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Yep, it's that time of year once again. The weather is starting to get a bit chilly, the X-Factor and Strictly are back on the TV and one of your colleagues has, inevitably, started the premature countdown to Christmas.
So, we're bringing you our top ten venues that'll mean your <a href=https://hirespace.com/Top/London/London-Christmas-Party-Venues" target="_blank">Christmas party goes off without a hitch and you can fully enjoy the festive season.
This Georgian Townhouse provides an elegant backdrop for your festive celebration. The venue fully embraces the season in the Council Chamber and terrace, with beautifully decorated Christmas trees and a range of packages to suit your event, from standing receptions for 160 to more intimate dining for up to 75. Perfectly located in the heart of Marylebone, close to Regent's Park, 41 Portland Place is a practically perfect.
Drinking, dancing, canapes and an extensive festive menu, RSA has it all. It's a versatile venue offering both historic elegance and urban blank canvas spaces.
The Vaults offer a blank canvas of an event space. This central London 'hidden gem' with its exposed brickwork and quirky alcoves mean you can dress the space as much or as little as you desire. The timeless style of the space lends itself to an endless list of event possibilities.
Regency meets contemporary at Prince Philip House. The impressive is complemented by a modern interior that can be perfectly transformed for any event, including Christmas.
The beautiful original staircase leads guests into the venue bedecked with festive lights, where they'll be met with ambient lighting and the distinct Christmassy smell of fir.
A beautifully decorated tree and elegant festive touches combined with all-inclusive, three-course dining packages mean you'll have a Christmas party to remember.
This Tudor-style hall was built in the 1920s but still gives the impression of being in a grand country house, despite being in the middle of the City of London.
This year the venue will be transformed for a festive 'Masked Ball'. The ornate rooms, grand staircases and oak panelling all add to the grandeur and mystery of the theme. Combined with delicious food, drink and plenty of room for dancing, Ironmongers' Hall will be as intriguing as your masked guests.
Located in the heart of Mayfair, this Georgian house is perfect for an elegant Christmas soiree. Complete with a French-style courtyard, Dartmouth house provides a truly magical backdrop.
With indulgent food and drink packages on offer and a beautifully decorated tree, the venue transports you to another era; a Christmas party here is one you won't forget.
Nestled on King's Road, the private members club is set over four floors boasting a lounge, restaurant, cocktail bar and a Champagne bar.
Relaxed and welcoming, the venue is indulgent, luxurious and cosy. The dark reds and greens of the interiors lend themselves to the festive season and provide a beautiful backdrop for Christmas lunches, dinners and parties. The team are hugely flexible and are on hand to create a memorable event; veritable Christmas elves!
Set within three beautifully restored Victorian railway arches, moments from Hoxton station this bar and restaurant oozes cool. The exposed brick and carefully considered design make the venue instantly inviting, not to mention beautiful.
Also known for its delicious food offering, whether it's bowl food or a sit-down banquet, Beagle provides an ideal space for Christmas parties. Made up of the bar, restaurant and heated terraces, the whole venue can be hired as one or in its individual parts, depending on your requirements.
Previously a town hall this stunning hotel is located in the heart of east London and combines beautiful architecture with cutting-edge design.
Bethnal Hall is perfectly suited to Christmas parties. It's highly versatile as it's made up of four interconnecting rooms with solid walls that recess upwards into the ceiling. This provides the opportunity for several different setups, depending on the requirements of your festive shindig.
The elegant room boasts wooden floors and walls, complemented by original 1930s features that create a cosy, candlelit festive atmosphere, perfect for the season of goodwill.
With more than 15 years of experience, The Chapel Bar knows how to throw a Christmas party. The venue boasts two distinct spaces across two floors, that will be decked out with baubles, lights and of course a Christmas tree when the festive season rolls around.
The Saloon is at the heart of the venue and offers a versatile space for up to 180 people, with a large dance floor, disco lighting and a 3am license (a necessity for a festive party).
The Terrace Room has an adjoining terrace and is perfect for more intimate events of up to 80 standing. The terrace is also heating, providing an all-season outside space, ideal for taking a breather from the dance floor.
Cirque Le Soir is an immersive experience located just moments from Regent Street. The circus experience can be tailormade for your event of up to 500+ guests. The perfect place to inject festive fun into your event, expect silliness, shenanigans and a night to remember.


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"You do that and I'm calling my lawyer. I don't owe you guys anything."
"There's a loan repayment of 500,000 dollars due on your account."
Where was the Yes Sir, any other special requests sir, what can we do for you today sir? The schlep on the phone had no respect whatsoever! Didn't he know who he was? Didn't he know?!
Jäger Johnson swaggered over to the brandy cabinet and pulled out a bottle of Hennessy. Grabbing a scotch glass he poured himself a generous amount and sat on the marble floor of his rented villa.
He looked around the parlour, opening his eyes to the consequences of the previous night. Half empty bottles of Dom scattered across the living area, remnants of cocaine on the glass table, lingerie that definitely did not belong to him.
"Shit. SHIT." He muttered to himself, pushing his fingers through his thick blonde hair.
What the hell was he going to do? There was no money left and he knew it.
His inheritance was under lock and key until his 30th birthday. Twelve million dollars a year and his dumb ass was too young to start cashing the cheques.
His mind couldn't begin to process the call he received from his step sister last week. His late Father's illegitimate 24 year old kid. Begging for money as per usual. Said her mother needed to clear a 100,000 dollar hospital bill. Where was he supposed to get that kind of money? Did they think he was made of money because he had made a mediocre name for himself in Hollywood?
Stage three lung cancer and not once had he gone to visit his step Mother. He had his excuses though. Money was tight. Business was bad. It was a difficult time in Hollywood. He needed the space. He needed the 10,000 dollar trip to Abu Dhabi last week. Damn it, there was no loyalty in Los Angeles. Friends come and go and family only show up when they need something. What kind of a life was that?
Now he owed a ton of money to the bank and who could he call to help me out with a 500,000 dollar loan repayment? At 26 years old, 30 was a long time away.
Whipping his white Givenchy shirt off, he slapped himself on each cheek, grabbed at his box of Marlboros and disappeared through the sheer white curtains that led to the front porch. Inhaling deeply on his last cigarette, he watched as the tidal waves on the beach crashed and cooled.
There was a way out of this mess.
A producer gig with Paramount films. It was a one million dollar deal and word was out that the executives were still looking for their perfect match. Jäger Johnson. Movie producer. Yeah he could do it. His Father was a movie mogul who owned a production company for 20 years... produced some of the greatest movies in Hollywood. Jäger felt his confidence lift. Why wouldn't they hire him? He was Jäger Johnson Junior. Soon to be billionaire. Soon to be King of the world. There was a movie premiere after party at the Beverly Hills Hotel tonight and unlike any other night he was finally going to put his premiere invitations to good use.
His best friend Zachary had mentioned the deal earlier in the year and he had seemed incredibly excited about it. Wait, Zachary didn't think he could land a deal like that did he? Zachary was a Law School graduate, what did he know about making movies? Jäger's Father was a legend. A mogul. Jäger was blue blood in Hollywood. The publicity alone would break box office. That had to count for something. Wringing his hands into a tight ball, he thought quickly about what could be done about Zachary.
A deal was a deal was a deal and in Hollywood his soon to be billionaire status had to count for something to someone.
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Geidi Primes es el álbum de estudio debut de la artista canadiense Grimes, publicado el 10 de enero de 2010 por Arbutus Records. En 2011, el álbum fue publicado en el Reino Unido por No Pain in Pop Records en CD y LP, con un arte de portada ligeramente diferente. Geidi Primes es un álbum conceptual basado en la novela Dune de Frank Herbert y en la adaptación cinematográfica de 1984 del libro realizada por David Lynch.

