St. Petersburg, as you already know, is situated on the islands, the largest of which is Vasilievsky Island. Its area is about 1,050 hectares. Vasilievsky Island's development began as an extension of St. Petersburg in 1715 and has now become its cultural and administrative center. In the first decades of the 18th century such buildings as Twelve Collegia, the main building of the Academy of Sciences, the Kunstkamera, one of the most remarkable museums in St. Petersburg were erected.
The spit of Vasilyevsky Island relates to the elongate portion of the Vasilyevsky Island on the east. Its main attraction, the Exchange, was built in the first half of the 19th century. The huge structure in the form of an old ancient temple is captivating in its beauty and purity of classical architecture. On the Exchange sides there are symmetrical rostral Columns. They are called so because of the decorations – ship bows of ship - rostrum. In fact, the columns are two giant 32-m beacons installed there in 1810. At the foot of the columns sit stone sculptures personifying the rivers: the Volga, the Neva, the Volkhov and the Dnieper. In front of the Exchange there is a semicircular area with a quay faced with gray granite. The embankment wall is decorated with lion masks, and the ramp - with granite balls.
Since 1940 the Exchange building is occupied by the Central Naval Museum where you can get acquainted with the history of Russian Navy. Other notable buildings on the Spit of Vasilyevsky Island are the Customs and the warehouse located on both sides of the Exchange and built in 1826-1832.


