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Kaspersky rebrands, unveils new logo
Cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab has rebranded, shortening its name to just Kaspersky and releasing a new-look logo.
The two-decade-old company says it has moved beyond the antivirus laboratory to having an advanced and comprehensive portfolio of security solutions and services, including innovative products and technologies, cloud services and world-leading threat intelligence as the world has become more digitised and globalised.
The company's new mission statement is 'Building a safer world', aiming to emphasise its commitment to a trusted and transparent future where everyone has the endless opportunities technology brings.
The new branding reflects the evolution of the business focus from "cybersecurity" towards the wider concept of "cyber-immunity".
Cybersecurity in today's world is about more than just protecting devices, but developing an ecosystem where everything connected is protected.
Kaspersky's rebranding marks the company's commitment to this evolution, and to leading the development of higher industry standards for the future.
It also marks the company's support for the creation of connected systems that are secure-by-design and no longer where security is only an optional add-on layer at the end.
Commenting on the new rebranding, CEO Eugene Kaspersky says, "Since we founded our company more than 22 years ago we've seen both the cyber threat landscape and our industry evolve and change beyond recognition, while witnessing the growing role of technology in our lives both at work and at home.
"Today the world has new needs, and our rebranding reflects our vision to meet those needs – not just for today, but well into the future. Building upon our track record, we'll also help build a safer world that's immune to cyber threats."
New visual identity
As part of the rebrand, it updated its visual identity to reflect its core values and the essence of what Kaspersky stands for as an organisation.
The new logo is created from geometric and mathematically exact letter forms, representing the top-class software engineering expertise that the company originated from and to which it remains committed.
In line with the name change, it also dropped the word 'Lab'.
"The basis for our existing logo was developed in 1997 and many things have changed since then. Previously, we used letters from the Greek alphabet that are just not relevant anymore due to the changes in the breadth and depth of our communications - we need to look to the future and embrace the digital world," says Kaspersky marketing vice president Andrew Winton.
"It seemed logical to remove the Lab from our name when we were developing the new visual identity - as we wanted to simplify our branding in a way that helps to deliver our newly inspired philosophy and mission, whilst still highlighting our company's wide range of technologies.
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We discovered this recipe by accident or I should say my friend discovered it by accident. We got together with some friends for dinner and they volunteered to bring dessert. She didn't have enough time to bake shortcake so she stopped by the bakery and picked up some croissants instead. She apologized profusely but the minute we took a bite we were speechless. I tried the recipe again this past weekend at a picnic and it was the perfect little picnic dessert. I also couldn't resist adding nutella, it was perfect!
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1. Open up your croissant and put nutella inside it.
2. Fill it with sliced strawberries.
3. Stuff it with Whip Cream and garnish it with strawberry sauce.
It took a whole 2 minutes to make.
You wouldn't believe how good this sounds to me right now. I bet Biscoff Spread would work, too.
It really is good. I never had Biscoff Spread but I bet it would taste delish with that spread.
Vianey, LOL. Thanks for the laugh.


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Schnappsack ist eine mittelalterliche Bezeichnung für einen Beutel oder Sack, in dem man auf Reisen trockene Speisen mitführen konnte. Landsknechte führten Schnappsäcke zum Requirieren von Essbarem bei der Zivilbevölkerung mit sich.

Sprachliches
Im Niedersächsischen Snappsack, im Schwedischen Snappsäk, im Englischen Snapsack, im Französischen Canapsa. Vermutlich eine Bildung aus Knappsack, wie im Englischen Knapsack oder im Schwedischen Kappsäk und Baksäk von Bak, der Rücken = Rucksack.

Der Begriff in der Literatur
Der Begriff taucht später auf in literarischen Werken von Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christoph Martin Wieland (Übersetzung aus Lukian von Samosata), Heinrich Heine (Übersetzung aus Miguel de Cervantes), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (in Lienhard und Gertrud), Otfried Preußler (in Der Räuber Hotzenplotz) und anderen.

Emil Karl Blümml zitiert 1906 aus Frankreich ein Märchen mit dem Titel Der Schnappsack.

1948 veröffentlichte ein Heinz Barth sein illustriertes Märchen Der Schnappsack.

Schnappsack ist auch der Titel eines 1972 erschienenen Bilderbuches.

Ein Kindertheaterstück von Wolfgang Mennel heißt Vorsicht Schnappsack!.

Ein aus Nordböhmen stammendes Volkslied trägt den Titel Hans mit dem ledernen Schnappsack.

Weblinks

 Beschreibung des Schnappsackes in Johann Georg Krünitz' Oeconomischer Encyclopädie
 Schnappsack im Wörterbuch von Johann Christoph Adelung
 Sprichwörter zum Schnappsack bei Zeno.org
 Der alte Fritz und der Schnappsack. Text von Heinrich Pröhle bei Wikisource

