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Chattahoochee River to Become Atlanta's New Time Standard
Jonathon Keats – world-renowned conceptual artist, experimental philosopher and writer – today announced his plans to introduce a new form of time-keeping to the Atlanta metropolitan area that is based on the flow of the City's hidden waterways. He plans to create a new municipal clock for Atlanta that will speed up and slow down with the changing pace and meander of local rivers – particularly, the Chattahoochee River, Peachtree Creek and other nearby streams. The US Geological Survey-calibrated clock – as well as site-specific calendars situated in the waterways – will provide an alternative time-reckoning mechanism for daily business and personal life in one of America's most time-driven places.
Atlanta may be uniquely ripe for a shift in thinking about rivers and time. Since its early days as a railroad city – originally named Terminus – the city has placed a high value on rapid progress. Atlanta's nearby rivers, however, have played relatively little role in its business or cultural affairs. The Atlanta River Time project aims to change Atlantans' perspective on time, the natural environment and the impact of modern human existence on both. "Atlanta was built around the railroad rather than the river," said Keats. "It's a business-first town that was founded and continues to be driven to make the trains run on time. Although these days it's more about UPS trucks, Delta jets and Amazon Prime delivery."
Since the Industrial Revolution, mechanical and electronic timekeeping devices have contributed to a century of detachment from nature. "We can overcome dehumanization and environmental devastation by calibrating our lives according to personal observations of seasonal changes in our natural surroundings," Keats said. His solution is to redefine time not just in terms of people's lives but also based on ecology.
Keats delivered the first version of River Time in Anchorage, Alaska in late 2020. With funding from the Bloomberg Foundation, he created a digital Alaska River Time clock which is metered by glacial melt's impact on regional rivers. The time has been projected onto the exterior of the Anchorage Museum and a series of events – from chess matches to concerts have been calibrated to match the Alaska River Time cadence. Now, a cadre of Atlanta river and arts organizations is collaborating to bring Keats and his alternative time reckoning systems to Georgia's capital city.
Flux Projects – a non-profit championing temporary public art programs in Atlanta – selected Keats for its visiting artist program, Flux Exchange. Since mid-2020, San Francisco-based Keats has been virtually engaging with local artists and cultural contributors and researching the city's waterways in preparation for launching his Atlanta River Time initiative in-person this Fall.
Anne Archer Dennington, Flux Projects' Executive Director said, "Flux supports artists and projects that disrupt the everyday and inspire imagination, wonder, and awe. Keats is famous for provoking fresh perspectives through public art experiments at the intersection of art and the environment. As he has done elsewhere, he will make a huge positive impact while he's here."
In September 2021, AIR Serenbe – the artist residency division of the Serenbe Institute for Art, Culture & the Environment – will host Keats as an artist-in-residence. Keats will use his residency to further plans to develop a public River Time clock tower for Atlanta as well as interactive calendars based on the erosion of river rock and the migration of meanders. Keats will also lead a series of community-based river almanac workshops and will participate in AIR Serenbe's FILMER initiative which connects Georgia filmmakers with high caliber artists to make an original short portrait film showcasing the artists in front of and behind the camera. For this, Keats has been paired with Atlanta-based documentary photographer and filmmaker, Ethan Payne. "AIR Serenbe curates the time and space necessary to develop new work, nurturing critical moments to make tangible and shareable the creative process realized. Keats is an ideal resident to inspire and effect change and I am excited for the possibilities ahead," said Michael Bettis, Programming Director, AIR Serenbe.
Chattahoochee NOW is advising the Atlanta River Time initiative regarding artist access to river locations and to key civic leaders. "Chattahoochee NOW is committed to making more people aware of, and bringing more people to, Atlanta's hidden riverfront. When people see the river – in all its urban and rural beauty, they think differently about it. We applaud Flux and Jonathon Keats for the Atlanta River Time project which also encourages people to think differently about landscape, natural resources and time," said Jodi Mansbach, co-founder of Chattachoochee NOW.
South Fork Conservancy works to restore the banks of the South Fork of Peachtree Creek including five miles of completed trails and acres of public greenspace. South Fork Conservancy is collaborating the project by providing access to its Zonolite Park site near Emory University to host Keats' Atlanta River Time workshops. The area near the non-profit's upcoming Confluence Bridge at the headwaters of Peachtree Creek may serve as a location for Keats' erosion calendar. South Fork Conservancy's Executive Director, Kimberly Estep said, "Atlanta River Time is a brilliant public art concept and we look forward to bringing it to life and bringing more people to Peachtree Creek as a result."
Keats also been exploring possible Atlanta River Time partnerships with other community organizations operating at the intersection of art, science and the environment, and is working with Earth Law Center on preparing an ordinance to recognize Atlanta River Time as an alternative official time standard.
To kick off what is expected to be a multi-year effort, Keats will participate in a public, online roundtable discussion about Atlanta River Time on Monday, June 14 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm ET. Other panelists include Jodi Mansbach of Chattahoochee NOW, Jennifer Bauer-Lyons of Serenbe Institute for Art, Culture & the Environment and Ryan Gravel – visionary behind the Atlanta Beltline, author and founder of the infrastructure and urban design consultancy, Sixpitch. The discussion will be hosted by Andrew Dietz, Atlanta River Time Producer and author of the 2020 book Follow the Meander: An Indirect Route to a More Creative Life which features many of Keats' creative endeavors.
About Jonathon Keats
Acclaimed as a "poet of ideas" by The New Yorker and a "multimedia philosopher-prophet" by The Atlantic, Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist and writer based in the United States and Europe. Over the past two decades, his conceptually-driven interdisciplinary art projects have been hosted by institutions ranging from Arizona State University to the Long Now Foundation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Keats is the author of six books, most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, published by Oxford University Press, and the author of a weekly art column for Forbes. He has been an artist-in residence at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, UC Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art + Technology Lab, a Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, an Imaginary Fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination, and a Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment. He is currently a Polar Lab Artist at the Anchorage Museum, a Visiting Scholar at San Jose State University, a research associate at the University of Arizona's Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, an Artist-in-Residence at the SETI Institute and UC San Francisco's Memory and Aging Center, and the curatorial director of the Museum of Future History. A monograph about his work, Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats, is forthcoming from Hirmer Verlag. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco.


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Q: Why won't the reference to self get dropped Consider the following programm. Why isn't the reference to self dropped after the first call to foo and how can I resolve this issue without changing the mutability of the foo function parameters.
struct MyElement<'a>(&'a u32);
struct MyStruct(u32);

impl MyStruct {
    fn foo<'a>(&'a mut self, vec: &mut Vec<MyElement<'a>>) {
        vec.push(MyElement(&self.0));
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}

fn main() {
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}

A: First, your code looks a bit artificial and unnecessarily complicated. When dealing with references you should always strive for the simplest possible solution that achieves your goal, as otherwise things can get messy real quick.
Nonetheless, in your second call to mystruct.foo(&mut vec); you are effectively trying to do a second mutable borrow of mystruct, which simply isn't allowed in Rust (and for good reason). If you simply change &'a mut self to &'a self, there will be no problem, because Rust allows you to have multiple immutable references to the same value at the same time.
You asked:

how can I resolve this issue without changing the mutability of the foo function parameters

Well, you can't. As I already mentioned, Rust doesn't allow you to have multiple mutable references at the same time. To learn more, see this.

