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1.41 matherr—modifiable math error handler

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     #include <math.h>
     int matherr(struct exception *<var>e</var>);

Description

matherr is called whenever a math library function generates an error.
You can replace matherr by your own subroutine to customize
error treatment.  The customized matherr must return 0 if
it fails to resolve the error, and non-zero if the error is resolved.

When matherr returns a nonzero value, no error message is printed
and the value of errno is not modified.  You can accomplish either
or both of these things in your own matherr using the information
passed in the structure *<var>e</var>.

This is the exception structure (defined in `math.h'):

     	struct exception {
     	        int type;
     	        char *name;
     	        double arg1, arg2, retval;
     		int err;
     	};

The members of the exception structure have the following meanings:

type
The type of mathematical error that occured; macros encoding error
types are also defined in `math.h'.

name
a pointer to a null-terminated string holding the
name of the math library function where the error occurred.

arg1, arg2
The arguments which caused the error.

retval
The error return value (what the calling function will return).

err
If set to be non-zero, this is the new value assigned to errno.

The error types defined in `math.h' represent possible mathematical
errors as follows:

DOMAIN
An argument was not in the domain of the function; e.g. log(-1.0).

SING
The requested calculation would result in a singularity; e.g. pow(0.0,-2.0)

OVERFLOW
A calculation would produce a result too large to represent; e.g.
exp(1000.0).

UNDERFLOW
A calculation would produce a result too small to represent; e.g.
exp(-1000.0).

TLOSS
Total loss of precision.  The result would have no significant digits;
e.g. sin(10e70).

PLOSS
Partial loss of precision.

Returns

The library definition for matherr returns 0 in all cases.

You can change the calling function's result from a customized matherr
by modifying e->retval, which propagates backs to the caller.

If matherr returns 0 (indicating that it was not able to resolve
the error) the caller sets errno to an appropriate value, and prints
an error message.

Portability

matherr is not ANSI C.

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Q: How to use SFINAE with nullary member function? I have a class template Bird with a Boolean template parameter can_fly. Depending on that value, I want to enable a member function with the signature void fly();.
This is my code:
#include <type_traits>

template<bool can_fly>
class Bird {
public:
    template<typename void_t = typename std::enable_if<can_fly>::type>
    void_t fly() { /* ... */ }
};

int main() {
    Bird<true> flyingBird;
    flyingBird.fly();
    Bird<false> flightlessBird;

    return 0;
}

This code compiles fine in Visual Studio 2015, but GCC complains that there is "no type named 'type' in 'struct std::enable_if'" in the third line of main.
I thought the fact that there is no ::type in the false case was the entire point of SFINAE. Can somebody explain to me what I did wrong and what the correct approach is?

A: As mentioned in this answer:

enable_if works because the substitution of a template argument resulted in an error, and so that substitution is dropped from the overload resolution set and only other viable overloads are considered by the compiler.

In your case there is no substitution because can_fly is known at the moment of instantiation. You can create a dummy default bool template parameter to make SFINAE work properly:
template<bool can_fly>
class Bird {
public:
    template<bool X = can_fly, typename = typename std::enable_if<X>::type>
    void fly() { /* ... */ }
};

wandbox example

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Духовная грамота (духовная, духовная память, завещание, изустная запись, изустная память) — юридический документ, грамота, имевшая употребление на Руси и в России с XIII по XVIII век, в которой содержались распоряжения и указания родственникам и близким человека на случай его смерти.

История и описание документа
Духовная грамота, как правило, составлялась в форме молитвенного напутствия родным с мыслью о их ответном молитвенном памятовании о составителе после его кончины, что, впрочем, не мешало включать в неё пожелания прагматического характера, которые полностью совпадали по значению с соответствующими пунктами современного завещания (князья и владетельные лица передавали по духовной принадлежавшие им сёла, земли, имущество и т. д.). Духовная начиналась словами: Во имя Отца и Сына, и Святого Духа… Се аз, раб Божий (имя и титул) пишу сию грамоту….

Заканчивалась грамота словами: У сей духовной сидел отец духовный…. А на то послухи (перечислялись имена свидетелей). А духовную писал (имя дьяка). Присутствие духовника завещателя при составлении грамоты было обусловлено не только особым доверием к нему готовящегося к смерти человека, но и тем, что составление Духовной входило в комплекс приготовлений по русской православной традиции к переходу в мир иной и подготовки к вечной жизни. В этот акт входило не только формулирование последних распоряжений, но и искреннее исповедание грехов своему духовнику. В духовной великого князя Дмитрия Ивановича упоминается преподобный Сергий Радонежский, который выступал в грамоте в качестве духовника князя.

Духовные грамоты составляли на Руси все: от правителей государства и духовных владык, до деловых людей и простых мирян. Светские властители включали в содержание грамоты несколько пунктов:
 изложение духовного кредо;
 назначение преемника;
 указание по распоряжению владеемой территорией;
 указание на передачу полномочий и на действия по незаконченным политическим акциям;
 изложение своего политического волеизъявления как наставление преемникам и потомкам.

Духовные лица высшей иерархии включали в свои грамоты:
 исповедь собственных грехов;
 духовные наставления пастве;
 препоручение своей паствы и всей церкви (в случае митрополичьей грамоты) Богу.

Как правило, частные лица вносили в духовную распоряжения только имущественного характера:
 распределение имущества между наследниками;
 пожертвования церквам и монастырям на помин души;
 вольные для холопов;
 распоряжения о выполнении долговых обязательств.
Духовную писал либо сам завещатель своей рукой, либо лицо, которое было выбрано для этой процедуры завещателем. Духовную 1389 года великого князя Дмитрия Донского писал некий Внук, видимо, человек из княжеской администрации. Документ скреплялся печатью. Грамоты владетельных лиц (князей, царей и иерархов) составлялись их дьяками и скреплялись официальными печатями (государственными или церковными).

При составлении духовной присутствовали свидетели, которые расписывались на обратной стороне завещательного документа. Духовная могла составляться как на одре смертельной болезни, так и заранее. Так, например, во время монголо-татарского ига князья составляли её при отъезде в Золотую Орду.

Порядок назначения лица, которое могло быть свидетелем и душеприказчиком по смерти составлявшего духовную, со временем стал регулироваться. По указу царя Ивана Грозного от 2 января 1557 года не признавался действительным документ, в котором душеприказчиком был назначен муж умершей. По указу 14 марта 1561 года разрешал признавать действительным грамоты, в которых не было подписи завещателя и его печати, но были подписи свидетелей.

В начале XVII века наряду с духовной грамотой стали употребляться духовные памяти, которые постепенно вытеснили документы предыдущего типа.

К началу XVIII века, в соответствии с духом секуляризации русского общества, меняется форма и содержание духовных грамот и памятей. Стали исчезать формулировки духовного (религиозного) содержания, в целом документ приобретал вид сугубо делового качества, что отразилось и в названии: появившееся в начале XVIII века название духовный завет постепенно трансформировалось в завещание.

Типы документа
По содержанию и по корреспонденту духовные грамоты разделяются по следующим типам:
 Грамоты великих князей
 Грамоты удельных князей
 Грамоты царей
 Грамоты митрополитов русских
 Грамоты других церковных иерархов (архиепископов и епископов)
 Грамоты простых людей

Примечания

Источники и литература
 Законодательные акты Русского государства второй пол. XVI в.—первой пол. XVII в.: Комментарии. Л., 1987.
 Лихачёв Н. П. Сборник актов, собранных в архивах и библиотеках. СПб., 1895. Вып. 1.
 Беляев П. И. Первичные формы завещательного распоряжения и назначения душеприказчиков в древнем русском праве // Журнал Министерства юстиции. 1901. № 6.

