Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, announcing the official confirmation of Iguazu Falls as one of the New7Wonders of Nature, at the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during an event attended by campaign leaders and national and regional government representaives of both countries.
The official confirmation of Iguazu Falls as one of the New7Wonders of Nature took place today at the Brazilian Embassy in Buenos Aires. The venue was chosen for its symbolic value as both Argentina and Brazil shared the candidacy of Iguazu Falls during the campaign that ended on 11 November 2011. While making the official confirmation, Bernard Weber, Founder-President of New7Wonders, announced that the Official Inauguration events will take place on 25 May (on the Brazil side of Iguazu Falls) and on 26 May (on the Argentina side of Iguazu Falls).
"The unveiling of the New7Wonders/Iguazu monument in the heart of Buenos Aires, on the Misiones square on Avenida 9 de Julio near the famous giant obelisk, will be one of the highlights of the Official Inauguration events that will take place across Brazil and Argentina at the end of May," said Bernard Weber as he thanked the voters, the Official Supporting Committees and the governments of Argentina and Brazil their commitment to the successful campaign.
Among those attending the event were, Enio Cordeiro, Brazilian ambassador to Argentina, Felipe González, Minister of Tourism in Foz do Iguaçu and Jorge Sanek, director of Itaipu. Argentina was represented by Daniel Aguilera, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Horacio Blodek, Minister of Tourism of Misiones, Patricia Gandini, president of the National Parks Administration, Daniel Crosta, mayor of Iguazu National Park, Sergio Dobrusin, Undersecretary of Strategic Management of Missions, Marcelo Sanchez and Puerto Libertad, mayors of Iguazu, Sergio Ferreira, also director of the Environment and Public Spaces in Buenos Aires, Martin Bocco. The masters of ceremonies were Gilmar Piola of the Itaipu Foundation and Marcelo Almada, coordinator of VotoCataratas.com.
In alphabetical order, the provisional New7Wonders of Nature are Amazon, Halong Bay, Iguazu Falls, Jeju Island, Komodo, Puerto Princesa Underground River and Table Mountain.


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By Joel Gaff, Jr.
The first time I ran McKinley Loop was probably back in 1995 when I was a sophomore on the cross country team at Traverse City Senior High (there was no "West" or "Central" until 1998). It's still my all-time favorite running route in Traverse City.
Maybe it's because it was a loop that we ran a lot back then, or maybe it's because it has great scenery, quiet roads, a nice challenge in the middle, and is a solid, yet not terribly long distance (it's six miles on the dot). Probably a combination of all of the above.
I typically run this loop in a counterclockwise direction starting and finishing at Traverse City Central High School. Here's a quick overview of the loop...
From the Central High School gym parking lot on Eastern Ave., turn right onto Eastern avenue and head east. I recommend staying on the sidewalk.
The sidewalk will turn into a paved path just past Eastern Elementary School.
Stay on the path all the way to Birchwood Ave. (also known as East Shore Rd.), then turn left.
You're about 0.7 miles into the loop when you turn left onto Birchwood Ave. For the next two miles you'll be running along Birchwood/East Shore Rd., which is mostly tree-covered, and the views of East Grand Traverse Bay are only rivaled by the views you'll get of West Grand Traverse Bay when you hit mile four.
It's completely flat until you get to mile 2.7, where you turn left onto McKinley Rd. and the road then heads skyward.
Over the next 0.8 mile you'll gain about 150 feet of elevation. Just before you reach the true crest of the hill, you'll arrive at Center Rd. Center Rd. is a very busy road with cars travelling upward of 50 mph, so use caution when crossing. Continue straight on McKinley Rd.
Just past Center Rd. is where McKinley Rd. peaks, and you'll begin to lose elevation - quickly. The descent down to Peninsula Dr. is very steep. So steep that we would sometimes run down it backward back in high school.
When you reach the bottom of the hill, hang a left onto Peninsula Dr. Just around the corner is the four-mile mark, and you've got two miles of winding road, a wide shoulder most of the way, and fantastic views of West Grand Traverse Bay the entire way.
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You're almost home when you reach the next traffic light at Eastern Ave. Turn left onto Eastern Ave., and you'll soon see Central High School on the right. If you run all the way back to where you began on Eastern Ave. you should be at exactly six miles.
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100% of the grapes for this blend of Cabernet Franc, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon are grown on the orphanage grounds, and 100% of the profits are donated to the Herberg in the form of an educational trust, which is managed by the Wingerdprojek Trust, and audited by PWC. The funds generated from the sale of Thunderchild, both locally and internationally, have provided for a full time tutor at The Herberg, school fees for special needs schools such as the De La Bat School for the Blind in Worcester, as well as providing the tuition, accommodation and living expenses for children to attend tertiary education should they qualify. The project aims to entrust the children of the Herberg with the best possible start in their adult lives when they leave the home at the age of 18, such as ensuring that every child has a driver's license and the opportunity to pursue their full potential.
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Q: Experiment under ambient light I performed the following experiment for Faraday rotation, Verdet constant etc.

http://www.teachspin.com/instruments/faraday/

However, I have a concern. Does the external light actually affect the results of the experiment? As in under an ambient light? I fear that it might affect due to the receiver being a photodiode. But I am not too sure.

A: As long as your ambient light is consistent and lower power than your experiment light source it shouldn't be a problem.
As you rotate the angle of the polarisation filter you will eventually detect a peak at the detector--this angle will be different from the polarisation angle when the solenoid is turned off, indicating Faraday rotation. Like most optics experiments, this peak is best observed in minimal ambient light conditions. In other words ambient light adds noise but does not change the result.

A: I think you don't need to worry about the effect of the ambient light assuming

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*the source and detector you used are the same (or roughly the same) as in the specifications, and

*you used the non-standard strategy (i.e. setting the relative angle between the polarizers to be $\pi/4$) as described in the "Experiments" section

*the ambient light was not fluctuating too much.

The receiver being a classical photodiode (instead of an avalanche type diode) and with the impinging optical power level $\sim 1$ mW, the effect of background light should be negligible.


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18 de agosto foi o décimo segundo dia de competições dos Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2008. Neste dia foram disputadas competições de vinte esportes.

