Last week saw me pondering a change in identity as a blogger, as well as a break from the Blogger system and into the use of WordPress. I even speculated on new names for the blog you are reading right now, since I've been feeling that the I Knit Around concept hasn't really played a part in reality lately.
Both Gryphon and I have been laying the groundwork for change to happen. WordPress has been installed in all the places it needs to be, databases are being set up. Templates are being tweaked, graphics selected.
As to the name of this blog, I finally had an a-ha! moment over the weekend, and came up with the new identity. It also sees me starting to distance myself from the Folkcat nickname that I have used for so long.
The shape of things to come? Crafting Jen. I like the name – it encompasses all crafts, not just one or two. And it has multiple meanings. I am, indeed, a Jen who Crafts. I am also perpetually in the process of Crafting the person known as Jen.
In a decision reached only today, I will also be closing my beading blog – Confessions of a Chantraphile – and combining all its archived posts into Crafting Jen, along with all the old posts from I Knit Around. I had originally thought to keep it separate, but really, I expect Crafting Jen to be a complete, rounded picture of my entire crafting life. With that realization, it suddenly seemed arbitrary and artificial to keep the beadwork off in its own separate plane of existence. Instead, there will now be a category under Crafting Jen called Beads – Confessions of a Chantraphile.
It's going to take me a little while to get this all set up, as it involves learning PHP for the first time. (I think I need to acquire the for Dummies book on the subject – they've always served me well!) Meanwhile, I'll keep posting here just as I always have. Appropriate links for the new location will be provided as soon as they're ready for primetime.
I'm really excited about these changes. I like the versatility of the WordPress templates and PHP, and I'll be free of the Blogger limitations (and outages!).
Dropping the Folkcat identity to go with my real first name feels like an expression of renewed confidence in what I'm doing – no more need to hide behind a mask or fictional character! The entire process feels a little bit like I'm graduating from Blogger High School – and stepping out into the real world of grown up blogging.
I hope you'll come along for the ride!
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Life in a small town is always special. Just like the big city, there are parades for special occasions and holidays. Only somehow, they are more personal. Perhaps because the half of the town that isn't watching the parade isn't in it.
Or, if like us you live right downtown along the parade route, it might be because you have a built-in front row seat.
We only have a couple of parades a year here in Wilton. There is the Children's Halloween Parade at the end of every October. And then, there is the Memorial Day Parade.
The local American Legion Post is about a block down the road that runs behind Town Hall. Memorial Day parades always form there. The parade has to do a bit of a loop-de-loop in order to manage a Main Street procession before arriving at the town War Memorials. See, the War Memorials are just beyond the north end of Main Street. The Parade procession begins at the north end of the street, just below the memorials, then moves south along Main St. Then they have to get everybody back to the north to the memorials for the services. And then, everyone goes back to the American Legion post for a party.
Our home is located such that the parade passes our house on every possible leg of the trip.
They pass right beneath our living room windows on this leg.
At this time, the band isn't actually playing full music, but the drums are beating out a marching rhythm every step of the way: rrrrrat-ta-tat! rrrrat-ta-tat! rrrrat-ta-tat-a-ta rrrrat-ta-tat!
Second pass: They turn south on Main Street. Still effectively right below our windows.
This is when the band begins to play for real. Wilton is lucky in that the band that plays our event is the Temple Town Band, known as "America's First Town Band". And they aren't kidding, folks – they celebrated their 200th birthday in 1999. That means they've been in existence since 1799!
Third pass: The parade now turns down the other side of our house, so they can go past the library down the block and arrive at the Memorials.
The time is now 9:21 a.m. On the left, you see the Temple Town Band, drums still beating away. On the right, the two lower windows behind Gryphon are my bedroom.
This pass takes them down to the War Memorials, where a service about an hour long takes place. Then, just in case you missed them the first three times, they do a Fourth Pass: another full procession down Main Street.
Wilton at Memorial Day – the parade so great, it has repeats.
And that's why I don't sleep in on Memorial Day. The first May we lived here, we didn't know about how the parade is handled, or that it happens so early in the day. We still had the bead store, and that Monday was one of our blissful few days off. We had great hopes of sleeping in.
Until about 9:15 or so, when I heard rrrrrat-ta-tat! rrrrat-ta-tat! rrrrat-ta-tat-a-ta rrrrat-ta-tat! right outside my bedroom window. It's a wonder I didn't pee the bed, I was so scared. And then, by the time I crawled out of the covers and peered through my blinds, there was a team of large horses pulling a cannon mere feet away from my startled face.
Ever since then, Gryphon and I have, reluctantly, made a point of setting our alarms so that we can be awake by choice before we get drummed out of bed.
It's not, perhaps, how we'd prefer to spend a day off. But for a holiday like Memorial Day, we don't mind making this adjustment. We may not often agree with what our country's leaders choose to do with regards to armed conflict, but Gryphon and I both agree that it's appropriate to honor those men and women who serve in a very difficult and dangerous profession on behalf of others.
Which brings me to my "K" in the ABC-A-Long. K is for Korea.
Odd choice, you may be thinking. Well, I don't know all the details, but I do know that Korea was a formidable influence in my family, even before I was born.
My father, you see, served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. He was injured in combat, and to this day receives a pension based on that injury.
I know little about all this, though, because he has really never talked about it with me, my sister, or my brother. Perhaps he never felt right telling us what happened to him there. I do know that when the TV series M*A*S*H came along, it was at least a season or two before he would let the family watch it. He actually passed through a MASH unit, and the show must have evoked bad memories for him.
He did once open up to my husband, Gryphon. Perhaps because Gryphon was able to share tales of his own father's experiences as an American POW in a German Stalag. Gryphon has told me bits of what my father had to say, and suffice it to say that, although it was a tale very typical of many soldier's stories after active combat, it wasn't an experience that anyone would choose to go through.
What exactly happened isn't important, though. The fact is, my father served his country in a foreign war, and it affected his life and the life of his own family for years after, in ways I'm not even entirely sure of.
I'm a bit unresolved about how I feel about it all. I sometimes wonder what my father would have been like without these experiences, and therefore, what my own life would be like. I wonder whether it's right for any nation to ask that sort of sacrifice of their citizens. And I wonder if we'll ever have a world where it won't be necessary to do.
So, K is for Korea. I know you changed my father's life, and therefore mine.
I missed out on Thursday Night Knitting Around for the first time last week, due to a mild bronchitis. I'm much better now, though.
