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BlackBerry is one of the most popular smartphones. It has been used widely around the globe, mainly used by the business people. BlackBerry 10 is recently launched mobile platform from the manufacturers of BlackBerry. BlackBerry 10 has some extreme features and also it supports many apps that will make our work easier and faster. Utility Apps are the most important apps for your handset as it will reduce your daily routine work. The following are some best apps of utilities for BlackBerry 10.
Authomator can used to have a secured login to access your apps or data. This app will give you two step authentication codes to prevent your accounts from any other illegitimate access. This app offers you two features for your secured login. Either you can have QR code that is provided by the service or else you can enter the code manually that is automatically generated. You can use this app for accessing many services like Facebook, Gmail, Amazon, Dropbox, etc. one of the main feature of this app is it doesn't requires any data connectivity as this app will work even without internet too.
AIO (All In One) Remote app is one of the most important that every BlackBerry 10 user must have. This app will help you to control your Desktop from your BlackBerry 10 device. Desktops running any OS like Mac, Linux and Windows can be connected. You can get connected to your desktop either by using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. You are required to install PC server app for the desktop device that will bridge a control between your mobile and desktop. After installing now you can be able to perform simple tasks like media players, PowerPoint, files, etc. it has multi-touch support and has 8 button game controllers.
RNote is a simple and an easy useful app that will help you in taking notes. It's none other than a notepad app where you can take notes in different colors and fonts. The colors, styles, background, and fonts can be changed as you wish. You can also search the notes either by keeping their titles or the content. The notes can also be shared via social networks like WhatsApp. RNote is nothing but just a simple mini notepad for BlackBerry 10.
Free bVNC is an app that will allow you to access your desktop and laptops from your mobile. It has been made simpler by using the Virtual Network Computing which will host the machine by the use of IP address and password remotely. To use this app you should have installed any VNC servers like tightVNC as it will only let you to access your desktop and laptop including the arrow key and keyboard. It has many features like multi language support pinching for zooming, dragging with two fingers for scrolling and more.
Password Keeper is a must app if you are using many passwords and not able to remember them. It offers you as a digital safe which will store all of your credential and confidential details which you don't want to remember. It uses AES 256 encryption that will record your password which is very safe and no one will be able to crack it. If you want to use the passwords you can simply copy from the app and paste it. Password Keeper will help you to store all of your credential details even the mobile banking and email id.
The first thing people use to search after buying a new mobile is searching for apps that will make their daily routine work very simple. All these apps are very useful apps and make your work simpler. It will make your devices ore comfortable with your PC's and laptops. Apart from these apps there are plenty of apps for BlackBerry 10 devices which will make your daily routine work very easier.


Rage on Omnipotent – Thoughts and wanderings around the internet, mobile, Hong Kong and geekdom.
A weekend diversion for geeks. It is a very satisfying browser-based mostly text game with hours of gameplay (cleverly mostly unattended).
Bear with it. It starts slowly but you will not guess how lunatic it goes. Leave it running in a browser when you tire of it.
Brilliant drone shot. We're just getting started on funky and creative uses of drones. Worth checking out the unstabilised forward footage to see quite how brilliant the pilot is.
Distressing reading, and coming to the UK real soon now if not already.
At the high water mark, there were about 5,000 malls in the United States, and there are now 1,100, at least 400 of which are expected to close in the next few years.
This means a lot of jobs. Forget manufacturing as a job driver (they'll likely all be robots or exported anyway). Renewables might cover some of the losses, but not enough.
And we were all complicit in making this happen.
… Retailers and developers responded by building new shops and strip malls, taking advantage of millennial-era cheap money to leverage the hell out of themselves in the quest for growth and volume. They loaded themselves up with debt that is perfectly bearable when profit margins are 11 percent but deadly when they're 7 percent.
And the final devastating piece of the puzzle means we need to find easy to access low cost jobs for the people who won't be entrepreneurs and bankers. Or set up a minimum income, but that's a different debate.
Delightful and scholarly. What's not to like?
Beautiful 4k time lapse video of storms. Delish. Worth keeping with: they get better.
Good to see the kites enjoying the balcony too. Magnificent beasts.
What an intriguing effort to bring photos to life.
Always a delight to revisit the moon missions.
Summary: Elon Musk works to a simple if audacious formula. Nudge the whole world to be better placed to survive the future by finding a sector with a business model to drive innovation now that will help us migrate to the best bet in that sector.
Energy: use sustainable energy. Business model: make cars that are so good that in a decade all major manufacturers have electric cars in production or development.
Space: we need an exit from our plant. Business model: work out a way of sending stuff into space that makes it cost-effective to colonise Mars.
AI: we need to merge with it rather than let it run amok. Business model: improve the brain machine interface quality and bandwidth so that we can merge with AI.
Read the Wait but Why article for all your geek needs. It is (as always) wonderful.
The only piece that didn't quite gel for me was the discussion of transmitting our thinking brain-to-brain. I can see that allowing someone else to ride my inputs would be amazing (e.g. experiencing sky-diving without doing it). I am not sure that I think with the same clarity / quality / bandwidth / structure as I receive from my inputs. I don't think of a bunch of roses and see a full-optical-input bunch of roses. It's something else. Doesn't stop it being interesting to transmit, but it will be different than anything we've experienced (mainly because thinking is so opaque to each of us individuals to begin with).
You can also read some thoughts about what Neuralink would mean for the current crop of tech titans.
What an extraordinary piece of as-yet inexplicable anecdata: maybe there's a broken feedback loop that causes the Parkinson's tremor. Use some micro motors (thanks mobile phones) to break into the broken feedback loop and distract the brain. A happy thought.
Tom Tomorrow has it spot on. Is there anyone looking at what is being obscured by the hype cycle?


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World War Z Prop Guns Seized By Anti-Terrorist Group
Amy Curtis Oct 11, 2011 12:15 am
The zombie apocalypse/geo-political thriller World War Z, currently filming in Hungary, met with some real-life trouble today after a Hungarian anti-terrorism squad confiscated 85 fully functional "prop" guns meant to be used on set during filming. According to THR, the Hungarian authorities raided a warehouse near the film's Budapest set and seized 85 fully functional automatic and military-style assault weapons.
The problem wasn't that World War Z filmmakers had stashed prop guns in a warehouse near the set, the problem was that the guns weren't just props, they were fully functional weapons. The guns were flown in via a private plane, wrapped in company-marked packaging and delivered to an individual in Budapest. According to the director of Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Unit, "guns like these are highly illegal to transport even if they were used as stage guns, which hopefully they weren't."
Authorities are interrogating witnesses now, so we should hear more in the near future regarding the fate of World War Z set weapons. I don't find it too surprising that the push for cinematic realism has led to something like this, I only wonder who is supposed to be responsible for keeping prop guns non-functional and safe. I certainly wouldn't want to be running around on a set with fully functional military-style assault weapons firing over my head.
World War Z stars Brad Pitt, who plays main character Gerry Lane, a United Nations employee who finds himself in a race against time as a zombie pandemic starts toppling governments and armies and threatening all of humanity. He must race around the globe, trying to stop the onslaught and also recording first-hand interviews with the survivors, records meant to last through the "plague years".
World War Z is set to hit theaters on December 21, 2012 (if they don' have to restock their entire prop weapons arsenal, or if the filmmakers aren't all chucked into a Hungarian prison).
An epic flop that couldn't be saved rides to glory on Netflix
Gerard Butler's best-reviewed action thriller hits big on Netflix

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Neurology. 2015 Mar 17;84(11):1174-6. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000001369. Epub 2015 Feb 13.
SPG7 mutations are a common cause of undiagnosed ataxia.
Pfeffer G1, Pyle A1, Griffin H1, Miller J1, Wilson V1, Turnbull L1, Fawcett K1, Sims D1, Eglon G1, Hadjivassiliou M1, Horvath R1, Németh A1, Chinnery PF2.
From the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research (G.P., A.P., H.G., V.W., L.T., G.E., R.H., P.F.C.) and Institute of Genetic Medicine (G.P., A.P., H.G., R.H., P.F.C.), Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; John Radcliffe Hospital (J.M., K.F., D.S., A.N.), University of Oxford; Royal Hallamshire Hospital (M.H.), University of Sheffield; and Churchill Hospital (A.N.), Oxford, UK.
From the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research (G.P., A.P., H.G., V.W., L.T., G.E., R.H., P.F.C.) and Institute of Genetic Medicine (G.P., A.P., H.G., R.H., P.F.C.), Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; John Radcliffe Hospital (J.M., K.F., D.S., A.N.), University of Oxford; Royal Hallamshire Hospital (M.H.), University of Sheffield; and Churchill Hospital (A.N.), Oxford, UK. patrick.chinnery@ncl.ac.uk.


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Em matemática, um problema de Dirichlet consiste em encontrar uma função que satisfaça uma equação diferencial parcial (EDP) dada no interior de uma região dada e que toma valores prescritos na fronteira (contorno) desta.

