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Maximilian (Miksa) (Mordehai ben Yehuda) Drechsler (23 octombrie 1883 satul Tabajd, Comitatul Fejér, Ungaria, Imperiul Austro-Ungar - 1970, Timișoara, România) a fost un rabin român originar din Ungaria, autor de lucrări de filozofie și de istorie a iudaismului. A slujit ca rabin neolog la Timișoara între anii 1910-1970.

Biografie
Între 1903 și 1908 a fost student la Seminarul Rabinic din Budapesta. În 1906, și-a susținut teza de doctorat în filozofie, onorată cu un premiu și publicată la Budapesta sub titlul Az aszketizmus állása a zsidó vallásos irodalomban Maimuniig  (Poziția ascetismului în literatura religioasă evreiască până la Maimonide).De asemenea a publicat o lucrare asupra concepției lui Abraham Geiger asupra  filozofiei religiei.În 1909 a obținut diploma de rabin. Timp de un an a fost rabin la Szarvas, Ungaria, apoi, în 1910 și-a început activitatea de rabin neolog la Timișoara, care făcea atunci parte din Austro-Ungaria. Și-a desăvârșit pregătirea la Universitatea Oxford  și la Jewish College din Londra, unde a fost apoi invitat să țină un ciclu de prelegeri despre Talmud.La biblioteca Universității din Oxford a consultat colecțiile de manuscrise ebraice și arabe. A publicat o lucrare despre gândirea filozofică și religioasă a rabinului Iuda Halevi (Közlemények II.), iar în 1932, o lucrare în ebraică și engleză despre rabinul Isaak ben Haim Hakohen din Jativa (sec.XV-XVI) (A poetic witness of the inquisition : the life and works of rabi Isak ben Chajim Hakohen.Tip. Wieder, 1932.Seini, Maramureș). Articolele lui au fost publicate în "Magyar Zsidó Almanach", "Múlt és Jövő", "Temesvári Hírlap" și "Neue Zeit". În anii 1935-1936, împreună cu Imre Naschitz, a redactat Zsidó Évkönyv (Almanahul evreiesc,Jüdisches Jahrbuch), cu articole despre religie, știință și literatură, pentru uzul comunității neologe. Curentul neolog, o mișcare reformistă aculturativă apărută în 1868, în cadrul iudaismului din Ungaria, a introdus reforme ce atenuau rigurozitatea ritului liturgic și a obiceiurilor tradiționale.  Adept al acestor reforme, rabinul Drechsler era cunoscut pentru spiritul său liberal și tolerant, pentru ținuta intelectuală impecabilă, pentru omenia și bonomia lui. Rabinul Drechsler a fost căsătorit cu Esther, născută Rosenberg.

Surse
 Baruch Tercatin, Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici, Prezențe rabinice în perimetrul românesc, Editura Hasefer, București, 2008
 Getta Neumann Articole pentru Minienciclopedia evreilor din Timisoara
Handbuch österreichischer Autorinnen und Autoren jüdischer Herkunft 18 bis 20 Jahrhundert. Österreichische National bibliothek, 2002 at. Miksa Drechsler p.237
A.Karteszi,V.Kordován, L.Ormos A Scheiber-Konvytár Katalógusa 1992

Legături externe
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Petra Török:Zsidó Könyvkiadás 1945 előtt  în revista Szombat, 11.1998
Drechsler Miksa în portalul Sófár în limba maghiară după Lakat Erika, red. Zsidó Kultúrtörténeti emlékek Fejér megyében, Székesfehérvár 2004

Rabini români
Evrei maghiari
Rabini din secolul al XX-lea


Hi again, everyone! I hope everyone's enjoying this lovely Saturday – and yes, I do plan to get out with my husband and enjoy it a little myself in a little bit. But first, I wanted to share with all of you other writers out there, (or would be writers, hey what are you waiting for?) my second installment of "Book Writing for Procrastinators, Overcoming Distractions & Mind Blocks". I also have a little surprise I want to share with you, a podcast on this very subject I happened to stumble across. But before I get into all of that, I would like to suggest that if you haven't read my first post on this subject, take a moment to go here and read it. It's loaded with tips on what has helped me, and 8 ways to learn from the pros, and get started writing that book, along with some links to resources from some more experienced writers who have been some of my greatest teachers, so be sure and check that out for some good advice on how to quit procrastinating, get started, and write that best seller! Hey, I know I'm not quite there yet, but we're all writers helping writers, right? So without further ado, let's dig in to what I have for you today!
My point here is, you just wouldn't believe how much things like this can affect you. I know it did me, for a long time. Besides that, for years, I suffered from low self esteem, in large part due to the fact that I worried too much about what other people thought about me, among other things. What I didn't realize was, over time, all of this just kind of conglomerated into a mind block. This, together with the bouts of depression that come from going through "the change" (I am a grandma now), along with my tendencies to become easily distracted, caused me to develop a mind block that nearly derailed my ever getting much of anything done, that is, until I decided enough was enough. I prayed about it, and I talked it over with my husband. Then, I came across a powerful podcast from Kary Oberbrunner. If you haven't heard of him, he's a very influential author, coach, and speaker working to "help other writers, people, and others just like you and me to discover who we are, why we are here, and how to become souls on fire so we can share our message with the world." Visit him and check out his website and some of the resources he has available here.
Over time, this stuff can really "clog your mind up", just like an old, nasty air condition filter in your home that needs replacing. You pull it out to replace it and say, "Wow, I didn't know all of that was in there!" Well, that's how our minds get sometimes, and eventually, it causes you to form a mind block, like I did. That lack of confidence in yourself can spill over into an addiction to social media and email, etc, which is what Kary Oberbrunner talks about in this podcast, which I found to be very helpful. So, I will just share the link here with you, and you can go check it out for yourself. So, since he explains it better than I can, here you go, head on over and just listen to this. I know it helped me.
For me, as well as the rest of us in the undiagnosed generation of people who likely suffer from an adult form of ADD – or Attention Deficit Disorder, it can be a challenge to get things done that others find so easy to just breeze right through. After listening to Kary's podcast, I began to realize that it was my own lack of confidence in myself, among other things, that led to my eventually letting things like email, social media, and other things provide that "sense of accomplishment" he refers to here. Now that I understand a little better what the root of my problem was, I, like others who read this, can begin to become friends with myself again, and work to cut out the "time wasters" that have distracted me. I can work to put myself on a schedule that will be effective for me, just like I do my young grandsons when they come to stay with "Mamaw", and I can finally believe in myself enough to overcome procrastination and get those books written, and I think you can too!
It is in exploring the root cause of procrastination, that we will finally begin to understand it better, and thus, overcome it, and the mind blocks that come with it, and eventually replace it with a focused plan and a schedule. It is in doing so, that we will finally understand who we are, why we are here, and what our message is that we have been put here to share with the rest of the world. That is where the renewed confidence in ourselves will come in, and we will become a powerful and unstoppable force, moving forward to the prize before us.
Okay, so I snitched this pic from Facebook. So what's your story? And why aren't you writing? Let me know when your book comes out! Until next time, happy writing! Now, if you will excuse me, I have some writing to do, and I think you do too!
Thanks for reading, hope this helps someone! If it's helped you, then please feel free to share it with someone! Then, get to writing!
Click here to read Part 1: Book Writing for Procrastinators… 8 Ways to Learn from the Pros, Get Started, and Write that Best Seller!