Antecedentes
El título del álbum hace referencia al planeta ficticio Giedi Prime, del universo Dune de una serie de novelas de Frank Herbert, cuyo origen es la novela de 1965 Dune, el libro favorito de Grimes. "Caladan", el primer tema, hace referencia a un planeta ficticio del mismo nombre. El siguiente, "Sardaukar Levenbrech", se refiere al rango militar de Levenbrech -entre un sargento y un teniente- en el ejército ficticio de los Sardaukar. Un Bailarín de la Cara, tal y como se utiliza en el título de la pista tres, "Zoal, Bailarín de la cara", es un tipo de humano en la serie que puede cambiar de forma. La pista seis, "Feyd Rautha Dark Heart", hace referencia al principal antagonista de la primera novela de la serie Dune, llamado Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. "Shadout Mapes", la décima pista, hace referencia a un personaje menor del mismo nombre. La pista 11, "Infección de Bestia", hace referencia al apodo de "Bestia" del personaje Rabban.

Grimes no esperaba que el álbum tuviera éxito y asumió que nadie lo escucharía. Según ella, esto fue lo que motivó el título del álbum y los nombres de las canciones, aunque posteriormente ha mencionado que "la decisión me ha perseguido". También ha declarado que ahora siente que el álbum era "ingenuo".

Recepción crítica

Geidi Primes recibió críticas positivas de los críticos musicales. Pitchfork Lindsay Zoladz señaló que el álbum tiene un "sonido excéntrico y soñador, que se nutre de todo, desde dubstep hasta disco, Música oriental a R&B de los 90", y añadió: "A pesar de sus modestos valores de producción y su relativa sencillez, es un debut cohesionado, encantador y sorprendentemente seguro". Zoladz continúa opinando que "quizás la mayor virtud de Geidi Primes sea su ingenio", afirmando que "sobresale en la elaboración de estados de ánimo evocadores a partir de materiales sonoros y estructuras de canciones engañosamente simples". De Grimes como vocalista, Zoladz encontró que puede "trabajar su rango", desde su "impresionante falsete" a un "espeluznante tono bajo" y su "afinado humor seco rango medio". En conclusión, Zoladz afirmó que "Geidi Primes muestra que incluso sus primeras grabaciones mostraban un punto de vista distinto y una cualidad extrañamente hipnotizante [...] un paisaje sonoro de ensueño que invita a escapar del universo glitchy, una breve provocación para dejarse llevar y simplemente disfrutar".

Siobhán Kane, de Consequence of Sound, describió "Caladan" como "casi tribal en su concepción"; alabó "Rosa" por sus "dulces y suaves arrullos de voz, que se elevan en torno a una percusión parecida al staccato"; afirmó que "Venus in Fleurs" trae a la mente "un inframundo oscuramente iluminado que suena como alguien que respira hielo". Kane continuó: "Hay algo tan inusual en este disco, un artefacto que suena como si se transmitiera desde el espacio, como si viniera de un lugar más creativo que el que se puede encontrar en la tierra". Thomas A Ward del NME consideró el álbum como "una escucha instantáneamente accesible e íntima", elogiando a Grimes por su "camaleónica aproximación" a los géneros del disco.

Lista de canciones

Personal
Créditos adaptados de las notas de línea de Geidi Primes.

 Grimes - voces, producción, obras de arte
 Erik Zuuring - diseño, maquetación
 Sebastian Cowan - masterización

Historial de lanzamientos

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Geidi Primes at Arbutus Records