Originalmente, o problema foi proposto para a equação de Laplace. Nesse caso ele pode ser apresentado da seguinte forma: dada uma função  definida no contorno de um dado conjunto em Rn, existe uma única função contínua u diferenciável continuamente duas vezes no interior e contínua no contorno, tal que  é harmônica no interior e  no contorno?

A exigência imposta sobre  na fronteira do conjunto é chamada de condição de contorno de Dirichlet. A questão principal é provar a existência de uma solução. A unicidade pode ser demonstrada usando-se o princípio do máximo.

História

O problema de Dirichlet é nomeado em homenagem a Lejeune Dirichlet, que propôs uma solução para um método variacional que tornou-se conhecido como princípio de Dirichlet. A existência de uma única solução é muito plausível pelo 'argumento físico': qualquer distribuição de carga no contorno deveria, pelas leis da eletrostática, determinar um potencial elétrico como solução.

Entretanto, Weierstrass encontrou uma falha no argumento de Dirichlet, e uma rigorosa prova de existência foi encontrada somente em 1900 por Hilbert. Ocorre que a existência de uma solução depende delicadamente da suavidade do contorno e os dados prescritos.

Solução geral

Para um domínio  tendo um contorno suficientemente suave , a solução geral para o problema de Dirichlet é dada por

onde  é a função de Green para a equação diferencial parcial, e

é a derivada da função de Green ao longo do vetor unidade com orientação normal interno .  A integração é realizada sobre o contorno, com medida . A função  é dada pela solução única à equação integral de Fredholm do segundo tipo,

A função de Green a ser usada na integral acima é uma que desaparece no contorno:

para  e . Tal função de Green é usaulmente uma soma da função de Greem de campo livre e uma solução harmônica à equação diferencial.

Existência

O problema de Dirichlet para funções harmônicas sempre tem uma solução, e esta solução é única, quando o contorno é suficientemente suave e  é contínua. Mais precisamente, tem, solução quando

para , onde  denota a condição de Hölder.

Exemplo: o disco unidade em duas dimensões

Em alguns casos simples o problema de Dirichlet pode ser resolvido explicitamente. Por exemplo, a solução para o problema de Dirichlet para o disco unidade em R2 é dado pela fórmula integral de Poisson.

Se  é uma função contínua no contorno  de um disco unidade aberto , então a solução para o problema de Dirichlet é  dado por

A solução  é contínua no disco unidade fechado  e harmônica sobre

O integrando é conhecido como o núcleo de Poisson; esta solução segue-se da função de Green em duas dimensões:

onde  é harmônica

e escolhida tal que  para .

Generalizações

Problemas de Dirichlet são típicos de equações diferenciais parciais elípticas, e teoria potencial, e a equação de Laplace em particular. Outros exemplos incluem a equação biharmônica e equações relacionadas em teoria da elasticidade.

Eles são alguns dos diversos tipos de classes de problemas de EDP definidos pela informação dada no contorno, incluindo problemas de Neumann e problemas de Cauchy.

Referências
A. Yanushauskas (2001), "Dirichlet problem", in Hazewinkel, Michiel, Encyclopaedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1556080104
S. G. Krantz, The Dirichlet Problem.  §7.3.3 in Handbook of Complex Variables. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser, p. 93, 1999. ISBN 0-8176-4011-8.
S. Axler, P. Gorkin, K. Voss, The Dirichlet problem on quadratic surfaces Mathematics of Computation 73 (2004), 637-651.

Ver também
Método Perron

Ligações externas
Eric W. Weisstein; Dirichlet Problem - MathWorld
Dirichlet Problem Module by John H. Mathews

Equações diferenciais
Análise de Fourier

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I think I'm starting to grow gills and fins. Fish fish fish fish fish. That's all I eat. And some rice and an occasional handful of beans. It's time to go picking some dandelion greens again too. I am having trouble finding the violet greens, which I like MUCH better, because I've eaten all of the flowers in the yard and I can't find the greens very easily without the flowers. Funny huh.
Those leaves are very much like salad and don't leave a bitter or unpleasant aftertaste like some of the dandelions. I'm going to need Debbie's help to find some more.
The fish jerky was finished when I woke up in the morning after spending the night in the dehydrator. I made the same mistake again of not rinsing off the brine before dehydrating. I did that with my first batch of smoked fish and all of it came out too salty. Same thing. Now I have a whole bag full of inedible salty fish jerky. Stupid! I eat a piece every once in a while but can't really eat too much of it. Especially while trying to get my blood pressure down. I'm almost out of salt so I probably have to make another batch before the challenge is over.
For lunch I grilled up some bass rib sections. I pretended that I made 2 racks of baby back ribs. I gave them a generous basting of butter at the end of cooking and they actually turned out very good. I must sound like a broken record but if most people who catch striped bass took half the effort that I take in tending to the fish after they are caught, they would come to really enjoy many parts that normally get tossed away. The rib sections contain the belly meat and anyone who knows anything about fish parts should know that the fish belly contains the most fat. Just like fat in a hamburger, the fat in fish breaks down when cooking and adds an incredible amount of flavor to the meat. Bass isn't a very fatty fish (like salmon) but what little there is can be found in this belly meat around the ribs. Ok enough on fish anatomy.
The jerky grated very fine and looked like sawdust over the top. It added just a hint of concentrated fishy saltiness to the sashimi. If anyone knows what "bonito flakes" are, this was the striped bass equivalent. I'll certainly continue to do this for salty flavoring for many other dishes. I grated a bunch over my rice and it added a really nice flavor. To think I almost threw the whole batch out after tasting it in the morning. Eating it whole was almost inedible but grated it works!
I had to cook for the other guys tonight and I made grilled honey mustard chicken with grilled asparagus and artichokes. It looked and smelled soooo good. Uhg. The toughest times are when I have to cook, prepare and serve real food to the rest of the family.
I also gave Debbie a box of chocolate covered marshmallows on top of graham crackers as part of her Mother's Day gift. I bought it online from a place that claimed to have the worlds best chocolate and marshmallows. Debbie and the kids have been enjoying them for days now. I wish they would just finish them up already.
I took a few more fish pieces out of the freezer in preparation of the upcoming long days at work. I have to be smarter and more prepared in the greens department though. Oh, I almost forgot - it's Monday and the end of week #4. My week 4 reward is a big juicy hamburger with all the fixings! Oh I'm going to enjoy this. Ty wants to go to Five Guys but I think I'm going to go for a more upscale burger. Maybe at a steak house or something similar. More research is needed. I don't want to waste this reward on a fast food joint. I remember a burger in San Fransisco that was topped with a slice of foie gras. Now where could I find that around here. . . Maybe I'll bring my jerky and grate some on my burger. Ha.
"Anyone who stops learning is old - whether you're 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning keeps young."
Very interesting Doug, keep up the blogging and the experimentation with food. You look great (from the 2 seconds at the end of the video) - and enjoy the hamburger at the end of the week!


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Q: Tons of errors after configuing autolayout I just learned to use autolayout and I have my app functioning properly, problem is I got like 30 werrors. So far all I have done is sert horizontal aligmnets to buttons and labels, and pinned objects. These are the errors
MainStoryboardiPad.storyboard Frame for "Button - Configure" will be different at run time.
MainStoryboardiPad.storyboard: Vertical position is ambiguous for "Button - Configure".
And I got about thirty of these for labels and buttons. Is there another step to autolayout?

A: Select (highlight) all the views with problems, then choose from the top menu, Editor->Resolve Autolayout Issues->Reset to suggested constraints. That should clear all those errors.

A: Frame will be different at run time: this means that the location of a frame on the storyboard is different than where your constraints dictate it should be.
Ambiguous: this means that you're missing some constraints.
To resolve these issues, if you open up your storyboard, you'll see yellow or red arrows beside certain scenes on the list to the left. Clicking the arrow will reveal a view with all the issues with that scene. To fix the "frame will be different at run time" error, change the x, y, width, and height of the frame rectangle of the view with the wrong frame. To fix the ambiguous warning, add extra constraints.

