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A. M. Homes May We Be Forgiven
May We Be Forgiven
A. M. Homes
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Publisher: Granta, 2013
Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then one day George loses control so extravagantly that he precipitates Harry into an entirely new life. In May We Be Forgiven, Homes gives us a darkly comic look at 21st century domestic life - at individual lives spiraling out of control, bound together by family and history.The cast of characters experience adultery, accidents, divorce, and death. But this is also a savage and dizzyingly inventive vision of contemporary America, whose dark heart Homes penetrates like no other writer - the strange jargons of its language, its passive aggressive institutions, its inhabitants' desperate craving for intimacy and their pushing it away with litigation, technology, paranoia. At the novel's heart are the spaces in between, where the modern family comes together to re-form itself. May We Be Forgiven explores contemporary orphans losing and finding themselves anew; and it speaks above all to the power of personal transformation - simultaneously terrifying and inspiring.
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A. M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress's Daughter and the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know. She lives in New York City.
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"May we be forgiven," an incantation, a prayer, the hope that somehow I come out of this alive. Was there ever a time you thought—I am doing this on purpose, I am fucking up and I don't know why.
Do you want my recipe for disaster?
The warning sign: last year, Thanksgiving at their house. Twenty or thirty people were at tables spreading from the dining room into the living room and stopping abruptly at the piano bench. He was at the head of the big table, picking turkey out of his teeth, talking about himself. I kept watching him as I went back and forth carrying plates into the kitchen—the edges of my fingers dipping into unnameable goo—cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, a cold pearl onion, gristle. With every trip back and forth from the dining room to the kitchen, I hated him more. Every sin of our childhood, beginning with his birth, came back. He entered the world eleven months after me, sickly at first, not enough oxygen along the way, and was given far too much attention. And then, despite what I repeatedly tried to tell him about how horrible he was, he acted as though he believed he was a gift of the gods. They named him George. Geo, he liked to be called, like that was something cool, something scientific, mathematical, analytical. Geode, I called him—like a sedimentary rock. His preternatural confidence, his divinely arrogant head dappled with blond threads of hair lifted high drew the attention of others, gave the impression that he knew something. People solicited his opinions, his participation, while I never saw the charm. By the time we were ten and eleven, he was taller than me, broader, stronger. "You sure he's not the butcher's boy?" my father would ask jokingly. And no one laughed.
I was bringing in heavy plates and platters, casseroles caked with the debris of dinner, and no one noticed that help was needed—not George, not his two children, not his ridiculous friends, who were in fact in his employ, among them a weather girl and assorted spare anchormen and -women who sat stiff-backed and hair-sprayed like Ken and Barbie, not my Chinese-American wife, Claire, who hated turkey and never failed to remind us that her family used to celebrate with roast duck and sticky rice. George's wife, Jane, had been at it all day, cooking and cleaning, serving, and now scraping bones and slop into a giant trash bin.
Jane scoured the plates, piling dirty dishes one atop another and dropping the slimy silver into a sink of steamy soapy water. Glancing at me, she brushed her hair away with the back of her hand and smiled. I went back for more.
I looked at their children and imagined them dressed as Pilgrims, in black buckle-shoes, doing Pilgrim children chores, carrying buckets of milk like human oxen. Nathaniel, twelve, and Ashley, eleven, sat like lumps at the table, hunched, or more like curled, as if poured into their chairs, truly spineless, eyes focused on their small screens, the only thing in motion their thumbs—one texting friends no one has ever seen and the other killing digitized terrorists. They were absent children, absent of personality, absent of presence, and, except for holidays, largely absent from the house. They had been sent away to boarding schools at an age others might have deemed too young but which Jane had once confessed was out of a certain kind of necessity—there were allusions to nonspecific learning issues, failure to bloom, and the subtle implication that the unpredictable shifts in George's mood made living at home less than ideal.
In the background, two televisions loudly competed among themselves for no one's attention—one featuring football and the other the film Mighty Joe Young.
"I'm a company man, heart and soul," George says. "The network's President of Entertainment. I am ever aware, 24/7."
There is a television in every room; fact is, George can't bear to be alone, not even in the bathroom.
He also apparently can't bear to be without constant confirmation of his success. His dozen-plus Emmys have seeped out of his office and are now scattered around the house, along with various other awards and citations rendered in cut crystal, each one celebrating George's ability to parse popular culture, to deliver us back to ourselves—ever so slightly mockingly, in the format best known as the half-hour sitcom or the news hour.
The turkey platter was in the center of the table. I reached over my wife's shoulder and lifted—the tray was heavy and wobbled. I willed myself to stay strong and was able to carry out the mission while balancing a casserole of Brussels sprouts and bacon in the crook of my other arm.
The turkey, an "heirloom bird," whatever that means, had been rubbed, relaxed, herbed into submission, into thinking it wasn't so bad to be decapitated, to be stuffed up the ass with breadcrumbs and cranberries in some annual rite. The bird had been raised with a goal in mind, an actual date when his number would come up.
I stood in their kitchen picking at the carcass while Jane did the dishes, bright-blue gloves on, up to her elbows in suds. My fingers were deep in the bird, the hollow body still warm, the best bits of stuffing packed in. I dug with my fingers and brought stuffing to my lips. She looked at me—my mouth moist, greasy, my fingers curled into what would have been the turkey's g-spot if they had such things—lifted her hands out of the water and came towards me, to plant one on me. Not friendly. The kiss was serious, wet, and full of desire. It was terrifying and unexpected. She did it, then snapped off her gloves and walked out of the room. I was holding the counter, gripping it with greasy fingers. Hard.
Dessert was served. Jane asked if anyone wanted coffee and went back into the kitchen. I followed her like a dog, wanting more.
She ignored me.
"Are you ignoring me?" I asked.
She said nothing and then handed me the coffee. "Could you let me have a little pleasure, a little something that's just for myself?" She paused. "Cream and sugar?"
From Thanksgiving through Christmas and on into the new year, all I thought of was George fucking Jane. George on top of her, or, for a special occasion, George on the bottom, and once, fantastically, George having her from the back—his eyes fixed on the wall-mounted television—the ticker tape of news headlines trickling across the bottom of the screen. I couldn't stop thinking about it. I was convinced that, despite his charms, his excess of professional achievement, George wasn't very good in bed and that all he knew about sex he learned from the pages of a magazine read furtively while shitting. I thought of my brother fucking his wife—constantly. Whenever I saw Jane I was hard. I wore baggy pleated pants and double pairs of jockey shorts to contain my treasonous enthusiasm. The effort created bulk and, I worried, gave me the appearance of having gained weight.
