The A5 bag cassettes that Slaughter Prod. released in the 90's were such a pleasure. It's a simple, but interesting, presentation, and I was always really fond of them. The fact that there were very few (if any) disappointments in the ones I got my hands on doesn't hurt.
I found a stash of these in a couple of crates I haven't dipped into in ages. Tonight I got "Fac-Totum" and "Omega" from Die Sonne Satan and "Exile" from Drift burned into the computer. I had forgotten about Drift entirely, it was a Dark Ambient side project of the man behind Dead Body Love and Discordance. Good stuff. I don't think that project ever had CD release or collection from any of the cassettes come out.
Slaughter Prod. was a label I had hoped to do something for at some point. These cassette releases, and "Death Odors" series were among some of my favorite releases back then. There is a tone and mood that is captured in a lot of that material that is so definitive for how I view Dark Ambient and Death Industrial. It was a special label, and Marco Corbelli was always a good person to deal with. He's gone now unfortunately, but aside from his own music in Atrax Morgue and Morder Machine etc. he left a brilliant capsule of dark electronics with the releases on Slaughter Prod.
Prof. Gruntsplatter's Spookatorium is a podcast I do that has produced 26 episodes in the last 3 years or so. I didn't do any shows at all this past year, but I never officially canceled it. I had intended to do another Halloween episode this year, which would have been the 4th annual, and then hopefully revive it in some form going forward. Now it's Devil's Night (hello Detroit!!) and I don't have anything ready. So, here are the last three years worth of Halloween episodes for you to check out should you be so inclined instead.
If there is any real interest, and I can make the time, I would like to continue the show in some form. It's fun to do, obligations and other interests just sort of moved it to the back burner and the next thing I knew a year had passed. All of the past shows are still online through the link above so feel free to check those out too.