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American Sculptor and Conceptual Artist
I think to be a true minimalist you should almost nearly be invisible yourself.
I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience.
Every good work should have at least ten meanings.
So the thing is that I think the geography's the most important thing.
I think had I been brought up a second generation Italian American in New York City or in Philadelphia or Boston or an eastern city, I probably would not have been an artist, I probably would not have had the range of experience that I have had living in California because of the great openness of California.
Summary of Walter de Maria
Walter de Maria bridged multiple movements of artistic practice that blossomed in the 1960s creating interactive sculptural installations and providing conceptual underpinnings to larger-scale sculptural work. In later projects he also connected viewers to nature by either embedding visual elements in nature itself, or by bringing components of nature inside gallery spaces. His most ambitious works were not only physically large-scale but also extreme in terms of exhibition duration - some lasting decades, whether indoors or out, conversely some were exceptionally ephemeral because they were exposed to the elements. His active participation in non-visual musical performances were similarly minimalist and large-scale and helped lay the foundations for later generations of musical performers using those characteristics.
As an early proponent of Minimalism, de Maria invested heavily in unusually stripped down, fundamental visual forms including everything from simple, yet bold lines to other abstract geometric shapes - channeling his study of the Eastern philosophical emphasis on simplicity.
Perhaps most significantly, he developed a conceptual approach to earth-based works that both used the landscape as immersive "canvas" in what were exceptionally large-scale projects for his time, and also brought aspects of nature inside to force attention on the viewers' relationship to it in insistent ways that transcended previous representations by other artists.
He was also influential on generations of the musical avant-garde, drawing on his studies in jazz and leanings toward a stripped down aesthetic to perform and develop intensely minimalist and conceptualist approaches to making sound which influenced composers and performers from La Monte Young to Sonic Youth.
Biography of Walter de Maria
Walter de Maria was born in Albany, California, just across the bay from San Francisco. His parents owned a local restaurant and were socially active in the community, but their son was shy and focused on music as an early creative outlet. He learned to play the piano initially, and then moved on to perform on percussion instruments. He was also fond of cars and sports, which were among the first subjects for his drawings
Important Art by Walter de Maria
Mile Long Drawing (1968)
This work consisted of two parallel lines drawn with chalk twelve feet apart, extending for one mile in the Mojave Desert in California. It was a simple and temporary piece, and one of the first of de Maria's works associated with the Land art movement, moving beyond the boundaries of gallery-based art as he brought a minimalist ideology outdoors into the landscape. The two dramatic lines focus attention on the characteristics of order, space, time, and measurement, and through this, de Maria began to explore some of the ways that people categorize nature along with the human impulse to make marks in the external world, possibly pointing to the ancient Inca Nazca Lines.
The work also calls attention to the ephemerality of time, as its marks faded with the effects of the natural world. This ephemerality asks viewers to meditate on the reality of their lives as well, where change is constant and nothing remains intact forever. As the Mile Long Drawing disappears into its desert landscape it reflects upon time and memory. It becomes a living artwork revealing multiple meanings as its visual aspects change.
Triangle, Circle, Square (1972)
This work consists of three brushed stainless steel sculptures, each approximately 3 feet (1 meter) inwidth and length. The simple geometric forms demonstrate de Maria's earlier interests in minimalist sculptures, and his more conceptually-oriented inspiration fromZen Buddhist thinking. Asian influence was large during the 1960's in American art, as artists sought to transform human consciousness through a religious-like contemplation present in Asian philosophies. The Zen influence permeated the arts scene in many ways with notions of simplicity, sensitivity to nature, and a leaning towards intuition over rationalist knowledge. This particular piece was inspired by the work of a Japanese Zen monk named Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) and his painting Circle, Triangle, and Square in which he attempted to decidedly embody the universe. These three forms have been interpreted as geometries that represent infinity. They are interactive works and are a part of a game experience. They have hollow interiors with metal spheres within and come with instructions that the pieces are, "to disturb the purity of the symbol." This work also represents his involvement in the participatory "happenings" of the 1950's and his interest in task-like projects that were audience-interactive and game-like, proposing an approach to art-viewing that shifted from passive viewer experiences to more socially engaged encounters.
The Lightning Field (1977)
This may be De Maria's most famous work. It is an expansive installation of 400 stainless steel poles placed in a one-mile by one-kilometer grid. The rods are each two inches in diameter but extend upwards at varying heights ranging from 15 feet to 26 feet nine inches, in order to create a perfectly horizontal plane where their pointed tips stop.
This work is a significant piece of the Land art movement of the late 1960's, which began in the Southwestern United States. This piece lives in an obscure desert plain near Quemado, New Mexico, specially selected for its frequent lightning storms and isolation. The work incorporates the natural environment into art in a meaningful way, seeing the land as a critical aspect of the work, not merely a site for it. The locale was scouted precisely for its distance from other signs of human development and its ability to reflect the enormity of the landscape. The work communicates a variety of experiences of being in the landscape, and simultaneously asks individual visitors to meditate on the moment, while contemplating shifts in light and perceptions of time and space in their changing vastness.
The poles were placed outside, rather than in a museum or gallery so the work reveals the significance of the setting, beyond the built, sculptural aspect. The title calls attention to the tantalizing possibility of highly ephemeral illumination from irregularly occurring natural lighting strikes, potentially drawn down from the sky into the field by the rods. It also calls for awareness of the surrounding landscape, and the relationship between art and nature. The earth is an integral part of the artwork and acts as a canvas while also drawing attention to the sky as part of the larger environment, and our relationship to it. Visitors must travel to this remote location in order to view the work, therefore incorporating the journey away from the everyday as part of the experience of the piece, which initiates a total immersion of the senses while creating an unusual degree of intimate encounter with a liberating spirit.
Simone Forti
Robert Whitman
Useful Resources on Walter de Maria
Walter De Maria: Trilogies (Menil Collection)
By Joseph Helfenstein, Clare Elliot
The Lightning Field (Dia Foundation)
By Kenneth Baker, Lydia Cooke
Art of Perceptual Experience: Pure Abstraction and Alternative MinimalismOur Pick
GuGuggenheim Museum
Walter de Maria (ArtSpace)
Oral History Interview with Walter De MariaOur Pick
Archives of American Art / 1972 October 4
Land Art: Earthworks that Defined Postwar American Art
By Dana Micucci, Art Antiques
Under The Radar: The Broken Kilometer, Grand Life
Walter De Maria, Artist on Grand Scale, Dies at 77Our Pick
By Roberta Smith / The New York Times / July 23, 2013
Walter De Maria's Grand and Gritty HomeOur Pick
By Robin Finn / The New York Times / January 31, 2014
ALONE IN A CROWD: THE SOLITUDE OF WALTER DE MARIA'S NEW YORK EARTH ROOM AND BROKEN KILOMETEROur Pick
By Jeffrey Kastner / Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry / Issue 2 (2000), pp. 69-73
GermanoCelant discussing Land Art, including Walter De Maria's works
Walter De Maria's Sculpture, Large Red Sphere
Content compiled and written by Laura Fiesel
"Walter de Maria Artist Overview and Analysis". [Internet]. . TheArtStory.org
First published on 15 Dec 2015. Updated and modified regularly


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recordings slow to start for 1 minute.
For precisely one minute after recordings end, attempts to playback (that same recording) succeed only after 10 sec timeouts. This behaviour has been observed in master for some time (months). Good way to see the full screen "Please wait" message.
Seems like the reported recording file status is incorrect or out dated for 1 min. The file reader trying to read from in-progress recording buffer. The "recordings" screen appears to show the correct status.
Have attempted to find clues in the logs.
mbe-log.txt (951.1 KB) - added by blm-ubunet@… 5 years ago.
fe-log.txt (508.0 KB) - added by blm-ubunet@… 5 years ago.
That's great so where are they?
Any chance this is nothing more than some jobqueue task such as commflagging waiting until a recording is complete, and then running full bore, overloading an underpowered system?
No job queue stuff except metadata lookup Commflag does not work here (never read reports of it working).
recording screen shows correct status at all times.
and the frontend log just FE doing nothing for 10sec might have been strong clues.
Attached logs are for short recording that ends at 8:02 FE log shows successful (fast) playback during recording. FE log shows multiple (5?) slow 10 sec timeouts playback starts.
I can not demonstrate the precise 1 minute window in these logs because of the overhead of starting/stopping playback (can not get 6 attempts inside 60 seconds). But I assure you that is the case.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/572059?#572059 mentions the same behaviour.
That reads as very similar to this reported bug. The 20sec mentioned could imply/indicate they did not measure against a reference clock & didn't want to imply it was exactly 10sec.


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Author: Steve Alten
Published by: Head of Zeus
The most fearsome predator in history…
Is no longer history.
Seven miles down, on a top secret dive into the Pacific's deepest trench, Commander Jonas Taylor came face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator ever to inhabit the planet – Carcharodon Megalodon, the 60-foot, 70,000-pound prehistoric ancestor of the Great White shark.
Jonas escaped with his life – the dive's sole survivor – but his navy career was over, his nightmare encounter written off as a hallucination.
But Jonas knows what he saw was real. He's determined to prove that Megalodon still feeds in the ocean's unexplored depths. Now, after seven years of research and study, he finally has his chance to return to the abyss.
Diving deeper than ever before, Jonas will face terror like he's never imagined. The Meg is about to surface and, when she does, nothing and no one is going to be safe.
Steve Alten
Head of Zeus


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Don Bosco Senior Secondary School is a school located in Guwahati, Assam. It is a Catholic school founded on the teachings of Saint John Bosco, and is run by the Salesians of Don Bosco.
Started in 1948, Don Bosco is one of the leading private schools in the North-Eastern states. It currently operates 12 standards, divided into primary, middle, senior and senior secondary sections. The school is managed by a Principal, with Vice Principals and Teacher-Coordinators operating under him. The school currently houses 3000 students.

