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Port Everglades Welcomes Odyssey of the Seas in November 2020
If you want to sail on Odyssey of the Seas when Royal Caribbean International introduces their newest ship next year, it looks like you'll be sailing out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And if you want to be on the first sailing, you'll need to take a few days off in early November.
When Odyssey of the Seas Will Have Her Inaugural Sailing
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Royal Caribbean says that the inaugural sailing will head to the Bahamas, departing Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, November 5 of 2020. The ship is slated to sail from Florida to Nassau in the Bahamas, then make a stop at Perfect Day CocoCay before heading back to Florida.
Odyssey will then embark on a variety of sailings lasting anywhere from five to eight days in the Eastern, Western and Southern Caribbean. The ship will be sticking around Fort Lauderdale through spring of 2021. Odyssey will then continue her inaugural year in Europe for summer 2021.
What We Know About Odyssey of the Seas
Odyssey of the Seas steel cutting. Photo via Royal Caribbean
Odyssey of the Seas will be the fifth Quantum-class ship introduced by Royal Caribbean International. Previous ships in the class were Quantum of the Seas (introduced in 2014), Anthem of the Seas (2015), Ovation of the Seas (2016) and Spectrum of the Seas (2019).
Like Spectrum, Odyssey will be a member of the Quantum Ultra Class, sort of a class-within-the-class.
READ MORE: Royal Caribbean Begins Construction on Newest Ship
The steel-cutting ceremony for Odyssey was held on February 1st of this year at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany. When completed, she'll weigh in at just over 169,375 gross tons, just like Spectrum. The previous three Quantum ships were slightly lighter at around 168,665 gross tons.
"At Royal Caribbean, we are focused on continuously improving efficiency and sustainability, and the fifth Quantum-class vessel will be clear evidence of this," said Michael Bayley, President and CEO of Royal Caribbean International, when the ship was first ordered. "Of equal importance is our ability to consistently surpass guest expectations, and we are harnessing the power of the latest technology to do so on this ship."
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When a customer with an appointment calls to cancel, they can either be met with a friendly response or a passive-aggressive response. It's not in your business' best interest to try and "guilt-trip" customers who need to cancel appointments; instead, your appointment policy should reflect the cutoff time for cancellations and note any fees or charges that may apply after that cutoff.
When handling appointment cancellations, following the right protocol is essential. Keeping a positive tone and attitude throughout the call will help you increase the odds of having the customer reschedule rather than cancel altogether. Step by step, here's how to handle appointment cancellations over the phone with poise.
Step 1: Acknowledge the request and ask for information. Once a customer lets you know they need to cancel an upcoming appointment, the first step is acknowledging their request and gather additional information. What is the customer's name? When is the appointment scheduled for? This will help you initially determine if the cancellation is being made in time or if it will incur a fee for the customer.
Step 2: Determine if there's a cancellation fee. Is the customer calling to cancel an appointment for this afternoon while you have a strict 24 hours' notice policy? With the customer's information from step 1, determine if they are subject to a cancellation fee or if they've cancelled the appointment with plenty of time to spare. If there is a cancellation fee, notify the customer in a friendly tone.
Step 3: Try to reschedule. If the customer is cancelling the appointment within the specified time frame or offers a plausible reason for cancelling last-minute, try to reschedule the appointment while you have the customer on the phone. Let them know the cancellation is not a problem and that you appreciate the advance notice. Name a few dates and times available in the upcoming week and ask which would work best to reschedule.
Responding to a cancellation positively can turn the situation around, but responding rudely or as though you are personally inconvenienced by the cancellation will only repel customers. The right way to handle cancellations is graciously (unless it's a repeat offender).
Handling an appointment cancellation the right way over the phone increases the odds that you'll be able to reschedule the appointment and retain the customer. The best appointment cancellation response is understanding and patience while keeping with any company policies regarding cancellation fees or required time of advance notice.


We took the lad to his firms xmas bash ( his citroen was dead, but now lives ! hurray, thank the f for that more like ) and brought him home late saturday night.
About 1 miles from home, pressed the clutch pedal and BANG, the clutch pedal goes to the floor, f"£*&%*****!!!!!!!
Anyway we get the car home ok and park it at a slant under the car port.
Next day a quick look and yes the clutch cable has gone, or worse.
The clutch cable has been stiff since we got the car so needs a new cable anyway ?
The pedal is free and not stiff, the spring assist is free and not stiff.
The cable was ordered Monday and finally arrived yesterday afternoon.
With the wife's help ( i have trained her well and do exactly as she says ) we managed to manouver the car into place with the aid of a winch, in the pouring rain, so the front of the car at least is under cover. What the picture doesn't show is the "river" flowing down the garden path and under the car port, the river being behind me.
The under bonnet stuff was removed last night, the easy part. The car will be up in the air this afternoon and the real fun then begins, the pedal area stuff.
beetles/type2/fastbacks/411/412-------------------------all of them should be at the bottom of cars stacked in scrapyards.
worked on them at a main dealer in the 80's (yes, people really did use main dealer were I lived)...as soon as foreman came into canteen carrying see through wallets with jobcards in, you developed x-ray vision to see the all-silver rounded keys...…...and cried.
Clutch cable isn't too bad on these, its easiest to lay on the floor directly under the brake booster and reach straight up.
The air con pipes are right in the way and stop you pulling the fat end of the cable out, it helps to loosen the pipes (10mm nut in drivers wheel arch) but you'll still have to manoeuvre the fat end of the cable around. Wen you put the new one in, make sure the rubber of the fat end seats properly behind the AC pipes otherwise you get an annoying noise and draught around your feet.
The car is up in the air higher than normal to improve access, the under tray is off along with the off side front wheel and the front part of the plastics under the wheel arch. I can actually now see where the cable goes a d reach up there, well nearly. I have one last clip to undo, the wire clip and its 6mm bolt, then the clip on the gearbox that holds the cable end on/in.
The fuse lid is off and so is the heater duct. I can see the end of the clutch pedal so the hook is there and seems all ok. The pedal is free as is the now removed spring assist devise. The cable seems free also, so was wondering if a heavy duty clutch is in there??
There is some play in the shaft and using a long lever, the clutch seems heavy.
I have a new clutch kit ( luk ) and the 2 plastic shaft bearings but dont have the time at the moment to fit it as space needed for the lads car service on sunday.
Its not actually the cable its self that's broken but the plastic clevis that fits on the hook.
I am fitting a first line fkc1438 which has a much more substantial plastic clevis, hoping all goers well later today.
Does anyone know if a manually adjusted cable will fit and whats the part number please??
New cable is a front line fkc1438.
Have asked about a manually adjustable type cable but they seem not to do one.
Anyone know if a manually adjustable cable is available ???
Anyways an answer to the query of how to unadjust the cable when I have to remove it for a clutch change engine out etc..
Re setting the cable after fitting is not the easiest thing to do but can be done by pulling inner cable completely out to it`s full length , then while keeping the cable taught pull it back through ( probably need two people ) then put the white cap back on and lock into place. Just make sure when fitting the cable for the first time not to damage the little lugs the cap locks onto.
We unfortunately only have this cable for the application not a manual adjust type.
Hoping the new cable fitting and auto adjust goes like clockwork.
I have 12T press and could make a swage block, to swage an end onto a inner cable, so may have a go at making a manual adjust cable if one is not available.
First things first, getting the pug back on the road for tomorrow.
There wasn't a manual cable available for these. Some people have used cables designed for other cars (possibly 309/405) but they need modifying & tbh it's more hassle than it's worth. Might as well just buy another auto cable instead of buying a manual one. It is possible to reset them but is a right pain as they suggested.
OK cable fitted and not toooo much hassle once stuff is out of the way. Seems the old cable was not quite fitted on the bulkhead.
The new cable follows to old cable route and after it self adjusted, seems a little bit lighter in use. The spring assist device is off for the moment.
The pressure plate seems to "creak" a bit so may need the new clutch kit fitting soon, but ok for now.
The bite point is about 1 1/2 to 2 inches from pedal full pressed down to the floor.
All good. The old cable inner was a little bit stiff/draggy but the clevis end looked much weaker than the first line one. A "Dura" make cable. Perhaps a clip was missing from the clevis as the remains seems to suggest a clip was meant to be there keeping the clevis sides from splaying, will post a pic tomorrow.
This suggests that the old cable was not fitted correctly with the inner showing some wear of the plastic coating to the inner cable.
lost the picture of the clevis, will re take and post wednesday.
One thing to bear in mind and I think the communication you had wasn't the clearest on this, that white plastic shroud around the adjuster is there to ease fitting, it's supposed to be removed once the cable is fitted.
Yep, made clear by first line, and kept for the future.
See picture of the broken clevis above ,on the Dura cable.
The centre of the clevis has 2 cut outs, for a clip to stop the clevis sides from splaying ?? Anyways, no trace of a clip found and its buggered so that's the end of that cable, for now. Its a bit stiff anyway and the inner cable plastic covering is worn thru in the area of the clevis, maybe that's why it was a bit stiff.
There's no clip for them. The plastic is designed to be a weak point and break before anything else.
Cool but a bit daft maybe?