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Considering A Property Near Public Utilities?
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Discover how companies may have legal access through your property!
Alison Fielden & Co's May 2019 ARTICLE
Wayleaves
A wayleave is a permission granted, usually to a utility company (most commonly electricity companies), to cross land belonging to another person, with vehicles and equipment and lay or install infrastructure such as underground cables or overhead wires.
A wayleave can be granted by not only the owner of the land but also an occupier including a tenant of the land.
The term Wayleave originated some centuries ago but we would now consider it to be a type of licence, that is, a temporary permission which can be ended by a notice from the person who granted it, and which does not give any permanent interest in land that can be sold or passed on to others.
For this reason the electricity supplier or other body benefiting from the Wayleave will often wish to follow up a wayleave with a more formal arrangement giving permanent rights over the land, for example where underground cables need to be installed. Commonly this would be an "easement" which looks in many ways similar to a wayleave, but must be granted by the owner of the land concerned not a tenant or other occupier. It would be registerable at the Land Registry as a permanent right over the land.
Sometimes the electricity company will seek a lease of the relevant land, which gives it the exclusive right to occupy that area. This is preferred for example where there is an electricity substation which the electricity company would want to fence off for safety reasons.
A wayleave can sometimes be implied e.g. where the occupier or owner leaves and the new occupier or owner allows the arrangement to continue, or where a fixed term expires and nothing is done about it.
In some cases the Secretary of State can grant the electricity company a statutory wayleave (known as a "necessary" wayleave).
This can arise for instance where an owner or an occupier gives notice to end an agreed wayleave. Statute then gives the company three months to apply for a necessary wayleave. A procedure has to be followed similar to compulsory purchase procedures and this will include a hearing and a formal decision after consideration of the evidence.
With any kind of wayleave ancillary rights can be granted, including tree cutting to protect the installations, and surveys to establish the suitability of the ground for the works intended. In the case of statutory wayleaves these will always be implied but otherwise they must be negotiated.
When buying property which appears to have an electrical infrastructure under, on or over it, it is advisable to check the status of these and consider having any wayleave transferred. A pre-contract search can often be obtained from utility companies to establish exactly what wayleaves exist over particular properties.
For more information please feel free to contact us and ask for Alison Fielden or Phil Stephens at Alison Fielden & Co, The Gatehouse, Dollar Street, Cirencester, GL7 2AN. Telephone 01285 763261 or email alison@alisonfielden.co.uk and philip@alisonfielden.co.uk
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Hal Gregersen Jeff Dyer and Clayton Christensen in Innovation Leadership/Management
Most people have heard that phrase hundreds, if not thousands of times. It often comes at the end of a presentation or meeting and yet most attendees shuffle away without posing a query. That's unfortunate because innovation often begins with a question. In fact, disruptive innovators ask more questions than non-innovators—and their questions tend to be more provocative. That's what we found in a recent eight-year research project based on interviews with founders and CEOs of the world's most innovative companies (people like Jeff Bezos at Amazon, Marc Benioff at Salesforce.com and Meg Whitman at eBay) and surveys of more than 5,000 executives and entrepreneurs from diverse industries and countries.
Our study unveiled five innovation skills (associational thinking, observing, idea networking, experimenting and questioning) that anyone, including CEOs, can use to discover disruptive new business models, products, services and processes. Of these five skills, we found that questioning often served as the starting point for disruption.
In fact, questioning is a way of life for innovators, not a trendy intellectual exercise. Our research found that not only do innovators ask more questions than non-innovators, they also ask more provocative ones. For instance, innovators who "strongly agreed" with survey statements such as, "I often ask questions that challenge the status quo," produced twice as many successful new businesses than innovators who simply "agreed." Among the different types of innovators we studied, product innovators relied most on questioning to deliver results, followed by start-up and corporate entrepreneurs and, finally, process innovators. (See "Who Asks the Most Provocative Questions?" below)
By asking lots of questions, A.G. Lafley (recent chairman of the board and CEO at Procter & Gamble) helped change the game at P&G. Lafley often began conversations with: "Who is your target consumer here? What does she want? What do you know about her? What kind of an experience does she really want? What does she think is missing today?" When working within categories, Lafley often asked, "How well do you understand the different segments of consumers—not so much what we know about them demographically, but psychographically? What do we know about their biggest desires that aren't met today? What are they most unhappy about today?"
After searching for a deep understanding of what is, Lafley shifted lines of inquiry to powerful what-if questions to help deliver customer-centric innovations. For example, if talking to someone about science and technology, he asked: "What else is available in the world? Where else might we access what we need? Who across P&G—thinking across our business units or outside of P&G—could help us get what we need in the timeframe and cost structure that we want?" Most of all, Lafley was constantly hunting for counterintuitive questions. Instead of asking, "How can we help consumers get floors and toilets clean?" he would query, "How can we give consumers their Saturday mornings back?" He found the latter question far more fruitful for surfacing rich insights about what might be in order to develop new products and services that consumers would want to "hire" to get their jobs done at home.
How to Ask Disruptive Questions
Innovators' provocative questions push boundaries, assumptions and borders. They leave few rocks unturned when cultivating the garden. Aaron Garrity, founder of XANGO, told us, "I am questioning, always questioning, with a revolutionary mindset." During interviews with disruptive innovators, we noticed not only a high frequency of questions but a pattern as well. They started with a deep-sea-like exploration of what currently is and then rocketed to the skies for an equally compelling search for what might be. Focusing on what is, they asked lots of who, what, when, where and how questions (as world-class journalists or investigators do) to dig beneath the surface and truly "know the place for the first time" (as poet T. S. Eliot observed). They also invoke a series of what-caused questions to grasp the drivers behind why things are the way they are.
"To disrupt the territory, innovators puncture the status quo with why, why-not and what-if questions that uncover counterintuitive, surprising solutions."
Collectively, these questions help describe the territory (physically, intellectually and emotionally) and provide a launching pad for the next line of inquiry. To disrupt the territory, innovators puncture the status quo with why, why-not and what-if questions that uncover counterintuitive, surprising solutions. Whether descriptive or disruptive, innovators perpetually invoke powerful questions to help see beneath the surface of everyday action and discover what's never been.
Tactic #1: Ask "what is?" questions. In hot pursuit of what is, innovators inquire deeply for answers about what is happening right here and right now to gain understanding and empathy for others' experiences. IDEO and other successful design firms employ diverse questions about the physical, intellectual and emotional terrain to obtain a rich three-dimensional view of how end users actually operate.
Intuit's Scott Cook also does this by asking fundamental questions such as, "Where is the real problem?" What's the person trying to achieve?" "What's most important?" and ultimately, "What's the real pain point?" Innovators like Cook know their questions work when they reveal what is and build empathy for how it feels. Such empathic understanding produces the deep understanding behind better what-caused and what-if questions.
Tactic #2: Ask "what caused?" questions. The next step in understanding the way things are is to ask causal questions to gain insights into why things are the way they are. To illustrate, Mike Collins, founder and CEO of the Big Idea Group (BIG), shared an example of how inventors hunt down the real job to be done by understanding better what is really going on in their world. One inventor had pitched a 15-minute card game to Collins and his team for potential development and distribution by BIG. Collins felt that the game, as presented by the inventor, wouldn't crack a tough family-gaming market. But instead of turning the inventor away, Simon Cowell-style, he paused and asked, "What caused you to develop this game?" The inventor quickly replied by answering a series of implicit who, what, when, where and how questions: he had three children (who?) and little time after work (when?) to spend with them at home (where?). He wanted to have fun in the evening with his children (what?), but there was no time for games like Monopoly or Risk. He was in search of a 15-minute game (how?) that would do the job of connecting him with his children for a quick and enjoyable few minutes at the end of the day.
From Collins's initial "what caused?" question, a series of answers to implicit who, what, when, where questions emerged that resulted in a successful line of "12 Minute Games" sold through Target. These games did the job many families needed at the end of a busy day or long week, and the insight to that job came by asking questions that gave simple, but critical insights into what was really going on in the inventor's life.
Tactic #3: Ask "why?" and "why not?" questions. After describing the territory well enough to thoroughly understand what is, innovators started their search for new, potentially disruptive solutions by leveraging why and why-not questions to discover what might be. David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue and Azul airlines, says that one of his strengths "is an ability to look at a process or a practice that has been in place for a long time and ask myself, 'Why don't they do it this other way?'"
In his most recent venture, a Brazilian airline named Azul, Neeleman asked his senior team, "Why aren't more Brazilians taking advantage of Azul's low fares?" Azul's flights were cheaper than the competition's, but his question surfaced the real challenge— getting price-sensitive customers to the airport. Then Neeleman asked, "How much does a cab cost for our typical customer to get to the airport?" The answer was "too much," potentially 40 percent to 50 percent of the airline ticket cost. So Neeleman searched for lower-cost bus or train alternatives, but they were either nonexistent or too infrequent. This vacuum prompted him to then ask, "Why not start our own free bus service to get customers to the airports (to take advantage of Azul's inexpensive fares)?" Today, passengers book over 3,000 bus rides per day to the airport with Azul, the fastest-growing airline in Brazil.
Tactic #4: Ask "what if" questions. At Hindustan Lever (Unilever's business in India) executives wondered how to reach millions of potential consumers in small Indian villages where severe constraints existed: no retail distribution network, no advertising coverage and poor roads and transport. Collectively, these constraints challenged its existing business model and produced a fundamental question: How might we sell products in small villages without any access to traditional distribution networks, advertising or infrastructure?
The answer ultimately surfaced from direct-selling business models (from companies like Avon). In close partnership with nongovernmental organizations, banks and the government, Hindustan Lever recruited women in self-help groups across rural India to become direct-to-consumer sales distributors for its soaps and shampoos. The company also provided substantial training for them to succeed as micro-entrepreneurs. By 2009, the innovative solution in a highly constrained country context produced over 45,000 women entrepreneurs selling Hindustan Lever products to three million consumers in 100,000 villages.
Questioning as an Executive Innovation Turbocharger
Questions are critical catalysts to creative insights. And innovators were even more likely to successfully launch new ideas when they combined an ongoing instinct to formulate and ask the right questions with other innovator's DNA skills. In other words, executives and entrepreneurs who ask questions as they observe the world, like anthropologists, discover more than those who don't. Leaders who ask questions as they network with polar-opposite people (holding vastly different perspectives) discover more than those who don't. Leaders who ask questions as they experiment and prototype discover more than those who don't. Ultimately, questioning combined with the other innovator's DNA skills can truly turbocharge innovation results—or you and your company.
Who Asks the Most Provocative Questions?
Innovators mostly on questioning to deliver results.
Sample Questions: 1. Asks insightful "what if" questions that provoke exploration of new possibilities and frontiers.
2. Often asks questions that challenge the status quo.
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6 unforgettable nuclear disasters that terrified the world
As our recent worst industrial fires post showed, when occupational disasters strike, they can be devastating. However, when those disasters involve nuclear power, the effects can be catastrophic. Below we have listed some of the worst peace-time nuclear incidents the world has known…
1. Chernobyl Disaster, 1986
Aerial view of the damaged core on 3 May 1986
When people mention nuclear disasters, this is normally the first name on their lips – and for good reason. When a fire
and explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, large quantities of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere, spreading over much of the western USSR and Europe. While only 31 people died in the initial accident, the estimate of the long-term cost to human life in the form of cancers and other related diseases is around 4,000. The financial cost of the incident and the ongoing containment is difficult to calculate, but it has been suggested to be in excess of US $250billion.
2. Kyshtym, 1957
Another accident within the former USSR, though this one is slightly less well known, despite it being the third worst nuclear disaster of all time. When an explosion occurred at the Mayak plutonium production site on September 29, 1957, a plume of radioactive contamination was released over hundreds of kilometres. While no one was killed in the immediate aftermath of the accident, the disaster exposed 22 villages to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 being evacuated. Due to the secretive nature of the USSR at the time, it is impossible to accurately estimate the cost of the incident, either in human, or financial terms.
3. Goiânia Accident, 1987
When two opportunistic scrap metal thieves broke into an abandoned Brazilian hospital in 1987, they had no way of knowing that they were about to trigger one of the world's worst nuclear contamination incidents. After scavenging parts from old hospital machinery, the thieves came across a teletherapy radiation capsule. Unaware of the danger the material possessed, they set about dismantling the unit with a screwdriver and sharing the glowing blue material amongst friends and family before selling the metal on. It wasn't until local people began to fall ill that the source of radiation was discovered – at which point 249 people were found to have received significant radioactive contamination. Four people died as a direct result of the incident, and several houses were demolished in the aftermath.
4. Windscale Fire, 1957
1957 was a bad year for nuclear disasters, with this infamous incident in Cumbria being ranked the worst radioactive incident on British soil. When a nuclear reactor caught fire on October 10, 1957, a significant amount of radioactive material was released into the atmosphere, spreading across the UK. While no one was injured directly by the incident, it has since been estimated that the disaster was responsible for an additional 240 cancer deaths. The Windscale site has since been decontaminated and is now owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.
A clean-up crew working to remove radioactive contamination at Three Mile Island.
5. Three Mile Island Accident, 1979
On March 27, 1979, a mechanical failure at a commercial nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, United States, triggered a partial meltdown, resulting in the worst commercial nuclear incident in US history. While no human lives were lost as a direct result of the accident, the clean up cost was phenomenal, taking 14 years at a cost of $1billion. Furthermore, the incident kick-started a wave of negative publicity towards nuclear power in the US, with thousands of people attending anti-nuclear marches and rallies across the country in the wake of the disaster.
6. Fukushima Daiichi Disaster, 2011
The last and most recent disaster on our list is also the most serious since Chernobyl. When a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, was hit by a massive tsunami on March 11, 2011, three of the plant's six nuclear reactors went into meltdown. The next day the plant began to release significant amounts of radioactive material. While again no fatalities were recorded as a direct result of the disaster (though more than 10,000 people lost their lives in the tsunami), more than 300,000 people were evacuated from their homes. The clean up operation since has proved costly and is still ongoing, with continued leaks of radioactive water hampering the efforts of the authorities.
Fortunately, nuclear incidents such as those listed above are incredibly rare events, thanks to ever increasing standards of safety and management, qualities honoured by the annual RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards. Nevertheless, the above list serves as a potent reminder of the importance of maintaining these high standards, particularly within the nuclear industry.
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I got a second analog camera.
I got a new old camera from my father. A Canon 1000N with a vintage AF only 35-70mm lens. The fact that the lens is, or at least appears to be, AF only is actually quite odd. I also got also a bunch of 35mm film.
We were digging through our basement to find something different, and there it was lying in a box. Alongside the camera where a few rolls of Ilford black and white film and also two boxes of two rolls each Fujicolor 200. In the camera was a just started roll. But I realized that to late and burned it by opening the film door.
Only downside is that all the film expired between 2006 and 2009. I'm still going to use one roll of each sort to see how it turns out. Today I burned through a roll of Ilford FP4 Plus with an ISO rating of 125 that expired November 2006. All my other film sits in the freezer for now.
The downside of analog photography for me is, that it's quite expensive. Developing film is expensive. And the batteries I needed for that Canon 1000N that I found are 13€ + shipping + taxes, and that ads up to about 23€. And those batteries are not rechargeable.
I guess that's what I like better on my Pentax ME. Sure, it takes batteries for the light meter, but it also works great without. Only that it then operates with a fixed shutter speed. And it doesn't have AF. But it takes standard batteries that you can get in every drug store and they last a long time. Not like the batteries from today.