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New Evidence of Watery Plumes From Mysterious Subsurface Ocean on Jupiter's Moon Europa
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By European Space Agency (ESA) May 14, 2020
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Jupiter's moon Europa is a fascinating world. On its surface, the moon appears to be scratched and scored with reddish-brown scars, which rake across the surface in a crisscrossing pattern. These 'scars' are etched into a layer of water ice, which is thought to be at least several kilometers thick and covering a vast – and potentially habitable – subsurface ocean.
The scars seen in this view of the moon from the archives of NASA's Galileo mission – based on images taken by the spacecraft in the 1990s – are a series of long cracks in its icy surface, thought to arise as Jupiter tugs at Europa and breaks the ice apart. The colors visible across the moon's surface are representative of the surface composition and size of the ice grains: reddish-brown areas, for instance, contain high proportions of non-ice substances, while blue-white areas are relatively pure.
Scientists are keen to explore beneath Europa's thick blanket of ice, and they can do so indirectly by hunting for evidence of activity emanating from below. A new study, led by ESA research fellow Hans Huybrighs and published in Geophysical Research Letters, did exactly this. Building on previous magnetic field studies by Galileo, the simulation-based study aimed to understand why fewer than expected fast-moving protons – which are subatomic particles with a positive charge – were recorded in the vicinity of the moon during one of the flybys of the moon performed by the Galileo probe in the year 2000.
Researchers initially put this down to Europa obscuring the detector and preventing these usually abundant charged particles from being measured. However, Hans and colleagues found that some of this proton depletion was due to a plume of water vapor shooting out into space. This plume disrupted Europa's thin, tenuous atmosphere and perturbed the magnetic fields in the region, altering the behavior and prevalence of nearby energetic protons.
Scientists have suspected the existence of plumes at Europa already since the times of the Galileo mission, however indirect evidence for their existence has only been found in the last decade. Excitingly, if such plumes are indeed present, breaking through the moon's icy shell, they would offer a possible way to access and characterize the contents of its subsurface ocean, which would otherwise be hugely challenging to explore.
These prospects are of great interests to ESA's upcoming Juice mission, planned for launch in 2022 to investigate Jupiter and its icy moons. Juice will carry the equipment needed to directly sample particles within the moon's water vapor plumes and also to detect them remotely, aiming to reveal the secrets of its vast, mysterious ocean.
Scheduled to arrive in the Jupiter system in 2029, the mission will study the potential habitability and the underground oceans of three of the giant planet's moons – Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa. As this new study demonstrates, tracing the energetic charged and neutral particles in Europa's vicinity offers huge promise in efforts to probe the moon's atmosphere and wider cosmic environment – and this is precisely what Juice plans to do.
Olivier Witasse, ESA's Juice project scientist, is also a co-author on the study, along with a number of ESA research fellows, including former Science Directorate fellows Lina Hadid and Olivier Lomax, Mika Holmberg, a research fellow in the Technology, Engineering and Quality Directorate.
The new study is based on data collected by Galileo during a flyby of Europa in 2000. The image comprises data acquired by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) experiment on the spacecraft's first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and was recently re-processed in 2014. The image scale is 1.6 km/pixel, and the north pole of the moon is to the right.
Reference: "An Active Plume Eruption on Europa During Galileo Flyby E26 as Indicated by Energetic Proton Depletions" by H. L. F. Huybrighs, E. Roussos, A. Blöcker, N. Krupp, Y. Futaana, S. Barabash, L. Z. Hadid, M. K. G. Holmberg, O. Lomax and O. Witasse, 29 April 2020, "Geophysical Research Letters.
DOI: 10.1029/2020GL087806
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Glenturret is located just outside the highland town of Crieff in Perthshire, known as the gateway to the highlands. It is the oldest distillery in Scotland and was founded by the Drummond family - a name still prevalent throughout Crieff and the area. Prohibition in the United States in the 1920's resulted in the collapse of Glenturret and the distillery in 1927. It was 30 years before the distillery found an interested buyer, though by 1960, whisky was in production again under the ownership of James Fairlie. In 1990, the distillery changed hands again, though this time to Highland Distillers, owners of The Famous Grouse.
Glenturret is still made today and, as well as being used to blend into The Famous Grouse, is sold as a single malt at the distillery which also houses 'The Famous Grouse Experience', an interactive tour showing the full distillation process followed by a comprehensive tasting.
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The goal of Grassroots is to introduce soccer the correct way. We do this by using skilled, experienced, professional coaches. We do this because we feel it's important to introduce proper technique, ideas, tools, and inspiration to young players who love the game. The program will also give insight to the teaching methods and standards of the Bavarian Soccer Club Academy.
This is a FUN "free play" environment for players to develop and self regulate in a series of short, small sided games.
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And what's more, as a result we attract people into our lives that say the same thing. We are naturally comfortable in surrounding ourselves with like-minded people because they don't push us out of our comfort zone. It's easy to stay in our bubble of comfort even if that bubble isn't really working for us.
Have you ever had an idea, became excited, then shared this with someone and they laughed?
After university I began my work life as a secretary in a large downtown firm. When I quit my first job to try my hand in a sales role, my boss at the time literally scoffed out loud and said, "What? You?"….well that job change was the stepping stone to my entire career. Because, if I had listened to that person, accepted his limited judgement of my capabilities (which I knew were much greater than my current role allowed me to do!), internalized that negative response, and not moved to this job outside my comfort zone, I guarantee I would still be a slave to a large corporation, wishing the 9-5 clock would move faster and dreading every single day ahead with the only goal to try to make ends meet.
So how do you take a leap of faith and make a conscious decision to change?
Take baby steps – set your intention and start.
Start moving quietly in the new direction. Don't tell the whole world you are thinking of taking action that contradicts people's current impression of you. That only invites criticism which can lead to self-doubt and inaction. And when you've made progress, announce it to the world.
Stop complaining. If you simply complain, it attracts others to do the same and an endless spiral of negativity can occur. Identify ways around a situation and take action.
Surround yourself with people that will congratulate your accomplishments, encourage your goals and dream with you. Pay attention to how other people talk about their lives and you may find yourself eliminating those that complain about theirs.
Take a moment to celebrate your accomplishments. This allows you to see how far you've come versus how far you have to go!
In conclusion: imagine how your life will change if you make a conscious choice to listen for those limiting beliefs. And before impulsively acting on them, you stop, make an assessment and as a result, replace negative self-talk with positive inner voices.
If you think you are beaten you are.
If you like to win, but think you can't, it's almost certain you won't.
The fact that you are reading this means you are open to changing your life for the better.
Take the first step to allowing the world to be your oyster!
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Today I'm sharing this look that's very much inspired by the cali-girl that lives in me! It's no secret that I've always felt like there's something out in the west coast for me, ever since my senior year of high school I've been dying to live out there. But for now this quick and easy boho-glam 'fit will have to do. I'm a fan of mixing statement pieces like these glamed up earrings or this boho blouse with more easy going ones like my go-to boyfriend shorts. I think it works well for different occasions/activities, like a chill afternoon walking the high-line to then meeting friends for a cocktail or two. And since being a Queens girl has trained me to leave my house prepared for whatever comes up and dressed for it all, I've had to make these looks my standard as of late.
Since we're on the subject already, let's talk about mixing high and low. I know this is what street-style photographers go bananas for: gals that can work a look that isn't head to toe prada right? Well I think I took the art of mixing to the extreme this time as I found my sandals at no other than payless! Yes, you read that correctly. And I know these puppies won't last me more than 2 summers max but hey, they're on trend and only cost me 12 bucks! how can you beat that?