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Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!
Necroscope
Brian Lumley
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! is a collection of eight long short stories featuring Brian Lumley's most popular characters and includes three brand-new stories of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope!
Titus Crow: Psychic detective, master magician, destroyer of the ancient Chthulian gods. In "Inception," we see the infant Titus at the moment his destiny falls upon him. In "Lord of the Worms," a simple secretarial job lands Crow on a sacrificial altar. And in "Name and Number," Henri Laurent de Marigny details a battle between Titus Crow and malevolent, occult winds which can rip living flesh from bone.
David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer: once men of the waking world, now agents for King Kuranes of the Dreamlands. Sips of "The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss" send the pair on a tumultuous journey from a buxom beauty's bed to the depths of a wizard's dungeon. Then, seeking his missing friend, David Hero boards an ill-fated airship that is home to "The Stealer of Dreams."
Harry Keogh, Necroscope: vampire killer without peer, capable of conversing with the dead. A sudden windfall brings Harry to Las Vegas, where he meets "Dead Eddie," a gambler who can't resist trying for one last big win from beyond the grave. In "Dinosaur Dreams, Harry's interest in fossils leads him to uncover the truth behind the death of a young amateur paleontologist... and to discover that it's not just dead people he can call on in a crisis.... Harry's undying love for his mother leads him down a dangerous path in "Resurrection."
Four of Lumley's greatest heroes. Three of his most popular worlds. Tales to chill and to delight. Open the book and be swept away.
Necroscope: Book 1
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES... Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.
In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge.
The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead.
Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but world domination. he will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.
His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living.
To protect Harry, the dead will do anything - even rise from their graves!
Vamphyri!
Not the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil of vampires. -- In a secluded English village, Yulian Bodescu plots his takeover of the world. Imbued with a vampire's powers before his birth, Bodescu rules men's minds and bodies with supernatural ease. He is secretly creating an army of vampiric monsters, things that once were men but were now walking masses of destructive hunger!
Harry Keogh, Necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragasani--and of Harry's body! But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe and to speak mind-to-mind with both the living and the dead.
Are Harry's new powers enough to defeat Yulian Bodescu and his legion of monsters--or will the vampire army overrun the living earth?
The third book in the Necroscope series traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming towers, impossible cliffs, and ravenous vampire-beasts.
Russia's Ural Mountains hide a deadly secret: a supernatural portal to the country of the vampires. Soviet scientists and ESP-powered spies, in a secret military base, study the portal--and the powerfully evil creatures that emerge from it, intent on ravaging mankind.
When Jazz Simmons, a British agent sent to infiltrate the base, is captured by the KGB espionage squad and forced through the portal, his last message tells Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, that the vampires are preparing for a mass invasion.
Harry has only one option--to strike first. He must carry the human-vampire war to the vampire's own lands. But his strongest psychic power will be useless there. What good is the power to summon the dead in a country where nothing ever dies, where every man, woman, and child become half-dead servants of the Vamphyri?
Deadspeak
A new vampire stalks the earth, and only Harry Keogh can defeat him!
The silence of the grave is not silent at all. In their millions, the dead are screaming... but no one can hear them!
Atop a perilous cliff, deep in the Balkan mountains, rises the castle of the Ferenczy. Once it was a stronghold of the Vamphyri... and now it will be so again, for Janos Ferenczy, vampire and black magician, has risen from his ages-long sleep. Powerful and evil, Janos conjures dead men and women into a semblance of life and subjects them to fiendish tortures.
But the shrieks of the dead do not satisfy Janos's lust for blood-- for that he needs living humans. His terrifying armies of the risen dead will soon overwhelm a helpless, defenseless mankind....
Helpless and defenseless because a terrible battle against the vampires has destroyed Harry Keogh's deadspeak, leaving the Necroscope deaf to the teeming dead... and to their warnings of Janos's reign of terror.
To save the world, Harry must join forces and link minds with the most powerful, and deadliest, vampire of all!
Deadspawn
There's a maniacal murderer on the loose, brutally slaughtering young women with a ferocity that rivals that of vampires Harry Koegh has spent his life combatting. The Necroscope's been asked to solve the crimes... asked by the dead spirits of the madman's victims.
Harry cannot turn down a request from the dead... even if it costs him his soul. In the climactic battle with the vampires, mankind prevailed and purged the vampires from earth--thanks to Harry, his team of psychically-gifted spies, and Faethor Ferenczy, long-dead 'father' of the world's vampires, who betrayed his own kind.
But Harry's alliance with Faethor has a terrible cost--Harry's very humanity is under attack from the vampire evil coiled in his mind!
Blood Brothers
The vampires have been vanquished! Harry Keogh and the armies of the dead have destroyed the evil that once plagued the world. Nathan and Nestor, secret twin sons of the Necroscope and a proud gypsy woman, were children when their father, his humanity poisoned by his fearsome struggles, sacrificed himself to save mankind.
Yet there are vampires still, vampires crueler and stranger than any the Necroscope had faced. When these new, merciless killers swoop out of the sky, Nathan and Nestor are men--but they have few of Harry Keogh's miraculous powers.
Torn from each other by battle, the sons of the Necroscope journey across the vampire world, exploring its mysteries, each seeking the powerful, terrible vampires, his missing brother...and the woman they both love!
The Last Aerie
Nestor and Nathan Kiklu are the twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope. United by blood, they also share some of their father's awesome powers--but what they do with those gifts cannot be more different!
Nathan takes up the struggle against the metamorphic vampires, while Nestor, fascinated by the vampires' eerie evil, has become his twin's worst nightmare: a Wamphyri Lord!
Harry Keogh's sons have become the bitterest of enemies, each determined to destroy the other. When next they meet, one will surely die!
Bloodwars
The twin sons of Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, have taken very different paths. Nathan as his father's powers--to talk to the dead, to travel instantly through space. Like Harry, this new Necroscope fights evil wherever he finds it.
His twin, Nestor, has become the most horrifying evil imaginable: a shape-shifting, blood sucking Wamphyi Lord! Devoid of human feeling, Nestor and his companion, the beautiful, malevolent Wratha the Risen, hunt without mercy.
The battle between the brothers mirrors the war between vampires and humans. On mankind's side: terrible weapons brought from Earth by Nathan's allies. But the vampires are numerous and powerful, and neither side has a clear advantage...until Nathan and his legions of the dead discover a way to destroy the vampires forever.
In the midst of a titanic battle, Nathan makes a desperate move that forever changes millions of lives and two worlds: the vampire world... and earth.
The Lost Years: Volume I
Vampires never rest, and neither does Harry Keogh, the world's greatest vampire hunter, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead. Right now, he's desperately searching for his wife and son, who disappeared in the midst of Harry's war against the undead monsters that plague mankind. Others will to carry on that fight until the Necroscope has been reunited with his beloved family.
But it's not that easy to leave the vampire war behind. The bloodsuckers know that the Necroscope is their deadliest enemy and will do anything to destroy him.
Harry struggles to locate his missing family, not realizing that he has become a pawn in the battle between two powerful vampires. When one has slain the other, the Necroscope will be the next to die.
Resurgence, The Lost Years: Volume II
Necroscope: Book 10
Harry Keogh, the Necroscope, the man who can talk to the dead, and Earth's greatest vampire hunter, has been searching for his wife and infant son, gone missing during Harry's war against the vampires. This obsession has left him open to subtle influence by an ancient vampire, Radu. Entombed in amber, trapped in undeath, Radu plans for his resurrection and plots the destruction of other vampires who might challenge his supremacy.
Thus, Radu's enemies are now Harry's--and Harry cannot properly defend himself. His powers--his deadspeak and his ability to transport himself through the Mobius Continuum--are locked away in the recesses of his vampire-clouded mind.
But Harry is not without allies, living and dead. E-Branch, the psychic spy organization, is worried about Harry. So is harry's long-dead Ma, and the ancient philosopher and prophet Nostradamus, whose centuries-old quatrain make eerie sense in the modern world.
Right now, Harry Keogh doesn't even know he's the Necroscope. But Earth's teeming dead won't let him forget them for long--and won't let him forget that Radu and his vampire kind are humanity's deadliest enemies.
Three great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation.
Jake Cutter is running for his life through the streets of Turin when he vanishes, appearing moments later inside the triply locked "Harry's room" in E-Branch's London HQ. Jake's dreams are very strange, filled with the voices of the dead--the Great majority, the Necroscope, Harry Keogh, even a dead vampire. He hears them all, but he doesn't truly understand.
If Jake is the new Necroscope, he has to learn--fast!--how to control his powers and speak to the dead. E-Branch, with the reluctant Jake along for the ride, is about to go head-to-head with Malinari the Mind, a vampire Lord who psychic abilities are second to none.
But the dead don't trust Jake, not like they trusted Harry. Jake's got personal revenge on his mind, and he's spending too much time talking that dead vampire. He's got to start thinking about the future--or he won't have one!
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Jake Cutter is reluctantly learning how to be a Necroscope--how to use the Mobius continuum to travel instantaneously from place to place, how to talk to the dead--but dead humans don't like him much. It seems Jake's got a hitchhiker named Korath. Since Korath holds the key to the Mobius equations, Jake can't just kick him out... though he's certainly trying.
Jake's not sure he really wants to be a member of E-Branch, the supersecret ESP-powered organization that's dedicated to eradicating the vampire infestation of Earth. To the freewheeling, passionate Jake, the E-Branchers seem a little stuffy and hidebound--except for the lovely Liz, whom Jake wants to get to know better, body and mind. But Liz is a telepath, and if Jake's not careful, she'll find out about Korath. And that will likely be the end of Jake Cutter.
In Australia, Jake helped E-Branch destroy the aerie of the mind-master , Nephtam Malinari, one of a trio of Great Vampires who came to Earth from the vampire world. Malinari escaped and went to ground with the hideously beautiful Lady Vavara. Vavara has taken over a holy monastary on a beautiful Greek island and turned the nuns into most unholy creature with fearsome appetites for all things carnal.
Jake wants revenge against the Italian mobsters who killed the woman he loved and nearly killed him. As far as he's concerned, E-Branch can search for Malinari, Vavara, and the metamorphic Lord Szwart without him until he's satisfied his own bloodlust. But it seems vampire hunting is truly Jake's job now--the men he's trying to kill aren't men at all, but vampire spawn, hidden for two generations in human guise! To defeat them, Jake will need every weapon in a Necroscope's arsenal, including the power to all the unsleeping dead out of their moldering graves.
The packed cruise ship is a terrific nesting ground for a Lord and Lady of the Wamphyri on the run from E-Branch and the new Necroscope, Jake Cutter. By the time the ship is reported missing, the few beings still living on board will no longer be human... and the Wamphyri will be long fled to their next conquest.
Korath, the vampire who lurks in Jake Cutter's mind, is determined to gain control of Jake's life, and Jake is equally determined not to let him have it. But to win this struggle Jake must confide in Ben Trask-and Trask, the head of E-Branch, is likely to want Jake dead the minute he learns of Jake's intrusive passenger!
The spore garden planted under London by the third Wamphyri, Lord Swartz, is bearing bitter fruit indeed as a mysterious sleeping sickness-with a vampiric taint-slowly spreads among the population of Great Britain.
E-Branch action teams have more on their plates than they can handle. They must locate terrorists who threaten the world with nuclear homicide; permanently close the Gate between the Wamphyri world and Earth; analyze the spore plague; and locate and destroy the three Wamphyri.
In Brian Lumley's Necroscope: Avengers, even the powers of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope, summoned from the Great Beyond via the combined powers of E-Branch's strongest agents, may not be enough to defeat the monsters who have brought Earth to the brink of total destruction.
To test of the power of God, an insane triad of malevolent aliens decides to become so evil that God himself will have to stop them. They have already destroyed their homeworld, an entire solar system, and most of their own race. Their next target: Earth!
In addition to advanced science mankind can only dream of, the Mordri Three have the unique ability to forever alter skin, bone, and muscle with a simple touch. Once this powerful touch was used only for healing, but the Mordri Three use it as a weapon, literally turning people inside out, mutating them in front of their horrified loved ones, or seeding them with cancer.
Scott St. John is mourning the painful death of his beloved wife when he is struck by a golden arrow of light--a fragment of the soul of Harry Keogh, the original Necroscope--and gains powers he does not understand. Soon after, a mysterious, beautiful woman begins appearing everywhere he goes. She warns him to keep silent--about what, he does not know--and keeps trying to tell him something critically important, but each time, she vanishes before she can fully explain. And Scott begins to dream of a very unusual Wolf, who begs Scott--in human speech--to rescue him before the hunters come.
A fledgling Necroscope, a telepathic Wolf, a beautiful woman from beyond the stars, the ghost of Harry Keogh, the best of E-Branch's psychic fighting forces, and a dead girl who is not yet ready to seek her just reward must defeat three impossibly strong, psychically gifted monsters whose touch literally melts flesh from bone.
The Lost Years: Harry and the Pirates
Harry Keogh, the first Necroscope, is arguably Brian Lumley's greatest creation. In the Necroscope series, readers saw Harry learn to use his powers to talk with the dead and travel instantaneously to any point in space and time. They saw him take arms against the evil, twisted, metamorphic alien vampires who sought to feed off humans and enslave mankind. They saw him suffer a great personal loss and then recover his family, and later his humanity, through a new love. And they saw Harry wage the grimmest battle of his life--against the vampire he himself was becoming!
Even after Harry's story was done, Brian Lumley continued to write books about Harry's legacy--the other Necroscopes who inherited his weird talents. But Harry himself would not go quietly into that darkness that lies beyond an author's imagination... and now Brian Lumley has written three new novellas about Harry and his supernatural adventures, which are published for the first time in the United States in Harry and the Pirates.
7 - Foreword (Harry and the Pirates) - (2009) - essay by Brian Lumley
11 - Dinosaur Dreams - [Necroscope] - (2003) - short story by Brian Lumley
69 - For the Dead Travel Slowly - (2009) - novella by Brian Lumley
165 - Dead Eddy - [Necroscope] - (2003) - short story by Brian Lumley
231 - Harry and the Pirates - (2009) - novella by Brian Lumley
303 - Old Man with a Blade - short story by Brian Lumley
307 - Resurrection - [Necroscope] - (2003) - short story by Brian Lumley
The Plague-Bearer
Harry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean--a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home.
But from the rocky heights of Sicily, the diabolical Francezci brothers plot the wolf-pack's destruction; and down in the terrible Pit beneath Le Manse Madonie, an ancient evil schemes.
The vampires conspire. They reach a decision. They choose a vector. Mafia thug Mike Milazzo is no good to anyone, anytime, anywhere... which makes him perfect. Disposable.
The brothers infect him with a deadly poison--an engineered plague that even a werewolf could never survive--and they offer him a terrible bargain: successfully contaminate the wolf-pack, and receive the antidote. Fail, and die!
Mike has everything to lose. So does Harry Keogh. But the Necroscope lost everything once before, and he isn't about to do it again...
The Mobius Murders
Harry Keough, aka the Necroscope, has always considered himself a master of the Mobius Continuum--a dimension existing parallel to all space and time and his personal instantaneous gateway to anywhere in the multiverse. But this is hardly overweening conceit on Harry's part, for to his knowledge he is not unique; two other intelligences, with powers similar to his, do indeed exist. One such is the long-dead August Ferdinand Mobius himself, the German astronomer, mathematician, and discoverer of the eponymous Mobius Strip which led him to explore, posthumously, his previously conjectural Continuum; and the other is Harry's son, who has not only inherited his father's mathematical skill but also the metaphysical talent by means of which the Necroscope converses with dead people in their graves!
Picture Harry's confusion, then, on returning home via the Mobius Continuum from an adventure in Las Vegas, as he witnesses however briefly a flailing figure hurtling conscious but uncontrolled through the endless midnight of the Continuum. Who could this be--how can it be?--that a helpless, silently protesting other is rushing meteor-like across the Continuum's Stygian vault? Moreover, if he hasn't arrived here voluntarily, then what vile murderer has sent his victim on this monstrous journey to the end of life itself? For Harry is sure that this is neither his son s nor Professor Mobius' doing.
Who and where is he, this Mobius murderer? It is a mystery that only the Necroscope can ever hope to solve--but at what risk to his own life?

