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2016 Venice Architecture Biennale Dispatch, Day One
How national pavilions did—and didn't—respond to Alejandro Aravena's theme
Fair Building, Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016, exhibition view.
Photo © Maciej Jelonek
Home Economics at the British Pavilion.
Photo © Cristiano Corte/British Council
The pavilion of the Western Sahara.
Photo © Iwan Baan
The Chilean Pavilion.
Photo © Architectural Record
The Australian Pavilion featured a swimming pool.
Installation view of the U.S. Pavilion.
Greg Lynn (right) at model of his speculative project for Detroit in the U.S. Pavilion exhibition, The Architectural Imagination.
Philip Rylands, director of the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation (left); U.S. ambassador to Italy John Phillips; and co-curators of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon at the party celebrating the pavilion's opening in Venice.
The opening cocktail party for the US Pavilion at the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice.
Merrill Elam, Ming Fung and Mack Scogin at the US pavilion opening party at the Peggy Guggenheim Foundation in Venice. Scogin and Elam designed one of the pavilion's 12 projects.
Stan Allen, who designed one of the U.S. Pavilion projects, with RECORD editor-in-chief Cathleen McGuigan, at the opening party in Venice.
Co-curators of the US Pavilion Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon at the opening party, which was co-sponsored by RECORD.
Fred A. Bernstein
KEYWORDS Exhibitions / Venice Architecture Biennale
Australia didn't get the memo. Its contribution to the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public Friday, is a celebration of swimming pools. The centerpiece — an actual pool inside the Denton Corker Marshall-designed pavilion — is a delight, but it has nothing to do with the Biennale theme, Reporting from the Front, established by curator Alejandro Aravena and meant to focus on ways architecture can help relieve the problems of the disadvantaged. True, public pools are a big part of Australian culture, but they're not the kind of architectural humanitarianism Aravena had in mind.
The U.S. did get the memo, and answered it—with 12 speculative projects for four sites in Detroit that are crying out for innovation. The projects are smart, and much of the material filling the pavilion to the rafters, including a model by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, is visually compelling. (RECORD is a media sponsor of the U.S. Pavilion).
Kuwait definitely didn't get the memo. Its catalogue was bound in silver, a false note at a biennale about the problems facing the 99 percent. Nor did Peter Zumthor, who filled his section of the Arsenale (the vast building in which much of the biennale takes place) with items related to his concept for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. One was a room-sized, all-black model of a LACMA gallery, but it had so little detail that it did nothing to explain how Zumthor plans to turn his ideas into a building. There was also a display of Zumthor sketches, meant to show how his plans for the museum have evolved, and an installation (by the estimable fashion designer Christina Kim) demonstrating how the museum's collection of textiles might be displayed. Zumthor apparently thinks Wilshire Boulevard is the "front."
Luckily, the memo reached several other countries. Germany presents a survey of strategies for building and maintaining what the curators call the "arrival city"—a response to the 1 million immigrants who reached the country last year. The Netherlands, meanwhile, takes a fascinating look at the architecture of U.N. peacekeeping missions.
Britain's exhibition puts forward ways housing can be made more affordable by breaking out of traditional construction and financing paradigms. One idea is for banks to finance bare-bones houses—with most appliances and fittings to be installed by the homeowner later—an interesting variant on Aravena's own "incremental housing" strategy. But the plan is open to the same criticism some have leveled at Aravena's half-finished houses in Chile—that putting the finishing touches on a building is cheaper for a large contractor than for individuals
Unsurprisingly, Aravena's home country of Chile also organized a standout pavilion. Sheds, shelters, and agricultural pavilions—designed for the country's central valley by architecture students—are presented in the form of handsome models beautifully presented on pedestals made out of metal roofing from houses that collapsed during the 2010 Chilean earthquake. The pavilion of the Western Sahara is a silvery, tent-like structure documenting the vernacular architecture and planning of the exiled Sahrawi people in Algeria. Poland's pavilion also excels in form and content, using scaffolding to create a construction site-like environment in which visitors see videos about (and narrated by) men who earn a pittance building houses for the rich. In a video, a ditch digger recalled hearing a mother tell her toddler, "If you don't study you'll end up like him."
Poignant and, in the context of Aravena's biennale, perfectly on point!
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If you're Omaha's mayor, it's probably not such a good thing when a rare drive-by video comes out of North Korea, and the first thing that pops into people's mind is "Our streets are a lot worse than Pyongyang's."
Maybe if Jean Stothert got one of those Kim Jong-Un hairdos -- Kim Jean-Un? -- that would be the one little thing that turned things around for her. Either that, or we could just threaten to incinerate Council Bluffs unless. . . .
No, I think we're just screwed.


I moved! Did you hear? I'm renting a wonderful house with the wonderful AIG and, after 10 weeks, we've finally got the place set up. We had a great party Saturday night where many of our friends came by to see the place and turn green-eyed with envy have a great time and try our Spanish-style Tapas and our homemade infused vodkas. Can I show you the place? Would you like to see?
We're going to have some great barbecues in the backyard, come on by later this summer!
Absolutely! Actually, you can't see the rosemary from the photos but we have a plant going. We water it every time we give the dog water, and the dog ain't dead yet! We also got a ton of basil as gifts, so we'll be planting that soon! There's an empty spot that I plan to claim that gets great direct light.
oooh, nice photos in the daylight. and what is this about getting a bunch of basil from the partygoers? and i thought i was so original.
You were! You were the only person to give us the kind of basil you gave us. So we'll have a whole basil patch, and, when we have the standard basil, we'll know it was from Milla and Marlin!
Plus, I mean, how cute is the little Italian Guy pot?
so i'm the only one who gave you the garden variety green basil while others gave you the exotic blue basil? fine, whatever. focus on the cutie Italian Guy. oh yeah, and the sugar, which is to sweeten life at your new home, btw. old russian superstition.
It's already all thanks to you and Marlin that my life has become sweet!
Quite an upgrade for you, my man!
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Business-Actor.com has interviewed Jean-Michel Nomdedeu, Marketing and Strategy Director at PackshotCreator about the challenges of web 2.0 in a business strategy.
Welcome to the era of e-consumer. The rise of e-commerce and web 2.0 in recent years has been so that that the majority of advertisers have been forced to rethink their webmarketing strategy. If there was a time when a simple adaptation of the printed catalog to online was enough, the change in uses and technology has made this model obsolete and outdated.
Today, the web offers new perspectives. Definitely more "human", social and interactive online stores now place the user at the core of their strategy by offering a real shopping 'experience'. It is now possible to share in live our opinions on the products, to shop and contemplate several objects with an accuracy close to the physical store experience.
To better understand the importance and the challenge of these technologies in a commercial approach, Business-Actor went to meet Jean-Michel Nomdedeu, Marketing Director at PackshotCreator, a system made to enrich product pictures and animations.
Hello Jean-Michel Nomdedeu and welcome to Business Actor. Can you describe your background in a few sentences?
I have been in the marketing field for over 17 years and specifically in the new technologies sector since 2000. I had the opportunity to co-founding in 2005 and co-lead www.for-ever.com (a scanning photos and videos service stored and shared on the Internet) that I left in late 2010. In 2011 I joined Laurent Wainberg, founder of PackshotCreator (with whom I had the opportunity to launch a startup in 2000 in the field of Voice over IP) to take care of the Marketing there.
When and how was born PackshotCreator?
PackshotCreator was born in the early 2000s from the desire to make product photography and animation creation accessible to all professionals, to enable them to be more independent, creative and productive. The simplicity and performance of our solutions associated with the explosion of the number of products sold online finally contributed to the success of PackshotCreator. Today the range includes 22 machines and 6 software; thousands of products showcased by PackshotCreator are sold every day by our customers.
In a few words, can you present to our readers your services?
Our systems can generate in few clicks still photos, 360-degree animations and even real 3D animations (shoot on an additional axis). Our last innovation, the PackshotCreator X5 is able to take pictures like a robot: 1800 HD products picture are automatically converted in a 3D file and published on the website as bags for example. The customer only has to watch the show … And count the sales!
Definitely turned towards the social and interactive, online stores today put the user experience at the core of their marketing strategy. Is it a main factor of success for you?
Yes, because the poor quality of a photo, the lack of visual information and the frustration are important factors in web stress when buying online. The sanction is irrevocable and directly affects sales. Our recent study, which was conducted among European Internet users and customers, has helped identify key points concerning the use of enriched and interactive visual.
For 80 of of them prefer 360° and 3D product animations before buying. the Internet users surveyed, the image quality (resolution, size, clarity, interactivity …) is a barrier to purchase..
For our customers who use PackshotCreator, 67 percent of them admit that they can differentiate themselves from their competitors and 63 percent of them observed with this an increase of their turnover.
Your service tends to abolish the boundaries between physical and virtual commerce. How do you see the relationship between these two modes of shopping: rather competing or complementary?
Aristide Boucicault, the inventor of multisensory marketing, had traced the way to guide us today. Our teams are working to make the purchase act on the Internet as rich as possible and render the experience more familiar, like if it was in a real stores. The ability to manipulate a virtual object as in a physical outlet can compensate the inability to touch the item before buying. But to do so, we need to be able to look at the product from all angles and zoom with precision on every detail to assess the quality of the product or the material. Our solutions specifically meet these needs so we can talk about true complementarity.
Competition exists, rather on the same sales channel. Thus, on the web, in order to avoid high discount and protect their margins, brands and retailers need to win new customer, convince them and gain their loyalty. The premium image of a 3D animation contributes to the achievement of these three objectives.
Who are your customers and what are their feedbacks concerning the PackshotCreator experience (evolution of the transformation rate, time of product consultation, …) ?
The high-quality pictures and interactive products animations imposed themselves as a standard to promote or sell products on the internet. Necessarily all professionals need solutions adapteded to their constraints (skills, budget, productivity, ROI). Our clients are both large groups and SMEs. For nearly 10 years their experience has allowed us to improve and develop our solutions.
Does the service tend to evolve with, for example, the key new features (augmented reality, etc.)? What future do you see for PackshotCreator?
3D view on 3 axis (above, below and all around the product) is now the most advanced and effective way to show a realistic commercial product photos on the internet (great rendering of texture, colors under all angles… with a HD photo). PackshotCreator was the first to offer solutions to businesses to create such visuals. We are now working on handling technologies that use PCs or mobile cameras, audio or video rendering and of course augmented reality. Today each company has a fax, maybe tomorrow we will all have access to our 3D enriched scanning office tool!
Finally, where can our readers find you for more information?
Our website www.packshot-creator.com, to discover all our ranges and especially to see examples of pictures and 3D animations that can be manipulated. We are also present on many shows, including the next VAD e-commerce in Lille from 23 to 25 October. In addition, we invite all those who wish to discover and test our solutions with their own products in our showroom in Paris's 17th arrondissement.
Thank you Jean-Michel Nomdedeu for answering our questions!