It is almost eight o'clock on an evening towards the end of February when Jane calls. Claire is still at the office; she is always at the office. Another man would think his wife was having an affair; I just think Claire is smart.
"I need your help," Jane says.
"Don't worry," I say, before I even know what the worry is. I imagine her calling me from the kitchen phone, the long curly cord wrapping around her body.
"He's at the police station."
I glance at the New York skyline; our building is ugly, postwar white brick, dull, but we're up high, the windows are broad, and there's a small terrace where we used to sit and have our morning toast. "Did he do something wrong?"
"Apparently," she says. "They want me to come get him. Can you? Can you pick your brother up?"
"Don't worry," I say, repeating myself.
Within minutes I'm en route from Manhattan to the Westchester hamlet George and Jane call home. I phone Claire from the car; her voice mail picks up. "There's some kind of problem with George and I've got to pick him up and take him home to Jane. I had my dinner—I left some for you in the fridge. Call later."
A fight. On the way to the police station, that's what I'm thinking. George has it in him: a kind of atomic reactivity that stays under the surface until something triggers him and he erupts, throwing over a table, smashing his fist through a wall, or...More than once I've been the recipient of his frustrations, a baseball hurled at my back, striking me at kidney level and dropping me to my knees, a shove in my grandmother's kitchen hurling me backwards, through a full-length pane of glass as George blocks me from getting the last of the brownies. I imagine that he went out for a drink after work and got on the wrong side of someone.
Thirty-three minutes later, I park outside the small suburban police station, a white cake box circa 1970. There's a busty girlie calendar that probably shouldn't be in a police station, a jar of hard candy, two metal desks that sound like a car crash if you accidentally kick them, which I do, tipping over an empty bottle of diet Dr. Pepper. "I'm the brother of the man you called his wife about," I announce. "I'm here on behalf of George Silver."
"You're the brother?"
"We called his wife, she's coming to get him."
"She called me, I'm here to pick him up."
"We wanted to take him to the hospital but he wouldn't go; he kept repeating that he was a dangerous man and we should take him 'downtown,' lock him up, and be done with it. Personally, I think the man needs a doctor—you don't walk away from something like that unscathed."
"So he got into a fight?"
"Car accident, bad one. Doesn't appear he was under the influence, passed a breath test and consented to urine, but really he should see a doctor."
"Was it his fault?"
"He ran a red light, plowed into a minivan, husband was killed on impact, the wife was alive at the scene—in the back seat, next to the surviving boy. Rescue crew used the Jaws of Life to free the wife, upon release she expired."
"Her legs fell out of the car," someone calls out from a back office. "The boy is in fair condition. He'll survive," the younger cop says. "Your brother's in the rear, I'll get him."
"Is my brother being charged with a crime?"
"Not at the moment. There'll be a full investigation. Officers noted that he appeared disoriented at the scene. Take him home, get him a doctor and a lawyer—these things can get ugly."
"He won't come out," the younger cop says.
"Tell him we don't have room for him," the older one says. "Tell him the real criminals are coming soon and if he doesn't come out now they'll plug him up the bung hole in the night."
George comes out, disheveled. "Why are you here?" he asks me.
"Jane called, and besides, you had the car."
"She could have taken a taxi."
"It's late."
I lead George through the small parking lot and into the night, feeling compelled to take his arm, to guide him by his elbow—not sure if I'm preventing him from escaping or just steadying him. Either way, George doesn't pull away, he lets himself be led.
"Where's Jane?"
"At the house."
"Does she know?"
I shake my head no.
"It was awful. There was a light."
"Did you see the light?"
"I think I may have seen it but it was like it didn't make sense."
"Like it didn't apply to you?"
"Like I didn't know." He gets into the car. "Where's Jane?" he asks again.
"At the house," I repeat. "Buckle your belt."
Pulling into the driveway, the headlights cut through the house and catch Jane in the kitchen, holding a pot of coffee.
"Are you all right?" she asks when we are inside.
"How could I be," George says. He empties his pockets onto the kitchen counter. He takes off his shoes, socks, pants, boxers, jacket, shirt, undershirt, and stuffs all of it into the kitchen trash can.
"Would you like some coffee?" Jane asks.
Naked, George stands with his head tilted as if he's hearing something.
"Coffee?" she asks again, gesturing with the pot.
He doesn't answer. He walks from the kitchen through the dining room and into the living room, and sits in the dark—naked in a chair.
"Did he get into a fight?" Jane asks.
"Car accident. You'd better call your insurance company and your lawyer. Do you have a lawyer?"
"George, do we have a lawyer?"
"Do I need one?" he asks. "If I do, call Rutkowsky."
"Something is wrong with him," Jane says.
"He killed people."
There is a pause.
She pours George a cup of coffee and brings it into the living room along with a dish towel that she drapes over his genitals like putting a napkin in his lap.
The phone rings.
"Don't answer it," George says.
"Hello," she says.
"I'm sorry, he's not home right now, may I take a message?" Jane listens. "Yes, I hear you, perfectly clear," she says and then hangs up. "Do you want a drink?" she asks no one in particular, and then pours one for herself.
"Who was it?" I ask.
"Friend of the family," she says, and clearly she means the family that was killed.
For a long time he sits in the chair, the dish towel shielding his privates, the cup of coffee daintily on his lap. Beneath him a puddle forms.
"George," Jane implores when she hears what sounds like water dripping, "you're having an accident."
Tessie, the old dog, gets up from her bed, comes over, and sniffs it.
Jane hurries into the kitchen and comes back with a wad of paper towels. "It will eat the finish right off the floor," she says.
Through it all George looks blank, like the empty husk left by a reptile who has shed his skin. Jane takes the coffee cup from George and hands it to me. She takes the wet kitchen towel from his lap, helps him to stand, and then wipes the back of his legs and his ass with paper towels. "Let me help you upstairs."
I watch as they climb the steps. I see my brother's body, slack, his stomach sagging slightly, the bones of his hips, his pelvis, his flat ass—all so white they appear to glow in the dark. As they climb I see below his ass and tucked between his legs his low, pinkish-purple nut sack swaying like an old lion.
I sit on their couch. Where is my wife? Isn't Claire curious to know what happened? Doesn't she wonder why I am not home?
The room smells like urine. The wet paper towels are on the floor. Jane doesn't come back to clean up the pee. I do it and then sit back down on the sofa.
I am staring through the dark at an old wooden tribal mask made with hemp hair and a feather and laced with tribal beads. I'm staring at this unfamiliar face that Nate brought back from a school trip to South Africa, and the mask seems to be staring back as though inhabited, wanting to say something—taunting me with its silence.
I hate this living room. I hate this house. I want to go home.
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Чуга — река в Холмогорском районе Архангельской области России.