Álbumes de Grimes
Álbumes de 2010
Álbumes en inglés

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The bout is at New England College (Henniker, NH) at the Lee Clement Arena (letter W on the campus map). During construction on the lower part of Grove Street in front of the arena, the Field House lot (number 12 on the map) and West Lot (number 26 on the map) will not be accessible, nor will the front (south) entrance. Therefore, we will be using the rear (north) entrance (the Zamboni end) and alternative parking areas.
Parking near the back entrance will be extremely limited, about 12 spaces; these will be reserved for emergency personnel, handicap vehicles, and vehicles delivering equipment & supplies. If you are driving one of these vehicles, the Arena Rear Lot (number 5 on the map) can be reached by driving in to the entrance of Simon Center (98 Bridge Street, number 21 on the map) and then proceeding past Gilmore Dining Hall (letter S on the map) to the end.
Additional parking will be in the Simon Center lot (number 21 on the map). From this lot, walk between the Simon Center (letter EE on the map) and Colby Hall (letter K on the map) to get to the arena.
Overflow parking will be in what NEC calls the River Lot which is across the street from the Simon Center.
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Marty Mayberry (Mentor), tell us a little about yourself.
Ever since I read C.S. Lewis's Narnia series in third grade, I've loved books. I discovered Stephen King as a teen, then branched out to John Steinbeck (I know, weird combination). After reading Judy Blume, my love of young adult fiction was born. Some of my favorite young adult authors include Rainbow Rowell, Stephanie Perkins, and Suzanne Collins. I'm also partial to Harry Potter. In fact, I've been sorted into Hufflepuff (hard work, patience, justice, & loyalty). I'm ready to leave for Platform 9-3/4. *taps fingers* Where's that letter?
Travel is my favorite thing in the world (except for—maybe—my family and kitties). Too long ago, I participated in a six month college exchange program, where I lived with a family in Germany. While the family seemed to enjoy my company (or maybe it was my baking?), they found fun things to keep me busy during school breaks, including trips to Austria and Munich. And, since the Easter holiday lasts a month (truly), I got to travel through southern France and Italy with the canoe club (I never did ride in a canoe, but I tried to eat my weight in baguette). It's only natural that I combine my love of travel with writing.
My stories take place in foreign locations, and include romance and (whenever possible) ancient civilizations.
Becky Dean (Mentee), tell us a little about yourself.
I'm Becky, and I love books! I write YA contemporary, although my first several manuscripts were YA sci-fi or fantasy, and I still love those genres too. As for reading, if it has words, I'll read it. I prefer YA, but enjoy adult sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries. In YA, I love a little of everything: sci- fi, especially with space travel (a result of too many science fiction TV shows as a kid); fantasy of all sorts; an occasional mystery or thriller; light-hearted contemporary. Since I love to travel in real life, I never say no to road trip books or stories set overseas. Whether in real life or fictional worlds, I want to be swept away somewhere new. My writing reflects this—I usually include journeys, adventures, or new places. I like to keep things light with happy, fun stories that leave a smile on your face.
Marty, why did you decide to participate in Pitch Wars?
So many experienced authors have helped me during my writing journey. Pitch Wars is one tiny way to pay it forward.
Becky, why did you decide to participate in Pitch Wars?
I heard about Pitch Wars last year right before it opened but didn't have anything ready. This year I saw a tweet and remembered how awesome it sounded. I was in the middle of querying and decided this would be a great way to take my manuscript to the next level. There are so many great writers serving as mentors, and I'm very happy I ended up with Marty—she's talented, helpful, and her books are exactly the types of stories I love to read!
Marty, what are you most excited for?
Becky has worked so hard to get it ready for the agent round. Her manuscript has incredible voice and a unique plot. I absolutely can't wait for the world to read her manuscript.
Becky, what are you most excited for?
It's been so much fun meeting people, and it was amazing to find someone (other than my CPs) who loves my manuscript and wants to help. I'm excited to improve the story, learn some new tricks, and make my manuscript as good as it can be.
Marty, describe your novel in 3 words.
Becky, describe your mentee's novel in 3 words.
Becky Dean writes fiction for young adults. She grew up in Southern California, land of nice beaches, the Dodgers, and In-N-Out burgers. Now she lives in Central Texas, where she misses the ocean but enjoys the BBQ. When she's not reading or writing, she loves to travel, be outdoors (but not in Texas in the summer), drink iced chai lattes, and watch football and science fiction shows on TV. Until recently, she worked in state politics in one of the prettiest buildings in Texas. Now she spends her days daydreaming about new stories and planning trips she may or may not take—but at least her characters can!
Marty Mayberry writes anything from young adult sci-fi and contemporary, to adult historical fantasy. When she's not dreaming up ways to mess with her character's lives, she works as an RN/Clinical Documentation Specialist. She has a BA in International Affairs in German and an Associate's Degree in Nursing. She lives in New England with her husband and children, as well as three neurotic cats and a geriatric chocolate lab. She's a member of SCBWI, YARWA, and a PRO member of RWA. Her young adult sci-fi thriller recently won the YARWA's Rosemary Award. She's represented by Jessica Watterson of the Sandra Dijkstra Agency.
Sounds like a great partnership. Best of luck to you both.
I agree, it does! Best of luck to you two!


White House's Spokesman Slams Media over Coverage of Inauguration at First Briefing 5 out of 5 based on 2 ratings. 2 user reviews.
Press secretary for the White House, Sean Spicer, accused media of false reporting about the number of Trump's inauguration crowd.
On Saturday, during the first briefing of the new US administration, press secretary for the White House, Sean Spicer, accused media of false reporting about the number of Trump's inauguration crowd, which, reportedly, was much smaller than that of Obama's.
"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the world," the press secretary said.
The statement was made despite photos of the event, which clearly showed that some sections of the Mall, in particular, an area near the Smithsonian Institution Building and the west part of the Washington Monument, were not full with people. There also was sparse attendance along the parade route from the Capitol to the White House. However, Spicer said that some of the photos were "intentionally framed in a way" to minimize the crowd, but, at the same time, he did not provide any examples or evidence of his claims.
They ended up being correct. There were a lot of reasons why the crowd was thin but it did fill up. There were protesters blocking entrances to the secure areas and that hadn't happened before. The secret service was also doing more screening than before. I am wondering if the protesters blocking the entrances and the low crowd claims are a coordinated hit on Trump's supposed legitimacy. I suspect TPTB knew the SS was going to delay people and add in protesters blocking, it created the magic photographic moment.
Trump supporters probably work 60-80 hours a week, I doubt many have the leisure to attend the events.
Here is an image, comparing 2009 and 2017, from the same viewpoint. I guess it depends what time of day the images were taken and of course, where the photographers were positioned.
You should see the photos ITV (UK TV channel) used. It was completely empty and next to one, showing Obama with a full crowd. For some reason the UK media are completely freaking out, over who had the biggest crowd at an inauguration. You can actually see the steam coming out of their orifices. I suppose, if you like seeing a 'true fake news' journalist, in meltdown, it was well worth watching.
I'm sick of that image being shown around, it's not accurate because it was taken at 8:40am – well before the crowd got to capacity. The MSM did the same thing during the Campaign, they would use selective angles to make Clinton's rally's look bigger and Trump's smaller. Even though Trump has far more actual supporters than Hillary ever did, and most of her supporters voted 'against' Trump rather than 'for' her.


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A mission statement is more than mere words plastered on a website or at the top of an annual report – it represents everything an organization stands for and all that it can accomplish. It drives the organization and its work.
There is a cyclical ad infinitum relationship between a nonprofit organization's mission, its impact, and its fundraising efforts.
While a powerful mission is critical to a nonprofit's success, mission alone won't bring funding to your door.
Addresses What the World Needs: if your organization did not exist, would it matter?
Inspires: speak to the heart of your potential investors; where will their dollars go and why are their donations important?
charity: water is a force to envy in the nonprofit world. Their mission, work and impact are highly transparent, simple and powerful.
How does this translate to charity: water's influence and impact? The transparency and clarity used in the mission statements shines through in their website, communications and annual reports. They make it very easy to track how dollars are being put to use. It's also clear that charity: water isn't just "talking the talk." Nearly every dollar donated goes directly to their projects, and founder Scott Harrison even has a separate fundraising initiative to cover organizational overhead.
The result? Donations have continuously increased since 2007.
Getting the mission right and articulating a powerful impact can help organizations elevate their voice above the noise—but will it lead to donations? How you ask for dollars can have a major influence on how many donations come through the door. Andrea Wilson's recent blog on fundraising has some helpful tips.
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Making a splash last year at the Toronto festival, The Act of Killing has returned to the North American continent for its theatrical release. Three other Danish films that have made an imprint on the festival circuit also enjoyed a successful US release this summer.
Since The Act of Killing premiered at the Telluride and Toronto festivals a year ago, Denmark-based Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary about Indonesia's anti-communist massacres has reaped rave reviews and garnered awards from festivals around the world.
Now, since 19 July, the horrific reality of a society celebrating mass murderers, as depicted in Oppenheimer's film, continues to attract extraordinary coverage among American critics.
"This audacious, horrifying, boldly experimental plunge into the mind-set of murderers and the culture of impunity breaks so many rules of documentary decorum that it virtually creates its own genre: investigative improv, perhaps. Or, better yet, Brechtian nonfiction," wrote The Washington Post. Other top media praised the film for being "nauseous", "more terrifying than any horror film", "an arresting act of cinema", and "the most lucid portraits of evil I've ever seen" – to quote The New Yorker, The Village Voice, NPR, and New York Magazine.
Danish-produced The Act of Killing and The Hunt have both been selected by a Danish committee as candidates to become the nation's Foreign Language Film submission to the Oscars. The third film on this preliminary list is Michael Noer' Northwest. The final film to be elected will be announced in late September.


