M&S launched a mobile optimized version of its website in May and has since then attracted some 1.3million unique visitors to the site, buying everything from underwear to gifts to beds and even two sofas worth more than £3000.
M-Retailing: Sienne, why did M&S opt for mobile web rather than apps as so many other retailers were doing back in May?
Sienne Veit: We had found that mobile use of our 'desktop' internet site was growing and that the people coming into it from mobile were doing so from a very wide range of devices. We also found that only those with top end smart phones were going to complete transactions. So when we decided to bring mobile into what we did, we wanted to make sure we opened it up to as many users as possible, which meant looking at optimizing the website for mobile. We also decided that we didn't want to open up a service that was just there for early adopters, we needed it to work for all our customers. Mobile web also is a solid foundation to build on for future developments of our site, our service and the kinds of devices people may have in years to come.
MR: You've had 1.3million unique visitors so far, is this in line with your expectations for the site?
SV: We were getting hundreds of thousands of visitors and rising before we launched so it having a proper mobile optimized site has grown that number. The site has also seen a lot more people coming to us through google on mobile, so yes we are pleased with progress so far.
MR: What about sales through the channel, how are they looking?
SV: We can't reveal figures, but all 24,000 items we sell are available through the mobile site and we are selling across the range. We are selling a lot of wine and gifts and the usual things. We have also sold sofas and double beds which is interesting and we see these as sales that might otherwise have been lost. Typically you buy these things when you move house. But when you move house you often lose your internet connection for a few days. Now that mobile is there we can plug this gap. We are also seeing people using the fixed web to check out things like sofas, then they go and try them in store, then they buy them on mobile. It is all part of a cross channel experience.
MR: So you don't see mobile cannibalizing any of the other channels?
SV: Not at all. Mobile is the glue between all the channels: you see a mac advertised on TV and you can check it out online, buy it on mobile and collect it in store. Mobile is just part of the "Shop your Way" programme that we are running and it works remotely, at home, in store anywhere. We aim to offer our customers the ability to shop however they want, not dictated by channel.
MR: So what's next for mobile at M&S?
SV: We are constantly looking at how to add value to our customers. Location and personalization are going to be very important and our next steps are to look at how to best use these together. Our customers tend to be very loyal to their local store so we want to build highly personalised and localized offers in to what we do.
MIG has worked with M&S among others to create mobile web sites and apps that offer great user experience and functionality. The company has been at the forefront of the development of developing interactive mobile services for TV shows, newspapers, brands and advertisers, as well as working now with retailers including M&S, B&Q and Rimmel.
M-Retailing: Tim, why is mobile so important to retailers?
Tim Dunn: Keeping up with the Joneses. Its is critical that you keep up with what your competitors are doing on mobile as consumers are so far ahead of where business are with what they want from mobile that any company that comes along and offers a better mobile experience than you is going to take mobile business away from you. Consumers want mobile.
MR: Why are consumers so hungry for it?
TD: Mobile is instant and engaging. If you limit yourself to using just the web then you are cutting out all those people who want to shop right now, wherever they may be. You are also not engaging with your customers when they are likely to be receptive to hearing from you. Media companies are getting ahead on this now, they are engaging with consumers in all those little bits of downtime they have. Mobile used to be sold as something that people did when they were 'out and about', but these days they are just as likely to pick up the mobile to surf or shop while watching TV or sitting at their desk at work as they are to when they are out shopping.
MR: Where do you sit on the apps verses m-web debate?
TD: in an ideal world you would be able to offer both so that those that love apps can use them and those that don't can use the web. Apps are still huge. Soon there will be more Android handsets than any other kind of smartphone and 'Droid users tend to be app fanatics, so that may drive a bit of surge in apps. And apps are useful: they are very rich experience and are better suited to some tasks than m-web. M-web on the other hand will future proof your development as it will be screen and device agnostic pretty much – so that you can develop once and then tweak for new handsets. There is also set to be a proliferation of different device types coming along – tablets, games consoles, web-enabled TVs and so on – so you need to be ready: m-web development will stand you in good stead.
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Kenya's hawkfish and their habitat associations [2013–2019]
Will coral reef decline result in the loss of fish species that are closely associated with this habitat?
Subject: Hawkfish ecology
Location: Watamu & Shimoni
Leader: Bob Sluka
Watamu Marine National Park is set on a beautiful, picturesque white coral sand beach. Its lagoon reefs spread across the Park in patches and the fore reef stretches around the outside of the Watamu Marine National Park. The Shimoni, leeward and fore, reefs are located around the different islands and atolls offshore, most within the Kisite Marine National Park and the Mpunguti National Reserve.
The reefs provide shelter and food for a huge variety of species including coral reef fish, many of which have macro and/or microhabitat requirements. The strength of association to these habitats can range from obligate (full reliance on the coral) to facultative (loosely associated to particular corals). The more obligate a species is, the longer it will stay, even if the habitat is degraded. Alongside this, many of these habitats are rapidly changing due to coral bleaching and runoff from the land. Therefore, research has and is being undertaken, to understand what effects these could have on various coral reef fish.
Hawkfish (Cirrhitidae) are one such coral dwelling family. They are relatively small (<30 cm) carnivorous fish, which perch and dart hawk-like for their prey. Hawkfish can be found perching on or in a variety of different corals, including branching species of Acropora and Pocillopora, across Watamu and Shimoni reefs. Much work has been done on hawkfish ecology in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, but little has been conducted in the Indian Ocean and even less in Kenyan waters. Therefore, this project aimed to provide a baseline of hawkfish species density, diversity and abundance, alongside assessing the two most abundance species' habitat associations. Hannah Hereward, currently A Rocha UK marine intern, undertook this study across the two different locations within Kenya between January and March 2014.
Arc-eye Hawkfish
An Arc-eye Hawkfish Paracirrhites arcatus perched, waiting to dart off hawk-like for its prey
Hannah discovered five out of the ten hawkfish species which could possibly be found within Kenyan waters (Freckled/Black-side Paracirrhites forsteri, Arc-eye P. arcatus, Pixy/Coral Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus, Stocky Cirrhitus pinnulatus and Twospot Amblycirrhitus bimacula). It is likely that the reefs across Watamu and Shimoni did not fulfil the habitat requirements of the other five (Spotted/Threadfin Cirrhitus aprinus, Dwarf/Falco Cirrhitichthys falco, Redbar Cirrhitops fasciatus, Swallowtail Cyprinocirrhites polyactis and Longnose Oxycirrhites typus). This was expected as many have different habitat associations and depth ranges from 20 m to over 100 m.
SCUBA surveys
Hannah used SCUBA diving equipment to conduct transect surveys underwater
Hannah found that the two most abundant species were Freckled Hawkfish followed by Arc-eye Hawkfish. Further analysis of the data is being conducted to find out if these two species had macrohabitat associations to shallow or deep reef sites and/or microhabitat associations to hard coral cover and/or the proportion of two species of branching hard coral (Pocillopora and Acropora). Hannah suggests that further research into the degradation of branching corals, including Acropora and Pocillopora, will be important in order to determine the longevity of obligate-inclined hawkfish in the future.
Kenya's hawkfish
More research is needed to determine how vulnerable they will be to coral degradation
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What would the conversion be for plant Excavator Hire for footings, this is how we are doing it.
300 wide x 400 deep footings we allow to excavate 15Lm per hour, so what would the conversion factor be in the spreadsheet.
Hi Terry- Sorry I missed this post.
I would use Profile Builder to model the footings OR Takeoff_Length to accumulate lengths if mass modeled footings. In Estimator, Layers Tab, I would use attribute of Meters for either the PB Layer or the Takeoff_Length Layer. Multiplier should be "/15" and unit of Hrs. and either round up or not. Does this help?


