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Camil Mulleras y Garros (Olot, 1844 - Barcelona, 1909). Hijo de una familia de fabricantes y comerciantes, originaria del cortijo las Mulleras, de Sant Joan les Fonts, Camil Mulleras nació el 7 de mayo de 1844.

Empezó a trabajar a la edad de 13 años con una perseverancia e inteligencia tan grandes que hizo pronto fortuna propia, con la cual demostró asiduamente su filantropía.

Animado en las tareas caritativas por su esposa, el 1891 pagó una barandilla de hierro para el presbiterio de la iglesia de la Virgen María de Tura, y el año siguiente pagano también un enlosado de mármol para el citado presbiterio y, el 1895, el enlosado hidráulico del resto del santuario. Ayudó la clase obrera y varias instituciones de beneficencia, y murió en Barcelona el 22 de febrero de 1909.

En el testamento que había hecho dos meses antes de su traspaso, dejó establecida la fundación benéfica olotina "Premios Mulleras", que desde entonces y hasta el 1970 (en que se extinguieron las donaciones debido al valor depreciativo de los premios) supusieron la concesión de 1.200 pesetas anuales, repartidas en diez premios destinados a beneficiar alumnos de las escuelas municipales, aprendices de artes y oficios, alumnos de la Escuela de Bellas artes, los obreros que tuvieran a su cargo familiares viejos o incapacitados, y aquellas personas que pusieran su vida en peligro para salvar la del prójimo.