It's hard to remember a day when social media didn't exist. It's sort of like trying to remember how I got my work done without a computer (or while sharing one with six others). Just as computers make our job easier (most of the time), social media offers us a new way to connect with customers.
Are you leveraging social media to help enhance your customer service? If not, it's time. Before you jump in, make sure you have a plan. Who will watch your social media feeds? Will you monitor them 24X7 or just 8-5? What about on weekends, holidays and when you're sick?
Remember, in order to take advantage of using social media to deliver outstanding customer service, having a plan is critical to your success. Create a plan for who, when, where and how you'll monitor and then build your own monitoring dashboard.


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A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The idea of the post-apocalyptic tale is all the rage these days, a recurring theme in books, stories, and motion pictures. From weird, literally earth-rending Mayan prophecies to legions of the walking dead, the end of the world as we know it appears to be endlessly entertaining. A common theme in these disturbing visions of the near future is that we have no one to blame but ourselves for whatever catastrophe brings civilization down. If we'd been less selfish and more far-sighted, if only we'd refrained from tinkering with the "natural order of things" – usually in the name of greed – we could have avoided these grim fates. We never seem to learn from our mistakes, and so each technological leap makes the next repetition of foolish human behavior more deadly than the last, until in the end – it ends.
Those currently exploiting this interest in violent ends for civilization sometimes seem to think this is all a new way of writing fiction, but of course this fascination with the end of the world is anything but new. Those of us who grew up during the Cold War remember such visions all too vividly, and as all-too-believable realities. By its sheer destructive power, the "bomb," in the hands of leaders cursed with blind stupidity, seemed destined to bring everything to an end. It was a fearful time to grow up, and frightening fiction was written, and filmed, to point out the dangers we faced. For a long time it seemed no one was listening, but I suppose that when you use giant ants and fleshy-headed mutant humans for cautionary tales, nuclear war becomes a little harder to take seriously. In time the danger was taken seriously and the threat of a nuclear apocalypse now – while still all too real – seems a bit less likely. This was not the case in the '50s and '60s, when I was a child. It felt imminent, and no few of us expected to die very young.
Science fiction writers of the time were in some measures as guilty as Hollywood in exploiting the fear of things nuclear, rather than driving home the idea that this was not only a serious and dangerous business, but an avoidable fate. Published science fiction from that time included many tales of a world in ruins, in which determined men and women struggled to preserve civilization while fending off the mutant progeny of nuclear war. That there might be NO survivors in the end, mutant or otherwise, was a long time entering the popular imagination – Nevil Shute's grim novel On the Beach being an outstanding exception to the rule at that time. Another author who stands out from the crowd in this regard is Walter M. Miller, Jr., whose post-apocalyptic novel A Canticle for Leibowitz stood far enough apart from the rest to be recognized for the exception it was, and to be awarded the 7th Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1961.
A Canticle for Leibowitz opens centuries after the Flame Deluge consumed the world, destroying civilization and taking the human race to the brink of extinction. Something like a civilization has risen from the cold ashes of that terrible event. Curiously enough, the Roman Catholic Church has somehow survived and kept its history and traditions alive – more than its own, actually. A new monastic order exists, named for Leibowitz, a long-dead engineer, who was martyred trying to preserve the knowledge that made civilization possible, when most other survivors sought to erase the past in a misguided effort to avoid repetition of history through cultural amnesia. The mobs attempted to eradicate science and literature, blaming these for creating the technology that incinerated millions, and left millions more to die less merciful deaths. Leibowitz led a small band of folk who hid books from the mobs, and memorized others, something like the book people of Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451. The new monastic order grew from these heroic and often deadly efforts to save books, repeating the Church's earlier medieval roll as a repository of knowledge in a dark age. The story begins with the tale of one Brother Francis, who discovers a cache of pre-deluge material that quite likely is connected to the not yet canonized Leibowitz himself. His grim life and its times set the stage for the next phase in the restoration of civilization, a civilization that evolves pretty much along the path of its predecessor, with the same old greed and lust for power. In the end, over millennia, humanity not only restores what was lost in the nuclear fires of the Flame Deluge, it reaches further, sending human colonies out to the stars. But it would seem that even in a star-faring age, when people still give birth to monstrous reminders of a horrible past, certain lessons remain unlearned.
This is not a "fun" book to read, and it's quite clear that it was never meant to merely entertain. The B-movie two-headed mutants sprinkled through the narrative illustrate the cost of ignorance, but never really challenge the rebuilding of civilization. They are a burden to it, instead; a reminder of a past that can be willfully ignored, but not truly forgotten, or left behind. It's a grim and regrettably believable tale, especially for anyone who has made even a modest study of human history. This book asks uncomfortable questions of a sort that have no tidy answers. The writing is some of the best you will find in the genre, with characters as believable as they are at once flawed and determined. No, not the escapism so many assume all sci-fi to be. It is instead a compelling work of literature, and one you will either appreciate for its quality and its message, or hate for its grim reminder that those who refuse to learn history may very well be consumed by it. For while history can be deliberately rewritten, or willfully ignored, its consequences are inescapable. This, in the end, is what I believe Miller is trying to say, a message that remains for the most part ignored, even though the continued popularity of apocalyptic fiction reveals that we are not entirely unaware of our danger.
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Vacuum pump or fan for the power source, the internal vacuum system causing the material to move in a pipe in suspension, by separating the material allows the working gas and separated, which is vacuum blower.
Vacuum blower compared with other materials handling methods, and its advantage is that the device is simple, small footprint, suction conveying reliable, simple to operate, either by a few centralized delivery to one place, it can be spread from one to several delivery, continuous and intermittent discharge discharge; the whole system at work is under negative pressure, no dust, better working conditions. The disadvantage is the high energy consumption in contrast, wear elbow is more serious, but some equipment abroad by elbow pipe wall lined with soft rubber this point has been resolved.
Depending on the level and degree of vacuum pumps, vacuum suction vacuum suction can be divided into high and low vacuum suction. High vacuum blower generally use injection pump, the water ring pump as the power source, a high degree of vacuum system, generally 5 * 104Pa-3 * 104Pa, the air flow is also small, domestic sz-4 water ring vacuum pump at a vacuum degree was 60%, the theoretical air flow only 660m3 / h. Low vacuum suction centrifugal fans and the general use of fan for the power source, the lower the degree of vacuum systems, usually in 9 * 104Pa- 8 * 104Pa, so the short distance transportation, not to exceed 5Om, but the larger the amount of wind, such as regular using a 9 1/2 7 a 17 fan, the wind of up to 1800m3 / h.
Vacuum blower at home and abroad has been widely used, from large ships loading and unloading to metallurgy, foundry bulk materials and flour mills, breweries transport, dust, soot, ash handling, etc., in short, as long as the bulk material transport and local processing of this method may be employed. Data have been reported overseas vacuum suction device in a specialized manufacturers, and the entire system components do stereotypes standardization and serialization.
2. The vacuum suction system is mainly composed of the type and the following high vacuum pumping system an example to introduce the system in the main unit.
① suction nozzle device is relatively simple, but crucial, general bulk feed nozzle is inserted, there are two main types, one is a single cylinder, one is binocular style. When the system is evacuated, the atmosphere through a hole into the wind and the secondary air nozzle body material of the material into the feed tube, either monocular or binocular type, the amount of secondary air nozzles must be adjusted through practice and exploration transferred to the best place to be fixed.
Separation down. Common has a centrifugal separator and gravity, which is simple gravity structure, a small amount of wind. 95% of the feed tube and powder bulk material is separated off into separate silos, dust with a little gas material into the dust bin.
③ dust removal system to ensure the exhaust meet environmental standards and reduce wear and tear on the dusty gas pump, the gas needed by the separated water bath and then by the cyclone and dust. Domestic demand to maintain a certain dust bath water, the water intake pipe insertion, dust and air flow into the water precipitation, clean air and then into the water ring pump.
④ high vacuum pump delivery system in the use of SZ-type water ring vacuum pump, a small water ring vacuum pump noise in the vacuum of 60%, the vacuum suction system for maximum efficiency.
⑤ piping and valves to use more water pipes, gas pipes and seamless steel pipe, pipeline wall thickness of not less than 4mm-6mm, in order to reduce the loss of vacuum pressure, bend radius of not less than six times the pipe diameter of -10 times. Tracheal tube diameter may be equal to 0.8 times the diameter or feed tube.
Vacuum pumping system valves demanding tightness, or will affect the suction capacity, the general and spider ball valve, requiring continuous discharge when not using a star feeder, hammer air lock to the other side with biconical seal stopper pieces better.