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Destaques do dia

110m com barreiras masculino: o chinês Liu Xiang deixou todo o país consternado após abandonar a eliminatória da prova logo após uma largada queimada por um outro atleta. Xiang, campeão da prova em Atenas 2004, havia sofrido uma lesão no tendão de Aquiles alguns meses antes da prova, e, desde então, treinava às escondidas. Porém, ele não conseguiu se curar e não agüentou correr. Após a saída de Xiang, muitos torcedores, que haviam ido ao estádio apenas para vê-lo, também se retiraram.

Salto com vara feminino: a russa Yelena Isinbaeva só precisa de dois saltos para ser bicampeã olímpica, numa prova que ficou marcada pelo sumiço das varas da brasileira Fabiana Murer. Após garantir o ouro, Yelena buscou outras duas metas: saltou 4,85 m para bater o recorde olímpico e depois, 5,05 m para quebrar o recorde mundial. Nas duas alturas, ela só conseguiu saltar na última tentativa.

Salto em distância masculino: Irving Saladino conquista o ouro e se torna o primeiro campeão olímpico da história do Panamá.

A equipe britânica vence a prova de perseguição masculina (com direito a recorde mundial) e quebra um tabu de 100 anos sem conquistar a prova.

Estão definidas as disputas de medalhas do torneio feminino: Brasil e Estados Unidos disputarão o ouro, enquanto Alemanha e Japão decidirão o bronze.

As australianas Emma Snowsill e Emma Moffatt ganham o ouro e o bronze (respectivamente) na prova feminina. A prata fica com a portuguesa Vanessa Fernandes. É a primeira medalha portuguesa nestes Jogos.

A Austrália ganha o ouro nas classes 470 masculino e 470 feminino. As brasileiras Fernanda Oliveira e Isabel Swan ganham a primeira medalha da vela feminina do país ao vencerem a "Regata da Medalha" e terminarem a competição em terceiro lugar.

Campeões do dia

Líderes do quadro de medalhas ao final do dia 18

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His compassion kindles humble repentance.
His grace stimulates greater love.
Pray that God's will also be done in us.
1. Jesus came here to show us love.
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2. It's an uncommon love.
3. It's a merciful love.
Praise God for His Eternal Gospel!
The Test of Faith is a Test Worth Taking!


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Social Developments as Indicators of Time
Didache and the Apostolic Synod of Antioch (part 2)." Journal of Theological Studies (40) 1939, pp. 258-271.
Telfer continues his argument from his earlier 1939 article. His intention is to demonstrate tha there is no reason to assume that the Didache needed to come from the first third of the second century. He builds his argument in part on an assertion that prayer, as presented in Matthew 6:5-16, is liturgical in nature. The topic of prayer is taken up in a similar way in Didache chapters 7-9 (Telfer 1939, 259).
The order of events given in the Didache for the eucharist is different from that in 1 Corinthians. Telfer considers that the Didachist must have known about Paul, especially by the second century. The concept of eucharist seems to Telfer essentially the same as in Paul, but the implementation is significantly different (Telfer 1939, 261). Telfer considers that this may have been an effect of some development over time, such as a move from the offering of bread and wine being just enough for the Eucharist to a less sacramental reception of the elements. The liturgy itself, so far as it goes, seems to Telfer essentially the same as in the earliest liturgies known (Telfer 1939, 263).
Telfer considers the visits to the community by apostles and prophets. Though the apostles and prophets are described in the Gospels as visiting, the Didache is not so concerned with receiving true apostles and prophets as with identifying imposters (Telfer 1939, 264). The type of imposters described in the New Testament strike Telfer as less "blatant" than those described in the Didache (Telfer 1939, 265). He sees this activity described more commonly by the third century, as opposed to the first or second centuries. It is more the type of activity which emerges when Christians are found to be present in larger numbers and with some economic prosperity (Telfer 1939, 266). In this age, also, Telfer finds that the priest or prophet is known to need support. There is a commitment emerging to sending and receiving ministers and providing them with support (Telfer 1939, 268). Telfer sees this as a development which occurs later in rural areas than urgan areas. He would suggest this leads to an interpretation of a slightly later time period.
Perhaps a Late Date for the Didache?
Telfer lays out an argument for the composition of the Didache later than about the year 130. His thesis follows. "The Didachist was a leader in the church of Antioch, and an elder contemporary of Theophilus. In his days Docetism was moribund, and Antioch had not yet felt the impact of Marcionism and Montanism" (Telfer 1939, 133). Telfer's argument begins with the observation that the harmful effects of the Montanistic prophecy was not widely discussed in literature prior to about 180. The Didachist, however, was concerned with the erosion of standards of holiness and was calling for a return to primitive Christianity, while also identifying with rather strict asceticism. Telfer sees this developing in the third century. In fact, he even considers it to be a more serious development early in the fourth century (Telfer 1939, 134).
Telfer considers the Didache to have self-consciously spoken, drawing on Peer's authority as the apostle to the Gentiles, addressed to Gentiles in Syria and Cilicia, "parallel with and superseding the Jerusalem encyclical of Acts XV" (Telfer 1939, 134). Because of the failure of Judaizers, the Gentile church needed to establish its own church order. For this reason, Telfer sees the author as instituting the table prayers and some other liturgical practices (Telfer 1939, 135). Telfer sees this as an example of pseudipigraphy typical of writings from the late third or early fourth centuries.
Telfer considers the Didache to be strongly dependent on the Epistle of Barnabas. He is not clear on its location of origin, but he recognizes Barnabas as being from no earlier than 130, and thinks it was in circulation for some time before inspiring the Didache (Telfer 1939, 135). This leads Telfer to conclude that the Didache could not have been composed before 140, and probably more like 170 (Telfer 1939, 136).
Barnabas as a character is not terribly important in the New Testament. It is not surprising, then, that his letter would not become immediately and widely known. However, in Antioch, the community was interested in Barnabas. They seem to have considered their church to be established based on apostolic directives, and to be ordered by writings which go beyond Scripture (Telfer 1939, 138). Church orders are first seen in Antioch. Telfer sees this as support for his thesis.
The title of the Didache, identifying the Twelve, could be misunderstood. Telfer considers the number twelve to be a later addition (Telfer 1939, 139). It is unclear exactly how Telfer considers this observation to further his thesis.
Telfer draws a sharp distinction between a Pauline emphasis on free grace and a Petrine emphasis on obedience to the Law. Because of the Two Ways material, he takes the Didache to be from the Petrine school (Telfer 1939, 139). This idea, according to Telfer, was common in Syria and Cilicia, hence the acceptance both of Barnabas and of the Didache. The ideal was to call the Gentiles back to the commands of the apostles (Telfer 1939, 140). Again, Telfer considers the Didache, particularly the Two Ways portion, to depend on Barnabas. He goes on to find numerous additional parallel expressions with Barnabas (Telfer 1939, 141-142).
Telfer makes much of the Didache's idea that the Christian really should pursue the whole law (ch. 6). He sees this as a different law than the Mosaic Law, as it is "the law of the Lord" (Telfer 1939, 143). This, again, would be a way of rejecting the Judaizers, who would have Christians bound to Moses.
Telfer considers the rite of baptism provided, observing that it is not an actual instruction about the rite but about water and the surrounding gatherings (Telfer 1939, 143). This fits a context in which baptism itself is already familiar to the readers. Telfer does think the instructions about the water suggest a Syrian context, as the Syrians had wide access to warm baths (Telfer 1939, 144).
Finally, the Didache's mention of the fasts of the "hypocrites" suggests to Telfer that the hypocrites are Judaizers, not merely the Jewish Christians. He draws on Galatians 2:13 for this view. Monday and Thursday were market days and not typically used as fast days except by Jews who wished to make a grand show of their piety (Telfer 1939, 145).
Though Telfer's argument does not conclusively date the Didache, it shows that a later date is not an impossibility. He will continue his argument in a second article, to be reviewed later.