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Aylin Kocaman, Author at ASHARQ AL-AWSAT English Archive
Opinion: Children do not deserve war
by Aylin Kocaman | Aug 12, 2014 | Opinion
Issa is 10 years old. His whole life has changed since the Syrian conflict began. The streets where he lives are filled with destroyed buildings. He cannot attend school. Most of his friends have died or gone. Because of the war he is now a child worker in the Free...
Opinion: Harsh Words and the Path to Peace
by Aylin Kocaman | Aug 2, 2014 | Opinion
The Middle East is the most magnificent cradle of human civilizations in the world. It is the land of the prophets, where the heart of history beats. It is a valuable and special place. Some of the fine people of these lands have fallen under the influence of...
Opinion: The President Turkey Needs
by Aylin Kocaman | Jul 17, 2014 | Opinion
On August 10 Turkey will go to the polls to elect a new president. This is a first for the Turkish people. An election that parliament used to conduct in silence, in a traditional and symbolic way, now lies with the people. The presidential election will now neither...
Opinion: Is ISIS now our southern neighbor?
by Aylin Kocaman | Jun 19, 2014 | Opinion
The situation in Iraq is changing by the hour. As I write this, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is on the march, and Turkish diplomats are still being held hostage by the militant organization's fighters. It is time to look at the Iraq issue from Turkey's...
Opinion: Why did Biden go to Cyprus?
by Aylin Kocaman | May 28, 2014 | Opinion
This question has been asked a lot this week. This is only the second time that a US vice president has visited Cyprus, after then-vice president Lyndon B. Johnson's visit in 1962. So just what was US Vice President Joe Biden doing in Cyprus late last week? We must...


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Q: AngularJS : custom filter with special rules I'm trying to make multi filter, that filters three properties in object.
what I already did:

The problem is that I need to show the object if status equals to '2' , and not continue to the two filtered properties : monitorLevel and monitorSystem that come after. (It doesn't work).
Also I need to show the object if status equals to '3' , then filter it by the two properties monitorLevel and monitorSystem.
In summary it needs to check the status and only after , to decide whether to make the other two filters or not.
The filter I built until now :
app.filter('cardFilter', ['$filter', function($filter) {
    return function(status, monitorLevel,monitorSystem) {
        if (status == '2') {
            return $filter('filter')(status);
        } else {
        return $filter('filter')(status,monitorLevel,monitorSystem);
        }
    };
}]);

the answer :

A: You can  split your filters into 2 and use ternary operation. You get the concept:

A: the answer is not so complex as I thought it would be as start.

It first , check if status equals to '2' and only afterwords filters the cards, according to the status.

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So I have spent the last few hours putting together the new OSRchive.
The first two games are now up providing free copies.
More as I get the permissions to add them.
Once I get a decent amount I can start putting together a CD-Rom/zip/archive for you to download and share.
Looks like you're underway- congratulations! My only critique would be that on a mobile device (read: my phone), I get dark text on a dark background. Hard to make out text and links.
Yeah I noticed the mobile one was all messed up.
I'll have to work on that next.


Editor's Note: This a guest post from Jonathan Mead.
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Zack Sumner Schomp: This Isn't Entirely About Trees is an exhibition of work by second year Studio Art MFA student featuring a selection of photographs of trees (but not exactly) spanning the past two years.
A closing reception will be held on August 11th from 6-8 PM.
Normal viewing hours will be from 10 AM-5 PM weekdays and may vary during the weekend.