History

Predecessor
Our Lady's Orphanage, a school for boys of the Assam plains was the predecessor of the current high school. It inaugurated on 24 May 1926, by Rt. Rev. Mgr. Mathias S.C.D.D., Prefect Apostolic of Assam. At the time, a residence and a workshop were constructed. The technical school began in 1928 with 12 students.  It then exponentially grew into two large workshops with 200 students by 1938. The name Our Lady's Orphanage was then changed to Don Bosco Technical School, Guwahati. In 1937, the school operated classes I to IV. During the Second World War, it was taken over by the army in June 1942 and the school was closed.

Current school

In February 1948, at an inaugural ceremony presided over by Dr. Bhubaneswar Barua, the school was formally restarted with an enrollment of 92 students in five classes from III to VII. Mr. Har Mohan Das was the headmaster and the first principal was Rev. Fr. Attilio Colussi.

The opening of Class VIII was approved by the director of public instruction in February 1948. The school was affiliated to Gauhati University in 1951 and its candidates were permitted to appear for matriculation in the year 1952, when 9 out of 12 students of the Tenth Standard appeared and eight succeeded. Mr. Nirmal Kumar Choudhury, former Vice Chancellor of Gauhati University, was one of them. Parts of the school buildings were used by Assam Civil Engineering School prior to 1948 and by Gauhati University in 1948. Public demand in 1958 led to the beginning of the English section from Class VIII with required permission from the University. Class IV, V and VI in the English section started in 1962.

In 1980 the pre-primary and primary sections were opened. With the addition of pre-primary and primary sections, the school rapidly grew in size and status. It was the first school in the North-East to have computer education (which began in 1987), an auditorium and sports complex (1993), and a meteorological observatory center (2002). As the 20th century drew to a close, Don Bosco had formed a prominent foothold among the education institutes of the North-East.

The most dramatic changes in the school were seen at the start of the 21st century. Under the leadership of the then headmaster Fr. Joseph M. Thelekkatt, the school management drew up plans for an extension block – known as the Centenary Block – to commemorate 100 years (1906–2006) of Don Bosco Society's services in India. The new block comprised both an Academic Section composed of more classrooms and a sports and culture section.

Academically, the primary school curriculum and teaching methods were revamped. The teachers of the primary school underwent several workshops to familiarize them with child centered and activity oriented teaching methods. Further the school sought and obtained affiliation under the central Board of Secondary Education. Since 2006 the school is affiliated to the CBSE board. The first batch of students is scheduled to appear for the Central Board examinations in 2009.The first batch of Kindergarten appeared in 2010. The teachers have also been trained to use multimedia teaching aids. The school has created a resource centre in view of providing the campus with WiFi. The school administration software "Campuscare" has automated the school offices, Library and school administration.

Coeducation
Don Bosco School was originally an all-boys school, but has started to move towards coeducation. The senior secondary section already admits both boys and girls. The first batch of female students in the youngest grades of Kindergarten and Class I were admitted in 2010 and Don Bosco is a co-ed school now.

Milestones
1922–1953
 1922 – Arrival of the Salesian Missionaries. Establishment of Don Bosco Centre in Guwahati. First Salesian Priest to work in Guwahati – Fr. Gill (from Spain).
 1925 – First Rector of Don Bosco School, Guwahati – Fr. Piasescki (Poland).
 1926 – Opening of our Lady's Orphanage by Fr. Piasescki (Rector) and Msgr. Mathias (Provincial).
 1928 – Don Bosco Technical School opened in Guwahati.
 1947 – Don Bosco College Hostel started by Fr.Uget, Provincial and Fr. Colussi, Rector.
 1948 – Opening of Don Bosco School, Guwahati.
 1952 – First Batch of students to write matric examinations under Guwahati University.
 1953 – First issue of school magazine "The Bosconian" was out.

1954–1987
 1954 – Introduction of house system.
 1964 – First batch of students to write HSLC exams under SEBA.
 1968 – Don Bosco Technical School shifted to Don Bosco Maligaon.
 1978 – Interact Club takes initiatives to bring Mother Teresa to Guwahati and established the first concert.
 1980 – Opening of Pre-primary and Primary Classes.
 1987 – Introduction of computers in the School.

1988–2002
 1988 – The Celebration of Don Bosco's Birth Centenary by the Salesian family under the leadership of Don Bosco Guwahati. All India Don Bosco Table Tennis Championship and Centenary of Don Bosco organised.
 1989 – First issue of school newsletter "Bosconews" published.
 1990 – The Blessing of the newly constructed St. Joseph's Church.
 1993 – Inauguration of the new Don Bosco Auditorium cum Sports Complex.
 1995 – The diocese of Guwahati became an Archdiocese.
 2002 – Construction of the covered gallery and the Bro. Ignatius Pavilion.
 2002 – Girl students admitted into the Evening school. Adult literacy and Skills training centre opened, for women.
 2002 – Inauguration of the Office of the DB Past Pupils, Guwahati Unit.

2003–2005
 2004 – Renovation and air-conditioning of Don Bosco library.
 2004 – Inauguration of Don Bosco Annex.
 2004 – Commencement of "Live-in Exposure Camps" for Primary and middle school classes.
 2004 – Inauguration of Vechi and Vigano computer labs.
 2004 – Abolishing of examination and tests for primary classes and the introduction of continuous evaluation for the primary school.
 2005 – Introduction of Digital classroom and multi-media teaching aids.

2006
 2006 – Construction of the Art Gallery.
 2006 – Don Bosco Rongali Bihu Utsav organised for the first time.
 2006 – Affiliation of the school to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
 2006 – Foundation Laying ceremony for the Centenary Block.

2008
 2008 – Blessing of the Academic Wing of the Centenary Block.
 2008 – Abolishing of textbooks for classes I-III.
 2008 – Last batch for HSLC examinations under Secondary Education Board of Assam (SEBA).
 2008 – Inauguration of Jeevan Sarathi Counselling services.
 2008 – Inauguration of Diamond Jubilee Park and monument of Gandhiji.
 2008 – Installation of wall murals of the four patrons of the house system.
 2008 – Foundation laying ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee Wing for disaster management.

2009–present
 2009 – First batch for Board exams under Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
 2009 – Don Bosco upgraded to Senior Secondary.
 2009 – Admission of girl students to class XI.
 2010 – Admission of girl students to Kindergarten and Class I.
 2020 - First batch of girl students for Class X Board exams.

Rectors
 Fr. Attilio Colussi [1948 – 1949]
 Fr. Arneodo  [1949 – 1953]
 Fr. E. Zanon  [1953 – 1957]
 Fr. Del Col [1957 – 1960]
 Fr. Melino  [1960 – 1967]
 Fr. Patrick Burns [1967 – 1973]
 Fr. T.T. Thomas [1973 – 1979]
 Fr. P.J. Thomas [1979 – 1985]
 Fr. V.M. Thomas [1985 – 1989]
 Fr. C.T. Lukose [1989 – 1992]
 Fr. K.O. Augustine [1992 – 1995]
 Fr. C. Kuriala [1995 – 2001]
 Fr. J.M. Thelekkatt [2001—2012]
 Fr. Antony Thekkel [2012–2015]
 Fr. Sebastian Mathew [2015–present]

Headmasters
 Mr. Harmohan Das 1948–1953
 Fr. Patrick Burns 1953–1968
 Fr. Thomas Vattoth 1968–1971
 Fr. K.S.Paul 1971–1973
 Fr. T.T.Thomas 1973–1979
 Fr. J.Thelekkatt 1979–1980
 Fr. V.J.Sebastian 1980–1982
 Fr. V.M.Thomas 1982–1990
 Fr. M.C.George 1990–1993
 Fr. Mathew Vellankal 1993–1995
 Fr. C.Kuriala 1995–2001

Principals
 Fr. J. M. Thelekkatt 2001–2012
 Fr. Antony Thekkel 2012–2015
 Fr. Sebastian Mathew 2015–present

House System

Bezbarua House
Patron: Lakshminath Bezbarua
Colour: Yellow
Motto: No Pain, No Gain

Marshalls
Senior/Senior Secondary: Mr. Abonti Kumar Bordoloi
Middle:                  Mrs. Munmi Mazumdar
Primary:                 Mrs. Manisha Barua

Bordoloi House
Patron: Nabin Chandra Bordoloi
Colour: Green
Motto: Character Is True Wealth

Marshalls
Senior/Senior Secondary: Mrs. Sangita  Chakraborty
Middle:                  Mrs. Sagarika Singh
Primary:                 Mrs. Mamoni Das