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TL;DR : It's an allegory for DevOps - what it is, how it works, what the core principles are. The book is an easy read, and it hoodwinks you into learning the fundamentals of DevOps while following along with the misadventures of the protaganist, Bill, who gets "suckered" into taking the role of VP of IT Operations.
At its most raw, this book can easily feel like a lesson in humility.
It's not the case that at the end of the book, DevOps and Agile approaches to working have magically evaporated all the challenges facing Parts Unlimited. Conflict, incidents and mistakes are inevitable – what counts is how Bill and other team members grow to manage and resolve them. By the end of the book, Bill, his team, and Parts Unlimited have structure, process, and a more open attitude to change and adaptation to stand them in good stead.
Specifically, humility strikes a chord for me. I think back on the companies I've worked for, and how the IT department is seemingly "at odds" with the rest of the business "for their own good".
"Properly elevating preventive work is at the heart of programs like Total Productive Maintenance, which has been embraced by the Lean Community. TPM insists that we do whatever it takes to assure machine availability by elevating maintenance.
Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.
Erik continues, "Rother calls this the Improvement Kata," he continues. "He used the word kata, because he understood that repetition creates habits, and habits are what enable mastery.
"You've got to stop thinking like a work center supervisor. You need to think bigger, like a plant manager.
DevOps also requires shared goals and shared pain throughout the IT value stream.
..allocating at least twenty percent of Development and IT Operations cycles towards nonfunctional requirements, and constant reinforcement that improvements are encouraged and celebrated.
I think the graph serves that purpose, and it is the most effective way of communicating the catastrophic consequences of overloaded IT workers and the fallacies of using typical project management techniques for IT Operations.


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A Ruby interface to the NPI registry API | Read Only (https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov)

## Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

```ruby
gem 'npiregistry'
```

And then execute:

    $ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

    $ gem install npiregistry

## Usage

Get details using valid NPI number

```ruby
Npiregistry.get({number: 1245319599})
```

Get details using first name and wildcard search

```ruby
Npiregistry.get({first_name: 'LAURA'})
```

or

```ruby
Npiregistry.get({first_name: '*URA'})
```

Get details using last name and wildcard search
```ruby
Npiregistry.get({last_name: 'SAMPLE'})
```

or

```ruby
Npiregistry.get({last_name: 'SAM*'})
```

Use the following fields to generating valid response.

| Fields         |  Description  |
| :------------- |:-------------|
| number                |  Exactly 10 digits
| enumeration_type      |  NPI-1 or NPI-2 (Other criteria required)
| taxonomy_description  |  Exact Description or Exact Specialty or wildcard * after 2 characters
| first_name            |  Exact name, or wildcard * after 2 characters    Use for type 1
| last_name             |  Exact name, or wildcard * after 2 characters    Use for type 1
| organization_name     |  Exact name, or wildcard * after 2 characters    Use for type 2
| address_purpose       |  LOCATION or MAILING (Other criteria required)
| city                  |  Exact Name
| state                 |  2 Characters (Other criteria required)
| postal_code           |  At least 2 characters, wildcard is implied
| country_code          |  Exactly 2 characters (if "US", other criteria required)
| limit                 |  Limit results, default = 10, max = 200
| skip                  |  Skip first N results, max = 1000

## Development

After checking out the repo, run `bin/setup` to install dependencies. Then, run `rake test` to run the tests. You can also run `bin/console` for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run `bundle exec rake install`. To release a new version, update the version number in `version.rb`, and then run `bundle exec rake release`, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the `.gem` file to [rubygems.org](https://rubygems.org).

## Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/npiregistry. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the [Contributor Covenant](http://contributor-covenant.org) code of conduct.

## License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

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Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct's new Digital Content Hub is set to get a boost with the signing of a three-year €950 000 (R14.5-million) grant from the French Development Agency (AFD) next week.
According to the Precinct, the fund will "enable Tshimologong to expand its activities to incorporate audiovisual content creation including augmented reality, virtual reality, holograms, video games, animation and music".
The Digital Content Hub will, according to a Ventureburn report, be managed by the Braamfontein-based Tshimologong in collaboration with French multimedia and creative companies like Trace TV, Lagardère Group, Gobelins Animation School, Dailymotion, and TV5Monde.
"This partnership will further create market access between French companies and South African startups, driving investment opportunities for digital content businesses," said Tshimologong Precinct CEO Lesley Williams, in a press statement to Ventureburn.


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Tatyana Ali is standing up for Will Smith in a new Twitter post.
She played Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" from 1990 to 1996.
She began her post by saying, "I love #WillSmith very much."
However, she admitted that Chris Rock "didn't deserve to be hit. Period."
"My heart aches for what has happened," she continued.
"I don't know what caused that chaos & confusion, but I do know that Will has a big heart," she added.
She said she's "seen him many times try his best to do what is right."
She concluded her message, saying, "I believe in him."
Fans were divided as to whether or not Will Smith should be forgiven.