См. также
 Законодательные акты

Ссылки
 Духовные грамоты великих князей московских XIV—XVI веков
 Вторая духовная грамота Ивана Калиты, 1328 года
 Духовная грамота Дмитрия Донского

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Источники права в Русском государстве
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Mimosa Mall's prime and central location at the hub of major public amenities such as the University of the Free State, Medi-Clinic Hospital, major schools, sport facilities and a interlink to Southern Sun Hotel allow for ease of accessibility and convenience to various feeder audiences. The centre's compact and warm atmosphere and food court layout, along with friendly services lend to creating a relaxed yet vibrant shopping environment to loyal upper income residential neighbourhoods.


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Does the Colour Your Team Wears Impact your Performance? (World Cup 2018)
Two statements were made in the office after a few games had been played in the 2018 World Cup: "There's a lot of (red team) vs (white team) matches in this World Cup" and "White is the easiest colour to spot on a football pitch, so those teams do well." I thought these two statements required some further investigation so went about putting together some statistics to analyse them.
Red vs. White
The first statement is relatively simple to evaluate with two questions: are there, comparably, a lot of teams who play in red or white; and have there been a disproportional number of matches played between sides where one was wearing red and the other white?
TalkSport have a handy rundown of each of the 32 teams home and away strips. Using the main colour from each team's home and away jerseys for comparison, assuming the shirts are the thing which would be most obvious to players during a game rather than shorts or socks, gives us a list of 6 different colours1: red, blue, green, white, black and yellow. As there are 32 teams, and each has two strips, there are 64 strips in question. Two are black, five yellow, seven blue and seven green. There is then a big gap to the top two, red and white. White is the most popular colour with a staggering 78% of teams in the World Cup having one white strip (that's 25 teams, 39% of all strips we will see), with red coming second with 18 teams, 56% of competing teams, 28% of all strips, having a red variation.
Looking at the contest as a whole there are 16 teams which play in either red or white, while looking at the groups specifically there is one group where every match was red vs. white. Group B, Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Iran, contains only teams which have one red and one white strip. Incidentally Iran is the only team in that group which has white as their home strip and red as their away. The others all play in red at home and white away.
Given these statistics it would comes as little surprise that there are a lot of games played where it is red vs. white. In total 19 matches, 40% of all played, were red vs white with a whopping 75% of matches in the group stages having one team wearing white and 54% of matches having a team playing in red. It seems to me fair to say there "there's a lot of (red team) vs (white team) matches in this World Cup."
Is White the Best Colour?
This statement is harder to assess. There are, of course, a whole load of different reasons for a team's performance and if it was easy to pin down those reasons you could argue that there's no point in the tournament taking place at all. There are also a number of ways of looking at the statistics. Depending on how you class "success" you get different outcomes. So with that in mind I've taken a look at the performance of both white and red teams through the group stags.
It comes as no surprise that on goals teams playing in red or white have scored more than teams playing in any other colour strips. Red teams have scored 36 goals and white teams have scored 39 goals. The nearest rival for goals scored is blue with 17 scored during the group stages. Interestingly, however, if you work out the average number of goals scored per game played, white and red teams are not doing so well with 1.08 and 1.38 respectively. Furthermore the number of games won doesn't break down the same way as goals scored either. While teams playing in white have won more games than teams playing in any other colour, teams playing in red are only two wins ahead of teams playing in blue, having won nine and seven a respectively.
If you plot the number of games won against the number of games played, teams playing in blue are statistically performing better than teams playing in all but one other colour winning 64% of the games they played in (bear in mind the blue/black comments on Croatia in note 1, below). While on number of games won white is in the lead, based on the same wins/games metric white teams, in fact, performed the worst of all the colours having won only 33% of their games.
Of the 16 teams who qualified for the knockout stages all but five have a white strip, but only Argentina, England and Spain played more than one of their group matches wearing white shirts. If you compare Argentina's performance with that of Russia, who also came second in their group but only played one match in white, Argentina did worse. They finished with 4 points to Russia's 6, and a -2 goal difference to Russia's +4. Compare Argentina's finishing position to Croatia's, who topped the same group but never played in white, and the difference is even worse: 4 points to 9 and -2 goal difference to +6. Equally Belgium, another team who never play in white, put in a performance which outshines Argentina's scoring 6 points with a +6 goal difference. Spain performed marginally better than Argentina, but still pail in comparison to Croatia and Belgium, scoring 5 points and +1 goal difference. England performed best of the three scoring 6 points with a +5 goal difference.
So which colour is performing best? Statistically it seems to be either teams playing in blue or black. Teams playing in black had the best win record beating their opponent in 67% of their games while blue teams won 3% fewer of the games they played. The average goals per match statistic show the same trend with black teams scoring an average of 2.00 goals per match compared to blue teams' 1.55. In fact teams playing in black were undefeated in the group stages with two wins and one draw. However there is a large flaw with this data used to reach this statistic — it's based on only two teams who have black strips and three games played wearing them.
There are other ways to cut the data from the first round (or other data which might be more telling such as passes or possession, for example), and I don't doubt that looking at it from another angle might lead to a different conclusion, but from this brief analysis I am pretty convinced that the statement "White is the easiest colour to spot on a football pitch, so those teams do well" is, in the group stages of this World Cup at least, fallacious. Indeed from the small sample being looked at here one might suggest there is an advantage to wearing a darker colour, black or blue for example, if there is in fact any benefit to be gained from the colour the team wears at all!
1 A couple of teams' shirt colours are open to interpretation. I have attempted to think about how the strip may appear in the midst of a game. I had the biggest problem categorising Croatia's two strips. For their home strip they wear a red and white chequered pattern, the away strip is dark blue and black checked. I have put them in the red and black categories in this case. I think people would more quickly identify the red than the white when looking at a red and white strip (although this is further complicated by the back of the home strip being all white). In contract the blue and black strip is very dark so from a distance would appear mostly black for the purpose of this exercise. Peru's strips are white with red stripe and red with white stripe, while Argentina's home strip is white with light blue stripes. In all of these cases I have used the base colour for the comparison as this is the major colour when viewing the shirts overall.
Posted on Friday 6th July, 2018 at 9:05 am in Obiter dicta.
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Last month, Mark Thompson, the new chief executive of the New York Times Co. and former director-general of the BBC, gave a short series of lectures in Oxford. In between jobs, he warned that words were losing their democratic heft. The lectures were little noticed because they largely did not touch on the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, which had just been revealed. Thompson denied all knowledge of the scandal, so no articles ‑ as far as I have seen ‑ were written.
Yet Thompson's remarks are crucial to our understanding of modern politics everywhere, and the journalism that reports on it. They were wholly concerned with the use of language, the bedrock of all media. They expressed a deep worry ‑ at times, a real pessimism ‑ about the health of the democratic debate because of the abuse of words.
Part of Thompson's theme was that much of the news put out by the media is, to many who watch or listen or read, unintelligible ‑ "might as well be in Sanskrit." That is especially the case of news that attempts to describe what is happening in the economy, a subject replete with acronyms, concepts and mysterious institutions.
Deeper than that, though, is another concern: that the rhetoric employed by politicians, commentators and other public figures is destructive of trust and of real engagement."The public language that most people actually hear and are influenced by," Thompson said, "is changing in ways that make it more effective as an instrument of political persuasion but less effective as a medium of explanation and deliberation" (his emphasis).
Thompson's lectures constitute an important pointer to the nature of the modern public sphere in the West, where intelligible and truthful speech is supposed to stimulate understanding. At the close of his eight-year tutelage of the broadcaster, Thompson chose to issue a veiled, but harshly pessimistic, warning that the changing nature and intent of public language is alienating men and women from politics and the public sphere. In doing so, he cast doubt on the ability of the media ‑ even of the BBC, which is charged to act in the public interest ‑ to stop a crucial civic rot. The creeping decadence of public language is threatening the mutual comprehension and ability to compromise in pursuit of agreement.
There was another backdrop to Thompson's lectures, beyond the Savile scandal. That was the imminent publication of the report by Justice Sir Brian Leveson on the behavior of the British tabloids, following the discovery of phone hacking at the News of the World. Leveson has since issued his report and has called for a statutory-backed regulatory system aimed at raising standards. The government has welcomed tougher regulation but doesn't want it to be legislated, citing worries about press freedom. The Labour opposition has no such fears, and cites the victims of hacking as justification for a statutory body, backed by state sanctions if regulation fails. The general secretary of Liberty, a leading civil liberties organization, says that Leveson's recommended system may be illegal. Article 19, a free-speech advocate, calls for its implementation. The debate will be long and fierce (and confusing).
My Reuters colleague Jack Shafer, in his column last week, argued that the fault lies above all with the British readers.
In spite of the sweeping dismissal of the taste and morals of my fellow Britons, I think Shafer has a point, one I took all the more after I had digested Thompson's lectures. If we do not think through the consequences of the purchase of illegally acquired stories; if we do not exert ourselves to seek to understand the nature of our society and politics; if we cap that by dismissing politics and politicians whom we have not taken the trouble to understand as "all the same … out for themselves," we may soon not deserve a free society, let alone a free press. Thomson's parting gift to Britain is a bitter one.
Hmm. Perhaps Mr Thompson's finely tuned rhetoric might carry more authority if his own use of words didn't seem to require constant "clarification".
John – you are all too ready to blame the press – and now the readers – and exonerate the powerful.
Thompson's parting gift to Britain is a BBC rocked by its worst crisis, an organisation choked by absurdly over remunerated managers and a lingering sense that someone is being economical with the actualite. Some legacy.