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Kultur (Mittelalter)
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Learn from the masters – The challenges of international litigation with links to South Africa
In this Learn from the Masters issue we are in conversation with Private Law and Civil Litigation expert Anthony Kennedy on the attraction of the Republic of South Africa as a place in which to litigate disputes and some of the difficulties which multi-national companies and other sophisticated parties may face with the law governing the taking of jurisdiction in the Republic of South Africa.
Anthony also offers his perceptions of some of the difficulties arising out of the enforcement of foreign judgments in South Africa.
What does the concept of "cross-border litigation" mean?
The impact of COVID-19 on would-be cross-border litigants
Besides the Global Integrity's endorsement of the South African judiciary, why is the Republic of South Africa seen as an attractive forum for multi-national litigants?
What are the differences between the Roman-Dutch legal system and the common law legal system?
What are the different considerations when choosing South Africa as a foreign country?
Current challenges for multi-nationals in getting their case heard before a South African court, and the relevance of the decision in Bid Industrial and cases that followed it
How, aside from the courts fashioning doctrine could these difficulties be addressed?
Why would businesses and sophisticated parties also want to enforce judgments from other regional courts in the RSA?
What principal difficulties might an entity looking to enforce a foreign judgment in RSA face?
What are the general challenges for people against whom judgments are sought to be enforced?
Jurisdiction on the basis of domicile
Advantages for South Africa signing up for the Hague Judgments Convention on Foreign Judgments
Other issues that could dominate the discourse in the near future
Anthony Kennedy is an Associate Member of Searle Court Chambers in London; A lecturer on the Bar Professional Training Course at BPP University Law School, specialising in Commercial Dispute Resolution, Civil Litigation and Evidence and the Resolution of Disputes out of Court; A Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Roman and Contract Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford; and a Retained Fee-Lecturer at Somerville College, Oxford. He co-authored Commercial Litigation in Anglophone Africa: The Law Relating to Civil Jurisdiction, Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Interim Remedies (Juta) with Andrew Moran.
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Alter is a robot developed for the purpose of exploring what it means to be "life-like." In contrast with the Otonaroid, Alter appears to be a machine that has been stripped bare. However, it expresses life-likeness through complex movements. These movements may look haphazard, but change constantly due to the underlying algorithm that mimics the logic of neural circuits of living things. A moment of "life-likeness" emerges as you observe closely—what is that moment like? Attempt to find your own answer to that question.
Alter does not move in ways that are determined beforehand; rather, the movements made by the entire body are created in real-time. Furthermore, your responses are perceived by sensors and reflected into the movements. Sensors that measure the distance between Alter and human beings observe the movements of the people around Alter, and send signals to the program. A central pattern generator (CPG) creates a basic rhythm that is cyclical, yet gradually deviates from the original pattern. A neural network of 1,000 nerve cells is recreated on the computer, and Alter "learns" life-like activities based on signals sent from the sensors. Based on computer signals that are rhythmic and changing, compressed air is sent through 42 joints to create smooth movements.
Alter was born through cooperation between a researcher of androids, which are robots that appear identical to human beings, and a researcher of artificial life, who attempts to recreate life on a computer. Both researchers ask the same question: "What is life?"—but the hypotheses on that are different.
Takashi Ikegami (JP) is a professor at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in artificial life and complexity, and has been known to engage on the border between art and science.
Hiroshi Ishiguro (JP) received a D.Eng. in systems engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is currently Professor at the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, and Distinguished Professor of Osaka University. He is also visiting director (group leader: 2002-2013) of Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute and an ATR fellow. His research interests include distributed sensor systems, interactive robotics, and android science.
Kohei Ogawa (JP) is a robotics and Al researcher at Osaka University, where he has been an Associate Professor since 2017. He is working on a robotics and interaction study.
Itsuki Doi (JP) is a sound artist and a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Art and Science, where he also received his Master Degree of Science in 2015.
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Willem Dafoe Gets Philosophical in 'Siberia: LFF Review
Film Film Reviews
Shelby Cooke
Abel Ferrara's latest feature Siberia follows the recluse Clint (Willem Dafoe), who lives in a desolate snowscape, tending to a rundown mountainside bar. Clint is visited by an array of strange and frightening patrons, triggering a collapse in Clint's mentality, as dreams, nightmares and reality all begin to blend into one.
Siberia functions as a surrealist tale of a man trapped in a desolate and cold world. We don't learn much about Clint, other than that his father used to take him fishing in, presumably, these mountains when he was a kid. In his old age, he has made this isolated land his home but is unable to speak the native language, relying on mannerisms and tone of voice to decipher his patrons, never fully belonging in this strange place. It's a tale of a man spiralling into madness: with his bleak surroundings and chaotic interactions, we, much like him, are unable to tell what's real and what's insanity.
There isn't much of a story to the film, and you're left wondering what exactly the film was trying to say. It's rife with philosophical questions that can easily be asked back to Ferrara, as it seems his desire to produce insight really just translated to pretension. It feels as if Ferrara is attempting to emulate Tarkovsky and Wenders, but, perhaps like his character, gets lost along the way.
Stefano Falivene's shots of the vast wilderness and the expansive surroundings capture the film's attempt to explore isolation as both neverending and intensely suffocating, and his beautiful, yet horrific, images provide the film with all its subtext. As we watch Clint track those mammoth mountains, we are reminded of the film's ultimate purpose, as the plot does little to enlighten us.
Dafoe is the saving grace for Siberia. We have come to expect a surreal and bizarre film when Defoe is attached, as he's one of the best abstract actors working, wonderfully able to capture the weird and the wild in just a glance. There's a great appreciation in Defoe's performances, as he is able to, in many of the roles he plays, provide momentum for a feature when he's a lead. In recent years, he has captivated as the solo performer in a series of independent films, and he once again proves his power by bringing life to this cold film. But, even with a captivating performance, the film's desperate attempt to be avant-garde leaves you not really wanting to watch past the first 30 minutes.
Siberia lacks in the way of a plot or anything to keep your attention on the screen. We can praise Ferrara for his attempt to challenge the form and create a film that is odd and surreal, but he packs too much metaphor and symbolism into something that is just plotless meandering.
Words by Shelby Cooke
Other reviews from the London Film Festival can be found here.
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Many of us believe the idea that mystics were people who were required to have levitated, seen a vision, bleed from their hands or had some type of extraordinary experience. However, I learned from my latest course that although many mystics have indeed experienced some of these situations not all of them have. An important definition of mystic was said by Sister Noel, "experience of the presence of the transcendent God in the everyday stuff of the human life (prayer, teaching, repairing the car) the person who sees in the human experience the presence of God as a love inviting them to live in the love that created each person." This brings the definition down to an attainable level, similar to the saint.
We need to teach our students that the requirement of becoming a mystic is one who has a deep relationship with God and a sacramental awareness of God in everyday life. In the Sacraments course I teach Sacramental Awareness as the foundation of the course. If my students can start to see God in everyday life, everything will make more sense to them. There is a need for spiritual companionship for students and guidance. Many times in life our students do witness God moments but cannot recognize them as such. The more they understand their own spirituality the more they will recognize God in everyday life.
We can all be mystics!


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It consist of two parts:

* [settings taken from vim-sensible plugin](https://github.com/sheerun/vimrc/blob/master/autoload/vimrc.vim#L12)
* [little less sensible defaults I find awesome](https://github.com/sheerun/vimrc/blob/master/autoload/vimrc.vim#L131)

It comes with [NeoBundle](https://github.com/Shougo/neobundle.vim) for managing your Vim plugins.

It also uses [vim-polyglot](https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot) for solid syntax support.

I encourage you to read the source, it's heavily commented, each default explained.

## Installation

This plugin is meant to automatically manage your `~/.vim` directory,
so you need to backup somewhere your current one directory, and issue:

  ```
  git clone --recursive https://github.com/sheerun/vimrc.git ~/.vim
  ```

## Sample `.vimrc`

  ```vim
  " Select your Leader key
  let mapleader = "\<Space>"

  " Load sensible defaults and setup NeoBundle
  call vimrc#before()

  " Define plugins you use
  NeoBundle 'kien/ctrlp.vim'

  " Define your vim configuration
  map q: :q

  " Load plugins
  call vimrc#after()

  " Define maps for your plugins
  nnoremap <Leader>o :CtrlP<CR>
  ```

