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Q: RabbitMQ inconsistent cluster Few questions about RabbitMQ v3.1.5 clustering.
I have a cluster with 2 nodes, rabbitmq.config is like this on both nodes:
[
  {rabbit, [
    {cluster_nodes, {['rabbit@rmq01', 'rabbit@rmq02'], ram}},
    {tcp_listeners, [5674]}
  ]}
].

I already seen issue like this, and now I'm watching it again:
When sometimes all cluster is shutting down, in case second node (rmq02) starts before first (rmq01), it 'forgets' about rmq01:
[root@rmq2 rabbitmq]# rabbitmqctl cluster_status
Cluster status of node 'rabbit@rmq2' ...
[{nodes,[{disc,['rabbit@rmq2']}]},
 {running_nodes,['rabbit@rmq2']},
 {partitions,[]}]
...done.

After this first node (rmq01) can not start due to rmq2 disagrees about clustering:
{"init terminating in do_boot",{rabbit,failure_during_boot,{error,{inconsistent_cluster,"Node 'rabbit@rmq1' thinks it's clustered with node 'rabbit@rmq2', but 'rabbit@rmq2' disagrees"}}}}

I've tried to add rmq01 to rmq02, but seems I have to stop_app before this:
[root@rmq2 rabbitmq]# rabbitmqctl join_cluster rabbit@rmq1
Clustering node 'rabbit@rmq2' with 'rabbit@rmq1' ...
Error: mnesia_unexpectedly_running

Here I see that rmq02 forgot about rmq01:
[root@rmq2 ~]# cat /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit\@rmq2/cluster_nodes.config
{['rabbit@rmq2'],['rabbit@rmq2']}.

Meanwhile on rmq01 (correct configuration):
[root@rmq1 ~]# cat /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/rabbit\@rmq1/cluster_nodes.config
{['rabbit@rmq1','rabbit@rmq2'],['rabbit@rmq1']}.

Questions:

*

*Is it normal rmq02 forgets about rmq01, or I have some missconfiguration? Why is this happening?

*In case it is ok, is it possible to fix up cluster health without rmq02 downtime (I mean without stop_app)?

A: I've found way to resolve question #2, to fix up cluster health with no downtime, we need to remove all mnesia data on inconsistent node:
[root@rmq01 ~]# rm -rf /var/lib/rabbitmq/mnesia/

[root@rmq01 ~]# service rabbitmq-server start
Starting rabbitmq-server: SUCCESS
rabbitmq-server.
[root@rmq01 ~]# rabbitmqctl cluster_status
Cluster status of node 'rabbit@rmq01' ...
[{nodes,[{disc,['rabbit@rmq02']},{ram,['rabbit@rmq01']}]},
 {running_nodes,['rabbit@rmq02','rabbit@rmq01']},
 {partitions,[]}]
...done.

I still do not understand how to avoid this scenario (question #1), maybe some mnesia customisations will help.


Who is the mystery person leaving pixie dolls around Golcar to spread a smile?
People have been finding them in nooks and crannies around the village and say the creatures have "brightened their day"
A mystery dollmaker has been spreading a little bit of magic around Golcar.
The anonymous do-gooder has been up to some elf-ish mischief making and hiding pixie dolls around the village for residents to find and take home.
And safe to say locals have started to believe in the magic of good deeds, with many describing the dolls as a "sweet gesture" and claiming they have been "brightening their day".
Villagers became aware of the hidden dolls - who each have their own individual outfits and names - when people began posting in community Facebook group Golcar, Milnsbridge, Longwood, Cowlersley and Scape Area .
One woman, who found one of the dolls at FieldHead surgery, said it helped cheer her mood after a doctor's trip for a chest infection.
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Another villager who found a doll was Adrian Ambler, who was out walking his dogs yesterday afternoon (Weds) when he found his doll named Spud Gunn tucked under a stone in a wall on Clay Well.
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Other areas the dolls have been found in include near the Post Office, library and near the Manor Road playing fields.


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Q: How to use provided SSL Certificate files to install SSL on NGINX I have purchased a SSL certificate from my VPS provider for https security of my web application and I have got five(5) files from them such as:

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*certificate.key

*certificate.csr

*certificate.crt

*certificate.pfx

*certificate_chain.crt

And they told my to install the SSL myself but honestly I don't know how to do it. More especially the NGINX configuration file that is located on /etc/nginx/sites-available/ directory.
Bellow is the structure of the nginx configuration file. It is just to have an idea on how the nginx file is structed.
upstream django {
    server unix:///my_project_path/file.sock; # for a file socket
}

# configuration of the server
server {
    # the port your site will be served on
    listen      80;
    # the domain name it will serve for
    server_name my_server_name;
    charset     utf-8;

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 75M;

    # Django media
    location /media  {
        alias /my_project_path/media;
    }

    location /static {
        alias /my_project_path/static;
    }

    location / {
        uwsgi_pass  django;
        include     /my_project_path/uwsgi_params;
    }
}

Questions are:

*

*How can I install the SSL certificate based on these files aforementioned?

*Should I use another nginx configuration file or I have to use the same, please?

Please assist me on how to install the SSL certificate?
Thanks

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Construct a stem-and-leaf plot for the following data.
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Construct a dotplot for the following data. 3.99 4.02 3.97 3.94 3.94 3.92 3.91 3.91 3.91 4.04 3.98 3.94 3.96 3.97 3.94 3.99 3.93 3.90 3.97 3.99 A) B) C) D)
Thirty households were surveyed for the number of televisions in each home. Following are the results. 1 0 0 2 1 2 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 5 5 3 0 Construct a frequency histogram. A) B) C) D)
Construct a dotplot for the following data. 15 15 15 14 13 13 14 15 13 15 14 15 14 13 17 15 14 12 16 15 A) B) C) D)
Following are the numbers of Dean's List students in a random sample of 20 university courses. Construct a dotplot for these data. 9 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 4 0 4 2 0 0 5 6 1 2 0 4 A) B) C) D)
A sample of 200 high school students were asked how many hours per week they spend watching television.The following frequency distribution presents the results. Construct a relative frequency ogive for the frequency distribution. A) B) C) D)
Thirty households were surveyed for the number of televisions in each home. Following are the results. 4 0 4 3 0 0 4 1 0 4 0 1 1 0 1 1 5 2 5 1 3 0 3 0 1 0 3 2 3 0 Construct a relative frequency histogram. A) B) C) D)
A sample of 200 high school students were asked how many hours per week they spend watching television.The following frequency distribution presents the results. Construct a frequency polygon for the frequency distribution. A) Time Spent Watching Television B) Time Spent Watching Television C) Time Spent Watching Television D) Time Spent Watching Television
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A sample of 200 high school students were asked how many hours per week they spend watching television.The following frequency distribution presents the results. Construct a frequency ogive for the frequency distribution. A) B) C) D)
Which of the following presents the most honest graphical representation of the ratio "3 to 2"? A) B) C) D)