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The Ghent judge takes the Valtònyc case to the Belgian Constitutional Court to determine if freedom of expression protects the insults to the king
Josep Miquel Arenas, Valtònyc, was sentenced in 2018 to three and a half years in prison for insults, glorification of terrorism and death threats. And this Tuesday, September 15, the court of appeal of Ghent (Belgium) has decided to refer a preliminary question to the Belgian Constitutional Court on the extradition for terrorism carried out by Spain after the rapper left for Belgium in June 2018. What the court of Ghent to the Constitutional is if the crimes of libel for which Valtònyc has been convicted in Spain are protected by a fundamental right such as freedom of expression. The hearing has been set for next December 3.
"It is good that this happens because the Bourbons make a mess every day, everything that means buying time is going well for us. I have been condemned for making a spoiler when I said that the Bourbons are thieves and gangsters ", Valtònyc declared at the exit of the hearing. With this decision, the process can be extended up to a year, according to Valtònyc's lawyers, when the Belgian Constitutional Court decides:" As It has happened with Lluís Puig, in Belgium the Spanish Supreme Court has declared itself incompetent and I would not mind showing that the National Court and the Spanish Constitutional Court are also incompetent ".
The lawyer Simon Bekaert has explained: "Of the three crimes, the threats and the glorification of terrorism have already been dismissed in the courts. Now the question is about offenses to the king. In Belgium we have a law on the XIX relative to offenses to the king. King, and the consultation is made as to whether the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression. We are very confident in the result of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, prioritizing freedom of expression. "
The Belgian justice rejected in the first instance the delivery of Valtònyc in September 2018 alleging that there was no double criminality, that is, none of the three charges for which he was convicted in Spain are classified as a crime, neither in Spain nor in Belgium. decision appealed by the Ghent Prosecutor's Office.
Between the first rejection and the sentence that will be read this Tuesday, there has also been a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU, last March, in which it failed that Spain did wrong when applying the Penal Code of 2015 to Valtònyc. Spain's thesis defended the application of the Spanish criminal law of 2015, when the sentence against Valtònyc was passed, and that it punishes in a more severe way the apology of terrorism, instead of that of 2012, which is more beneficial to the interests of the rapper Mallorcan and that implies an insufficient a priori sentence to be extradited.
Valtònyc was also condemned in Spain for insults to the Crown, "for telling the truth", the rapper adds: "Everything I said is documented in the media and in books. In the end I am not a seer or I'm not a guy with a very, very broad view of politics. It's not my thing. I've been condemned for saying something that everyone knows. "
Gonzalo Boye, one of his defense lawyers, abounds: "In any other country, after what happened with the king emeritus, who has fled Spain, they would have reviewed the sentence. It is a crime that must be contextualized. In Belgium, Yes, there is double criminality with insults, although it has not been applied for many years, but in the end they are understanding that it is freedom of expression, because with exaltation and threats, crimes have no correlation in Belgium. "
The Court of Justice of the EU ruled in a preliminary ruling requested by the Ghent court that Spain did not do well to apply the Penal Code retroactively to have a greater penalty. "They wanted to apply the Penal Code of 2015 that already punishes the apology of terrorism with three years in the Spanish State", says Valtònyc: "That gave them a sentence of three years for a single crime, not combining the three crimes. The lawyer noticed and they have proved us right. "
Spain's thesis in Luxembourg defended the application of the Spanish criminal law of 2015, when the sentence against Valtònyc was passed, and that it punishes the apology of terrorism more severely, instead of that of 2012, when the events occurred , more beneficial for the interests of the Mallorcan rapper and that implies an insufficient a priori sentence to be extradited.
The Belgian justice rejected in the first instance the delivery of Valtònyc in September 2018, alleging that there was no double criminality, that is, rejecting that none of the three charges for which he was convicted in Spain are classified as a crime in both Spain and Belgium , a decision that the Ghent Prosecutor's Office appealed.
Once the decision of the Ghent Court of Appeal is made, the parties can appeal to the court of cassation, where the forms of the process are reviewed, not the merits.
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…and we're off! The first work week of 2016 is jam-packed with planetary activity. I can't imagine you'll be bored. Here's what's cookin' in the cosmos.
First, the energy of the day is driven by the Moon in moody Scorpio, silently scheming how it may best fulfill its need for emotional depth, substance and control. Note your dreams this AM, as the Moon makes a harmonious connection to Neptune at 5:57AM ET. After that, the Moon cruises smoothly through the rest of the day. It makes two easy connections to the Sun and Pluto at 6:43PM ET and 8:59PM ET, respectively, facilitating empowered communication. Just do it…with the following caveats:
The Moon goes void Tuesday at 12:47PM ET until Wednesday at 1:56AM ET, so ship it or pitch it before then. Moon voids are well-suited for focusing on routine concerns and rolling with any twists and flakes that may crop up in your efforts to move forward in a straight line. Such as? Such as the flake I experienced on Saturday after 11:23AM ET, when I poured hot water into my coffee cup instead of into the filter filled with actual coffee grounds. "Moon must be void," I thought. It was. Which was also reflected in the twist experienced by subscribers to the Boston Globe on Sunday, when their papers were delivered by Globe reporters and other staff who had stayed up all night to do the task. I'm digging the Globe these days. Have you seen Spotlight yet? You must. It's going to win a bunch of awards and it reflects current planetary patterns (Saturn in Sagittarius square Neptune in Pisces, for starters). Anyhoo….
Mercury will turn retrograde Tuesday at 8:06AM ET. BACK UP YOUR COMPUTERS NOW…and be prepared to triple-check everything before you hit send from now through the rest of the month. Here's a recap of how to handle Mercury retrograde — which I'll reprint here tomorrow, for those who don't like to click on links.
There are five other planetary patterns humming in the background, three of which are exact on Tuesday. Pattern #1: Mercury (mind, communication) squares off against action hero Mars at 7AM ET Tuesday. Let the record show that Mars entered Scorpio on Sunday morning ET. This suggests highly effective action — as in ruthless, laser-beam precision; take-no-prisoners strikes. Mars in Scorpio suggests intensity in matters of desire, which can be built all the way to Heaven or all the way to Hell. Downside: a temptation to indulge in vengeance, especially over petty grievances. Upside: a need to act with honor and integrity (even among thieves). Mars will be in Scorpio until March 5th, and again between May 28th and August 2nd — to be discussed in a future forecast.
Pattern #2 is a righteously opinionated and idealistic challenge between Venus (love, values, money, women) and visionary Neptune, exact at 9:34AM ET. This patterns suggests a rose-colored need for social expression which pushes boundaries. Pattern #3 would be the Sun in enterprising Capricorn meeting up with Pluto at 10:26PM ET on Tuesday. Talk about an opportunity for transformation and empowerment. We can expect the usual Plutonian subjects to make headlines, e.g., news from underground, power plays, stories of regeneration, resources, etc.
Meanwhile, here's an apt reflection of the sum total of this week's mind-blowing, empowering, technogeek, boundary-pushing, visionary and aesthetic potential: the NYT's Sunday magazine cover story: "An Open Mind: the Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery". Here's another one: "How to Cultivate the Art of Serendipity". Or this: "'Like a Beautiful Painting':Image of New Year's Mayhem in Manchester Goes Viral".
Pattern #4 is a square between the Sun and rebel Uranus (exact on Thursday at 7:22AM ET), which usually reflects excitement, breakouts and breakthroughs and other disruptions of the status quo. Pattern #5 is a meet-up between Venus and Saturn, exact Friday at 11:11PM ET, which is about when we can expect a "Get REAL!" response to whatever dreamy vision was proposed under the influence of Neptune in the first part of this week — for better or for worse.
Oh but wait — there's more! On Thursday, Jupiter turns retrograde. On Friday, Mercury backs up into Capricorn, where it will facilitate your efforts to put a practical spin on your plans until February 13th. On Saturday at 8:30PM ET, we'll have a New Moon in Capricorn, suggesting an opportunity to re-set your intentions and plant potent seeds for the next lunar cycle. Details on those stories later this week.
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Mercury square Mars can be pretty darn confrontational — and Mars refers to guns. Venus square Neptune can be awfully idealistic, peace-loving, forgiving — or delusional. Sun conjunct Pluto and square Uranus can't help but challenge the Powers That Be. Exhibit A: "Armed Group Vows to Continue Occupation at Oregon Refuge":
BURNS, Ore. — The protesters arrived in this old lumber town to support a 73-year-old rancher and his son who had been sentenced to prison for setting fires that spread to federal lands. It was billed as a peaceful demonstration, but after "Amazing Grace" was sung and hugs were exchanged, a small, armed contingent declared outside a supermarket that it was taking a stand and asked who wanted to join.
So began the latest armed flare-up….
Meanwhile, "Battleground Shifts as Obama is Set to Act on Gun Control". In other words, without the support of Congress. Last week he also acted alone in granting clemency to a handful of federal prisoners, in a "trickle of mercy" (proclaimed the editors of the NYT). I suspect we will see more than a trickle in the coming year. Glancing at President Obama's horoscope it is interesting to note that stationary retrograde Mercury and Jupiter are sitting right on top of his Jupiter and Mars, respectively. His mindset, actions and expansive reaches this week are especially significant. We would expect him to be thinking and acting big, with more to come. Interesting to note a Neptune-Venus measurement in effect in his horoscope, too. We would expect a need for an aesthetic ideal in matters of social expression and values.
Elsewhere, a volatile story in this volatile week is still developing: Saudi Arabia has cut diplomatic ties with Iran. Also volatile, but much more contained is the announcement that four new elements (all man-made and as-yet unnamed) have been discovered, thus completing the 7th row in the periodic table. Woo-hoo!
Stay tuned to this channel for continuing updates on these planetary patterns….and here's the 411 on how to find out what it all means for you in a personal astrological consultation. REviewing your life is a perfect activity during a Mercury retrograde!
Thank you for reading this forecast.
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"The Seventh Seal" (1957)
This film from the legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman can be rented on Amazon for $3.99.
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Knight Antonius Block plays Death in a game of chess in Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." Bergman used the production of this film as a way to come to terms with his own crippling fear of mortality.
This film, which earned highly acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman his spot in the cinema pantheon, follows the story of a knight who just returned from the crusades to find his country ravaged by the plague (so much for escapism). To make matters worse, he finds Death, personified by a pale hooded man, waiting to take him. He makes a deal with Death: if he wins a game of chess he will remain alive. They play the game over an extended period so the knight has time to wander the countryside and question the existence of God, the meaninglessness of life and other fun things alongside his sarcastic squire.
Director Profile: Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
Years active: 1944-2005
Famous films: "The Seventh Seal" (1957), "Wild Strawberries" (1957), "The Virgin Spring" (1960),"Persona" (1966), "Scenes From a Marriage" (1973)
Regular themes: Death, faith, existentialism, strict parenting and failing marriage
Quote about film: "Film has dream, film has music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames in a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness. At the editing table, when I run the trip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood: in the darkness of the wardrobe, I slowly wind one frame after another, see almost imperceptible changes, wind faster — a movement."
Now all that may sound boring but trust me, it's not. Bergman weaves humor and humanity into an otherwise bleak story. The knight may be outrunning Death and lost in a world where faith has been perverted and God remains silent, but there are plenty of witty remarks and tender relationships (the knight befriends a family of actors along the way) to keep the audience from spiralling into darkness. Bergman balances desolation with occasional lightness to create a more realistic vision of life and death for us, one that acknowledges both suffering and joy.
In a certain sense, "The Seventh Seal" is almost a buddy roadtrip film; the knight and squire meet a ramshackle cast of characters in their travels. There's the aforementioned happy family, an oafish smith and his unfaithful wife, a philandering actor, a silent housekeeper and an unscrupulous scoundrel. On paper, it could even be a comedy.