## License

The same terms as Vim itself. See `:help license`.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Science, Tech, Math › Social Sciences
Indus Seals and the Indus Civilization Script
Peter Visscher / Getty Images
History of Animal and Plant Domestication
K. Kris Hirst
Archaeology Expert
M.A., Anthropology, University of Iowa
B.Ed., Illinois State University
K. Kris Hirst is an archaeologist with 30 years of field experience. Her work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Archaeology Online and Science.
The Indus Civilization—also called the Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan, Indus-Sarasvati or Hakra Civilization—was based in an area of some 1.6 million square kilometers in what is today eastern Pakistan and northeastern India between about 2500-1900 BC. There are 2,600 known Indus sites, from enormous urban cities like Mohenjo Daro and Mehrgarh to small villages like Nausharo.
Does the Indus Civilization's Script Represent a Language?
Image courtesy of J.M. Kenoyer / Harappa.com
Although quite a bit of archaeological data has been collected, we know almost nothing about the history of this massive civilization, because we haven't deciphered the language yet. About 6,000 representations of glyph strings have been discovered at Indus sites, mostly on square or rectangular seals like the ones in this photo essay. Some scholars—notably Steve Farmer and associates in 2004—argue that the glyphs don't really represent a full language, but rather simply a non-structured symbol system.
An article written by Rajesh P.N. Rao (a computer scientist at the University of Washington) and colleagues in Mumbai and Chennai and published in Science on April 23, 2009, provides evidence that the glyphs really do represent a language. This photo essay will provide some context of that argument, as well as photos of Indus seals, provided by researcher J.N. Kenoyer of the University of Wisconsin and Harappa.com.
What Exactly Is a Stamp Seal?
The script of the Indus civilization has been found on stamp seals, pottery, tablets, tools, and weapons. Of all these types of inscriptions, stamp seals are the most numerous, and they are the focus of this photo essay.
A stamp seal is something used by the—well you absolutely have to call it the international trade network of the Bronze age Mediterranean societies, including Mesopotamia and pretty much anybody who traded with them. In Mesopotamia, carved pieces of stone were pressed into the clay used to seal packages of trade goods. The impressions on the seals often listed the contents, or the origin, or the destination, or the number of goods in the package, or all of the above.
The Mesopotamian stamp seal network is widely considered the first language in the world, developed because of the need for accountants to track whatever was being traded. CPAs of the world, take a bow!
What Are the Seals of the Indus Civilization Like?
Indus civilization stamp seals are usually square to rectangular, and about 2-3 centimeters on a side, although there are larger and smaller ones. They were carved using bronze or flint tools, and they generally include an animal representation and a handful of glyphs.
Animals represented on the seals are mostly, interestingly enough, unicorns—basically, a bull with one horn, whether they're "unicorns" in the mythical sense or not is vigorously debated. There are also (in descending order of frequency) short-horned bulls, zebus, rhinoceroses, goat-antelope mixtures, bull-antelope mixtures, tigers, buffaloes, hares, elephants, and goats.
Some question has arisen about whether these were seals at all—there are very few sealings (the impressed clay) which have been discovered. That's definitely different from the Mesopotamian model, where the seals were clearly used as accounting devices: archaeologists have found rooms with hundreds of clay sealings all stacked and ready for counting. Further, the Indus seals don't show a lot of use-wear, compared to Mesopotamian versions. That may mean that it wasn't the seal's impression in clay that was important, but rather the seal itself that was meaningful.
What Does the Indus Script Represent?
So if the seals weren't necessarily stamps, then they don't necessarily have to include information about the contents of a jar or package being sent to a faraway land. Which is really too bad for us—decipherment would somewhat easier if we know or could guess that the glyphs represent something that might be shipped in a jar (Harappans grew wheat, barley, and rice, among other things) or that part of the glyphs might be numbers or place names.
Since the seals aren't necessarily stamp seals, do the glyphs have to represent a language at all? Well, the glyphs do recur. There are a fish-like glyph and a grid and a diamond shape and a u-shape thing with wings sometimes called a double-reed that are all found repeatedly in Indus scripts, whether on seals or on pottery sherds.
What Rao and his associates did was try to find out if the number and occurrence pattern of glyphs was repetitive, but not too repetitive. You see, language is structured, but not rigidly so. Some other cultures have glyphic representations that are considered not a language, because they appear randomly, like the Vinč inscriptions of southeastern Europe. Others are rigidly patterned, like a Near Eastern pantheon list, with always the head god listed first, followed by the second in command, down to the least important. Not a sentence so much as a list.
So Rao, a computer scientist, looked at the way the various symbols are structured on the seals, to see if he could spot a non-random but recurring pattern.
Comparing Indus Script to Other Ancient Languages
What Rao and his associates did was compare the relative disorder of the glyph positions to that of five types of known natural languages (Sumerian, Old Tamil, Rig Vedic Sanskrit, and English); four types of non-languages (Vinča inscriptions and Near Eastern deity lists, human DNA sequences and bacterial protein sequences); and an artificially-created language (Fortran).
They found that, indeed, the occurrence of glyphs is both non-random and patterned, but not rigidly so, and the characteristic of that language falls within the same non-randomness and lack of rigidity as recognized languages.
It may be that we will never crack the code of the ancient Indus. The reason we could crack Egyptian hieroglyphs and Akkadian rests primarily on the availability of the multi-language texts of the Rosetta Stone and the Behistun Inscription. The Mycenaean Linear B was cracked using tens of thousands of inscriptions. But, what Rao has done gives us hope that one day, maybe somebody like Asko Parpola may crack the Indus script.
Rao, Rajesh P. N., et al. 2009 Entropic Evidence for Linguistic Structure in the Indus Script. Science Express 23 April 2009
Steve Farmer, Richard Sproat, and Michael Witzel. 2004. The Collapse of the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization. EJVS 11-2: 19-57.
Hirst, K. Kris. "Indus Seals and the Indus Civilization Script." ThoughtCo, Aug. 29, 2020, thoughtco.com/seals-and-the-indus-civilization-script-171330. Hirst, K. Kris. (2020, August 29). Indus Seals and the Indus Civilization Script. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/seals-and-the-indus-civilization-script-171330 Hirst, K. Kris. "Indus Seals and the Indus Civilization Script." ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/seals-and-the-indus-civilization-script-171330 (accessed January 21, 2021).
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Harappa: Capital City of the Ancient Indus Civilization
Mehrgarh, Pakistan and Life in the Indus Valley Before Harappa
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Google Would Be Nuts To Buy Groupon, Even At A Huge Discount
Tara Lachapelle,
Michael Seto for Business Insider
Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Even at half the price Google Inc. bid two years ago, Groupon Inc. is no deal for potential buyers.
After sinking 79 percent this year, the online-coupon service is now valued at $2.8 billion and last month fetched a record low price-sales ratio, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. As competition intensifies and demand wanes, analysts see revenue growth slowing to 0.6 percent in 2015, down from 45 percent in 2012 and the 1,233 percent average in the past two years, the data show.
Instead of selling to Google for $6 billion in 2010, Chicago-based Groupon chose to go public last year. While the shares surged 23 percent on Dec. 7 amid speculation Google might still be interested, a bid isn't likely given Groupon's slowdown and because Google may find it cheaper to invest more resources in its own coupon business, B. Riley & Co. said. Groupon is diversifying income away from just coupons with Groupon Goods, an online store for discounted products. To Benchmark Co., that may deter possible buyers such as Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that haven't traditionally run retail operations.
"For somebody to buy it, you have to figure out what you are really paying for," Sameet Sinha, a San Francisco-based analyst at B. Riley, said in a telephone interview. "Their existing customers are buying less and less. They have no technology really to talk about. Their sales force is declining. Frankly, what are you buying it for?"
Evaluating CEO
Julie Mossler, a spokeswoman for Groupon, declined to comment on the company's takeover prospects.
The company got its start in 2008 by selling coupons, known as Groupons, from businesses such as restaurants and nail salons. Groupon then shares the revenue with the merchant. Andrew Mason, the chief executive officer and co-founder, is trying to resurrect growth with the year-old Groupon Goods business, an e-commerce site where clients such as Dell Inc. and Garmin Ltd. sell marked-down products.
Mason's role as CEO was considered last week at a board meeting, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked to not be identified because the issue is private. After the gathering, Paul Taaffe, a company spokesman, said Mason would keep his job.
Groupon walked away from Google's takeover offer in December 2010, a person familiar with the matter said at the time. The bid valued Groupon at $6 billion, including incentives that would have been paid to Groupon's managers if performance targets were reached, people who asked to not be identified had said. Groupon ended up conducting an initial public offering and was valued at $16.7 billion following the first day of trading in November 2011, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Accounting, Competition
After initially winning a market capitalization exceeding Google's offer, Groupon's stock has lost 79 percent since its debut amid accounting missteps, more competition and growth that failed to meet expectations. The shares fell to a price-sales ratio of 0.7 on Nov. 13, a record low, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
On March 30, it reported a "material weakness" in its financial controls, forcing the company to reduce fourth-quarter revenue by $14.3 million. That followed the restatement of 2010 results six months earlier.
After revenue increased fivefold to $1.6 billion in 2011, Groupon's growth is slowing as the allure of daily-deal websites wears off among consumers and competition intensifies, according to Edward Woo, an Irvine, California-based analyst for Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC.
'Consumer Fatigue'
"Groupon didn't have any significant barriers to entry," Woo said in a phone interview. "When it first introduced this product, it got tremendous growth because a lot of people had never heard of it and wanted to use it. It was very novel. But now there's a bit of consumer fatigue."
LivingSocial Inc. is among the rival sites. Its struggle with slumping demand for online coupons forced Amazon.com Inc. to write down the value of its 29 percent stake this year, and prompted LivingSocial to say last month that it will eliminate about 400 of its 4,500 employees.
Analysts now project sales growth at Groupon will be 45 percent in the year ending this month, and growth will dwindle to just 0.6 percent in 2015, estimates compiled by Bloomberg show. To counter less demand for daily deals, Groupon introduced Groupon Goods, which sells everything from watches and bed frames to handbags and perfume at discounted prices. It competes against the likes of Amazon, the world's largest Internet retailer, as well as Gilt Groupe Inc. and Rue La La.
Limited Value
The company's direct sales -- comprised primarily of Groupon Goods -- rose 20-fold to $145 million in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, while revenue from the daily deals service declined 1.2 percent to $417 million.
"If they can show that they're a great online seller of products and can compete against the Amazons of the world, that would change a lot of investors' skepticism," Ascendiant Capital's Woo said. "In terms of the core daily deal business, there's not a lot of value there."
Groupon shares surged 23 percent on Dec. 7, the biggest rally since the company's first trading session. The advance was spurred by speculation that Mountain View, California-based Google may still be interested in the company, Telsey Advisory Group LLC's Tom Forte said last week.
"Where the stock is currently trading, it's a takeout candidate," the New York-based analyst said. "If Google was interested at $6 billion, I think it's a possibility."
On the other hand, Google already has tried building a competing product called Google Offers, started after the Groupon takeover failed, with limited success. While the company has $45.7 billion in cash and short-term investments that it could use to purchase Groupon, Google can probably spend more on its own coupon business and end up with something similar to its rival's service, said B. Riley's Sinha.
Could Google "get the same relationships without paying $3 billion for it? I think it could," Sinha said. "Why not, rather than have the legacy issues?"
Facebook, the owner of the world's biggest social network, has been moving into product sales to squeeze more revenue out of its more than 1 billion users. For that reason, it may find Groupon attractive, said Daniel Kurnos, an analyst for Benchmark in Delray Beach, Florida.
"Facebook has been trying to get into the e-commerce space, but without heavily deluging their users with ads," he said in a phone interview. "That's a way for them to maybe circumvent that issue."
Microsoft, Yahoo
Katelin Todhunter-Gerberg, a spokeswoman for Google, and Ashley Zandy, a spokeswoman for Menlo Park, California-based Facebook, declined to comment on whether they are interested in Groupon.
Microsoft or Yahoo! Inc. could also evaluate Groupon, seeking to improve the daily deals business by cutting costs and leveraging their own advertising relationships, Kurnos said. Still, Groupon Goods may be an obstacle because it would put any acquirer in the retail business, where those technology companies don't typically operate, he said.
Peter Wootton, a spokesman for Microsoft, declined to comment on whether the Redmond, Washington-based software maker is interested in Groupon. Sara Gorman of Sunnyvale, California- based Yahoo said the company doesn't comment on speculation.
"The Goods part of the business, I think, is sort of the question mark," Kurnos said. "Someone who buys this would have to take on the direct-to-retail portion of the business, and you'd need a company that has that exposure."
--With assistance from Douglas MacMillan in San Francisco and Dina Bass in Seattle. Editors: Nick Baker, Sarah Rabil
To contact the reporter on this story: Tara Lachapelle in New York at tlachapelle@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Sarah Rabil at srabil@bloomberg.net
Read the original article on Bloomberg. Copyright 2012.
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Out of all the categories, the judges found this to be the hardest decision of all, for what unfolded was a debate that lasted well into the small hours.
La Estancia Chapel designed by Bunker Arquitectura and the Arreletes Day Care Center by Xavier Vilalta Studio had split the judges down the middle with each judge citing specific criteria within their respective choices as to why they believed this to be a worthy winner.
The runner-up was described by one judge as a "delicious concept – very well handled for a young architect" whist another commented on the palette of materials used which were "simple but beautiful", which in turn created a superb translucency and transparency in the structure. But despite these praises the judges thought the design a little naïve and the final decision to award the Day Care Center the prize boiled down to the 'daring factor'.
Whether the judges' votes sided with this or the Chapel, all of the judges were in total agreement that this was a bold and daring piece of architecture for a young architect, which has been extremely well executed.
Alongside the controlled lighting, the clever lay-out of levels and the continuous and versatile spaces, the judges were most taken by the use of strong and bold colours which they felt perfectly complimented a building whose principal residents were children.
So, there we have it – the winner of the Young Architect Award – Xavier Vilalta Studio. Many congratulations!