I PRAY THAT THEY WOULD COME TO KNOW THAT YOUR WORD IS THE TRUTH.
"FAITH COMES BY HEARING..."ROM10:17 IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO THE BIBLE; BUT IS A UNIVERSAL FACT.
WHATEVER I HEAR LONG ENOUGH I WILL COME TO BELIEVE. YOU WILL EVENTUALLY 'TAKE IT TO HEART'.
IT WILL BECOME A PART OF ME; TO THE POINT WHERE I WILL SAY IT: IN FAITH.
SATAN DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE SPEAKING AND/OR HEARING THE BIBLE, FOR IT IS THE TRUTH; AND THE TRUTH WILL DESTROY HIM.
THIS IS THE WAY I WAS CREATED.
I CAN BELIEVE A LIE LONG ENOUGH UNTIL IT BECOMES 'THE TRUTH' TO ME.
OR I CAN BELIEVE THE TRUTH.
THOSE WHO TRIED THE WORD AND THE WORD "FAILED"; ARE THOSE WHOM THE WORD TRIED; AND THEY FAILED (TO BELIEVE IT).
THERE IS WHAT IS ALWAYS RIGHT.
THERE IS WHAT IS ALWAYS GOOD.
THERE IS WHAT IS ALWAYS WRONG.
THERE IS WHAT IS ALWAYS EVIL.
THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN.
HELL WAS CREATED FOR SATAN; AND HIS FALLEN ANGELS.
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO GOD?
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO DEVIL?
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO HEAVEN?
HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT THERE IS NO HELL?
ARE YOU ALL-KNOWING; OMNISCIENT; ARE YOU GOD?
TO MAKE LIGHT OF THE BIBLE'S CLAIM TO BE THE TRUTH; AND TO NOT CONSIDER IT WORTHY OF EXAMINATION; IS TO TAKE A BIG GAMBLE.
NOW A DAYS PEOPLE HAVE THEIR OWN TRUTHS; THAT BOLSTER AND CONDONE THEIR LIFE STYLES.
HE TALKS ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH; AND BLESSING AND CURSING.
IF WE OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS WE HAVE THE LIFE AND BLESSING.
IF WE DISOBEY WE HAVE THE DEATH AND CURSING.
THE CURSE IS IN THE EARTH.
GOD IS ABLE TO SHIELD US FROM IT AS LONG AS WE OBEY HIM.
IN THE SAME WAY THAT HE PROTECTED THE ISRAELITES THAT HAD THEIR DOORPOSTS COVERED WITH BLOOD.
ONCE WE DISOBEY GOD, HE HAS TO REMOVE HIS HAND OF PROTECTION; AND THUS EXPOSE US TO THE CURSE. HE CANNOT; AND WILL NOT BLESS UNBELIEF.
GOD AFFLICTS US IN THE SENSE THAT THE REMOVAL OF HIS PROTECTION GIVES SATAN - THE DESTROYER - ACCESS TO US.
'JUDGE NOT THAT YOU BE NOT JUDGED' LU6:37, ON THE SURFACE SEEMS TO BE SAYING: THAT IF WE JUDGE OTHERS; OTHERS WILL JUDGE US.
WHAT IT IS SAYING IS THAT WHEN WE JUDGE OTHERS, GOD WILL JUDGE US.
WHEN GOD JUDGES US SATAN IS ALLOWED ACCESS TO US.
THE WAY OF THOSE 'HOSTILE TO GOD'(H7563) IS AS DARKNESS; THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS CAUSING THEM TO TRIP.
THE UNAWARENESS OF SATAN; AND OF HIS EVIL FORCE; AND INFLUENCE; HAS BECOME THE DOWNFALL OF MANY.
GOD JUST PUTS HIS WORD 'OUT THERE'; FOR US TO BELIEVE IT OR NOT.
HE HAS NO NEED TO EXPLAIN HIMSELF; OR TO PROVE HIMSELF; FOR HE IS TRUE; AND RIGHT(EOUS); AND HE IS FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD.


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California Residents: Moratorium on Rodenticides Needed to Save Wild Animals
October 28, 2019 - Posted by Lisa Levinson
TAG: In Defense of Animals, take action, Wild Animals
Two mountain lions suffered and endured agonizing deaths from rodenticide poisoning very recently in the Santa Monica Mountains of California. These individuals and the other mountain lions they leave behind were already feeling extremely isolated as their species is on the verge of extinction in that region.
Pest control companies thwarted legislative efforts to ban these poisons at the state level this year. Now, mountain lions, coyotes, bobcats, foxes, owls, hawks, rats and mice must wait yet another year for the hope of protection from these cruel and deadly chemicals.
Please urge Governor Newsom to issue an immediate moratorium on rodenticide poisons to protect all animals in the state's ecosystems.
By design, rodenticide poisons thin the blood and prevent clotting in the animals who consume them directly, causing excruciating pain and severe bleeding out of every orifice over extended periods of time with the primary individuals affected being from rodent species. The body systems of predators who then consume the rodenticide-poisoned ground squirrels, rats, and mice, are significantly harmed.
These predators suffer from severe mange and eventually die from internal bleeding. Reports show that a young, otherwise healthy mountain lion known as P-30, died from internal bleeding in his brain and abdomen. Approximately five liters of unclotted blood was found in his abdomen, which undoubtedly caused him an excruciatingly painful death.
Tragically, the death of P-30 was not an isolated case. According to a National Parks Service study, 23 out of 24 Santa Monica mountain lions have anticoagulant rodenticide chemicals in their bodies, including a 3-month-old kitten. Golden eagles, Humboldt martens, San Joaquin kit foxes, Pacific fishers, bald eagles, black bears, and raccoons are also unfortunate victims of rodenticide poisons. An estimated 75% of California's wild animals have been exposed to these toxic chemicals.
Take action now to protect California's wild animals! Urge Governor Newsom to take immediate action to issue a moratorium on anticoagulant rodenticides.
1. Call Governor Newsom at (916) 445-2841 to support an immediate moratorium on anticoagulant rodenticide poisons.
Say something like, "Please protect California's wild animals from cruel and indiscriminate anticoagulant rodenticide poisons before it's too late. Issue a moratorium on these deadly poisons now."
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The third RunACT event kicks off this Sunday (21st) with the junior race at Fadden Pines.
The 1.25km race starts at 3pm with the 3km event to follow at 3:20pm. Athletes register on the day but please make sure you allow enough time for registration and warm up before the event start time. As this is a handicap race, we ask that all athletes arrive at least 20mins before the scheduled start time to allow for handicap marks to be calculated. The race start line is at the Fadden Pines picnic area off Bugden Ave.


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Why It's Important to Complain About Your Partner Sometimes
Holding it in doesn't help anyone.
By Korin Miller
A few years ago, Girls had nothing on my girlfriends and me when it came to discussing our relationships.
We'd dissect the hidden meaning in texts, over-analyze arguments, and give detailed accounts of what went down in bed. I once spent 20 minutes with a buddy talking about how her new man's small package was actually a good thing since he tried harder in bed. (She ended up marrying the guy.)
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But now, most of my girlfriends are married and we haven't had a good Girls-level chat in ages. In fact, this is how most of our catch-ups go:
Me: So, how's your husband?
Them: He's great/the best husband ever/running for president!
Me: Cool!...So...um...what else is new?
Of course, that's their prerogative, but it just kind of feels...fake.
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And that's why I'm so psyched every time I talk to my friend Sara. Our conversations go a little something like this:
Me: So, what's new with your husband?
Sara: You would not believe what he just did! I want to f—ing kill him...
If I'm ever pissed at Chris and want to talk, she'll listen and offer up a similar anecdote, while some of my other married friends just pretend like fighting with your husband is a foreign and completely bizarre concept.
Sara and I have real chats about our marriages—covering the good and the bad.
Is it weird to be so into the fact that I still have one friend who's open about her relationship?
Nope, says psychotherapist Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D., author of Money, Sex and Kids: Stop Fighting About the Three Things That Can Ruin Your Marriage. She says it's definitely important to have at least one friend that you can bounce things off of, even when you're married.
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"Sharing with a supportive and discreet friend means we can 'normalize' the things that happen that we may be blowing out of proportion in our own minds," she says. "A good friend should help talk you down from the crazy stuff, not pump it up." Tessina says my chats with Sara can be a stress-reliever, too, and can help lower the odds I'll take something out on Chris.
But Tessina says I have to careful not to share too much since guys can freak out if they hear that information they thought was private has been the topic of a, err, gossip session.
Chris knows I talk to Sara about things, but he might not be so thrilled if he knew everything we discuss.
So in lieu of 'fessing up to Chris (I so don't want to have that conversation), I'm just going to tone it down—a bit. For now, at least.
We'll see how long that lasts...
Korin Miller is a writer, SEO nerd, wife, and mom to a little 2-year-old dude named Miles. Korin has worked for The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Cosmopolitan, where she learned more than anyone ever should about sex. She has an unhealthy addiction to gifs.
Korin Miller Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men's Health, Women's Health, Self, Glamour, and more.
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The zoo's exhibits are surrounded by the picturesque Manhattan skyline and the trails of New York's most famous park. Just steps from Fifth Avenue, visitors can chill out with penguins and polar bears or warm up with tropical rainforest critters. Big cats are in the big city at the newest exhibit, the Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard exhibit. Visitors can learn about the natural history, biology, cultural roles and conservation status of the zoo's more than 150 species from around the globe, including mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Checking the daily schedule of feedings and enrichment demonstrations happening at exhibits throughout the park will help make the most of a zoo expedition.
The zoo's exhibits are surrounded by the picturesque Manhattan skyline and the trails of New York's most famous park. Just steps from Fifth Avenue, visitors can chill out with penguins and polar bears or warm up with tropical rainforest critters.


