Everyone's keen for a piece of the commercial electric vehicle pie—Ford included.
Ford managed to turn some heads on Thursday with the unanticipated reveal of an electric semi truck concept called the F-Vision at the IAA Commercial Vehicles expo in Hannover, Germany.
The vehicle was designed by Ford Otosan of Turkey and features headlights that echo those of in the F-series line of pickup trucks, cameras in place of side mirrors, and an automatically tinting windshield. It's said to be capable of automatically linking with its trailer, as well as operating in a linked-together convoy mode. According to Teslarati, Ford stated during the vehicle's reveal that the F-Vision is intended to be capable of SAE level four autonomous driving, although by The Drive's measure, the SAE's autonomy rating system is flawed.
Ford reportedly advises the public not to mistake the F-Vision as an immediate competitor to the Tesla Semi, describing the F-Vision as a concept-only vehicle for now.
If Ford does bring the F-Vision to production, it will face stiff competition from not only Tesla (whose electric semi is undergoing live-fire testing ahead of initial production), but also Volvo. The latter's Vera electric semi concept has no cab whatsoever but intends on being a fully autonomous operation for local, repetitive operations such as hauling containers across large worksites all day.
Ford's F-Vision could also open it up to a lawsuit from Nikola Motors, which sued Tesla earlier this year claiming the Tesla vehicle violated its design patent, requesting the courts award it $2 billion in damages. As of the latest development, the grounds on which Nikola stands for its lawsuit looks unsteady, with the United States Patent and Trademark Office determining that the two designs differ enough to award separate patents. If Nikola fails to win in court against the troubled Tesla, its odds of successfully suing Ford would be even smaller still.


VICTORIA – A new Rapid Access Addiction Clinic (RAAC) is open in Victoria to support people who use opioids such as morphine or heroin and who are ready for treatment and beginning a path to recovery.
The RAAC supports opioid users to start on buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) or methadone – medications that reduce the cravings for opioids and mitigate the difficult physical symptoms of opioid withdrawal, which include pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating and anxiety/depression. These medications only need to be taken once each day and often lead to rapid cessation of other opioid use. Along with supporting opioid replacement therapy, the RAAC offers limited short-term counselling with the goal to promote long-term recovery and help with connections to follow-up care including primary care, additional counselling, mental health and substance use services and social supports.
The RAAC opened in February 2017 with limited hours and recently expanded its service hours to three hours per day, four days a week. Potential RAAC clients can be referred to the clinic by their doctor, through Island Health's Substance Use Intake or from hospital. Clients can also self-refer to the clinic, and each day walk-in appointments are available. The goal of the RAAC is to offer accessible, non-judgmental treatment for opioid addiction in as timely a manner as possible.
Services at the RAAC are publicly funded for people covered by the BC Medical Services Plan (MSP). The cost of buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) or methadone is also publicly funded under Pharmacare (Plan G).
Island Health's new RAAC supports the work of the Joint Task Force on Overdose Response established in 2016. As part of the wide range of actions taken across the province, partners across the health system continue to expand access to life-saving naloxone, offer opioid addiction medications and treatments such as buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) and methadone, provide overdose prevention sites, work with Health Canada on approvals to open supervised consumption sites and improve the overall system of substance use services.


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No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?
Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago
This paper studies the causal effect of English proficiency on residential location outcomes and the socioeconomic class of immigrants in England and Wales, exploiting a natural experiment. Based on the phenomenon that young children learn a new language more easily than older children, we construct an instrument for English proficiency using age at arrival in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along different dimensions, and find that poor English skills lead immigrants to live in areas with a high concentration of people who speak their same native language, but not necessarily in areas with a high concentration of people of their same ethnicity or country of birth. This finding could suggest that, for immigrants with poor English proficiency, what matters for their residential location decision is language spoken by residents, as opposed to ethnicity or country of birth. We also find that language skills have an impact on the occupation-based socioeconomic class of immigrants: Poor English skills reduce the likelihood of being in the occupation-based class 'higher managerial and professional' and increase that of being in the class 'self-employment'.
IZA Discussion Paper
Residential location
Natural experiment
Causal effect
Residential segregation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
Aoki, Y., & Santiago, L. (2018). No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter? (pp. 1-35). IZA Discussion Paper.
No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter? / Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati.
IZA Discussion Paper, 2018. p. 1-35.
Aoki, Y & Santiago, L 2018 'No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?' IZA Discussion Paper, pp. 1-35.
Aoki Y, Santiago L. No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter? IZA Discussion Paper. 2018 Feb, p. 1-35.
Aoki, Yu ; Santiago, Lualhati. / No. 11368: Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants : Does English Proficiency Matter?. IZA Discussion Paper, 2018. pp. 1-35
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Honduran H. Upmann 1844 Classic Slated for June
Apr 28, 2021 | By Gregory Mottola
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Cigar rollers at the Flor de Copan factory in Honduras are busy making a new H. Upmann brand and when it ships in June, all sizes will retail for $8 or less. The line is called H. Upmann 1844 Classic, and it's an all-Honduran blend save for the light, Connecticut-seed wrapper grown in Ecuador.
According to distributor Altadis U.S.A., the H. Upmann 1844 Classic is intended to be medium bodied. This is achieved through the blend of Honduran broadleaf binder and Cuban-seed tobaccos grown in the Santa Rosa de Copan region of Honduras.
The new line will be available in four sizes: Corona, measuring 5 inches by 44 ring gauge; Robusto, at 5 by 52; Toro, at 6 by 54 and a 7-by-50 Churchill. The cigars will come in boxes of 25, and suggested retail prices will range from $7.10 to $8 per cigar.
While the brand will be shown to prospective buyers at the Tobacco Products Expo trade show in Las Vegas on May 12, the cigar isn't expected to ship until mid-June.
Brand owner Altadis U.S.A. produces and distributes more than 10 different H. Upmann brands in the United States, all of which are made in either Honduras, Nicaragua or the Dominican Republic.
Honduras H. Upmann (Non-Cuban) Altadis U.S.A. Inc.
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14 foreground recordings and 1 background recordings of Certhia himalayana . Total recording duration 10:42.
Never easy to ID these birds in dark forests; quite confident of correctness here, though. Long-billed Certhias, rather bright in the face and cheeks. These are just contact calls, upped in volume, and with noise substantially reduced below 6kHz.
A pair of birds just a couple of metres away foraging on a pine tree in open rhododendron and pine forest. Thin "tsee" call duetted between them.
Wingbeats and scratching are clearly audible as the birds forage, but could be confused with nearby camera shutter.
Most likely a pair of Assam Laughingthrush in the background.
Quite common up here, sang from back of pine but worked it's way around, someone cutting wood in the background.
Quite a high pitched single note.
bird calling above me with a White-tailed Nuthatch, a burst of wind at the end sets them off.