Microsoft is currently running an interesting set of hardware experiments. The company is taking a souped-up shipping container stuffed full of computer servers and submerging it in the ocean. The most recent round is taking place near Scotland's Orkney Islands, and involves a total of 864 standard Microsoft data-center servers. Many people have impugned the rationality of the company that put Seattle on the high-tech map, but seriously—why is Microsoft doing this?
There are several reasons, but one of the most important is that it is far cheaper to keep computer servers cool when they're on the seafloor. This cooling is not a trivial expense. Precise estimates vary, but currently about 5 percent of all energy consumption in the U.S. goes just to running computers—a huge cost to the economy as whole. Moreover, all that energy used by those computers ultimately gets converted into heat. This results in a second cost: that of keeping the computers from melting.
These issues don't only arise in artificial, digital computers. There are many naturally occurring computers, and they, too, require huge amounts of energy. To give a rather pointed example, the human brain is a computer. This particular computer uses some 10–20 percent of all the calories that a human consumes. Think about it: our ancestors on the African savanna had to find 20 percent more food every single day, just to keep that ungrateful blob of pink jelly imperiously perched on their shoulders from having a hissy fit. That need for 20 percent more food is a massive penalty to the reproductive fitness of our ancestors. Is that penalty why intelligence is so rare in the evolutionary record? Nobody knows—and nobody has even had the mathematical tools to ask the question before.
There are other biological computers besides brains, and they too consume large amounts of energy. To give one example, many cellular systems can be viewed as computers. Indeed, the comparison of thermodynamic costs in artificial and cellular computers can be extremely humbling for modern computer engineers. For example, a large fraction of the energy budget of a cell goes to translating RNA into sequences of amino acids (i.e., proteins), in the cell's ribosome. But the thermodynamic efficiency of this computation—the amount of energy required by a ribosome per elementary operation—is many orders of magnitude superior to the thermodynamic efficiency of our current artificial computers. Are there "tricks" that cells use that we could exploit in our artificial computers? Going back to the previous biological example, are there tricks that human brains use to do their computations that we can exploit in our artificial computers?
More generally, why do computers use so much energy in the first place? What are the fundamental physical laws governing the relationship between the precise computation a system runs and how much energy it requires? Can we make our computers more energy-efficient by redesigning how they implement their algorithms?
These are some of the issues my collaborators and I are grappling with in an ongoing research project at the Santa Fe Institute. We are not the first to investigate these issues; they have been considered, for over a century and a half, using semi-formal reasoning based on what was essentially back-of-the-envelope style analysis rather than rigorous mathematical arguments—since the relevant math wasn't fully mature at the time.
This earlier work resulted in many important insights, in particular the work in the mid to late 20th century by Rolf Landauer, Charles Bennett and others.
However, this early work was also limited by the fact that it tried to apply equilibrium statistical physics to analyze the thermodynamics of computers. The problem is that, by definition, an equilibrium system is one whose state never changes. So whatever else they are, computers are definitely nonequilibrium systems. In fact, they are often very-far-from-equilibrium systems.
Fortunately, completely independent of this early work, there have been some major breakthroughs in the past few decades in the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics (closely related to a field called "stochastic thermodynamics"). These breakthroughs allow us to analyze all kinds of issues concerning how heat, energy, and information get transformed in nonequilibrium systems.
These analyses have provided some astonishing predictions. For example, we can now calculate the (non-zero) probability that a given nanoscale system will violate the second law, reducing its entropy, in a given time interval. (We now understand that the second law does not say that the entropy of a closed system cannot decrease, only that its expected entropy cannot decrease.) There are no controversies here arising from semi-formal reasoning; instead, there are many hundreds of peer-reviewed articles in top journals, a large fraction involving experimental confirmations of theoretical predictions.
Now that we have the right tools for the job, we can revisit the entire topic of the thermodynamics of computation in a fully formal manner. This has already been done for bit erasure, the topic of concern to Landauer and others, and we now have a fully formal understanding of the thermodynamic costs in erasing a bit (which turn out to be surprisingly subtle).
However, computer science extends far, far beyond counting the number of bit erasures in a given computation. Thanks to the breakthroughs of nonequilibrium statistical physics, we can now also investigate the rest of computer science from a thermodynamic perspective. For example, moving from bits to circuits, my collaborators and I now have a detailed analysis of the thermodynamic costs of "straight-line circuits." Surprisingly, this analysis has resulted in novel extensions of information theory. Moreover, in contrast to the kind of analysis pioneered by Landauer, this analysis of the thermodynamic costs of circuits is exact, not just a lower bound.
Conventional computer science is about all about trade-offs between the memory resources and number of timesteps needed to perform a given computation. In light of the foregoing, it seems that there might be far more thermodynamic trade-offs in performing a computation than had been appreciated in conventional computer science, involving thermodynamic costs in addition to the costs of memory resources and number of timesteps. Such trade-offs would apply in both artificial and biological computers.
Be on the lookout for a forthcoming book from the SFI Press, of contributed papers touching on many of the issues mentioned above. Also, to foster research on this topic we have built a wiki, combining lists of papers, websites, events pages, etc. We highly encourage people to visit it, sign up, and start improving it; the more scientists get involved, from the more fields, the better!
David Wolpert is resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute where he uses nonequilibrium statistical physics to analyze the thermodynamics of computing systems.


