text:
News, events, + updates from the world of ecological design
Richard Williams: Four Remembrances
May 14, 2020 | by The Conway School
Richard Williams, who taught the humanities portion of the Conway School curriculum from 1979 to 1987, died at age 92 on April 18th following a long illness. Four people reflect on their memories of Richard, whose impact still informs their work.
Richard Williams with Walt Cudnohufsky, 2002
Walt Cudnohufsky, Founder, Director 1972-1992
Richard Williams came into my life, as so many outstanding people did, at a time when the search for meaning was front and center for me. For Richard, the meaning—the understanding—is what counted most. Right from the onset, Richard's quiet, considered manner and his compelling questions impressed me in many ways. He joined the Conway faculty in the task of exposing the greater relevance of fitting human use and needs to the more natural and fragile earth. His regular perceptions demonstrated an empathy and enthusiasm for what the school was attempting to do educationally.
Richard somehow managed to articulate the true importance of what we were saying, thinking, and doing, always in a calm, measured, and ground-tethered manner. His questions, initially spontaneous, would spur more deliberate thinking and were always illuminating. I remember many moments, sometimes late into the evening, sitting with him and pondering the core of our teaching. Staff and students alike rarely missed his lectures. We were all learning and growing, being sanctioned by his lessons.
Anchored in Aristotelian logic, Richard believed in universals as touchstones for so much of what we think and do, and was able to identify them in his weekly conversational lectures. Richard had ears for wisdom, no matter the source. He was a true humanist.
While calm introspection is essential to greater or deeper self-understanding, an equally important practice is to engage the world and do so deeply or broadly as well. Most of us select a career path or discipline, a craft or art form, to help us both narrow the focus and look outward and around us. Since it entails a synergistic and inclusive set of skills, the design professions deserve to be taken seriously. Landscape design deserves greater reverence, more believing practitioners, and more discerning clients. Of this Richard was sure!
I have spent much of a now long career attempting to place a capital D on the word design, and was assisted in more ways than I can ever remember by Richard's encouragement, his astute questions and modeled calm reflections.
Don Walker, Faculty '78-05, Director 1992-2005
Richard Williams, the early CSLD speaking/writing instructor and philosopher, mesmerized students (and staff) with his weekly presentations and daily assistance with all things mental and descriptive.
Richard sitting on the steps of the Delabarre Avenue campus
Richard suggested that the titles Landscape Design and Landscape Architecture be revised to Exterior Design: "Landscape ties too closely with painting, picture, scenery – one who prettifies."
Design is not a graphic art or a visual image; these are but expressions of design. It is not a set of manipulative techniques, not a particular subject matter discipline. Design is the formative principle by and through which anything attains the degree of reality it enjoys. Beyond design there is nothing, nothing, that is, except the act that is made possible and sustained by the design itself. The design of a Monday morning's breakfast, set of clothes, and system of transportation, may be perfect or imperfect; if imperfect, the larger design of the day begins badly—in indigestion, say, and chill, and in being late for work. Arranging these things and the day's schedule are acts of design. Reality is an act of design. So is a landscape.
The long-time definition of Landscape Architecture was "the art of shaping landscape for human use and enjoyment." Richard carried this forward to "human frivolousness, private self-indulgence, witty ego-trips" versus "the practice of fitting land to use, the art of fitting land and use, the art of fitting use to land, the practice of protecting land from inappropriate use."
I'm suggesting we are engaged in a most worthy profession having a life-enhancing role; if we can come to value the higher calling, the love of land and people that individuals can hold, we are in a position to convert our professional mission to practical results, an inclusive mission would support individuals, community and certainly the environment upon which we depend. It is not as if we don't know this already, but it is that we do not take ourselves seriously enough. We need to take ourselves seriously to enable those we serve to take us and themselves seriously. I believe that we do have a chance to operate as a more compelling, more relevant force in 'Quality of Life' issues. We are a profession that helps connect all levels of our existence from spirit to soil and our profession encompasses the best parts of our humanness.
One of his instructive documents which I believe will speak to current students and others is the following:
With regard to writing: I have discovered one bit of advice that has enabled several students to get 'unstuck.' They fixate on an essay, thinking that they can't go forward until it's perfect. I've simply encouraged them:
Leave the first draft alone except
correct all blatant errors (spelling, etc.)
add what is easy to add (examples perhaps, or somewhat clearer definitions)
add at end of essay a statement or list of issues raised, issues left obscure, issues that will be taken up later
Then they feel they have produced something that, although inadequate, recorded a stage on their intellectual journey.
I've been surprised at how this frees them from burdens of 'perfectionism,' trying to finish a bit of work they are evidently unable to finish as yet. They start looking forward to next attempts rather than locking in on current dissatisfaction.
Richard Williams was an early and, I hope, continuing influence on the content and direction of the Conway School of Landscape Design. I recommend that his notes and documents be collected, made available, and referred to.
Don't overlook how he explained and applied Aristotle's Four Causes (Forces, Energies, Principles) as Act and Value and Material and Form.
Mollie Babize '84, Trustee
As soon as I read the brief death announcement, I'm transported back to September 1983, as the 12th class of Conway students leave on the ten-day trip to Canada. Eighteen of us, 22 to 50, a range of backgrounds, are looking out the windows of the school van. I, for one, have no idea what I've gotten myself into, and how much this year will open up my mind. From the back of the van, Richard Williams poses a question: "What can you see that is not related to landscape design?" After 37 years, I'm still unable to answer that.
Richard's questions challenged Conway students to think deeply about who we were, what we were learning, and the role of design. Never pretentious or authoritarian, Richard urged us to explore mystery, to embrace contraries, to draw meaning from observations. He would ask, "When do you know you have entered a place? What creates the boundaries?" Or "What are the most fundamental forces that make anything what it is?" Once, with a less abstract focus, I remember he asked, "Why do you think the Wares have those old iron wagon wheels leaning against their stone wall?"
In his quiet, introspective manner, Richard Williams pushed us to understand the importance of design. He insisted that we not separate design work from our fundamental convictions; design is an ethical challenge, not one to be determined by aesthetics alone. "How does design illustrate that fundamental relationship (read: struggle) between the individual and the group?" He asserted there is a point at which one can say this park is well designed because it expresses justice.
Richard (center) holding forth in the yard of the original campus on Delabarre Avenue in Conway. Standing: (at left) Randy Griffith, former humanities professor; (at right) Gary Bachman '84. Seated: Sheafe Satterthwaite, former trustee; Ruth Parnall, advisor), Richard Williams, Liz Vizza '82, Blaire Hines '82, unidentified, Suzanne Barclay '82. On ground: Jim Jensen '78 and unidentified.
I've gleaned some of these quotes from my notebooks, long buried (and moved with me four times since I was a student) to discover his voice, which had such an impact on my thinking at the time. I recognized that many of the things I talk about with current classes—such as searching for a theme, a Big Idea, to bring coherence to a design—I first heard from him. Of course, he said it more elegantly:
"Landscape design is the skill at discovering that all the parts that make up the structure come into an order which is predetermined by a certain function. Design has to do with finding the universal under the particulars that translates units into parts."
He was talking about relationships, patterns, and coherence—a principle governing the entirety of any design. Where Walt provided the drive, expounding on the principles behind a logical design process; and Don demanded we be thoroughly grounded in the site itself, learning the systems and relationships found in nature; Richard, in his quiet and undemonstrative way challenged us to impart meaning and values to design, to attach feelings to actions, to understand conceptually what a project is to be about.
And always, Richard taught us the power of the well-considered question.
Liz Vizza '82, former Trustee
When I attended The Conway School in 1981-82, Richard Williams, the school's teacher/philosopher of humanities, blew my mind. I mean that in the best possible way. His brilliant observations of what we were intending to do when we intended to design a landscape opened some deep, unexplored—no, unknown—room in my consciousness, that made me realize how much more, and more consequential, it was for us to engage in the act of landscape design.
Richard challenged me to question my language, my motivations, my understanding of what it means to bring a landscape design into being. My language back then was fuzzy. In one of my projects, I expressed the desire to bring more "energy" into my presentations. In classic Richard style, he evaluated my work on that project by writing that Liz may have a "tendency to feel that energy or enthusiasm or commitment will generate ideas and self-confidence, whereas it may be that seeing clearly is the precondition for these happy experiences." Richard wasn't one for psychological reflection, but he had a brilliant laser focus on how the mind operates, and challenged me to think more clearly about what I was doing in the process of designing a landscape.
An object cannot fully be itself until it does what it was meant to do. Man's appropriate function is to develop the mind until it is co-extensive with the intelligibility of the universe. When he does this, he is making nature more beautiful.
If liberal education is not defined in merely social terms, the fundamental meaning of the phrase is free to emerge. The question is not, or not merely, what is appropriate to free human beings as opposed to slaves, but what kind of education liberates by fully developing and strongly unifying the human spirit.
One of the most profound lessons Richard taught me was that landscapes are, in addition to their ecological and practical functioning, expressions of human needs and values. Places generate felt responses. If the place was a person, how would I feel about him or her? Does this person invite, or repel? A well-managed woodlot speaks to us of harmony, of right relationship, of the achievement of highest potential, while a degraded woodlot speaks of neglect, abuse, lack of health.
How do we design for morality? What are the attributes that satisfy? What are the patterns that remind us of oneness? What are the experiences that will bring us to rest, and to the familiarity that makes a space a place? What does it say to us when a home is designed with a driveway and parking space in the front yard? The home is a place of rest, while the car is a vehicle of movement, and that creates a tension.
Richard was one of my greatest teachers, in so many ways. I was incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to learn from him, and be challenged by him. He made the Conway School education larger and more deeply meaningful for me, and I carry his insights with me to this day.