The nominations for the first annual Screen Critix awards have been announced, showcasing the very best independent features and short films reviewed by Screen Critix over the last twelve months.
Put on your designer dresses and smart tuxedos, for we have announced this year's nominations for the annual Screen Critix awards. We've had a busy year, reviewing short films and independent features from film makers across the globe and it's plain to see that the standard of low-to-no budget films has risen to some heady heights. Talented up-and-coming directors, writers, cinematographers and actors can be found in all walks of life, eager to get their chance on the big stage and show the world exactly what they can do, and we at Screen Critix champion them.
With the winners being announced in one week's time, here are the nominations.
Join us next week when we announce the winners of the above categories, along with announcing the winners for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Writing, Best Animation and last but not least, Best Documentary.
Good Luck to all nominated.


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Michael Joseph Savage (Tatong, Australia, 23 de marzo de 1872 - Wellington, 27 de marzo de 1940) fue un político neozelandés.

Ocupó el cargo de Primer ministro de Nueva Zelanda del 6 de diciembre de 1935 al 27 de marzo de 1940.

En 1907 emigró a Nueva Zelanda y nueve años después se afilió al Partido Laborista. En 1933, tras la muerte de Harry Holland, se convirtió en el líder del partido. Ganó las elecciones de 1935 y 1938, pero en 1940 tuvo que dejar el cargo en manos de Peter Fraser por una grave enfermedad. Lo más significativo de su mandato fue la creación en 1938 del sistema de Seguridad Social, imperante hasta el mandato de Jim Bolger. Además, Nueva Zelanda fue uno de los primeros países en declarar la guerra a la Alemania nazi en los comienzos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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Bibliografía

 The religion of evolution by M. J. Savage.

Políticos de Nueva Zelanda
Primeros ministros de Nueva Zelanda
Nacidos en Victoria (Australia)
Fallecidos en Wellington


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WATCHING LIVERPOOL LADIES FC
Posted by Keil Nelson on Jul 15, 2016
We were invited to go watch Liverpool Ladies FC v Reading Ladies FC and as we love to watch live sport we jumped at the opportunity to go and see a game. We have to admit this was the first time we have been to see a women's football match so we weren't sure what to expect!
Liverpool Ladies play at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes, which is also home to Everton Ladies. It's not too far from Liverpool itself and going to the stadium brought back memories of watching rugby league there!
Although the crowd wasn't huge, there were still plenty of people watching including lots of families and girls watching. This was good to see. The tickets for the ladies games are cheap, so compared the men's game much more affordable for a family.
Liverpool Ladies FC
Much like at Anfield the teams came out to You'll Never Walk Alone before kick off. We have to admit the quality of the game was much better than we thought. Liverpool Ladies looked the better of the two teams, they also have England International Alex Greenwood playing. They had both speed and skill but lacked the killer finishing instinct on a few occasions. That was until they scored twice in the first half.
At half-time there was some recognition of a local girl's football team, alongside a penalty shootout with some kids from the crowd. Nothing changed in the second half, with both teams beginning to look tired. Despite some substitutions the game finished 2-0 to Liverpool Ladies. It was announced over the tannoy you could wait and have photos with the players after the game. We didn't do this but it is a great opportunity for the youngsters to meet the players, it was lovely to see the ladies team much more accessible to fans than their male counterparts.
Overall we had a fun afternoon in Widnes and it's always great to watch live sport. You can see our snapchat story on our Facebook page here.
Have you watched ladies football before, or is it something you'd like to do? Comment below with your thoughts!


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I have never heard of this guy before but there are a lot of Chinese businessmen who are very very rich and seem to be playing poker just for the gambling buzz rather than the money.It must be quite difficult to play against that sort of player when you know that 100k means very little to them.
Is a good run, a good sequencie of results, but like klash23 said this guy dont play to win money they just play to win, and dont care with the money that they put or win, is a gambling thing for them, but win 2 times in a row is good, but not for all times, one time maybe is good, the lucky isnt all of his side all the time.
I think the tournament poker is the kind of poker in which you need a lot of luck and really big run of good cards to win it.
The mysterious, evasive, and unexplainable -- "Good run"
Yuguang Li's 24 hour winning-spree in Macau does sound like an awesome muay thai snuff film produced by Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. Of course I never ever heard any of these names (called out) in any live poker tourey, but I guess I have a small sample.