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Malaysia CM Attended People Media Factory Meet
*We are happy to support films: Dato Sri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, Chief Minister of Perak, Malaysia.*
People Media Factory hosted Meet and Greet with honorable Dato Sri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, Chief Minister of Perak, Malaysia and Telugu Producers at Ramanaidu Studios, in which many renowned producers and hero Adivi Sesh graced the event while Guru Films, Sunitha has anchored the event . Telugu cinema evolved in all aspects and films are being made with International standards. Many filmmakers select picturesque locations abroad for filming, in order to provide visual treat to everyone. Malaysia is providing easy access and permits for film shootings. They ensure in providing timely access to all permits in their country and are being helpful to filmmakers.
Speaking at the event, Chief Minister of Perak State of Malaysia, Ahmad Faizal Azumu said, 'I am very much glad to come here, and share my views. Last three months, I have been with my friend Mahesh, who visited our country Malaysia and I told him that I would love to visit India, which is a part of me; I am very fond of Indian food. My main purpose to visit India is to introduce Perak, one of the largest states of Malaysia to you all. In Perak, 48 percent of land is covered with forests, we have oldest tropical forest. For the shooting of the film, producers are going to many countries in Asia, please visit Perak State also; the atmosphere in Perak is very quiet. I thank Mr. Mahesh for giving me an opportunity to meet the filmmakers of Tollywood. Also, I thank People Media Factory for inviting me to this meeting. Indian filmmakers are going U.S and other countries than Asia. Shooting in the state of Perak will be done at low budget. The cinematography and technology used in Telugu cinemas is amazing. I invite all the filmmakers to visit Perak for film shooting".
Prominent producer Sharath Marar said, "Thanks to the Chief Minister of the state of Perak, Sri Ahmad Faizal Azumu, for delivering such a powerful speech. I have noticed that there are many fabulous locations in Perak in the visuals. I am eagerly looking forward to visit Perak and make a film. I appreciate People Media Factory which arranged this Meet and Greet".
Many renowned filmmakers from Tollywood include Bharat Chowdary, Kiran Reddy, Abhishek Nama, Mythri Movies Ravi, Anil Sunkara, Raj Kandukuri, Abhishek Aggarwal, Radha Mohan, Gemini Kiran, Siva Kumar, Ram Satyanarayana and others participated in this event Meet and Greet, arranged by People Media Factory. Mr Vivek Kuchibhotla, partner of People Media Factory, felicitated Dato Sri Ahmad Faizal Azumu with floral bouquet.