In September 2005, after a long hiatus, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside revived its Center for Economic Education. The center is affiliated with the Council for Economic Education (a national organization) and EconomicsWisconsin. It is committed to offering quality curriculum materials and professional development programs to K-12 teachers that will enable them to more effectively teach finance and economics.
In October 2008, the UW-Parkside Center for Economic Education was honored by the National Association of Economic Educators and the Council for Economic Education when its director at the time, Norm Cloutier, was named Rookie of the Year for the work the center has been doing with Wisconsin teachers. The current Center for Economic Education director is Professor Sahar Bahmani.


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Thomas Stafford Williams, né le  à Wellington en Nouvelle-Zélande, est un cardinal néo-zélandais, archevêque métropolitain émérite de Wellington depuis 2005.

Biographie

Formation
Après des études de commerce, Thomas Stafford Williams est entré au séminaire national Sainte-Croix () de Mosgiel (diocèse de Dunedin, en Nouvelle-Zélande) avant d'être envoyé à Rome pour terminer sa formation à l'Université pontificale urbanienne où il obtient une licence en théologie. Il a également obtenu un diplôme en Sciences sociales de l'Université catholique de Dublin (Irlande). Il est ordonné prêtre à Rome le .

Principaux ministères
Après avoir exercé différentes fonctions en Nouvelle-Zélande et aux Samoa occidentales, il est nommé archevêque de Wellington par  le , et reçoit la consécration épiscopale le  suivant, vingt ans jour pour jour après son ordination sacerdotale.

Il est nommé ordinaire militaire pour la Nouvelle-Zélande le .

Il est créé cardinal au consistoire du  par le pape .

Au sein de la Curie romaine, il est membre de la Congrégation pour l'évangélisation des peuples.

Atteint par la limite d'âge, il se retire le  et garde le titre d'archevêque émérite de Wellington.

Autres fonctions exercées

Il a par ailleurs présidé la  de 1980 à 1988. Il a ensuite été président fondateur de la Fédération des conférences des évêques catholiques d'Océanie de 1990 à 1998.

De novembre à , il a été président délégué de l'Assemblée spéciale du Synode des évêques pour l'Océanie.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Sources
  Biographie sur le site de l'archidiocèse de Wellingtron.
  Fiche sur catholic-hierarchy.org.
  biographie sur le site du Vatican.

Article connexe
 Composition actuelle du Collège cardinalice

Liens externes

Archevêque catholique de Wellington
Évêque catholique du XXe siècle
Évêque catholique du XXIe siècle
Cardinal néo-zélandais
Cardinal créé par Jean-Paul II
Membre de l'ordre de Nouvelle-Zélande
Naissance à Wellington
Naissance en mars 1930

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Andaryan gold mine is the largest gold mine in the East Azerbaijan Province of Iran. It is located in Varzaqan County adjacent to the Andaryan village. The open-pit mine began operations in 2011.

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Surface mines in Iran
Buildings and structures in East Azerbaijan Province
Varzaqan County


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Securing The Vertical Space Of Cities – Analysis
February 23, 2017 RSIS 0 Comments
By RSIS
Cities are increasingly exploring vertical spaces as a viable and smart approach to address the physical challenges from growing urbanisation. Given that urbanisation could shape the nature of crime and security threats, the approach should involve forward planning for homeland security strategies.
By Muhammad Faizal bin Abdul Rahman*
A passenger drone (UAV) – EHang 184 – was unveiled in February 2017 at the World Government Summit held in Dubai where the Road and Transportation Agency of the United Arab Emirates then announced its plans to commence regular flights (flying taxis) by July 2017. In Singapore, researchers at the Nanyang Technological University are designing an air traffic management system for drones. In London, the new mixed-use Canaletto tower was designed to create vertical communities.
Such developments not only underscore the practical utility of new technologies and architectural ideas but more profoundly how growing urbanisation and the advent of smart cities herald the increasing territorialisation of the vertical space. The foreseeable mixed use of the vertical space in cities – vertical urbanism – would have strategic implications on homeland security.
Rise of the Vertical Space
To sustain long-term economic vibrancy and livability, cities and city-states are grappling with the complex challenges of accommodating increasing population density and economic activities amid land constraints. With innovation and the use of disruptive technologies, the optimisation of the urban space could expand radically beyond existing concepts of land use zoning and high-rise residential and commercial buildings to include the mixed use of the vertical space.
Socio-economic activities and infrastructure could develop in novel ways in the vertical space as the ground would be less horizontal. Futurists have envisioned the proliferation of vertical communities in cities as more, taller and smarter buildings sprout in each precinct, with amenities such as parks and schools at the upper levels. High-rise farms could feed the growing population of land-scarce cities while minimising the risks of droughts and diseases. Integrated road-rail viaducts such as the Tuas West Extension in Singapore could enhance transport connectivity while reducing road congestions. As the technology and regulations on the use of drones improve, the lower airspace could function as streets in the sky for certain public and commercial activities.
Indeed, the scale of vertical urbanism could potentially broaden as communities, corporations and governments discover novel applications from high-rise, high-density infrastructures and drone technology.
Strategic Considerations
Besides safety and privacy concerns, vertical urbanism could have deep policy implications as it entails the vertical expansion of public space and therefore introduces strategic considerations for governance, including homeland security. These considerations could include delineation between privately-owned and navigable lower airspace; circumstances where the aerial vantage point of drone traffic or high-rise activities could encroach into private space; enforcement of drone traffic; and monitoring of vertical space for law enforcement and security.
Vertical urbanism could expand the operating terrain and scope in the policing of public space, and create new points and lines of vulnerabilities that could complicate policing and emergency response efforts. The vertical space, in addition to the streets, could present additional vectors for evolving crime and security threats.
For example, the proliferation of drones in increasingly high-rise cities could inspire new criminal tactics of home invasion that evade the surveillance gaze of street-level police CCTVs. A terrorist drone attack on a high-rise communal space could generate an alarming spectacle and panic comparable to an attack on a crowded ground. Cyber threats arising from the use of drones for "rooftop packet sniffing" could become more substantial as more essential services in buildings, including homes and businesses, are connected to the smart infrastructure.
The security agencies' resources would be stretched and their current operational tactics and procedures would be challenged. There would be implications on surveillance, and performance in terms of police presence and incident response.
Effective Vertical Policing
Securing the vertical space of cities of tomorrow would fundamentally entail more than traditional strategies for vertical patrols and neighbourhood watch. Strategies for intelligence, operational capabilities and community vigilance would need to adapt to meet the challenges. Intelligence-led policing would require a three-dimensional appreciation of the operating terrain as crime hotspots, persons of interest and anomalous activities including hostile drones might not be horizontally limited to the streets. This approach could also help ascertain whether any vertical space is optically or/and physically inaccessible to security forces, thus creating a vacuum in security.
Operational capabilities need to adapt by tailoring tactics, procedures and training to suit the vertical terrain, including in the interception of hostile drones. Leveraging new technologies – police drones, high-rise CCTVs, IoT sensors in buildings and etc. – could enable better mobility and reach in order to surveil and respond to incidents at vertical locations; as stated in a paper on "SMART policing for smart cities" commissioned by the Indian Police Foundation Community vigilance would be crucial in supporting security agencies to monitor and deter threats in the vertical space but this requires the elements of the security awareness and sense of guardianship in the community. These elements could be fostered through regular social interactions as indicated in a paper on "Planning for Vertical Community Safety" by the Australian Criminology Research Advisory Council. However, challenges abound as factors such as the physical features of high-rise buildings and socio-cultural differences arising from migration from within and outside the country could potentially hamper social interactions.
Given the need to develop effective vertical policing strategies, security agencies would have to participate in the planning and development of vertical space in cities. This should begin with close coordination with the public, private and community stakeholders from the outset.
*Muhammad Faizal bin Abdul Rahman is a Research Fellow with the Homeland Defence Programme at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), a unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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ARINC 661 est une norme qui spécifie l'interface entre le sous-système de visualisation d'un cockpit () et les autres équipements d'un système avion.