It isn't, however. Between the jokes, the film is really about death and what it means for life. The only thing the knight knows for certain is that he will die someday, even if he wins the chess game. He plays Death in order to find meaning in life before he goes; he wants to perform a good deed after years of aimlessness. He questions the role God plays since He never responds to the knight's pleas. He describes faith as "torment. It is like loving someone in the dark who never answers no matter how loud you call."
The squire, on the other hand, accepts that he will not find any basic meaning in life before the void that is death. This is where I think Bergman's sympathies lied when he made the film. He was associated with a philosophy known as Absurdism that basically holds that life is inherently meaningless and humans cope with that in three ways: suicide, religion and acceptance. Famous Absurdist Albert Camus believed the first two were not viable and the only valid way to face the Absurd (the lack of meaning) was to accept it. Once you accept that there is no basic meaning in the universe, you can begin to find your own meaning.
The knight glimpses at this personal meaning during his journey. He enjoys wild strawberries with the actors and delights in their friendship and the beauty of their family. He reunites with his wife after a long separation. God never answers him, but he finds moments of contentment elsewhere. Bergman, like Camus, suggests that the lack of a grander purpose in life actually empowers us to find our own way.
That's not to say this film is completely atheistic though. Believers can still find characters to relate to and will not necessarily see their beliefs rejected on screen. Therein lies the true power of "The Seventh Seal": it holds a mirror up to your own views of life and death but it also questions them. Anyone can watch this film and feel affirmed in their worldview and simultaneously be forced to ponder it more deeply. As a result, Bergman creates a near complete portrait of humanity's struggle with its core condition: impermanence. Oh, and he does this all in the space of an hour and a half.
Now that all the heavy stuff is out of the way, I would be remiss not to mention the visual aspects of this movie. The cinematography is gorgeous and the images are not only beautiful but thought provoking. Bergman combines personal close-ups and cold wide shots to create a tension between humanity and the Absurd. The compositions of certain shots are just as haunting as they are thrilling to watch (keep an eye out for the chess scenes and Death's dance).
While "The Seventh Seal" might not be much of an escapist film in a time as deadly as ours, in some ways I find it comforting. Maybe there is no reason we are here and maybe the coronavirus is just a cruel accident. Either way, I can still find meaning and joy in this world. For the knight, it was wild strawberries in the midst of the Black Death. For me, it's movies in spite of another plague.
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Dictionnaire de la Waffen-SS: Tome 2 presents key divisions, many among which were of the elite, that played a crucial role on the battlefield during the Second World War which called upon approximately one million combatants during the course of the war. The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich.
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Dictionnaire de la Waffen-SS: Tome 2 presents key divisions, many among which were of the elite, that played a crucial role on the battlefield during the Second World War which called upon approximately one million combatants during the course of the war.
The Waffen-SS was a multi-ethnic and multi-national military force of the Third Reich. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside the Wehrmacht Heer regular army, but was never formally part of it. It was Adolf Hitler's will that the Waffen-SS never be integrated into the army, it was to remain the armed wing of the Nazi Party and to become an elite police force once the war was won.
This second volume presents the divisions of the Waffen-SS, 9th to 38th, with a history, successive structures and Knight's Cross and a significant iconography for each division.
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News Release 29-Jul-2020
Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
Evolving quantum processes backwards on a quantum computer to damage information in the simulated past causes little change when returned to the 'present'
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image: In research by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alice prepares her qubit and applies the information scrambling unitary U to this and many other qubits altogether. Bob measures her qubit in any basis, flipping the qubit to the state not known to Alice. Alice still can reconstruct her information via a single decoding unitary U†. view more
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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 28 2020--Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no "butterfly effect." In the research, information--qubits, or quantum bits--"time travel" into the simulated past. One of them is then strongly damaged, like stepping on a butterfly, metaphorically speaking. Surprisingly, when all qubits return to the "present," they appear largely unaltered, as if reality is self-healing.
"On a quantum computer, there is no problem simulating opposite-in-time evolution, or simulating running a process backwards into the past," said Nikolai Sinitsyn, a theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and coauthor of the paper with Bin Yan, a post doc in the Center for Nonlinear Studies, also at Los Alamos. "So we can actually see what happens with a complex quantum world if we travel back in time, add small damage, and return. We found that our world survives, which means there's no butterfly effect in quantum mechanics."
In Ray Bradbury's 1952 science fiction story, "A Sound of Thunder," a character used a time machine to travel to the deep past, where he stepped on a butterfly. Upon returning to the present time, he found a different world. This story is often credited with coining the term "butterfly effect," which refers to the extremely high sensitivity of a complex, dynamic system to its initial conditions. In such a system, early, small factors go on to strongly influence the evolution of the entire system.
Instead, Yan and Sinitsyn found that simulating a return to the past to cause small local damage in a quantum system leads to only small, insignificant local damage in the present.
This effect has potential applications in information-hiding hardware and testing quantum information devices. Information can be hidden by a computer by converting the initial state into a strongly entangled one.
"We found that even if an intruder performs state-damaging measurements on the strongly entangled state, we still can easily recover the useful information because this damage is not magnified by a decoding process," Yan said. "This justifies talks about creating quantum hardware that will be used to hide information."
This new finding could also be used to test whether a quantum processor is, in fact, working by quantum principles. Since the newfound no-butterfly effect is purely quantum, if a processor runs Yan and Sinitsyn's system and shows this effect, then it must be a quantum processor.
To test the butterfly effect in quantum systems, Yan and Sinitsyn used theory and simulations with the IBM-Q quantum processor to show how a circuit could evolve a complex system by applying quantum gates, with forwards and backwards cause and effect.
Presto, a quantum time-machine simulator.
In the team's experiment, Alice, a favorite stand-in agent used for quantum thought experiments, prepares one of her qubits in the present time and runs it backwards through the quantum computer. In the deep past, an intruder - Bob, another favorite stand-in - meaures Alice's qubit. This action disturbs the qubit and destroys all its quantum correlations with the rest of the world. Next, the system is run forward to the present time.
According to Ray Bradbury, Bob's small damage to the state and all those correlations in the past should be quickly magnified during the complex forward-in-time evolution. Hence, Alice should be unable to recover her information at the end.
But that's not what happened. Yan and Sinitsyn found that most of the presently local information was hidden in the deep past in the form of essentially quantum correlations that could not be damaged by minor tampering. They showed that the information returns to Alice's qubit without much damage despite Bob's interference. Counterintuitively, for deeper travels to the past and for bigger "worlds," Alice's final information returns to her even less damaged.
"We found that the notion of chaos in classical physics and in quantum mechanics must be understood differently," Sinitsyn said.
Paper: Bin Yan and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn. Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 (2020); available online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.040605. Authors: Bin Yan and Nikolai Sinitsyn.
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NOTRE DAME, Indiana — In its first year as part of a conference, Notre Dame racked up two conference honors and nine All-ACC team selections from the Associated Press, released Monday. Dick Corbett Head Football Coach Brian Kelly was voted AP ACC Coach of the Year, while linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah was named AP ACC Defensive Player of the Year.
On the first team, tackle Liam Eichenberg and guards Aaron Banks and Tommy Kraemer earned nods on the offense, while Owusu-Koramoah and safety Kyle Hamilton earned slots on defense. On the second team, running back Kyren Williams claimed a spot, along with tackle Robert Hainsey and center Jarrett Patterson on offense, joined by cornerback Nick McCloud on defense.
Coach of the Year – Brian Kelly
The winningest active coach in FBS (273ˆ wins), Kelly is the first Notre Dame coach to notch six seasons of at least 10 wins in Irish history. In his 11th season at Notre Dame, Kelly has guided the Irish to the College Football Playoff in two of the last three seasons. With 102ˆ wins at Notre Dame, he ranks second all-time among Irish head coaches, trailing only Knute Rockne's 105. In addition, he joins Knute Rockne (13), Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian and Lou Holtz (11) as the only Notre Dame coaches to spend 10 or more seasons on the Irish sidelines. Kelly is the only three-time winner of the Home Depot Coach of the Year Award ('09, '12, '18).
Defensive Player of the Year / First Team LB Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah
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Aaron Banks
Banks has racked up 30-career starts and was named ACC Offensive Lineman of the Week for his performance vs. Clemson (11/7). Selected to the preseason All-ACC Team, Banks is part of an offensive line that leads the ACC and ranks eighth in the FBS in time of possession, controlling the ball for 33:57 minutes of game time and winning the time of possession battle in 10-of-11 games this season. The 33:57 time of possession average leads the ACC by more than two minutes per game.
Tommy Kraemer
Returning to the field in 2020 after a season-ending injury in 2019, Kraemer has totaled 38-career starts and has produced at a high level, even after missing a game due to injury. Named ACC Offensive LIneman of the Week at Boston College, Kraemer is a member of a unit that helps move the chains at a high level on third down. The Irish lead the ACC and rank ninth in the FBS in third down conversion percentage with a remarkable 49.3 success rate.
Kyle Hamilton
A Bednarik Award semifinalist, sophomore Kyle Hamilton ties for the lead on the Irish defense with 56 tackles (45 solo) in 2020. Along with a 14-yard interception vs. Clemson in the ACC Championship, he has posted five PBUs, 3.5 TFL and two QB hits.
Kyren Williams
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Jarrett Patterson
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (May 26, 2020) Two Russian Su-35 aircraft unsafely intercept a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea May 26, 2020. The intercept was determined to be unsafe and unprofessional due to the Russian pilots taking close station on each wing of the P-8A simultaneously, restricting the P-8A's ability to safely maneuver, and lasted a total of 64 minutes. U.S. 6th Fleet, headquartered in Naples, Italy, conducts the full spectrum of joint and naval operations, often in concert with allied and interagency partners, in order to advance U.S. national interests and security and stability in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo)
Unsafe, Unprofessional Interception of a U.S. Navy P-8 by Russian SU-35s over the Mediterranean Sea
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For the third time in two months, Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while intercepting a U.S. Navy P-8A Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft in the U.S. 6th Fleet, May 26, 2020.
On May 26, 2020, a U.S. Navy P-8A aircraft was flying in the Eastern Mediterranean over international waters and was intercepted by two Russian Su-35 aircraft over a period of 65 minutes. The intercept was determined to be unsafe and unprofessional due to the Russian pilots taking close station on each wing of the P-8A simultaneously, restricting the P-8A's ability to safely maneuver.
The unnecessary actions of the Russian Su-35 pilots were inconsistent with good airmanship and international flight rules, and jeopardized the safety of flight of both aircraft.
While the Russian aircraft was operating in international airspace, this interaction was irresponsible. We expect them to operate within international standards set to ensure safety and to prevent incidents, including the 1972 Agreement for the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas (INCSEA). Actions like these increase the potential for midair collisions.
This incident follows two unsafe interactions in April, over the same waters. In all cases, the U.S. aircraft were operating in international airspace, consistent with international law, with due regard for safety of flight, and did not provoke this Russian activity.


