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Bricks and Mortar
Clemens Meyer's Bricks and Mortar is the most intimidating novel on the Man Booker International Prize long list (it didn't make it through to the official shortlist, but may well feature on the shadow jury shortlist due on Thursday). Yes, the intellectual fireworks of Enard and the relentless satire of Yan Lianke are a challenge for any reader, but Meyer's novel is not only the longest (653 pages and, according to the author, originally twice that length), but is constructed from a montage of narrative voices and styles. The brick analogy is almost inescapable – dense, hard-hitting and possibly weighing the same – but mortar also suggests the way it has been put together, cementing various viewpoints into a three-dimensional thirty years of German prostitution.
The first voice we hear is that of a contemporary sex-worker (it's 2011; the novel was published in 2013):
"The first guest was crap. The second one was OK. That's how you have to look at it otherwise you go crazy."
She sees her job as a way of earning money for the future:
"That's what I say to every girl who wants to get into the business. If you don't watch out one day you'll be left with all your money down the drain. Times get harder and you can work and work until you go grey and your tits go wrinkly to get out of that misery again. That won't happen to me. I've got plans."
It's a theme the novel will return to ("I see it all purely rationally. I milk and I milk and I put away what I can") as Meyer's main focus is not sex, but money.
Meyer's opening chapter humanises what follows (as well as acclimatising the reader to the various acronyms for sex acts they will need to decode later passages) but female voices will be in the minority. This is the sex industry as industry and Meyer's attention is on those at the top, how they got there, and how they stay there. In content (though not in presentation) the novel features many of the scenes we are familiar with from the gangster genre on film and television: deals in the dark corners of clubs and dingy cafes, betrayals and power grabs, and, beneath it all, the violence which at any moment might punch through.
Meyer can be clever with this. Take, for example, Hans' (one of a few recurring characters) conversation regarding a plan to smuggle diamonds. "Show me the rocks. I want to see them," the other man demands, ending the scene. A few lines later we are told: "He doesn't know what to do with the body." Much of the novel is made up of le Carre-like conversations, however, only more oblique.
Meyer uses the sex trade as an example of capitalism, hence his particular interest in the fall of the Berlin Wall. At one point in the novel it's discussed in terms of the Wild West with "a real gold-rush feeling":
"The mass migration, the mass copulation. You wouldn't believe all the crap that flowed into the East then, early '90. What a load of cheap trinkets and junk food we lugged over there."
Arnold, another of the recurring characters, who starts out as a football hooligan but is soon making his money renting apartments to sex-workers, goes to night school to learn about business:
"The lecturer gestures at the board with a pointer. 'Growth Strategies.' Yes, that interests Arnold Kraushaar. He listens and stops watching the two girls diagonally in front of him."
At one pint the old criminal gangs are compared unfavourably to the new capitalist approach (prostitution was legalised in Germany in 2002):
"Turncoats suddenly becoming big bosses. Business, deals. And no sense of honour anymore. Sounds stupid, I know. Capitalism, I know. The old rules don't apply anymore."
More than money, more than sex, the novel is infused with loneliness, a loneliness which is echoed in the disconnect between the chapters (and with the reader). When we first meet Arnold he is alone, lying in the street:
"…you feel your head on the asphalt, as if it had sprung a leak when it hit the ground, is it raining?"
Hans, too, is frequently alone:
"Hans turned on the TV, flicked through all the channels with the remote, stopping for a moment on a crime show repeat on a regional channel, two detectives from Munich, he liked them a lot, they'd gone grey over the years, both of them, they had no family either as far as he could tell but they didn't seem unhappy…"
Bricks and mortar are mentioned in every chapter, but the surface to feature most is mirror, creating the illusion of company, and the threat of being watched.
Bricks and Mortar is an astonishing achievement for both Meyer and translator Katy Derbyshire. It is a difficult journey for the reader – sometimes emotionally, as with the chapter The Columbus Butterfly which features children, but largely because the text itself seems filled with shadows which no amount of bright lights and mirrors can remove.
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Black Moses
Alain Mabanckou was no stranger to the Man Booker International's predecessor, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, having been shortlisted in 2010 for Broken Glass and then long-listed in 2013 for Black Bazaar. He also featured among the ten nominees for the final Man Booker International Prize awarded for a lifetime's work in 2015. With such a pedigree, it is perhaps no surprise to see him long-listed again this year with Black Moses, translated, as is most of his work, by Helen Stevenson. The novel is set, as is all of Mabanckou's work, in (and near) the coastal city of Point-Noire in the Republic of the Congo where he was born and brought up. (Though his novels are not – as far as I can tell – linked, he seems intent on painting a detailed picture of his home city in his writing). We can date the novel's beginning to 1970, when the country is subject to a Marxist-Leninist revolution (Mabanckou was born in 1966).
The novel opens with Moses in his early teens, living in an orphanage on the outskirts of Point-Noire. His happiest moments coincide with the appearance of the priest, Papa Moupelo, to lead them in traditional dances:
"For a couple of hours or more we'd forget who or where we were. Our shouts of laughter rang out beyond the confines of the orphanage."
When Papa Moupelo fails to appear Moses, and his friend, Bonaventure, fear something is wrong:
"Just look at the warders faces – there's something there not telling us! You might as well start weeping right now, I'm sure Papa Moupelo is dead."
In fact, Papa's disappearance is the result of a Communist revolution, as we see when a sign saying 'MEETING HUT FOR THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT OF THE PIONEERS OF THE SOCIALIST REVOUION OF THE CONGO' is nailed to the door of his room and the children are exhorted to:
"…track down enemies of the Revolution, including those living in our own country, with the same colour of skin as ours, who were referred to as the 'local lackeys of imperialism'."
The first half of the novel works well as a political satire, as we see the effects of the new regime on the microcosm of the orphanage:
"We never forgot, though, that before the Revolution the three former corridor wardens were just bruisers with zero intelligence. Now the Director had given them an office close to his on the first floor. They shut themselves in there to prepare Pioneers Awake, a propaganda sheet they posted on the wall of the hut of the National Movement of Pioneers every Monday morning."
This is simply made up of extracts of the President's speeches and a "passionate editorial" from the Director, who seems to believe the Head of State will read every issue.
In the novel's second half, however, Moses escapes from the orphanage and heads to Point-Noire in the company of twins who quickly make the step up from bullies to gangsters. From that point on the novel is more in keeping with the picaresque nature of Mabanckou's previous work. Moses becomes embroiled in various adventures, usually on the fringes of criminality, as his luck goes up and down like a skipping rope. If you haven't read Mabanckou before, this is both entertaining and enlightening – after all, novels set in the Congo don't come along every day. However, reading Mabanckou, I can't help but be reminded of Irvine Welsh – what initially seems vibrant, brave and break-through eventually feels like the same old trick. In this sense Mabanckou is, for me, an author of diminishing returns. This novel, too, diminished in its second half, Mabanckou's casual use of madness, and an a suddenly climactic ending which felt out of all proportion to anything which had come before, failing to fulfil the promise of its early pages.
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"There's no such thing as chance, everything is connected," says Sarah, the object of Franz Ritter's unrequited love in Mathias Enard's Compass, the now shortlisted (and possibly favourite for the prize) International Man Booker novel. And, indeed, Compass is a finely woven network of connections, particularly those between East and West. Set in Vienna, a city which was once seen as a gateway between those two compass points, the novel is, like Zone, a stream of consciousness tour de force, occurring during the long, dark night of the day Ritter is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease:
"…today, when a compassionate doctor may have named my illness, declared my body officially diseased, almost relieved at having given my symptoms a diagnosis – a deadly kiss – a diagnosis we'll need to confirm while beginning a treatment, he said…"
Ritter's single night, in which he staves off death through flooding his mind with his life, is, of course, a nod towards the West's central Eastern text, One Thousand and One Nights; others have also pointed towards Enard's debt to Proust in its unspooling memories, who, Ritter points out, was influenced himself by the Arabian tales. Connections from East to West form the basis of Enard's novel: Ritter himself is a musicologist with an interest in Oriental music; Sarah, a scholar of the Orient; his happiest memories are of their time together in Syria. It would not be fanciful to suggest that their relationship provides an echo of Europe and the Middle East. The novel is more essay than story, however, and Enard's work seems, at times, to encompass any Western artist who has flirted with the East, as well as being an 'off-campus' novel of academics in the wild.
The timeliness of Enard's novel has already been widely discussed: the East is no longer seen as a source of inspiration and collaboration but, once again, a threat. By reminding us of the fascination of Western artists with the Orient, particularly classical composers, Enard reminds us that each culture has often enhanced the other in a riposte to growing intolerance on both sides. This requires considerable erudition which Enard does not seek to hide, but this, too, is a response to a society living reflex to reflex in the moment, and with scant regard for knowledge in any form – a post-history, post-expert society. At times the novel, quietly spoken as it is, feels like an Enlightenment howl of rage and despair.
The danger is that for every reader attracted by the learning on show, others will be intimidated, but, as with Zone, Enard is always readable, creating that ideal balance between refusing to talk down to the reader while never seeming to show off. Ritter's humanity is always placed before his knowledge, in particular those moments of failure with Sarah which continue to haunt him:
"If I had dared to kiss her under that improvised Palmyran tent instead of turning over scared stiff, everything would have been different."
Ritter and Sarah's relationship (such as it is) grounds the novel, but its evident refusal to flourish ensures that the narrative (such as it is) doesn't suffer from tension which might make Enard's detours frustrating. This allows him, like a tour guide, to assume we know the history and focus on the interesting anecdotes and local colour.