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We were proud to feature Henry of Pelham in December 2018.
Appearance: Bright, pale straw in colour.
Nose: Minerally, lanolin, green plum and grapefruit bouquet.
Palate: Medium-bodied, dry, grassy, green plum flavour. Very much in white Bordeaux style. Fresh and lively on the palate.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. Drink now and through 2019.
Food Pairing: Goat cheese tarts with caramelised onions, chargrilled squid, spaghetti with anchovy Carbonara, cucumber dill yogurt salad, and roast leg of lamb seasoned with harissa, garlic, and rosemary.
Located in Niagara, Ontario, Henry of Pelham Family Estate has been an industrious producer of fine wines for multiple generations. The Estate Fumé Sauvignon Blanc was selected exclusively for our wine club members for inclusion in their December package and is not available through any liquor store.
This wine was a standout during our recent tasting. Gorgeous fruit with hints of herb and smoke, this is a nuanced, elegant Sauvignon Blanc. It's the perfect wine for holiday parties as it's an ideal match for canapés and appetizers. Enjoy!
Appearance: Ruby-purple colour with a violet rim.
Nose: Spicy, earthy cherry bouquet with just a suggestion of vanilla oak.
Palate: Light to medium-bodied, fruity and fun black cherry flavour with a hint of tannin on the finish providing structure and added interest to the wine.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. Drink within the next twelve months and serve lightly chilled.
Food Pairing: Hangar steak with chimichurri, roasted black cod with lentils and pork belly, chicken tagine with apricots and olives, sage-stuffed turkey breast, and butternut squash tortellini with brown butter sauce.
Located in Niagara, Ontario, Henry of Pelham Family Estate has been an industrious producer of fine wines for multiple generations. The Estate Gamay was selected exclusively for our wine club members for inclusion in their December package – and is not available through any liquor store.
This wine was a fan favourite during our recent tasting with its notes of sweet cherry jam, black pepper, and smoke. Well balanced with a wonderful mouthfeel, it's a lovely Niagara classic. Pair this wine with your holiday feast and enjoy!
Appearance: Bright. Clear. Straw-coloured core.
Nose: A lovely complex nose – minerally, lightly toasty, apple and grilled nuts lifted with oak spice.
Palate: Medium-bodied, dry, beautifully balanced apple flavour with well-integrated oak notes and lively, lemony acidity. Very Burgundian in style.
Quality: Outstanding quality. Drinking well now or within the next two years.
Food Pairing: Grilled shrimp with apricot glaze, eggs benedict, pumpkin ravioli, grilled veal chops with mushrooms, pecan-crusted chicken, and halibut with brown butter.
Appearance: Medium ruby in colour.
Nose: A nose of raspberries and moist earth.
Palate: Medium-bodied, dry, well-textured and firm with raspberry and strawberry flavours carried on lively acidity.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. Hold 1 – 2 years.
Food Pairing: Roasted salmon with mustard and maple syrup, spinach mushroom pesto spaghetti, wild mushroom and burrata bruschetta, leek and pecorino pizza, cheesy caprese chicken and quinoa casserole, Brie & artichoke dip.
Nose: A spicy, minerally, grapefruit nose with a honeyed note.
Palate: Light to medium-bodied, just off-dry with grapefruit and honey flavours and fresh citrus acidity that gives the wine great length.
Quality: Outstanding quality. Drinking nicely now but will hold for several years.
Food Pairing: Spicy sweet and sour shrimp, roasted pork with honey and soy sauce and braised vegetables, steamed mussels, chicken satay pasta, and red snapper with charred tomatillos and pepper salsa.
Nose: This richly extracted Baco Noir behaves more like a vinifera than a hybrid. Spicy, slightly herbal on the nose.
Palate: It shows blackberry fruit with vanilla oak notes. Medium-bodied and dry, jammy flavours of black plum and prune, accented with vanilla oak, fill the mouth.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. Drinking well now, but will be more harmonious in a year or two.
Food Pairing: Roast beef dinner with horseradish sauce, barley risotto with duck confit and peas, lasagna with sun-dried tomato and pancetta, meatlovers pizza with marinara sauce, and grilled steak & onion tacos.
Henry of Pelham, a pioneer Canadian winery, has a well-deserved rep for making top Baco Noirs. This 2017 version is among the absolute best of Henry's Bacos I've tasted in 20+ years. A dark blockbuster (yet medium-bodied) with rich aromas of blackberries and pepper. It faithfully delivers a warm, juicy, blackberry and pepper treat to the palate.
This wine is quite versatile – but particularly enjoys red meats and rich tomato pastas. And don't forget this special Baco pairing – fresh Ontario strawberries with black pepper!
Appearance: Bright. Clear. Golden core, lighter rim.
Nose: Medium aromatic intensity. Oak spice, vanilla, hint of white flowers.
Palate: Medium acid, medium body. Apricot, white flowers, white peach, citrus zest, hint of smoke.
Quality: Very Good quality. 86 points. Drink now or hold 1-2 years.
Food Pairing: Honeycrisp apple pizza with balsamic onions, pork chops with gremolata, mushroom and Brie pizza, fettuccini with scallops and white wine sauce, and pan-fried sole with butter and lemon.
Appearance: Bright. Semi-opaque. Ruby core, pink rim.
Nose: Medium aromatic intensity. Strawberry jam, red cherry, blackberry.
Palate: Medium body, medium+ tannin, medium acid. Red cherry, smoke, black pepper, green vegetal notes, earth.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. 89 points. A delicate, nicely balanced Pinot Noir. Very fulsome and nuanced given its youth. Hold 1-2 years.
Food Pairing: Fennel and garlic pork roast, smoky glazed ham with red pepper, beef stew with pumpkin and seasonal vegetables, duck confit with herbed potato cakes, and bacon and onion stuffed mushrooms.
Appearance: Bright, clear. Light gold core, lighter rim.
Nose: Medium aromatic intensity. Petrol, green apple, minerality.
Palate: Medium- acid. Medium- body. Nectarine, green apple, hint of minerality.
Quality: Very Good quality. 87 points. A very subtle Riesling with a hint of diesel. Drink within the next 12 months.
Food Pairing: Barbecued ribs, coconut chicken satay salad, smoked salmon sushi, farfalle pasta with shrimp, pan-fried fish with Thai curry sauce, halibut with lemon and capers.
Appearance: Bright. Opaque. Deep purple core, lighter rim.
Nose: Medium aromatic intensity. Black cherry, plum, black licorice, green herbal notes.
Palate: Medium acid, medium tannin, medium body. Dark fruit, blackberry jam, black licorice, smoke, herbaceous notes.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. 89 points. A well-balanced wine presenting fruit, smoke and savoury notes. Drinking well now, but could cellar up to 3 years.
Food Pairing: Spicy shrimp pasta in garlic tomato cream sauce, baked asparagus with aged Cheddar, beef stroganoff, flank steak with cilantro salsa verde, and chili rubbed roasted beef tenderloin.
Appearance: Bright, hay coloured core.
Nose: Yellow plum, orange and lime, minerality.
Palate: Medium body, medium+ acid, dry, grassy, green plum. Tart with zingy acidity.
Quality: Very Good quality. 89 points. Drink now and through 2020.
Food Pairing: Goat cheese, fish and chips, seafood carpaccio.
Appearance: Bright. Semi-opaque. Deep purple core, pink rim.
Nose: Medium+ aromatic intensity. Black cherry, blackberry, green bell pepper, savoury herbs, black pepper.
Palate: Medium acid, medium tannin, medium body. Black cherry, plum, oak spice, black pepper, licorice, smoke, green vegetal and herbal notes.
Quality: Very Good+ quality. 89 points. Drinking nicely now, but could cellar for 1-2 years.
Food Pairing: Steak with peppercorn sauce, spaghetti with lentil bolognese, spicy lamb meatballs, veal with creamy mushroom sauce, butternut squash shepherd's pie, and halibut with charred garlic and tomato relish.
Appearance: Bright. Clear. Light raspberry core.
Nose: Red cherry, strawberry, earth.
strawberry, violet. Dry. Lovely fruit balanced with a robust acidity.
Quality: Very Good quality. 89 points. Hold 1 – 3 years.
Food Pairing: Mushroom and herb pizza, cheese and charcuterie boards, sage-stuffed roasted chicken or turkey, grilled salmon with wild rice, and beef stroganoff.