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Just another journey… Giovanni De Caro Blog
Just another journey . . .
Salvador de Bahia and Arraial d'Ajuda
From the beaches of Arraial to those of Maceiò
Olinda, Recife and Praia da Pipa
Natal, Fortaleza,
Sao Luis, Belem
The trip on the Amazon from Belem to Santarem
Alter do Chao and the new river journey to Manaus
Manaus, Bogotà (Colombia) and Villa de Leyva
Tayrona National Park and Santa Marta
Searching for the Lost City . . .
and surrounding
Cartagena and Playa Blanca
Mompos, Medellin and Pablo Escobar
Salento in the "zona cafetera" and the sculptures of San Agustin
Lake Quilotoa, Kichwa people, legend of the condor and Banos
The Amazon rainforest near Puyo and the colonial city of Cuenca
Guayaquil, Playas, back in Quito and Ipiales (Colombia)
I cross again the Colombia and I reach Panama passing through the archipelago of San Blas (Kuna Yala)
Santa Catalina, Coiba and Bocas del Toro in Panama e Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica
San Jose, Montezuma, Playa Santa Teresa and Monteverde in Costa Rica
Monteverde and Arenal in Costarica, San Juan, Ometepe island and Granada in Nicaragua
Granada and Leon in Nicaragua, and Antigua in Guatemala
Mayan ruins of Copan in Honduras and Semuc Champey in Guatemala
Tikal, Rio Dulce, Livingstone in Guatemala and swimming with sharks in Belize
Lake Atitlan in Guatemala
In San Cristobal and its surroundings, Chiapas, Mexico
Oaxaca, Mazunte, the Zapatista village Oventic, Campeche and Cancun
Final destiny: Cuba
Dubai and Indonesia
The Trans-Siberian in Russia
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St. Petersburg and Finland
Posted on October 28, 2019 by Dekaro
Hello friends! This time a very short trip to Saint Petersburg (Leningrad, for the nostalgic) and Finland. Unfortunately, after a couple of days my camera stopped working, maybe for taking too much rain, so I didn't take many photos. I took some pics with mobile after.
Anyway, let's see them.
In a coffee. Behind the window, the Kazan Cathedral. Saint Petersburg is a majestic city, with broad avenues and huge buildings.
Founded in 1703 in a marshy and inhospitable area, as a military and commercial outpost on the Baltic Sea, it expanded in a few years at the request of the tsar Peter the Great, who for its construction brought together serfs and workers from all over Russia. At least 30,000 workers died in those years due to terrible working conditions.
The city took on a European, modern, imperial aspect, and the Russian aristocracy soon began to prefer it to old Moscow. Already in 1712 it became the new capital. It will remain until 1918.
In 1914, at the outbreak of World War I, the name was changed to Petrograd, because St. Petersburg sounded too German. In 1924, a few days after Lenin's death, the name was changed again, this time to Leningrad. In 1991, following a referendum, it took back the old name, St. Petersburg.
Inside the cathedral in the fortress of Peter and Paul, the place of the first settlement. Almost all of the tsars following the founding of the city are buried in this cathedral.
Little sailors.
Some metro stations are so deep that seems like a descent into the underworld. They are very elegant.
Mosaics on the ceiling of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, so called because it was founded in the place where, in 1881, the tsar Alexander II was assassinated by the revolutionary group, of anarchist and socialist tendencies, "Narodnaja Volja" ("People's Will"). From the nineteenth century to the 1917 revolution, St. Petersburg was a crossroads of fervent philosophical and political disquisitions, as evidenced for example by Dostoevsky's novels, which contributed to the flourishing of countless revolutionary groups.
Autumn trees stand out behind one of the city's 340 bridges.
An old woman greets me from a bridge under which our boat was passing. But after she spat! (I'm joking )
The crusier Aurora. One of those cannons fired the blank shot as signal to the various Bolshevik groups scattered around the city to start the October revolution.
One of the few locals that has remained as it was from Soviet times, when workers used to come to drink a few glasses of vodka. On the wall, there are still portraits of Lenin and Marx.
At dusk. As I said, it is a very spacious city, with wide avenues.
St. Isaac's Cathedral, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world.
Inside the Hermitage, one of the largest and most extraordinary museums in the world, perhaps the most elegant. It is located in the Winter Palace complex, the former palace of the tsars, among splendid rooms like this. Its name comes from the fact that paradoxically at the beginning it was born as a small place in which Catherine II wanted to stay sometimes by herself, in peace from the court pomp and just surrounded by some work of art. Year after year the art collection expanded immensely, until including all the greatest European artists.
Photo taken with the mobile, because as I said, the camera stopped working from now on.
And as you can see there is also Dekaro exposed at the Hermitage! On the left, instead, a modest sculpture by Michelangelo, moreover unfinished.
On a frigid and stormy morning we took the train to Helsinki from a station that is famous because there, in April 1917, returned from Europe Lenin, after 10 years since the last time he had fled.
He was welcomed by many people, testifying to the fact that the small faction of the Bolsheviks was gaining more and more support among the population. A few days later Lenin exposed the "April Theses", with the famous "all power to the soviets", in which he proposed the definitive break with the bourgeois, capitalist, aristocratic and reactionary forces of the current provisional government born of the revolution of February (the soviets were the workers' councils, later including also peasants and soldiers, and were part of the provisional government). He asked also for the immediate exit from the "predatory imperialist war". The further worsening of the Russian situation in the following months due to the absurd First World War brought most of the popular consensus towards the Bolsheviks who in October felt ready to take power.
For the full story of the revolution, I suggest to see one the great masterpieces of Eisenstein: October.
I did instead the reverse path. From St. Petersburg I arrived in Helsinki, where I exposed the "October Theses", in which, synthesizing, I say: capitalism won, let's give up and let's watch football in tv. Ehhhhh … I'm kidding !! Nothing could be more false, indeed. Despite what they want us to believe, I see around more and more a great desire to fight against this disgusting system in a constructive way, especially since now is at stake the survival of the entire planet. And in fact, as I write right now, rebellions are igniting the streets of Chile, Ecuador, Catalonia, Lebanon, Hong Kong, etc. … etc …
The point is to converge our heterogeneous forces against the true common enemy: capitalism, especially in its most blood-sucker form: the international finance.
And here we are! You saw already Giamma in a couple of posts. About Riccardo, is now a regular guest of Dekaro Diary.
We were in Lapland, in northern Finland, on the parallel that marks the Arctic Circle, on a tour where we hoped to see the Northern Lights. But unfortunately we didn't see them because, although it seems there was activity, the sky was covered with clouds.
I took this photo with a camera and a tripod kindly lent by the tour organizers, over a bridge where we stopped to take pictures. Even if appears a light in the background, we were completely in the dark.
Again with mobile's camera, an autumn road in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. The city is also known for stealing the birthplace of Santa Claus, who instead is, as we know, Turkish.
And in the end Helsinki, capital and largest city of Finland, with 650,000 inhabitants of the approximately 5.5 million Finns.
Internal staircase of the splendid Helsinki public library. As you see, it's not really necessary to have expansive cameras to take interesting photos. It is just necessary that bit of intuition, artistic glance, creativity, aesthetic sense and experience.
Lastly, a group selfie where there is also Antonino, a Sicilian friend who was working in Malta and now has moved to Helsinki with the Finnish girlfriend, in this eternal precarious diaspora of us young, and not anymore young, Italians.
All power to the soviets!
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Ian Wright says players and countries competing in the Africa Cup of Nations deserve more respect.
The rescheduled Africa Cup of Nations will be played in Cameroon between January 9 and February 6, 2022, with Sky Sports showing all 52 games live; around 40 Premier League players are set to feature in the tournament.
Former England and Arsenal striker Ian Wright says media coverage of Europe-based players travelling to the Africa Cup of Nations is "disrespectful" and "tinged with racism".
The 24-team competition begins on January 9 and will feature a host of leading Premier League players, with Sky Sports showing all 52 games live.
Wright said coverage of the tournament and the issue of player release during the European season, is in marked contrast to how Euro 2020 was treated.
"Is there ever a tournament more disrespected than the Africa Cup of Nations?" Wright said in a video posted on Instagram.
"There is no greater honour than representing your country. The coverage is completely tinged with racism.
"We played our Euros across 10 countries in the middle of a pandemic and there's no issue at all. But Cameroon, a single country hosting a tournament, is a problem."
Footballers heading to the Africa Cup of Nations finals will be allowed to play for their clubs until January 3.
Wright added that he objected to players being asked whether or not they intend to play for their countries.
"You are getting journalists asking players … players getting asked if they will be honouring the call-ups to their national teams. Imagine if that was an English player representing the Three Lions. Can you imagine the furore?"
Premier League title hopefuls Liverpool will be without Egypt's Mohamed Salah, Senegal's Sadio Mane and Guinea's Naby Keita.
Mohamed Salah will feature for Egypt in Cameroon
Crystal Palace will be missing Wilfried Zaha, Jordan Ayew and Cheikhou Kouyate, but their manager Patrick Vieira said there was no question of trying to persuade them to skip the finals.
"I respect and understand the passion and the importance to players to go and represent their country so I will never stop any player going to play the Africa Cup of Nations," Vieira said, while calling for media to cover the event more seriously.
Wright said the players and countries deserved more respect.
"Loads of the best players in Europe right now are African," noted the 58-year-old, who made 33 appearances for England.
"If we love them at club level why can't we love them at international level like their counterparts across the globe? Why is this tournament constantly getting so much flak?"
AFCON kicks off on January 9 and the group stages finish on January 20.
The round of 16 takes place from January 23 to January 26, while the quarter-finals are on January 29 and 30.
It is a busy schedule with the semi-finals on February 2 and 3, and the conclusion of the tournament on February 6 with the final and the third-place play-off.
January 9 – AFCON group stage starts
January 20 – AFCON group stage ends
January 23 to 26 – AFCON last 16
January 29 and 30 – AFCON quarter-finals
February 2 and 3 – AFCON semi-finals
February 6 – AFCON final and third-place play-off
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Those who repeat their mistakes are doomed to perform them again and again. Those who refuse to look at history and refuse take into account economic, political, social, and scientific influences on that history are doomed to walk its narrow path again. I've hopefully woken up a smarter woman for having opened my eyes and seen yours.
I used to think you were innocuous, and needed little thought. Doesn't "right" always win? The thing I forgot is that from every point of view, all people believe they do "good." I gave up good and bad long ago – there is only love and hate, war and peace, poverty and fecundity, and the long variations in-between. Where we land on the continuum is up to us. You, Ignorance and Fear, are at the far ends of the spectrum.
What I cannot fathom is why you have so many friends? And why those friends continue to have influence? I think that it is because we truly live in a place where we welcome fear and ignorance; otherwise, we wouldn't embrace them. When I finally had the courage to stand up and turn off my media feed, I became my own thinker. My mistake was forgetting that you hadn't turned off yours. My mistake was not knowing the company you keep.
And that is the part that I have the biggest difficulty with and sadness about. It's not about your policy of lies and deceit. Everyone lies. It's not about your messed up policies of misdirection and obfuscation. We all do that, really… vis a vis statistics. No. It's about the fact that you have taken in so many of the people that I know and respect. You have made them your friends. And they willingly embraced you. We all know that community is built by like-minded people. Ergo, those people who I believed were my community, my tribe, have ceased to be so. Where I thought they were open to new ideas, respectful of human life, fair to the less fortunate, and desirous of building a nation of educated, thoughtful, and creative human beings… well, I was wrong. Because, yes, a vote for you is a vote for the antithesis of all those good works. Yes. Those who went this direction must embrace what they really are – full of hate, violence, racism, sexism, unethical behavior, illegal behavior, and true ignorance. A vote for you, Fear, is a vote to accept hatred into your heart. A vote for you, Ignorance, is a vote to accept the brutal treatment of your fellow human beings, the ridicule, and blindness to conditions, and deafness to the plight of people who truly have it worse than you. If that is what one of my tribe has accepted, then they are no tribe of mine. You cannot run away from it. I do judge you on your actions, and your actions support these concepts. Do you deny it? Yes? Then you have made my case.
As Dr. Stephen Covey said, "Seek first to understand, then to be understood." I have listened, tried to understand. I have tried like a lover who is desperate for embraces in the cold, dark night. I must admit that Yoda was right – there is no try. Do, or do not. And I have to finally admit defeat. I do not completely understand. Perhaps I am too tired to understand, or maybe weak myself. I do know that I cannot be a party to the toxicity that you engender. I will continue to work toward understanding – but I cannot do it with the noise you bring to the table. I thought about a trial separation but that seems inadequate. I know that I have to break it off completely.
So, Fear and Ignorance, and your tribe, I unfriend you. I am walking away, taking my belongings with me. If I need to get a civil standby to watch over me while I take my goods away, so be it. I will protect what is still my tribe with all the tools I have available. I'm clearing the phone book of you and your ilk. I'm going to out and party with my true tribe and make plans for my future. I will send you back all your hatred and lies in a nice box, wrapped in pretty emptiness and delivered by stoic apathy. You will not hear from me for some time. It's just as well. I wouldn't know what to say to you until the plans for the future become clearer.
Eventually, you both may make it back into my life as a distant bystander. In the interspace, I will grow stronger. I choose to dust myself off and not only be deaf to your cries and woes but to actively disarm them. As a friend just said, there will be many opportunities for heroism in the next four years. I pick up that challenge and may create a few of my own. It's time that I got off my lazy, complacent intentions and got some real work done. I'm not listening any more, I'm doing. I will more than survive you. I will take root, I will thrive, and I will work hard to not take from you but to diminish you. I want your flame to be small, cold, and wanting… wanting for air to breathe and for darkness to enfold you. The way I make you small is by making the rooms of life so bright that you disperse in the oncoming day. I will challenge every word you speak and every game you play. I will take bruises and beatings if it means keeping you at bay.
I want to live my life with a community and country of which I can be proud. That starts at home. For those of you who want grace, passion, creativity, love, hope, truth, knowledge, patience, tolerance, and true justice, I am with you. It's time to drive our tribe forward once and for all, and let the last gasps of Fear and Ignorance be a hollow whisper in our memories. Goodbye. I will not wish you well or luck because I do not wish them for you. I only wish for you both to get exactly what you deserve.