"The important thing is not to lose sight of the East," Ritter tells himself, and that is the novel's message for us. It's a determination that finally rewards him with "the warm sunlight of hope." We can only pray we are as lucky. Compass is a novel that is profoundly of its time because it is out of it, and it would be a worthy winner.
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The Explosion Chronicles
Yan Lianke's appearance on the Man Booker International Prize long list makes him the only writer to have a 100% record, The Four Books having made it onto both the official and the shadow jury's shortlist last year. In 2012 his novel Dream of Ding Village was also shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. This may, of course, lead to a different reaction from the official and shadow juries this year: it's quite possible that the official jurors are reading Lianke for the first time; for the shadow jury it's the second (lengthy) book in as many years, and The Explosions Chronicles (translated once again by Carlos Rojas) is stylistically very similar to The Four Books.
As with The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles sets out to explore the political situation in China, specifically the accelerated industrial revolution which began in the 1950s and has proceeded at an ever-increasing pace since the 1980s. It is estimated that China's industrialisation has occurred at ten times the speed and one hundred times the scale of Britain's. To give only one example of this expansion, Shenzhen, which had a population of around 300,000 in 1980, is now home to a staggering ten million people. This is exactly the process which Lianke sets out to record, presented as an official history (or chronicle) of the town of Explosion which he has been hired to write. He does so using many of the tools of satire such as caricature and hyperbole, but infused with elements of magic realism, a style he calls in an afterword mythorealism:
"While realism rigorously accords with a set of logical causal correlations, absurdity discards the causality, and magic realism rediscovers reality's underlying causality – though this is not precisely the same causality we find in real life. Mythorealism, meanwhile, captures a hidden internal logic contained within China's reality. It explodes reality, such that China's absurdity, chaos and disorder – together with non-realism and illogicality – all become easily comprehensible."
When the novel begins, Explosion is a small village where two families – Kong and Zhu – struggle for power and influence. One night the four Kong sons separate at a crossroads in search of signs which will lead them to their destinies: Mingyao sees an army truck and soon after joins the army; Mingguang finds a piece of chalk and becomes a teacher. Meanwhile Mingliang becomes the first in the village to save ten thousand yuan (a government target) by stealing coal from trains as they slow on a steep hill. He declares to the mayor that "if he were village chief, he would ensure that at least half of the village's 126 households would become ten-thousand-yuan households" and so displaces Zhu Quingfang. He then pays the villagers to spit on Quingfang until he drowns in spit.
So the feud between the Kong and Zhu families intensifies, a situation made more interesting by the fact that Mingliang had met Quingfang's daughter, Zhu Ying, on his journey from the crossroads. "Now that I've run into you, I have no choice but to marry you," she tells him. This feud between the families drives the first half of the novel, as Mingliang schemes to expand Explosion by any means necessary and Zhu Ying plots her revenge, first leaving the village so she too can acquire wealth through prostitution:
"When she had left two years earlier she was wearing simple clothing that she, as was customary in Balou, had sewn herself; but now she was decked out in imported clothing that cost thousands of yuan… She swaggered through the village, giving everyone she saw cartons of cigarettes and boxes of chocolates she had brought back from the city."
In the novel wealth is created by corruption and is then used to corrupt. Though a critique of communist China, it is the unfettered capitalism unleashed by government policies and targets which Lianke attacks. Mingliang's ambition seems to usurp nature itself: when he is given the letter which announces Explosion has been recognised as a town he places it in the branches of a tree:
"The tree, which was a as tall as a person and had a trunk as wide as a bowl, had for over three years been more dead than alive, but at that moment the faint sound of summer corn sprouting could be heard from its branches…"
This, of course, will remind us of the magic realism of the 1960s, but there's also something Shakespearian in Lianke's use of nature to suggest a corrupt world, just as Mingliang's rise to power also has Shakespearian echoes.
At over four hundred pages, though, some readers may find its relentless focus on what is largely a single issue wearying. In the novel's second half, without the Kong-Zhu feud, tension certainly weakens as Lianke turns to Mingyao to comment on China's relationship with the West. The unnamed characters of The Four Books possessed more individuality than the named characters of The Explosion Chronicles, where Lianke seems to move closer to a process where he is content to sketch his story across the surface of his vast canvas. Having said that, in an international prize list, only this and Black Moses arguably lie anywhere outside the European tradition of the novel. Whether it is shortlisted may depend entirely on how fresh it feels to the judges.
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The Well at the World's End
Having read fifteen of Scottish writer Neil Gunn's nineteen novels, it seemed too good a chance to miss when I discovered that one of those I hadn't read, The Well at the World's End, had been published in 1951 – the very year which Karen and Simon had chosen to be the focus of their April 'Club'. The Well at the World's End is one of Gunn's later novels (his first, The Grey Coast, was published in 1926); only two others followed, along with his autobiography, The Atom of Delight, which was the final book to be appear in his lifetime in 1956. Gunn had always been a spiritual writer as well as a great documenter of Highland life: his most famous novels are probably his historical trilogy Sun Circle, Butcher's Broom and The Silver Darlings, and his autobiographical tale of childhood, Highland River. It's not entirely surprisingly, then, that The Well at the World's End can be read as a spiritual quest, albeit a rather strange one which defies easy interpretation.
The novel begins with Peter Munro staring into a well that is "obviously dry." This is surprising as he and his wife, Fand, holidaying in the Highlands, have been sent there to fetch water by an old woman who lives nearby. When, not a little put out, he returns to inform her there is no water to fetch, she insists, "That well is never dry."
"…a man can always see where the surface of water, however crystal, touches the sides of its container. There is a difference between air and water. All he had to do was pick up a handful of dry pebbles form the bottom… Then with the air of someone on the brink of some extraordinary revelation he stooped and slowly put his hand down, and his hand went into water."
Peter is a Highlander himself – his father was a shepherd – but he is now a university professor. Though they have come to the Highlands together, Peter intends to leave Fand for a few days "to go wandering over the hills and through the glens, taking every adventure as it came…" (Throughout Gunn's work you will discover he views men and women as quite different). It may seem strange that Gunn should encumber Peter with a wife given that for the majority of the novel he will soliloquise while she is firmly in the wings, but the novel is also a celebration of their love for each other.
Though Peter's intentions aren't entirely clear, the story can be read as a quest:
"And he saw that was no need to be grandiloquent; no occasion for fantasy. It would be interesting to find out if among ordinary people there were those moments of penetration, the instant when they went through the boundary, the moment when they saw the crystal water in the well."
What follows is a series of adventures and encounters which can make the novel feel more of a collection of incidents than a driven narrative. Peter encounters the hospitality of shepherds, fishermen, and landladies, but his journey is not without danger, including a fight in a pub, being knocked unconscious by illegal distillers, and a near-death experience at the end. (Also, every time he gets a lift from a local, he feels he is placing his life in their hands).
In fact, the episodic nature of the novel is not illusory: parts of it were based on shorter pieces which Gunn had previously published. A masterful chapter describing a fishing boat in a storm, for example, originates from a Scots Magazine article which appeared in 1935.This, alongside an excellent haunted house story which neatly strides the divide between scepticism and mystery, are among the best parts of the novel. Others, such as the English ex-spy Cocklebuster, a previous acquaintance Peter encounters in the middle of nowhere, seem either dated or just jarring, despite some amusing description:
"It was the very voice, the high ha-ha 'county' voice, that had made some of them seriously wonder if the man could in fact whisper."
(Cocklebuster is also declared to be "as sane as a cliché"). As for an episode where he attempts to rescue a lamb only to crush it death as it saves him from a possibly fatal fall, it's genuinely difficult to know what to make of it. Generally the novel is difficult to decode: one motif seems to be a pair of silk pants (that's underwear, for our American readers) which his wife packs in his rucksack for him. These are mentioned so often it's hard to not be convinced they mean something – but what?
The Well at the World's End may not be Gunn at his best, but it does make him a more intriguing writer. It demonstrates his constant striving to be both local and universal, an important facet of the Scottish Renaissance of which he was part. It's probably not the best place to start or finish with Gunn, but an interesting adventure along the way.
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War and Turpentine
Flemish writer Stefan Hertmans' War and Turpentine has the distinction of being the only book to appear on the long lists of both the Man Booker International Prize and the Best Translated Book Award (though Marie NDiaye's Ladivine has an MBI 2016 listing to go alongside its BTBA nomination this year). I'm tempted to say it has sneaked onto both lists, firstly because its identity as fiction is rather tenuous, and secondly because it lacks the brilliance you would expect from the only novel noticed on both sides of the Atlantic. It marks the first appearance in English of one of Hertmans' full-length works (translated from the Dutch by David McKay), despite his writing career beginning with a novel published in 1981, the year his grandfather, Urbain (the subject of War and Turpentine) died at the age of ninety.
The novel is divided into three sections, the first of which is the most successful. Here Hertmans introduces his grandfather via childhood memories. Two central facets of his grandfather's character, as indicated by the title, are immediately introduced: his love of painting and his experiences as a soldier during the First World War:
"My childhood years were overrun with his tales of the First World War, always the war and nothing but the war, vague heroics in a muddy field under a rain of bombs, the rat-a-tat of gunfire, phantoms screaming in the dark, orders roared in French – all conjured up from his rocking-chair with great feeling for spectacle…"
