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Build an Early-Warning System for Your Bike
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A new low-cost lidar can detect approaching cars
Paul Wallich
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Photo: Paul Wallich
In the summer months, I really enjoy riding a bike along some of the flatter roads and trails around my small Vermont town. But sharing some of those roads with cars can be a dicey proposition. There's one dirt road in particular, where no matter how often I scan my mirror or sneak a look over my shoulder, it seems that sooner or later I get surprised by a car zipping by.
I've often imagined fitting an ultrasonic sensor to the bike to warn me of incoming traffic, but most of those have a range of less than 10 meters, which is worse than even my mediocre human senses. A lidar—similar to a radar system, but with laser pulses instead of radio waves—would have the longer range I need, but lidars have traditionally been too expensive for my biking needs.
This changed last year when startup PulsedLight, of Bend, Ore., announced Lidar-lite, a crowdfunded lidar detector less than half the size of a deck of cards, with a range of up to 40 meters and an accuracy of plus or minus 2.5 centimeters, all for US $89.
Frickin' Lasers!
PulsedLight's lidar (top) easily interfaces with an Arduino-compatible controller (second from top). The controller is powered from a battery pack and wired to a row of LEDs (second from bottom). The LEDs are attached to the bike's handlebars (bottom) and display how close cars are to its rear.Photos: Paul Wallich (4)
When the package arrived, my first step was to make a set of labels for the lidar's four signal wires, as for some reason PulsedLight ended up with a color-coding scheme consisting of black, black, black, and black. I plugged the little thing into an Arduino microcontroller, ran the example software provided online, and darned if I didn't see a stream of distance measurements running back to my PC over the Arduino USB connection. Pretty quickly I moved on to attaching a board with four alphanumeric LED displays to the Arduino. Once I'd done the programming, I had myself a handy little pocket range finder. (FYI, the cavernous basement of the nearest maker space to me is about 45 meters long.)
The next step was to build something that could fit on the back of a bicycle and wouldn't be shaken apart. That was a little more difficult, but luckily, in addition to putting manuals, data sheets, and sample Arduino code on the Web, the folks at PulsedLight also make available a 3-D model of the Lidar-lite's case. An hour or so with Openscad, my 3-D design tool of choice, plus a few hours at the 3-D printer, yielded an outer shell. Into the shell I was able to fit the Lidar-lite, the microcontroller, and a little strip of Neopixel RGB LEDs that act as a warning display, with room for a uniform 6-millimeter layer of padding. (Of course, my first shell design didn't fit on the back of the bike, but a few more iterations fixed that.) The bike mount built into the shell is tilted to point a few degrees upward and to the left, so that as the lidar beam diverges with distance it will be more likely to impinge upon approaching cars rather than just road surface and shrubbery.
One thing I hadn't really considered when I first started designing the shell was power consumption issues. A USB port was fine for powering the breadboard system, but of course the real version needed to run off a battery. I have a bunch of nifty DC-DC converters that will make 5 volts from any power source that can provide 1 to 4 V. I also found a really nice Openscad library that let me incorporate a holder for two AA batteries into my shell design. But, in addition to the 27 milliamperes my microcontroller draws while running, the Lidar-lite module draws an average of 100 mA while in use (and this can spike to 200 mA). Plus, the warning LEDs can draw up to 500 mA. Unfortunately my DC-DC converters have a hard current limit of 200 mA.
So, after sketching out a few designs with two or three DC converters in parallel, I ditched the elegant, power-efficient AA battery approach for one using a two-cell rechargeable lithium battery that provides 7.4 V. A 7805-style linear voltage regulator gets the voltage down to 5 V, by throwing away roughly a third of the energy that goes through it. Conveniently enough though, the new lithium battery is almost exactly the same volume as a couple of AAs.
Does it work? I haven't been run over yet. But time will tell. The first time I saw the LED blips that indicated a sedan approaching from 35 meters behind me, I was very nearly too fascinated by the display to remember to get out of the way. I also need to fabricate a new case so that I can adjust the lidar angle (the current aim point misses cars that pull slightly to the left to pass me, which is probably not a safety problem but still unnerving). And while I'm at it, something that I don't have to disassemble completely when I want to recharge the battery would be nice.
The range is a little shorter than I would like, especially around blind curves, and my code has a tendency toward false alarms that I could reduce at the cost of slightly slower response. But those shortcomings are probably a good thing, since I should be looking behind me on a regular basis anyway, rather than relying on a hacked-together gadget as a first line of safety.
This article originally appeared in print as "An Early-Warning System for Your Bike."
In Paul Wallich's previous Hands On columns for IEEE Spectrum, he described how to build a kid-tracking drone and how to automate your home without rewiring it. For this issue, he created a laser system for his bicycle that warns of cars coming from behind. "The biggest thing I learned was the importance of packaging. Getting the mounting brackets right, fitting the available space in a solid enclosure, even a practical on-off switch turned out to be much more work than the device itself," says Wallich.
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From WinZips to Cat GIFs, Jacob Ziv's Algorithms Have Powered Decades of Compression
The lossless-compression pioneer received the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor
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Lossless data compression seems a bit like a magic trick. Its cousin, lossy compression, is easier to comprehend. Lossy algorithms are used to get music into the popular MP3 format and turn a digital image into a standard JPEG file. They do this by selectively removing bits, taking what scientists know about the way we see and hear to determine which bits we'd least miss. But no one can make the case that the resulting file is a perfect replica of the original.
Not so with lossless data compression. Bits do disappear, making the data file dramatically smaller and thus easier to store and transmit. The important difference is that the bits reappear on command. It's as if the bits are rabbits in a magician's act, disappearing and then reappearing from inside a hat at the wave of a wand.
The world of magic had Houdini, who pioneered tricks that are still performed today. And data compression has Jacob Ziv.
In 1977, Ziv, working with Abraham Lempel, published the equivalent of Houdini on Magic: a paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory titled "A Universal Algorithm for Sequential Data Compression." The algorithm described in the paper came to be called LZ77—from the authors' names, in alphabetical order, and the year. LZ77 wasn't the first lossless compression algorithm, but it was the first that could work its magic in a single step.
Jacob Ziv
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Current job: Technion Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Birthplace: Tiberias, British-ruled Palestine (now Israel)
Height: 172 centimeters
Family: Married to Shoshana, four children, nine grandchildren
Education: BSc, Dip-Eng, MSc, all in electrical engineering from Technion, in 1954, 1955, 1957; Sc.D, MIT, 1962
Favorite books: Detective stories, particularly those featuring Perry Mason
Favorite kind of music: classical, particularly Bach; jazz
Favorite food: Falafel, ice cream
How he starts the day: A cup of espresso and a piece of dark chocolate
Favorite movie: Casablanca (1942)
Organizational memberships: Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, U.S. National Academy of Engineering, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, IEEE Fellow
Major awards: IEEE Medal of Honor "for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership"; BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award; Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society
The following year, the two researchers issued a refinement, LZ78. That algorithm became the basis for the Unix compress program used in the early '80s; WinZip and Gzip, born in the early '90s; and the GIF and TIFF image formats. Without these algorithms, we'd likely be mailing large data files on discs instead of sending them across the Internet with a click, buying our music on CDs instead of streaming it, and looking at Facebook feeds that don't have bouncing animated images.
Ziv went on to partner with other researchers on other innovations in compression. It is his full body of work, spanning more than half a century, that earned him the 2021 IEEE Medal of Honor "for fundamental contributions to information theory and data compression technology, and for distinguished research leadership."
Ziv was born in 1931 to Russian immigrants in Tiberias, a city then in British-ruled Palestine and now part of Israel. Electricity and gadgets—and little else—fascinated him as a child. While practicing violin, for example, he came up with a scheme to turn his music stand into a lamp. He also tried to build a Marconi transmitter from metal player-piano parts. When he plugged the contraption in, the entire house went dark. He never did get that transmitter to work.
When the Arab-Israeli War began in 1948, Ziv was in high school. Drafted into the Israel Defense Forces, he served briefly on the front lines until a group of mothers held organized protests, demanding that the youngest soldiers be sent elsewhere. Ziv's reassignment took him to the Israeli Air Force, where he trained as a radar technician. When the war ended, he entered Technion—Israel Institute of Technology to study electrical engineering.
After completing his master's degree in 1955, Ziv returned to the defense world, this time joining Israel's National Defense Research Laboratory (now Rafael Advanced Defense Systems) to develop electronic components for use in missiles and other military systems. The trouble was, Ziv recalls, that none of the engineers in the group, including himself, had more than a basic understanding of electronics. Their electrical engineering education had focused more on power systems.
"We had about six people, and we had to teach ourselves," he says. "We would pick a book and then study together, like religious Jews studying the Hebrew Bible. It wasn't enough."
The group's goal was to build a telemetry system using transistors instead of vacuum tubes. They needed not only knowledge, but parts. Ziv contacted Bell Telephone Laboratories and requested a free sample of its transistor; the company sent 100.
"That covered our needs for a few months," he says. "I give myself credit for being the first one in Israel to do something serious with the transistor."
In 1959, Ziv was selected as one of a handful of researchers from Israel's defense lab to study abroad. That program, he says, transformed the evolution of science in Israel. Its organizers didn't steer the selected young engineers and scientists into particular fields. Instead, they let them pursue any type of graduate studies in any Western nation.
"In order to run a computer program at the time, you had to use punch cards and I hated them. That is why I didn't go into real computer science."
Ziv planned to continue working in communications, but he was no longer interested in just the hardware. He had recently read Information Theory (Prentice-Hall, 1953), one of the earliest books on the subject, by Stanford Goldman, and he decided to make information theory his focus. And where else would one study information theory but MIT, where Claude Shannon, the field's pioneer, had started out?
Ziv arrived in Cambridge, Mass., in 1960. His Ph.D. research involved a method of determining how to encode and decode messages sent through a noisy channel, minimizing the probability and error while at the same time keeping the decoding simple.
"Information theory is beautiful," he says. "It tells you what is the best that you can ever achieve, and [it] tells you how to approximate the outcome. So if you invest the computational effort, you can know you are approaching the best outcome possible."
Ziv contrasts that certainty with the uncertainty of a deep-learning algorithm. It may be clear that the algorithm is working, but nobody really knows whether it is the best result possible.
While at MIT, Ziv held a part-time job at U.S. defense contractor Melpar, where he worked on error-correcting software. He found this work less beautiful. "In order to run a computer program at the time, you had to use punch cards," he recalls. "And I hated them. That is why I didn't go into real computer science."
Back at the Defense Research Laboratory after two years in the United States, Ziv took charge of the Communications Department. Then in 1970, with several other coworkers, he joined the faculty of Technion.
Jacob Ziv (with glasses), who became chair of Technion's electrical engineering department in the 1970s, worked earlier on information theory with Moshe Zakai. The two collaborated on a paper describing what became known as the Ziv-Zakai bound.Photo: Jacob Ziv/Technion
There he met Abraham Lempel. The two discussed trying to improve lossless data compression.
The state of the art in lossless data compression at the time was Huffman coding. This approach starts by finding sequences of bits in a data file and then sorting them by the frequency with which they appear. Then the encoder builds a dictionary in which the most common sequences are represented by the smallest number of bits. This is the same idea behind Morse code: The most frequent letter in the English language, e, is represented by a single dot, while rarer letters have more complex combinations of dots and dashes.
Huffman coding, while still used today in the MPEG-2 compression format and a lossless form of JPEG, has its drawbacks. It requires two passes through a data file: one to calculate the statistical features of the file, and the second to encode the data. And storing the dictionary along with the encoded data adds to the size of the compressed file.
Ziv and Lempel wondered if they could develop a lossless data-compression algorithm that would work on any kind of data, did not require preprocessing, and would achieve the best compression for that data, a target defined by something known as the Shannon entropy. It was unclear if their goal was even possible. They decided to find out.
Ziv says he and Lempel were the "perfect match" to tackle this question. "I knew all about information theory and statistics, and Abraham was well equipped in Boolean algebra and computer science."
The two came up with the idea of having the algorithm look for unique sequences of bits at the same time that it's compressing the data, using pointers to refer to previously seen sequences. This approach requires only one pass through the file, so it's faster than Huffman coding.
Ziv explains it this way: "You look at incoming bits to find the longest stretch of bits for which there is a match in the past. Let's say that first incoming bit is a 1. Now, since you have only one bit, you have never seen it in the past, so you have no choice but to transmit it as is."
"But then you get another bit," he continues. "Say that's a 1 as well. So you enter into your dictionary 1-1. Say the next bit is a 0. So in your dictionary you now have 1-1 and also 1-0."
Here's where the pointer comes in. The next time that the stream of bits includes a 1-1 or a 1-0, the software doesn't transmit those bits. Instead it sends a pointer to the location where that sequence first appeared, along with the length of the matched sequence. The number of bits that you need for that pointer is very small.
"Information theory is beautiful. It tells you what is the best that you can ever achieve, and (it) tells you how to approximate the outcome."
"It's basically what they used to do in publishing TV Guide," Ziv says. "They would run a synopsis of each program once. If the program appeared more than once, they didn't republish the synopsis. They just said, go back to page x."
Decoding in this way is even simpler, because the decoder doesn't have to identify unique sequences. Instead it finds the locations of the sequences by following the pointers and then replaces each pointer with a copy of the relevant sequence.
The algorithm did everything Ziv and Lempel had set out to do—it proved that universally optimum lossless compression without preprocessing was possible.
"At the time they published their work, the fact that the algorithm was crisp and elegant and was easily implementable with low computational complexity was almost beside the point," says Tsachy Weissman, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University who specializes in information theory. "It was more about the theoretical result."
Eventually, though, researchers recognized the algorithm's practical implications, Weissman says. "The algorithm itself became really useful when our technologies started dealing with larger file sizes beyond 100,000 or even a million characters."
"Their story is a story about the power of fundamental theoretical research," Weissman adds. "You can establish theoretical results about what should be achievable—and decades later humanity benefits from the implementation of algorithms based on those results."
Ziv and Lempel kept working on the technology, trying to get closer to entropy for small data files. That work led to LZ78. Ziv says LZ78 seems similar to LZ77 but is actually very different, because it anticipates the next bit. "Let's say the first bit is a 1, so you enter in the dictionary two codes, 1-1 and 1-0," he explains. You can imagine these two sequences as the first branches of a tree."
"When the second bit comes," Ziv says, "if it's a 1, you send the pointer to the first code, the 1-1, and if it's 0, you point to the other code, 1-0. And then you extend the dictionary by adding two more possibilities to the selected branch of the tree. As you do that repeatedly, sequences that appear more frequently will grow longer branches."
"It turns out," he says, "that not only was that the optimal [approach], but so simple that it became useful right away."
Jacob Ziv (left) and Abraham Lempel published algorithms for lossless data compression in 1977 and 1978, both in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The methods became known as LZ77 and LZ78 and are still in use today.Photo: Jacob Ziv/Technion
While Ziv and Lempel were working on LZ78, they were both on sabbatical from Technion and working at U.S. companies. They knew their development would be commercially useful, and they wanted to patent it.
"I was at Bell Labs," Ziv recalls, "and so I thought the patent should belong to them. But they said that it's not possible to get a patent unless it's a piece of hardware, and they were not interested in trying." (The U.S. Supreme Court didn't open the door to direct patent protection for software until the 1980s.)
However, Lempel's employer, Sperry Rand Corp., was willing to try. It got around the restriction on software patents by building hardware that implemented the algorithm and patenting that device. Sperry Rand followed that first patent with a version adapted by researcher Terry Welch, called the LZW algorithm. It was the LZW variant that spread most widely.
Ziv regrets not being able to patent LZ78 directly, but, he says, "We enjoyed the fact that [LZW] was very popular. It made us famous, and we also enjoyed the research it led us to."
One concept that followed came to be called Lempel-Ziv complexity, a measure of the number of unique substrings contained in a sequence of bits. The fewer unique substrings, the more a sequence can be compressed.
This measure later came to be used to check the security of encryption codes; if a code is truly random, it cannot be compressed. Lempel-Ziv complexity has also been used to analyze electroencephalograms—recordings of electrical activity in the brain—to determine the depth of anesthesia, to diagnose depression, and for other purposes. Researchers have even applied it to analyze pop lyrics, to determine trends in repetitiveness.
Over his career, Ziv published some 100 peer-reviewed papers. While the 1977 and 1978 papers are the most famous, information theorists that came after Ziv have their own favorites.
For Shlomo Shamai, a distinguished professor at Technion, it's the 1976 paper that introduced the Wyner-Ziv algorithm, a way of characterizing the limits of using supplementary information available to the decoder but not the encoder. That problem emerges, for example, in video applications that take advantage of the fact that the decoder has already deciphered the previous frame and thus it can be used as side information for encoding the next one.
For Vincent Poor, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University, it's the 1969 paper describing the Ziv-Zakai bound, a way of knowing whether or not a signal processor is getting the most accurate information possible from a given signal.
Ziv also inspired a number of leading data-compression experts through the classes he taught at Technion until 1985. Weissman, a former student, says Ziv "is deeply passionate about the mathematical beauty of compression as a way to quantify information. Taking a course from him in 1999 had a big part in setting me on the path of my own research."
He wasn't the only one so inspired. "I took a class on information theory from Ziv in 1979, at the beginning of my master's studies," says Shamai. "More than 40 years have passed, and I still remember the course. It made me eager to look at these problems, to do research, and to pursue a Ph.D."
In recent years, glaucoma has taken away most of Ziv's vision. He says that a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory this January is his last. He is 89.
"I started the paper two and a half years ago, when I still had enough vision to use a computer," he says. "At the end, Yuval Cassuto, a younger faculty member at Technion, finished the project." The paper discusses situations in which large information files need to be transmitted quickly to remote databases.
As Ziv explains it, such a need may arise when a doctor wants to compare a patient's DNA sample to past samples from the same patient, to determine if there has been a mutation, or to a library of DNA, to determine if the patient has a genetic disease. Or a researcher studying a new virus may want to compare its DNA sequence to a DNA database of known viruses.
"The problem is that the amount of information in a DNA sample is huge," Ziv says, "too much to be sent by a network today in a matter of hours or even, sometimes, in days. If you are, say, trying to identify viruses that are changing very quickly in time, that may be too long."
The approach he and Cassuto describe involves using known sequences that appear commonly in the database to help compress the new data, without first checking for a specific match between the new data and the known sequences.
"I really hope that this research might be used in the future," Ziv says. If his track record is any indication, Cassuto-Ziv—or perhaps CZ21—will add to his legacy.
This article appears in the May 2021 print issue as "Conjurer of Compression."
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Many people say that owning home is a constant work in progress, because they are always doing improvement, repair, and renovation projects. There are all kinds of jobs that are great for the do-it-yourself type of person. Then, there are jobs that should only be done by professionals who have the proper training, equipment, materials, and licenses. For instance, pretty much anything that involves electricity should be off limits to anyone who isn't experienced. Electricity is dangerous, and even the smallest mistakes can be extremely hazardous. Even if it seems that a job has been done properly, weeks, or even months down the road, there could be more serious issues, including electrical fires.
When a home owner hires a commercial electrician in Irvine CA area, they know that the work will be done according to all of the local building codes, and with the strictest of safety precautions. These contractors understand the nature of electricity. They can ensure safe electrical repairs around the home, and their work is guaranteed. Many electrical repairs can be extremely complicated, such as wiring or electrical upgrades, and only someone who has been properly trained should be doing this sort of work.
Another good reason to hire an expert is to save money. If a home owner does a botched job, they are going to have a lot of expenses. For starters, they have the costs of the materials and tools they purchased to do the job. Then, they have to pay a contractor to come in and fix the job. Because the problems are often made worse by the inexperienced, they will require more serious repairs, and the costs will be higher. If the home owner does repairs which result in a fire, there will be many more expenses to deal with.
If an unlicensed person does electrical repairs, and there are fires that result in damages to the home, it is unlikely that the expenses will be covered by home owner's insurance. Most municipalities, and insurance companies, require that electrical work only be done by those who are trained and licensed, so it is best to just call a commercial electrician in Irvine CA in the first place.