Lviv has a long history and well-known reputation as one of the leading educational centres in the whole of Ukraine, drawing students from across the country to one of our many fine institutions. Ukrainian youth are drawn to the inimitable European atmosphere of our city, to our chic art and coffeehouse culture, and to our long and hard-earned reputation for student activism. Lviv is widely regarded as a hotbed of Ukrainian nationalism, but also as Ukraine's most European city – both in atmosphere and attitude. As one Russian-speaking Eastern student explains, "I was expecting people to be angry at me for speaking Russian, but the people of Lviv are so friendly. It's not European because it wants to be; it's European because they already express European values, like toleration." This role as protector of traditional Ukrainian values and chief 'spokescity' for European ambition has a storied history among our city's higher education institutions.
Since long before even the oldest of Leopolitan citizens remember, the students of Lviv have played a vocal, and at times violent, role in protecting minority values. As early as the mid-19th Century, while Lviv was under the auspices of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, students rallied against the use of German as the language of instruction. The issue of language was once again brought to the fore in the early-20th Century as students in Lviv, which was by then under Polish rule, agitated to have the Ukrainian language recognized as equal alongside Polish in the sphere of education. This movement culminated in the murder of a Leopolitan student at the hands of the Polish Governor of Galicia. In those years, even professors were part of the avant-garde spirit as Ukrainian-bred professors refused to give an oath to the Polish state. The Second World War was particularly difficult on Lviv's students as many were shipped far away to die on foreign battlefields. By 1991, Lviv was one of the epicentres of the Ukrainian drive for independence and our students were especially active in the 2004 pro-Western / anti-corruption Orange Revolution movement, which culminated in a fraudulent election being annulled.
There is perhaps no bigger responsibility of a Leopolitan student than standing up for the interests of Ukrainian nationalism or the Ukrainian aspirations of joining Europe.
In an October poll, 73% of students aged 16-29 supported Ukraine's move to sign the Association Agreement with the EU, with the support even higher among those with a college or university background. It's clear that students from across Ukraine, especially at Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko and Kyiv Mohyla institutes – who were the first to begin the EuroMaidan protests in late November – support Ukraine's original position of signing the Association Agreement. So when a city's student population has a reputation for being activists, what exactly is expected of them when a likeminded protest takes root? Firstly, Leopolitan students quickly organized their own EuroMaidan in front of the Shevchenko monument on Prospeckt Svoboda. What began on Nov. 21 as just 100 students calling for others to join them, swelled to thousands just the next day with chants like "Lviv is for EU" heard all the way down at the Opera & Ballet Theatre. The level of organization by the student leadership in Lviv was remarkable in that at first they refused to work with the opposition parties; the stage, scheduling, and other preparations were largely organized themselves. A tent was pitched to serve as a kitchen and information centre. Preparations were made to get Lviv students to the main camp in Kyiv, numbers were posted on where to find transportation or other support, and all the while daily protests were maintained at Lviv's EuroMaidan home. Using the popularity of EU-integration in Lviv as an anchor and wanting to use the sheer weight of numbers to its advantage, organizers then worked to free students from their academic commitments to join the movement. Administrators at virtually all of Lviv's higher education institutions cancelled classes in order for students to head to Kyiv. Thousands of students headed to Kyiv first by bus, until busses were prevented from entering the city, and then by lawyer-accompanied car-caravan, in an effort to swell the numbers in Kyiv. Following the brutal clearing of protestors from Kyiv's main square by Berkut riot police on Dec. 1, protestors retook the square and set-up a mini city replete with hospital, media centre, kitchens, winter clothing giveaways, churches, and more. At the same time Lviv's students began to work with political opposition parties and civil society groups to form a united committee to represent the hundreds of thousands of protestors. And as Lviv's students migrated to Kyiv, the residents of Lviv continued to support Lviv's own EuroMaidan square.
While some students do walk in the footsteps of former Leopolitan activist students, others attend the rallies for myriad other reasons. Stories abound from the 2004 Orange Revolution protests of students meeting at Maidan Nezolezhnosti, falling in love, and getting married on the square. In between speeches, calls to action, and repeated renditions of Ukraine's national anthem, stages are filled with both up-and-coming and more well-established Ukrainian musical talents. Performers such as Ruslana, Plach Yeremiye, Tartak, Mandry, and Dzidio have already graced the EuroMaidan stages, while Lviv's own Okean Elzy has provided a soundtrack to much of the action. With the world's attention turned toward Ukraine, and with thousands of young people gathered in one location, the EuroMaidan meeting places have become quite the festive place to meet. Ukrainian patriotism has rarely been seen at levels such as this – not even on Independence Day – as 'Slava Ukraina' and its reply 'Heroim Slava' can be heard repeatedly on streets, in cafes, and certainly at the squares repeatedly throughout the day. Ukraine's anthem is sung every hour at the squares, and is often heard in more interesting places, such as exiting the metro in Kyiv. While EuroMaidan is undoubtedly a political protest, many students attend for a myriad of factors, including those above. This prompted at least one group to release EU-related posters of things to do at a protest, including listening to music, meeting friends, and falling in love. Whether this year's EuroMaidan spawns more love stories than the Orange Revolution remains to be seen.
Undoubtedly, Leopolitan students represent the most active form of Lviv Region and Western Ukrainian nationalist and European-minded sentiment. For instance, on just Day 3 of the protests, Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyy held a ceremony at Lviv's Vysoky Zamok (High Castle) in which he raised the EU flag along with the Ukrainian standard. After busses of students from Lviv were prevented from entering Kyiv, Lviv Regional Council organized lawyers to accompany students in car-convoys. The Regional Council also supported a call for a general strike in the region. Even Lviv's own FC Karpaty showed their support by taking their team on their official bus to the Maidan in Kyiv to stand in support and deliver a variety of goods to cold and hungry supporters, including medicine, food, warm clothes, and personal hygiene products. Ukrainian flags, emblazoned with the symbols of Lviv, its regions, or its universities, can be seen at EuroMaidans right across the country. But for the average student, it's just another day in the life of being a Leopolitan student – an ancient rite of passage to tie them together with their nationalist and pro-European student forebearers.


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This differs from a letter addressed to an individual without an attention line. Or sometimes you can include the reference line in your letter to refer to the information specifically requested by the recipient, such as a job reference or invoice number. Skip a line between the end of the body and the closing. While the general format will be similar, you should check with your country's postal service for exact specifications. Reference notations usually take four forms, although they typically mean the same thing. Skip a line between the date and the salutation.
Or, worse still, making a complaint. This line signifies to the mail carrier exactly for whom the letter is intended. Anyway, what Dixie meant to say is, in the old days the abbreviation 'p. Postscripts are also common in medical letters. Return Address Line 1 1 Return Address Line 2 Date Month Day, Year 2 Mr.
Just because you are sending a letter via email does not mean that proper business letter format do not apply. Through its banking subsidiaries the Banks and various non-banking subsidiaries throughout the United States and in selected international markets, Bank of America provides a diversified range of banking and non-banking financial services and … products through three business segments: Global Consumer and Small Business Banking, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, and Global Wealth and Investment Management. An alternative to a separate attention line is: Ms. The two economic subject distinctions above cover, generally, the two major fields of economics studied by most business school students. Other Components The other components of a business letter include the addresses of the sender and receiver, the date, the greeting, the body of the letter, the closing, and the enclosures line and the typist's initials, when applicable. Knowing when to use each type of correspondence is just as if not more important as the content itself. A general rule of thumb is to make a subject line between 30 — 50 characters.
That said, avoid making the subject line too vague and short. That said, avoid making the subject line too ambiguous that is barely complies with your brand and products or services. Include the e-mail you are sending to on the proper column. Begin the e-mail with the salutation. Avoid lengthy subject lines, as they will detract from the body of your letter.
The start: Dear Sir or Madam if you don't know who you are writing to Dear Mr, Mrs, Miss or Ms use if you know who you are writing to, and have a formal relationship with The finish: Yours faithfully if you don't know the name of the person you're writing to Yours sincerely or Yours truly if you know the name of the person you're writing to Best wishes or Best regards, if the person is a close business contact or friend Formats: 1. To create this article, 10 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This optional part of a business letter indicates whether the letter is to be sent by special delivery, registered, airmail, by messenger, or by hand. In the letter below you can see most of them. Personalization is particularly effective when used in conjunction with targeted emails, such as birthdays deals and is proven to increase open rates. Below is an example of such simple attention line: Attention: Jane Forrester You might want to draw the immediate attention to the topic of your letter, Dixie thinks a subject line would look very professional in this instance; its proper place is below the salutation.
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Pontificalis Domus () was a motu proprio document issued by Pope Paul VI on 28 March 1968, in the fifth year of his pontificate. It reorganized the Papal Household, which had been known until then as the Papal Court.