שירות הסעות מנמל התעופה ואליו זמין 24 שעות לפי בקשה. אנא צרו קשר עם הנכס להזמנה מראש.תשלומים עשויים לחול. פנו לנכס מראש כדי לבצע סידורים. נכס זה לא מספק מיזוג אוויר. למידע נוסף, צרו קשר עם הנכס באמצעות המידע שבאישור ההזמנה שהתקבל לאחר ביצוע ההזמנה.
נכס זה יבקש אישור לחיוב כרטיסי אשראי בסך 50$ עבור כל ההזמנות שבמסגרתן התשלום בגין השהות יתבצע בנכס ולא במועד ביצוע ההזמנה. למידע נוסף, צרו קשר עם הנכס באמצעות המידע שבאישור ההזמנה שהתקבל לאחר ביצוע ההזמנה.
For a one night stay to go to a connect at Bill Graham, it was convenient. We didn't stay at the room to do nothing but change and sleep, but we didn't notice a few things. Bathroom had mold behind the small mirror and around the bathtub. The desk lady, was very monotone and not customer service friendly. Everyone looked like they hated their jobs. The parking is a different company and over charged us. The area wasn't so great, but it's San Francisco, so not that much of a shock. The room was small but the beds were nice and comfy. There's no AC, you get a big fan that worked really well. There's no fridge in the room. There was a sliding door that opened to the front of the building facing the street so that was...unique? Overall I would stay here again if needed.
Very clean room Very comfortable bed and best pillows Nearby Union Square and good free shuttle And safe ! Will definitely comeback. God bless your business more.
The good: Lovely room with very comfortable beds, very little sound carryover from other rooms... clean and spacious enough for the 4 of us to even have a friend hang out for a bit. Awesome rooftop terrace with space heaters and comfy lounge furniture, great place to hang out before a night on the town. Breakfast downstairs was a nice way to start the day, more like a full Continental with bagels & cream cheese, cantaloupes & applies, deli meats & cheese cubes, croissants and various juices/coffee. The staff were amazing and it really did feel like a safe space, with the elevator requiring your room key in order to get to your floor. The bad: Shower water was lukewarm at best, and the sink/vanity wasn't secured to the wall so every time we touched it, it shook and swayed like it was going to tip over. The worst part is that the surrounding neighborhood is beyond sketchy and is actually pretty unsafe, with tons of really shady, dirty characters yelling random nonsense and begging for change. There were obvious drug deals going on every 100 ft. or so and even though we've stayed in the Tenderloin before, this felt worse. If you can make it past the mumbling, wandering randos and the piles of garbage, there's a great place to eat nearby-- Turtle Tower-- but definitely walk in groups and watch your back.


Well here it is our DIY holiday mantle for 2013. I decided to go with the colors of our tree which are copper and gold, add in some burlap for contrast and I think it came out great.
There are a lot of little projects that came together for this DIY holiday mantle.
Paper Mache trees in copper, gold glitter and yarn, see below!
Now enjoy more pics of the mantle.
My cousin Wendy gave me the candle holders, I am thinking I may spray paint them copper or gold. What do you guys think?
I also need some more candles.
I used this copper and gold wired ribbon for a lot of the projects. Also those star 'tree toppers' are actually just cheapo star ornaments from dollar tree.
We the adults have the snowflake stocking holder and the twincesses have the merry Christmas holders.
You know all those expensive trees in the stores, I have been eyeing some at target for the longest at $20 a piece…not happening. I found these paper mache cones at Michaels for 99c each. Yup less than a buck! Now we're talking lol All I did to jazz the bigger ones up was spray paint. I used copper spray paint for one and found this really kool gold glitter spray paint for the other. Yes thats right the glitter is already in the paint. I know freaking amazing. For the smaller trees I wrapped some yarn around it for a more textured look that complimented the burlap. I think they came out great!
Up next the xmas tree and I gotta hide those cords!
Please leave a comment if you like the mantle! And check back often for more of my Holiday Series.
Beautiful! I love the Noel banner. Love it all….
Thanks Shau! It is really putting me in the xmas spirit! Now to tackle that xmas tree, its hard trying to get all this done after the twincesses go to bed!
Super cute!! Love the stockings.
Thank you so very much for checking out my blog, it really means a lot to me that you took the time to comment.
Hi! I recently found your blog and I love your Diy projects. I'm a crafting, twin mama too so I can totally relate! I'll be making your mesh garland this weekend. Thanks for the tutorial!
So great to have another twin momma on the blog as well. I hope to post some more twin related posts really soon.


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Tissue paper price on the rise globally
Taiwanese retailers have seen a rush on toilet paper over the weekend, as people were panic-buying toilet paper fearing an imminent price hike of the widely-used item as a direct result of rising raw material costs globally.
Businesses predict a price hike of toilet paper in Bangladesh as well.
They said $300 will be added to the international price of per pulp at $800 on shipment. The minimum price of paper will be $1100 per tone.
According to dollar valuation of Tk 84, the prices of per pulp will Tk 92,000. The final price of per tone of paper will be Tk 1,00,000 after adding taxation and other expenses.
Forest fires in Canada and disruption to production in Brazil are among the factors being blamed. As a result, the price of short fibre pulp, used to make toilet paper, now costs about $ 800 per tonne, compared with $650 a year ago, it said.
One of Taiwan's largest toilet paper suppliers, YFY, said the situation was more drastic than that. It claimed pulp costs had increased even faster than government estimated, soaring by about 50 percent since the middle of last year. Packing and transportation costs were also rising, it added.
While the market experts predict a price rise in raw materials to result in higher toilet paper prices globally, there have so far been few reports of such a trend.
While China indicates it will impose an outright ban on mixed waste paper, a final decision isn't expected until November. For now, authorities have tightened requirements on waste paper to markedly cut back on allowed levels of contaminants, making it difficult for many recyclers to meet.
Besides, the production of paper in India has been reduced to 25 per cent which directs the country to importer. Other South Asian countries also import papers. Basically, the setback of Chinese paper production will impact all Asian countries including Bangladesh.
Taiwan's largest home shopping channel, ET Mall, said that of its 20 top-selling items, six were toilet paper – and demand was 10 times higher than usual, report British Broadcasting Corporation.
Taiwan's government has ordered an investigation into the price hike, and The Department of Consumer Protection said it had received assurances from the country's four major retailers – Carrefour, RT-Mart, A.mart and PX Mart – that prices would not rise until mid-March.