Thought 2D was dead? SNK Playmore has other ideas. Kikizo trades punches with the new King of Fighters.
There's a simple way of working out whether you should be looking forward to The King of Fighters XII. Consider the following trailer.
If you see a lot of deeply suspicious, long-haired J-Pop junkies garbed in leotards of gaudily retrogressive 2D, windmilling into each other with combination kicks as old as Mario's overalls, then please quietly close this window, order a cheeseburger or other masculinity-affirming Western foodstuff and take a look at Red Dead Redemption. If, on the other hand, you see the late flowering of a franchise which epitomises the neglected but enduring 2D fighting genre, stripped of excess modes, moves, characters and cut scenes, honed right down to the bare necessities then built right back up into all-new, hand-crafted exquisiteness, then the hype train starts here.
Where Capcom took the fully 3D route with Street Fighter IV, SNK Playmore has given its celebrated but arthritic roster of sprites a complete revamp, producing bigger, better animated, more detailed and vastly more expressive fighters to fill out modern high definition displays. Character drawings were modelled in 3D, then rendered back into 2D, giving the resulting sprites greater depth of motion, before being subjected to a year and a half of careful ornamentation, the developer's talented artists painting in every belt buckle, brow crease and sinew frame by frame.
The amount of work this entailed necessitated cutting the line-up to 20 (less than half that of King of Fighters 2002), predominantly composed of characters from the first four games in the series, but only the most obstinate of Maxima fans will sneer at the results. From the way Muay Thai boxer Joe Higashi bounces on his tiptoes to Ash Crimson's effete, hands-in-pockets insolence, the savage grin which appears on youthful Sie Kensou's face as he nails a throw to brooding Iori Yagami's clawed finger swipes, this is the bleeding (albeit pixellated) edge of 2D art.
Stage backgrounds (there are seven in our preview copy) have seen a similar level of spit and polish, and are crammed with regional oddities, like a page from Where's Waldo brought to life. In the tournament arena, crowds throw tinsel and wave countless flags while a giant screen replicates the action in the distance. Fat women in summer dresses brandish baguettes at a French port (one waves a painted sign - "Faites Son Mieux"), and a skinny elder gobbles noodles next to a cheery panda merchant in the Chinese market stage.
If my studiedly casual name-dropping a paragraph back had you scurrying for the game's Wikipedia page, don't worry - King of Fighters XII is entirely plot-less save for a few ending cut scenes, so there's no need to buff up on the franchise backstory. All you need to know about Ralf Jones, for instance, is that he's got some nasty button-mashing punch flurries and backbreaker throws, while Joe Higashi is a good beginner's choice with his blazing flying kicks and hurricane uppercut.