Though the war may be the focus of his conversation, Urbain spends his time painting: it is the "real work, which he had carried out uninterrupted since early retirement as a disabled veteran at forty-five." Though these aspects of Urbain's life are highlighted in the first few pages, the reader is intrigued by a number of mysteries: Hertmans' memory of his grandfather "silently weeping" in front of a painting; a gravestone found hidden under the floor; and, above all, the contents of two notebooks which Urbain left Hertmans but which (at the beginning) he has not read:
"I held the privilege of his memoirs but was too scared to open them, didn't even dare to open the first page, in the knowledge that this story would be a farewell to a piece of my childhood."
Hertmans goes on to recreate Urbain's life, describing how his parents met, his father's ill-health, and the poverty they had to contend with. Urbain's love of painting is inherited from his father who is church restorer; the young Urbain spends hours watching him at work. He, however, begins working in an iron foundry at thirteen. The story is told in what might be described as a Sebaldian style (or sub-Sebaldian if we were being less kind) meandering from the present to the past as Hermans describes his researches (for example, a visit to the National Gallery in London to see Velazquez's Venus at her Mirror, a painting his grandfather has copied) and interrupted with the occasional photograph.
Part II brings an abrupt change of style as it focuses entirely on Urbain's war years and is written in the first person. (It's not entirely clear if it is lifted verbatim from his notebooks, though more likely it has been adapted from them). This creates a perfectly readable and interesting narrative, albeit one which adds little to our understanding of soldiers' experiences during the war (apart, perhaps, from internal Belgian tensions between French and Flemish speakers – though these seem similar to divisions within the Austro-Hungarian army).
The third and final section is the shortest, returning us to the style of the first. However, with most of Urbain's life still to be lived, this makes the novel appear lop-sided – as if, now that his childhood and war have been described, there is little of interest left. Hertmans relies instead on some very literary techniques – the symbolism of a pocket watch, and the reveal of the painting which made his grandfather cry. In the end, given Urbain's bravery during the war (seriously wounded three times) and aptitude for art, we have a portrait of an extraordinary man living a very ordinary life. For some this is a reason for rejoicing (see also Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life) but I feel, instead, despair at a life stunted by lack of opportunity. (It also, as with Seethaler's novel, contains amore personal tragedy).
Though War and Turpentine features on two long lists, I would not be surprised if it made neither short list. Despite holding the reader's interest throughout, it's ultimately an imbalanced work, never quite the sum of its parts.
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A Horse Walks Into a Bar
David Grossman has been longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction prize (the precursor to the Man Booker International) more than once, most recently with To the End of the Land in 2011. A Horse Walks into a Bar (translated by Jessica Cohen), however, seems to be something of a departure: as its title suggests, its protagonist, Dovaleh Greenstein, is a stand-up comedian, and the novel consists of one night's performance filtered through the narration of an old friend whom he has invited along to observe. "Why the long face?" is the barman's response in the hackneyed joke of the title, and the novel could be said to answer that question, exploring the unhappiness at the centre of Dovaleh's life.
Right from the start, Dovaleh seeks to antagonise as much as amuse his audience:
"Are you going to sit there and declare, so help you God, that I am actually in Netanya at this very minute, and I'm not even wearing a flak jacket?…I get creeped out by this Netanya dump. Every second person on the street looks like he's on the witness protection programme, and every other person has the first person rolled up in a black plastic bag inside the trunk of his car."
Hidden beneath the humour is a violence, simmering beneath the surface, and directed at himself as much as the audience. More than once he slaps himself on the forehead, "an awful blow, that slap."
"I've seen that grimace before: a little rodent gnawing on himself."
Though interspersed with jokes (often when reminded by the audience), his act is largely a retelling, a rediscovery, of an event from his childhood. As his monologue progresses, so the truth of what happened becomes clearer to him. Towards the end he says:
"I remember everything suddenly. That's what's amazing about this evening… You've done a great thing today for me by staying. I suddenly remember everything, and not in my sleep but like it's happening right now, this minute."
His humour is a defence from unpleasant truths – even as a child he would walk on his hands in an attempt to avoid being bullied. Grossman seems to be questioning whether humour, perhaps specifically Jewish humour, is therapeutic, or in fact a damaging refusal to face facts.
The novel is not easy (but then neither was the last novel I read with a comedian at the centre, Heinrich Boll's The Clown, with which this shares both tone and message to some extent). Dovaleh's stage persona is deliberately unpleasant: pugnacious and vitriolic, with a sense of something pathetic at its centre slowly being uncovered. The performance is a car crash, and while that holds a certain fascination, there are numerous squirm-inducing moments. The novel is a tightrope of heightened emotion, dipping into jokes with a feigned loss of balance: it can be exhausting to watch.
It's a novel of crisis, a long dark night of the soul: Dovaleh asks his childhood friend, our narrator, Avishai Lazar, to observe him – "I want you to see me" – as if no longer able to see himself clearly. (That he is an ex-judge suggests, of course, that Dovaleh wants to be judged). And, like all of Grossman's recent work, it's a novel of loss.
Whether A Horse Walks into a Bar will make the short list is difficult to say. It possesses a formal daring and emotional intensity difficult to ignore, but it feels like a novel which will be more admired than loved.
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Fight turns into blood bath as both players are rushed to the hospital in LHSAAAQ!
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Published on November 23, 2021 at 3:30 p.m.
A fight took place during of a game of the LHSAAAQ (Ligue de Hockey Senior AAA) in Quebec on Saturday and it turned into a nightmare.
As the contest went on between the Trois-Rivieres Climatisation Cloutier and the La Tuque Loups, Gabriel Mailhot and Keven Charest dropped the gloves in the third period at centre ice and it quickly turned into a blood bath.
Fights often take place in this league and so the thought of an altercation is nothing new for these players. However, this one started off as a usual fight, but ended up with both men suffering serious injuries.
According to the Echo de La Tuque, Keven Charest (La Tuque) suffered multiple fractures to his face, in addition to puncturing his sinuses. He will need to undergo surgery though he did skate off on his own. As for Gabriel Mailhot (Trois-Rivieres) he sustained a major laceration to his face as he laid in a pool of blood on the ice. Both players were rushed to the hospital.
Since the footage is tough to watch, the link needs to be open in YouTube to make sure viewers are old enough to see its content. You've been warned.
This league is not meant for hockey players it seems - it's around for the show and fights. And clearly this one turned into a nightmare…
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Boeing 727 VP-BDJ: The Original Trump Force One
Throughout the long and varied career of Donald J. Trump, he has owned and flown in some of the most lavish planes imaginable. From his Trump Force One personal planes, his Trump Shuttle airline and now his vision for the newest Air Force One - all of them are Boeing and every one of them a luxury plane. VP-BDJ was one of these opulent flying palaces, befitting a brash and flamboyant businessman. Check out the Trump Boeing 727 collection.
Trump Boeing 727-100 Biz Jet cropped flickr photo by wbaiv shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
Trump Shuttle
Trump entered the airline business in 1988, after he and Eastern president Frank Lorenzo met at a party and later negotiated the purchase of a shuttle service and its fleet for $365 million. The purchase included 17 Boeing 727s, including VP-BDJ, landing facilities at LaGuardia, Logan and Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport), and the right to brand the company and fleet with the Trump name. After adding additional aircraft, the Trump Shuttle was launched June 8, 1989.
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It was intended to be converted from a no-frills business shuttle to a luxury airline. The planes were repainted and branded with the Trump name. The interiors were redone with maple wood veneer with gold touches throughout. Passengers were able to check in with self-service kiosks at LaGuardia, make in-flight calls, rent laptop computers, and enjoy free meals and beverages. Despite these luxury touches, the airline was never able to stay profitable. It was merged into another corporation April 7, 1992, and eventually became American Airlines Shuttle. VP-BDJ was sold to Theberton, but repurchased by Trump in 1997 to be used as his private jet, the original Trump Force One.
"Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here." - Donald Trump
Luxury Travel Aboard A 727
While the Boeing 727 is known for being extremely noisy, VP-BDJ had a Quiet Wing system kit installed, which changed it from Stage 2 to Stage 3 noise compliance. The interior was redone with mahogany cabinetry and silk upholstery. Additional features included:
A private quarters at the cabin midpoint, with queen sized sleeping and a full bath
State-of-the art entertainment with a theater setting and surround sound stereo system
Comfortable seating for 23 passengers, in three salon settings
It was replaced by a Boeing 757 and VP-BDJ was then sold in 1997 to Weststar Aviation Services , and flew as part of its corporate VIP transport fleet. It retained the lavish decor until the plane was slated for destruction. It turned up in 2015 and caught the eye of one of MotoArt's boneyard contacts.
MotoArt Acquires A Plane
Dave Hall of MotoArt was excited when he heard VP-BDJ was available. "We always love finding a plane with a lot of interest to it. This was undeniably a great find," said Hall.
In addition to creating the Trump PlaneTags and matching Trump money clips, the team also prepared for their release with an over-the-top press campaign, in line with an over-the-top man. While it was not well received by the media contacts MotoArt reached out to, it was appreciated by airplane enthusiasts. "We made them for people like ourselves, for avgeeks by avgeeks," says Hall. "Politics aside, there is a lot of affection for the Boeing 727 and we felt a great honor preserving one that had seen so much, including being the private jet of our 45th president."
Boeing 727 Money Clip
This marked the first time MotoArt offered a money clip as an aviation collectible. They are made in the USA and constructed from solid brass and are gold plated. They, and the Boeing 727 PlaneTag are made from the fuselage skin. The skin is cut, polished and assembled by hand into the finished products. While PlaneTags are perfect as aviation keychains and airplane luggage tags to be used every day, they are beautiful enough to be a luxury travel item and would be suitable on a flying palace like VP-BDJ herself.


