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The law code of Gortyn
One of the longest extant ancient Greek inscriptions is found in Gortyn, an ancient city in Crete. The text was inscribed in the fifth century BC, but some scholars purport that parts of it are reflective of an earlier era.
Written by Josho Brouwers on 7 April 2020
By necessity, students of ancient Greek law usually focus on texts and inscriptions from Classical Athens. Standard books on the subject include A.R.W. Harrison's two-volume work The Law of Athens (1968-1971) and S.C. Todd's The Shape of Athenian Law (1993), as well as Douglas M. MacDowell's Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators (1963) and The Law in Classical Athens (1978).
We simply don't have a lot of information when it comes to the laws of city-states other than Athens. Douglas MacDowell wrote a small book, Spartan Law (1986), that deals with the presumed laws of ancient Sparta, based mostly on the writings of authors of the Classical age and beyond. None of those ancient writers, by the way, were actually from Sparta. As a result, MacDowell's book on Spartan law is a bit of a hogdepodge of information gleaned from sources that aren't always very trustworthy, including the notorious purveyor of questionable information Plutarch.
Another limiting factor is that the evidence that we do have regarding ancient Greek law tends to be dated to the Classical period, so from the fifth century BC onwards. The evidence for laws in Archaic Greece was collected by Michael Gagarin and published in book form under the title Early Greek Law (1989). The material focuses on Homer, Hesiod, and a few other early writers, as well as inscriptions.
The Great Code of Gortyn
When it comes to inscriptions, pride of place goes to the so-called "Great Code" of Gortyn. Gortyn is an ancient city in Crete; the archaeological site is extensive, and includes the remains of a large early Christian church. The law code is inscribed on a circular wall of what may once have been Gortyn's bouleuterion, where the council of citizens – the boule – convened, located in the city's agora.
The wall with the inscription is locked away behind gates, so that you can only see them from a distance. The texts are generally written boustrophedon, i.e. "as the ox ploughs": once the end of a line, written from left to right, had been reached, the sentence would be continued immediately underneath it, written this time from right to left, and then back again for the next line, and so on.
If you look around the area, you'll find blocks in walls that also feature inscriptions. Unfortunately, there are no explanations on site for what these blocks have on them, but they appear to be more law texts. They were probably used to repair the walls during the Roman era; some are quite worn and the texts in those cases are barely legible.
A view of the agora of Gortyn. The semi-circular area is part of the city's small theatre; like most of the visible remains, it dates to the Roman era. The small building behind it, with the arches, houses the law code. Photo: Josho Brouwers.
The law code at Gortyn isn't the only example of a legal inscription in Crete. They have also been discovered at a number of other Cretan sites, too, including Dreros and Prinias. The inscriptions from Dreros are also early, probably dating to the seventh century BC, based on an analysis of the shape of the letters. But these other inscriptions tend to be short, whereas the Gortyn law code is very extensive, if incomplete.
The Great Code touches on a wide variety of legal matters, including the city's governance, the oaths taken by judges in court cases, rules regarding procedure, various details concerning property laws, issues of rape and adultery, as well as the rights of women. As such, it offers a good source of information for anyone interested in learning what laws looked like outside of Athens.
If you want to read the law code online, check out this page on the website of Fordham University, which offers selections of the text in translation. You can also check the original Greek text on this webpage from the Packard Humanities Institute.
The date of the inscription
The text of Gortyn's Great Code was inscribed around the middle of the fifth century BC. But many scholars hold that the text, or at least parts of it, somehow reflects conditions of an earlier age. About the Gortyn law code, Gagarin writes in his Early Greek Law (p. 96):
Although this code was inscribed around 450, it probably contains considerable material that had earlier been inscribed elsewhere, and so may be used to shed light on the legislation of archaic Gortyn.
You may wonder how a text from ca. 450 BC can be used to shed light on an earlier age. Indeed, healthy scepticism is warranted here. The problem is summarized by S.C. Todd in his brilliant book on Athenian law, cited earlier (p. 35):
The most important point here concerns the date of this text: it is generally held to have been inscribed around the mid-fifth century, although many scholars maintain that older regulations are embedded within it. Bonner and Smith [in the 1930s] even claim that because the island of Crete (and therefore the city of Gortyn) suffered "arrested development", the Gortyn Code represents a state through which Athenian law had passed in the seventh or sixth centuries BC.
The general assumption is usually that Athens was well ahead of the rest of Greece. But that's exactly what it is: an assumption. As Todd explains:
This belief, however, rests on the false assumption that the legal system of every Greek city developed along the same route (though at a different speed) from the starting-point (represented apparently by the "shield of Achilles" [from the Iliad]) to the ultimate destination (the system revealed in fourth-century Athens or perhaps even in Hellenistic papyri). This model can of course be sustained, but only illegimately, by labelling as "advanced" or as a "primitive survival" any element within the legal system of any polis at any date which fails to match the reader's expectations.
It may well be that some of the laws recorded in the inscription remained in use, largely unchanged, from the Archaic period onwards. The problem is that we cannot know for sure. As is so often the case when it comes to the ancient world, the evidence is simply insufficient.
This article is part of the series: Exploring Crete.
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When I am making some changes in Groups, like changing displayName or adding Members to the Group, I am not seeing notifications in real-time. Sometimes I am getting notifications in a bulk and other times the notifications do not arrive at all.
I have tried multiple times to delete and re-create the Subscription, but I still see the same behavior.
Can anyone tell why is it happening?

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Lastly, it's pretty rare, but service outages can happen, in that case the best thing to do it to contact support.

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Rush Limbaugh's Brother…
Rush Limbaugh's Brother Reveals Key Reality That Led Him from Skepticism to Christian Faith
Some might say that David Limbaugh, Rush's brother, got to enjoy a special privilege in life because of having Rush as an older brother.
Certainly Rush made an amazing impact on the culture and the broadcast industry.
However, David Limbaugh has plenty of his own hard work and accolades to show as a writer and expert in law and politics, with appearances on national television and radio shows, such as various FOX News programs, CNN, the Glenn Beck Radio Program and many others.
In a tribute to his brother in April of 2021, he mentioned how they were both brought up in a home in which their parents instilled into them their Christian values, according to Fox News.
Those values included a love for God, unconditional love for their family, a belief in moral absolutes in connection to truth and right and wrong; personal character and integrity; the value of human life and respect and compassion for others.
Such values are often counter to today's culture.
However, there was a time that David Limbaugh was a spiritual skeptic. He described the change to Fox News recently when speaking about the book he co-authored with his daughter, Christen Limbaugh Bloom, "The Resurrected Jesus: The Church in the New Testament."
"One of the reasons I decided to start writing Christian books is because I know what it's like to be a skeptic," Limbaugh told Fox. "I know what it's like to be intimidated by the Bible — and I also know what it's like to overcome that skepticism and intimidation," he added.
Perhaps David Limbaugh's background in law and politics are a part of the reason why he became so keenly aware of the presence of evil in the world.
"One of the things, when I was a skeptic, that finally put me over the top … was the pervasiveness of evil in the world," Limbaugh told CBN.
"There's no other explanation of evil — the level and intensity of evil that we witness — than the Biblical worldview," he said.
"That is the only thing that satisfactorily explains what we witness on this earth."
Limbaugh pointed out that evil is often even glorified.
"These people who advocate abortion on demand, have the moral high ground in this perverse culture. They advocate mutilating children in sex-change, gender-change surgery. That's pure evil; it's objectively evil," he said.
Limbaugh referenced Paul's words in Ephesians 6:10-18 about the importance of believers putting on the full armor of God to battle the evil that must be faced in the world.
He also pointed out that it's important for Christians to recognize that the devil and his demons are behind evil and wickedness in the physical world so much more than is realized.
At the same time, Christians don't go into the battles they must face alone.
Limbaugh said the scriptures direct believers to go to God in prayer because "that's how we avail ourselves of the power to fight against these evil