Берёт начало из озера Межное близ станции Северной железной дороги Глубокое-Новое. Река течёт в основном в северном направлении. Впадает в Пинегу по левому берегу в 45 км от её устья (на 1 км ниже устья реки Чуплега). Длина 34 км. Питание смешанное, с преобладанием снегового. Наиболее крупные притоки — Позёра, Точиха, Сточная.

В бассейне реки находится Чугский государственный ландшафтный заказник. В нижнем течении на берегу реки находится деревня Чуга Белогорского сельского поселения.

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I feel as though I spent the last two weeks on roofies and it's all a blur. But I'll try to recollect it for the sake of posterity.
The apartment is still a mess, I look at the clock and realized I'm leaving for the airport in an hour. And I still haven't taken a shower, among other things.
At this point, my pulse is racing, no pounding. I eject all remaining IQ points and plung blindly, dumbly forward. I imagine it's something like peaking at Everest.
Somehow, in that final hour I manage to take a shower, get the last block of ice out of the freezer, get dressed, write an informative note to Natalie (the woman subletting my apartment), hate my enemies one last time and get Desdemona and Denzel in their cat carriers before my friend Bob picks me up. Usually it takes three hours more strenuous than an Olympic triathalon to get Denzel in there, but this time it's relatively easy.
The ride to the airport is a cacophony of yowling and sighing. The kitties, on the other hand, are surprisingly quiet and well behaved.
At the airport, check in takes forever. They charge me a fortune to check the kitties. But in return, they give me two very special plastic closures to reinforce the carrier doors so they can't escape (Delta is the official airline of the missing whippet).
Once we're all checked in, I have to schlepp the kitties and luggage to security. In security, they make me remove the extremely expensive plastic thingees and take the kitties out of their carriers so they can check for explosives. Denzel comes out like a potato bug, totally fetal. Desdemona won't come out, no way, no how. The usually placid friendly kitty explodes into a hissing, teeth baring beast. The security guys are afraid and decide to give her clearance. Thank god she's not a terrorist. Once the carriers are deemed explosive-free (with the exception of Desdemona), we schlep back to get more of those really expensive plastic thingees. Once that's all taken care of and the cats and bags are all checked in, I take a xanax and check out.
Basically, I'm out cold until we're over Ireland.
At Charles DeGaulle, I go through immigration (or something) and on to get the kitties and luggage from the baggage claim. Everything shows up without a hitch and both kitties are alive, a great relief. In fact, Denzel looked absolutely composed. Until his carrier fell off the trolley.
Which is about the time of MY first hissy fit. I couldn't figure out where Henri would be picking me up…by the taxis, the buses, the limos, was there a place for regular cars? Information sent me to departures and taxi drivers were no help because "un ami je me prends" (bastards!).
Just as I'm about to blow a gasket, a tall, really good looking guy comes running towards me. It's Henri who I already adore from our phone conversations. Fortunately, I'm incapable of processing information, only registering it. Otherwise, I'm sure my brain would have short-circuited permanently with the complex mathematical equations that would have inevitably ensued (what's the age difference between Demi and Ashton again?).
He tells me I look great, and for a brief moment I believe him and am energized. Until I remember he's an actor. Damn.
I'm nothing more than a blob of protoplasm. Henri gets us all into the car (where ever it was).
If I had to retrace the drive from the airport, I'd probably wind up in Poland, but I enjoy the comforting hum of Henri's voice as he points out sites of interest to me. I look at Desdemona who seems a little sickly.
Martine, Henri's sister and keeper of the house, greets me and shows me around. In French. I nod, smile blankly and pretend to understand her. We have lunch, I take another nap while Henri hooks up the internet. We go to the grocery store to get cat litter. In what order, I have no idea.
They leave around around 3. I poke around and take another nap.
It's about 9pm now and it's still light out. The light really is gorgeous here. In fact, now that I'm starting to feel more normal I can't help noticing how the light brings out the bruises on my arm that I don't remember getting. I wonder if it's leukemia.
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Public Consultation Launched, Seeking Feedback, with a View to Evaluating EU Law on Food Contact Materials
The Commission's notice initiating the consultation notes that food contact materials (FCMs) are all materials that come into contact with food, including packaging, kitchenware and tableware, and the materials used in professional food manufacturing, preparation, storage and distribution. FCMs may also include articles which may foreseeably come into contact with food.
The legislation on food contact material currently provides a harmonised legal EU framework for FCMs by setting out the general principles of safety of FCMs, as well as rules on labelling, compliance documentation, and traceability. In other words, the EU law on food contact materials provides the basis for securing the protection of human health, and the interests of consumers, and to ensure the effective functioning of the internal market as regards the placing on the market of FCMs.
The consultation is intended to be part of the European Commission evaluation of the EU legislation on food contact materials. The evaluation aims to assess to what extent the current EU legislative framework for food contact materials is fit for purpose, delivering as expected. It will hopefully identify any unexpected impacts or issues as a consequence of the current legislation. In addition, the evaluation will show whether the objectives and tools of the FCM legislation are still relevant and coherent.
The feedback received from the consultation will be taken into account in the evaluation. Once the evaluation of the FCM legislation is completed, a synopsis report of all consultation activities will be published.
Last month, the charity organisation CHEM Trust welcomed the public consultation, commenting that the EU's laws in the field of FCMs are largely ineffective, as they do not adequately protect public health. This is because several materials, including paper, card, inks and glues, are not yet subject to EU harmonisation; yet, where a harmonised law does exist – as is the case for FCM from plastic – it is considered to be weak.
CHEM Trust has itself reported in the past on coloured napkins leaching carcinogenic chemicals, pizza boxes contaminated with Bisphenol A (BPA), and microwave-popcorn packaging containing persistent PFAS chemicals which, it is said, accumulate in the blood. Pursuant to CHEM Trust's own protests, the European Parliament approved a very critical report on the regulatory regime, back in October 2016.
As for the EU legal framework, general requirements for all food contact materials are laid down in Framework Regulation 1935/2004. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for materials and articles intended to come in contact with food is described in Regulation 2023/2006.
There are also EU regulations for specific materials: ceramics, regenerated cellulose film, plastics, recycled plastics and active and intelligent materials. Food contact materials must not transfer their components into the foods in unacceptable quantities (this is referred to as migration). Thus, during contact there must not be migration of unsafe levels of chemical substances from the material to the food.
The most comprehensive measure is EU Regulation 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. The Regulation, applicable directly in all EU Member States, outlines the rules on the composition of plastic FCM, including the establishment of a Union List of substances that are permitted for use in the manufacture of plastic FCM. It assigns a specific number to each substance. Regulation 10/2011 sets out rules to determine the compliance of plastic materials and specifications, as well as restrictions on the use of these substances. Restrictions include migration limits which specify the maximum amount of substances allowed to migrate to food. The total migration of substances from a plastic to a food may not exceed 60 mg/kg food.
As recycling is becoming more common in manufacturing, EU Regulation 282/2008 sets out rules for recycled plastic, given that such plastic may be contaminated with unknown substances.
When there is no specific EU legislation, Member States may establish national measures. There are, for instance, no specific EU measures on paper and board, metal, glass or printing inks. Some Member States therefore have their own rules in this regard.
Hong Kong sellers that are interested in participating in the public consultation and providing feedback should respond to the European Commission's questionnaire. More information on how to do this can be found on the Commission's website titled Evaluation of Food Contact Materials (FCM).
Food Contact Materials Law Amends Position on Use of a Substance in Plastic Packaging
EU-wide Restriction Sought on PFAS Chemicals That Are Commonly Used in Textiles and Other Applications
EU Updates Rules on Wood Packaging Materials for Specified Chinese Commodities
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Since opening in 1996 the Cairns Convention Centre has delivered AUD700 million directly to the regional and Queensland economy, generated 1.5 million hotel room nights and hosted almost 2 million delegates and patrons.
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When it opened in 1996 it was Australia's first regional convention centre and Australia's first environmentally designed major public building. That same year it was awarded the inaugural EIBTM 'Most Environmentally Conscious Congress Centre Award', an internationally recognised accolade for convention centres.
The Centre has been proudly managed on behalf of the Queensland Government by AEG Ogden since its opening and General Manager Ross Steele said that the strength of this network as well the stability and the longevity of the team has been instrumental in the continuing success of the Centre.
A major highlight was the International Association of Congress Centres (AIPC) Apex Award for the World's Best Congress Centre in 2004, the only regional centre in the world to have achieved this distinction. This Award is based on comprehensive performance and customer satisfaction analysis covering topics such as congress facilities, project management, catering and technology. The Cairns Convention Centre has consistently ranked in the top four in the world in all AIPC surveys since 2002.
Adding to these credentials was the awarding this year of the AIPC Quality Standards Programme Gold Certification, with the Cairns Centre being one of only 13 venues from throughout the world to have successfully achieved this distinction. This is in addition to its ISO9001 and EarthCheck (formerly Green Globe) certification. Ross Steele, General Manager said whilst international awards and recognition for the Centre are heartening, the most important measurement for us is the success of our clients' events. "We have just completed our most successful year of international forward bookings which will ensure the Cairns Convention Centre's economic contribution will continue well into the future.", he said.