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Q: What is the difference between the LIB and LIBPATH environment variables for MS Visual C/C++? I've been working on some build scripts, and this is bugging me. I want to be sure that we're independent of environment settings, but in order to be sure of that I feel a need to understand how/where the settings are used by the tools.
The Visual Studio command prompt and/or vcvarsall.bat file set up two distinct environment variables: LIB and LIBPATH. The values are different, but partially overlapping.  Here are the values from my system:
LIB=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\lib\win8\um\x86;

LIBPATH=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\LIB;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.0\References\CommonConfiguration\Neutral;\Microsoft.VCLibs\11.0\References\CommonConfiguration\neutral;

I'd just like to understand the rationale for having two different variables -- a little more than the obvious fact that LIBPATH brings in more libs. I've tried looking it up, but I haven't found a clear definition of when each is used by the linker and/or the dev environment.

A: LIB is for the linker, helps it find import and static libraries.
LIBPATH is for the compiler, helps it find metadata files.  Like type libraries, .NET assemblies, WinRT .winmd files.

A: The LIB environment-variable is passed to the linker,
and helps it to find and import .lib files.

And that, no matter if .lib file belongs to dynamic or static library.

The LIBPATHenvironment-variable is passed to the compiler,
and helps it to find meta-data files.

Like .NET assemblies, type libraries, or WinRT .winmd files.

Also note that, the /LIBPATH command-line option has nothing to do with LIBPATH environment variable, and is just misleadingly named (by Microsoft).

And the path passed using said command-line option, is just searched before LIB environment-variable's paths, like it's prepending a path (which one should not simply call overriding).

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GP practices to host Internet Training Sessions in NHS England scheme to reduce health inequalities
Madlen Davies reports in Pulse that NHS England is set to spend £750,000 creating 'digital flagships' in GP practices, health centres and hospitals as part of a drive to train 100,000 people to use the internet this year.
Here's a few thoughts I had on the plans:
"The major initiative to train 100,000 patients was first announced in NHS England's business plan for 2013/14 to 2015/16, and the procurement document for the scheme reveals it may cost up to £750,000 in 2013/14, and that it could be extended for a further two years… …funding of up to £750,000 will be available for allocation to training centres up to 31 March 2014. This figure is dependent upon the total budget available for the delivery of this programme and may be reduced"
Back of an envelope numbers on this are nonsensical. With about 8,000 GP Practices in England (who are all facing budget cuts in these times of austerity) this project even if it could draw down it's full available budget could provide less than £100 for each practice… …enough for a washable keyboard perhaps?
"The training centres are designed to reduce health inequalities – one of the specifications of the Government's mandate to NHS England – and will be set up in areas of social deprivation, Pulse has learnt… …The governing body for the NHS said that over seven million people in the UK have never used the internet, and although people over the age of 65 account for more than half of all NHS spending, 40% do not have access to the internet at home and five million of these have never been online… …It also said that other groups – such as those with disabilities, the homeless, offenders, the traveller community and people in some rural communities – are also at an additional disadvantage as they are not able to use the internet"
I think there's this massive misunderstanding about the opportunity to connect people. The idea that rural populations, travellers and homeless people want internet skills really isn't understanding the challenges that such Patients face (eg. access to fixed internet connectivity, literacy, access to power supply, crime and the ability to secure a PC/Laptop, etc, etc) and is very typical of people who aren't aware of the opportunity mobile provides us to deliver healthcare services.
"The governing body for the NHS said that over seven million people in the UK have never used the internet, and although people over the age of 65 account for more than half of all NHS spending, 40% do not have access to the internet at home and five million of these have never been online"
I find it bizarre that someone thinks GP practices are suited to this type of initiative as the vast majority don't even provide Patients with online access to their records or a means of online communication.
The situation is bad enough already but imagine how disappointed you'd be if you were a Patient who had bought into this new tech, learnt how to use it in your GPs clinic and then you come to realise that your GP's aren't actually prepared to let you use it to communicate with them?
What do we need first the Online Services or the IT Skills?
I think NHS England should focus on IT certification of Healthcare Professionals and the introduction of IT services before using it's limited resources to train Patients on basic IT skills.
In my opinion a much more effective solution would be a secure GP website offering access to clinically validated interactive communication tools and featuring a link to an introductory online IT training course for those who would like some help.
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Q: input filtering capacitor design How to make input filtering capacitance circuit (capacitor bank) if values of one capacitor are not enough to handle with voltage and capacitance? For example, calculated input capacitor value for AC-to-DC converter 1.4 millifarad 640 V.