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In the years 2020 and 2021, Aotearoa New Zealand was twice plunged into prolonged periods of lockdown due to COVID-19. During these times, the needs faced by the most vulnerable in our communities intensified.
2021 Lockdown
On 17 August 2021, a COVID Alert Level 4 was once again declared, this time the entire country was affected.
As with 2020, this was an exciting and challenging time for Visionwest as we worked to meet the unprecedented needs for support within communities throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.
The 2021 Lockdown Report is an analysis of, and reflection on, the period between August and October 2021. It centres on Waitākere, Auckland, and the experiences of both Visionwest's service delivery teams and the whānau who approached us for support. Our Lead Advisor Service Development analysed key service data and interviewed key staff from across the organisation about the support they provided during the lockdown, the needs they saw throughout Waitākere, and the implications for future service delivery.
It's our hope that these insights might give the reader a greater understanding of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected, and continues to affect, members of our community and support organisations like Visionwest.
You can read Visionwest's 2021 COVID-19Lockdown Report – CLICK HERE.
At 11:59 on 25 March 2020, Aotearoa New Zealand entered COVID lockdown Alert Level 4 for the first time. Every one of Visionwest's services was forced to pivot to a new model of support delivery but, through it all, the homeless were housed, whānau fed, and those who are older or living with disabilities were supported to stay safely in their homes through the lockdowns. Those in training continued to be taught and those in need of financial or counselling advice continued to receive support.
A key feature of service delivery was the collaboration and support, both amongst the Visionwest team and from other organisations and individuals in the community. Together we learnt, adapted, worked flexibly, and achieved what would normally be thought impossible.
By the end of that first lockdown, we had fed over 27,000 people, delivered over 221,000 hours of in-home healthcare and placed over 200 people, previously experiencing homelessness, in housing.
Visionwest's lockdown story is told in Our COVID Story – Tā Mātou Mate Karauna Kōrero.
You can read the story of Visionwest's 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown Story – CLICK HERE.
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So how did I decide a VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) was even an option for my mill? To be honest, I wasn't even thinking about a VFD to begin with. In fact, when I first began entertaining the idea of putting an old industrial grade milling machine in my garage, I was all but 100% sure I would be utilizing a phase converter to power it.
However, after finding the spindle motor was the only electrical element of my mill requiring 3-phase power (see: How to Power the Beast?), and just barely knowing what a VFD was, I decided to do some research. To begin with, my knowledge of the VFD was extremely basic. I just knew they were used to drive AC motors, and later learned more specifically, 3-phase AC induction motors. Knowing this, I really needed to take a closer look at the spindle motor of my mill.
The following picture shows the identification plate attached to my mill's spindle motor. Well would you look there, in huge letters you can see the spindle motor is just what we need, an induction motor. All of this just shows you how ignorant I was about all of this, I've since learned nearly all mill spindle motors are induction motors, and here I am talking about it like it's a big deal. Remember, I'm truly learning as I'm going, and soaking up every bit of it. The information on the motor's ID plate is extremely important in selecting and sizing the proper VFD. Also, I wonder if this spindle motor is the mill's original? Look at the date field (2000-something) shown in the picture, it doesn't really jibe with a 1980's milling machine. …but I digress.
Search the internet for VFD suppliers, and you'll find an overwhelming number of brands and resellers. Additionally, I had no idea how to size a VFD, or know which brands were good or bad. As a result, and having zero confidence to pick one out on my own, I started making phone calls to several different resellers I found Googling. Eventually I ended up working with the amazing folks at Marshall Wolf Automation, in particular their technical sales guy, Phil Teeter. I have no affiliation with these folks, and no, they haven't rewarded me in any way for my endorsement. I was just impressed with their willingness to help me without any sales pressure, and how they described helping others do the exact same thing I was trying to do. This wasn't a one call deal for me, I called them several times over a week or so, and they never became frustrated.
In the end, I purchased a Lenze AC Tech VFD from them. The model number is: ESV222N02YXB, to be exact. This drive is nominally rated at 3HP, has a NEMA 1 enclosure rating, can accept 208-240 AC single or 3-phase power, and outputs the 3-phase power needed to drive the spindle motor. On top of what I consider to be a very reasonable price (I payed under $400 for mine delivered), I'm told it's made in the USA! You can't beat that with a stick. This is about half the price of what I was going to pay for a phase converter, and I haven't even gotten to all the good stuff. VFD isn't just a cool acronym, it means something awesome I haven't even mentioned yet.
Variable Frequency = variable motor speed.
Using a VFD means I'll be able to vary the speed of the spindle motor electronically. Having an electronically variable speed spindle motor is something my mill hasn't had entire life. Previously the spindle motor could only run at full speed in either forward or reverse, and if you wanted to change the RPM of a milling operation, you had to change a mechanical gearbox setting. To be clear, using a VFD doesn't mean a mill's mechanical gearbox can't be used or won't be needed. It just means there are more speed options available. Really for me, the electronically variable speed control provided by the VFD wasn't critical to me in purchasing it. I just wanted the VFD for it's efficient and economical way of operating a 3-phase spindle motor.
Well all of this is cool enough, but to see how I actually got the VFD connected to my mill and spindle motor, visit my Harnessing the Variable Frequency Drive page.