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The key to bigger quantum computers could be to build them like Legos
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A startup called Quantum Circuits is networking mini quantum devices together to create computers it will claims will be easier to scale up than rival machines.
Visit any startup or university lab where quantum computers are being built, and it's like entering a time warp to the 1960s—the heyday of mainframe computing, when small armies of technicians ministered to machines that could fill entire rooms.
All manner of equipment, from super-accurate lasers to supercooled refrigerators, is needed to harness the exotic forces of quantum mechanics for the task of processing data. Cables connecting various bits of gear form multicolored spaghetti that spills over floors and runs across ceilings. Physicists and engineers swarm around banks of screens, constantly monitoring and tweaking the performance of the computers.
Mainframes ushered in the information revolution, and the hope is that quantum computers will prove game-changers too. Their immense processing power promises to outstrip that of even the most capable conventional supercomputers, potentially delivering advances in everything from drug discovery to materials science and artificial intelligence.
The big challenge facing the nascent industry is to create machines that can be scaled up both reliably and relatively cheaply. Generating and managing the quantum bits, or qubits, that carry information in the computers is hard. Even the tiniest vibrations or changes in temperature—phenomena known as "noise" in quantum jargon—can cause qubits to lose their fragile quantum state. And when that happens, errors creep into calculations.
The most common response has been to create quantum computers with as many qubits as possible on a single chip. If some qubits misfire, others holding copies of the information can be called upon as backups by algorithms developed to detect and minimize errors. The strategy, which has been championed by large companies such as IBM and Google, as well as by high-profile startups like Rigetti Computing, has spawned complex machines evocative of those room-sized mainframes.
The problem is, the error rates are extreme. Today's largest chips have fewer than a hundred qubits, but thousands or even tens of thousands may be needed to produce the same result as a single error-free qubit. Each qubit needs its own control wiring, so the more that are added, the more complex a system becomes to manage. More gear will also be needed to monitor and manage rapidly expanding qubit counts. That could drive up the complexity and cost of the computers dramatically, limiting their appeal.
Robert Schoelkopf, a professor at Yale, thinks there's a better way forward. Instead of trying to cram ever more qubits onto a single chip, Quantum Circuits, a startup he cofounded in 2017, is developing what amount to mini quantum machines. These can be networked together via specialized interfaces, a bit like very high-tech Lego bricks. Schoelkopf says this approach helps produce lower error rates, so fewer qubits—and therefore less supporting hardware—will be needed to create powerful quantum machines.
Skeptics point out that unlike rivals such as IBM, Quantum Circuits has yet to publicly unveil a working computer. But if it can deliver one that lives up to Schoelkopf's claims, it could help bring quantum computing out of labs and into the commercial world much faster.
The drive to create longer-lasting qubits
The idea of bolting together smaller quantum building blocks to create bigger computers has been around for years, but it's never quite caught on. "There's not been a great, fault-tolerant machine that's been built yet using the modular approach," explains Jerry Chow, who manages the experimental quantum computing team at IBM Research. Still, adds Chow, if anyone can pull it off it will be Schoelkopf and his colleagues.
After training as an engineer and a physicist, including stints at NASA and Caltech, Schoelkopf joined Yale's faculty in 1998 and began to work on quantum computing. He and his colleagues pioneered the use of superconducting circuits on a chip to create qubits. By pumping electrical current through specialized microchips held inside fridges that are colder than deep space, they are able to coax particles into the quantum states that are key to the computers' immense power.
Unlike bits in ordinary computers, which are streams of electrical or optical pulses representing either a 1 or a 0, qubits are subatomic particles such as photons or electrons that can be in a kind of combination of both 1 and 0—a phenomenon known as "superposition." Qubits can also become entangled with one another, which means that a change in the state of one can instantaneously change the state of others even when there's no physical connection between them.
There's more background on this in our quantum computing explainer. The main thing to know, though, is that this allows qubits to act as if they are performing many calculations simultaneously that an ordinary computer would have to perform sequentially. Which means that adding additional qubits to a quantum machine boosts its processing capacity exponentially.
Schoelkopf has also won plaudits for his work on the problem of noise. The coherence times of qubits—that is, how long they can run calculations before noise disrupts their delicate quantum state—have been improving by a factor of 10 roughly every three years. (Researchers have dubbed this trend "Schoelkopf's Law" in a nod to classical computing's "Moore's Law," which holds that the number of transistors on a silicon chip doubles roughly every two years.) Brendan Dickinson of Canaan Partners, one of Quantum Circuits' investors, says Schoelkopf's impressive track record in superconducting qubits is one of the main reasons it decided to back the business, which has raised $18 million so far.
Ironically, some of the students mentored by Schoelkopf and his cofounders from Yale, Michel Devoret and Luigi Frunzio, are now at companies like IBM and Rigetti that compete with their startup. Schoelkopf is clearly proud of the quantum diaspora that's come out of the Yale lab. He told me that a few years ago he had looked at all the organizations around the world working on superconducting qubits and found that more than half of them were run by people who had spent time there. But he also believes a kind of groupthink has set in.
The advantages of modular machines
Most researchers working on superconducting machines focus on creating as many qubits as possible on a single chip. Quantum Circuits' approach is very different from that standard. The core of its system is a small aluminum module containing superconducting circuits that are made on silicon or sapphire chips. Each module contains what amounts to five to 10 qubits.
To network these modules together into larger computers, the company uses what sounds like something out of Star Trek—quantum teleportation. It's a method that's been developed for shipping data across things like telecom networks. The basic idea involves entangling a microwave photon in one module with a photon in another one and then using the link between them as a bridge for transferring data. (We've got a quantum teleportation explainer too.) Quantum Circuits has used this approach to teleport a quantum version of a logic gate between its modules.
Schoelkopf says there are several reasons that networking modules together is better than cramming as many qubits as possible onto a single chip. The smaller scale of each unit makes it easier to control the system and to apply error correction techniques. Moreover, if some qubits go haywire in an individual module, the unit can be removed or isolated without affecting others networked with it; if they're all on a single chip, the entire thing may have to be scrapped.
Looking ahead, Quantum Circuits' modular machines will still need some of the same gear as rival ones, including the supercooling refrigerators and monitoring gear. But as they scale, they shouldn't require anywhere near the same kind of control wiring and other paraphernalia needed to master individual qubits. So while rival devices could look ever more like those massive early mainframes, the startup's machines should remain akin to the slimmed-down ones that appeared as conventional computing advanced into the 1970s and beyond.
Listening to Schoelkopf talk through the technology, an image crept into my head: my kids playing with plastic Lego bricks when they were young, bolting them together to build castles and forts.
When I suggested the comparison, Schoelkopf was initially a little wary but then became quite enthusiastic. "In general, every complex device I know," he said, "is based on having the equivalent of Lego blocks, and you define the interfaces and how they fit together …[Lego bricks] are really cheap. They can be mass-produced. And they always plug together the right way."
Schoelkopf's quantum modules have another key advantage. Each contains a three-dimensional cavity that traps a number of microwave photons. These form what are known as "qudits," and they're like qubits, except they store more information. While a qubit represents a combination of 1 and 0, a qudit can exist in more than two states—say, 0, 1, and 2 at the same time. Quantum computers with qudits can crunch through even more information simultaneously.
Scientists have been experimenting with qudits for some time, but they are tricky to generate and control. Schoelkopf says Quantum Circuits has found ways to create high-quality ones consistently and to reduce errors significantly. (The company claims it's achieved coherence times using its cavities that are ten to 100 times longer than for superconducting qubits, which makes it easier to correct errors.) Some qubits are still needed to perform operations on the qudits, and to extract information from them, but his approach requires fewer of these qubits. That, in turn, means less hardware is needed overall.
Schoelkopf says organizations that want to try out algorithms on Quantum Circuits' system will be able to do so "very soon," and that at some point it will connect machines to the cloud as IBM and Rigetti have done. The startup isn't just building computers; it's also working on software that will help users get the most out of the underlying hardware.
Besides, it's early days. The quantum algorithms being run on cloud services like IBM's today are still pretty basic, Schoelkopf notes. The field is wide open for quantum computers and associated software that can really make a difference in a broad range of areas, from turbocharging artificial-intelligence applications to modeling molecules for chemists.
Lots of questions remain. Will Quantum Circuits be able to keep producing robust qubits and qudits as it builds much bigger machines? Can it get its quantum teleportation method to work reliably as it connects more modules together? And will its systems, when they are rolled out for sale, be more cost-effective to operate than those of rivals? Significant physics and engineering challenges still lie ahead. But if Schoelkopf and his colleagues can overcome them, they could prove that the key to getting very big in quantum computing is to think small.
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StarckGate observed this fantastic new tech at the MIT Media Lab, where the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that's only the beginning. Created by Daniel Leithinger and Sean Follmer and overseen by Professor Hiroshi Ishii, the technology behind the inFORM isn't that hard to understand. It's basically a fancy Pinscreen, one of those executive desk toys that allows you to create a rough 3-D model of an object by pressing it into a bed of flattened pins. With inFORM, each of those "pins" is connected to a motor controlled by a nearby laptop, which can not only move the pins to render digital content physically, but can also register real-life objects interacting with its surface thanks to the sensors of a hacked Microsoft Kinect. *Note StarckGate This tech is certainly worth to be monitored and invested in.
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The Rivian pickup's real edge over Tesla's Cybertruck isn't its battery
The electric vehicle startup's platform approach helped it raise nearly $3 billion this year. The sheer spectacle of Tesla's Cybertruck unveiling, from the severe angles to the smashed windows, will go down as the biggest news in electric pickup trucks this year. But a rival startup that has yet to deliver a single truck arguably had a more monumental 2019—and, in the end, may do more to create a market for these vehicles. On Monday, Rivian announced it had raised $1.3 billion in its fourth funding round of the year, led by T. Rowe Price, bringing its total for 2019 to nearly $2.9 billion. Meanwhile, the company struck deals to produce 100,000 delivery vans for Amazon and provide technology that Ford will use to develop its next-generation electric vehicle. Both of those companies were also among Rivian's major investors this year. Rivian has been quietly developing vehicles for a decade, but it seized the industry's attention in late 2018, when it unveiled a pair of eye-catching, high-end electric trucks. The R1T pickup and R1S SUV promised to be all-electric versions of what American consumers like: big, tough-looking trucks (but not necessarily postapocalyptic ones like Tesla's). They're built to handle off-road conditions and supposedly will run for more than 400 miles with an add-on battery. (Initial deliveries are slated for the end of 2020.) But Rivian is pursuing a much bigger play here. The company's own vehicles, as well as Amazon's and Ford's, will all be built upon the company's so-called "skateboard" chassis. It packages together the battery, suspension, braking system, and mechanical components all below the height of the wheels, lowering the vehicle's center of gravity. That improves handling and increases storage space, the company says. Above all, it's a flexible system that other companies can build on top of, potentially easing the path for incumbent automakers to develop their own lines of electric vehicles. The Ford partnership will be a test of that. "We can leverage our skateboard technology in its entirety or sell pieces of it, such as the battery pack," R.J. Scaringe, Rivian's founder and chief executive, previously told Forbes.By providing such a platform technology, Rivian is positioning itself as a sort of Microsoft to Tesla's Apple—hoping it can capture a larger share of the market. If that gamble works, Rivian could do far more to accelerate the shift to low-emissions electric vehicles than any single company focused on producing its own cars and trucks could—whether they're "bulletproof" or not. Then again, there are hundreds of thousands of Teslas on the roads, while Rivian hasn't even started offering test drives, so all of this depends heavily on the performance living up to the hype. by James Temple Dec 23, 2019
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Checking in with CSGC Micro-Grant Recipients
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Over winter break, several students pursued projects to serve their community through micro-grants from the Center from Service and Global Citizenship (CSGC). Students can apply for and use micro-grants to help others in ways that suit their own interests.
Ella Foulkes '22 used her micro-grant funds to address the rising poverty in her home community. "I knew of many homeless shelters opening up for the season, and that's a lot of at-risk people in tough environments," said Foulkes. "I started to do some research and found that I could have the greatest impact by distributing facemasks and food. I decided to sew 40 face masks for the 37 people staying at a homeless shelter in Amherst, and bake and deliver 45 meals to people who I knew were having trouble getting [food]." In addition to providing masks and food, she also volunteered at a local food bank to help combat increasing food insecurity.
Lilian Regal '24 leveraged her passion for crocheting by donating her crocheted items, like hats, to Warm Up America, a charity that accepts a variety of items and clothing for different causes. "I've been crocheting for a while, and I'd always wanted to be able to connect that with service," she said. "This winter, I finally had the opportunity to get funding [from the CSGC]. I liked the idea of being able to help multiple causes at once," Regal said.
Angel Zhou '22 chose to focus on helping the senior citizens in her community in Shanghai. She interviewed fifty seniors and is currently developing a video about the stories they have shared. She decided to take this initiative after watching a Youtube video of seniors diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "After watching this video, I felt like I should dedicate myself to helping seniors promote their thoughts and voices by the form of interview[s] and videography," she said.
While the administrative process was relatively straightforward, there were definitely challenges along the way. Foulkes found that the precautions organizations took due to the pandemic hindered her original plan. "I was originally hoping to volunteer in the homeless shelter and actually distribute the food through there, but, understandably, they didn't want people inside because of COVID," she said. "That's why [the project] took on a more independent nature."
For Zhou, the process of filming constituted the main obstacle. "Many seniors were willing to be interviewed but not filmed, because they [were] worr[ied] about their faces being published into the public, so there [was] a lot of explaining before each interview," she said.
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The micro-grant projects not only served communities but also provided a valuable experience for each participant. For Regal, her project awakened her to the ease with which one could help those around them. "There's so much need out there, and even one small thing can really help someone," she said.
Foulkes shared a similar sentiment with Regal, saying, "I learned how much of an impact the smaller things can have."
For Zhou, her project was a reminder of the impact the younger generation can make in the lives of the elderly. "Many of the seniors, who I interviewed, really appreciated me asking these questions. Some of them thought that by having this interview, their voices were being heard by the younger generation, and many others even felt as if this served as a great reflection for themselves," she said.
When asked if they had any advice for other students with similar ideas for community service, many students emphasized the importance of taking initiative. Regal encouraged fellow peers to turn their ideas into reality. "This is a time of great need, so if you have an idea for something, and there are resources available, you should just go ahead and do it," she said.