A: They do exist if you look under Caps, Film

Categories  Capacitors
Film Capacitors
Manufacturer    EPCOS (TDK)
Series  B2562
Packaging ?     Bulk ?
Part Status     Active  88 Stock
Capacitance     1500µF
Tolerance   ±10%
Voltage Rating - AC     -
Voltage Rating - DC     900V
Dielectric Material     Polypropylene (PP), Metallized
Operating Temperature   -55°C ~ 75°C
Mounting Type   Chassis, Stud Mount
Package / Case  Radial, Can
Size / Dimension    4.567" Dia (116.00mm)
Height - Seated (Max)   7.126" (181.00mm)
Termination     Threaded, Female
Lead Spacing    1.969" (50.00mm)
Applications    DC Link, DC Filtering


Happy Tuesday to everyone, and apologies for yesterday's whineathon of a post, it was most unbecoming. We promise to be a better Princess today. In fact, today's post is all sweetness and light. Seriously.
Because today marks our 500th post!
And to mark the occasion we are going to do something we're not very good at: talking about ourselves (all of us, each and every Princess…heh-heh-heh), in a manner of speaking. More accurately, talking about life on the Preppy Planet as seen through the eyes of our little blog.
Our very first post was back on February 10, 2008, titled Prepalicious Alberta Ferretti. We looked at an outstanding collection from this designer (perhaps better known for her Philosophy line), but not one generally considered to offer a preppy aesthetic.
Our second most popular post has to have the longest title ever created: Summer Olympics Fashion Focus, Ralph Lauren Team USA Opening Ceremony Uniforms Reactions, and Who Was "Preppy" Dressed Team?
Other hot topics include Tiffany Eyeglasses….
…along with all manner of apparel and accessories, especially of a preppish design.
And when those styles intersected with politics and/or celebrity (let alone darling little girls), that only seemed to heighten the interest. Sketches have also been popular.
J. Crew proved especially adroit at maximizing marketing opportunities in this arena.
Occasionally we let a little of our LogoPhobia (a little?!) rear its head, and we have delighted in sharing felt obligated to report on those newly named to the Anti-Prep Wall of Shame. We have also loved finding things that are Pretty in Pink, discovering Argyle Adventures, not to mention sharing anything nautically inclined, adorned with grosgrain ribbon, or done in a seersucker or madras motif.
Because we follow your lead; the very best part of all this bloggage has been our treasured readers. By far. We consider ourselves more-than-fortunate to have made so many friends via this medium, we really are blessed. So if there is something you want to see more, or hear less about, anything at all, do tell! We always want to know your thoughts.
After this there really isn't anything we can say other than "Thank you".
Princess we thank you. For your gracious spirit, sense of humor, and unflagging desire to do a good job. And I love your favorite post too.
Happy 500! Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for keeping us informed with the latest and greatest in the preppy world.
Happy 500 to you!! That is just fabulous. I love reading your updates. Cheers to many more posts to come!
Thank you for being your pretty selves and allowing us to follow you through 500 posts! I look forward to them everyday!
congratulations on 500th post! that triple dose of argyle stopped me in my tracks too LOL!
Chace Crawford no thank you, Tiffany Eyeglasses definitely!
Congratulations, thanks for keeping me up to date on all things important!
Thank YOU! Love your blog, your products, your customer service!
Five Hundred Posts!!!! I am in AWE! I don't comment as much as I should but rest assured that I read each and every word. You ROCK!
Yes, Great game Saturday! Sorry I couldn't actually be there this year!
Congratulations!!! What an amazing milestone to have reached! I'm in total agreement with the other posters – your wit, sense of humour, beautiful writing style and keen ability to stay on top of all things fashionably preppy all keep me coming back for more.
Looking forward to 500 more posts!
Oh TP!!!! Congratulations on such a wonderful milestone! 500…my goodness! Wow….I stand in awe. I just adore your blog, and I always feel so honored when you leave me comments. We read so many of the same blogs and I enjoy reading your comments on other blogs as well. Hugs to you and to the Consort! Congratulations!
Congrats on 500 fabulous, preppy fashion-filled posts!
Congrats! You've come a long way.
Happy, happy 500! And many more to come. It has been truly a pleasure to read your blog and I thoroughly enjoy it! All the best!
Happy 500th! It's been an honor getting to know you and your fabulous blog and Consort!
Wait, whoops, meant that to say "fabulous Consort and blog!" Consorts before blogs!
Congratulations on 500 fabulous posts! Your blog is always a fun, entertaining read.
Cheers! Here is to 500 more fabulous posts!


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FEMA trailer litigation nears end
Michael Kunzelman
NEW ORLEANS - A class-action settlement agreement has been reached to resolve nearly all the remaining court claims over allegations that government-issued trailers exposed Gulf Coast residents to hazardous fumes after Hurricane Katrina, a lead plaintiffs' attorney said Monday.
The attorney, Gerald Meunier, told The Associated Press that plaintiffs' lawyers and several companies that manufactured FEMA trailers after the 2005 storm will ask U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt to approve an expanded version of a multimillion-dollar deal initially announced in April. Documents outlining the agreement will be filed late Monday, he said.
A separate agreement with four FEMA contractors that installed or refurbished trailers will be filed Tuesday, according to Meunier.
Nearly two dozen FEMA trailer makers agreed last month to pay a total of $14.8 million to resolve claims over elevated formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Monday's expanded settlement agreement includes claims against trailer manufacturers Gulf Stream Coach Inc., Forest River Inc., Jayco Inc. and Monaco Coach Corp. FEMA contractors Shaw Environmental Inc., Bechtel Corp., Fluor Enterprises Inc. and CH2M Hill Constructors Inc. also have reached agreements with the plaintiffs' lawyers, according to Meunier.
The amount of money that would be paid by each of the eight companies wasn't immediately disclosed.
Residents of Louisiana, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi who lived in FEMA trailers after the 2005 hurricanes are eligible to participate.
Engelhardt is expected to hold a fairness hearing on the proposed settlement on Sept. 27. If he approves the deal, a group of Texas residents' claims against the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be the only formaldehyde-related claims that haven't been settled or dismissed by the judge, Meunier said.
Meunier estimates that roughly 60,000 plaintiffs could benefit from the entire settlement. He said the deal is a "positive development" for residents even if the amount of compensation is lower than many had anticipated when the case started nearly five years ago.
"But I think the outcome here reflects the realities of the case," Meunier said.
Meunier said the plaintiffs' lawyers tested a sample of FEMA trailers but couldn't test every unit occupied by every plaintiff.
"I think that presented a challenge," he said. "It was our belief that to go on trying thousands of cases with that kind of challenge in presenting the evidence ... was not going to be a very satisfactory alternative for the clients."
Formaldehyde, a chemical commonly found in building materials, can cause breathing problems and is classified as a carcinogen. Government tests on hundreds of trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi found formaldehyde levels that were, on average, about five times what people are exposed to in most modern homes.
FEMA, which isn't a party in the settlement, downplayed formaldehyde risks for months before those test results were announced in February 2008. As early as 2006, trailer occupants began reporting headaches, nosebleeds and difficulty breathing.
The federal agency provided trailers or mobile homes to more than 144,000 families after the hurricanes. Plaintiffs' lawyers have accused the trailer makers of using shoddy building materials and methods in a rush to meet the agency's unprecedented demand for temporary housing.
In October 2007, Engelhardt was picked to oversee hundreds of consolidated lawsuits and tens of thousands of related claims. Since then, the case has generated more than 25,000 docket entries and resulted in three trials for individual claims. The juries in all three trials sided with the companies and didn't award any damages.
The settlement isn't the first in the litigation. Last year, a group of companies that manufactured mobile homes for FEMA after Katrina agreed to pay $2.6 million to resolve thousands of related claims. Mobile homes are larger and sturdier than travel trailers, which housed the majority of storm victims and are more prone to elevated levels of formaldehyde.
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc., which supplied FEMA with travel trailers before it filed for bankruptcy in 2009, agreed in 2010 to a settlement resolving about 7,500 to 8,000 claims. Terms of that deal weren't disclosed.
Engelhardt dismissed claims against FEMA by residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Plaintiffs' attorneys have asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overturn Engelhardt's dismissal of the Louisiana claims. The appeals court previously upheld his dismissal of the Mississippi and Alabama claims.


