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About JLTS
David Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Co-Editor
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Sam Stuart-Booth (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Vladimir Biti (University of Vienna)
Cathy Caruth (Cornell University)
Stef Craps (University of Ghent)
John Drakakis (University of Stirling)
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Guest Editors: Emmanuel Alloa, Pierre Bayard, Soko Phay
From the Guest Editors' Introduction:
"The concept of postmemory has received some attention over the past few years in the field of literary and memory studies and beyond. Like the conference before it, this special issue seeks to assess the concept's diagnostic relevance for dealing with the question of the aftermath of extreme violence. Taking as its starting point the genocidal experience of the Holocaust, the special issue asks what it would mean to apply the notion of "postmemory" to other cases of traumatic memory in the 20th century: in particular, the genocides perpetrated in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Although wide-ranging in temporal distance from the present, all of these cases raise the question of how memories of such traumatic events remain active even among those who have not personally witnessed them, as well as the question of how to address these sorts of indirect memories."
Armenian catastrophe
Cambodian genocide
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Dr David Miller, senior lecturer in English literature at MMU and General Editor of JLTS, will be giving a lecture at Konan University, Kobe, Japan on 'Trauma and the Beauty of Dead Language: Recollection versus Memory in Freud and Keats'. The lecture follows his research on Keats' poetic comportment with what he called his 'posthumous existence'.
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JLTS 3:2 Investigations in Literature, Trauma, and Theory
Investigations in Literature, Trauma, and Theory
From the Editor's Introduction:
"The articles presented here range from major reinterpretations of the seminal works of trauma and literature study to considerations of the demands of class on the major categories of trauma analysis, the role of figurative and poetic language in trauma testimony and theory, and the interlocking of hermeneutics, trauma theory, and theology. These articles mark both a return to primary ethical concerns and a renewed theoretical energy." (D. Miller)
Caruth
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Trauma and Gender in 20th Century European Literature
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Trauma, just like other psychosomatic concepts in medical history such as shock and stress, has been subjected to a variety of interpretations across disciplines since it emerged in the nineteenth-century as a notion to capture certain psychological experiences and conditions in modern societies and cultures. Yet, it remains a highly contested term that has seen numerous redefinitions as its place in popular and medical discourse is continuingly under scrutiny.
JLTS 3:1 Literatures of the Aftermath
Literatures of the Aftermath
" The articles presented here deal with what may be termed 'the literatures of the aftermath' and therefore the interlocking problems of both personal remembrance and cultural memory that always occur in the "after" impact of the events. All the articles present here recognise the irreducible nature of traumatic events with the subsequent strivings of troubled memory and the demands of a damaged language." (D. Miller)
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JLTS 2:1/2 Suffering in Literature
Suffering ion Literature
"The range and depth of subjects, the variation in theoretical approaches, and the international perspective raise some crucial questions and issues that the articles both evince and attempt to answer. Can the study of literature and trauma extend itself to such an extent and still retain the theoretical rigor and intellectual insight that it has so far maintained? Do we now see the beginnings of a divergence or contestation of theoretical approaches within the discipline, for example, between historical and social perspectives on the one hand and psychoanalytical and text-embedded approaches on the other? Are there serious differences, both at the level of theoretical assumption and at the level of chosen subject matter, in terms of a European approach to trauma and literature and those adopted in Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Australia? Can the age-old distinction between "experience" and "literature' ever be truly put aside? The tripartite organization of this issue into interlocking but also distinctive subdivisions reflects these concerns and developments." (D. Miller)
Ai Qing
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Celan
Chang Rae Lee
Lao She
Lloyd Fernanndo
neo-slave narrative
postcolonial peripheries
Rwanda genocide
Shobasakthi
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JLTS 1:2
The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma - Vladimir Biti
A Howl and a Black Cat: Allegory, Nonsense, and Ethics in Yann Martel's Beatrice and Virgil- Jenni Adams
"We Must Not Forget That There Was a Crime": Incest, Domestic Violence, and Textual Memory in the Novels of Iris Murdoch - Emma Miller
emancipation and trauma
Rumens
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Tragedy and Trauma
"This first issue attempts to bring together some of the major ideas on the relationship of tragedy and trauma and at the same time examines the way literature has always attended to those "breathing spells" without which Adorno knew life would not be worth living. Although the emergence of trauma studies and the focus on the relationship of literature with testimony and memory is a modern and contemporary development, it is nonetheless clear that in one way or another, literature has always acted as the inscription of these essential human capabilities and experiences. This edition therefore moves historically as well as thematically and covers both the historical and experiential dimensions as they appear in the literary work of art." (D. Miller)
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Q: "R".match(%r[^R]) finds a match? "R".match(%r[^R]) finds a match.
I don't know much about regex but I thought ^ after a [ negates the character class, the characters between the brackets.
What am I missing?

A: in your case brackets are not part of regex, your case is similar to %r|^R| or %r'^R' or place any character before % and after R
what you want is %r|[^R]| or /[^R]/


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Schapur II. ( []; auch als Šāpūr δu'l aktāf oder Sābūr Ḏī l-aktāf, im Arabischen als Ẓulaktāf bekannt; geboren 309; gestorben 379; ebensolang war seine Regierungszeit), auch Sapor II. oder Sapur II., war ein persischer Großkönig aus dem Herrscherhaus der Sassaniden. Seine sehr lange Regierungszeit war von einem langwierigen Kampf gegen das Römische Reich und von einer fast 40 Jahre andauernden Christenverfolgung geprägt.

Schapur II. konnte in seiner Regierungszeit einige Gebietsgewinne erzielen. Er gilt neben Schapur I. und Chosrau I. als einer der bedeutendsten sassanidischen Großkönige und konnte das Reich nach einer Schwächephase wieder stärken und die Grenzen weitgehend sichern; seine drei direkten Nachfolger agierten weniger glücklich.

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Kindheit und Jugend
Um das Jahr 300 war das Sassanidenreich, das 298 eine empfindliche Niederlage gegen die Römer hatte hinnehmen müssen, in eine Zeit der Wirren geraten. Als König Hormizd II. 309 starb, kam es zu Machtkämpfen am Hof, und schließlich töteten persische Adlige seinen ältesten Sohn, blendeten den zweiten Sohn und nahmen den dritten, Hormizd, gefangen. Dieser floh wenig später zu den Römern. Der Thron wurde für ein angeblich noch ungeborenes Kind einer der Frauen Hormizds II. reserviert: Schapur II. Dieser gilt als der einzige König in der Geschichte, der schon in der Gebärmutter gekrönt wurde. Die Krone wurde laut Tabari während der Krönungszeremonie auf den Bauch der Mutter gelegt. Schapur II. war demnach ein geborener König; mehrere Forscher nehmen aber an, dass die späteren Quellen an diesem Punkt übertreiben und Schapur wohl ein Säugling war, als er zum Herrscher erhoben wurde.