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Almost every major media organization is crowing about the latest eReaders on display at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. But even the cool factor of Skiff's "paper thin" flexible steel, or the conjoined screens of EnTourage's eDGe (opens like a book!) can't really revolutionize the publishing industry.
That's for the likes of platforms such as Blio, NDS's eReader Solution, even FastPencil's eBook Publish-Ready Format for eReaders.
It's simple. Dedicated readers such as Kindle come with a whole layer of proprietary implications for the publishing industry. In the case of Kindle, publishers must sell Amazon a dedicated digital edition that can then be downloaded (for a lot less than a hardcover price) only on their reader. Nook, Que, and others are treated separately --much like the retailers themselves. While publishers can feel good about spreading the wealth around to other readers (thus keeping Amazon from dominating as my BNET colleague David Weir pointed out), these new platforms may hold the key to the market share -- and the revenue -- that will really make a difference in their bottom line.
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What the Government Does with Your Taxes
Anyone with a personal budget to balance knows how tricky it can be, and how easy to spend more than they're taking in. Mortgage payments, electric bills, food and all the other essential expenses really add up, and on a limited income, this may not leave a lot for anything unnecessary. The government is no exception to this rule. The majority of what the government collects goes to defense, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other support programs. Depending on one's perspective and political affiliation, some of these may not be considered necessary expenditures; however, millions of dollars are spent each year on various items and programs that may come as a surprise.
Republican Congressman Eric Cantor launched the You Cut program to allow the public the opportunity not only to see what the government is spending their money on but also a chance to vote on what spending cuts they would like to see enacted. Here's a short list of the winning cuts from previous weeks:
Prohibit "First Class" Subsidies on Amtrak: Amtrak loses more than twice as much per passenger for their "sleeper" class service as compared to coach class, and they receive federal tax money to make up for this. The cut would Amtrak to provide the service at cost and possibly save a billion dollars over ten years.
Reduce Government Employment to 2008 Levels: About 188,000 new employees have been hired by the federal government since 2008. This proposal suggests hiring only one person to replace every two who leave, saving $35 billion over ten years.
Prohibit Stimulus Funding for Promotional Signage and Recoup Previously Spent Funds: Highway signs have been put up across the United States letting citizens know about various projects that are funded by the stimulus. The signs themselves are thought to cost millions of dollars. The cut would prohibit any further spending and collect what has already been spent by reducing administrative expenses for the agencies equal to what they spent on the signs.
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Q: Google Apps Script :How to append a table in Document after a selection Is it possible to append a table after a selection in Google Document using Apps Script?
Only example I can find is this:
var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
var table = body.appendTable();

...which means to the end of document.
Thanks
EDIT:
How I make selection is:
var selection = doc.getSelection();

which is basicaly what is selected by mouse drag selection (blued out) on document editor.
From there I start to iterrate:
var elements = selection.getSelectedElements();
var element = elements[0].getElement();
var startOffset = elements[0].getStartOffset();      // -1 if whole element
var endOffset = elements[0].getEndOffsetInclusive(); // -1 if whole element

This might be a part of PARAGRAPH.

A: Here is code that inserts a table at the current selection.  It may need to be modified a little, but the point is; that it finds the child index of the body at the point of the selection.
function insertTableAtSelection() {
  // insert table as selection
  var theDoc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
  var selection = theDoc.getSelection();
  Logger.log('selection: ' + selection);

  if (selection) {
    var elements = selection.getRangeElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
      var element = elements[i];
      Logger.log('element: ' + element.getElement());
    };

    var theElmt = element;
    var selectedElmt = theElmt.getElement();
    Logger.log('selectedElmt: ' + selectedElmt);

    var parent = selectedElmt.getParent();

    var insertPoint = parent.getChildIndex(selectedElmt);
    Logger.log('insertPoint: ' + insertPoint);

    var body = theDoc.getBody();
    var table = body.insertTable(insertPoint + 1, [['one','two','three'],['yellow', 'green', 'red']]);
  };
};

The insertPoint is increased by one:
insertPoint + 1

That gets the table just beyond the selection.
For anyone reading this post who may want to adapt this code, keep in mind that this code only completes if there is a selection; the user needs to have highlighted some amount of content for there to be a selection.

A: You can append a table anywhere in the document, you only need to get the container element of your search result and append the table to it.
Have a look at this post for example to see how documents are build (but there are more... search on this forum with Google-Apps-Script tag.