Optimizing VoIP traffic traditionally requires a deep understanding of your network, but with Cisco's AutoQoS and some interfaces, happier VoIP is only three steps away.
WANs often need Quality of Service (QoS) configured to ensure that certain traffic is classified as "more important" than other traffic. Until now, it took a serious Cisco guru to configure a network properly for VoIP if the network was at all bandwidth constrained. AutoQoS, a new IOS feature for Cisco routers, makes deploying VoIP easy, even on busy WAN links. In this article we'll cover the basics, what AutoQoS does, and some of its limitations.
With its first whack at AutoQoS, Cisco recognized the need to simplify VoIP traffic prioritization. VoIP is especially sensitive to any latency, jitter, or loss, and users will notice problems. To ensure the best possible VoIP call, the network must ensure that lower priority traffic does not interfere with time-sensitive VoIP. AutoQoS can be enabled on both WAN links and Ethernet switches to automatically provide a nice best-practices based template for VoIP prioritization.
QoS allows a router to classify which types of traffic are most important, and ensure that that traffic passed as quickly as possible. If necessary, other traffic will be queued until the higher priority traffic has had a chance to pass. Before a router can know when to queue versus when to attempt to pass all traffic, it must be configured with bandwidth settings for each link.
Each of these "maps" are quite complicated and prone to error. Most sites are going to be duplicating effort because of common problems, like VoIP, needing QoS help.
AutoQoS enables any network administrator to just "turn on" a solid solution for ensuring VoIP is happy. VoIP is the pain point for most organizations, so that's what Cisco focused on first, and that's what we're focusing on here. Given the limited scope of AutoQoS, it's believable that it works well enough. In reality, QoS configurations generally classify many types of traffic, and then place a priority on each one.
The main benefit of AutoQoS is that administrator training is much quicker. It also means that VoIP deployments often go much smoother, and upgrading WAN links isn't usually required. Finally, AutoQoS creates templates that can be modified as needed and copied elsewhere for deployment.
Before talking about how to enable AutoQoS, which is literally three commands, let's talk about where this works best, and what's required to use AutoQoS.
Cisco Catalyst switches also support an AutoQoS command to prioritize Cisco VoIP phones, but you cannot prioritize generic VoIP protocols with it.
Next, there are some limitations with ATM sub-interfaces. If you have a low-speed ATM link (less than 768Kbps), then AutoQoS will only work on point-to-point sub-interfaces. Higher speed ATM PVCs are fully supported though. For standard serial links, AutoQoS is not supported at all on sub-interfaces. A quick litmus test to see if AutoQoS will work on your desired interfaces or not is to verify that the service-policy configuration is supported. If not, you'll probably have to reconfigure some links.
AutoQoS will not work if an existing QoS configuration exists on an interface. Likewise, when you disable the AutoQoS configuration, any changes you may have made to the template after the initial configuration will be lost.
Bandwidth statements are used by AutoQoS to determine what settings it should use, so remember that after updating bandwidth statements in the future, you have to re-run the AutoQoS commands.
It really couldn't be easier than that. For the WAN example, we told the router that interface Serial0 has 256 Kbps, and to enable VoIP QoS. The switch example is similar, for Cisco phones.
The neat part about this is that AutoQoS is actually doing more than just generating a configuration for you and forgetting about it. If you run the command show autoqos interface s0, you will see much more than just your standard old interface configuration. It will show that a Virtual Template "interface" has been created, and that a class is applied to the interface. The same output will also show you the configuration of the template and class-map, with an asterisk next to each entry that was generated by AutoQoS. It's actually keeping track of what was done automatically so that you can learn what AutoQoS is doing. As mentioned previously, however, don't forget that removing the AutoQoS configuration will destroy all QoS settings on an interface, not just the ones that AutoQoS configured.
Finally, remember to enable QoS on both sides of a WAN link to truly prioritize VoIP packets. Don't forget to read through the Cisco documentation before deploying it, even though AutoQoS is simple, in comparison. It is simple, but the more prepared you are the easier it is to deploy.
Cisco will hopefully continue this trend of providing Auto features for complicated, but common tasks. AutoQoS for VoIP sure does enable a much larger audience to correctly deploy VoIP over a wide variety of networks.


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caption: Impressed labour
text: 39. The demand for impressed labour has been far less heavy than during the previous year. The number of coolies supplied to the different departments from the sadr sub-division in 1887-88 as compared with the number impressed in 1886-87 is given below:-
text: ___________________________________________1886-87_____1887-88
______Coolies_supplied_to_Civil_Department__1,525_______1,450
_________"______"_______"_Police_...___...__1,800_______1,663
_________"______"_______"_Military..___...__5,200_________108
_________"______"_______"_Telegraph____...__2,940_________608
_________"______"_______"_Commissariat_...__4,692_________619
_________"______"_______"_Public_Works_...____410_________350
___________________________________________------______------
_________________________________Total_..._16,567_______4,798
text: The decrease in the demands for impressed carriage from the Military Department is most satisfactory, especially in view of the fact that the movements of troops during the late cold weather were on a very extensive scale. The whole of the 42nd Regiment was moved to Manipur. A wing of the 44th replaced the 42nd and the whole of the 43rd Regiment marched through the district from Mao to Golaghat, and yet the number of coolies supplied was only 108.
text: With the completion of the permanent wire to Manipur, the requirements of the Telegraph Department of course ceased, while for the Commissariat Department throughout the year stores were conveyed from Nichuguard to Kohima and from Kohima to Mao by free coolie labour and by pack-ponies. The Commissariat stores thus carried amounted to 10,545 maunds from Nichuguard to Kohima and 3,060 maunds from Kohima to Manipur.