Sunday at Borders, the SnB-NH knitters decided would happen outdoors at Greeley Park instead. Sort of a dress rehearsal for our upcoming World Wide Knit in Public Day on June 10th. So they gathered up near the picnic area around 11 a.m., and knit as long as they could stand it. Word is that everyone had a good time!
And that, friends, is why SnB-NH Borders meetings should be verified via e-mail to the group whether anyone will be attending – or where and when they will actually be happening!
For the weeks that the group meets at Panera, I have offered to serve as the "anchor" – the one person who will be there as unfailingly as possible, so no one ever has to wonder if anyone will be around or not. If anyone is able to make the same commitment to the Borders weekends, that could remove any doubt for those planning to come knit there.
To keep informed about any changes, please visit both the EKL or SnB-NH groups on the web, or remember to look at this blog every Tuesday for these calendar listings.
World Wide Knit In Public Day, Saturday, June 10th – The SnB-NH group is planning a potluck picnic for the afternoon, 2 – 5 p.m., in Greeley Park in Nashua. This is open to the public, and it's not necessary to participate in the picnic itself to attend – just bring your knitting and something to sit on!
Please visit the SnB group for more information. To sign up to bring a dish to the picnic, please select "Database" on the side menu at the SnB home page to find the sign-up list.
If you have any knit gatherings planned in the Southern New Hampshire area that are open to the public, and you'd like to see them listed here, just drop me a line at crafty.kitty@yahoo.com with the details. Be sure to include Date, Time, Location, and Contact Info, as well as whether it's a one-time event or repeats on a regular schedule.
Please note: where phone numbers are given for "Info", that is the contact phone for the location, not the knitters organizing the gathering. Since none of these events are officially coordinated by the host sites (except as noted), if you reach someone by phone and ask them about the knitting group, they might not have any clue what you're talking about.
*Note: Please check messages at the SnB-NH group for updates, and to confirm if anyone will be attending the Borders meeting.
This is the second time in a week that I've gone in to edit one of my Blogger templates (the first time was for Confessions of a Chantraphile, my beading blog), and found that Blogger had arbitrarily truncated my template.
I mean, literally a large section of the template from somewhere in the middle of the sidebar, and running all the way to the bottom of the blog, was gone. Kaput. Vanished. Gone the way of the passenger pigeons.
Tonight, the problem was with this very blog you're looking at. My main blog. The template was truncated somewhere in the middle of the sidebar item that posted my most recent Desktop Download image. Everything below that point was lost.
That included my list of links. The link for a Technorati search. My Archives list, for which I had input special code to make it a drop-down menu instead of just a raw list. The list of recent posts. The code for the one or two web rings I had joined (and which, frankly, I can't remember which ones I was in!). And all the buttons for KALs and other causes.
I've managed to recover a bit of the code to restore basic function to the sidebar. But it's not what it's supposed to be.
Gryphon is looking into WordPress for me, which I've heard good things about, but which requires a deeper level of Geekosity than I personally possess. (I've got a pretty good dose of Geekitude, mind you. But not enough to keep me from flinching at the instructions I saw for set-up and configuration of WordPress!) I'm hoping his investigation goes well, because it would mean our independence from Blogger – which, sure, has served us fairly well. But there's no excuse for what happened with my two most important blogs here!
"To talk of many things.
I'm feeling a bit out of focus with the blog these days. It's called I Knit Around, and there was a reason for it – I went knitting around in different interesting places, and had my picture taken doing so.
It worked well for a while, but now – not so much knitting around is happening. I pretty much stay home with the knitting. I feel a bit like the blog title is, well, misleading.
So I'm feeling like it's time for a change. Time to re-focus the blog, and have it better reflect what my life is right now. Time for a new name.
But the question is – what? I've got a couple of ideas, but I'm not sure about any of them. I think I want to keep looking until something feels right.
Pro: Would reflect the knitting and rat elements.
Con: Ignores the rest of my crafty life.
Pro: Reflects the general nature of my life – that most of what I do is "Making it so," making my reality closer to what I want it to be.
Con: I'm a Star Trek fan, sure, though not so much as I used to be. I don't know that I want my blog title suggesting to true fen that this is a Star Trek blog.
Pro: Again, reflects the general nature of my life, and this time specifically my crafting. I'm doing what we all do – making it up as we go. And I think there's little chance of an Indiana Jones fan thinking it's a fan blog.
Con: Very common phrase which most people won't connect the phrase with a crafty interpretation.
I just realized that it's o'dark:early, and I should probably post this and go to bed. It's going to take some time for me to grasp what my new Blogly identity should be. Meantime, if anyone has any comments or suggestions, I'll be glad to listen!
P.S. – oh, yes – I'm feeling rather better. I've only taken cough syrup once today, and I think I'm getting enough of a throat tickle again now that I'm going to take a dose before bed. But the cough is definitely improving!
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Many thanks to those who sent their healing thoughts via comments. It's nice to know there are folks out there who care how I'm feeling.
As for that, I can report that I'm at least no worse than yesterday. I'm not spending my whole day coughing – it comes in surprise bursts of great intensity, which is the real issue. I go along for a few hours just fine, then suddenly start choking on, well, nothing. My eyes tear up, my throat gets raw, I have to stop in my tracks as my entire body gets involved in the coughing. Once I can get past it, I'm exhausted.
Which is why I decided this morning not to go to Knitting Around tonight. If that happened while I was driving, I'd likely wind up in a ditch somewhere. Much better to stay home. In case anyone was thinking of going, Bea and Anne will be there at Panera without me, knitting and talking and laughing. So, go. Have enough fun for me, too.
Meanwhile, I had yet another reminder today that some parts of my life are pretty good.
Thursday is Gryphon's payday, and so it's an errand and shopping day, too. I usually combine a lot of that with the trip to Panera, stopping at Target and PetSmart on the way there, then stopping at the 24-hour supermarket on the way home.
If we don't want me driving, however, all that needs alternate arrangements. So we were making plans for Gryphon to get out to do grocery shopping before he had to go to work.
Do I want to go get my knitting needles? The 60 inch Addi Turbos that I need for my Log Cabin blanket? Heck, yeah! I had been thinking of asking if we could go there, but had decided not to, since it would take up extra time. And here Gryphon goes and voluntarily offers to take me there.
I think he loves me.
I'm actually a Sunday's Child. (But the child that's born on the Sabbath Day, is blithe and bonny, good and gay – yeah, right! Always made my family laugh.) But today's got just enough woe in it to make me feel like I might have been born on a Wednesday.
Hoarse voice, throat feels thick, dry, unproductive cough that exhausts me…I've been here before, and it looks like I'm here again. Only thing for it is to rest as much as I can, take regular doses of cough syrup, and plentiful amounts of medicinal teas – Gypsy Cold Care, Breathe Easy, Throat Coat, and Herbatussin are all in the rotation.
Blogging may take a hit as I do simpler or fewer posts to accommodate my temporarily reduced endurance.