Die Regierungsgeschäfte übernahmen zunächst seine Mutter, ihr neuer Gemahl Bahram von Kuschan und die persischen Magnaten. Mit 16 Jahren wurde er (wahrscheinlich zur 100-Jahr-Feier der Sassanidendynastie) inthronisiert, auch wenn über seine Jugend nur wenige Quellen vorliegen, die zudem sehr viel später entstanden und stark legendenhaften Charakter tragen. So soll Schapur bereits als kleines Kind weise Entscheidungen getroffen und so seine Eignung zum Herrscher demonstriert haben. Zugleich können die Quellen aber nicht verhehlen, dass das Sassanidenreich während seiner Unmündigkeit von innerem Zerfall und äußeren Angriffen bedroht wurde.

Religionspolitik
Als Schapur persönlich die Regierung übernahm, erwies er sich als energischer Herrscher. Unter seiner Regentschaft wurde der Staat laut späterer Überlieferung in ein regelrechtes Kastensystem umstrukturiert. Die Macht der Priester wurde beschnitten und der Zoroastrismus zugleich vom König gefördert, die Sammlung der Avesta (Sammlung der zoroastrischen Glaubensschriften) wurde vervollständigt. Kritiker und Abtrünnige des Zoroastrismus wurden bestraft, die Religion sollte die Stellung des Königs stärken. Als Reaktion auf die Christianisierung des Römischen Reiches unter Konstantin dem Großen wurden die Christen im eigenen Land (aus politischen, nicht primär aus auch von Schapur formulierten religiösen Gründen) verfolgt, nachdem der Versuch, aus dem Katholikat von Seleukia-Ktesiphon eine von Konstantinopel unabhängige christliche Kirche zu schaffen, fehlgeschlagen war. (Zu Schapurs Christenverfolgung siehe auch die Artikel über die Märtyrer Simon bar Sabbae und Pusei.)

Die Kriege Schapurs
Siehe auch: Römisch-Persische Kriege

Schapur II. hatte seine ersten militärischen Erfahrungen im Kampf gegen die Araber erworben, die wiederholt in Mesopotamien eingefallen waren. Doch sollte Schapur sich vor allem Rom, dem Gegner im Westen, zuwenden. Persien und das Römische Reich standen sich als die zwei Großmächte dieser Zeit feindlich gegenüber. 337, wohl kurz vor dem Tod Konstantins des Großen, der einen großen Feldzug gegen die Sassaniden geplant hatte, brach Schapur II. durch einen Präventivschlag den Frieden, den sein Großvater Narseh mit Diokletian im Jahre 298 (oder 299) geschlossen hatte, und ein Krieg begann, der 26 Jahre dauern sollte (337–363). Mit dem Frieden von 298 waren die Perser, die erhebliche Gebiete an die Römer hatten abtreten müssen, von Anfang an unzufrieden gewesen; Schapur strebte daher eine Rückgewinnung des verlorenen Territoriums an.

Wir sind über diese Kämpfe relativ gut informiert. Vor allem der bedeutende römische Historiker Ammianus Marcellinus, der als Offizier teilweise selbst an den Kämpfen teilnahm, aber auch Zosimos und Sozomenos sowie spätere arabische und persische Quellen berichten über diese Kampfhandlungen.

Schapur II. gelang es zunächst, Armenien zu annektieren, das bis 298 zum persischen Einflussbereich gezählt hatte. Bald darauf versuchte er mit wechselndem Erfolg, die großen römischen Forts in Mesopotamien zu erobern, um auch hier verlorenes Gebiet zurückzugewinnen. Die Kämpfe spielten sich vor allem um die strategisch wichtigen Orten Singara, Nisibis, welches Schapur II. dreimal vergeblich belagerte, und Amida ab, wobei die Römer bei Singara einen Rückschlag erlitten (wohl 344); in der offenbar sehr blutigen Schlacht fiel ein persischer Prinz.

Obwohl die Generäle des Kaisers Constantius II. (337 bis 361), der mittlere Sohn Konstantins und nach dessen Tod Kaiser des Ostteils des Römischen Reiches, mehrere Schlachten verloren, machte Schapur II. insgesamt kaum Fortschritte. Seine militärische Stärke reichte anscheinend nicht aus, die eroberten Gebiete dauerhaft zu sichern, zumal Constantius eine recht geschickte Defensivstrategie betrieb, während in Armenien der römische Einfluss zunächst wiederhergestellt werden konnte. Entscheidend war, dass die Römer die meisten der strategisch wichtigen Festungen halten konnten.

Die Kampfhandlungen zwischen Rom und Persien wurden unterbrochen, als um das Jahr 350 das Sassanidenreich im Osten von Nomadenstämmen angegriffen wurde, unter denen die "hunnischen" Chioniten (siehe Iranische Hunnen) namentlich erwähnt werden. Schapur operierte (wie eine gefundene Inschrift beweist) 356 von der Region des heutigen Kabul aus gegen die Invasoren. Nach anhaltenden schweren Kämpfen waren die Chioniten gezwungen, Frieden zu schließen. Der König der Chioniten, Grumbates, schloss sich Schapur II. sogar in seinem Kampf gegen Rom an. So waren chionitische Hilfstruppen in Begleitung Schapurs, als dieser 359 erneut einen Feldzug gegen die Römer unternahm.

Rom und Persien traten schließlich in Friedensgespräche ein, deren bemerkenswerten Inhalt ("Bruder"-Anrede der beiden Monarchen) Ammianus Marcellinus überliefert hat (Ammian 17,5). Die Verhandlungen brachten jedoch kein Ergebnis, und Schapur legte 359 einen Belagerungsring um die Festung Amida, welche nach 73-tägiger Belagerung schließlich fiel; hierbei sind chionitische Truppen unter Grumbates belegt. Schapur II. eroberte anschließend Singara und andere Befestigungen im folgenden Jahr. Dennoch wich Constantius einer offenen Entscheidungsschlacht aus, so dass Schapur, vielleicht auch durch einen ungünstigen Orakelspruch beeinflusst, schließlich die Kampfhandlungen einstellte. Constantius plante nun eine Gegenoffensive und forderte daher zur Verstärkung Truppen aus Gallien an. Dies war der Auslöser für eine Revolte der römischen Legionen in Gallien, die den Caesar Julian Apostata zum Gegenkaiser ausriefen. Ein Bürgerkrieg stand bevor, als Constantius Ende 361 starb.