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CySPLE15: Cyber Security, & Privacy Challenges for Law Enforcement
ENISA is co-organising with the Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI), a two-day event on Cyber Security and Privacy Challenges for Law Enforcement. The event will take place on the 18th and 19th May 2015, Conference Venue: Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry, koronaiou 9, Heraklion
Arriving at Heraklion
Speakers' Bio
BrigGen Manolis Sfakianakis
Police Major General Emmanouil Sfakianakis is the Head of the Hellenic Police/Cyber Crime Division. He joined the Police Force -33- years ago, -21- of which are dedicated to the investigation of electronic crimes. He leads the Electronic Crime of the Hellenic Police since 1995 when he started alone as one-man-team, on 2004 the Cyber Crime Unit was established and till today it has been promoted to Cyber Crime Division commanded by him all the time.
He studied computer analysis and programming, has been trained in London on crime concerning counterfeit currency (Plastic Crime) and, moreover, he has been trained by the FBI on matters regarding terrorism over the internet (Cyber Terrorism). During his long-term career in the Hellenic Police, he has handled more than -8.500- cases involving serious cybercrime till 2015. He has participated as a keynote speaker from year 2001 to 2015 in -851- national and international conferences of INTERPOL - EUROPOL - universities - international organizations - multinational companies etc. He has organized up-to-date meetings via teleconferencing in -5.140- educational institutions of our country from October 2014 till February 2015, as well as and -218- workshops in various cities in Greece concerning the SAFE INTERNET initiative. In 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 he organized, as Head of the Hellenic Police/Cyber Crime, the -4- Conferences that were held for the World Day of the Internet and had international reach. He is also a professor for the Police Academy and the Officers' Post Training School of the Hellenic Police.
Λευτέρης Αυγενάκης
Ο Λευτέρης Αυγενάκης γεννήθηκε στις 18 Ιουλίου του 1972.
Είναι παντρεμένος με την Λένα Μπανιά, εκπαιδευτικό και έχει ένα γιο. Σπούδασε Δομικός Κτιριακών Έργων στη Σιβιτανίδειο Σχολή και Τοπογράφος Mηχανικός στο ΤΕΙ Αθηνών. Παρακολούθησε πρόγραμμα μετεκπαίδευσης στη Διαχείριση και Τεχνολογία Περιβάλλοντος. Τελειόφοιτος του ΠΜΣ του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου στην Παγκόσμια Πολιτική Οικονομία και τις Διεθνείς Σχέσεις. Έχει εργαστεί ως Εργοδηγός Δημοσίων Έργων και Τραπεζικό στέλεχος στην Παγκρήτια Συνεταιριστική Τράπεζα.
Το Μάρτιο του 2001 ιδρύει την εταιρεία «Επιχειρείν Ε.Ε., Σύμβουλοι Επιχειρήσεων και Τεχνικών Μελετών» με έδρα το Ηράκλειο την οποία διατηρεί μέχρι και σήμερα. Το Μάρτιο του 2004 πολιτεύεται για πρώτη φορά στο νομό Ηρακλείου με την Νέα Δημοκρατία. Στις εθνικές εκλογές το Σεπτέμβριο του 2007 εκλέγεται 2ος βουλευτής στο νομό Ηρακλείου ενώ στις εθνικές εκλογές τον Οκτώβριο του 2009 έρχεται 1ος σε σταυρούς στο ψηφοδέλτιο της Νέας Δημοκρατίας στο νομό Ηρακλείου μέχρι και σήμερα. Στις εθνικές εκλογές της 17ης Ιουνίου 2012 επανεκλέγεται βουλευτής με την Νέα Δημοκρατία στο νομό Ηρακλείου. Στις εκλογές της 25ης Ιανουαρίου 2015 επανεξελέγη και το Μάρτιο 2015 εκλέγεται Τομεάρχης Υποδομών, Μεταφορών και Δικτύων της Νέας Δημοκρατίας. Κατά την Κοινοβουλευτική του θητεία υπήρξε μέλος της διαρκούς επιτροπής Μορφωτικών Υποθέσεων καιΚοινωνικών Υποθέσεων, μέλος της μόνιμης επιτροπής Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας της Ειδική Μόνιμης Επιτροπής Περιφερειών και για μακρά περίοδο της επιτροπής Παραγωγής και Εμπορίου.
Mr. Ilias Chantzos
Ilias Chantzos is Senior Director of Symantec's Government Relations and Public Affairs programmes for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) and Global Advisor for Critical Infrastructure and Data Protection. Chantzos represents Symantec before government bodies, national authorities and international organisations advising on public policy issues with particular regard to IT security and data risk management and availability. Prior to this role in Symantec Chantzos managed the Symantec Government Affairs Programs for EMEA and Asia Pacific Japan (APJ). Before joining Symantec in 2004, Chantzos worked as legal and policy officer in the Directorate General Information Society of the European Commission focusing on information security policy. He covered the council of Europe Cybercrime Convention and the Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems. In addition, he managed a number of EU legislative initiatives relevant to information society and security, including directives on Privacy on Electronic Communications, the Data Retention Directive and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). He also represented the European Commission in various international debates and conferences.
Prof. Christos Douligeris
Christos Douligeris, currently a professor at the department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Greece held positions with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He was an associate member of the Hellenic Authority for Information and Communication Assurance and Privacy and the President and CEO Hellenic Electronic Governance for Social Security SA. Dr. Douligeris has published extensively in the networking scientific literature and he has participated in many research and development projects. He is the co-editor of a book on ''Network Security'' published by IEEE Press/ John Wiley and he is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals as well as on the technical program committees of major international conferences. His recent involvement in EU funded research includes ImmigrationPolicy2.0 which addresses the issues of immigrants and their integration through ICT and CYSM, which addresses the various aspects (including cyberterrorism) of security in Port information systems. His main research interests lie in the areas of communications, networking security, cybersecurity, immigration policies and the use of technology in all aspects of addressing immigration issues, web science, data analytics, and emergency response operations.
Mr. Daniel Drewer
Daniel Drewer is Head of the Data Protection Office of the European Police Office. He holds a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Hamburg (Germany).
Daniel Drewer worked as legal advisor for a media group before starting further professional training at the Hanseatic Court of Appeal. During this time he had been seconded to Eurojust, Europol and to the Data Protection Authority of the City of Hamburg. At the European Police Office in The Hague, his first post was as a lawyer in the area of corporate standards. He went on to become Confidentiality Officer with responsibility in the area of data security, handling of classified information and security clearances. After that he became Head of the Data Protection and Confidentiality Unit with responsibility for policy and information assurance regarding the processing of law enforcement data at Europol.
Mr. Henning Hofmann
Henning Hofmann studied law at the University of Passau, Germany and after his examinations commenced working as a researcher at the Institute for Public Law, Security Law and Internet Law (Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckmann). In the summer of 2014 he also took up the role as the scientific coordinator of the DFG Research Training Group 1681 "Privacy. Forms, Functions, Transformations" organizationally linked to the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Law at the University of Passau. His areas of scientific research include electronic commerce as well as questions of privacy in a digitalized world and new technological challenges to the work of law enforcement.
Mr. Mika Lauhde
Mika Lauhde serves as VP, Government Relations and Business Development, SSH Communication Security and is member of Group Management Team. Mika Lauhde is ensuring that SSH Communication Security is connected different governmental bodies in EU, APAC and US so that SSH Communication Security's contribution for Cyber Security can be fully utilized and SSH can also bring valuable information how Cyber Security should be addressed when new regulations are developed. His work is also to connect governmental players with SSH to activate possible governmental business opportunities. Mika Lauhde is also accountable to create strategies and processes to develop SSH Communication Security's business further. Prior to joining SSH Communications Security, Mika Lauhde headed Business Security and Continuity in Nokia Corporation, where he was accountable of Government Relations in Cyber Security area, Criminal compliancy and forensic, Nokia wide crisis management as well terminal and manufacturing related security tool manufacturing. Mika has extensive experience with cyber security related topics and governmental institutions both in Europe and USA. Currently he is a Member of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) Permanent Stakeholder Group and Member of Finnish Government Cyber Security working group. Mika Lauhde received his Bachelor of Science in Automation and Graphical industry from the Vantaa Institute of Technology, Finland and has a Master of Engineering Science degree in Electronics from HochSchule Osnabrück, Germany. Cyber Security and Government relations, Member of ENISA (European Network and Information Security Agency) PSG (2009 - ) ) (Part of the European Cyber Security Strategy plan 2013), Member of Loueven University European Crypto Task Force (2014 - ), Member of European Cyber Security Research Center, (2011 - ), Member of Finnish Government Cyber Security working group (2013 - ), Founding Member and Board Member of TDL (Trust in Digital Life) (2010 - 2013 ) (Part of the European Cyber Security Strategy plan 2013), Member of EU government security advisory board RISEPTIS, reporting to Commissar Redding), (2007-2009)
Mr. Yonas Leguesse
Yonas Leguesse is an Expert in Network and Information Security at ENISA. He is one of the latest additions to the Agency, providing training in various topics, focusing mainly on Mobile Technologies and Incident Handling. Before joining the agency he was working for The Malta Information Technology Agency, and formed part of the Information Security Department. He also has experience in a Law Enforcement Agency, and has a background in software development.
Dr. L. Marinos
