas como aplicações em soldagem, notavelmente na soldagem TIG (também chamada de soldagem de tungstênio gás inerte).

Devido a suas propriedades condutoras e relativa inércia química, o tungstênio é usado em elétrodos, e nas extremidades emissoras de instrumentos de feixe de elétrons que usam canhões de emissão de campo tais como microscópios eletrônicos. Em eletrônica, o tungstênio é usado como material de interligação em circuitos integrados, entre o material dielétrico dióxido de silício e os transístores. É usado em películas metálicas, que substituem a cablagem usada na eletrônica convencional por um revestimento de tungstênio (ou molibdênio) sobre silício.

A estrutura eletrônica do tungstênio torna-o um dos principais materiais usados em alvos de raios X, e também para blindagem de radiações de alta energia (como na indústria radiofarmacêutica para conter amostras radioativas de fluorodesoxiglicose. O pó de tungstênio é usado como material de enchimento em plásticos compósitos, que são usados como substitutos não tóxicos do chumbo em balas, e escudos antirradiação. Dado que a expansão térmica deste elemento é semelhante à do vidro borossilicato, é usado na fabricação de vedantes de juntas vidro-metal.

A temperatura de transição para a supercondutividade do tungstênio puro, é menor do que 0,01 K, contudo, várias ligas de tungstênio têm temperaturas de transição de até alguns K e são por vezes utilizadas em circuitos supercondutores de baixa temperatura.

Ocorrência e produção
O tungstênio é encontrado nos minerais volframita (tungstato de ferro-manganês, FeWO4/MnWO4), scheelita (tungstato de cálcio, CaWO4), ferberita, stolzita e hubnerita. Importantes depósitos destes minerais situam-se na Bolívia, na Califórnia e Colorado (Estados Unidos), na China, na Áustria, em Portugal (Mina da Panasqueira), na Rússia e na Coreia do Sul (com a China produzindo aproximadamente 75% da demanda mundial).

Em 2008, produziram-se aproximadamente 62 200 toneladas de concentrados de tungstênio. O tungstênio é extraído dos seus minérios em várias etapas. O minério acaba por ser convertido em óxido de tungstênio (IV) (WO3), o qual é aquecido com hidrogênio ou carbono para produzir pó de tungstênio. Por causa do elevado ponto de fusão do tungstênio, não é comercialmente viável moldar lingotes de tungstênio. Em vez disso, o tungstênio em pó é misturado com pequenas quantidades de níquel ou outro metal pulverizado, e sinterizado. Durante o processo de sinterização, o níquel difunde-se no tungstênio produzindo uma liga.

O tungstênio também pode ser extraído pela redução com hidrogênio do hexafluoreto de tungstênio (WF6):

WF6 + 3 H2 → W + 6 HF

ou decomposição pirolítica:

WF6 → W + 3 F2 (ΔHr = +)

O tungstênio não é negociado por contratos de futuros e não pode ser seguido nas bolsas como a London Metal Exchange. O preço do metal puro era cerca de 20 075 dólares por tonelada em outubro de 2008.

Precauções
Dado que o tungstênio é raro e os seus compostos geralmente inertes, os efeitos do tungstênio sobre o ambiente são limitados. A dose letal mediana LD50 depende fortemente do animal e do método de administração e varia de 59 mg/kg (intravenosa, coelho) a 5 000 mg/kg (pó de tungstênio metálico, intraperitoneal, ratos).

Pedido de patente
O tungstênio é único entre os elementos por ter sido objeto de procedimentos legais. Em 1928, um tribunal dos Estados Unidos rejeitou a tentativa da General Electric para patenteá-lo, revogando a patente dos Estados Unidos nº #1 082 933 concedida em 1913 a William D. Coolidge.