Join us for all or part of this weekend of activities aimed at letting you taste and see what God is doing in the community life of Bethlehem College & Seminary, Friday and Saturday, Sept 21–22, 2018.
Join us Friday evening and Saturday morning for a conference featuring John Piper, Jason Meyer, Jason DeRouchie, and Travis Myers.
Yes! There is no cost for either the Preview Day or the Think: Revisited conference, but we do ask that you register.


Billionaires Card Concierge service is available globally 24 hours a day in your preferred language at home or abroad. The last thing you need is yet another organisation or person to manage or place demands on your time. What you'd actually like is someone diligent and trustworthy who will hit the ground running and quickly grasp how best they can help you.
Ultra high levels of service for ultra high net worth clients is our foundation and our ethos. We strive to make life better, easier, and more fulfilling from the beginning to the end for any event you may desire. We bring a new level of value to your concierge experience and seek to exceed your expectations every time without fail.
We have revolutionized the concept of 360-degree customer service and our commitment to your personal satisfaction is constant. We have partnerships with the very best suppliers in the world and offer global support which allows our team to be there for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Call us on +44 (0)845 4968874 or +44 (0)77929 18575 to discuss your requirements.


I am passionate about helping companies attain their full potential through conversations around their capital agenda strategy. The key is starting the dialogue.
Experienced advisor helping global clients fund their ambition through the liberation of cash from working capital - cash is king! Husband and father. Keen golfer.
Steve oversees financial and capital planning, operating performance and a broad portfolio of services and brings more than 25 years of insight into operations management consulting.
Drawing from extensive international experience in Europe and emerging markets in the Americas and Asia-Pacific, he is also the EY Global TAS Operational Transaction Services Leader. He has more than 25 years of experience leading global working capital programs for corporations and PE clients, and continues to serve clients as an Engagement Partner with Ernst & Young LLP.
Prior to joining EY in 2008, he was the CEO of a global boutique firm that focused on helping companies improve cash flow from working capital via operational improvement. He joined EY to build the Americas working capital services.
Prior to his consulting career Steve served in industry as an operations and supply chain leader as well as an industrial engineer.


Im a stunning beauty that caters to your desires. My measurements are 5'4 120 pounds, 34C-24-36.
Independent and discrete. Please no requests for additional pics.
Whether you are visiting our city or a local, let me show you some Portland hospitality.


text:
read what you love • love what you read
Books and Pairings
2020 Holiday Books and Pairings
2020 Mother's Day Book & A Pairing
2019 Summer Splurge Edition
2019 May Books and Pairings
Guest Writers Female Author Edition 2020
Guest Writers Foodie Edition 2020
Guest Writers Bookstagram Bonanza 2020
All Guest Writer Posts
Adult Memoir
Adult Suspense/Thriller
Author Edition
Foodie Edition
Adult Mystery
Is That the Blue You're Using?
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. (Scribner) by Lili Anolik
Dear Mr. Hemingway,
Who is Eve Babitz? I can answer that it one word…Los Angeles. You know, The City of Lights, Tinseltown, La La Land. Eve Babitz was The L.A. Woman of the '60s and '70s. Daughter of Sol Babitz (a classical violinist) and Mae Babitz (an artist) and Goddaughter to Igor Stravinsky. She was an artist, a groupie, and a fixture on the L.A. social scene. Most of all though, Eve Babitz was a writer. In Hollywood's Eve, Lili Anolik chronicles Babitz's life using personal interviews and snippets from her extensive research. Her story isn't told through lengthy narratives and timelines. Instead, this biography reads more like a personal account and a detective story wrapped in one. Readers will be launched into a gritty world filled with name dropping, wild nights, and artistic drive. Gossip lovers rejoice. Your thirst is about to be quenched.
Early in her career, Eve Babitz worked as an artist designing album covers for major record companies. Through the years, her writing was published in Rolling Stone Magazine and other publications and eventually into her own books about L.A. Even though her writing was not always well received, Babitz continued putting words on paper. While writing in the 60's and 70's, she rubbed elbows with Andy Warhol, Don Henley, Harrison Ford, Steve Martin, Joan Didion, Dan Wakefield, Michelle Phillips, Julian Wasser, Yoko Ono and Warren Beatty, just to name a few. Let me also kindly add that she was very hot and heavy with The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison and photographer Annie Leibovitz.
Eve Babitz exuded an alluring vibe that attracted a crowd. She wasn't necessarily glamorous like Marilyn Monroe, but instead more of a natural beauty. She lived a fast paced life where alcohol, drugs and sex fueled her creativity. Her pastimes included writing and fraternizing with the famous and yet to be famous crowd at Hollywood's biggest hot spots (i.e. Troubadour, Ports and The Chateau Marmont). Babitz was no joke. Anyone who carried their diaphragm in a matchbox in their handbag was ready to play. She had no interest in adulthood and marriage wasn't on her radar. By not trying at all, she inadvertently became the "It Girl" of Hollywood. Babitz's alcohol and drug abuse eventually took its toll on the quality of her writing. With her books out of print and an accidental fire leaving part of her body severely burned, Babitz fell off the literary grid. How she got to where she is today (yes, she is still alive) is unveiled as the book continues through her later years.
What I love about Hollywood's Eve is that it truly captures the spirit of Eve Babitz. Anolik did her homework. Her research on Babitz was stellar. Her writing is raw and her words are razor sharp. She introduced me to a powerhouse of a woman that I never knew much about. She transported me back in time to an L.A. I will never experience, but felt like I was a part of while reading her book. In writing Hollywood's Eve, Anolik sparked a renewed interest in Babitz's life and body of work. Recently, Babitz's writing has been dusted off, reprinted and back in the eyes of its readers where it rightfully belongs. At age 75, Eve Babitz remains a Hollywood icon whose writing not only is socially significant, but has stood the test of time.
I hope this book dazzles readers like it did me! It's just that cool.
Until next time Mr. H.
Your Biggest Fan,
P.S. To piss off her then married boyfriend (1963), Eve (age 20) posed nude while playing chess with artist and fully clothed Marcel Duchamp (age 76) for Julian Wasser (photographer). Little did she know at that moment how powerful this photograph would be. This iconic photo turned Eve Babitz into an overnight sensation.
Click here to buy Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik
By Kelly Fredericks
Adult Nonfiction, My Book Shelf, Scribner Books
PrevPreviousWhat's Cookin Good Lookin???
NextI Wish You EnoughNext
The Yogi of Wall Street
Sign up for blog posts & news
© 2021 Dear Mr. Hemingway, LLC
Website by Fisher Green Creative, LLC
and never miss a blog post

