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'Star Wars 8' Director Reveals First Word Spoken in 'The Last Jedi'
Star Wars 8 Director Reveals First Word Spoken in The Last Jedi
— December 2nd, 2017
Star Wars fans are hungry for any little morsel of information they can scoop up about The Last Jedi with less than six minutes of its two-hour and thirty minute runtime having been revealed in the various trailers and TV spots. While director Rian Johnson refuses to go into specifics about what fans will see play out this December in theaters, he did give us all the very first word spoken by a character on screen.
"We're..."
We are what? That now seems to be the question. While we get the first word spoken by a character, we don't know who says this word or its intent. It could be in reference to anything. Does the movie pick back up immediately on Ahch-To with Luke Skywalker and Rey? Is this Rey speaking to Luke, with the 'We're' in reference to her, Chewbacca and R2-D2? Some reports indicate that The Last Jedi will kick off with a massive space battle feature Poe Dameron and BB-8 facing off against First Order ships. And it could be Poe who speaks these words. It also may be a word shared between Kylo Ren and Hux before Han's son sets off in his TIE fighter to face off against the incoming attack from the Resistance.
We admit, this is kind of dumb, but fans seem to have fun with these little teases. The entire cast appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as part of the big press tour for the movie. Which is were Johnson dropped this info. With still two weeks togo, none of the stars in attendance dropped any substantial spoilers. Though it was once again confirmed that Lando will definitely not be in this sequel.
Unveiling the first word spoken in a new Star Wars movie is becoming a tradition on Kimmel. J.J. Abrams also revealed the first word spoken in The Force Awakens back before it came out in 2015. And its likely that he'll do the same when he returns to the director's chair for Star Wars 9.
Some fans were disappointed that the Kimmel Star Wars special didn't drop something more substantial. But that was never going to happen anyway. The actors did offer up their true feelings about the Porgs. Some love these new bird-like otter creatures with the Jaws-like mouths, others, like John Boyega hate them.
Back in July, Rian Johnson revealed the first word that appears on screen as part of The Last Jedi opening crawl. And that word turned out to be 'Decimated'. Which led many to believe the opening crawl kicks off with a recap of what happened to the Starkiller base. Though a franchise tradition for the main saga, only abandoned by Rogue One, many fans have complained that Star Wars 8 doesn't need an opening crawl, as it continues directly after the events in The Force Awakens. When it comes to the original and prequel trilogies, a number of years had passed between each film. This is the first time where one of the sequels has led directly into the other. Even with Empire and Return of the Jedi there was a significant jump in time. Not here, which will make for one five hour epic when watched back to back. Which is cool, and makes one wonder if Star Wars 9 will follow suit. It should be noted that Rogue One does lead directly into A New Hope, which also breaks the trend. Take a look as director Rian Johnson revealed the first word on Kimmel


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Ronald Andrew "Ronnie" Whelan, né le  à Dublin en Irlande, est un footballeur international irlandais devenu ensuite entraîneur. Jouant au poste de milieu de terrain, Whelan a passé la majeure partie de sa carrière au club de Liverpool Football Club. Il est sélectionné en équipe de République d'Irlande de football à 53 reprises.

Ronnie Whelan est aujourd'hui consultant pour la télévision irlandaise.

Biographie

Ses débuts
Ronnie Whelan nait au sein d'une famille de footballeurs de Dublin. Son père Ronnie Whelan Snr est un ancien international irlandais et membre de l'équipe de St. Patrick's Athletic FC qui domine le football irlandais des années 1950. Son frère Paul Whelan joue lui aussi au football dans les clubs irlandais de Bohemian FC et des Shamrock Rovers.

Whelan apprend le football dans les équipes de jeunes du club dublinois de Home Farm FC. Il intègre l'équipe première du club très jeune, faisant ses débuts en première division irlandaise dès l'âge de 16 ans. Très vite remarqué par les recruteurs anglais, il signe le  soit quelques jours avant son dix-huitième anniversaire pour le club anglais de Liverpool FC dirigé alors par Bob Paisley pour la somme de  livres sterling, et devenant ainsi le premier joueur irlandais de confession catholique a revêtir la tunique rouge, Liverpool étant jusqu'alors un club à l'organigramme profondément orangiste. Il fait ses débuts en équipe première 18 mois plus tard, le  lors d'un match de championnat contre Stoke City. Il marque à cette occasion son premier but avec les Reds. Cette apparition en équipe première est la seule de la saison, Whelan jouant par ailleurs de manière régulière avec l'équipe réserve de Liverpool.

Sa carrière à Liverpool
Lors de la saison 1981-1982, Ronnie Whelan gagne sa place dans l'équipe de Liverpool et se fixe sur le côté gauche du milieu de terrain. Son apparition dans l'équipe met fin à la carrière de Ray Kennedy auquel Whelan prend aussi son numéro 5. Il fait cette année-là une excellente saison participant activement à la conquête du titre de champion d'Angleterre. Whelan remporte aussi un deuxième trophée avec la victoire en Coupe de la Ligue d'Angleterre de football après la victoire en finale contre Tottenham Hotspur sur le score de 3 buts à 1.

Lors de la saison 1982-1983, Liverpool conserve ces deux trophées, Whelan marquant en finale de la Coupe de la Ligue contre Manchester United. Whelan est un des joueurs majeurs du club qui réussit la conquête de trois trophées en 1983-1984 :le championnat et la coupe de la Ligue, mais aussi la Coupe d'Europe des clubs champions.

La saison suivante fut particulièrement douloureuse pour Whelan et pour Liverpool. Le club ne remporte aucun trophée, mais surtout subit le désastre du Heysel. La saison1985-1986 est elle plus glorieuse : sous la direction de Kenny Dalglish Liverpool obtient un nouveau titre de champion d'Angleterre auquel s'ajoute une victoire en Coupe d'Angleterre de football. Cette victoire a un goût tout particulier pour Liverpool car elle est obtenue à la suite d'une finale remportée sur le grand rival de la ville Everton FC. C'est la première fois que les deux clubs du Merseyside se rencontrent en finale de cette compétition. Ronnie Whelan marque deux des trois buts de la victoire des «Reds » (score final 3 buts à 1). Liverpool s'offre enfin le triplé avec une nouvelle Coupe de la Ligue. C'est le deuxième doublé Coupe d'Angleterre/Coupe de la Ligue du .

La saison 1986-1987 est de nouveau sans victoire, Liverpool échouant en finale de la Coupe de la Ligue contre Arsenal FC et à la deuxième place du championnat derrière Everton FC. Avec l'arrivée de l'international anglais John Barnes, Liverpool avec un football chatoyant remporte un nouveau titre de champion et la Coupe de la Ligue. Whelan, lui, ne dispute pas la finale de la compétition car Nigel Spackman, profitant d'une longue blessure de Whelan, lui a pris sa place dans l'équipe type. En fin de saison, Liverpool échoue en finale de la Coupe d'Angleterre contre Wimbledon FC.

Une blessure de son capitaine Alan Hansen permet à Whelan de devenir le nouveau capitaine de Liverpool pendant quasiment toute la saison 1988-1989. Confronté une nouvelle fois à un désastre, celui de la tragédie de Hillsborough, Whelan se révèle en véritable leader sur la pelouse et en dehors.