363 drang der neue Kaiser Julian auf einem schlecht geplanten, aber sehr groß angelegten Feldzug mit einem starken Heer von etwa 65.000 Mann bis zur sassanidischen Hauptstadt Ktesiphon, etwas südöstlich vom heutigen Bagdad gelegen, vor. Julians Herrschaft war ungefestigt, und er hoffte, durch einen Sieg über den Erzfeind im Osten Prestige zu gewinnen. Offenbar hatte er sogar vor, einen eigenen Perserkönig von Roms Gnaden einzusetzen. Schapur II. hatte den Angriff im Norden erwartet und musste erst nach Süden ziehen, sein Feldherr vor Ort wich einem offenen Kampf aus, und die römische Offensive lief ins Leere. Julian machte schwere strategische Fehler und führte sein Heer mitten in die Wüste. Nach dem Eintreffen der großköniglichen Armee stellten sich dort die Perser zur Schlacht und wurden bei Maranga zunächst geschlagen – allerdings keineswegs entscheidend. Julian fiel wenige Tage später in einem erneuten Gefecht. Sein von den Soldaten gewählter Nachfolger Jovian sah sich gezwungen, wollte er nicht die Vernichtung der gesamten römischen Armee im Feindesland in Kauf nehmen, einen für die Römer sehr nachteiligen Frieden abzuschließen (siehe Frieden von 363). Die Gebietsgewinne Diokletians mussten wieder abgetreten werden und Rom musste versprechen, dem bis dato verbündeten Armenien nicht beizustehen. Für die Römer war dies eine Schmach. Schapur II. hingegen konnte einen großen Erfolg verbuchen; seit über 100 Jahren war keinem Perserkönig mehr ein vergleichbarer Triumph vergönnt gewesen. Letztlich sollte die Grenze in Mesopotamien in den folgenden 230 Jahren im Wesentlichen unverändert bleiben, da beide Großmächte sich mit ihr im Grunde arrangieren konnten.

Armenienpolitik
Schapur II. hatte Armenien bereits 338 kurzzeitig erobert. Nach seinem erneuten Einmarsch (ca. 368) zwang er den armenischen König Arschak II., der mit den Römern verbündet war, Selbstmord zu verüben. Doch auch nach diesem Erfolg hatte Schapur Armenien nicht in der Hand, da die Königin Pharandzem und ihr Sohn Pap die Hauptstadt Artogerassa behaupteten. Bei dem Versuch, zwei Überläufer, Artabannes und Kylakes, auf Pharandzem anzusetzen, scheiterte Schapur. Am Ende kam es zum Untergang des persischen Expeditionsheeres. Aus Furcht vor einem Rachefeldzug der Perser floh Pap zum römischen Ostkaiser Valens (364–378). Als römischer Klientelkönig sollte der Armenier unter Roms Schutz in seine Heimat zurückkehren. Dies Aufgabe übertrug der Kaiser dem neu ernannten militärischen Oberkommandierenden für Armenien, Terentius. Dies nun sah Schapur als Vertragsbruch an, stürmte 369 Artogerassa und ließ Pharandzem grausam hinrichten, während Pap vorübergehend in die Berge floh. Als Valens 373 den Königssohn in Ehrenhaft festsetzen wollte, floh dieser erneut. Für die Römer war Pap nun zu einer Gefahr geworden, da jetzt befürchtet wurde, dass dieser zu den Persern überlaufen könnte.

Im Herbst 374 wurde Pap zu einem Gastmahl bei dem Nachfolger des Terentius, Traianus, eingeladen, bei dem der Armenier getötet wurde. Der anschließend von Rom in Armenien gestützte König Varazdates konnte sich inmitten politischer und militärischer Auseinandersetzungen, bei denen wieder die Perser auftraten, von 375–377 halten. Es kam erneut zu Kämpfen zwischen Römern und Persern. Ein großer Orientfeldzug, den Valens plante, wurde nur durch das Erscheinen der Goten an der Donau und den Beginn der so genannten Völkerwanderung vereitelt, da der Kaiser seine Aufmerksamkeit nun der Donaugrenze zuwenden musste, wo er 378 in der Schlacht von Adrianopel fiel. Bald nach Schapurs Tod kam es dann 384 oder (wahrscheinlicher) 387 zu einer diplomatischen Lösung für Armenien, das zwischen Römern und Sassaniden geteilt wurde (siehe auch Persarmenien).

Literatur
 Touraj Daryaee: Sasanian Iran 224-651 CE. Portrait of a Late Antique Empire. Mazda Pub., Costa Mesa (Calif.) 2008, S. 43ff.

 Katarzyna Maksymiuk: Strategic aims of Šāpur II during the campaign in northern Mesopotamia (359-360). In: Historia i Świat 7, 2018, S. 87–97.
 Nikolaus Schindel: Shapur II. In: Nikolaus Schindel (Hrsg.): Sylloge Nummorum Sasanidarum. Bd. 3/1 (Textband). Wien 2004, S. 211ff.
 Klaus Schippmann: Grundzüge der Geschichte des sasanidischen Reiches. Darmstadt 1990.
 Engelbert Winter, Beate Dignas: Rom und das Perserreich. Zwei Weltmächte zwischen Konfrontation und Koexistenz. Berlin 2001.