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Joey Cecere singled up the middle.
Steve Hazel singled to second base.
John Davis doubled down the rf line, RBI; Steve Hazel scored.
Sam Tidaback doubled to left center, RBI; Bo Edwards scored.
Sam Tidaback advanced to third on a passed ball.
Brandon Benson singled to right field.
Bo Edwards doubled down the rf line; Steven Tomlinson advanced to third.
Andrew Gordon homered to left field, 4 RBI; Sam Tidaback scored; Bo Edwards scored; Steven Tomlinson scored.
Dylan Cook grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Clay Ardeeser out on the play; Brandon Benson scored.
Steve Hazel singled down the rf line.
Sam Tidaback singled up the middle.
Tremayne Toorie homered to left center, 2 RBI; Sam Tidaback scored.
Taylor Keinat to p for Brandon Agar.
Connor Hoover singled to left field; Joey Cecere advanced to second.
Steven Tomlinson walked; Connor Hoover advanced to second; Joey Cecere advanced to third.
Brandon Benson tripled to right field.
Dylan Cook singled up the middle, RBI; Clay Ardeeser scored.
Steve Hazel reached first on an error by cf; Dylan Cook advanced to second.
Michael McKinney to p for Kyle Ward.
Andrew Gordon homered to left field, 2 RBI; Tremayne Toorie scored.


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Zheng He (ur. 1371 w Kuanying, prow. Junnan, zm. 1433; nazwisko rodowe: 馬和, Ma He) – chiński admirał, który w latach 1405-1433 odbył serię podróży do wielu miejsc w Azji i Afryce.

Był muzułmaninem, eunuchem i zaufanym człowiekiem chińskiego cesarza Yongle z dynastii Ming. Odbył podróże do południowo-wschodniej Azji, Sumatry, Jawy, Cejlonu, Indii, Persji, Zatoki Perskiej, Arabii, Morza Czerwonego aż do Egiptu i Mozambiku. Jego wyprawy przyczyniły się do rozwoju handlu i wiedzy nawigacyjnej.

Droga do kariery
Pochodził z pobożnej muzułmańskiej rodziny z prowincji Junnan; jego dziadek (ojciec prawdopodobnie też) odbył drogą lądową pielgrzymkę do Mekki (hadżdż)
przez armię chińską w roku 1381. Rodzina, popierająca mongolskie panowanie w Junnanie, zginęła podczas podboju prowincji przez wojska Mingów. On sam trafił do niewoli i jak wielu innych młodych jeńców (miał wówczas 13 lat) został wykastrowany. Jako eunuch został sługą księcia Zhu Di, czwartego syna założyciela dynastii Ming. Dzięki swym zdolnościom wojskowym i dyplomatycznym awansował do stopnia oficera. Po wojnie domowej o sukcesję książę Zhu Di został w roku 1402 cesarzem i przyjął imię Yongle. Ma He wyróżnił się w czasie walk i uznaniu zasług w obronie Pekinu w 1399, cesarz nadał mu nazwisko Zheng; po koronacji mianował go też naczelnikiem (taijian) Dyrektoriatu Służby Pałacowej. Następnie, w 1405, postawił go na czele zbudowanej w latach 1403-5 wielkiej floty, liczącej 255 okrętów i 27 800 ludzi załogi, jako ambasadora do krajów nad Zachodnim Oceanem.

Wyprawy

Na pierwszą wyprawę Zheng He wyruszył w 1405 roku. W wyprawie wzięło udział 27  800 ludzi. Flota dotarła do portowego miasta Kalikat na Półwyspie Indyjskim. Po powrocie admirał i jego podwładni zostali nagrodzeni m.in. za akcję przeciw piratom w Palembangu. Podczas kolejnych wypraw Zheng He dotarł m.in. do wylotu Zatoki Perskiej oraz Mozambiku w Afryce. Jego flota interweniowała militarnie m.in. na Cejlonie i Sumatrze. Wyprawy nie miały charakteru odkrywczego: handlowe statki chińskie regularnie kursowały do Jawy i Sumatry, a trasa wypraw przez Ocean Indyjski odbywała się szlakami wykorzystywanymi przez kupców arabskich, którzy już za czasów dynastii Tang handlowali z Chinami (duża ich kolonia była np. w Kantonie). Ekspedycje Zheng He były przede wszystkim manifestacją chińskiej potęgi.

W 1424 roku zmarł protektor admirała – cesarz Yongle. Jego syn i następca, Zhu Gaozhi, przedłużył wydany jeszcze przez ojca edykt nakazujący wstrzymanie wypraw. Zheng He został dowódcą floty i nadzorcą portu w Nankinie. Okres odwrócenia się Chin od morza trwał jedynie kilka lat. Przerwała go śmierć cesarza Zhu Gaozhi. Admirał wyruszył na kolejną, siódmą wyprawę w 1431 roku. Jego flota liczyła około 300 statków z ponad 27 tys. ludzi na pokładach. Wysłannicy admirała dotarli m.in. do Malakki i Syjamu. Zheng He zmarł w czasie swej ostatniej podróży. Potem wypraw już nie kontynuowano, zaprzestano też budowy największych statków floty chińskiej – baochuanów.

Ocena
Wyprawy niewiele zmieniły w układzie sił w Azji Południowo-Wschodniej i basenie Oceanu Indyjskiego. Wymiana ambasadorów i aktywność dyplomatyczna była równie intensywna, co krótkotrwała. Wydatki ponoszone na wybudowanie i wyposażenie ogromnej floty mogły w oczach cesarza być usprawiedliwione prestiżem, zyskanym, gdy władcy i wysłannicy wielu krajów przybyli złożyć mu hołd. Jednak, wraz z bogatymi prezentami dla owych wysłanników, były poważnym obciążeniem dla skarbca (podobnie jak wyprawy wojenne przeciw Mongołom i budowa nowej stolicy).

Potęga chińskiej floty i zaokrętowanej armii wywarła na pewno wielkie wrażenie i była decydująca w kilku konfliktach, ale Chiny nie zyskały przez to nowych terytoriów czy realnych sojuszników. Nawiązane zależności trybutarne miały charakter głównie symboliczny. Uznanie chińskiego panowania nad światem było "politycznie puste", nie przekładało się na realia. Handel chiński zapewne skorzystał z tego pokazu siły, ale jego znaczenie w chińskiej polityce było niewielkie. Chiny miały możliwości, by zostać mocarstwem morskim, ale, zaabsorbowane polityką wewnętrzną i kłopotami na północnej granicy, nie wykorzystały tej możliwości.

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Zheng He stał się bohaterem dwóch książek Gavina Menziesa: 1421. Rok w którym Chińczycy opłynęli świat, w której twierdził, że chińska flota pod dowództwem Zheng He, Hong Bao, Zhou Mana, Zhou Wena i Yang Qinga odkryła Amerykę 70 lat przed Kolumbem, Australię 350 lat przed Cookiem, Antarktydę i opłynęła Eurazję przejściem północno-wschodnim; oraz 1434 rok, w którym wspaniała chińska flota pożeglowała do Włoch i zapoczątkowała renesans, w której rozwinął swoje tezy. Książki spotkały się z poważną krytyką, podaje się je jako przykład pseudohistorii.

Przypisy

Admirałowie
Chińczycy epoki Ming
Chińscy podróżnicy i odkrywcy
Chińscy żeglarze
Podróżnicy i odkrywcy XV wieku
Urodzeni w 1371
Zmarli w 1435