Elle définit notamment deux interfaces externes entre le CDS et les systèmes de l'avion :
 L'interface entre les équipements avioniques (systèmes utilisateurs) et le système d'affichage graphique (Client-serveur),
 Le comportement système des éléments graphiques affichables.

Historique
La première version de la norme a été adoptée en 2001. Elle a été utilisée pour la première fois pour le développement de l'IHM de l'Airbus A380. Le premier supplément a été adopté en 2003, le second en 2005, et le troisième en 2007.

Cette norme est utilisée en particulier pour le développement des Airbus A380, A400M et A350, et aussi pour le Boeing 787.

Spécification
Cette norme définit :
 L'interface graphique du cockpit (définition des écrans), dans un fichier binaire nommé DF (definition file ou fichier de définition). Ce fichier instancié à l'initialisation définit la structure de l'arbre des widgets qui composent les écrans.
 le protocole de communication entre le système et le cockpit. Ce protocole permet au système d'envoyer des modifications de widgets au CDS, et au CDS de renvoyer les évènements utilisateur au système.

La norme ARINC 661 n'impose pas l'utilisation d'un bus de données particulier pour les communications. Il pourra s'agir par exemple d'une communication Ethernet ou ARINC 429, mais ce n'est pas obligatoire.

Liens externes
 Page ARINC 661 page sur le site ARINC

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HEARING of suicides every week, knowing their relationship is breaking down — but having no reception to even try and fix it — and watching their mates spiral into alcohol and drug addiction is all in a day's work for our Aussie miners.
But as the limping industry picks up again, and global companies including BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue start construction on new mines, a lot of Aussies who made those exact companies millions of dollars aren't as ready to jump on a plane.
Thousands of young men became fly-in, fly-out (FIFO) workers, spending four weeks battling through 12 hour days and then jetting back home for a few days to see their families — before doing it all over again.
The FIFO profession earnt itself such a bad reputation that a number of Aussies who worked in the first boom have said there's no way they'd go back again.
Ryan calls himself "one of the lucky ones" because he was able to get out of the industry without developing a severe mental illness or landing himself in massive financial debt.
"Things didn't get too crazy for me, I had one relationship breakdown but that was it for me," he told news.com.au.
"It's a proven fact that if you're FIFO for longer than two years there's a three in four chance your relationship will go bust.
"You get the few blokes out there that love working away because they have no ties at home but mostly everyone does not want to work that long away anymore. I think it should be illegal to work for four weeks straight.
"The average family man doesn't want to be away for three to four weeks, away from their kids and missing important events. It's hard," he said.
In Ryan's five years as a FIFO worker he said he'd heard of at least a dozen suicides and had been on the same site of seven men who took their own lives.
Ryan said Western Australia, known for having some of the nation's most remote mines and bad working culture, was the worst place to work.
"It's so bad in Western Australia, it's so isolated and the heat and conditions are so intense," he said.
"You're out there for three to four weeks with f**k all reception, the worst internet possible, you need a strong mind for that.," he said.
"A lot of the males don't like to talk too much but they do provide you with all the Lifeline numbers and counsellors you can call anonymously but it's not enough.
"One time I was working off the coast of the Pilbara region and a cyclone came. We were staying on a dry-dock cruise liner because there weren't enough cribs on land to fit everyone," he said.
"The cyclone was so bad they had to put the ship in the water and sail a few kilometres out to sea into the Indian Ocean.
"No matter where you are, it's a physical job. You're out in the element all day long, they encourage drink breaks but all the breaks in the world won't beat that heat," he said.
Earlier this week, the WA's Chamber of Minerals and Energy chief executive Paul Everingham backed a migration agreement intended to combat a severe skills shortage in the mining region of the Goldfields.
"You can't sugar coat that — they're available now and they're not being filled, so however you can get them (workers)," he said.
But hundreds of Aussies took to Facebook yesterday to protest Mr Everingham's comments, claiming they're being forced out by foreigners on 457 visas.
"I know multiple people who have applied to work in the mines, myself included, and get rejected, so it's not that Aussies don't want them, it's that the mining company's don't want Aussies," Stuart Lightman added.
According to Ryan, he and his friends were only out there for the money, which isn't what it used to be.
"It's all about the bottom line, big companies making their cash, hitting their quotas. As long as they hit their deadlines and get the job done, the welfare of workers takes a back seat," he said.
FIFOs used to generally earn about $40 for a regular hour, then $60 each hour per shift after they'd worked eight hours.
"The more migrant workers that come in makes things difficult. They'd say yes to anything, they don't give a f**k," he said.