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Google's AI-driven smartphone will learn what you like
The tech giant believes its new Pixel phones, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), will give it the edge over Apple. Among the new features, the phone offers realtime voice translation from 96 languages.
As he revealed two new models of Google's Pixel brand of smartphone on Wednesday, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said the company was moving from a "mobile-first" to an "AI-first" business, in reference to the artificial intelligence that the tech giant says drives its new phones.
"It is radically rethinking how computing should work," Pichai told a packed launch event in San Francisco. "Computers should adapt to how people live their lives," and not the other way around.
Read more: Dan Brown's new novel 'Origin' pits artificial intelligence against religion
As it launched the second generation Pixel phones, Google said that while breakthroughs in new hardware technology were becoming increasingly difficult to achieve, the next big steps forward will come from AI or machine-learning.
One analyst said the technology offered by the new Pixel models was the equivalent of a backup for the human brain.
Harnessing machine-learning technology
Among the new features on the Pixel phones is Lens, an image-recognition app which allows a user to point a camera at a street billboard to find useful information about the product being advertise.
Another feature can identify background music from just a few seconds of audio. Users can then listen instantly to the whole track via YouTube or other audio/video platforms. The phone has stored the digital "fingerprints" of tens of thousands of songs which are updated weekly.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai hails the move towards an "AI-first" company
Along with the new smartphones Google also launched new AI-driven headphones, new networked smart-speakers and a small camera, that uses AI to allow the device to automatically learn when to snap pictures or record video of candid moments.
The Google Pixel Buds headphones, together with the Pixel phone, can handle live translations from scores of languages. During the launch event, a demonstration showed a conversation between two people using the devices, one speaking Swedish, the other English.
The Pixel 2 smartphone comes in two sizes but has no traditional jacks for headphones. Prices for the base model start at $649 (550 euros), while the high-end version starts at $849. The phones will be available October 19.
Read more: Apple unveils smart home speaker
The mini-version of the Google Home speaker is priced at $50, along with a more advanced model at $399, which uses AI to adjust the sound to the ambiance or size of a particular room.
The Google Clips camera is priced at $249 and can recognize people and animals, and can automatically take shots of those moments that are hard to capture manually.
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t is very difficult to understand why companies specializing in devices based on electron tubes did not rush to the new market segment, which suddenly opened up to them - the headphone amplifiers' one. Very few really noticed this opportunity and made some effort to solve, it would seem, a simple problem, of creating an amplifier designed to drive headphones. Which is strange because this part of the audio market has been rapidly growing n the recent years attracting even some companies that never had anything to do with it.
It is no coincidence that today one finds headphones in lineups of many loudspeaker manufacturers even such prominent ones as: KEF, Bowers & Willkins , PSB, Focal JM-Lab etc., because all of them had the experience in the field of electromechanical transducers - although historically speaking, companies specializing in microphones became also specialist in headphone making. These are brands such as: Shure , AKG, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Audio-Technica, or Sony. But apart from them also some other companies with indirect experience, joined the "market fight" too, such as: Harman/Kardon (via Revel) or even some having no experience at all, such as: Audioquest and Cardas. The reason for this change was, it seems, a desire of expanding to a new market segment, that at the time wasn't that crowded as the other ones.
The number of new models, brands, designs available in the second decade of the 21st century is incredible. The more incomprehensible it seems to me the silence in this matter of such companies as: Kondo, Ancient Audio (apart from the solid-state P-1), Octave, Jadis http://www.jadis-electronics.com , and until recently also Ayon Audio. Why is this happening? Could it be, perhaps, because different laws apply to headphone amplifiers and one needs proper experience to design something that would be good enough to uphold company's reputation? Probably yes. But when someone takes the risk and devotes time and efforts to such purpose, they might come up with unique devices, such as ones offered by American Woo Audio. Let me remind you that in Poland, one of the most important pioneers of the tube headphone amplifiers was the Dubiel Accoustic company.
Or maybe there is another possibility - the owners and designers of companies focused on tube designs usually listen to music using high-efficiency loudspeakers, often large in size. It is not possible to transfer such sound into the world of headphones, because here room acoustics element is not involved. As it happens in life, probably both of these explanation include some truth but are incomplete and there must be some sort of a "trigger" to ignite a concept mechanism, a series of events that can culminate with the decision to build a headphone amplifier.
HA-3, a tube headphone amplifier by Ayon Audio, was in a way, "inevitable", it just had to wait for the right time. And this time came, it seems to me, along with the Conquistador preamplifier, a completely new Ayon's design, which uses, instead of Siemens C3m pentode, used eg. by the German Post Office, the 45 triode, the AA45 Mesh version produced by Ayon. Precisely the same tubes can be found in the HA-3 amplifier. The are driven by the dual triode 12AU7, which is less common than 12AX7. The entire circuit works in class A.
The tubes look really nice in a small, but extremely robust housing, which is a smaller version of the chassis used, among the others, for Scorpio Black monoblocks. On the front side there is a knurled knob to adjust the volume, and next to it, an alphanumeric red LED display, which is lit only for a few seconds after one adjusts volume. HA-3 can be fed only with an unbalanced signal as it is an unbalanced design – the headphone output is also unbalanced. We can use a wide range of headphones with it - the manufacturer claims it will work fine with impedance loads between 16-600 Ω, which is very wide range.
HA-3 is a tube amplifier, but not entirely - is powered from the solid-state power supply. It received a separate chassis of the same size as the amplifier's, minus - of course - transformers and tubes on the top. The power features an on/off switch placed on its bottom. Both modules connect using a multi-core cable terminated with connectors similar to those used in Spheres III, only smaller.
WOJCIECH PACUŁA: Who designed HA-3?
GERHARD HIRT: The HA-3 was designed by our two Preamp engineers, who are normally doing only Polaris, Spheris and Conquistador, but this time they got a special job and based on their preamp extensive experience they developed the HA-3.
Why did you choose 45 triode for this project?
We believe that the AA45 tube is the best sounding one for "low signal" designs, like in a preamp ( Conquistador) etc. and of course perfect for headphone amps, like the HA-3.
Well observed: In this position where the cap is located, it is a very critical place and in the headphone amp more sensitive than in any other device.
We were trying so many caps but with none of them we were 100% satisfied until we started up with an unusual combination. Two totally different caps and also different values from even different series. The black one (Mundorf Supreme Evo – Silver Gold ) has only 0,001 uF capacity, which normally is too small to have any meaning, but when used in combination in this SET/DHT design with the white one, 0,47uF Mcap Evo, it delivers an outstanding performance. These two together add so much "air and space" – that caught us by surprise too, no other cap (of standard value between 0.1 to 0,47uF for this purpose) could do that. Again the black cap is not 0.1, or 0.01, it is ONLY 0.001uF, but is makes a huge difference in the HA-3 design!
The HA-3 is a two-box amplifier, powered from power grid. The power supply and the main part are connected using a flexible, quite long cable, so it's best if we put them on separate shelves. If side by side is necessary leave as much space between them as possible. During the test the amplifier section stood on its own feet, on the top shelf of Finite Elemente Pagode Edition rack, while the power supply was placed on a lower shelf, additionally on the the Acoustic Revive RAF-48H anti-vibration platform. On top of the power supply I placed passive EMI/RFI Verictum X-Block filters. The device was powered using Harmonix X-DC350M2R Improved Version (2 m) and Hijiri 聖 SMT 'Takumi' Maestro (2 m) power cables.
The amplifier was compared with a "High Fidelity's" reference, the battery-powered Bakoon Products HPA-21, using its current output. I used also the Synergistic Research HOT filter. The basic headphones for this test were the phenomenal HiFiMAN models - HE-1000 V2 and V2 Edition X, but I also tried it with: AKG K271 Studio, AKG K701, Beyerdynamic DT-770 Pro Limited Edition (32 Ω), Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro (600 Ω), Sennheiser HD800 and HiFiMAN HE-6.
No one would probably say anything, if the HA-3 proved to be one of those devices that being the first in company's history, opening a new area of interest, was a good, successful, maybe even really successful product, and yet not quite as good as what this company offers in other areas o its activities. In the specialist, perfectionist industry, which audio is a part of, the first, second and third key factor when making a great sounding device is: experience, experience and experience, while money and reputation might only support it but never replace it.
But the truth is that the Ayon headphone amplifier is a mature product. That means that it delivers performance as if there were many other amps of this type in Austrian company's lineup before, and it was the culmination of this road towards perfection, a ripe fruit of many years of effort. This maturity/ripeness is based on filling in the outlines with a living tissue.


configuration system instead of using Puppet or Chef.
Maybe, what you want to do is getting sure that the collector list is always "up-to-date"
Could you please detail the use-case that gives you the need to implement this ZK feature?
> Agent is currently using local disk to storage check point file, and collector list.
This can be hard to manage for large scale system that needs to be updated more frequently.
ZooKeeper as the location to store check point file and collector list.