Après le rétablissement d'Hansen, Whelan conserve le brassard de capitaine. Il soulève la Coupe du vainqueur de la FA Cup après une nouvelle victoire sur Everton FC. Mais l'année se termine sur un échec : Liverpool perd le titre de champion lors d'un match à domicile contre Arsenal FC sur le score de 1 buts à 2, le but de la victoire ayant été marqué  dans les arrêts de jeu. Arsenal est le champion d'Angleterre et empêche Liverpool de faire le doublé Coupe/Championnat.

Liverpool remporte le championnat en 1989-1990, mais l'influence de Whelan sur l'équipe s'avère mineure à cause de nombreuses blessures. Ronnie Whelan reste à Liverpool jusqu'au terme de la saison 1993-1994. Il connait alors une période tumultueuse alternant coup d'éclat comme le but permettant à Liverpool de se qualifier pour la finale de la Cup 1992 et les blessures comme celle qui l'oblige à manquer cette même finale. À cette époque là, Liverpool n'est plus la force dominante du football anglais comme cela a été le cas lors de la décennie 1980.

Sa carrière internationale
Ronnie Whelan est un international irlandais depuis 1981. Il fait ses grands débuts en équipe de République d'Irlande de football le  en entrant en cours de match contre l'équipe de Tchécoslovaquie de football à Lansdowne Road. L'Irlande remporte le match sur le score de 3 buts à 1.

Whelan est titulaire dans l'équipe d'Irlande qui participe au Championnat d'Europe de football 1988 disputé en Allemagne. L'équipe réalise l'exploit de battre l'équipe d'Angleterre de football sur le score de 1 à 0. Whelan marque le but irlandais lors du match nul 1-1 contre l'URSS. L'équipe d'Irlande est finalement éliminée dès le premier tour après une défaite contre les Pays-Bas.

Sa carrière d'entraineur
Après son départ d'Anfield, Ronnie Whelan rejoint Southend United Football Club en tant qu'entraîneur-joueur. Il travaille ensuite en tant qu'entraîneur pour des clubs grecs et chypriotes : Panionos, Olympiakos Nicosie et Apollon Limassol. Son plus grand succès en tant qu'entraineur est la carrière de Panionos lors de la Coupe de l'UEFA 1998-1999. L'équipe se hisse pour la première fois en quart de finale de la compétition où elle est éliminée par le club italien de la Lazio Rome sur le score sans appel de 4-0 et 3-0.

Une reconversion dans les médias
Ronnie Whelan devient un consultant apprécié de la télévision irlandaise, RTÉ. Il couvre essentiellement le championnat anglais et la Ligue des champions de football. Il fait partie du groupe de consultant de la télévision nationale pour la Coupe du monde de football 2010 en Afrique du Sud

Carrière
 1978-1979 : Home Farm FC
 1979-1994 : Liverpool
 1994-1996 : Southend United

Palmarès

En club
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Europe des Clubs Champions en 1984 avec Liverpool
 Champion d'Angleterre en 1982, en 1983, en 1984, en 1986, en 1988 et en 1990 avec Liverpool
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Angleterre (FA Cup) en 1986 et en 1989 avec Liverpool
 Vainqueur de la League Cup en 1982, en 1983 et en 1984 avec Liverpool
 Vainqueur du Charity Shield en 1982, en 1986, en 1988, en 1989 et en 1990 avec Liverpool
 Vainqueur de la Screen Sport Super Cup en 1986 avec Liverpool
 Finaliste de la Coupe Intercontinentale en 1984 avec Liverpool
 Finaliste de la Supercoupe d'Europe en 1984 avec Liverpool
 Finaliste de la  Coupe d'Europe des Clubs Champions en 1985 avec Liverpool

En Équipe d'Irlande
 53 sélections et 3 buts entre 1981 et 1995
 Participation au Championnat d'Europe des Nations en 1988 (Premier Tour)
 Participation à la Coupe du Monde en 1990 (1/4 de finaliste) et en 1994 (1/8 de finaliste)

Notes et références

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Footballeur international irlandais
Joueur du Home Farm FC
Joueur du Liverpool FC
Joueur du Southend United FC
Entraîneur irlandais de football
Entraîneur du Southend United FC
Naissance en septembre 1961
Naissance à Dublin

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EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Amyris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMRS), a leading synthetic biotechnology company in Clean Health and Beauty markets through its consumer brands and a top supplier of sustainable and natural ingredients, today announced that management will present at Evercore ISI's 3rd Annual HealthCONx Conference on Thursday, December 3rd at 2:40 p.m. ET.
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Q: Working of INSTALL_REFERRER Broadcast I want to know the correct working of the INSTALL_REFERRER Broadcast from referrals. This is to ensure its not possible to 'exploit' apps.
So far, this is what I have understood:

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*User gets the referral link of the app

*User downloads on device

*Just after installation, a broadcast is sent from Google Play app

*This Broadcast is received by the app that is tracking the referral.

Will the broadcast be fired again if:

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*User downloads the app from same account, but another device

*Uninstalls the app , installs it again (on same device)