The 1952 classic, "Singin' in the Rain" tells the story of the transformation of film from consisting only of moving images with no supporting sound outside of thematic music, to the voice over gold standard that it is today. It follows the story of two famous actors, Don Lockwood and Lena Lamont, who the public perceives as a couple madly in love. However, behind closed doors Don's attention is focused on someone else.
This film takes place during a time where the era of talking films was about to take the world by storm. This wasn't a seamless transition though. Watching this movie showed me the many difficulties that filmmakers and actors faced during the early stages switching from just music to full voice over. One of the earlier issues that the director was met with was trying to get the audio to record clearly, but Lena has tremendous difficulty speaking into the mic. He tries to solve this using several different methods. Initially, he embedded a wired microphone into a flower on Lena's dress as a way to better pick up her voice. Because of the positioning of the flower over her chest, this unintentionally picked up the sound of Lena's heart beating, ruining the recording. He sought to correct this by repositioning the microphone on her left shoulder. This seemed to be the fix everyone was hoping for but as it is later revealed this placement only recorded good quality sound while Lena spoke in the direction of the mic. Whenever Lena would shift her head and speak in the opposite direction (as she often did) her speech was inaudible. Using the equipment that we have available today, this issue would be easily fixed using either a shotgun, or lavalier mic.
This was only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the difficulty with adding audio to motion picture. Post production, the first film that they produced was an embarrassment. First off, this was before the age of Foley. During the movie, voice and sound effects were constantly interfering with one another (such as when Lena tries do deliver lines while fiddling with a set of pearls) make the audio sound sloppy and unprofessional. As this was the first film, it was obvious that there was little thought but into developing an interesting script. The worst issue came when the audio fell out of sync with the video. All of the issues combined turned the movie into a laughing stock.
Overall, I enjoyed the picture which came as a great surprise to me as I've never been a fan of musicals. It was also good to see the art of motion picture production in it's infancy. The film industry has come a mighty long way.
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thefulfillmentofpromise.com | Biblical themes for better uderstanding of the talks of Jesus and his apostles
The "Three-Sun Deity" from the depths of Greek Mystagogy to the "menus" of
The Roman Imperial Religion and the Philosophical Jesus
Writer: Evangelos D. Kepenes
This is part of the work "Mythological and Utopian religious ideals from the completion of the Apostolic Ministry until today," which was published on www.aionios-diathiki.gr (February 19, 2020, 23:59)
The Church established by the living God was not a draft of an imperfect religion or a philosophical system that God handed over to the "philosophical fathers" of Orthodoxy to shape it formalistically, to crystallize it dogmatically, and to establish it worldwide with institutional coercion violating the "If any man will come after me" verse. The Church of God was and is "the pillar and ground (= firmament / foundation) of the truth," which the Lord God has acquired for Himself with His own precious blood to declare His praises.
"The voice of the fathers" is not "the voice of Jesus or the voice of the Apostles." Those who think that "Orthodoxy" is the continuation of the original apostolic work are wrong. After all, everyone knows that history is written the way the winners and the spiritual overlords want it to be written. "Orthodoxy" is the Eastern part of the schism of the part-Christian, "Catholic," authoritarian religion of the Roman Empire, where its emperor was officially "King of the Romans in Christ," its citizens were "the Chosen People or the New Israel," and its doctrine was "One Religion, One King, One Inhabited Earth," while the dogmatic, ecclesiastical issues were state matters. The state "Catholic Church," as an ally of the Empire's cultural, military and religious imperialism, acquired special privileges that increased its prestige and its property in land and money.
All doctoral dissertations in philosophy and theology come to the conclusion that the Philosophy of late antiquity and the theology of the Orthodox East are inseparably linked. Thus, with the unnatural union of the manifestations of the ancient, earthly Philosophy / Mythology and the apostolic teaching through the Holy Spirit, "Orthodoxy" was dogmatically crystallized. It also replaced the Grace of our Lord and God Jesus Christ with a tradition of mystical, dogmatic theology that has a mythological, "triune god" at the top, with useless Jewish types, with incense burners, with candles, with votive offerings to the "saints," with superstition, and with the veneration of idols and relics. According to their confession, this "triumph" was achieved because the "fathers" simply (!!!) discharged the philosophical "terms" of their time from their philosophical / metaphysical content and recharged them with theology, "a term originally used in the works of Plato and other philosophers with reference to the teaching of Myth."
According to their frank confession, the representatives of the Orthodox, mystical and religious system regard "Ancient Hellenism" as their background, claiming that the ancient Greek philosophers were "in Christ" before Christ, and that their contradictory, theological philosophy was a pedagogue of the Greeks towards Christianity. In fact, Plato was regarded by the "fathers" as a close relative of their religion because, contrary to the views of his classmates on Philosophy / Mythology, he believed that "God" was good and not evil, and that "he created the best possible world because he was good."
They believe that aniconic, non-dualistic Islam (7th c. AD), for which Allah (God) is both Good and Evil, has the same background. Islam is a fusion of rabbinic, kabbalistic Judaism (which believes that the words of the rabbis are the word of God), Judeo-Christianity (with its Gnostic expressions), Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Hermeticism, and the national traditions of Arab Paganism. Islam clearly has a selective affinity with ancient Greek Philosophy, since the Bedouins had conquered Hellenistic areas in the Middle and Near East that influenced the natives philosophically. After all, John of Damascus regards Islam as a form of Christian heresy related to Arianism.
The philosophical Jesus
"For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough." (2 Cor. 11:4)
Ancient Greek religious Philosophy was not static, but was evolutionary and had a conciliatory relationship with the Eastern and African teachings. It sought the truth, but did not find it, because it sought it in the tradition of men and in the elements of this world. Platonists believed that "ideas are real beings" and, similarly to other philosophical trends, they expressed unity and plurality at the same time, "all is one." They used the term "god" as a set of various entities, from the transcendental, cosmic Creator, the Cosmic Soul and its parts (the human souls), to the Olympian gods and other secondary, stellar deities that were intermediate forces of hierarchical structure through which the First God created the perceptible world and communicated with it, bridging the ideal with the perceptible. The ancient Egyptian Hermetic passage quoted below captures the Theological, Philosophical and Mythological concepts in which the Ancients indulged.
Iamblichus, "On the Egyptian Mysteries" VIII, 2 - Ancient Fragments of the Phoenician, Chaldean, Egyptian, Tyrian, Carthaginian, Indian, Persian, and other writers, (By Isaac Preston Cory, ESG. Fellow of Caius Coll. Cambridge - London William Pickering 1832, page 283)
"Before all things that really exist, and before the total principles, there is one god, prior to the first god and king, remaining immoveable in the solitude of his unity (Pythagoras). For neither is the intelligible immixed with him, nor any other thing. He is established, the exemplar of the god who is the father of himself, self-begotten, the only father, and who is truly good (Plato). For he is something greater and the first, the source of all things and the root of all primary intellectual ideas. And out of this one, the self-ruling god radiated himself forth, wherefore he is the father of himself and self-ruling. For he is the first principle and god of gods, a monad out of the one, pre-substantial being, yet the first principle of substance. For from him come substantiality and substance, wherefore he is called the father of substance. For he is pre-substantial being, principle of the intelligible ones, wherefore he is also addressed as the chief of the intelligible ones. These are the most ancient principles of all things, which Hermes [Trismegistus] places first in order, before the ethereal and empyrean gods, and the celestial."
Focusing on the above view of Hermeticism, the Hellenistic Jewish philosopher Philo, who attributed Greek Philosophy to the Pentateuch and strongly influenced the formation of the "patristic thought," ranked the "Word" as the superior of the intermediate forces, as a second god, as inferior to the only God (the First One), as an archangel, as the firstborn Son of God, positions that were related to those of the ancient and the Gnostic beliefs.
"And the first power after God the Father and Lord of all is the Word, who is also the Son; and of Him we will, in what follows, relate how He took flesh and became man." (Philosopher Justin, First Apology, chap. 32). "Philo's Speech" was embraced by Justin and other philosophers, apologists and intellectual Christians who, in any case, in their time were initiated in Neoplatonism, which was a mix of Pythagoreanism, Platonic Idealism, Aristotelian theology, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Sorcery and Chaldean theology and theurgy.
As for the Chaldean theology, the unifying concept of "One" that characterized the Babylonian deities had led the Neoplatonic philosophers Plotinus, Iamblichus and Proclus to emphasize the Chaldean oracles that were regarded as the pinnacle of knowledge and wisdom, having the number three (3) as the basis of the Chaldean ontological system for gods and demons.
In his work "Chaldean and Neoplatonic Theology," referring to the "Theology of the Chaldean Oracles," the historian and theologian Katelis Viglas writes:
"The first god of the Chaldean Oracles is the Paternal monad, and it is supposed that he reigns silently from the abyss, from where he created the world with the Power and the Intelligence. The Power is usually equivalent to the Son, the central element, while the Intelligence is equivalent to Hecate. Hecate is the live fire and the Soul of the World, a third god that has an intermediate position, separating and joining the first two hypostases, also called "Once and Twice beyond" (Dionysus was also "Once beyond"). However, from the content of the fragmentary verses of the Chaldean Oracles it can sometimes be inferred that the Intelligence is the second demiurgic god, and then the Power is identified with Hecate. The first triad corresponds to the world of supramundane light, and it is absolutely inconceivable and eternal."
These ideas were in conflict with the Monarchians and other Judeo-Christian groups loyal to Biblical Monotheism. Later on, the "patristic philosophers," having Athanasius as their rapporteur, moved up the intermediate, distinct, second god (the "Word" of Philo, of the Hermeticists and of others), making an ontological equation between the First God (the Only Father) and the Second God (the Son).
Patristic "cooperative diarchy" and its evolution into a "cooperative triarchy"
The prevailing dualistic ideas in antiquity were either competitive, such as the ideas of Zoroastrianism, or non-competitive, such as the ideas of Marcionism. From the dogmatic, philosophical fermentations conducted by the "fathers," a new, "cooperative," dualistic, theological philosophy was born, where the second god (the Son) is "very God of very God" [two (2) Gods], not only born before all time, but also co-eternal, co-equal, consubstantial and super-substantial with the Father.