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Presidents of East African countries mourn the late John Magufuli
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East Africa countries leaders were not indifferent when they learnt the death of their Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli from heart problem. After Uhuru Kenyatta, Raila Odinga, Yoweri Museveni and Bobi Wine, it is the turn of Paul Kagame, Lazarus Chakwera, and Evariste Ndayishimiye to pay a vibrant tribute to the …
Paul Kagame and Rwanda's first lady receive vaccines
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his wife Jeannette received their doses of the Covid vaccine on Thursday to serve as an example as people remain skeptical about vaccines. Photos of them being vaccinated at Kigali's King Faisal hospital have been tweeted by the president's office: As part of the ongoing …
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Rwanda began its COVID-19 vaccine campaign on Friday, becoming the first nation in Africa to use pharmaceutical company Pfizer's doses that require ultra-cold storage. Authorities began transporting Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots round the hilly nation of 12 million people after they arrived earlier this week, using helicopters to reach far-flung …
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Rwandan YouTuber Yvonne Idamange Iryamugwiza has been arraigned in court in the capital Kigali on six charges including insurrection and incitement to public disorder. She is accused of "spreading rumours using technology", "contempt for genocide memorials", "obstruction of the implementation of government policies" and "using counterfeit bank checks" among other …
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The Rwandan President Paul Kagame has faulted the "hypocrisy and double standards" in the global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. President Kagame made the comments in a tweet after the World Health Organization (WHO) director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said deals between rich nations and vaccine manufacturers had made it hard to …
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The head of Rwanda's military, Lt Gen Jacques Musemakweli, died a "natural death" on Thursday at a military hospital, according to Rwanda Defence Force. "Yes, General Musemakweli has died, he was ill," a senior Rwandan army official told the BBC. The Rwanda Defence Force is deeply saddened to announce the …
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President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has warned of the global economic consequences of delayed vaccination in Africa. In an op-ed published on 7 February on the British news website The Guardian, the Rwandan leader pointed to a "nationalism" of Covid-19 vaccines on the part of the United States and Europe. …


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One of WWE's most entertaining duos will reunite for a look back at the show that changed the face of broadcast television. Viewers will join Edge and Christian for a trip down memory lane to relive some of the greatest moments throughout the 15 year history of SmackDown.
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David O'Leary wins more than £3m in compensation after sacking by Al Ahli
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David O'Leary has won £3.34m compensation after being unfairly dismissed by Dubai-based club Al- Ahli in 2011. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images
David O'Leary, the former Aston Villa and Leeds United manager, has won $5.2m (£3.34m) in compensation from Al Ahli FC following his sacking by the Dubai-based club. The long-running dispute was settled by Fifa's players' status committee in favour of the Irishman, who was dismissed in April 2011 after only eight months in charge.
Al Ahli FC, who sacked O'Leary after he won just six of his 15 league games in charge, said at the time that he had been dismissed but club officials subsequently claimed the former Arsenal player had abandoned his post. Fifa dismissed the club's claim and also rejected Al Ahli's claim that the world game's governing body had no jurisdiction over the case. The sum of $5.2m represents payment in full of the remaining two years of his contract.
"It has taken a long time to deal with this matter but I am pleased that all issues have now been finalised," said O'Leary in a statement issued through the League Managers Association. "I hope my case provides reassurance to all managers and coaches working all over the world that there is a formal system in place that provides employment protection."
The LMA's chief executive Richard Bevan said he is "delighted" with the outcome and claimed it has wider implications for managers employed abroad.
"The wider impact of this process is the proof that Fifa has mechanisms in place which regulate worldwide employment issues," said Bevan. "It is extremely encouraging to know that the governing body can provide a means of redress for managers and coaches at all levels seeking to establish their employment rights, wherever in the world they happen to work."
O'Leary, whose last job in England with Aston Villa ended in 2006, has not worked in football since losing his post at Al Ahli FC.