A: In general, as far as I know, it should fire in both of those cases. If you want to make sure to count it only once, you should check for a flag of some sort that you have on your own server.
Here is documentation to support this:
https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/gms/tagmanager/InstallReferrerReceiver.html --
"The Google Play com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER Intent is
broadcast when an app is installed from the Google Play Store. This
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Overview of the NRC Dialogue
As part of the continued renewal of the NRC and to support the government's Innovation and Skills Plan, the President was instructed in his mandate letter of August 2016 to assess the current state of the NRC in four areas:
Innovation Support: including better meeting the current and longer-term research and development needs of Canadian industry; ensuring science excellence in the research work of the NRC; and identifying opportunities to increase support for the technology, growth-to-scale and export needs of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Engagement: including ensuring effective processes to identify current and forthcoming industrial R&D priorities and collaboration opportunities with firms; working with Cabinet and federal stakeholders to set long-term NRC intramural research priorities; and ongoing outreach to engage external innovation and science community stakeholders to ensure that the NRC is a key partner in Canada's principal innovation clusters across the country.
Governance: ensuring best practices in governance, decision-making processes and resource management, safeguarding public and staff safety at all times; ensuring effective environmental stewardship processes and practices; fostering a culture of openness and consultation within the NRC and with federal stakeholders; and reviewing clarity in NRC executive accountabilities. In this regard, consideration should be given to whether and how organizational design challenges would enhance the NRC engagement, partnerships and governance.
Management: ensuring leading-edge management practices by examining the NRC budget, revenue targets and financial controls; assessing and strengthening the NRC IT systems where appropriate; and renewing and unleashing the full potential of the NRC workforce to become a global leader in science and innovation.
In addition, to support his mandate of an open and transparent approach, the President was tasked to make his mandate letter public; to engage the NRC science and innovation personnel in his process of examination and development of advice; and, to include the NRC's regional activity, he was asked to consult with innovation stakeholders in key clusters across the country.
September to November 2016: Consultations
To support the President's mandate, the NRC invited all NRC employees and engaged external experts and key stakeholders to identify opportunities for improvement in the four areas described in the mandate letter. This exercise was called "The NRC Dialogue".
Seven working groups, composed of a diverse set of the NRC's employees from across the organization, were created to start the NRC Dialogue assessment phase. Supporting the working groups, a number of external eminent expert advisors representing government, academia and the private sector provided a challenge function.
As part of the assessment efforts, seven themes emerged as the key enablers for the NRC to be relevant to the Innovation and Skills Plan, and address the four mandated areas of assessment:
People: reinforce excellence essential to long-term success;
Facilities: ensure quality and relevance to support the NRC's agenda;
R&D: ensure relevance and impact across the spectrum of the NRC's activities;
SME growth: help innovative firms grow to scale and increase exports;
Engagement: open up the NRC activities and facilities for collaboration to build connections;
Management: focus on stewardship of resources and more empowerment with enhanced accountability; and
Governance: encourage research excellence and collaboration through organizational re-arrangements.
Findings from observations of the working groups and initial discussions with employees indicated that the NRC is unique among Canadian research performers in that it is the only organization that delivers large, directed research and commercialization programs; operates a national system of research and commercialization facilities (with over 88 research facilities at 22 sites); has the reputation and experience as a neutral broker with the ability to convene multiple innovation partners to work towards common goals and challenges; and has unparalleled insights into the innovation needs of Canadian companies through its highly respected Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), supported by 255 industrial technology advisors at more than 100 sites across the country. A renewed NRC would reinforce its position as a mission-driven and results-focused agent of innovation for the government, delivering key elements of the Innovation and Skills Plan.
Proposed high-level improvements were developed as was an approach to continued engagement of employees and key stakeholders through the NRC Dialogue process.
December 2016 to May 2017: Solution design
The second phase of the NRC Dialogue, the solution design phase, was initiated through town halls, online surveys and other communication channels to identify opportunities for improvement in the seven thematic areas. All employees, including science, technology and supporting service personnel, were given the unique opportunity to input to the renewal of the organization.
In particular, the NRC Dialogue provided the opportunity to explore how the NRC could:
Reinforce excellence in all of its people;
Harness innovation in its high-impact R&D Programs;
Help innovative SMEs to scale up and penetrate international markets
Open up R&D facilities for collaboration with innovative partners;
Focus management on sound stewardship and empowerment; and
Adjust governance to strengthen its vision and alignment with federal government priorities.
In this phase, more than 3,000 employees participated in 350 open and inclusive consultations held at 18 of the NRC sites across the country.
June to August 2017: From dialogue to action
The proposed solutions gathered during the solution design phase were further developed and refined to create a series of actions that build on a consideration of the key success factors of past reforms, and reflect the unique aspects and capacity of the organization. Launched with all NRC staff in late August 2017, these actions set out strategies to revitalize and sustain the NRC's role at the forefront of research and innovation excellence.
A renewed NRC is committed to focusing on:
Creating NRC Programs to deliver on government priorities
Establishing fewer but larger-scale, multi-disciplinary, national, outcome-oriented R&D programs that focus science and technology on addressing national challenges related to business innovation, scientific inquiry and public policy to support government priorities and superclusters in the six critically important sectors identified in the Innovation and Skills Plan (advanced manufacturing, agri-food, clean technology, digital industries, health/bio-sciences and clean resources).
Research excellence in disruptive technologies to address critical challenges
Creating foundational programs in disruptive science and technology areas with the objective of advancing scientific knowledge and addressing the critical challenges facing the economy and society.
Enabling the excellence and development of the NRC's researchers through support for exploratory work, a more diverse workforce, and enhanced development opportunities for women researchers.
Growing SMEs to scale and helping them to export
Enabling innovative, high-potential SMEs to grow to scale and increase exports by developing and delivering an improved suite of programs specifically designed to make SMEs more internationally competitive.
Improving access to funding, technology facilities and the NRC research support that SMEs require to thrive and grow.
Revitalizing the NRC research environment
Ensuring excellence in the safe and secure stewardship of NRC facilities, and optimizing facility use as a platform for innovation.
Supporting the development of the next generation of Canadian innovators through outreach and new hiring programs for co-op and post-doctoral students, and by better engaging universities, colleges, polytechnics and other members of the regional innovation ecosystem to encourage more research collaborations and exchanges.
Renewing its current specialized science infrastructure, in coordination with the work of the Federal Science and Technology Infrastructure Initiative, to encourage the sharing of federal laboratories.
Exploring opportunities to create and occupy collaborative facilities with other government organizations, academia and industry to grow Canada's shared platform for innovation.
Fostering high performance management and employee engagement by harnessing and fulfilling the potential of all of employees through career development and leadership that empowers staff and by supporting wellness, inclusivity, and a culture of "One NRC".
A phased approach to implement the actions is taken to maximize synergies and prevent unnecessary disruptions.
February 2018: Celebrating early success
Since launching Dialogue actions, great progress has been made and a first wave of early successes is being celebrated, such as:
Hiring more high-caliber Postdoctoral Fellows and students
Distributing $5 million to SMEs through NRC IRAP for research projects undertaken with the NRC
Three collaboration centres are under development with the Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (Quebec), the University of New Brunswick and Memorial University of Newfoundland
Three memorandums of understanding have been signed with key international partners
Consolidating research programs to 26 more focused programs aligned to the Government of Canada's priorities
Developing a program for each of the new Government of Canada's five superclusters
A simplified approach to intellectual property for easier access by our clients and collaborators
Budget 2018 announced a "re-imagined" NRC, proposing to provide $540 million over five years and $108 million annually for measures to reinforce our research strengths and role as a trusted collaboration partner of industry (reference budget plan), including the following:
$150 million over five years and $30 million per year ongoing for NRC scientists to work with innovators from post-secondary institutions and businesses on multi-party research and development programs
$30 million over five years and $6 million ongoing to establish an ideation fund to target breakthrough research ideas through a competitive, peer-reviewed process
$62 million over five years with $12.4 million per year ongoing, to lower access fees charged to small and medium-sized enterprises and universities and colleges
The conversion of $59.6 million per year in temporary funding into ongoing, permanent funding to allow for better long-term research planning and delivery
Budget 2018 also announced an investment of $700 million over five years starting in 2018-2019, and $150 million per year ongoing to support business research and development projects up to a new threshold of $10 million. In addition, Budget 2018 highlighted the targeted actions that the NRC will be taking to include more women, youth, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and visible minorities among our researchers.
These important investments in Budget 2018 will help position the reimagined NRC at the centre of research excellence and collaboration in Canada–a strong signal that the government shares in the NRC's renewed vision.
November 2018 – The path forward on the action plan
In June 2018 a "stock‑taking" Summit was held. It provided an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments so far and set the path forward for the remaining actions. As of November 2018, more than a third of the actions have been substantially or totally completed, bringing the NRC one step closer to making its vision of a "re‑imagined NRC" a reality. The focus for this fiscal year is on an additional 30 priority initiatives. A further 10 actions will become the focus of activity in the next phase of implementation.
For over 100 years, the NRC has brought its world-renowned scientific expertise to bear on the country's most pressing challenges. Building on its success, the renewed NRC will work collaboratively with the best minds from academia, government, and industry to deliver research and innovation breakthroughs that translate into vital contributions to Canadian economic and societal opportunities in support of government priorities.
In measurable terms, the NRC will be distinguished by:
Research excellence, and leadership in select disruptive technologies;
Alignment with industrial priorities in key innovation clusters;
Increased collaboration with regional ecosystems and with universities, polytechnic institutions, and colleges;
More effective and easy-to-use support to help firms grow to scale; and
A more diverse workforce and culture, emphasizing health and safety and the preservation of the environment.
Through its continuing process of renewal, the NRC is seizing these new opportunities to refine its role in connecting the various components of the Canadian innovation system and to help propel Canada into a position of global leadership in innovation.