However, because of "the highest good of the Platonic philosophy," the "Orthodox Christians" had to worship "One God in Trinity" and "Trinity in Unity," but without confounding the persons (the gods) nor separating their substance!!! Besides, the worldview of Pythagoras with the sacred trinity of action, "Father-Mother-Son," from which the universe proceeded, had shown the way.
The "fathers" solved all these problems by discharging the "ancient philosophical terms" from their philosophical / metaphysical content and by recharging them with "theological, patristic content" (as they claim). Then, by adopting the saying of Hermes Trismegistus, "all is one, one is all," they found the solution, and now, according to Athanasius:
"We worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity; neither confounding the persons nor separating the substance. For there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit. But the divinity of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, is all one, the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal ... The Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal ... So likewise, the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty. And yet there are not three almighties but one almighty. So likewise, the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. And yet there are not three Gods, but one God ... And in this Trinity, none is before, or after another; none is greater, or less than another. But the whole three persons are co-eternal, and consubstantial."
So, according to Athanasius, there are not three gods. However, according to mythology and the "fathers," the second co-eternal and super-substantial god, the Son, was able to come down to earth and incarnate (he was clothed in a material body given "of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary").
Dionysian worship
However, these theological / philosophical / mythological issues were solved long ago by the worshipers of Dionysus and were explained through hymns (Dionysus Triouchos, Trigonos / thrice-born).
Proclus' Holy hymns to Dionysus {fragments}
Triouchos monad = triadic monad (See: Triune Monad)
John Lydus - "On the Months," 2-6: "That the monad is contemplated in a triad can be understood from the hymns. Proclus, on the "once beyond," writes thus: For the universe, seeing you, a monad containing three, revered you." (Hymn to Dionysus, fragments)
The Orthodox, worshipers of the Philosophical Jesus, having a philosophical dependence on the Ancient religion and not a theological revelation, are unable to utter a Christian speech or write a treatise that is not substantiated by ancient Greek literature and the thoughts of ancient philosophers, whose schools were shut down by them, imposing their dogmatic absoluteness on those of a different religion or doctrine with the help of the institutional death penalty.
The New Religion, connected to the chariot of the Roman state machine, gave birth to Christian religious nationalism, which was used as a tool for the accomplishment of national goals, and the words "Roman" and "Christian" acquired identical meanings similar to the slogan "Greece of Greek Orthodox Christians." Today, the nationalized Churches, such as the Bosnian Church, the Church of Greece, the Church of Russia, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the Church of Denmark, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, etc., are diagnosing the "incurable," autoimmune disease of ethno-racialism. This is the same thing that happened to Jewish religious nationalism (Zionism), which did not discern the universality of the spiritual, biblical promises. (Gal. 3:8-14, 26-28)
About Mariolatry
Seeking the earthly and not the heavenly (Col. 3:1), the Orthodox "philosophical theologians" established the worship of artifacts and relics (showing a preference for skulls), as well as Mariolatry with many names. Thus, the sacred revenue and, consequently, the ecclesiastical revenue increased. But the main thing is that the converts to the New Religion, after the slogan "By this thou shalt conquer," acquired an ever-virgin defender, general and protector in their military operations, replacing Athena Pallas, daughter of Zeus, who, according to myth, protected the Athenians.
Catholic priest Andrew Greely says: "The Mary symbol links Christianity directly to the ancient religions of mother goddesses."
In his monumental work "Panarion," referring to the heresy of the Collyridians (they made offerings to Mary because they recognized her as the queen of heaven) in some parts of Scythia, especially in Thrace (the area where Constantinople was located), from where it spread to Arabia, Epiphanius of Salamis writes:
"Yes, of course Mary's body was holy, but she was not God. Yes, the Virgin was indeed a virgin and honored as such, but she was not given us to worship; she worships Him who, though born of her flesh, has come from heaven, from the bosom of his Father. And the Gospel therefore protects us by telling us so on the occasion when the Lord himself said, "Woman, what is between me and thee? Mine hour is not yet come" (Jn. 2:4). [For] to make sure that no one would suppose, because of the words, "What is between me and thee?" that the holy Virgin is anything more [than a woman], he called her "Woman" as if by prophecy, because of the schisms and sects that were to appear on earth. Otherwise some might stumble into the nonsense of the sect from excessive awe of the saint." (Epiphanius of Salamis, Panarion, Book III, 79,4, p. 452)
Other wrong beliefs
The Orthodox "philosophers" established the ancient custom of iconolatry and the procession of icons, the saint worship with the ability to choose between a personal, clerical and corporative protector and mediator (a mediator between God and men), as well as other pagan ceremonies that do not agree with the message of the Gospel of Salvation by the Crucified and Resurrected Jesus. Deeply influenced by and dependent on the Gnostic and Egyptian ascetic movements, the cenobitic monasticism and their dualistic perceptions, and by imitating their practices (celibacy, abstinence from food, punishment of the material body to sanctify the immortal soul), they turned the isolation from society into a sacred, ecclesiastical institution. And the purpose of isolation is the union with God and the transcendence from the material world through Peace, with the study of death as a companion (Orthodox Psychotherapy). The historian Procopius called the monks' life "a careful study of death."
Those who practice the "Orthodox Psychotherapy," followers of the hesychast philosopher, scholar and monk Gregory Palamas (Palamites), believe that through silence and devout concentration and by surrounding themselves with a multitude of handmade icons of "Orthodox" saints, they are able to see the "Holy Trinity" or otherwise known as the uncreated Glory (theoptia = the direct sight of God), and then they can become "theologians."
"Historically, Western Christianity has tended to reject Palamism, especially the essence-energies distinction, sometimes characterizing it as a heretical introduction of an unacceptable division in the Trinity and suggestive of polytheism. Further, the associated practice of hesychasm used to achieve theosis was characterized as 'magic.'" (Fortescue, Adrian (1910), Hesychasm, VII, New York: Robert Appleton Company)
By preaching that "The kingdom of heaven is dispassion of the soul" and that "The kingdom of God is knowledge of the Holy Trinity," they present the denial of the world and the doctrine of the "Holy Trinity" as biblical truths, and they canonize stylites, dendrites, inmates and other "crazy" deniers of the world and of the goods of life, whom they praise as charismatic.
The course of the New Religion
The power hunger and the claim of the ecclesiastical throne led, after mutual curses, to the schism between the churches of the East and the West (1054) and then to the fall and plunder of Constantinople and the slaughter of coreligionists by the Latin brothers "in Christ" (1250) with the fourth crusade. After the crusading "services" of "chivalry," the Christian West turned to Greco-Roman antiquity and the classical spirit and was reborn. In 1517, Luther's reform split the totalitarian regime of the Western Church, and Protestantism was born, divided into Lutheranism and Calvinism. New "national churches" and many modern, heterogenous denominations sprang up within Protestantism. Fundamentalism was also developed, which can also be found in other religions. Protestantism nurtured within itself theories of free will and shaped the ideology of capitalism that led to the collapse of the feudal system.
King Henry VIII of England (1509-1547), due to his turbulent love life, caused the separation of England from the Papal power of Rome, which denied to grant him a new divorce, and thus the Anglican Church was born. The Anglican Church gave birth to Puritanism (an extreme expression of conservatism), which flourished during the years of the dynamic Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter of Henry VIII. And the Puritans gave birth to the Puritan Evangelical Church of America.
In the 18th century, "Orthodoxy," under the Ottoman yoke, sought the rebirth of its theology and the enslaved Greek nation through the Kollyvadic movement, led by Orthodox monks and philosophical theologians. The effort succeeded with the revival of the secret, neptic and hesychast tradition of the "fathers" (neptic theology), always in combination with iconolatry (a union of the inconceivable with the perceptible). Thus, the enslaved Eastern Orthodox Church clarified its theological identity while securing itself against the Western and Protestant proselytism.
During the Ottoman period (which was the result of the anti-unifying policy of "Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara" led by the monk Gennadius Scholarius, who, after the fall, became the first patriarch of Constantinople), in order to maintain national consciousness, the enslaved Hellenism rallied under the institution of the Orthodox Church, which acquired privileges from the Ottoman conqueror and functioned as an institution of self-government of the enslaved Orthodox Greeks. Thus, the Orthodox patriarch became the political and religious leader of the "Roman Millet," that is, of all the Greek Orthodox Christians of the empire. The patriarch was aided by wealthy families, the Phanariotes, and community leaders known as proestoi (leaders), commissioners, demogerontes (elders of the people) and kodjabashis, who, along with the patriarch, acquired wealth and political power. Just as the Jewish ruling class pursued a pro-Roman policy under the Roman power, so did they pursue a pro-Ottoman policy. For the election of the ethnarch, now called patriarch, who appointed metropolites (archbishops) and priests and was accountable to the Sultan, the sultan was given a gift (peskesi) of 500 gold coins, an amount that increased over time.
The greatest antibiblical gift of "patristic Christianity" since its birth has been to convince the uneducated mass of the people and the ruling political class that it is the continuation of the primitive church of Christ, and whoever disputes its doctrine and its rites is an enemy of the state and of the Holy Trinity and must be punished.
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Q: in react-native how to use body-pix import { Camera, CameraType } from 'expo-camera';
import React, { useRef } from "react";
// import logo from './logo.svg';
import * as tf from "@tensorflow/tfjs";
import * as bodyPix from "@tensorflow-models/body-pix";
import { useState } from 'react';
import { Button, StyleSheet, Text, TouchableOpacity, View } from 'react-native';
//AFTER IMPORT
export default function App() {
  const [type, setType] = useState(CameraType.back);
  const [permission, requestPermission] = Camera.useCameraPermissions();
  const canvasRef = useRef(null);
//next part
  const runBodysegment = async () => {
    const net = await bodyPix.load();
    console.log("BodyPix model loaded.");
    //  Loop and detect hands
    setInterval(() => {
      detect(net);
    }, 100)
  };
//next part