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Q: Async load CSS - Firefox I am using this for async loading the CSS file:
<link rel="preload" href="style.css" as="style" onload="this.rel='stylesheet'">

, but the event doesn't bind in Firefox. In Chrome works fine and preload is changed to stylesheet.
In FF stays the same.
I have tried with onload="console.log(90)"> and it binds in Chrome, but no in FF.

A: The preload specification is only an Editor's Draft. It isn't standard. It should be considered experimental and not for production use.
Firefox doesn't support it as standard (although you can turn it on in the browser's settings if you want to test its implementation).

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Kate decided NOT to change her name, after all.
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On Practical Matters
courtesy of the Morgan Library, New York
It is today possible to talk about matters that would once have been regarded as risqué, or simply distasteful; not the sort of thing one discussed in polite society. I cannot imagine my father's generation, for example, having a stimulating discussion on the question of what a knight wore beneath his armour.
I got to thinking about this when reading an article published not long ago in a certain international journal that informed its readers that the American Space Agency, NASA, was turning to the public for ideas for what they termed a "fecal, urine, and menstrual management system". Scientists had not been able to come up with an effective means of resolving the difficulty face by astronauts wearing space suits for extensive periods. In conditions of microgravity (zero gravity) solids, fluids, and gases float around, and the aim was to find a way to collect human waste and route it away from the body, without the use of hands. The method that had been employed up to that time involved the wearing of diapers, but this created difficulties, particularly during launching, landing and space-walking, as these diapers could not provide adequate protection for longer than one day, whereas astronauts are on occasion required to wear their spacesuits for up to 10 hours at a time, and considerably longer in an emergency situation.
This brings us back to the medieval knight who would have faced a similar problem. He could be in the battlefield for many hours at a time, without the opportunity to relieve himself in the normal fashion. A knight's armour and weapons weighed around 30 or more kilograms. Although that is not excessive when compared to the modern infantryman who often carries fifty-five to sixty-five kilograms of equipment, with both hands occupied with a sword or axe and a shield, and his head covered with a heavy and sometime visually-restricting helmet, he would have been somewhat encumbered when the urgent need arose.
Contemporary chroniclers not surprisingly steered well clear of this topic, and it is unlikely that archaeological remains will ever shed any light on it. How fortunate then that we can turn to another source, an unexpected one perhaps, to help resolve such an earthly subject. That source is nothing less than a bible.
One of the most important medieval manuscripts surviving from the thirteenth century is the Maciejowski Bible, today known as the Morgan Bible and located in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. Its full-page illuminations show scenes from the stories of the Old Testament, but in a medieval setting and with the characters in typically thirteenth century dress. In a number of scenes, knights without their armour appear wearing a diaper-like cloth garment tied around their waists. This was a type of loosely-fitting medieval underwear, known as braies. It was made of cotton or linen, and it was perhaps not as absorbent as modern diapers and, so, like those of the astronauts, probably not an ideal solution. But, at least so equipped, our knights in the battlefield would remain, as the modern advertisements promise, clean, dry and comfortable.


MOBILE, Ala. - The scheduled contest between the Montgomery Biscuits and Mobile BayBears on Saturday, September 1 has been postponed due to rain at Hank Aaron Stadium. The two sides will make up the game as part of a doubleheader beginning at 3:30 PM CT on Sunday afternoon.
Sunday's twin bill will feature a pair of seven-inning games with the first game starting at 3:30 PM CT and the second game beginning approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of Game One. Starting pitchers for both games are TBD.