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Q: alternative proof of graph property implying $3$ edge connectivity. Problem:
If $G$ is a connected graph and for every edge $e$ there are cycles $C_1$ and $C_2$ such that $E(C_1) \cap E(C_2)=\{e\}$ then $G$ is $3$-edge connected.
Question: Is the following argument by contradicion correct? The solutions I know are direct solutions to the problem so any comments and complete answers to my question would be very uesful.
Suppose $G$ is not $3$-edge connected. Then we can disconnect $G$ by either removing one or two edges. Suppose the first case is true, so $G$ has a cut edge $e$. Then this edge can clearly not belong to any cycle, otherwise removing it would not change the fact that $G$ is connected. This contradicts the existance of cycles $C_1$ and $C_2$ containing $e$. So we can think about the second case. Let $e,e'$ be the edges that disconnect $G$. Note that by removing $e$ and $e'$, $G$ splits in exactly two connected components: Removing either $e$ or $e'$ does not disconnect $G$ by the argument before. So remove say $e$ then $e'$ becomes a cut edge in $G\setminus\{e\}$ hence $G \setminus \{e,e'\}$ has exactly two components $K_1$,$K_2$. Now Let $C_1$ be a cycle containing $e$. Then it is clear that the cycle must also contain $e'$ since this is the only way to get a path from one vertex of $e$ to the other, because they are in different components. But by this argument every cycle containing $e$ must also contain $e'$ wich contradicts the existence of cycles $C_1,C_2$ with $E(C_1) \cap E(C_2)=\{e\}$.

A: Let $e=\{u,v\}$ and $e'=\{u', v'\}$. I see two gaps.

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*Which components $u$ and $v$ are in: Since $G-\{e\}$ is connected and $G-\{e,e'\}$ is not, then we know that $u'$ and $v'$ are in two different components, but I don't see how we know if $u$ and $v$ are in the same component or not given the current information.

*The edges of $C_2$: If we assume that $e$ and $e'$ are both on cycle $C_1$, that does not imply both are on $C_2$.


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Royal Enfield reveals 'The Picnic Special' & 'Birth of the Bullet' helmets
by Nayak
Written by Nayak
To mark the 120th anniversary of the brand, Royal has unveiled two new helmet series. Names "The Picnic Special" and "Birth of the Bullet", these are limited edition helmets of which only 120 units of each go on sale. Previously Royal Enfield had unveiled the "The Original Royal Enfield" and "The V Twin", which went sold out on the day of its launch. Now, these two helmet series, i.e., "The Picnic Special" and "Birth of the Bullet", are on sale for 30th and 31st October. These helmets are a tribute to the brand'sbrand's twelve decades of rich history and motorcycling tradition. Both the helmets get ISI, DOT and ECE certification, thus ensuring the highest safety standard.
The Picnic Special
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Q: Array of vtkSmartPointers Writing a program in C++. I have a function which creates several vtkSmartPointers as follows:
vtkSmartPointer< vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode > transformNode =
  vtkSmartPointer< vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode >::New();
vtkSmartPointer< vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode > transformNode2 =
  vtkSmartPointer< vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode >::New();

Outside of this function I want to have a global array or vector of vtkMRMLLinearTransformNodes which I can add transformNode and transformNode2 to. So that later in the code I can access them in another function.
I am having trouble understanding how I would do this. It is beyond my level of expertise in pointers. Can anyone help me out? A little explanation would also help me fill the gap in my understanding of vtkSmartPointers.

A: vtkSmartPointers are meant to be passed around (copied), and you can as well create an array, or much better a container (e.g. std::vector) of them.
typedef vtkSmartPointer<vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode> NodePtr;

NodePtr CreateNode() {
  NodePtr node = NodePtr::New();
  node->ApplyTransform(xfm);
  return node;
}

std::vector<NodePtr> nodes;
for (int i = 0; i < nNodes; ++i) {
   nodes.push_back(CreateNode());
}

In the same intuitive way you can return a vector of smartpointers from a function, or pass it as an argument to another function.
The only dangerous thing is to expose the raw pointer from underneath the vtkSmartPointer when returning from a function. Always return a smartpointer (just like CreateNode() example above).
vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode* BadFooWillCrash() {
   NodePtr node = NodePtr::New();
   // do something with node

   // the smart pointer will go out of scope and the object will be deleted!
   return node;
}

Taking a raw pointer as an argument is quite alright.
void WorkNode(vtkMRMLLinearTransformNode* node) {
   // do something with node
}

NodePtr newNode = NodePtr::New();
WorkNode(newNode);

Just as well you may pass a smartpointer as an argument
void WorkNode2(NodePtr node) {
   // do something with node
}

This is because in vtk the reference counter is kept inside the object itself, so the pointee object knows how many pointers point to it (you can try GetReferenceCount() method). The drawback is that the objects to be managed by vtkSmartPointer must be derived from vtkObject.
Some more info you can find here
http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Tutorials/SmartPointers