Dr. Louis Marinos, is senior expert at ENISA in the area of Risk and Threat Management with extensive experience in the management and operation of security and the coordination of European expert groups. Currently, he is responsible for Projects in the area of Emerging Threat Landscape. He is the author and main responsible of the ENISA Threat Landscape. His expertise is on: Threat Analysis, Risk analysis, Risk Management and Business Continuity Planning, including SMEs, Member States and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. Assessment and management of Emerging and Future Risks, Threats and trends hereof. Integration of Risk Management with operational and governance processes. Strategic consulting in the area of security for major firms in the financial, telecommunication and commercial sectors. Security management with regard to critical business areas, such as financial institutions, B2B and telecommunications.
Mr. Lauri Palkmets
Lauri Palkmets is an Expert in Computer Security and Incident Response at ENISA. At ENISA he has been improving and extending CERT training material, and providing technical trainings for EU Member States. Before joining the agency he was working for the Estonian Defence Forces as head of Cyber Incident Response Capability. Lauri Palkmets holds MSc in the area of Cyber Security from the Tallinn University of Technology and University of Tartu.
Mr. Michalis Samiotakis
Michalis Samiotakis currently serves as a Manager in the Technology Governance and Security practice, in PwC. He has over than 10 years of IT related experience providing consulting services in the fields of Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance, helping clients to gain value from their investments in IT and Security. He has worked with a broad range of major companies and within highly regulated environments; such as the telecom and the financial sector, helping them assess, design and implement IT controls and processes to reduce risk and enhance operations. He holds a B.Sc. in Software Engineering, a M.Sc. in Information Security & Computer Crime from the University of Glamorgan (UK) and a M.Sc. in Management of Business, Innovation & Technology (MBIT) from Athens Information Technology (AIT). He is the President of the Information Audit and Control Association (ISACA) Athens Chapter since January 2014. For the period from 2011 to 2013, he was also appointed as the PwC Greece's Chief Information Security Officer, responsible for the design and implementation of the organisation-wide Information Security Management System (ISMS) which is ISO 27001:2013 certified.
Mr. Fidel Santiago
Mr. Fidel Santiago is a Technology and Security officer at the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) (www.edps.europa.eu <http://www.edps.europa.eu> ). As such, he brings his experience and knowledge of information technologies to ensure the correct application of the Regulation 45/2001 by the European Institutions. Also works on monitoring technological and legislative developments that may have an impact on the protection of personal data. Previously worked for the European Commission in the field of cybersecurity and for the Valencian Conselleria de Sanitat regarding personal data protection in the health care sector. Fidel Santiago is currently a member of the ISACA task force on privacy
Mr. Peter Schaar
Peter Schaar is Chairman of the European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID), former German Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (2003-2013). Mr. Schaar was born in Berlin in 1954 and has a degree in Economics. From 1979 to 1986 various functions in the public administration.1986 to 2002 in the office of Hamburg's Data Protection Commissioner, initially as the head of the technology unit and later as deputy commissioner. 2002/2003 founder and managing director of a consulting company for data protection. From 2003 to 2013 Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Since 2007 guest lecturer at the University of Hamburg.
Books: Datenschutz im Internet (2002), Das Ende der Privatsphäre (2007), Total überwacht - Wie wir in Zukunft unsere Daten schützen (2014)
Awards: Prize of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation "Das politische Buch 2008" ("The Political Book 2008") for the book Das Ende der Privatsphäre (The End of Privacy); "eco Internet AWARD 2008", the special award of the Association of the German Internet Industry; German Data Protection Award of the German Association for Data Protection and Data Security (GDD) 2013, "Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award" of US Patients Privacy Rights (2014). Blog: http://www.eaid-berlin.de/?cat=8
Dr. Irini E. Vassilaki
Dr. Irini E. Vassilaki is attorney- at-Law specialising in Information Law, Media Criminal Law and Economic Criminal Law and associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Goettingen since 2002. She is also teaching in the University of Oldenburg IT-Criminal Law and Legal Informatics and in the Technological Educational Institute of Crete Commercial Law.
She is member of several international boards, such as the "Legal Advisory Board" of the EU, in Committees of the Council of Europe and of UN and member of the Executive Board of Associations, e.g. the "German Foundation for Law and Informatics" and the Greek "Scientific Council for the Information Society", that work on the area of Law and Informatics. Dr. Vassilaki is additionally member of the Board of Editors of scientific Journals (e.g. "Computer Law and Security Report", "Computer und Recht", "Kommunikation und Recht", "Recht der Datenverarbeitung", "IT-Rechts-Berater", European Review for ICT/Law). With an international experience of 20 years and more than 100 publications Dr. Vassilaki belongs to the ground-breaking European lawyers in the area of Information Law.
Antigoni Papanikolaou
Antigoni Papanikolaou is the Legal & Corporate Affairs Director for Microsoft Greece, Cyprus & Malta. She received her law degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and holds a LL.M from the College of Europe, Belgium, on European Legal Studies. Within the framework of ERASMUS Program, she also attended the LL.M program on EU Law of the University of Leuven, Belgium. Antigoni also did a training with the Commission of European Union, Belgium, and had an internship at the European Court of First Instance, Luxembourg, first at the Cabinet of the Belgian Judge, Prof. Koen Lenaerts and then of the Greek Judge, Mr. Michael Vilaras. Prior to joining Microsoft, Antigoni worked as associate lawyer to "Helen M. Papaconstantinou & Associates, Athens, and then as in-house legal counsel for "Coca-Cola Hellas SA", Athens, where, among others, supported the local sponsorship activation and the Torch Relay program of "The Coca-Cola Company" for Athens 2004 Olympic Games. Afterwards, she moved as in-house counsel to "Papastratos CMC SA", a Philip Morris International Affiliate, Athens, where she was in charge, among others, of the legal support of sales and marketing departments of the company and member of their management teams. At 2012, Antigoni joined "Microsoft Hellas SA", Athens, as Legal & Corporate Affairs Director for the Greek entity and in her current role supports the Greek, Cypriot and Maltese business units on a wide range of commercial matters with a special emphasis on Cloud Computing, IP licensing, antitrust, privacy and compliance while she is also member of the local Leadership team.
Dr Steve Purser
Steve Purser was born in the UK and attended the universities of Bristol and East Anglia where he obtained a BSc. in Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Physics respectively. He started work in 1985 in the area of software development, subsequently progressing to project management and consultancy roles. From 1993 to 2008, he occupied the role of Chief Information Security Officer for a number of financial institutions. He joined ENISA in December 2008 and is currently responsible for all operational activities of the Agency.
Steve is currently a member of several Steering Boards and Advisory Committees, including notably the Steering Board of the CERT EU and the Programme Board of the EU Cyber Crime Centre. In the area of standards, he is the ENISA representative on the ISO SC 27 working group. As Head of Core Operations, he regularly represents ENISA in international conferences on information security. He was a co-founder of the 'Club de Securité des Systèmes Informatiques au Luxembourg' (CLUSSIL) and has frequently published articles in the specialised press. He is also the author of 'A Practical Guide to Managing Information Security' (Artech House, 2004).
Dr. Andreas Mitrakas
Dr. Andreas Mitrakas, LL.M., M.Sc., is a Head of Unit – Quality and Data Management in the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA). He has previously served as Senior Counsel in Ubizen/Cybertrust (currently Verizon) and as General Counsel in GlobalSign NV/SA. He is a licensed attorney and a member of the Athens Bar Association, as well as of ACM, ISACA, ASQ, etc. He holds a doctorate in Law (Erasmus School of Law, Rotterdam, 1997), a Master's in Computers and Law (Queen's University of Belfast, 1990), a Master's in Strategic Quality Management (Portsmouth Business School, 2015) and a law degree (Athens Law School, 1990).
Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht
Prof. Dr. Udo Helmbrecht has more than 35 years of professional management experience in the IT sector.
Udo Helmbrecht was born in 1955, in Castrop-Rauxel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
He studied Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science at Ruhr-University, Bochum, and in 1984 he was awarded a PhD in Theoretical Physics. In 2010 Udo Helmbrecht was appointed honorary professor at the Universität der Bundeswehr Munich, Germany.
His experience in the field of security has been acquired through work in a variety of areas, including the energy industry, insurance, engineering, aviation, defence, and the space industry. He became the president of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in 2003.
Udo Helmbrecht took office as Executive Director of the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) in October 2009.
Konstantinos Fysarakis
Konstantinos Fysarakis is a member of the Network & Information Security Lab of the Department of Informatics Engineering, TEI Crete and a PhD candidate at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete. His interests revolve around the security & dependability of embedded systems and the challenges that arise with the wider adoption of ubiquitous computing. He holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of Crete. He is an IRCA certified ISO 27001:2005 auditor and a member of the IEEE. Contact him at kfysarakis@isc.tuc.gr.