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13 Maps That Explain Galicia
You may not know it, but I am a HUGE nerd when it comes to maps. On family road trips, I would pass the miles by browsing the jumbo-sized road atlas, and I even memorized the regions and provinces of Spain…for fun. So I thought I would combine my love of maps with my love for Galicia, this unique region in Spain's northwestern corner. I hope you enjoy staring at these thirteen maps as much as I have!
1) Galicia from space
Even in the satellite view you can tell how green and forested Galicia really is—a stark contrast from the Castilian meseta or flat plateau to the southeast that is mostly covered in rolling plains.
2) The Roman province of Gallaecia
By the 1st century BCE, all of the Iberian peninsula had come under Roman rule, and its northwestern corner belonged to the vast imperial province known as Tarraconensis. Years later, during the administrative reforms of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305), this region was cordoned off into a province of its own called Gallaecia, the name tha…
Photo Post: Cangas de Onís, Gateway to the Picos de Europa
On the road trip that my roommates and I took across Spain's northern coast this past fall, we divided up our sightseeing into four manageable chunks: one day we would focus onCantabria, the next on the Picos de Europa National Park, the following day on the region of Asturias, and on the way back home we would stop off in Oviedo for half a day. We aren't normally this organized at home, but since our days off from work and holidays miraculously aligned, giving us all the same four-day weekend, we decided to aprovechar or make the most of this fortuitous turn of events and strategically sight-see in Asturias and Cantabria.
Cangas de Onís was the first stop on our excursion into Spain's most beautiful mountain range, the Picos de Europa. You can think of this small mountain town as the gateway into the national park, kind of like Jackson Hole is for Yellowstone or Estes Park for the Rocky Mountains. Although there wasn't much to Cangas except for two or three major streets, it was the …
Santillana del Mar: NOT Spain's Prettiest Village
After killing an hour or so in the Cantabrian town of Comillas by seeing a house designed by Gaudí, we hopped back in the car to continue our Roommate Road Trip and drove a couple of minutes further east to Santillana del Mar, just inland from Spain's northern coast. This village has a reputation of being el pueblo más bonito de España—"Spain's the prettiest village"—so our hopes were high as we cruised around tree-lined country roads, passing among fields that smelled of manure and a few shuttered-up hamlets.
Unfortunately, Santillana didn't live up to its fame.
Before I continue, it's basically required of me to repeat that stupid joke that everyone tells whenever this town's name is mentioned in passing. Santillana is known as la villa de las tres mentiras ("the town of the three lies") because it isn't holy, flat, or on the sea. Ha ha ha, so funny, right? Wrong. I've never really got the joke because not only does the village claim to hold the remains of una santa, St. Juliana of…
Gathered Thoughts From a Trip to Southern France
Provençal homes in the mid-sized city of Arles in southern France 🏠😍🏠 A post shared by Trevor Huxham (@trevorhuxham) on Feb 15, 2015 at 1:27am PST
A couple of days ago I made my way back to Santiago de Compostela after spending four nights in southern France over my school's long weekend for the Carnival festivities. My friend Melissa and I set up base camp in central Avignon (home of the popes in the 1300s) and took daytrips to the colorful, bustling Roman city of Arles, rained-out Roman Nîmes, and Europe's tallest Roman aqueduct, the Pont du Gard.
We came to Provence ostensibly for two reasons—to see as many Roman ruins and eat as many French pastries as possible—and we left the region impressed at how kind and mannerly the French are.
Photo Post: El Capricho de Gaudí in Comillas, Spain
Today I'm finally getting around to writing about the road trip my housemates and I went on along Spain's northern coast…in October. Sorry, guys! I'm so far behind, but I've got a long backlog of posts to work through. Our first stop along this tour of Spain's most beautiful cliffs, beaches, mountains, and countrysides was the seaside village of Comillas in tiny coastal Cantabria. After warming up with the last fall rays of sunshine over a short cortado coffee, we packed in to our rental car and headed out of our base in San Vicente de la Barquera to Comillas.
This town wouldn't even have been on my radar had it not been home to one of the three buildings that architect Antoni Gaudí designed outside his native Catalunya. In fact, it was one of his first: El Capricho de Gaudí. Earlier in the year I had visited the other two commissions he took outside Catalunya, the Casa de los Botines in León and the Episcopal Palace in Astorga, and really enjoyed getting to experience some unique Mo…
Photo Post: Mondoñedo, a Galician Ghost Town
On the way back from our daytrip to Praia das Catedrais, the "Cathedrals Beach" along Galicia's northern coast, my friends and I stopped in the small village of Mondoñedo, hidden away in a mountain valley deep within Lugo province. By chance of history this tiny town has been home to a cathedral for a thousand years, although the one we can see today dates to the 1200s. The cathedral isn't anything too exciting, just par for the course in Galician church architecture: a Romanesque foundation with a flowery façade added in the Baroque era.
A little interesting factoid: the cathedral guards the Virxe Inglesa, the "English Virgin," a decorated Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary that was made in Tudor-era England. When the iconoclastic English Reformation blew through in the 1500s, this statue was saved from the destruction that befell similar religious artwork. It's remained in Mondoñedo ever since 1555.
Praia das Catedrais: Galicia's "Cathedrals Beach"
Spain's northwestern region of Galicia is known for its medieval pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, its seafood, and its (often never-ending) rain. In contrast to other parts of the country mostly made up of endless fields of grain and olive groves, green Galicia is home to several natural wonders, including the Cíes Islands off the coast of Vigo, the Sil Canyon outside of Ourense, and, perhaps most famous of all, the Praia das Catedrais along the northern coast of Lugo province.
In Galician, it's literally called the "Cathedrals Beach" because of the weathered rock formations that happen to look like the flying buttresses of a Gothic cathedral jutting out into the ocean. Going along with this theme, the official name for this beautiful beach is actually Praia das Augas Santas—the Holy Waters Beach. Whatever you want to call this wondrous stretch of coastline, the Praia das Catedrais makes a great daytrip from Roman-walled Lugo…as long as you can get here during low tide!
Traipsing Through Toro, Spain
On my way back up to Santiago de Compostela this fall after flying into Madrid, I made a pit stop in the gorgeous but anonymous northern city of Zamora for two nights. While in town, I took a daytrip to the nearby village of Toro, home to barely 9,000 souls. Yes, I visited "Bull, Spain"—it doesn't get more Spanish than that. However, this town turned out to buck tourist stereotypes and had a cultural offering that was much more impressive than its lowly population might suggest.
The area around Toro has actually been one of Spain's most prestigious wine-producing regions for centuries. It gained an elite reputation in the Middle Ages (bottles of Toro were even stored onboard the Pinta ship when Columbus & co. sailed to the Americas), but for most non-Spaniards it often gets crowded out by Rioja or Ribera del Duero labels.
Fellow Spain blogger Kaley of Y Mucho Más has talked a lot about this quality but affordable variety on her blog a lot; I'll hand the reins over to her so she ca…
Photo Post: Cangas de Onís, Gateway to the Picos d...
Photo Post: El Capricho de Gaudí in Comillas, Spai...