Check out the musical trailer from the animated film "Meet the Robinsons." This movie centers on a boy genius, who invents a machine that recovers forgotten memories, and inadvertently travels forward in time, where he encounters a family whose survival depends on his ingenuity.
The trailer shows a singing frog band (Frankie and the frogs) from "Meet the Robinson," basically letting us know how to behave at the movie theaters, so that everyone can have a great time. I'm not quite sure what this has to do with the film, but it is still enjoyable, and educational.
This film is directed by Stephen J. Anderson, who also does the voice of one of the characters. It will also feature voices by Daniel Hansen, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck and Kelly Ripa. Walt Disney Pictures has scheduled this movie for a March 30th, 2007 release date.
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A EuroBOSS Series (oficialmente denominada BOSS GP Series) é um campeonato de automobilismo disputado na Europa, com carros utilizados anteriormente em categorias de ponta do esporte mundial. A primeira temporada foi disputada em 1995, com o nome BOSS Formula. A temporada atual da EuroBOSS Series é aberta a carros de Fórmula 1 construídos antes de 2004 (até 31 de dezembro de 2003) ou qualquer chassis da Indy, Champ Car e Fórmula 3000, sem limite para a capacidade dos motores.

O campeonato da EuroBOSS é o equivalente europeu ao USBOSS e ao OZBOSS. Enquanto a maioria do grid da EuroBOSS é composta por carros da Fórmula 1, a USBOSS tem maioria de chassis da Indy ou ChampCar.

A média de participação por prova fica em torno de 12 a 15 carros. No entanto, em algumas ocasiões chegou a largar com apenas cinco carros.

Os monopostos mais vistos na categoria são Benetton, Jordan, Tyrrell, Minardi e até mesmo uma Ferrari V12 já participou. Outros carros frequentes são Lola e Reynard que disputaram o campeonato da CART.

Campeões

BOSS Formula e EuroBOSS

BOSS GP Series

Ligações externas
 Site oficial

Monopostos
Competições de automobilismo

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For the last quarter of a century, Germany has been open to monetary union with the rest of Europe, provided that three conditions were satisfied. These are (i) no bailouts of other countries who were also in such a monetary union, (ii) the Central Bank that sat at the centre of this union was heavily modelled on the Bundesbank and its operation of monetary policy and (iii) all participating were subject to clear rules with regard to budget deficits and total government debt. With all three conditions in place, then Germany felt that all other countries in the monetary union would be forced to manage their economies in the same way that the German economy was managed.
Since the crisis, all three of these conditions are being severely tested, causing increasing angst to many in Germany. With regard to the first condition, it is currently true that no country has been bailed out by transfers from the other countries. However, Greece has stretched this interpretation to the very limit. Huge amounts of money have been lent to Greece by the IMF, the EU and the ECB (and so not directly by other countries), which are officially repayable. All non-official holders of Greek debt have had their arms twisted to agree to their holdings being substantially written off. Most investors expect the official holders also to agree to write-offs (at which point the money is no longer lent but in reality given), but this will not occur until 2014, after this year's German elections. Germany's first condition (no bail outs) will be breached next year.
Under its first two Presidents, Duisenberg and Trichet, the ECB did, in fact, model itself heavily on the Bundesbank in its operation of monetary policy. Draghi, however, took over at the height of the crisis. His first act was to provide a trillion euros of extra liquidity for weak banks from the peripheral countries, in exchange for collateral of very dubious quality, a tactic which drew criticism from the Bundesbank, but great acclaim from most other quarters. Then last summer, as Spain appeared to have lost the confidence of markets to issue its debt, Draghi invented the concept of Outright Monetary Transactions, which permitted the ECB to intervene in government bond markets to an unlimited extent. The Bundesbank, saw this (rightly) as tantamount to the printing of money, as was being practised in the US, Japan and the UK, but was the lone vote against within the ECB Council. Crucially for Draghi, Merkel decided to over-rule the Bundesbank and gave Germany's blessing to this very un-Bundesbank action. Germany's second condition has already been breached.
The third condition is the one which matters most, and which Germany will least be prepared to see breached. To emphasise the point, Germany has brought forward its draft of the 2014 budget, demonstrating that it continues to cut government spending to meet its target of a balanced budget in 2015. The message to the rest of the eurozone is unambiguous – they too must meet their promises of cutting government spending to achieve balanced budgets in the medium term.
The forthcoming EU summit will contain no Italian government, following the post-election stalemate in which over half of the voters voted for parties which explicitly rejected the EU-led austerity programme initiated by Monti. The French government has just announced that it now expects a deficit of 3.8% of GDP this year, compared with its EU target of 3.0% – it seems unlikely that President Hollande will make any great attempt at further government spending cuts. In Greece, the latest tranche of official loans is dependent upon clear plans for Greece to cut 150,000 civil servants from its headcount in the next eighteen months. Greek politicians are very reluctant to agree and even more reluctant to implement such plans. Both the Spanish and Portugese have promised their people that they have had the last round of cuts, but their budget deficits remain too high due to the continuing recession in these countries.
Austerity in the Mediterranean countries is reaching its political limits. If Germany continues to insist on its third condition (the control of budget deficits) as Merkel will want to be seen to be doing ahead of her election in October, then the possibility of a country falling out of the euro in the short term is once more very real. In the longer term, even if Germany gives a little ground now, it will continue to insist on governments reducing their budget deficits at a rapid pace that will mean little or negative growth in many eurozone countries for years to come. This price will prove too high for some economies.
The investment implications of this are to maintain low exposure to euro-denominated assets until more reflationary policies are being actively pursued in the euro area – if Germany continues to stand on its principles, this may be never.
Filed Under: Economics & Markets Tagged With: austerity, bailout, ECB, euro, germany, Greece, Maastricht, Merkel


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But you might be wondering when the best time to tour is for your musical career. It is almost masochistic to want to cram into a van with your sweaty bandmates, night after night, often playing for marginal crowds or pay (at least the first few tours are usually like that). You'll want to make the most of it. Like everything else in the music world, timing is everything.
You're building up momentum in your hometown: Packing shows in your own city is great and it shows that people are receptive to your music. But you don't want to play the same show for the same people week after week. It's a good time to start expanding to nearby towns and begin conquering those markets too. Often, the buzz about a hot band from the neighboring city will help get you some more attention in new areas.
A new release: Touring to promote a new album is always a good idea. It also catches more attention from press (hopefully you're working with a publicist) and gives the impression that you're more of a national or regional act, not just a local one.
You gain a large bump in fans on other regions. Thanks to insight/demographic tools from Facebook, YouTube, Fanbridge, Reverb Nation, etc., you can see where most of your fans are from. Look and see where you are getting attention, that's a good indicator of where to go once you decide it's right.
Extra vacation time: If all of your band member's have family or work commitments that only allow time off during certain windows, you might as well take advantage of those times and hit the road while you can. It's better than not touring at all, especially if the above conditions apply.
A big, far away show. You have a slot at a major music festival, convention, or another event that will pay handsomely. You might as well use that opportunity to help offset the costs of touring by setting up dates to and from the gig.
When you're totally broke: Touring can be expensive. Between travel, logistics, food, time off work, and emergencies, it can bankrupt a band. Be smart about it and save the money/time from when you're ready.
You have other major projects going on: If you're working on a new record that might not be complete before your departure date, it's best to get things wrapped up before starting another endeavor.
When everyone else is on tour: SXSW and summertime are the peak seasons for bands on tour. Often times, you're up against more competition for resources, venues, payment, and press opportunities. Find a way to stick out or consider touring when there isn't as much competition.
What are some things you've learned from previous tours?


"Let's Move! Child Care: Breastfeeding Support" is a free online training course developed and maintained by state-approved trainers* at the University of Washington Center for Public Health Nutrition. This course provides information for early childhood professionals about how to support breastfeeding moms and babies and the benefits of doing so. The material in this training has been adapted from the Let's Move! Child Care training on infant feeding.
1. Explain how breastfeeding affects health and why it is important for child care programs to support breastfeeding moms and babies.
2. Describe the evidence-based best practices to support breastfeeding in child care.
3. Apply new strategies to improve breastfeeding practices and policies in your child care program.
4. Talk to parents about the feeding environment you provide for infants in your care.
One (1) STARS continuing education hour in Health, Safety & Nutrition can be earned by completing the Let's Move! Child Care: Breastfeeding Support online training.
This online training is made freely available to early childhood professionals thanks to support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Washington State Department of Health.
*State-approved trainers are identified by Washington's Managed Education and Registry Information Tool (MERIT). MERIT is an online professional development tool for early care & education and school-age professionals that is owned and operated by the Department of Early Learning (DEL) and manages State Training and Registry System (STARS) training. All trainings and trainers listed in MERIT are state-approved for STARS training.
With questions about this training or completion certificate status, please contact us at ecetrain@uw.edu.


Introduction: You have all probably written a scratch script that did not work the way you intended the first time. This exercise is to take some broken pieces of scratch code and fix them to work correctly. You will examine each, work to fix it and then document how you fixed it in a worksheet for today's assignment. Please turn in a paper copy of the completed assignment at the end of the period with you best attempt at fixing each of these.
Assignment: Run each of the Debug Scratch programs and fix them, take notes on how you fixed them and fill out Fill out a copy of the Debug It Worksheet (PDF) and Turn it in.
These are all graciously taken from ScratchEd's Curriculum Guide v20110923.
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Check out Rockie Fresh Feat. Lunice "Electric Afterparties Trailer" Video, the latest video from Rockie Fresh, released on Thursday, September 13th, 2012. Rockie Fresh's chances in this game are improving with each new release, and Rockie Fresh Feat. Lunice "Electric Afterparties Trailer" Video is no exception - quite the opposite, in fact. It's a nice addition to the impressive catalogue Rockie Fresh has been building over the years. We're definitely anticipating the next move.