BOSTON – The MBTA today announced the special $10 weekend fare on the Commuter Rail, which is valid for unlimited travel through all zones on Saturdays and Sundays, will be extended to Sunday, December 9. This pilot program began being offered every weekend on June 9, 2018.
Valid for all Commuter Rail zones from the first scheduled Saturday trip through the last scheduled Sunday trip, the $10 fare is available on mTicket, onboard trains, and at ticket windows at North, South, and Back Bay Stations. The special fare applies to customers age 12 and above; paying adults can bring two children under 12 for free.
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Syngenta's seed production R&D center in Beijing.
With Europe an increasingly attractive target for Chinese investment, some 70 Swiss brands – including the likes of Syngenta, Mercuria and Swissport – have already been subject to Chinese mergers and acquisitions. That has led to anger and doubt among some Swiss, and some Chinese, too, and raised questions on how best to bridge the two cultures.
Mergers and acquisitions are a two-way street. Japan's wave of acquisitions of Swiss brands in the 1970s and 1980s killed off quite a few of the companies that were acquired. The survival rate was less than 10%, leading the Swiss to become more cautious afterwards, experts said.
Industry insiders see the Syngenta deal as following in the same model as ChemChina's purchase of a 60% stake in Israel-based Makhteshim Agan, the largest manufacturer of generic pesticides. In 2014, the name of that company was changed to ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd.
In some ways, however, acquiring an overseas company can help the Chinese make an end-run around some of their own bureaucracy.
"For Chinese companies, the development of strategies differ from the implementation of strategies, which is a common problem – especially for state-owned enterprises," said Guanglian Pang, director of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. "Having a merger with an overseas company is relatively easier and faster."
Guanglian said state-run enterprises can change quickly because they have boards made up of directors that frequently come and go and prefer to launch their own reforms that can build their own reputations, rather than maintain the status quo. Their terms are limited to up to ten years, but most serve only for five years.
"Swiss-made" or "Made in China"?
What to do about labels presents another conundrum.
For many people, the Swiss label indicates high cost and top quality, while the Chinese label implies the opposite: low cost and poor quality.
Significantly, when most Chinese enterprises acquire a Swiss brand, they will consciously avoid contact with local media in Switzerland, and also will reject an interview request from Chinese media. The main reason: To try to maintain the Swissness of a trusted brand – and its connotations of high quality.
Among Chinese consumers, too, the term, "Swiss made" has gained increasing reliability. Therefore, the Chinese parent company will not readily transfer the manufacturing site to China.
But when it comes to research and development, some companies, such as Swiss pharmaceutical giants Novartis and Roche, have established R&D centres in China. Experts ascribe this to not only the lower labour costs but also the ability to learn more about local consumer habits and preferences.
Chinese mergers and acquisitions sometimes follow an "iceberg" model, with the Swiss subsidiary becoming the 1% of the company that remains exposed above ground for show purposes.
Beneath the surface, Chinese companies will often operate in ways that conflict with Swiss customs in the business world, which can undermine the loyalty of employees and the trust of customers. Some Chinese companies also hunt for Swiss talent and seek out trade secrets, further tearing at the fabric of the Swiss culture of loyalty and reputation, according to Juan Wu, a researcher on international business at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
But, she added, by learning each other's cultures such differences can be bridged.
When things go wrong, both sides, the Chinese and the Swiss, tend to blame it on "cultural differences". However, Guanglian said such troubles really point to a problem with Chinese management.
After a merger with Swiss companies, US buyers will often implement large-scale layoffs and dismissals and upend the management. It's a different picture with Chinese owners, who prefer to retain the integrity of the acquired companies, according to Juan.
That alone is not enough to ensure that the Swiss and Chinese get on well together, however. Juan's research since 2012 found that most Swiss executives complained about the Chinese style of management.
According to the Swiss who she interviewed, Chinese bosses are used to ordering people around and publicly criticising their employees, and place too much emphasis on hierarchy, micro-managing and displays of power – in contrast to the Swiss emphasis on autonomy, discretion and privacy.
One of the Swiss executives, a chief financial officer, told Juan that he "could not get used to the Chinese paternalistic style of management and Chinese staff who insist on speaking in Mandarin, and the Chinese CEO seemed to live 2000 years ago and regard himself as the king".
On the other hand, Chinese CEOs with state-run companies might have a reason for being a bad mood because they receive fixed government salaries that could be as low as CHF1,200, roughly what an apprentice might earn, though they do receive additional compensation in the form of paid living expenses such as rent and food, Guanglian said.
"These hugely different salaries between the Chinese and the Swiss staff make the Chinese CEOs feel that they are nobody, so they control their staff very strictly just to show that they are somebody," he said.
A report published in late January by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed Chinese investment abroad hit a new record of $67.4 billion in 2015, up sharply by 40% from a year earlier. Chinese investment abroad has increasingly favoured Europe over the United States.
This year, for example, German industrial machinery maker KraussMaffei Group is set to be acquired by China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina). Closer to home, Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta is being bought by the same Chinese state-owned chemical company in a deal worth $43 billion (CHF43.8 billion). It stands to be the biggest acquisition ever made by a Chinese company.
Hurdles to merging 'Swiss Made' with 'Made in China' Ying Zhang Mar 21, 2016 - 11:00 With Europe an increasingly attractive target for Chinese investment, some 70 Swiss brands – including the likes of Syngenta, Mercuria and Swissport – have already been subject to Chinese mergers and acquisitions. That has led to anger and doubt among some Swiss, and some Chinese, too, and raised questions on how best to bridge the two cultures. Mergers and acquisitions are a two-way street. Japan's wave of acquisitions of Swiss brands in the 1970s and 1980s killed off quite a few of the companies that were acquired. The survival rate was less than 10%, leading the Swiss to become more cautious afterwards, experts said. Industry insiders see the Syngenta deal as following in the same model as ChemChina's purchase of a 60% stake in Israel-based Makhteshim Agan, the largest manufacturer of generic pesticides. In 2014, the name of that company was changed to ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd. In some ways, however, acquiring an overseas company can help the Chinese make an end-run around some of their own bureaucracy. "For Chinese companies, the development of strategies differ from the implementation of strategies, which is a common problem – especially for state-owned enterprises," said Guanglian Pang, director of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation. "Having a merger with an overseas company is relatively easier and faster." Guanglian said state-run enterprises can change quickly because they have boards made up of directors that frequently come and go and prefer to launch their own reforms that can build their own reputations, rather than maintain the status quo. Their terms are limited to up to ten years, but most serve only for five years. "Swiss-made" or "Made in China"? What to do about labels presents another conundrum. For many people, the Swiss label indicates high cost and top quality, while the Chinese label implies the opposite: low cost and poor quality. Significantly, when most Chinese enterprises acquire a Swiss brand, they will consciously avoid contact with local media in Switzerland, and also will reject an interview request from Chinese media. The main reason: To try to maintain the Swissness of a trusted brand – and its connotations of high quality. Among Chinese consumers, too, the term, "Swiss made" has gained increasing reliability. Therefore, the Chinese parent company will not readily transfer the manufacturing site to China. But when it comes to research and development, some companies, such as Swiss pharmaceutical giants Novartis and Roche, have established R&D centres in China. Experts ascribe this to not only the lower labour costs but also the ability to learn more about local consumer habits and preferences. Effect on Swiss culture Chinese mergers and acquisitions sometimes follow an "iceberg" model, with the Swiss subsidiary becoming the 1% of the company that remains exposed above ground for show purposes. Beneath the surface, Chinese companies will often operate in ways that conflict with Swiss customs in the business world, which can undermine the loyalty of employees and the trust of customers. Some Chinese companies also hunt for Swiss talent and seek out trade secrets, further tearing at the fabric of the Swiss culture of loyalty and reputation, according to Juan Wu, a researcher on international business at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences. "Some Chinese companies bring a lot of bad habits to Switzerland," she said. "This causes great damage and has a big impact on a social culture that Swiss people have spent centuries building up on the basis of reputation and loyalty." But, she added, by learning each other's cultures such differences can be bridged. Chinese bosses for the Swiss When things go wrong, both sides, the Chinese and the Swiss, tend to blame it on "cultural differences". However, Guanglian said such troubles really point to a problem with Chinese management. After a merger with Swiss companies, US buyers will often implement large-scale layoffs and dismissals and upend the management. It's a different picture with Chinese owners, who prefer to retain the integrity of the acquired companies, according to Juan. That alone is not enough to ensure that the Swiss and Chinese get on well together, however. Juan's research since 2012 found that most Swiss executives complained about the Chinese style of management. According to the Swiss who she interviewed, Chinese bosses are used to ordering people around and publicly criticising their employees, and place too much emphasis on hierarchy, micro-managing and displays of power – in contrast to the Swiss emphasis on autonomy, discretion and privacy. One of the Swiss executives, a chief financial officer, told Juan that he "could not get used to the Chinese paternalistic style of management and Chinese staff who insist on speaking in Mandarin, and the Chinese CEO seemed to live 2000 years ago and regard himself as the king". On the other hand, Chinese CEOs with state-run companies might have a reason for being a bad mood because they receive fixed government salaries that could be as low as CHF1,200, roughly what an apprentice might earn, though they do receive additional compensation in the form of paid living expenses such as rent and food, Guanglian said. "These hugely different salaries between the Chinese and the Swiss staff make the Chinese CEOs feel that they are nobody, so they control their staff very strictly just to show that they are somebody," he said. Booming Chinese investment A report published in late January by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed Chinese investment abroad hit a new record of $67.4 billion in 2015, up sharply by 40% from a year earlier. Chinese investment abroad has increasingly favoured Europe over the United States. This year, for example, German industrial machinery maker KraussMaffei Group is set to be acquired by China National Chemical Corp (ChemChina). Closer to home, Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta is being bought by the same Chinese state-owned chemical company in a deal worth $43 billion (CHF43.8 billion). It stands to be the biggest acquisition ever made by a Chinese company.
Despite the strong Swiss franc and weak Swiss exports to China, the majority of Swiss companies based there plan to increase their investments.