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In an exclusive interview with reporters, Lu Qi said that China's becoming a global innovation center is an inevitable trend in the future. YC has always been striving to promote and realize technological innovation. Entering China's development is the urgent need and correct choice of YC. "YC's core wish is to help early-stage entrepreneurial teams achieve their ability to achieve a leap from 0 to 1 in the early stages of entrepreneurship." Lu Qi said that based on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, there will be many in China in the next 10 to 20 years. Leading the world in technology development, YC hopes to help Chinese entrepreneurs grow faster.
Founded in 2005 in Silicon Valley, YC is committed to providing start-ups with a full range of entrepreneurial solutions that drive technology-driven innovation. To date, YC has accelerated for more than 1,900 startups. According to YC data, the total value of its invested startups has now exceeded $65 billion. "I have previously held management positions at both Microsoft and Baidu. Due to my age, I hope that my next job will allow me to contribute for a longer period of time and use my experience to help young people better realize their entrepreneurial ideas." Lu Qi, 58 years old, explains the new career choices. In order to select entrepreneurial projects with promising prospects, YC organizes winter and summer entrepreneurship training camps every year. Entrepreneurs who apply for participation need to be selected through layers. After the selection, they must improve their entrepreneurial projects within three months. The "Road Day" highlights products to YC alumni and investors. In the just-concluded 2018 YC Summer Training Camp, 152 short-listed start-up projects were selected from 6,000 applications, including many Chinese entrepreneurs. Lu Qi introduced that the current 2019 YC Winter Entrepreneurship Recruitment Campaign is the first official enrollment since the establishment of YC China. The interviews with applicants will be arranged directly in China.
The application for registration of the YC Winter Training Camp in 2019 will continue until late October, and the primaries for registered startups have begun. Lu Qi said: "For projects from China, we will focus on the two areas of artificial intelligence and globalization, and the complete Chinese localization project is actively preparing for the second half of 2019." Since August 15 this year Since the announcement of joining YC, Lu Qi has not only directly participated in the summer entrepreneurship training camp, but also traveled to and from China and the United States to communicate with young entrepreneurs and deepen their understanding of the "YC model." "YC provides entrepreneurs with help through early investment, training camps, roadshow days, alumni resources, and expert support to fundamentally improve the entrepreneurial capabilities."
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Lu Qi believes that over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, gathering the core elements of technological innovation such as talent, technology, capital, and market. At the same time, China's positive attitude of attracting foreign investment will also help optimize the science and technology environment. "The development of artificial intelligence technology is a good opportunity for China. China's technology products will reach the world's leading edge in many fields, and YC China hopes to play an active role in this process." Lu Qi said, China The huge amount of data generated by mobile Internet users and the well-established basic industrial system provide China with an advantage in the new round of technological competition. Since taking office in Baidu Group in January 2017, Lu Qi has had the opportunity to contact many Chinese entrepreneurs. Their entrepreneurial enthusiasm and hard work attitude have made Lu Qi impressed: "Chinese entrepreneurs work harder, they are users. Demand and the understanding of the mobile Internet product experience is very good."
"To build a successful innovation company requires a long process. Good entrepreneurs need patience, confidence and perseverance." Lu Qi expressed his suggestions and expectations for Chinese entrepreneurs. "Being ambitious and convinced of technological innovation Can bring more contributions and a better life experience to Chinese society." (Source: Xinhuanet)


Minneapolis has a great park called Como park. It's a huge park with swimming pools, walking paths, an amusement park, zoo, and conservatory. Hannah and I only spent a day there, visiting only the zoo and conservatory. The park is completely free, running only on donations. In the header image above, you can see that the zoo and conservatory are actually attached. It's a beautiful place, and we fully intend to go back some time.
Hannah says her favorite part was the monkeys and the tent full of butterflies. I'll admit, the butterfly tent/garden was a lot of fun. It was full butterflies and you could watch them chase each other and eat fruit and nector. If you were lucky, one might even land on you. They had a very strict entrance and exit policy, not want any of the butterflies to escape. They had 'airlocks' on both ends, and you had to inspect everyone before the outside door was opened. If you were lucky enough for one to land on you, you had to wait until it decided to take flight again before you could exit. They didn't want to chance the butterfly being wounded by our touches or even by a net, which they reserved only for the times the butterflies got into the airlocks.
The conservatory itself was very nice too. Several rooms full of tropical plants, which would be nice to have in an area that's usually covered in snow. One neat room was where every plant in it was a fern. Even the trees were ferns, as you can see in the images below.
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Beautiful! I have been to Como Park several times….albeit a few decades ago.
So glad you were able to take that in. What fun!
Actually, the "slurshee" picture was a complete accident. I was putting my phone away and it snapped the picture, so I kept it. Slurshee, by the way is "Slushee-Slurpee-Icee" mashup 🙂 Of course Hannah has always called them slurshees.