I love creating a unique event for a product launch, I also love cooking up a feast of local seasonal produce! So it was a lot of fun to organise a special event with Kate Field at Leap Farm to celebrate the launch of the new season Tongola cheese on the 14thof October.
Kate and Ian Field farm goat, beef and make the cheese on the property, the cheese is produced seasonally and ethically the baby goats spend time with their mums during milking season. The event was a ticketed long Table lunch in the paddock and farm tour. A light drizzle and wind in the morning did not deter us from setting the table in the paddock, although the fully seat table needed to be moved a few times and continued to re-set it due to the winds.
In addition to the produce from Leap Farm we sourced all the produce locally (of course) including beautiful veggies from Fields Farm. The furthest any food had travelled were some North West coast pink eye potatoes, as I could not let go of my dream of smothering freshly dug Pink-eyes in curdy and serving it with local salmon, no other potato would do- I am so Tasmanian. So this was a true paddock to plate in paddock experience.
The lunch was 10 dishes in total, a series of smaller serves of shared tasting platters with Tongola cheese being the star of each dish.
Amazing sourdough by Mike from fields farm and Burns olive oil.
Leap Farm goat Carpaccio, with radish and Curdy cheese.
Rannoch farm quail (from Nubeena) was served with a apple and curdy salad dressed with Tasman honey and mustard.
Scallops (from bass Straight and in season) were cooked in butter lemon and dill and served with capris.
Pink-eyes with Curdy and Tasmanian smoked salmon.
The mains were a spiced pumpkin and watercress salad, pork slow cooked in apple and pinot and Leap farm beef braised in tomato and bay leaf.
The dessert was a pipi cheese, quince paste and local honey served with Bream creek Schonburger.
The pork shoulders were supplied by Cape Bernier a neighbouring Bream Creek vineyard and farm and was slow cooked in Cape Bernier Pinot Noir and local apples, Jen and Andrew from Cape Bernier also attended the lunch to chat about their produce to the guests. The wines for the lunch were from local Bream Creek Vineyard, Fred has been producing wines from his Bream Creek Vineyard for years, this years he has picked up a swag of national and international awards and medals for his amazing wines. We had Sparkling, sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir with the Lunch.
The weather held out (just) for the lunch and we did get a little Blue sky but the feedback was excellent with one of Hobart's Busiest Foodies Arwen, who goes to everything, said "it was the meal of the year" potentially the Bream Creek wines talking at the end of the event, we will take it anyway.
This was the first time I had tried crickets, actually any insect, so I wanted to cook them simply so I could taste the actual cricket but also wanted lunch, so I turned it into a meal. I have read a lot about edible insects over the years but have never had the opportunity to try them. Rebel food Tasmania is in Tassie's north west have started farming them from their local farms food waste. Some claim they are the protein of the future and one website stated, and to be honest I am not 100 % sure how accurate it is, 30 grams of crickets = 20 grams of protein. You would need to eat about 100 grams of red meat for that amount of protein. Anyway, I can't eat food just for health it has to be flavoursome and enjoyable, I second ferment kombucha so it has a nice flavour and I eat kimchi and sauerkraut and veggies because they are delicious in my meals, not just for health benefits. I have likened the flavour to the crunchy delicious fin or tale of a flounder when pan fried.
If the thought of actually eating insects is a bit eekky to you, then you could whiz them up a little in a food processor before cooking and throw them in the pan to sauté with the pine nuts, you would still get the full flavour. Do give them a try if you see them, I will certainly be cooking them again!
Defrost your crickets. Heat a pan to a medium high heat and add the oil add the pine nuts and crickets and spice mix and a pinch of sea salt and cracked pepper. Tossing regular saute until the crickets are cooked and the pine nuts are golden brown. Serve immediately with the goats cheese and salad and add a drizzle of hazelnut oil and salt and pepper.
I love food, I love new products and can appreciate the efforts involved in the production! I am the current Chief Judge and committee member of the Hobart Fine Food awards. I lead up to 50 judges over the 4 day event judging 1300 products. I encourage all producers to enter to gain valuable feedback on their products. I will be recruiting new judges for the 2019 awards and stewards. Judges need to be qualified chefs or industry experts, anyone can train to be a judge starting out stewarding, Stewarding is a fun job! Please send me a email of your interest in volunteering at the 2019 awards and being involved in this exciting awards, it is Hobart so we must be dealing with the best produce in the world!!
I am also available for judging of other food awards large or small. I was involved in the first Koonya Garlic festival and judged the garlic at the first festival including creating the judging criteria. I have helped the Bream Creek Show Society modernise the cooking at hall of industries, by creating some categories that are popular for home cooks now, create the judging criteria so new entrants had a idea how the fabulous CWA judges judge, and help on the day with the stewarding.
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I asked Hudak about principle vs pragmatism in opposition compared to government, about how he would balance the deficit, the difference between Harper/McGuinty deficits and about the renegotiation of health transfers that is rapidly becoming visible on the horizon. I spoke to the Ontario PC leader after his remarks at the Manning Centre networking conference in Ottawa this weekend.
I like Warren Kinsella. One of the reasons I like him is because he went for my open question, brought in the other side to weigh in, and now this allows us to fill in the blanks too. Oh, and he introduced me to Bob Rae, the next leader of the Liberal party!
What other things are you hopeful for in the future?


Sand, C., Meiners, M., Daberkow, J., & Franke, J. (2016). Concept for a virtual process data linkage of assembly stations and a dynamic envelope curve for process monitoring. In Electric Drives Production Conference (EDPC), 2016 6th International.
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In November 2007, Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories, CSimSoft and Los Alamos Laboratory announced the release of ParaView 3.2.1 (stable). The ParaView 3.2 release is available for download from the ParaView website: http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html and through CVS, the tag is ParaView-3-2.
New animation view for viewing, creating and modifying animations, making ParaView more intuitive and easier to use.
The "Element Inspector" has been replaced by a brand new "Spreadsheet View" which makes it possible to view raw data produced by any source/filter.
Filters with multiple outputs and inputs are now supported; this has opened doors for several new filters such as glyph with custom source, stream tracer with custom point source, etc.
There are several improvements to charts including support for vector data in line charts (magnitude or component); support for labels; titles and legends; and custom chart axes end points.
Selection support has undergone a major overhaul. It is now possible to select cells (or points) on geometry surfaces or within a view frustum by simply dragging on the 3D view. The properties of the selection can be inspected/changed using the brand new "Selection Inspector" accessible through the "View" menu. The "Extract Selection" filter can be used to extract the selected cells or points. Labels can be used to label the selected cells or points.
Support for eXtensible Data model and Format (XDMF) files is back and improved to support composite datasets, quadratic elements and mixed topologies. It is now possible to change domain and grid selections as well.
We are working on making ParaView function with ease when working with composite data sets. As a part of the process histogram (and soon probe) filters now work with composite datasets. The python client can fetch composite datasets as well as perform operations such as min/max/sum on these dataset.
A new python module is introduced which makes dealing with proxies convenient. A separate document is available describing these python enhancements.
We are constantly trying to make the documentation better. The online help has been extended to include the new functionalities added since 3.0.