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Top 5 Features Of C# 9.0
by Desuvit | Apr 27, 2021 | Microsoft .Net, Software Development | 0 comments
As a software connoisseur, you are always looking for the latest updates in programming languages. Well, with some exemplary new features of C# 9.0, Microsoft significantly raised the competition bar. These features are designed to align with the latest framework— .NET 5.
Most of the updated elements allow you to write shorter statements, reducing the required typing of codes. Additionally, they offer several new coding functions to broaden the language functionality.
Get ready to explore the top 5 features of C# 9.0!
1. Record Types
Portrayed within the concept of object-oriented programming is the idea that objects comprise a clear identity and evolve eventually from a mutable state. Thus, if you want an object to act like a value and be immutable, then a record type is the best choice.
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The record type is a reference type that lets you create immutable objects. It offers synthesized methods that provide value-based semantics for equality. Owing to its immutable nature, you cannot change a record type once it is created. You can use these instead of classes and structs.
The record type is intended to be more like a data than the object.
2. Init-only Properties
Previously, you could only use object initializers if a property was mutable, i.e., the one you could change before or after initializing. Init-only properties address this drawback of object initializers. They provide an opportunity to change the value of a property, but only until the construction ends.
These are properties that you can only set at the initial stage of an object. You only need to replace the 'set' accessors with 'init' accessors in the property definition to use this feature.
Here's a code snippet to help you understand the concept of init-only properties better.
3. Improved Pattern Matching
The C# 9.0 introduced multiple improvements in pattern matching, letting you enjoy more functions with ease. The new patterns include Type, Conjunctive, Parenthesized, Disjunctive, Relational, and Negated.
With these new additions, you can check your expressions with 'and,' 'or,' and 'not.' Plus, you can use the less than, more than, and equal to symbols and combine multiple patterns.
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For instance, here's a code snippet that shows the use of relational patterns.
4. Top-Level Statement
Another excellent feature of C# 9.0 is the Top-level statement. It helps you eliminate the unnecessary boilerplate in your code. The best part is you can also run a one-line program. Sounds interesting, right? It removes the repetitive definitions and helps improve productivity.
Writing a simple program in previous versions of C# requires a remarkable amount of boilerplate code, as shown below:
In C# 9.0, you can write your main program at the top level instead:
You no longer need to include classes, static methods, blocks, void return types, and more. Features like the static method are automatically generated, eliminating the need to define them in your statement. In order for the top-level feature to work, make sure you have only one entry point (Main method) in the project.
5. Target Typing Improvements
C# 9.0 has introduced a feature wherein you can exclude the type from a new operator. Here, the compiler will itself establish the type from the declaring type. That means you do not need to cast it.
Though a similar feature existed earlier, this version has converted several expressions into target-typed that weren't guided by their context earlier. Additionally, you can omit the type with the target-type d new expressions if you assign the expression to a clear type.
Earlier below is how the object would be created,
WeatherStation station = new WeatherStation();
In C# 9.0, we can simplify as below,
WeatherStation station = new();
6. Summing Up
With the introduction of a whole new set of exciting features, Microsoft has converted C# into a multi-faceted programming language. According to a survey, 22% of participants used C# as their programming language, making it bag the 11th position out of 34.
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At the NSRMA (North Shore Railway Modellers Association), which is my local Railway modelling club, our main project for the Juniors (8Yrs - 18Yrs of age) is called Module 3, but it's actually a "Self Contained Module Layout" as my friend says.
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Anyway, the other Political aspect of M3 is that instead of saying: "Ok, you're in charge of the Tramway...", What happens is that we basically just called everyone a Political Position... the replacement would be: "Ok, you're now the Minister for Tramways...", etc. So far we've got a Minister for Railways, a Minister for Tramways, a Minister for Transport: Roads, a Minister for Harbours & Ports and a Minister for Jobs & Growth. I am the Minister for Transport: Roads. Basically, I run all Public Transport that uses the roads, i.e, Buses mainly and I am running the M3 Busway & Busports Project. I talk closely with the Minister for Railways who does work on the Tramway.
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Agreed. This sounds most intriguing, I'd love to see some pics. I'm way too impatient for doing his sort of thing myself, but love looking at them and watching them. I'm more of an "operations" and "photographer" enthusiast myself, with a bit of audio recording thrown in for good measure.
I honestly keep forgetting to take photos when I'm at the Meetings. I have also been very busy with Cadets lately, so next time I'm there, I'll try. Myself and two others have made a Blog for it, called the "Module 3 Blog", which does have photos of the original KPR (Kidzpower Railway) and some Module I and Module II photos as well as some background information and other stuff on there, so feel free to check it out and I'll try and get some photos up here soon!


As I read Super Tuesday coverage this morning, I was struck by a short piece in The Washington Post ("Dirty Tricks, Version 2.0: E-Mail Sent to Friends") that examines the relatively new practice of sending misleading, smear-based emails shortly before a vote. Sadly—but not surprisingly—many of these attacks have strongly religious themes. I decided to use this as an opportunity for Constitutional reflection.
No religious test. According to Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, although the "no religious test" clause was "a dramatic departure from prevailing state governmental restrictions," [it] was adopted with relatively little debate" (link to blog) at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. I've read through various legal and historical analysis of the clause, and one thing stands out: while it proscribes formal religious tests, as might be applied by a government body such as a legislature or court, there's no legal or practical way to make it binding on individual voters. And so I ask: even without legal authority, should not applying a religious test be a widely-accepted social norm among voters? If so, what are we doing to make it so?
I'd like to suggest that we start with personal reflection. Consider: If I were running for office, how would I explain how my religious values relate to my political and policy views? How might a religious fundamentalist answer this question differently, and what's the significance of those differences to me? Does it matter, for example, if a candidate cites a religious text as a source? Why or why not?
I will wrestle with these questions myself in the coming weeks. As we develop answers, I think we'll have a better sense of both what it's like to be a candidate and how we can talk to family, friends, and colleagues about the role of religion—and religious tests—in elections.
PS: In February the Unitarian Universalist Association will release updated election-year resources, including information on relevant IRS guidelines and how to mobilize your congregation to register, educate, and get out the vote.