While Australia has agreed to be bound by these major international human rights treaties, they do not form part of Australia's domestic law unless the treaties have been specifically incorporated into Australian law through legislation. Some provisions of a treaty may however already exist in national legislation. For instance, many of the provisions contained in the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities are mirrored in Australian law through the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth).
Section 51(xxix) of the Australian Constitution, the 'external affairs' power, gives the Commonwealth Parliament the power to enact legislation that implements the terms of those international agreements to which Australia is a party.
For further information on the treaties and conventions that Australia has signed see the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Treaty Database [http://www.dfat.gov.au/treaties/index.html].
 States can agree to be bound by a treaty by ratifying it or acceding to the treaty. 'Ratification' is the process by a which a signatory state to a treaty confirms that it intends to be bound by that treaty. This is usually done by the signatory state signing the treaty. 'Accession' occurs when a state, which did not ratify a treaty, formally accepts its provisions.
Commonwealth v Tasmania (Tasmanian Dam Case) (1983) 158 CLR 1.


I m a 25 years old Italian girl.I work in a Trattoria in Pranzlauer Berg and i attend a german course here in Berlin.I love studying languages and I love talking with people for also practice them.I like spending time with children and understand them with their words,when I'm with them I always try to make them smile and feel comfortable.
I took care of a 7 years old girl.I played and I did homework with her.
I took care of five children for three different families during the year.Three girls and two boys between five and nine years old.