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Familienmitglied der Sassaniden
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HomeSustainabilityClimate CrisisFaten Aggad, Ellen Davies, Charles Wanguhu – The EU's flip-flop on gas
Faten Aggad, Ellen Davies, Charles Wanguhu – The EU's flip-flop on gas
July 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose Climate Crisis, Economics, Energy, EU politics, EU-Institutions, Finance, Sustainability 0
To decouple from Russian energy, the EU has embarked on a shopping tour for African gas. This not just bad news for the climate, but for Africans too
Faten Aggad is the Senior Advisor on Climate Diplomacy and Geopolitics at the African Climate Foundation (ACF)
Ellen Davies leads the African Climate Foundation's research work
Charles Wanguhu is Civil Society Gas Lead at the African Climate Foundation
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The European Union's position on gas has been schizophrenic for some time now, seemingly driven more by Europe's geopolitical and geo-economic considerations than concerns about the climate. It has swung from an evangelist stance that gas 'has no viable future' to 'pragmatic exceptions' allowing for gas as a transition fuel. In fact, since the war in Ukraine, the EU has even backtracked on its hard line on coal.
The war in Ukraine has not only further exposed the fault lines of the EU's climate commitments but has also laid bare its hypocrisy in foreign policy. While African leaders unsuccessfully plead for leniency on sanctions that exclude Russian banks from international payment systems (SWIFT), which allow for the payment for grain and fertiliser imports, the EU made a notable exception for gas imports. In particular, it allowed for flexibility on imports of Russian oil by EU member states, primarily in Eastern Europe, to enable them to reduce the shock of a sudden suspension of imports.
Since the start of Russia's invasion, the EU has accounted for 70 per cent of the €58bn worth of fossil fuel exports from Russia. Put crudely, this creates the impression that Europe's energy security is more important than the lives of the millions of Africans facing food insecurity because of a war they have played no part in. In addition, the instability in the gas market has had a significant impact on two-thirds of the African continent as most countries are importers of gas, hitting both the economic forecast and the wallets of consumers directly.
The EU's flip-flop on energy policy
As they expand their policy space to allow EU countries to sequence their decoupling from Russian gas, European leaders have been on a shopping tour for African gas. With the rising costs of US liquefied natural gas (LNG), which now dominates EU gas imports, European countries are looking for cheaper options, notably from North Africa (pipeline and LNG) and West Africa (LNG). Discussions to scale up supplies from Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Senegal, Angola, and the Republic of the Congo have been announced. It is worth remembering that, just a few months ago, some European countries enthusiastically announced that they will ensure that its financial institutions will divest from gas as early as 2022.
The current rush for gas has raised eyebrows among several African observers, especially in countries with high levels of domestic consumption of locally-produced gas. Some fear that gas export deals could result in a diversion of gas from local consumption to exports, plunging local populations into energy poverty in the short-term to secure the EU's consumption.
But there are long-term questions as well. While some of the announced deals have been presented as green hydrogen-ready infrastructure, which some view as a pathway to decarbonisation, many questions remain regarding the longevity of the EU's interest in gas and the risks this might present for African economies. This question is subject to passionate debates in African gas-exporting countries, as the EU has sent mixed signals in the recent past.
Indeed, the EU's flip-flop on its energy policy creates uncertainty – for everyone involved. The recently announced REPowerEU – the EU's plan to reduce dependence on Russian fossil fuels and accelerate the green transition – has been praised by optimists as a commitment to scale up renewables. But there are open questions about the financial resources underpinning the investments of REPowerEU, putting into doubt its viability – and the real intention behind it. Arguably, the plan is clearer about the strategy to secure other sources of gas supply – building on efforts conducted by individual EU member states and their respective multinationals – than on how the EU will finance its renewable energy ventures.
Locked-in fossil fuel infrastructure
There is a bit of a déjà vu in Europe's current behavior. It is worth noting that Europe has found itself in a similar situation following the oil crisis in the late 1970s. Back then, the G7 1979 Tokyo declaration commitment to coal as an alternative to oil led to a lock-in of coal in many economies for years to come, a major contributing factor to the current climate crisis. Whether Europe reignited appetite for gas will result in the same situation, for itself and the countries from which it sources its resources, is yet to be determined.
Furthermore, EU countries seem to be stalling efforts to secure decisions on the continent's energy transition. While this preceded the war in Ukraine, as exemplified by the classification of gas as a green investment under the EU taxonomy, the trend seems to be accelerating. Germany, the EU's largest economy, has just rejected the EU plan to ban new fossil-fuel cars from 2035. This is yet another example of reticence to decarbonise at the pace the continent initially committed to.
What does this mean for African countries currently engaged in negotiations on gas exports to the EU?
The lessons for Afirca
The emergency measures in the 'anything but Russia' approach might have changed the dynamics in the short term. The current context may reconfigure gas markets to more long-term contracts and ensure lock-in for longer periods. Longer-term contracts will likely unlock the necessary capital to develop the infrastructure that enables increased exports in producing countries.
However, for producing countries, it will be important to pay attention to the terms of the production sharing contracts that shall accompany these investments: if shorter cost recovery times are factored in by investing multinationals, the countries may take a while to accrue benefits from the current boom in demand or, in the worst-case scenario, actually not benefit at all. This would then create major fiscal risks. Such lock-in may be even riskier for African countries that will not have the resources to transition quickly to new energy models.
For all African countries, the current crisis in the EU also holds important lessons, as the wind of change can come very quickly and increase the vulnerabilities of African economies. There is, indeed, a case to be made for the need to use the current window of opportunity to promote investments in Africa's own clean infrastructure to increase the future competitiveness of African economies.
For example, EU legislation due to enter into force in the next years, such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, will penalise imports from fossil fuel-dependent industries. A small window of opportunity, therefore, exists for African countries to build their own renewable energy capabilities and leverage the beneficiation potential of their rare earth resources before international partners go back to business as usual. In any case, it's clear that building an economic model based on what the EU – one of the continent's main partners – says today is simply a risky strategy.
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If you work in a marketing agency, you see some horrific Excel abuses. Here are my top ten.
Do you do any of these? For the love of God, stop it. Just stop it, right now.
Number 1 deadly sin. Anyone doing this deserves to lose a finger. Maybe their left hand.
Wonderful things happen in Excel when you type "=". You can add stuff together! You can multiply! The next person who comes along after you, can understand what you did! It's marvellous and you should definitely try it.
An ex-colleague used to use Excel like a piece of graph paper and work out all his sums separately with a calculator, then type the answers onto an Excel worksheet. This is second only to using Tippex on your computer monitor. If you type numbers straight into cells, instead of leaving a trail by working them out with a formula, you're just as bad.
To be fair, this is sort of Microsoft's fault. The hide cells functions shouldn't exist, or if they must exist, it should be incredibly in-your-face obvious that something has been hidden.
Barclays offered to buy 179 contracts that they didn't actually want, from the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, due to hidden rows. You have been warned.
If you absolutely have to hide things, use Group. It's not so well known, but it's much more obvious what you've done.
A favourite of people who don't know how to hide cells. This is so monumentally stupid, you shouldn't be allowed to use Excel ever again.
Want to piss an analyst off? Do this. You've got a big list of something - maybe a list of customers - and you want to highlight some of them as being your best customers, so what do you do?
You could type "best customer", or even better "TRUE" in a new column next to the customer names. That would be good, because then you can filter them, or use that column in formulas, or pivot tables.
Or if you're evil, you could colour all the best customers in yellow, so that anybody who wants to work with only the best customers, has to do it by hand.
Guess which one most marketing people pick?
Grey and two shades of purple either screams "newbie", or "incapable". Which one would you prefer?
Step away from the 3D pie charts. Here's why.
In moderation, named ranges are mostly ok. Excel has a bad habit of corrupting them without you realising, but they're not so terrible.
Opening a workbook that has hundreds of the things in it is horrible though. Unpicking how a number is calculated, when at every step you have to look up a name, then find out what that name refers to, can really ruin your day. Names are great while you're building a spreadsheet. Six months later, when you can't remember what you did, they're a proper pain in the neck.
This is how big mistakes happen. Really big, expensive mistakes.
Sometimes you've got a big grid of numbers - 1000 or more rows of calculations and a few rows need to be "fixed". The tracking was out of line that week and needs to be adjusted downwards 10%, or certain rows don't have VAT added, while others do.
You could manually edit those numbers that need changing, or alter the formula in those cells, to add on VAT.
Now what you've got is a big column of numbers that look like they're all calculated the same way. Except that starting from row 800, the formula changes.
You will forget that you did this. It is inevitable.
At some point, somebody - probably you - will want to add some more rows to the data and when you do, you'll copy the formula downwards, assuming that everything below it is the same. At this point your carefully edited "VAT" rows will disappear, your final answer will change and you'll have no idea why, or what happened, or how to get back to where you were.
You're screwed. And you deserve to be.
Excel Macros are tremendously useful. They're the the tool that brought IT capabilities to massed ranks of analysts and even if it's getting on a bit, I still think Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is brilliant.
But. And it's a big But. Most people who get good with VBA go through a few stages. First, you can't make it do very much. Then you get better and you can build macros to do almost anything, so that's what you start to do.
Stage three is where you realise that Excel actually had functions and shortcuts all along, to achieve the same as many of your macros, only faster and better. Don't let yourself get stuck on stage 2! You'll waste tons of time programming and the workbooks you build will only ever function properly on your own PC, where your macro library lives.
Excel isn't a word processor, an illustration package, a dashboard designer, a database, a calendar and it also isn't many other things, even though you can usually make some passable looking output with it.
When Excel starts to get frustrating, there's probably a better piece of kit out there for the job and that better piece of kit is very often free. Stop abusing Excel and go and look for it!
Found myself screaming "right on" whilst reading this one, Neil!
ahahah the ex-colleague of yours must be the owner of initials A.E. - can see his name written all over #1.
Am thinking to forward this on to our grads.