A few years ago, an ED colleague called me up, upset and frustrated. Her team had started mobilizing against her. What had started as a misalignment in priorities spiraled out of control, and now staff were having clandestine meetings. The once-friendly office was cold, to the point where staff would no longer say hi when she entered. When she tried to ask for feedback, the attempts were rebuffed, leaving her hurt and confused. Morale was at an all-time low, and she thought about quitting daily.
Another leader, in another city, was in a similar situation, but with a particular member of his team. A firing of a problematic staff member who had been close to this team member started a chain of events. Now all his actions and motives were suspect. Even the simplest thing—closing the office door to accept a phone call—was interpreted as a sign of malice. Other staff who had no issues with him were now being pulled into the drama, and a narrative was building that he was prejudiced against certain ethnic groups, which was deeply unsettling to a leader of color at a social justice organization. A faction that agreed with him on the firing formed to support him, and the tension between the two groups threatened the mission.
Meanwhile, similar dynamics were happening between two great organizations that I know. A misalignment of, and lack of communications upfront regarding, values and priorities resulted in tensions between the groups as they tried to collaborate on a project. A narrative was formed, and one group's every action, including attempts at a "clean slate" and renewed relationship building, were met with suspicion.
These dynamics happen so often in our work that I have recognized a pattern, which I am going to call The Wheel of Disillusionment, and it is a destructive, terrifying force that we need to recognize and understand so we can mitigate the damage that it wreaks on our sector. This cycle is different than regular conflict because there is usually a clear power differential. It happens to people who are white, of color, of different gender identities, new to the work or decades-long activists. I am writing about it here with the hopes that it might help you if you are stuck this situation, or it might be useful to know so you can avoid it. Please keep in mind that these are just preliminary thoughts, based on observations, not scientifically tested, and they may change as I get feedback and think about it some more.


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Fuzzy generators and fuzzy direct sums of Abelian groups
D. S. Malik, John N. Mordeson, P. S. Nair
We define the concept of a fuzzy generating set and describe the fuzzy subgroup which it generates. We introduce the notion of a minimal fuzzy generating set and we show that any fuzzy subgroup whose support is cyclic has a minimal fuzzy generating set. We show by examples that this result breaks down if the support of A is a direct sum of two or more cyclic groups. These examples also show that a fuzzy subgroup of a group G need not be a fuzzy direct sum of subgroups whose supports are cyclic even if G is a direct sum of cyclic groups. We show that every fuzzy subgroup is a fuzzy direct sum of p-primary fuzzy subgroups.
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0114(92)90218-S
10.1016/0165-0114(92)90218-S
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Malik, D. S., Mordeson, J. N., & Nair, P. S. (1992). Fuzzy generators and fuzzy direct sums of Abelian groups. Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 50(2), 193-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0114(92)90218-S
Fuzzy generators and fuzzy direct sums of Abelian groups. / Malik, D. S.; Mordeson, John N.; Nair, P. S.
In: Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Vol. 50, No. 2, 10.09.1992, p. 193-199.
Malik, DS, Mordeson, JN & Nair, PS 1992, 'Fuzzy generators and fuzzy direct sums of Abelian groups', Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 193-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0114(92)90218-S
Malik DS, Mordeson JN, Nair PS. Fuzzy generators and fuzzy direct sums of Abelian groups. Fuzzy Sets and Systems. 1992 Sep 10;50(2):193-199. https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-0114(92)90218-S
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As always, I hope you enjoy today's holidays and observances, a music link to Bette Midler, factoids of interest for this day in history, the fact that your diet is working and you are blessed with marcidity, and a relevant quote by from Lt. Col Robert Wolverton on D-Day, secure in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events like Father's Day, college graduations, birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me for details.
1. Normandy Landings—commemorating the landings by 5 Allied Divisions on 5 beaches in Normandy, France as part of Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in history.
2. Huntington's Disease Awareness Day—promoting awareness of and the need for research to combat Huntington 's disease, an inherited disease that attacks and destroys brain cells causing mood swings and loss of coordination.
4. Word of the Day—today's word of the day is "marcidity" which means a state of great leanness which is a great state to be in if a marathon runner or jockey or describing the federal budget.
5. Committed To His Every Core—celebrating the birthday on this day in 1934 of Roy Innis, noted civil rights activist and former head of the Congress for Racial Equality.
a. 1932 the Revenue Act of 1932 was passed imposing a federal gasoline tax of 1 cent per gallon.
b. 1942 in the turning point of the War in the Pacific U.S. Navy dive bombers sank 4 Japanese carriers and the cruiser Mikuma.
c. 1946 the Basketball Association of America, the precursor to the National Basketball Association, was founded at New York City.
d. 2002 a near Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter exploded over the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Greece with a force estimated at 26 kilotons, approximately the same size as the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
e. 2005 SCOTUS in the case of Gonzalez v. Raich upheld the law banning marijuana, including marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Reflections on D-Day: "Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do." -- Lt Col Robert L Wolverton, commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion 596th PIR. Please enjoy the poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them, retweet and follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for Ridley's Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch, emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go to Ridley's Believe It Or Not for just This Day in History.


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Dr. Donald Kendrick returns with a preview of the Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra's 2018 "Home for the Holidays" concert. The performance will feature guest artist soprano Susannah Biller and the Sacramento Children's Chorus directed by Alexander Grambow. Green Valley Theatre Company will perform with puppets, plus there's an audience singalong of festive holiday tunes.
SCSO will perform two "Home for the Holidays" concerts on Dec. 8 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at their new temporary venue at the Sacramento Community Center Theatre.
Disclosure: Capital Public Radio COO & CFO Jun Reina serves on the SCSO Board of Directors as head of Strategic Planning.


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Q: Ipywidgets (Vbox) not showing up on Jupyter notebook I am running into this error
A Jupyter widget could not be displayed because the widget state could not be found. This could happen if the kernel storing the widget is no longer available, or if the widget state was not saved in the notebook. You may be able to create the widget by running the appropriate cells.

When I run:
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import plotly.offline as py

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from ipywidgets import interactive, HBox, VBox

py.init_notebook_mode()

df = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jonmmease/plotly_ipywidget_notebooks/master/notebooks/data/cars/cars.csv')

f = go.FigureWidget([go.Scatter(y = df['City mpg'], x = df['City mpg'], mode = 'markers')])
scatter = f.data[0]
N = len(df)
scatter.x = scatter.x + np.random.rand(N)/10 *(df['City mpg'].max() - df['City mpg'].min())
scatter.y = scatter.y + np.random.rand(N)/10 *(df['City mpg'].max() - df['City mpg'].min())
scatter.marker.opacity = 0.5

def update_axes(xaxis, yaxis):
    scatter = f.data[0]
    scatter.x = df[xaxis]
    scatter.y = df[yaxis]
    with f.batch_update():
        f.layout.xaxis.title = xaxis
        f.layout.yaxis.title = yaxis
        scatter.x = scatter.x + np.random.rand(N)/10 *(df[xaxis].max() - df[xaxis].min())
        scatter.y = scatter.y + np.random.rand(N)/10 *(df[yaxis].max() - df[yaxis].min())

axis_dropdowns = interactive(update_axes, yaxis = df.select_dtypes('int64').columns, xaxis = df.select_dtypes('int64').columns)

# Create a table FigureWidget that updates on selection from points in the scatter plot of f
t = go.FigureWidget([go.Table(
    header=dict(values=['ID','Classification','Driveline','Hybrid'],
                fill = dict(color='#C2D4FF'),
                align = ['left'] * 5),
    cells=dict(values=[df[col] for col in ['ID','Classification','Driveline','Hybrid']],
               fill = dict(color='#F5F8FF'),
               align = ['left'] * 5))])

def selection_fn(trace,points,selector):
    t.data[0].cells.values = [df.loc[points.point_inds][col] for col in ['ID','Classification','Driveline','Hybrid']]

scatter.on_selection(selection_fn)

# Put everything together
VBox((HBox(axis_dropdowns.children),f,t))

f and t only show when i run f.show() and t.show()
yet when I run:
import ipywidgets as widgets
from IPython.display import display

button = widgets.Button(description='Hello')
display(button)

The widget shows up fine. I have read the solutions online and tried:
jupyter nbextension enable --py widgetsnbextension

and
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager

and when I check:
jupyter nbextension list

It all seems fine:
Known nbextensions:
  config dir: /home/hajar/.jupyter/nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension  enabled
      - Validating: OK
  config dir: /usr/local/etc/jupyter/nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension  enabled
      - Validating: OK
    tree section
      ipyparallel/main  enabled
      - Validating: problems found:
        - require?  X ipyparallel/main
  config dir: /etc/jupyter/nbconfig
    notebook section
      jupyter-js-widgets/extension  enabled
      - Validating: OK