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Tel Aviv Diary - May 30-June3, 2019 - Karen Alkalay-Gut
so how do you feel? someone asked a politician yesterday morning on the radio and he said "do you know those busses in Peru? the ones that travel those steep mountain paths alongside a deep ravine? well we just discovered we don't have a driver!" and of course we are all in that bus. Even though it looks like everything is the same here - in the university, the supermarket, the wonderful little restaurant we discovered called Zorick, we are all being driven at top speed along a precipice, and the autopilot isn't working.
Who knows? some people say. Maybe people will wake up in the next elections and we'll be more careful about choosing shady politicians. amazing how hope triumphs over experience.
Haaretz has a cartoon today of a couple watching the news of our brand new elections and one of them says "I feel like I'm four years older already." It is not an uncommon feeling here today, on all sides. Wait - the sides were made up by Bibi - left and right. You have to be left or right here. A lot of the fascist leaders made it this way. And we never really thought that way before. I mean I don't think Ben Gurion would have gone for any of this. Israel was never meant to be so divided.
We go into the Giraffe restaurant on Ivn Gvirol at 6. it is empty. but by 7 it is crowded and people are waiting to get in. Our dinner was average - the kids ate half of the food, but the profiterole were great. I actually enjoyed the gyoza, although the stirred friend spinach we had for lunch with onions, mushroom and chicken, was better,, The strangest thing was I was remembering how I used to sit in Nona across the street - before Oren decided to open other bars and restaurants and got cheated out of Nona. it all seemed simple then, except for the fact that we could get blown up any minute. I didn't know how Oren's partner was carrying on like Yair Netanyahu, I didn't know about the nasty parts of tel aviv, was thinking the awful things were coming from outside, the terrorists, the others.
that seems to be the problems of this country - I used to think it was the others were the cause of the problems in this country, but it isn't, it's us.
Still, we enjoyed ourselves and I continue to enjoy myself in this city. Even though I'm translating Zalan Schneur's "The Middle Ages are Coming," a terrible warning written in 1912 that describes the coming holocaust in Europe. It is terrifying - but it seems to be terribly relevant today. The dragon breaking out of the cocoon of the seemingly sleeping earth. Shouldn't have worked on it last night - it's the kind of thing one translates only in the morning. But Ezi and I work on it together when we can coordinate free time. that's not easy to do.
Sometimes i'm so astounded by what is going on here I forget to write anything down. The changing of the laws here to suit the personal needs of our illustrious prime minister, for example. of course I should be at the demonstration tonight, but today I found myself unable to move and spent most of the afternoon in bed. we had gone to Shfaim to get a radio after our old kitchen radio lost a screw inside we can't get to because the whole thing is sealed, was not made to be opened. Yelena comes on sunday to clean our weekend mess and what keeps her sane is the Russian radio channel, so I didn't want to delay getting another transistor. I was feeling rotten even before we went but once there, instead of perking up, I faded even further. i'm pretty sure it's either an allergy or something I picked up from the kids, and nothing more. still, I had to confine my communication to Zalman Schneur, who is proving ever more a handful.
I looked at my neighbor's number on her arm for the first time in the 40 years I've known her. she's always showing it to me but I don't really see it. I was there to get the end of year statement for the Israel Organization of Writers in English so I had to go to the business teller, and complaining that I am bad with numbers, I just hander the teller my phone with the information on it. My neighbor was waiting for the clerk to come back from his break at the bank, so I stood there to keep her company, and she went into her old ritual of showing me her number. Unlike the dark hallway where we usually meet, the light in the bank is very bright and I couldn't avoid seeing how small the numbers were. how old she must have been when those numbers were tattooed on her. not more than my small grandson.
We are on our way to Iftar, but first we must visit an old friend in the village. what do we bring whom? for iftar, some elegant dishes with cookies, for a visit to an author - books for his library. all must be prepared and arranged. no time to rest.
Tonight is Eid Il Fiter. Yesterday was Iftar. The more the government tries to separate people, the more the extreme religious parties try to limit us, the more I find thhad so many e Arab culture attractive. I know that it's a stubborn reaction and that what counts are people not religions, that I am a Jew and a zionist no matter what, but still.... When I saw the busses in Tel Aviv with their destination signs in Hebrew, English and Arabic, it made me feel good. Even if they're taking Arabic off the list of national languages, we're trying to give it some respect.
last night we were invited to Iftar in Baka Al Gharbiya. As always the first thing we are taken to when we visit an Arab village is the wall. In Taybeh as well. it is shameful to them, painful, and they show it like Yaffa shows the numbers on her arm.
But it was a great evening,
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You must make reservations at least 5 minutes in advance of the time at Silvio's Organic Pizzeria.
There is street parking or a few parking structures around us that we offer parking validation for.
We offer live music 4 days a week, anything from jazz to blues. We also have a swing dancing class that comes in on Wednesdays and a tango class that comes in on Fridays.
We have a catering menu on our website, will cater just about any event, if you wish to have something other then what is on the catering menu just let us know and we could work something out. We also make cakes for birthdays, weddings, showers etc.
Silvio's Organic Pizzeria offers healthy dishes with a large flavor in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This establishment uses organic, locally-source ingredients in all dishes, including many vegan and gluten-free dishes. Silvio's Organic Pizzeria is open for lunch, dinner and late night, allowing you to stop in most anytime for a filling meal.
Silvio's Organic Pizzeria has a menu that contains handmade pasta, amazing pizza, daily made soups and much room. There is a full-service bar with a late night happy hour that allows guests to try cocktails and select beers for half price. A favorite item to try at this establishment is the truffle pizza with aged mozzarella.
The food was good. The pizza crust is outstanding and the salads are plentiful. The service is very slow. WE were there on a Saturday night when a folk singer came on at 7:00 PM. The music was god but loud which made it a problem to talk to each other at our table of six.
The homemade gnocchi for two was sooo good and the perfect size!
Meat lasagna was really good.. sauces are really nice and flavorful. I wasn't a fan of truffle pizza, but it was different! Awesome staff!
My wife and I were hoping for some great Italian food for our Valentine's dinner. The lasagne was $18 and was mediocre at best. My wife did not finish it or take it home. My calzone was very good but was the size of a large jalapeno popper. Maybe the pizza is good. The service was slow and we weren't told it was happy hour but figured it out ourselves. We tried somewhere new but will try somewhere else next time.
We had to ask over and over again during dinner to get the salad which was ordered initially. When it finally arrived, it was dressed even though we specified dressing on the side. Never got bread and oil. Eggplant dish was served lukewarm. Noisy environment even when only half full of customers. Too pricey for what you get.
Food was good but it took far to long to arrive. The appetizer alone took over 45 mins and the restaurant was not overly crowded when we went.
Silvios desserts are awesome. Our friendly server let us know that if we hung out for a half hour that a ricotta cake would be fresh out of the oven- boy was it worth it!
Food was nothing great. Gluten free pizza was not good at all.
Hello, We are sorry to hear about your negative experience at Silvio's. We understand your frustration with our service and want to let you know it is something we are actively working on! Due to the overwhelming demand during restaurant week, we experience unacceptable wait times on food and service in general. We are currently putting in place new training measures to guarantee our staff can handle these busier times during the year, and ensure every customer receives the best service!
Food excellent. But service as others have reported not even close to acceptable. I did not think it could possibly be that bad. But it was. Such a shame. Silvio is a talented chef with excellent flavors. Everything tasted amazing. But his disorganized way of running his business is so detrimental to the experience.
We were a table of 6, there for 1 1/2 hours and only had our ordered food served in the last 10 minutes. Some food was served earlier and those diners started eating thinking the other 3 entrees would soon follow. One entree was never served and we took it in a box. (a salad). Server knew so little about the menu or even how a restaurant works. No drink menu until asked for it 3 times after being there for 20 minutes. The soup and appetizers ordered showed up after 45 minutes. 45 minutes to bring soup, (!) which was delicious but ungenerous for the price of the " bowl", not even being filled up. The stressed out staff and manager were sort of apologetic but have no ability to help except take 15% off the bill. Silvio controls all. And he was the only chef in the kitchen. Why doesn't he get help? Every person who ate there on Sat was unhappy with the wait and service. The place has so much potential. On a busy night with all 4 performances venues within walkable distance it is in a prime convenient location and could make so many patrons very happy. Alas, this place would only be enjoyable if you were by yourself (or with a loving and patient companion) with a good book(s), have all afternoon and evening to lounge, and bring your own appetizers. If you have tickets to something at Hill or another performance, forget it. Not even arriving extra early (like we did) will cut it. Not sure how this place survives. I did hear that the pizza was good and a little faster than the rest of the SLOW to come out menu.
Poor management to have 1 server working on a Friday night during AA restaurant week. We waited 30 mins to order drinks and food. Left before even ordering.
We enjoyed very well seasoned, fresh mushroom pasta and scrumptious desserts here. We highly recommend it. Everything was made in-house and it showed!
Great place for a wonderful meal before performances at Hill Auditorium or the theaters.
This is real food!! If you want something fast go elsewhere, this is the real slow food idea and it is lovingly crafted with delightful tastes that tickle your tastebuds. Silvio and his staff bring the old fashioned concept of taking your time for your meal. We always enjoy both the food and the wait staff. Great wine list!
This was my third dinner at Silvio's. The food was great, as usual and the service was the best we've has there. It's a great place before a concert or movie.
My family visited Silvio's after a November football game. We had a reservation, but when I walked in, it truly looked as if we didn't need one. I appreciated its location right on campus, as we were cold and tired from sitting in the stadium. When we walked in, no one greeted us, so it was confusing, and it seemed to be more of a restaurant that takes walk-ins, so we just sat down at one of the empty tables. We ordered pizza and a salad to share. I kid you not, we waited about an hour and a half or more for the two pizzas! I recall the salad taking its sweet time, too. They had some customers and a few larger tables, but the place was not full, even on a post-game night. Our waiter occasionally said he was sorry for the wait, but there was never an explanation or even an offer from him for some bread or crackers (before the salad arrived). We just twiddled our thumbs as our stomachs growled! I finally went to the counter to ask for at least some bread or a basket of crackers if they had any. I was given some. We were tired and hungry. We weren't drinking alcohol, as it was already late and we just weren't in the mood (at this point) to drink. I don't normally pass along negative reviews, as any place can have an "off" night, but this seemed unusual. I've been to many restaurants after games in Ann Arbor and most are hopping and on top of things. Also, our table was right by a set of sliding glass doors. They had these open the entire time, so every time a group walked through the exterior door, we had a rush of cold air wash over us. Nevertheless, I sat with my coat on as we waited and waited for our food. The pizza finally arrived with no explanation, and it didn't impress us, either. Sorry, Silvio's, it just wasn't your night, and our waiter didn't help much. There are so many great places in Ann Arbor (many of which we revisit), that I doubt I'll bother visiting this one, again.
This was my second visit to Silvio's. The first time, the service was incredibly slow and since we needed to get to a concert, that did not make for a relaxing dinner. For the second dinner there, we arrived a little earlier and just ordered a salad, so the food came more quickly. Everyone that I know who has been to Silvio's says the service is always slow, so allow plenty of time if you need to get to a movie or a performance.
I really like this restaurant, one of the best in town! The staff is really nice and the food is excellent!!!
My first time there. I went for restaurant week and everything was delicious!
The food is homemade and delicious. Silvio uses organic and local ingredients as much as possible which is outstanding!
Excellent service and it is always a lovely touch when the owner/chef comes out to greet the patrons. The gluten free options were plentiful. The pizza sauce is fresh, fresh, fresh. So good!
We arrived at Silvio's at 7 pm on a Saturday night and told the harried server that we had 8 pm tickets at the Power Center. We asked him what we could get for food by around 7:25. He said that pizzas were running at 25 minutes. So we ordered a pizza and salad. At 7:20 we asked him for the salad. He finally brought the salad but no silverware and utensils. When we finally got the utensils the salad was actually good. Then at 7:40 we asked what was the story with the pizza. We said that we would have to leave. He asked if we would want the pizza boxed and we said no. (I am sure everyone at the Power Center would want to smell pizza during the performance! Plus we were hungry now!) Then another server came by and said that they would "adjust" the bill. At 7:45 we threw a $20 bill on the table and left. I have never done that before. But even that was too much for the salad, shoddy service and aggravation. Apparently only Silvio was in the kitchen that night. If the server had said at the beginning that entrees were taking more than 45 minutes we would have left and gone to Panera next door. Don't go there if you are rushed. Not up to the challenge.
Silvio's was one of the first restaurants in Ann Arbor to offer delicious, varied, TRULY GLUTEN-FREE options. That was a rare thing in those days. Over the years, the restaurant has remained a favorite of mine--a place where the food is safe, the entrees are creative and tasty, the ingredients are fresh, the service is friendly, the owner/chef (Silvio) is approachable and always ready to answer questions, and anyone with serious food sensitivities can leave their anxiety at the door.
I was a bit nervous after reading some reviews on the service lately and was happy when our service was good...in the beginning. By dessert and check time our waiter was doing more bussing than waiting tables but it didn't diminish the overall experience too much. And the food was delicious! Authentic and homemade. I would visit again.
We had a large group (13) and it took a little while to get our orders taken and the first round to drinks to come out. But, once things started coming out, everything was great. They were even kind enough to split up the check for us. And the food was delicious!
I thought the food was outstanding. I had home made beef ravioli that were excellent and the sauce was very nice. My husband had a pizza which was also very , very good. The crust was exceptional and the toppings were tasty. I would recommend this restaurant for both lunch and dinner, but please understand that everything i made to order so it does take longer than in some other restaurants.
Organic pizzas and pastas are fine,but when I ordered whole wheat linguine I was served w.w. Spaghetti without asking and I had trouble eating it because it was so oily. A very untalented bluegrass violin duo was both poor and loud. They detract from the meal.
I had a 14 person reservation for my bday and everyone was 15 minutes late! Silvio's was gracious, did a great job serving a large party, and even split the bill for everyone! The pizza tasted great too!
Awesome experience. The food was fresh and vibrant! The colors of the veggies looked like they were in HD! The summer stew is a must try! I had the greek salad. I ordered the half and I'm glad I did because it was massive. I can't imagine what the full looks like!
We stumbled upon this place on our way back to Chicago from Detroit. Thanks opentable for listing this neighborhood GEM!
I'm from Brooklyn, so my expectations for pizza are unreasonable. That being said, the pizza was very good. The dough and crust were chewy and tasty.
I would definitely try this place out. The staff was friendly and helpful. We were there with our one year old and they were very accomadating.
This was my second time at Silvio's. As with the first visit, the food was excellent. However, it took an hour to get our food and the wait staff rarely came around.
Amazing pizza!! Loved the potato pizza. We tried it after seeing something similar on Food Networks "best thing I ever ate". Did not disappoint. Gluten free crust was amazing.