Twitch bots are here to help you with chat moderation and variety of customized commands that viewers can access. Think of Twitch bots as your robotic moderator- they perform many of the functions that a good moderator does, but in less time. They are not a replacement for a good mod, rather a tool to help you and your mods wage the endless battle against trolls.
In this tutorial, you'll implement a bot that moderates the chat for a channel on Twitch.tv. The bot will be able to connect to the Twitch IRC server, read the channel chat, search for unwanted messages and spam, and timeout or ban the user who sent the message.
I want to make a !permit command that will let the user post a link for 20 seconds and not get blocked. If they don't ask a mod to permit them, they will get timed out.
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64 But then that only makes it more tragic. Like, who eat's their friends?
65. I'm not sure, but I bet the Donner Party would have the answer... Or Hannibal Lecter.
67. Aw, but morbid conversations are so much fun. Such as the fact that vampires are just supernatural cannibals. Werewolves too, to an extent.
69. Wheat bread is yucky, my man. It's all about that Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Hearty White bread.
70. Late but Caprese salad is delicious, I approve.
74. I am not a fan of coffee.
75. I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
76. I was a fan of sand when I was a kid. Always fun playing in the sandbox, y'know? Of course, idk how I'd feel about it now.


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Q: Can't connect to localhost in React Native WebView I started up a simple http server (from here):
from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server

def app(environ, start_response):
    start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type','text/html')])
    yield b"
Goodbye, World!
"

server = make_server('127.0.0.1', 8080, app)
server.serve_forever()

Ran it using:
python3 simple_serve.py

Redirecting to http://127.0.0.1:8080/ displays "Goodbye, World!".
I then created a new React Native Project and changed index.android.js to:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import {
  AppRegistry,
  WebView,
} from 'react-native';

export default class WebTest extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <WebView
        source= {{ uri: "http://127.0.0.1:8080/" }}
      />
    );
  }
}

AppRegistry.registerComponent('WebTest', () => WebTest);

"Goodbye, World!" doesn't show up, and I get a warning that says:

Encountered an error loading page
  {"canGoForward"false,"code":-6,"canGoBack":false,"description":"net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED","loading":false,"title":"","url":"http://127.0.0.1:8080/","target":5}

For reference, changing http://127.0.0.1:8080/ to https://www.google.com works.

A: Use that IP 10.0.2.2  instead of 127.0.0.1

A: I had success doing :
adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000

My webview:
<WebView source={{uri: 'http://localhost:3000'}} ...

A: I'm using a mac and i found the proper ip address in the network settings:

A: I was able to connect to localhost by finding my computer's IP Address. Open cmd prompt and type this for mac:
ifconfig | grep inet

Windows:
ipconfig/ALL

mine was listed between inet & netmask exhttp://194.178.1.2:4242/ and as Webview uri worked fine

A: use it like that http://10.0.2.2://your port num this will work definetly

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UBTECH Education, a company dedicated to promoting STEM and computer science (STEM+C) education through interactive robotics, is partnering with The Center for Educational Innovation (CEI) to provide support to educators across New York City with professional development programming designed to facilitate the integration of the UKIT supplemental STEM curriculum into classrooms.
The two organizations will launch the partnership with 600 seventh-graders in New York City as part of CEI's Project BOOST, a multi-faceted school-based program for under-resourced, at-risk New York City public school students who have demonstrated academic talents but may not have the opportunity to develop them due to their economic circumstances.
UKITS encompass the NGSS 'three-dimensional' model, integrating scientific and engineering practices, disciplinary core ideas, and crosscutting concepts. Written by NGSS authors, the UKIT curriculum includes activities that cultivate 21st-century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, creativity, team-based work and use of technology. Because English language arts and math connections are part of the NGSS, the UKIT curriculum also integrates those two subjects into its lessons, making it a useful supplement for ELA and math learning as well.
CEI educators will also play a lead role in delivering UBTECH Education's professional development offerings, designed to help teachers integrate robotics into STEM lesson plans and infuse the curriculum's Common Core–aligned cross-cutting concepts into literacy and math programs.


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Franco de Gemini - The Moovie Soundtrack Music
"Caro Franco, La tua esecuzione con l'armonica è, ancora una volta, degna del film e dell'idea musicale che l'accompagna. Grazie encora." - Ennio Morricone
"Dear Franco, the way you are playing the harmonica is, once more time, worthy of the movie and of the musical idea accompanying it. Thank you again." - Ennio Morricone
The mouth organ has often been courted by movies directors as an essential ingredient closely involved with movies. It sometime happens that the music has more intensity than the picture on the screen. Being a musician, I'll never complain about this situation.
The movie soundtrack has been celebrated last January in the honor of Franco De Gemini during the Midem Festival (international music publishers and records business convention) in Cannes, France.
Franco de Gemini is the example of an artist who has not got a wellknown name, even though millions of people around the world have come accross his work. Even many films-goers are not aware of De Gemini's name. And yet, they have heard De Gemini's haunting harmonica playing in the most dramatic moments of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, Once Upon In The West. The score was written by an other italian, Ennio Morricone, who have received a Career Oscar at the Academy Awards Ceremony in February.
De Gemini who, like his friend Morricone, is a couple ot years short of his 80th birthday, has played on over 800 soundtracks which means more than 8600 hours of recording sessions, and for this, he surely deserves to have his name in the Guiness Book of Records.
In order to celebrate the label 40th birthday, he has published a book* entitled : From Beat to Beat /Memoirs Of The Man Of The Harmonica, 40 Years of Music and Cinema as Experienced by Franco De Gemini. The book is accompanied by a 77 minutes compilation CD : Dream Of Music (with harmonica themes but not only), and is written at the same time in Italian and English. This enables De Gemini, who is a born raconteur, to share with the reader,some of his more entertaining musical memories.
You may order this book at :
http://www.beatrecords.it
Composers, producers, movies stars, Franco has been moving in the very best of the movie system for more than a half century : Joe d'Amato, Visconti, Vittorio de Sica, Sergio Leone, Ennio Morricone, Henri Mancini, Italo Zingarelli, Leonard Bernstein... Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Charles Bronson, and his double the french actor Lino Ventura, etc. As many celebrities, as many movies success : Once Upon in the West, A Fistful of Dollars, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, My Name is Trinity, Dead in Venezia, Manhattan, Bread, Love and Fantasy, Mission Cobra, The Battle of England, Holocauste, "The Ruffian, West Side Story recorded in 1985 in Roma, direction Leonard Bernstein, etc.
A CD "Franco De Gemini – The Man With The Harmonica has been recently produced in Germany (label "All Score Media", catalogue N° ASM 023). Including The Man of The Harmonica (2 versions) and many other unforgettable pieces. We discover successively a great player, a great director, a great producer... and sometime the three at the same time !
You may order this CD at :
http://www.allscore.de or
In a recent interview realised by Bayern 11 Radio (Germany), Franco De Gemini related the story of the record session of "The Man of the Harmonica" : " I had a very pleasant time with Ennio Morricone during the record session of The Man Of The Harmonica. When I arrived in the studio he had already recorded the base of the score. He told me : — Do you know the story of the film ? (Sergio Leone had already described me the story). You have just to play 3 notes ! — Is that so ? This is more difficult than a Mozart concerto ! Where is the score ? – There is no score, you have just 3 notes and you play as you feel it, with your harmonica ! I told him : — The actor has his hands tied in his back ! How can he move his hands for playing harmonica ? — That's where we have to follow the scenario, the harmonica jamed between his teeth, he has hardly the possibility to play more than 3 notes ! Well, I played 3 notes... everyone knows what happened next."
Franco de Gemini is always attentive to the harmonica life. He remains faithful to the "Club Harmonicisti Torinesi" spirit he founded during the fifties. I met him in several circumstances, as many opportunities to share a passion with a great musician and a so kind man. During the Midem Franco confided us : "I'll die first, then, I'll think about retiring"...
Franco de Gemini is not the only harmonica player to distinguish himself in movies soundtracks. We all have in memory a long list of harmonica players who won awards in this so thrilling speciality : Jerry Adler, may be the first to be admitted in the so exclusive Hollywood world, followed by is brother Larry who won an Oscar award in 1953 for "Geneviève", Tommy Morgan who has recorded soundtracks for more than 500 films, Toot's Thielemans, Pete Pedersen, Richard Hayman, Charlie Mc Coy, Eddy Gordon, Albert Raisner, William Galison, René Gary... And I beg your pardon if I am forgetting many other friends.
"Le Grisbi", "Le Riffifi", "The Man With The Harmonica", "La Manon des Sources", "Bagdad Cafe" and so many other timeless successes are engraved in the memory of the public. A very good reason for the directors to go on courting the mouth organ.
* Franco de Gemini has recorded his first soundtrack movie "Bread Love and Fantasy" in 1950.
Photos : Beat Records (painting portrait Sandro Symeoni).
Published February 23rd 2007


We had a very, very rough week this past week. I won't go into details, but just know it was not so much fun. Anyway... here is a peek at some good things in our week.
Cute boy taking pictures for his very late birthday invitations. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!!
HSU Football game!!! Go Cowboys!
First time jumping on the tramp with his big sister! He LOVED it! Can ya tell???
I love Disney movies! We watched a couple on Wednesday.
Our newest member of HSU CHEER... meet Bunny! Isn't she the cutest!!! So glad she came to practice!
Birthday boy helping make his 1st birthday cake!
Not to many pictures this week... like I said it was rough. Praying for a MUCH better week this week.