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AUCKLAND IN PICTURES - DESIGNING SPACES, INTEGRATING...
Auckland in pictures - designing spaces, integrating people
Taking inspiration and learning points from design-led cities such as Melbourne and New York, Auckland saw the potential catalytic role of good urban design in spurring creativity in its businesses, government and people while creating a more liveable and vibrant environment. Design was thus instituted at the core of Auckland's urban revitalisation strategy, shaping policies and redevelopment projects. Here's a visual walk-through of some of the city's urban transformation led by the city's Design Champion Ludo Campbell-Reid.
Vitality in Auckland as one of the world's most culturally diverse cities
Auckland is one of the world's most culturally diverse cities with the 4th most foreign-born population based on the 2015 World Migration Report from the International Organisation for Migration.
Auckland is a culturally diverse city © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
The City Centre Masterplan and Waterfront Plan (2012)
The City Centre Masterplan paints a bold 20-year journey of urban transformation for the city centre, while the Waterfront Plan unlocks the waterfront for Aucklanders and visitors alike.
Auckland City Centre Masterplan and Waterfront Plan © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Place activation
Urban acupuncture on Queen Elizabeth Square during the Auckland Anniversary Weekend, demonstration of place activation to improve place experience, enjoyment and interaction between the citizens of Auckland's city centre and the public realm.
Urban acupuncture on Queen Elizabeth Square © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Design-led approach
The redeveloped Auckland Art Gallery (Toi o Tāmaki) is an example of how the city uses design as an approach to transform the city, and the gallery has received multiple national and global awards including the 2013 World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival.
Auckland Art Gallery © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Auckland Lightpath
The Auckland Lightpath (Te Ara I Whiti) transformed a disused former motorway off-ramp into a new "hot pink" soaring cycling super-highway. In just four months following its opening in December 2015, the Lightpath became the second most popular Auckland cycle route with 100,000 trips recorded.
Auckland Lightpath © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
One integrated public transport network
Auckland's transformed itself from a car-based city to one that places strong emphasis on public transport through various investments in rail and buses and saw an increase in public transport patronage from 50 million trips per annum in 2005 to over 80 million trips per annum in 2015.
Auckland public transport © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Te Oro Arts and Music Centre
Community projects like the Te Oro Arts and Music Centre, Toia Otahuhu Recreation Project and Mangere Arts Centre are examples of the city's commitment to greater multi-culturalism. This has significantly contributed to Māori wellbeing and lifted the social cohesion of the city.
Te Oro Arts and Music Centre © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
The Revitalised Wynyard Quarter
Auckland is recognised for improving its urban environment drastically through significant design-led initiatives. Specific examples include the redevelopment of Queens Wharf and Wynyard Quarters at the waterfront, and the refurbishment of the Auckland Art Gallery, Britomart, and Shared Spaces at the city centre.
Wynyard Quarter © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Putting children and young people first
Auckland aims to ensure all of the city's children and young people have equitable opportunity to participate and be heard, through various measures such as youth-led development approaches, and engaging youth groups in place-making exercises.
Children in Auckland © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.
Snapshots of Auckland's urban acupuncture projects that have been delivered in the last 10 years have transformed many of the city's urban spaces into more humane and liveable environments, such as Elliott Street pictured here.
Elliott Street before and after © Ludo Campbell-Reid and the Auckland Council.


Sunday School meets year round from 9:25-10:20 AM each Sunday. There is a class for every age.
These classes are using a new curriculum this year called Answers Bible Curriculum by Answers in Genesis.
In each adult class you will find an informal atmosphere with the format of open discussion, learning from each other's life experiences and exploring the Word of God together to know Him better and to put into practice the truths of God's Word, practically applying His Word to our everyday lives.
Jr./Senior High Y.O.F. (Youth on Fire, 6th-12th grade) meets on Sunday evenings from 5:45-7 PM.
Kid's Club (preK -5th grade) meets on Sunday evenings from 5:45-7:00 PM.
All clubs meet every Sunday evening throughout the school year unless there is no evening service.


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Nightlighter Optics Find IEDs Hiding In The Dark
Andrew Tarantola
Aug 11, 2012, 5:00am
Taliban warfighters aren't nearly the biggest threat to US forces in Afghanistan, it's the nastly explosive presents they leave behind. But rather than simply reinforce some Humvees and hope for the best, General Atomics has developed a system to spot IEDs from a mile away, day or night.
This high-altitude Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) system utilizes a suite of ultra-high resolution sensors and night imaging devices mounted on the belly of a reconnasaince aircraft and used to identify IEDs and other hazards embedded along roads and trails. The Current Nightlighter system has been derived from the earlier Highlighter program that GA has been working on since 2005 and that has been employed throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Highlighter system, a 1600-pound airborne electro-optical sensor package integrated into a C-12 aircraft, is designed to not only search for immediate threats like implanted IEDs, but also produce high-quality terrain maps that can provide essential intel for upcoming missions.
During sweeps, the Highlighter system generates wide-area images in both colour and monochrome using its WFOV cameras. On-board image processing software automatically scans these images for potential mined threats and, if it gets a hit, a trained imagery analyst (also on-board) will verify the threat and disseminate that information to nearby ground troops over encrypted UHF/VHF voice and data lines.
While the Highlighter system proved effective at spotting explosive threats during daylight hours, the system was essentially useless whenever the sun set. To augment the Highlighter's capabilities, GA integrated high-resolution night vision sensors into the suite. "Identifying and defeating IEDs before they detonate is one of today's most pressing ISR [Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance] challenges," said Dr. Michael Perry, vice president, Reconnaissance Systems Group, GA-ASI. "Nightlighter's ultra high-resolution imagery not only detects IEDs in day or night, but also can be processed rapidly into precision, wide-area, three-dimensional relief maps of terrain and structures that are of high value to both mission planners and the warfighter."
The Nightlighter prototype recently completed flight testing aboard a Twin Otter aircraft at China Lake, Ca. The Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat organisation (JIEDDO) helped sponsor the event, the Olympus Flight Test. Should the Nightlighter pass further upcoming trials, it will eventually be adapted for use aboard the King Air 350 aircraft. [Defense Systems - GA-ASI - Defense Update - Embedded Military]


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Human Spaceflights
Pilots in Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crash Named
By Tariq Malik 02 November 2014
Scaled Composites test pilots Peter Siebold and Michael Alsbury were aboard Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo during its failed powered test flight on Oct. 31, 2014 over California's Mojave Desert. Alsbury was co-pilot of SpaceShipTwo and died in the crash. Siebold is Scaled's director of flight operations and survived.
(Image: © Scaled Composites)
Scaled Composites, the aerospace company that built and tested the commercial SpaceShipTwo space plane for Virgin Galactic, has released a statement identifying the pilots in the spacecraft's tragic crash on Friday (Oct. 31).
In a statement today (Nov. 1), Scaled Composites representatives said that the pilot killed during the failed test flight was Michael Albury. "The Scaled Composites family lost a respected and devoted colleague yesterday, Michael Alsbury, who was the co-pilot for the test flight of SpaceShipTwo Peter Siebold, the Director of Flight Operations at Scaled Composites, was piloting SpaceShipTwo," Scaled representatives wrote."He is alert and talking with his family and doctors." [Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crash: Full Coverage]
Siebold and Alsbury were attempting the fourth rocket-powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo when an anomaly occurred on Friday. The accident occurred shortly after the spacecraft ignited its hybrid rocket motor, which uses nitrous oxide and a plastic-based solid fuel. It was the 55th test flight of SpaceShipTwo and was based out of the Mojave Air and Space Port.
An investigation team from the National Transportation Safety Board has visited the crash site and will hold a press conference at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT. You can follow the NTSB investigation directly here: http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2014/mojave_ca/mojave_ca.html
Scaled representatives asked that the privacy of the families of Siebold and Ashbury be respected during this difficult time.
"We remain focused on supporting the families of the two pilots and all of our employees, as well as the agencies investigating the accident. We ask at this time that everyone please respect the privacy of the families."
More details on the SpaceShipTwo pilots and the crash will be posted on Space.com following the NTSB briefing tonight.
Email Tariq Malik at tmalik@space.com or follow him @tariqjmalik and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+.
Watch live: NASA update on Space Launch System engine test
NASA will test-fire its 1st SLS megarocket for moon missions today. Here's how to watch.


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Q: convert a list[str] to list[int] in python This is my code:
import os
from typing import Mapping

from colorama import Fore , init

init()

os.system("cls" or "clear")

clear = lambda: os.system('cls')
#GIVE A NUMBER
num = int(input(Fore.GREEN+"Please Enter A Number: "))
#GIVE A LIST NUMBER
listed = input(Fore.GREEN+"Please Enter A List Of Number: ")
# CONVERT INPUT(STR) TO LIST:
listed = [listed]
#CONVERT LIST(STR) TO LIST(INT)
listed= list(map(int, listed))
#APPEND NUMBER TO LIST:
listed.append(num)
#SORT LIST
listed = listed.sort()
#PRINT LIST
print(Fore.RED+listed)

and i got these error:
Please Enter A Number: 12
Please Enter A List Of Number: 12,35,25
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\roya\1.py", line 14, in
listed= list(map(int, listed))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '12,35,25'
What should i do to convert all number is in input to int????