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Nicolas Philibert (; born 10 January 1951) is a French film director and actor.

Biography
Philibert was born in Nancy, France. He studied philosophy in the University of Grenoble. Philibert's father was a film lecturer and he attended his talks in his youth, which encouraged him to embark on a career in the film industry. He started it with filmmaker René Allio in 1970, as a trainee on Les Camisards and then as an assistant on Rude Journée pour la reine (1973), and assistant-director on Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère... (1975).

In 1978 he co-directed with Gérard Mordillat a feature documentary His Master's Voice, in which a dozen bosses of big industrial groups discuss power, leadership, hierarchies and the role of unions.

Between 1985 and 1987, he made several films about mountains and adventure for TV, then turned to making feature-length documentaries for theatrical distribution: La Ville Louvre (1990), Le Pays des sourds (1992), Un animal, des animaux (1995), La Moindre des choses (1996)  - at the psychiatric clinic of La Borde, as well as an experimental film with the pupils of the theatre school Théâtre national de Strasbourg, Qui sait? (1998).

In 2001, Nicolas Philibert made Être et avoir, about daily life in a single class school on a small village in the Auvergne. It won the Prix Louis Delluc 2002, and became a box office and critical success in France and internationally. The film was screened out of competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

With Retour en Normandie (2007), he revisited the traces of a previous films, made thirty years earlier by René Allio, with local peasants playing the lead roles. With Nénette (2010), made at the Ménagerie du Jardin des plantes in Paris, he produced an intimated portrait of the most famous of its inhabitants a female orang-utang, Nénette, held in captivity for 36 years.

La Maison de la radio (2013), takes us into the heart of the French Radio headquarters in Paris,  finding out who inhabits  the place and discovering the mysteries of its long corridors.

Over the last fifteen years there have been more than 120 retrospectives or 'homages' to Philibert organised internationally including the British Film Institute (London) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

He was one of the directors invited to nominate his favourite films in the British Film Institute's 2012 poll.

He explains, in French, his motivations, his influences (including Agnès Varda) and the history of his career as a documentary film maker, especially the 'impermeable' frontiers between documentary and drama in an interview recorded in April 2012.

Filmography
 La voix de son maître (1978)
 Vas-y Lapébie! (1988)
 La ville Louvre (1990)
 Le pays des sourds (1992)
 Un animal, des animaux (1996)
 La moindre des choses (1997)
 Qui sait? (1999)
 Être et avoir (2002)
 Retour en Normandie (2007)
 Nénette (2010)
 La maison de la radio (2013)
 On the Adamant (2023)

References

External links
 (French)

1951 births
Living people
French film directors
French male film actors
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
Actors from Nancy, France
Mass media people from Nancy, France


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Q: Mis-aligned, censored, and bounded-error hierarchical annual time series My job involves analyzing air pollutant emission estimates. I have a dataset of 5 timeseries, for which I would like to both backcast and forecast aggregate statistics (e.g. a range of expectation for the sum of emissions in a future year).
One interesting feature is that each series (as a unit) may be offset by either 0 or -6 months from the calendar year. Another is that about 10-20% of observations are missing. A third interesting property is that the data provider is willing to "guarantee" each datapoint to "5%".
If I'm willing to assume, for the purposes of approximation, that:

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*the missingness is MAR; and

*the "5%" error is uniform or Beta

... are there tools or approaches that can be combined to do a reasonable job of bounding the magnitude and direction of the expected next annual (calendar-year) average of all 5 series?
In response to comments and questions thus far:

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*Thanks for the feedback! I'll be able to respond more frequently on Monday.