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Message to the Warriors: WIN A ****ing GAME.
Sad outing. Redd and Bell were just completely lights out. I was thinking about picking up Bell to replace Wade for my fantasy roster... too bad. And dbdavis20... don't worry, you didn't miss anything inspiring. Remember, the east, central, and mountain times are ahead of us. Tomorrow will be another early start time!
and also... Jim Mora... where are you? "Playoffs? Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Are you crazy? I just hope we can win a game. Any game. Playoffs?" Sorry... just had to come out.
xbaywarrior wrote: Sad outing. Redd and Bell were just completely lights out. I was thinking about picking up Bell to replace Wade for my fantasy roster... too bad. And dbdavis20... don't worry, you didn't miss anything inspiring. Remember, the east, central, and mountain times are ahead of us. Tomorrow will be another early start time!
Boy, this sure sounds like whining and giving up to me. **** you for calling me out on this crap. What a ****ing hypocrite.
Nice, love the vulgarity bro. I only said that because you can spot it every now and then in a game thread and I thought it was appropriate to put it in this one. I could care less what you say. I ain't no b*tch, but I ain't going to waste my time starting a fight through the internet on the forum.
terrible game. we got off the a good start and the 2nd 3rd and 4th quarters were an embarrassment.
we have absolutely no half court offense. there is no ball movement whatsoever, guys just standing around watching. this translates to bad/forced shots.
we are a running team indeed. problem: we dont play a lick of defense and we cant rebound so it slows the tempo. its like throwing water on the fire in terms of being consistent in our style.
take a look at the suns. they have a rep for giving up a lot of points, but the fact is they can get a stop when they need it. oh, and they CAN play half court offense. if you ever get a chance to watch a suns game, watch them cut and move without the ball, oh and pass and not just stand around!
im just getting tired of this every year. last year we won what, 38 games? year before that? 38 games, year before that? 36 or something...i think we'll be right around there again this year, if we're lucky! what improvements? what playoffs what? i know we play in the western conference but what? we've had a few injuries but so has everyone else what? we lose to horrible eastern teams anyway so what does it matter? this team is a joke.
no suprise this years team doesnt play defense. the architect of this team is chris mullin, who wasnt exactly known to be a lock down defender.
Just brutal...the truth is simple: This is a replay of last year. With BD, the Ws are a bubble 8th seed. Without they are a bottom 5 team. Amazing with all the change in personnel and coaching it boils down to that. We can only make the playoffs with a healthy BD, and a healthy BD seems to be a contradiction in terms. I believe keep Monta and AB and (if you can) Jrich, but otherwise, blow up the team, because as presently consituted, they will never be more than a 41 win 8th seed, and they will never be that, cause Baron won't play more than 50-60 games in a season.
josh powell should get more minutes!!
coltraning wrote: Just brutal...the truth is simple: This is a replay of last year. With BD, the Ws are a bubble 8th seed. Without they are a bottom 5 team. Amazing with all the change in personnel and coaching it boils down to that. We can only make the playoffs with a healthy BD, and a healthy BD seems to be a contradiction in terms. I believe keep Monta and AB and (if you can) Jrich, but otherwise, blow up the team, because as presently consituted, they will never be more than a 41 win 8th seed, and they will never be that, cause Baron won't play more than 50-60 games in a season.
Think you are spot on and I thought I'd never believe that but this roster just is not going to do anything ever!
cabarkapa wrote: josh powell should get more minutes!!
Best post of the thread!!!
btw, I can't believe people still are surprised we lost yet another game on the road... I'm pretty sure we'll go 0-5 or 1-4 (at best) in the trip.
That was the worst loss of the year last night in my opinion. This was the first game of a five game road trip and the team played with absolutely no sense of urgency against the lowly Milwaukee Bucks. It was an embarassment.
I have been saying this all season long, until Nellie and the players decide to start playing some defense and get themselves in position for defensive rebounds this team will struggle mightily. Even after jumping up early last night it had nothing to do with defense and rebounding. The Warriors were simply making their jump shots. We all know they are not going to shoot 70% for a game so they were bound to come back down to Earth and once they did the Bucks breezed past them.
I am in favor of Josh Powell getting more minutes as well. I would like to see how he responds. His rebounding is suspect, but given a good amount of time on the floor, that might change. We have no players that can and will rebound other than Biedrins and that is causing a load of problems.
Al Harrington is rubbish. He can't defend and he can't rebound. All he cares about is getting down the floor and jacking up a shot. What is the deal with this guy and his horrible free throw shooting? What a joke! There is no excuse for NBA players to shoot free throws like that.
This road trip WILL determine the Warriors playoff chances. Judging by that performance the playoffs are going to be a distant memory in the next seven days after this trip is completed and the Warriors come back home with a goose egg in the win column over these five games.
Some big changes need to be made this season but that belongs in another thread. Things start with Mullen and then Nellie. These two might think they have a good team but the Warriors are not good. They are an average team that can't win on the road to save their season. Questions are being asked of this organization. What Mullen and Nellie will do in response remains to be seen until the summer.
Powell might turn out to be the (good) surprise of the trade. I'd like to see more from this guy, as he seems to be interested in puting out some good effort and make the best of his time and skills.
Naturally, we see a guy play his best, and he gets injured. Anyone know how the head/neck injury is turning out? He did have to go to the hospital after the game.
xbaywarrior wrote: and also... Jim Mora... where are you? "Playoffs? Playoffs? Don't talk about playoffs. Are you crazy? I just hope we can win a game. Any game. Playoffs?" Sorry... just had to come out.
quoted for truth. Although some ppl consider this as whining, this is true. We have to win something especially on this road trip and this faceplant doesn't help us. Now we gotta win. Where is the damn sense of urgency that madden talks about all the time?