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Most commercial sunscreens contain harmful substances like oxybenzone, triclosan, parabens, and phthalates. These compounds disrupt hormonal functioning, can cause cell damage and mutation, and increase the risk of cancer. Try and find sunscreens that use titanium and zinc as the active ingredient as well as natural oils like coconut oil, shea butter, and carrot oil. Some sun exposure can also be beneficial to get the required amount of vitamin D.
Applying buttermilk, a paste of turmeric powder and water, aloe vera, or radish juice can help fade your tan. Licorice tea, crushed watermelon or soy milk could work too. Also try using a face pack made of bitter orange peels, honey and yogurt or buttermilk, honey, and oats.
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Your skin needs sunlight to produce vitamin D, which is essential for the functioning of your body. However, barring the few minutes that you need to step out into the sun to produce the sunshine vitamin, make sure you apply sunscreen and stay covered. Excess sun exposure could cause skin cancer. Opt for sunscreens with zinc and titanium components or go for natural sunscreens like coconut oil or shea butter.
An itchy forehead may be caused due to skin conditions like eczema, contact dermatitis, dandruff, and acne. Certain cosmetic products may trigger itching due to an allergen. Other causes include sunburns, stress, and pregnancy. The symptoms include burning, dryness, redness, scaling, and itching etc. Washing your face with cold water, using aloe vera gel, applying sunscreen may help ease the symptoms.
Sick of overpriced beauty products that fall short? Looking for the right home remedy for your skin? Bentonite clay might just be the answer you're looking for. The clay, when mixed properly with water and applied consistently, can reduce those zits, give you a facial, remove sunburn irritants and insect bites, and clear up the hair buildup.
Age is what we make and our feelings about growing old is how we feel on the inside, but not outside. Whether you are scared of aging or welcome it smilingly, there are many ways to keep your body healthy and your spirit feeling young. Here are 9 mistakes you might be making that are the culprits in making you age more quickly.
ACV has shown effect in healing burn wounds faster, with fewer scar tissues, and normal hair follicles in rabbits. It has also shown proven effect against a bacteria that infects burned skin, but there's no concrete proof yet of its effect on human skin. And because it has hardly any vitamin C or E, contrary to what most believe, it cannot alleviate the symptoms of or protect against sunburns.


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Q: How to center a TextView on the parent ImageView? I've tried several ways of doing this and failed each time.
What I want to acomplish is centering TextView (horizontally and vertically) on ImageView, but instead command android:layout_centerInParent="true" results in vertical and horizontal centering on the whole area, not on ImageView. Please help me with attaching parent to TextView or other way of solving this.
Here is my xml code:
 <ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_width="170dp"
    android:layout_height="46dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:contentDescription="Your Height BG"
    android:src="@drawable/textareabg" />

     <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView00"

    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"

    android:text="Your Height"
    android:textColor="#d88b6d"
    android:textSize="20sp" />

A: It can be easily acheived using ConstraintLayout. Android recently introduced ConstraintLayout. It allows us to lay out child views using 'constraints' to define position based relationships between different views found in our layout. It is similar to RelativeLayout, but much more powerful than it because, ConstraintLayout reduces View Hierarchy to a greater extent. Now getting back to your question, Here is the sample xml code which does the work for you
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="match_parent"
   xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

   <ImageView
       android:id="@+id/image"
       android:layout_width="200dp"
       android:layout_height="200dp"
       android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
       app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
       app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.1"/>

   <TextView
       android:layout_width="wrap_content"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:text="Image"
       android:textSize="20sp"
       app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="@+id/image"
       app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="@+id/image"
       app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/image"
       app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/image"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Output View on Device

You can position the TextView anywhere on the ImageView using app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias and app:layout_constraintVertical_bias. By default these values will be set to 0.5. So, it will be center aligned by default , if we don't specify any values.

When you add a constraint to both sides of a view (and the view size
  for the same dimension is either "fixed" or "wrap content"), the view
  becomes centered between the two anchor points by default.

Note: Bias attribute only works if you specify the constraints for the boundaries (e.g. top and bottom for vertical bias, left and right for horizontal bias)
More about ConstraintLayout
ConstraintLayout
Sample Project
Blog on ConstraintLayout

A: Perhaps this would help you with your question
Android TextView text won't center
A person here mentions using android:gravity="center".

A: Try this way,hope this will help you to solve your problem.
<FrameLayout
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   <ImageView
      android:id="@+id/imageView1"
      android:layout_width="170dp"
      android:layout_height="46dp"
      android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
      android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
      android:contentDescription="Your Height BG"
      android:src="@drawable/textareabg" />

   <TextView
      android:id="@+id/textView00"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_gravity="center"
      android:text="Your Height"
      android:textColor="#d88b6d"
      android:textSize="20sp" />
</FrameLayout>

A: Here's what I would do
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/imageView1"
    android:layout_width="170dp"
    android:layout_height="46dp"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="false"
    android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
    android:contentDescription="Your Height BG" />

 <TextView
     android:id="@+id/textView00"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/imageView1"
     android:layout_alignTop="@+id/imageView1"
     android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
     android:layout_centerInParent="true"
     android:layout_centerVertical="true"
     android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
     android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
     android:text="Your Height"
     android:textColor="#d88b6d"
     android:textSize="20sp" />

A: What you need to do is use FrameLayout.The doc says:
FrameLayout is designed to block out an area on the screen to display a single item. Generally, FrameLayout should be used to hold a single child view, because it can be difficult to organize child views in a way that's scalable to different screen sizes without the children overlapping each other. You can, however, add multiple children to a FrameLayout and control their position within the FrameLayout by assigning gravity to each child, using the android:layout_gravity attribute.
Child views are drawn in a stack, with the most recently added child on top. The size of the FrameLayout is the size of its largest child (plus padding), visible or not (if the FrameLayout's parent permits). Views that are GONE are used for sizing only if setConsiderGoneChildrenWhenMeasuring() is set to true.
So you need something like following psuedo layout code:
<FrameLayout>
   <ImageView gravity="center">
   <TextView gravity="center">
</FrameLayout>

A: Add one more relative layout under your layout like this :
<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:id="@+id/imageView"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
        android:text="Large Text"
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

Check for width and height you want. Eg. If you want specific height and width for image, change height and width of this relative layout.
Thats it...