So I am a little confused as to why its not showing the results from Vbox.
I am using Jupyter notebook.
Version list:
jupyter core     : 4.6.3
jupyter-notebook : 6.0.3
qtconsole        : 5.0.1
ipython          : 7.13.0
ipykernel        : 5.2.0
jupyter client   : 6.1.2
jupyter lab      : 3.0.9
nbconvert        : 5.6.1
ipywidgets       : 7.0.0
nbformat         : 5.0.4
traitlets        : 4.3.3

A: Solved- plotlywidgets used to render FigureWidget was not installed correctly.
I used jupyter nbextension install --py plotlywidget --user
and then jupyter nbextension enable plotlywidget --user --py

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يمكن استخدام المسبح من الساعة 6 صباحاً إلى منتصف الليل.
يمكن توفير أسرّة بعجلات مقابل تكلفة قدرها 10.0 دولار أمريكي في الليلة.
Stayed for a couple of nights with my family. Staff was rude in every way possible. Room was disgusting. There was construction being started at 6 pm until almost 2 am they were loud as ever my daughter was trying to sleep they have no sympathy for families who are trying to sleep. The vending machine was broken took my wife's money. AND INSTEAD OF A $50 HOLD FEE THEY STOLE MONEY FROM MY BANK ACCOUNT $150 WORTH CALLED THEM AND COMPLAINED. OVERALL NEVER STAYING HERE AGAIN. The staff plays around on their phones in the laundry room while working ridiculous. Definitely reporting them for theft. DO NOT STAY HERE. NOT WORTH IT.
Went to visit the area and see Navy graduation !! The Country Inn was perfect !!
Bed was so hard I could have slept on the floor. Pool is tiny. No hot tub. Uncontrolled children made my kids feel uneasy. We won't be back.


Question » The problem is this: My boss has requested that I include an animated company logo which has been created using Flash in our Microsoft Access database splash screen, to be opened prior to the database switchboard form opening. From here i want to open any forms, queries and reports.
Is this possible, any help or advice would grateful as I have tried and can not find the solution?
The Insert dialog box, selecting the Flash Movie Object control.
Me.obj_flashmovie.Movie = Application.CurrentProject.Path + "\Movie1.swf"
Change the Movie1.swf to the name of your flash file.


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VakifBank closer to meeting Conegliano in the #SuperFinalsLjubljana
Delivering a great spectacle on Wednesday evening, and to the delight of all fans of Turkish Volleyball, the two of the strongest local teams – Vakifbank and Fenerbahce, locked horns in the home semi-final match in this season's edition of Europe's top club women's competition – CEV Champions League Volley 2022. The two powerhouses of Istanbul battled it out in front of a full house at Vakifbank Spor Sarayi, but it was CLVolleyW 2021 runners-up of VakifBank who prevailed, and claimed a 3-1 victory.
This way, the players around head coach Giovanni Guidetti made an important step towards the #SuperFinalsLjbljana, and if they seize another victory next week in the away match, Volleyball supporters will enjoy a rematch of last year's Big Finale as the winner of this semi-final tie will meet A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano.
On the other hand, Fenerbahçe Opet will search of a second Champions League victory against VakifBank ISTANBUL next week, in the final-deciding away semi-final match, as their only won was a five-set victory in the second leg of the 2014/15 Playoffs 6 in Istanbul.
Gabriela Braga Guimaraes (Gabi) of VakifBank was chosen for MVP on tonight's matchup, scoring as many as 22 points for the win. On the other hand, 25 points by top scorer Melissa Vargas of Fenerbahce weren't enough for a better outcome for the guests in this fixture.
"It was really important for us, to make this first step. It was a difficult match, we didn't expect to win 3-0. We knew that we needed to show aggressivitiy, as we know their power in block-defence. Next match, we will have to do the same, although it won't be easy in front of their fans", said Gabi player of VakifBank Istanbul.
"Fenerbahce Opet are a very strong team. We've met each other many times this season, and we always knew what we can expect and how hard this game would be. I am very happy that we won. Now, an even more difficult test awaits us, because next week, we will play in front of their fans. We are very excited about that match", said Michelle Bartsch-Hackley player of VakifBank Istanbul.


The Geothermal Energy Association's 2013 awards recognize companies and individuals that have made significant contributions during the past year to advancing technology, spurring economic development and protecting the environment. Now in its third year, GEA also provides special recognition of companies and individuals who have made notable advances and achievements for geothermal energy.
Technological Advancement: Awarded for developing a new, innovative or pioneering technology to further geothermal development.
U.S. Geothermal's 22 MW Neal Hot Springs Geothermal Power Plant: Through a U.S. government program promoting the development of "Innovative Technology," U.S. Geothermal received financing for its Neal Hot Springs project in Vale, Oregon, to develop and build the first commercial, supercritical Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) binary power plant. TAS Energy designed, manufactured and installed the supercritical ORC binary power plant employing R134a, an organic working fluid that is non-toxic and non-flammable.
Economic Development: Awarded for making a substantial contribution to the development of local, regional or national markets through the development of geothermal systems.
GeothermEx's work encompasses more than just a review of the resource data. The company excels in the facilitation of common understanding between developers and financiers. To date, GeothermEx's evaluations have enabled the development of more than 7,000 MW of geothermal power, the total financed to date exceeding $12 billion U.S.
Environmental Stewardship: Awarded for fostering outstanding environmental stewardship through the use of geothermal systems. This award is presented in conjunction with the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI).
Dale Merrick, Canby Geothermal: Dale Merrick has been a leader and visionary working to implement a community-based geothermal development project at Canby, California. The project would produce power and cascade the remaining energy to support an existing geothermal district heating system and future greenhouse and aquaculture businesses. If successful, Canby would be the first net-zero community in California and a model to the 71 communities in the state identified by the CEC as having a co-located geothermal resource.
Special Recognition: The Special Recognition Award is presented to individuals or companies for their outstanding achievement in the geothermal industry.
Katherine Young and her team at NREL for their work on the Geothermal Regulatory Roadmapping effort: Mrs. Young is a senior analyst at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where she focuses on geothermal exploration and permitting issues. Since April 2012, the Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap (GRR) Team has been working with federal, state and local agencies to develop a working guide for agency, industry and policymaker use in an effort to understand regulatory processes and timelines and identify potential areas of concern.
Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center, Reno NV: Hot springs water flows naturally from a well to heat the tubs, complex and ancillary buildings that make up the historic Steamboat Hot Springs Healing Center in Reno, Nevada. The Center is working toward eliminating the need for traditional power completely, as well as building a world-class healing center offering alternative therapies based solely on geothermal waters and a Museum/Library to educate the public about environmental benefits of geothermal energy.
Authors Magnus Gehringer and Victor Loksha of the World Bank for the ESMAP Geothermal Handbook: Gehringer and Loksha authored The Geothermal Handbook, a comprehensive guide to planning and financing geothermal projects. Based on lessons learned from multiple investment successes and failures, the handbook presents a step-by-step understanding of the phases of geothermal project development, looking at the risks involved and at the policies, institutions and financing mechanisms needed to successfully bring projects to fruition.
Cornell Team Erin Riley Camp, Sean Hillson and Jeff Tester for their help on GEA's analysis efforts, particularly the Geothermal Externalities Paper (Promoting Geothermal Energy: Air Emissions Comparison and Externality Analysis, available at http://geo-energy.org/reports.aspx). The paper serves as a clear, concise and educational exploration of the externality benefit geothermal power provides to the United States.
Ormat for the expected completion of the new Don A. Campbell (formerly named Wild Rose) geothermal power plant. Ormat expects to complete the Don A. Campbell project in Mineral County, Nevada this year adding 16 MW to the list of U.S. plants.
ENEL Green Power North America and Ormat for completing construction of the new Cove Fort power plant in Utah. The plant added 25 MW to the list of U.S. geothermal power plants.
Surprise Valley Electric Cooperative for their 3MW power plant in Oregon, which is expected to be on-line in early 2014.
Gradient Resources' Patua Geothermal Project: This project successfully obtained a $155M Phase 1 bank construction/term financing in December 2012 to finance the build-out of Phase 1A, the first geothermal bank financing to close in the entire U.S. market in almost 3 years.
"Even in a challenging environment, our GEA Honors winners represent the best in a growing industry," said Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association. "These geothermal leaders are trailblazers and should be praised for the headway they're achieving for the entire sector."