Plata í bígerð með 10 íslenskum þjóðlögum í ,,Ylju-útsetningum".
10 years ago, two young women with gigantic tonsils and a deep passion for harmonized vocals crossed paths. In Flensborg College Choir, to be exact. Upon getting to know each other, they discovered a mutual love for the same choir songs. After a while, one had the courage to ask the other to join her for the annual singing contest of the colleges. She had always dreamed of being a singer on stage, ever since she was a little girl. And wouldn't you know it, they both had that same dream.
Wonderful things came to pass. Out went the tonsils! It was time for the powerful voices to break out into the ever wondrous realms of creation. They practised and practised, usually in each others beds. Anything from Simon & Garfunkel to Gnarls Barkley was tried. But before they knew it, their own songs started taking shape.
Back to the now, 10 years later - and with two pairs of tonsils, vanished with the wind, the passionate duo celebrate a decade of friendship and working together as Ylja. The path behind them has seen two albums come to light along with numerous concerts in various countries, nominations for the Icelandic Music Awards and last but not least, the ever joyous collaborations with extraordinary talented musicians, sound engineers, promoters and other wonderful people that work in the field of music and arts.
There was absolutely no question in their minds; This significant event should be celebrated with the release of a new album.
Traditional Icelandic folks songs have always been a big part of Ylja's performances. In light of their mutual passion, they decided to do an album with their favourite folk songs.
They began collecting possible songs for the album. Their friends and families also had a hand in the process by chipping in their favourites. The collection was at last narrowed down to 10 great pieces that felt as a strong cohesive collection of the history of Icelandic folk songs.
The next step was choosing the right captain to sail this ship. With deep admiration from them both, Guðmundur Óskar was assigned for the project. Best known for being a member of Hjaltalín, Guðmundur Óskar has also played with the likes of Tilbury, Snorri Helgason and Helgi Björnsson - to name a few. Not only a great bassist and guitarist but also a very talented producer that has moved more into the field of musical directory and production as well as composing for various theatres and plays - his latest one being Hafið at the National Theatre.
Guðmundur Óskar joined in and as these words are being written, the three are finishing the final draft for the album that will be named Dætur (Daughters).
For a deeper experience, folklorist Pétur Húni has written a summary - describing the story and creative aspect behind each song. These stories will be featured in both the CD and vinyl version of the album.
By releasing this album, the girls want to honour the national heritage and make these songs more accessible in modern fashion. The intend the album to be timeless in a way - for its music to live for years to come.
Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson - Bass, guitar, piano and all other instruments that we could think of.