  const detect = async (net) => {
    const person = await net.segmentPersonParts(video);
    console.log(person);

    const coloredPartImage = bodyPix.toColoredPartMask(person);
    bodyPix.drawMask(
      canvasRef.current,
      video,
      coloredPartImage,
      0.7,
      0,
      false
    );
    runBodysegment();

  if (!permission) {
    // Camera permissions are still loading
    return <View />;
  }

  if (!permission.granted) {
    // Camera permissions are not granted yet
    return (
      <View style={styles.container}>
        <Text style={{ textAlign: 'center' }}>We need your permission to show the camera</Text>
        <Button onPress={requestPermission} title="grant permission" />
      </View>
    );
  }

  function toggleCameraType() {
    setType(current => (current === CameraType.back ? CameraType.front : CameraType.back));
  }

  return (
    <View style={styles.container}>
      <Camera style={styles.camera} type={type}>
        <View style={styles.buttonContainer}>
          <TouchableOpacity style={styles.button} onPress={toggleCameraType}>
            <Text style={styles.text}>Flip Camera</Text>
          </TouchableOpacity>
        </View>
      </Camera>
    </View>
  );
}

//next part
const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: {
    flex: 1,
    justifyContent: 'center',
  },
  camera: {
    flex: 1,
  },
  buttonContainer: {
    flex: 1,
    flexDirection: 'row',
    backgroundColor: 'transparent',
    margin: 64,
  },
  button: {
    flex: 1,
    alignSelf: 'flex-end',
    alignItems: 'center',
  },
  text: {
    fontSize: 24,
    fontWeight: 'bold',
    color: 'white',
  },
});
};

I want to use body-pix in my react-native app for android .
can any one help me how to do it .
I want my app to open a camera and in my camera there will be a body body-pix working
in my android app
I want my react-native app to work properly with body-pix
I had try it many time time but I can't do it properly

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Opioid Settlements: Why Insys Is the Tip of the Iceberg
June 18, 2019 • 8 min read
Drug manufacturers who face large settlements from the opioid crisis could follow the Insys example and file for bankruptcy protection, experts say.
Vincent Buccola
https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/621d3ea487eba30014f27133/e/6228711bcf9b03001230030c/media.mp3
Wharton's Vincent Buccola and Drexel's Robert Field discuss Insys Therapeutics' filing for bankruptcy protection in the wake of opioid litigation.
After opioid maker Insys Therapeutics last week filed for bankruptcy protection five days after securing a $225 million settlement with the federal government, speculation has grown that other embattled opioid producers could take the same path. Insys makes the Subsys brand of the drug fentanyl, an opioid that is effective in easing pain for cancer patients. The justice department had accused Insys of using sham speaker programs to bribe doctors and their assistants to prescribe the drug and encourage addiction to it.
The justice department has pursued several other opioid manufacturers such as Purdue Pharma and drug distributors such as McKesson over charges that they helped fuel opioid addiction. However, as those companies face those claims along with lawsuits and mounting legal costs, filing for bankruptcy is a useful way to keep creditors at bay. Under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, a judge overseeing the case would typically tally a company's assets, including proceeds from sale of its assets, and divide the total among the various claimants, including the government.
Other drug manufacturers who face large settlements from the opioid crisis could follow the Insys example and file for bankruptcy protection, according to Robert Field, professor of law and professor of health management and policy at Drexel University. Field is also a lecturer in Wharton's health care management department. One such company is Purdue Pharma, whose CEO Craig Landau told the Washington Post in March that filing for bankruptcy protection "is an option" as it faces multiple lawsuits over its OxyContin drug.
Insys is facing liabilities in excess of its asset valuations, and therefore its Chapter 11 filing makes sense, according to Vincent Buccola, Wharton professor of legal studies and business ethics. "It looks like a classic place where bankruptcy probably is a sound move [for Insys] – and there obviously are more liabilities to come," he said. Insys declared assets worth $175 million and debts of $262 million in its bankruptcy filing. The bankruptcy filing could also mean that the federal government gets far less than the $225 million settlement it struck with Insys. The government may get "pennies on the dollar," Buccola noted.
Field and Buccola discussed the likely directions of the opioid litigations on the Knowledge at Wharton radio show on SiriusXM. (Listen to the podcast at the top of this page.)
"It looks like a classic place where bankruptcy probably is a sound move – and there obviously are more liabilities to come." –Vincent Buccola
Bankruptcy filings are helpful for companies in more ways than just getting creditors off their backs. "In some cases, a company would prefer to have a bankruptcy judge and a trained lawyer sort out liabilities rather than have juries in opioid-stricken localities assessing damages," said Buccola, but he added that this may not be the case with Insys.
Another reason is that "it might be more efficient to deal with all claims in one place rather than bleeding away even more cash going to lawyers," Buccola continued. The bankruptcy filing would also free Insys executives from deposing and being cross-examined, "so that could be an equally important part of its strategy," said Field.
The Insys bankruptcy filing also means that the government will most likely have to "stand in line" with other creditors to collect on its dues, said Field. Those include the U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts with a $30 million claim, and law firms that defended the firm's co-founder, John Kapoor, and former company executives, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Insys was also named in roughly 1,000 lawsuits from counties, states, Native American tribes and insurance companies over Subsys and the costs of addiction, the report added.
The bankruptcy court judge in the Insys case would decide if the federal government gets priority over other creditors, said Field. "In any event, it's likely that the government will not receive all of the settlement that they had agreed to." It is also not clear what funds may be allocated for programs to mitigate opioid addiction, he noted.
In cases like that of Insys, one option for the government is to disqualify the company from getting reimbursements under the Medicaid or Medicare programs, said Field. However, the government has not exercised that option with Insys because that would severely cripple the company's revenues, and thereby its ability to pay the settlement, he added.
Insys makes 90% of its revenues from Subsys, and opioid litigation has cost the company dearly. In May 2019, a federal court in Boston had convicted Kapoor and other company executives of a racketeering conspiracy aimed at boosting the firm's profits; they each face up to 20 years in prison.
"We're seeing a drama that's gradually playing out, and the [Insys] bankruptcy is just one chapter." –Robert Field
In its latest quarter ending March 2019, Insys posted a net loss of $124 million on revenues of $7.6 million as it had to account for $74 million in "potential contingent losses related to outstanding legal matters," and foot legal bills of nearly $26 million to defend Kapoor. In the same quarter in 2018, it had incurred a net loss of $20.4 million on revenues of $23.9 million. The company's share price has plummeted from a high of about $635 in September 2000 to 34 cents last week. The Insys stock will be delisted from Nasdaq on June 19 following the bankruptcy filing.
A Common Occurrence
The practice of drug companies using funds earmarked for educating physicians in questionable ways is "fairly prevalent," said Field. "There's a thin line between trying to educate a doctor and trying to bribe a doctor, and sometimes the education can involve some inducements. You may bring pizza for their staff or give them ballpoint pens. In the case of Insys, it was well over the line. There are a lot of companies operating in that gray zone." A ProPublica analysis in 2016 found that doctors who receive payments from the medical industry do indeed tend to prescribe drugs differently than their colleagues who do not.
Not surprisingly, over the years, several drug makers have faced enforcement actions over charges of improper marketing practices, including providing inducements to physicians and other health care providers. Johnson & Johnson is currently facing trials in Oklahoma for "oversupply" of opioid drugs in the state. Oklahoma's attorney-general Mike Hunter had pointed out that more than 4,000 Oklahomans had died of overdoses from prescription opioids between 2007 and 2017, according to an NPR report. Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals had already reached settlements with the state of Oklahoma over alleged opioid marketing abuses.
Possible Outcomes
Field expected the opioid marketing controversies to bring about not just tighter regulation, but "the pendulum [could] swing the other way" with impacts on the standard of care. While overprescribing of medications has led to addictions, as with opioids, "under treatment" has also been a problem, with cancer patients and others who need such powerful medications not getting it, he noted. "[Now], we are beginning to see doctors becoming much more gun shy about prescribing opioids, and we undoubtedly will see some patients who will be denied medication that they truly need. It's that balance that's so tough to strike."
"There's a thin line between trying to educate a doctor and trying to bribe a doctor…." –Robert Field
The federal government has already collected from Insys $5 million of the $225 million settlement, but it may be forced to return some of that. Bankruptcy rules include "a look-back period" of two to three months where payments made in that period could be clawed back, said Field. "The idea is they don't want the bankrupt company to be favoring one creditor over another. So if the government gets some of its money today and the bankruptcy goes into effect a few weeks from now, they may have to pay back some of that money."
Field recalled that in previous mass litigation cases, especially the asbestos cases in the mid-1970s and later, some of the big manufacturers declared bankruptcy because they faced claims in the multiple billions of dollars. "In that case they were able to set up [trust] funds for the asbestos victims, which I think is the best ultimate outcome [of the opioids cases]," he said. Similarly, after the tobacco litigation, a nationwide pool was set up and a "master settlement agreement" crafted in 1998, which provided money for each of the states, he recalled.
Currently, opioid litigation is underway in many states, and many of those cases are consolidated in Ohio and Oklahoma. "These litigations go on for years or even decades," said Field. "We're seeing a drama that's gradually playing out, and the [Insys] bankruptcy is just one chapter."
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Kornelia Kubińska, née Marek le  à Marklowice, est une fondeuse polonaise.