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12 Must-Know Self Storage Industry Statistics for 2018
While most major cities today have at least one self-storage facility available, it's a relatively new industry. As humans have continued to consume more, they have also needed more space to store their belongings.
Self-storage operations trace their roots back to England when British citizens would safeguard their valuables in the banks before long voyages. Overcrowded vaults led to the need for larger storage facilities - usually warehouses. As warehouses prices rose, storage facility owners were forced to look into more economical solutions. [Source: SSA]
The first self-storage facility, as we know them today, was established in Texas in the mid-1960's and rented space at .15 cents per square foot/month. It was so successful that the concept quickly spread across the U.S. and Canada — and the rest is history.
The typical size of a storage unit facility is 2.5 to 5 acres, with 46,000sf of rentable space on average. Facility sizes range from 10,000 to 100,000+ square feet. [Source: SSA]
The total amount of self-storage space in the US totals 2,300,000,000 sqft. [Source: Statistic Brain]
There are 48,500 storage units in the United States.
There are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than McDonald's and Starbucks locations combined. [Source: Huffington Post]
The annual self storage revenue in the United States is $36,000,000,000. [Source: SSA]
That is twice as much revenue as the Global Music Industry (15.7billion). [Source: IFPI]
That amount could buy 360 flights into space with Space Adventures at $100M per seat. [Source: Space.com]
172,000 people are employed by storage unit companies in the United States. [Source: Statistic Brain]
0.05% of the population is employed by the self storage industry.
8.96% of U.S. households currently rent a self-storage unit. [Source: Statistic Brain]
The average price of a storage unit at auction is $425 with about 155,000 sold annually. [Source: Statistic Brain]
$65,875,000 of storage units are auctioned annually.
67% of self storage renters live in single-family homes — only 27% live in apartments. Most of these renters live in single family homes which have a garage and 33% also have a basement in their home. [Source: SSA] They still need the extra room a storage unit provides.
The majority of self storage customers rent long term, with 52% of those surveyed reporting that they rented their storage unit for one year or more. Only about 13% of customers rented storage for less than three months. [Source: SSA]
People in the military utilize self-storage often since towns with a large military presence usually have anywhere from 20 to 95% of rented units occupied by military personnel. Nationwide the number is only 6%. [Source: SSA]
Comparison of Storage Markets
The markets with the most storage units being built are: [Source: Self-Storage Performance Quarterly]
Denver-Aurora
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale
Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord
The most expensive markets to rent a 10x10 storage unit in are: [Source: Self-Storage Performance Quarterly]
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont: $160/m
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana: $153/m
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara: $153/m
New York-Newark-Edison: $137/m
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA: $136/m
Fairhaven, MA Fairhaven, MA
East Falmouth, MA East Falmouth, MA
Saline, MI Saline, MI
Orlando, FL Orlando, FL


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Q: What is the best way to apply several percentage differences to pandas Data Frame? Let's consider dataframe:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

df = pd.DataFrame([np.random.randn(1000)]).transpose()

I want to apply percentage change transformations and add it to df. I want to apply 1,...,10 percentage changes. My primitive solution is:
df_copy = df.copy()

for i in range(1, 11):
    to_add = df_copy.pct_change(i)
    df = pd.concat([df, to_add], axis = 1)

However, I'm not sure if its the most efficient way how it can be done. Do you know if there is any option to do it better?


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I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Sāvatthī at Jeta's Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery. And on that occasion Ven. Nanda — the Blessed One's brother, son of his maternal aunt — announced to a large number of monks: "I don't enjoy leading the holy life, my friends. I can't keep up the holy life. Giving up the training, I will return to the common life."
Then a certain monk went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he told the Blessed One: "Lord, Ven. Nanda — the Blessed One's brother, son of his maternal aunt — has announced to a large number of monks: 'I don't enjoy leading the holy life, my friends. I can't keep up the holy life. Giving up the training, I will return to the common life.'"
Then the Blessed One told a certain monk, "Come, monk. In my name, call Nanda, saying, 'The Teacher calls you, friend Nanda.'"
Responding, "As you say, lord," to the Blessed One, the monk went to Ven. Nanda, on arrival he said, "The Teacher calls you, friend Nanda."
Responding, "As you say, my friend," to the monk, Ven. Nanda went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, the Blessed One said to him, "Is it true, Nanda, that you have announced to a large number of monks: 'I don't enjoy leading the holy life, my friends. I can't keep up the holy life. Giving up the training, I will return to the common life'?"
"Lord, as I was leaving home, a Sakyan girl — the envy of the countryside — glanced up at me, with her hair half-combed, and said, 'Hurry back, master.' Recollecting that, I don't enjoy leading the holy life. I can't keep up the holy life. Giving up the training, I will return to the common life."
Then, taking Ven. Nanda by the arm — as a strong man might flex his extended arm or extend his flexed arm — the Blessed One disappeared from Jeta's Grove and reappeared among the devas of the heaven of the Thirty-three [Tāvatiṃsa]. Now on that occasion about 500 dove-footed nymphs had come to wait upon Sakka, the ruler of the devas. The Blessed One said to Ven. Nanda, "Nanda, do you see these 500 dove-footed nymphs?"
"Then take joy, Nanda. Take joy! I am your guarantor for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs."
"If the Blessed One is my guarantor for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs, I will enjoy leading the holy life under the Blessed One."
Then, taking Ven. Nanda by the arm — as a strong man might flex his extended arm or extend his flexed arm — the Blessed One disappeared from among the devas of the heaven of the Thirty-three and reappeared at Jeta's Grove. The monks heard, "They say that Ven. Nanda — the Blessed One's brother, son of his maternal aunt — is leading the holy life for the sake of nymphs. They say that the Blessed One is his guarantor for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs."
Then the monks who were companions of Ven. Nanda went around addressing him as they would a hired hand & a person who had been bought: "Venerable Nanda, they say, has been hired. Venerable Nanda, they say, has been bought. He's leading the holy life for the sake of nymphs. The Blessed One is his guarantor for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs."
Then Ven. Nanda — humiliated, ashamed, & disgusted that the monks who were his companions were addressing him as they would a hired hand & a person who had been bought — went to dwell alone, secluded, heedful, ardent, & resolute. He in no long time entered & remained in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for himself right in the here-&-now. He knew, "Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, the task done. There is nothing further for the sake of this world." And thus Ven. Nanda became another one of the arahants.
Then a certain devatā, in the far extreme of the night, her extreme radiance lighting up the entirety of Jeta's Grove, approached the Blessed One. On arrival, having bowed down to him, she stood to one side. As she was standing there, she said to the Blessed One, "Lord, Ven. Nanda — the Blessed One's brother, son of his maternal aunt — through the ending of the effluents, has entered & remains in the effluent-free awareness-release & discernment-release, directly knowing & realizing them for himself right in the here-&-now." And within the Blessed One, the knowledge arose: "Nanda, through the ending of the effluents, has entered & remains in the effluent-free awareness-release & discernment-release, directly knowing & realizing them for himself right in the here-&-now."
Then, when the night had passed, Ven. Nanda went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there, he said to the Blessed One, "Lord, about the Blessed One's being my guarantor for getting 500 dove-footed nymphs: I hereby release the Blessed One from that promise."
"Nanda, having comprehended your awareness with my own awareness, I realized that 'Nanda, through the ending of the effluents, has entered & remains in the effluent-free awareness-release & discernment-release, directly knowing & realizing them for himself right in the here-&-now.' And a devatā informed me that 'Ven. Nanda, through the ending of the effluents, has entered & remains in the effluent-free awareness-release & discernment-release, directly knowing & realizing them for himself right in the here-&-now.' When your mind, through lack of clinging, was released from the effluents, I was thereby released from that promise."
In whom the mire of sensuality is crossed over, the thorn of sensuality crushed, the ending of delusion reached: He doesn't quiver from pleasures & pains : a monk.
The monks here address Ven. Nanda as "āyasmant." According to DN 16, they did not normally address one another in this formal way while the Buddha was still alive. Thus there is an element of sarcasm in the way they use the term here.
Reading yassa tiṇṇo kāmapaṅko with the Thai edition. The Burmese, Sri Lankan, and PTS editions read, yassa nittiṇṇo paṅko: "In whom the mire is crossed over." The parallel passage in the Udānavarga (32.2) essentially agrees with this latter version.