Recently, I started out drawing one of my hubby's favorite animals…the buffalo.
Well, at least it's huge, furry head. Eventually, I'll get around to drawing the whole animal.
So, here it is…my first buffalo head drawing progress.
but, at least it's getting there, slowly but surely.
I'll be doing more work on this one since as you can see I need to finish the "paint" on the feathers.
Again, this is all done using the Fresh Paint App, which I find pretty fun to use. Another nice thing is it's FREE to use.
Plus, if you want to, you can get some extras through the "in-app" product packs, which at the moment are only $1.49-$2.99 per pack at least as far as I looked into those. But, I cannot say how well these work since I haven't tried them yet.
So far, I've been happy with what I got for free and it's the only digital tool I've used on this project for painting in the background and the feathery surrounding area on the buffalo.
I also add the site name URL as a watermark of sorts. To do that I use PicsArt another fun and free tool. Like Fresh Paint, this tool also has "in-app" products you might like, but are totally optional.
I hope you enjoyed checking these out, and I'll be updating this with the final images soon!
Visit Buffalo Head Drawings Part 2 to view more images of this piece…recently updated!
Have you used either Fresh Paint or PicsArt? What did you think?
If you have any questions or comments, let me know in the box below. I'd love to hear from you!
I'm really impressed by your drawings of a buffalo. It seem so easy but I don't think I would experience that feeling.
But do you use the The Fresh Paint App? I first thought it was with a pencil.
I made drawings when I was a youth and just copied another drawing. I liked especially cartoon drawings. Thanks for sharing your picture with me.
Yes, I did use the Fresh Paint App for the background colors here and the feathers around the buffalo's head. But, you are absolutely right, it started out in pencil!
The actual buffalo head was all done in pencil first. I did the background and feathers using the Fresh Paint app after taking a photo of my drawing and uploading it to the Fresh Paint app, which is quite fun to use. It's also free to use, so that makes it all the better.
I haven't done much in drawing cartoons…but, I'd love to do some to practice. My hubby draws cartoons once in awhile though, and I think they're awesome, now mine on the other hand…well, I need to practice drawing cartoons more!
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Tove! I truly appreciate it!
Stunning! I love art and I draw and paint quite a lot! I never thought about using an app… Tell you the truth I didn't know they are available! Will have to give them a try. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for the kind words! It's great to hear from a fellow artist…what kind of things do you draw and paint?
As far as the apps, I didn't think of it either, 'til I stumbled across them in the Apps store and seeing that they're free I figured I'd try 'em out. I'm sure you'll find them fun to use. I know I spent hours doodling around with them.
You'll have to let me know how they work for you once you get a chance to try them out. Thanks for stopping by and commenting…I appreciate it!
Really nice artwork. I used to draw a little when I was younger, but I haven't drawn in years. I do like how you took us through each step. Are you going to list any projects that you will be doing in the future or just post them as you start them?
I think, maybe, you should start selling some of these paintings you are doing. Are you actually doing paper drawings or just app drawings?
I am not too familiar with art stuff, so I am not sure how all that works.
Thanks for showing us your lovely paintings. They are quite beautiful.
Thank you so much for the compliment! Well, as for the future projects I hadn't thought of doing a list before, but maybe that would be a good idea. It certainly would keep me on track better instead of wondering "what should I do next?" Great idea! I had been just posting them as I started them, but I really think you're on to something.
Yes, I do paper drawings, canvas oil paintings, colored pencil drawings along with app drawings. The buffalo here is actually a paper drawing too. But, I used the Fresh Paint app to add in the background and feathers. All you have to do is take a picture of whatever you like really and go to the "edit" function on Fresh Paint and browse through your images to add it in there. Then you can add things in with the paint function and save it back to your computer.
Hope that explains it a little more… Once I learn how to do screen recordings maybe I'll set up a "how to" video for using that app.
As for selling some of these, I did set up the Prints & more page to go to where I have a few things listed already, but I need to update it soon.
Thanks again for visiting and the great ideas!
I haven't used either of those applications, but they do look very cool. I really do need a tool like PicArt for my leopard gecko niche. I take a lot of my own pictures of my leopard geckos and would like to stamp my brands names on them incase people use them on their websites. However, I am using a Mac so I am not sure those two applications would work for me. Do you know if they are available on Mac?
I have done a lot of business with eBay and Amazon over the last 7+ years and it might be a good idea to sign up with them and sell your digital artwork with them.
It does sound like PicsArt is available for Mac after looking it up on Google. I believe you can find it here at PicsArt if you scroll down to the Google Play store or to Appleitunes buttons.
I tried looking it up for tutorials on Google, but all of the ones I could find also had download links in them so I didn't want to lead you in the wrong direction or end up sharing something that wasn't trustworthy to download. According to most of these, you might need to also download "bluestacks app player" unless you already have it installed.
It definitely is a wonderful tool to use. I use it for cropping, resizing, and adding text like shown in the images above. It also has different fonts and colors available too. I find it a very useful tool and a good way to make your own watermarks since you can adjust the opacity of the text. It takes a little getting used to at first, but I thought it's pretty easy to use.
Great suggestion about eBay and Amazon…I never thought about selling digital artwork with them before. I'll have to check into these for sure!
Thanks for stopping by and the great tips! I appreciate it very much.
I really enjoyed the artwork. I used to draw a ton. I really like how you showed each step thoroughly and I had no idea the fresh paint app existed so I'll definitely will check it out. I would really like to know what are some of your upcoming projects?
Thank you for the kind comment! It's great to hear you enjoyed the artwork.
I just recently discovered the Fresh Paint app myself, so I'm still experimenting with it. But, it's been fun to use so far. I also should've mentioned it's for Windows 7 up to 10 as far as I can tell and is available on mobile devices too, but haven't tried it on one yet. Let me know what you think of it when you do get a chance to try it out…who knows, maybe you'll get back into drawing again with it since you can actually use it to "draw" digitally.
I've been planning on finishing a few more details on this buffalo yet, and then on to more horses and dragons, which I'll eventually do as oil paintings. If you've got any suggestions for artwork ideas though, I'd love to hear 'em!


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the pieces don't move in the wind.
as D'Artagnan's or Zorro's sabers.
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her cigarette ash growing longer.
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than the hands of great tennis players.
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a smattering of Russian, Hebrew, Arabic.
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arms stringy as deflated birthday balloons.
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Writing this blog post feels wrong. Posting on social media seems stupid. Turning on final score notifications on my phone was absurd.
Logically, in the verysmall logical part of my brain - I know that my actions have no effect on the Blackhawks season.
BUT. The rest of me. The Italian part, the Chicago-transplant part, the unlucky-in-most-things part, the part that is currently full of cake and chocolate chips and extra spoonfuls of ice cream - is so sure that when the Blackhawks lose, its going to be all my fault. I will have done something wrong. Gone to the game, worn the wrong underwear, been in a bar (instead of in my house) watching it, started watching too early, been too sober/too drunk/too hungry.
When the Blackhawks lose, I will feel really bad about it. And while I recognize that that makes me a total lunatic - I can't help it.
And I know I'm not alone. That sound you hear, during every game, around the 18-minute mark in the third period is the city of Chicago holding its collective breath. Although, to be honest, I don't know if anyone has entirely let it out yet.
I'm mostly glad that after an entire Notre Dame football season with the same emotions and tendency to channel my anxiety into spinach dip binges - Boyfriend finally understands how it goes.
And if you think I am Not wavering on pushing the publish button, you don't know me. Or my insanity.