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Tuesday July 1, 2008 9:02 PM PDT by Arnold Kim
A new video teaser of upcoming iPhone game Rolando has been posted at TouchArcade. Few details are provided, but the game is described as a physics-based platform/puzzler which has been designed from the ground up for the iPhone. The Youtube Video is impressive.
The game will be the first official game from Handcircus. The developer is hoping to deliver it by late July/early August.
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Read first time March 5, 1991.Limiting business and occupation tax on fisheries.
AN ACT Relating to the business and occupation tax on the sale of fish; and adding a new section to chapter 82.04 RCW.
This chapter shall not apply to the initial wholesale or retail sale in this state by commercial fishers of fish caught outside the waters of this state. This exemption applies only to the sale of unprocessed fish and fish eggs.


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Ultimate guide on using the Sofia metro
Posted on November 28, 2018 March 10, 2019 by JK
Get to know and use the Sofia metro lines
Sofia is the only city in Bulgaria so far with its own subway system, or metro as the locals call it. Since its commission in 1998, the metro system has grown and is now one of the most widely used methods of transportation in the capital.
The most important things to know about the Sofia metro before you can use it:
There are currently two active separate metro lines M1 and M2
The two lines M1 and M2 intersect in two stations where you can transfer from one to the other
The metro ticket costs 1,60 lv
The metro tickets are separate from the other transport tickets and can be bought at the metro stations only
Getting from Sofia Airport to the central bus station
A map of the Sofia metro lines and the metro stations for each one
As you can see on the metro map, old metro line M1 covers the route between the Business park in Mladost district in the south-east part of the city all the way to Lulin district in the north-west part.
The newer line M2 connects the airport with the center of the city, the central bus and train station and the Nadezhda district.
Lines M1 and M2 intersect at two stations:
Station Serdica – at the center of the city close to the government buildings and Vitoshka street
Station Mladost I – at the south-east side of Sofia, the Mladost district is a administrative and residential hub
Line M1 is straight-forward and easy to navigate, there are no branches. It starts from the Business park in the Mladost district through the very center of the city and then to Lulin district.
Line M2 is a bit more complex to use since it branches out and it could get a bit confusing. The tricky part of Line M2 is that at the center of the city – Serdica station it separates in two different directions. One option is to go in the direction of National palace of culture (NDK) and Vitosha station, where you can see the Paradise mall. The other direction is towards the Central bus station.
Buses from Sofia Airport
Most important metro stations:
Sofia Airport metro station – Line M2 starts at the airport and can get you to the center of the city.
Business park station – Line M1 starts at the business park and connects to the center as well.
Central bus and train station – Line M2 goes directly to the bus and train station
Vitosha station – part of the route of Line M2 that will get you to Paradise mall
Purchasing tickets:
Tickets for the metro are sold only at the metro stations and cost 1,60 lv. This is the same price as the other means of public transportation in Sofia, however the ticket is separate for the subway only. You can use the same ticket if you need to transfer from M1 to M2 or vice versa regardless of how many stops you ride.
Metro schedule:
As a rule, the M1 line schedule starts at around 5:30 AM and the last train is around 11:50 PM. The M2 line schedule is different – first train starts around 5 AM and the last train is around 11:30 PM. The airport subway station closes earlier, at around 10 PM.
A more detailed schedule can be seen here, for now it's available in Bulgarian only.
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Door Lock Jackshaft (DJ) style commercial door operators are ideal for shopping mall applications with lighter rolling doors and grilles. Doors used with this operator should be balanced with the ability to be manually lifted by hand in an emergency or power outage. These operators include a door lock sensor to prevent damage to the door and operator caused by attempts to automatically open a locked door. The operators are typically mounted to the wall when used with smaller sectional overhead doors with vertical or high lift and mounted to the side, or the front of the hood, when used with rolling doors and grilles. DJ operators are attached to the door jackshaft to indirectly drive the door.
Eliminates jamming and damage to door and operator if door is opened when locked.
Enables manual lifting in an emergency.
Continuous-duty high-starting torque motor with instant reverse and overload protection. Available in 1/2 and 3/4 HP; single- or three-phase. Capacitor start on single-phase. Removable without affecting limit switch settings.
Industrial ball bearings on a 1" output shaft; heavy-duty oil-filled bushings on reduction shafts.
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Home / Science / A Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere
A Galaxy Orbiting Our Own Just Appeared Out of Nowhere
Scientists have found what looks like an exceedingly small galaxy in the orbit around our own Milky Way Galaxy, which had previously avoided detection. Named Hydrus 1, it's located about 90,000 light-years from Earth, between two other satellites of our galaxy – the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC).
It was found using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Blanco Telescope in Chile. A paper describing the findings, available on arXiv, has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for publication. It was led by Sergey Koposov from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pennsylvania.
"We report the discovery of a nearby dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Hydrus, between the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds," the authors wrote in their paper.
Hydrus 1 is a dwarf galaxy, described as being ultra-faint. It's only about 326 light-years across, which is pretty paltry when compared to our Milky Way, which is 100,000 light-years across. It's so small that it might actually be a globular cluster, a loose collection of stars. This will help astronomers understanding the surroundings of milky way more easily.
It was discovered within the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas that links both the SMC and the LMC. Being found in the Hydrus constellation, which means "male water snake", it was described as a "snake in the clouds".
The researchers found that Hydrus 1 has stars that are relatively metal-poor, which is similar to other suspected dwarf galaxies like this. Galaxies are described as "dwarfs" if they have about 100 million to a few billion stars, much less than the up to 400 billion or so stars in our own galaxy.
The team also noted that the galaxy is rotating, making it the "first rotating ultra-faint dwarf galaxy" ever detected, they wrote in their paper. And they also said it was probably dominated by dark matter, which may be quite easy to study due to its proximity.
At the moment the connection between Hydrus 1 and the nearby SMC and LMC isn't quite clear. But it's hoped that data from the Gaia mission, which recently released a stunning map of nearby stars, could give us some vital clues and tell us a bit more about it.