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Govt going tough on encroachments along wetlands, other water bodies: DC Srinagar
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7:50 pm February 2, 2020
Deputy Commissioner, Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary on Sunday said that administration was taking several measures to stop encroachments along wetlands and other water bodies in Srinagar, asserting that the community participation was vital for conserving valley's rich biodiversity.
DC Srinagar unveils the wall calendar of Department of Wildlife during a ceremony organized on World Wetlands Day. Pic: DIPR
Speaking at a ceremony organized by Department of Wildlife, Jammu and Kashmir Government on World Wetlands Day here, the Deputy Commissioner said that administration cracked down on the illegal encroachments along Khushhal Sar, demolishing the boundary walls and other encroachments that had been constructed over the past few months.
"Local communities play a vital role in the fight against wildlife crime and also in conserving valley's rich biodiversity," said Dr Choudhary in his speech. He said that engaging communities to support conservation activities is often challenging. However, it bears endless fruits. He urged the Department of Wildlife to launch similar programmes—which would woo locals and community at large to help them in mission conservation.
He said that a special squad of officials has been constituted at the district level—who would be closely working with the Department of Wildlife to stop illegal encroachments along wetlands and other water bodies in Srinagar.
"It is sad to spot newer constructions surrounded by wetlands. Those from the down-and-out club find it tough to get even a small piece of land after crossing technical hurdles," he said.
He point out that there has been no let-up in the illegal attempts to fill paddy fields and wetlands despite several measures from the district administration and the concerned department.
"2014 floods taught a lot of lessons to all of us at the societal level as well as at the policy level. We must have learnt not to mess up with Nature and its and His laws. If we don't stop encroachments of our wetlands and water bodies, we may see many disasters coming to our ways," he said, adding "We must ensure that we save and conserve the richness of our wetlands and associated endemism for the contribution to ecosystem services. We must also ensure that our wetlands continue to provide us with resilience to the deleterious effects of climate change."
Chief Wildlife Warden, Kashmir, Rashid Yehya Naqash said that major wetlands identified in Kashmir districts face threat from excess landfilling, discharge of effluents and human encroachments. However, he presented a detailed account of the works and restorations and retrievals missions carried out by the department in recent months.
He said that the Government has pledged to work in a mission mode to revive the pristine glory of the wetlands by reducing human interference.
"We are doing our best to protect and conserve these wetlands, but we need people's cooperation at a large level. There has to be a strong opposition against the violators for ruining these areas," he said.
"Our wetlands, teeming with rich flora and fauna, are essential for the survival of mankind and migratory birds, both endemic and endangered," he said.
The theme for this year's World Wetland Day, 'Wetland and Biodiversity', which offers a unique opportunity to highland biodiversity.
He said that the Government has urged people and stakeholders to join hands in actively participating in the conservation efforts of the government aimed at the protection and restoration of our wetlands.
Pertinently, Jammu and Kashmir has the distinction of having one of the highest identified wetlands across the country, prominent among them being Wular Lake in Kashmir and Gharana Wetland in Jammu.
The other speakers who also spoke on the occasion highlighted the vital importance of the conservation of wetlands and region's overall biodiversity.
They said that there was a need to strengthen the inter linkages of the wetlands to meet the requirement of the local population. Apart from the ecological, biodiversity and tourism benefits, it generates sustained awareness among the masses about the shrinking area and quality of wetlands on account of encroachments, illegal reclamation for housing and farming, industrial activity and pollution.
Earlier the Deputy Commissioner released the wall calendar of Department of Wildlife and also gave away prizes among students—who had participated in debate and painting competition organized by the department in view of observing World Wetland Day.
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I've written on a few occasions of Back to Eden style gardening. Back in October my Dad and I made a pilgrimage to the Sequim, Washington in the Olympic Peninsula to meet the man who started it all and see his own gardens: Paul Gautschi.
Every Sunday from April through September strangers from all over the world show up at Paul's 1/2-acre garden to see with their own eyes and taste with their own mouths the incredible bounty of his gardens. And Paul is not ashamed to share the secret of his success. For two hours or more on his garden tours, Paul preaches about the goodness of God.
Despite the hordes that descend on his property weekly to sample his fare, he still has more food than his family can eat. "My biggest problem is abundance!" Paul would often say.
The pear I'm holding above was literally a meal. I felt full after eating it, which kind of bummed me out because I wanted to keep eating! Paul explained I felt full because I was eating live food. Fruit starts losing nutritive value the moment its plucked from the tree. When you eat live food, you're body is absorbing the maximum quantity of nutrients, minerals, and water-soluble fiber.
Because of the deep-mulch wood-chip gardening Paul uses, his orchards are so healthy and loaded with fruit the branches bow down to the ground. "You can't prune a tree to do that," Paul said.
The soil is so healthy he can grow many vegetables in full shade under the tree canopies. Turns out most vegetables do not need full sun — they need good soil!
Besides abundant fruit trees, what's the big deal about Back to Eden gardening? Tasting is believing. It's hard to explain flavors I've never tasted before. The best I can do here is show you some pictures.
In this next picture you'll see lavender growing next to a blueberry shrub. As anyone who has grown blueberries knows, they require highly acidic soil. They will absolutely not survive in high pH environments. Yet in Paul's garden they thrive high-pH plants next to low-pH plants.
Same thing with Sage and Wasabi. This shouldn't be possible, but there it is!
While Paul started with woodchips, he now grows all his own chicken food (they eat mostly kale and other garden scraps). His chickens turn garden and lawn waste into nitrogen-rich compost which Paul uses for a Fall fertilizing each year.
My mind and soul continue to reverberate in the aftermath of our time with Paul last Sunday. He is the epitome of God's working in the lives of a person. Here is a man whose body has been ravaged by agent orange during the Vietnam war and yet exudes the loving grace of God beyond anything I have seen. The real benefit to people who come in contact with him is the potential of another changed life coming into alignment with the God of the Universe. The garden is only a byproduct used as a tool to bring people to Him. Maybe not intentionally but that is what's happening. Wow! Thanks for introducing me to him! That time will forever be a pearl in my life!
These are good questions and ones that I haven't had a good answer for. Until now.
I just plant more of the things I like to eat and less of the things I don't and hope it all works out in the end. But after doing this for several years, that system is not working. It's a lot of work to plant crops you won't end up harvesting and there's a limited amount of time and storage when harvest season comes around.
Planning the harvest to your specific needs is the only way to ensure you aren't wasting precious time, money or labor. There are various "rules of thumb" on the Internet, such as "grow 5 celery plants per person". But everyone has different preferences when it comes to diet. It makes a lot more sense to figure out plantings based on how much food you actually eat rather than vague per-person estimates.
So over the holiday weekend I created a spreadsheet that lists every vegetable we grow. Next to each vegetable I enter the serving size for each meal and the number of meals we consume that vegetable each month. For example, 1/2 cup of corn once a week or 3/4 cup of potatoes 3 times a month. Then it calculates the number of plantings needed to produce that much harvest for the whole year. For example, 78 stalks of corn and 17 potato plants.
I also added fields for Family Size and Sufficiency Goal so it is easy to change the calculations as our family and goals change. This year our goal is to grow 50% of our own produce.
Lastly, I converted the spreadsheet into an online calculator and published it on this site so I could share it with others. It's been a tremendously helpful tool already. Besides knowing we need to plant 177 onion bulbs, I also know how much area is required for each vegetable, so I know how big to size the garden plot.
At 50% sufficiency for our family, we need a garden plot with just over 600 square feet, which is about 25′ x 25′. But if we wanted to produce all our own produce, we'd need a garden double that size.
Click here to see the How Much To Grow Calculator or find it under the "Gardening" tab in the menu bar. Let me know your thoughts to improve it and any other vegetables you'd like me to list.