London & Singapore, 4th August 2016 – CNBC, the world's leading business and financial news network, today announced the premiere of a new weekly series, Lasting Legacy.
Each week, Lasting Legacy will take viewers behind the scenes on some of Europe's most successful family businesses, to find out just how family life and company strategy cross over. How does a company decide what is best for the brand, rather than the family? And how do they decide when to hand the reigns down to the next generation?
Lasting Legacy will be hosted by CNBC presenter Karen Tso, and brought to CNBC's audiences in partnership with one of Asia's leading financial institutions, UOB Private Bank. The first of the weekly episodes premieres on Thursday, 4th August at 5.30PM SG/HK Time in APAC and 11PM CET in EMEA.
In the first episode of the series, Lasting Legacy features the Illy family of Italy, an 83-year-old coffee powerhouse looking to bring in a new CEO to revitalise their brand. We meet Andrea Illy, Chairman of the Board and third generation of Illys in the business, and niece Daria Illy, who is one of the fourth generations of Illys working in the company. Lasting Legacy will take a look at how the younger generations of the family will respond to having a non-family CEO for the first time.
Find out more about the series on cnbc.com.


The Fall Product Program is one of two council-sponsored programs that combine exciting activities with money earning opportunities! Proceeds from the program fund both the troops and the council, while girls learn the 5 Skills. Participating in the Fall Product Program is a great way to earn start-up funds for uniforms and activities for your troop!
How Does Fall Product Work?
Girls sell nuts, candy, and magazine subscriptions to friends and family.
Online sales continue until November 16.
After September 4, troops and girls may start selling once the troop leader or troop fall product chair has received materials and taken the online training. In addition to the online training, there are four optional in person open-house style trainings. Troops can register for these through Activities in My GS.
Why Should My Troop Participate?
Start earning proceeds to fund a trip or activities throughout the year! Troops earn 16%-19% of the proceeds from selling fall product!
Girls learn the 5 Skills: Goal Setting, Money Management, Decision Making, People Skills, and Business Ethics.
Practice a smaller, simpler Product Program BEFORE the big Girl Scout Cookie Program! Girls will be pros by the time cookies roll around!
Council proceeds support innovative programs, camp property improvements, volunteer support, and financial assistance for girls who need help getting started with a troop.
It's easy and fun—and this year we have a BRAND NEW online system that is easier to use for both volunteers and girls!
This year girls AND LEADERS can earn a personalized, custom avatar patch that looks just like them!
Fall Product Taining is on DigitalChalk our online learning platform. Just log in to DigitialChalk, click on Catalog to find the Product Program trainings.
You will be asked to change your password the first time you log in.
If you have issues logging in to access trainings, contact the Volunteer Care Team at 888-771-5170. You can also contact the Product Team by emailing Diana Clark, dclark@gskentuckiana.org.
You may view our Product Program Overview HERE.


This is a service from HAIL that helps adults from 18 upwards with learning disabilities to access public transport and their own community as independently as possible.
If you already travel on your own to places you know, they can support you to learn new journeys.
Please see the website, and then call or email HAIL for more information on how this scheme operates. The referral Form can be downloaded, below.
To use this service you can refer yourself using the attached referral form.
Please contact HAIL for more information.