I'm knitting, but only on the simple, easy on the brain Log Cabin Blanket. It looks a lot like last time, only bigger.
If I'm not doing much better tomorrow, I may have to pass on my weekly Thursday Night Knitting Around at Panera. Mostly because I don't want one of these coughing fits to hit me when I'm driving.
In another update, Gryphon was able to open the burnt-out TiVo box today, and identified the problem. The only sign of damage anywhere inside was a tiny, blast-looking crater on top of the modem chip. Which explains why the television, lamp, and DVD player on the same circuit were all safe, and the TiVo was fried – the TiVo was the only thing plugged into a phone line. And apparently, that's where the power surge came into the house from the lightning blast.
The good news is, when it's replaced it will be with a Series 2 TiVo, which doesn't use a phone line – you plug it into your high-speed internet connection.
All our power strips in play at the moment have surge protection built in. But they don't have plugs to protect the phone line as well. It's not an issue for the most part – I think the TiVo was the only thing other than the phone itself that used the phone lines – but you can bet we're now considering how we can upgrade the strips to allow that option.
SnB at Panera was a lot of fun. Luckily, we had a break in the weather – during arrivals and departures, at least – so I think folks managed to stay dry!
For the time being, SnB-NH Borders meetings should be verified via e-mail to the group whether anyone will be attending.
I am getting so sick of the weather around here. Never mind the almost endless rain. Never mind the bursts of sunshine just long enough to get you outdoors where you can be deluged again with, yes, more rain.
On Sunday, the weather made it personal.
Gryphon and I had picked up our friend Anne and we'd all gone to the SnB-NH Knitting at Panera for the afternoon. A good time was, as usual, had by all, and we once again barely noticed that 5 o'clock had come around. Time to go!
The sun was shining as we packed up. We drove back to Milford, dropped Anne off at her place, and headed for Wilton. Dark gray skies over our destination gave us some hesitation, but, well, that's where home was, so we kept going.
By the time we got there, we had seen some lightning, the wind was whipping every loose object around, and the skies had opened up and were pouring buckets down on the world.We gladly got ourselves indoors, and listened in that horrified fascination to the sounds of the deluge outdoors.
A short while later, there was a flash of lightning that I saw in every window of the house – and we have windows facing all four sides. The boom-crack of the thunder came right upon it – that one must have been close!
Gryphon and I came together in the kitchen to comment and boggle together at it. He mentioned that he'd heard not only the thunder, but a snap! of some kind as well. But we didn't think anything more of it at the time – we just thought it was a relic of the strike hitting something very, very close.
Later Sunday night, we headed to bed as usual. I turned on the television in the bedroom, and then noticed something odd about my TiVo box.
True afficionados will know what's wrong with this picture. Those little rivet-looking things are actually LED's that display the function of the box. If all is well and your TiVo is working properly, the one on the left marked RECEIVING will be glowing green. If your TiVo is recording a program, the one on the right will be red.
Yup – my bedroom TiVo unit, My First TiVo, my 30-hr Series 1 Tivo that I've had for six years. It got fried by that lightning strike.
The television, the $38 DVD player, and the cheap lamp that were all plugged into the same power strip were spared. But my TiVo was killed.
To the average, TiVo-less person, this may seem silly to be upset about. But to those who have seen the joys of a TiVo in their life – you will understand that a television fan like myself has just found their world turned sideways.
The good news is, since acquiring an 80-hour Series 2 TiVo last year, this is actually my secondary unit. The 80-hr in the living room catches my primary shows, this one picks up programming that coincides or overlaps. What I call my Second Track of programming.
So, there usually isn't as much first-run prime time programming stored in this unit. And I usually get it watched pretty quickly.
But this unit got fried before Sunday night's programs, and I missed the season finale episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy that it would have recorded for me. If I'd known before bedtime (around midnight) that it had happened, I could have used my VCR instead. But I'd had no reason to check on this.
*sigh* We are now faced with figuring out how to afford a new Tivo box so we can restore my full video functionality. The good news there is, Tivo has new monthly service plans that include a box, with free shipping. The bad news is, we still need to find the money to pay for the monthly fee, and they want the first month up front.
Meantime, we've put a second VCR back into service, so I can still get the programs I want to see. Good thing, too – tonight, the season finales of CSI: Miami, Medium, and Alias are all on opposite each other. Ack! It's still not as convenient for viewing as the TiVo is, but it gets me by for now.
The death of My First TiVo only helped to emphasize the general dissatisfaction I've been feeling. I'm having one of those times where you can't quite feel that anything you do is good enough or quick enough to serve the purpose needed – or even the right choice for what you should be working on.
This may be part of why I can't let go of working on the Mason-Dixon Log Cabin Queen-size Blanket project. My other 11 projects have no deadlines, so they can sit by the side. But I feel compelled to keep this one going as a solo, at least for the moment.
It's paying off. By the time I finish the current round of strips, this should be about 30 inches on a side. Which will mean about one-ninth finished. (The goal is 90 inches on a side.) I'm going to need that size 6 60-inch Addi Turbo pretty soon, I'm afraid – another drain on the budget.
The colors show rather better in this picture, too. I took the opportunity of today's burst of sunshine to go out in the yard and lay the blanket on the hedge.
The sweet peas that we planted along a bare section of chain-link fence around three weeks ago have finally started showing themselves. I don't blame them for delaying their entrance. Since we planted them, they've endured cold nights and torrential downpours. I was afraid they'd been frozen and drowned to death. So I'm really, really glad to see them now.
And then, in the mail today was a little package from Maize. She celebrated her 45th birthday last week by giving away presents to 45 people who wrote in, and I was one of the lucky ones!
Maize makes lovely charms from recycled silver. The birthday giveaway charm was this cute little cupcake on a round medallion, hanging from a cellphone dangle. Here I show it atop the darling muslin drawstring bag that Maize packed it in. And if you look closely in the back, you'll see that it's already adorning my cellphone.
The other part of the gift was a mix CD of live U2 performances, hand picked and put together by Maize herself. The CD sleeve was even handmade, stitched from craft paper on a sewing machine and decorated with her own label. And of course, Maize included a sweet little handmade card in a handmade envelope.
U2 has been a favorite of mine for decades, ever since the days of their first albums: Boy, War, and October. If you ever have a chance to see the video of U2: Live at Red Rocks, you owe it to yourself to have the experience. They are amazing live, and Red Rocks was a wonderful performance of their earlier, pre-Joshua Tree work.
I have to confess that I haven't followed anyone's current music for, oh, over a decade. The CD that Maize sent is more recent U2 than I'm familiar with – I basically lost track of their work around the Joshua Tree days. But they're every bit as good as what I remember, and I am grateful to Maize for bringing me back to the U2 fold.