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Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
I decided to put up a review I did a little whilst ago of the best book I read in 2006, although it was actually published back in 2000.
Welcome to New Crobuzon. A vast city of skyrails and towers, of elevated railway lines and glasshouses inhabited by sentient cactii-people, a city of squalor and beauty where insects make art and the government dines the ambassadors of hell.
China Mieville's debut novel takes the reader on dizzying tour of his immense construction, a teeming steampunk metropolis of six million people, the industrial and commercial hub of his painstakingly-constructed fantasy world of Bas-Lag. Rarely has a fictional city been brought to life so vividly, its tastes and smells all but leaping off the page. New Crobuzon immediately joins Viriconium, Ankh-Morpork, Minas Tirith, Amber, Lankhamar and the city-castle Gormenghast as one of the great civic constructions of fantasy literature.
Enough of the backdrop, what about the story? The novel follows the misadventures of a mixed band of heroes and antiheroes, of the 'rebel' inventor and scientist Isaac trying to build wings for a flightless bird-man of the desert; of the half-human, half-insectoid artist Lin being called upon to create the most complex piece of art of her life; of a journalist working for a secret newspaper dedicated to bringing down the corrupt government. Combined with the backdrop of civil discord and even robotic rebellion, the stage would be set for a truly great story.
What we get instead is a bug-hunt. Naturally, it's a very good bug-hunt, tremendously well-written and incredibly tense in places, but it does feel that Mieville, having built one of the most amazing constructions in fantasy history, didn't know what to do with it, but happily caught a re-run of Aliens on TV and was inspired. The slight mundanity of this plot compared to the amazing backdrop makes for a curious dichotomy. A bit like Tolkien creating Middle-earth and choosing to concentrate on the adventures of Thranduil fighting spiders in Mirkwood rather than on Frodo and Aragorn's adventures. This lack is offset on a first read by the expectation of the story taking a more radical turn, and the introduction of the sentient, demigod-like Weaver does fulfil this criteria. However, although the Weaver is a fascinating creation and character, it does veer towards deus ex machina, being employed to rescure our heroes from certain death twice in a short space of time. Despite the slight dampening effect of this, Mieville turns things round for a satisfyingly twisted and melancholy ending. There are some plot elements that are not explained and are presumably being held back for later Bas-Lag novels (the enigmatic character of Jack Half-a-Prayer being one, hopefully), but overall Perdido Street Station emerges as an awesome piece of worldbuilding, with a reasonable and entertaining story tacked on. But you get the feeling Mieville could have done more with his story. And perhaps he will.
Perdido Street Station (****) is published by Pan in the United Kingdom and by Del Rey in the United States.
China Mieville is also the author of King Rat (1998), The Scar (2002) and Iron Council (2004), the latter two of which are also set on the world of Bas-Lag. He published a short story collection, Looking for Jake and Other Stories, in 2005 which includes a Bas-Lag novella featuring Jack Half-a-Prayer. His next novel, Un Lun Dun, is a young adult fantasy due out in early 2007. He has plans to return to Bas-Lag at a later date. Mieville is also a political writer: his PhD thesis was published in book form in 2005 as Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law.
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Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
It's a world where human beings have become digital information, swapped between bodies, backed up on computer hard drives and sometimes illegally copied. It's a world where centuries-old rich folk have formed an elite watching over the rest of the human race. It's a world utterly unprepared to deal with a man named Takeshi Kovacs. Welcome to Earth in the 25th Century.
Altered Carbon, first published in 2002, is the debut novel by British SF author Richard Morgan and also the first to feature his antihero Takeshi Kovacs. Since the book was published, two sequels have followed: Broken Angels (2003) and Woken Furies (2005). Morgan has also written two non-Kovacs novels, Market Forces (2004) and the forthcoming Black Man (2007). He has also announced that his next project will be a fantasy trilogy, the first book of which has the interesting title of A Land Fit for Heroes. But it's his debut novel I am concerned with here.
Altered Carbon comes very highly recommended and, for the most part, this can be agreed with. This is a book with serious attitude, with a take-no-prisoners approach as body-hopping ex-Envoy Takeshi Kovacs (think of an entire SAS platoon rolled into one person) is freed from prison (digital storage) in return for investigating the murder of a wealthy 'Meth', one of the long-lived elite who effectively control Earth. Kovacs may be a hardened killer and a one-man army, but he's from the provincial colonies with no clue how life works on the old homeworld and it's this juxtaposition - an experienced warrior in an unfamiliar environment - that gives Morgan a way of feeding us information on this futuristic society. Sometimes he misses the target completely: a very implausible conversation in a diner lets us handily know that an advanced alien civilisation used to exist on Mars and they left behind the locations of many other inhabitable worlds, giving mankind a roadmap to follow in its colonisation of the Galaxy. It's a fascinating idea, but very clunkily handled.
It's a tribute to Morgan's writing that this is just about the only flaw I could find in the book. Otherwise it's a clever, often exceptionally violent trawl through the underworld of a far-future San Francisco, taking in heavy torture and a heavy bodycount along the way. A strong stomach is certainly recommended for some parts of the book. There's a great line in dark humour (Kovacs' sidekick through part of the book is the sentient AI system that runs his hotel) and some very well-realised characters as well.
The SF thriller has undergone something of a renaissance in the last decade. Isaac Asimov arguably first mastered the genre back in the 1950s with his Elijah Bailey novels (The Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun, plus their much-delayed sequel, The Robots of Dawn) before cyberpunk dipped its toes in the pond, but Peter F. Hamilton's enjoyable Greg Mandel Trilogy brought it back into focus in the early 1990s before Alastar Reynolds' excellent Chasm City was released in 2001. Morgan sits amongst their ranks with ease. Hamilton is a big fan and I'm pretty convinced that some of the body-hopping and rejeuvenating antics in his recent Commonwealth Saga (combined with a futuristic detective subplot) may have been influenced by this book.
I'm now looking forward to picking up and reading the sequel.
Altered Carbon (****) is available from Gollancz in the United Kingdom and Del Rey in the United States.
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The New Tolkien Book
In 2007 the biggest and most important author in the history of 20th Century Fantasy releases his new book. This is an impressive feat, coming as it does thirty-four years after he died.
The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien is published by HarperCollins in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2007, with a cover by Alan Lee, the noted Tolkien artist who is responsible for both a lavish illustrated version of The Lord of the Rings and also worked on the movie adaption by Peter Jackson. A second edition of the book, which includes several full-colour illustrated plates by Lee, is released on the same day. The legend of Hurin and his children is a long-standing part of the Tolkien legendarium, first seeing print in The Silmarillion in 1977, although it was referenced in The Lord of the Rings (published in 1954). Tolkien actually wrote the very first version of the story in the late 1910s when he began work on the creation of Middle-earth.
The new version of the story has been coallated from several sources: a prose version of the story that Tolkien wrote called The Tale of the Children of Hurin, apparently in the 1950s and 1960s and included in the 1981 collection Unfinished Tales; a much earlier version, written not long after The Fall of Gondolin, the very first tale of Middle-earth that Tolkien wrote in 1917, and included in the two-volume 1983/1984 collection The Book of Lost Tales; and a poem in alliterative verse from slightly later. Most interesting is the fact that a lengthy 'new' section has been added focusing on the journeys of Hurin himself. This story was written by Tolkien but witheld from previous collections, and presumably forms the meat of the new narrative.
The new narrative has painstakingly created by Christopher Tolkien, who has edited and presented virtually all of his father's unpublished materials from The Silmarillion onwards, including Unfinished Tales and the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth series. His role in the construction of the new tale has been mildly controversial, since this is the first time since The Silmarillion that Christopher has assembled an actual story out of his father's writing (rather than presenting the extant story fragments with editorial commentaries) and, whilst JRR certainly intended that Christopher present The Silmarillion for publication following his death, no such intention is known with regards to The Children of Hurin. Nevertheless, Christopher Tolkien's well-known fidelity to his father's work and his frequent turning down of opportunities to 'cash in' on his father's success (by writing totally original Middle-earth fiction, for example) means that this is certainly not a quick-fire 'cash in' work in the vein of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's ill-considered additions to the Dune universe.
The Children of Hurin will likely be one of the most intriguing and controversial SF&F releases in 2007, and it's not too far off either.
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Empire Sample
I mentioned earlier how Orson Scott Card's Empire has had a somewhat 'mixed' reception. This sample I believe explains why. It is simply one of the most turgid pieces of writing I have experienced since seeing excerpts from the latest Goodkind novel. The difference here is that Orson Scott Card is a writer who has written some good books in the past. The total lack of any kind of effort that has gone into this sample is startling, coming as it does from a major author.
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Galacticawatch 2
As expected, Battlestar Galactica's 'Season 3.0' has come to an end, leaving our heroes dangling on a perilous cliffhanger for five weeks until the season resumes on Sunday 21 January 2007. The latter batch of episodes has restored some faith in the series, which after the barnstorming four-episode opening arc had been looking decidedly ropey.
Unfinished Business had a somewhat bizarre framing device - an onship boxing match - but the flashbacks to the year on New Caprica were interesting, showing Tyrol and Cally settling down, Adama and Laura relaxing together and, most notably, revealing the destructive events that tore Apollo and Starbuck's relationship apart. The episode has some good music and a tremendous sense of melancholy since the audience knows that the society they are building will soon be shattered by the Cylons. There is also a very funny scene where Adama and Roslin take time out to smoke a joint. There are some flaws, most notably the exercising of the subplot in which we find out how Starbuck and Tigh became buddies all of a sudden, but overall this is a satisfying episode that answers a lot of dangling questions.
The Passage is a 'prelude' to the two-parter that bridges the mid-season divide. The Galactica and her fleet have to force their way through the blinding layers of radiation surrounding a dense star cluster to reach a lifebearing planet so they can replenish their food supplies. The Viper and Raptor pilots have to guide the civilian ships through the radiation storm, but the heavy workload and stress of the mission start to take their toll, particularly on Kat, who is also being blackmailed by a mysterious newcomer. This episode gets points for the 'passage' storyline, which is nicely filled with tension and some breathtaking CGI, but the soap opera-ish elements revolving around Kat's secret past are a bit tedious.
The Eye of Jupiter is the first part the mid-season cliffhanger and is an appropriately superb episode, the best of the season since Exodus, Part 2. The Galactica and her fleet are resupplying food stocks from the brilliantly-named 'Algae Planet' when Chief Tyrol stumbles across what appears to be a temple left behind by the Thirteenth Colony. The Cylons soon show up looking for the temple and a stand-off ensures, with the Cylons threatening to destroy Galactica if she tries to recover the mysterious 'eye of Jupiter' from the temple, whilst Adama threatens to nuke the temple if the Cylons try to land on the planet. This stand-off is a catalyst for a number of impressive confrontations as various storylines that have been building over the past few weeks come to a sudden fruition: Three and Baltar find themselves working together; the deception over the fate of Helo and Athena's baby is brutally exposed; Athena and Boomer come face to face; and Lee and Anders clash over Starbuck. The episode is nicely written, not too obviously cut to pieces by the editors (a problem that has been plaguing the show all season), with a number of interesting 'firsts' (such as the first time the Cylons actually talk to the crew directly rather than just try to kill them), the multiple cliffhanger works quite well and a number of very interesting issues are left open to be resolved. A welcome return to Galactica's better form.