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Eaton called the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
She says it's the first time in her 27 years of selling Christmas trees that she's had a large number of trees stolen. She estimates the missing trees are worth about $5,000.
Eaton says a portion her tree sales benefits the high school's baseball team. She asks that anyone with information contact the sheriff's office.


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Author: Fatima Measham
Pugilist-poet Ali's race legacy still packs a punch
The contest over Ali began even as news spread of his passing. His legend straddles the violence of his sport and the violence in which he refused to participate. Boxing is brutal but it has rules and finite duration. In war, there are no rules and no one wins. Ali recognised a larger violence, chose his enemies, and reimagined bravery. Attempts to sublimate this legacy - such as comments about him 'transcending' race - resemble the appropriation of Martin Luther King Jr by conservatives.
Laughing in the face of climate change despair
People understand that some of the solutions for the problems faced by current and coming generations are likely rooted in decisions made now. Future-proofing is not merely anticipation, but intervention on a scale that goes beyond households. It involves design and culture. It demands an international rather than insular outlook. Perhaps this is why gallows humour has seeped into my conversations about the future. I no longer expect our leaders to do something worthwhile about it.
Reconciling with president-elect Duterte
The campaign left me bewildered. The things Duterte represents - vigilantism, unilateralism and violence - aren't these the same things that Filipino human rights activists had fought against? Is this now the preferred template for imposing order? I parsed post after post on social media, trying to working out what I was missing. For months I asked myself, what the hell went wrong? It is only lately that I'm beginning to accept that I got the wrong end of the question. What went wrong? Everything.
Being popular is not the same as leadership
In democracies, public sentiment is meant to be taken seriously. Describing something as populist is a refusal to engage with the sentiment, including its source and complications, usually because we find it disagreeable. The subtext is: people are wrong about the things they care about. They are not being rational or realistic. It is a brave thing to say these days about support for a royal commission into banks, or softening public attitudes toward detention-bound children.
Budget for a post trickle down theory world
People are sensitised to government-enabled corporate excess and doubt elected officials are capable and willing to serve their interests. The lesson from the 2014 federal budget is that there are non-negotiables around the function of government: to provide the conditions that ensure the flourishing of all citizens. Yet in terms of future-proofing living standards, the Coalition has so far presided over an ideas bust rather than boom, unless boom is the sound of something spontaneously combusting.
System must work for victims, not against them
For victims and survivors, the royal commission report into family violence comes as catharsis. For activists and advocates, it is vindication. Perpetrators thrive on impunity. Impunity is built on uncertainty of punishment, cultures of silence, victim-blaming and perceived collusion with figures of authority. Dismantling this is central to violence prevention and ensuring the safety of women and children in the home. The royal commission addresses this goal across 227 recommendations.
Preselection esteems politics over merit
The debate over the Coalition's proposed senate voting reforms has highlighted the inter-party brokering that brings candidates into office. Yet if representative democracy were predicated on transparency, then another area deserves scrutiny: preselection. The mechanism for choosing party representatives clearly relies on powerful backers - politics - rather than merit. That is an obvious thing to say. But it carries repercussions for governance with which we have yet to grapple.
Count the human cost of Australia's overseas mining interests
In 2012, a pregnant woman and two of her children were killed in their own home in Tampakan, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. Tampakan is the site of a new mine with Australian interests. The woman was the wife of a B'laan tribal leader agitating against the mine. Over recent years indigenous peoples of Mindanao been harassed, displaced and killed by militias, some allegedly with the imprimatur of the Philippine army. Much of this has passed without notice in Australia.
Millennials have allies in the emerging grey vote
The formative experiences of Australian early boomers include unprecedented access to university education and health care, immersion in feminist discourse, Aboriginal land rights campaigns, environmental activism, LGBT movements and pacifism. Quite remarkably, it mirrors some of the elements that engage millennials. While in some ways anti-boomer sentiment seems well placed, what it misses is that on social issues a 21-year-old might have more in common with a 61-year-old than a 71-year-old.
The Bernie Sanders Factor in US and Australian elections
The Bernie Sanders phenomenon in the US, like Corbyn in the UK and Podemos in Spain, demonstrates the rhetorical potency of renewal; of politics not as usual. It is the sort of thing that resonates with disaffected young people. While it is not entirely sensible to extrapolate developments in the US to Australia, it is worth speculating on the impact of our own changing demographics. Are the major parties equipped to take advantage of these shifts? Are they appealing to a new Australia that is already here?
Whose Australia Day?
Last November I was on a panel at the National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters Council conference, musing about postmodern identities, whether 'ethnics' were mainstream and not peripheral, and whether 'Aussie values' are in fact universal. I enjoyed the discussion, but part of me felt worn. It seemed to me that black and brown folks like us are less concerned about what it means to be Australian than how Australian we would have to be, to be as Australian as everyone else.
2015 in review: Islamophobia belongs on the fringes
A series of protests against a mosque in Bendigo and the launch of an Islamophobic party in Perth may be cause for concern, but only if political leaders fail to invalidate fringe views. Under Tony Abbott, the conflation of Islam and extremism became mainstream. Corrections regarding racial vilification and incitement are most properly determined in the court, so it is not Muslims or lefties who are oppressing these views but the laws that operate in the secular democracy they purport to defend.