Contents

Introduction
Paul VI begins the letter with his rationale for reorganizing the Papal Household. He notes that "many of the offices entrusted to members of the Papal Household were deprived of their function, continuing to exist as purely honorary positions, without much correspondence to concrete needs of the times" (Introduction). His goal in reorganizing its structure will be to stress the "essentially spiritual" mission of the Pope, as well to serve the civic and international aspects of the Pope's office.

He thus divides the Papal Household into two entities: the Chapel (Capella) and the Family (Familia): the Papal Chapel will assist the Pope with his role as spiritual leader of the Catholic religion, while the Family will serve the Pope insofar as he is a  publicly recognized sovereign.

To conclude the introduction, Paul VI reinstates the "original and noble" name of the Papal Court: the Papal Household (primigenio et illustri vocabulo Pontificalis Domus tantummodo appellabitur).

Section I: The Papal Household
The first section deals with the overarching structure of the Papal Household. It states that the Papal Household shall be composed of both clergy and laity (1, §1). All members of the Papal Household are subject to the direction of the Prefect of the Apostolic Palace (2), but they are all, both ecclesiastical and lay, appointed by the Supreme Pontiff (3, §1). The tenure of all members of the Papal Chapel is subject to the norms established in the 1967 apostolic constitution Regimini Universae ecclesiae, which reformed the Roman Curia; laity are appointed for a period of five years, but the Pope may extend their term of office (3, §2). All offices will be voided upon the vacancy of the Apostolic See, and no offices are hereditary (3, §3 and §4). Furthermore, all ceremonies of the Papal Household will be categorized as either sacred or civil (sacrae aut civiles); the sacred ceremonies are either solemn or ordinary. (Examples of solemn ceremonies include the coronation of a pope, canonizations, etc.) The civil ceremonies are distinguished as either audiences of official character or of a non-official character (4).

Section II: The Papal Chapel
The second section deals with the organization of the Papal Chapel. It is declared to consist of the following classes of persons (6, §1):

 members of various orders of the Sacred College of Cardinals;
 patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, and eparchs, Assistants to the Papal Throne, of both the Latin and Eastern rites;
 Vice Camerlengo of Holy Roman Church;
 the superior prelate of each of the Sacred Congregations, the Secretary of the Supreme Tribunal of the Signatura, and the Dean of the Sacred Roman Rota;
 Regent of the Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary;
 Regent of the Apostolic Chancery;
 superior prelate of the three Secretariats;
 President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications;
 the Abbot of Monte Cassino and the Abbots General of Canons Regular and Monastic Orders;
 the Superior General or, in his absence, the Procurator General of each of the Mendicant Orders;
 Auditors of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota;
 voting members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura;
 members of the chapters of the three patriarchal basilicas (Lateran, Vatican and Liberian);
 Consistorial Advocates (Avvocati Concistoriali);
 parish priests of Rome;
 clerics of the Papal Chapel;
 members of the Council of the Laity and of the Commission Iustitia et Pax;
 those in personal service (familiari) of the Pope.

The following offices were abolished or altered: Palatine Cardinals (Cardinali Palatini); prelates di fiocchetto; Prince-Assistants to the Throne (Principi assistenti al Soglio); Majordomo of His Holiness; the Interior Minister; Commander of Santo Spirito; Roman Magistrate; Master of the Sacred Apostolic Hospice; Chamberlains of Honor in abito paonazzo; Secret Chaplains and Secret Chaplains of Honor; Secret Clerics; Confessor of the Pontifical Family; Candle-Carrying Acolytes (Ceroferari); Common Papal Chaplains; Porter-Masters of the Virga Rubea; Guardian of the Sacred Tiara; Mace-Bearer; and Apostolic Messenger (Cursori Apostolici) (6, §4).

The last point of this section defines the role of clerics of the Papal Chapel, who are to assist the Pope at the altar, under the guidance of the papal masters of ceremonies. The suppressed offices of Secret Chaplain and Secret Chaplain of Honor, Secret Cleric, Acolyte Ceroferari, Common Papal Chaplain, and Porter-Masters of the Virga Rubea are to be joined under the general heading of "Cleric of the Papal Chapel" (6, §5).

Section III: The Papal Family

The third and last section of the document deals with the Papal Family. The Family is composed of both ecclesiastical and lay members. The ecclesiastical members are as follows (7, §1):

 Substitute of the Secretariat of State and Secretary della Cifra
 Secretary of the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church;
 Almoner of His Holiness;
 Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City;
 President of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy;
 Theologian of the Papal Household;
 Secretary of Briefs to Princes;
 Secretary of Latin Letters;
 Protonotaries Apostolic;
 Prelates of the Antechamber;
 Masters of Pontifical Ceremonies;
 Honorary Prelates of His Holiness;
 Chaplains of His Holiness;
 Apostolic Preacher.

The lay members of the Papal Family are composed of the following (7, §2):

 Prince Assistants to the Papal Throne;
 Delegate of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State;
 Counsellor General of the State of Vatican City;
 Commander of the Honor Guard of the Pope;
 Commander of the Swiss Guard;
 Commander of the Palatine Guard of Honor;
 Commander of the Pontifical Gendarmerie;
 Counsellors of the State of Vatican City;
 President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences;
 Gentlemen of His Holiness;
 Procurators of the Apostolic Palaces;
 Attachés of the Antechamber (Addetti di Anticamera);
 those in personal service (familiari) of the Pope.

Section three goes on to abolish the following offices and positions: Palatine Cardinals (Cardinali Palatini); the Palatine prelates (i.e., Majordomo of His Holiness, Master of the Chamber [Maestro di Camera], Auditor of His Holiness); Master of the Sacred Apostolic Hospice; the Hereditary Quartermaster General of the Sacred Apostolic Palace(Foriere Maggiore); Master of the Horse to His Holiness (Cavallerizzo Maggiore di Sua Santità); General Superintendent of Posts; the Keepers of the Golden Rose; Secretary to Embassies; Esente of the Noble Guard of Service; Chamberlains of Honor in abito paonazzo; Chamberlains of Honor extra Urbem; Secret Chaplains and Secret Chaplains of Honor; Secret Chaplains of Honor extra Urbem; Secret Clerics; Common Papal Chaplains; Confessor of the Pontifical Family; and Secret Steward (Scalco Segreto) (7, §3).

The Master of the Sacred Apostolic Palace is to retain his office but under the name of Theologian of the Papal Household (7, §4). The title of Secret Chamberlains Partecipanti (Camerieri Segreti Partecipanti) is abolished; the Secret Almoner and the Sacristan of His Holiness remain in office, but they take respectively the titles of Almoner of His Holiness, and Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City. The Secretary of Briefs to Princes and the Secretary of Latin Letters retain their titles. The responsibilities of the Secretary to Embassies and Secretary of the Wardrobe are commuted to the office of the Prelates of the Antechamber. The title of Sub-Auditor (Subdatarius) remains abolished in both name and office (7, §5). Domestic Prelates and Secret Chamberlains Supernumerary remain part of the Papal Family, but are henceforth to be called Prelates of Honor of His Holiness and Chaplains of His Holiness, respectively. Likewise, the Secret Chamberlains of the Cape and Sword (di cappa e spada) are to be retained under the title Gentlemen of His Holiness, and the Bussolanti take the new name of Attachés of the Antechamber (7, §7).

The many offices of honorific ecclesiastical titles—i.e., those given to clerics styled Monsignori—are reduced to three categories: Protonotaries Apostolic (de numero and supernumerary), Prelates of Honor of His Holiness, and Chaplains of His Holiness. All the other categories were abolished (8).