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What is the ruling of Sharia on registering an engineer at an engineering office to obtain more building permits than the number determined by the Jordanian Engineers Association? This is knowing that this engineer will receive a salary from this office without doing any actual work for it. What is the ruling of Sharia on this engineer`s end-of-service gratuity and certificate of expertise?
All perfect praise be to Allah the Lord of the Worlds. May Allah`s peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Mohammad and upon all his family and companions.
It isn`t permissible to rent or rent out an academic certificate for investment if the certificate owner doesn`t supervise the work at the engineering office and doesn`t adhere to the rules and regulations issued by the official bodies supervising the work of the engineering offices.
It is an obligation upon a Muslim to be true in word and deed since Almighty Allah says {What means}:" O ye who believe! Fear God and be with those who are true (in word and deed)." {At-Tawbah, 119}. This is in addition to taking the rules of engineering offices, which were drawn up to achieve common interest, into consideration. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "He who cheats us is none of us." {Muslim}.
Moreover, any mistake in the implementation of the engineering plans and projects renders the engineer liable before Allah and accountable to the laws.
Consequently, it isn`t permissible for the engineer who is falsely registered with an engineering office to claim a certificate of expertise or an end-of-service gratuity since these are granted to one who has done the actual work of the engineering office where he is registered. And Allah the Almighty knows best.


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Oh man, that video thumbnail in yesterday's post is seriously giving me the heebie jeebies. What a terrifying face! Faces! Clown faces!! What was I thinking?!
Each time I've come to my own blog in the last 24 hours I've freaked myself out. Well, almost. I self. There's no way I'm digging up an image for *this* post.
If you've seen the movie IT, you know why I find clowns scary. If you haven't seen that movie yet, NEVER SEE THAT MOVIE! Honestly, the scariness of IT has stayed with for more than 30 years. I'm not even going to find a trailer for it because, honestly, you never want to see it.
The movie IT was adapted from a Stephen King book of the same name published in the 80s. He references the town it was set in and a couple of original characters in one of his latests novels, Doctor Sleep - maybe closing the loop, or just reminding us of how the imprint of fear is still branded in our memories.
That Stephen King - man can he write a good read.
I read Doctor Sleep a few months ago, and it's the first Stephen King I've read since I was a teenager. King's never going to win a Man Booker Prize, but few are as skilled as he when it comes to crafting a novel that you can't put down.
Carrie, Cujo, Salam's Lot, The Stand, The Shining, Firestarter, Christine - I thought I was obssessed with the horror genre but really, looking back after reading Doctor Sleep, I think I was just in love with a damn good read. King writes so I always wanted more - he got me through each chapter making sure I was hungry for the next one. His pacing is just right and the scary ramps up and up - okay so maybe I was a winsy bit obssessed with the scare-factor as well.
The best one for me was Salam's Lot not least because I didn't read the book-blurb, so I had no idea what the story was about. It unfolded as I read without any of my expectations getting in the way - and scared the beejezus out of me. I consumed every horror he wrote in the late 70s, early 80s that I could get my hands on. They were all good; they were all scary.
Now I'm old, and crossing the road is scary enough, I don't need to read horror any more. I did enjoy reading Doctor Sleep but made sure the sun was high in the sky whenever I was made time to pick it up, because at night there's still a clown waiting for me to go into the bathroom.
Damn, I did it again. Looks like I'll be sleeping with the light on tonight.