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WT20: Bangladesh captain Mortaza happy with narrow win over Netherlands
IANS |March 10, 2016, 4:03 PM IST
Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza is relieved to have opened their World Twenty20 campaign with a win against the Netherlands, after getting a scare.
Mashrafe, who believes there would have been no excuses had they lost the match, is keen to carry their confidence into the next match, reports bdnews24.com.
Bangladesh beat the Dutchmen by 8 wickets in their first round opener of the World T20 in Dharmasala on Wednesday.
"The win was definitely important. No excuses would have been good enough if we had lost. We have won, that's what's important. Winning a match is always comforting, regardless of the opposition," Mashrafe said after the match on Wednesday.
Opener Tamim Iqbal played a brilliant knock before the bowlers helped Bangladesh to defend 153. Mashrafe was very pleased with their efforts.
"Tamim and the bowlers performed really well. The way Tamim batted was outstanding."
It has been almost a year since Bangladesh had last played in conditions outside their home turf.
Reaching Dharamsala two days before the opener, Bangladesh had only a day to prepare while injury concerns, difficulty in coping with the conditions and reading the wicket compounded their woes.
But Mashrafe and his men overcame all odds to prevail over the Netherlands.
"The situation today was much different from what we had thought it would be. We have been able to overcome that.
"We thought the wicket will be fast and bouncy. But it was slow. It was very difficult to play shots. I hope we will be able to play the next match with more confidence."
Bangladesh will take on Ireland on Friday.
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If you love fried food, then it is essential that you buy a frying machine. Fried chicken and other fried foods have become popular especially to people who work in the city. However, you should know that you can deep fry your meals at home using a deep frying machine. For those who have been thinking about frying some chicken or potatoes at home, you will be glad to know that here you can compare and find a machine that can make your work easier.
However, when buying one, you need to ensure that you get a machine that is durable and warranted. But if you do not know the type of frying machine you should buy, then you should read the review sites, and make comparisons till you find a quality machine. Written here are tips for finding an excellent deep fryer.
If you have not fully accepted the importance of the internet, then you need to know that it is the easiest and quickest way for anyone to find review sites that talk about and compare different deep frying machines. For you to find an excellent machine, it is vital that you compare these machine on fryer machine dedicated sites so that you can find the one that provides value for your money.
There are people before you who have purchased and used different deep frying machines. These people who commonly use the internet to buy items have a tendency of writing and posting reviews on the site they used to purchase their machines. As a smart shopper, you should create the habit of reading these reviews keenly since they provide the best guidelines for finding and buying the one that is of top quality.
Sometimes choosing the best deep fryer can require the help of a professional chef or someone who is familiar with these type of machines. Therefore, if you are not comfortable with using the internet, you should not hesitate to ask for a reference. But it is essential that you ensure that the recommendation on choosing and buying a fryer comes from a person who has used or uses these machines on a daily basis.


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Q: when writing to csv file writerow fails with UnicodeEncodeError I have the line:
c.writerow(new_values)

That writes a number of values to a csv file. Normally it is working fine but sometimes it throws an exception and doesn't write the line in the csv file. I have no idea how I can find out why.
This is my exception handling right now:
        try:
            c.writerow(new_values)
        except:
            print()
            print ("Write Error: ", new_values)

I commented out my own exception and it says:
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u03b1' in position 14: character maps to <undefined>

A: Ok, I solved it by myself:
I just had to add ", encoding='utf-8'" to my csv.writer line:
c = csv.writer(open("Myfile.csv", 'w',  newline='', encoding='utf-8'))

A: the csv module in python is notorious for not handling unicode characters well.  Unless all characters fall in the ascii codec you probably won't be able to write the row.  There is a (somewhat) drop in replacement called unicodecsv that you may want to look into.  https://pypi.python.org/pypi/unicodecsv


This aspect is an easy or even 'lucky' influence in your life, but you still need to put in a bit of conscious effort to derive all of its best, most positive effects. You generally feel relaxed about the state of your life and where it's heading; you don't tend to indulge in existential angst about 'What does it all mean?' or 'Where am I headed next?' You tend to know where you're headed next, and you're quite satisfied with it. You have a natural confidence about the shape and direction your life takes, and you just don't worry much about your next step; something always comes to you, and your detours in life have taken you to good places.
What you need to watch out for, however, is a sense of complacency. When you fall in love, it's like the cherry on top of an already delicious cake! Suddenly, life's even sweeter than it already was; and while you should definitely enjoy yourself and your new lover, and all the wonderful feelings and sensations you're experiencing together, you shouldn't just settle in and forget about forward movement. Even when life is at its easy, sweet best, remember to keep your eye on your goals, and keep striving toward them.


JIANG Weidong,WANG Peixia,WANG Jinping, et al.Modulation Strategy for Three-level Converter with Neutral Point Potential Balance in Full Range[J].Automation of Electric Power Systems,2018,42(21):145-153. DOI: 10.7500/AEPS20180131004.
The balanced neutral point(NP)potential is a necessary condition for the safe and reliable operation of neutral point clamped three-level converter. This paper proposes a modulation strategy, which can maintain the balanced NP potential in the full power factor and full modulation index ranges, and featured with only three switching actions in one switching cycle. An NP potential recovery algorithm suitable for the proposed modulation strategy is also proposed. Compared with the carrier-based pulse width modulation and the virtual space vector modulation strategies, the proposed modulation strategy can reduce the switching loss to a great extent, and has good output voltage waveform quality and strong NP potential control and recovery capabilities. Finally, the proposed modulation strategy is compared with other existing modulation strategies by experiments to verify its feasibility and superiority.


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Vanuatu on road to recovery, six months on from Cyclone Pam, says Oxfam
Media Releases article written on the 13 Sep 2015
The generosity of donors throughout the world has enabled Oxfam Australia to help 25,000 people in Vanuatu since Tropical Cyclone Pam struck six months ago.
On 13 March, the eye of the Category 5 cyclone passed close to Efate Island – the location of Vanuatu's capital Port Vila – affecting about 188,000 people across 22 islands. An estimated 15,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, about 96% of food stocks decimated and the water supply of 110,000 people was disrupted, destroyed or contaminated.
Oxfam Australia's Acting Chief Executive Pam Anders said as we all became aware of the scale of devastation people were quick to respond, donating about $1.2 million since the cyclone.
"The generosity of people around the globe has been pivotal in Oxfam's humanitarian response in Vanuatu," Ms Anders said.
"Oxfam has reached about 25,000 people in more than 60 communities on three islands since Cyclone Pam struck.
"The people of Vanuatu have shown resilience and strength over what has been a tremendously difficult time and while there is still a lot more to be done, they are on the road to recovery."
In the six months since the cyclone, more than 50 organisations, both local and international, have worked together under the lead of the Vanuatu Government to ensure relief efforts were coordinated and aid was getting to those who need it most.
Oxfam's humanitarian response has focused on the areas of water, sanitation and hygiene, gender, emergency food security and vulnerable livelihoods. Oxfam is also coordinating the Vanuatu Humanitarian Team. This includes 11 humanitarian agencies based in Vanuatu, including UN agencies and the Red Cross.
Donations to Oxfam Australia, in response to Cyclone Pam, have helped in a number of ways, including:
265,800 litres of clean water delivered to 3,474 beneficiaries through water trucking activities on Efate Island.
13,809 people accessed clean water through water system rehabilitation.
20,928 people on Efate and Ambrym Islands received hygiene kits.
700 people across eight communities – including two schools and a dispensary – provided with large-scale gravity-fed water supply system reconstruction.
10,000 people attended hygiene awareness sessions and received Information, Education and Communication materials.
Oxfam distributed seeds to at least 5,218 people on Efate and Epi islands.
1,523 people received livelihoods kits made up of tools and gardening supplies.
Oxfam distributed vouchers for people to exchange for tools, equipment and other goods, benefitting at least 4,016 individuals.Humanitarian activities have now moved from the response phase into the recovery phase, and Oxfam's programming for the next period will reflect this shift in focus, as well as the predicted impacts of El Niño on weather patterns.
To arrange interviews or for more information contact Oxfam Australia Media Coordinator Bianca Wordley on 0407 799 365.