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Enabling more efficient anaemia management
Source: NHE Sep/Oct 15
Toby Richards, professor of surgery at University College London, discusses how improving the management of anaemia in surgical patients could reduce the need for routine blood transfusions and save the NHS millions of pounds.
The current standard procedure for patients with anaemia who are to undergo surgery in the UK is blood transfusion – but could this be about to change?
A major piece of research by University College London and NHS Blood & Transplant is evaluating whether a single dose of intravenous iron administered to patients with anaemia prior to major surgery reduces the need for perioperative blood transfusion.
Conducted across 35 health sites, the five-year PREVENTT trial – preoperative intravenous iron to treat anaemia in major surgery – is due to conclude next year. The Health Technology Assessment funded study is a double blind phase 3 randomised controlled trial, with all patients followed for six months from the date of their operation.
NHE caught up with the programme's chief investigator to get a picture of how the work is progressing. "My trial is taking those people who have anaemia prior to major surgery and we are randomising them between intravenous iron or placebo," said Toby Richards, professor of surgery at University College London.
"But I have to say blood transfusion is a highly successful practice, and it is a hugely successful service. However, in the last five to 10 years, there has been increasing awareness on two things: one is the appropriateness of blood transfusion and second is the problem of anaemia and anaemia management in the hospital setting."
Anaemia is a definite risk factor for surgery. "If you're anaemic before you undergo an operation this is associated with a higher risk of complications, a higher need for blood transfusion, increased length of stay in hospital and worse outcomes following surgery," said Prof Richards. His work, initially a Health Foundation Shine 2010 project, has identified that anaemia is actually very common in people undergoing surgery.
"We found that a third of all people coming in for major surgery were anaemic," he said. "Also, that group of patients are 2.5 times more likely to need a blood transfusion. They are also more likely to need more blood."
An audit carried out by the Shine team also revealed that the group with anaemia spent an average of nine days in hospital, compared to six days for non-anaemic patients.
A secondary objective of the study is to evaluate the effect of intravenous ferric iron Ferinject solution compared with placebo on health-related quality of life, post-operative morbidity, safety and length of hospital stay.
"Many people take oral iron tablets to manage anaemia, and most women have been on oral iron at some point during their lifetime," said Prof Richards. "But I can give you a year's supply of iron in an injection with Ferinject in 15 minutes. You will also feel better within five days. So the question has evolved: it is not 'should we be transfusing people?'; it is really whether transfusion is now a second-line drug, and whether iron should be a first-line drug."
NHE was told that a single unit of blood costs about £130, but once the cumulative NHS costs such as nursing time, administration and treatment costs are added together it is more than £600. The cost of an iron transfusion, says Prof Richards, is £150-200 and it is given over 15-30 minutes.
If the PREVENTT trial is successful it will be assessed by NICE and the approach could be rolled out into full clinical practice, potentially savings millions of pounds.
"If I show that I've reduced blood transfusion and reduced complications in 5% of patients, I will save the NHS £35m. That would be direct savings," said Prof Richards. "As part of an enhanced recovery plan the potential savings could be far greater in terms of bed days. But bed days are quite difficult costs to qualify."
He added that results of the study could also change the care pathway, as it would lead to a more "reflective process" on looking at the quality of operations and whether the patient is as fit as they can be for the operation so they can recover faster.
"In cancer, for instance, if you operate quickly and have a complication, then people will recover more slowly, which means they get their chemotherapy later. This does have an effect on outcomes – we know this," said Prof Richards. "The way I describe it is, if you are going to run the marathon you are going to get fit and ready for it. If you are fit and ready then you'll do well and recover faster. It is the same for an operation."
NHE was told that at its heart the initiative is a 'quality improvement programme' and the fact that NHS Blood & Transplant, the provider of blood, is leading on the initiative to potentially reduce blood transfusions is truly groundbreaking.
Dr Kate Pendry, consultant haematologist and NHS Blood and Transplant's clinical director for Patient Blood Management, said: "PREVENTT is a very significant study. Around 30 to 40% of patients going in for major surgery have anaemia, and while blood components are used to save and improve thousands of lives each year, there is evidence of inappropriate use of transfusion to manage anaemia rather than the use of iron. NHS Blood and Transplant is, with others, working to support safe and appropriate use of blood in hospitals and promote the use of transfusion alternatives.
"Consultants in our Patient Blood Management Team have been recruiting patients into PREVENTT study in their hospital roles and our Patient Blood Management Teams are ideally placed to put the study findings into practice. They will train and educate clinical staff, based on evidence that emerges, on the best treatment for these patients, and will also develop resources for patients such as information leaflets."
For more information about the PREVENTT study, click here.
NHS to develop innovative blood transfusion app for clinicians


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Nathan Smith is, amongst other things, a professional footballer and athlete. At aged 10 he entered into the register of Grades as the holder of Black Belt Sho Dan in Karate .
His footballing journey began in North London. During his long career he has played for Yeovil Town FC, Chesterfield FC, Dagenham and Redbridge FC, Dulwich Hamlet and the Jamaican National team.
As a teenager he played for the non-league football teams, Enfield FC, Waltham Forest and Potters Bar.
At the age of 21 he signed his first professional football contract at Yeovil Town FC. Three years later he was snapped up by Chesterfield FC and in 2012 he went on to win the St Johnstones Paint Trophy, playing on the hallowed turf of Wembley Stadium and earning the title of Man Of The Match. It was during his first season at Chesterfield that Nathan was called up to play for Jamaica's national football team.
In 2012-2013 Nathan was named player of the season for Chesterfield FC; the following season became a league title winner. He then returned to Yeovil Town FC, representing them for another 4 years. Opponents included Manchester United and Everton and Nathan man-marked the likes of Lukaku, Sanchez, Rashford, and other top football stars. For the three seasons since 2015 he held the title of being the fastest centre back on Fifa! He even went on to become the highest appearance holder in the football league for Yeovil Town FC.
In 2014 Nathan decided to embark on a different lifestyle journey and went Vegan. Since then he has created a food show on Youtube called 'Vegan Food 'n' Vibes' , raising the awareness of healthy meals combined with fun and togetherness. The company have created a unique event called 'Vegan Food n Vibes -The Experience' , where Nathan prepares a three course vegan meal accompanied by vibrant music from a live band.
In 2016 the much travelled player decided to go on a journey of self discovery and travelled to India to complete a ten day Vipassana Silent retreat. This involved conditions such as no speaking, no eye contact, no reading and no electronics. An intense retreat with over 14 hours of meditation each day.
In the season of 2017 Nathan rather than go to the sun and holiday he decided to work as a volunteer in a health food cafe for two months during his end of season break. Since then he has travelled to Ethiopia to discover more of the world and himself.
On returning he has been visiting schools, attending events doing workshops and giving inspirational talks on the deep truths of balancing the physical and mental strain of professional football, as well as issues we face in our everyday lives.
When Nathan shares his experience and perspective he strips away the glamour attached to being a footballer, allowing people a rare insight and a better understanding of the reality of a professional footballer's lifestyle. He highlights the importance of caring for your physical and mental health in harmony. He is an individual of integrity and a role model for aspiring athletes and young people.
Jim Boyd- MD @ The Pressure Zone
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Pats injuries don't make things easier for Eagles vs Brady
By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer
PHILADELPHIA -- No matter how many New England Patriots are injured, they still have No. 12.
The Philadelphia Eagles (4-7) aren't good enough to take any team lightly, especially not Brady and the Patriots (10-1).
Brady won't have receiver Julian Edelman and All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski is expected to be out because of injuries on Sunday, but he makes everyone around him better.
"Did they lose Brady? Because that I think would really, truly affect them," Eagles coach Chip Kelly said Thursday. "And I think it really just speaks to how good of a football player Tom is and the fact that they have had a lot of moving pieces around him.
"For them, it's that next-man-up mentality, which it really helps when he's the guy pulling the trigger because he really is an orchestra leader out there in terms of directing protections, changing routes and changing everything."
The Eagles have lost three straight games and allowed 90 points in consecutive losses to Tampa Bay and Detroit. Jameis Winston and Matthew Stafford each threw five touchdown passes against them.
If Brady had all his top options, he could break records against this defense. He'll certainly pick on rookie cornerback Eric Rowe, who will make his first career start. Rowe replaced Nolan Carroll against the Lions and allowed two touchdown passes to Calvin Johnson.
"I believe in Eric and I think he's a young guy that will get more and more confident," defensive coordinator Bill Davis said. "We have a lot of confidence in our scheme and our flexibility and the different things we can go in and out of and we'll have to do that.
"We have to keep it moving. When you face these top-notch quarterbacks that are really coordinators on the field, you've got to move it around a little bit on them."
Though they struggled against a rookie and an inconsistent quarterback in consecutive weeks, the Eagles had success earlier in the season against Tony Romo, Drew Brees and Eli Manning.
Brady is a different story.
"They find a way to find players that kind of fit and they know what the individual player can do and they try to maximize that," Kelly said. "It all starts and ends with (Brady). He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer and it's a huge challenge for us to have to go up and defend him because he's running the whole show."
Notes: RB Ryan Mathews (concussion, groin) missed practice again on Thursday, but DE Cedric Thornton (ankle) and S Walter Thurmond (hamstring, calf) were back on the field.
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Lateral asymmetry is found widely among vertebrates, but is scarcely observed in invertebrates. Here, morphological asymmetry and behavioral laterality of a wild crayfish, Procambarus clarkii, was investigated. The carapace morphology of crayfish showed left–right differences; in some, the right side of the carapace was larger than the left side, while in others, the left side was larger. A bimodal distribution in the direction of escape behaviors induced by a tactile stimulus was also observed. Experimental crayfish were definitively divided into two groups: individuals that frequently jumped leftward (right type) and those that jumped rightward (left type). Moreover, carapace asymmetry and lateralized escape responses were significantly correlated. These results suggest that crayfish exhibit left–right dimorphism in natural populations. The ecological advantages and maintenance mechanisms underlying these behaviors are also discussed.
We deeply appreciate Yasuhiro Takemon and members of the Aquatic life study group of Mizorogai-ke pond for permission and help with sampling. Hiroshi Ashiwa, Tomohiro Takeyama, Masaki Yasugi for help with daily care of crayfish. And other all members of Animal Ecology Laboratory for advice and inspired discussion throughout this research. This study was partly supported by JSPS research fellowships to S.T. and Y.T., the Grant for the Biodiversity Research of the 21st Century COE (A14), the Global Center of Excellence Program "Formation of a Strategic Base for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Research: from Genome to Ecosystem" and Grants-in-aid of Scientific Research on Priority Areas (#14087203) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.