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Estée Lauder adding Pink Trees to Pink Ribbons
October 7, 2013 southcapenetPress Releases
SOUTH AFRICA (September 2013) – Estée Lauder Companies South Africa is proud to announce its global 2013 Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness month and beyond. The 2013 theme, "Lets Defeat Breast Cancer, We Are Stronger Together" is a call to action that will serve to shift public focus from awareness to increased action, advancing us further towards eradicating breast cancer from our lives. This year, Estee Lauder Companies South Africa became a partner in the Pink Trees for Pauline initiative. The aim of Pink Trees for Pauline is to raise funds and awareness and to improve lives in cancer communities. During October 2013 Estée Lauder Companies South Africa will bring major awareness to the Pink trees for Pauline project.
The passion with which Estée Lauder Companies worldwide supports cancer research and funding is an inspiration to many. To date the Estee Lauder Companies BCA Campaign has raised more than $48 million to support global research, education and medical services.
Over the past two decades, The Estee Lauder Companies BCA Campaign, launched by the late Evelyn H Lauder co-creator of the pink ribbon and founder of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation has been a leading voice for breast cancer awareness around the world, sparking a global movement that has helped save millions of lives.
Estée Lauder Companies South Africa is proud partners of the Look Good.Feel Better. Over the years more than R3 million has been raised and distributed to organisations such as The Breast Health Foundation and Look Good. Feel Better. Now a number of cancer communities nationwide will benefit from funds raised by the Pink Trees for Pauline initiative supported by Estée Lauder Companies, South Africa. Pink Trees for Pauline is the first cancer fundraising and awareness initiative where a number of cancer organisations will benefit from the funds raised.
The highly sought-after and iconic brands of The Estée Lauder Companies South Africa are contributing to The 2013 BCA Campaign by selling Pink Ribbon products when you purchase Estee Lauder's Advanced Night Repair and Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion R10 & R40 will go towards BCA Campaign
In 2012 Carol-Ann van Jaarsveld, together with Adri van Nieuwenhuizen – a breast cancer survivor and Dr Pam Kerr, an Educational Psychologist – founded "Pink Trees for Pauline". Carol-Ann lost both her mother and grandmother to cancer. Not insignificantly, both of these women were named "Pauline". and that's the crux. Cancer is so prevalent in our society that it's not even a stretch of the imagination to say, that each of us knows, or is connected to, our own "Pauline".
Pink Trees for Pauline is a non- profit company that strives to promote quality of life during and after cancer. Pink Trees for Pauline challenges towns nationwide to take ownership of this first of its kind fundraising project and to make a difference in their cancer communities, ensuring quality of life and building a future. Committees in each of the partaking towns in South Africa and Namibia find sponsors for the signature pink material used by Pink Trees for Pauline to wrap tree trunks. The sponsored material is then sold to the public and businesses and whole towns are then literally wrapped in pink! Raised funds are utilised in the relevant towns to change cancer-affected lives for the better. The main event of this initiative takes place each year on the Friday closest to the 19th of October.
BEGINNING OCTOBER 2013, THE BCA CAMPAIGN WILL:
. Reach millions of people worldwide with its lifesaving message to shift public focus from awareness to increased action.
. Raise $5 million to support breast cancer research, education and medical services worldwide.
. Bring public awareness to the importance of early detection and breast health globally through educational brochures, social media and by distributing millions of Pink Ribbons at Estée Lauder and Clinique counters worldwide.
. Offer Pink Ribbon products to raise awareness and funds for research.
Estee Lauder's most important legacy was the "power of touch". Estée Lauder Companies South Africa most certainly will be touching many people's lives by throwing their weight behind Pink Trees for Pauline. Evelyn H Lauder believed that no one can defeat breast cancer alone – this spirit of unity is at the heart of this year's campaign.
One of Estee Lauder's favourite quotes was "Telephone, Telegraph, Tell-A-Woman," and it is most applicable in this instance. By shining the (pink) spotlight on The Pink Trees for Pauline initiative, via whichever medium or media, Estée Lauder Companies South Africa hopes to wrap South Africa in pink and create a softer world for many during and after cancer.
If you need more information regarding Pink Trees for Pauline contact Adri van Nieuwenhuizen on +27 82 460 6386 or email adri@pt4pauline.co.za. Visit facebook.com/PinkTreesForPauline for the newest information.
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Faculty Profile: Daniel Sayers
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Daniel Sayers Assoc Professor Department of Anthropology
CAS - Anthropology
Hamilton - 101
In the field and on research sabbatical till January 5, 2022
PhD, Historical Archaeology, College of William & Mary
MA, Anthropology, Western Michigan University
BA, Philosophy and Anthropology, Western Michigan University
Favorite Spot on Campus
Hamilton Building Benches
Book Currently Reading
Crossen, 1993, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography.
In over two decades working in the field of Historical Archaeology, Dr. Sayers has covered a wide range of people, places, and social issues in his research. Dr. Sayers builds from a Marx-indebted worldview in all of his research which, at heart, is always a critique of the alienation and fragmentation of humans in all aspects of the social and wider world along class, race, labor, species, gender, commodity-use, landspaces, and other salient fault lines. This holds true for his work on: the 1830-1860 transition to agrarian capitalism at the Shepard Farmstead in Battle Creek, Michigan; Black and Indigenous American resistance communities and society of the 1600-1863 Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia; the 1830-1863 Underground Railroad in the Midwest; Hobos and wandering workers of the 1880-1940 East Coast; the archaeology of the homeless and the home across the U.S.; and, human societal and economic abuse-ploitation of animal beings and species throughout U.S. history. Also, with no exceptions, Dr. Sayers has intentionally selected the aspects, peoples, and sites of the past that he thinks will help generate wider progressive political momentum and action. Dr. Sayers has published on issues within the profession surrounding praxis, developing actionable and transformative agendas, and, expanding upon while moving beyond common models of community engagement. Meanwhile, he has used various media (e.g., TV, newspapers, magazines, film, art, and podcasts) as tools to try to impact wider national and global consciousness and awareness about the centrality of alienation (in its many manifestations) in modern history as understood through the archaeological lens. Dr. Sayers is currently in the beginning stages of developing two archaeology and ethnographic research projects that build off of his already-established professional Animal Emancipation/Critical Animal Studies perspective and praxis
ANTH-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Humanimal Anthropology
ANTH-602 The Craft of Anthropology II
Society for Historical Archaeology
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Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Great Dismal Swamp Stakeholder Collaborative
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
In no particular order, my central interests as seen in my publications, research writings, and media appearances include: political economy theory; landscapes; alienation (as a historical-material phenomenon and process); the capitalist mode of production (and Black Capitalism--importantly, a la Marable); Diasporas and exile; marronage, Maroon communities, and the (so-called) Underground Railroad; labor and commodities; defiance and resistance; animal emancipation/rights and archaeology; Marxian-existentialist perspectives; community systems and structure; hobos, the Great Depression, and social transience; politics of archaeological resource stewardship; capitalist transformations/transitions; archaeological research modeling and some methods areas (e.g., excavation, survey, and certain modes of data recordation); home and homelessness; race/racism/racialization; the nature of the archaeological record; the archaeologist's experience; and, historical archaeology as social justice and world-transformational praxis.
My main American University research Projects since 2009 include:
The Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study (multiple archaeological sites focusing on 1600-1863 Black Maroon and Indigenous American resistance communities that thrived across the huge Great Dismal Swamp of NC and VA).
The Great Depression Undocumented Labor Project (Archaeological work at the Wye Trestle site in Delta, PA with focus on the undocumented hobo communities that was "settled" just past the edge of town in the 1890-1940 era)
I am currently developing two new projects at AU that will center on animal beings from species other than our own, and, our less-than-admirable treatment of those beings.
I have been doing archaeology as a professional for over 25 years now, and I excavated my first soils as an archaeology student some 30+ years ago. I have worked at ancient precontact sites and historical (post-1600) sites across the U.S., including sites in Idaho, Montana, Utah, Tennessee, Colorado, and in Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. My experiences as a participant in these many academic, Cultural Resource Management, and museum-based projects include various modes of archaeological survey, architectural and site recordation, all phases of excavation, laboratory analysis (with especial knowledge of ceramics and other artifact classes of the 1780-1940 era), archival and related documentary research, and public/community engagement in support of archaeological work and to the benefit those communities. So, I do not "just do theory", "just the digging", or "just the artifacts". Rather, I approach the work of this profession as a complex whole that must include theory, methods, and materials—-and thoughtful, effective social praxis and self-critique. I also know that money is required for doing archaeological work and to that end I have received over $275,000 in external grant support for my projects to date. As one who loves to feel the soils of this world in his hands, I still actively participate in excavations in my projects rather than solely direct them. I am also trained and published as a historian and as a creative writer (e.g., short-story fiction).
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
WMU Distinguished Anthropology Alumnus; William and Mary Disctinguished Doctoral Dissertation in Social Sciences; Keynote at Great Dismal Swamp NPS Network To Freedom Ceremony
*The Great Dismal Swamp collaboration effort is yielding good results:
https://www.dailypress.com/news/environment/dp-nw-swamp-mceachine-20210929-sbkbcnch3vcbljf6gqfiyyrxiu-story.html__;!!IaT_gp1N!jXRfNkOZL00s36716WGMiALARDIuYF-yGYXg9RRP0ekSHVWyIkepa4fsfF-13dYa$
**See our Great Dismal Swamp Landscape Study Facebook page---www.facebook.com/GDSLS
Films/Documentaries
Escape to the Great Dismal Swamp, Smithsonian Channel
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/escape-to-the-great-dismal-swamp/0/3456593
Recent Public Work
Sayers, Dan 2021, The Secret Society of the Great Dismal Swamp. TedEd short film
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_sayers_the_secret_society_of_the_great_dismal_swamp?language=en
Sayers, Daniel O. 2018, A Modest Firearms Proposal, The Doctor T.J Eckleburg Review
https://eckleburg.org/a-modest-firearms-proposal-by-daniel-o-sayers/
Sayers, Daniel O., 2017, Guest Columnist, "The Shepard House Has Alot to Teach Us".
www.battlecreekenquirer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/05/28/guest-column-shepard-house-has-lot-teach-us/339881001/
Sayers, Daniel O. (projected, 2022). The Archaeology of the Homeless and the Home. Archaeology of the American Experience, Michael S. Nassaney, series ed., University Press of Florida, Gainesville (under final external review)
Sayers, Daniel O. (2014). A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (Second, paperback edition, 2016).
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
Sayers, Daniel O. (2019). The Radical Antebellum Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia, USA: Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and the Power of Underdeveloped Landscapes. Revue d'histoire du XIXe siècle 58:125-146.
Sayers, Daniel O., and Justin Uehlein (2018). Animal Emancipation and Historical Archaeology: A Pairing Long Overdue. In, Critical Animal Studies: Towards Trans-species Social Justice, Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson, eds., pp.117-142, Rowman & Littlefield International, London, UK.
Daniel Owen Sayers, 2018, The Omphalos of Pritchard McCovey, Poor Yorick Journal http://pooryorickjournal.com/omphalos-pritchard-mccovey/
Grants and Sponsored Research
NEH "We the People Collaborative Grant; Canon/National Park Service/American Academy of Arts and Sciences Grant
"The Great Dismal Swamp was a Refuge for Escaped Slaves. A Congressman Wants to Revive its Forgotten History", The Virginian-Pilot.
https://www.pilotonline.com/government/nation/vp-nw-dismal-swamp-20201222-tzxbzguz4rat7piu2okbel2uou-story.html
Enslaved People on the Run: The Great Dismal Swamp. Constant Wonder, Brigham Young University Radio, Podcast interview.
https://www.byuradio.org/episode/97bf80aa-b7e9-497f-87f4-4f0849cca578/constant-wonder-enslaved-people-on-the-run
What on Earth?, Discovery Science Channel, Dismal Swamp Archaeology segment (original air date 10/22/2020
Expert Consultant Activities: Jamestown Rediscovery Museum Revamp: Content, Tour Info, and Exhibits—USFWS Archaeological Excavation and Architectural Survey Consulting—USFWS and NPS Great Dismal Swamp Public History Interpretation Pavilion: Info, Text, and Images—Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (National Mall, Washington DC): Exhibit development and content, facilitation of artifact loans
Examples of Courses I've Developed and Taught:
Grad: Craft of Anthropology--Foundations of Archaeology: Marxism, Material Culture, and Space--Archaeology, Alienation, and the Existential Condition
Grad/Undergrad: Great Depression Undocumented Laborer Project/Delta, PA Archaeological Field School (AU, co-taught)--Archaeology of the Homeless and the Home--Radical Archaeologies
Undergrad: Human Origins--Introduction to Archaeology--Early America: The Buried Past