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Julian Barnes' The Man in the Red Coat: Celebrity Culture in the Belle Epoque (Julian Barnes)
Odile Heynders
Jonathan Cape, London
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In his latest novel, renowned British literary writer Julian Barnes creates a fascinating picture of gynaecologist and socialite Samuel Jean Pozzi (1846-1918). Barnes combines biography, art history and cultural analysis in a hybrid form of fact and fiction. In writing about the 'Beautiful Era' in France, an age and place of scandal, gossip and fake news, political corruption and violent language, Barnes mirrors today's Britain. The message of the book is that there is much real life in literature and, vice versa, much fiction in reality.
Barnes' 17th novel and celebrity culture
Many scholars today relate celebrity culture to the contemporary entertainment industry and capitalism, to power constructions and expressions of individuality (Marshall, 2014). Celebrity culture developed in mediatised global public spheres, and since the 2000s, also in mobile media cultures. Celebrities are mediated and famed individuals engaged in public forms of discourse related to the attention economy. The celebrity figure as such, however, emerged already in the nineteenth century, with a romantic literary figure like Lord Byron as its ultimate representative.
Julian Barnes' 17th novel revolves around Pozzi, a French doctor who was born in the provincial bourgeoisie and became a public figure and eminent surgeon in Paris. Pozzi transformed French gynaecology 'from a mere subdivision of general medicine into a discipline in its own right' (Barnes, 2019, p. 132). In 1890, he published a treatise on gynaecology of more than 1,100 pages with illustrations mostly based on his own drawings, which covered antiseptic procedures, anatomy, surgery and post-operative treatment. The treatise was translated in many languages and was soon recognised worldwide as a standard text.
Pozzi embodied different personas: he was a society doctor, a Don Juan, a Dreyfusard[1], the director of a Parisian hospital, a collector of books and art, a father of three, and a 'generally cultivated conversationalist' (Barnes, 2019, p. 6). He was unhappily married for thirty years but had had a partner in Emma Fischoff for decades. Pozzi was murdered in Paris in 1918 by one of his own patients, who shot him three times before committing suicide. The man, as Barnes suggests, was allegedly suffering from impotence, and although Pozzi had operated him, he had not been cured.
Medicine and art
The personal story of Pozzi's life is interwoven with the story of two of his friends: Prince Edmond de Polignac and Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac. The three of them visited London in June 1885, and that is the setting in which the novel begins. They spent a few days of 'intellectual and decorative shopping'; they went to the Handel Festival and were entertained for two days by famous author Henry James.
By putting the spotlight on three friends on a city trip, Barnes begins a detailed analysis of the activities, social norms and 'structure of feeling' (Williams, 1977) of the late 19th century. The author's interest in the public figure of Pozzi started when he saw a portrait of the man in 2015 in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The painting was made by John Singer Sargent and it presents Pozzi elegantly and theatrically in a long red coat. The painted figure is, as Barnes (2019) writes, 'virile, yet slender', as well as handsome and bearded, while 'gazing confidently over the left shoulder' (p. 3). The eyes of the viewer are attracted to the hands of Pozzi, whose 'fingers are the most expressive part of the portrait' (ibid.).
Barnes conjures up a glittering and scandalous society full of writers, artists, duellists, snobs and dandies.
Barnes narrates the story of three friends, and also the story of their paintings by famous artists: Pozzi's portraits painted by Bostonian painter Sargent (in 1881) and by Léon Bonnat (1910), Montesquiou's portraits by Giovanni Boldini (in 1897) and James McNeill Whistler (1891-2) and de Polignac's picture included in a group portrait by James Tissot (1868). Public figures in the ninteenth century often appear in paintings, and their fame is established through the creation of artworks. Art indeed 'outlasts individual whim, family pride, society's orthodoxy' (Barnes, 2019, p. 2).
But portrait photography was also an important up-and-coming genre in the last decades of the century, as is indicated by the many pictures that are printed in the margin of the text – most of them from the series of Félix Potin. Retailer Potin offered celebrity photographs 'the size and shape of a cigarette card' to his customers. The pictures were wrapped around chocolate bars. Between 1898 and 1922 three series were produced resulting in the Collection Félix Potin: 510 Célébrités Contemporaines (Emery, 2012, p. 63). People could archive the photographs in special albums. Pozzi, as Barnes (2019) describes, featured in the second series in two different poses both exuding 'dynamism and self-confidence' (p. 90). Photographs of celebrities were thus used as promotional items. The people of fame were, like today, royals and sportsmen (Italian cyclist Momo or English swimmer Billington), politicians, actresses, writers and popes. Their pictures functioned like the selfies we share in our time, meant to communicate with specific (micro-)publics.
The edition of the novel, by Jonathan Cape, is outstanding, a collector's item itself. Reproductions of the paintings in colour and the black and white Potin photographs have an impact on the reading of the text: images and words stimulate the imagination but also challenge ideas about the representation of eternal fame and power. The three men are celebrities in their time, but the paintings and photographs are celebrity and cult objects as well.
Gossip and fake news
Barnes conjures up a glittering and scandalous society full of writers, artists, duellists, snobs and dandies (Montesquiou, Oscar Wilde, Joris-Karl Huysmans and Jean Lorrain). The dandy was 'an Anglo-French phenomenon, criss-crossing the Channel throughout the nineteenth century. … Class was essential: you could hardly be a middle-class, let alone working class, dandy in England. In France, you were allowed to be a dandy in artistic, bohemian circles' (Barnes, 2019, p. 56). Pozzi was not a dandy, although as a society doctor he treated foreign royalty and famous actresses like Sarah Bernhardt. He had an unfaltering work ethic and worked for thirty-five years at the public hospital Lourcine-Pascal, serving as its director from 1883 onwards. He was committed to science and rationality and can be considered an innovator in women's medicine.
Barnes explains that 'the more he researched the period, the more unavoidable the parallels became'.
The Belle Epoque was a time of 'wealth for the wealthy, of social power for the aristocracy, of uncontrolled and intricate snobbery, of headlong colonial ambition, of artistic patronage, and of duels whose scale of violence often reflected personal irascibility more than offended honour' (p. 135). It was also 'an age of neurotic, even hysterical national anxiety, filled with political instability, crises and scandals' (p. 26). The press was 'violent in its language; libel laws slack, fake news prevalent; and killing never far away' (p. 28). There was blood-and-soil nativism, and nationwide eruption of anti-Semitism.
In a Guardian interview (26 October 2019), Barnes explains that 'the more he researched the period, the more unavoidable the parallels became'. Interestingly, in his satirical novel England, England (1998) he already described an isolated England, a marketable entertainment park on an island full of English stereotypes. The Man in the Red Coat is a more subtle critique on English recent political developments, celebrating a man who was 'rational, scientific progressive, international and constantly inquisitive' (Barnes, 2019, p. 266) and, as such, different from today's English political leaders in every respect.