As the current monarch of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and a bunch of other countries that have her on their money, the Queen enjoys something known as sovereign immunity. In a nutshell, sovereign, or crown immunity as it is sometimes known, means that the Queen is for all intents and purposes above the law. So does this mean that the Queen could just up and kill somebody if she felt like it, all the while getting off scot free? In theory, yes, absolutely.
It turns out the queen can commit any crime just about anywhere in the world and get away with it legally thanks to the fact that she enjoys both sovereign immunity and diplomatic immunity. As we've discussed in our article on whether diplomats can really get away with murder, diplomatic immunity is so exceptionally far reaching in its scope that a person protected by it could indeed go all Lethal Weapon 2 on everyone with total impunity.
You see, part of her immunity stems from the fact that all justice in the United Kingdom and various other countries she rules is meted out in her name. Now, obviously the Queen doesn't personally dispense justice like the Kings and Queens of yore, among other reasons because doing so would be impractical. As a result of this, whilst the Queen is considered the "fount of justice" for her subjects, the ability to administer it is doled out to judges across Britain- all of whom are granted the post-nominal of QC (standing for Queen's Counsel) as a nod to their position as an extension of the Queen's will.
Likewise, the Crown Court similarly dispenses justice in the Queen's name and as a result, all cases brought before it are tried as The Crown Versus *Blank*. Unsurprisingly from this, it is not technically possible for the Queen herself to be tried before the Crown Court as it would involve her prosecuting, well, herself.
Looking more deeply, her sovereign immunity also makes it so that the Queen cannot be tried in civil proceedings either, meaning she cannot be sued or have other such civil proceedings brought against her. The Queen also cannot be forced to testify in open court or even be interviewed by the police, not that this matters seeing as she also can't be arrested.
And even if she could be legally arrested for a crime, it wouldn't matter anyway. You see, technically no arrest can be made "in the monarch's presence" without her consent. Thus, arresting her is impossible on this count too because it would most definitely have to happen in her presence.
In addition, as if it being impossible to arrest someone just standing near the Queen, let alone the Queen herself, this protection extends to her various palaces too, meaning the police can't arrest anyone, including the Queen, in any place she currently inhabits unless she gives assent.
It's perhaps also worth mentioning that all prisoners in the United Kingdom are held "at her Majesty's leisure" (which is why the Queen can pardon criminals if she so wills it), meaning she could just walk out of prison anyway by telling everyone to let her go.
Now you might say if she did all this, surely Parliament would step in and curtail the murderous Queen's powers to ensure she could be prosecuted.
Another avenue that could be pursued in regards to prosecuting the Queen would be to force her to abdicate, removing the many protections she enjoys. To be clear though, this wouldn't necessarily open the Queen up to prosecution as, under British law, nothing she does as Queen can be considered illegal- it'd just mean she could be prosecuted for any further crimes she happened to commit after.
It's also worth noting here that the Queen has the power to completely dissolve Parliament if she so chooses and cause a whole new set of people to be elected. And if this group displeased her, she is free to do it again and again. It's also the Queen's duty to appoint the prime minister and she could, in theory, appoint anyone she wanted to the position, regardless of the way the British public voted in any elections. So installing someone who would do what she wanted would not be any real hurdle.
Yes, like with the police, every member of the Armed Forces in Britain swears an oath of fealty to the Queen and she is considered the ultimate authority in regards to military matters. Thus, if there was an attempt at a Parliamentary revolution and members of Parliament refused to step down as they were rewriting British law without the Queen's consent, she could simply order the British Armed Forces to forcibly remove them from power or even line them all up and have them executed. The question then would be, in such a scenario, would they honor their oaths to the Queen?
Speaking of her power over the various groups of highly trained armed forces, the Queen has a remarkable number of ways she could theoretically kill someone if she felt so inclined, without need to get her own hands bloody. For example, she could instruct a crack team of SAS commandos to silently make a person disappear, tell her personal guard to charge them with their bayonets, or ask the Red Arrows to crash into someone's house.
Again, whether the soldier, sailor or airmen in question would honor their oaths and listen to the order is another matter entirely- but the point is, if the Queen ever gave such an order there is no authority on Earth that could legally override it save for herself.
If the Queen felt particularly gung-ho she could even personally declare war on any nation or person and, thanks to her Royal Prerogative, need not consult anyone about it before hand. In fact, she could even authorise a nuclear strike on a person anywhere in the world via Britain's secretive and expansive network of nuclear submarines, again thanks to the fact that all of the men and women stationed aboard these vessels swear to put the Queen's orders before all others.
Now you might say a foreign power might get pretty upset if that nuclear strike happened on their soil, and the International Criminal Courts might also try to step in, but if they decided to tangle with this rather formidable woman, the Queen could theoretically make her army larger by commandeering any ships that entered British waters (another power of hers) and by commanding the various armies of the commonwealth (all of whom swear a similar oath of fealty to the crown, same as the British armed forces) to come to her aid- that's a lot of nations and military might.
Again, how many of these armies would listen, particularly after she decided to go all Armageddon on the world, is irrelevant to the legal discussion at hand- what matters is that the Queen technically has the ability to do all this and that nobody could legally stop her.
Can The Queen Be Arrested?
Is The Queen Really Above The Law?
Could the Queen ever go to jail?
Whose hand is on the button?
Of course, there is a reason for the Queen being the titular head of the military and the justice system. The English would never have agreed to follow a king – or anyone else, for that matter – if he hadn't promised to protect them from their enemies, both external and internal. In fact, that was the whole function of early government. You can see that in the Bible. Once Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, he found they were bringing their disputes, both civil and criminal, to him, and he was forced to appoint judges. Once in Canaan, everyone "did what was right in his own eyes", until an external enemy arose, in which case some charismatic leader was drive off the foe, after which he was expected to settle their disputes – hence their title of "Judges". Faced with a more formidable enemy, the Philistines, they asked to be given a king. And when you read the history of Kings David and Solomon, you discover that they were sitting in judgement when they weren't leading in battle.
I might add that if you are prosecuted in the U.S., the case is listed as "The People vs [Blank]". It makes it sound like it is downright undemocratic to acquit you.
I'm not sure if i followed Nigel's train of thought entirely but Mr Malcolm Smith's argument is really more like wishful thinking. I wish it were so.
But All this is WRONG. Charles I believed exactly what this article says and he was tried and executed anyway by Parliament. Whoever wrote this article is ignorant of history.
I am not British BTW.
This is a legal approach, there's nothing wrong with it. Charles I was only executed after a bloody civil war in which the Parliament amassed a huge army by itself. Parliament also had the advantage of beeing far more capable of financing the campaign than Charles I. After his defeat, the monarchy was effectively replaced by a republic. So in the end of the day, it was a successful revolution. Revolutions care not about legal matters. All operations in regards to the law of the land, as understood by the monarchy, resumed their normal course with the restoration.
Hmm, somebody didn't read the article.
Thank you for this clear answer. It makes a lot of sense and it is nice to see that even the reach of Her Majesty is clarified. If the queen would make use of all the above mentioned powers at her disposition, we would truly be in for some interesting times.
I would however like to know if somebody here knows the reach of the international court?
I assume that most countries have created similar powers (or legal standing) for their reigning *insert your preferred title*.
Yet the international court has prosecuted persons who where, by their own national laws, considered beyond the legal reach of their law system.
"After world war *pick a number higher than two* which was lost by the commonwealth, the then current British monarch could be legally be prosecuted for crimes against humanity by the international court.
And also be prosecuted for the crime (which presumably started this war) of killing (or ordered the death of ) an other state's official?
If the monarch is so immune, why was Edward VIII, the Queen's uncle, forced to abdicate? Not only for his marriage to Wallace Simpson, but more importantly for his coziness with the Nazis and his other faults. I understand these articles are for entertainment purposes and such historical discussion may be beyond their scope. Still, the Queen realistically must represent all that is best about the British people, or bad things will come her way. She's not my queen, but I really respect her. We will never understand how heavy the crown must be for her to bear. I usually enjoy these articles, but this one is too silly and flippant for my taste.


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The IMR-2 is a Soviet and Russian tracked military engineering vehicle built on T-72 main battle tank chassis. IMR stands for Inzhenernaya Mashina Razgrazhdeniya (), meaning "Clearing Engineering Vehicle".

Development of the IMR-2 begun in 1970s and completed in 1980, while commercial production commenced in 1982. IMR-2 developed to replace aging IMR which built on the basis of T-54/55 tank. The IMR-2 combat engineering vehicle is in service with Russian Army and some foreign militaries. It took part in Soviet-Afghan War, First Chechen War, Second Chechen War, Russian invasion of Ukraine and was in addition used in relief operations after  Chernobyl disaster.

Design
IMR-2  was derived from the T-72 tank. The turret of the T-72 was replaced with a new rotating multipurpose telescopic crane. The IMR-2 has a bulldozer blade fitted on the front of the hull, which has a V shape and a straight shape and a 200 – 250 m3/h capacity. When not required, the blade is folded upwards. Stone barriers can be cleared at the rate of 280 to 350 meter an hour while trenches and tree barriers can be filled in at the rate of 350 to 400 m3/h.
A 12.7 mm NSVT machine gun is mounted on the crew operator/commander cabin, for the self-protection of the vehicle.