A: listed = [listed]

This creates a single-element list with the variable listed. It does not split the string into multiple ones.
To do that you need to do:
listed = listed.split(',')

Which should create the list ['12', '35', '25'] - which would be a valid input to list(map(int, listed))

A: this would do
listed = list(map(int, listed.split(',')))

A: There's also an error in your last line. Here's the whole thing corrected:
import os
from typing import Mapping

from colorama import Fore , init

init()

os.system("cls" or "clear")

clear = lambda: os.system('cls')
#GIVE A NUMBER
num = int(input(Fore.GREEN+"Please Enter A Number: "))
#GIVE A LIST NUMBER
listed = input(Fore.GREEN+"Please Enter A List Of Number: ")
# CONVERT INPUT(STR) TO LIST:
listed = listed.split(',')
print(listed)
#CONVERT LIST(STR) TO LIST(INT)
listed= list(map(int, listed))
#APPEND NUMBER TO LIST:
listed.append(num)
#SORT LIST
listed = listed.sort()
#PRINT LIST
print(Fore.RED+str(listed))

A: If you want you can user regex expression and capture spaces when entering inputs and then convert to list from int:
import re
listed = re.split(r"\s", listed)
listed = [int(item) for item in listed]

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L'Unió Esportiva Santboiana, également appelé UE Santboiana ou UES, est un club de rugby à XV espagnol situé à Sant Boi de Llobregat. Fondé en 1921, il est présidé par Victoriano Marlet i Naranjo et il évolue actuellement en División de Honor, le plus haut échelon national.

Historique
Le club d'UE Santboiana est créé officiellement en 1921, c'est un des clubs qui ont introduit le rugby à XV en Espagne. Son fondateur, , fondée dès 1922.

Le club gagne le championnat en 2004-2005 et 2005-2006.

Le club gagne 4 fois la Coupe Ibérique et est finaliste 3 fois ; ce qui fait de l'UE Santboiana le club au meilleur palmarès sur la scène ibérique internationale.

Le 5 juin 2022 le club est à nouveau sacré champion d'Espagne après l'avoir emporté en finale sur le score de 23-17 face à l'équipe d'Ordizia Rugby Elkartea.

Palmarès

Effectif 2012-2013

Notes et références

Liens externes
   Site officiel du club
  Site de la fédération espagnole

Santboi Rugby
Club de rugby à XV fondé en 1921
Sant Boi de Llobregat


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25.04.2015 Author: Ulson Gunnar
American Politics: A House of Mirrors
Region: USA in the World
A house of mirrors is an immersive, highly distorted and intentionally confusing version of reality. Those walking its corridors are sometimes amused and sometimes frightened by the disorienting experience, but luckily for them, it is only temporary. There is an exit, and they will walk through it, back to reality.
But what if one existed their entire lives in such a distorted reality and knew of no exits? Would they convince themselves that these distorted images reflected back at them were in fact reality no matter how unnatural they appeared? Could they convince themselves to enjoy and even embrace this distorted reality?
One ponders such questions when looking from the outside-in on American politics. It too is a house of mirrors reflecting back a reality entirely distorted. Also like a house of mirrors, American politics have been intentionally constructed this way, to confuse, disorient and even frighten the American people when necessary to exercise mass persuasion over them. The final result is perpetual impunity granted to the powers that truly be, hiding behind the powers that allegedly were "elected," and powers whose authority only exists in this house of mirrors and no further.
New Leaders, Old Wars
Consider US President George Bush Sr. He launched the inaugural war of what he himself called a "New World Order." Operation Desert Storm included multiple nations comprising of nearly a million soldiers who swept from the map one of the largest conventional armies (4th largest) in the world. Bush Sr., however, paused just ahead of sweeping the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from power. His successor, US President William Jefferson Clinton would keep Iraq subdued with periodic bombing campaigns and the imposition of both crippling sanctions and no-fly zones in the north and south of Iraq.
Clinton would serve 8 years in office and lock horns with Russia in Serbia in a proto-Ukraine-style conflict. In 2000, we should remember that George Bush Jr. ran on a platform opposed to global interventionism. For those trapped in the house of mirrors, this distortion of reality seemed very convincing. For those who understood the hegemonic mission of America's special interests, those that transcend elections and political parties, they knew Bush Sr.'s desires for a "New World" endured and would manifest themselves in a yet revealed, muscular foreign policy that only needed the right impetus to be justified in the eyes of the American people.
Conveniently, the events of September 11, 2001 delivered just that. So began the 8 year "War on Terror." So sick of wars were Americans at the end of those 8 years, that anyone promising to end them would likely win the 2008 elections. And so Barack Obama did and thus became "US President." However, not only did the wars not end, and not only were they in fact expanded, new wars were begun. In fact, these new wars were all the planned wars Bush Sr., Clinton and Bush Jr. never got around to fighting.
Yet, no matter how unnatural this distorted reflection appeared in the American politics house of mirrors, those trapped perpetually within its mirrored walls found it perfectly acceptable for a Democratic president to continue Republican wars and start new wars the Republicans could only have dreamed of starting but couldn't because of left-wing anti-war movements now silent because "their guy" was in office.
Hillary = Obama = Bush Jr. = Clinton = Bush Sr.
With Hillary Clinton's announcement that she is running for office in 2016 with President Obama's full endorsement, those infected with neo-liberalism and wandering the corridors of this house of mirrors see yet another distorted, ghoulish image staring back, but one they are yet again ready to embrace.
Here is a woman who as US Secretary of State laughed and mocked the Libyan people upon hearing their leader had been murdered by terrorists in what constituted by all accounts a war crime. Before that, she played an active role in selling the war upon Libya in 2011 to the American left (as the American right had already desired such a war for years and needed no convincing). By 2016 we may have yet another Clinton in office, and a Clinton fully dedicated to carrying on the wars of both the Democrats and Republicans that came before her.
To say this is continuity of agenda is a bit of an understatement. American foreign policy has been so singular in purpose and focus for the past several decades that it is clear that behind the distortions of this house of mirrors, something singular and very nasty has been there the entire time. Who or what could it be?
The Real President of the United States Lives on Wall Street, not Pennsylvania Avenue
How about we look at the people who pay for the political campaigns to put these various spokesmen and women-in-chiefs into office in the first place? Or the immense interests driving lobbying efforts that target and control both sides of the political aisle in American politics? A single Fortune 100 corporation has enough money to buy out every relevant politician on Capital Hill and still finish up the fiscal year bloated with billions in profits. And what happens when these interests converge across various think-tanks they themselves have set up and created to generate the singular foreign and domestic policies we see carried forward from presidency to presidency, from congressional session to session?
We see complete control exerted over American politics as well as across the media, allegedly charged to serve as watchdogs and a check and balance, but instead turned into an echo chamber and instrument of mass persuasion by those who have clearly consolidated the summation of American politics in their pockets.
While policy might be debated over by these special interests, and groups moved in one direction or another to exert influence against competing special interests among this exclusive club, one thing is for sure, the American voter is the last voice considered in this process.
Since the American voter is incapable of seeing that they are in fact in a house of mirrors to begin with, and think they are "outside" in reality making real decisions, their decisions are completely irrelevant to those who really do live outside in reality and are actually making real decisions.
We must understand that for special interests that collectively control trillions of dollars in assets, profits and infrastructure all over the planet, the last thing they are willing to do is allow for the existence of a system that might actually put into power a form of authority above their own, that would set policy predicated upon the interests of the people, rather than their own. They have the money, the power and the ability to ensure policy is set to suit them, and them alone, and they clearly have done just that.
This is why US troops are still in Afghanistan and Iraq, wars are still being waged either directly or indirectly against Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran and Russia and destabilization targeting China and other targets of Washington and Wall Street's special interests continues unabated, albeit distorted within the house of mirrors, regardless of who is president.
So Americans may think they are voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and those infected with neo-liberalism the world over may think another enlightened champion of their progressive cause has taken the reins of the free world, but they might as well have voted for another Bush. The reality is, that as along as Americans and those who look to America from abroad for leadership dwell in this house of mirrors, the special interests that intentionally built this carnival called "democracy" will have their way back in actual reality.
Instead of fumbling through another four years trapped inside this carnival attraction, let's find the exits. Let's leave this house of mirrors and breathe a breath of fresh air. Are we really going to listen to another round of campaign promises, holding our breath hoping that this time they mean it? Or will we begin divesting from this system and building our own, one that might actually truly represent us this time, far from the mirrored walls that held us for so long?
Ulson Gunnar, a New York-based geopolitical analyst and writer, especially for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".


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Ad Libitum Corporation () is a 2020 Russian thriller film directed by Polina Oldenburg. It was theatrically released in Russia on January 21, 2020 by Capella Film.

Plot
Ad Libitum Corporation is able to fulfill absolutely any desire. But, if a person has several desires, he will have to pay dearly for their embodiment.