Lachit House
Patron: Lachit Borphukan
Colour: Red
Motto: Service To Humanity

Marshalls
Senior/Senior Secondary: Mr. Abonti Kumar Bordoloi
Middle:           Mrs. Savita George
Primary:          Mrs. Leena Das

Phukan House
Patron: Tarun Ram Phukan
Colour: Blue
Motto: Nobility Of Character

Marshalls
Senior/Senior Secondary: Mrs. Sharmistha Das
Middle:                  .....
Primary:                 Mr. Basil Maraya

External links
 Official website
 http://www.salesians.org/salesians.html
 http://donboscoindia.com/english/defaultbosco.php

Schools in Guwahati
Christian schools in Assam
Educational institutions established in 1948
1948 establishments in India


Former New Zealand prime minister David Lange has turned on his former Cabinet colleagues and ex-Australian prime minister Bob Hawke.
Few have been spared Mr Lange's sharp wit in his soon to be released autobiography, My Life.
In it he says of his Cabinet which reshaped New Zealand's political climate: "Dear God! What a terrible lot of people they were! It is hard to believe I used to think so much of them."
Mr Lange, 62, is in hospital with end-stage renal failure.
He led New Zealand during a tumultuous period in the 1980s when the country went through a revolution in economic policies and a split with Washington over New Zealand's anti-nuclear policies.
The autobiography, to be released on Tuesday, follows Mr Lange through the split in the government that led to his resignation as prime minister in August 1989 and the Labour Government's catastrophic defeat in the 1990 general election.
Among the victims of Mr Lange's caustic pen are current New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, whom he accuses of not speaking out against his finance minister Roger Douglas.
Mr Douglas's deregulation policies swept away thousands of jobs in the public sector, pushed many farmers to the brink of bankruptcy and heralded a new breed of brash entrepreneurs.
He claims Mr Douglas "bought off [Ms] Clark by promising her supply in her housing portfolio.
"She responded by putting her head down. I do not remember her buying into any fight we ever had in Cabinet. She was by her own account a survivor. As long as her paddock had a good sole of grass the firestorm could consume the rest."
Of Mr Hawke, Mr Lange writes: "His language was frequently obscene and he was steeped in the culture of mateship, which for me was never a good starting point.
"There was no end to his vanity."
Ms Clark and Mr Hawke have declined to comment on the book.


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Mets eliminated from playoffs, then swept by Nats in DH
WASHINGTON (AP)The New York Mets were eliminated from playoff contention in a mistake-filled loss to the Nationals in the opener of a doubleheader on Saturday, and not much changed in the nightcap as an error extended a big inning for Washington, which won 5-3 to sweep the twinbill.
Entering Saturday, the Mets (26-33) needed to win their three remaining games and receive help from multiple teams to sneak into the final wild-card spot in the expanded playoffs. Instead, New York is in danger of finishing tied with Washington (25-34) in the NL East cellar.
"I wish we had 100 more" games, Mets star Pete Alonso said. "I feel like this team is built to win. We have a ridiculous amount of talent. It's unfortunate we couldn't put it together in a 60-game timespan. We had a lot of talent and we just didn't do it."
Trea Turner started off the Nationals' decisive third inning of the second game with a homer to left field off Rick Porcello (1-7). Yadiel Hernandez and Kurt Suzuki drove in runs for Washington before first baseman Alonso's fielding error with two out opened the door for two unearned runs.
Alonso hit a two-run homer, his team-leading 14th, off Anibal Sanchez (4-5) into the visitor's bullpen in the fourth.
Todd Frazier had a run-scoring single in the sixth for New York, but reliever Wander Suero struck out two batters with the bases loaded to end the inning.
Daniel Hudson worked the seventh for his 10th save.
In the first game, New York couldn't hold a 3-1 lead in the fourth inning and lost 4-3, ensuring it would miss the postseason for the fourth straight year.
"It's the toughest loss of the year because it takes us out of what we were trying to achieve," Mets manager Luis Rojas said.
Andrew Stevenson hit two homers – including one inside the park – for the Nationals, and Max Scherzer (5-4) worked six solid innings to finish with a winning record for the 11th consecutive season, tying Los Angeles Dodgers' Clayton Kershaw for the longest active streak in the majors.
"Just stinks that the year's over," Scherzer said. "My body feels like it's September, but my arm feels like it's May."
Wilson Ramos hit a two-run homer to center to give the Mets a 2-0 lead in the third and Amed Rosario added a solo shot in the fourth, also off Scherzer, to make it 3-1.
Andrew Stevenson hit a conventional homer off Jacob deGrom in the third. Washington added a run in the fourth on deGrom's wild pitch.
"There's eight teams going and we didn't make it," said deGrom, who finished 4-2 with a 2.38 ERA following his back-to-back Cy Young Award seasons. "I think the level of disappointment is pretty high."
In the fifth, Mets left fielder Dominic Smith slipped and then collided with the left-field wall trying to catch Stevenson's flyball. Smith stayed down as Stevenson rounded the bases for an inside the park homer. Trainers and teammates came out to attend to Smith, who stayed in the game but did not play in the nightcap.
Miguel Castro (2-2) walked Brock Holt to lead off the sixth and Yan Gomes singled, advancing Holt to third. Castro struck out Luis Garcia before Rojas brought in Edwin Diaz with one out to face Josh Harrison, whose sacrifice fly to right gave Washington its first lead.
Will Harris worked the seventh for his first save.
MARTINEZ'S DEAL
Before the game, the Nationals announced manager Dave Martinez agreed to a multiyear contract extension, although general manager Mike Rizzo wouldn't say how many years it adds to the skipper's deal. "We don't talk about terms as far as years, length and salaries and that type of thing. We're comfortable with what we have and the consistency that we're going to have down the road," said Rizzo, who recently agreed to a three-year extension of his own.
Martinez was hired in 2017 and given a three-year deal with an option for 2021 that had not been picked up before he signed his extension.
With nothing to play for besides pride, the Nationals instead looked like the team trying to sneak into the playoffs.
"I know the boys were psyched," Martinez said. "We faced deGrom, we faced Porcello – both former Cy Young winners – and we came to play today. It was fun to watch them, they had a lot of energy."
Mets: Placed SS Andres Gimenez (right oblique tightness) on the 10-day injured list after he was injured in the first game. New York selected the contract of OF Ryan Cordell.
New York RHP Seth Lugo (3-3, 3.82 ERA) will face Washington RHP Austin Voth (1-5, 6.25) on Sunday in the season finale for both teams.
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AP source: Red Sox agree with LHP Martín Pérez on 1-yr deal
BOSTON (AP)A person familiar with the deal says the Boston Red Sox have reached an agreement with left-hander Martin Perez on one-year contract.
The deal was confirmed to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because it could not be announced until Perez completed a physical. The contract would reportedly pay Perez $4.5 million this season, with a $6 million option or $500,000 buyout for 2022.
Lorenzen, Castillo among 6 to reach deals with Reds
CINCINNATI (AP)The Reds reached one-year deals with all six of their arbitration-eligible players on Friday, agreeing with pitcher and outfielder Michael Lorenzen at $4,437,500 and with right-hander Luis Castillo at $4.2 million.
Cincinnati also agreed with outfielder Jesse Winker at $3.15 million, right-hander Tyler Mahle at $2.2 million, left-hander Amir Garrett at $1.5 million and right-hander Noe Ramirez at $1,175,000.
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Miami also announced deals Friday with catcher Jorge Alfaro ($2.05 million) and three relievers - Yimi Garcia ($1.9 million), Richard Bleier ($1,425,000) and Adam Cimber ($925,000).