More volunteers are needed. 'Your time is the most precious gift you have given those in need this holiday season', says DSWD OIC Emmanuel Leyco.
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) expressed its gratitude to volunteers who responded to its call for help to repack relief goods at the agency's National Resource Operations Center (NROC) in Chapel Road, Pasay City.
"We thank everyone who volunteered their time and energy to help us repack relief goods to be distributed to disaster victims. Your time is the most precious gift you have given those in need this holiday season," DSWD Officer-in-Charge (OIC) Emmanuel Leyco said as the year ended.
The relief goods will be distributed to internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Marawi City as well as to families affected by Tropical Depression Urduja (Kai-tak) and Severe Tropical Storm Vinta (Tembin).
The recent storms caused heavy flooding and landslides in the Visayas and Mindanao regions, displacing thousands.
"The DSWD has a mechanized production system which automates and streamlines the production of family food packs (FFPs), but since we need to continuously respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of families affected by the series of calamities that struck the country, we have to augment the production of our relief resources through manual repacking," Leyco said.
The number of volunteers who went to the warehouse to help in repacking activities averaged 600 people a day, according to Sophie Mendiola of the Production Management Division of NROC.
On December 26, the DSWD was able to produce 41,600 FFPs with the help of the volunteers.
The agency targets to produce 80,000 FFPs a day for its relief operations.
Nearly 22,000 families or about 107,000 people are still staying in 192 evacuation centers in regions MIMAROPA, IX, X, XI, XII, and ARMM due to Vinta, according to the latest report of the DSWD Disaster Response Assistance and Management Bureau (DReAMB).
So far, the agency and local government units (LGUs) have provided a total of P16,392,250 worth of assistance to affected families and individuals. Of the amount, P11,560,510.00 came from DSWD, while P4,831,740 came from LGUs.
The DSWD continues to coordinate with the local government units of the affected cities and municipalities to monitor the status of families who are still staying in the evacuation centers for the provision of relief assistance.
The DSWD is still calling for additional volunteers.
"We are still calling for volunteers to help us in our repacking activities. Right now, we are in need of night shift volunteers who will render their time within 8:00 pm to 8:00 am," Leyco said.
You can also sign up here if you or your organization wish to help in packing additional relief goods.
Agos, powered by eBayanihan is also crowdsourcing information about ways to to help the victims of the disasters.


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Aker Solutions hits record high order intake on Aker BP deals
16/12/2022, 10:38 am Updated: 16/12/2022, 12:12 pm
Aker Solutions has hit an all time high for quarterly order intakes after striking a string of deals with Aker BP.
It follows the latter's submission of plan for development and operation (PDO) for the field development projects Yggdrasil (formerly NOAKA), Valhall PWP-Fenris and Skarv Satellites in Norway.
It was confirmed on Friday that Aker BP, alongside partner Equinor, will be pushing ahead with the area, which includes Hugin A, Hugin B, Munin and Fulla.
The areas was formerly called NOAKA – North of Alvheim, Krafla, Askja, Fulla.
For Aker Solutions, these projects combined represent close to NOK 50 billion of order intake in the fourth quarter of 2022.
That makes it the company's highest ever quarterly order intake.
Taken together, the contracts are expected to generate about 50,000 work-years including ripple effects to subcontractors and others.
Kjetel Digre, chief executive of Aker Solutions, said: "This record-high order intake will ensure high activity-levels and predictability at all Aker Solutions' locations throughout Norway, as well as many of our international locations involved in these projects for years to come, in accordance with the authorities' temporary incentive program.
"It also demonstrates that we are delivering on our strategy and growth targets, and through these projects, we will have the opportunity to continue developing for a more sustainable future, investing in personnel, digitalization, yard facilities and project capabilities.
"These contracts combined is the largest value of contract awards in a single quarter in Aker Solutions history. It demonstrates our solid track-record, strong capabilities and our ability to deliver large and complex projects with solid project execution. It is also a testimony to the success of our well-proven alliance models.
"Through the alliance models, we ensure win-win solutions and the best possible collaboration and resource-utilization in the execution phase. In addition, there will be strong collaboration with deliveries from other key sub-suppliers, including Worley Rosenberg in Stavanger, Leirvik AS at Stord and AS Nymo in Arendal."
Aker Solutions' scope of work
Topsides and Jackets
Scope: Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) and offshore hook-up of the 28,000 tons Hugin A PdQ production platform (formerly called NOA PdQ, includes production, utility, wellbay and living quarters), and its 20,500 tons steel jacket substructure. The work will be executed in the Fixed Facilities Alliance consisting of Aker BP, Aker Solutions and Siemens Energy.
EPC and offshore hook-up of the 2,100 tons Hugin B (formerly Frøy) normally unmanned wellhead platform and its 4,700 tons jacket substructure.
Timelines: Fabrication of the Hugin A jacket will start in the third quarter of 2023 and fabrication of the Hugin A platform topside will start in the fourth quarter of 2023. Delivery of the jacket is scheduled for 2025 and the topsides in 2026.
Fabrication of the Hugin B wellhead platform is planned to start in the first half of 2024, with delivery of the jacket planned for 2025 and the topsides in 2026.
Fabrication: The Hugin A topside will be assembled at Aker Solutions' Stord yard. The platform will be the largest topside ever assembled at the Stord yard. In addition, there will be deliveries from Egersund, Verdal and Sandnessjøen, as well as subcontractor Leirvik AS at Stord.
The Hugin B wellhead platform and its jacked substructure will be fabricated at Aker Solutions' yard in Verdal.
Value: Aker Solutions will book an order intake of around NOK 22 billion related to these contracts in the fourth quarter 2022, in the Renewables and Field Development segment.
Scope: the complete subsea production system for the Yggdrasil field development (formerly called NOAKA), including 40 standardized vertical subsea trees, Vectus™ 6.0 based control system modules, topside control systems, nine off six-slot templates and manifolds, wellheads and associated tie-in systems. It will also include eight static umbilicals with a total length of about 90 kilometers. The work will be executed in the Subsea Alliance consisting of Aker BP, Aker Solutions and Subsea 7.
Fabrication: will mainly involve manufacturing in Norway and Brazil, with deliveries also from UK and Malaysia, as well as subcontracting of steel templates.
Timeline: manufacturing is planned to start in the first half in 2023 with final deliveries planned in 2028.
Value: Aker Solutions will book an order intake of close to NOK 7 billion related to this contract in the fourth quarter 2022, in the Subsea segment.
The subsea scope to be delivered for the Yggdrasil (formerly NOAKA) and Skarv field developments is likely to also lead to significant future subsea lifecycle service work for the company.
Valhall PWP – Fenris (formerly King Lear)
Scope: EPC and offshore hook-up of the 15,500 tons Valhall production- and wellhead platform (PWP) including its 9,500 tons steel jacket substructure as well as a 1,100 tons bridge.
The work will be executed in the proven alliance model with Aker BP and ABB Norway.
EPC and offshore hook-up of the 2,600 tons Fenris unmanned wellhead platform and its 2,900 tons steel jacket substructure.
Timelines: Engineering to start in December 2022. Fabrication of the Valhall PWP topside and its jacket are planned to start in the fourth quarter of 2023, with the delivery of the jacket in 2025 and the topsides in 2026.
Fabrication of the Fenris unmanned wellhead platform is planned to begin in the second quarter of 2023, with delivery of the jacket in 2024 and topsides in 2026.
Fabrication: The Valhall PWP platform will be assembled at Aker Solutions' Stord yard, with fabrication deliveries from Sandnessjøen and subcontractors Worley Rosenberg in Stavanger and AS Nymo in Arendal.
The Fenris unmanned wellhead platform, its jackets substructure, and the jacket substructure for Valhall PWP will be fabricated at Aker Solutions' Verdal yard.
Scope: manufacturing and delivery of three umbilicals with a total length of about 50 kilometers.
Fabrication: the umbilicals will be fabricated at Aker Solutions' manufacturing site in Moss, Norway.
The work will be executed in the proven alliance model with Aker BP and Subsea 7.
Value: Aker Solutions will book an order intake of around NOK 500 million in the fourth quarter 2022 related to this contract in the fourth quarter 2022, in the Subsea segment.
Scope: modification work of the existing Valhall field center to enable the tie-in of the Valhall PWP- and Fenris platforms to the existing facilities such as process, power and utilities. The work will be executed in the Modification Alliance consisting of Aker Solutions and Aker BP.
Timeline: Prefabrication work is planned to start up at Aker Solutions' yard in Egersund starting in the fourth quarter of 2023. This will be followed by a longer offshore phase including several Turnarounds in the coming years.
Value: Aker Solutions estimates the contract value at around NOK 2 billion and has already included this order intake in today's separately announced award of the extended frame agreement from Aker BP in the Electrification, Maintenance and Modifications (EMM) segment.
Skarv Satellite project
Subsea scope
Scope: the complete subsea production system for the Skarv Satellites project including 7 standardized vertical subsea trees, Vectus™ 6.0 based control system modules, topside control systems, three off four slot template and manifolds, one cluster manifold, wellheads and a large number of tie-in and connection systems. It will also include one dynamic and five static umbilicals with a total length of about 60 kilometers. The work will be executed in the Subsea Alliance consisting of Aker BP, Aker Solutions and Subsea 7.
Fabrication: will mainly involve manufacturing in Norway and Brazil, with deliveries also from UK and Malaysia and subcontracting of steel templates in Poland.
Timeline: Final deliveries planned during the first half of 2025.
Value: Aker Solutions will book an order intake of around NOK 3 billion in the fourth quarter 2022 related to this contract, in the Subsea segment.
The subsea scope to be delivered for the Yggdrasil (formerly NOAKA) and Skarv field developments is likely to lead to significant future subsea lifecycle service work for the company
Modification scope
Scope: modification work of the existing Skarv FPSO to enable the tie-back and integration of the Skarv Satellites project, to be connected to the existing infrastructure. Aker Solutions has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Aker BP to initiate engineering and procurement related to long-lead items for this topside modification scope, with the intention to convert to a full EPCI contract to be awarded during 2023. The scope will be executed in the Modification Alliance consisting of Aker Solutions and Aker BP.
Timeline: The initial interim phase is planned from December 2022 until the second quarter of 2023.
Value: Aker Solutions estimate the contract value at around NOK 100 million related to this interim phase and has already included this order intake in today's separately announced award of the extended frame agreement from Aker BP in the EMM segment. Further to this, Aker Solutions estimates that a contract award of the full EPCI scope could be worth around NOK 2 billion, which could potentially be awarded during mid-2023.