A playroom can be one of the most fun rooms in the house to decorate. Where else can whimsy rule besides in the one room that is set aside for nothing but fun? Bright colors and varied textures will help make the room pop, and make it interesting to even the youngest child.
Because this is a room where small children will spend a lot of time, it's important to keep safety in mind as well. Even if the rest of your home has hardwood floors, this is one room where a thick, soft carpet is a must. Upgrade to the best pad that your budget will allow. That way, if your little one takes a spill while playing, she'll have something soft to break the fall.
Because the room will be full of toys and stuffed animals, you will be able to keep decorative items to a minimum. All this room needs is a nice carpet, furniture and wall treatments.
It was mentioned earlier that a thick soft carpet is a must in a playroom. Furniture should also be child friendly, and should not have any sharp corners on which a child could hit his head. Keeping furniture to a minimum will maximize the amount of play space available. While some families have play rooms that do double duty as an office or TV room, others have dedicated play rooms.
If your room is set aside just for play, then consider adding one comfortable sofa or a couple of armchairs and no other furniture. This will give you a place to sit and watch the kids play without cluttering up the room. It may seem inconvenient not to have a coffee table on which to set a drink. If so, purchase folding trays and set one up only when needed. Having so little furniture will not only allow the room to have an open, airy feel, but it will also make the room safer for the children and easier to clean (less dusting!) for you.
You are limited only by your own creativity when it comes to wall treatments for a playroom. Some parents have painted the walls with brightly colored circles, other have hired a muralist to paint a scene fit for a princess or a future baseball star. Another fun idea is to do something completely different on each of the walls.
For example, cover one wall with chalkboard paint and give your little artist plenty of room to draw. Cover another wall in mirrors of varying sizes and with different frames. This will add light to the room, and help the room to look larger while the various frames will enhance the playful look of the room.
Finally, add a great big clock - perhaps in the center of the mirror wall - and be sure it is does not have a digital display. This will help your child get used to telling time "the old fashioned way", and may be one of the few places that she sees a non-digital clock throughout the day.
Have fun decorating the playroom in your home. After all, isn't fun the whole point?