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
April 23, 1960 Issue
The New Yorker, April 23, 1960 P. 38
Talk. Interview with Gore Vidal, writer, theatre critic and Congressional candidate. Reporter's main concern was with Candidate Vidal. He is a Democratic candidate for Congress in the 29th District of N.Y. His opponent is the incumbent, J. Ernest Wharton, Republican. Mr. Vidal thinks he can win. "All I have to do," he said, "is overcome a two-to-one Republican lead. I must create a new voting pattern." How? In the main, by superior industry. He said he had been laboring for almost a year now, appearing on TV and addressing all kinds of clubs in the 29th District. Discusses the issues in his district. Tells about his campaign slog an. He thinks that questions are as important as answers. His play "The Best Man" offered important questions about politics and the Presidency. Tells about Mr. Vidal's house in Barrytown.
This article appears in the print edition of the April 23, 1960, issue.
Suddenly Last Summer


Paul Darwent runs prize winning sessions of Enjoy-A-Ball for children aged 3 to 9. He introduces them to all sorts of ball games and arts & crafts in an appropriate and very enthusiastic way.
2pm to 3pm for pre-school and 3.30pm to 4.30pm for primary years 1 and 2.
Sibling deal : 2 children pay £25 per session.
Enjoy-a-Ball regularly runs holiday sessions.
The next Holiday Clubs are at Easter, on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th April, Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th April.
Complete the booking form and return it to Paul Darwent.
The holiday clubs provide exciting fun and games, arts and crafts for all children aged 3 – 9 years.
All holiday club sessions are from 9.00am to 1.00pm. (Please bring a packed lunch and drink).


'Ms Mary Lowry please." A frisson rippled through Court 13. Necks craned toward the heavy wooden entrance doors. A group of middle-aged women standing beside it because all the seats had been snapped up exchanged glances. Seconds ticked by. The door opened. A garda led the way, eyes fixed on the person behind her in the purple belted coat and matching purple scarf. She walked swiftly to the witness box, taking a side aisle, which meant she passed behind, rather than in front of, the man in the dock, her one-time lover.
For the second time, Mary Lowry was giving evidence in the trial of Patrick Quirke for the murder of her then boyfriend, Bobby Ryan, at Dublin's Central Criminal Court. Two months ago she had "bared her soul" in the witness box – telling the jury about her affair with Mr Quirke after her husband Martin's death, how that relationship soured when she met Mr Ryan, and her distress when he disappeared.
She was in court again last Thursday to identify the male and female voices that featured on an audio recording found on a hard drive that gardai seized from Mr Quirke's home.
Prosecuting counsel Michael Bowman asked if she was 100pc certain that the female voice on the tape was hers and that the male voice was Flor Cantillon's.
That's correct, yes, she replied.
As she spoke, Mr Cantillon watched her testify from a bench at the back of the court room. He had finished giving his own evidence a short time earlier. A wiry man, with thick white hair and a tanned face, he told the court how he met Ms Lowry at a dance in Killarney on St Patrick's weekend in 2012. He spoke gently in a deep Cork accent. He said he had "danced with her a couple of times previous" and he had stayed talking to her afterwards. Their relationship lasted two years.
"We were in a relationship for a good while," he said and, although they had a "break" in 2014, it wasn't for long, "because we met up again in Cork". While they were going out, he stayed with her on occasion at her home in Fawnagowan, three miles or so outside Tipperary town.
He liked to buy the "small papers" like the Sunday World. He would follow the racing while she liked the problem pages, the court heard.
Gardai contacted him for the first time in January this year and played him the recording they had found on the hard drive taken from Mr Quirke's home. Mr Cantillon said he recognised Ms Lowry's voice very clearly, reading the problem page of a newspaper, and he recognised his own voice from a word that he had used.
He didn't know that he was being recorded and had not given permission for it.
Eventually the voices stop. All that can be heard is a pulsing buzzing noise before the recording ends.
Ms Lowry listened, her head to one side.
You didn't record this, or give anyone permission to record it, Michael Bowman, the prosecuting counsel, asked her.
That's correct, she replied to both questions.
Before she finished in the witness box, defence counsel Bernard Condon had some questions for her. A Garda statement suggested that she became angry when told she couldn't be present with her boys while they were being interviewed in 2013. They were minors and she was protecting them, she said. He pressed on, asking her if she became angry.
"I feel a bit intimidated," she said at one stage.
This was what gardai were saying, Mr Condon pointed out.
Mr Quirke (50) is pleading not guilty to the murder of Mr Ryan (52), a truck driver and DJ known as 'Mr Moonlight', some time between June 3, 2011 and April 30, 2013.
Ms Lowry has been a central witness in the case because of the relationships she had with both men – her affair with Mr Quirke, and her subsequent relationship with Mr Ryan.
The court has heard how on June 3, 2011, Mr Ryan left Ms Lowry's home at about 6.30am and disappeared. Mr Quirke found his body almost two years later in an underground run-off tank on the farm he leased from the widowed Ms Lowry.
The prosecution's case is that Mr Quirke murdered Mr Ryan so he could rekindle his affair with her – and later staged the discovery of his body when he knew the farm lease would be coming to an end.
When Ms Lowry left the witness box, her brother Eddie Quigley stepped in.
A carpenter who lives in Newport in Tipperary, he was close to his sister. They came second and third in the family of four children who were raised on a small farm. When her husband Martin died, she was "devastated", he said. He believed she found it "difficult to cope". She never really talked about it – not to him anyway, he said. He thought she might be "running away" from it.
He was happy for her when she met Mr Ryan. Mary herself had previously told the court she "loved him to bits". But Mr Quirke was not happy, according to Mr Quigley. The court heard how Mr Quirke complained to Mr Quigley about the DJ.
"He just hadn't anything good to say about Bobby Ryan," said Mr Quigley. "He was playing loose, he was out late at night, things like that." His sister was leaving the kids on their own, and he wanted Mr Quigley to "talk to her, to talk sense into her".
"He felt she was doing the wrong thing being involved with Bobby Ryan," Mr Quigley said.
Mr Quigley asked his sister if she was having an affair with Mr Quirke. "I asked her was there something going on between herself and Pat Quirke. She denied it." He asked her again a couple of weeks later, which made her "cross".
After Mr Ryan went missing, Mr Quigley spent time at Fawnagowan, where people had congregated and search parties were out combing the woods, the farmyard and all the fields around it. Mr Quigley went out with Mr Quirke, who was driving his car, and Jimmy Lowry, Mary's brother-in-law.
In August 2012, Patrick and Imelda Quirke's son died tragically.
Sometime after the funeral, Mr Quigley was working on Mary's house, repairing the roof. From there, he could see his sister heading toward her vegetable garden.
"After a while I could hear some loud shouting and talking," he said, like "angry exchanges". He knew by the voices that it was Mr Quirke and his sister, he said.
Some weeks later, Mr Quigley was again approached by Mr Quirke while working on his sister's house.
The following month, the family held an anniversary Mass for Martin Lowry at the house in Fawnagowan, after which Mary, her sister and the boys were to travel to a family wedding in Spain. But Mary's passport had disappeared and, according to Mr Quigley, they spent the night of the anniversary Mass searching the house for it without success.
The court has previously heard how she accused Mr Quirke of taking it.
On April 30, 2013, Mr Quirke discovered Mr Ryan's body when he opened a run-off tank on Ms Lowry's farm, intending to draw water from it for slurry.
Mr Quigley recalled meeting his sister that afternoon in Tipperary town. They drank tea in SuperValu and waited for the boys to finish school. She was visibly upset, he said. She had collected a few clothes, he added, and she moved to his house. When the media called to his house she moved on, first to her sisters and then to a house in Dundrum in Tipperary.
On Friday, the deputy state pathologist gave his opinion on Mr Ryan's fatal injuries. Dr Michael Curtis, called as a witness by the defence, agreed with other experts that Mr Ryan died of blunt-force trauma to the head. As to the "mechanism" of death, the possibilities included being hit by a baton or a baseball bat, he said. But in his opinion the most likely possibility was "vehicular impact trauma" or being hit by a moving car.
The vehicle involved would have sustained significant damage, the court heard. The fractures to Mr Ryan's head and face would have bled profusely.
The neat alignment of his limbs suggested that Mr Ryan's body was not thrown but "placed" into the run-off tank.
Dr Curtis stressed that he was giving his opinion. He was not involved in the post- mortem, but he and his colleagues had reviewed the work done by Dr Khalid Jabber, who is unable to testify at the trial.