Ligações externas
Los Alamos National Laboratory - Tungsten

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"After the World championship I had a rest period, it lasted about a week. After I started training, I took light, preparatory training for about a month. Then I slowly began to develop in the training process, it took one more month. This can be called my off-season".
"It took about two months to prepare for the Ukrainian championship. During this period, I almost reached the phase of overtraining, but the experience of the past years helped me. I changed the load of workouts and even cut their number in a week's cycle. I tried to keep good shape well, and it is not only about physical component, but about many other important factors. Speaking about my own assessment, I always believe that I can do better. At the time of the competition my weight was 96 kg".
As the athlete said, physical training is only a part and there are other important factors. One of these factors is the ability to correctly prepare for their potential rivals technically, by studying their pulling style.
"Speaking about my rivals at the Ukrainian championship I can say that everyone was worthy, this is a sport and one can not underestimate anyone. I expected tougher fights, unfortunately, some of the rivals I was expecting to meet were missing. I prepared for my possible opponents in advance; I assumed who can pull in the category based on the results of the 2016. I watched their level of training and, based on this, built my training plan. I can not say that someone surprised me, I expected more. I will note a duel with Mger Musaelyan, I knew that it would be difficult with him and he will have to fight for endurance. I treated this fight as a good sparring. I did not have a goal to win in principle, just wanted to see how I can take care of one of the best hooks in Ukraine, for me the outcome turned out to be positive".
"The plans, in fact, are serious, but so far they only apply to the European Championships. Let's see what happens there, and based on the results, I will prepare for the World championship. Until I pass these two stages, I can not say anything about other tournaments".
The European Championship is just around the corner, so we wish Ayder luck and expect the highest places on the pedestal from him. And what do you think about the appearance of Ayder in the international championships in 2017? Stay tuned, write comments and watch the news on armpower.net.
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University of Technology Sydney Grant for Masters By Coursework Students
International students are invited for a master scholarship in Australia. The initial contract for this position is two years. Applications should be submitted as soon as possible.
The University of Technology Sydney is delighted to offer a scholarship for the students to pursue master's degree program. The scholarship is available for international students.
Applicants whose first language is not English are usually required to provide evidence of proficiency in English at the higher level required by the University.
The purpose of this scholarship is to support the international students who wish to study the postgraduate degree program at UTS.
The University of Technology Sydney is a public university in Sydney, Australia. Although its origins trace back to the 1870s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988.
- Application Deadline: July 29, 2019
- Course Level: Scholarship is available to pursue a master's degree program. - Study Subject: Scholarship is available to study the subject offered by the university. - Scholarship Award: Scholarship will be awarded worth up to $3,000. - Number of Scholarships: Not known - Nationality: Scholarship is available for international students. - Scholarship can be taken in Australia. - Eligible Countries: Scholarship is available for international students.
- Entrance Requirement: Applicant must meet the following criteria: 1. Must be an international student (not an Australian citizen, New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Australia); and 2. Must remain an international student post census date for the session in which they receive the Grant; and 3. Must be commencing full-time on-campus (Sydney) in 2019; and 4. Must meet all admission criteria for the Master by coursework program at UTS; and 5. Must have completed a Bachelor degree or higher qualification in Australia with a minimum overall average of 60% (where the pass mark is 50%) no longer than 1 year prior to commencing at UTS, and must be admitted based on this qualification to UTS; and 6. Must not be a recipient of a scholarship, grant or the Alumni Advantage Program from UTS; and 7. Must not be enrolled in a UTS Transnational program; 8. Must not be a government-sponsored student; and 9. Must not be a student whose course at UTS forms as part of a package offer. English Language Requirements: Applicants whose first language is not English are usually required to provide evidence of proficiency in English at the higher level required by the University.
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Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti
Carolina Camargo, Yasir H. Ahmed-Braimah, I. Alexandra Amaro, Laura C. Harrington, Mariana F. Wolfner, Frank W. Avila