It has been a little while, well OK far too long but sometimes a little "oumf" goes away and to get it back you need a little bit of help. Help this time arrived in the shape and form of a Kenwood Blend-Xtract something I always wanted, a gadget that everyone else seemed to have. It arrived just on time for Allotment Week starting on the 20th August.
Fruit trees are all heritage variety. Some date back to Elizabeth 1st and believe me that variety is very very bitter.
Pumpkins are a little shy right now but, they will have a proud place in the forthcoming Harvest Festival.
Before leaving you but this time, not for long, let me show you one of the fruits I planted myself. Peer in the foliage and see them little things, they are cucamelons. They are very cute, the size of a grape, the appearance of a watermelon, just a tiny one and the taste of cucumber. I have high hopes for them in future smoothies.


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Dr Wong Nan Yaw specialises in Colorectal Surgery and General Surgery after graduating from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1993 and subsequently working at the National University Hospital (NUH) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
In 1999, Dr Wong obtained the Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh then proceeded to win awards from the Royal Infirmary in Yorkshire, and the Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York City.
After receiving his official qualification as a laparoscopic colorectal surgeon in 2003, Dr Wong Nan Yaw sees cases such as colorectal cancers, colonoscopy screening for cancer, performing minimally invasive surgery, and managing colorectal diseases like hemorrhoids and fistulas. He has also conducted general surgeries including gallstones and abdominal wall hernias. His practice mainly revolves around the treatment of cancerous and non-cancerous conditions of the intestines, rectum, and anus.
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He obtained his Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1999, and was accepted in the internationally renowned Department of Colorectal Surgery in Singapore General Hospital as a surgical trainee. He was granted two overseas training awards : one in the United Kingdom at the busy Royal Infirmary in Yorkshire, and another at the Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, USA. He qualified as a fully trained laparoscopic colorectal surgeon in 2003.
Dr Wong's specialist interest is in colorectal cancers. Beyond colonoscopy screening for early colorectal cancer, he also performs Minimally Invasive Surgery for excellent surgical outcome. He offers the latest and most advanced techniques in management of benign colorectal diseases like haemorrhoids and fistulae. He also performs standard general surgical operations like laparoscopic gallbladder and hernia surgery.
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The aim of this study is to examine the factors affecting students' intention to use cloud computing in the Jordanian universities. To achieve this purpose, a quantitative research approach which is a survey-based was deployed. Around 400 questionnaires were distributed randomly to Information Technology (IT) students at four universities in Jordan and only 236 valid questionnaires were received. Using multiple regression technique, the results revealed that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived security, perceived speed of access, and perceived cost of usage were significantly influencing the students' intention to accept and use cloud computing while the Affect was not. Furthermore, the results indicated that the developed model explains 50.4% of the variance in the students' intention to use cloud computing. Practically, the results of this study are considered fruitful for the universities and students to increase the usage of cloud computing in the educational settings.


I mean it in a purely footballing sense of course. Juventus are a relentless machine these days but it's a long time since they had a genuine superstar in their team.
Despite Ronaldo's 33 years he doesn't show any signs of easing up. Many footballers at that age are thinking about retirement and transitioning to an easier league or settling for a high salary in USA or China with little pressure on their shoulders. Ronaldo on the other hand doesn't shy away and seems to thrive on the pressure of playing for a top team.
Of course he has bad sides to his persona, like his tantrums, his vanity and his multi-coloured boots that can infuriate football fans but one side of his persona that I admire is his professionalism and dedication to his job. He is a superfit athlete and although he's not the same marauding winger he started out as all them years ago, he's transitioned to a powerful and deadly centre forward.
His mere presence in that Juventus squad should give all the players a boost, the professional and impressionable ones at least, which seems to be most of the team. They should want to keep up with him and prove that he's not the only superstar in the team.
Ronaldo has helped Real Madrid win the Champions League in 4 of the last 5 years. In 2 of those 5 years Juventus were the loosing finalists so even before Ronaldo they clearly have the European pedigree to compete with the other top teams but what they've been lacking all those years was a superstar player. Now with Ronaldo in their team it surely gives them an edge over most teams in Europe and they are my favourites to win the Champions League this year.
Real Madrid look a lot weaker without Ronaldo and with no superstar replacement it's hard to see them winning it.
Bayern Munich are also struggling in their own league and without any noticeable major signings they don't look like they have a chance.
Barcelona have also not strengthened much but they have their own superstar in Messi therefore are one of the favourites.
The last of the big boys is Man City and with Guadiola's experience and City's relentless pace in the PL they are also one of the favourites but with the Ronaldo effect my money is still on Juventus.