309: Unfinished Business ***
310: The Passage ***
311: The Eye of Jupiter ****
Forthcoming: Rapture (21/01/07), Taking a Break From All of Your Worries (28/01/07), The Woman King (04/02/07), A Day in the Life (11/02/07), Dirty Hands (18/02/07), Maelstrom (25/02/07), The Son Also Rises (04/03/07), Crossroads, Part 1 (11/03/07), Crossroads Part 2 (18/03/07)
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Just a Round-Up...
Orson Scott Card - who has milked his status as the writer of one of the most iconic SF novels of the 1980s (Ender's Game) for all it's worth - has released his newest book, Empire, in the USA and it's kicked up a bit of a storm. Essentially it's a near-future novel chronicling the USA falling into a civil war between the right and the left, and apparently Card paints liberals as evil weaklings who will lead the USA to destruction. Okay. The book has not had a good reception so far.
Robert Jordan's publisher, Tom Doherty of Tor Books, has indicated that they currently plan to publish the twelfth and final installment of The Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, in early 2009. The longer-than-normal wait is due to the book's much greater length than the prior volumes (themselves of not inconsiderable size) and because of Jordan's serious illness. He is battling a very serious blood disorder called amyloidosis and has vowed to beat it, although it is not a curable condition at present. His fans have given large sums of money to the charities dedicating to beating this illness, and was the basis for a recent article on the Forbes website.
George R.R. Martin has confirmed that, as expected, he will not be able to finish A Dance with Dragons, the fifth volume of A Song of Ice and Fire, before the end of this month. However, he does plan to finish it early in 2007. Publication will likely now slip until the autumn of 2007 at the earliest. However, comments by the artist Ted Nasmith (best known for his work on Tolkien) have suggested that the long-awaited The World of Ice and Fire companion book, co-written by Martin with the admins of the Westeros fan site and forum Elio 'Ran' Garcia and Linda Antonsson, may follow quite quickly in the spring of 2008. It should be noted that this date is not final, however.
PS Publishing have confirmed that Steven Erikson is writing a new novella set in the Malazan world, entitled The Lees of Laughter's End, to be published in early 2007, likely around the same time that Reaper's Gale, the seventh novel in the main series, is published by Bantam.
Award Season!
A few websites are now holding their annual Best Of polls. SFX Magazine is going to be one of the biggest, with its 3,000-odd forum members and 30,000-odd readers voting on the Best SF of 2006, but Wotmania Other Fantasy is also having theirs as well.
In summary, 2006 was a reasonable year for SF&F. Less big name releases than 2005 (when Jordan, PF Hamilton, Gaiman and Martin all hit us with new books), although we still got new volumes from Bakker, Erikson, Reynolds, Keyes, Elliott, Brooks, Stross, Feist and Pratchett. 2006 will probably be better known for its avalanche of fresh new voices entering the genre: Scott Lynch made the biggest impact of any new author for several years with The Lies of Locke Lamora, although Joe Abercrombie, Naomi Novik and Alan Campbell weren't too far behind; Tom Lloyd and Brian Ruckley were less unanimously well-greeted, but nevertheless picked up some fans as well. Robert Charles Wilson has been around for a while, but languished in relative obscurity until his Hugo Award win for Spin brought him some more attention.
The film scene was less impressive: The Prestige aside, the year struggled to provide much of interest. I missed Superman Returns and Pirates of the Carribbean 2 (but in both cases, apparently I didn't miss much) but Clerks II raised a chuckle.
On television things were stronger. Heroes was the major success of the new season, but Battlestar Galactica reached new heights even as Lost began to show the first signs of a terminal decline. The less said about the embarrassing Torchwood and Hyperdrive, the better. Doctor Who abandoned any pretence it had of being anything other than a cheesy kid's show, despite a heroic effort by The Satan Pit two-parter to remedy that.
On the computer front there was a decided absence of big-name SF&F games. Medieval 2 and Company of Heroes are both strong strategy games, but not in the genre. Neverwinter Nights 2, I have not played yet. Half-Life 2: Episode One was excellent, but short. Thus the best game of 2006 must go to Oblivion, a beautiful game riddled with minor flaws (such as the repetitively tedious Oblivion Gates) but nevertheless a compelling and impressive gaming experience.
My summary of the year:
Best Novel: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Best TV Series: Battlestar Galactica
Best TV Episode: Exodus, Part 2 (BSG Season 3, Episode 4)
Best Movie: The Prestige
Best Computer Game: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
What I'm doing at the moment:
Currently Reading: Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan and The Korean War by Max Hastings
Currently Watching: Battlestar Galactica Season 2 and Seinfeld Season 7 on DVD
Currently Playing: Medieval 2: Total War on PC.
Altered Carbon is a pretty good book, well-written, interesting with a compelling storyline and a good mystery element to it. About 100 pages in so far. The Korean War is a period of history I'm not too hot on and with the recent tensions with North Korea, it seemed like an idea to get into the background of it. Hastings' style is dry, but informative.
Battlestar Galactica is my favourite TV show at the moment, but rewatching the second half of Season 2 is a bit wearying. Got hung up a while ago on Epiphanies and haven't managed to get through it yet. Seinfeld is a great comedy show, not very well known in the UK, but I got into it a while back thanks to late night BBC2 repeats. Season 7 has a pretty funny ongoing story arc (George trying to get out of getting married) and there's some great jokes in here.
I was never a fan of Shogun or Medieval, but Rome was a very good strategy game. Medieval 2 has turned out to be a great playing experience, despite some minor bugs. It's also distracting me from the heartbreaking loss of my Oblivion game saves (along with 25+ hours of playing) when my hard drive blew up a few weeks ago.
Author Profile: Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay is a Canadian writer of fantasy novels and poetry. He was born in 1954 in Weyburn, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg. In the early 1970s, whilst at the University of Manitoba, he came into contact with Christopher Tolkien, the son and literary executor of the late JRR Tolkien. In 1974 Christopher Tolkien requested Kay's aid in the editing of The Silmarillion, the vast collection of myths and legends that forms the immense backstory to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Kay accepted and spent ten months outside Oxford working on the project. In the 1980s he published his first - and to date only - epic fantasy trilogy, The Fionavar Tapestry, which was well-received. Resisting the urge to do a straight sequel, he set about writing a series of 'historical fantasies', books based very closely on a real time and place. This resulted in the book largely acknowledged as his first masterpiece, Tigana, inspired by Renaissance Italy. In Tigana the protagonists are battling for the very heart and soul of their nation, the spirit of which has been crushed in the conflict between two powerful warlords and the name of which has been removed from its people's memories.
Kay followed Tigana with A Song for Arbonne. Inspired by Provence and the south of France, the book is a slightly more traditional fantasy than Tigana, but remains a vital and engaging work, painting the country of Arbonne and its neighbour Gorhaut in vivid detail. There are hints that Arbonne and Tigana are set in the same world (and both may be on the same world, or at least in the same universe, as Fionavar), but Kay eschews traditional worldbuilding, preferring merely to tip the hat between his works.
Kay followed this with the book widely acknowledged as his second masterpiece, The Lions of Al-Rassan, based on Spain during the Reconquista. This book and the three subsequent novels are all set in the same world, a world which is clearly a fantasy version of Europe. Interestingly, these books take place at different parts in history, but as they share little except for some parts of their maps overlapping and some references, the background can safely be ignored. Instead, Al-Rassan's story shines through, combining a love triangle with religious strife against the backdrop of a struggle for power on the peninsula between several groups. The history is rich and the writing elegant and layered.
Kay's next project was The Sarantine Mosaic, a duology based closely around the history of Byzantium (Constantinople). The two books had dark, haunting atmospheres but for me they fell short of his best work and the story felt slight for it to span two novels and over eight hundred pages. Nevetheless, the writing is still as impressive as ever and eagle-eyed viewers will spot references to his earlier work (including the subtle mentions of a man called Ashar, who goes on to found the Asharite faith which plays a major role in Al-Rassan).
Following a poetry collection, Beyond This Dark House, Kay's most recent novel is The Last Light of the Sun, set between the Mosaic and Al-Rassan. This time the setting is England at the time of the Viking invasion and the central character is closely based on King Alfred the Great (he who burned the cakes). Some fans found Sun disappointing, but I enjoyed its setting, storytelling and the nice parallels and contrasts between the various characters.
Kay has moved to pastures new with his forthcoming, newest work, Ysabel. Published here in the UK in March (January for Canada and February for the USA), Ysabel is a modern story employing elements of urban fantasy and myth. Reviews have been extremely positive, some citing it as Kay's best work to date.
In a world dominated by five-book-plus series made up of brick-thick volumes, Kay is a writer who shows that sometimes less is more. His books are extremely pleasent to read, his prose is sparkling and poetic and his characters are engaging.
A review of Ysabel courtesy of I Hope I Didn't Just Give Away the Ending.
An interview with Guy Gavriel Kay at OF Blog of the Fallen, conducted on 16 August 2006.
The Fionavar Tapestry
The Summer Tree (1984) ***
The Wandering Fire (1986) - unread
The One Tree (1987) - unread
Tigana (1990) *****
A Song for Arbonne (1993) ****
The Lions of Al-Rassan (1995) *****
The Sarantine Mosaic
Sailing to Sarantium (1998) ****
Lord of Emperors (2000) ***
Beyond This Dark House (2003) - unread
The Last Light of the Sun (2004) ****
Ysabel (2007) - forthcoming
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The Construction Products Association (CPA), the body representing UK manufacturers and construction suppliers, has warned that the sector will have to 'wait for at least another 12 months' before seeing signs of sustained recovery.
The CPA predicts the building and construction sector will be dragging its heels to emerge from recession, claiming that it will contract by a further 3 per cent in 2010, on top of a massive 12 per cent contraction in 2009.
Low levels of activity in the private and industrial sectors, twinned with a general election year, which will also see proposed cuts in public spending, paint a bleak picture for the nation's tradesmen, who will have to wait until 2011 to see a return to pre-recession business activity levels, according to the CPA.
Association chief executive Michael Ankers said: 'Construction has been one of the sectors of the economy worst hit by the economic downturn, and while it is widely believed that the wider economy is now out of recession, the construction industry is going to have to wait for at least another 12 months.
'The major concern for the industry is public investment in construction where work on the major hospital and schools programmes has helped save the industry from even more dramatic falls in output.
'Looking ahead, however, the recent Pre-budget Report confirmed that there would be sharp cuts in government capital spending over the next three years, and if these occur before there is any significant recovery in private sector construction, then there is a real danger that what we currently anticipate as being a three year downturn will extend even further'.
He continued: "The construction industry is a major part of the economy and it is hard to see how there can be any significant recovery whilst construction is still in recession.
As well as the 3 per cent contraction in the sector in 2010, the CPA also predicts that even by following optimistic growth trends of 0.5 per cent per year, the number of housebuilds in 2013 will be only three quarter the levels seen in 2007. At this rate of growth, it would take until 2021 for activity to return to 2007 levels, according to the CPA.
However, the CPA forecasts a strong recovery in housing repair and maintenance from 2010 onwards fuelled by a strengthening economy and lower unemployment levels, while consistent growth in infrastructure, namely rail, road and nuclear projects, will help support the sector in the coming years.