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2022 Hyundai, Kia, Genesis New Models Launch Dates! IONIQ 6, Kia EV6 GT & Seltos, Hyundai Palisade!
The release of the tucson based santa cruz sports adventure vehicle in particular will go down the history as koreas. First, non commercial truck outside the domestic korean market. Also, the korean auto giant has earned all kinds of accolades for introducing the companys very first dedicated electric vehicle built from scratch, based on its newly developed egmp ev platform, the state of the art, 800 volte gmp based ionic 5 and the kia ev6 have helped the Korean company to garner various awards, including german car of the year and top gears manufacturer of the year, if 2021 signaled, the awakening of the hyundai group as an eevee powerhouse 2022, is to be the first year in which the number of electrified models is to outnumber. The ic products in this part two of the series in the coverage of all new hyundai kia and genesis models being released in 2022. We expose more product information, with the focus on the products destined for north america, europe and australia. So before we go on wed highly appreciate your support by subscribing and turning on the notification bell, if you havent already and please dont, forget to like comment and vote on the question thats presented at the end of the video kia celtas facelift july 2022, release believe It or not the rarely talked about kia celtos is one of the best selling compact crossovers in the world, marketed as a premium compact suv, which is an odd space in the automotive classification realm.
It enjoys great success in markets like native korea and india, even in the states kia. Small crossover suv saw a growth of 30 percent in sales despite the pandemic, which is second highest growth of all sports utility vehicles from kia after the ever popular telluride. The popularity is due to a traditional suv profile that mimics the styling of the larger telluride upscale details, quality interior large for its size, passenger and cargo space and fuel economy. In fact, cars.com ranks celtas in the number one spot for the most popular suv. Crossover indicating that 94 of owners recommend the car with a 4.7 out of 5.0 reliability rating. No wonder kia saw it fit to develop the ev4 as a top priority. After the successful introduction of the ev6, the ev4 a dedicated electric vehicle based on the advanced egmp platform, will essentially be a smaller version of the ev6 with the dimension and the suv styling inspiration of saltos likely to be an eventual replacement for saltos. The ev4 should be available for sale in 2023. However, until then, kia is implementing an upgrade to the existing celtas first introduced in 2019. Its also hard to believe that 2022 marks the fourth year of production for the small suv, which still looks trendy and premium for the revision. Its hinted that kia is freshening up the design by giving it the sportage treatment. With the boomerang shaped lighting signature, which was initially heavily criticized by finding places in peoples hearts and being accepted as the iconic look of the korean brand, which has seen tremendous growth in sales due to its successful lineup of suvs.
Aside from the aesthetics, another major change is in the powertrain, its confirmed that kia will discontinue the 1.6 liter diesel engine due to a drastic fall in popularity with the consumers, preference towards hybrid and electric vehicles in its place. Kia will introduce a hybrid power plant with the same displacement. However, it wont be the latest turbocharged smartstream power plant from the larger sportage in tucson, but rather a non turbo version borrowed from the current hyundai kona, which pumps out 1′ horsepower and 195 pound feet of torque. The revised kia celtos will make its introduction in july 2022. Hyundai palisade, facelift may 2022 release. Hyundai palisade is another tremendously popular hyundai suv model that will undergo revision in 2022. first introduced in 2019. Although late to the three row suv game compared to the competitors. The first bonafide large suv of the brand palisade gave hyundai a tremendous lift in the sales and the image of the company, the palisade and the kia counterpart telluride became an instant success and being in constant short supply. They are known to be fetching price premiums at the dealerships. As a side note hyundai and the labor union in korea finally agreed to increase the production of palisade by additional 20 000 units per year to resolve the chronic supply problem. The korean labor union, at the ulsan factory, where palisade is built first, refused to build additional units over the inevitability that it would lose the popular staria minivan production to another factory in korea by taking on more palisade production.
But they finally caved in fearing that the assembly line could move to the u.s plant in montgomery alabama altogether. The u.s produced telluride will not be inflicted with the union issue and is expected to see increased production as well. The 2022 production palisade will now feature a new design and other significant upgrades from the current model, which still looks fantastic and imposing, as it did four years ago. Just like kias compact sportage is influencing the design of the new saltos, its hyundai counterpart. The all new tucsons design concept will take the center stage in palisades new appearance known as a parametric jewel hidden lamp, the unique disappearing headlamp and the waterfall grille will now be the look that defines the hyundais large suv as innovative and striking as it was in Tucson, we are not certain if its an improvement for the larger palisade. However, the newly designed interior thats expected to offer a quintessential panoramic screen comprised of dual 12.5 inch lcds much like other new hyundai group products like ionic, 5 and kia. Ev6 is definitely a huge improvement over the current 10.25 inch screen. Also improved is the power plant as the palisades current somewhat archaic, 3.8 liter v6 unit will be replaced with a new 3.5 liter smartstream v6 engine, which is cleaner and more efficient, providing virtually the same power at 290 horsepower. The production of the new palisade begins in may 2022. fyi. The platform sharing kia telluride is also up for renewal and follow palisade within a year.
Hyundai ionic, 6 may 2022 release. Ionic 6 is undoubtedly the most highly anticipated new model to be released in 2022.. The first ever built from the ground up sedan based on the egmp platform that also underpins phenomenal ionic 5 and the ev6. The ionic 6 is also expected to be one of the best evs in the market, featuring 800 volt charging architecture that can recharge to 80. In just 18 minutes and an efficient power, electric system that includes single motor rear wheel drive with 225 horsepower and dual motor all wheel drive with 320 horsepower. When combined with the ionic 5 sourced 77.4 kilowatt hours battery, the fastback is to deliver in excess of 311 miles or 500 kilometers in range, which is actually longer than that of the current ionic 5 or the ev6. With the improvement in the efficiency that it is to receive as part of the unusual pre launch revisions, which pushed back the launch date by a few months from the original release date in february 2022, in addition to being the first hyundai eevee to receive the innovative Lighting grill that acts as a charge status indicator in an emergency message board through the pre production revision. It is also to receive an improvement in the styling that is met with some heavy criticism when the prototype was first exposed. Contrary to the expectation that the new ionic 6 sedan would inherit the design of the stunning prophecy concept, the austere, prototype, didnt, quite capture, the concept, cars allure hyundai will attempt to bring back some of the excitement of the concept by tweaking the front and rear end.
Lengthening the vehicle by six inches or 90 millimeters to the length of 196 inches or 4990 millimeters, which is as long as the genesis, g80 sedan as the rest of the body, will remain unchanged. We are not certain how effective the revision may be, but in defense of the designers and engineers that created the ionic 6, the sedan was developed to eventually replace the sonata family sedan and not a four door sports car to compete with the porsche take in and The audi itron gt, if you are looking for porsche, take in and addy e tron gt kind of excitement. Hyundai has you covered as well kia ev6 gt october 2022 release the year 2022 will be the first year in which the korean maker is to have its first legitimate supercar, based on the standard ev6, which is still plenty fast with 0 to 60 miles per hour Time of 5.1 seconds powered by a dual motor 320 horsepower driving all four wheels. The gt version will nearly double the output and offer 577 horsepower and 546 pound feet of torque the most ever seen in a korean production car and offers supercar like performance capable of achieving zero to 60 miles per hour in less than 3.5 seconds. Yet its ev credential is still impressive as it delivers a range of 250 miles or 400 kilometers from its 77.4 kilowatt hours battery. Furthermore, it still maintains all of the innovative egmp features, such as 18 minutes to 80 ultra fast charge time v2l that supplies 3.
5. Kilowatts of electricity and more the ev6 gt accomplishes all this, while maintaining a relatively sane price of 72 million korean one, which translates to about 60 000 us dollars. If the low slung crossover styling is not to your liking, there will also be the ionic 5 equivalent. The ionic 5n will offer similar gut wrenching performance and specifications with hyundai and divisions. Interpretation of what an electric hot hatch should be, as opposed to the more premium and plushier presentation of the ev6 gt. Look for more edgy and hardcore characteristics with trick performance features that you come to expect from an end car. The production date for the ev6 gt is october 2022, but the supply is expected to be even slimmer than the standard version, which already has a waiting list. Mile long with the waiting of up to one year, so we suggest for you to put in your order early if asphalt, tearing performance in an eevee is what youre looking for this concludes part two of the upcoming new model release dates for 2022, be on the Lookout for the 2023 preview, which promises to be an even busier year, also dont, forget to check out part one of the series. As for the end of the video question which of the models covered in this video appeals to you, the most please vote and share your views by clicking on the link in the comment section below. Thanks for watching auto vision, your best source for the fastest korean car news and rumors dont forget to comment like subscribe and click on the notification bell.
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Why the ECB should not Insist on Repayment of Its Greek Bonds
by Paul de Grauwe and Yuemei Ji
Appeared originally at Voxeu.org 16 July 2015
When the ECB buys a Eurozone member's bonds, the government pays interest to the ECB but the ECB rebates it to the government. If Greece repays its ECB-held bonds, it loses this 'free borrowing'.
This column argues that repayment is like 'reverse QE'. To maintain its QE targets, more bonds from other EZ members must be bought – thus shifting the free borrowing from Greece to other EZ members. To avoid this perverse outcome, the ECB could extend the maturity of the Greek bonds.