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NORTHAMPTON: Travis Perkins has ambitious expansion plans in the hire market.
The merchant has taken delivery of 150 new Bobcat micro and mini-excavators and skid-steer loaders worth more than £3m from Doosan International UK.
The new Bobcat machines include a mix of E08 micro-excavators, 319 mini-excavators and S100 skid-steer loaders.


1. Preheat oven to 350°F/175°C. Grease two muffin tins. Beat shortening and 1 1/2 cups sugar until very light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well.
2. Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. Add flour, salt, buttermilk, and vanilla extract. Mix soda and vinegar, add to batter.
3. Pour batter into cupcake tins. Bake in a preheated oven until a tester inserted into the cake comes out clean. Bake for about 30 minutes.
4. Beat softened butter and cream cheese until well blended.
5. Add powdered sugar and vanilla. Beat until creamy.
6. Frost cupcakes and enjoy!


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Leading provider of software and services for the betting and online gaming industry, OpenBet, has announced that, working in partnership with MX Gaming, it will soon launch a fully branded David Hasselhoff slot game and scratchcard.
The Hof online games will feature one of the most recognizable faces in television and around the globe and offer real life footage and imagery of the legendary David Hasseloff. Hasselhof is the star of TV shows such as America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, Baywatch and Knight Rider and he now hopes to reach fans across the world by entertaining players off air and online.
Chief Executive of OpenBet, David Loveday, said OpenBet is proud of its leading portfolio of branded content and the introduction of David Hasselhoff's iconic "Hoff" character is further evidence of the innovative way OpenBet brings interesting content to its customers. The much loved Hoff persona allows OpenBet to bring games that are not only quirky and fun but appeal to a wide range of customers."
Director of Business at MX Gaming, Ike McFadden added "We always look for ways to bring our film and TV experience to the gaming space, but our recent shoot in Hollywood with David was flat-out one of the most fun experiences we've ever had on-set. He's fun, energetic, and the perfect crossover act for the online gaming world".

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Q: Objective C Storyboard Why the ParentViewController is nil I'm using storyboard created a navigation app, my question is when push view2 from view1 by using segue, why view2.parentViewController is nil? but not the ViewController of view1?

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Rumors triggered by multiple Red Knights coaches leaving program, including defensive coordinator Mack Mitchell to become head coach at Oasis.
Despite rumors to the contrary, North Fort Myers High football coach Earnest Graham said he is not planning to leave the program after four seasons.
Some members of his coaching staff are another story.
Mack Mitchell, North's defensive coordinator the last four seasons and once a high school teammate of Graham's, is taking the head coaching position at Oasis High School, Graham said.
At least one other Red Knights coach may go with Mitchell to Oasis, Graham said, while two volunteer coaches have decided not to coach again next season.
The number of coaching departures, along with Graham's position being posted publicly by the Lee County School District, have prompted rumors that Graham will not return next season.
But Graham said the posted coaching job is an annual occurrence because he is not a formal school district employee and works only on a stipend.
North loses several key seniors from a team went 9-1 last year, reached the postseason for the first time since 2006 and had its first unbeaten regular season since 1994.
Those include quarterback Toby Noland (Carson-Newman), linebacker and fullback Fa'Najae Gotay (Maryland) and cornerback and receiver Joe Wilkins Jr. (Notre Dame).
But Graham said North has more than enough talent to repeat last year's successes.
North went 5-5 each of Graham's first two seasons before going 6-3 in 2016 and reaching the regional semifinals last year.
Mitchell's climb to head coaching is a reward for North's success, Graham said.
"That's the way it should be," said the former Florida Gators and Tampa Bay Buccaneers running back.
More: Will Earnest Graham, North Fort Myers football finally get over playoff hump?


Join us - June 5, 2019!
Join Greater St. Louis Area coaches & FCA Staff for a night out at the ballpark! Bring your spouse or adult friend for a night of food, fun, & fellowship at Busch Stadium!
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Click HERE to Register for Coaches Night at the Ballpark!
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Investigative journalist John Williams Ntwali, often critical of Rwanda's government, killed in a car accident
John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda's few journalists who published stories critical of the government, has died.
Ntwali was the sole fatality in a car accident in Kigali on Wednesday, police spokesman John Bosco Kabera told Reuters. The driver of the other vehicle has been arrested and "the accident file is being processed for onward transmission to prosecution," Kabera said.
Numerous human rights organizations called for an independent investigation into his death, as numerous journalists, advocates, and critics of President Paul Kagame and his ruling party have mysteriously disappeared, been found dead, or been jailed.
Human Rights Watch said he "joins a long list of people who have challenged the government and died in suspicious circumstances."
"John Williams Ntwali was a lifeline for many victims of human rights violations and often the only journalist who dared report on issues of political persecution and repression," said Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director at Human Rights Watch.
In Rwanda, the media environment is oppressive, tightly controlled, and dangerous. During the last two decades, 17 journalists have been killed, according to data collected by the Committee to Protect Journalists. As the editor of the newspaper The Chronicles, Ntwali investigated high-profile political trials, corruption cases, and other sensitive issues. He often posted items on his social media feed and YouTube channel critical of the government's approach. On Jan. 10, Ntwali posted on his Twitter account a report that the Rwandan government was meddling in religious administration.
He had been arrested numerous times throughout his career and spoke often about fearing for his life and safety.
Note : The author is solely responsible for the article and his or her opinion.
PBoC launches offline CBDC payments – Central Banking
EU ministers agree on new sanctions against Iran over repression of protests


Small Business Development Center Counselor/instructor Jim Struwe assists students in a level 1 Quickbooks continuing education course in the PJC-Sulphur Springs Center computer classroom. The students include, from top, Justin Lopez, Chuck Superville, Maria Yanez and Alondra Ledesma. For information about other classes, call 903-885-1232.