With the assistance of our well expert team of our company, we are engaged in manufacturing, exporting and supplying a huge series of Chips Slicing Machine in New Delhi, Delhi, India. Offered range of Chips Slicing Machine is designed and assembled using best grade raw material, sourced from the most eminent vendors of the industry. One can avail from us at budget friendly prices.
Established in 2004, DEOKALI KITCHEN EQUIPMENTS has been a leading name in offering top notch Refrigerator & Freezer. Located in New Delhi, Delhi, we offer the best quality Chips Slicing Machine to our customers at best prices in the industry.


Kill the Unicorns is a completely crazy card game. The goal ? Kill as many unicorns as you can, these legendary and yet so stupid creatures that breed at great speed and invade the Kingdom of the Princess.
During a game, the players embody one of these characters and will aim to capture the most unicorns, trying not to catch Pigicorn!
Kill The Unicorns was funded on the Crowdfunding Kickstarter (See the campaign) platform on the 21 December 2017, the campaign lasted 30 days. 7,924 people helped funded the game, whose the amount requested was $10,000.00. Thanks to these 7,924 people the game could be funded up to $300,401.50, ~3,004.01%.


text:
Q: SWITCH True Multiple column and criteria in Power BI I have a two different columns are one is name and another one is ID.
The Name column contain text and number and the length of characters not always same.
ID column contain number only.
1.If ID column contain 38 and Name column contain "-" then Train.
2.If ID column contain 56 and Name column contain "-" then Air.
3.If ID column contain 38 and Name column does not contain "-" then Road.
4.If ID column contain 56 and Name column does not contain "-" then Road.
In Excel I am applying the following formula
=IF(A3="","",IFERROR(IF(REPLACE(A3,1,SEARCH("-",A3),)+0,IF(B3&""="38","TRAIN",IF(B3&""="56","AIR","ROAD"))),"ROAD"))

in order to get the result.
I want calculated column.

A: this might be implemented in DAX as a calculated column that uses the SWITCH statement
SWITCH(
    TRUE(),
    T[ID] = 38
        && SEARCH( "-", T[NAME], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Train",
    T[ID] = 56
        && SEARCH( "-", T[NAME], 1, 0 ) > 0, "Air",
    T[ID]
        IN { 38, 56 }
            && SEARCH( "-", T[NAME], 1, 0 ) = 0, "Road"
)

The default (no matching conditions) is to return BLANK()
Nested IFs could also be used, it is a matter of taste

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


By playing with blend modes or giving them an alternate background color, you can achieve even more colors and effects.
If you like these, the Multicolor Painted Paper Templates #1 has just been released at Pixel Scrapper!
These are amazing. And nope, I haven't seen them all over scrap world, and especially not CU. Never mind CU4CU like the Pixel Scrapper license allows (can you guess what designer is going to be making some papers with these someday soon? yep, it's me!) . Back when I relied on templates for my designs (and I do still rely on other peoples' brushes and other resources when it comes to artsy stuff, I have yet to get out the paper and paint myself) I looked around quite a bit for layered artsy paper templates. There are a few, but as far as I can recall not many that are CU and none that are CU4CU. Anyways, you are a genius, and a goddess, and have totally made my week!


text:
Home › News › 2015 › Internal protection ›
Belgium: CALL finds that Palestinian refugee from Gaza should not be excluded under Article 1D
This case relates to a Palestinian refugee registered with UNRWA in Gaza, who claimed asylum in Belgium. Due to his work as a photo-journalist in Gaza he was injured by live fire from the Israeli army and received threats both from Hamas and the Israeli authorities. During the war in Gaza he witnessed the direct targeting of journalist friends by Israeli rockets.
UK: Upper Tribunal guidance on sufficiency of protection
The applicants in the case of N.A. and V.A. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department are asylum seekers from India and Pakistan respectively, who got married contrary to the wishes of their families and were threatened with honour killing.
ECtHR: Grand Chamber W.H. v. Sweden (no. 49341/10) [Article 3], 8 April 2015
The Grand Chamber has issued its second decision concerning Sweden and has, similarly, struck the case out of its list under Article 37 § 1 (b) of the ECHR.
Ireland - Irish High Court rules on whether a family can constitute a particular social group
The facts of the case relate to a Kosovar family unit who as a result of an Albanian family blood feud fled to Ireland and applied for refugee status.
(-) Remove Internal protection filterInternal protection
Inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 2
Membership of a particular social group 1
Persecution Grounds/Reasons 1
Vulnerable person 1


text:
Q: Postgres query for IN(NULL, 'test') does not work When I wan't to match a column that has some certain string values or is null, I assumed I can do something like this:
SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE column_name IN (NULL, 'someTest', 'someOtherTest');

But it does not return the columns where column_name set set to NULL. Is this anywhere documented? Why does it not work?

A: You can't compare NULL values using = (which is what IN is doing).
Quote from the manual

Ordinary comparison operators yield null (signifying "unknown"), not true or false, when either input is null. For example, 7 = NULL yields null, as does 7 <> NULL

You need to add a check for NULL explicitly:
SELECT *
FROM table_name
WHERE (column_name IN ('someTest', 'someOtherTest') OR column_name IS NULL);