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A Book of Luminous Things is the fifth studio album by the Polish jazz singer Aga Zaryan.
It was released on June 14, 2011 by EMI Music Poland and  Blue Note Records.

The album contains twelve compositions to the poems of Czesław Miłosz and his favourite poets: Anna Świrszczyńska, Jane Hirshfield and Denise Levertov. In October, 2011 EMI Music Poland published another version of the album, called Księga olśnień (which is the Polish translation of A Book of Luminous Things) with the same songs being performed in Polish. Apart from the language, the only difference between the two versions is in the song This Only (Polish: To jedno), which in the English version is performed by Aga Zaryan as sole vocalist, while in the Polish version she was joined by Grzegorz Turnau.

Recorded at Castle Oaks Studios in Calabasas, California in spring 2011.

Track listing

Personnel
Aga Zaryan – vocals
Michał Tokaj – piano
Larry Koonse – guitar
Darek Oleszkiewicz – double bass
Munyungo Jackson – percussion

Certifications

References

External links
 Aga Zaryan sings Miłosz

Aga Zaryan albums
2011 albums


This is a view of San Francisco you don't see every day!
Taken on my first night in Paris at 10pm, as we walked along the Seine. I still can't believe how bright it was at that time of night!
Sundays are a true day of rest in France, so it was very quiet as we explored the area around our hotel on our first morning there. All stores were closed, so shopping was out of the question, and some restaurants were also closed, too. Keep that in mind if you are planning a visit.
We didn't go up to the top of the Eiffel Tower, but we did climb to the top of both Notre Dame and the Arc de Triumphe, as they both were included in our Paris Museum Pass. I highly recommend any first-time visitors get this pass, as it allows you to visit many of the top attractions in and around Paris (including Versailles) and skip many of the long entrance lines!
This photo was taken at Les Jardins de Tuilleries, but I loved every garden I walked through. Each were so beautiful and peaceful, and very conducive to relaxing and people-watching. My friend and I went to a garden every afternoon and enjoyed a cup of coffee while we rested our tired feet.
The Palais Garnier, otherwise known as the Paris Opéra, had stunning halls!
My favorite meal has to be from Comptoir de la Gastronomie, where I had this delicious, mouthwatering foie gras ravioli dish with a truffle cream sauce.
I don't think it's possible to take a bad photograph in Paris, not when you have such picturesque facades such as this!
Ending the picture portion of this post on a highnote — Ladurée! But… I forgot to take a photo of my macarons before I ate them all. Oops!
Btw, it rains often in Paris, so if you're planning a trip, definitely invest in a travel-friendly umbrella. I recommend the Knirps X1 because it is super tiny and lightweight, and comes with a case. The case is essential, because after your umbrella is drenched, you can stuff it into the holder, then toss it in your pocket or purse and not worry about getting anything wet. C'est parfait!
Your photos are gorgeous!! Makes me want to visit Paris again! That foie gras dish looks fantastic! I'll have to find one here like it. I love this recap… it looks like you had a blast. I'm really excited for you trip this May! Can't wait to see your updates. Try to post as much as you can!!!
Christina, It looks like you had a blast!
From your pictures, you did too! Too bad we missed each other by a few weeks, how fun would that have been if we ran into each other there??
Love all your pictures – definitely miss Paris!
Thank you! Where was your favorite place to eat and/or do there? I'm already brainstorming for my next trip lol!
Wow I love all your pictures! Love the scenery!
Thanks! Paris is super gorgeous.
So beautiful!! I can't wait to visit one day. Thanks for sharing your trip with us!!