Biographie
Elle participe à ses premières compétitions officielles en 2002 et les Championnats du monde junior entre 2003 et 2005, pour un meilleur résultat de  sur le cinq kilomètres en 2005 à Rovaniemi. Elle accède à la Coupe du monde lors de l'hiver 2007-2008, où elle marque ses premiers points. En 2009, elle participe à son premier grand rendez-vous international, les Championnats du monde à Liberec où elle finit notamment vingtième du trente kilomètres et sixième au relais.

En , aux Jeux olympiques, elle se classe  du trente kilomètres et  de la poursuite avant de prendre part au relais (sixième place). Peu après, elle subit un contrôle antidopage qui s'avère positif à l'EPO qui lui vaudra une suspension de deux ans par sa fédération. Ses résultats sont annulés ultérieurement par le CIO.

En 2012, elle fait son retour à la compétition sous le nom de Kubińska après son mariage.
Aux Championnats du monde 2013, elle achève deux courses au  rang.

La Polonaise honore sa deuxième sélection pour les Jeux olympiques en 2014, à Sotchi, y prenant la  en skiathlon, la  place au dix kilomètres, la  place en relais et la  place au trente kilomètres.

Lors de la saison 2014-2015, elle enregistre son meilleur résultat individuel avec une  place finale au Tour de ski, ainsi que son meilleur résultat en relais aux Championnats du monde, avec le cinquième rang à Falun.

Elle ne court pas lors de la saison 2015-2016 en raison d'une grossesse.

En 2017, pour sa dernière saison internationale, elle prend part à ses quatrièmes championnats du monde, où elle est encore  sur le trente kilomètres. Après une opération, elle décide la fin de sa carrière sportive.

Palmarès

Jeux olympiques d'hiver

Légende :
  : pas d'épreuve
 — : non disputée par Kubińska
 DSQ : disqualifiée

Championnats du monde

Légende :
  : pas d'épreuve
 — : Non disputée par Kubinska
 DNF : abandon

Coupe du monde
 Meilleur classement général :  en 2015.
 Meilleur résultat individuel : .

Classements en Coupe du monde

Universiades
Turin 2007 :
 Médaille de bronze en relais.

Championnats de Pologne
Championne sur quinze kilomètres libre en 2005.
Championne sur cinq kilomètres classique, quinze kilomètres libre et relais en 2012.
Championne sur cinq kilomètres libre et sprint par équipes en 2015.
Championne sur cinq kilomètres classique, quinze kilomètres libre, sprint par équipe féminin, sprint par équipes mixte et relais en 2017.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Fondeuse polonaise
Naissance en Silésie
Naissance en septembre 1985
Sportif suspendu pour dopage
Fondeuse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010
Fondeuse aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2014

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Die Dampflokomotiven der NMBS/SNCB-Reihe 1 waren mit 126 Tonnen Dienstgewicht eine der schwersten europäischen Pacific-Lokomotiven. Sie wurden von den belgischen Staatsbahnen NMBS/SNCB 1935 bis 1938 mit insgesamt 35 Stück beschafft.

Geschichte
Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg erhielt die belgische Staatsbahn aus den deutschen Ablieferungen nach dem Waffenstillstand von Compiègne einen umfangreichen Bestand relativ neuer Lokomotiven vor allem der ehemaligen Preußischen Staatseisenbahnen. Nach der bis 1912 gelieferten NMBS/SNCB-Reihe 10 waren daher erst in den 1930er Jahren aufgrund der stark gestiegenen Zuggewichte sowie der zunehmenden Konkurrenz von Auto und Flugzeug neue Lokomotiven für die hochwertigen Schnellzugleistungen im internationalen Verkehr erforderlich. Vor allem auf der steigungsreichen Strecke über Arlon nach Luxemburg kam die Reihe 10 an ihre Grenzen. Die NMBS/SNCB gab daher die Entwicklung einer neuen Schnellzug-Pacific in Auftrag, der Entwurf wurde maßgeblich von ihrem Chefingenieur Raoul Notesse beeinflusst. An der Lieferung waren verschiedene belgische Hersteller beteiligt, die Firmen Tubize, Cockerill, La Meuse und Haine-St Pierre hatten dazu ein entsprechendes Konsortium gebildet. Die erste Lokomotive wurde im Mai 1935, rechtzeitig zur 100-Jahr-Feier der belgischen Eisenbahnen, von Tubize abgeliefert.

Vorgegeben war, dass die Lokomotiven eine Maximalgeschwindigkeit von 120 km/h erreichen sollten, auf den langen Rampen der Bahnstrecke Namur–Luxemburg sollten sie noch Züge mit 400 Tonnen Gewicht bei einer Dauergeschwindigkeit von 80 km/h befördern. Testfahrten bestätigten die Erwartungen, gegenüber der Reihe 10 lag die nutzbare Leistung mit bis zu 2700 PSi um bis zu 40 % höher. 1935 erhielt die Staatsbahn eine erste Serie von 15 Stück, gefolgt von weiteren 20 Stück im Jahr 1938. Die Lokomotiven übernahmen alle wichtigen Schnellzugleistungen auf der Hauptachse des belgischen Eisenbahnnetzes zwischen Oostende, Brüssel und Lüttich sowie auf den anspruchsvollen Steigungsstrecken zur deutschen Grenze bei Aachen bzw. nach Luxemburg.

Die NMBS/SNCB beschaffte ab Mitte der 1950er Jahre große Serien neuer Diesellokomotiven und elektrifizierte weite Teile ihres Netzes. Ab 1955 übernahmen die neuen Diesellokomotiven der NMBS/SNCB-Reihe 202 die wichtigsten Schnellzugleistungen auf den nicht elektrifizierten Strecken, im gleichen Jahr war die Strecke zwischen Oostende und Lüttich komplett unter Fahrdraht. Die Reihe 1 wurde auf nachrangige Leistungen verdrängt. 1962 wurden alle Lokomotiven, abgesehen von der bereits 1954 unfallbedingt ausgemusterten 1.001, außer Dienst gestellt.

Lediglich ein Exemplar, die Lokomotive 1.002, blieb erhalten. Sie wurde für die 150-Jahr-Feier der belgischen Eisenbahnen 1985 wieder instand gesetzt und für Sonderfahrten eingesetzt. Inzwischen steht sie in nicht betriebsfähigem Zustand bei der Museumsbahn Chemin de fer à vapeur des 3 vallées in Treignes in der südlichen Wallonie in deren Museumssammlung.

Technik
Die Reihe 1 wurde, wie auch bereits die Reihe 10, als Vierlings-Lokomotive mit Frischdampf für alle vier Zylinder entworfen. Der erwartete hohe Dampfbedarf führte dazu, dass die große Feuerbüchse des aus hochwertigem Nickelstahl hergestellten Kessels mit zwei Feuertüren ausgestattet wurde, zeitweise waren dafür zwei Heizer im Einsatz. Basierend auf französischen Erfahrungen wurde eine Kylchap-Saugzuganlage mit zwei Blasrohren eingebaut, die Strömungskanäle für den Dampf wurden, basierend auf den Erkenntnissen von André Chapelon, auf optimale thermische Verhältnisse ausgelegt. Der Lokomotivrahmen war als Barrenrahmen mit 115 mm dicken Rahmenwangen ausgeführt, die durch Querträger aus Stahlguss sowie den als Monoblock ebenfalls in Stahlguss ausgeführten Zylinderblock verbunden wurden. Während das vordere Drehgestell einen Innenrahmen erhielt, besaß die Nachlaufachse ein Delta-Schleppgestell, jeweils mit Rollenlagern. Äußerlich erhielten die Lokomotiven eine teilweise stromlinienförmig ausgeführte Front mit großen Windleitblechen und einer oben abgeschrägten Rauchkammertür.

Literatur
 Erhard Born: 2 C 1. Entwicklung und Geschichte der Pazifik-Lokomotiven. Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1964.