As the hot water from the shower washed over me, shrieks of laughter trickled in from the bedroom where Ammani and Pattani ran around dodging their Appa. It is Sunday I realized wistfully. Where did the weekend go?
As I walked out I was greeted by smiles and hugs like I had been away a long time. Basking in the joy that is daily life, I toweled my hair dry. Out of the blue something I did at work the past week crossed my mind. It makes a lot of sense I thought. I had been working on my Individual Development Plan. I filled out four questionnaires. One focussed on how I perceived myself and how I thought others perceived me. Another talked about what I was good at, what I wanted to be good at and how I saw myself bridging the gap. Another sheet focussed on a longer term asking probing questions. Then was a mission statement.
I took my time writing out answers. Some were instinctive. The pen flew across the paper even before I realized perhaps I ought to have given it more thought. Some had me wondering if I was meant to focus just on my professional side or if it meant me as a person. When I was done, the composite picture I had drawn of myself startled me.
All of my focus was on people and how I wanted to be perceived by the folks who were close to me. My mission statement at the end read simply – When I die, I want my life to be celebrated. I want the people around me to say they knew I loved them and I told them so. I want the people around me to feel like they were heard and understood. My biggest legacy will be the memories we would have created together.
What threw me off was the complete absence of anything material. No fancy titles, no aspirations for the corner office, no illusions of dying a wealthy woman.
I folded the sheets carefully and tucked them away in a corner feeling pleasantly surprised by the outcome. A tiny voice inside me whispered that I had my priorities right. At least for the time being. That I did not want my future to be filled with regrets of not spending time being the tickle monster or the human trampoline to my babies. That my children will grow up knowing how a pomegranate seed looks like and believe that breakfast comes from a pan and not a box. That evenings mean shared work and dinner at the table. That weekends mean time for movies and ice cream.
I open the door to my closet and reach for a tee-shirt. My eyes fall on the beautifully framed business degree. A sigh escapes my lips knowing it will probably stay tucked away out of sight. I realize my next masters will come from learning with my children. Learning to live life with abandon. To chase after butterflies and hold wriggling worms on my hand. To play pretend and believe that I am as pretty as my children believe me to be.
Somewhere a garage door opens and I snap back to the present. I open up my blog and write it all down. For this is part of the legacy I want to leave behind.
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Ian Mac is officially one month old!
Ian has been a very sleepy newborn, but in the last week or so, he's started to wake up a bit. We're getting longer alert periods, and he's getting much better at tracking people when they talk and making good eye contact. No social smiles yet, although lots of dream- and gas-inspired grins, but he's obviously paying a lot more attention to what's going on in the world, so hopefully we'll get some smiles from him soon.
Sleep is going okay. He has a pretty consistent 3-hour cycle throughout the day and night. He wakes up, eats a bit, has an awake period for half an hour or so, eats some more, and then passes out for a couple of hours. Lather, rinse, repeat until bedtime, when he goes down at around 6:30 and only wakes up to be fed and goes right back down again, usually until about 3:30-4 AM when we get a long period of grunting. He's SUPER noisy in general, but 4-7 AM is prime grunting time, which means even though he's (mostly) asleep, he keeps Kellen and I awake. We will probably be moving the bassinet into the office across the hall pretty soon, just so we can get a break from all the early morning grunting. I am glad that he sleeps pretty well swaddled in the bassinet, and so far we've been able to put him down drowsy with lots of success. Fingers crossed it keeps going.
I've started putting him on his play mats for a while here and there. He's liking it more and more and starting to interact a bit more with his toys. The chattiest I've ever seen him was with Freddie the Firefly, whom you might recall was a big favorite of Isla's as well. We've still got a ways to go before there's more intentional interaction there, but it's nice to see him starting to notice the world around him.
On the whole, he's a pretty chill little guy. Not much ruffles him, other than an empty tummy. I can't wait to see more of his personality as he gets bigger and wakes up a bit more. For now, I'm enjoying having an easy baby who lets me get showered every day and get out and do fun things with his big sister, and even has a fairly decent sleep schedule for a newborn!


The transportation industry is a unique one, and since it's such a specialized field, it's especially important that everyone involved in the operation is at their best. Refreshers and training courses help people return to work after long absences, give newcomers the confidence they need to succeed, and ensure that everyone is caught up with all the newest industry developments. Read on for more on the importance of refresher courses and training.
The phrase "like riding a bicycle" suggests that old skills that you practiced in the past will come back to you quickly. Professional driving isn't quite like riding a bicycle, because once you've stopped working for a while, you may need a little time to get acclimated again. If you were recently injured, had a family emergency, or needed to take a leave of absence for any reason, then it's a good idea to take a refresher course when you're ready to return to work. This will help your skills come back and improve your reaction time.
If you're just getting started at your job, you'll need to work from the ground up. In this case, training becomes extremely important. Employees who aren't properly trained for their jobs are much less likely to excel, which means the business itself slows down. Training prepares employees for all types of experiences and gives them the confidence and know-how to get the job done right.
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I've always been fascinated by nature; I like to rest myself on the brush or a river shore to relax and think.
I go rafting, usually on the Lao river, in Calabria in south Italy. A marvellous place, I'm always stunned by its beauty…every time I'm there, it amazed me.
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package com.blinkbox.books.credit

import akka.actor.{ActorRefFactory, ActorSystem, Props}
import akka.util.Timeout
import com.blinkbox.books.config.Configuration
import com.blinkbox.books.logging.Loggers
import com.blinkbox.books.spray.{HealthCheckHttpService, HttpServer}
import com.typesafe.scalalogging.StrictLogging
import spray.can.Http
import spray.http.Uri.Path
import spray.routing.HttpServiceActor

import scala.concurrent.duration._

object Main extends App with Configuration with Loggers with StrictLogging {
  logger.info("App starting")
  val system = ActorSystem("account-credit-service-v2-public")
  val service = system.actorOf(Props(classOf[PublicApiActor], new PublicApi))

  val interface = config.getString("public.listen.address")
  val port = config.getInt("public.listen.port")

  logger.info("App started")
  HttpServer(Http.Bind(service, interface = interface, port=port))(system, system.dispatcher, Timeout(10.seconds))
}

class PublicApiActor(publicApi: PublicApi) extends HttpServiceActor {

  val healthService = new HealthCheckHttpService {
    override val basePath: Path = Path("/")
    override implicit def actorRefFactory: ActorRefFactory = PublicApiActor.this.actorRefFactory
  }