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Where Art is Always Starting Anew
Czech Artists Between the Local and International Art Scene
By Thomáš Pospiszyl
One can find the Czech Republic, perhaps with some difficulty, in the middle of the European continent. One will have an even harder time finding it on a map of contemporary art. Czech artists do not form a strong and visible lobby. Eastern European art of the 20th century, a category that includes Czech art, has faced many discontinuities resulting from social and political events. If we look at Czech cultural history over the past 100 years, we can immediately identify several disruptions or at least "breaks." The relationship between contemporary Czech artists and the past is far more complicated than the relationship between contemporary American artists and the past. Literally every generation has had to redefine its cultural values and beliefs.
Běla Kolářová, "Sampler for cleopatra," 1964.
The situation faced by today's Czech artists differs only in that they find themselves in an unusually long period of stability. But even in 2014, few people are capable of telling the story of contemporary Czech art without mentioning Communism, which collapsed an entire quarter century ago. To this day, we can feel its devastating influence on artistic freedom and on artists' ability to communicate with the outside world. The logic of post-Socialism, fatally afflicted by its own history, is reflected in the reception of the work of Jiří Kovanda (born in 1953), perhaps the most internationally respected living Czech artist. His subtle performances from the 1970s are often interpreted as a dissident protest against the existing political order, but at the time of their creation they were exclusively personal in nature.
It is astonishing that throughout Eastern Europe we encounter a long-term resistance to the idea of exploring the relationships between Eastern and Western art on the basis of post-colonial theories. Apparently, any analysis of the behavior of dominant and minority cultures—as for instance in the work of Edward Said—feels too exotic and abstract within the Central and Eastern European context. However, the art of Eastern Europe since 1989 clearly finds itself in the position of a partner who has been expected to absorb Western artistic rules. It isn't easy to define oneself in opposition to the narrative of global history. The cultural periphery is incapable of creating its own, universally believable story of art. Its situation may not meet the definition of classical colonialism, but it can be quite excellently described with the term "self-colonization" as it is used by Alexander Kiossev. According to Kiossev, Eastern Europe is a kind of periphery where the tool of Western hegemony is not violence, but social imagination. The minority culture yearns to have the same history, including art history, as the dominant culture.
After 1989, Czech art spent a long time coming to terms with its relationship to the world while trying to find its place within it. Although it yearned to become a part of the world, it still felt alien. With just a few marginal exceptions, until recently there was no conceptual art in the Czech Republic. To this day, the craft or handicraft tradition continues to exert a great amount of influence in this country. Czech artists and art critics do not conceal their skepticism toward blurring the lines between artistic disciplines, towards multi-media art and experimentation. One example of an artist who overcame these local conditions is the cosmopolitan work of Ján Mančuška (1972 – 2011), who began to work with literature, film, and theater, in addition to his paintings and installations. Since he could not work with any local tradition, some of his work feels like informed and recontextualized remakes of classical international conceptualism. What is more, Mančuška adopted the left's critical view of the world, which continues to be unacceptable to a large part of the older Czech artistic community.
A typical feature of the Czech art scene is the weak role of state-funded or publicly funded museums and galleries. The existing system of these institutions follows a legacy of Socialism, and has long failed to reflect contemporary needs. Since 2000, we have witnessed the emergence of numerous independent galleries. Many of these are focused on working with foreign partners and on building translocal relationships. One example is the Display Gallery: in 2007 it merged with the "tranzit" initiative, which had been brought to life in the Central European countries by the Erste Bank Foundation. The resulting tranzitdisplay association plays an important role in presenting Czech art abroad and international art in the Czech Republic. Another independent project (one with an international jury) is the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, the most important award for young Czech artists.
In 2005, the Jindřich Chalupecký Award went to Kateřina Šedá (born in 1977). The work of this internationally successful artist is based on activist projects within local communities. Interest in her work is motivated not only by the exoticism of southern Moravia's towns and villages, but primarily by its ethos, made globally comprehensible by her projects' local foundation. Šedá's relationship to Czech art institutions is typified by the fact that she exhibits primarily abroad or in her native Brno. Her successful international start was made possible by the support of foreign gallerists and repeated participation at respected exhibitions abroad. In fact, these conditions apply to all the artists mentioned in this text.
In connection with the aforementioned discontinuity and the current interest in "modernology," in recent years Czech art has often looked at itself. For some Czech artists it is no longer important to construct one's history by trying to find what parts of domestic tradition can be compared to international trends. Instead, they create specific and often highly subjective local genealogies. In The Sleeping City, his most successful project to date, Dominik Lang (born in 1980) brought his art together with that of his father, a modernist sculptor active primarily in the 1950s and '60s. Lang's exploration of the past does not represent a turn away from the present. Quite the opposite: it is a tool for understanding it in a new way. For Lang, the meaning of art lies in the possibility of creating one's own version of history, which changes according to who is looking at it, and when. His approach can be understood as a sympathetic step toward following one's own self-confident path.
Thomáš Pospiszyl
TOMÁŠ POSPISZYL (b.1967) is a Czech critic, curator, and art historian. He studied at Charles University in Prague and at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York. He worked as a curator at The National Gallery in Prague (1997 - 2002), and was a research fellow at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2000). He teaches Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts and Film and TV School in Prague.
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On March 15, 2022, four European leaders made a long, hazardous journey by rail from Poland to Kyiv in a show of support as the city came under further Russian attack: the prime ministers of Poland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary met President Zelensky on that Tuesday evening as a curfew began in Kyiv. Afterwards, Poland's PM Mateusz Morawiecki tweeted that Ukraine was reminding Europe what courage was: it was time for "sluggish and decayed" Europe to reawaken and "break through her wall of indifference and give Ukraine hope.
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THE END OF FUN! opened at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery during the Coronavirus pandemic in September 2020, then the largest exhibition of work by Czech artist Krištof Kintera in the UK. Curated by Melanie Pocock, it engaged with topics of environmental degradation, waste, technology and the natural world, although in a mode of compelling ambiguity rather than strident didacticism.
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Three radio amateurs onboard the International Space Station (ISS) will depart the orbiting outpost at the end of the week. Expedition 47 Commander Tim Kopra, KE5UDN; Flight Engineer Tim Peake, KG5BVI/GB1SS, and Yuri Malenchenko, RK3DUJP, will undock from the space station early on Saturday morning, July 18 (the evening of Friday, July 17, in US time zones) in a Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft commanded by Malenchenko, after spending 186 days in space since their December launch. NASA Television will provide coverage starting on June 17.
When the Soyuz undocks, ISS Expedition 48 will begin under the command of Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ. Williams and crewmates Oleg Skripochka, RN3FU, and Alexey Ovchinin will operate the station for 3 weeks until the arrival of the next crew increment. NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FXJ; Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, and Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to launch on July 6 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
During their stay, Kopra and Peake scored some milestones for the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. On March 10, Kopra conducted the 1000th ARISS school group contact with students in North Dakota. The first contact occurred in December of 2000. Peake made use of Amateur Radio in his "Principia Mission" outreach, which aimed to directly engage students with communication technologies, inspiring them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. During his stay in space, Peake conducted the first ARISS school group contact to take advantage of the HamTV digital Amateur Radio television (DATV) system when he spoke with students on February 11 at a school in Rickmansworth, England. The DATV system in theColumbus module of the ISS allowed students at Royal Masonic School, home of GB1RSM, to see as well as listen, as Peake, operating as GB1SS, answered their questions about life in space.
The Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo craft now attached to the ISS will be released from the Unity module on June 14. Peake and Kopra will be at the controls of the Canadarm2 robotic arm when it releases Cygnus, which will orbit Earth for 8 more days of scientific tests exploring how materials burn in space and the orbital dynamics of a destructive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.