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Troy Resources (TRY.to) (TRY.ax) news
Sep 09, 2009 00:01 ET
Troy Resources to Enter the ASX Top 300
PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire – Sept. 9, 2009) – Troy Resources NL (TSX:TRY)(ASX:TRY) –
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Troy Resources NL ("Troy") is pleased to report it will be included in the S&P/ASX 300 Index with effect from the close of trade on 18 September 2009.
Standard & Poor's Index Services, the leading provider of equity indices in Australia, announced Troy's inclusion in the ASX300 Index in a statement on 4 September. They noted: "Both the S&P/ASX 200 and the S&P/ASX 300, together with component indices are reviewed as part of the September quarterly rebalance. The quarterly rebalance considers the aggregate market capitalisation and liquidity of stocks for the preceding 6-months of 2009 as a basis for eligibility."
Commenting on the announcement Troy's CEO Paul Benson said: "This is an important achievement for Troy, and one that reflects the 340% increase in Troy's share price since the lows of November 2008 during the depths of the Global Financial Crisis.
"This is a significant milestone in Troy's growth trajectory and a clear indicator to our shareholders that the growth strategy embarked upon by the Board and Management is on target. Today Troy has the largest Reserve and Resource base, and the longest forecast production profile in the Company's 25-year history.
"Our entry into the ranks of Australia's top 300 companies will also serve to raise the profile of Troy within a wider audience of potential investors."
ABOUT TROY RESOURCES
Troy Resources (TSX:TRY)(ASX:TRY) is a dividend-paying junior gold producer, with a clear growth strategy. The Company has two producing gold operations; at Sandstone in Western Australia and the Andorinhas Mine in Para State, Brazil and a gold silver development project, Casposo, in San Juan province, Argentina.
Troy has an experienced Board and management team with a portfolio of successful, fast-track mine development and low-cost operations.
Troy has an annual exploration budget of $5 million and a proven track record in exploration discoveries and strategic acquisitions.
Troy is currently focused on developing its Casposo Project, which it acquired in May 2009. With the acquisition and development of Casposo, Troy is entering a renewed growth phase which will again lift the Company's annual gold production above 100,000 ounces of gold per annum.
The Company maintains a robust balance sheet, and its current assets are forecast to continue to generate strong cash flow. Troy's gold production is unhedged; allowing its shareholders access to the full benefit of current and future gold price upside.
With the recent Casposo acquisition, Troy is positioned to continue its path of strong growth and profitable operations and is well on track to achieve its vision of becoming a highly profitable mid-tier gold producer with a portfolio of quality long-life assets.
Troy is a responsible corporate citizen, committed to the best practice of health and safety, environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
To view the Project Locations please click on the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/try99.JPG


AULDJO, John Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the Eighth and Ninth of August, 1827.
London. Printed for Longman,Rees, Orme. 1830.
21cm, second edition, x,148p., with 22 (of 24)lithographed plates and maps, (including folding plates & 3 hand coloured), WANTING plates 14 & 22, some foxing and corner stains, quarter bound in plain brown calf and worn marbled boards, early paper repairs,a good working copy. (gar). These attractive lithographs are engraved on india paper and laid down; the thinner paper produces a better imagine. This book went through several editions and did much to popularize the new sport of mountaineering. Neate 38.


Avril Lavigne shared a clip of her new song "Warrior" on social media.
The song was written about her struggle with Lyme disease and her battle with her health struggles.
You can find the track on her new album Head Above Water , which is out February 15th.


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Q: Determine loading time for an android application Is there a way to determine the loading time for my android application.

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*If there is then how can we measure this time in the most effective way?

Thanks in advance

A: One of the first things that get called is the Application Constructor. So you can override the Application class and log the start time. After that, you can log again on the launcher activity's onResume() as this is the place where the app goes visible.


Wake Zone Luxury Houseboat Rentals is family owned-and-operated by the Harris and Kindt families. With backgrounds in houseboat services on both Bull Shoals Lake and Lake Ouachita, Shane Harris has 20 years of experience, and Donny Kindt has 30 years of experience. Combined, they have 50 years of total experience in the houseboat rental industry. Suzanne Kindt and Wendy Harris (sisters) have applied their years of experience in hotel management and party planning and used them to provide a fantastic vacation atmosphere for our guests.
When our families started this company in 2001, our goal was to provide the nicest, most luxurious Lake Ouachita houseboat rentals and to provide the most outstanding customer service possible. We achieve these goals year after year by limiting the number of houseboats in our fleet and by meeting and exceeding every customer's needs.
We know how important family summer vacations are to people. When our guests choose to vacation with us, we take each group or family as an individual challenge - a challenge to provide them with an unforgettable, life-changing experience and the ultimate vacation.


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Mag. 4.1 earthquake - 193 km west of Salta, Argentina, on 30/04/2020 16:48:12 -
This quake was likely an aftershock of the 5.4 quake 83 km west of San Antonio de los Cobres, Departamento de Los Andes, Salta, Argentina, 29 April 2020 05:37 GMT, which had occurred 1 day 14 hours earlier.
Quake Data | Interactive map | User Reports | Earlier quakes in same area | Quakes in Argentina | Salta | Buenos Aires F.D.
Light magnitude 4.1 earthquake at 194 km depth
30 Apr 19:54 UTC: First to report: INPRES after 6 minutes.
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 198.0 to 194.0 km.
Date & time: 30 Apr 2020 19:48:12 UTC -
Local time at epicenter: 30/04/2020 16:48:12
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 24.229°S / 67.215°W (Departamento de Los Andes, Salta, Argentina)
Nearest volcano: Incaguasi (33 km / 21 mi)
193 km (120 mi) WNW of Salta (pop: 512,700) --> See nearby quakes!
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M 4.1 194 km SALTA (Argentina) INPRES
M 4.2 177 km Salta, Argentina EMSC
M 4.2 177 km 104 km al SE de Socaire (Argentina) GUG (U. Chile)
M 4.2 182 km Chile-Argentina Border Region GFZ
M 4.5 207 km 108km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina USGS
M 4.7 10 km Northern Chile USP
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In this post I'm going to describe how to build simple online dashboards by rendering a mysql query in a HTML table. Using Tablesorter and Tablechart the output will not only become sortable but you'll also be able to filter any column and display a chart of the resulting data.
As an example I've used my wordpress database to query the number of posts I wrote over the years and display the resulting data in a chart.
Sorting The basic functionality of the tablesorter-plugin. You can sort the table by clicking on each table-header. You can even pre-sort the table (these settings would go into the tablesorter-options.php file of my example-code).
Math: I've included the math-plugin of the tablesorter-plugin. In this example the footer row dynamically calculates the sum of the posts (here 13). This is achieved by adding data-math="col-sum" to the th-element of the table. Check out the documentation of the math-plugin here.
Filter: You can filter each column by typing in the fields there. The calculated sum even updates dynamically.
I've prepared an archive of the example to get you started. Please be aware that this my personal custom usage of the plugins. You probably have to adapt and expand the code quite a bit to make it work for your project.
So let's talk you through the code. I'm going to explain the most important parts – from there you probably just have to go and try/error yourself.
To get started you need to fill in the connection details of your mysql database. Locate the following code block and edit accordingly.
This is where you put your sql query. My query is a very simple one selecting the number of posts I wrote on this blog over time. The resulting data has two columns; Time and Posts.
in the code and so forth.
In this part of the code the Tablesorter and Tablechart jQuery Plugins get their settings & options. Most of them are quite easy to understand but at some point you probably have to read up about other options.