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Trailer: New Mutants
Whilst the main X-Men Universe movies have dipped in popularity, the spin-offs and solo movies have seen great box office returns & critical acclaim. After the success of Logan, Deadpool & Leigon, Fox looks set to add another hit to that list with The New Mutants. What's interesting about this new chapter in the franchise is that it looks set to play with horror elements to the suer-hero tale. With a fresh director & talented cast, we're hyped for what's to come. The New Mutants is set for a April 13, 2018 release.
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The founders, Theresa Scalera and Russell Le Count, "rescued" the property, managed by the MTA, after the area along the train yard had become a dumping ground and a community eyesore. By planting the property with tree, shrubs, flowers and vegetables the area became an oasis of community gardeners, playing children and summer strollers.
The Bissel Gardens Propagation Area grows native plants that attract butterflies and pollinators and helps gardeners establish their own Butterfly gardens. Last year, Bissel Gardens launched the Veterans Garden in the Propagation Area and local veterans are encouraged to become gardeners. We also manage an educational vegetable garden growing herbs and various vegetables in families to educate community gardeners and children.
Steve Ritz, Bronx Green Machine, manages the Food For Others area and he, his wife, daughter and student volunteers are always hard at work growing food for the less fortunate. The produce harvested from the FFO is donated to soup kitchens and shelters.
The Bissel Garden Children's Garden, honoring founder, Marie Teresa Scalera, is devoted to young gardeners and offers environmental and educational programs.
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Ney's Former Top Aide Cops Plea in Abramoff Case
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, I'm Robert Siegel.
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And I'm Melissa Block. Today federal prosecutors brought Washington's corruption and lobbying scandal to the doorstep of Republican Congressman Bob Ney. No lawmakers have been charged in the long-running probe, but today Niel Volz, who used to be Congressman Ney's closest aid, pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the government. NPR's Peter Overby reports.
PETER OVERBY: Prosecutors have been looking at Bob Ney since last fall, if not longer. The Ohio Congressman is identified as Representative Number One in a succession of plea agreements, including that of ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. And now, Representative Number One is squarely in the prosecutors' sights. When Niel Volz pleaded guilty today, he promised to fully cooperate with the government.
Standing before Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, Volz was businesslike. All of the sadness was reflected in the face of his wife, sitting in the audience. Volz was Ney's friend, and his chief of staff from 1998 until 2002. Then Volz left Ney's office, and went to work for Abramoff. Ian Barron, a veteran Republican ethics lawyer, says the court filing leaves no doubt how the prosecutors would write an indictment of Ney himself.
IAN BARRON: It basically spells it all out. That Abramoff and others offered things of value to Representative Number One and members of his staff, including a whole list of trips and tickets and meals. In exchange Representative Number One agreed to take favorable official action. That's the whole case.
OVERBY: This afternoon, Ney's normally reticent lawyers called a telephone news conference. They said Ney is innocent and has been cooperating with prosecutors, although they wouldn't elaborate. They said that the government has its facts wrong, and they've been providing information to refute the allegations. This, even though four defendants now have pleaded guilty to crimes that they say involve Ney. Those successive plea agreements, now including the one from Volz, only pile on the episodes and the details. They don't take any away. Attorney Mark Tuohey said Abramoff and others were making up allegations to lighten their own sentences.
MARK TUOHEY: They're, you know, singing for their supper. And they're making it up. They're just flat making it up. Some of these allegations here are just made up.
OVERBY: Ney's Congressional spokesman, Brian Walsh, said the lawmaker sympathizes with Volz.
BRIAN WALSH: If Neil did cross an ethical line, he did so without the Congressman's knowledge. The Congressman also recognizes, though, the tremendous brought to bear on Neil by the government, especially with legal bills, and the thoughts and prayers of he and his wife go out to Neil and his family today.
OVERBY: But Ney's lawyers wouldn't predict that the Congressman will escape indictment. This is as far as attorney William Lawler would go:
WILLIAM LAWLER: If the facts are followed in this case, there won't be and shouldn't be an indictment against Congressman Ney.
OVERBY: So for the Congressman, the clock is running and politicians are watching him as closely as prosecutors. He's already given up his committee chairmanship as the Abramoff case intensifies. Again, ethics lawyer Ian Barron:
BARRON: Really, the ball's probably in his court as to whether to attempt an indictment or whether to negotiate some other plea.
OVERBY: Ney easily won his primary less than a week ago. Both parties see him as a leading indicator of how the Democrats' anticorruption campaign might play in November's elections. But Ney may not get that far. If he is indicted, not convicted, just indicted, between now and November, the Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party would ask him to withdraw from the ballot, to be replaced by another Republican. Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Development of a Novel Multi-Parameter Monitoring Tool for Optimisation and Environmental Compliance of Anaerobic Digestion Technology
Angela Patricia Goncalves De Oliveira
Sustainable Environment Research Centre
Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology is used to treat a range of organic feedstocks (e.g. sewages, animal manures, food wastes, industrial organic wastes, and energy crops). It has seen a significant increase in deployment in the last two decades around the world. Due to the wide and sometimes difficult feedstocks range, the process can suffer from instability. Therefore, AD is particularly sensitive to process disturbances by irregular feeding with the potential for microbial toxicity from an accumulation of process intermediates or the presence of inhibitory compounds. This instability can lead to lower conversion efficiencies and reduced biogas production. Another challenge for AD plants is related to the fact that they can be a source of odours, which can lead to complaints from neighbours living close by or close to digestate land spreading areas. Except for gaseous measurements (CH4, CO2, H2S and gas flow), AD plants typically rely on single off-line measurements for solids, total acids and buffering capacity. There is therefore a need to develop monitoring tools that are reliable, that can be used in real-time and that can provide multi-parameter identification and quantification to support plant operations. Besides monitoring strategies can enhance process performance, reduce odour complains, and support environmental compliance and evidence gathering. Here a novel approach using Gas Chromatography-Ion Mobility Spectrometry (GC-IMS) as a multi-parameter monitoring tool to measure volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has been investigated. To enable the development of the tool, a number of samples were sourced from a variety of full-scale AD plants, environmental samples and samples generated from laboratory operated digesters. The majority of samples were sourced from a novel full-scale AD plant that treats food wastes and cattle slurry and was occasionally co-fed with maize silage. The reactor design for this AD plant was based on a plug flow system with gas mixing. The AD plant was chosen due to the diversity of feedstocks, the presence of a homogenisation tank, the type of reactor enabling process intermediates to be sampled, and the existence of a pasteurisation process, and the storage of digestates. Work included the development of an analytical methodology using GC-IMS suitable for AD process related samples. It was the first time that GC-IMS was utilised within this biotechnology industry, except for siloxane measurements in the biogas. Parameters evaluated to optimise peak separations were flows for drift and carrier gas, time for headspace equilibrium, temperatures, and sample preparation (e.g. dilutions, addition of salts). The tool's performance was evaluated in terms of accuracy, precision, and reliability for identification of several compounds including terpenes, aromatics, ketones, volatile fatty acids (VFAs) and ammonia. The method error was lower than 5% in the repeatability study and 7% in the intermediate precision study. The analytical method was found to be highly robust and the system performed well. In addition to the identification of several key volatiles for AD samples, a preliminary quantification performance was conducted. Initially a 2nd order polynomial equation was used for ammonia hydroxide, limonene, VFAs (acetic, propionic and butyric acids), and several ketones and later a Boltzmann function was used for ketones and limonene. Limits of detection and quantification (LOD and LOQ) were calculated for VFAs using a linear equation, between 0 –500 mg/L.Acetic acid had the highest LOD of 13 mg/Land the LOQ of 40 mg/L. In the case of digestates, which can feature high concentrations of ammonia (in excess of 204mg/L), an impact was felt in terms of carry-over of ammonia. This impact includes loss of the RIP, the creation of extra peaks for terpenes and ketones, and a reduction of detection for aromatics. A solution was established for minimizing ammonia impact, which was based on the addition of an acidifying salt, NaHSO4, which proved to be efficient for concentrations lower than 2.5 g/L of ammonia. For greater ammonia concentrations, a sample dilution would be necessary with the addition of the salt. The tool has enabled the establishment of the fate of volatiles through the AD process(by measuring intermediates and final compounds at full scale as well as a lab scale), and the type and load of odorous compounds within the various samples. In addition, the GC-IMS based spectra analysed by an artificial intelligence based self-organising map (SOM) for classification was found to enable an effective sample comparison identifying the sources of contamination rapidly. With an increase in diversity of samples analysed by GC-IMS associated with a more effective pattern recognition tool, the fingerprinting of environmental contaminants would likely be able to be established rapidly, facilitating the identification of sources of environmental pollutants by regulators enabling the halting accidental spillages. AD plants can have their typical matrices characterised by GC-IMS and in case of a local environmental pollution event, AD plants could protect themselves from being wrongly identified as the source of local incidents that could have been generated by other agricultural or industrial activities and discharges. Finally, this research conducted a preliminary investigation of a laboratory based multi-stage and one-stage reactor setup performance, which concluded that a number of volatiles were reduced in both systems with the multi-stage reactor performing slightly better than the single stage reactors (in particular in the case of terpenes). This study concluded that GC-IMS is a promising analytical tool for multi-parameter diagnosis and control of AD technology. Its ability to analyse a wide range of matrices (gas, liquid and solid), ability to provide rapid measurements with a reduced analytical tool footprint, and the relatively low operator training required can all facilitate its integration as a process analyser for in-situ real-time plant monitoring and control for this industry. Other biotechnologies and biorefining plants could also benefit from the use of this analytical tool (e.g. biochemical and biopolymer factories). Areas of positive impact are expected to relate to feedstock conversions and improved energy/production yields, improved odour management, and environmental compliance.
University of South Wales
KESS & Bryn Group
Sandra Esteves (Supervisor), James Reed (Supervisor) & Tim Patterson (Supervisor)
Goncalves De Oliveira, A. P. (Author). 2021
Angela Goncalves De Oliveira PhD
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US military condemns Afghan government's release of 65 'dangerous individuals' -- By Bill Roggio, The Long War Journal
The Afghan government has gone through with its plans to release of 65 of the 88 prisoners the US military has identified as "dangerous individuals." United States Forces-Afghanistan issued an unusually strongly-worded objection to the release of the 65 detainees. The full text of the USFOR-A statement is below:
United States Forces-Afghanistan has learned that 65 dangerous individuals from a group of 88 detainees under dispute have been ordered released from the Afghan National Detention Facility at Parwan.
The U.S. has, on several occasions, provided extensive information and evidence on each of the 88 detainees to the Afghan Review Board, the Afghan National Directorate of Security and the Attorney General's office.
This release violates agreements between the U.S. and Afghanistan.
We have made clear our judgment that these individuals should be prosecuted under Afghan law. We requested that the cases be carefully reviewed. But the evidence against them was never seriously considered, including by the Attorney General, given the short time since the decision was made to transfer these cases to the Afghan legal system.
The release of 65 detainees is a legitimate force protection concern for the lives of both coalition troops and Afghan National Security Forces. The primary weapon of choice for these individuals is the improvised explosive device, widely recognized as the primary cause of civilian casualties in Afghanistan.
The release of these detainees is a major step backward for the rule of law in Afghanistan. Some previously-released individuals have already returned to the fight, and this subsequent release will allow dangerous insurgents back into Afghan cities and villages.
According to Pajhwok Afghan News, the 65 cases are now closed after having been cleared by an Afghan Attorney General Office team, and investigations of the remaining 23 detainees by the AGO are currently underway.
Seven of those freed may have been involved in the green-on-blue, or insider attacks that have resulted in the deaths of Coalition personnel.