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are the primary vectors of numerous viruses that impact human health. As manipulation of reproduction has been proposed to suppress mosquito populations, elucidation of biological processes that enable males and females to successfully reproduce is necessary. One essential process is female sperm storage in specialized structures called spermathecae. Aedes aegypti females typically mate once, requiring them to maintain sperm viably to fertilize eggs they lay over their lifetime. Spermathecal gene products are required for Drosophila sperm storage and sperm viability, and a spermathecal-derived heme peroxidase is required for long-term Anopheles gambiae fertility. Products of the Ae. aegypti spermathecae, and their response to mating, are largely unknown. Further, although female blood-feeding is essential for anautogenous mosquito reproduction, the transcriptional response to blood-ingestion remains undefined in any reproductive tissue. We conducted an RNAseq analysis of spermathecae from unfed virgins, mated only, and mated and blood-fed females at 6, 24, and 72 h post-mating and identified significant differentially expressed genes in each group at each timepoint. A blood-meal following mating induced a greater transcriptional response in the spermathecae than mating alone. This study provides the first view of elicited mRNA changes in the spermathecae by a blood-meal in mated females.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71904-z
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Camargo, C., Ahmed-Braimah, Y. H., Amaro, I. A., Harrington, L. C., Wolfner, M. F., & Avila, F. W. (2020). Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Scientific reports, 10(1), [14899]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71904-z
Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. / Camargo, Carolina; Ahmed-Braimah, Yasir H.; Amaro, I. Alexandra; Harrington, Laura C.; Wolfner, Mariana F.; Avila, Frank W.
In: Scientific reports, Vol. 10, No. 1, 14899, 01.12.2020.
Camargo, C, Ahmed-Braimah, YH, Amaro, IA, Harrington, LC, Wolfner, MF & Avila, FW 2020, 'Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti', Scientific reports, vol. 10, no. 1, 14899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71904-z
Camargo C, Ahmed-Braimah YH, Amaro IA, Harrington LC, Wolfner MF, Avila FW. Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. Scientific reports. 2020 Dec 1;10(1). 14899. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71904-z
Camargo, Carolina ; Ahmed-Braimah, Yasir H. ; Amaro, I. Alexandra ; Harrington, Laura C. ; Wolfner, Mariana F. ; Avila, Frank W. / Mating and blood-feeding induce transcriptome changes in the spermathecae of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti. In: Scientific reports. 2020 ; Vol. 10, No. 1.
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Dahrendorf on Populists, Populists on Dahrendorf
by Josefin Graef —11 July 2019
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf, the namesake of this project, died 10 years ago. Postdoctoral Fellow Josefin Graef reflects on how politicians use his name as a rhetorical tool to legitimise their own ideas – giving (unintentional) support to many of Dahrendorf's theses on the nature of modern politics in the process.
Multiple crises – financial, institutional, and otherwise – have haunted the European Union in recent years. The basic rules of European cooperation and the organisation of European societies, it seems, have (again) become the object of political competition. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Lord Ralf Dahrendorf's death, on 17 June 2019, former colleagues, friends, and commentators agreed that his voice was sorely missing from current political debates that are often caught between identifying enemies among the political right and adhering to utopias among the political left. At the same time, the fundamental ideas on societal progress, conflict, and the meaning of liberalism associated with his name have resurfaced in the public sphere – especially in his native country, Germany.
In April 2019, the newly elected General Secretary of the Liberal-Democratic Party (FDP) Linda Teuteberg earned applause for conjuring her party's self-image as a strong political force by introducing her speech as follows:
"Thirty-five years ago, Ralf Dahrendorf observed at the Twelfth Night meeting [in Stuttgart] that in times of great change, because convincing solutions are lacking, it is difficult to resist the temptation to make the proper administration of the status quo the task of politics. He added, "this is commendable, but it is not enough, especially not for liberals." And this is still true today, dear friends."
There is a certain irony in the fact that Dahrendorf – following a career as a Member of Parliament, Parliamentary Secretary of State, and member of the FDP's executive board – had left the party in 1987 because of its lack of ideas and willingness to shape Germany's political future. His fellow party members were unable or unwilling to listen to him then; today, his name is a symbol of innovation, courage, and trust in liberal democracy in the face of rapid political, economic, and technological change.
Dahrendorf and the AfD
Attempts to use Dahrendorf's reputation as a doer to win support for a political programme are not limited to his former party. In a speech in the eastern state of Brandenburg in June 2016, the leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alexander Gauland, claimed that, according to Dahrendorf, "the self-determination of a people can only be realised within the nation state, and nowhere else". Consequently, the AfD would be tasked with preventing the parties represented in the federal parliament from "taking away our nation state", because this would be tantamount to "taking away our right to self-determination, our future, our source of life".