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Pechey uses the "ladle" technique for paraffin, where a paraffin bath is used to warm the wax and keep it in liquid form, but when it's time to apply the wax, she ladles the liquid wax into disposable plastic liners, and then inserts the client's hand or foot.
According to Beverly Ho of the California State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, whenever inspecting establishments, the inspector ensures that the paraffin wax is not re-used or visibly dirty. Some paraffin users have been cited because they re-use the paraffin that was peeled off a client's hand or foot after a treatment. This is definitely not protocol, and should never be done. But if board inspectors see that the wax is clean, and in a clean and closed container, it is not standard to write a citation.
Paraffin also works great for clients who are waiting for their appointments. Offering a complimentary paraffin dip while she waits is a great customer perk, and it also helps to entice your client to incorporate it into her service. And for salons that do hair as well, offering free paraffin dips to waiting hair clients is an easy way to talk about the great nail services offered at the salon. Why not turn hair-only clients into full-service nail clients too?
The pricing of getting a paraffin unit operating is relatively small. One machine typically costs $200, but can be found as low as $150 at tradeshows, and the wax itself averages about $25 for 6 lbs. Charging $10 for a service, techs can recoup their cost in one month if they can do about five paraffin dips a week. According to the latest NAILS poll on paraffin in 2005, the average price techs are charging for the service is $9.83.
Here are a couple techniques for standard paraffin wax services at the salon.
> It is recommended to have two separate baths for dipping, one for feet and one for hands.
> Always keep the bath clean.
> Do not service clients with open cuts, sores, or burns, and make sure they are not wearing any jewelry.
> Always cleanse hands and feet thoroughly with soap and water or antiseptic spray before immersing.
> If applying polish, remember to dehydrate the nail plate after the dip.
> If using the ladle technique, be sure to clean and disinfect the ladle or use disposable cups.
> Never reuse wax that has been applied to a client — under any circumstances.
There are many different kinds of paraffin wax out there, each with its own scent. But they all have excellent moisturizing properties and are great conductors of heat to make for soothing and relaxing paraffin services. Here's a sampling of some professional offerings.
Depilève's Tropical Paraffin Wax is enriched with mango oil and vitamins E and F to obtain an intense moisturizing treatment with a delicious and revitalizing aroma. The wax leaves the skin healthy and luminous.
FPO's Pinnacle Nurture Infused Therapeutic Paraffin penetrates at the cellular level to super-moisturize and protect the skin, replenishing vital nutrients necessary for healthy, beautiful skin. It also creates a moisture shield to prevent dryness and premature aging of the skin. Nurture Paraffin is available in Unscented, Peachy Vanilla, Coconut Mango, Kicked Up Cranberry, and Spa Blend.
GiGi has a collection of different scented paraffin waxes. They incorporate different fruit extracts to maximize the waxes' antioxidant and hydrating powers, and the light scents help soothe the client and relax her. Scents include Crushed Grape, Pomegranate Cranberry, and Blueberry.
Helen of Troy's Peach and Lavender Paraffin Waxes help bring dry, damaged skin back to life. The Lavender Wax is infused with lavender oil to remove nervous tension, relieve pain, and disinfect skin, while improving circulation, and the Peach Wax uses peach oil to heal dry, sensitive skin.
PerfectSense Paraffin treatments guarantee sanitary care by offering disposable, individualized treatments to every spa client. The activator and minerals in the heater pouch mix and create heat, which melts the paraffin. Each mitt or bootie has 70 grams of medical-grade paraffin inside it, and it is placed over the client's hands or feet for the treatment.
Sheba Nails' Peach Scent Paraffin is infused with peach oil and essential ingredients to calm and smooth dry, rough skin. The wax creates a great experience with its moisturizing and deep-skin conditioning qualities. It also increases circulation, eases aching joints, relaxes stiff muscles, and leaves skin looking fresh and healthy.
Keep your paraffin bath safe and free from microbial and bacterial contamination with Mastex's Thermal Spa Plus Anti-Bacterial Waxes. The waxes kill many harmful bacteria or other possible contaminants. The waxes also include aloe vera oil and lanolin to moisturize and condition dry, damaged skin.


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Q: Ansible in Docker container refuses to communicate with other Docker container I am currently facing a problem where my ping module I defined in my playbook.yml file refuses to connect to a different docker container. The Ansible environment is setup in a Docker container as well. The Docker service I am trying to do a ping to is called "postgres_container". The weird thing is, if I do a ping from within the ansible container with the command "ping postgres_container" it succesfully connects and stays connected. However, If I try to run the command from within my playbook.yml file, it fails.
my hosts file:
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postgres_container

my playbook.yml file:
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- hosts: database
  tasks:
    - name: test connection
  ping:

Any help would be appreciated!

A: It was indeed a problem where the containers did not have an SSH server running for ansible to connect to. Thanks @β.εηοιτ.βε for the solution.