Weblinks

 La Construction des Locomotives à Vapeur en Belgique (Article extrait du No. 8 du 15 Aout 1938 de "La Construction Metallique") (französisch)

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I am unable to solve this problem, so any help is greatly appreciated.
This is supposed to be a unidirectional relation, i.e. the children don't know about their parents. As far as I can tell from the CMP documentation, this should be correct. Could someone tell me what's wrong, because I'm lost...thanks in advance.
I should add that I'm not very experienced with DB work, and that I have tried moving the key field to the other side of the relation, since I'm not sure where they should be. But the error remained the same.
It looks right to me. Try fiddling arround with it. Check the spelling, field-names etc.
I am experiencing the same problem did you manage to find a solution ??
on the setter and getter for the primary key field. Substitute "pk" for whatever the name of the field of you pk is. This solved my problem.


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Volvo Car Group is Partnering With Waymo to Develop Robotaxis
【Summary】Waymo is becoming an exclusive partner for the Volvo Car Group and will integrate its self-driving technology stack in Volvo vehicles. Initially, the two companies will work together to integrate an all-new mobility-focused electric vehicle platform for ride hailing services. The electric vehicles will be built by Volvo's new electric brand Polestar.
Jeremy Carlton Jun 26, 2020 2:00 PM PT
author: Jeremy Carlton
Much of the work in developing self-driving technology is being undertaken by tech companies with little experience building vehicles. This is one of the reasons why automakers are actively forming partnerships with companies outside of the traditional auto industry to integrate such features as cloud connectivity and advanced autonomous driving hardware and software into their future production vehicles.
The latest example of this is a new partnership between automaker Volvo Car Group and Waymo. As part of the collaboration, Waymo will become the exclusive partner for Volvo Car Group and will work with Waymo to integrate Waymo's fully self-driving technology stack into production vehicles, including the company's new electric brand Polestar.
Waymo's autonomous driving software stack is called the "Waymo Driver."
The new partnership with Volvo further expands Waymo's presence in the auto industry, especially in the deployment of self-driving technology.
Initially, the two companies will work together to integrate the Waymo Driver into an all-new mobility-focused electric vehicle platform for ride hailing services. The electric vehicles will be built by Polestar.
"Waymo technology will open up exciting opportunities for Polestar," said Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO. "I believe there will be a strong market for truly premium autonomous mobility services."
Waymo is considered to be one of the industry leaders in autonomous driving technology. The company was formed out of Google's self-driving car project which began back in 2009, so Waymo has been developing robust self-driving technology for over a decade.
Waymo is also developing a commercial ride-sharing service called Waymo One using a fleet of vehicles outfitted with hardware for autonomous driving. Currently, a majority of these ride-sharing vehicles are Chrysler Pacifica minivans that have been outfitted with Waymo's technology, but this new partnership will see Waymo's technology installed in Volvo Group vehicles for the first time.
"This key partnership with Volvo Car Group helps pave the path to the deployment of the Waymo Driver globally in years to come, and represents an important milestone in the highly competitive autonomous vehicle industry," said Adam Frost, Chief Automotive Officer, Waymo.
A self-driving minivan developed by Waymo for a commercial robotaxi service.
In addition to this latest automotive partnership with Volvo, Waymo has formed automotive partnerships with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), and Renault Nissan Mitsubishi (The Alliance), allowing Waymo to deploy its Waymo Driver across a variety of vehicle platforms.
By partnering with a tech company, automakers like Volvo can more easily integrate advanced hardware and software into their vehicle lineups.
It's the second big announcement of its kind this week in the auto industry.
On Tuesday, German automaker Mercedes Benz announced a partnership with chipmaker NVIDIA on a software-based operating system for future Mercedes Benz models. The new software based operating system allows for over the air (OTA) updates for the life of the vehicle. Allowing Mercedes Benz to introduce new features autonomous driving functions as they are developed.
In addition to Waymo's partnership with Volvo, Waymo is also working with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), and Renault Nissan Mitsubishi (The Alliance) to integrate Waymo Driver across multiple vehicle platforms.
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German Court Bans Tesla's 'Misleading' Ads About the Company's Self-Driving Capabilities
Tesla is 'Very Close' to Level-5 Autonomous Driving, Chief Executive Elon Musk Says
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Volkswagen's Electric ID.4 Models Launch in China, Giving Tesla New Competition in the World's Biggest Auto Market
General Motors Adding 3,000 High-Tech Jobs in its Push Towards Electrification & Vehicle Connectivity
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Venice Italy car rentals are one way to get around outside the city center, but the norm in this romantic city is to either use the canals or walk. Venice is a city of around 270,000 people that averages almost 50,000 tourists every single day. As such, the city is prone to overcrowding and is not designed to accommodate cars, or virtually anything else that relies on wheels to get it from one place to the next. There are 117 islands that comprise the archipelago in the Venetian Lagoon along the Adriatic Sea where Venice is situated. Transportation in Venice relies heavily on the water buses, including vaporetti and gondolas, as well as foot traffic. There are some 450 bridges that make it possible for people to explore this charming city by water or foot, without having to ever step inside an automobile. This is certainly a welcome change for most people who wish their vacation to be a peaceful and tranquil one.
There are several different kinds of water bus in Venice. When most people think of transportation in Venice they envision the classic gondola pulled along the canals by a Venetian-born gondolier with striped shirt and straw hat, and in fact, this mode of transportation is still available. It is, however, used primarily by tourists and for ceremonial purposes, such as weddings or honeymoons for instance. The more common means of transportation in Venice are faster boats called vaporetti and motoscafi. These boats run regularly throughout the day and you rarely have to wait more than a couple of minutes to catch one. The most common route you will take when you use a water bus in Venice is the # 1, which makes thirteen stops between the Piazzale Roma and the Piazza San Marco. When you see how easy and fun it is to use the waterways and bridges, you will forget all about Venice Italy car rentals, and will likely want to fit in with all the rest of the experienced tourists and residents who use the waterways as a daily matter of course.
The only problem is that a water bus in Venice can be pretty pricey if you are only using it once. Many people take advantage of 12 to 72 hour cards such as the Venice Tourist Office's Venice Connected Pass to bring down the price of public transport over the course of their trip. If you are looking for a bit more luxurious experience, you can opt for one of the wood-trimmed water taxis that are akin to limousines in the water. Since there are only a few bridges spanning the two and a half mile stretch of the Grand Canal, you may find yourself in need of a crossing without ready access to a bridge, and without wanting to spend the few Euros for the water bus. In this event, a traghetto may be the perfect option for you. These are stripped down gondolas that will take you across the Grand Canal at the price of around 2 Euros, a perfect option for people looking to hop from one side of the canal to the other for next to nothing. With all of the fun and easy options for getting around the city by foot or by boat, Venice Italy car rentals are certainly not the most popular means of transportation. You can however park your rental car outside the city center in Lido or Mestre.


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Artifacts from the exhibit September 11: Remembrance and Reflection.
One of the least popular pieces of security equipment since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is now part of the Smithsonian's collection: a metal detector from the Transportation Security Administration.
The National Museum of American History is hosting a temporary exhibit to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The exhibit, called September 11: Remembrance and Reflection, feature more than 50 objects from New York, the Pentagon and the crash of United flight 93 in Shanksville, Pa.
Airplane fragments, a door from a crushed firetruck and that TSA metal detector are among those items that will be displayed on a table in the open with no glass casing.
Also on display is the personal beeper of Jonathan Briley, who was an audiovisual technician at the Windows on the World restaurant on the 106th and 107th floors of the North Tower. Briley has been tentatively identified as the subject of the disturbing, famous photo called "The Falling Man," taken on Sept. 11, 2001.
The exhibit opens Saturday, Sept. 3 and runs through Sept. 11. The Newseum is also displaying artifacts from the attacks, offering free admission the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 10-11.


COMING INTO FOCUS Saturn shines in this Cassini image taken in October 2013. Even though the spacecraft is gone, scientists are still learning from its 13 years' worth of data.
The Cassini mission ended September 15, 2017, after more than 13 years orbiting Saturn (SN Online: 9/15/17). The spacecraft's final 22 orbits, dubbed the Grand Finale, sent Cassini into the potentially dangerous region between the gas giant and its rings, and its final orbit sent it directly into Saturn's atmosphere.
That perspective helped solve mysteries about the planet and its moons that could not be tackled any other way, scientists said March 19 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.