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Haley displays missile as evidence Iran violating nuclear deal
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley briefs the media in front of remains of Iranian "Qiam" ballistic missile provided by Pentagon at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington on Dec. 14, 2017.Yuri Gripas / Reuters
Dec. 14, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC / Updated Dec. 14, 2017, 7:04 PM UTC
By Hans Nichols and Mosheh Gains
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration accused Iran on Thursday of violating United Nations resolutions, unveiling what U.S. officials said was proof that Iran is exporting missiles and other military hardware to a rebel group in Yemen.
"The weapons might as well have 'Made in Iran' stickers on them," said U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, standing before parts of a ballistic missile that she said Iran delivered to Houthi rebels in Yemen, who then fired it at the Riyadh airport in Saudi Arabia last month.
"Its ballistic missiles and advanced weapons are turning up in war zones across the region," Haley said at a press conference inside a military hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, in Washington, D.C.
Haley displays missile as evidence Iran is violating UN resolutions
The U.S. took the unusual step of declassifying military equipment that was gathered in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where a civil war is taking place between Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the elected government.
The equipment was collected by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Signs on the weapons display said the material was "on loan" from those two countries.
A missile that the U.S. Department of Defense says is confirmed as a "Qiam" ballistic missile manufactured in Iran by its distinctively Iranian nine fueling ports and that the Pentagon says was fired by Houthi rebels from Yemen into Saudi Arabia on July 22, 2017 is seen on display at a military base in Washington on Dec. 13, 2017.Jim Bourg / Reuters
The Trump administration's aim, officials said, was to offer proof that Iran is exporting military equipment, including ballistic missiles, in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which was passed after Iran and western countries agreed to a deal to freeze Iran's nuclear program in 2015.
The Iranian government issued a statement Thursday disputing Haley's claims.
"Following a series of baseless accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran in the past 10 months, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. once again today took the same line accusing the Iranian government of supplying the missile that hit Saudi Arabia on November 4th — an accusation that we categorically reject as unfounded and, at the same time, irresponsible, provocative and destructive," Iran said.
"This purported evidence, put on public display today, is as much fabricated as the one presented on some other occasions earlier."
Haley invited members of the Congress, U.N. officials and foreign delegations to examine the evidence for themselves.
"The undeniable fact is that that the Iranian behavior is growing worse" since the nuclear accord was signed, Haley said.
President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he wants to rip up the Iranian nuclear agreement but has not yet done so.
To prove the case that Iran-made missiles have been fired from Yemen, the U.S. pieced together a full-length Qiam-1, a short-range ballistic missile, constructed from the debris of two separate missile attacks against Saudi Arabia this year.
Haley pointed to several features of the missile, including nine valves on its oxidization tank, arguing that such design features are found on missiles manufactured by Iran. In addition, U.S. officials highlighted technology inside the missile, in both its propulsion and guidance systems, that they said bore the stamp of Iranian defense contractors.
"You will see us build a coalition to really push back against Iran and what they're doing," she said.
Hans Nichols
Hans Nichols is an NBC News correspondent.
Mosheh Gains
Mosheh Gains is a Pentagon producer for NBC News.


I'm a Movie Junkie. It's True.
I love Netflix. I am a movie junkie. When I was younger I used to work for Rogers Video (to those not in Canada, it was the competitor to Blockbuster) because I just loved watching movies and would re-watch a number of them over and over. With Netflix, that ability to re-watch movies repeatedly would, in theory, be easy. But the problem is there are so many good shows and movies on Netlflix, you just want to move onto the next episode or movie.
But lately I have this craving to ignore the movies on Netflix that I haven't seen yet and re-watch a few in my collection. My wife doesn't understand this. I tried to get her to watch John Wick last weekend. She refused but did ask how many times I'd seen it. Seven. Seven times since I bought it February 2015. I think the movie is absolutely ridiculous fun.
Man of Steel. Batman vs Superman. The Lethal Weapon Quadrilogy. Aliens. 3:10 To Yuma. The Dark Knight. The Matrix.
I've never done drugs like heroin or cocaine or anything that I could ever have been addicted to. My point is, I have never been a junkie with a craving. But I can only assume the cravings I have for the above-titles are similar.
With respect to the Lethal Weapon movies, I blame by buddy Sammy. On Twitter he tagged me with a song by Sting and Eric Clapton, "It was Probably Me" that was used in Lethal Weapon 3. And its been a damn earworm ever since. So I need to watch these movies soon so I can calm the cravings down! In case you need a refresher on the song, which I will say is quite good and catchy as all hell, here you go: Listen to Me!
What movies are rattling around in your head that you have this incessant need to watch again?