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Taylor Swift skipped the 2019 Grammy Awards this year to support her man. The pop star, whose sixth studio album, "Reputation," was nominated for a Grammy, made a surprise appearance at the BAFTA party at Annabel's in London.
Her boyfriend is British actor Joe Alwyn, whose film "The Favourite" won big at the BAFTAs last night, sweeping up seven awards. The 29-year-old "Look What You Made Me Do" singer wore a pretty ice blue look for the occasion. She donned a $6,590 cashmere wrap-front coat courtesy of Max Mara over a Stella McCartney gown in nearly the same hue.
Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn leaving the BAFTA party at Annabel's in London.
Swift took to Instagram to congratulate "The Favourite" and thank the British designer for her dress. She shared a simple photo of herself from the party with her hands on her knees. "AHHHHH @thefavouritemovie just won 7 @bafta awards !!! Bout to go give some high fives – thanks @stellamccartney for this dressss," she wrote.
For shoes, she chose Rupert Sanderson's Nicolette sandals in a dusty pink velvet. Swift pulled things together with a pair of 18-karat rose gold diamond and topaz interlinked hoop earring from Delfina Delettrez.
For more style from the 2019 BAFTAs, check out the gallery.


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Marriage-proposal fireworks cause panic, theater evacuation
HOWELL, N.J. (AP) — A man who set off fireworks near a movie theater as his friend made a marriage proposal created panic among moviegoers who mistook the fireworks for gunshots, leading to 911 calls and an evacuation, authorities said.
Howell Township police responded to the Xscape Theater around 6 p.m. Wednesday and soon learned the theater manager had confronted a man who had lighted fireworks outside another business near the theater, authorities said.
The remnants of the fireworks were located, and it was determined that no shots had been fired.
A 23-year-old Lakewood man told police he had set off the fireworks as part of his friend's marriage proposal at the other business.
While noting there was no intent to cause panic at the theater, a post on the Howell police Facebook page stated that "obviously this was a very poor decision rather than an overt act."
The Lakewood man was charged with a fireworks infraction and disorderly conduct.
No injuries were reported.
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Coming around again: Famous ice disk seems to be re-forming
What goes around comes around.
An ice disk appears to be forming in the same Maine river where an unusually large one formed last winter and quickly gained international fame.


Friday, February 1, 2019 — Ostend/Flushing. The first of Norther's 44 wind turbines will soon be emerging from the waves. From the port of Flushing in the Netherlands, the impressive wind turbines are transported to be mounted onto the foundations which have already been installed. That way, Belgium's largest offshore wind farm will soon be coming to life. One by one the wind turbines will be connected to the Belgian power grid and in the summer of 2019, Norther will be able to provide power to nearly 400,000 families annually.
This marks the start of the final and most crucial construction phase. Norther began the required preparatory work in early 2018. In August 2018, the first part of the actual installation of the offshore wind farm started with the installation of the first foundations (both the "monopile" and the "transition piece"). At the same time, the foundation for the Offshore High Voltage Station (OVHS) was installed followed by the installation of cables.
Today, Norther is embarking on the final step of the works: the installation and completion of 44 wind turbines. The wind turbine components have been readied on-site at MHI Vestas Offshore Wind's pre-assembly facility in Flushing. MHI Vestas Offshore Wind is the partner supplying 44 V164-8.4 MWwind turbines.. Van Oord's installation vessel Aeolus will transport these out to sea to be installed, four at a time.


Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, newly appointed governor of Roman Britain, is charged by an increasingly unstable Emperor Nero with a difficult task—the untamed island on the fringes of the empire must earn a profit. To do so, Suetonius pursues the last of the Druids into Wales and, along the way, subdues the fractious Celtic chieftains who sit atop a fortune in gold and rare metals.
Meanwhile, in the provincial capital of Londinium, war is brewing. As Nero's corrupt tax officials strip the British tribes of their wealth and dignity, an unlikely leader arises—Queen Boudicca, chieftain of the Iceni, who unites the tribes of Britain and leads them on a furious and bloody quest for vengeance and liberty.
A novel told in the form of a memoir, Imperial Governor is a compelling and impeccably researched portrait of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman general and first-century Governor of Britannia, who unexpectedly found himself facing one of the bloodiest rebellions against Roman rule. Shipway's masterful military adventure has long been considered one of the most accomplished works of historical fiction set in the Roman Era, providing fascinating detail of life in Roman Britain and within the Roman Legions— and a riveting saga of uprisings, war, and conquest in the ancient world.
George Shipway was a British author best known for his historical novels. Shipway was born in 1908, and served in the Indian Imperial Cavalry until 1946. He died in 1982.
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He mentioned he dreamed every night time that he was back in the village with Haki. "I see the weddings, and I see funerals, all the previous times of the village. In my goals, I'm organizing the individuals to work. They love and respect me again." In Albania, they say each man has two childhoods, the first after which, with old age, the second. There was something childlike and sweet and wise about Hajdari, but there was an underlying hardness, too, for he'd lived a real life.
The Orthodox of southeastern Albania still eat qumështor , a custard dish manufactured from flour, eggs, and milk, before the start of Lent.
Though the ladies of this nationality are hardworking and often don't surrender building their careers after getting married, they still anticipate their husbands to be the primary breadwinners for a household.
There can additionally be a wide hole within the wealth index with migrants coming from households that had been higher off in 1990.
Same go's for right now's Albanians I guess when your continuously at warfare with outsiders you really do not have the time to build nice monuments on the run.
Although the exact worth of the gender coefficient varies throughout the fashions, the massive gender differential remains stable.
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GREEKS, ROMANS, SLAVS, TURKS, SERBS, HISTORIANS, SYMPOTHIZERS, That's the connection! Its just who they're and the way they have been doing it for 1000's of years. If you focus on it, its easier to let the invader build and write all these over exaggerated tales of history. An in order that later in historical past individuals could figure out the truth. So now pointing out some of the traits of these invading groups. Some things are now making sense,corresponding to not having to worry concerning the Albanians/Illyrian destroying it.
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Seek the opinion of the woman you have an interest in. It could possibly be through the talking phases, present genuine interest in her household, and ask for one of the best ways to strategy them.
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On average, women obtain 18% lesser salaries than males. To promote gender equality in the workforce, the U.N. Economic Empowerment Program in Albania supplies resources for packages and initiatives.
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The persecution of intellectuals and the break with just about all cultural traditions created a literary and cultural vacuum that lasted until the Sixties and whose outcomes can still be felt. The fruits of Albanian literature earlier than World War II seems within the works of the Franciscan priest Gjergj Fishta (1871–1940), once lauded as the nationwide poet. From 1945 to 1990, for primarily political causes, Fishta was ostracized from the Albanian literary world and the point out of his name was forbidden. The present president, Rexhep Meidani, is a former university professor from the ruling Socialist Party. The government coalition, now underneath the management of Prime Minister Ilir Meta, is dominated by the Socialist Party.
However, this is not a brand new phenomenon however part of Albanian tradition. For centuries, it was not the central government however Albanian customary or conventional legislation that governed social behavior and nearly each side of life in northern Albania. In its definitive kind, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini had chapters overlaying church; the household; marriage; home, livestock, and property; work; transfer of property; the spoken word; honor; damages; crimes; judicial regulation; and exemptions and exceptions. It was strictly noticed by the tribes of the northern highlands and had priority over all different laws, ecclesiastical or secular. With the help of this historical code, the highland tribes have been capable of protect their id, autonomy, and lifestyle underneath the Ottoman Empire for five centuries.
It all boils down to her family and the way receptive they're in the course of you. Albanian ladies think about courting foreigners for monetary stability too. Exposed Albanian singles don't relaxation solely on finding dates or marriage mates only of their nation, they sit up for mingling with folks from other races. Let's talk about some boxes you should tick to win an Albanian lady's heart. Questionable Past Relationships– "Never underneath any circumstance fall for the "You're the primary man I've spoken to" or "I really don't discuss to guys like you" line. Since many Albanian households are strict, Albanian girls must discover inventive ways to circumvent the overbearing guidelines of their strict parents.