After the AfD entered the parliament in September the following year, Gauland reiterated his claim during a plenary debate on the introduction of immigration controls at the German border. "Self-determination and democracy", he said, "unfold themselves in the nation state protected by borders, as the great liberal Lord Dahrendorf once observed, and not in the cloudy dream of the United States of Europe."
In her speech at an AfD party convention a few months later, competing for a place in the party's leadership, Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein also emphasised the role of the nation state in "keeping democracy alive". On the same day, Gauland defended her statement in an interview with the ZDF, one of Germany's major television networks. An interesting exchange between Gauland and the moderator Claus Kleber ensued, which illustrates the AfD leader's intentionally selective interpretation of Dahrendorf's work:
Kleber: "For instance, Ms Sayn-Wittgenstein said that democracy can only exist in the nation state. That was a dig at the European Union. Would you subscribe to this view?"
Gauland: "That sentence was actually coined by Mr Dahrendorf, and he was a liberal, who said the same…"
Kleber: "But in an entirely different context!"
Gauland: "…that democracy can only be realised in the nation state…"
Kleber: "No, he certainly did not say that European integration is necessarily undemocratic."
Gauland: "That's not what this was about, only that the nation state is indeed the container of democracy, and that is what she expressed. Nothing at all was said about European integration and what it should look like, and the Europe of Fatherlands.
Gauland uses Dahrendorf's standing as a democratic intellectual to legitimise his party's anti-EU position as a liberal position. In actual fact, he unwittingly lends support to Dahrendorf's argument that (right-wing) populism, as exhibited by the AfD, poses a potential threat to liberal democracy through oversimplification (instead of clear communication) and anti-institutionalism (rather than genuine popular sovereignty).
Dahrendorf: A cautious Europeanist
Throughout his career, Dahrendorf saw himself as an Europeanist, albeit a cautious and perhaps even sceptical one. As a liberal, Dahrendorf considered both technocratic governance as embodied by the EU and authoritarian governance promoted by national(ist) political leaders a threat to individual freedom and a lively democratic culture. Both deny that struggle, conflict, and change are at the heart of any democracy worthy of the name, not temporary challenges that need to be overcome. Conflict, he insisted, needs to be managed, not eradicated.
For Dahrendorf, the European Union's task was to contribute to the expansion of individual freedoms by institutionalising the rule of law on the supranational level and preserving peace – adding economic and political strength to, not overcoming the nation state by creating a 'United States of Europe'. In fact, Dahrendorf was one of the first ones to call for the creation of a 'European Union' in 1973, while serving as a Commissioner of the European Economic Community in Brussels.
However, as a pragmatist and a believer in progress through conflict and debate, he was also highly critical of the organisation's inefficiency, lack of transparency and politicisation, and stressed the importance of the principle of subsidiarity. Consequently, he campaigned for making the EU as democratic as possible, e.g. by limiting the terms of office, providing judicial reviews and audits of accounts, strengthening the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments, and making Council meetings public. Many of these measures have since been put in place.
A Liberal State of Mind
Dahrendorf realised that democratic principles derived from the national context were difficult to transfer to the EU. He considered popular sovereignty the biggest challenge in this regard, because the EU would not have sufficient mechanisms to create a 'European people' that can express its will, and for Europeans to have their voices heard. To this day, the European Union continues to struggle with this problem, despite the introduction of progressive measures such as the European Citizens' Initiative and the 'Spitzenkandidaten' system (already pronounced dead by some) designed to give Europeans the opportunity to 'shape Europe'.
Despite his pragmatism, Dahrendorf, too, was unable to offer a workable solution. His recipe for an authentic liberal democracy, however, remains an important guideline for continuing the quest: engaging actively with political conflict, celebrating transformation, taking political opponents seriously, and collaborating with others to achieve something for the benefit of all. Only together can these ingredients create a liberal state of mind á la Dahrendorf. Playing the nation state against inter- and supranational cooperation and adhering to a preconceived 'will of the (national) people', which national populists promote, are decidedly not part of his legacy.
Josefin Graef is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dahrendorf Forum based in Berlin.
The opinions expressed in this blog contribution are entirely those of the author and do not represent the positions of the Dahrendorf Forum or its hosts Hertie School and London School of Economics or its funder Stiftung Mercator.
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The official release date of Kung Fu Panda 2 in the UK is June 10th. However we've been playing it since last Wednesday because Paramount decided to add five days of "previews". These extra performances are not usually subject to the same playing time rules that apply when the film opens officially. In essence, and within reason, we can play the film anytime of day and for as many or as few performances as we see fit.