Asbestos has been widely used in the building industry in Hazel Grove over the last 100 years and particularly in the last 50 years up until it was finally banned in the late 1990s. Many homes contain asbestos without the owners even being aware of its presence.
It is quite possible that you will have asbestos in your home in Hazel Grove but while you should be wary of this there might not be any great cause for alarm. Asbestos can cause lung cancer if inhaled as a fine dust and as such it should never be sawed, sanded, drilled, brushed or disturbed in any way whereby the production of dust might result. Provided asbestos is not disturbed, the likelihood of major problems developing are very much reduced. Asbestos removal is highly recommended.
It should be noted that at this point in time (2004) there is no UK legislation covering requirements for home owners to manage the asbestos in their homes. However, some industry sources believe that legislation to address this will eventually be introduced. In any event it would be prudent for any purchaser in Hazel Grove to consider the possible presence of asbestos and it's removal before agreeing to buy a property.


Returning to the community from jail is a complex transition for most offenders, as well as for their families and communities. Upon reentering society, former offenders are likely to struggle with substance abuse, lack of adequate education and job skills, limited housing options, and mental health issues. This project illuminates the difficulties that adults face as they transition out of jails back to the community and presents a model of a one-stop-shop that is designed to include all the transition resources an adult may need to successfully re-integrate back to the community after incarceration, all housed at one, easily accessible location. Community providers in Pierce County need to facilitate meeting the basic needs of adults transitioning out of jail in order to reduce recidivism and increase community safety. Community re-entry goals are to increase public safety through reduced recidivism (long-term goal), to maximize opportunities for former offenders returning to the community (short-term goal) and to support family and community reintegration for persons previously incarcerated. The core objectives that can be expected as a result of participation in the Pierce County One-Stop-Shop are that ex-offenders will be able to meet their basic needs and meet release requirements for court and/or community supervision. Offender re-entry, the transition from life in jail or prison to life in the community, can have profound implications for public safety. Given the number of individuals under criminal justice supervision in the community, offender reentry continues to garner considerable attention from researchers and practitioners alike.
Collins, Heidi S., "Prison 2 Society" (2014). MSW Capstones. 12.