A: NULL and empty string (i.e ' ') both are considered different in Postgres, unlike Oracle.
The query can be modified as:
SELECT *
FROM table_name
WHERE (column_name IN ('someTest', 'someOtherTest', '', ' ') OR
column_name IS NULL);


text:
Anything for Her
GJ Minett
She asks him for help faking her own suicide. But then she disappears for good. A gripping upmarket novel of suspense, for fans of Peter Swanson, Sabine Durrant, JP Delaney and Clare Mackintosh.
A devilish psychological thriller from the widely loved GJ Minett, for fans of The Girl Before and Lie with Me.
You'd do anything for the one that got away . . . wouldn't you?
Billy Orr might not have seen his ex-girlfriend Aimi in eleven years, but he's never forgotten her. When Billy returns to his home town to visit his dying sister, his old feelings come flooding back. He would have done anything for her then, he'd do anything for her now.
When Aimi tells him that she wants to escape her abusive husband, Billy agrees to help. But is she still the Aimi that Billy remembers from all those years ago?
Once Aimi disappears, Billy starts to suspect that she had different reasons for leaving – reasons that might be more dangerous than she's led him to believe . . .
Praise for ANYTHING FOR HER
'Utterly compelling and absorbing throughout with the most satisfying conclusion' Maureen's Book Blog
'A cracking, unputdownable and very sophisticated psychological thriller.' Bibliomaniac
'A story full of deceit with a very unexpected outcome. I had no idea what was in store . . . I just loved the ending' By The Letter Book Reviews
ISBN Ebook: 9781785763878
ISBN Paperback: 9781785763885
G.J. Minett studied at Cambridge and then spent many years as a teacher of foreign languages. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, and won the 2010 Chapter One Prize for unpublished novels with the opening chapter of The Hidden Legacy. You can follow him on Twitter @gjminett and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/grahamminettauthor.
Follow Zaffre Books on Twitter
ZaffreBooks
Follow ZaffreBooks on Instagram
Join Zaffre Books on Facebook
©2019 Zaffre Books - Bonnier Books UK
80-81 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 9RE
hello@bonnierbooks.co.uk
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Click 'OK' to accept or find out more about the cookies we use.OkRead more


The 1991 NBA All Star Game was unique for a couple of reasons. Most notably, it was the first time that the game would be played in the Queen City. But secondly, and more importantly for our purposes, it marked the debut of some of the best All Star logos and apparel to date. Check out these beautiful, historically accurate, East Warm Up Pants. Made for the first time this season to coincide in celebrating the 2019 NBA All Star Game in Charlotte.


There is hope in hospice care. Your well-being is our priority now that you face incurable health issues. We are committed to helping you maintain your independence and comfort for as long as possible.
Mesun Health Services, Inc. strives to improve your quality of life through our compassionate and caring hospice services. With years of experience in the health care field, we are committed to improving your life in every way we can. Just because we are a hospice service provider, it does not mean you come here because there is no hope. In fact, we are the team to turn to when you want to find comfort and consolation. We make life more meaningful even when you face debilitating illnesses or symptoms.
You come to us because there is always hope! Even when battling a terminal condition, we can help you live every day to the fullest and that is what is important right now. Enjoying every minute doing what you love, with the people you love. Through our hospice care, we strive to provide you this opportunity. We specialize in high-quality hospice and palliative care which will be performed by experienced professionals.
We understand that these times can be emotional for both you and your family, but we will guide you through every single step to ensure that you never give up.
Through our talented nurses, chaplains, physicians, and even social workers or volunteers, we are constantly striving to improve your situation. Mesun Health Services, Inc. is here for you and we will always have your back. For more information about our hospice care programs, please call 770-623-2710. You can also refer a family member who could use our support services.
We strive to provide only the highest quality of care to anyone who needs our help. We are dedicated to your health and life, and we will never give up on you especially when you face a terminal or debilitating illness. Our dedicated staff strives to give you comfort and uphold your dignity even in the concluding phase of a terminal illness.


text:
Тала́чево () — село в Стерлитамакском районе Башкортостана, входит в состав Буриказгановского сельсовета.

История
В Меркит-Минской волости на положении припущенных людей были жители д. Талачево, называвшейся Талачево-Мокшино. XIX век встретила она 22 дворами, где жило 70 башкир и 75 тептярей. X ревизия показала 61 башкира-вотчинника, 218 безземельных башкир, тептярей из татар. К 1920 г. количество дворов достигало 275, численность населения: полторы тысячи человек.

Название деревни — от антропонима. Башкиры Мукшинской волости Талас и Супай Мирясевы в 1669 г. были припущены вотчинниками Яик-Субы-Минской волости на вотчину по р. Асаф с платой в год по 4 куницы и по 1 батману (10 фунтов) меда.

Население

 Национальный состав
Согласно переписи 2002 года, преобладающая национальность — башкиры (75 %).

Географическое положение
Расстояние до:
 районного центра (Стерлитамак): 24 км,
 центра сельсовета (Буриказганово): 6 км,
 ближайшей ж/д станции (Стерлитамак): 24 км.

Люди, связанные с селом
 Ишмуратов, Миннираис Минигалиевич (род. 1940) — экономист. Доктор экономических наук (2010), профессор.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Совет муниципальных образований Республики Башкортостан
 Талачево (Талачево-Мокшино) на портале «Генеалогия и Архивы»

Населённые пункты Стерлитамакского района

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Singarasa was a local chieftain holding the title of Maha-Samantha (prince of a subjugated region), who had his headquarters at Arasikere, Hassan district, Karnataka, India, in the 12th century CE. He was a popular chieftain of his time, and several places in Karnataka are named after him, for example Singatagere (Arasikere taluk), Singanamane (Bhadravathi taluk), Singanagadde (N.R. Pura taluk) and Singasandra. Several chieftains with the same or similar names ruled various parts of Karnataka from the 10th century CE onwards.

Mahasamantha
Singarasa ruled Arasiyakere (present-day Arasikere) when Vira Ganga Bittideva was king at Dorasamudra, the capital of the Hoysala Empire. Singarasa was the son and successor of Nagavarma; Bhutarasa was Singarasa's son and successor.

Relocated to Kanakatte
An inscription dated 1132 states that Singarasa was relocated from Arasikere to Kanakatte, where he built a temple named Bettadakalideva for Shiva by installing a linga. He also built another temple, which he named Singeshwara after himself, as was the prevailing practice.

Notes

References

Bibliography

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
12th-century Indian monarchs
People from Hassan district


text:
DIXON ROBERT E
CW3 Robert "Bob" E Dixon was a potential VHPA member who died after his tour in Vietnam on 05/18/1967 at the age of 36.1 from A/C accident
Jesup, GA
Served in Vietnam with 8 TC CO in 62
This information was provided by Richard N. Rex
More detail on this person: I don't know what unit Bob was with in RVN for sure but he was in the 8th Hel Co in Ft Bragg after flight school. I never saw him again until I got to B 227 , 11Air Assault in 1963. He was in A 227.. We were sent to the Dominican Republic in 65 when we finished the manuevers and they were getting ready to say they were the 1st Cav. Stayed there til July 66. He went to Ft Rucker to teach Instruments and got killed flying TH-13's at Rucker. I'm pretty sure he shipped out to RVN with the 8th TC.
From: Richard Rex. Four 'Copter Pilots Killed In Air Crash CLIO, Ala. (UPI) - Four helicopter pilots - two warrant officers and two warrant officer candidates - were killed Thursday when two choppers collided in the air. The Army immediately dispatched a team of investigators to probe the wreckage in an effort to determine the cause of the accident. The men were stationed at Ft. Rucker. The Army identified them as Chief Warrant Officers Robert E. Dixon, 36, of Jessup, Ga. and Thomas K. Gibbs, 26, of McGregor, Tex.; and warrant officer candidates Lawrence G. Westbury, 26, of Oklahoma City, Okla., and James R. Yates, 22, of Cross Plains, Tenn. The aircraft were on instruments during a routine training mission when the collision occurred. They crashed about 425 yards apart near a rural home. One crashed in a pasture and the other came down in a pine thicket.
Burial information: Hazlehurst City Cemetery, Hazlehurst, GA


Moran, L., Garrity, S., McGregor, C. & Devaney, C.
This paper focuses on informal social support and coping amongst parents living in a Direct Provision (DP) reception centre in the rural west of Ireland. Since 2000, asylum seekers in Ireland are subject to DP where the state provides accommodation and food to asylum seeking families, and a small supplementary allowance. Despite calls for its abandonment and that it constitutes 'citizenship based discrimination', DP features prominently in Irish policy on asylum seeking. Drawing on qualitative interview materials from an evaluation of childcare services in one asylum seeker reception centre, we argue that children living in DP are frequently exposed to risky behaviours, and that the DP system adversely affects children's resilience, stifling their educational, emotional and social development. In Ireland, supports for families and children living in DP are relatively weak, and despite protests for enhancing asylum seekers' rights in housing and employment, asylum seekers interviewed for this study feel abandoned by the state. Instead, they rely heavily on local services for emotional and financial supports to cope with living conditions in DP. The paper argues for a culturally responsive approach to policy-making that is grounded in human rights and family support which recognizes the importance of community services in providing emotional and practical supports to parents.