The Corps of the Noble Pontifical Guard assumed the name Honor Guard of the Pope (Guardia d'Onore del Papa), and rendered only an honorary service (9). The Swiss Guard, the Palatine Guard, and the Pontifical Gendarmerie remained in service (10).

Notes and references
Notes

References

See also
 Pope Paul VI
 Aggiornamento
 Pope Paul VI's reform of the Roman Curia
 Hereditary officers of the Roman Curia
 Pastor Bonus (Pope John Paul II's apostolic constitution further reforming the Roman Curia)

External links
 Text of the apostolic letter Pontificalis Domus
 Text of the apostolic letter Pontificalis Domus
 The secrets of the Vatican: an American description of the Papal Court (1907)

Reforms of the Roman Curia
1968 documents
1968 in Christianity
Motu proprio of Pope Paul VI
Papal household

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Wilco, "The World's Most Exciting Live Rock Band"?
As Wilco's Tuesday night Milwaukee concert at The Rave approaches, the city has been flooded in hype about the group's live show. A print advertisement deems the group, via the London Sunday Telegraph, "the world's most exciting live rock band," and a radio commercial repeats the claim. I mean this question in no way to be contentious, but does anybody believe that assertion is true? I haven't seen Wilco for a few years now, although I used to catch them at least once or twice a year back in the day (they've always toured the Milwaukee/Chicago/Madison area hard, and they used to make annual stops at Summerfest). Like most of the crowd, I thought the band was pretty great, but I'd still have a hard time considering them among the world's most exciting live bands. If anything, their sets followed a fairly predictable format, as the group started with material from their newest release then roughly worked their way backward through their discography, typically closing with a couple of rockers from Being There. Their sets were long, the performances tight, the guitars killerin general, their concerts were always worth the 20 bucks, but they never left a major impression. Again, I'm not trying to knock a band I have tremendous respect forI'm just generally curious, since I could just be out of the loop herebut I also have a hard time imagining how the band's assured but ultra-laidback new Sky Blue Sky translates on stage. Has anyone seen them since Sky Blue Sky came out? Does Wilco deserve to be considered the live band to beat?


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Q: The conjecture $A159634(n) = \psi(2n)/3$ where $\psi$ is the Dedekind psi function. Steven Finch is the author of the OEIS-sequence A159634 which is defined as

"Coefficient for dimensions of spaces of modular & cusp forms of weight $k/2$, level $4n$ >and trivial character, where $k \ge 5$ is odd."

Recently Enrique Pérez Herrero conjectured that this sequence is given by $\psi(2n)/3$ where $\psi(n)$ is the Dedekind psi function:
$$ A159634(n) = \psi(2n)/3 $$
Finch refers to a paper of H. Cohen and J. Oesterle, "Dimensions des espaces de formes modulaires, Modular Functions of One Variable."
Can someone shed some light on this conjecture or prove / disprove it?

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The Sri Lanka national cricket team toured India for cricket matches in October, November and December 2005. The tour was split into two legs, as India hosted South Africa for a One Day International series in between the India–Sri Lanka ODIs (which were played between 25 October and 12 November) and the Tests, which took place in December. Before the ODI series, India were ranked seventh on the ICC ODI Championship table, while Sri Lanka were second, and the Indian team had officially changed captains with Rahul Dravid taking over from Sourav Ganguly. However, India defied the rankings, winning the first four ODIs of seven to secure the series, and ended up with a 6–1 win despite resting captain Dravid and letting opener Virender Sehwag take over the helm for the sixth ODI. Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka's opener with 100 Tests and 345 ODIs, was dropped for the Tests after tallying 86 runs in the six ODIs, while Rahul Dravid moved up 18 places on the ICC player rankings with 312 runs for twice out. India's wicket-keeper MS Dhoni also made his mark, being the second highest averaging batsman of the series, and he made 183 not out in 3rd ODI matches at Jaipur, which was at the time the sixth-highest innings by a batsman in an ODI.

The Test series was won by India as well, this time 2–0, with three and a half days of play of the first Test lost due to rain. In the second Test, India took a 60-run lead on first innings after Anil Kumble took six for 72, and four half-centuries (from Irfan Pathan, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni) gave India 375 more runs before declaring. Kumble then completed a ten-for in the match as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 247, losing by 188 runs. In the second match, the margin of victory was even more convincing, Kumble getting seven wickets and Harbhajan Singh ten as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 206 and 249 on their way to a 259-run loss.

Squads

For the sixth and seventh ODI matches Venugopal Rao and JP Yadav was originally replaced by Mohammad Kaif and V. R. V. Singh  V. R. V. Singh failed a fitness test and Yadav was called up again.[3]
Ganguly was replaced by Wasim Jaffer for the third Test.[5]
Chamara Kapugedera was originally selected for the Test squad, but suffered a lateral ligament and was replaced by Mubarak.[4]

Tour matches

50-over: Mumbai Cricket Association President's XI v Sri Lankans

First-class: Indian Board President's XI v Sri Lankans

ODI series

1st ODI

2nd ODI

3rd ODI

4th ODI

5th ODI

6th ODI

7th ODI

Test series

1st Test

2nd Test

3rd Test

References

2005 in Indian cricket
2005 in Sri Lankan cricket
Indian cricket seasons from 2000–01
International cricket competitions in 2005–06
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Selby Botanical Gardens is not just a bayside tropical attraction – it's home to researchers who are working to improve the world through plant identification, analysis, outreach, and education.
With a goal to move as many of their IT systems to the cloud as possible, IT Manager, Doug Perry, also wanted to change the way that Selby staff worked together on files. Already using Google Apps (now Google Workspace) for email and calendars, Doug was also looking to replace Selby's Windows file servers. To do this, he needed a way to centralize files by department, manage permissions, and secure folders and their structures.
"If you have a lot of people working in a folder and someone decides to re-organize things, there can be chaos," he explained. "My initial goals were simple: move our files to a platform that would let us share files and access them from the cloud but also allow Office users to continue like business as usual."
"Our botany and research teams do mapping and inventory of areas all over. They're always traveling and have to take all of their documents with them," Doug added. "My vision was to provide employees with the tools that would allow them to work anywhere, be anywhere, and always have access to what they need." "The second stand-out feature is the Smartbar that allows diehard Office users to feel like first class citizens. We're still using Google Drive and they still have Office...and there were no riots."
Selby's server hosted several thousand files, many of which consisted of greenhouse documentation and spreadsheets containing inventories of live plant collections. They were looking for a solution that provided an ordered way of setting permissions for Google Drive folders without giving users a complicated and unpleasant experience.
Doug started to look at storage accounts and organizational frameworks but when he found AODocs, there were two key features that set it apart from the other solutions: "From the user standpoint, AODocs has the same interface as Google Drive but when a shared folder gets pushed out, it creates what looks like a single level in Drive. It presents a unique single view of what is really multiple folders managed by multiple people," Doug explained. "That is a golden feature."
With an organization split between Google Drive and Office, the ability to edit Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files in a browser was another valuable feature for the Selby team. "The second stand-out feature is the Smartbar that allows diehard Office users to feel like first-class citizens. We're still using Google Drive and they don't feel disenfranchised…their files have a new home..it's that simple," he said. "About half the organization uses Google Workspace and the other half Microsoft Office but everyone is now cross-trained to use both, knowing that each suite has its strengths and weaknesses."
"Our file and folder security is what kept me up at night. My main priority is making sure that we don't lose 40 years worth of data. We needed to protect ourselves and work smarter. Google Drive with AODocs have helped us do that."
Doug Perry, IT Manager at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
AODocs has allowed me to do the most important thing for my users - get them to Google Drive," Doug explained. "Using Google Drive has a lot of benefits but for the non-Google world, AODocs allows for an almost completely seamless transition to Drive and lets people stick with what they know."
Each department at Selby now has its own folder with its own individual permissions and people are now able to create a document in Office then save and edit it in Google Drive with the AODocs Universal File Opener (UFO). As for the Selby staff, once they saw how stable and reliable AODocs and Google Drive were together, the products were almost universally accepted. "I still like seeing the smile on their faces when they can share a huge document with a hundred people or pull up a file and work from their mobile devices," he concluded.