Known locally as "The Hob Nob" and built in 1873 the structure was first used as a dry goods grocery store owned by Frank Taggart. It later evolved into Miller's Drugstore and fountain service. Original oak fixtures filled with authentic apothecary items and the soda fountain counter remain as remnants of the building's past.
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This morning, Darrin Dallimore and I went fishing on the Mini-Madison. I decided to take my French Brittany, Sunny girl, along to let her get some exercise. I have taken her fishing with me numerous times and never had any problems.
With the water being high and a little off-color, the fishing was slow. I had a few swipes at my fly, but no solid takes. While I fished through one stretch I could hear Sunny barking over the roar of the water. I hollared, "Come!" and began to make my way to the bank. Before I even got within twenty feet of Sunny, I could already smell the pungent odor of pole cat. Yep, she had cornered a skunk and took a nice spritzer in the face.
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When you mix these ingredients, you want the mixture to be a little pasty and then you apply liberally to the stinky mutt. Below are some pictures of Sunny getting the scrubbing of her life.
Ironically, Darrin and I never did catch any fish today. We fishermen call this "getting skunked." Obviously, Sunny has taken this phrase to extremes.
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Poor Sunny!! And poor You for having to scrub that stinky stuff out of her!!
Maybe you should have dipped the flies in skunk oil or trolled Sunny through the rapids. The trout would either have gone wild or headed for Twin Falls via Greyhound Bus.
Now theres a trip you won't forget soon. Liked your summary btw.
I hate skunks about like porkies.I hate porkies!
I used that same formula in SD worked well. Just was afraid of getting it in Bandit's eyes.