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Romanian duo Livio & Roby are no strangers to the tech house and minimal worlds of electronic music. Together, Robert Precup and Silviu Sandu have released on Desolat, Vakant and Saved Records and also recently joined forces with childhood friend, George G, to form Premiesku; paying homage to more minimal sounds to their work as L&R they're due to release on both Apollonia (pre-order here) and Desolat later this year. Having permeated an extremely strong Romanian scene – one that could be seen out in force at their set at Sunwaves Festival this year – Livio & Roby now seem to be making it on a bigger stage. With a great grasp on the beginnings of dance music in Romania and their experience within the scene, we invited them to put together a list of their favourite Romanian house and techno tracks, made up of five classics that shaped the scene and their current favourites. Listen as a playlist and read some words about their choices below.
Catch Livio & Roby at Fabric this Saturday, alongside another stalwart of the Romanian scene, Rhadoo. They'll be playing live as Premiesku and DJing as Livio & Roby. Tickets and info at the Fabric website.
This track is from 1983, I guess it had a subliminal impact, it's kind of electronica and we used to hear this one on TV when we were children.
It was 1995, we were really young at that point and this unconventional Romanian band came out with this new wave electronic album. It was totally something else. This breakbeat track definitely made an impact with its raw cutting edge sound.
This housey vocal tune made its mark on the radio in the beggining of the new millennium. Many romanian DJs played a club version in that period.
We first heard this track in DC10, I think Luciano played it. It was a big contrast at that time, the track came out of nowhere. Very innovative idea from Rhadoo.
It's amazing how Petre combined this folkloric wind instrument with a hypnotic minimal groove in a really refined way. This track is an absolute classic.
Emi is kiling it with his edits and bootlegs. This guy really is a the forefront with his mash ups.
Barac keeps delivering amazing hypnotic grooves every time. There are so many great records to dig from this guy, definitely worth your time researching his productions.
This has been our secret weapon for a long time now. Both tracks share the same harmonic tonality so we thought we might as well combine them and spice things up with some of our grooves.
This is definitely one of our favorite tracks to play. Incredible rolling cuts from Faster, as usual.
A:rpia:r are droping some special edits and really nice cuts. This is a great example of the uncompromising quality of their output. Find Livio & Roby on Facebook, Soundcloud andTwitter.


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Q: Maven not recognizing javac in my Ubuntu installation I have gotten this error:
Compilation failure
Unable to locate the Javac Compiler in:
  /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/../lib/tools.jar
Please ensure you are using JDK 1.4 or above and
not a JRE (the com.sun.tools.javac.Main class is required).
In most cases you can change the location of your Java
installation by setting the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

Now I have set some info in my .bashrc file like so: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin. I also did it in my /etc/profile file. But it still fails. But I am noticing that the above error is still going into jre instead of jvm. I don't really understand why its doing that. When I do which javac, it directs me to /usr/bin/javac. What exactly is that file? It seems Ubuntu defaults to JRE rather than the SDK. Either way I am confused as to how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated!


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On 22 July 2017 we went to the first show of the Dunkirk movie in De Nieuwe Kolk in Assen. Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It features an ensemble cast starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy, and portrays the Dunkirk evacuation of the Second World War. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is a co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and the Netherlands.
Nolan wrote the script, told from three perspectives - land, sea, and air - with little dialogue and intended to create suspense through visuals and music. Filming began in May 2016 in Dunkirk, France, and ended that September in Los Angeles where it began post-production. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot the film on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format film stock. It made extensive use of practical effects, such as employing thousands of extras, boats that had participated in the historical evacuation, and using era-appropriate planes for the aerial sequences.
Dunkirk premiered on 13 July 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England and was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July in IMAX, 70 mm and 35 mm film. The film has grossed over $458 million worldwide and received critical acclaim for its screenplay, direction, and cinematography, with some critics describing it as Nolan's best film to date as well as one of the greatest war films ever made. More about this film
In De Nieuwe Kolk te Assen we walk to the movie room.
In tense awaiting the beginning of the film.
Scène from the movie Dunkirk. Anxiously, the British soldiers on the pier start looking up to the striking German Stuks.


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Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector
This document defines the design considerations and guidance by which UK public sector Universal Resource Identifier (URI) sets should be developed and maintained. They are designed both to encourage those that definitively own reference data to make it available for re-use, and to give those that have data that could be linked, the confidence to re-use a URI set that is not under their direct control.
URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/60975/designing-URI-sets-uk-public-sector.pdf
Keywords: HTTP URIs, Dereferencability, Content negotiation, Government Open Data
Author: Davidson, Paul
Publisher: Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Council's Information Domain
Date created: 2009-09-10 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P30M
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Knows technical options for the form, content, and granularity of versions.
Recognizes that URIs are "owned" by the owners of their respective Internet domains.
Understands that a "real-world" thing may need to be named with a URI distinct from the URI for information about that thing.
Recognizes the desirability of a published namespace policy describing an institution's commitment to the persistence and semantic stability of important URIs.
Understands that to be "persistent", a URI must have a stable, well-documented meaning and be plausibly intended to identify a given resource in perpetuity.
Understands trade-offs between "opaque" URIs and URIs using version numbers, server names, dates, application-specific file extensions, query strings or other obsoletable context.
Understands that to be "dereferencable", a URI should be usable to retrieve a representation of the resource it identifies.
Understands the purpose of publishing RDF vocabularies in multiple formats using content negotiation.
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Pakistan to reduce inbound international flights by 80%
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Tainted victory
Nearly all the losing parties have alleged rigging and refused to accept the victory of PPP's Qadir Khan Mandokhel
Another parliamentary election failed to determine which party people actually voted for. Thursday's bye-election in NA-249 Karachi turned out to be a near-repeat of the one held in NA-75 Daska on February 19, except that the Election Commission of Pakistan has not (yet) declared the results null and void. The pace of the arrival of results from polling stations slowed down a couple of hours after the polling had ended, and it took until 4am for the final result to come out, even though the turnout, according to the election authorities, was as low as 21.64 per cent.
Nearly all the losing parties have alleged rigging and refused to accept the victory of PPP's Qadir Khan Mandokhel who secured 16,156 of a total of 72,740 votes polled. PML-N leaders, including the candidate Miftah Ismail who ended up first runner-up by a small margin of 683 votes, say that the election has been stolen and they will challenge the results in the ECP. They smell a rat in some 15 constituencies and call for a forensic audit there. Nazeer Ahmed of the banned TLP and Mustafa Kamal of the PSP both insist that they have won the election according to Forms 45 available with them. PTI's Ali Zaidi has slammed "the crooked PPP and the Provincial Election Commission" alleging that they were "hand in gloves in this mess". MQM's Faisal Sabzwari has termed the PPP's victory tainted.
Irrespective of whether any kind of rigging played a part in Mandokhel's victory, the fact that the complete results could only be available 11 hours after the polling time – despite a historically low turnout of voters – does raise questions on the transparency of the vote count. Provincial election authorities have attributed the delay to Iftar break, Covid-19 SOPs, staff shortage, and arrival of 10 presiding officers to the Office of the Deputy Returning Officer with unsigned results which led to their being sent back to take signatures of the relevant election staff. But these justifications have fallen short of satisfying the various candidates who demand a probe – and rightly so.
No amount of probe, however, could lift the PTI to the top position to retain this National Assembly seat. Time for serious introspection for the ruling party.