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Council wants tax hike trimmed to 1% as budget talks conclude
Isabel Mosseler
WN council meetings may not be proceeding according to plan, but the 2022 budget deliberations have been moving forward, with the April 13 meeting seeing full participation by council and the municipal CAO. The meeting opened with a recapitulation of the proposed 2.37% tax increase, and closing with a directive to reduce the hike to 1.5% or lower. Council has already approved capital expenditures of $3.5M for roads, allowing staff to conduct business.
The fiscal year 2021 ended with a budget surplus of $1.466M, and the proposed budget starting point saw a shortfall of $431K, accounting for the 2.37% proposed increase. In his opening remarks of April 13th, CAO Jay Barbeau acknowledged how difficult it has been to meet with council in the previous 7 months, which engendered the objective of administration to "whittle down" the budget discussion points, providing summaries of budget categories. "We are in the process of going into key budget changes in operations …We're now in mid April. We still have a Sewer & Water and Environmental budget… Staff is asking can I do this, do that?… The clock is ticking – in order to get certain things done."
Barbeau indicated he hoped to come to an acceptable levy, that his staff would be responsive to all requests by council for specific reports, but "a lot of reports won't impact budget" and would be for information purposes only. He also spoke to the issue of funding capital works projects by contribution into reserve to "provide better flexibility for long term planning"; keeping any fiscal carryover for capital projects in dedicated reserves "guarantees that project will be carried over".
In brief, 2022 will see payroll increases in all departments reflecting collective agreement negotiations. Insurance impacted all departments with an 18% increase in 2022, an issue faced by municipalities throughout Ontario, and there is a decrease of $140K in COVID funding over the previous year. Other uncontrollable increases include boards such as the Health Unit and District of Nipissing Social Services. Barbeau also told council that the municipal surplus allows an opportunity to increase the reserve for Au Chateau's future planned redevelopment, a $548K increase. "I know it's going to be higher but we've got to a place now that the increase to the taxpayer will not be an issue."
Coun. Yvon Duhaime noted of the $175,400 insurance increase, "That's only the increase; it's now in the range of $600K a year. We have a lot of assets to insure." Coun. Fisher responded that municipalities need to put pressure on the province to deal with the situation. "We can't let the insurance people come back every year with a 20% increase; there must be something we can do other than just accept." Coun. Rolly Larabie suggested looking into group insurance through the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
Coun. Dan Roveda synopsized Barbeau's presentation, "Basically we're in a good state… even with the present budget we have $280K going into reserve. If we wanted to be aggressive, we could bring [the tax increase] down to 1%, which the taxpayers would be interested in." Barbeau responded that his staff had put together a budget "reflecting what the community needs to progress" and that there was "no fat here". He added that he also had no problem with the reserves going down $250K, "We always manage to pull them back up. If you want to get a lower tax rate yes, take it out of reserve." Coun. Denis Senecal countered, "I don't think the reserve is the only option – I think there is room to cut some fat."
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Russell 2000 Index
What is the Russell 2000 Index?
The Russell 2000 index measures the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 index. The Frank Russell Company created the index in 1984, and it was one of the first broad benchmarks of the U.S. equity market.
How Does the Russell 2000 Index Work?
The Russell 2000 is one of several subsets of the Russell 3000 index, which consists of the 3,000 largest U.S. public companies and nearly 100% of the capitalization of the U.S. stock market. The Russell 2000 index, while still very broad, composes less than 10% of the capitalization of the U.S. stock market.
The Russell 2000 follows a number of industry sectors, but excludes stocks trading below $1.00, as well as pink sheet and bulletin board stocks. The index also excludes closed-end mutual funds, limited partnerships, royalty trusts, foreign stocks, and ADRs. Because a small-cap stock can become a mid-cap stock over time, the Russell 2000 index is "reconstituted" every May. Eligible initial public offerings are added quarterly.
Unlike the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Russell 2000 index is weighted by shares outstanding. This means that a member stock's last sale price as well as the number of shares that can actually be traded (rather than the company's full market capitalization) influence the index.
Other permutations of the Russell 2000 measure the performance of companies with special characteristics. For example, the Russell 2000 Growth Index measures the performance of Russell 2000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. The Russell 2000 Value Index measures the performance of Russell 2000 companies with lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values.
Why Does the Russell 2000 Index Matter?
The Russell 2000 index is one of the most widely used benchmarks for small-cap stocks because it is much broader than other indices. However, it is important to note that the index excludes micro-cap and other very small stocks. Russell 2000 companies are still relatively small, however, and this makes the index volatile.
Many investors compare mutual fund performance with the Russell 2000 index because it reflects the return opportunity presented by the entire market rather than opportunities offered by narrower indices, which may contain bias or more stock-specific risk that distort a fund manager's performance. Many mutual funds and ETFs are tied to or based on the Russell 2000.


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Marp kicks off home run feast in Cards' 8-1 rout of Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Matt Carpenter led off the game with a home run into the right-field corner for the St. Louis Cardinals.
It turned out to be sign of things to come.
Carpenter homered twice, including his drive on the fifth pitch of the night, and St. Louis had nine extra-base hits Tuesday in an 8-1 rout of the Los Angeles Angels.
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Randal Grichuk and Matt Holliday also homered for the Cardinals, who finished one shy of their season high for extra-base hits.
"The momentum shifts at times when that happens and I think today was a little bit of that," Carpenter said of his leadoff homer, the 10th of his career. "We're just having good at-bats and games like this tend to happen when collectively you go out and have good ABs."
Backed by that offensive support, Mike Leake (1-3) took a shutout into the eighth inning for his first win with St. Louis after signing an $80 million, five-year contract in the offseason. He allowed six hits and one run in eight innings overall.
"It feels pretty good to get that first win," Leake said. "Six or seven games in a row of not producing will weigh on you, but you've just got to keep moving forward."
Hector Santiago (2-2) lasted 4 1/3 innings for the struggling Angels, who have lost four straight and eight of 10. He permitted seven hits -- five for extra bases -- and four runs in his shortest outing of the season.
Carpenter's leadoff drive was just the beginning for the Cardinals, who led 6-0 by the fifth. Every starter reached base, and all but one had a hit.
"It starts with the guy on the mound," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Unfortunately, the ball wasn't coming out very well for Hector. It's frustrating when you get behind right away and it lets the other pitcher open up their game."
Aledmys Diaz made it 2-0 in the second with an RBI double, and Stephen Piscotty and Holliday hit back-to-back doubles in the fifth to make it 3-0 and end Santiago's night.
Grichuk greeted reliever Javy Guerra with a two-run homer to make it 5-0. Grichuk's high fly to center field carried just over the glove of a leaping Mike Trout.
Carpenter and Holliday added to the Angels' misery when they hit solo homers off reliever A.J. Achter in the sixth. Carpenter's drive gave him the third multihomer game of his career.
"We're a good offense and today was a good example of it," Carpenter said. "It's fun to play when it's like that."
Leake took care of the rest, keeping the Angels scoreless until the eighth and striking out five in his longest outing of the season.
Kole Calhoun drove in Cliff Pennington with a sacrifice fly in the eighth for the Angels' run.
Cardinals: SS Jhonny Peralta (torn thumb ligament) has been cleared to start swinging a bat. ... RHP Carlos Martinez (illness) is expected to make his next scheduled start Saturday.
Angels: SS Andrelton Simmons underwent surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb. He will miss six to eight weeks. ... LHP C.J. Wilson (shoulder inflammation) threw a 37-pitch bullpen session and is scheduled to pitch a simulated game next week. ... RHP Huston Street (strained oblique) played catch for the first time since going on the DL.
HAPPY HOLLIDAY
Holliday finished 3 for 5 with two doubles, a homer, two runs and two RBIs. His homer in the sixth inning traveled an estimated 437 feet and left the bat at 109 mph, according to Major League Baseball's Statcast computer program. He came in batting .161 (5 for 31) with one extra-base hit in his previous nine games.
"His at-bats tonight were beautiful," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. "He fought off some tough pitches, got the bat head out early, killed a few balls down the line. It was nice to see it."
NEW ANGEL IN THE INFIELD
Brendan Ryan made his Angels debut when he entered in the ninth inning as a defensive replacement at shortstop. The veteran infielder was acquired from the Washington Nationals earlier in the day for cash considerations.
Ryan hit .263 for the Nationals' Triple-A affiliate in Syracuse and was acquired to shore up the middle infield after Simmons' injury.
Cardinals: LHP Jaime Garcia (2-2, 3.05 ERA) pitched seven shutout innings with only two hits allowed in his previous start against Philadelphia last Thursday.
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Myrcia crassimarginata is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to Peru.

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Bishop Webster takes a picture with several of his Howard Academy Class of 64 classmates. There are 4 preachers in his class. Three were in this picture. The classmates in the picture are as follows from left to right: Rev Joseph Francis, Rose Mary Plummer,Rev. Lee Ernest Plummer, Elouise Howard, Bishop Anthony Webster, Ned Hill Jr, Leon Hightower, Barbara Blow and Richard Roberts. Leon Hightower, Rose Mary Plummer and Richard Roberts were members of St. Phillip AME Church.