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De windmotor Polder Monnikehuis of windmotor Hartwerd is een poldermolen in de buurtschap Bloemkamp, nabij het Friese dorp Hartwerd.

Beschrijving
De windmotor Hartwerd is een rond 1925 gebouwde Amerikaanse windmotor met achttien bladen van het type Record. Hij staat enkele honderden meters ten oosten van Hartwerd aan de Oude Kloostervaart. De molen, die eigendom is van de Monumentenstichting Wûnseradiel, is een rijksmonument. Hij is niet geopend voor publiek.

Zie ook
 Windmotoren in Friesland

Bouwwerk in Súdwest-Fryslân
Molen in Friesland
Rijksmonument in Súdwest-Fryslân
Poldermolen
Maalvaardige molen
Hartwerd


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Q: Display page content AFTER a loop of posts This is probably easy once you know but I'm having trouble getting the static page content to appear AFTER a list of posts.
I'm using a named page template which displays posts as a slider and I want to display the static content of the page underneath this slider.
To display the static content I've got this in my template:

            <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

            <div <?php post_class(); ?>>

<?php the_title(); ?>

                <?php the_content(); ?>

            <?php endwhile; endif; ?>

If I use this bit of code BEFORE the slider query/loop then my static content displays fine with the slider displaying the posts after. However if I use this snippet AFTER the slider posts then I just get a list of the slider posts - because of the query set up for the list of posts.
Basically, to show the static content after the slider posts I need to reset the query back to the current static page content somehow.

A: wp_reset_query(); or consider saving your $wp_query result into $my_query = new WP_Query(); if( $my_query->have_posts(); etc. Just take a look at the codex page.

A: Your slider needs to be created from a second, custom Loop. There are a few options, including using $my_query = new WP_Query(), however, generally speaking, my preference is to use $my_query = get_posts().
If you post your slider code, we can help you customize it properly.

A: Thank you.
I understand that ideally the slider code would have the custom query variable in order to keep the default data held in $post for later down the page but the slider is taken care of by my parent theme so I didn't want to change it. Instead I did this:
wp_reset_query didn't seem to do anything but the following worked...
I added this before my second loop (after the slider) to get the current static page:
$my_query = new WP_Query( 'paged=' . get_query_var( 'page' ) );

while ($my_query->have_posts()) { $my_query->the_post();