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The Movie "Contagion" is Released Indoctrinating the Masses to Vaccinate when there is a Pandemic Scare
September 9, 2011 (updated May 31, 2020) Published by Lee Floyd
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Contagion was produced with the active cooperation of the CDC, the WHO and other governmental organizations and its function is clear: To present a hyper-realistic disaster scenario to justify the vaccination campaigns promoted by these agencies while discrediting those who criticize them.
Nothing in the movie hints that it is a work of fiction. Quite to the contrary, everything in Contagion is made to be as realistic as possible, using actual locations and governmental agencies, to make the story as plausible – and as frightening to the masses – as possible. As the slogan of the movie says: "Nothing spreads like fear" and, boy, does it try to spread fear. This movie's message is: "Nothing was exaggerated, and next time there's a virus outbreak, listen to us … or you'll die".
Featuring Hollywood mega-stars like Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, Contagion is a big-ticket Hollywood movie, but also an infomercial promoting specific national and international agencies while encouraging specific behaviors from the public. The plot of the movie appears to follow the big H1N1 scare of 2009 that left many citizens uncertain about the actual risk of the virus. Indeed, after months of terrifying news crowned by a massive vaccination campaign, an important portion of the population concluded that the H1N1 scare was grossly exaggerated and and thought that a vaccine was unnecessary.
In his book Propagandes Silencieuses (Silent Propaganda), the journalist and writer Ignacio Ramonet describes the always present underlying message found in disaster movies:
"In all cases, the disaster causes a kind of 'state of emergency' that hands all powers and modes of transportation to state authorities: the police, the army or "the crew". Portrayed as the ultimate recourse, these institutions are the only ones capable of facing the dangers, the disorder and the decay threatening society thanks to their structure and technical knowledge. (…) As if it was impossible to present to the general public a disaster that is not resolved by state authorities and governmental powers."
– Ignacio Ramonet, "Propagandes Silencieuses" (free translation)
Contagion follows Ramonet's blueprint of disaster movies to a tee. Right from the start, specific organizations are identified as the go-to guys and are automatically given the power to act on a massive scale, namely FEMA, the WHO, the American Red Cross and the CDC.
The seed was planted for this operation by way of mass market publications and cinema entertainment. In March of 1995 the movie Outbreak was released and instilled the initial fear of a hemorrhagic fever epidemic in small town America. Five months later in August 1995 the book titled The Hot Zone written by Richard Preston was released and quickly became a New York Times Bestseller. At the beginning of the book the author thanks the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for a research grant.
Alfred P. Sloan was a Nazi collaborator. The obvious connections between the eugenics movement which was started in America and exported to Nazi Germany, and then exported back to America and eventually became the Human Genome Project, and the depopulation agenda of the world's institutions, including top scientists calling for a 90% reduction in the population by using an airborne Ebola virus, and the research grant issued for the publication of such a book, will be left to the astute reader for further research.
Further social engineering continued over the years through numerous virus pandemic movies including the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Like the western population was carefully prepared for terrorists attacks by such movies as The Siege, when an attack finally came in New York, the population had already assimilated the proper social meme to respond as required.
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Hummingbird nests are the smallest in the world. Most species of hummingbirds weave spider silk into the nest for structural support and to make it more elastic to accommodate the offspring as they grow. Often lichen will be attached to the outside of the nest for camouflage. wildbirdscoop.com/humming…
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The Samurai fled to California and founded a colony in 1869. The Wakamatsu Tea and Silk Farm Colony is believed to be the first permanent settlement and the only settlement by samurai outside of Japan. It was founded by Japanese (mainly Samurai) immigrants fleeing the Samurai's disbanding. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wak…
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Today I learned about the fascinating research being done in biotechnology in the use of spider silk. 5 times stronger than steel and ultra light the possibilities in uses are vast. There exists a spider goat born by gene splicing in labs that has spider genes and can produce silk in its milk. singularityhub.com/2019/0…
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In Bhutan, the colour of the silk scarf (kabney) worn by men is determined by rank and social class: saffron for the king and chief abbot, orange for ministers, red for the royal family, green for judges, blue for members of parliament, white with red stripes for mayors, and white for commoners en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kab…
The dress worn by Katrina at the end of Sleepy Hollow (1999) was just a white silk dress drawn on with magic marker to give it its black stripes. costumersguide.com/sleepy…
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On Boz Scaggs' 1975 album Silk Degrees, 5 of the 10 songs were co-written by David Paich from Toto including the two biggest hits, Lowdown and Lido Shuffle, and he and fellow Toto bandmate Jeff Porcaro, and Porcaro's father Joe, all performed on the album. But, Toto didn't form until 1977. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sil…
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The Japanese Company Spiber Inc. has managed to produce synthetic protein-based fibers similar to spider silk for use in textiles and other materials. fiberjournal.com/a-strang…
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Archaeologists date meditation back to as early as 5000 BCE and the practice itself has religious ties in ancient Egypt and China, as well as Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism. The practice began to spread around the world through the Silk Road around about 5th or 6th century BCE time.com/4246928/meditati…
Scientists managed to mix goats with spider silk genes and now they can produce spider silk in their milk. bbc.com/news/av/science-e…
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Two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape mymodernmet.com/simon-pee…
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Gypsy Moths aren't native to North America. They were brought here by an artist who wanted to breed a more hardy silk worm. It has no natural enemies in North America and Defoliates over a million acres a year. fyi.extension.wisc.edu/gy…
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The Ancient Mongol Warriors were said to have worn silk vests, as an arrow hitting silk does not break the silk but ends up embedding the arrow in the flesh wrapped in silk, allowing the arrow to be removed by gently teasing the silk open. blog.patra.com/2014/05/29…
China's Hongzhi Emperor (r. 1487-1505) used toilet paper made of silk. When he discovered that palace maids collected his used toilet paper to make curtains, he stopped using silk toilet paper - but this led to the unemployment of some silkworm farmers, so he went back to using silk toilet paper mdhist.com/emperor/3950/
Guerrillero Heroico, the iconic photo of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, has been reproduced more than any other image in photography. Versions of it have been painted, printed, digitized, embroidered, tattooed, silk-screened, sculpted or sketched on nearly every surface imaginable en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gue…
Silk from Atypus spiders were used as bandages en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aty…
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Afghanistan shares a 46-mile border with China. Marco Polo used it in his Silk Road travels. It's rumored to have a fort Alexander the Great was not able to conquer, and it has one of the largest untouched copper mines in the world. insider.com/afghanistan-c…
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Sumo wrestlers must wear traditional dress when in public: the lower-ranked wrestlers wear only a thin cotton robe, even in winter, and wear wooden sandals; those ranked higher wear a short overcoat over their robe, and may wear straw sandals; and the highest-ranked wear quality silk robes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum…
Corn Silk, the fibers that grow on corn flowers, are each linked to a single kernel. A full corn means every fiber was pollinized. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor…
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Prof Randy Lewis shows Adam Rutherford genetically modified goats at a farm at Utah State University, US, which produce large quantities of a spider silk that is among the strongest substances known to man. bbc.co.uk/news/av/science…
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After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart started her own fashion line. Unconventional materials such as parachute silk and textile from airplane wings were used in some designs, and she gave a nod to her love of aviation with buttons shaped like propellers. history.com/news/amelia-e…