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Gariep Dam Nature Reserve
View Map Gariep Dam Accommodation Things to do in Gariep Dam
The Free State's largest nature reserve is a combination of the 36 487 ha Gariep Dam (which holds back a vast 6 000 million cubic litres of water) on the Orange River and an 11 237 ha game sanctuary on its northern shore.
From the dam some 200 000 ha of land is irrigated, by means of a tunnel of 83,8 km, delivering water to the upper valleys of the Fish River, and then from another 13,2 km tunnel to the Sundays River. The dam covers some 374 square kilometers.
With the supply of some 455 million litres of water to the dry Karoo region around it, the hydro electric scheme generates 600 000 kilowatts of power, as well. The dam was officially opened in 1972 and has long been popular with anglers and boating enthusiasts.
The game reserve accommodates the largest population of springbok in any reserve in the country and also features Cape mountain zebra, klipspringer, black wildebeest, red hartebeest and ostrich.
Situated between Bloemfontein and Colesberg in the Free State, it is an ideal place to stop over on your way between Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Adjoining the Reserve and close to the Gariep Dam Wall, is the privately owned Forever Resorts Gariep, with an extensive range of sporting and entertainment facilities that are available to the whole family, like swimming, tennis, golf, trampolines, bowls, mini golf and water sports.
The Gariep Dam accommodation options for visitors in the village vary from a hotel to self catering chalets.
Water sports and attractions include sailing, power boating, canoeing, skiing, angling and sporting. A tour through the dam wall could also be done, down to the bedrock - an amazing feat of engineering that beholds your eyes.


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Q: Debugging symlinked node modules with "chrome" type launch configuration I've been using VS Code on macOS to develop a Vue.js app, with integrated Chrome debugging. This all works fine, but I also have a separate module I'm developing in conjunction, and it's been symlinked in with npm link. This works great, except VS Code doesn't let me set breakpoints in my modules's code (they appear as "unbound" breakpoints).
The solution to this is to specify runtimeArgs in launch.json:
{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
      {
        "type": "chrome",
        "request": "launch",
        "name": "vuejs: chrome",
        "url": "http://localhost:8080",
        "webRoot": "${workspaceFolder}/src",
        "breakOnLoad": true,
        "runtimeArgs": ["--preserve-symlinks", "--preserve-symlinks-main"],
        "sourceMapPathOverrides": {
          "webpack:///src/*": "${webRoot}/*"
        }
      },
    ]
  }

But this still doesn't work.The only examples I can find online show type node, not type chrome launch configurations. I'm not sure if Chrome debugging doesn't support this option, or if there's something else wrong.


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Never ending story of opportunities: Caspian blue energy is salvation for EU
17 April 2015 12:51 (UTC+04:00)
By Gulgiz Dadashova
While the European Union is more adamant than ever to diversify away from its Russian-gas dependence, keen to free itself from its ever-growing energy needs by turning its attention further east, the energy rich Caspian states work hard to position themselves within this new blue energy race.
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan offer game-changing potentials for energy consumers in Europe and Asia, the International Energy Agency said in its latest report, confirming those nations' capability of supplying gas to Europe.
As it happens, each state of the Caspian Sea region with some 48 billion barrels of oil and over 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas has a burning desire to diversify its exports. Currently, the energy strategies of the Caspian states aim to reach one goal - to act an alternative supply source for Europe.
In this context, Azerbaijan has appeared the strongest contender. One of the most stable and promising state in the South Caucasus, Azerbaijan offers stability and reliability, two qualities the EU is most desperate for.
The country jumped ahead with the realization of the Southern Corridor Pipeline, at a time when other initiatives carrying natural gas and oil from the Caspian region to Europe ended in fiasco.
Edward Chow, a senior fellow at CSIS Energy and National Security Program, believes the Shah Deniz gas of Azerbaijan is the only realistic new supply available to be exported to Europe.
"The prospect of other gas from the region is many years in the future," Chow wrote in an e-mail to AzerNews. "The timely execution of TANAP and TAP, which are core links of the Southern Gas Corridor, is doubly important, not only for Azerbaijan but also for the region."
He added that once the corridor is in place, more gas resources can be developed and attracted to use common infrastructure on a commercial basis. "There will be scope for the countries and companies working in those countries to cooperate in expanding gas flows," Chaw assures.
Chi Kong Chyong, a research associate at the Judge Business School and director of the Energy Policy Forum at the University of Cambridge, shared the same views, noting that Azerbaijan is perhaps the only supplier in the region able to respond to the EU's gas diversification strategy away from Russia.
"Azerbaijan has long been cooperating with western energy companies on such projects as Azeri-Chirag-Deepwater oil project, Shah Deniz gas-condensate project (both led by BP) as well as BTC and BTE pipelines. Thus the scope to increase gas supply from Azerbaijan seems to be only a matter of economics of the potential supply projects," he wrote in an e-mail to AzerNews.
The experts agree that Turkmenistan, with the world's sixth largest natural gas reserve, seemed a perfect candidate from the Caspian region to realize Europe's diversification dream. However, Europe's long-awaited Turkmen gas will face a number of geopolitical and financial challenges on its way to Europe.
Noting that Turkmenistan's rich gas reserves are a logical source for European supplies, Chi Kong Chyong said Europe partially lost the Turkmen reserves to China.
"Following a long and unsuccessful discussion to build the Trans-Caspian pipeline under the Caspian Sea to bring Turkmen gas to Europe, the country has shifted its exports towards China. Most of the prospective and relatively cheap upstream projects have been secured by China – the Yolotan gas field phase I, II are both developed (and financed) by CNPC in cooperation with Hyunday and Petrofac have been targeted to supply the Chinese gas market (up to 60 bcm/a). A second project involving CNPC is Bagtyyarlyk group of gas fields with a total production of 15-30 bcm/a," he said.
The expert noted that other than these two upstream projects, there are no clear development plans in Turkmenistan and the reserves are more complex and expensive to develop.
With many supporters, including the European Commission, to help natural gas from Turkmenistan to find a route to Europe, the biggest obstacle to any deal from the Caspian region is Russia, which insists that countries can only export from the region if all other littoral states agree.
Europe will try to overcome Russian resistance via gas agreements with Turkmenistan through Azerbaijan, but it will require lengthy discussions and investments, and in view of the current oil-price crisis it is not a feasible option for now.
Chi Kong Chyong further noted that Uzbekistan's gas supplies to Europe also face constraints; its commitment to supply to China, and a more serious problem – supply route to Europe would have to go through Caspian Sea or Russia, which is impossible in light of Europe's diversification strategy.
Meanwhile, news that the western-imposed embargo on Tehran might end revived the Iranian option in Europe's energy agenda. Iran, holding 33.6 trillion cubic meters of proven gas reserves, sharing 18 percent of total global gas reserves, tries hard to position itself as "Russia's only competitor for Europe".
The experts note that despite the hope Iranians got following the Lausanne talks, the country is not ready to satisfy EU's gas demand and replace Russia as a key supplier, as it lags behind in gas extraction.
"The major challenge in getting Iranian gas to Europe seems to be under-investment in the gas sector - there are infrastructural constraints, namely Iran's geographical distribution of resources relative to its consumption as well as a lack of production and export infrastructure in the country," Chi Kong Chyong said.
"Iran's gas resources (e.g., South Pars field) are in the south of the country and hence would require substantial investment to build new and modernize existing pipelines to bring gas to the north-west to tap into Europe's southern gas corridor. Thus, Iran as a source for Europe's flagship southern corridor is not a viable proposition, at least in the medium term," he stressed.
Dimitar Bechev, a senior visiting fellow at LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe, shared such views noting that there is very little in terms of cross-border infrastructures to carry gas from Iran to Europe.
"Iran charges more than Russian Gazprom or Azerbaijan's SOCAR on its long-term contract," Bechev wrote in an e-mail to AzerNews. "Becoming a net gas exporter will involve massive investments but I'm not sure there's a strong case to be made to international firms when it comes to the prospect of low gas prices in the medium term."
Consumption of natural gas by EU countries hit 369.90 - million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2014, compared to 388.60 mtoe in 2013 and 393,50 mtoe in 2012, according to Euromonitor International.
The European Union boosted its efforts to diversify energy supplies, but the EU members vary in their approach and lack of firm energy security policy threatens the Central and Eastern Europe, where countries are mostly dependent on Russia, the supplier of 30 percent of EU gas.
Gulgiz Dadashova is the deputy editor-in-chief of the Baku-based AzerNews newspaper. Her professional interests focus on energy issues, banking and transportation.
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State of the art artificial agents rely heavily on human intervention for performing vision-language integration; apart from being cost and effort effective, this intervention deprives artificial agents from the ability to react intelligently and to show intentionality when engaged in situated multimodal communication. In this paper, we suggest an alternative way of building vision-language integration prototypes with limited human intervention. The suggestions have emerged from the development of such a prototype for the verbalisation of visual scenes in a property-surveillance task.