Cast

References

2021 films
2020s Russian-language films
2020s adventure thriller films
Russian adventure thriller films


Sara Foryame is an Independent art curator and project manager who works with Arab and Muslim communities in the UK and Qatar, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and community engagement within galleries, museums and cultural institutions. She aims to diversify the gallery space and mostly works with emerging artists. Sara was the founder of Reconnecting Arts a platform that supports emerging Arab artists and facilitates cross-cultural dialogue through exhibitions, publications and workshops successfully supporting over 80 artists within one year of launching.
For the last two years, through educational and participatory methods in the UK, she has been focusing on how to create an inclusive space for the Muslim / Arab community through small and large-scale exhibitions.
Sara is also a visual artist who uses imagery, sound and video to explore themes such as identity representation, in particular focus to the exploration of home and land, the concept of growth within religion and gender roles within culture and politics.
She is currently based in Doha, Qatar.
If you are looking for an exhibition to be curated or managed, please send a proposal. Sara also designs publications and business proposals, get in touch with a brief insight to your idea.


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Planned giving encompasses a variety of ways that gifts can be made to the Compass Rose Society from accumulated resources. It usually involves financial or estate planning; however, it is not reserved for the wealthy. Planned giving is a means by which anyone concerned with the wise use of his or her personal resources makes a considered choice about their ultimate disposition.
In general planned gifts are made through: A bequest in a will; a life income gift such as a pooled income fund; a charitable gift annuity, or a charitable remainder trust; or gifts of special assets (real estate, closely held stock, life insurance, retirement accounts).
Planned giving establishes a way for a donor to provide for family members while remembering the Society as well. It often enables the donor to provide more for his or her heirs and to make a larger gift than thought possible. It often reduces taxes as well.
If you are interested in developing a planned gift program with The Compass Rose Society as the beneficiary, please contact our treasurer Bob Biehl at treasurer@compassrosesociety.org.


The agreement will make overland truck cargoes between Jordan and Iraq easier.
Jordan and Iraq have signed energy, trade, transport and industrial agreements as they seek to revive economic ties between the two countries.
Iraq will provide Jordan with 10,000 barrels of crude per day from Kirkuk to be transported across the border by truck at preferential prices, according to the state-run Petra News Agency.
This agreement will also include a "door-to-door" freight shipping accord, under which cargo trucks will go through the shared borders, unimpeded and reach their final destination, saving both time and money for exporters and importers in Iraq and Jordan.
Previously, truck shipments from Jordan bound for Iraq were unloaded and moved to trucks waiting on the other side of the border.
The centrepiece of the agreements is a joint Jordanian-Iraqi industrial zone, a special economic zone for manufacturing and production under which Iraqi goods with Jordanian input, benefit from tariff exemptions under free trade agreements the latter has with several countries.
Jordan has donated 200 hectares for the project, on a yet-undisclosed location within the kingdom, expandable upto 1,000 hectares. The country expects a similar allocation from the Iraqi side, according to a Jordanian government statement.
The two countries also agreed to link their electricity grids, ordering technical studies to allow Jordan to export up to 300 megawatts of electricity to Iraq by late 2020.
To boost trade, Jordan has also agreed to reduce administrative and handling fees on Iraqi goods entering the kingdom's Red Sea port of Aqaba by 75 per cent and grant facilities specifically for Iraqi goods at Aqaba.
In return, the Iraqi government enforced a previous agreement to exempt 393 Jordanian products from customs fees.
The agreements seeks to kick-start renewed economic collaboration between the two nations, which enjoyed AED 2.5-billion in trade annually prior to 2015, when the border was closed due to the rise of ISIS.


People who eat breakfast regularly less likely to gain weight - Ali Gorman reports during Action News at 5pm on April 23, 2018.
ROCHESTER, Minn. (WPVI) -- There is more proof that breakfast may be the most important meal of the day.
According to a new study, people who eat breakfast on a regular basis are less likely to gain weight.
Mayo Clinic researchers followed about 350 adults for 12 years.
They found that regular breakfast-eaters only gained 3 pounds during that time, while people who ate breakfast occasionally put on an average of 5 pounds.
Those who skipped it entirely gained 8 pounds, and it was mostly belly fat.
It still comes down to calories.
But the researchers think eating a healthy breakfast - something with healthy carbs and protein - helps prevent over-eating later in the day.


A Palestinian is dead and more than 150, including a Red Crescent volunteer, have been injured at protests at the Gaza border. The Great Return March has now seen 35 Palestinians killed and more than 1,000 wounded by Israeli fire.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society reports that 153 people have been injured, with 63 of those hit by live ammunition. Fifty-nine have been treated for tear gas inhalation, and 24 hit directly by tear gas canisters. Seven people have also been wounded by shrapnel. A Red Crescent volunteer was shot in the knee in Rafah.
Five protest encampments have been set up along the border. RT's live feed from Rafah, in Gaza showed Palestinians have set tires alight to obstruct the view of Israeli forces.
The six week Great Return March protest kicked off on March 30 and is planned to continue up until the anniversary of Nakba on May 15, which Palestinians refer to as the mass exodus from their land during the establishment of the state of Israel. Israelis celebrate this as Independence Day.
Ten Palestinians were killed in last Friday's protests, including journalist Yasser Martaja and two teenagers. More than a thousand Gazans have also received treatment for tear gas inhalation.
Footage filmed along the border during clashes on April 13 shows a person being rushed towards an ambulance on a stretcher.
Other social media footage shows Palestinians drawing protest signs, flying a kite and firing a slingshot towards Israel.
The IDF has been criticized for its use of force in response to the protests. Footage from the demonstrations shows Israeli snipers gunning down unarmed protesters. The state maintains it's protecting Israelis from Hamas terrorists.
The Gaza Health Ministry has accused Israeli forces of targeting a health center in Khan Yunis with tear gas, which it says has hindered the work of medical crews. It shared footage on social media showing medics running from a tent, inside which smoke is visible.
"Over the last hour, several attempts to harm or breach the security infrastructure took place. In addition, a number of attempted terror attacks occurred, during which an explosive device and firebombs were hurled," the IDF said on Twitter.


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SNP are right to complain about ignorant talk on the Jeremy Vine Show
SNP are right to complain about talk on the Jeremy Vine Show
The SNP has made a formal complaint about a discussion on Scottish independence
I TOO watched the Jeremy Vine Show when that ex-butler came out with his jaundiced and, not putting it too finely, ignorant views on the Scottish economy – "all there is, is oil and a lake monster". That such a small statement could be so wrong in so many ways is really quite impressive.
I am pleased that the SNP has made a formal complaint. On hearing the fatuous comments aired on a "national" TV programme, I emailed the programme asking that views should be sought from people who actually knew something or even anything about the topic – Scottish independence and economy – rather than rely on the talents of an ex-butler.
For good measure, I also pointed out that the GDP per capita (a pretty good indicator of the wealth of a country) of Scotland is actually higher than that of the UK/England. I still await a response. I wonder why.
Iain Fleming
GREAT to see the SNP getting the gloves off. Wasn't so long ago this Vile Vine-type rubbish would have been broadcast and not a word would have been said about the untrue drivel that was spouted to the masses. At last we're fighting back.
If half the untruths were told about things we were buying in the shops, we could do them under the Trades Descriptions Act. Shame we can't with some of the TV drivel.
Barrie S Gammie
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THE High Court ruled that arms sales to Saudi Arabia were unlawful but the government says it plans to keep fighting the rule in the courts – and, in the meantime, it is still working to secure more arms sales. In just two months' time, the global arms trade will return to London to attend the world's third-largest arms fair, selling the latest in war technology, from sniper rifles to missiles.
Government support makes it all happen, from inviting buyers like Saudi Arabia to attend, to paying the wages of military staff demonstrating arms company products. If government were to withdraw its support, it would be a crushing blow to the arms industry. The government has drastically cut support for vital public services, yet is always willing to support the arms trade through events like this, events that spark war, poverty and suffering for millions. Call on Liam Fox, the minister responsible for the Defence & Security Organisation that organises the arms fair, to look beyond arms trade profits to the devastating human impact of the equipment DSO promotes, and withdraw all UK support now.
While he's feeling the heat from fellow MPs and the public after the verdict on Saudi arms sales, let's remind him we should be stopping arms sales, not promoting more. Its time to cease this primitive and barbaric mindset and spend money on living human beings – not methods to kill and maim them.
B Mckenna
I LIVE happily in a Victorian tenement in the town of Rothesay. This style of architecture is not known south of the Tweed, although it is a common and established form of building in Scottish towns and cities. Visitors and new residents from south of Tweed and Solway are often puzzled by the block where we live. "What was it originally ?" they ask, clearly unable to grasp that we have our own styles of building and our own way of life.
Alas, the attitudes of those Southerners have rubbed off on some here in Scotland, and the tenement is looked down on as in some way an inferior form of housing. Those who feel that should visit the New Town of Edinburgh and look at the architecture there. Grandiose apartments in tenements.
Hamish Kirk
REALLY interesting piece on the internet giant Amazon in yesterday's paper (Amazon turns 25 ... and it's still growing, July 5). I used to be a big fan of Amazon until they switched from using Royal Mail to individual delivery drivers. Along with the amount of packaging they waste, they must now be one of the biggest polluters on the planet; not to mention their dubious working practices.
I don't understand why individual nations like Scotland don't have a public internet market place. All Scottish companies and producers could then utilise this to sell their goods online (just as they currently do on Amazon) whilst maintaining, if they want to, a high-street presence. Along with an integrated public postal and transport system, goods could then be dispatched, transported and delivered quickly around the country direct to the doorstep, and indeed farther afield.
One of the saddest things about the current geo-political situation is that at no time in history has the thought been so far removed from the reality, and the possibilities for positive meaningful change, such as the aforementioned idea of a public internet market place, seemed so remote.