Pozzi, in his time, was attacked in newspapers in an extremely unpleasant way. He was accused of being 'not really French' (he was of Italian descent), of not being Catholic (he was a Protestant turned atheist), of being a free-thinker and of examining 'with his bare hands the naked private part of good French catholic wives and daughters' (p. 215). Although Pozzi experienced slander and hate speech, his career continued and his fame expanded.
Fiction and reality
Apart from the fascinating biographical details and the observations on dandyism and celebrity processes, on duels and politics, on art and collecting, what makes this work of literature particularly intriguing, is that it constantly questions the mechanisms of writing fiction. On a first reading level, this is a biography of three public figures in a late nineteenth century aristocratic context; we read it as a documentary and focus on information on the lives, the personal stories and the anecdotical peculiarities. But the reader immediately becomes aware of the influence that the writer has on the story and on how we perceive it.
Already from the start, there are seven alternative openings to the novel: there are the French men arriving in London; there is the honeymoon of Oscar and Constance Wilde; there are a gun and a bullet – which will be fired in the final scene; there is an operation in Kentucky in which an ovarian cyst is removed; there is a man just married; there is the red coat better described as a dressing gown; and there is the observation that the man inside of the coat is not remembered at all, we only remember him because of the famous painting.
Finally, there is yet another beginning introducing the three shoppers in the summer of 1885 by name, as real historical figures. But one of them, Count de Montesquiou, a 'society figure, dandy, aesthete, connoisseur, quick wit and arbiter of fashion' (p. 9) has been portrayed in A Rébours, a novel by Karl-Joris Huymans, as the protagonist Duc Jean Floressas des Esseintes. The real count and the novel character are one, as is evidenced in the description of their pet: a live, gilded tortoise. The authenticity of this detail effectuates a meticulous play of fact and fiction, of documentary and imagination, of reportage and exploration. Barnes demonstrates that 'anyone can do anything in fiction' (p. 103).
Count de Montesquiou is not only linked with the literary character Des Esseintes, but also with Baron de Charlus in M. Proust's A la Recherche. The historical figure is modelled in fiction, but, as Barnes suggests, it is also the other way around. 'There are more uncertainties in non-fiction than in fiction' (p. 239). Further, as Barnes writes: 'part of the novelist's job is to turn a slight, even false rumour into a glitteringly certain reality; and it's often the case that the less you have, the easier it is to make something from it' (p. 39). The climax of this play with fact and fiction comes when Pozzi is shot by one of his own patients. Barnes uses his surprise to deconstruct the narrative: 'A Don Juan shot dead by a man who blamed him for not curing his impotence: what sort of a morality tale is that? In fiction, it would seem cutely smug. Non-fiction is where we have to allow things to happen – because they did – which are glib and implausible and moralistic' (p. 258).
What is the fate of the celebrity figure? Montesquiou made a success of being a dandy, of being talked about, even if he was not such a talented writer, and he ended up being a prominent literary character in two canonical novels. Pozzi, the 'most eminent surgeon in France' as the New York Herald Tribune described him, was forgotten, but reappears in this novel by one of the most notorious British writers. But Pozzi in The Man in the Red Coat does not turn into a literary character; rather, he is conceived as a real-life figure. 'I would put him forward', Barnes concludes, 'as a kind of hero'.
Julian Barnes (2019), The Man in the Red Coat, London: Jonathan Cape.
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P. David Marshall (2014), Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
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Majority of people in Wales think we would be better off inside the European Union, survey reveals
In a major new survey, 2,300 people in Wales were asked a range of Brexit-related questions
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Three-fifths of people in Wales think we would be better off economically in Europe – and a majority want to stick with the Single Market.
A new Brexit survey shows 59% of WalesOnline and Western Mail readers believe Britain will be better off economically inside Europe. As well as this, 62% said Britain should continue to be part of the single European market.
The figures show a split between those who voted Leave and those who voted Remain in the referendum. Among Leave voters, 8% think Britain is better off economically in Europe, while nearly a quarter of these voters (22%) think we should continue to be part of the Single Market.
Three-fifths of people in Wales think we would be better off economically in Europe (Image: Matthew Horwood)
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Remain voters are, unsurprisingly, much more likely to think continuing close ties with Europe are a good idea, with 90% saying Britain is better off economically inside Europe and 86% saying we should continue to be part of the Single Market.
Seven in ten of those surveyed on the site (69%) said they were not happy with the status of Brexit negotiations at the moment, with just one in six (16%) saying they were happy (the rest weren't sure).
Regardless of how those surveyed voted in the referendum, they were more likely to be unhappy than happy with the way negotiations are going.
Are you happy with the status of the Brexit negotiations at the moment?
Among those who said they voted Leave, 49% are unhappy with the status of negotiations compared to 31% who were happy. More than three-quarters of those who voted Remain (81%) said they were unhappy, compared to 6% who said they were happy.
However, most of those surveyed said they would still stick with how they voted – 88% of Leave voters and 93% of Remain voters. Leave voters were more likely to say they would not vote in the same way now, with one in 16 Leave voters saying they'd act differently (6%) compared to one in 23 Remain voters (4%).
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The survey also asked 8,200 readers of Johnson Press and Trinity Mirror sites in Northern Ireland about customs controls at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, with 67% saying they would not be acceptable.
Among Leave voters, 53% said customs controls would be acceptable, with 34% saying they would not be acceptable, while 85% of Remain voters said such controls would be unacceptable.
At a UK-level, the wider survey of almost 220,000 readers of Johnson Press, Newsquest and Trinity Mirror websites found 52% believe Britain would be better off economically inside Europe, and 56% said Britain should continue to be part of the single European market.
Welsh Ukip MEP Nathan Gill saw the strong support in Wales for staying in the customs union as evidence of the work of "project fear".
He said: "It's been relentless."
Mr Gill argued that the UK could not claim to have left the EU if it remained bound by the regulations that come with single market membership.
Do you think we should still be part of the single European Market?
He said: "We won the referendum. We had the debate and it was very clear from that that people wanted us to leave the EU.
"And the number one issue for the referendum [was] around immigration. Well, if we stay in the single market we will have no control whatsoever of our immigration...
"[We] know that there must be no membership of the single market and no customs union with the EU whatsoever. We want to be able to trade with the entire world and the Prime Minister and the Queen have hosted this summit of the Commonwealth leaders, and they've all agreed that we want to have trade deals, [but] if we stay in a customs union none of that is going to happen because [if] you're in a customs union you can't do your own trade deals...
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Sven Hugo Borg (July 26, 1896 - February 19, 1981) was a Swedish-American character actor.