  override def receive = runRoute(publicApi.route ~ healthService.routes)
}

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Quantième Perpétuel 25554BA 'MoP Diamonds'
Holy mother of pearl! This Royal Oak Quantième Perpétuel combines Audemars Piguet's historical mastery of high complications with the groundbreaking design of the Royal Oak.
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Audemars PiguetAudemars Piguet is among the holy trinity Swiss maisons d'horlogerie alongside Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.
Holy mother of pearl! This Royal Oak Quantième Perpétuel combines Audemars Piguet's historical mastery of high complications with the groundbreaking design of the Royal Oak.This 25554 Royal Oak Quantième Perpétuel dates back to 1986 and is one of the very first perpetual calendar Royal Oaks to ever see the light of day. These first-series ref. 5554/25554 were introduced in 1983 and it is estimated that fewer than 300 of these watches were made in various metals. These first-series models featured smooth metal dials. This particular watch, however, is the exception as it was factory delivered with a unique mother of pearl dial with diamond indices.The 39 mm octagonal case and integrated bracelet, designed by Gerald Genta, are executed in 18k yellow-gold. The ultra-rare dial is crafted from mother of pearl and features diamond-set indices and four beautifully recessed sub-dials. The day, month, leap-year, and date are displayed in the three upper sub-dials, whereas the smaller dial at the 6 o'clock position houses a lovely moon phase indicator alongside the Audemars Piguet signature. The dial features a yellow-gold handset.The watch is in wonderful condition with sharp bevelled edges and comes with an extract from the Audemars Piguet archives.
Audemars PiguetAudemars Piguet is among the holy trinity Swiss maisons d'horlogerie alongside Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. Audemars Piguet has a storied history of producing high-complication watches. It all started in 1875, when Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet founded the company in the heart of the Vallée de Joux, Le Brassus, Switzerland. This pure, rough and wild landscape, with deep, dark forests, ice-cold waters and the omnipresence of rocks and hills, provided inspiration and raw materials for the Swiss watch manufacture to develop the finest watches. Since its inception, Audemars Piguet has specialized in rare, valuable and highly-complicated watches like perpetual calendars, chronographs and chiming watches. Nowadays, the emphasis of Audemars Piguet lies on the iconic Royal Oak line.Royal OakIn 1970, Audemars Piguet instructed Genta to come up with an unprecedented steel watch. As the story goes, he found inspiration whilst seeing a diver at work with an old-fashioned diver's helmet near Lake Geneva. Staying up all night, Genta drew the design for a circular case with an angular, octagonal bezel, eight visible screws, and an integrated bracelet. The Royal Oak was presented in 1972 as the most expensive steel watch available and it caused an uproar: why was a distinguished maison d'horlogerie putting out a sports watch, let alone in such pedestrian material? Some experts even predicted that the Royal Oak would put Audemars Piguet out of business. Though it took a while to catch on, the Royal Oak is now one of the most iconic and long-lasting watch designs and has spawned an entire product line. It wouldn't be the first time that Genta would prove a brand's owners, customers, and industry experts wrong.
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Utah Latinos passing on cultural traditions during Día de los Reyes
By Sydnee Gonzalez, KSL.com | Posted - Jan. 6, 2023 at 10:42 p.m.
A family takes a photo with the three wise men at a Día de los Reyes celebration at Centro Civico Mexicano in Salt Lake City on Friday. The organization has been hosting these celebrations on and off for the past 80 years, and an estimated 500 individuals attended the center's event Friday. (Sydnee Gonzalez, KSL.com)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Irma Hofer grew up in Baja California, Mexico, setting her shoes out by her bed or next to the window each year on Jan. 5 before going to sleep.
The tradition was in anticipation of a visit from the three wise men, who leave presents in and around the shoes for children to wake up to on Jan. 6, or Día de los Reyes — a holiday celebrated in many Hispanic countries. The Jan. 6 date honors the wise men's journey, which tradition says would have taken 12 days from the time they saw the Christmas star.
When Hofer moved to the United States 45 years ago, her family adopted American holiday traditions, like a Christmas tree, but they still held onto Día de los Reyes traditions. Today, Hofer is celebrating both holiday traditions with her children and grandchildren.
"We have both, and I like it because have the morning of the 25th, when we have some gifts, and we have Jan. 6, when we have some gifts, too. It's fun and it's great because Día de los Reyes is more religious and the other is more Pagan and related to Santa Claus," Hofer said. "I think that it is important to know your roots so you can contribute to our society and enrich it."
Hofer isn't the only one keeping Día de los Reyes traditions alive in Utah. Centro Civico Mexicano has been hosting Día de los Reyes celebrations on and off for the past 80 years. This year, an estimated 500 individuals attended the center's event at 155 S. 600 West in downtown Salt Lake City.
"In this event, it's a sense of community that we are keeping a tradition alive that is not widespread across this country," said Hofer. "Remembering what we did as kids and passing it on to our own kids, it's a great thing."
Belia Paz — founder of Mujeres Unidas, one of the organizations that helped organize the event — said her favorite part of the holiday is seeing the smiles on the children's faces as they experience the traditions.
"It's a tradition that we need to make sure that our young children live," Paz said of the holiday, "Adapting is living it and still continuing the tradition, but with thousands of people so they know that the tradition has not gone away wherever they go."
Brandy Farmer, Centro Civico Mexicano president, also stressed how important these events are in sharing cultural traditions with the mainstream.
"It's really important for us to continue our culture," Farmer said. "When we celebrate our signature events, then we invite everyone to become a Mexican or Latin American person and join in and celebrate with us so that we can educate them about our culture, our dances and our food."
As a child growing up in Texas, Farmer said she was often teased about her Mexican American culture, such as when other kids saw her eating a tortilla. Despite feeling a lot of pride for her culture and growing up in a family that celebrated its heritage, she eventually stopped speaking Spanish and "forgot" some her culture. She said she's been able to re-immerse herself in her culture now as an adult through her work with Centro Civico Mexicano.
"We don't want anyone to forget our culture," she said. "Now the generations continue it, and that's wonderful."
During the event, families were able to get clothes, shoes and toys, as well as the holiday's signature rosca de reyes, a sweet bread shaped like a crown to represent the wise men. The bread does come with a warning, however. Inside are a handful of small plastic baby Jesus figurines. Whoever ends up with one in their slice of bread is obligated to make food, often tamales, for everyone else.
Volunteers cut a rosca de los reyes into pieces at a Día de los Reyes Celebration at Centro Civico Mexicano on Friday. (Photo: Sydnee Gonzalez, KSL.com)
For Paulina Arias, a mom of two, the rosca is her favorite part of the holiday.
"I'm from Mexico and my children were born here, but I want to involve them in my Mexican traditions," Arias said in Spanish. "Because that's what I was taught as a little girl."
Carmenza Rincón celebrated Día de los Reyes in her home country of Columbia, but she says the traditions there are a little different than those in Mexico or what she's seen in Utah.
"We don't have the rosca and it's not as big as it is here. The kids get a small gift and we tell them the story of the three wise men that went to visit the baby Jesus," Rincón said in Spanish, adding that she continued the tradition with her three daughters when they were children. "I think it's important to involve the next generation in our countries' cultures."
Passing on culture to the next generation is sometimes easier said than done, however. Jose Luis Rodriguez brought his children and grandchild to the Día de los Reyes celebration to help keep that tradition alive.
"They don't understand it very well. They came because we brought them," Rodriguez said in Spanish. "They don't know a lot about the meaning of Día de los Reyes. We tell them about it, but it's not their tradition."
He added that events like the one Centro Civico Mexicano hosted are important in helping pass on cultural traditions to younger generations.
"It's part of your childhood, Día de los Reyes, and part of the child you carry inside you as an adult," he said. "It's good to involve them in all this."
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Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son – Review
Nov4 by Saoirse Anton
The New Theatre
Rabbit is a self-made man, a king of Dublin haulage, a businessman through and through. Sitting in front of Keogh, one of his employees, Rabbit tells us of how he built Rabbit haulage from nothing, or at least from nothing more than a ladies bike and his Butlin's Rock legs. He's proud of what he has built, and isn't going to let anything take the place of his name in haulage. He says he started with a ladies bike, but even a fiercely independent character like Rabbit can't entirely deny his past; Rabbit wasn't always Rabbit. As he cuts a deal with Keogh, Rabbit finds himself thrown off track, some things won't be forgotten and as he speaks the spirit of his father, Bat, bubbles up irrepressibly and pours through his mind and out his mouth pushing Rabbit into flashbacks and anecdotes of a time past, when Rabbit was Terence in short trousers.
This warring of Rabbit's sharp businessman's personality with that of his father, a Citizen's Army member and pawn shop assistant who takes lie at a more forgiving pace, is impressively executed in Donal O'Kelly's relentlessly engaging script and impressive performance. O'Kelly's writing is replete with subtle hints at exposition and backstory amongst Rabbit's bluster and pronouncement, while still leaving space for irreverent and mischievous storytelling throughout. This is complimented by his energetic style of performance that brings the spark and vivacity of his writing to life.
The simple stage design comprised of a steel table and chair, constructed by Aideen Farell, provides a dynamic canvas for O'Kelly's invention. Paired with Cathy O'Carroll's lighting design, these elements combine to truly transport the audience down the Liffey with Rabbit, Keogh (and Bat).
Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son is a must see, an irrepressible feat of storytelling that explores the relationship between father and son, and past and present with insight, humour and verve.
Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son runs at The New Theatre, Dublin until 11th November.
This entry was posted in Review and tagged Donal O'Kelly, The New Theatre.
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If you follow my blog regularly, you've seen that lately I've been experimenting a lot with the amazing supergrain freekeh. The generous crew over at Freekeh Foods provided me with samples of all three three varieties to experiment in the kitchen. One flavor was tamari, which has a similar taste to soy sauce, so I knew I had to do an Asian dish to bring out the flavor. What transpired was Kimchi Freekeh Fried Rice.
The inspiration for this dish comes from a local Korean fusion taco eatery near my home called Mogo, which started as a boardwalk taco shack. The popularity of their tacos lead to opening a brick and mortar store, and with that came their kimchi fried rice contribution. Mr E and I get it pretty much every time we visit, and find it's a nice gateway to introduce people to kimchi who may be hesitant about eating fermented cabbage.
If you haven't yet heard, probiotics will be a hot food item in 2016. And while most people think of yogurt when they hear "probiotic", any fermented food is technically a probiotic due to the formation of bacteria during the fermentation process. In addition to the high amounts of vitamins A, B, and C found in kimchi, the biggest benefits include good digestive health, immunity, lower cholesterol, and may even prevent the growth of cancerous cells. The high fiber content can also increase satiety and help prevent overeating at meals, which can promote weight management. While you can certainly make your own kimchi, many supermarkets carry in the produce section near the cabbage.
This Kimchi Freekeh Fried Rice provides high amounts of fiber and protein. In addition to the freekeh, additional sources of protein come from shrimp and and a sunny-side egg on top (not just for decoration!). Throw in the kimchi and a few additional veggies, and you have a healthy nutritious meal in a bowl!
While this is a fairly quick meal to put together on a weeknight, there is one caution- the freekeh must be cooked at least 1 day in advance. This allows the freekeh to stiffen a little, which helps create a crunchier texture. The egg is preferably done sunny-side up to create a runny yolk that acts as a sauce. If you would prefer, the egg can also be prepared over-easy.
Before you pick up the phone to call your local delivery restaurant, try out this Kimchi Freekeh Fried Rice recipe instead. Enjoy more health benefits, plus the satisfaction of making a delicious meal at home. I can't wait for you to try out this recipe and tell me what you think!
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Heat oil in a wok or a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp and cook, stirring occasionally, until cooked through (about 2-3 minutes). Reserve in another bowl and set aside.
Meanwhile, place freekeh in a large bowl and drizzle with avocado oil. With your hands, separate freekeh grains without smashing or breaking them. Use just enough oil to coat each grain.
To the pan, add the white parts of the scallions and red pepper flakes, cooking just until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the kimchi and juice and stir to toss. Add the freekeh and toss to coat, distributing the ingredients evenly. Allow the freekeh to cook for about 10 minutes, tossing halfway through, or as needed, to keep the bottom of the rice from burning.
Drizzle with the sesame oil and soy sauce. Add peas and toss to distribute evenly. Cook for another 3-5 minutes, tossing as needed to keep the bottom of the freekeh from burning.
Reserve a handful of green onions and toss the rest in the pan with the freekeh, along with cooked shrimp and additional red pepper flakes for desired spiciness.
Remove freekeh and portion out appropriately in bowls.
In the same pan, break eggs and cover pan 1-2 minutes, allowing eggs to set. Place on top of the kimchi fried freekeh. Garnish with reserved green onions and sesame seeds.
This recipes will make 4 servings. If reserving additional portions, set aside and cook eggs separately on the next occasion.
Reheat rice in pan with addition 1 TB oil to add crispiness to rice.