Propulsion
The IMR-2 is powered by a multi-fuel water-cooled diesel engine V-84Ms developing 840 hp, the same engine used in the T-72. The IMR-2 can run at a maximum road speed of 50 km/h with a maximum range of 500 km. The IMR-2 uses the same torsion bar suspension as the main battle tank T-72, which consists of six road wheels on each side.
This combat engineering vehicle is operated by a 2-man crew.

Variants

IMR: First version of combat engineering vehicle built on T-54/55 medium battle tank chassis, powered by a V-55 diesel engine developing 520 hp.
IMR-2M1: Simplified model without the mine-clearing system. Entered service in 1982. Based on T-72A tank hull.
IMR-2M2: Improved version that is better suited for operations in dangerous situations, for example in contaminated areas. It entered service in 1990 and has a modified crane arm with bucket instead off the pincers.
IMR-2MA: Latest version with bigger operator's cabin armed with a 12.7 mm machine gun NSV.
Klin-1: Remote controlled IMR-2.
IMR-3M: Combat engineering vehicle built on the T-90 main battle tank chassis. The vehicle is 9,320 mm long, 3,500 mm wide and 3,430 mm high and weighs 49.5 t with the KMT-RZ minesweeping device. The IMR-3M is powered by an 840-hp V-84MS multifuel diesel engine, producing a maximum speed of 60 km/h and a range of 500 km. The baseline AEV is fitted with a U-type dozer blade, jib-type crane with an excavator bucket, and minesweeping plow. A chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear [CBRN] reconnaissance device, smokescreen generator, advanced signal suite and automatic fire extinguisher are fitted. The IMR-3M is armed with an NSVT 12.7 mm heavy machinegun [HMG] in a remotely controlled station. Production started in 2016 and is currently ongoing. IMR-3M is capable of fording water barriers up to 5 m deep along the bottom.

References

Military engineering vehicles of the Soviet Union
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Military vehicles introduced in the 1980s


Discussion in 'OS X Yosemite (10.10)' started by coldwaves, Nov 21, 2014.
Since this morning, when I watch youtube video in HTML 5 player in Safari, it keeps freezing. Watching youtube video with flash player is not a problem. I have Yosemite 10.10.1 and everything is updated. It only starts this morning. I was wondering if it is a problem on the youtube end or something is wrong in my end. Anyone experience same issue now?
I'm unable to watch videos on youtube in Safari but everything works in Chrome.
I tried clean the cache, doesn't change anything.
I have the same problem since this morning. I experience exact the same symptom. Any youtube video that does not support HTML 5 plays fine in flash player. No idea how to solve this problem. Also, I don't know whether this is the problem on the youtube end or on the Mac end.
I use Safari without Flash installed and see the same thing starting today. Works fine with Flash in Chrome.
I think something is broken on the Youtube side. I was able to watch YT yesterday with the exact same setup.
Edit: Just found this. Looks like a widespread issue.
Same thing here. I was looking for the answer just now.
This has nothing to do with Flash. This issue is related to the YT HTML5 player that does not even use Flash.
Yep... widespread problem. See here.
I've been keep looking for solution 1 hour ago.
bla bla bla, nothing works.
now I'm so happy because i see this thread. I'm not alone.
Show them that link in my post #2 up there. It appears to be something YT changed that broke HTML5 playback in Safari. From the posts in that thread it looks like it starts working again if you turn in the developer menu then set the Safari user agent to something else like Chrome. That makes YT think you are on Chrome and it apparently works again. I have not messed with that since I figured YT will fix this soon.
I've changed User Agent to Safari 7.1 for a temporary fix.
2014 retina macbook pro dual core i5.
Yosemite, Safari version 8.0 (10600.1.25.1).
I get a weird scribble noise, and the video just loads and never plays.
my iMac on 10.10.1 has started doing this this evening since it forced me to update flash.
Changing User Agent to Safari 6.2 seems to be working for me. Thanks for the tip!
everything works now. see. it was youtube, not yosemite.


Due to several factors including global warming, erosion, pollution and island's economical dependance to tourism and fisheries, marine ecosystems go often through difficult times… PRISM (Reef Project of the Sainte Marie Island) has aroused from an obvious need for the study and monitoring of coral environment around Sainte Marie, for its better management and protection. In November 2017, 5 stations were identified by MAREX (la Réunion). Since then, a monitoring team was created at the Bora Dive, with the support of Cetamada, in order to monitor these locations 4 times a year and interpret the collected data.
In order to analyse biodiversity, biomass, the general state of the reef and its temporal variability, five monitoring stations were selected for their diversity and ecological specificities. On these sites, three transects of 20 meters each were deployed. Along those transects, fish and corals are identified, counted and mesured every three months.
On the long term, the Reef Project aims to bring the knowledge needed for the creation of marine protected areas (MPA) around the Sainte Marie Island. Those MPA perspectives are carried by the PCADDISM, a plateform for local consultation on sustainable development of the island supported by the COI (Indian Ocean Commission).
MAPs are a tool used for the regulation of fishing periods and areas, and of other activities impacting the reef. These regulations lower the stress imposed on the coral environment and therefore seek to reestablish the balance of its ecosystems (fish and coral recruitment, invasive species monitoring, remission of corals and zooxanthellae after a bleaching period,…).
Expertise and consulting in marine environment.
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PCADDISM brings together the various actors present on the island's territory. It promotes integrated coastal zone management by establishing an action plan to strengthen the resilience of endangered ecosystems. According to this approach, 20 LMMAs (locally managed marine areas) were identified by the 17 fokontany (municipalities) of the island.


Mandy Cook, a South Carolina native and Clemson University graduate, has been part of the Chick-fil-A family for more than 10 years. She began her career with Chick-fil-A as a Marketing Director at a local restaurant in Lawrenceville, GA. During her time with Chick-fil-A, Mandy has served at the Chick-fil-A Support Center in hospitality and restaurant training, supported numerous Chick-fil-A restaurant openings, and served alongside her husband, Owner/Operator Luke Cook, at his restaurants.
Mandy and Luke have been married for 11 years, have two beautiful daughters, and reside in Lower Manhattan. She enjoys drinking coffee, running, and petting dogs.