So, I couldn't get motivated for much today. I had a few calls I was waiting on and I had some podcasts to edit (or finish editing) and got caught up in "other business," some of which you'll find more about in the coming days. But, before I realized it, it was 630p and I had done nothing.
That's okay, though. We need a day or rest, right? Like I say, I'm awake, I'm working.
I do want to say that I find it interesting that had I stayed with my first wife, my son's mother, today would have been the 25th anniversary. But, we didn't and we move on, right? Right. Okay. That's all I got.


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Q: Can AWS Aurora Serverless Clusters be configured via AWS Explorer in DataGrip? I'm currently having issues setting up the AWS Explorer plugin in DataGrip to recognise the Aurora Serverless Clusters (MySQL). I have set up credentials from IAM in the credentials file, and can access other AWS services (if I select the dropdown "Schemas", for example, I can see the list of schemas in my org) but clicking the RDS dropdown shows "empty", and doesn't even show the list of database engines. I have tried connecting with secrets manager and using the correct secret for the DB cluster but no luck. When I try and add the database cluster as a data source, it just hangs on "Introspecting" and then the endpoint for that cluster.
I found this issue on the aws-toolkit for jetbrains github https://github.com/aws/aws-toolkit-jetbrains/issues/2124
which mentions that it could be a driver problem. I have tried changing to the mySQL driver, and that hasn't seemed to fix it. DataGrip also seems to heavily encourage using the recommended Aurora MySQL driver.
Is this a bug with DataGrip, or AWS Explorer, or am I missing something obvious? Do I need to enable SSL CAs to get AWS Explorer the correct permissions?
Thanks!
EDIT: I have gone through the prerequisites listed on the AWS docs:
I have installed the AWS CLI and AWS SAM CLI
I have installed Docker (but I haven't set up any containers - I think this is
only needed if I'm running localhost?)
I'm running Windows 10.

A: Aurora serverless can't be accessed from the internet. From docs:

You must create your Aurora Serverless DB cluster in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Aurora Serverless DB clusters are accessible only from an Amazon VPC and can't use a public IP address.

Thus, you need to setup VPN or some proxy (e.g. ssh tunnel through a bastion host) to be able to connect to Aurora serverless from outside of AWS.


Labrador City's Konrad Kune Sixteen year old Konrad Khune of Labrador City, started cross country skiing when the family moved to Labrador City about six years ago. At first, it was a family activity, but soon the idea of taking it a step further entered into his mind. In the past few years, the young skier has not only made the provincial ski team, but is now attending national events as well. Konrad Kuhne told Labrador Morning's Mike Power about his ambitions, and how they progressed over the years.


Are you ready to sing and dance and hug and sing and dance hug and then sing and dance and hug some more?! The Trolls movie is coming out and I am so excited I just can't stand it! Princess Poppy is the happiest of the happy trolls and she loves everything about everyone and is positive all the time. When Laura Kelly Walters invited me to be a part of her Popcorn Box Party this year I knew I had to create my box to look like Poppy because she's pink, fun, she loves to party, and she would do anything for her friends and family. Princess Poppy is pretty awesome. I am super excited to bring you my Trolls Movie Princess Poppy Popcorn Box today along with inspiration from a bunch of my other blogger friends!
I was lucky enough to see a preview of the movie today and I was grinning from ear to ear as I left the theater, tapping along with the music, and feeling like I just had to see it again. It is adorable! Poppy is my favorite for so many reasons. She's like everything I would like to be. She's happy all the time, she sings, she dances, she sees the best in everything and in everyone, and she has a secret scrapbook and glitter compartment in her dress that she carries with her at all times. It's very impressive. I can't wait til November 4th now so I can go see it again…and again…and again…oooooohhhhh it's so gooooood! Can we talk for just a second about "the song". You know the one right? Justin Timberlake's new song? "Can't Stop the Feeling?" My absolute favorite song right now. Favorite. Song. Right. Now. It is our jam. Like our family jam. When that song comes on we, as a family, start singing and dancing, and have our own little dance party. I went and bought the Trolls Soundtrack today so right now as I'm writing I am listening to JT singing about sunshine in his pocket and good soul in his feet…I feel you JT…sing it!
So, my popcorn box…I knew I had to create Poppy. I am going to create Branch too so be on the lookout for that guy too! I created Poppy out of felt and pink fur fabric. I used two sheets of pink felt and traced the box, cut it, and then hot glued the pieces to the box. The eyes were the trickiest part. I free hand cut each piece. I really should have found a picture of Poppy online, printed it, and then either used it as a guide for the felt OR just pasted the paper eyes on the box. It will take you a lot less time if you find a picture of Poppy, blow it up a bit, print, cut her eyes, and paste.
I could have easily made pink popcorn but I instead made pink rice krispie treat balls that I like to call Poppy's Pink Positivity Puffs. I hadn't made RKT in so long I had forgotten how much I liked them!
Poppy is just so happy!
Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Slowly add marshmallows stir constantly until completely melted.
Remove from heat and add salt, vanilla extract, and food coloring. You only need a few small drops of food coloring so don't overdo it.
Add rice crisp cereal and stir well until cereal is completely coated in marshmallow mix. Add sprinkles.
Make small, about one inch sized, balls of rice crisp treats and set on wax paper to cool and harden a bit.
Rice crisp treats are best if served the same day but can be stored. Store in an airtight container.
So now that you have seen what I did with my popcorn box I would love it if you checked out what all of my friends did with theirs because we all did something different! Yep, it's true. Laura and her amazing sponsors sent us a bunch of goodies to decorate our boxes to our hearts content so you are going to see a lot of different themes. Isn't that fun?! Oh! I almost forgot! There's a GIVEAWAY too! You can win a $50 gift card from World Market! I am a World Market Ambassador so I can tell you from first hand experience they are an amazing company and you are going to find some fabulous stuff to buy with that $50! Click the link below to enter.
There was a whole bunch of awesome stuff in the box that www.laurakellydesigns.com sent us…check it out! What would you have made with this haul of goodies?!
Halloween Pencils & Stickers from Oriental Trading Co.
Thank you for checking out my Trolls Movie Princess Poppy Popcorn Box post and for being here for our #popcornboxparty2016!
What did you use for the eyelashes on your adorable popcorn box?
I know it's been a while since this post but I'm really wondering what the colorful shiny backdrop is and where you got it from? Is it fabric? I'm looking for something just like that to use as a back drop!
Hi! Thank you for reading my post! I got that fabric at Joann's. I'm pretty sure it was where they sell spandex. Take a coupon because if I remember correctly it's a little pricey. Good luck!