Interactive timelines can be a handy reference for students (or faculty! or researchers!) in almost any course. Their relevance for the humanities and social sciences almost goes without saying, but one could easily imagine an interesting timeline about human development, or evolution, or the formation of galaxies, or any other topic.
In this post, I want to comment briefly on three tools for building timelines, and introduce an assignment that I'm trying in a variety of different contexts this semester.
Second, here's the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) timeline builder, which is still in beta, and which requires signing up for an account. (Thanks to Heather for the tip!) You can watch a movie about the process here. It's Flash-based, which offers cool slider controls and the easy ability to zoom in and out. Also, although I've never used it, it appears to have a pretty straightforward interface for adding new data. Because it's still in beta, it only outputs text and links, but there are plans to add support for images.
These first two systems strike me as visually interesting, easy-to-use ways to showcase information for students. They allow you to have clickable points on your timeline, which allows students to see a whole period at a glance, and then click on individual items for more information. The zooming ability of the CHNM timeline builder, coupled with the slider at the bottom of its screen, gives students the ability to rapidly scan chunks of time before isolating on a particular area of interest.
But what if you could do all that with image support, the ability to color-code and filter events by type, and the ability to locate events on a map? And what if that timeline could read data in a variety of formats–xml, json, and others? And, finally, what if that timeline could update itself in realtime from, for instance, a Google spreadsheet?
Timeline is an excellent choice for faculty (or others) interested in allowing students to build up their own reference document. By inviting students to collaborate as contributors to the Google spreadsheet, they can populate the timeline with information, pictures, links, and more.
This semester, I'm having students build a timeline of the Victorian Age using a Google spreadsheet and the SIMILE Timeline script. Here's my description of the assignment, which is about to get under way. The assignment wouldn't have been possible in the short run without the collaboration of the indefatigable Brian Croxall, who has also posted here about this project. You can see the timeline here, although it won't have much data for about another month. What you CAN see are Brian's detailed notes about how he set up the timeline. (Click "View Source.") This assignment's nifty because it encourages students to learn a little something about the Victorian period while allowing them to contribute to something interesting that will live beyond the semester.
I have another couple of assignments for this semester that are still in rough form (for instance, using the Timeline interface to plot the events of a novel), and will post them here as events warrant.
So, while any of these are useful tools for creating timelines and deserve some study, what sets the SIMILE project's timeline apart for my purposes is its ready-to-hand support for crowdsourcing the creation of timelines, which makes for a far richer classroom experience.
I think an assignment on crowdsourcing a timeline of the Victorian Age sounds pretty darn cool, but then I do have a B.A. in History.
Thanks for the kind words about both S5 and the timeline! They were definitely fun to do and share with the world.
Looks very cool. Teaching history, my first inclination would be to do it in collaboration with the class wiki, asking students to tie it to things in their notes.
@Dance: That makes sense, too. My assignment is almost a stereotypical literature professor-attempt to gesture at historical context without profoundly derailing the literary content.
@Dance, I believe it wouldn't be too difficult to include links within the items on the timeline to particular wiki pages for a course. If you look at SIMILE's example of JFK's assassination, you'll see that each event is linked to a MediaWiki page. I anticipate that we could do something like this with PBWiki, where the page wouldn't even have to exist before a student clicked on the link.
For a powerful and fun online timeline tool that lets you add videos, pictures, sound and text, try http://www.xtimeline.com. No programming necessary! There're wiki like functionality in terms of collaboration and tracked changes.
I'd love to get your feedback on our tool.