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On the second anniversary of the publishing of Destiny Road, Melissa Wray was asked this question by Uncommon YA.
Here is her very personal response.
We moved to North Queensland when I was 14. After a year or so Mum could see that something about Townsville and I did not mix. Strangely enough it was her suggestion to ring my dad and ask if I could move back south.
So I did. Then I packed my bags and moved 3,000km away to live with him. This decision is what sparked the idea for Destiny Road.
Now I never set out to write this story, let alone have it published. It just kind of happened. It came about because one night I was lying in bed and couldn't sleep. There was an unspoken conversation going on in my mind. It was a conversation that I regret not having and has played on my mind over the years. This particular night it got the better of me so I got up and began to write. It wasn't until after I read through those mad ramblings a couple of weeks later that I thought hmmm … I could create a story from this. So I began writing. I passed my 10,000 word milestone. Then 20 then 30 then before I knew it 50,000 words had been typed.
You see I think about that one phone call I made all those years ago sometimes. I have often thought about how that decision, that one pivotal moment that is talked about in Destiny Road, really did change the course of my life. I'm sure as you're reading this you can look back over your life, and pinpoint one moment that has shaped it in a big way. I truly believe that Dad saying yes when I asked was a determining factor in how things have turned out for me.
One afternoon I was sitting with him. He got to talking about his philosophy on life and death. Dad had been fighting a battle against cancer for a while at this point and I was kneeling next to him as he sat on his reclining chair. He was holding my hand as he shared these ideas on life and death. He said to me "It's cool. Whatever happens, it's cool." My dad used cool a lot when he spoke. He was pretty cool. He was also a big believer in God. So that afternoon he said "It's cool if I die because I get to meet my maker." 'Then he said "But it's cool if I live because I get to be with the ones I love." This was his philosophy. Either way was cool with him.
I remember kneeling there, holding his hand and wishing I could say thankyou to him. Thanks for saying yes all those years ago. Thanks for that pivotal moment in my life. I wanted him to know how much that meant. But I couldn't. I just couldn't get those words out.
That night he passed away.
I never did get to tell him and have regretted that for the past 10 years. So you see once the spark to write Destiny Road was lit, it had to finished. It was my tribute, my thankyou and I am beyond thrilled it was published.
Now I'm not going to bore you with my views on life and death but I can't help but wonder something, because anyone who knew my dad, Rod Morris, and anyone who knew his sense of humour ... well I can't help but wonder if there wasn't a helping hand when Morris Publishing (no relation) chose to publish Destiny Road. I like to think so.
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'I was born in Rockhampton, but I have spent a lot of time in the bush. I come from a farm labouring background. I began working on market gardens as a hand-picker at aged 7. I spent many years on farms and doing other labouring jobs.
I eventually became a teacher and spent many happy years doing that. A few years ago, I retired. I am currently a househusband. I look after the home while my wife works.
I started my journey as a writer in the car park of the Baptist Theologiccal College of Queensland. It was a very cold night. I had just watched an episode of The A Team and was putting the rubbish out before I went to bed. I stood outside and looked up at the stars. Inspired by the program I had just watched, I dreamed of writing a wacky story about some bumbling space pirates. Many decades later that became my first published YA fantasy novel, The Princess and The Pirate.
The desire to write became so strong that I couldn't resist. Many stories were written, and tucked away, or used to entertain my students. That desire to write has never left me. It is still with me every day.
During my teaching career, I realised that there was a need for chapter books that explained science to students in a fun way. After I won the National B.H.P. /C.S.I.R.O. Science Teacher's Award, my first book in the science field, Kitchen Science, followed and was published by Ashton Scholastic. This book was used in schools throughout Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, and in some schools in South America. Twelve books in the science field followed.
I took a break for some time, and when I returned to writing I went back to my original ideas, and young adult fantasy novels were the result. Morris Publishing Australia published The Princess and The Pirate, the first in the series The Knights of Katesch, in 2013. The Summoning of The One is the second in the series and there are many more to follow.
My books reflect my interest in the medieval. I am a medieval re-enactor and love fighting with metal swords as well as shooting arrows at armoured knights as they rush towards me. It wasn't hard to move from this make-believe activity to writing about medieval style fantasy. As a child, I used to love make believing that I had some sort of super powers, so it wasn't hard to include this in my writing as well.
Down stairs, I have created a medieval room, a space that looks like it comes from the 13th Century, as my writing room. When I have a lamp over my desk and some music on, I'm not in 2014 anymore; I'm in my fantasy world.
Many of the weapons I need, for medieval re-enacting, I make. I recently made a 50 kilogram draw-weight bow from a single piece of timber. I can only fire it once and then my shoulder gives out.
I have made and used trebuchets (a type of catapult) in duels with my son. We fired water balloons at one another.
I have always been an inventor and made my 8 inch reflector telescope when I was 18 years old. I ground the mirror by hand and it still works today almost 40 years later. Whatever I needed I had a go at making. For instance, I wanted to do some fishing from a boat, so I made two corrugated iron canoes, lashed them together, and put a tarp up as a sail. I then sailed out onto lagoons to do my fishing.
I love doing wacky science experiments at home, sometimes turning my kitchen into a science lab.
Sometimes this passion for making new things interferes with my writing, but most of the time it enhances it.


Hmm. So peruse can mean "study a text thoroughly" or "skim through a text lightheartedly." Aren't those opposites? And, just to keep the waters as muddy as possible, the term can also mean simply "read"—so it can mean either extreme, or no extreme at all. No wonder I was having trouble keeping the word's definition straight in my mind!
Another interesting fact: the "read carefully" sense (first usage in the 1530s) is much older than the "read casually" sense (first usage in the 1800s). So the next time you're reading a text written in the 1700s or earlier and encounter the word peruse, you will know which sense is meant without having to rely on context.
For more fun with ambiguity, look up comprise on dictionary.com and read the Usage note.
Can you think of other words that are ambiguous in having opposite definitions? I would love to hear of more examples.
Today's theme seemed like an appropriate time to ask which came first the noun or the verb? Did the paleolithic hunter see the charging beast and yell, LION! or RUN!
I never really gave much thought to the term "peruse"; however, it has always been my understanding that it meant study or look over carefully as opposed to skim through. Very interesting article nevertheless.
I don't know if this counts for what you're asking, but I find it interesting that the British term "nervy" means the same thing as "nervous" means to us, while our definition of "nervy" means exactly the opposite: brave or fearless.
Nervy – yes!!!! You are absolutely right – great example – I love it!!!!


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Gut health evolution 'could extend to lungs to reinvigorate demand for probiotics'
By Oliver Morrison contact
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Related tags: Gut bacteria, gut brain axis, Gut health
First there was the gut-brain axis. Now the gut-lung axis may be a future trend ripe for innovation opportunities, according to a report.
AI data company Spoonshot said gut health continues to be important for consumers and businesses, with interest growing by 76% and 11% respectively. And while researchers continue to investigate how the gut microbiome impacts gastrointestinal health, they are also finding suggestions a healthy gut can have a positive impact on other organs.
For example, as microbiome science advances at a rapid clip, evidence of a link between the gut and the brain is slowly emerging and interest in the relationship between gut health and overall health in rising.
Other studies now point to a connection between gut health and lung health. In clinical trials, a combination of five probiotic strains was found to reduce symptoms of viral upper respiratory tract infections by over 27%. This probiotic combination has found to have even greater efficacy among people over the age of 45, particularly those who are obese or overweight.
There is therefore an opportunity for probiotics to offer expanded utility, according to Spoonshot.
The lungs, like many other parts of the body, have their 'own distinct microbiome but not as diverse or voluminous as the gut', according to the research, which has pointed to a connection between the gut microbiome and the lungs which is being called the 'gut-lung axis'. Given the gut's role in our body's immune response, a healthy gut could prove vital in fighting off any infection in the lungs as well, predicted Spoonshot.
"Probiotics would not just improve gut health but also could reduce the severity of respiratory illnesses," it said.
"This research could very well reinvigorate demand for probiotics. An analysis of social media conversations found a fairly wide range of health benefits consumers associate with probiotics. While gut health was unsurprisingly the top health benefit, a small share of consumers were already seeing probiotics as helpful in dealing with inflammation, reducing the risk of viral infection and boosting immunity. These issues are closely linked to lung health and could very well appeal to consumers who are at greater risk of suffering respiratory ailments."
Even before the pandemic, respiratory illness were the leading causes of death and disability the world over. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the third leading cause of death worldwide, according to the Forum of International Respiratory Societies. The gut-lung axis is just one of the many emerging benefits of maintaining a healthy gastrointestinal system, believes the AI firm.
"While it may be too early to use this as a scientifically-backed claim just yet, this is an evolution of the growing interest in gut health. It also just underscores the importance of the food-as-medicine credo that is increasingly gaining popularity among consumers."
Related topics: Research, Markets and Trends, Supplements, Probiotics, Gut/digestive health, Probiotics and prebiotics, Respiratory health
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Lupiya: Zambia's FINTECH startup providing microloans
By Guardian Exclusive
14 January 2021 | 7:00 am
Lupiya, a Zambia-based fintech startup, is a marketplace for microloans. Evelyn Kaingu speaks with Guardian TV about Lupiya's products and financial inclusion in Zambia.
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Zambia gears up for presidential elections
As Zambia ramps up for general elections, incumbent leader Edgar Lungu inaugurates a gleaming new Chinese funded airport terminal. He will be facing rival Hakainde Hichilema who says Lungu has led the country into unsustainable debt. One of the missing Chibok girls reunites with her family after seven long years. And the winner of Burkina Faso's Olympic medal is given a hero's welcome as he returns home from Tokyo.
Zambia to vote in tense polls for upcoming presidential election
Days before the upcoming presidential elections taking place in Zambia on Thursday, incumbent leader Edgar Lungu inaugurated a new terminal at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport. The sprawling new Chinese-funded and built expansion is a centerpiece to Lungu's re-election bid, which pits him against veteran Hakainde Hichilema, who is running for a sixth time. With the same two candidates running as in 2016, it's likely to be a close race.
Scattered unrest in Zambia's capital as the country awaits election results
One day after Zambians went to the polls, the capital of Lusaka sees sporadic fires and roadblocks in the Chibolya district. Police and military personnel have been patrolling the streets as the nation awaits for the results of a tightly contested election between President Edgar Lungu and long-time rival Hakainde Hichilema.
Zambia: Opposition candidate Hakainde Hichilema wins presidential election
A veteran opposition leader and former businessman, President-elect Hakainde Hichilema is now faced with turning around Zambia's debt-laden economy.
Zambia's new president vows 'better' democracy after landslide win
Tonight, the 'cattle boy' millionaire who won Zambia's Presidential election – our team tells us more. In Nigeria, a partial curfew is imposed after more than 20 Muslim travellers were killed on Saturday, and Cameroon gears up for the African Cup of Nations in just a few short month's time.
'I'm proud of voters' says Zambia's President-Elect Hichilema
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One of the most important things I found out about myself is that I have gluten sensitivity. Something I found out a few years ago, by happenstance, when speaking with one of my former coworkers. She was explaining her symptoms when she would eat food which contained gluten and the alarm went off in my head 'Boy that sounds familiar'. I started experimenting and soon realized I had the same symptoms, and when I removed certain foods from my diet I felt so much better.
So I beg an my journey, searching and studying what gluten sentitivity is. What types of food can I eat. Changing my cooking habits. Reading labels when grocery shopping to be sure there is no gluten in the products I was buying. Trying new recipes, lots of new recipes. I even started feeding my dog gluten free meals, and would you believe he is much healthier as well. I've lost 20 lbs so far and am aiming for another 30, losing weight is much easier than it used to be. My dog has lost weight, he is looking slim and his coat is so nice. I will be adding posts on a regular basis, letting you know of recipes I will be trying and providing links if you should want to try them.
J ust because we have gluten sensitivity doesn't mean we can't eat desserts, I am learning to bake and am learning it's just a matter of knowing how to replace the ingredients we normally use like flour, cornstarch, etc. with the appropriate gluten free ingredients.