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ACM Turing Award
Stephen Kettle's slate statue of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park
Awarded for
Outstanding contributions in computer science
Reward(s)
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The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.[2] It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as or often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".[3][4][5][6]
The award is named after Alan Turing, who was a British mathematician and reader in mathematics at the University of Manchester. Turing is often credited as being the key founder of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[7] From 2007 to 2013, the award was accompanied by an additional prize of US$250,000, with financial support provided by Intel and Google.[2] Since 2014, the award has been accompanied by a prize of US$1 million, with financial support provided by Google.[1][8]
The first recipient, in 1966, was Alan Perlis, of Carnegie Mellon University. The first female recipient was Frances E. Allen of IBM in 2006.[9] The latest recipient, in 2021, is Jack Dongarra, of the University of Tennessee.
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1966 Alan Perlis For his influence in the area of advanced computer programming techniques and compiler construction.[10] Carnegie Mellon University
1967 Maurice Wilkes
Wilkes is best known as the builder and designer of the EDSAC, the first computer with an internally stored program. Built in 1949, the EDSAC used a mercury delay line memory. He is also known as the author, with Wheeler and Gill, of a volume on "Preparation of Programs for Electronic Digital Computers" in 1951, in which program libraries were effectively introduced.[11] University of Cambridge
1968 Richard Hamming For his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes.[12] Bell Labs
1969 Marvin Minsky
For his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of artificial intelligence.[13] Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1970 James H. Wilkinson For his research in numerical analysis to facilitate the use of the high-speed digital computer, having received special recognition for his work in computations in linear algebra and "backward" error analysis.[14] National Physical Laboratory
1971 John McCarthy
McCarthy's lecture "The Present State of Research on Artificial Intelligence" is a topic that covers the area in which he has achieved considerable recognition for his work.[15] Stanford University
1972 Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger Dijkstra was a principal contributor in the late 1950s to the development of the ALGOL, a high level programming language which has become a model of clarity and mathematical rigor. He is one of the principal proponents of the science and art of programming languages in general, and has greatly contributed to our understanding of their structure, representation, and implementation. His fifteen years of publications extend from theoretical articles on graph theory to basic manuals, expository texts, and philosophical contemplations in the field of programming languages.[16] Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica,
1973 Charles Bachman
For his outstanding contributions to database technology.[17] General Electric Research Laboratory (now under Groupe Bull, an Atos company)
1974 Donald Knuth
For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to "The Art of Computer Programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.[18] California Institute of Technology,
Center for Communications Research, Center for Communications and Computing, Institute for Defense Analyses,
1975 Allen Newell In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.[19] RAND Corporation,
Herbert A. Simon
1976 Michael O. Rabin
For their joint paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem",[20] which introduced the idea of nondeterministic machines, which has proved to be an enormously valuable concept. Their (Scott & Rabin) classic paper has been a continuous source of inspiration for subsequent work in this field.[21][22] Princeton University
Dana Scott
1977 John Backus
For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages.[23] IBM
1978 Robert W. Floyd For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found the following important subfields of computer science: the theory of parsing, the semantics of programming languages, automatic program verification, automatic program synthesis, and analysis of algorithms.[24] Carnegie Mellon University,
1979 Kenneth E. Iverson
For his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL, for his contributions to the implementation of interactive systems, to educational uses of APL, and to programming language theory and practice.[25] IBM
1980 Tony Hoare
For his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages.[26] Queen's University Belfast,
1981 Edgar F. Codd For his fundamental and continuing contributions to the theory and practice of database management systems, esp. relational databases.[27] IBM
1982 Stephen Cook
For his advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way.[28] University of Toronto
1983 Ken Thompson
For their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.[29][30] Bell Labs
Dennis Ritchie
1984 Niklaus Wirth
For developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, Pascal, MODULA and Oberon. Stanford University,
University of Zurich,
1985 Richard M. Karp
For his continuing contributions to the theory of algorithms including the development of efficient algorithms for network flow and other combinatorial optimization problems, the identification of polynomial-time computability with the intuitive notion of algorithmic efficiency, and, most notably, contributions to the theory of NP-completeness. University of California, Berkeley
1986 John Hopcroft
For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. Cornell University
Robert Tarjan
Stanford University,
Cornell University,
1987 John Cocke For significant contributions in the design and theory of compilers, the architecture of large systems and the development of reduced instruction set computers (RISC). IBM
1988 Ivan Sutherland
For his pioneering and visionary contributions to computer graphics, starting with Sketchpad, and continuing after. Stanford University,
Harvard University,
University of Utah,
1989 William Kahan
For his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis. One of the foremost experts on floating-point computations. Kahan has dedicated himself to "making the world safe for numerical computations." University of California, Berkeley
1990 Fernando J. Corbató
For his pioneering work organizing the concepts and leading the development of the general-purpose, large-scale, time-sharing and resource-sharing computer systems, CTSS and Multics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1991 Robin Milner For three distinct and complete achievements: 1) LCF, the mechanization of Scott's Logic of Computable Functions, probably the first theoretically based yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction; 2) ML, the first language to include polymorphic type inference together with a type-safe exception-handling mechanism; 3) CCS, a general theory of concurrency. In addition, he formulated and strongly advanced full abstraction, the study of the relationship between operational and denotational semantics.[31] Stanford University,
1992 Butler Lampson
For contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing. PARC,
1993 Juris Hartmanis
In recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory.[32] General Electric Research Laboratory (now under Groupe Bull, an Atos company)
Richard E. Stearns
1994 Edward Feigenbaum
For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology.[33] Stanford University
Raj Reddy
1995 Manuel Blum
In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking.[34] University of California, Berkeley
1996 Amir Pnueli
For seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification.[35] Stanford University,
Tel Aviv University,
1997 Douglas Engelbart
For an inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision.[36] SRI International,
Tymshare,
McDonnell Douglas,
Bootstrap Institute/Alliance,[37]
The Doug Engelbart Institute
1998 Jim Gray
For seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation. IBM,
1999 Fred Brooks
For landmark contributions to computer architecture, operating systems, and software engineering. IBM,
2000 Andrew Yao
In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory of computation, including the complexity-based theory of pseudorandom number generation, cryptography, and communication complexity. Stanford University,
University of California, Berkeley,
2001 Ole-Johan Dahl For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67. Norwegian Computing Center
Kristen Nygaard
2002 Ron Rivest
For their ingenious contribution for making public-key cryptography useful in practice. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adi Shamir
Leonard Adleman
2003 Alan Kay
For pioneering many of the ideas at the root of contemporary object-oriented programming languages, leading the team that developed Smalltalk, and for fundamental contributions to personal computing. University of Utah,
PARC,
Atari,
Apple ATG,
Walt Disney Imagineering,
Viewpoints Research Institute,
HP Labs
2004 Vint Cerf
For pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking. University of California, Los Angeles,
Stanford University, DARPA,
MCI (now under Verizon),
CNRI, Google
Bob Kahn
MIT,
Bolt Beranek and Newman,
DARPA,
2005 Peter Naur
For fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of ALGOL 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. Regnecentralen (now under Fujitsu),
2006 Frances Allen
For pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution. IBM
2007 Edmund M. Clarke
For their roles in developing model checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.[38] Harvard University,
E. Allen Emerson
Joseph Sifakis
French National Centre for Scientific Research
2008 Barbara Liskov
For contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Charles P. Thacker
For his pioneering design and realization of the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and in addition for his contributions to the Ethernet and the Tablet PC. PARC,
DEC,
2010 Leslie Valiant
For transformative contributions to the theory of computation, including the theory of probably approximately correct (PAC) learning, the complexity of enumeration and of algebraic computation, and the theory of parallel and distributed computing. Harvard University
2011 Judea Pearl[39]
For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.[40] University of California, Los Angeles
2012 Silvio Micali
For transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory.[41] Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shafi Goldwasser