The Niō (Kongōrikishi) guardians of the Buddha are believed to have been derived from the image of the Greek Hero Heracles, whose image traveled along the silk road as far as Japan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nio…
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Under Islamic sumptuary laws based upon teachings in the Quran and Hadith, men are exhorted not to wear silk clothes or gold jewelry. These rules do not apply to women, who are allowed all this, but also need to cover their bodies and faces. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum…
The us miltary is trying to use spider silk to maje bullet proof vests businessinsider.com/the-u…
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A 9,000-meter strand of silk weighs about one gram. enwild.com/videos/fabric-…
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A Utah State University professor engineered goats that have two key genes that allow a spider to weave their silk inserted into their genetic code. The result is goats that produce milk that contain spider silk proteins. ksl.com/article/46307767/…
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Today I learned of the Silkie, a breed of chicken named for its fluffy plumage, which is said to feel like silk and satin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sil…
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The Kaaba 🕋 in the Great Mosque of Mecca is black because it's covered with a giant silk shroud called the kiswah. It's made with 670 kgs of black silk, embroidered with 15 kg of gold thread, and costs $4.5 million to make. It's also replaced every year by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kis…
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Weaver ants have it's the insect version of squeezing glue from a bottle. An adult weaver holds a silk-producing larva in its jaws, spreading the larva's sticky secretions to bind leaves for the colony nest. nationalgeographic.com/ma…
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Scientists genetically modified goats to spin spider silk from their udders at University of Wyoming. These goats had a gene transplanted in them. The transplanted gene meant the goats produced milk containing an extra protein, which is extracted and spun into spider silk thread. phys.org/news/2010-05-sci…
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In the early 1970s, Faith Ringgold abandoned traditional oils for painting in acrylic on unstretched canvas with fabric borders, a technique evoking Tibetan thangkas (silk paintings with embroidery). Ringgold's painted narrative quilts grew out of these early paintings artsy.net/artist/faith-ri…
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Sea silk is an extremely fine, rare, and valuable fabric made from the long silky filaments which are secreted by a gland in the foot of a clam (Pinna nobilis) to anchor itself to the ocean floor. The material has been used since ancient times by Greek, Roman and Chinese cultures. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea…
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: A Chinese mining company and the Afghan government is going to destroy Mes Anyak, a 5,000 year-old Bronze age site and 2,000 year-old Buddhist Silk Road city. savingmesaynak.com/
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Military scientists belive spider silk can be used to make body armor. businessinsider.com/milit…
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In 1881, a doctor discovered that a silk handkerchief in a dead man's pocket had greatly reduced the penetration of a bullet. The doctor was fascinated and created a silk bulletproof vest with 30 layers of cloth. He stopped his research afterwards. Another man invented the vest. culture.pl/en/article/the…
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A French writer had a pet lobster he would take for walks in Paris. He used a blue silk ribbon as a leash. He called them "peaceful, serious creatures" and that they didn't "bark" or "gnaw upon one's monadic privacy" like dogs did. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gér…
In 552AD two monks successfully smuggled silkworm eggs in their walking sticks from China to the Byzantine Empire, essentially ending the silk monopolies of China and Persia, and bringing silk manufacture to Europe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smu…
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- Corn silk or ovules are crucial to the growth of kernels. Each kernel has one piece of silk and when the silk is fertilized by a grain of pollen it grows. On average 1000 ovules form per ear and 400 to 600 will survive until harvested. agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/…
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Terry Gilliam's movie version of Watchmen was going to end with Doctor Manhattan going back in time to save himself from becoming Doctor Manhattan. Causing Rorschach, Nite Owl, and Silk Spectre to be transported to an alternate universe where The Watchmen only exist in comic form io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-t…
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Today I learned about Spider goats. Basically they are goats that have the spider gene in them, this will enable them to produce the spider silk (which is 5 times stronger than steel) which the farmers obtain via the goat milk. youtu.be/B0zT9CN3-50
Condoms were used internationally for hundreds of years, in China, oiled silk paper was the material of choice, while the Japanese favored tortoise shell we Brits opted for animal intestine... maxim.com/.amp/maxim-man/…
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Mark Twain wore a signature white suit most of his life but in his autobiography he said "I would like to dress in a loose and flowing costume made all of silks and velvets, resplendent with all the stunning dyes of the rainbow, and so would every sane man I have ever known..." marktwainproject.org/xtf/…
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Hummingbirds use spider silk to build nests. The unique properties of the silk allow the nest to expand as the young hummingbirds grow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hum…
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Caddisfly larvae spin protective cases out of silk that incorporates bits of sand, gravel, twigs, or other material. blog.nationalgeographic.o…
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The Chinese besieged Alexandria Eschate, on of the cities that Alexander the Great had founded during his campaign. The city was attacked by the order of the emperor Wu Han in 102 B.C. and its capture stabilized Chinese expansion in the West contributing to opening up the Silk Road later on. everipedia.org/wiki/lang_…
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Today I learned about "spider goats", which are goats that have been given spider silk-spinning genes so that they produce a protein in their milk that can be extracted to produce silk. phys.org/news/2010-05-sci…
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Films originally released in the year 1912 (Wikipedia entry)
Crainquebille (1922) and Some Contemporary Silent Short Films
As part of the regular monthly 'Kennington Bioscope' night, this feature was presented along with a number of short films, with an intermission between them. Piano accompaniment was provided by organisers Lillian Henley and Cyrus Gabrysch for the shorts, and by renowned silent film accompanist and concert pianist Costas Fotopoulos for the feature.
Crainquebille (1922) [France]
The more silent films one watches, the more one realises there's a huge range of expression beyond the kind of hyperactive slapstick we've at length come to associate with the era (though some of the shorts, see below, fulfil this function more than adequately). Instead with this film, we see Belgian director Jacques Feyder expressively try his hand at a kind of proletarian social realism, with moustachioed Maurice de Fléraudy playing an honest working class protagonist ground down by the unfeeling, pettifogging machinations of the authorities. In this respect, it's not unlike, say, Bresson's L'Argent (1983), in which a chain of minor events build into tragedy, but the film I'm most minded of is Fassbinder's Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons, 1971), which also centres on a street peddler pushing around a cart of groceries.
For me, there's something similar here to the way Fassbinder lays on the incidents and watches his character suffer under their weight. Feyder's touch is lighter, though, and while things seem bleak at times, it never feels masochistic. The character of Jérôme Crainquebille (or "Bill" in the name given him by the original English-language release of the film) has a largely fatalistic approach to the way he's treated, first arrested on a false accusation of abusing a bored cop, before being processed through the justice system and eventually released, shunned by his former customers. The scenes in the court, indeed, have an almost farcical quality to them, as we see defence, prosecution and judge respectively amuse themselves, showing little interest in what's going on before them, and the statue of justice at the front of the courtroom turns and looks accusingly at the poor wretches in the dock.
What elevates the film is the almost naturalistic acting by Féraudy and the other minor characters (shopkeepers, cops, prostitutes and newsboys) who populate this world of street vendors based around the Les Halles market, itself long gone. The set design emphasises the dirt and shabbiness of these lives, punctuated a brief fantasy interlude in which Crainquebille imagines a life in the country, growing his own vegetables rather than selling them from his cart. And while tragedy at times seems inescapable, the film remains affectionate towards its impoverished characters, and allows for a little bit of hope to shine through the gloomy black-and-white.