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The London Tube's Cultural Moment
The arts have tended to ignore the Tube as a source of inspiration, but with the 150th anniversary of the system, we get 12 new books on its relevance.
London's subway system is getting a rare moment in the cultural spotlight. As the 150th anniversary of the sprawling, antique and often criticized London Underground rolls on, Penguin is publishing a set of 12 new books, each one explicitly connected to a different line of the system. From John Lanchester exploring the secrets of the Victorian District Line, to men's fashion magazine Fantastic Man examining the East London Line's (tenuous) connection with buttoned-up shirts, the new series is an eclectic mix that reflects Londoners' love/hate relationship with the network.
For someone like me with a lifelong, nerdish love of what British people call the Tube, the celebration is overdue. Bar a few wonderful exceptions, the arts have rather ignored the Tube (as John Lanchester himself pointed out this weekend), while the few exceptions –the odd Sherlock Holmes story featuring murder on the line or punk hit about subterranean muggings – generally paint it in rather gothic terms
You see, I grew up on the London Tube. Back in the days before parents micromanaged their children's every step, my siblings and I used our pocket money to explore the network's farthest reaches every weekend, traveling out to magical-sounding stations called things like Cockfosters and Theydon Bois. Sometimes we'd discover forests or Jacobean mansions, but mostly we'd find a bus depot and the usual blah 1930s housing, though it all still seemed exciting because we were kids, briefly far from home. It was by running around on those rattling trains, pulling faces at people on the platform to deter them from getting in "our" carriage, that I first got to know London, both its vastness and its strange uniformity.
I'm not alone in this. For most Londoners, knowing the Tube comes first, the city second. People usually learn the evocative names of its stations – Angel, Elephant and Castle, Swiss Cottage – long before they attach any knowledge of actual streets and buildings to the name whizzing past the train window. The Tube also helps us make sense of where we live. Intricate it may be, but it possesses an order the city above ground lacks. Despite the London street plan's illogical sinuousness, the network's iconic map is lucid and intuitive, imposing a graspable, stylized mental order that users absorb and then project as a grid onto the randomness of ground-level reality.
It's far more than just a place for orientation and transit, however. The Tube is London's skeleton, its nervous system and its heart. Parts of it are so old that they dictated the shape of the still un-built metropolis. The network's earliest lines pushed out into open countryside, and streets and houses only later added flesh to their bare bones. When bombs fell on the city in World War II, it was where Londoners withdrew to safety (though it wasn't always safe). When terrible, frightening things have happened to the city, intentional or accidental, they have often occurred underground. This rocky history – the history of modern London in microcosm – has made the tube both refuge and living memorial.
Notting Hill Gate, one of the earliest Tube stations. Image courtesy of Flickr user Trowbridge Estate
Charring Cross Station. Image courtesy of Flickr user Brett Jordan
But it's not all doom and somber remembrance. London's antique network is also its best side. It's a reminder that the city was once so confident and forward-looking that it was happy to pump money into crazy new schemes, even when the necessary technology wasn't fully ready. According to the book How the Tube Shaped London, steam trains made its earliest underground lines so smoky that chemists near stations carried on a brisk trade reviving the nauseous. And when electric trains – among the world's first – arrived in 1890, they were still so feeble they could pull just three carriages at a time. The network was thus a trial and error laboratory for every future metro system. London's anything but defeated as a city today, but it still has managed nothing so forward-looking or so brilliantly crackpot since.This could be why its newest line, shiny and spectacular, explicitly references the Tube's dingy Steam Age past, its boldest stations resembling glitzy, updated versions of a Victorian dark, satanic mill.
Such affection might seem odd, of course, to the thousands who descend daily into the network under duress, taking journeys they don't like pressed against people they'd rather avoid. Crowded and expensive, the Tube is beset with (improving) delays, and weekend closures for (as announcers love to recite) "planned engineering works." It's a place of suppressed exuberance, where people give as little of themselves away as possible. In Berlin, U-Bahn users gawp at each other openly, while Madrid's metro riders often tend to chat. In London, however, people make eye contact only slyly and briefly, otherwise adopting a blank tube mask, or reading.
Canary Wharf Station. Image courtesy of Flickr user IdleFormat
Still, nowhere else in London shows you so effectively that you live in a huge, heterogeneous city, a small, fairly trivial member of a millions-strong mass. In a city where even the rich use public transport (cars take longer), the Tube is one of the few places where you see people from every race and social stratum. And while trains can be cramped, the inactivity of a view-less journey is often perversely pacifying, giving you enforced time for daydreaming – or reading. This makes the arrival of a dedicated set of books on the Tube especially appropriate. Personally, I've read more underground, speeding under the city's streets, than I have in any library.
@FeargusOSull
Feargus O'Sullivan is a contributing writer to CityLab, covering Europe. His writing focuses on housing, gentrification and social change, infrastructure, urban policy, and national cultures. He has previously contributed to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, and Next City, among other publications.


Making a world record price of HK$ 31,480,000, this rare pale green jade figure of a male dancer, Eastern Han dynasty (AD 25 - 220), formed part of a remarkable collection comprising early jade carvings from the Neolithic period to later jade carvings dating to the Qing dynasty (1644-1911). The collection, known as the Sze Yuan Tang Collection, was formed in the 1980s/90s in Hong Kong and cherished by its owner for decades until its sale in 2016.
The collection set the international benchmark for early jades sold at auction. The sale comprising 73 jade carvings achieved a remarkable 96% sold by lot, with 30 of the lots realizing HK$ 1,000,000 or above, with a sale total of over HK$ 178 million.
It is rare to handle early jade carvings of such quality, which can only be seen, occasionally, in important museum collections. It is exceptionally rare to have the privilege of handling not just one, but a group of such remarkable jades. The figure of a male dancer is dynamic and powerful, a vestige of early China, when the use of the prized jade material was mostly restricted to the kings and nobility.