Biography
Sven Hugo Borg was born in Vinslöv, Skåne län, Sweden.  Early in his career, Borg was a secretary with the Swedish Consulate in Los Angeles. While working at the consulate he met the actress Greta Garbo who had recently arrived in Hollywood. Garbo asked Borg to be her interpreter for an upcoming movie to which he readily agreed. He served as Garbo's interpreter from 1925 to 1929. After interpreting for Greta, Borg decided to pursue acting as a career. He had done some dramatic work on the Swedish stage. He continued to remain  with the consulate until the late 1930s.

Borg became much in demand during World War II Hollywood films, playing both Nazi officers and Scandinavian resistance fighters. Throughout his acting career, Borg was an actor who portrayed a wide range of many different characters, e.g. Sverre-King of Norway in The Crusades. Borg died in 1981 at the age of 84 in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

 Rose-Marie (1928) .... Hudson
 Let's Fall in Love (1933) .... Eric (uncredited)
 I'll Love You Always (1935) .... Hamlet (uncredited)
 The Crusades (1935) .... Sverre, the Norse King (as Sven-Hugo Borg)
 Barbary Coast (1935, ... a.k.a. Port of Wickedness (US: reissue title) .... Sailor (uncredited)
 Dangerous Waters (1936) .... Sailor (uncredited)
 The Country Doctor (1936) .... Logger (uncredited)
 A Son Comes Home (1936) .... Swedish Sailor (uncredited)
 Theodora Goes Wild (1936) .... Bartender (uncredited)
 Find the Witness (1937) .... Diver
 Espionage (1937) .... Masseuse (uncredited)
 Slave Ship (1937) .... Crew Member (uncredited)
 The Mysterious Pilot (1937, Serial) .... Lumberjack Smitht [Ch.11] (uncredited)
 Here's Flash Casey (1938) .... Blonde Student (uncredited)
 Romance of the Redwoods (1939) .... Boarder (uncredited)
 Espionage Agent (1939) .... Chauffeur (uncredited)
 The Man from Montreal (1939) .... Mountie (uncredited)
 Death Rides the Range (1939) .... Baron Strakoff
 Mystery Sea Raider (1940) .... Sven
 Captain Caution (1940) .... Sailor (uncredited)
 Little Nellie Kelly (1940) .... Immigrant at Citizenship Ceremony (uncredited)
 Comrade X (1940) .... Streetcar Passenger (uncredited)
 Road Show (1941) .... Brawler (uncredited)
 Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto (1941) .... Kurt F. Henck
 Man Hunt (1941) .... Ship's Mate (uncredited)
 The Son of Davy Crockett (1941, ... a.k.a. Blue Clay (UK)) .... Swede (uncredited)
 Night of January 16 (1941) .... Sailor (uncredited)
 Law of the Timber (1941) .... Olaf (as Sven-Hogo Borg)
 Dangerously They Live (1941) .... U-Boat Under Officer (uncredited)
 To Be or Not to Be (1942) .... German soldier (uncredited)
 Reap the Wild Wind (1942, ... a.k.a. Cecil B. DeMille's Reap the Wild Wind (US: complete title)) .... Blackie, 'Falcon' Crewman (uncredited)
 The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942, ... a.k.a. Unforgotten Crime (US: TV title)) .... Olaf
 They Raid By Night (1942) .... Dalberg
 Invisible Agent (1942) .... German Captain (uncredited)
 Desperate Journey (1942) .... Mechanic (uncredited)
 The Devil with Hitler (1942, Short, ... a.k.a. The Devil Checks Up (US: 16mm release title)) .... Gestapo Guard (uncredited)
 The Navy Comes Through (1942) .... U-Boat first officer (uncredited)
 Stand By All Networks (1942) .... Sailor (uncredited)
 Chetniks (1943, ... a.k.a. Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (US: poster title)... a.k.a. The Fighting Guerrillas (US: new title)) .... Nazi Officer (uncredited)
 Tarzan Triumphs (1943, ... a.k.a. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan Triumphs (US: complete title)) .... Heinz (uncredited)
 The Moon Is Down (1943) .... Sergeant (uncredited)
 Tonight We Raid Calais (1943) .... German Soldier (uncredited)
 They Came to Blow Up America (1943) .... Cmdr. Ullrich Hauser
 This Land Is Mine (1943) .... German Soldier (uncredited)
 Action in the North Atlantic (1943) .... Norwegian Seaman (uncredited)
 Above Suspicion (1943) .... German Guard (uncredited)
 Appointment in Berlin (1943) .... Stockholm Waiter (uncredited)
 First Comes Courage (1943) .... Captain Schmidt (uncredited)
 Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943, Serial) .... Jake (uncredited)
 The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943) .... Soldier (uncredited)
 I Dood It (1943, ... a.k.a. By Hook or by Crook (UK)) .... German Valet (uncredited)
 The Cross of Lorraine (1943) .... German guard (uncredited)
 Jack London (1943) .... Axel (uncredited)
 What a Woman! (1943, ... a.k.a. The Beautiful Cheat (UK)) .... Ricky (uncredited)
 None Shall Escape (1944) .... German Soldier (uncredited)
 Two-Man Submarine (1944) .... Nazi Officer (uncredited)
 Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) .... Swedish Colonist (uncredited)
 Address Unknown (1944) .... Angry German at Play (uncredited)
 The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) .... Dutch Guard (uncredited)
 U-Boat Prisoner (1944, ... a.k.a. Dangerous Mists (UK)) .... U-Boat Lt. Dorner (uncredited)
 Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944) .... Nazi Messenger (uncredited)
 My Buddy (1944) .... German Sniper (uncredited)
 Counter-Attack (1945, ... a.k.a. One Against Seven (UK) (US: working title)) .... German Lieutenant (uncredited)
 Nob Hill (1945) .... Swedish Sailor (uncredited)
 Pursuit to Algiers (1945, ... a.k.a. Sherlock Holmes in Pursuit to Algiers (US: series title)) .... Johansson (uncredited)
 Blondie's Lucky Day (1946) .... Jensen, Butler's Masseur (uncredited)
 Spook Busters (1946) .... Slip's Relative at Graduation (uncredited)
 The Farmer's Daughter (1947) .... Dr. Mattsen (uncredited)
 The Senator Was Indiscreet (1947, ... a.k.a. Mr. Ashton Was Indiscreet (UK)) .... Swedish Waiter (uncredited)
 Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) .... Mover (uncredited)
 Annie Was a Wonder (1949, Short, ... a.k.a. John Nesbitt's Passing Parade: Annie Was a Wonder (US: series title)) .... Gus (as Hugo-Sven Borg)
 Cargo to Capetown (1950) .... Captain (uncredited)
 The Reformer and the Redhead (1950) .... Finnish-American Speaker (uncredited)
 Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) .... Swede
 Santa Fe (1951) .... 'Swede' Swanstrom
 Reunion in Reno (1951) .... Swedish Waiter (uncredited)
 Mutiny (1952) .... Sailor in Saloon (uncredited)
 Captain Pirate (1952, ... a.k.a. Captain Blood, Fugitive (UK)) .... Swede
 Desirée (1954) .... Aide (uncredited)
 It's Always Fair Weather (1955) .... Svenson – Masseur (uncredited)
 The Gale Storm Show (1957, TV Series, ... a.k.a. "Oh! Susanna" – Swiss Miss).... Archer
 The Prize (1963) .... Oscar Lindblom, Dead Make-up Artist (uncredited) (final film role)

Other sources
 Borg, Sven-Hugo  The Only True Story of Greta Garbo's Private Life (Amalgamated Press, Ltd., London, England. 1933)
 Wollstein, Hans J. Strangers in Hollywood: the history of Scandinavian actors in American films from 1910 to World War II (Scarecrow Press. 1994)

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People from Hässleholm Municipality
Swedish emigrants to the United States
20th-century American male actors