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Pius XII, Just Among the Nations
Pope Pius XII was perfectly aware of the reality of the Shoah, so much so that he created an office within the Secretariat of State specifically dedicated to these issues. Pius XII tried—in vain—to alert the American authorities to what was happening in Europe, but the Americans did not believe it.
Hélène de Lauzun
— February 10, 2022
A persistent myth considers that Pope Pius XII was guilty of having contributed to the genocide of the Jews during the Second World War—by his excessive withdrawal or even by his unavowed complicity. A drama was written in 1963 by the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth (The Vicar, Der Stellvertreter), which later inspired in 2000 the polemical film Amen by director Costa-Gavras, both of which reinforce this commonplace. Although many historical facts exist to challenge such a perception, the myth of collaboration between Vatican authorities and the Reich regularly returns to the forefront to feed the fantasies of anti-clerics who cannot help but see in the Apostolic and Roman Church a cursed and consenting auxiliary of National Socialist totalitarianism.
A few things are important to remember on the historical level. Contrary to what is widely reported in the mainstream media, the Holy See had never remained silent during the tragedy of the extermination of the Jews. Pope Pius XII spoke out against the crimes perpetrated during the ongoing war, particularly in the Christmas radio message of 1942, a lengthy oration in which he spoke, among other things, of "hundreds of thousands of people who, through no fault of their own, and sometimes solely for reasons of nationality or race, are destined to death or gradual extinction."
This important communication was the Vatican's response to a request from the Anglo-Saxon allies (who denounced the policy of "annihilation of the Jewish race" on December 17th, 1942), but it met with criticism. It was disparaged for being too general, without explicit reference to the Nazis or use of the word "Jew." Nevertheless, it was celebrated as an act of courage in the December 25th edition of the New York Times in 1942. The National Socialists interpreted it as an act of impudence, and expressed displeasure with the Pope's meddling in political affairs. Heydrich denounced the Pope's attitude in an internal SS circular of January 22th in 1943, while the Reich ambassador to the Pope, von Bergen, protested against this "break with the traditional attitude of neutrality."
For a long time, the dearth of research did not allow us to say much more, allowing the wildest rumors about the pontiff's complicity in Nazi crimes to fester. The reproaches intensified in the 1960s, using as a pretext the absence of a major solemn condemnation of the National Socialist crimes or the lack of religious sanctions against the German people and its leaders. The anti-communism of Pius XII, as well as his Germanophilia, were equally notorious: would Pius XII not have spared Hitler to guard against Stalin? Such accusations obviously have a defamatory aspect.
Some put forward the idea that the pope showed complacency towards nazism. But the rejection of totalitarianism, incompatible with religious life, was absolute, for both Pius XII as for Pius XI. Furthermore, it was fully articulated in their various nunciatures before their pontificates. Pius XII was nuncio in Berlin before becoming pope and was able to witness first-hand the rise of nazism, whose neo-paganism he rejected with all his might. Pius XII never showed the slightest sympathy toward the Nazis. As proof, we can consider his invitation to American Catholics to support Roosevelt's offer to assist the USSR against Nazi Germany, despite his deep anti-communist convicitions. He was a man capable of exercising discernment according to the urgencies of the time. Moreover, the pope's alleged "Germanophilia" was directed toward the German people, and in no way toward the National Socialists and their leaders. The Concordat of July 1933 was intended to provide a legal framework for the Holy See's relations with Germany and was no more an endorsement of national socialism than Cardinal Casaroli's later Ostpolitik under Paul VI, seeking a "modus vivendi" with the popular regimes, was an endorsement of communism. Indeed, the Holy See chose to develop a "dialogue of compromise" with the countries of Eastern Europe living under soviet rule during the sixties, without ever contradicting its condemnation of communism as "intrinsically perverse."
The charge of a complacent pontiff does not stand up to scrutiny, and neither does the overall reproach of an apparently too timid, not sufficiently clear-cut condemnation of the Nazi agenda.
Pius XII's duties as a pastor bound him to treat all peoples with impartiality; the pope declared to the allied ambassadors that if he had explicitly mentioned the Nazis in his Christmas message of 1942 that he would have had to mention the Communists as well. His cautious nature—Pius XII had a career as a diplomat—dissuaded him from doing so. Moreover, he had to take into account the balance of power in his statements, lest he reinforce the violence of the National Socialists against the Jews. Six months earlier from his Christmas message, on a Sunday, July 26th, a statement from both the Protestant and Catholic hierarchies in the Netherlands had been read out to all religious congregations, in all temples and churches, in the form of a telegram to Reich authorities decrying the deportation of the Jews. In the months that followed, the Reich Commissioner Seyss-Inquart retaliated brutally, and the deportation of the Jews was extended and accelerated. In the end, 79% of the Jewish population of the Netherlands died in the Shoah. Pius XII knew to be careful not to unleash reprisals against German Catholics (a minority in the country) and those from occupied countries.
The apparent "silence" of Pius XII can easily be understood in terms of his training as a Vatican diplomat. In the years prior to his own papacy, he was able to experience on several occasions the ineffectiveness of the great condemnations of his predecessor Pius XI, such as Non abbiamo bisogno (an encyclical in Italian condemning fascism in 1931), Divini Redemptoris (an encyclical condemning atheistic communism, published in 1937) or Mit brennender Sorge (an encyclical in German condemning the National Socialist regime, published also in 1937). The future Pius XII, who was at that time only Cardinal Pacelli and Secretary of State, was at the origin of the drafting of Mit brennender Sorge, in collaboration with the bishops and archbishops of Cologne, Münster, Munich, and Berlin. As early as spring of 1933, he sent a letter to the nuncio in Berlin asking him to warn the Hitler regime not to persecute the Jews. Between 1933 and 1939, as Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII sent 45 protest notes to the German government, none of which made any impact.
The Shoah was a personal tragedy for Pius XII, who even considered giving himself up personally as a hostage in October 1943—oscillating between proclamations of principle, voluntarily vague, and direct interventions through the intermediary of the episcopates. Given the context, he had to systematically favor negotiations and parallel initiatives, which were necessarily discreet and not easily identifiable to the public.
The recent opening of new Vatican archives has put an end to the rumor that the Pope was insensitive to the tragedy of the deportation and extermination of the Jews. Historian and archivist Michael Feldkamp from the German Bundestag has been researching the pontificate of Pius XII and papal diplomacy for several years. In particular, he has studied documents from the Historical Archives of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State. He found that Pope Pius XII personally saved the lives of at least 15,000 Jews. He was perfectly aware of the reality of the Shoah, so much so that he created an office within the Secretariat of State specifically dedicated to these issues, under the direction of Cardinals Tardini and Dell'Acqua. Pius XII tried—in vain—to alert the American authorities to what was happening in Europe. According to Feldkamp, Pius XII sent a report on Nazi mass murders to the Americans shortly after the Wannsee Conference, as early as March 1942, but the Americans did not believe it.
In addition to these attempts at warning, it appears from the archives that Pius XII was personally involved in the rescue of thousands of Jews, by all means available to him: opening monasteries, issuing baptismal certificates, finding hiding places, etc. Feldkamp's work reveals, for example, that the Papal Palatine Guard, a kind of papal bodyguard like today's Swiss Guard, was involved in battles with the Waffen-SS and assisted in hiding Jews in the Roman basilica of St. Maria Maggiore.
The documents are formal, and testify to a precise, personal, and ongoing involvement on the part of the Pontiff. But that is not all. Alongside these rescue actions, Pius XII maintained discreet but intense diplomatic work: the archives mention negotiations with the German embassy or with the Italian police, even with Benito Mussolini himself, and with the Italian minister of foreign affairs.
The historical evidence is thus accumulating to allow the rehabilitation of the historical figure of Pope Pius XII, but ideological biases persist, and the precise and rigorous archival work is barely audible to the public. Feldkamp himself experiences the repeated barriers that greet his work: "I see in my research and publications here in Germany how difficult it is to pass off these new results as credible. I often encounter this skepticism, both inside and outside the Church," he confided in an interview on vaticannews.va.
Beyond the written records, there remain the acts. Perhaps the best testimony of Pius XII's commitment to the Jews was the conversion and baptism of the chief rabbi of Rome in 1945, who chose Eugenio as his first name in memory of Pope Pius XII.
Hélène de Lauzun studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She taught French literature and civilization at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne. She is the author of Histoire de l'Autriche (Perrin, 2021).
Tags: Jews, Pius XII, Shoah, Vatican, WWII
The Seductiveness of Ideology in Politics
Frits Bolkestein May 1, 2012
An Uncertain Future for Conservative Christians: An Interview with Rod Dreher
Gergely Szilvay March 1, 2019
Norman Stone (1941-2019)
Anthony Daniels July 8, 2019