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Лыткино — Деревня в Дорогобужском районе Смоленской области России. Входит в состав Алексинского сельского поселения.
Население — 11 жителей (2007 год).

Расположена в центральной части области в 14 км к юго-востоку от Дорогобужа, в 11 км восточнее автодороги  Сафоново — Рославль, на берегу реки Рясна. В 29 км южнее от деревни находится железнодорожная станция Жегловка на линии Смоленск-Сухиничи.

История
В годы Великой Отечественной войны деревня была оккупирована гитлеровскими войсками в октябре 1941 года, освобождена в сентябре 1943 года.

Известный уроженец села — советский писатель и кинорежиссёр Очкин, Алексей Яковлевич.

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Населённые пункты Дорогобужского района


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Loss in translation
"The translation called good has original value as a work of art." — Benedetto Croce
Figures for global marketing campaigns suggest companies commonly grant 1% to 3% of their total budget to translation. While there's no benchmark, do these percentages really reflect the importance of conveying emotion and the benefits of transcreation?
Can you afford to be lost in translation?
$10 million: that's how much British multinational bank HSBC had to pay in 2009 to do some emergency rebranding after a translation fail. While the initial slogan of their marketing campaign was "Assume Nothing", there was a failure to localise for foreign markets which led to the slogan being translated in many languages to "Do Nothing". Oops. If only they'd hired us.
It might be safe to assume that any company would rather appoint a dedicated budget to achieve perfect translations, rather than having to pay that sort of amount in collateral damages. But, the evidence above shows that's not always the case. We don't know about you, but we definitely haven't got a spare $10 million lying around.
While translation can tremendously help widen your audience, it can also narrow it if the translation is not quite right. Research published on the Consumer Barometer found a significant 41% of consumers worldwide state a poor translation or no translation is an obstacle when making an online purchase from a foreign country. In other words, translating content is not a trivial process and is necessary to appeal to users and cater to foreign users in their own language.
"Are you talking to me?"
Today, the worldwide population lives in nearly 200 countries and less than 6% of the population is native English. Reports from CSA Research on the behaviours and preferences of consumers state far fewer consumers will buy, or even consider products and services, if they're not provided in their mother tongue:
72% of consumers said they'd be more likely to buy a product with information in their own language
56% of consumers said the ability to obtain information in their own language is more important than price
72% of consumers spend most or all of their time on websites in their own language
How Words in Translation avoids loss in translation
Our translation teams not only consider the creative aspect, they look deep into the brand culture, product positioning and tone of voice. Armed with this knowledge, they then look at how to transfer and make it idiomatically relevant in the specific cultural, social and political context. In short, our transcreators are as much wordsmiths who can craft a catchy line, as brand ambassadors who can carry and mediate your message into local languages.
As localisation specialists, we're by your side every step of the way to the successful localisation of your marketing materials.
Drop us an email or give us a call if you'd like us to be part of your global expansion.
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Our top 10 favorite board games for Family Game Night (2 or more players)
UPDATED 10/12/2020. Why do we love to play games so much? Every day at lunch we play a game together around the dining table, and whenever we have visiting friends and family, we play again in the evening.
Games are a break from the passive thinking of video-watching, and unlike reading, it's a shared social experience. And we're trying out new games constantly, learning new strategies and tactics and exercising our brains.
But the realities of trying to plan a Family Game Night are often reluctant family members, wandering attention spans, and short time commitments. We've been there, done that! In this post, we list our top 10 favorites games, which are well-suited for 2 or more players, can be played relatively quickly, and don't take too long to learn. We hope that this breakdown of our favorite games inspires your next Family Game Night!
Why board games? Actually, we think Brian Chesky, the CEO of Airbnb, might have said it best:
Board games are one of the longest-standing traditions on earth – the first board games are as old as written language. Thousands of years later, they're more popular than ever and can be found in every corner of the world. This is because games have a universal ability to bring people together. They can cross language barriers and generations. They're one of the few activities that level the playing field by connecting people of all ages. (I learned this the hard way when I recently lost a game of Go Fish to a friend's 5-year-old.)
But I believe the real power of games is their ability to bring us into the present. Today, it's easier than ever to isolate. We can spend hours scrolling the endless feeds on our phones, binge-watching shows, and disconnecting from those around us.
The best games provide an antidote to the isolation. There's an escape that happens, whether you're playing hockey or a game of Trivial Pursuit, that pulls you out of your day-to-day and forces you to be present with the people around you. Games teach us how to handle defeat, they spark creativity, and more often than not, they bring out a childlike sense of joy.
Brian Chesky, quoted in airbnb magazine
Why 10? Because we came up with 8 in 2019 and we have 2 new ones to add in 2020! And because these are the games we play in heavy rotation. We wouldn't want to drop any of them from the list and we wouldn't want to grasp at straws to add more. These, quite simply, are the games we like to play at family game night – in no particular order:
Forbidden Island – a cooperative game
We fell in love with this game, our first cooperative game. The concept is that you're all trying to take the treasures off a sinking island and all get off the island together. Everybody loses, or everybody wins. We were even more thrilled that our friends and family enjoyed it as much as we did. It can be played with 2-4 people and a game takes about 30 minutes (perfect for lunch). They say ages 10+ but my 6-year-old nephew was able to play along with us just fine – after all, it is cooperative. There's not a lot of fancy set-up, and it's so novel to be able to play WITH your friends and family to beat the game, rather than trying to beat each other.
Forbidden Island game site >>>
Cribbage (or Euchre) – Classic Card Games
It seems like in America and Canada the top two card games are cribbage and euchre – and there are cribbage families and there are euchre families, somewhat grouped geographically. We are a house divided – Valerie's family comes from the Midwest and were euchre players, Geoff grew up in an Oregon cribbage family, which seems to be concentrated more in the West and East. We love both games. But you can play cribbage with 2-6 players and euchre is limited to 4 only. Since we are only two players at lunch, we play cribbage almost daily (a game takes up to 30 minutes). That's why we've created so many unique cribbage game boards!
Cribbage rules >>>
Euchre rules >>>
Hive – perfect game for 2