Director/Writer Jacques Feyder (based on the novel by Anatole France); Cinematographers Léonce-Henri Burel and Maurice Forster; Starring Maurice de Féraudy; Length 76 minutes.
Seen at Cinema Museum, London, Wednesday 26 March 2014.
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Categories Country: France, Country: Russia, Country: USA, Rating: GOOD, Theme: Soviet and Pre/Post-Soviet Cinema•Tags 1909, 1912, 1922, 1926, 1927, 1928, animated and live action, animated film, black-and-white, charley chase, comedy, dave fleischer, film reviews, films seen at the cinema, france, jacques feyder, leo mccarey, leonce-henri burel, louis feuillade, maurice de feraudy, maurice forster, melodrama, paris, russia, short film, silent film, slapstick comedy, usa, wladyslaw starewicz
The Return of Draw Egan (1916) and The Lighthouse by the Sea (1924)
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These two full-length features (albeit short by modern standards) were presented with a short film and some amusing historical anecdotes by the film historian Kevin Brownlow to a packed audience of avid silent film fans at South London's Cinema Museum, part of the regular 'Kennington Bioscope' night. Piano accompaniment was provided by Lillian Henley for 'The Passer-by', Cyrus Gabrysch for William S. Hart western 'The Return of Draw Egan', and John Sweeney for the Rin Tin Tin adventure 'The Lighthouse by the Sea'. Although on such a sweltering Summer evening it was warm in the room, the evening was enjoyable enough that any discomfort was almost forgotten. As these were prints from Brownlow's private collection they may not have been in the best condition (and their running time may have differed from the times given below), but all were projected very capably by the Cinema Museum staff. I should be clear that my ratings and reviews below are a rather futile attempt to judge the films like any others I've seen this year, and though they may have been hoky melodramas, the evening was superbly enjoyable and I'm glad to have seen all three.
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Pushing for improvements in economic and community development .
Advocating for worker's rights, civil rights, racial justice and equality under the law.
Advancing the voice of diverse communities.
Championing access to educational opportunities for all.
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Once you have decided on the PC or CAD workstation to buy, you have a few decisions to make about your choice of a CAD monitor or two, and making the right choice is quite important as you will probably be spending a great deal of time looking at your display(s) during a typical working day.
As CAD Workstation specialists and suppliers we'll be able to supply you an affordable solution from cheap CAD monitors at one end of the spectrum, to high quality monitors for CAD users and creative artists looking for maximum image quality or colour calibration at the other, for example the HP Z Displays Range or a 4K CAD monitor.
If you already know what you are looking for and need a quote click on the link below and let us know you requirements and we'll get back to you. Alternatively read on for more helpful information.
In order to help you arrive at the right decision below is a quick guide to help you decide on the best monitor for your usage and budget and what to look out for.
A Single Monitor or Dual Monitors?
If you are only used to working with a single CAD monitor you may not have experienced how productive and user friendly it is to work with dual displays.
With two (or more) monitors CAD users will have to switch between applications much less and they will have the opportunity to view notes, watch demonstrations, check emails etc. on one monitor whilst working on a CAD drawing, Inventor assembly or Revit model for example on another.
A number of recent studies have shown that productivity increases when using dual monitors, and this is particularly true for anyone working in a CAD environment. Cisco recently commissioned a study to quantify the effective use of dual display use which can be found here for reference.
The larger the monitor, the easier it will be for users to see drawings and work clearly, especially with the number of palettes and tool bars needed on-screen today. We would always recommend that the largest monitors that will fit on your desk space are purchased as small computer displays are very counterproductive for CAD use.
Given the investment in your workstation and staff salaries it makes total financial sense to not limit display size for the sake of a relatively small cost saving.
The larger the resolution, the clearer and more precise the display will be. For users working with technical designs the highest resolution available should be selected. A resolution of 1920x1080 (HD standard) should be considered the minimum for using CAD software today, but with the price of UHD-1 (3840x2160) monitors now falling they are definitely worth considering – especially for larger monitors as they have 4 times the pixels in every square inch.
This is the time in microseconds it takes a pixel on the monitor to change from one colour to another. Users working with products such as Autodesk 3D Studio Max need the lowest values of response time whilst for normal CAD usage, a response time in the range of 5-10ms would suffice.
The viewing angle denotes how far to the side of the monitor you will be able to clearly see the display. This can be important if you expect to do a lot of collaboration with groups of people viewing the same display. If the monitor is intended for an individual to work on, then the viewing angle is less important.
Always worth checking that the selected monitor has inputs to match the ports on the workstation/PC. DisplayPort (Required for UHD connections), HDMI and DVI connections will be the most commonly required ports. Cheaper monitors tend to have less inputs and some may only have VGA so give us a call if you are unsure or click on the image above for more information about inputs and ports.
One of the most overlooked aspects of a monitor that is critical for end user comport and health and safety is CAD Monitor adjustment. Cheaper displays are often restricted to simple tilt adjustment, whereas most CAD users will need to have height adjustment as well at the minimum.
You may also need to consider if require swivel adjustment too, for example will your user need to view a display in portrait or just landscape.
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SPP Alumna Ajder Wins Prestigious Finberg Fellowship at Human Rights Watch
School of Public Policy
Human Rights Studies
SPP Alumna Corina Ajder won this year's Alan R. and Barbara D. Finberg Fellowship at Human Rights Watch (HRW). Established in memory of the Finbergs, early supporters of HRW, this fellowship is open to recent graduates (at the master's level) in the fields of law, journalism, international relations, area studies, or other relevant disciplines from universities worldwide. Ajder, who graduated in 2016, is the first CEU recipient of the prestigious fellowship. Below she writes about her motivation for applying and the importance of the foundation she received as a CEU student.
When I read the job description for the Finberg fellowship, I felt it ideally integrates not only what I have done previously, but what I love most doing: I love being in the field, conducting interviews. I love winning over challenges. And I feel some of my best work took shape under pressure – and those were exactly the kind of things the fellowship required. Even so, I almost let the fact that there are over 1000 applicants for 1 position stop me from applying. I thought it would be impossible.
I grew up in Moldova in the 90s, experiencing the sharp inequality that was taking shape after the Soviet Union collapse. This sense of inequality and injustice was exacerbated attending a private school, on a need-based scholarship. As a kid and even later, I couldn't understand why many of my classmates were living in nicer houses and travelled abroad, while my parents worked two and sometimes three jobs just to make ends meet. I still remember the dread I felt having friends visit in our modest Soviet apartment. That sense of shame is now replaced with gratitude towards my family, which proved to be a springboard to finding my life passion in fighting inequality and attaining economic justice for many trapped in similar and much worse circumstances. HRW is a powerful place to carry out this mission.
I hope that making my own impossible dream possible can encourage other capable young people to follow their dreams and dare to make that first step in that direction.
When I first applied to the Finberg Fellowship at Human Rights Watch five years ago, I didn't get it. And I am glad I didn't, because these years have helped to crystallize my interests, find what I love, which is in economic justice, going out in the field and conducting interviews, learn about human rights reporting and advocacy, and deepen my academic studies at CEU. I feel ready and excited to use this opportunity at HRW to create the highest possible value for the vulnerable groups I care about. I am excited about the future and the opportunities to learn from professionals in the field.
CEU's generous scholarship scheme and the School of Public Policy were crucial to my growth as a professional with its quality education and knowledgeable faculty. Courses on Global Governance and Political Economy taught me about the workings of the global economy and confirmed my passion for business and human rights. I am truly grateful for the opportunities my MPA has opened and to the generous and continuous support of CEU's Career Services, and Ann Gagliardi in particular, who helped me prepare for the interview.
I am honored to be the first CEU graduate to receive this prestigious scholarship and represent an institution which puts human rights at its very core.