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
2013 Leslie Lamport
For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency.[42][43] Massachusetts Computer Associates (now under Essig PLM),
SRI International,
Compaq (now under HP),
2014 Michael Stonebraker
For fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems.[44] University of California, Berkeley,
2015 Whitfield Diffie
For fundamental contributions to modern cryptography. Diffie and Hellman's groundbreaking 1976 paper, "New Directions in Cryptography",[45] introduced the ideas of public-key cryptography and digital signatures, which are the foundation for most regularly-used security protocols on the Internet today.[46] Stanford University
Martin Hellman
2016 Tim Berners-Lee
For inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale.[47] CERN,
2017 John L. Hennessy
For pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.[48] Stanford University
2018 Yoshua Bengio
For conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing.[49] Université de Montréal, McGill University,
Geoffrey Hinton
University of Toronto,
University of California, San Diego,
University College London,
University of Edinburgh,
Yann LeCun
Bell Labs,
New York University,
Meta AI
2019 Edwin Catmull
For fundamental contributions to 3-D computer graphics, and the revolutionary impact of these techniques on computer-generated imagery (CGI) in filmmaking and other applications.[50] University of Utah,
Pixar,
Pat Hanrahan
Princeton University,
2020 Alfred Aho For fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.[51] Bell Labs,
Jeffrey Ullman Bell Labs,
2021 Jack Dongarra
For pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades.[52] Argonne National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
University of Manchester,
Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study,
University of Tennessee,
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Alan Perlis (1966)
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (1967)
Richard Hamming (1968)
Marvin Minsky (1969)
James H. Wilkinson (1970)
John McCarthy (1971)
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1972)
Charles Bachman (1973)
Donald Knuth (1974)
Allen Newell; Herbert A. Simon (1975)
Michael O. Rabin; Dana Scott (1976)
John Backus (1977)
Robert W. Floyd (1978)
Kenneth E. Iverson (1979)
Tony Hoare (1980)
Edgar F. Codd (1981)
Stephen Cook (1982)
Ken Thompson; Dennis Ritchie (1983)
Niklaus Wirth (1984)
Richard Karp (1985)
John Hopcroft; Robert Tarjan (1986)
John Cocke (1987)
Ivan Sutherland (1988)
William Kahan (1989)
Fernando J. Corbató (1990)
Robin Milner (1991)
Butler Lampson (1992)
Juris Hartmanis; Richard E. Stearns (1993)
Edward Feigenbaum; Raj Reddy (1994)
Manuel Blum (1995)
Amir Pnueli (1996)
Douglas Engelbart (1997)
Jim Gray (1998)
Fred Brooks (1999)
Andrew Yao (2000)
Ole-Johan Dahl; Kristen Nygaard (2001)
Ron Rivest; Adi Shamir; Leonard Adleman (2002)
Alan Kay (2003)
Vint Cerf; Bob Kahn (2004)
Peter Naur (2005)
Frances Allen (2006)
Edmund M. Clarke; E. Allen Emerson; Joseph Sifakis (2007)
Barbara Liskov (2008)
Charles P. Thacker (2009)
Leslie G. Valiant (2010)
Judea Pearl (2011)
Shafi Goldwasser; Silvio Micali (2012)
Leslie Lamport (2013)
Michael Stonebraker (2014)
Martin Hellman; Whitfield Diffie (2015)
Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
John L. Hennessy; David Patterson (2017)
Yoshua Bengio; Geoffrey Hinton; Yann LeCun (2018)
Ed Catmull; Pat Hanrahan (2019)
Alfred Aho; Jeffrey Ullman (2020)
Jack Dongarra (2021)
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Canadair CL-600-2B16 Challenger 604 (C-168), Royal Danish Air Force, static display at Danish Air Show 2014, Karup air force base, June 2014.
In the middle of 1970s, an American engineer, aviator and inventor William Powell Lear (and also a founder of the Lear Jet Corporation), created a concept of a long-distance business jet powered by two turbofan engines, known as LearStar 600. His idea was then supported by Canadair, the Canadian aerospace company, that finally acquired the project in 1976.
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The first production series of CL-600 Challenger was launched in 1980 but sales were extremely below the initial expectations and only ten Challengers became operational until 1982. That year, still not disappointed with the starting failure, the Canadair presented an upgraded CL-601 variant. However, this move has not been translated into a significant improvement of sales.
Only after 1986, when Canadair was purchased by Bombardier consortium, the aircraft eventually hit the market, achieving the number of 1,000 aeroplanes sold by 2015 and approximately 1,100 until today. It also became a base for further Bombardier developments – Global Express and CRJ100.
The first Challenger 604 for the Royal Danish Air Force was delivered in 1998, two another followed in 2000/2002. Those deliveries were secured by the Canada-based Field Aviation company, that took care of turning the business jet into a modern Multi-Mission Aircraft (MMA).
The Danish CL-604 jets, apart from providing the long-range VIP transportation capability for the Royal Family and Danish government, can secure a variety of maritime and surveillance missions, including fisheries protection, anti-pollution tasks, search and rescue operations, troops and passenger transportation.
Upgrading of CL-604 into the MMA included also the capability of operation from short, gravel runways – a very important feature for the RDAF, as its Challengers are also operating under the Danish Arctic Command, being sent on regular basis to Air Group West at Kangerlussuaq in Greenland.
The Danish CL-604s are also regularly deployed for NATO anti-piracy operations in the Indian Ocean or around the Horn of Africa. They also operate over the waters of Mediterranean Sea, within the European Border Agency (Frontex) missions related with protecting the EU borders.
And exactly one of such anti-pirate initiatives – Operation Ocean Shield, being a part of Operation Enduring Freedom between 2009 and 2019 – was the direct reason of acquiring the fourth Challenger for the RDAF. During the mission held in 2013, the Challenger C-168 deployed to the area of Indian Ocean suffered an engine failure at take-off from the air base at Seychelles. It soon turned out that the broken engine could not be repaired there so the only solution was to unmount another engine from one of Challengers based in Denmark and then sent it to Seychelles as replacement. This, however, radically lowered the operation capability of the RDAF Challenger fleet, as for a certain time there was only one aircraft left for service.
To help prevent similar situations in the future, the fourth, second-hand Challenger was bought in 2014. It received a ´C-215´ tactical number and was left permanently in the VIP transport configuration, therefore eliminating the need of time-consuming change between transport and surveillance configurations between missions of different kinds.
Since the day of becoming operational, the fleet of Danish CL-604 Challenger aircraft received already several upgrades and modifications. The latest modernization programme was launched in November 2019 and included the avionics upgrade (customised cockpit for three missionized aeroplanes), and installation of advanced communication and satellite systems.
All Danish CL-604s are operated by 721 Squadron, based at Aalborg (Jutland) and being a part of the Air Transport Wing. Apart from the fleet of four Challengers, this squadron is also operating C-130J Hercules heavy-transport aircraft.
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Review of Hawthorn & Child,
by Keith Ridgway
By J.P. Smith
Ah, the English policeman. The copper. The bobby. Old Bill. The filth, in the well-worn terminology of the London underworld. Until around the mid-1960s the British cop had one very flat foot in the comedy division. They carried no lethal weapons, wore silly helmets, and, at least for those who patrolled the streets of Cambridge when I lived there in the seventies and eighties, made their rounds on bicycles and smiled at you as they drifted past, gunless and placid in the pale East Anglian afternoon, as in a scene from an Ealing comedy.
In the movies, especially in the fifties, British cops, like their American counterparts, bumbled and blustered, but in the end usually made their collar (another British expression for making an arrest which, if the man taken in was obviously the likely lad, the apprehension was called "a fair cop"—"Okay, you got me, mate, it's a fair cop"); likewise with their American counterparts who, especially in pre-1960s movies, were almost always of robust Irish ancestry. When I was a kid, The Three Stooges on New York television was introduced by "Officer" Joe Bolton, a Manhattan cop with a twirling nightstick and a sloped back, a cheerful tune playing behind him, and a wink and a nod for us boys and girls about to watch this show about three mismatched men with bad (or no) hair and tempers gone awry. Things, though, were about to change. Especially when our hair started getting long.
Which is when the bumbling policeman was now armed with a Smith & Wesson and a weighted stick for beating you bloody. They were no longer the guys in blue you could always rely on in a bad moment. They'd become "the heat," "the fuzz," "the man." Inevitably: "The pigs." It's when the cops stopped being Larry and turned into Moe.
Nowadays even British cops carry weapons, sometimes shields, and are often called upon to wear helmets and Kevlar. It's a whole new world, where terror and violence is always just around the corner, along with the crazy people with their guns, which in America, as in Somalia, means everyone but you and me.
Say hello to a whole new kind of cop story as you open Keith Ridgway's Hawthorn & Child. We're in London now, a city so ancient that even its own ghosts spook each other. And these two cops, Hawthorn and Child, are just about as insubstantial as they drift through a series of shaggy cop tales in what's being called a novel, but is really not much more than a series of very tentatively connected chapters. Ridgway is an award-winning Irish author writing in this, his fourth published work of fiction, about two British cops—one black, one gay—who seem to belong to that pre-1960s world, where cops were basically supporting actors, figures against a backdrop. Because when they appear at all they fade just as quickly. The set-up is brilliant, full of promise: two cops who never quite fit in with their stereotypes, who are by identity outsiders, draw us into something that seems at the outset quite new. A rainbow of expectation hovers over the whole enterprise. And more or less remains there.