However, when the film officially opens on June 10th it has to play all day, all shows. This means no other film is allowed to play in that screen, the upshot of which will be a film like Kung Fu Panda plays to empty houses at 8.00pm at night when I could be playing something else that might get an audience. And there is nothing I can do about it, other than not play the film at all.
Surely, it's my cinema, I can play the films when I like? Nope. Not first run films anyway, and I need first run films, so I toe the line.
It's important to remember the studio has spent many millions of dollars making and promoting this film and they're entitled to have the best shot at getting their money back. But it can be so frustrating when they know and I know that no bugger is going to come and see this film after 6 O'clock in the evening, and to be fair the 8pm show on cartoons is the first to go, quite often in the second week.
It's slightly more frustrating with KFP as we've already taken a lot out of it and June 10th feels like a second week booking not a first.
People who know about these things, whoever they are, were sure that digital projection would open up a new golden age of cinema with more varied content and flexible playing times. Admittedly it's still early days and truthfully since going all digital we have found room for more non mainstream product than ever before, but the bulk of the playing time still has to be given over to mainstream movies from mainstream studios, because however nice it is to play minority films the large audience numbers come from studio films. And all the time that is true we have to dance to their tune.
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It's Christmas and I'm joined by old Saint Nick Roe to talk about Christmas movies. It goes reasonably well. Is Die Hard the best Christmas film and what do you get a Wookie for Christmas, when he already owns a comb?
A somewhat dithering gallop through the year that was 2018, listing my faves and the top box office in Uckfield.
We reach the end of the decade. 1979 a watershed year for The Picture House Uckfield, as we go from one to two screens. Whoo and also hoo!
A bumper year in the end, mainly due to John Travolta and ABBA, all before we shut down for the big two screen conversion.
I'm joined by film and tv maker Phil Lott and we talk total nonsense about The Spy Who Loved Me, Taxi Driver and A Bridge Too Far. It's 1977 folks and why was it so tough?
Earthquake, Jaws, Tommy, it's all here as we trawl through the mess that was 1976 at The Picture House Uckfield. I became a more thoughtful cinemagoer and Britain sweltered.
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The admissions slide continues, but at least Blazing Saddles was released.
Admissions continue to plummet and we stand on the brink of the smut tsunami coming our way. Matron.
The Godfather, and all sorts this week as we trawl through the good stuff and the bad stuff at the movies in 1972
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Q: Building DeepLearning4j from source: NoClassDefFoundError org.nd4j.linalg.factory.Nd4j Off on and for several months now, I've been trying and failing to build DL4J from source. I've even tried different distros, to no benefit. The closest I've come is using Ubuntu 19.10. mvn install -DskipTests works but the mvn clean test -P  testresources,test-nd4j-native recommended at https://deeplearning4j.org/docs/latest/deeplearning4j-build-from-source produces the error below once the build gets to nd4j/nd4j-backends/nd4j-tests. The Ubuntu 19.10 is running on a VirtualBox with 28GB and 6 hyperthreads allocated to it.
testSystemInfo(org.nd4j.systeminfo.TestSystemInfo)  Time elapsed: 0.034 sec  <<< ERROR!
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class org.nd4j.linalg.factory.Nd4j
    at org.nd4j.systeminfo.SystemInfo.getSystemInfo(SystemInfo.java:159)
    at org.nd4j.systeminfo.SystemInfo.printSystemInfo(SystemInfo.java:419)
    at org.nd4j.systeminfo.TestSystemInfo.testSystemInfo(TestSystemInfo.java:25)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:50)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:325)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:78)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:57)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:252)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:141)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:112)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:567)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:189)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:165)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:85)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:115)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:75)

A: According to parameters you mentioned above, you are trying to build for CPU backend.
To do that please use following command:
mvn -B -V -U clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true
Also, make sure that you have installed all required build dependencies (jdk8, maven3, gcc7, cmake, python3)
If you really want to build and run tests, please use following commands:

*

*Clone and build dl4j-test-resources.
git clone https://github.com/KonduitAI/dl4j-test-resources.git
cd dl4j-test-resources
mvn -B -V -U clean install

*Run tests command for CPU backend, but please note that some tests may fail at the moment.
mvn -B -V -U test -DreuseForks=false -P native-snapshots -P test-nd4j-native -P nd4j-tests-cpu -P tf-cpu -P nd4j-tf-cpu -P testresources

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