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Q: Finding the maximum of two integers in binary using bit logic only This is a bit tricky, it's a nice challenge for those up to the task I think. And I did search through all the questions previously asked, but I couldn't find what I want.
The aim here is, given 2 integers written in binary on n bits, to find the greatest one of them using only logic operations (AND, OR, ...) on the n bits of each integer (result would be 0 if the first integer is the greatest, and 1 otherwise). Ultimately, the aim is to be able to draw an electronic circuit where the 2*n bits would be wires with or without tension, and plug the wires into actual electronic components that would perform logical operations.
I started thinking about this problem by realizing that whatever happens (i.e. whatever n is), 2^n is greater 2^0 + ... + 2^(n-1) (mathematically speaking, that's easy to come up with). That means that whichever integer has a bit (say number k) that's at 1 when the corresponding bit in the other integer is 0, with all other bits between n and k (all bits to the left of k) identical, is the greatest. Example :
A : 010(1)1011 is greater than
B : 010(0)1111 with the significant bit in parentheses. All bits to its left are identical, and we don't have to care about the others.
So one can perform an exclusive OR (XOR) on all pairs of bits : the significant one would yield a 1, and then I can perform a NAND between corresponding bit of A with the result of that XOR, so that it'd yield a 0 if A's k-th bit is a 1 and a 1 if it's B's k-th bit that is a 1.
The only thing is ... what about the bits to the right of the significant one ? They can be different (thus also yielding a 1 when performing a XOR) but I have to ignore that ... Any ideas ?

A: You care for a hardware implementation, so I guess you are better off treating A and B as signed N-bit integers, then

*

*Invert B to its -B representation;

*Sum A to B with a N-bit Full Adder;

*Use the sign of the result as a selector variable of a 2-input, N-bit multiplexer.

It is expressible with logical functions only, of course.
More in detail on the third point, just checking the sign S (1: negative, 0: positive) satisfies the predicate B>A. So if the input taken by the multiplexer for selector value 0 is A (and for selector value 1 is B), you have your result. In the case of equality, you still pick A, but A=B so that's logically irrelevant which one you pick.
Being A and B variables, this is the most sensible way to go, since you can reuse the adder for, well, addition. An optimization for the specific case of checking the maximum is certainly possible, I guess.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT:
It is important to underline that sequential implementations that progressively check each digit of A and B suffer from requiring, in the worst case, N checks to return a result. If you have two streams of values for A and B, you must guarantee to be able to keep up with them. Consequently, the logic of your max() function works at N times the frequency of the data streams. Seen from another perspective, you need to slow down the rate that your data is fed to your max() logic.
On the contrary, the combinatorial implementation that I suggested (or any optimization of it) trades speed with hardware resources. In other terms, it is as fast as you can produce data for A and B. Propagation delay for a combinatorial implementation is also usually higher compared to a sequential implementation, but that is not an issue in terms of frequency.

A: Greater of two integers:
unsigned int a, b, max;
max = ((~(a >= b)+1) & a) | ((~(b >= a)+1) & b);

Explanation: Let's assume an integer is 4 bytes. (a >= b) translates into either 0001 or 0000. The same for (b >= a).
Adding 1 after a negation "~X + 1" gives the two's complement. This way the 1 from the comparison is converted into FFFF. The 0 remains 0000.
    If a = b we have: FFFF & a | FFFF & b = a.
    If a > b we have: FFFF & a | 0000 & b = a.
    If b > a we have: 0000 & a | FFFF & b = b.

A: I will iterate on the two numbers (let's call them a and b) by adding a digit to the second operator of the binary AND until one of the number becomes 0...
If one of the number is 0 and the other one is > 0 you'll have the maximum of the two...
1st loop:
a & 1
b & 1
2nd loop:
a & 10
b & 10
3rd loop:
a & 100
b & 100
And so on...
To check if one of the number is equal to zero after the operation you can (given n, the length of the number as known) make an and with a number that is n times zero plus 1 at the most significant n+1 position...
My 2 (maybe wrong) cents :)

A: There are ICs that to what you want to do, one example is cmos 4063. This IC can only compare numbers of 4 bits, however it give the possibility of expansion by cascading more than one device.
If what you are interested is the logic to implement it yourself you can have a look at the datasheet http://www.intersil.com/content/dam/Intersil/documents/fn33/fn3318.pdf which has a diagram of the logic of the comparator

A: A : 010(1)1011
B : 010(0)1111

shift of first bits
C : 0
D : 0

if they match shift of the next one, if they dont match return D.

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        function initTSConfigCorrectly(name: string, commandLinesArgs: string[]) {
            describe(name, () => {
                const commandLine = parseCommandLine(commandLinesArgs);
                const initResult = generateTSConfig(commandLine.options, commandLine.fileNames, "\n");
                const outputFileName = `config/initTSConfig/${name.replace(/[^a-z0-9\-. ]/ig, "")}/tsconfig.json`;

                it(`Correct output for ${outputFileName}`, () => {
                    Harness.Baseline.runBaseline(outputFileName, initResult, { PrintDiff: true });
                });
            });
        }

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Default initialized TSConfig", ["--init"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with files options", ["--init", "file0.st", "file1.ts", "file2.ts"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with boolean value compiler options", ["--init", "--noUnusedLocals"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with enum value compiler options", ["--init", "--target", "es5", "--jsx", "react"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with list compiler options", ["--init", "--types", "jquery,mocha"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with list compiler options with enum value", ["--init", "--lib", "es5,es2015.core"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with incorrect compiler option", ["--init", "--someNonExistOption"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with incorrect compiler option value", ["--init", "--lib", "nonExistLib,es5,es2015.promise"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with advanced options", ["--init", "--declaration", "--declarationDir", "lib", "--skipLibCheck", "--noErrorTruncation"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with --help", ["--init", "--help"]);

        initTSConfigCorrectly("Initialized TSConfig with --watch", ["--init", "--watch"]);
    });
}