Yet Hawthorn and Child are more types than characters—two guys too undefined to make an impression—who play off each other and their surroundings with a kind of ease that makes this reader, at least, think that their creator had simply gone off them, as one grows weary of too much comfort food drawn from recipes followed once too often. These are characters without much color or personality in a book too episodic to be labeled a novel. There's a discontinuity to this work that holds the potential to be interesting on its own terms, but here doesn't really quite set up to make an impression.
We miss the opportunities a Derek Raymond, say, with his Factory series, would have seized, spiced and cooked till done, all wrapped in the very real world of crime and fear, blood and retribution. But here, even when horror is introduced (as in the section when the titular detectives come upon the scene of a particularly gruesome suicide), there's a distance that keeps us from being completely engaged by it. This detachment comes, I think, from Ridgway's style. For anyone with a knowledge of 20th century Irish fiction, it's very familiar. A sample of dialogue from one of the scenes—I almost wrote skits—following the discovery of the suicide victim:
"It's gotta rankle. Either way."
"It's gotta rankle what?"
"Rankle."
"Rankle?"
"Seeing someone you know. Who's done that to themselves."
"It rankles?"
"Yeah. Rankles. What's wrong with you?"
"I don't think rankle is the word you're looking for."
"Well what is the word then?"
A centimetre of ash fell on Hawthorn's thigh. He brushed at it, left a mark.
"Horror. Horrifies. It would horrify me. Grief, shock, all that."
"Yeah, but anger too."
"Some anger. Why anger?"
This comes across as a kind of exercise, something more off the top of one's head than as something focused and to the point, as in, say, the dialogue of Harold Pinter at his most resonant, where circularity and repetition can generate a real sense of threat.
In the end it's a little easy; in a work of fiction of this brevity and concision one expects more. Less a novel than a collection of anecdotes or even what the British used to call "revue sketches," most of them fleshed out in a calculatingly aimless manner promising insight but bordering on the kind of self-regarding cuteness that rises solely from style, Hawthorn & Child comes across as an early draft of something that may one day have become a novel of real substance, a quasi-mystery tale involving, say, a horrifying murder and two very mismatched but utterly compatible cops.
In prose that owes a great deal to Samuel Beckett and even more to the Flann O'Brien of At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman, Ridgway seems to be working his way towards a style he eventually could call his own, but here comes across as more mannered and second-hand than audacious and genuine. Though Keith Ridgway is still operating within the aura of his very obvious influences, there is a voice here murmuring to come out. I hope one day to hear it in full throat. And I won't write off those cops quite yet, either.
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J.P. SMITH is a frequent reviewer at The Nervous Breakdown. His eighth novel, If She Were Dead, was published in January.
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I would like to know if the people who posted to this thread in 2003 are still around and would let me know how the cat fish food worked out for them, VS the people who fed their koi, koi food.
The posts about catfish outliving carp & koi must have been made before Google was invented because it turns out that catfish can live up to 60 years vs Koi that have an average lifespan of 20-30 years (Provided that the koi pond is not in Japan).
How many of you had koi die from eating catfish food vs the people who fed theirs koi food? (This should be interesting).
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Peers dispute claim that tardigrades were entangled with qubits
on Monday, December 20, 2021 in Physics
Scientists and journalists alike are disputing claims made by an international team of researchers that they had entangled a tardigrade with superconducting qubits. Their paper is published on the arXiv preprint server. Virtually all of those with an opinion pointed out that the work by the researchers in this new effort did not involve entanglement.
Entanglement is a quantum superstate in which two objects such as atomic particles cannot be described independently of the state of the others—they are linked in a way that cannot be explained. Prior research has shown that entanglement happens naturally in nature and can be produced in a lab under specified conditions. To date, all such man-made entanglements have involved tiny objects, such as ions, nanoparticles or extremely tiny diamonds. Such experiments require cold temperatures and targets that are well organized. Notably, tardigrades, like all living creatures, are not well organized.
In their work, the researchers chilled a tardigrade down to near absolute zero and exposed it to very low pressure. They then placed it on top of two superconducting transmon qubits that were part of a quantum computer and found what they described as coupling. They then claimed that the coupling they had observed was evidence of entanglement between the tardigrade and the qubits.
Most of those commenting on the research noted that the coupling observed by the researchers could have been observed with or without entanglement. They also noted that placing a tardigrade on top of a qubit could result in altering the frequency of the qubit, but that is not the same thing as the two being entangled. Also, the tardigrade was not able to act as a single quantum object. In short, they suggest that the claim of entangling a tardigrade with a pair of qubits was completely false.
One thing that most did agree on was that the researchers had found a new level of robustness for tardigrades—some of those in the experiments had survived extremely inhospitable conditions near absolute zero and pressures as low as 0.000006 millibars for up to 17 days, and then revived and resumed their regular existence after conditions were returned to normal.
K. S. Lee et al, Entanglement between superconducting qubits and a tardigrade. arXiv:2112.07978v2 [quant-ph], arxiv.org/abs/2112.07978
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ABB wins order for Rickmers Linie ships
June 12 - ABB, the power and automation technology group, has won an order from Germany's Rickmers Group to supply advisory systems for dynamic trim optimisation and fleet management solutions for five multi-purpose ships operated by Group subsidiary, Ric
ABB says that its energy and fleet management systems will improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions for the five Rickmers Linie ships.
It will supply trim optimisation systems, energy management systems and fleet management solutions.
ABB's trim optimisation system dynamically measures the actual trim and advises the crew on optimal floating position of the ship with easy-to-understand and user-friendly displays. All data generated onboard is transferred to a cloud based application for vessel benchmarking. That provides the management onshore with full visibility of the fleet's energy consumption, as all systems are connected together by ABB's solution.
The delivered solutions are part of ABB's newly developed Advisory Suite of software, and will help the vessels save a considerable amount of fuel every year. By reducing fuel consumption, ABB will also help Rickmers reduce the vessels' environmental emissions.
"We trust ABB as a reliable partner for energy efficiency, and chose ABB due to the benefits that the system will bring to our fleet" says Jens Lassen, managing director of Rickmers Ship management and global head of Rickmers' business unit, Maritime Services.
ABB expanded its portfolio of solutions for Vessel Information and Control systems in 2011, and they now consist of a broad range of marine advisory and fleet management solutions, integrated automation, vessel management and control systems, and marine instrumentation and sensors, all of which help to optimise vessel operations and performance, improve energy efficiency, onboard equipment reliability and availability, and operational safety.
"With current fuel prices, the estimated payback of the system is less than a year" says Mikko Lepistö, advisory systems manager for ABB's Marine and Cranes business.
"Through industry experience and tests onboard we are certain that our trim optimisation system can help our customers save up to 5 percent in fuel consumption and consequently reduce emissions significantly."
The installation of the system will be done vessel by vessel and the first system is expected to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2012. The complete system for five vessels is expected to be fully operational by the end of year.
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Elliot Saccucci is an associate in the Toronto office of Miller Thomson's Labour and Employment Group. He practices labour and employment law, administrative law and sports law. Elliot routinely acts on behalf of clients litigating issues of discipline and discharge, restrictive covenants, picketing injunctions, human rights and wrongful dismissal. He also has experience in Judicial Review and administrative law. Elliot routinely advises clients on collective bargaining, executive compensation, litigation avoidance, privacy issues and employment standards issues.
Elliot also represents clients in professional and amateur athletic issues, including salary negotiation, endorsement advice and negotiation, as well as carding, team selection, disciplinary and doping violations. Elliot represents clients in mediations and before a variety of courts and tribunals, including boards of arbitration, the Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada, the Disciplinary Panel of the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court and the Federal Court of Appeal.
Prior to joining Miller Thomson, Elliot practiced at a boutique litigation firm specializing in media and defamation, employment, aviation, and sports law.
Elliot attended Wilfrid Laurier for his undergraduate studies, where he earned an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration in 2008. He obtained his law degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2012.
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In commemoration of their 10th anniversary in 2010, Nightmare did not only release a special CD, but also started with their GIANIZM concerts as early as January 9th. On that day, around 4pm in the afternoon, the whole of Saitama Super Arena was brining with excitement, when the lights in the hall turned dark and the Opening SE announced the beginning of the show. Torches lit up on stage and the fans clapped their hands to the beat until RUKA, Ni~ya, Sakito, Hitsugi and last but not least YOMI strode onto the scene under the cheering voices of that night's audience.