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FXX 'Man Seeking Woman' Canceled After Season 3
If perhaps the third season finale of FXX and Jay Baruchel's Man Seeking Woman seemed like it invalidated the title premise, there's good reason. FXX has confirmed that Man Seeking Woman will not return for Season 4, as the Simon Rich-inspired series comes to a close.
'Man Seeking Woman' Season 3 Releases NSFW FXX Promos
FXX's Man Seeking Woman has never shied away from the fantastical, but Season 3 will start to ask some deep-rooted, if difficult-to-discuss questions. See for yourself in the latest NSFW promos, as we also meet what might be the title Woman.
'Man Seeking Woman' Season 3 Goes Longterm in First Trailer
The Always Sunny in Philadelphia gang won't be the only FXX crew coming out of retirement in early 2017, as Jay Baruchel and Eric Andre's take on Simon Rich's Man Seeking Woman will be back for Season 3 as well. See for yourself in a first trailer, as the usual pitfalls of relationships rear their heads, including woodland creatures, robots, explosions and more.
FXX's 'Man Seeking Woman' Renewed Through Season 3
It's still not entirely clear how FXX measures a threshold with which to renew its comedies, but consider Jay Baruchel's delightfully absurd Man Seeking Woman safe for another season. FX and FXX have officially confirmed the 2017 renewal, sending on around round of dating misadventures.
'Man Seeking Woman' Season 2 Goes Naughty in Redband Trailer
Quietly under appreciated through 2014 came the first season of FXX's Jay Baruchel-fronted Man Seeking Woman, a delightfully absurdist romp through the perils (and penis monsters) of dating. Those extremes aren't getting any easier to swallow in the Season 2 red-band trailer, in which coal from Santa should be the least of your worries.
FX Sets 2016 Premieres for 'Always Sunny,' 'O.J.' and More
We're barely halfway through November, and already FX and FXX are gearing up their winter wares for 2016. The cable network has set official premieres for the eleventh season of Always Sunny, as well as the premiere of Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story, two comedies and more.
Jay Baruchel to Direct and Star in 'Goon' Sequel
That's a scene from 2011's Goon, a warm but irreverent comedy about a sweet-natured (but incredibly tough) enforcer for a minor league hockey team. Goon was a Slap Shot for the 2000s, right down to the way it almost immediately gained a small but deeply passionate cult fanbase, and it boasted one of the best performances of Scott's career. (Seriously. He's awesome in it. And he's great as Stiffler, too, and doesn't get the respect he deserves as a comic actor in general. But that's a conversation for another time.)
FXX 'Man Seeking Woman' Renewed for Season 2 in 2016
FXX's surrealist Jay Baruchel dating comedy Man Seeking Woman hasn't drafted as much attention as some of its cable brethren, but lives to fight another day. The network has officially announced that Josh's outlandish quest for the right girl will continue on into 2016, giving Man Seeking Woman a Season 2 renewal.
Jay Baruchel Toplines FX Dating Comedy 'Man Seeking Woman'
The recent TCA press tour presentations saw FX announcing some incredibly high-profile talent for future series, from the likes of additional projects with Louis C.K. to Zach Galifianakis and more, and now another name has been added to the list. 'This is the End' and upcoming 'Robocop' remake star Jay Baruchel will return to TV to headline FX's new comedy 'Man Seeking Woman,' an adaptation of 'Th
New 'RoboCop' Clips Shows Movie's Big Battle
If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that the upcoming remake of 'RoboCop' will be, by default, bigger, louder and faster than the original. A new clip from the film only confirms this, making it very clear that this particular iteration of the cyborg police officer was created in the age of CGI.
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Petronella Oortman (1656-1716) est une Néerlandaise, dont la maison de poupée, minutieusement aménagée, fait partie de la collection permanente du Rijksmuseum à Amsterdam. Sa maison de poupée a inspiré le roman Miniaturiste (2014) de Jessie Burton.

Petronella Oortman ne doit pas être confondue avec son homonyme  (1624-1707), qui, a aussi possédé une maison de poupée maintenant dans la collection du Centraal Museum, Utrecht.

Biographie

Petronella Oortman est la riche veuve d'un marchand de soie, Johannes Brandt, avec qui elle vécut dans la Warmoesstraat à Amsterdam . Comme les autres femmes riches d'Amsterdam, elle a construit une maison de poupée dont elle a aménagé, entre 1686 et 1710, la décoration avec des matériaux et des miniatures coûteux. À cette époque, les gentilshommes possèdent souvent des « cabinets de curiosités » où ils conservent des collections de divers objets acquis au cours de leur vie et de leurs voyages : en effet, un cabinet peut être vu dans la petite salle de réception (qui peut aussi servir de salon funéraire) en bas à droite de la maison de poupée. De même, dans l'Amsterdam de l'âge d'or néerlandais, leurs riches épouses créent aussi des maisons de poupée, symboles de leur statut social. L'emplacement exact de la maison d'Oortman dans le Warmooestraat n'est plus connu et les opinions diffèrent quant à l'exactitude de la réplique qu'en est la maison de poupée, mais elle aurait représenté les rêves et les aspirations d'Oortman. On devait montrer aux visiteurs de la famille toutes les fonctionnalités de la maison de poupée au cours de séances qui duraient toute la soirée.

Après la mort d'Oortman, la maison de poupée fut transmise à sa fille Hendrina et, après 1743, au frère de celle-ci, Jan. Selon Hendrina, sa mère a dépensé quelque  pour sa maison de poupée, une somme énorme certainement suffisante à l'époque pour acheter une maison de canal (grachtenpand). Cependant, un inventaire de Jan estime sa juste valeur à 700 florins. À titre de comparaison, la maison de poupées de son homonyme Petronella Oortmans-de-la-Cour, pour laquelle  de mobilier, des peintures et 28 poupées ont été commandées, a été vendue en 1744, pour . Déjà célèbre au , la maison de poupée d'Oortman a été achetée par l'État en 1821 et acquise par le Rijksmuseum en 1875. Une peinture de la maison de poupée a été faite en 1710 par Jacob Appel.

La maison de poupée
La maison de poupée est composée de neuf chambres. L'état actuel des chambres est encore très semblable à la peinture d'Appel, bien que de toutes les poupées de cire, seule subsiste celle de l'enfant dans la nursery. Manquent aussi les vêtements des poupées, qui étaient encore visibles dans une photographie des années 1950. Willem Frederiksz van Royen a peint une fresque murale dans la salle de jeu, et Johannes Voorhout décoré de la tapisserie de la salle . Des objets en porcelaine ont été commandés en Chine.

Il existe différents comptes rendus selon lesquels Pierre le Grand a tenté d'acheter une telle maison de poupée. Harry Donga suggère que celle d'Oortman était une commande de  pour Pierre le Grand ; le tsar de Russie a séjourné dans la famille van Brants pendant quelques jours lors de sa deuxième visite aux Pays-Bas, mais, apparemment, le tsar partit à la suite d'une dispute au sujet du prix de  exigé par van Brants.

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Bibliographie

Liens externes

 Petronella Oortman entrée à l'Institut néerlandais d'histoire de l'art (RKD)
 Petronella de la Cour de la maison de poupées au Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Collectionneur néerlandais d'œuvres d'art
Personnalité féminine néerlandaise
Naissance en 1656
Naissance à Amsterdam
Décès en novembre 1716
Décès à Amsterdam
Collectionneuse d'œuvres d'art