"Only thing proven is that he rejoices over the misery that he thinks he has imposed on ordinary Iranians. Like his predecessors, he will learn that Iranians never submit to pressure," Zarif said in a post on his Twitter account on Sunday.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said in February that the Iranian nation would stand firm in the face of an "economic" and "psychological" war being waged by the United States against the Islamic Republic.
President Rouhani says the Iranian nation will stand firm in the face of an "economic" and "psychological" war being waged by the US against the country.
The Iranian FM says all US plots against Iran have failed over the past 40 years thanks to the nation's steadfastness in the face of Washington's pressure tactics.


Mothers' Union is an international Christian membership charity that aims to demonstrate the Christian faith in action through the transformation of communities worldwide. The Mothers' Union works with people of all faiths and none in our town and around the world to promote stable marriages, healthy families, and the protection of children by praying, enabling and campaigning in support of these causes. Mothers' Union is currently in 84 countries with over 4 million members. Membership is open to any person baptized in the Trinity.


Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, 1989.
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1987.
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 1986.
Multiphase Fluid-Particle Dynamics, Energy Systems Modelling, Nanofluids Flow Modelling, Transport in Porous Media, Heat and Mass Transfer, Magnetohydrodynamics, Numerical Analysis, and Fluid-Particle Separation.
Professor Ali J. Chamkha Dean of Graduate Studies and Research.
Download CV as a pdf (printable) document.


text:
Peter Craven reviews 'The Young Desire It' by Kenneth Mackenzie
Peter Craven
Published in September 2013, no. 354
The Young Desire It
by Kenneth Mackenzie
Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 368 pp, 9781922147509
The legend of Kenneth Mackenzie (1913–55) has always hovered around the corridors of Australian literature. From Western Australia, was he? Died young, didn't he? Trouble with drink, wasn't it? Or sexual identity, could it have been? They say he's worth reading but nobody much has, have they?
Well, the republication of The Young Desire It (1937) is likely to change all that. If all the pomp and circumstance of the Text Classics venture were in search of its vindication, this is it. The Young Desire It is an extraordinary novel, dazzling in its texture, wholly original in its vision, and heartbreaking in the power and freshness of the story it tells. If I had stumbled on this book when I was growing up because it came with the imprimatur of the kind of literary logo this country has never seen, if I had encountered it because it was on the shelf as a Penguin Modern Classic next to André Gide's La Symphonie Pastorale or Olivia by Dorothy Bussy, I would have been dazzled first by the power of the writing, then by the revelation of someone else knowing what it was like to be young, and, after that, far in the background, by the sort of amazement already kindled by Patrick White (differently, but comparably) that something this good could come out of Nazareth.
The Young Desire It (the title itself is like a Giotto's circle of what a book might be) is the story of a young boy panting for love in the hothouse of a boarding school and then finding it, like a revelation of the preciousness of what is bound to be lost, with a girl in the bush. The girl when she appears, comes as a surprise, not least because the opening of The Young Desire It, and long after it, is so dense with the steam and sweat of ancient and immemorial homoeroticism that it will have grandfathers gasping with recognition and relief that they somehow emerged from an exclusively male world and young girls wrinkling their noses in wonderment at this world that reeks of boys as if the smell of unwashed male clothes somehow encoded the memory of the world.
'The Young Desire It is an extraordinary novel, dazzling in its texture, wholly original in its vision, and heartbreaking in the power and freshness of the story it tells.'
The action sounds, on the face of it, simple enough. A young boy, mid-teens, who has grown up with his mother on a property in the country, is sent to a posh boarding school. Sensitive and all at sea, he finds himself exposed to the sardonic schadenfreude of more or less kindly masters and a fair amount of strip-him-rough-him-up-and-throw-him-in-the-washing-basket barbarism from his fellows. In the midst of all this, he becomes an object first of attention, later of infatuation, to a young school master, English born and cynically exquisite, who writes a beautiful Greek script and encourages our hero when he hits on Falstaff's reported death scene from Henry V. He talks mordantly to the boy, he talks beautifully to him, and at one point, with patent desire but ambiguous indecency, he touches him up. The teacher is somewhere on the dark side, with a sly ambivalent quality not without its traces of sympathy, like a young Hamlet condemned to toy with and maul a boy Ophelia.
The hero, in his dumbstruck, wondering way, is somewhat thrilled by the dark-hearted young master's willingness to clothe the mysteries of the soul in his efforts, thwarted in themselves, to bare the boy in the name of a lust that burns like the heart's destiny. And all this is done with a kind of luminous sophistication that is a hair's breadth from naïveté as the master quotes to himself the more ruthlessly erotic passages from Plato to justify the strangeness of his desire.
Meanwhile, the boy, who, in his blind way, fears physical humiliation more than anything else, succeeds in looking after himself pretty well in this world of half-grown thugs of men and overgrown boys. Then – like a revelation, like a road to Damascus – he's struck blind with love for a young girl, his own age, whom he meets back home, in the bush, sopping wet. The encounter is so unexpected in this world where socks and jocks and lewd Steerforth figures seem all the go that it takes on an apparitional quality, as if the girl were singing her own Magnificat and effecting her own Annunciation, as both angel and receiver of the seed of the Most High. God knows what the Hares and Hyenas crowd – the book currently fills the store's front window – make of the girl when she appears, but the writing that incarnates her has a ravishing quality, and it would be wrong to turn her into a Cocteauian equation (à la Proust, whom Cocteau was wrong about anyway), where every heaving bosom becomes a thrusting bottom.
It doesn't work like that, nor is it the case that the girl represents agape rescuing the girl from the pants-down implications writ predatory of his school world. She is a dream of Eros, as Plato enunciated it, but she is also a girl in the bush with whom our hero is smitten and who reciprocates just as intensely. It was that lover of boys, Marlowe, who asked, 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'; but it was Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet who gave us puppy love as something to be cut out in stars.
Kenneth Mackenzie. Photo: Jane Hicks
It would be wrong to give away too much of the plot of The Young Desire It, because it is one of the strange and towering things about this consistently startling novel, so pivoted on the familiar features of the boy–man–girl equation, that it has a real quality of suspense.
It also has a starkness and a thrill of plangency that constantly suggest the depths of anguish and the excitement, the premonition of something like tragedy at the very heart of the love that in all its rounded faces can seem, as Shakespeare says, to have the beauty of Eve's apple.
But The Young Desire It is an utterly remarkable work of art. Much of it has a breakneck, coltish quality, a lot of it is semi-symbolist in the gush and quaver of its impressionistic articulation, and it is also a book in which not much happens expositionally, though every so often the heavens fall (a kindly sympathetic figure suicides, a loved one goes contrary, characters swim in and out of focus like unknown fish). None of this matters, for we are clearly in the vicinity of a talent of extraordinary and extraordinarily precocious brilliance.
Kenneth Mackenzie wrote The Young Desire It at the age of twenty-three, and the book has a fierce but formally staggering intensity that makes you think of Rimbaud, though the vision is more humane. The novel starts out red raw and proves in the end remarkably tender though it is full of spectral intimations of every kind, including that dark one to the young mind that love is only the whispering of the ideal in the dark of the cave where all things are clay.
But this is a dazzling performance, more dazzling than anything I am aware of from Mackenzie's Australian contemporaries written at this period. With every possible rawness and gaucherie and trough of sexual ambivalence in sight, this is a lyrical novel that deserved to command the world's attention, a novel that belongs in the same company as the exercises in a comparable mode of Thomas Mann or Gide.
It is not the Patrick White of The Tree of Man or the Christina Stead of The Man Who Loved Children, but nor was it meant to be. If some visitor from a future world who could decode our language were to stumble on Webster's Duchess of Malfi or Marlowe's Hero and Leander, and were yet to encounter King Lear or The Winter's Tale, she would still know she had hit on an instance and probably a tradition of the richest thing in the world.
The Young Desire It is a classic by absolute not relative or parochial or opportunistic standards. It is not just a good book that deserved to be republished. Nor is it a nationalistic curiosity, though it is in its way a revelation of a lost continent of erotic and more than erotic feeling in long-ago Australia. No, it is a staggering piece of fiction and it belongs as surely as, say, Robert Musil's Young Törless, a savage work, or Katherine Mansfield's At the Bay, a rapturous one, to the permanent literature of the world. Here for once is a true classic, a work by which all others should be judged.
Peter Craven is one of Australia's best-known literary and culture critics. He writes regularly for both the Fairfax and Murdoch press about literature, film, television, and theatre.
Julius Caesar (Bell Shakespeare Company)
Peter Craven reviews 'The Boy Behind the Curtain' by Tim Winton
Peter Craven reviews 'The Discreet Hero' by Mario Vargas Llosa translated by Edith Grossman
More in this issue « Robert Reynolds reviews 'The End of the Homosexual?' by Dennis Altman Shooting through »
Essays and Commentary
Vote now and win!
Story of the Month
'Anything Remarkable', a new story by Josephine Rowe
Jacqueline Kent reviews Faber & Faber: The untold history of a great publishing house by Toby Faber
Desley Deacon reviews Seven Big Australians: Adventures with comic actors by Anne Pender
'Honeywell', a new poem by Rowan McNaught
News from the Editor's Desk - June–July 2019
'Tangelo', a new poem by Karen Rigby
Ceridwen Spark reviews Sea People: The puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson


As another week draws to a close, there is a tingling sensation of excitement in the air. It is reasonable to think that fancy dress parties of Halloween (nb: In Ireland, Halloween is a cultural event that celebrates the arrival of the 'ghosts of winter'), but in our big data community, we are (slightly) more excited about the open source publications of Greenplum by Pivotal and pending; Apache Eagle originating from Ebay.
Eagle is also highly scalable in a distributed environment, real time (to sub second) returns and extensible with existing monitoring systems and networks. As pattern recognition underpins the tool, the clever use of its streaming API and a machine learning module deserves a mention. It's a promising use of algorithms to identify issues by anomaly detection within established usage patterns. A fine product from eBay that the open source community will now be able to work on an improve over time.
Pivotal have open sourced Greenplum which is a massive boost to open source movement around massively parallel data warehouses. It will be in essence a move to a skinny open source model that is Hadoop friendly. It is lauded with development and integration of the 'best in class' optimizer called "Orca". With the acquisition of Quickstep, Pivotal have also integrated a best in class bare metal columnar computing feature into the new "skinny model". If you would like to know more, why not join Hadoop User Group Ireland today as Greenplum will feature in a morning briefing the community group will host on November 28th in Dublin City Centre.
So, exciting times for our community and with the onset of coming week, we look forward to bringing you more discoveries of what's new in our "Big Data" world! Have a great weekend all!
We are a Big Data company based in Ireland. We are experts in data lake implementations, clickstream analytics, real time analytics, and data warehousing on Hadoop and Spark. We also run the Hadoop User Group (HUG) Ireland. We can help with your Big Data implementation. You can get in touch today, we would love to hear from you!


With over 20 years of experience in both Domestic and Commercial air conditioning, we specialise in providing correctly designed air conditioning systems with our own installation teams and after sales support by our service experts.
We provide the full range both refrigerated reverse cycle air conditioners from High-Wall Split units, Multi systems through to full ducted and zoned systems.
We recommend both Daikin and LG, world leaders in reverse cycle air conditioning. Daikin's advanced technology is focused on bringing climate controlled comfort to places where people live, work, meet and relax.
With a ducted system, a condenser is installed outside the home. The indoor fan coil is located in the ceiling with flexible ductwork distributing warm or cool air through vents located in each room of the house. Ducted systems can be designed to operate in two or more zones, so they can be heated or cooled at different times depending on the season. Since 1983, Daikin Australia has manufactured ducted indoor units designed specifically for Australian climates.


text:
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>TweenJS: Simple Tween Demo</title>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/demoStyles.css"/>

TweenJS Tween only Demo

This example shows TweenJS without using Canvas/EaselJS, to showcase legacy support for IE8. Only the
        EventDispatcher and Ticker classes are required from EaselJS. Note that Ticker is not included in Tween,
        so you will have to include EaselJS or Ticker manually.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Q: Making sure values are treated as Numeric when SQL Reporting 2008 renders a report as Excel When I save a SQL Report in Excel, a column containing numbers is treated as text in the resulting .xls file. On each row the cell has a green right triangle and a yellow diamond exclamation mark saying "The number in this cell is formatted as text or preceded by an apostrophe."
Can someone explain to me how to make it so the rendered report has no error for this column? My users wish to treat these cells as numeric; i.e. to perform calculations on these values, but they are text.

A: You can get around this by casting the field within the report.
=CDbl(Fields!mycolumn.Value)

Edit
The above example is the work around that I have always used for this issue, however, I just finished reading a post what the user noted that this was not needed, if you used the following code.
=IIF(Fields!FieldName.Value=0,Nothing,Fields!FieldName)

This seems to fix the issue and allow the use of FormatNumber.
The original post can be found here.


text:
package com.oracle.javaee7.samples.batch.api;

import javax.enterprise.context.SessionScoped;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: makannan
 * Date: 4/1/13
 * Time: 12:11 AM
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
@SessionScoped
public class SimpleLock
    implements Serializable {

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "SimpleLock{" +
                System.identityHashCode(this) +
                '}';
    }