At the end of 2014, the ECB's holdings of Greek government bonds amounted to approximately €20 billion (Table 1). These bonds had an average remaining maturity of 3.5 years. On 20 July 2015, €3.5 billion of Greek government bonds are coming to maturity. The Greek government is supposed to repay these bonds to the ECB. As more of these bonds will come to maturity during the next three years, the Greek government will have to make repayments to the ECB until the Greek bonds disappear from the ECB's balance sheet.
Does it make sense to insist that Greece repays the bonds held by the ECB now?
Table 1: Eurosystem SMP holdings (31 Dec 2014)
Issuer country Nominal (€ billions
Ireland 9.7
Greece 19.8
Spain 28.9
Italy 76.2
Portugal 14.9
Total 149.4
Source: ECB, https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2015/html/pr150219_1.en.html
In order to answer this question, we have to go to the basics of central banking so as to understand what the implications are of government bond purchases and sales by the central bank. A good starting point is Pâris and Wyplosz (2014) and De Grauwe and Ji (2015).
Let us first consider the case of a standalone country. When a central bank buys government bonds, it substitutes one type of liability of the public sector with another one. Government bonds that promise a fixed interest rate are replaced by a monetary liability without interest but carrying an inflation risk. At the moment of the purchase, the government bonds cease to exist from an economic point of view. All that is left of the bonds is a monetary liability of the central bank (which is one branch of the public sector).
It is important to stress that there are fiscal implications of this bond buying by the central bank.
These arise at the moment of the purchase of the bonds by the central bank.
Prior to the purchase, the government paid interest to private investors. After the purchase, the government pays interest to the central bank. But the central bank is part of the public sector and returns the interest to the government.
As long as the bonds are on the balance sheet of the central bank, a circular flow of interest payments is organised from the government to the central bank and back to the government.
This effectively means the government is relieved from paying interest on the bonds held by the central bank. The interest relief, therefore, allows the government to reduce taxation or increase spending.
Another way to put this is that when the government bonds are on the balance sheet of the central bank, there is effectively debt relief, i.e. interest payments are waived. This is in fact the seigniorage that the central bank creates by issuing money. This is distributed every year to the government as long as the central bank holds these bonds on its balance sheet.
The price the taxpayers pay is that there might be more inflation. But if 'monetary dominance' prevails – i.e. if the central bank targets an inflation rate at, say, 2% and creates each year an amount of money base that is consistent with this target – there is no risk of inflation.
It is important to understand that the value of the bonds purchased under monetary dominance and kept on the central bank's balance sheet has no bearing for the taxpayer. These bonds could be given a value of zero, or any other value, without any taxpayer suffering or gaining from this.
Suppose for example that the central bank were to write off these bonds (give it a value of 0). This would mean that the circular flow of interest payments would stop. But that would lead to the same economic outcome for the central bank and for the government. The central bank would not record a profit (interest inflow) and would not record a payment to the government (interest outflow).
All that counts is that the central bank that promises an inflation rate of 2% per year keeps its liabilities (money base) under control. What the central bank has on the asset side of its balance sheet is of no economic significance. In the limit, these assets could be written down to zero. Following standard accounting convention, this would then show up as negative equity. But for a central bank equity is of no importance. A modern central bank can easily live with negative equity as it cannot default, i.e. its liabilities (money base) are not a claim on its assets.[1] For example, a holder of a bank note has no claim on any of the central bank's assets. A banknote is a claim on goods and services in the market place, no more no less.
Bond buying in a monetary union
Does this analysis also hold in a monetary union like the Eurozone? The answer is yes, provided we structure the bond-buying programme carefully.
Suppose the ECB buys an amount of government bonds of Greece. This leads to interest payments from the Greek government to the ECB, which then distributes the profit it makes to the member countries according to the equity share of each country in the ECB (Germany 27%, France 20%, etc.).
Such a bond purchase therefore implies fiscal transfers from Greece to the other member countries. However, there has been an agreement within the ECB to return the Greek interest payments to the Greek government. Thus we reach the situation obtained in a standalone country discussed in the previous paragraphs. That is, the Greek bonds held by the ECB lead to a circular flow from Greece to the ECB and back to Greece. The ECB could easily stop this circular flow by writing off the bonds. This would have no effect on the other member countries.
Note that this is also the rule under the QE programme. The government bonds (80%) bought by the ECB are put on the national banks' balance sheets. As a result, a circular movement of interest payments is organised from the government to the ECB and back to the same government.
Should the Greek government repay bonds held by the ECB?
Let us now use these insights to evaluate the question of whether the ECB should insist that the Greek government repays the Greek bonds held by the ECB.
The Greek government bonds were bought by the ECB in the context of the SMP programme, which intended to stabilise the financial system in 2011. It is often forgotten, but the Treaty explicitly states that the ECB shall contribute to financial stability (Article 3 of Protocol to the Treaty).
What are the implications of a Greek repayment? When Greece repays the bonds held by the ECB two things happen.
First, Greece loses the seigniorage gain (in the form of the waiver on interest payments) it enjoyed while the bonds were on the ECB's balance sheet.
Greece will have to start paying interest again. Thus, its effective debt burden increases.
Second, at the moment Greece repays the bonds the money base in the Eurozone declines.
Put differently, the repayment is equivalent to a reverse QE.
One could call this 'quantitative shrinking' (QS). The ECB, however, is pursuing QE. In the framework of this QE programme, it has set a target path for the money base.
The ECB will have to compensate the decline in the money base produced by the Greek repayment by additional purchases of government bonds of other member countries.
As a result, the governments of the other member states will enjoy extra seigniorage gains (in the form of a waiver of interest payments on the bonds purchased by the ECB).
In other words, the other countries will enjoy a debt relief that is the counterpart of the increase in the debt burden of Greece
This is where the absurdity of the repayment by Greece comes in. Such a repayment implies that the seigniorage enjoyed by Greece is taken away and redistributed to the other member countries. Or, put differently, the Greek effective debt burden is increased, while the debt burden of the other member countries is reduced. One can ask the question whether this is the right thing to do when so many today agree that the Greek debt burden has become unsustainable.
What should the ECB do?
It would be easy for the ECB to solve this problem. The easiest way would be to write off the Geek bonds. As we have argued earlier such a write-off has no fiscal implications. It means that the circular flow of interest from Greece to the ECB and back is discontinued. In contrast, the repayment of the bonds by Greece has fiscal implications and leads to transfers from Greece to the other member countries. This is quite a perverse transfer given the sorry state of the Greek public finances.
The easy solution is hard
There is a lot of resistance against the easy solution.
First there is resistance in the ECB.
Like many central banks, it is concerned to show profits and a positive equity. These concerns, however, are misplaced and these profits and losses only have a life in the mind of accountants. Similarly, the equity position of the ECB has no real consequences and should not influence the ECB's decision. The latter should be guided by concerns about price stability and financial stability.
Second, there is also resistance against a write-off outside the ECB because such a write-off is associated with a loss that the taxpayers, especially the hard-working German taxpayer, will have to bear.
As we have shown, this loss is purely of an accounting nature. It does not affect the other member countries. It does not imply that German taxpayers will bear a higher tax bill.
Fears, when held strongly, become a reality. One has to take these into account. Therefore it is worth considering another solution. This would consist of the ECB extending the maturity of the Greek bonds. This would lead to exactly the same economic effects (although the accounting would be different). The Greek government would continue to pay interest to the ECB, which would then dutifully return these to the Greek government. Other countries would not be affected.
Both these solutions would prevent the perverse redistribution of seigniorage from Greece to the other member states.
Buiter, W. (2008), "Can Central Banks Go Broke?", CEPR Policy Insight 24, 16 May.
Corsetti, G. and L. Dedola (2013), "Is the euro a foreign currency to member states?", VoxEU.org, 5 June.
De Grauwe, P. and Y. Ji (2015), "Quantitative Easing in the Eurozone: It is possible without fiscal transfers", VoxEU, 15 January.
Pâris, P. C. and Wyplosz (2014), "The PADRE Plan: Politcally Acceptable Debt Restructuring in the Eurozone", VoxEU, 28 January.
See Buiter (2008) and Corsetti and Dedola (2013).
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Sometimes all we need are loving family, good friends, great books, and chocolate. I can at least help with the "great books" part!
Have a Happy New Year and remember to make books a part of every day!
On Hawaii radio, there's a commercial from Hospice Hawaii that talks about living our last days with dignity and purpose, and asking what's on our bucket list (#BucketListHI). It reminds us to live each day to the fullest and live without regrets.
While this bucket is filled with things you want to achieve, there is another bucket that may be even more important, and what matters is how you fill it every day – not just at the end of your days. When you're thinking about all the things you wish you had done, think about all the things that you have done – and that people have done for you.
A few months ago, my 7-year old son and I read "How Full is Your Bucket? For Kids" by Tom Rath and Mary Reckmeyer. It's the story of a boy named Felix, whose grandfather teaches him that everyone has an invisible bucket of water over their heads. It can be filled by kind actions and reduced by mean actions.
I asked my son to write about how full his bucket is in his daily journal. He was a little skeptical about the invisible buckets, but he took the time to think about how he felt each day, and why. Some days he doesn't offer an explanation for his (arbitrary) measurement, but when he does, it makes me smile.