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Constantin Lascaris (Grec byzantin:  : Kōnstantínos Laskaris) (mort en 1205) est empereur byzantin de Nicée de 1204 à 1205, parfois nommé «  Lascaris ».

Biographie
Constantin Lascaris était le fils aîné de Manuel Lascaris et de Ioanna Karatzaina et de ce fait, le frère de Théodore Lascaris, gendre d'.

Dans la nuit du , alors que les armées de la Quatrième croisade forçaient les fortifications et mettaient à sac Constantinople, il est couronné empereur sous le nom de «  » par les derniers notables de la cour impériale.

Le chroniqueur Geoffroi de Villehardouin qui semble le tenir en haute estime ne le nomme que « L'un des meillors des Grecs qui ot non Constantins Li Ascres » ou « Costentin son frere [de Théodore Lascaris] qui ere uns des meillors Gieus de Romanie » .

Il passe en Asie Mineure avec son frère Théodore Lascaris où ils entreprennent de rassembler les forces byzantines hostiles à l'Empire latin de Constantinople. Il semble qu'il cède rapidement la première place à son frère qui ne sera toutefois couronné à Nicée qu'entre le 30 mars et le .

Après onze mois de règne, Constantin Lascaris est sans doute tué ou il meurt de ses blessures après la bataille d'Adramyttion, le  perdue devant l'armée rassemblée par Henri de Hainaut le frère de l'empereur latin  ; en effet, il disparaît de la documentation après cette date.

Son frère, le véritable fondateur de  l'Empire de Nicée, assure sa succession.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Venance Grumel Traité d'Études Byzantines  I « La chronologie » P.U.F Paris 1958.
 Rodolphe Guilland Études Byzantines P.U.F Paris 1959 « La destiné des empereurs de Byzance »  .
 Geoffroi de Villehardouin La conquête de Constantinople, dans « Historiens et Chroniqueurs du Moyen Âge », Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Gallimard Paris 1952.

Liens internes

Empereur byzantin du XIIIe siècle
Date de naissance non renseignée (XIIe siècle)
Décès en 1205
Byzantin mort au combat
Constantin
Empereur de Nicée
Empereur de la dynastie Lascaris

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