*There is definitely correlation both within and between the series, and there are mechanistic explanations for both kinds of correlation. Each series corresponds to a petroleum refinery. They have large, although varying by a factor of 2-3x, capital investments and (all) respond to changing local & global market demand. There is some specialization in the slate of products generated by each one; for this and other reasons, the market competition is not "perfect". To the extent possible, I'd like to focus on estimating the correlation strictly from the data.

*There are 7 observations within each series — each corresponds to a 12-month interval from (ignoring offsets) 2008--2014.

*There are likely "period" effects on scales ranging from super-annual to sub-annual, but hard to be definite about the scales of periodicity (unless you are an oil market expert, in which case, please weigh in!)

*The "5% guarantee" is not publicly described in technical detail. Mentioned in XLS here: http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/reporting/ghg-rep/reported-data/ghg-reports.htm (I'll post raw data on Monday). I think I'm willing to assume for the purposes of a first approximation that there are/were "true, unobserved" values within 5% of the observed in each and every case.
There is exogenous (non-quantitative; think newspaper articles) evidence of shocks to individual series resulting from, e.g. accidental or planned disruptions / downtime (like equipment upgrades); for the purposes of a first approximation I wish to exclude these from consideration.
I'm looking right now at Rob Hyndman's work. I'm an advanced R programmer, but a known non-expert in forecasting.

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Danny Thompson (4 de abril de 1939, Devon, Inglaterra) é um músico de estúdio, sendo multi-instrumentista. Gravou contrabaixo (clássico) em álbuns de nomes como Nick Drake, Rod Stewart e Kate Bush, e posteriormente formou a banda de folk rock britânica Pentangle.

Danny continua em atividade e já lançou alguns álbuns solo.

Contrabaixistas do Reino Unido
Músicos da Inglaterra
Naturais de Devon
Muçulmanos do Reino Unido


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Effects of substitution, and adding of carbohydrate and fat to whey-protein on energy intake, appetite, gastric emptying, glucose, insulin, ghrelin, cck and glp-1 in healthy older men—a randomized controlled trial
Caroline Giezenaar, Yonta Van Der Burgh, Kylie Lange, Seva Hatzinikolas, Trygve Hausken, Karen L. Jones, Michael Horowitz, Ian Chapman, Stijn Soenen*
Protein-rich supplements are used widely for the management of malnutrition in the elderly. We reported previously that the suppression of energy intake by whey protein is less in older than younger adults. The aim was to determine the effects of substitution, and adding of carbohydrate and fat to whey protein, on ad libitum energy intake from a buffet meal (180–210 min), gastric emptying (3D-ultrasonography), plasma gut hormone concentrations (0–180 min) and appetite (visual analogue scales), in healthy older men. In a randomized, double-blind order, 13 older men (75 ± 2 years) ingested drinks (~450 mL) containing: (i) 70 g whey protein (280 kcal; 'P280 '); (ii) 14 g protein, 28 g carbohydrate, 12.4 g fat (280 kcal; 'M280 '); (iii) 70 g protein, 28 g carbohydrate, 12.4 g fat (504 kcal; 'M504 '); or (iv) control (~2 kcal). The caloric drinks, compared to a control, did not suppress appetite or energy intake; there was an increase in total energy intake (drink + meal, p < 0.05), which was increased most by the M504 -drink. P280 - and M504 -drink ingestion were associated with slower a gastric-emptying time (n = 9), lower ghrelin, and higher cholecystokinin (CCK) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) than M280 (p < 0.05). Glucose and insulin were increased most by the mixed-macronutrient drinks (p < 0.05). In conclusion, energy intake was not suppressed, compared to a control, and particularly whey protein, affected gastric emptying and gut hormone responses.
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Giezenaar, C., Van Der Burgh, Y., Lange, K., Hatzinikolas, S., Hausken, T., Jones, K. L., Horowitz, M., Chapman, I., & Soenen, S. (2018). Effects of substitution, and adding of carbohydrate and fat to whey-protein on energy intake, appetite, gastric emptying, glucose, insulin, ghrelin, cck and glp-1 in healthy older men—a randomized controlled trial. Nutrients, 10(2), [113]. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10020113
Giezenaar, Caroline ; Van Der Burgh, Yonta ; Lange, Kylie et al. / Effects of substitution, and adding of carbohydrate and fat to whey-protein on energy intake, appetite, gastric emptying, glucose, insulin, ghrelin, cck and glp-1 in healthy older men—a randomized controlled trial. In: Nutrients. 2018 ; Vol. 10, No. 2.
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By Michael SchilfJanuary 22, 2010May 10th, 2017What is a Screenplay?
In a movie, the camera dramatizes the process of viewing the action and bring it on screen, allowing our eyes to see only what and how the "camera narrator" shows it to us.
A film is "told", but the story is shown by a camera narrator. Just like a narrator in literature, the camera can use tow points of view that equal the first and third person. We call them objective (through the eyes of a third person observer) and subjective (through a specific first person character).
If the story is told as one character's story or "subjectively", the camera plays the role of the first person observer, showing only scenes in which the main character participates. But in most movies, the camera assumes a more omniscient point of view. It is free to follow all the characters.
The real finesse begins when the camera is assigned not only a role – observer, omniscient narrator – but is is also assigned an attitude (curious, amused, anticipating, foreshadowing, etc.) And a character of its own (lyrical, critical, cynical, voyeuristic, etc.). As in literature, such a role and character needs to be introduced from the start and must be kept consistent throughout the whole picture to avoid a break of stylistic unity.
A film is "told", but the story is shown by a camera narrator. Just like a narrator in literature, the camera can use two points of view that equal the first and third person. We call them objective (through the eyes of a third person observer) and subjective (through a specific first person character).
The real finesse begins when the camera is assigned not only a role – observer, omniscient narrator – but is also assigned an attitude (curious, amused, anticipating, foreshadowing, etc.) And a character of its own (lyrical, critical, cynical, voyeuristic, etc.). As in literature, such a role and character needs to be introduced from the start and must be kept consistent throughout the whole picture to avoid a break of stylistic unity.
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