}


text:
Home Entertainment Cultural Events FIFA launches new global volunteer programme to mark International Volunteer Day
FIFA launches new global volunteer programme to mark International Volunteer Day
Suman Munshi
FIFA Volunteer Programme
• New FIFA Volunteer Programme to cover all future FIFA tournaments and events
• Fans around the world can apply online and receive the latest updates on volunteering opportunities
• Become a FIFA Volunteer! Visit volunteer.fifa.com to sign up for more information
Recognising the vital contribution that volunteers make to football and FIFA tournaments, and to mark International Volunteer Day, FIFA has today announced the launch of a brand-new global volunteer programme, aimed at harnessing the passion for and interest in football around the world.
Aligned with FIFA's overall vision of bringing football to new fans and audiences, the new global programme, known as FIFA Volunteer, will for the first time provide a single, dedicated platform for people interested in volunteering at FIFA tournaments and events, as well as serving as a registration and application portal going forward.
As part of the new programme, fans aged 18 and over will be able to register on the FIFA Volunteer Platform to receive the latest news and updates about volunteering at upcoming FIFA events. Fans and members of the public interested in volunteering at FIFA tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup™, will also be able to apply to become a FIFA Volunteer via the platform.
To sign up and become a FIFA Volunteer, register now at volunteer.fifa.com.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said:
"On International Volunteer Day, I would simply like to say thank you to all the volunteers around the world. Volunteers are not only the heart and soul of FIFA tournaments, but they are the heart and soul of football at every level all over the world. Their passion, their smiles, their energy and positivity play an essential role in the success of every competition, contributing to the unique and unforgettable atmosphere in the host countries. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and welcome to the FIFA Volunteer Platform."
Speaking of her experience volunteering at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, Albina Naskevich said:
"I'd never previously thought of working in the sports industry, but when I returned from the FIFA World Cup in 2018, I started a job at the 2019 European Games in Minsk. I worked there for almost a year and it was an amazing opportunity to apply all the skills that I'd developed as a volunteer at the FIFA World Cup."
Listen to IBG NEWS Radio Service today.
Previous articleTermination of People's Republic of China (PRC)-Funded Propaganda Programs
Next articleNumbers Speak: FC Goa vs Kerala Blasters, Statistical Preview
https://in.linkedin.com/in/sumanmunshi
Founder Editor of IBG NEWS (15/Mar/2012- 09/Aug/2018). Recipient of Udar Akash Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain Award 2018. National Geographic & Canon Wild Clicks 2011 jury and public poll winner. Studied Post Graduate Advance Dip in Computer Sc., MBA IT,LIMS (USA & Australia), GxP(USA & UK),BA (Sociology) Dip in Journalism (Ireland), Diploma in Vedic Astrology, Numerology, Palmistry, Vastu Shastra & Feng Sui 25 years in the digital & IT industry with Global MNCs' worked & traveled in USA, UK, Europe, Singapore, Australia, Bangladesh & many other countries. Education and Training advance management and R&D Technology from India, USA, UK, Australia. Over 30 Certification from Global leaders in R&D and Education. Computer Science Teacher, IT & LIMS expert with a wide fan following in his community. General Secretary West Bengal State Committee of All Indian Reporter's Association
Forest Officers need to be the voice of the voiceless and act as trustees not owners of the vast natural resources of the Country:...
PM delivers 'State of the World' special address at the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda
University Grants Commission organises online workshop for Universities and Colleges on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
Special Representative for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim's Trilateral Call with Republic of Korea (ROK) Special Representative Noh and Japan Director...
General Elections to the Legislative Assembly of State of Punjab on 20th February 2022 (Sunday)
IIM Udaipur Incubation Centre launches first-ever Startup Cohort towards Climate Change – invites eligible startups
COVID – 19 again impacted Hero Indian Super League (ISL) – Postponement of Match No. 63 between Hyderabad FC and Jamshedpur FC
Beauty Pagent
IHCL ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF RAAJKUTIR, AN IHCL SELEQTIONS HOTEL IN KOLKATA
BeatO wins The National Startup Awards 2021 – in the Health Category for bringing access to healthcare to India
Mirabai visits National War Memorial, urges every Indian to visit the epitome of sacrifice and valour


text:
Q: Root of a function involving an integral I need to dynamically solve an equation for a function $g(t)$ which is multiplied by another expression involving an integral of $g(t)$.
Specifically, I have
\begin{align} \tag{1}
\sigma^{target}(t) = g(t) \sigma^{input} \sqrt{\frac{1}{T_i} \int_{0}^{T_i} g^2(s) ds}
\end{align}
I know $\sigma_{target}$ and  $\sigma_{input}$. Furthermore,
$$ g(t) =
\begin{cases}
  1 & 0 \leq t \leq T_{i-1} \leq T_i \\
? &  T_{i-1}\leq t \leq T_{i}
\end{cases}
$$
Without the part involving the integral, this would be straightforward and I'd use a iterative/bootstrapper to solve for g(t) for $t \in [0, T_i]$ but the integral complicates this task as I'd need $g(t)$ to determine that integral.
I want to find some empirical estimate of g(t) for some grid $t \in (t_0, ..., t_n = T_i)$
I was suggested to first give a guess of $\sqrt{\frac{1}{T_i} \int_{0}^{T_i} g^2(s) ds}$, then solve for $g(t)$ and iteratively updated my guess until I arrive at the root of equation $(1)$.


text:
Lincoln's Wild-Looking Autonomous EV Concept
The Model L 100 and the "Lincoln Embrace"
By Rain Noe - August 22, 2022
in Cars
Lincoln has unveiled a wild autonomous EV concept car, the Model L 100, that "embraces the tension between exuberant elegance and subtle restraint."
Though the concept is meant to signify the company's future design direction, they dug deep into their archive for inspiration, settling on their century-old design for the 1922 Model L (the brand's first luxury vehicle). I couldn't find a good photo of a 1922 Model L—not a lot of cameras around back then, I guess—but I found this shot of a 1927 Model L:
Pleasingly, the brand is keeping up with the trend of releasing design sketches and renders, so we can see exactly what the designers are going after. Here are the sketches, and we'll explain more in a minute what's going on with that crazy flowering action:
"An interactive, center console chessboard features a jewel-inspired chess piece controller that captures light and depth by redefining the vehicle controls inside the cabin. The controller replaces the traditional steering wheel in this autonomous concept vehicle, making the vehicle experience intuitive and effortless."
"Driver-centric and social seating configurations allow for passenger engagement that can be tailored for the occasion. Shaping the space in ways that allow connection, the front row seats can be flipped forward to create a social setting, in which front passengers can sit across from rear passengers. The transformable environment creates a more accommodating setting, giving the feeling of a true third space."
And the renders:
To explain about the ingress: With no driving for the passengers to do, Lincoln's designers reckon riders can form an emotional connection with the car if it, well, greets you dramatically. Thus what they're calling the "Lincoln Embrace:"
"Arriving with elegance, the glass roof and reverse-hinged doors lift to give a true sense of ceremony and welcome, with the signature Lincoln Embrace. Smart wheel covers help to advance the Embrace even further, utilizing lighting and sensors to communicate motion, battery life and human presence."
"The advanced, intuitive lighting creates an orchestrated symphony of lights both inside and out – augmented to the senses in ways that create a personalized experience for passengers. Welcoming in a more human way, the Model L100 senses the client upon approach and enables the light symphony to follow the client around the vehicle by leveraging an advanced, artificial intelligence system and GPS sensors to curate the experience."
And finally the full-scale model that Lincoln unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance:
"A crystal greyhound hood ornament, originally selected by Edsel Ford in the 1920s, symbolizes grace, elegance and speed and is visible through the transparent hood, capturing depth and illumination."
"This concept allowed us to design a new experience that is unburdened by past limitations and represents an evolution of our Quiet Flight tenets," says Kemal Curic, global design director, Lincoln. "The ultimate expression of our Model L100 design is one that moves effortlessly – a vehicle that appears to be sculpted by the wind, as if friction does not exist."
no spec
concept cars are great fun, I'm sure there's nothing about current sales dropping being reflected here. unfortunately for this division manager, the future of luxury transportation is in the sky. this is a cry for help.
Guides to Industrial Design
Core77 Guides
Resources for Industrial Designers
The Best Desktop CNC Milling Machines
5 Contributors | 7 Items | 5 Votes
A desktop CNC milling machine can be a practical addition to your prototyping or small-scale fabrication operations.
The Best 3D Modeling Software for Industrial Designers
10 Contributors | 15 Items | 233 Votes
3D modeling has been a part of the profession of industrial design since before computers were even conceived.
The Best Online Learning Platforms for Industrial Design
3 Contributors | 10 Items | 47 Votes
With so many online learning platforms out there, it can be hard as a designer to decipher where to go...
Best Affordable Professional 3D Printers
We are building this list as a resource for designers who are looking for a starting point in picking a...
The Best 3D Printing Services
7 Contributors | 12 Items | 104 Votes
In the 1990s 3D printing was adopted by forward-looking design studios for prototyping – it was not widespread though for...
Community driven, engineering oriented, detailed and aesthetic, 3D printing oriented, royalty-free, paid, free.
A Guide to Design Research Tools
Technology can be a great help when it comes to organizing your research on an ongoing project or in new...