What do you love in Sonoma County? On the right side below we organized information by appellatin/valley. Listed are some of our favorite wineries & restaurants. Our e-mail address is at the bottom of the page if you have any questions.
It's best to either start in Healdsburg with an early lunch/brunch then head to the wineries, or do tastings first then after the wineries close head into Healdsburg for a little shopping and an early dinner, say 6 or 6:30pm.
The area North of Healdsburg is Alexander Valley. The area to the West, across Hwy 101, is Dry Creek Valley, especially known for their Zinfandel wines.
This is a larger geographical area than Sonoma Valley and the wineries aren't one right after the other. But the drive is pretty flat through some great vineyards. You can visit several great wineries that are close to one another in either Valley (you could spend more than one day if you visit Alexander Valley & Dry Creek Valley seperately). The wineries we list are a great overview and allow for a beautiful drive through the vineyards of Northern Sonoma County.
The wineries below are in the order we would recommend. It's a circle that starts just south of Healdsburg (Rodney Strong Vineyards is actually in the Northern tip of the Russian River appellation). Click on the links for their websites.
Zichichi Wines in Dry Creek Valley.
Dutcher Crossing Winery we really like the reproduction of a simple barn with beautiful gardens. A variety of red and white wines, that arereally good. Their Taylor Ranch Reserve cab is especailly great! Nice picnic spot with tables too.
Mazzocco Winery a modern wine country tasting room over looking the vineyards. Mostly award winning Zinfandel wines. We love how' jammy' some of the are! I want to get a knife and spread that wine! Great place for a picnic too. They have info on a local deli that will deliver your meal to the winery for your picnic.
Truett-Hurst Vineyads a relaxed, simple, modern wine country tasting room with some great reds: zins, cabs & pinot noir. Usualy something going on every weekend during summmer & harvest seasons. Very friendly too!
Stuhlmuller Vineyards some great award wining cabs and chardonnay. A small stylish barn is adjacent to their cellar and is a nice picnic spot. Just open Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon. Other days by appointment. It's small so best to call ahead if you can. Very nice people too!
Preston of Dry Creek an organic winery set in a New England sytle school house. Mostly rhone varietals. Fresh baked bread and their own olive oil. Wonderful picnic area beside a Victorian cottage.
Bella Vineyards & Wine Cave down a narrow lane, tastings are actually in the cave, and so is their gift shop. It's a very hip, wine country fill.
Charlie Palmer's Dry Creek Kitchen 707.431.0330, this is a great 'foodies' restaurant. It's in the Hotel Healdsburg on the square. Don't worry about being under/over dressed. It's all pretty casual in wine country, especially for an early dinner. The best deal here is for the whole table to get the 'Chef's Tasting Menu'. It's 4 courses for about $80 pp. Since Chef Palmer uses only Sonoma County ingredients, if you bring in a Sonoma County wine there is no corkage! This is great because it really keeps the cost of the meal down. You can have a serious dining experience without the serious bill.
Bistro Ralph 707.433.1380, is on the square in mid-block. A more intimate space, long and narrow with a large wooded bar. Traditional French country bistro food with a Northern California spin. Hearty. Excellent!
Barn Diva 707.431.0100, is a hip/modern country barn experience, kind of artsy. Great food, fresh wine country products.
Zin Restaurant & Wine Bar 707.473.0946, is a consistenly good wine country dining experience. One large industrial room, open display kitchen, rotating art work, original menu items as well as the standards.
Spoon Bar Restaurant 707.433.7222, opened 2011 in the new H2Hotel. LEED certified building. Mid-century modern decor. Great food & upbeat friendly staff. Handmade pastas, meats, fish, moderately priced for wine country. Hip vibe.


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