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Q: Dumping and restoring tables in PostgreSQL - ERROR: extra data after last expected column I am trying to dump and restore multiple tables from a database on one server, to a different database on another server. Both are running Postgres 9.4 on linux.
The command for the backup was:
$ pg_dump -t table1 -t table2 -t table3 -t table4 dbname > backup.sql

Restore command:
$ psql new_dbname --set ON_ERROR_STOP=1 < backup.sql

The restore would start, but then I get the following error:
ERROR: extra data after last expected column

Tables are created, but there is no data.
After a bit of searching the error normally seems to pop up when trying to import CSV or other text files, but this is obviously not the case here.
Just to add some confusion, the restore works perfectly if I split the backup into 2 separate SQL files. One of the tables is much larger, so I did that one on it's own and the other 3 into a single SQL file.
Further info:
From Daniel's suggestion I have taken a look at the line where the error is occurring. There are 2 rows where the data looks bad. The first row is completely missing data in 3 fields. The other row has one field where the data does not appear as it should (almost as if the data has partly been taken from a different field).
Going back to the original database, these problems are not there, the data is fine.
What could be causing this problem in the SQL file?

A: Turned out to be a minor corruption of the SQL backup file.
After re-running the entire process again, the restore worked fine with no errors.
You would think that Postgres would have in-built checking to ensure integrity of exported data!


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Tomo (Living in NYC)I am a single Japanese woman living in NYC. After ending the long-distance relationship with my former Japanese boyfriend, I went back to the dating scene for the first time in almost 10 years. Then I decided to try something that I had never done before– online dating with non-Japanese men. It was a completely different experience for me to date men from different racial and cultural backgrounds. They are typically good at complimenting ladies, carrying good conversations, keeping ladies entertained overall, and making them laugh by being funny. At the same time, it can be tough. What I say and do or what he says or does could be confusing, misleading, or even become a deal breaker. In my column, I will share my cross-cultural dating experiences from a Japanese woman's perspective, hoping that they should be helpful as tips for those who're seeking cross-cultural relationships (with a Japanese woman in particular).
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Dating & The City Episode 11
Personal Preference? Or Racism?-Part II
Dating and the City 10: Personal Preference? Or Racism and Sexism? -Part I
In the previous episode, I examined the reasons why TJM male members choose to get married to Japanese women specifically. In this episode, I will look into the reasons why TJM's Japanese female members would seek a relationship with a non-Japanese man, a Caucasian man in particular. Same as last time, I asked TJM's CEO, Naoko, and her explanation was what I had somewhat expected. "Many of the Japanese people still have an inferiority complex and yearning toward the westerners," she said. As a person who grew up in Japan and lived there until my late 20s, I know how deeply such a complex runs in our thinking and psychology.
It started when Commodore Mathew Perry from the United States showed up with a fleet of four large steamboats (the Japanese had never seen anything like that before) in Uraga, a small town in a suburb of the current Tokyo, in 1853. Firing blanks, Perry put pressure on the Shogunate Edo government and successfully had them agree to open its two ports, Shimoda and Hakodate, to supply fuel and water to American vessels that engaged in trading with China.
Through this encounter and many that followed, the Japanese came to realize that their country was economically and technologically very backward compared with the Western countries. They were eventually forced to sign unfair treaties, and they realized they were on the verge of becoming a vassal state to the west. The threat was very real as they witnessed China being defeated by Britain and its influence and control over China intensifying. The only way for Japan to survive and sustain its independence was to become stronger economically and militarily, learning from the west.
Thus, Japan's modern history was a story of striving to catch up with the west, achieve the status of 'first-class country' in the international community, and eventually emerge as a global power. But such ambition was shattered when the country was completely defeated in the Second World War, which made its inferiority complex even worse. Most of the major cities across Japan were bombed and destroyed during the war, people were poor living in a shack, and many starved to death. I cannot imagine how powerful and strong American military men who came to occupy and rule the country looked to the eyes of those Japanese during this post war era. Americans were neatly dressed, had abundant material wealth, and were the new rulers of the country. They were friendly, too. My mother told me that as a 6-year-old when the war ended, whenever she and other kids saw American military men in town, they would trail them because they generously gave chewing gum and chocolates to those kids. It followed that men with lighter skin, blue eyes and blond hair, and chiseled facial features became a symbol of privilege, as well as cultural and economic superiority.
Fast forward to 2023, Japanese people's mindset has remained largely unchanged even after the country quickly rebuilt itself and reached its economic peak in the 1980s. They would boast 'Japan as number one' for Japan's dominant status in the global economy. Nevertheless, if you visit Tokyo, you will spot billboard advertisements on the street with western figures. When you go to a bookstore and open a popular magazine, again, you'll find many western models in completely irrelevant contexts. If you turn on the TV, you will see many bi-racial Japanese featured as news anchors and TV personalities. It seems to me that these half-Japanese and half-westerners are 'what the Japanese hope to be and look like' and many Japanese aspire to identify with them. A favorable attitude toward western people and yearning for their appearance generally equates to a very positive view of white people at the outset; but it is based on this deep-seated inferiority complex cultivated in the course of Japan's modern history.
Another reason why many Japanese women would turn to white men for potential courtship may have to do with women's status in Japanese society. It's been over two decades since I left Japan, but I am not sure if women's overall socio-economic status in the country has ever improved since. I still encounter articles about Japanese women's plight, such as discrimination against them in college admissions or in a job search, widely tolerated harassment against them on a daily train commute, their financial hardships because so many are hired as temporary workers and easily let go when the economy sours. By reading such news, I even think that their situation could have deteriorated. Therefore, many have given up the fight against their unfair treatment in society and decide to get married to a successful man with a good income (and I don't blame them) to be a housewife who has a nice, stable life. Some women are open to inter-racial marriage, but that man is most likely to be white because of the reasons I have already discussed.
Did you know that many Japanese women would demand very impressive credentials from their future husband? Have you ever heard the word, 'san kho'? It means 'three highs,' — 'high height,' 'high education,' and 'high income.' These are the three credentials most desired in a husband and the word was coined over 20 years ago. I had hoped that by now this kind of women's dependency on men would have vanished with increased numbers of Japanese women becoming more independent, but I'm not too optimistic considering the current economic, political, and social stagnation and deterioration in Japan. Of course, women of all nationalities, not just Japanese, have historically considered a potential husband's earnings and economic stability to be a significant asset; and those who are disinclined to climb a career ladder and would prefer the life of a homemaker could always "marry up" to do so.
So, getting married to a foreign husband could be a way out for many Japanese women. It would open a window of opportunity for a woman to leave Japan and live abroad. Or she could also live as an
'outsider' as the wife of a white man if the couple decided to live in Japan. I am sure that makes these women feel liberated and empowered.
In summary, Japanese women might like to have a white husband because the Japanese tend to have a very positive bias about white people which originated in its modern history and which has been strengthened by images painted and spread by the media. Also, Japanese women might want to escape from their society's male dominated culture in which they don't have much chance to advance. They can achieve that goal with the help of a successful white husband. In addition, the country's overall positive bias toward white people would help boost Japanese women's self-esteem and confidence.
I am not a sociologist, and what I'm writing is not based on rigorous social research or interviews. I am sure there are many outliers who don't fit my hypothesis. But I believe my assumptions are largely not that off, either. What do you think of these observations? Is it fair to say a good number of TJM's Japanese female members could be, consciously or subconsciously, trying to use international marriage as a way to escape from their reality as a woman in Japan?
This got me thinking about 'objectification' of the opposite sex by both men and women. Men are commonly criticized for objectifying women. In reality, women objectify men, too (surprise!). Rather than fantasizing about men in a sexual sense, they are fantasizing about them in an economic sense. Maybe objectification is too strong a word, but they could be seeing marriage as a way to achieve their goals and meet their needs. So, in that sense, women are not as innocent as it has been believed, unfortunately but naturally.
So, gentlemen, you should be aware that even Japanese women whom you believe to be innocent, gentle, and nice, may have their own predetermined agenda. I am not criticizing them for that (their behavior is in many ways rational given their environment and situation), but I just thought you should be aware of their thought process and the environment that formed it. Maybe you could ask your date why she'd like to get married to a non-Japanese man in the first place? What's her motivation? These are very natural and legitimate questions, and it could lead to an interesting and good conversation, furthering mutual understanding. Same advice to Japanese women, too. They should learn more about American culture, how they are seen by American men, what's their motivation to get married to a Japanese, etc.
Just to be clear, I am not trying to overly complicate or be critical of cross-cultural relationships. But since I have seen many broken marriages among Japanese wives and their American husbands, it seems
to me that the goal of marriage should most importantly be its sustainability and mutual growth. To this end, couples should learn about each other's cultures and thought processes better, understand what they want from one another and why they want it. Only then is there a chance of the relationship succeeding. Do you think you can, or want to, live up to the idealized Hollywood image of white men? Would you be satisfied to be nothing more than the fulfillment of a woman's dream to get away from Japan and its limitations on her situation in society? Or wouldn't you rather establish a relationship based on honesty, trust, and mutual understanding?
(Written by Tomo)
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I haven't really finished initiating this site but I've got lots of content thats just waiting to be talked of.
Pixel Perfect, a very nice looking site and a variety of interesting takes on putting forth a gallery. Haven't seen many husband and wife sites though I haven't really been searching but this one's really nice. I've noticed the cool pulling the edges of pages implemented in their photo gallery which I've seen before but still nice to see again. It's a very vintage looking site with a hint of regalness with a lot of interesting ideas, I especially like that ink fade that randomly occurs.