The Boskins is a peaceful holiday cottage in the Ribble Valley area of the Yorkshire Dales. A 16th century cottage which has now been converted into a lovely holiday cottage, The Boskins sleeps 4 people, and has the benefit of a hot tub. If you fancy a go a skiing, you can pop out to Pendle Ski club (which has a dry ski slope). Or take a visit to Clitheroe and see its castle; the market towns of Settle and Skipton are also only a short drive from The Boskins. Closer to the cottage, you'll find the village of Sabden is a mile away - and it's at Sabden you'll find the nearest pubs, restaurants and shops to The Boskins.
The Boskins sleeps 4 people in 2 bedrooms - 1 double bedroom and 1 twin bedroom. Outside you have a patio area and furniture to sit outside and take in that fresh air. There's also a wood burning hot tub in the garden too - so you can enjoy the benefits of a hot tub, without the worry about the eco credentials.
On a cold night there's also a wood burning stove you can get going - a wood burner is a fantastic way of spending a cosy night in your holiday cottage. All in all The Boskins is a lovely place to spend a cottage holiday, and is well worth a closer look.
Nearly forgot to mention, The Boskins also pets too - so your dog can stay with you and you can all explore the countryside together.
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If The Boskins isn't for you, have a look at other cottages from Dales, you're sure to find a holiday cottage to suit you.
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"Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi , better known as Reb Zalman, was raised in Vienna and fled the Nazi oppression in 1938. A traditional hasid of the Lubavitcher Hasidim, he was ordained a rabbi in 1947, received his Master of Arts degree in the Psychology of Religion in 1956 from Boston University, and a Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree from Hebrew Union College in 1968. He taught at the University of Manitoba, Canada, from 1956 to 1975 and was Professor of Jewish Mysticism and Psychology of Religion at Temple University until 1987. In 1995, he accepted the World Wisdom Chair at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, officially retiring from that post in 2004. He is the father of the Jewish Renewal and Spiritual Eldering movements, an active teacher of Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism, and a participant in ecumenical dialogues throughout the world, including the widely influential dialogue with the Dalai Lama, documented in the book, The Jew in the Lotus. He is the author of Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters and Jewish with Feeling, written with Joel Segel."[1]
Advisory Council, Hoffman Institute Foundation [2]
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↑ Universal Awakening Zalman Schachter Shalomi, organizational web page, accessed July 17, 2013.
↑ Hoffman Institute Foundation Advisory Council, organizational web page, accessed September 19, 2013.
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God's Official @ the Unity Theatre – Reviewed
Slap bang in the middle of the European Championships, would a play featuring a kidnapped referee prove well-timed or enhance our football fatigue?
Football, it's a funny old game. Or so they say. Not so for referee David Greaves, the God's official of the title. The designated man in the middle on the final day of the football season, Greaves makes a decision to disallow a goal, leading to the relegation of Liverpool lads' Cliff and Degsy's beloved club.
That fateful decision leads Degsy, a man already on the edge (what with the impending break-up of his relationship), to do something silly: follow through on a drunken post-match crack-pot idea. In this case, he takes it upon himself to kidnap Greaves, and make him admit that it was a goal all along, thus leading to the game having to be replayed and his team staying up after all.
Problem is he hasn't quite thought things through. Throw into the equation the none-too bright – or keen – best mate Clifford, and while you can't know quite how this will end, you always know full well it won't go how Degsy wants or imagines.
Written by Robert Farquhar (whose previous play, Dead Heavy Fantastic, was generally well received last year), God's Official raises a few laughs and some big questions. The play owes its title to the fact that the stricken ref takes solace in his faith, something which comes into play as Degsy's grip on reality slackens evermore with each set-back. Farquhar though, stops short of the temptation to draw parallels between those great opiates of the people, football and religion, and we're never quite sure if this is an opportunity missed.
In much the same way, the play as a whole ducks the big questions it poses; the role of religion in the 21st Century, life's injustices, and mental health are all given an outing at some stage, and we found ourselves imagining a different, altogether darker play at various points. Instead, each time there is a climb-down, and Farquhar opts to play it safe and go for laughs. This works fine but then why the questions in the first place?
This quibble aside, as long as you accept it for what it is: a meat and potatoes knockabout in the park, you won't find yourself disappointed by God's Official. Derek Barr is strong in the role of the unhinged Degsy, particularly when the going gets tough, and he finds himself coming apart at the seams. We've all been driven mad by football, but he really takes the cake. And after a shaky start, John McGrellis is superb as the slow but unknowingly wise Clifford. David Kennedy Jones meanwhile, gets his performance as Greaves spot on. Part pious frustration, part fearful resignation, it's a fine line he's required to play and he does it well.
Indeed, if the reactions of the rest of the audience (a good turn-out, especially considering it was performed on the same night and at the same time as a European Championships semi-final) can be used for the moment as a barometer, then this play is no less than a success. Laugh out loud moments are regular occurrences, and McGrellis is at one stage subject to a warm round of applause following an outburst borne of frustration at his situation and his mate's staggering idiocy.
At the play's denouement, loose ends are tied off and deserts are, pretty much, just. There is also a nice tragicomic aside regarding the match that kicked it all off thrown in. Fittingly, the last word goes to Clifford. He remarks that football and real life exist in separate worlds, and the lines between them shouldn't be crossed. While getting the point in the context of what has transpired in the previous hour and a half, we still find ourselves checking the time, wondering if Germany and Italy have gone to extra-time.
The final performance for God's Official is this evening, 8pm at the Unity Theatre £10 (concessions available)
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The Space Age is officially 60 years old as the world celebrates the 1957 launch of the former USSR's first satellite, Sputnik 1. And a look back finds the world far different than maybe any other six-decade span in human history.
That Friday night on Oct. 4, 1957 had Americans looking skyward as radio news and evening newspapers announced the Communist nation had orbited an artificial moon around the Earth. Beeping a prerecorded noise heard by ham radio operators, Sputnik, translated "traveler" was announcing to the world that a new age had begun.
America was stunned. This was the height of the Cold War when nuclear weapons proliferated to a frightening standoff between the USA and USSR.
Though only 23 inches in diameter and weighing 184 pounds with no scientific value, just the thought of the Soviets having the ability to cross over the USA from outer space sent a chill down the spine of America's Department of Defense, and outright fear among citizens.
A month later Nov. 3rd the Russians backed up their ability to enter outer space by launching a living dog into space aboard a complex, one-ton space ship Sputnik 2. The female "mutnik" named Laika wasn't orbited to return, but the path for human to enter space was clearly laid down.
It took America until the following January 31st to match the feat of sending their own satellite into Earth orbit, Explorer 1. Unlike the simple electric tone emitted by Sputnik 1, Explorer had real scientific instruments aboard and discovered the Van Allen radiation belt.
Following more Soviet space launches, the U.S. Congress formed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Oct. 1, 1958. The Space Race was on! And the prize was the Moon, 240,000 miles away.
Sputnik transmitted for 21 days until batteries ran out, and on Jan. 4, 1958, it burned up reentering the atmosphere after completing 1,440 orbits of Earth. Explorer 1 stayed in orbit until 1970.
In the beginning, NASA's every move was followed in the media of our open democracy, while the Soviet space program was enshrouded in complete secrecy. Announcements of Russian space accomplishments were released by the government news service called TASS. Only the successes and failures it could not cover up reached America's shores.
The Soviet space program became a propaganda arm of Primer Nikita Khrushchev, and he wanted his cosmonauts to show their superiority over the US astronauts. Khrushchev demanded some dangerous missions that included the first spacewalk (trouble getting back inside), the first female in space (for three days, more than all U.S. Mercury flights combined), and the first three-man crew (in the two-man Voskhod spacecraft). The Soviet Premier even arranged the marriage of the third man in space Andrian Nikolayev, deceased, to lady cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, giving her hand a way in public ceremony!
Meanwhile, the American space program made its share of mistakes, and could have benefited from the knowledge of Soviet blunders they repeated.
In the post-World War II 1950s, America had captured German rocket scientist Werner von Braun and he was creating rockets of destruction for the Army. If allowed free reign of his talents, Von Braun could have orbited a payload on his Redstone rocket maybe as early as 1955. But President Dwight Eisenhower wanted our first satellite to coincide with the 1957-58 International Geophysical Year celebrations. And when our Communist rivals did it first, America was caught off guard and its citizens didn't like being behind.
All through the 1960s, the cloaked USSR space program claimed superiority over the USA, but that was far from the facts. And when three astronauts orbited the Moon aboard Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968, America had won the Moon Race without even landing. NASA had demonstrated that Von Braun's mammoth Saturn V was reliable for a moon landing, while secretly, the USSR's moon rocket, Nova, had blown up at least twice (killing dozens of top technicians the first time).
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Apollo 11 moon ship at the shores of the frozen lava sea called Mare Tranquility, the Soviets claimed they weren't going to the Moon and were instead interested in earth-orbiting space stations.
The truth behind the propaganda of the Soviet space program was slow to come out in the public eye. But it began in the 1990s during the mutual training of astronauts and cosmonauts for the nine Space Shuttle missions to Russian space station Mir.
One of the first revelations was about the celebrated first spaceman, Yuri Gagarin—he didn't land with his Vostok 1 spacecraft, parachuting safely in an open field. For more than two decades it was not known that the first seven Vostok spacecraft deployed parachutes after a fiery reentry and at 70,000 feet the cosmonaut ejected and floated on a parachute to Earth. That's because retrorockets to break the spacecraft's impact with ground weren't perfected until the two-man Voskhod and three-man Soyuz spacecrafts. NASA landed its Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spaceships in the ocean.
Other facts surfaced about failed spacecraft rendezvous, problems with the one-man moonship Zond, and the disasters of the gigantic Nova rocket with a 36 engine first stage.
One thing was for certain: the USSR wanted to be first on the Moon just as bad as the USA. But where peaceful exploration was America's motivation, it was the military high ground that drove the Communist moon program.
Incredibly the Moon Race happened in the first decade of the Space Age, and no human has returned since 1972. Unmanned probes have taken us back to the Moon, and to all the planets, a half-dozen asteroids and comets—even distant Pluto.
Arguably the greatest achievement in 60 years of space exploration is the $100 billion International Space Station and it's 14-nation partnership. Largely built by 35 Space Shuttle missions and occupied 15 years by Expedition crews of up to 6 people, it will be funded at least through 2022.
The Space Age has transformed Earth into a wireless world, satellites and ground technology giving humans anywhere instant information about things that matter and other things that don't.
And just where will the world be in another six decades of space exploration? Maybe humans will be inhabitants of three worlds by returning to the Moon and conquering Mars? One thing for certain: the human spirit will continually explore.