Like chess, this bug-themed game can only be played with 2 people and it's a strategy game of trying to capture the monarch (the queen bee instead of the chess king). Also like chess, each kind of bug, like rooks, knights, etc, has special abilities and inabilities. But – unlike chess, the game goes quickly (10-15 minutes), and you build the board on the go with the hexagonal honeycomb-shaped tile pieces. It's not formal or fussy and there's almost no set-up. For two players cramming in a quick game at lunch, this is just about perfect – but the strategy is so intriguing (somebody wrote a doctoral thesis on Hive strategy!) that you'll want to play over and over again.
Hive game site >>>
Azul – for visual people
Azul is perfect for those in the family that roll their eyes at counting pips or adding up cards. It's a visual game inspired by Portuguese tiles where you build up a tile with various patterns by taking from a shared tile pool in the center and strategically collecting them to create rows and columns for points. It's for 2-4 players and play time takes 30-45 minutes. Like all our favorite games, it's a good mix of luck and strategy, and the colorful tiles are visual and creative.
About Azul >>>
Catan Dice – Yahtzee X The Settlers of Catan
We love Catan, but the reality is, it takes a while to set up and learn. It can be too much of a lift for reluctant family members. Enter: Catan Dice! 1-4 people can play Catan Dice in 20-40 minutes. It's a travel version of Catan that introduces the ideas of Catan but is relatively simple to learn – like Yahtzee but with a board game component. Like Yahtzee, you roll the dice three times to try to get your desired combination of dice and add up the points on a score sheet. Unlike Yahtzee, the dice are formed of resources, and the resources collected fill in the Catan tiled landscape with wheat, sheep, ore, and brick.
Catan Dice game site >>>
Catan game site >>>
Mexican Train Dominoes – for easy conversation
This version of dominoes is the perfect combination of luck and skill, and it doesn't require a lot of concentration. Players build off a central domino, playing in rounds from double-twelve down to double-zero, taking turns matching the pips in their personal domino chain ("train") until the first person runs out of tiles. The "Mexican Train" is an additional shared public train that is open for all players to play. This version of dominoes is easy to play and hold a conversation at the same time, and the multiple rounds mean the game can go on all night, or be split up with pauses. A typical game is 4-8 players with a set of double-12 dominoes, but it can be played with anywhere from 2-13 players, depending on the number and type of dominoes you have.
Mexican Train Rules >>>
Walnut Studiolo's Travel Dominoes >>>
Carcassone – medieval geekery but easier than Catan
This is a more approachable family game than Catan but it has a lot of similar elements. Like Catan, this game is made from medieval landscape tiles that make a different map for each game, and players are aiming to collect resources. Unlike Catan, during the game you build up the board tile-by-tile, so there's very little set-up time, and the resource collection and points are more simplified. It can be played with 2-5 players in anywhere from 30-90 minutes, so it can extend a lunch break. Also like Catan, there are many expansion packs, which can add more players and complexity if you want to explore the Carcassone universe further.
Carcassone game site >>>
Dice / Farkle / 10,000 – for unlimited players
Any number of players can play Farkle using 6 dice and a notepad. It's like Yahtzee with each player pushing their luck to roll the right dice (triples, 1's, or 5's). But unlike Yahtzee, the points are simplified and you can roll as many times as you want – so long as you get the right dice. In this sense, each roll is more of a personal gamble, and it's fun to witness different people's gambling styles.
Farkle rules >>>
Walnut Studiolo's Travel Dice >>>
Sushi Go – fast, fun, and cute
A fast-playing card game for 2-5 players, ages 8+. We were a little skeptical about this game because it looked a little too cute, but now that we've played it, we understand the many awards and 5-star reviews it's earned. It's fun! The drawings are super cute, and there's enough strategy to keep things interesting, even for two people.
Sushi Go by Gameright >>>
Horse Racing Game – for a Kentucky Derby theme night
A game that combines cards, dice, poker chips, and a horse race?! That would be desktop derby, a very old game with a fun piece of equipment to play on. The original game was called Derby Day, and it was released in 1915, but there have been many, many variants on the game since, including computer versions. Line up the horses, divvy up the cards for your "stakes", roll the dice to "scratch", and tally up your wins at the finish line to build your "pot". Make a batch of mint juleps or sweet tea for a Kentucky theme night. For 2-6 players, a round doesn't take very long but if you're playing until all your poker chips are gone, then it can go on all night!
Horseracing Game on The Grommet >>>
As you can see, we ❤ games! We hope this inspires your next Family Game Night – and we'd love to hear about your favorite games! Shoot us a line or leave us a comment with your favorite games for family game nights.
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Recently, I borrowed the 2012 Starbucks holiday album Holidays Rule from a friend of mine. (Thanks, Kate!) I've been a fan of their seasonal albums in the past, but this one's something special.
Side note: Many of the songs—particularly the start of No. 5 and all of 6 and 15—sound a whole lot like something you'd hear at Christmas in District 12.
We were looking at this in line at Starbucks the other day. There are a lot of good bands on here. Funny you mention those songs being District 12 music because we saw both of those bands at ACL this year. I liked Punch Brothers more, and I'd definitely be interested to hear their takes on a traditional Christmas song.
I shall have to check out more of their music. I've really liked everything I've heard so far.


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The homology core of matchbox manifolds and invariant measures.
Clark, Alex and Hunton, John (2019) 'The homology core of matchbox manifolds and invariant measures.', Transactions of the American Mathematical Society., 371 (3). pp. 1771-1793.
We consider the topology and dynamics associated with a wide class of matchbox manifolds, including spaces of aperiodic tilings and suspensions of higher rank (potentially nonabelian) group actions on zero-dimensional spaces. For such a space we introduce a topological invariant, the homology core, built using an expansion of it as an inverse sequence of simplicial complexes. The invariant takes the form of a monoid equipped with a representation, which in many cases can be used to obtain a finer classification than is possible with the previously developed invariants. When the space is obtained by suspending a topologically transitive action of the fundamental group $ \Gamma $ of a closed orientable manifold on a zero-dimensional compact space $ Z$, this invariant corresponds to the space of finite Borel measures on $ Z$ which are invariant under the action of $ \Gamma $. This leads to connections between the rank of the core and the number of invariant, ergodic Borel probability measures for such actions. We illustrate with several examples how these invariants can be calculated and used for topological classification and how it leads to an understanding of the invariant measures.
Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives.
https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/7398
© 2018 American Mathematical Society. First published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society in Clark, Alex & Hunton, John (2019). The homology core of matchbox manifolds and invariant measures. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 371(3): 1771-1793 published by the American Mathematical Society. Accepted manuscript available under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
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