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I recently reviewed a CD from Atma Classique of the complete string quartets by György Kurtág (review). They were given thrilling performances by the Canadian Quatuor Molinari. Having an inquisitive mind and always eager to delve into the music of less-well-known composers, I was eager to explore their new release of the complete string quartets of Jean Papineau-Couture, a name I've never come across before. He hailed from Montreal and was the grandson of conductor and composer Guillaume Couture. He started learning the piano, but soon realized he had a strong inclination to compose. A government grant enabled him to relocate to Boston, USA to study composition with Quincy Porter and piano with Beveridge Webster at the New England Conservatory. A year later he joined Nadia Boulanger's class at the Longy School of Music, also in Boston. An encounter with Igor Stravinsky proved decisive, as the older composer was to have a profound influence on the young man's later music. In 1945 Papineau-Couture returned to Québec, immersing himself in academia: he joined the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and later taught in the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal becoming vice-dean in 1967 and dean in 1968 until 1973. He achieved many prestigious awards along the way.
Throughout his compositional career, Papineau-Couture's style changed markedly. His early works show the influence of French composers of the early twentieth century, with their neo-classical bent having echoes of Poulenc and Stravinsky. As he developed, he was careful to avoid serialism, instead embracing chromaticism, but without systematizing the twelve semitones of the octave. He turned to the writings of Paul Hindemith for inspiration and, with time, his music became more sparsely textured. A traversal of the four quartets, spanning the years 1953-1996, offers an overview of this evolution.
The String Quartet No. 1 bears a dedication to the Spivak Quartet, who premiered it in December 1953. Scored in two contrasting movements, the first is melancholic in mood, and it's underlying solemn tread gives it a weighed-down feeling. Things lighten up in the movement which follows, with its spiky, neo-classical rhythm and buoyant pace. When the composer came to write his Second Quartet, fourteen years later, he had come a long way compositionally. Dedicated to his teacher Nadia Boulanger, it is fashioned in four movements. I was amazed how daring the harmonies have become, and how dissonant sounding it is. The string effects are very potent, with harmonics and glissandi adding some ravishing colour. It calls for formidable technical skill from the players; the Quatuor Molinari meet the challenges head-on with breathtaking virtuosity. Stravinsky shows his hand in the second movement, the down-bow ostinatos very reminiscent of The Rite of Spring. The strumming pizzicatos in the third movement are very engaging.
Quartets 3 and 4 are one-movement designs. No. 3 dates from 1996, and was premiered that same year by the Morency Quartet. There's an awareness that the composer is breaking new ground, as there's a sparseness not heard in the previous quartets. Two-voice combinations and 'brief solo excursions' all help lighten the texture. The work anticipates the Fourth Quartet, which was only discovered in 2016 amongst papers donated to the Québec branch of the Canadian Music Centre by the composer's daughter. Again, leanness is a feature, with the contrapuntal writing impressively accomplished.
The Slanò String Trio, composed in 1975 and premiered a year later by the Stradivarius Trio, garnered much critical acclaim at its inception. Again a one movement work, Papineau-Couture explores instrumental colour, utilizing shimmering tremolos, glissandi and pizzicatos.
The Quatuor Molinari was founded in 1997 by its first violinist Olga Ranzenhofer. It takes its name from the Canadian abstract artist Guido Molinari. Based in Montreal, their focus is on performing twentieth and twenty-first century music, commissioning new works and programming their native composers. They are served well in terms of sound and balance, with the acoustic of the Église Saint-Augustin sympathetic to clarity of instrumental lines.
All told, these attractive quartets are given stylishly and vital performances. They are an immensely rewarding discovery.


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The Role of the National Library of Medicine Web Sites in Newborn Screening Education.
Fomous C, Miller N
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2006;12(4):305-12
Expanded newborn screening programs and subsequent detection of rare genetic disorders challenge parents and their medical providers to learn about the treatment and management of these disorders. Many people seek medical information on the Internet but may encounter requests for registration or fees, or find that resources are out of date, diffcult to understand, or buried in advertisements. The U. S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of the National Institutes of Health, provides web-based resources that address the challenges of newborn screening education. These resources include MedlinePlus, Genetics Home Reference, ClinicalTrials.gov, and PubMed. NLM websites are not commercial, do not require registration or fees, and provide varied levels of information for a continuum of audiences from low-literacy consumers to health professionals. Using phenylketonuria as an example, this study describes the information that parents and their medical providers can find through NLM resources. NLM has embraced the digital age and provides the public with relliable, accurate, and up-to-date educational materials.
Fomous C, Miller N The Role of the National Library of Medicine Web Sites in Newborn Screening Education.
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Bethesda Pinball releases for PS4, Xbox One, PC, and many more platforms on December 6.
[UPDATE] Zen Studios confirmed to us that Bethesda Pinball releases on December 6 for PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3, and Vita, as well as PC, Mac, and Windows 10. The pack with all three tables will cost $11.
Pinball video game developer Zen Studios recently teased Bethesda Pinball with a Fallout-themed picture, and now the studio has released a teaser trailer that features Skyrim's evil dragon Alduin.
The Bethesda Pinball pack includes three tables based on Fallout 4, Doom, and Skyrim, each featuring unique missions and tasks. It releases as DLC for Zen Pinball on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac, and Windows 10 on December 6 and mobile devices on December 8.
Zen Studios' blog post suggests that Bethesda Pinball may also release on Xbox 360, PS3, and Vita, but it doesn't specifically name those platforms. We've contacted the developer for clarification and a confirmation of the pack's price.


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Q: How can I add the Line2D object to the figure in matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D

line = plt.Line2D([1], [1])
plt.show() #it's doing nothing

A: Are you just trying to draw a straight line? Or are you trying to plot a straight line?
To just plot a straight line do:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,1,1,1,1,1,1])
plt.show()

Output

If you are set on using Line2D then you can do something like this, your problem is that you need more than 1 value for x or y in the line 2D (1 x value and 1 y value just makes a point):
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D

x = [0,1,2,3,4]
y = [1]
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
line = Line2D(x, y)
ax.add_line(line)
plt.xlim(min(x), max(x))
plt.ylim(0, 2)
plt.show()


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describe RuboCop::Cop::Layout::FirstMethodArgumentLineBreak do
  subject(:cop) { described_class.new }

  context 'args listed on the first line' do
    let(:source) do
      <<-RUBY.strip_indent
        foo(bar,
          baz)
      RUBY
    end

    it 'detects the offense' do
      inspect_source(source)

      expect(cop.offenses.length).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.offenses.first.line).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.highlights).to eq(['bar'])
    end

    it 'autocorrects the offense' do
      new_source = autocorrect_source(source)

      expect(new_source).to eq([
        'foo(',
        'bar,',
        '  baz)',
        ''
      ].join("\n"))
    end
  end

  context 'hash arg spanning multiple lines' do
    let(:source) do
      <<-RUBY.strip_indent
        something(3, bar: 1,
        baz: 2)
      RUBY
    end

    it 'detects the offense' do
      inspect_source(source)

      expect(cop.offenses.length).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.offenses.first.line).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.highlights).to eq(['3'])
    end

    it 'autocorrects the offense' do
      new_source = autocorrect_source(source)

      expect(new_source).to eq([
        'something(',
        '3, bar: 1,',
        'baz: 2)',
        ''
      ].join("\n"))
    end
  end

  context 'hash arg without a line break before the first pair' do
    let(:source) do
      <<-RUBY.strip_indent
        something(bar: 1,
        baz: 2)
      RUBY
    end

    it 'detects the offense' do
      inspect_source(source)

      expect(cop.offenses.length).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.offenses.first.line).to eq(1)
      expect(cop.highlights).to eq(['bar: 1'])
    end

    it 'autocorrects the offense' do
      new_source = autocorrect_source(source)

      expect(new_source).to eq([
        'something(',
        'bar: 1,',
        'baz: 2)',
        ''
      ].join("\n"))
    end
  end

  it 'ignores arguments listed on a single line' do
    expect_no_offenses('foo(bar, baz, bing)')
  end

  it 'ignores arguments without parens' do
    expect_no_offenses(<<-RUBY.strip_indent)
      foo bar,
        baz
    RUBY
  end

  it 'ignores methods without arguments' do
    expect_no_offenses('foo')
  end
end

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