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Home / Historical fiction / Birdcage Walk: A dazzling historical thriller
Birdcage Walk: A dazzling historical thriller
Helen Dunmore
Publisher: Cornerstone
But as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens, she soon finds herself dangerously alone.______________Nominated for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week AwardLonglisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
Birdcage Walk: A dazzling historical thriller quantity
Categories: Historical fiction, Narrative theme: Love & relationships, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Politics, Psychological thriller
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'The finest novel Dunmore has written.' Observer'Superb and poignant.' Guardian'Quietly brilliant … among the best fiction of our time.' Daily TelegraphIt is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence.Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war. Diner believes that Lizzie's independent, questioning spirit must be coerced and subdued. She belongs to him: law and custom confirm it, and she must live as he wants. But as Diner's passion for Lizzie darkens, she soon finds herself dangerously alone.______________Nominated for the 2018 Independent Booksellers Week AwardLonglisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
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Essex Serpent, The: The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year
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Antoinette Fawcett, Eva Meijer
Unquiet Heart, An
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I've been in travel for over 20 years. I've had a continued passion for travel since the day I started. There's something very rewarding about planning unforgettable trips that will create lasting memories.
In addition to that once in a lifetime honeymoon, I've also had the privilege of helping dozens of couples over the years with their destination weddings. My job is to make this process as smooth and effortless for the bride and groom as possible.
I personally travel with my family every year, usually to the Riviera Maya. If you and your family are ready for your next travel adventure I would be happy to help; whether it's a warm weather getaway or a customized Disney vacation, I'm your girl.
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And now, everyone who wasn't in the previous two pictures. Tadaa!
Vengeance was really hard to do in this one. For one thing, it's just very easy to get out of practice drawing him, since he only shows up once on a blue moon. Also, I decided to give him more of an old-school Father Christmas look than the contemporary Santa Claus thing the other two have going on. Problem is, I don't have a clue how to draw that effectively, never mind the fact that it just doesn't look like Vengeance unless you can't see his arms. In the end, it looks like Sephiroth cosplaying as The King of Town.


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Travel|Making the Dream Trip a Reality
Travel | Practical Traveler
Making the Dream Trip a Reality
By SUSAN STELLIN OCT. 12, 2010
IT'S a dream anyone with a passport fantasizes about once in a while: ditching everything to travel the world for a year, or at least long enough to forget about office life.
Acting out that fantasy tends to be reserved for retirees and recent college graduates, but some midcareer globe-trotters hope to show that anyone can hop off the treadmill and go travel.
"Once you get outside the confines of your day-to-day life, you discover things about yourself," said Sherry Ott, a New Yorker who quit her middle-management job in 2006 to travel and who now wants to inspire others to take the leap.
She and two partners started the company Briefcase to Backpack, which offers seminars (and a coming online class) on the practicalities of planning an extended journey, or what they call a career break.
"What makes it a career break is you have to have a career you're leaving, but you plan to come back, maybe even in the same field," she said. "It's not just early retirement."
Ms. Ott and other career-break veterans recently hosted events in 13 cities, where they answered questions about their experiences from 1,500 aspiring travelers (in some locations, hundreds more were on a waiting list). I dropped by the one in New York a little skeptical about what I'd learn, but found that I could relate to many of the issues the panelists identified as barriers to taking time off.
Here is some of their advice about clearing those obstacles.
For many people, a big issue is determining how to pay for an ambitious journey, which definitely requires some saving — and planning — a year or more ahead. The career-break veterans on the panel estimated that they spent between $1,500 and $2,700 a month (a person), or about $20,000 for a year away. But they also suggested ways to keep costs down.
"It's more expensive if you keep moving around from place to place," said Michaela Potter, another Briefcase to Backpack founder, mentioning Central and South America and Southeast Asia as more budget-friendly destinations. She cited hostels with communal kitchens as a cheaper lodging option because they allow travelers to keep meal expenses in check.
Other people save by becoming volunteers. Ms. Potter, who managed to save for several long trips while working for a nonprofit organization, spent about $2,000 for a six-week volunteer experience in Cuzco through the group Peru's Challenge. The trip included housing, Spanish lessons and a trek along the Inca Trail. She recommended idealist.org as a helpful resource for volunteer opportunities.
Working along the way is another option. Ms. Ott taught English during an extended stay in Vietnam. With high-speed Internet access, other globe-trotters said they were able to do freelance editing, copywriting or computer programming. Selling or subletting your home can also help finance a trip — especially if you can do so at a profit.
Expect Resistance
It may not come as a surprise that pressure from family members can dampen a dream to travel the world.
Marie Elena Martinez said that when she decided to quit her job in book publishing and travel to South America, her parents worried that she'd get off track in her career, not to mention put herself in dicey situations by traveling alone. "Their fears became my fears," she said. "Once I kind of shut off that white noise, I took the leap."
Other career-break veterans echoed that advice, and found that with technology offering more ways to stay in touch, the naysayers often became armchair travelers through Facebook updates and blog posts.
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Marc and Danielle Hoffmeister took on an even bigger challenge when they sold their house in Dallas and took their daughters (ages 7 and 10) on a yearlong trip — one of many families who have chronicled their journeys online, proving it can be done.
Although Mr. Hoffmeister thought it would be complicated to take the girls out of school, all he had to do was fill out a form; the family liked home schooling so much that they stuck with it after returning to Dallas. They're now planning their next trip.
"Just having a second bathroom feels luxurious," he said. "We're able to live a lot more frugally now."
Know Your Limits
Not everyone can — or should — take a year off.
"People get overwhelmed by thinking they have to do it all at once and give up everything, and that's not the case," said Ms. Potter, whose trips have ranged from nine weeks to six months.
Easing into your trip in a more familiar country is a way to reduce anxiety about leaving home. When she and Michael Bontempi (the third Briefcase to Backpack founder) first traveled together on a nine-week trip, they started in Australia so that he could decompress without too much culture shock before visiting Thailand and Laos.
But most people who spent a year or more traveling said that they planned only the first three months, letting the rest of their trip unfold as they learned more about the world and themselves.
"I learned fairly quickly that I had a real interest in traveling to remote and undeveloped countries," Ms. Ott said. "I never would've believed that about myself when I was planning my trip in New York."
She also joined a group trip to go places she was uncomfortable in traveling alone, like visiting Morocco with Gap Adventures, which specializes in small group travel. "At first I was scared of traveling alone as a female," she said. "Now it doesn't faze me anymore."
Plan Your Return
Returning to the working world can take just as much effort as mapping out a travel itinerary, but it isn't as daunting as some people imagine.
For instance, Mr. Bontempi quit his job as a management consultant because he was ready to move on, and traveling for several months helped him decide that he wanted a different type of work when he returned. He now works for a global outsourcing company, and he said that during his job search, he found recruiters more wary of his time off than employers, who viewed it as an asset in a global economy.
He and other panelists advised keeping in touch with work contacts while away, letting people know when you'll be back, keeping your résumé updated and marketing your travels as an experience that will make you a more valuable employee.
"At networking events you differentiate yourself almost immediately," Mr. Bontempi said. "I found a lot more people wanted to talk to me."
But if you hope to return to the same organization, approach your employer with a firm plan, said Elizabeth Pagano, a founder of YourSabbatical.com, which lists nearly 100 companies that offer sabbaticals and sells an e-book (for $37) with advice on negotiating with your employer. One tip: offer suggestions on how the work will get done while you're away.
"You need to show them that you've thought through what you're going to do, how it will make you a better employee and how it will benefit the business," Ms. Pagano said, adding that in a shaky economy, an unpaid leave can save your employer money.
"If this is something you really want to do, you can do it," she said. "People of all economic situations find a way."
A version of this article appears in print on October 17, 2010, on Page TR3 of the New York edition with the headline: Making the Dream Trip a Reality. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe


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import unittest, os, errno
from ctypes import *
from ctypes.util import find_library
try:
    import threading
except ImportError:
    threading = None

class Test(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_open(self):
        libc_name = find_library("c")
        if libc_name is None:
            raise unittest.SkipTest("Unable to find C library")
        libc = CDLL(libc_name, use_errno=True)
        if os.name == "nt":
            libc_open = libc._open
        else:
            libc_open = libc.open

        libc_open.argtypes = c_char_p, c_int

        self.assertEqual(libc_open(b"", 0), -1)
        self.assertEqual(get_errno(), errno.ENOENT)

        self.assertEqual(set_errno(32), errno.ENOENT)
        self.assertEqual(get_errno(), 32)

        if threading:
            def _worker():
                set_errno(0)

                libc = CDLL(libc_name, use_errno=False)
                if os.name == "nt":
                    libc_open = libc._open
                else:
                    libc_open = libc.open
                libc_open.argtypes = c_char_p, c_int
                self.assertEqual(libc_open(b"", 0), -1)
                self.assertEqual(get_errno(), 0)

            t = threading.Thread(target=_worker)
            t.start()
            t.join()

            self.assertEqual(get_errno(), 32)
            set_errno(0)

    @unittest.skipUnless(os.name == "nt", 'Test specific to Windows')
    def test_GetLastError(self):
        dll = WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=True)
        GetModuleHandle = dll.GetModuleHandleA
        GetModuleHandle.argtypes = [c_wchar_p]

        self.assertEqual(0, GetModuleHandle("foo"))
        self.assertEqual(get_last_error(), 126)

        self.assertEqual(set_last_error(32), 126)
        self.assertEqual(get_last_error(), 32)

        def _worker():
            set_last_error(0)

            dll = WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=False)
            GetModuleHandle = dll.GetModuleHandleW
            GetModuleHandle.argtypes = [c_wchar_p]
            GetModuleHandle("bar")

            self.assertEqual(get_last_error(), 0)

        t = threading.Thread(target=_worker)
        t.start()
        t.join()

        self.assertEqual(get_last_error(), 32)

        set_last_error(0)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

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Knowledge and expertise to make a difference.
Project partners consisting of organisations with diverse expertise form the backbone of the STEP-IN transnational, multidisciplinary network. The partners cooperate to achieve the project objectives, sharing experience and know-how to develop results with complementary skills. STEP-IN brings together partners with different backgrounds and from different European regions, representing a variety of different forms of energy poverty and approaches to tackle it.
This consortium provides a broad and complementary coverage of the needed capabilities, the geographic balance, and strategic motivation to succeed. A long history of previous collaboration provides the basis for an effective implementation of the project.
The partners are committed to bring their knowledge and expertise to the project to really make a difference in the lives of those in need.
STEP-IN is led by LIST, a multidisciplinary research and technology organisation, with sound knowledge and expertise in the fields of energy systems, built environment and IT based behaviour change.
UMAN provides a long history of world-leading expertise and research experience into the underlying causes, consequences and solutions to energy poverty and can leverage on extensive contacts with policy-makers and energy poverty NGOs throughout Europe.
NTUA is one of the main actors in the field of energy poverty in Greece, with profound expertise in gathering qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research data in this area. Especially as regards the mountainous areas, NTUA is systematically investigating their particular natural and socioeconomic characteristics, and supports the development of sustainable policies for these areas.
VAASAETT has expertise in providing consultancy and professional assistance dedicated to customer behaviour and competitive market dynamics in the energy industry, and is well experienced with regards to the implementation of national strategies and policies. Through its collaborative model and an extensive network of energy practitioners around the world, VaasaETT are uniquely placed to contribute to stakeholder engagement and dialogue and to maximise the impact of the dissemination activities.
ARTTIC is the leading European management services firm for collaborative RDI undertakings with long experience in collaboration management and dissemination and a broad network of contacts in the European research and innovation community. ARTTIC is a dedicated neutral partner in supporting the coordinator in the project management of STEP-IN and providing dissemination logistics.
ARIOSZ is an organisation specialised in social and market research with focus on consumer behaviour and with deep knowledge in the fields of survey design, impact evaluation and assessment.
GMCA is a Manchester local authority with long lasting experience in energy poverty prevention and alleviation schemes, characterised by different strategic and policy approaches to tackle energy poverty.
MALTAI is a national charity organisation active in the areas of health, social and child welfare, thus representing energy poor consumers. Through the national association MALTAI is part of the Sovereign Order of Malta, and has global outreach.
RAE is the independent regulator for all Greek energy markets and will provide impactful suggestions for national policy measures for vulnerable consumers.
MM is a Greek local authority with long lasting experience in energy poverty prevention and alleviation schemes, characterised by different strategic and policy approaches to tackle energy poverty.
E.ON EED is providing gas and electricity to a large part of Western Hungary, and as part of Hungary's leading energy company is well recognised and renowned in the European energy sector.
Adiconsum is one of the main consumer organisations in Italy, providing consumers with individual and collective advice and assistance services to protect and promote their rights and interests all around Europe, thanks to its several national and European networks.
SURREY has unique expertise in the area of energy economics, and in particular extensive knowledge regarding possible rebound effects related to energy efficiency initiatives.


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Endless (2020)
all Movies / Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Scott Speer
Alexandra Shipp, Nicholas Hamilton, DeRon Horton
Endless (2020) stream online in FilmsCLUB.org
When madly in love high school graduates Riley and Chris are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect.
The focus will be on the story of a retired special forces veteran named Roy (Frank Grillo), trapped in an endless time loop and forced to live the same day over and over again, which ends with his death. To get out of the endless stream of suffering, the main character needs to find his killer,
Boss Level (2020)
Heroes Kim and Ron face the problems of starting high school as freshmen when their team gets an addition. Every hero needs a villain and one's just been sprung from prison. Will Kim save the world again or will high school bog her down?
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it';;;;s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. The emotions live in Headquarters, the control
The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery follows the lives of Everett "The Leader", Alyssa "The Brains" and Riley "The Rookie", junior high students who form the Junior Eye Detective Agency in order to solve cases that plague their classmates'; daily lives. In this movie, when the ultimate
The Massively Mixed-up Middle School Mystery (2015)
In this modern retelling of Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights, Cathy Earnshaw is an outcast at her wealthy Malibu high school, where she struggles to cope with her mother's tragic death. She falls madly in love with Heath, embittering her rich boyfriend, Eddie, and the rest of their
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