I have often found myself thinking about historians and a fear of loss. Ruefully, I have to admit that my working habits must look obsessive to many people. Formed in a pre-digital age, I have acquired roomfuls of paperwork, card-index systems, box files and books. The loss of this archive is a threatening thought. Again, like many historians, I am involved in a fair amount of conservation work and have gone through countless battles to try to save and protect historic buildings, archives and artefacts. Those less keen on heritage often accuse conservationists of stuffiness and of an inability to 'let go of the past'. There could be much delving into psychology as well as philosophy here.
What distinguishes the real 'loss' of the Victorians is the development of indifference towards the emotional reality of their existence in the past, and this is a characteristic which cannot fully be traced until the 1950s and 1960s.
Gardiner argued that the loss of the Victorians in these years was an 'unintentional outcome of some features of society after 1945'. This is a bit vague. He makes the interesting suggestion that the rise of youth culture in the postwar world and a widening generation gap may have discouraged the young from looking to their elders for 'intellectual and moral guidance'. The problem with this explanation is that something similar happened earlier. After the First World War there was widespread disillusion with the previous generation among the young. Is Gardiner suggesting that it took two waves of revulsion to flush away the Victorians? And what exactly does he mean by 'indifference towards the emotional reality' of Victorian existence? There are contradictions here. As he himself points out, the Victorian Society, committed to preserving gems of the era's architecture, was set up in 1958 and a new interest in Victorian antiques and material culture became evident in the 1960s.
What about historical understanding? Gardiner grumbles that the heritage industry can encourage 'a complacent attitude to history' and that the readership for serious historical work may be in decline. Towards the end of his article he tries to rally: a somewhat strained note of optimism allows him to express the hope that new editions of Victorian novels and television and film adaptations will show a more robust engagement with the realities of 19th-century life. He further speculates on the possibility of the new millennium encouraging interest in how the Victorians coped with their own fin de siècle.
Gardiner was on the mark here. Important books on the subject, such as Elaine Showalter's Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle (1990) and Judith Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in 19th Century London (1992), had already started to appear. The last 20 years have seen an efflorescence of interest in the Victorians. There has been an equally vigorous growth of interest in the history of gender, material culture and emotions, all of which have generated exciting new insights into the history of 19th-century society. Meanwhile, there has been no shortage of work on the history of the ways in which we have perceived and represented the Victorians. Matthew Sweet's Inventing the Victorians and A.N. Wilson's The Victorians (both published in 2002) are important examples.
The Victorians appear to be with us still – but then again, did we ever really lose them?
Carol Dyhouse is research professor in history at the University of Sussex. Her most recent book, Girl Trouble, Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women, is newly published by Zed Books.


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Q: Asynchronously control the BusyIndicator Apparently all Eclipse/SWT has in the way of managing the busy mouse indicator is
BusyIndicator.showWhile(Runnable synchronousStuffToDo)

However, I have a fundamentally event-oriented project where "stuff to do" doesn't happen within a sequential line of execution: an action gets ordered and a continuation-callback is provided to the execution manager. Therefore I have nothing meaningful to put into that synchronousStuffToDo runnable.
Is there another, however low-level and clumsy, but platform-independent way of manipulating the busy indicator asynchronously, which means two separate method calls, "activate it" and "deactivate it"?
I should add ProgressMonitorDialog to this question because it appears to suffer from the same problem. Yes, within the ProgressMonitorDialog#run method an inner event loop will be spinned, but SWT event loop is just one of my execution managers, so the chain will still be broken. Apparently without this class I can't even show a progress monitor except if I reimplement from lower-level primitives.

A: There is no way you can manipulate the Cursor using the BusyIndicator class.
You can invoke the below util method to show a Busy Icon while running your job on a background Thread
public static void imBusy(final boolean busy){

    Display.getDefault().asyncExec(new Runnable()
    {
        @Override
        public void run()
        {
            Shell shell = Display.getDefault().getActiveShell();
            if(busy){ //show Busy Cursor
                Cursor cursor = Display.getDefault().getSystemCursor(SWT.CURSOR_WAIT);
                shell.setCursor(cursor);
            }else{
                shell.setCursor(null);
            }
        }
    });

}

A: Your runnable should wait for the task completion. E.g. (code written in browser, will not compile - I'm ignoring exceptions):
final Object condition = new Object();
BusyIndicator.showWhile(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        synchronized(condition) {
            while (!isMyTaskDoneFlag()) {
                condition.wait();
            }
        }
    }
});
doTask(new MyTask() {
    public void perform() {
        try {
            // Task logic
            ...
        } finally {
            // When done
            setMyTaskDoneFlag();
            synchronized(condition) {
                condition.notify();
            }
        }
    }
});

Make sure all code paths in your tasks do not forget to unblock the runnable. Pretty much the same approach can be used with progress monitors - you may wake your runnable to update progress monitor value.
Note: You need to make sure the waiting runnable is not executed on SWT thread (e.g. set fork to true if running in progress monitor) or else your application will become unresponsive.

A: I found a solution (which I don't particularly like, but it works) in an older SWT application I'm working on now. It uses BusyIndicator#showWhile, and the synchronous stuff it does inside is:

*

*Start the asynch task in a background thread

*Loop waiting for the background thread to finish up while at the same time spinning the
SWT event loop explicitly:

while (!taskDone){
    if (!display.readAndDispatch() && !shell.isDisposed()) {
        display.sleep();
    }
    taskDone = //check for task progress
    //update something on the main window status bar
}

I'm trying to convert this to something cleaner (along the lines of what Marko suggested):

*

*Set the busy icon

*Submit background task

*Unset the busy icon

but I'm not sure what would be best for updating the status bar (background tasks are actually remote calls so their thread is blocked until they finish up). I'm thinking of having a dedicated thread that detects when background jobs are running and update the status bar accordingly (the update is just an unfolding dotted line, nothing task specific), but using a thread just for this seems a bit of a waste.


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Q: Delete storyboard, project still compile I have a weird problem
I made some changes in storyboard iPad, but the changes weren't effected, so I tried to delete the storyboard, and the project STILL COMPILED.
Anyone tell me why?


Scandinavian design is on the rise in luxury residences. At first, that might seem like an oxymoron since Scandinavian design was founded on the principles of utility, affordability, and simplicity – and high-end residents are not. But luxe and Scandinavian design have found much common ground.
From its early 20th century roots, based on Germany's Bauhaus school and developed in the Nordic region, to the mass-produced appeal of Ikea, the trend has certainly remained at the forefront of the design world. And perhaps now it's seeing its biggest moment, serving as a major selling point for hot new NYC condo projects such as Carroll Gardens' 145 President and being reimagined by of-the-moment firms like Morris Adjmi and Denmark's own Thomas Juul-Hansen.