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Mitchell Cohen
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A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology
This is a thoroughly updated and substantially expanded new edition of one of the most popular, wide-ranging, and engaging anthologies of Western political thinking, one that spans from antiquity to the twenty-first century. In addition to the majority of the pieces that appeared in the original edition, this new edition features exciting new selections from more recent thinkers who address vital contemporary issues, including identity, cosmopolitanism, global justice, and populism. Organized chronologically, the anthology brings together a fascinating array of writings—including essays, book excerpts, speeches, and other documents—that have indelibly shaped how politics and society are understood. Each chronological section and thinker is presented with a brief, lucid introduction, making this a valuable reference as well as an essential reader.
A thoroughly updated and substantially expanded edition of an acclaimed anthology of political thought
Features a wide range of thinkers, including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Christine de Pizan, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Swift, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Jefferson, Burke, Olympes de Gouges, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, de Tocqueville, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Marx, Nietzsche, Lenin, John Dewey, Gaetano Mosca, Roberto Michels, Weber, Emma Goldman, Freud, Einstein, Mussolini, Arendt, Hayek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, T. H. Marshall, Orwell, Leo Strauss, de Beauvoir, Fanon, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Havel, Fukuyama, Habermas, Foucault, Rawls, Nozick, Walzer, Iris Marion Young, Martha Nussbaum, Peter Singer, Amartya Sen, and Jan-Werner Müller
Includes brief introductions for each thinker
Mitchell Cohen is professor of political science at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and editor emeritus of Dissent magazine. His books include The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart (Princeton).
Praise for the first edition:
"[It is] refreshing to dip into history and listen to what the great minds of the ages have had to say about politics. . . . [T]he editors provide brief, useful introductions to each writer as well as lengthy excerpts from his or her work."—Washington Post Book World
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Ku Nan: Even DAP admitted Najib not involved in 1MDB
Published: Apr 9, 2016 8:57 AM
Updated: 1:48 PM
The report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the 1MDB proves that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak has been slandered all this while, said Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor.
Based on the report tabled by the PAC at the Dewan Rakyat on Thursday, he said it was regretted that the prime minister had been accused of various slanders all this while.
"However, a slander has been committed and it has been going on for two years... It is unfair," Tengku Adnan told the media after officiating the new surau building, Surau Al-Muhajirin, at Precinct 9 in Putrajaya today.
He said as human beings, the people should not slander others and should find out the true facts.
Tengku Adnan ( photo ) urged the people against believing any ploy adopted by undesired elements aimed at dividing the people.
Through the report, he said, the PAC vice-chairperson, Tan Seng Giaw who is also the Kepong MP from the DAP, admitted that the prime minister was not involved at all in what had transpired in the 1MDB.
"This has been disclosed by the opposition, not from the government... so, let's close this problem and move forward," he said.
Tengku Adnan, who is also the Umno secretary-general, hoped that the 1MDB would do what it should be doing as a company to improve its management.
Tan however said his remark was not meant to defend Najib or clear him of any wrongdoing, only to state that the PM was not "directly" involved.
- Bernama
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Powered by Proper: Four Kilo Fish
Four Kilo Fish isn't a fish and chippery, but it's not surprising that owners Yi Chen and Sijin Yu had to put up a sign explaining that. The name is a play on the pronunciation of Sijin's name, which sounds a bit like "four kilo fish" in Mandarin.
"It confuses people," says Yi, laughing. "But then they come in to find out more about the coffee."
Yi and Sijin met 12 years ago in high school in China and moved to Melbourne together to study marketing and finance respectively. It wasn't until they were visiting family in Yunnan, China, and a friend suggested that since they were living in Melbourne they must know about coffee, that they considered opening a cafe.
The couple was surprised to learn that the region they grew up in is actually China's largest coffee producer and they went to visit a family friend's coffee processing station in Pu'er City, a few kilometres from where Sijin's family lives.
"We had fruit trees at our house, but we didn't know [they were coffee trees]," says Yi. "Now almost all of the coffee we use is from our lovely hometown. We source from the farms directly, export and import by ourselves, and roast locally in Melbourne."
Choose from two espresso blends: one is called The Uprising Blend of Yunnan – a single origin from Yunnan – and the other uses a mix of Yunnan and Peruvian beans, which Yi says is a nice balance for milky coffee. There's also a rotating single origin designed for filter coffee.
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Spring is here…or at least it is coming!! I love spring for many reasons. One of them is that it offers a chance to hit the reset button with proverbial "Spring Cleaning." I am not an everyday kind of cleaner, but I like spring cleaning because it is a chance to clear the clutter.
Clutter delivers excessive stimuli causing our brains to work overload. Therefore, clutter can distract our attention and take us out of the present moment. So for those of you with roaming monkey-mind, it can make focusing a harder task.
Mess does create stress and can make it harder for us to relax. In the chaos of our world, we need our homes to be our sanctuary. A place where we can breathe and shake off the day.
Clutter does not allow you to "clock out." It is a constant reminder that your work isn't done, that you are behind, and that there isn't enough time. All of these messages create panic in our psyche and can contribute to distressing emotions like being overwhelmed and having anxiety.
Guilt, is another emotion that clutter can trigger for some people – "I should be more organized." Napping – "Who has time for napping when there is all this stuff to do." It can get in the way of taking self care.
Clutter can also trigger resentment and anger when your partner does decide to take a break on the job, when clutter is saying to you that there is no time for breaks.
Clutter can also inhibit creativity and productivity – leaving us disconnected, frustrated, and depleted.
What is taking up space in your home? What do you no longer have a need for? What would it feel like to have more space and freedom in your living environment?
This year, we encourage you to part ways with the things that are merely taking up space in your life and robbing your joy. Run the experiment. Let us know what happens.


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Q: Executable 3 times slower on Windows (Mingw64) than Linux I'm developping a game engine which is about 3-4 times slower on Windows than on Linux.
I tried to profile the application and I don't see particular problem except that everything seems more slow on Windows.
I extracted a very small part of the application. I compile it with g++ -O3 perf.cpp and execute as follows: a.exe 500000000. Here are the results:

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*Linux: 10 sec (mean of 5 executions): g++ 8.2 [also tested with g++ 7.3]

*Windows: 27 sec (mean of 5 executions): g++ (x86_64-posix-seh-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project) 8.1.0 [also tested with g++ 7.1]

Source code:
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <vector>
#include <chrono>

struct Vector{
    float X, Y, Z;

    Vector(float X, float Y, float Z) : X(X), Y(Y), Z(Z){}

    Vector vector(const Vector &target) const{
        return Vector(target.X - X, target.Y - Y, target.Z - Z);
    }

    float dotProduct(const Vector &v) const{
        return (X*v.X + Y*v.Y + Z*v.Z);
    }
};

float compute(const std::vector<Vector> &v){
    Vector vec1 = v[0].vector(v[2]);
    Vector vec2 = v[1].vector(v[0]);
    return vec1.dotProduct(vec2);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
    unsigned int loopMax = atoi(argv[1]);

    Vector va(1.5f, 3.0f, 8.0f*loopMax);
    Vector vb(1.2f, 2.3f, 11.0f*loopMax);
    Vector vc(8.2f, 5.0f, 12.0f*loopMax);

    auto frameStartTime = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();

    float res = 0.0f;
    for(unsigned int i=0; i<loopMax; ++i)
    {
        res += compute({va, vb, vc});
    }

    auto frameEndTime = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();
    auto diffTimeMicroSeconds = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::microseconds>(frameEndTime - frameStartTime).count();

    std::cout<<"Time: "<<diffTimeMicroSeconds / 1000000.0 <<" sec, res: "<<res<<std::endl;
    return 0;
}

I know that difference for one iteration is ridiculous (<1 us) but it end that my application is 3-4 times slower.
What could explain a such difference? How to find the problem?