India has been leading at developing some of the most complex and intense data-intensive systems in the world as exemplified with their mass biometric identification system, known as Aadhaar, as well as in the development and design of new technologies. To find out more about the main privacy issues in India, check out the State of Privacy in India.
And yet, India does not have a comprehensive privacy legislation and only limited data protection standards can be found under section 43A and associated Rules in the Information Technology Act 2000.
There are currently 126 countries in the world with data protection laws, the Council of Europe has undertaken a process to modernise Convention 108 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, and after almost five years of negotiations the European Commission adopted a new data protection regulation in 2016 which will provide almost 512 million people with safeguards.
For nearly 30 years, Privacy International has been advocating for the right to privacy, and a central component of our work has been to engage in legislative processes to ensure that governments adopt and enforce laws that respect, promote and uphold the highest safeguards to protect the privacy and data of their citizens.
For the last decade, Privacy International is proud to have been working with the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) which has been at the forefront of the data protection debate in India, working to inform policy-makers of the need for such a law in India. So when the opportunity finally came around for us to be able to ensure that the data of 1.3 billion people was effectively and efficiently protected, we seized it.
India has recently taken certain measures indicating that it was prepared to legislate on data protection. In July 2017, the government set up an expert committee to suggest a draft Data Protection Bill. The committee is chaired by Justice B N Srikrishna, a former Supreme Court Judge. In November of that year, the Expert Committee released a white paper for public consultation on the contours of a privacy legislation for India.
With these important developments, Privacy International believes that the initiation of this process offers a significant opportunity for India to draft and adopt a data protection law which would provide the most advanced safeguards for regulating the processing of personal data as well as adopting innovative measures to enforce it.
Privacy International welcomes the aim of the White Paper published by the Committee of Experts to solicit public comments on what shape a data protection law must take. This initiative is an important next step following the recognition of the fundamental right to privacy as read in Article 21 (Right to life and liberty), and Part III (Chapter on Fundamental Rights) of the Constitution in the matter of K S Puttaswamy and others v. Union of India.
We trust that this initial consultation will provide the foundational feedback India is seeking to support its process to develop a data protection framework. With the aim of providing clear responses, Privacy International is submitting general comments on certain chapters of the White Paper which includes direct responses to some of the questions and reflections on the Provisions Views. We used this opportunity to welcome some of the thinking of the Committee as well as to highlight areas of concerns, emphasise issues we identified as needing further deliberation and raise issues which we assessed were missing and should be considered.
Privacy International is looking forward to the next steps and hopes the India government will make it possible for all stakeholders, and in particular civil society, to share their expertise further at various stages of the legislative process which will see India draft and hopefully adopt a comprehensive, robust and progressive data protection law.
This is an opportunity for civil society in India and elsewhere working on the right to privacy, data protection and human rights issues to engage in this process. Privacy touches on many aspects of our lives including our dignity and autotomy and protecting personal data is an important tool for citizens to exercise control. It will be crucial for a wide range of actors across disciplines to be part of the next steps of the legislative process. Keep an eye out for any up-coming announcement of the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. You can also sign-up to 'join' our actions to find out more about our work on data protection and our programme aimed at building a global movement.
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In the contemporary political and security architecture of south Asia the deterrence discourse has evolved with the passage of time. It was the time when both states India and Pakistan were becoming successful in deterring each other by using various deterring tools (Nuclear Weapons). But changing nature of threats has altered the contours of deterrence stability of south Asia.
Numbers of factors are responsible for changing the nature of nuclear deterrence in South Asia i.e. Introduction of new strategies and doctrines, acquisition of missile defense shield, technical progress and other secondary factors e.g. the role of media whether it is social media, print media or electronic media. Media, which also has been considered as important entity in India, is playing a very negative role. Rather than making propagandas or giving hype to the sensitive issues media from Indian side should perform wisely and with some maturity.
Policy makers from Indian side who are trying to coin new strategies in order to deter Pakistan and also in quest of hegemonic status for India in the region which in result is changing the existing nature of nuclear deterrence. However, India is formulating new policies and strategies which according to its policy makers would be proved fruitful for India, but policy makers form Indian side should also be mindful of the fact that experiments in such a sensitive business could be proved highly dangerous for not only the fate of India as well as for the whole region.
Furtherance in conventional aspects may also provide justification to each side for launching nuclear weapon. India is continuously expanding its conventional arsenals according to the reports India is a leading buyer of conventional arms. Between 1999 and 2006, India totaled $22.4 billion in arms sales agreements, according to a 2007 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service. That total made India first among all developing arms buyers during that period. India became the leading global arms importer in the period from 2007 to 2011, accounting for ten percent of total arms imports. This trend is expected to continue, with an increase in defense spending. It is clear from the reports that India is continuously pursuing it malicious ambitions that are highly unfavorable for the region. The steps which have been taken by the India in furtherance of conventional aspects may damage the stability of the region. It would also not be wrong to mention that actually India is confusing the purpose of deterrence. As a bigger state of the region India should lead from the front for the exploration of new horizons of Confidence Building Measures (CBM'S) with Pakistan in order to strengthen the stability of the region.
Pakistan is quite satisfied with the existing pattern of deterrence, which is also currently prevailing to some extent in South Asia. But, question arises, why Pakistan is continuously exploring the ways which ultimately lead towards the possession of low-yield nuclear weapons and advancement of nuclear capabilities. The answer to this question can be addressed in a way that it was India which was strongly portraying its Cold Start Doctrine and also showing its urge of getting defense shield. Keeping in view these initiatives or intentions of India there was no other choice remaining left for Pakistan rather than pursuing low-yield nuclear weapons and advancement of its nuclear capabilities. In other words it would not be wrong to mention that Pakistan is being compelled by the India to follow or adapt such kind of ways or policies.
After the careful study of history and acute consultation of to date existing literature, it can be strongly determined that the only purpose behind possessing deterrence for every nuclear weapon state is just to secure itself from the aggression of adversary state, which in result will maintain the peace. Therefore, it is pretty clear from the origin of deterrence that it is a political tool and sole purpose at the back end of deterrence is the maintenance, furtherance and stability of peace among states, which should be followed by the states that are in race with each other. Deterrence should not be manipulated for the purposes of gaining ultimate supremacy, but India is continuously trying to disturb the existing pattern of deterrence without keeping in view that repercussions would be dire for the whole region. Now question arises that why Pakistan is not following the lines which are being followed by the India? Answer to this question is quite simple that Pakistan doesn't want to take such steps which ultimately could lead towards arms race, change in deterrence pattern etc. which is showing that how much Pakistan is mature and concerned about strategic stability of region. In other words, it would not be wrong to mention that Pakistan doesn't want to instigate any adversary state in nuclear manner for the survival of strategic stability of region.


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Corbyn pledges to accept one million refugees in his beard
Posted date: September 13, 2015 In: News
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war, murder, rape and economic collapse are set to make new homes deep within Jeremy Corbyn's beard.
The newly-elected Labour Party leader said there was "plenty of room" in and around the hair follicles of his silver facial fuzz for the refugees to "start a new life" free from violence and fear.
Corbyn's impressive chin forest – the Parliamentary Beard of the Year five times in a row – is said to be able to accommodate up to 1,300,000 people.
"Come to thy beard, for it is warm and thick," Corbyn proclaimed at a rally in Dover this afternoon.
"My award-winning facial hair is supported by greyroots activists who have been inspired to join the Labour Party and make the dream of beard-based asylum a reality.
"This is the beginning of a new chapter in the history of democratic hair growth."
Although well received by Corbyn's youthful supporters and by human rights groups, the refugee beard policy has attracted widespread criticism and ridicule, including from within the Labour Party itself.
"This is another one of Jeremy's fanciful ideas that makes no attempt to operate within the boundaries of real-world geopolitics and economic validity," said a clean-shaven Chuka Umunna.
"In an ideal world, of course, I'd love for refugees to be able to nestle snuggly within each and every beard of the United Kingdom.
"But the reality, I'm afraid, is that there won't be any refugees living in anyone's beards without the Labour Party winning the next election.
"And Labour won't win the next election unless Jeremy Corbyn pledges right now to shave off his fucking beard, wax his scrotum, and bathe in the blood of a million drowned migrants."
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Introducing the new instant death pizza!
Are you hungry? I said; are you hungry? Good. That's very good. Because we've just made a pizza that will make you forget what hunger feels like.
Normal old boring pizza chains use dough made from flour and yeast and all of that stuff. We don't do that. We make our pizza dough out of bacon.
This isn't just pizza dough stuffed with bacon, this is a base built out of bacon. And we've not oven cooked it. No, we've deep fried it. In batter.
Yes, that's right. Our pizzas have a battered bacon base. Drooling yet? Good.
Now, most pizza bases are initially covered in sauce. Not ours. First, we spread a block of butter all over it.
Then comes the sauce. Most standard pizzerias rather boringly use a traditional tomato base made out of actual tomatoes. Not us. Our sauce is made from baked beans.
Ready for the toppings? Firstly, we've a layer of cheese. Not real cheese, but the American kind of sliced cheese. We use about 16 of these slices to completely cover our pizzas.
Then, we slap on a layer of reconstituted beef. Followed by a layer of chicken nuggets, a layer of macaroni cheese and a layer of garlic bread. Swiftly followed, of course, by a layer of curly fries.
Then comes our final layer of cheese – Camembert. And the final dollop of sauce – garlic mayonnaise. Sprinkled on top is 500g of pork scratchings.
But before we are ready to serve this masterpiece we have one final, deathly twist. The entire pizza is encased in an inch-thick layer of lard and frozen solid.
Then, and only then, is it ready to be stuffed inside the stomach of a walrus and pan fried for 45 minutes.
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