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import unittest
from PIL import Image
from ric_encoder import ric_encode, ric_decode

class TestRicEncoder(unittest.TestCase):
    def testEncoder(self):
        img = open("samples/crop.jpg","rb").read()
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    def testDecoder(self):
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Not long after World War II, chemistry and industry gave the world a failed rubber substitute and a plain, white reusable modeling compound. Marketing savvy minds turned them into Silly Putty and Play-Doh, and together these products have produced untold hours of squishy play for millions of people. As similar as they are, they behave quite differently at the activity table.
Play-Doh, introduced in 1956, was originally available only in off-white. By 1957, the primary colors yellow, red and blue became available and as of 2011 it also comes in neon and pastel colors. Silly Putty, which bounced onto the market in 1949, comes in its original pink-like color, as well as a brighter pink, blue, yellow, and orange. Three special Silly Putty colors change, chameleon-like, from purple to pink, orange to yellow, or forest green to bright green. In conjunction with its 50th anniversary, Silly Putty introduced a metallic gold color.
Both Play-Doh and Silly Putty can be molded easily, but they feel and act very differently. Play-Doh holds its shape, making it suitable for sculptural work. Don't bother trying that with Silly Putty because it will collapse on itself. But Silly Putty's elastic properties allow it to stretch to outrageous lengths or, if pulled apart quickly, snap in two with a clean break. This same property allows it to bounce.
Anyone who has left Play-Doh out of the container overnight can tell you what air can do to the substance; what was once soft and malleable becomes hard and brittle. (Adding water a drop at a time or wrapping the Doh in a wet paper towel can return it to its original texture.) Silly Putty, on the other hand, is not affected by air. It comes in a plastic egg that can be snapped open with a slight squeeze and snapped shut again for safe keeping.
Since Silly Putty doesn't hold its shape well and doesn't respond well to tools, it is best used with bare hands. Play-Doh, however, can be manipulated with plastic knives, poured into molds, or run through toy pumps that force the Doh into various shapes. Play sets use these tools and Play-Doh to create anything from cartoon characters to teeth for a most unfortunate dental patient.
Peter Williams started his journalism career in 1990 after earning his Bachelor of Arts in journalism. He has worked for newspapers, magazines, websites and scientific journals. In addition to writing and editing, his experience includes graphic design and photography.