A: Try constructing the argument to compute once outside the loop. If the compiler is not eliding the construction of the std::vector<Vector> argument, this will most likely cause a heap allocation:
std::vector<Vector> arg{va, vb, vc};
for(unsigned int i=0; i<loopMax; ++i)
{
    res += compute(arg);
}

If there is a heap allocation, it will most likely take much more time than the rest of the loop content. How long the heap allocation takes can vary strongly depending on the system and implementation. Removing it will probably improve performance in both cases significantly.
If there is a need to construct the vector everytime in your actual code, then you should consider using a fixed-size array (raw array or std::array), which will not allocate on the heap, but on stack, which is much faster. This seems applicable because you use exactly the three elements in your compute implementation.
Should you not know the length of the vector at compile-time and need to  reconstruct it everytime in the hot loop, then you may be able to reuse the heap-allocated space, more so if you can specify a good guess for the maximal length:
std::vector<Vector> arg;
arg.reserve(1000); // Allocate for up to 1000 element
for(unsigned int i=0; i<loopMax; ++i)
{
    arg.clear();
    arg.push_back(va);
    [...]
    arg.push_back(vn);
    res += compute(arg);
}


Scott Lincicome: Australia Investigates US Biofuels Exports: A Sign of Things to Come?
Australia Investigates US Biofuels Exports: A Sign of Things to Come?
The Australian government has decided to probe allegations that U.S. companies are dumping biodiesel in the country and benefiting from subsidies, a year after the European Union imposed anti-dumping duties on U.S. biodiesel producers including Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Cargill Inc.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service said in a report Monday that it was investigating a complaint by a domestic company, Biodiesel Producers Ltd., that biofuel from the U.S. had been exported to the country at dumped prices.
According to the report, Customs believes there are reasonable ground to support the claim that U.S. biodiesel is being dumped in Australia and that the U.S. industry is receiving countervailable subsidies.
There also appear to be reasonable grounds to support the claim that the dumping and subsidies have injured the Australian market by causing lost sales and market share, price undercutting, and loss of employees, Customs said.
The report estimated the dumping margins for U.S. biodiesel at 38 percent in January 2009 and 26 percent in February 2010.
It also described tax credits available to U.S. biodiesel producers as countervailable subsidies, which amounted to 40 percent of the estimated export price.
Customs will now conduct a formal investigation and decide whether to recommend that the Australian government impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties on the U.S. products. The minister for home affairs has the final authority to impose the duties.
The tariffs counter an American subsidy of $1 per biodiesel-gallon to producers of blended biodiesels. U.S. exporters commonly export biodiesel in a B99 blend — 99 percent biodiesel and 1 percent petroleum diesel — in order to take full advantage of the subsidy, according to the EC.
These subsidies allow biodiesel companies to capture a 17.2 percent share in the European market, compared with 0.4 percent in 2005, at the expense of European producers, according to the commission.
ADM was hit with countervailing duties of €237 a ton and an anti-dumping duty of €68.60 a ton, while Cargill was given anti-dumping duties of €213.80 a ton and an anti-dumping levy of zero.
As the article makes clear, this is the second trade action against American biofuels exports, and if the EU case is any guide, an Aussie finding that the US illegally subsidizes biofuels exports appears pretty likely. (They still have to prove injury or threat of injury before imposing remedial tariffs on those products, of course, but that's entirely case-specific so we can't really speculate about it.) So with two trade investigations of American biofuels exports, you'd think that the Obama administration and Congress might begin to recalibrate US biofuel policies - particularly when those policies have come under intense scrutiny for a lot of other non-trade reasons (like the fact that corn ethanol is really inefficient and might actually harm the environment).
June 23, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in America and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. The report provides information on current production and consumption capacities as well as projections to meet the Renwewable Fuels Standard (RFS2) mandate to use 36 billion gallons of biofuel per year in America's fuel supply by 2022.
The report provides data on the significant impact the ethanol industry will have on job creation. It is estimated that as many as 40 direct jobs and additional indirect jobs are created with each 100-million-gallon ethanol facility built. USDA plans to adopt regional strategies that allow the placement of biorefineries in areas of economic distress through the leveraging of regional resources for transportation, labor and feedstocks. The regional strategy provides greater potential for economic benefit.
Yes, you read that correctly. Instead of reevaluating problematic US biofuels policies, the Obama administration is doubling-down. And in case you're wondering, USDA's new report (available here) - while chock-full of discussion about the need for existing and planned "incentives" (read: subsidies) for corn ethanol and other biofuels - completely fails to mention the potential for trade infractions and the significant duties on US exports that they can produce. Yep, nary a mention of those EU tariffs, the new Australian investigation, or other possible trade cases. Such non-reporting is particularly, umm, interesting, considering the administration's single-minded obsession with expanding US exports as part of its National Export Initiative.
Odd that they wouldn't mention that, huh?
Through the Department of Energy, [the US government]'s guaranteeing loans to clean-energy companies. But the loan program's success depends on the viability of firms involved. And a closer look at two big recipients reveals some of the risks in store for taxpayers.
First, take Solyndra, which makes solar-energy panels for commercial rooftops, and has a $535 million government-guaranteed loan. Solyndra's chief selling point is its cylindrical panel-design, which is said to reduce installation costs for users. However, there is no shortage of solar-panel manufacturers, and the prices of flat polysilicon panels have already plunged, boosting their affordability.
There are doubts about Solyndra itself. Despite the cheap government loan, Solyndra last week withdrew plans to do a $300 million initial public offering. It decided instead to sell $175 million of debt to existing investors. The IPO cancellation wasn't unexpected. In its IPO registration, Solyndra's auditor said that the company's weak financial performance raised "substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern."
Next, consider electric car maker Tesla Motors, which has a $465 million government-backed loan and is expected to do an IPO at the end of this month. The company will stop producing the vehicle it became known for, the Roadster sports car, and focus instead on a premium sedan called the Model-S. This car's selling point is that, according to Tesla, it will be able to travel up to 300 miles per-charge-a far higher "range" than other manufacturers are claiming for their electric cars. Tesla says it hasn't actually based its range projections on a working Model-S prototype but on internal computer models. And, according to its IPO filing, potential new government testing standards could result in a 30% cut to Tesla vehicles' advertised ranges.
Leaving aside the absurdity of a flat-broke nation subsidizing sketchy firms with borrowed money, stories like this have "future trade problem" written all over them. You see, cheap government loans to struggling domestic companies are a common example of an illegal (or "countervailable") subsidy under global trade rules. And, if Solyndra and Tesla survive (a big "if" from the looks of it), their exports to other nations that produce similar solar panels/electric cars would be very vulnerable to national trade remedies cases, just like those EU and Aussie cases against US biofuels. And if those cases result in new tariffs and copycat cases in other markets (a very common occurrence), these companies will lose precious foreign market share and, in some cases, could even go bankrupt entirely unless alternative markets quickly materialize. Big problem.
The US is simultaneously (i) throwing billions of tax dollars at companies like ADM, Cargill, Solyndra and Tesla through various agriculture and energy programs and (ii) pushing these companies' exports through the NEI. As I mentioned months ago, such a combination is a recipe for trade frictions and maybe even a bunch of new investigations of - and eventual tariffs on - US agricultural and "green energy" exports. So is the Australian biofuels case, and the EU one before it, a harbinger of bad things to come or just isolated instances caused by unique market conditions?
Only time will tell, but if I had to bet on it, my money'd be on the former.
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Oliver Stone – W. (2008)
Oliver Stone continues his tradition of trend of biopics by looking at the life of our 43rd President, George W. Bush. Josh Brolin leads another star-packed ensemble portraying the life and moral decision making of the younger Bush. W. isn't a bad movie, but it is a strangely tame one. While it does have moments of intense criticism, they're presented in a goofy and obvious way. Stone wants to criticize the Bush administration, but can't seem to come up with many new ways to do it, and he ends up giving us a movie that tells us things we already know but with most of the bite removed.
The tone is a problem for me here because most of the time it seems verging on outright satire — not political satire with well-placed barbs hidden in the dialogue and interactions, but more broad, as if Stone didn't want us to view the world of the film realistically. Brolin's performance contributes to this throughout, as he plays Bush as essentially a clueless man-child one step away from Will Farrel's take on Saturday Night Live.
It's not that the exaggeration is out of place, but it's also not new or surprising, and this level of silliness prevents him from saying anything truly interesting. If he were to go one step further with it and make this a view of the Bush-era presidency that played up all the common notions of the man and his administration to farcical levels, it may have been more entertaining. If he had reigned it in a bit to attempt to offer a more complex view of Bush's presidency, his underlying criticisms would hit harder and speak deeply to how basic human faults can have far-reaching ramifications. Again, while I don't think this is a bad movie, Stone can't have both.
What does work in a kind of endearing way about W. is Stone's tendency to portray Bush as a man out of his depth who often doesn't even realize the political schemes being constructed around him. He seems to have sympathy for the former president, showing him as a man incapable of living up to his father's enormous expectations and continuously making the wrong choices in a lifelong effort of appeasement. The argument that extends from this is that Bush was a pawn of a corrupt political system, with colleagues of his father using him to enact their own will and plans while he scrambled just to keep up.
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I don't mind a bit of pathos when it comes to my comedies. In this world of post-Apatow comedies it seems like everyone is trying to reach the same emotional heights and laughs that Planes, Trains and Automobiles did over twenty-five years ago. But I'm starting to miss comedies that just try to make me laugh. I don't want this through a series of absurd and grotesquely escalating scenarios (I was tired of The Hangover before it even ended) but just the simple joy of talented people trying to make me laugh.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, to its credit, remembers the inherent warmth that comes from making people laugh. Unfortunately, it finally hits this stride with barely twenty minutes to go. Until then it's an uneven bag that's telling several different stories at once without finding the time to show any one as the dominant emotional thread or telling many good jokes in the process.
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This is the Joss Whedon I have missed for so long. The Whedon who knows how to set a stage so perfectly for a duel of wits before physicality enters the frame. It makes perfect sense that his return to form would be a palette cleanser between his big budget productions. Similarly, that he returns to his own sparkling tongue by adapting the words of Shakespeare, the one true peerless wordsmith of dialogue, gives Whedon's frame a vitality that is all at once familiar and excitingly new.
Whedon gathered a large portion of his most frequent collaborators to bring Much Ado About Nothing to the screen in his own way. The chief performers of Beatrice and Benedick are played by Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof. For those familiar with both past works by Shakespeare and the roles Acker and Denisof have played in the past the fact that they are in a romance that is destined to succeed is a hilarious counterpoint to their doomed romance on the small screen. But their comfort with each other, both in dueling barbs and lines dripping with saccharine, will be such a joy to those discovering the two for the first time.
Beatrice and Benedick, once lovers, find themselves in the midst of a plot of love found and soon to be foiled. He is the companion of Don Pedro (Reed Diamond), recently returned from quelling an attempted uprising by his brother Don John (Sean Maher). They stop at the home of Leonato (Clark Gregg), father of the beautiful Hero (Jillian Morgese), and uncle to Beatrice. Pedro's young lackey, Claudio (Fran Kranz), has taken to Hero quite badly and pledges to marry her as soon as time will allow. In the meantime, sensing that the hostility between Beatrice and Benedick still yields some attraction, Pedro and his men as well as Hero and her attendant conspire to get the two back together. Independent of all this, Don John has decided to grasp what little power he can by tearing Hero and Claudio apart through treachery of his own kind.
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Monsters University (2013)
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I really enjoyed Monsters University. Honestly, I did. I say this up front because most of this review might sound negative but the movie is a lot of fun and it is one of those films that you will enjoy if you are a child, child at heart or a parent. I would wholeheartedly recommend this film to anyone thinking about seeing it because I know you will have a good time.
With that done, I do have to say I was a bit disappointed in the movie and still question its existence, something I have done since I originally heard about it being developed. The reason for this being that I LOVED the original Monsters Inc. and I think it ended both beautifully and perfectly. The first time I saw the ending to the original film it brought a tear to my eye because it was sweet and I couldn't think of a better way to end the story. The whole story was wonderfully written and imaginative too with the great question for a story of what if the monsters under your bed were more scared of you.
Oliver Stone: World Trade Center (2006)
Oliver Stone seems an unlikely choice to tell the first mainstream drama about 9/11, but here he is with World Trade Center. This is the story of two officers trapped in the rubble of the tower (Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena), the efforts of those outside to rescue them (Michael Shannon and Stephen Dorff) and their families attempts to stay hopeful (Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal). I don't envy the task that was laid before Oliver Stone with World Trade Center. Our media environment has sped up the rate in which we can deal with tragedy or triumph through entertainment. But the wounds from 9/11 were still very raw and had changed our overall national worldview in such a drastic way that the insanity we delved into afterward.
Stone is not suited to make most of the film we see here. He was hired to make a stirring tale that serves as a tribute to the survivors and the rescuers who were lost and recovered as a result of 9/11. That means that Stone has to delve into hopeful emotions and, honestly, he is not capable of that as a creator. The many flashback and exposition scenes that Cage, Pena, Bello, and Gyllenhaal reek of a schmaltzy Americana that feels unnatural in the context of the film, let alone Stone's overly colorful renditions of these moments.
The moment's where Stone's strengths shine through cycle between painfully awkward and effective. The awkwardness is never more clear than in any scene involving Michael Shannon. His talent for intensity and paranoia is perfect for Stone, but not so perfect for the saintly Marine that he is intended to be. Shannon's performance is like asking the original Terminator to get a cat out of the tree. He's focused to the point that his selfless actions take on an uncomfortable edge and the eventual rescue feels less of a triumph because of that.
Stone's predilection toward nightmares is better suited to the moments where Cage and Pena are desperately trying to keep themselves invested in their own lives. The twisted mess of concrete and steel recalls a man-made jungle that is not too far removed from the hell of Platoon. A moment that could have been cheesy, and I think you found it this way, was when the perfectly formed fireballs threatened to incinerate the two desperate men. I loved the visual because it shows that, on some level, Stone is presenting this story as a man-made disaster.
Those moments of effectiveness don't make up for the other shortcomings. All we need is to look to Stone's past and see how his involvement in this film was a mistake. He has had no use for heroes, especially where war is concerned, and I have to wonder who he thought the hero really is in this film and what purpose they served. At the basest level of plot the five men we open the story with accomplish nothing aside from getting killed and then rescued. Their rescuers are people like Shannon who growls at his coworkers that "We're at war and no one realizes it." A much more difficult film could have been made from all these same components, but that would have required a level of courage and willingness to stare down professional suicide that no one here had in mind.