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MAROON MADE Volume 1, Issue 23 Feb. 26-MArCH 4, 2018 Recap and looking ahead
2017-18 Composite Athletics Schedule
Scenes from 2018 NCAA Tournament
HISTORIC SEASON
The UChicago Women's Basketball team's historic run came to an end in the Second Round of the NCAA Division III Tournament last weekend, as the Maroons defeated Wisconsin-Lutheran before falling to host St. Thomas to conclude their 2017-18 season.
NCAA SECOND RD: #6 St. Thomas 68, #9 UChicago 62
Senior Elizabeth Nye
STORY: Valiant Comeback Falls Short in Women's Basketball 68-62 Loss to St. Thomas in NCAA Second Round
Sophomore Mia Farrell turned it on in the second half, scoring 19 of her game-high 23 in the final two quarters.
Classmate Taylor Lake added 13 points and junior Olariche Obi capped the season with her 15th double-double of 2017-18, finishing with 11 points and 15 rebounds.
Miranda Burt chipped in seven points and three assists and Obi added five steals and two assists to her line to round out UChicago's leaders.
Miranda Burt had a team-high 18 points in UChicago's win over Wisconsin-Lutheran.
NCAA FIRST RD: #9 UChicago 70, Wisconsin-Lutheran 46
STORY: Women's Basketball Powers Past Wisconsin-Lutheran into NCAA Second Round; Downs Warriors 70-46
Sophomore Miranda Burt found herself in familiar territory and recorded a game-high 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting to go along with three steals and junior forward Olariche Obi added 14 points, five rebounds, three steals, and two assists.
Sophomore Taylor Lake added 11 points, six rebounds, and four assists in an all-around effort as the Maroons executed their patented defense to the tune of 24 Warrior turnovers, which led to 22 UChicago points.
Five Maroons qualified for the 2018 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships, set for March 9-10 in Birmingham, Ala.
Eight UChicago student-athletes earned USTFCCCA All-Region Indoor Track and Field honors in 2018.
STORY: UChicago Track & Field Teams Earn Nine USTFCCCA All-Region Honors
UChicago sophomore Laura Darcey qualified for the national meet in two events, the high jump and the pentathlon.
ONWARD TO NATIONALS
Five Maroon student-athletes qualified to compete in the 2018 NCAA Division III Indoor National Track and Field Championships, set for March 9-10 in Birmingham, Ala.
2018 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field National Championships
When: Friday-Saturday, March 9-10
Where: Birmingham, Ala.
Who: Five Maroon student-athletes qualified to compete at nationals in six events: Robin Peter (60 hurdles), Joe Previdi (800), Nate Downey (pole vault), Laura Darcey (high jump and pentathlon), and Nicole VacaGuzman (400).
LAST CHANCE MEETS
Junior Alexandra Thompson won the high jump at 1.64 meters and senior Will Ackerman won the men's 55-meter hurdles in a time of 7.80 to lead the way at the Carthage Final Qualifier.
STORY: Maroon Track & Field Travels to Carthage Final Qualifier
Sophomore Joe Previdi continued his dominance in the men's 800 meters by winning in a time of 1:53.90 and junior Nicole VacaGuzman was the top finisher with a runner-up showing in the 400 meters, finishing in 57.48 at the Wisconsin-Stevens Point Last Chance Meet.
STORY: UChicago Track & Field Competes in Last Chance Meet at Wisconsin – Stevens Point
2018 Women's Track & Field Schedule
The UChicago women's team reached the third-place match at the 2018 ITA Indoor Team Championships, eventually falling to UAA foe Carnegie Mellon.
ITA TEAM NATIONALS
The #9 Maroon women defeated Washington & Lee before falling to #6 Pomona-Pitzer & #10 Carnegie Mellon in two tight matches in Chattanooga, Tenn.
NEXT MATCHES:
March 20-23: Spring Break Trip to Claremont, Calif.
March 20: UChicago vs. Tufts, 12 PM PT
March 22: UChicago vs. Bowdoin, 10 AM PT
March 23: UChicago vs. Williams, 9 AM PT
2017-18 Women's Tennis Schedule
Estefania Navarro.
#10 Carnegie Mellon 5, #9 UChicago 0
STORY: Women's Tennis Falls to #10 Carnegie Mellon in ITA Third-Place Match
Claire Handa
#6 Pomona-Pitzer 6, #9 UChicago 3
STORY: Women's Tennis Battles in 6-3 Loss to #6 Pomona-Pitzer
Daryn Ellison and Catherine Xu
#9 UChicago 7, #12 Washington & Lee 2
STORY: Maroon Women's Tennis Tops Washington & Lee, 7-2; Advances to ITA Semis
Connor Hickey (10) and the Maroons got back on track with a 2-1 weekend, including a two big offensive performances where UChicago totaled 31 runs in two wins over Greenville and Grinnell.
OFFENSIVE OUTBURST
The Maroons picked up wins over Greenville and Grinnell last weekend with huge offensive outputs, winning by scores of 15-4 and 16-0.
NEXT GAMES:
Saturday, March 17: UChicago vs. Wisconsin-Platteville, 2 PM ET / UChicago vs. Rose-Hulman, 5 PM ET
Where: Terre Haute, Ind. (hosted by Rose-Hulman)
2018 UChicago Baseball Schedule
Brady Sarkon is batting .300 with a .600 slugging percentage and two home runs in five games played this season.
UChicago 16, Grinnell 0
STORY: UChicago Baseball Rolls Grinnell 16-0
Junior pitcher Joe Liberman led the charge on the mound. He struck out a career-high 10 batters in five innings of work, while only allowing one hit.
First-year Chandler Yu struck out three batters, while sophomore Daniel Smith tallied two K's of his own.
First-year infielder Brian Lyle paced the offense with three hits.
Six different players collected two hits apiece – Maximiliano Larsen, Ian Bohn, Brady Sarkon, Josh Parks, Drew Ventrelle and James Kelly. Bohn also crushed a three-run homer.
Payton Jancsy and Maximiliano Larsen
Dubuque 7, UChicago 5 (14 inn.) / UChicago 15, Greenville 4
STORY: Maroon Baseball Breaks Out Offensively to Salvage Split against Dubuque and Greenville
The opening game of the day went long as UChicago and University of Dubuque took 14 innings to reach a result.
Junior pitcher Brenton Villasenor started the game on the mound and went five innings, striking out three. First-year Zach Morochnik entered the game with the bases loaded and pitched his way out with a strikeout and a double play. Morochnik threw five innings of relief.
Senior outfielder Maximiliano Larsen, first-year infielder Brian Lyle and junior outfielder Connor Hickey each recorded two hits. Junior first baseman Brady Sarkon also jacked a solo home run.
Against Greenville, sophomore pitcher Jacob Petersen (1-0 record) tossed the opening five innings to get the win. He struck out six with two earned runs, four hits and two walks. First-year David Clarke was responsible for the next four innings on the mound. Clarke piled up five strikeouts with one unearned run, two hits and a walk.
UChicago racked up 15 hits, but also committed five errors defensively. The hit parade was led by Payton Jancsy's 4-for-5 effort (two RBI). Larsen, Ian Bohn and James Kelly each went 2-for-5 with a combined eight RBI.
A few of the Maroons' 17 NCAA Division III national qualifiers.
Natalie DeMuro, Anna Girlich and Joseph Zhao
NCAA DIVING REGIONAL
The University of Chicago men's and women's diving teams wrapped up competition on Saturday as hosts of the two-day NCAA Diving Regional.
STORY: UChicago Diving Concludes NCAA Regional at Myers-McLoraine Pool
NATIONAL FIELD SET
UChicago's teams had a total of 17 swimmers qualify to represent the Maroons at the 2018 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships held March 21-24 in Indianapolis, Ind.
STORY: UChicago Qualifies 17 Swimmers for NCAA Championships
2018 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships
Wednesday-Saturday, March 21-24, 2018
Where: Indianapolis, Ind.
Four different individuals are currently seeded in the top 10 of their respective events.
Sophomore Reona Yamaguchi is the fourth seed in the men's 100-yard breaststroke (54.98).
First-year Gillian Gagnard is the fifth seed in the women's 200-yard backstroke (2:00.52).
First-year Margaret Wolfson is the sixth seed in the women's 200-yard breaststroke (2:17.99).
Sophomore Lance Culjat is the ninth seed in the men's 200-yard breaststroke (2:01.04).
Reona Yamaguchi is the fourth seed in the men's 100-yard breaststroke (54.98).
2017-18 Men's Swimming & Diving Schedule
2017-18 Women's Swimming & Diving Schedule
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Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo (now Tokyo). It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa. It has nine faculties, which cover a wide range of academic fields, with each operating independently and offering a broad spectrum of creative and unique educational and research activities. The faculties are: Letters, Economics, Laws, Business and Commerce, Medicine, Science and Technology, Policy Management, Environment and Information Studies, Nursing and Medical Care, and Pharmacy. Keio's baseball team plays in the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League.


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OPENING DOORS TO OPPORTUNITY
SCHOLARSHIPS: Building Blocks to a Better Future
Many soldiers wounded during their military service in Israel have found their dreams, plans and bodies suddenly shattered. They then face a long and challenging road to rehabilitation. With the help of Beit Halochem, they work hard to rebuild their bodies and lives.
Facilitating these steps is the highest priority of the Beit Halochem rehabilitation process.
A minimum gift of $1,800 USD is requested to support either a named Academic Studies Scholarship and/or Sports Excellence Scholarship for Excelling Disabled Athletes.
The disabled athletes who earned these awards are an inspiration to us all. Scholarship support is an ideal way to offer a direct lifeline to someone who has sacrificed so much for Israel.
Academic Studies, Preparatory Courses, and Creative Arts
For many of the war disabled, and civilian victims of terror attacks, the opportunity to further develop academic skills is crucial to independent living. Supporting them during their academic studies helps empower their successful achievements.
Applications for Academic Studies Scholarships are sent to the scholarship committee annually for each completed academic year. The scholarship amounts allotted to any specific individual vary according to need, disability and other factors.
In December 2018 at Beit Halochem Tel Aviv, for example, we awarded 518 scholarships of academic and vocational training, as well as pre-academic preparatory courses. The total amount awarded was $589,811 USD. Another 32 creative arts and culture scholarships were awarded, totaling $19,852 USD.
Total 2018 Academic Scholarship support distributed at this ceremony: $609,663 USD.
Sports Excellence Scholarships for Excelling Athletes
Being involved in sport activities, particularly in competitive sports, has a significant positive impact on the mental, physical and social aspects of the rehabilitation process. Competitive sport for the disabled has expanded, become more demanding, and is now a worldwide movement.
Research shows that being involved in sport activities, particularly in competitive sport, has a significant effect (mentally, physically and socially) on the rehabilitation process of the disabled.
Scholarships are awarded in the following categories: Paralympic Team members; athletes in non-Paralympics sports branches for achievements in World/European Championships; Young Athletes showing potential; scholarships distributed by each respective Beit Halochem Center; Beit Halochem Scholarships for Athletes from the Periphery; and scholarships to Coaches for Special Achievements.
At Beit Halochem Tel Aviv in May 2018, 79 scholarships were distributed to Excelling Athletes and Coaches (14) for their athletic achievements, totaling $140,000 USD.
Change a life: Please consider funding a scholarship for a disabled Israeli veteran.
Donors of scholarship support typically receive a personal "Thank You" letter from the recipient(s) and an invitation to the awards ceremony, aside from gratitude from a hero of Israel.
When Shalom Segall, disabled during combat when his tank turned over, received an academic scholarship in 2015, thanked his donors this way:
"The scholarship seed you planted has grown, blossomed and become a tree. A tree made of leaves, a tree that touches and cares for people struggling with PTSD and anxiety disorders, as well as children in the Israeli educational system that need therapeutic attention. I hope that this tree will grow bigger and stronger and that I will be able to pay it forward. Thank you!"
If you would like to donate a scholarship for Excelling Athletes, or for Academic Achievement, please contact Ella Levine at the FIDV Office: elevine@fidv.org or 212-689-3220.
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BME Led Team Receives 2021 Precision Heath Investigators Award
A team of researchers led by BME and EECS professor Zhongming Liu, PhD, and BME/fMRI Research Scientist, Scott Peltier, PhD, received one of seven Precision Health Investigators Awards for 2021 for their project titled, "Deep Learning for Prediction of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type." The awards— each of $200k over 2 years—support new, collaborative research projects rooted in precision health to advance science and develop health innovations. "This project will use functional MRI and machine learning methods to advance individualized diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. The unique collaborative environment at the University of Michigan, including the Functional MRI Laboratory, Departments of Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, and the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, makes this research possible." —Co-PIs Scott Peltier and Zhongming Liu. The team of collaborative researchers will include Benjamin Hampstead, PhD, ABPP/CN, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Jeffrey Fessler, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Douglas Noll, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. This awards program aspires to nurture groundbreaking multidisciplinary research projects that advance the field of precision health through the use and/or enrichment of Precision Health data, tools, methods, and techniques.
Learn more about the Precision Health Investigators awards 2021 projects: https://precisionhealth.umich.edu/news-events/features/seven-projects-funded-by-2021-precision-health-investigators-awards/


Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Friday raked mainstream news reporters over the coals after they spent days leading up to the midterms covering the migrant caravan hyped by President Donald Trump as a massive threat to American security.
NBC Sports has apologized for an incendiary comment made during Friday's Opening Ceremony led to widespread anger and tens of thousands of angry social media posts.
Chris Matthews has put in a strong entry for the title of stupidest reaction to the Halloween jihad massacre in Lower Manhattan. Was there a memo at NBC News that forbade any mention of Islam or Jihad in discussing Sayfullo Saipov? Or is Matthews really that stupid?
Nicholas Kristof stepped on a rake last night—and it wasn't pretty.
Since the exchange was caught on camera, people have reacted with outrage – questioning why a girl wouldn't shake the president's hand. But despite what people might assume, she wasn't being rude or snubbing him.
Synopsis: 1) That ignorant disrespectful man! 2) Civilization must accommodate Islam – as always.
Now is the time that we dissect the propaganda.
People who backed a plan to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada in a matter of months largely expected no increased risk of terrorism as a result, newly released federal polling information reveals.
One expert says that tacking on three explicit terrorism questions to a survey about immigration puts the government in a position of suggesting a link between the two issues.
But Jack Jedwab says the poll results show that Canadians themselves don't make the link, which stands in contrast with populations in many other parts of the world.
People who were in favour of the plan either did not make any link or did not want to.
The Ipsos poll, conducted exclusively for Global News, found that 60 per cent of Canadians disagree with Justin Trudeau's election promise to relocate 25,000 people displaced largely due to the conflict in Syria.
Opposition is highest in Alberta with 70 per cent and lowest in Ontario with 56 per cent.
The major concern among those who oppose the Liberal's refugee plan is security and the fear that appropriate security checks will be limited in order to hit Trudeau's timeline.
The headlining poll, therefore, does not suggest that Canadians do not believe a link exists between Syrian migrants and terrorism, only those who support the government's plan. Other polls suggest that terrorism was a concern given the short amount of time that the Syrians were brought in.
Oh, popular press! The things you say!
"ISIS kidnapped my best friend. But when I met its fighters, I couldn't hate them," by Sebastian Meyer, Washington Post, February 5, 2016.
Imagine the Washington Post publishing an article in 1943: "Nazi Germany sent my best friend to Dachau. But when I met its fighters, I couldn't hate them." How have these people lost all moral compass, or worse, decided it best to side with America's enemies?
"The Islamic State commits despicable acts of cruelty, but the men who carry out these crimes are not the two-dimensional caricatures they're painted to be. They are human beings, many indoctrinated at the most impressionable age and coerced into service." Of course they are. And no one, actually, should be hated. But to write a piece like this is to equivocate on the moral evils these men commit every day.
We could multiply articles in the Christians-are-meanies-and-I-know-the-Bible-better-than-they-do genre like St. Peter multiplied the animals after they left Jonah's Ark. But it wouldn't change the fact that the Most Holy Synod of Journalists doesn't have an inerrant track record on religion. For instance, they sometimes need reminders that the resurrection is an actual thing Christians believe happened.
A fight over dinner has left one man dead, and another man charged with his murder.
Police say the argument escalated into a fist fight in the parking lot, where Rivera allegedly stabbed Gonzalez and took off with a knife.
Gonzalez died at the scene.
Rivera later returned to the scene and admitted to officers he stabbed Gonzalez. He was taken into custody and charged with murder. Officers say they recovered a kitchen knife in Rivera's possession.
The family of a Chicago man gunned down during a robbery attempt are calling for his shooter, a concealed weapon permit-holder, to be prosecuted for the shooting. The Washington Post is helping to further that effort, suggesting the failed robbery could even be a Halloween prank gone horribly wrong.
Police say Saturday night Reginald Gildersleeve walked into the small bodega Agencia Mexicana while wearing a mask and announced a holdup, whipping out what appeared to be gun. Moments later he was gunned down by an unnamed patron. It was later discovered that Gildersleeve's gun was a paintball gun.
Chicago police are treating the case as rather open-and-shut. Even if Gildersleeve wasn't carrying a real gun, he was brandishing like it was, and the shooter acted accordingly.
But now, Gildersleeve's family is calling for charges to be levied, saying that the habitual criminal didn't deserve to die. Igbinosa Oronsaye, Gildersleeve's stepson, told The Chicago Tribune the shooter overreacted in shooting multiple times.
Oronsaye also said the shooter needed to be punished for killing a member of the community.
"You just took a brother, you just took a father from a lot of people. Somebody's got to answer for that," he said.
A leading French journalist has been assaulted by pro-Israel vigilantes as a mob tried to storm the offices of the country's national news agency in Paris.
David Perrotin, who currently writes for the news site BuzzFeed, was placed under protection after being attacked by around 12 masked men brandishing batons on Thursday night.
All were linked to the Jewish Defence League (JDL), a notoriously violent group that was protesting against Agence France Presse's (AFP) coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This seems peculiar and convenient. He was taking pictures the whole time but produces very few circumstantial ones?
The L.A. Times writes a fawning piece on Hillary Clinton's rather odd outreach program for Illegal Aliens who cannot vote.
Hillary Clinton will sell out to any group (from Illegals to BLMs) that she thinks she can use because real Americans will have nothing to do with her.
UPDATE: This story just gets better and better!
This freeloader and her welfare-mooching parents brought her to the United States for FREE medical care (via Welfare) after she had her leg amputated in Peru. It appears she has been 'on the grift' for free goodies at the expense of American generosity ever since!
*Illegals that get a pass from the Obama administration and then marry a U.S. national seem to get fast-tracked to Citizenship. Try this stunt legally (and even Gavin McInnes will attest to it) and find out how far your white privilege gets you. It cannot be done.
IT is easy to tut-tut the overindulgences of the American right. For Canadians, it is practically a birthright. None of our politicians, many of us would like to believe, would dare invoke the Trumpian galaxy of Mexican rapists, or ponder publicly, as the Republican nominee Ben Carson did, that Europe's Jews would have fared better against Hitler if only the Third Reich hadn't instituted gun control.
Yet over the last several weeks of an increasingly caustic election campaign, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Canada's ruling Conservative Party have managed to erase much of our trademark smugness.
Faced with a stalling economy and a corresponding dip in the polls, Mr. Harper had a stroke of luck. The Federal Court of Appeal dismissed his government's ban on the niqab — the face veil worn as part of the hijab by a small minority of Muslim women — from Canadian citizenship ceremonies.
Rather than accept the ruling, the Conservative government proclaimed its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court, and then took the issue to the hustings. During a recent campaign debate, Mr. Harper declared that he "will never tell my young daughter that a woman should cover her face because she is a woman" — as though his political opponents would do just that, given the chance.
Effectively, Mr. Harper hopes to win his fourth term on Oct. 19 in part by demonizing those few who wear the niqab — and much of Canada's Muslim population by extension. In one particularly pungent mailing to voters, the Conservative Party suggested that the election of one of Mr. Harper's opponents would turn the country into a dystopia of high taxes, high unemployment and citizenship ceremonies clogged with covered Muslim faces pledging allegiance to the queen.