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Humanities › Geography
Profile of Prince Henry the Navigator
Founder of a Navigational Institute at Sagres
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Key Figures & Milestones
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Portugal is a country that has no coast along the Mediterranean Sea, only the Atlantic Ocean, so the country's advances in worldwide exploration centuries ago may come as no surprise. That said, it was the passion and goals of one man that truly moved Portuguese exploration forward, the man known as Prince Henry the Navigator (1394–1460). Formally, he was Henrique, duque de Viseu, senhor da Covilhã.
Fast Facts: Prince Henry the Navigator
Known For: He founded an institute for explorers, and people from around the world visited to learn about the latest discoveries in geography and navigation technology.
Born: 1394 in Porto, Portugal
Parents: King John I of Portugal, Philippa of Lancaster, of England
Died: 1460 in Sagres, Portugal
Spouse: None
Although Prince Henry never sailed on any of his expeditions and rarely left Portugal, he became known as Prince Henry the Navigator because of his patronage of explorers, who increased the world's known geographic information through the sharing of knowledge and by sending expeditions to places previously uncharted.
Prince Henry was born in 1394 as the third son of King John I (King Joao I) of Portugal. At the age of 21, in 1415, Prince Henry commanded a military force that captured the Muslim outpost of Ceuta, located on the south side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the northern tip of the African continent and bordering Morocco. It became Portugal's first overseas territory.
On this expedition, the prince learned about gold routes and became fascinated with Africa.
The Institute at Sagres
Three years later, Prince Henry founded his navigational institute at Sagres on the southwestern-most point of Portugal, Cape Saint Vincent—a place ancient geographers referred to as the western edge of the earth. The institute, best described as a 15th-century research and development facility, included libraries, an astronomical observatory, shipbuilding facilities, a chapel, and housing for staff.
The institute was designed to teach navigational techniques to Portuguese sailors, to collect and disseminate geographical information about the world, to invent and improve navigational and seafaring equipment, and to sponsor expeditions.
Prince Henry's school brought together some of the leading geographers, cartographers, astronomers, and mathematicians from throughout Europe to work at the institute. When people returned from voyages, they brought back with them information about currents, winds—and could improve existing maps and seafaring equipment.
A new type of ship, called a caravel, was developed at Sagres. It was fast and was much more maneuverable than prior types of boats, and though they were small, they were quite functional. Two of Christopher Columbus' ships, the Nina and the Pinta, were caravels (the Santa Maria was a carrack).
Caravels were dispatched south along the western coast of Africa. Unfortunately, a major obstacle along the African route was Cape Bojador, southeast of the Canary Islands (located in Western Sahara). European sailors were afraid of the cape, for supposedly to its south lay monsters and insurmountable evils. It also hosted some challenging seas: tough waves, currents, shallows, and weather.
Expeditions: Goals and Reasons
Prince Henry's expeditionary goals were to increase navigational knowledge along the western coast of Africa and find a water route to Asia, to increase trade opportunities for Portugal, to find gold to provide the trips' own funding, to spread Christianity around the world, and defeat Muslims—and perhaps even to find Prester John, a legendary wealthy priest-king thought to reside somewhere in Africa or Asia.
The Mediterranean and other ancient East sea routes were controlled by the Ottoman Turks and Venetians, and the breakup of the Mongol Empire made some known land routes unsafe. Thus came the motivation to find new water routes heading East.
Exploring Africa
Prince Henry sent 15 expeditions to navigate south of the cape from 1424 to 1434, but each returned with its captain giving excuses and apologies for not having passed the dreaded Cape Bojador. Finally, in 1434 Prince Henry sent Captain Gil Eannes (who had previously attempted the Cape Bojador voyage) south; this time, Captain Eannes sailed to the west prior to reaching the cape and then headed eastward after passing the cape. Thus, none of his crew saw the dreadful cape, and it had been successfully passed, without catastrophe befalling the ship. This was the first European expedition to sail past this point and successfully return.
Following the successful navigation south of Cape Bojador, exploration of the African coast continued.
In 1441, Prince Henry's caravels reached Cap Blanc (the cape where Mauritania and Western Sahara meet). The expedition brought back natives as exhibits of interest to show the prince. One negotiated his and his son's release by promising to present people to enslave upon their safe return home. And so it began. The first 10 enslaved African people arrived in 1442. Then it was 30 in 1443. In 1444, Captain Eannes brought a boatload of 200 African people back to Portugal to be enslaved.
In 1446, Portuguese ships reached the mouth of the Gambia River. They were the first Europeans to sail that, too.
In 1460 Prince Henry the Navigator died, but work continued at Sagres under the direction of Henry's nephew, King John II of Portugal. The institute's expeditions continued to venture south, then rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed to the east and throughout Asia over the next few decades.
The European Age of Discovery and Its Aftereffects
The 100-year period from the mid-15th century to the mid-16th is called the European Age of Discovery or Age of Exploration, when Portugal, Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and France sent out voyages to previously unknown lands and claim their resources for their country. The cheapest labor to work on plantations for crops such as sugar, tobacco, or cotton were enslaved people, brought on a triangular trade route, one brutal leg of which was known as the middle passage. Countries that are former colonies still suffer the aftereffects today, especially in Africa, where there is poor or inconsistent infrastructure in many areas. Some of the countries just gained their independence in the 20th century.
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The book ends somewhat bluntly with an account of a 19-year-old girl getting hit by an SUV while crossing the street. Her body goes flying yards into the air. No amount of survival skills can prepare you for freak accidents. You can't outrun the reaper forever.
Regardless of your dietary habits, whether you're a pig or a human, you're going to die and there will be no more. Your effect on earth will conclude, and for 99.9999 percent of us, we will be forgotten within a generation.
I've spent 1,000 of my words attempting to get you to think about your own mortality — about the fact that you are not the exception to death — and for what purpose? I think that gaining this perspective helps us move to a place of unpacking the bigger questions. Centrally, What does happen to us after we die? Then, in light of this, how then shall we live?
If upon dying, you enter a nihilistic vacuum and cease to exist, your life has two options: Hedonism or suicide. It truly was meaningless and none of us deserve more than to be discarded on the side of the road and neglected eternally.


Bill Evans' debut as a leader found the 27-year-old pianist already sounding much different than the usual Bud Powell-influenced keyboardists of the time. Even in 1956 (more than a year before he joined the Miles Davis Sextet), Evans had his own chord voicings and a lyrical yet swinging style. Three selections here are taken solo (including the original version of his classic "Waltz for Debby"), while the other eight are performed in a trio with bassist Teddy Kotick and drummer Paul Motian (including his future theme "Five," "Speak Low" and "No Cover, No Minimum"). A strong start to a significant career.


A Charlotte man is recovering from his injuries after a ricocheting bullet struck him in the face at a Lancaster home on Thanksgiving Day.
A sheriff's deputy spoke with a nurse about the shooting shortly after it happened Nov. 22. The nurse, who works at Carolina's Medical Center in Waxhaw, N.C., said a 50-year-old Charlotte man came in with a gunshot wound to his face, according to a Lancaster County Sheriff's Office incident report.


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When users need solutions, companies need a team with a set of specialized skills in solutions like remote support software that works fast and effectively.
It's important to quickly pinpoint problems and evaluate their level.
Customer issues can run the gamut between an easy fix and a complex problem that requires getting out the manuals. Assess the level and get to the right resources without a lot of caller waiting, one of the biggest customer pet peeves.
Look for previous reports of an issue.
Support tickets are repetitive. You can speed up a process simply by looking for a particular issue, user or department. If the center is using the right helpdesk software, tickets will be appropriately organized and easy to locate.
Speaking of tickets and tracking, it's imperative that agents take notes, highlighting details of the situation, solution, if any, and if a third-party was involved (such as an experienced agent). This record will give future agents a reference when the issue reoccurs.
Many users would rather find their own answers.
A great deal of individual support could be curtailed if there were self-service options (step-by-step instructions, walk-through videos, company forums) that provide solutions beyond the common FAQ. Directing users to the right resources will save energy and time.
Have an understanding of user capacity.
A helpdesk professional has to be trained in not just remote support software, they need intuition for identifying a user's technical level. A simple fix for some could be a complex procedure for others.
All resolutions should be user-friendly.
The best answers are pre-created scenarios to ensure everyone's on the same page. Keep answers short and avoid getting technical. If a user is savvy, get to the meat and potatoes. The less experienced user may need spoon feeding.
A good solution isn't always enough, especially if the solution doesn't pan out.
Follow-up shouldn't be an arduous process where users wait hours on the phone or days for an email. A direct line for live tickets is a must. Use helpdesk software that assists in directing calls. It might also be a good policy for agents to reinforce support with a courtesy call to see if users are satisfied.
First point of contact should be a journeyman.
A user's first point of contact has to be an agent with the skill to manage all types of inquiries. If they can resolve an issue quickly, fine. These pros will assess the level of skill required and escalate the support ticket, sending the user to the right team member. This creates a work flow that keeps the assembly line moving and minimizes user wait time.
From evaluating skill levels to helpdesk software, the operation can improve its performance by adding these tips to its arsenal.


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Years at Beaver Camp: This is her first!
What a fantastic group of campers Beaver is lucky enough to have as this session's beloved Counselors in Training!