The Brass Ensemble, led by conductor Zach Raffan, gave a fantastic performance at the Alliance Francaise 'Fete de la Musique' on Friday 19th June.
The full ensemble filled the room with sound and delighted audiences – thanks to one of our MFC parents who managed to record some of their performance and upload it to YouTube, which you can watch below or over on our Facebook page. Many of our talented young players got to perform their first ever solo during the piece 'Exit Blues', which can be a very daunting experience the first time and they all did a great job.
We look forward to seeing more from this fantastic ensemble. If you are interested in joining MFC's Brass Ensemble, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our office!


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The Strays in development as TV drama
November 28th, 2019 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: News,
See Pictures and Apogee Pictures have joined forces to adapt Emily Bitto's 2015 novel The Strays into a 6 x 1 hour drama series.
Beatrix Christian (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Hearts and Bones, Jindabyne) is lead writer of the series, with Killing Eve and Babyteeth director Shannon Murphy (pictured) attached to direct.
The co-production will be produced by Sonia Borella (Go! (aka Go Karts), Long Story Short) for See Pictures and Jo Monk (Hampstead, Kodachrome) for Apogee Pictures.
Inspired by the Heide Circle artists' enclave, The Strays explores what happens when a violent act in the past of a subversive group of artists is linked to the death of a young woman in the present. One of those involved must decide whether to expose a now influential member of the establishment, in order to prevent further tragedy.
Beatrix Christian said, "The Strays is an incendiary device beautifully disguised as a girl's memoir and it is absolutely current. It explores a frightening blind-spot in the worldview of people who are otherwise progressive."
Sonia Borella and Jo Monk said, "We're thrilled to be collaborating in adapting Emily Bitto's brilliant and timely novel. To be working with some of Australia's most formidable and exciting talent is a testament to the strength of the material. Set against the hedonistic art world of 1930s Sydney, and 1970s London during the rise of the feminist movement, the series is a searing psycho-sexual drama that brings into sharp focus some pressing questions about sex, power, complicity and blame."
Author Emily Bitto: "I'm absolutely delighted to have The Strays adapted for television and couldn't be more excited about the brilliant group of creatives who will be working on it!"
No broadcasters are attached as yet but Borella and Monk will be attending the upcoming Content London event to meet with potential partners.
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Girl killed in shooting after Pennsbury football game in Delaware County
Joe Mason Jo Ciavaglia
Tragedy took over the start of the high school football season in the Delaware Valley when a girl was killed when shots were fired Friday night at Academy Park High School following the Pennsbury opening night game against the Delaware County school.
A girl was shot and killed near the main gate of the Knights Park football field, authorities confirmed Saturday.
No players from either team were injured, and Pennsbury players were safely on their way back to Bucks County from the school in Sharon Hill shortly after the incident.
Pennsbury officials said coaches and parents were also uninjured when the gunfire erupted as people were exiting the game.
"Our coaches assisted at the scene administering first aid and directing our players to safety," an email from the district read late Friday night.
The email said the team was met by counselors and administrators upon their return to the Falls Township school. There they were reunited with their families.
A radio broadcast of the game from WBCB 1490 captured the rapid fire as it ended its show. After announcing the score of 42-0, there is a brief pause and then multiple gunshots can be heard.
Video of the resulting chaos on the field, provided by a viewer to 6abc, shows people running and others on the field laying down to take cover.
"This was a traumatic event for all involved and our counselors are available to provide assistance to our players," officials said.
Counseling will also be available Saturday morning for the team.
Delaware County authorities had not released information as of 5:30 p.m. despite reports of suspects in custody and that others had been suffered non-life threatening injuries. An email to the district attorney's office Saturday morning had not be returned as the investigation continues in the small town just southwest of Philadelphia. Sharon Hill is about 35 miles and a 50 minute ride from Pennsbury in Fairless Hills.
"The Delaware County DA'S office is conducting an active and ongoing investigation of this horrific and tragic incident. We will update the community when appropriate. For now we offer our condolences to the family of the child lost last night," said a statement released Saturday.
According to tweets by Jack McCaffery of the Delaware County Times, the shooting occurred at the conclusion of the game.
The Pennsbury football players raced to the stadium's press box before being told by officials to put their helmets on and run to their bus.
"With coaches screaming, 'Helmets on, helmets on, helmets on,' the Falcons sprinted toward their team bus," McCaffrey reported.
Falls Police Chief Nelson Whitney said that he was notified about the shooting Friday night as the incident was unfolding. He said all Pennsbury players were safely on the bus and no students were injured.
Pennsbury officials said the coaching staff and players "performed admirably in a difficult situation."
Pennsbury Falcons coach Dan McShane said Saturday he was instructed by the district not to speak to the media about what happened. But he did say that the Academy Park team and administration was "amazing" to deal with.
"Despite the outcome all the parties worked together," he said
The community expressed concern and an outpouring of support for the team, school and all involved as news spread of the tragedy.
"As the President of the Pennsbury Football Parents Club I would like to say that tonight's traumatic event that took place at our football game vs. Academy Park was truly like a scene in a movie," said Rachel Beighley in a Facebook post. "I'm still in shock."
She also thanked "parents who stayed with the players as they took cover behind the bleachers & thank you to the coaches for keeping them safe while we all worked together to find the safest path to get them to the buses," and said she was praying for the victims.
"Counting our blessings tonight that everyone from our team and fans all came home safely," said Beighley, who with her husband and a friend loaded up the team's locker room after the game when they left on the buses with none of their belongings to get to safety.
Police from various departments and agencies responded to the field, creating a perimeter around it as the investigation began.


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Our latest Universal 9.7-12.9" tablet POS stand comes with thoughtful anti-theft features. Besides the standard security lock & keys, you can also securely install the base on the desktop or use optional security cable to prevent the theft of the ipad with the whole stand in the public area. This stand is made of strong and stylish aluminum, so you can now work with your iPad Pro like an iMac computer or a workstation, kiosk display even a retail POS tablet stand. The aluminum enclosure securely grips 9.7"-12.9" tablets, adjusting to fit tablets such as iPad/Air and iPad Pro, Surface Pro etc. Users can turn the tablet to have a landscape or portrait display, move from side to side and tilt up or down creating a variety of easy to use angles for your iPad pro. The holder can also be easily rotate from register side to customer-side transactions view.