When was the last time your bucket was 100% full? Or 110% full? Is your bucket filled with kindness or filled with things you wish you could do?
All of the recent attention about shopping carts – who owns them, how to get them off the streets, how we treat people who keep their belongings in them – made me think about how much we rely on shopping carts.
Some people walk into a store and automatically grab a shopping cart, whether or not they need one. I've seen people leave their purses in a shopping cart, and then browse nearby shelves. I've seen people pushing carts with only one small item at the check-out line.
Whether it's a grocery store, a drug store, a department store, or a big box store, shopping carts encourage us to buy more and spend more time in the store. It means that stores must design wider aisles and factor in the cost of shopping carts into their pricing. It means that we are tempted to buy things in bulk that we may not need.
Shopping cart doctrine #1: Buy only what you can carry. For me, this means about 5 items that I can comfortably carry (I once carried five two-liter soda bottles in my arms, but that's my limit). This helps me spend less, spend less time shopping, and resist unplanned purchases.
Shopping cart doctrine #2: Take a basket (if one is offered). Carrying a basket helps me spend less and resist unplanned purchases, and also gives me the option of putting the basket down if I want to look at something more carefully. By avoiding a shopping cart, I can navigate aisles easier, without worrying about bumping anyone or running over someone's toes.
Shopping cart doctrine #3: Be a courteous carter. If you must take a cart (you're purchasing a lot of things, buying a large item, or just have a young child who loves riding in race car carts), be courteous to other shoppers. Do practice safe driving. Do not put pets in the cart. Do return carts to the store or a shopping cart return. Do not leave carts between parking stalls, where they can bump other cars. Do ask permission if you must take it home, and return it when you are finished. Do not abandon carts on the street.
Do you rely on shopping carts too much? Do you tend to spend a little more when you use a shopping cart? Are you a courteous carter?
Fear is a gift that can save our lives, according to security and violent behavior expert Gavin De Becker. In his book, "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence" (1997), De Becker insists that we are all experts at predicting violent behavior, and shows us that violence has patterns and warning signs – and that fear can save our lives. "Precautions are constructive, whereas remaining in a state of fear is destructive" (page 279).
"The Gift of Fear" is a compelling and empowering book about trusting our intuition to keep us safe and predict violence. It's written mainly for women, since women are more often victims of violence. It's filled with conversations, cases, scenarios, and insights into human behavior. It gives us strong, confident ways to respond to threats.
De Becker warns that "We tend to give our full attention to risks that are beyond our control (air crashes, nuclear-plant disasters) while ignoring those we feel in charge of (dying from smoking, poor diet, car accidents), even though the latter are far more likely to harm us" (page 32). He points out, "Why does America have thousands of suicide prevention centers and not one homicide prevention center?" (page 33).
Instead, we need to start listening to our fear. We need to believe that we or someone we care for will be a victim at some time. We need to realize that we are responsible for our own safety and that we must trust our intuition/gut feeling.
De Becker outlines 7 basic "survival signals" to watch for when dealing with strangers. By identifies these techniques, we can learn to evaluate the potential for danger in every situation.
1. Forced teaming (they project a shared purpose or experience, such as "both of us"). Response: refuse the partnership ("I didn't ask for your help and I don't want it").
2. Charm and niceness. Response: remember that niceness does not equal goodness.
3. Too many details. Response: think about context (would a stranger share these details?).
4. Typecasting (they make criticism that can be disproved by doing what they want, such as "Don't be too proud to accept help"). Response: silence.
5. Loan sharking (they offer to help to create a sense of obligation). Response: there is no debt.
6. Unsolicited promises (they make a promise you didn't ask for). Response: skepticism.
* When dealing with persistent, unwanted attention: Ignore it. Do not engage.
* When dealing with a confrontational, problem employee: Fire them as soon as possible. Executives need to let managers know that they should put safety first and communicate their concerns, instead of worrying that they are over-reacting or can't manage their people.
* When you are leaving an abusive relationship: Take actions that make you unavailable to your pursuer. Go to an at-risk women's shelter. Get away safely.
* When dealing with a stalker/unwanted suitor: "No" is a complete sentence. Do not negotiate. Do not explain. Give one explicit rejection, like "I don't want to be in a relationship with you" and then stop all contact.
* When dealing with assassins and stalkers who are determined to kill you: Limit the likelihood of an unwanted encounter and take reasonable precautions.
* Reporting an act of violence: The media, including bloggers, should focus on law enforcement and downplay the criminal's ability and glamour. Be warned that after a widely publicized attack, the risk of other attacks goes up dramatically.
This isn't a handbook for victims of abuse; it is meant to teach regular people, who haven't experienced violent situations, to turn fear into awareness and vigilance. One of the most important lessons I learned is that "No" is a complete sentence. It taught me that I have more control over interactions with strangers than I thought.
Though this book was written over 15 years ago, the strategies for evaluating and responding danger are just as timely. Find out more about Gavin De Becker on his website at http://gavindebecker.com.
I am trying to teach my 7-year old son that the holidays are about more than just buying and receiving gifts. I want him to appreciate what he has, not focus on what he doesn't have. I want him to think about the gifts he really wants, not just the gifts he wants right now.
* Selling with a smile. My son set up a table at the Keiki Swap Meet, hosted by the Children's DiscoveryCenter. On a Saturday morning, my son sold his gently-used books, DVDs, puzzles, toys, and games. Not only did this reduce my son's clutter and make room for holiday gifts, it taught him to evaluate the toys he really wants – and gave him some spending money for Christmas gifts. He greeted customers, suggested toys, added up sales, and made change. He also learned about treating customers well – whenever someone made a purchase, he offered them a free "prize" (a pencil, stickers, a tattoo). He didn't try to hold on to toys that he no longer played with, and was happy to meet some of the kids who bought his toys.
Tip #1: Practice being friendly. My son to practiced saying "Hi" and "Welcome to my store" with eye contact and a smile. I reminded him to thank everyone who stopped by, even if they were just looking.
Tip #2: Collect "freebies." Whenever my son gets free stickers, tattoos, pencils, and other trinkets, we put the things he doesn't want into a small box. We had a nice assortment of "prizes" to give away.
* Giving to others. In the weeks before Thanksgiving, my son and I put together two shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. My son chose two of his new, unopened toys for boys aged 5-9. To each box, we added toothbrushes, toothpaste, pencils, erasers, stickers, toy cars, a book, and other small toys. It gave us a nice feeling to prepare a Christmas gift for a child somewhere in the world, who might not get a Christmas present. When he pointed out that Santa gives every kid a present, I answered that sometimes Santa needs our help (he accepted that, but rejected the idea that Santa goes on vacation in Hawaii, because "he has too many toys to make"). During National Collection Week, we dropped off our shoeboxes, complete with gift wrap and labels, and learned that our gifts will be sent to Nepal.
Tip: Set gifts aside year-round. If my son receives too many birthday or holiday presents, I usually set aside some of them, and bring them out throughout the year. So we already had a stash of small toys and games that we could share, without having to spend extra money.
* Sharing our thankfulness. On Thanksgiving Day, in addition to a lovely dinner, we created a "Thankful Pumpkin Patch." We gave everyone a pumpkin cut-out, asked them to write something they are thankful for, and added it to our thankful patch. We could just go around the dinner table and share our thanks, but I like the idea of writing things down; there's less pressure to come up with something witty or eloquent, and it gives everyone a chance to read each other's responses.
Tip: Thankfulness as art. Some ideas to turn your thanks into year-round art: write your thanks on a "Thankful Tree" (fall leaves), a "Thankful Patch" (pumpkins), a "Thankful Turkey" (feathers), or "Thankful Stones" (stones or pebbles).
How do you balance giving and receiving during the holidays? What do the holidays mean to you?
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Amazon Prime Student Members Get Music Unlimited for $1 a Month
By Louis Ramirez 06 August 2019
Students save $84 a year with this new Prime member perk
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Amazon is giving college students a compelling reason to sign up for Prime Student. The e-tailer recently announced that Prime Student members can subscribe to Amazon Music Unlimited for just 99 cents per month.
Music Unlimited is Amazon's premium music subscription service. It gives subscribers access to over 50 million songs, including new releases. The service typically costs $7.99 per month for Prime members and $9.99 per month for non-Prime members. That means that over the span of a year, a Prime Student member will only pay $12 for Music Unlimited, whereas everyone else would pay at least $84.
Prime Student Members: Music Unlimited For $1
Prime Student members have a new perk to take advantage of. Amazon is offering its premium music service, Music Unlimited, for just 99 cents per month. (That's $7 less than what a non-student Prime member would pay). View Deal
Prime Student is a no brainer for most college students who frequently shop online. It costs $59 per year (or $6.49 per month) and features free 2-day shipping and a variety of other Amazon-specific services at half the price of the company's traditional Prime membership. It comes with a free, 6-month trial and gives students access to exclusive deals, video game discounts, Whole Foods discounts, and deals found at the Amazon Off to College Store.
To be fair, Amazon isn't the only company with a student discount. Spotify has an excellent student plan that includes Spotify Premium, Hulu, and Showtime for just $4.99 per month. Meanwhile, Apple Music Student offers access to over 50 million songs for $4.99 per month (regularly $9.99 per month). However, if you're looking for a plan that includes free shipping alongside various other perks, this Prime Student deal wins hands down.
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