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Review - The Great Betrayal
Fraud in Science
by Horace Freeland Judson
Harcourt, 2004
Review by Andrea Bellelli, M.D.
Oct 22nd 2005 (Volume 9, Issue 42)
Several cases of malpractice by scientists, the consequence of either intentional hoax or sloppiness, have been discovered over the last forty years, and more have been indicated by historians of science. Since the scientific enterprise is usually regarded as the heaven of intellectual honesty, fraud in science strikes us as a sort of blasphemy and it is an important task to discover its occurrences. Were it only because of this reason, The Great Betrayal by H.F. Judson would be worth reading; but indeed this book has greater merits: it is well written, makes pleasant reading, and has extensive documentation.
The reader will be surprised to learn that such famous scientists as Newton, Darwin and Pasteur (to name but a few) did occasionally misreport their data in order to make their case more compelling. Here and there Judson inclines to be sensational rather than critical. The case against Darwin, by the admission of Judson himself, is a minor one (p.61-64), is a good example: in "The expression of the emotions in man and animals" Darwin resorted to the then pioneering art of photography to illustrate the facial expressions associated to inner emotions. Some, or perhaps most, of these photographs have been demonstrated to be artifice (as it was common for the portraits of the time). Judson fails to acknowledge that the photographs were not Darwin's "data". Darwin's data, right or wrong, were long hours spent observing animals (and humans); photographs could have been substituted for by paintings without touching in the least the scientific value of his book.
The attempt to indict great scientists of the past is a wrong move for Judson's cause, for it gives the impression that modern hoaxers stand on a par with Newton and Mendel, which is quite the opposite of common sense. This impression is strengthened by the cursory (and unargued) dismissal of the argument that the standards of the XIX century were not those of today. Mendel was biased in his analysis of peas by his theories (p.52-59), and today we would demand that he asks a fellow monk, unaware of the crossings, to judge whether a pea is green or yellow (i.e. that "blind" methods are resorted to). But in Mendel's times unconscious psychological biases were not fully appreciated and blind methods had not been developed; yet his biases did not prevent him from doing a beautiful job and from discovering the fundamental laws of genetics.
If the cases of great scientists of the XIX century may prove misleading for the uncritical reader, that of Freud is probably wrong. Freud cheated with his clinical observations, declared cured patients who were almost as ill as before entering psychoanalysis, accepted spurious or irrelevant data as proofs of his theory, published his hypotheses on books destined to the lay public rather than in scientific journals and so on. Such gross violations of scientific rules did not escape notice of Freud's contemporaries, and psychoanalysis was denied the status of a science from its very beginning. Psychoanalysis may qualify as an intellectual fraud, but surely never as a scientific one, unless we accept Freud's and nobody else's judgment on its scientific nature. Indeed, several authors maintain that psychoanalysis is a hermeneutical, rather than scientific, enterprise, and as such is not at all fraudulent, but subjective and true to its believers (the reader may refer to the works by J. Habermas and P. Ricoeur on this point).
Only when one comes to the recent cases of scientific fraud can the merits of Judson's book be fully appreciated, for his review is succinct and yet accurate, and poses the right questions in an unescapable way. Judson demonstrates that scientific fraud is not exceptional, on the contrary he proves it to be quite widespread, and to be seldom handed properly by the competent institutions.
The frequency of scientific fraud is difficult to determine, and Judson quotes estimates between 3 and 30% (p.171), that seem both exceedingly high and exceedingly variable. An obvious problem to solve, in my opinion, is the rigidity of the definition of scientific fraud: "... fabrication, falsification, plagiarism ... does not include honest error...", according to the US Public Health Service (p.172). This definition does not leave room for involuntary but culpable errors: overstatement, poor statistics, incomplete representation of the results and so on. Two recent and important cases of culpable errors in science, committed by honest researchers who failed to run the opportune control experiments and heavily trusted poorly reliable measurements, are Benveniste's water memory and Fleishmann and Pons' cold fusion; neither of these appears in The Great Betrayal, and the reason for their exclusion is probably that they do not fit the definition of fraud.
Selection of experimental data is an especially delicate issue. On the one hand selecting for representation those experiments that conform to the scientist's expectations and discarding contrary ones is clear-cut falsification. On the other hand discarding those experiments that the scientist believes are contaminated or in other ways unreliable is part of the honest judgment of every scientist. Often, doubtful or unexpected results are repeated several times and accepted only if reproducible, whereas expected or confirmatory results are more easily accepted. All scientists every now and then are confronted with data of uncertain quality and may decide that these should not be published; their decision in such a matter spans the whole range from prudent and honest judgment to outright fraud (p.189), and culpable errors may occur, perhaps frequently. If culpable errors of this type are counted as frauds, the incidence of scientific fraud may be significantly overestimated.
An important point raised in The Great Betrayal is the inadequacy of the peer reviewing process in stopping frauds; and although on the pars destruens of Judson's critics is flawless, the pars construens leaves much to be desired. Of peer reviewing, like of democracy, it can be said that it has obvious defects, but no acceptable alternative is in sight. Judson suggests that open refereeing (i.e. not anonymous) is superior to anonymous refereeing, and that the availability of scientific journals on line for free is going to improve the process.
Another relevant point Judson addresses is the rules and roles of the funding institutions, but here he goes astray and praises beginning-of-the-century practices and munificent millionaires choosing the right men and the promising projects out of their quasi-divine foresight, against state funding agencies and peer reviewing of grant applications. Because of his stubborn faith in the methods of the Rockefeller foundation, Judson gets caught in a futile paradox: the worst case of scientific fraud reviewed in his book, that of T. Imanishi Kari and D. Baltimore, although financed by federal fundings, appears to him as based on Rockefeller methods gone astray: "That was an anomaly." (p.253). The least we can say is that there is no obvious relationship between funding and scientific fraud, and, pace Judson, no obvious corrective of the latter by the former. Another defect of the present grant evaluation procedures, and here we cannot but concur with Judson, is elitism: only top scientists from top institutions pass scrutiny and emerging is very hard for young scientists from provincial institutions. This selection against potentially promising people is already imposing a heavy toll on the recruitment of young scientists.
An important evolution of the concept of authorship in scientific literature, that Judson thoroughly reports and praises, is championed by those journals which require that the published paper reports the specific expertise and contribution of each author. This practice may prevent or diminish "ghost authorship" (omission of a person who contributed to the paper but for some reason does not want to appear) and "guest authorship" (presence among the authors of people who did not contribute but is included for convenience or political reasons).
The second last chapter of The Great Betrayal bears the title "The rise of open publication on the internet" and expresses the confidence that free on-line journals will solve the problems of peer reviewing and reduce the incidence of fraud. Here I must have missed something, because, granted that having on-line journals is very convenient, the reasons why fraud should diminish and reviewing become less relevant thanks to the web is by no means clear. Electronic publishing is convenient and cheap, but why the shift from paper to magnetic support should change or make unnecessary the refereeing procedures? Why should it prevent fraud? Fraudsters will publish online as well as they publish on paper and the larger audience guaranteed by e-journals will not be at any advantage to detect frauds than the referees. After all, in several cases listed in The Great Betrayal fraudsters were detected by those refereeing procedures that Judson criticizes and hopes to dismiss.
Indeed, most e-journals employ the same peer-reviewing procedures of their ink-and-paper counterparts, and are as liable as those to all types of fraud except dull plagiarism, that is more easily detected by computers. An unrefereed, globally open system, as some advocate, would rapidly degenerate into a massive collection of junk, where important contributions would be dispersed to the point of being lost. Free open e-archives would probably grow faster and be of lesser quality: after all the refereeing process sets a standard and many papers that in the present system would be rejected, would appear in the unrefereed e-archives; more errors and more frauds would be published, and would escape notice for longer times. Judson does indeed present pro and cons of the open e-archives, but in the end his judgment is that online e-archives would be more exposed to the control of the community and this fact would discourage fraud.
A very interesting chapter of the book is devoted to the comparison between the logics of laws and that of science, applied both to the cases of forensic science and of trials of scientific fraud. This subject is beyond my expertise, and I found Judson's analysis interesting and educative.
Overall, The Great Betrayal is a good book on an important subject, but requires critical reading, and it is to be praised because it is stimulating and thought-provoking despite its flaws.
© 2005 Andrea Bellelli
Andrea Bellelli has an MD and a degree in psychology, and teaches biochemistry in theMedical School of the University of Rome, Italy.


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Aussie athletes ok after virus at Games
Australian athletes have so far been given a clean bill of health in PyeongChang after a norovirus caused major problems for Korean workers at the Winter Olympics.
Thirty-two staff at the Games have been isolated because of the outbreak, which causes headaches, stomach pains and diarrhoea.
About 1,200 people working security were being kept in their rooms while being tested for norovirus.
South Korean authorities didn't hold back in covering the staff losses - which included 21 people from the civil security unit - deploying around 900 military personnel to the Games.
But Australian chef de mission Ian Chesterman said the team had been unaffected by the outbreak at this point with no athletes displaying any signs of illness.
He said Australian team doctor Peter Braun described the response by the South Koreans as "phenomenal".
"Norovirus is not new to anybody," he said of the virus which is common in cloistered environments such as cruise ships.
"There are plans in place to deal with it. The organising committee's response has been absolutely first class in this situation.
"We know that the Olympic village - the area that we most want to protect - has a very good plan around disease control and we also know over and above that the Australian team has its own high-level plan to ensure that our athletes remain safe and happy in order to compete."
Chesterman said the Australian team was on "high alert" and emphasised thorough hygiene habits to help ensure the disease did not enter into the village.
"(But) everyone is fit and healthy which I am really pleased about," he said.
The Winter Olympics start on Friday.
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