China is not afraid of "extreme-measures" the United States is taking in their trade war and will use it as an opportunity to replace imports, promote localisation and development of high-tech-products.
of U.S. products to its import tariff list in retaliation for U.S. President Donald Trump's planned levies on 200 billion dollars worth of Chinese goods.
"To deal with the trade war, what China really should do is to focus on doing its own thing well," the People's Daily said.
"(China) is not worried that the U.S. trade counter measures will raise domestic commodity prices by too much.
"However, she will instead use it as an opportunity to replace imports, promote localisation or develop export-oriented advanced manufacturing," it said.
The Global Times tabloid, which is affiliated to the People's Daily, said the trade war was a chance to pursue greater global recognition of its financial markets.
"China has always managed to find the proper solutions to put its economy back on track," the China Daily said.
"The trade conflict will not force China to succumb to US pressure. Instead, given its economic resilience, it will squarely face those challenges, find the right solutions, and emerge stronger," it said.
China has to take countermeasures to "safeguard the country's legitimate interests and the global free trade order", the Ministry of Commerce said, adding that the US move brings new uncertainties to bilateral negotiations.
Geng Shuang, a foreign ministry spokesman, said talks on an equal footing are the only correct way to resolve trade issues, and "insincerity" is unacceptable.
China and the US have raised tariffs on $50 billion worth of each other's products since July as their trade tensions escalated over the past few months.
William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said, "The best way forward is an imminent return to results-oriented negotiations."
But he said that "with ample room to maneuver fiscal and monetary policies, the Chinese economy is expected to remain stable".