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import requests
import gzip
import socket
import ssl
import threading
import os
import queue
import time

exitFlag = 0

class MyThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self, name, q, queue_lock, file_lock, output=None):
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.name = name
        self.queue = q
        self.queueLock = queue_lock
        self.fileLock = file_lock
        self.output = output

    def run(self):
        print("Starting {}".format(self.name))
        self._check_ssl()
        print("Exiting: {}".format(self.name))

    def _check_ssl(self):
        while not exitFlag:
            self.queueLock.acquire()
            if not self.queue.empty():
                domain = self.queue.get()
                self.queueLock.release()
                context = ssl.create_default_context()
                try:
                    with socket.create_connection((domain, 443), timeout=0.5) as sock:
                        with context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=domain) as ssock:
                            message = "{}".format(ssock.version())
                except Exception as e:
                    message = getattr(e, "message", str(e))
                finally:
                    print("{} {:>70}: {:>30}".format(self.name, domain, message))
                    if self.output:
                        self.fileLock.acquire()
                        with open(self.output, "a") as csvfile:
                            csvfile.write("{};{}\n".format(domain, message))
                        self.fileLock.release()
            else:
                self.queueLock.release()
                time.sleep(1)

def main():
    # zones = ["ru", "rf", "su"]
    zones = ["ru"]
    for zone in zones:
        zone_url = "https://partner.r01.ru/zones/{}_domains.gz".format(zone)
        zone_file = "{}_zone.gz".format(zone)
        output_file = "{}_zone.csv".format(zone)
        resp = requests.get(zone_url, stream=True)
        resp.raise_for_status()

        # with open(zone_file, "wb") as zone_file:
        #     for chunk in resp.iter_content(chunk_size=128):
        #         zone_file.write(chunk)

        with gzip.open(zone_file, "rt") as zone_file:
            domains = [line.split("\t")[0] for line in zone_file]
            print(
                "Registered domains: {} in zone {}".format(len(domains), zone.upper())
            )
        # create lock for queue
        queueLock = threading.Lock()
        # create lock for writing file
        fileLock = threading.Lock()

        # maxSize of queue
        workQueue = queue.Queue(len(domains))

        # fill the Queue
        queueLock.acquire()
        for domain in domains:
            workQueue.put(domain)
        queueLock.release()

        # check_ssl(domains, output_file)
        threads = []
        threadsCount = 200

        for thread_id in range(threadsCount):
            threadName = "MyThread-{}".format(thread_id)
            t = MyThread(threadName, workQueue, queueLock, fileLock, output_file)
            t.start()
            threads.append(t)

        # blocking main thread while workers will not empty queue
        while not workQueue.empty():
            pass

        exitFlag = 1

        # wait while all threads complete there work
        for thread in threads:
            thread.join()

        print("All done")

# def _resolve(domain):
#     try:
#         sockets_info = socket.getaddrinfo(domain, None, proto=socket.IPPROTO_TCP)
#         ip_addresses = [socket_info[-1][0] for socket_info in sockets_info]
#         print("{} => {}".format(domain, ip_addresses))
#         return ip_addresses
#     except socket.gaierror as e:
#         print("{} => {}".format(domain, e.strerror))
#
#
# def resolvable(domains, limit=None):
#     count = 0
#     for domain in domains:
#         if limit is not None and count == limit:
#             break
#         domains[domain] = _resolve(domain)
#         count += 1

def check_ssl(domains, output=None):
    # clean output file before first run
    if output is not None:
        os.unlink(output)

    for domain in domains:
        context = ssl.create_default_context()
        try:
            with socket.create_connection((domain, 443), timeout=0.5) as sock:
                with context.wrap_socket(sock, server_hostname=domain) as ssock:
                    message = "{}".format(ssock.version())
        except Exception as e:
            message = getattr(e, "message", str(e))
        finally:
            print("{:>70}: {:>30}".format(domain, message))
            domains[domain] = message
            if output is not None:
                with open(output, "a") as csvfile:
                    csvfile.write("{};{}\n".format(domain, message))

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

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Device May Let Humans Communicate With Dolphins
By Charles Q. Choi 2012-05-24T13:19:18Z
Could we someday be able to talk to dolphins? Here, Beau Richter monitors the breath-holding capability of Puka, a bottlenose dolphin at UC Santa Cruz's Long Marine Laboratory.
(Image: © T. M. Williams/UCSC)
A new dolphin speaker device could one day help us talk with these remarkably intelligent life forms, scientists say.
Dolphins live in a world of sound far beyond our own. They can distinguish very small differences in the frequency or pitch of sound waves, and can hear and generate low-frequency sounds below 20 kilohertz that lie within human capabilities, as well as high-frequency sounds of up to more than 150 kilohertz, well beyond the range of our hearing. In addition, dolphins not only can produce tones just as humans do, but they can also communicate at a variety of frequencies simultaneously. With whistles, burst-pulse sounds and clicks, dolphins use sound not only to communicate and to scan their surroundings and prey in the dark sea (called echolocation).
Acoustic research of dolphins to date has mostly focused on recording their sounds and measuring their hearing abilities. Relatively few audio playback experiments have been attempted, since it is difficult to find speakers that can project from a wide range of low to high frequencies like dolphins do, said Heidi Harley, a comparative cognitive psychologist at New College of Florida in Sarasota, who wasn't involved in developing the dolphin speaker.
Now scientists have developed a prototype dolphin speaker that can project the full range of all of the sounds dolphins make — from those used in communication to echolocation clicks.
The idea is to broadcast specific series of vocalizations with the dolphin speaker (prototype shown here) and then record the responses. (Image credit: Tokyo University)
The researchers employed piezoelectric components that convert electricity into physical movement and vice versa. These components were capable of broadcasting both high-frequency and low-frequency sounds. The researchers precisely tailored the sizes of these components and the acrylic disk to create an extremely broad range of sounds.
"I am happy if we can communicate with dolphins using the dolphin speaker," researcher Yuka Mishima at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology told LiveScience.
The dolphin speaker was developed just a few weeks ago, so dolphin scientists have not had a chance to try it out yet. Mishima and colleagues plan to work with such scientists using the new speaker. The idea is to broadcast specific series of vocalizations and then record the responses; over time, this back and forth could someday both reveal what dolphins are "saying" and allow possible human-dolphin communication.
"We know very little about how dolphins classify their own sounds — we need more perceptual studies to find out, and this equipment may help us do that," Harley told LiveScience.
As to whether or not this invention could one day result in a human-dolphin translator device, "I think we have a lot to learn about dolphin vocalizations — their productions are complex," Harley said. "There is still a lot of basic perceptual and acoustic analysis that needs to be done before we can make strong claims about how dolphins are using their vocalizations."
The scientists detailed their findings May 15 at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in Hong Kong. The research has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.