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Walmart pilot will test autonomous vehicles for grocery delivery
Brittany A. Roston - Dec 16, 2020, 3:37pm CST
Following favorable legislation recently passed in the state, Walmart has tapped autonomous vehicle company Gatik to launch a grocery delivery pilot in Arkansas. Under this pilot, Walmart will test the use of autonomous vehicles for customer grocery delivery, though the pilot will be restricted to a small region in Bentonville.
It's inevitable that the future will involve self-driving vehicles offering a variety of services to the public — taxis, shuttles, and, of course, product deliveries. Walmart has announced a new pilot test that will take place around two stores in Bentonville, Arkansas, and involve self-driving vehicles from Gatik.
Walmart SVP of Digital Operations in the US, Tom Ward, explained, 'We aim to learn more about the logistics of adding autonomous vehicles into our online grocery ecosystem, operation process changes and more opportunities to incorporate this emerging technology.'
The autonomous vehicles will operate under this pilot on a two-mile route between two Bentonville Walmart stores. The company didn't provide additional details on this plan, such as when these autonomous deliveries will begin, though it likely won't have any sort of impact on the customers who get their groceries delivered this way.
This isn't the first time Walmart has explored the use of self-driving technology in relation to its delivery services. The company has heavily expanded its Prime-like offerings and introduced grocery pickup and delivery services in a big way this year — something that has seen unprecedented demand under the pandemic.
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So you want to start an auto repair shop business here are 6 tips to get you started off right.
Businesses that do not write a business plan usually fail you must know what you expect for the business. Where is it headed? Will you some day have a franchise or will you only have one location? What type of advertising should you do? How much will it cost for shop equipment employees tools lifts etc. You must write a plan to know where your business is headed. You would not plan a trip with out looking at a map would you? Make sure to map out your business to see future plans become a reality.
Call your local SBA they are the best place to start. They can tell you about loans, free publications and so much more. You must register your business with the local city hall. You should call the court house to find out what business licenses you will need as they vary from state to state. In my county you do not need a fictitious name if the business is in your name such as David's Car Repair but if you want Elite Car Repair you must file with the state for a fictitious name which can be done online.
This is very important you will need an account just for the business to pay for business expenses. This is where a lot of businesses fail they spend business profits on personal bills. In the first few years of business the business must keep 80% of income to sustain itself and grow. I know it is tempting but be careful. Contact your local bank and get a no fee checking account for your business.
You must have garage insurance if you will have employees you will need worker comp insurance and you should check into whatever ever other liabilities there may be for your area fire, hurricanes, tornado etc. Insurance can make or break your growing business if you have insurance and the shop burns down insurance will pay to replace your shop. Or if you have disability insurance for just yourself if your a one man business. If you break your wrench hand you can sustain the business for months until you get well.
The old adage location, location, location is true with auto repair shops. You should make sure to find a shop right by the interstate or the main highway. If you can put your shop in the middle of your busy town. If you can find a shop location by the highway it will be very lucrative for your business.
To me this is one of the most important things you can do for your shop. The old adage "when you do not advertise a funny thing happens" Nothing is true in the auto repair business. The first thing you do if your car needs repairs and you do not know any one to fix it for you. Most people would check the phone book go online check the newspaper. A good source of advertising is tow truck companies in you area. What do truck drivers see daily that is right broken down vehicles. Offer them a referral fee for every customer they send you. You could pick up 10 or more repair jobs a month from them alone. Marketing is very important in any business get creative have fun and always under promise and over deliver and you will be successful.


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Q: Java - Difference between for loop terminating expression I'm just curious: Is there a difference on speed and performance between this two loops implementation? Assume that size() method returns the length of the array,collection, or object that handles a group of elements (actually it's from XOM api).
Implementation 1:
int size = someArray.size();
for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
    // do stuff here
}

Implementation 2:
for (int i = 0; i < someArray.size(); i++) {
    // do stuff here
}

A: From a performance point of view, there is little difference.  This is because a loop can be optimized so that the size() lookup is inlined, resulting in very little performance difference.
The main difference is if the size changes while looping. The first case will try to iterate a fixed number of times. In the second case, the number of iterations will depend on the final size().

A: The 1st snippet is bound to execute faster since it calls size() once only. The 2nd snippet calls size() N times. Depending on the impl. it might pose significant penalty, esp. if the compiler finds hard to inline the method and/or the size() method doesn't just return non-volatile variable, etc.
I'd have rewritten it like for(int i=0, s=someCollection.size(); i<s; i++)
Note: arrays don't have size() method.

A: Yes, there is a difference. In the first loop, the size() method is only called once. In the second one, it's called at each iteration.
If the iteration modifies the size of the collection (which is very very uncommon), the second one is needed. In most cases, you should prefer the first one, but limit the scope of the size variable :
for (int i = 0, size = someArray.size(); i < size; i++) {
    // ...
}

But most of the time, you should prefer the foreach syntax anyway :
for (Foo foo : collection) {
    // ...
}

which will iterate over the array or collection efficiently, even for a LinkedList for example, where indexed access is not optimal.

A: Don't worry about it, JVM optimization is very aggressive these days.
Use the 2nd form, for it's more readable, and most likely as fast. Premature optimization yada yada.
And when you do need to improve speed, always profile first, don't guess.
It is extremely unlikely that caching size() in a local variable could benefit your app noticeably. If it does, you must be doing simple  operations over a huge dataset. You shouldn't use ArrayList at all in that case.

A: Maybe it is worth to note that this construct:
for (String s : getStringsList()) {
    //...
}

invokes getStringsList() only once and then operates on iterator behind the scenes. So it is safe to perform lengthy operations or change some state inside getStringsList().

A: Always avoid anything that can be done outside of the loop like method calls, assigning values to variables, or testing for conditions.
Method calls are more costly than the equivalent code without the call, and by repeating method calls again and again, you just add overhead to your application.
Move any method calls out of the loop, even if this requires rewriting of the code.
Benefits :-
Unless the compiler optimizes it, the loop condition will be calculated for each iteration over the loop.
If the condition value is not going to change, the code will execute faster if the method call is moved out of the loop.
Note :-
If the method returns a value that will not change during the loop, then store its value in a temporary variable before the loop.
Hence its value is stored in a temporary variable size outside the loop, and then used as the loop termination condition.


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Howard Gordon Launches Production Company Based At 20th Century Fox TV
Homeland co-creator/executive producer Howard Gordon has launched Teakwood Lane, a production company housed at 20th Century Fox TV where the former 24 showrunner has spent nearly his entire career. The pod deal for Teakwood Lane replaces Gordon's overall deal at the studio. Gordon continues as an executive producer on the critically-praised Homeland alongside co-creator/showrunner Alex Gansa, and will focus on developing and overseeing new series for all the networks, both broadcast and cable. In addition to continuing to create shows of his own, Gordon has hired Hugh Fitzpatrick as Head of Television for Teakwood Lane, and he will be charged with managing the company's development slate.
"Howard Gordon is a gifted storyteller, a brilliant producer, and about the most beloved showrunner working in this business," 20th TV chairmen Dana Walden and Gary Newman said. "The question was never how do we extend our relationship with him, but how do we clone him"? Gordon called launching a company "a natural evolution for me, a chance to leverage my experience and my relationships to develop new shows for the studio".
Gordon has known Fitzpatrick for a long time — Fitzpatrick was once an assistant of Gordon's agent Rick Rosen. "I've always appreciated his taste, his sensibility, and the way he conducted himself professionally", Gordon said. "Our mandate will be to make shows we'd want to watch ourselves". A 25-year industry veteran, WME-repped Gordon first gained attention for his work on the hit Fox/20th TV series The X-Files and was the showrunner and executive producer of 24 for which he received both the Golden Globe and the Emmy for Best Drama Series. His other credits include Angel, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Beauty And The Beast, Sisters and Spenser: For Hire. Fitzpatrick recently served as VP Television Development at BBC Worldwide Prods. Previously, he was a TV lit agent at Endeavor after starting his career in the agency's mailroom.
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