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You can't talk about Xavier Dolan's films without mentioning his age. Dolan is 25 and has 5 features under his belt. Features that have been screened at major international film festivals, might I add. Which makes a lot of people wonder if a 40 year old filmmaker were to make the same films - will they receive as much critical praise?
I would think the answer would be definitely not as much, but I won't rain on Dolan's parade here. Because when I watch Mommy the only flaws are ones that all young filmmakers make when we are developing our command of technical and visual craft. But what is extraordinary is his ability for storytelling and emotional honesty that transcends most filmmakers our age.
Take for example, Dolan's choice to use 1:1 aspect ratio with Mommy. When we probed him at the Q and A session about the deeper meanings, the metaphorical implications etc. etc. He simply just told us he thought it would be great to have a claustrophobic sense of space and surroundings created with the 1:1 ratio, there was nothing more to it. People were saying that's it represents our generation now with the phone screens and the instagramming. Nope.
First of all, the film doesn't really have anything to say in depth about technology and social media, so it's a bit of a stretch to string those two themes together. Besides, the main character teenager Steve still uses a flip phone from the early 2000s. It's what Howie described as the intentional fallacy, us as audience members reading too much into what the author's intent was. Dolan's use of the ratio was for a simple reason. Now if the average filmmaker had decided to make a feature film in 1:1 or anything besides the normal cinemascope or widescreen, it could almost immediately be written off as a cheap gimmick. The same feeling of claustrophobia and the character's state of mind could have been achieved with something less disruptive to the standard screen and image - although you could argue that that's what the film is deliberately doing as Steve is a disruptive character.
So is it innovation or novelty? I am still leaning more to the side novelty, I feel like it's something filmmakers are likely to explore when we are still playing with storytelling devices and deciding what is right for the story and genre. Dolan's use of the ratio is neither adequately justified in this film nor innovative (as many films have done it before with better reason to e.g. Oz: The Great and Powerful, No)
But looking past that, the film was one I enjoyed most at the Telluride Film Festival. The relationship between mother and son, and neighbour (almost mother no.2) was beautifully balanced and bittersweet. The characters were entertaining and over the top in a way that still held true emotionally. Most of all it's a film about struggle and pain but was not a downer, there were sweet and liberating moments.
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To set this up, my preference goes out to an analog A/V transmitter which I can connect to my camera, and a receiver which connects to the laptop in the dug-out.
Finding a suitable A/V transmitter is not so much the problem, finding the right receiver is. I am not so sure as to how to connect the receiver to the laptop, i.e. how to bring in the signal.
Could you please help me to select the right equipment for this configuration?
The receiver will have an AV output, so to connect it to the laptop you'd need a video capture/TV card that has a composite input. You should find some in USB, PCMCIA and ExpressCard formats in pretty much any computer store.


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There is no preconceived notion.. BRS Minister's 'good' advice to Revanth and Bandi
Opposition parties are making massive propaganda that early elections will be held in Telangana. On the other hand, the ruling BRS denies it. In this context, BRS Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy once again decided on this matter. He clarified that there is no prior interest.. BRS does not have that requirement. In this order, the presidents of opposition parties Revanth Reddy and Bandi also gave good advice to Sanjay. Vemula, who has no intention of going early, emphasized that he will remain in power for the entire term. However.. Revanth Reddy and Bandi reminded that Sanjay still has 9 months in this order. During this period, the minister advised to stay among the people, do good work, and get a good name. MP Arvind Vemula's comments against him are left to his discretion.
Minister Vemula Prashant Reddy laid the foundation stone for many development works in Ergatla mandal of Nizamabad district. Vemula says that Telangana is running towards development under the leadership of CM KCR. He criticized Arvind for cheating the farmers by writing a bond paper saying that he will bring a yellow board. Duyyabatta said that Arvind also used personal insults when asked to give PMRF from the Prime Minister just like CMRF was given to poor people.
He reminded that the Center has imposed restrictions that a family with a two-wheeler is not eligible for Ayushman Bharat given by the Centre. The minister opined that the state government's health has improved several times over Ayushman Bharat. Only in Balkonda Constituency for 10 thousand people Rs. Vemula stated that he has given 40 crores under CMRF.
Atrocity in Hyderabad.. Murder on the road in broad daylight.. Locals took videos
Asaram Bapu: Raped a girl and is already in jail.. Convicted in a rape case against another woman
Pakistan's creativity reached the peak.. World's first 'online' head coach..!
CM Jagan is serious about the technical problem in the plane
Corazón Serrano presents a young girl from Chiclayo Cielo Heredia, 18, as its new member
Princess Amalia sniffs protocol for state visits and meets students from 'her' school
Lavrov announced Russia's adaptation to new realities in the face of external pressure
Please better education and no empty promises
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Porsche driver who hit three pedestrians told his version of what happened
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