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George Konstantinidis
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FORTH participates in the project with the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) of its "Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser" (IESL). MRG was founded in 1986 and since then it has evolved into a unique, in Greece, full-scale research facility in compound semiconductor microelectronics. It has developed a strong expertise in technology and physics of III-arsenide materials, devices and ICs through active participation in ESPRIT (Nos. 1270, 2035, 2289, 3086, 5018, 5031, 9500, 21315, 28998), RACE (No. 1027) and several national STRIDE and EPET RTD programs. Its SiC technology evolved through projects such as BRITE/EURAM 5416, NATO Sfp "HP-HF SiC power devices", NATO Sfp "SICPIN", a US Army ERO on SiC power devices and numerous other smaller projects. Its GaN and related compounds technology advanced through 6 IST projects ("QN laser I", "QN laser II", "GaNANO", "AMICOM", "ULTRAGAN", "MORGAN") and 2 major national projects. In particular, it possesses significant expertise in: MBE homoepitaxial (GaAs/GaAs, InGaAs/GaAs, AlGaAs/GaAs) and heteroepitaxial growth of dissimilar materials (GaAs/Si, InGaAs/Si, InGaAs/InP, SiC/Si, GaN/Al2O3, GaN/SiC, GaN/GaAs and GaN/Si), formation of contacts and etching of III-Vs , III-Nitrides and SiC, and fabrication and analysis of high frequency and optoelectronic devices and ICs (MESFETs, HFETs, MSM-photodetectors, MQW-modulators, laser diodes and integrated optical interconnect devices, RF MEMS, MMIC's). To exploit its accumulated expertise, the group has recently launched a microelectronics services activity providing epitaxial wafers, processing and measurement services. The latter two are ISO 9001 certified. The excellence of FORTH is highlighted by events like the candidency for the 2002 Descartes prize for its work on RF MEMS or references to its work in international journals like Compound Semiconductor (July 2002, March 2003). In 2005 FORTH was among the winners of the Descartes prize for its work on left handed materials.
Laboratory resources:
Clean Rooms: Approximately 200 m2 of class-1000 for MBE and device fabrication. Material Growth: New MBE system (RIBER 32P) for nitrides with NH3 injector and N2 RF plasma sources, set-up for excimer Laser Assisted MBE (LAMBE) and MBE system with two coupled growth chambers (VG 80H/80S) for III-V and SiC-Si. Device Fabrication: wet chemistry sinks, photoresist spinners, UV and deep-UV mask aligners with backside alignment capability, FESEM Jeol 7000 with Raith nanolithography system, e-beam evaporator, RF and DC sputtering, thermal evaporators, rapid thermal annealing, sintering, bonding and wafer thinning and dicing, RIE and PECVD systems. Material Characterization: AFM, SEM and optical-Nomarski microscopes, contactless sheet resistance probe, electrochemical C-V profiling, Hall effect at 300 K and 77 K, DLTS, 14-300 K photoluminescence (PL), micro photoluminescence (μPL), electroluminescence (EL), modulated optical spectroscopies (PR, ER, PT), photocurrent (PC) and photovoltage (PV). Access to the UV Laser Facility (LSF) of IESL. Device testing: C-V, quasistatic I-V, EL spectra and efficiency, RF S-parameter, noise and power measurements up to 20 GHz, on-wafer RF probes.
Role in NANO-RF:
FORTH will employ its custom size sample versatile fab facility to:
Optimise fabrication process modules for graphene based devices
Fabricate graphene based active and passive devices
Contribute to the technologies for the final integration.
Dr. George Konstantinidis received his Ph.D degree in Solid State Electronics from the department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering of the University of Salford, UK in 1987. Since 1988 he has been working with the MRG/FORTH as a researcher. Since 1991 he is heading the processing research activities of the group and has extensive experience in the processing of wide band gap semiconductors. He is also coordinating MRG's effort in micromachining technology with emphasis on RF-MEMS. He has worked in two European projects BONDEC and PICMOS where he developed techniques for wafer bonding. He has participated in numerous European Union funded projects (~ 2.5MEuros). He was the project manager in the INCO-Copernicus MEMSWAVE project in which novel non-silicon RF MEMS components and circuits were fabricated at FORTH and which was among the runners up of the 2002 DESCARTES prize. He was the scientific contact of MRG in two FP6 NoEs (AMICOM & TARGET) while now he is in running 3 ENIAC projects. Since 1997, he has established an open services laboratory and since 2000 is the ISO 9001 quality system manager. In 2003 he received the Prize "Tudor Tanasescu" of the Romanian Academy of Sciences for his work in the RF MEMS. In 2005, he was a key member of the EXEL team that was among the winners of the 2005 Descartes prize. In 2003 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the European Microwave Association (EuMA) while in 2004 and 2007 he was elected as Vice President of the Greek Micro and Nano Society. He has supervised 7 MSc and 1Ph.D students. He has ~100 publications in refereed journals. He has 5 chapters in books and holds 1 patent.
Dr. Kostis Michelakis was born in Chania, Greece, in 1963. He graduated from the Physics Department of the University of Crete and received his Masters degree in Applied Physics from the same University. He received his PhD from the University of Athens and did his post-doc at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. He has held posts at FORTH, in Greece and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College London, where he conducted research on submicron-gate high-electron-mobility transistors both on III-V semiconductors and on silicon, with emphasis on the design and fabrication of MMICs. In 2005, he was appointed Research Fellow and Bionanotechnology Facility Manager at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, where he set up a microfabrication laboratory, housed within a class-1000 cleanroom. There, he promoted and practised the employment of micro- and nanoengineering methods for biomedical applications. Kostis has worked in the area of micro/nano engineering for over 20 years. He has contributed to more than 50 publications and is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Dr Adam Adikimenakis received his PhD in 2009 from the physics department, university of Crete. His thesis was on the epitaxial growth and characterization of novel III-nitride heterostructures for HEMT applications. Since February 2010 he is working in the MRG/FORTH as a post-doc, on nitrides epitaxy with MBE. He has contributed in two European and one national research projects, concerning the growth and development of III-Nitride heterostructures. He is a member of the organizing committee of the HETECH 2010 conference. He is a reviewer in two international journals and he has contributed 22 papers in refereed journals, 2 papers on refereed conference proceedings and about 15 presentations in international conferences.
Dr. Alexandros Georgakilaswas born in 1961 in Athens, Greece. He received his Ph.D. from the Physics Department, University of Crete, in 1990. His thesis was on the epitaxial growth of III-V semiconductors on crystalline Si substrates. Between 1984 and 1995 he worked as a research assistant/associate in the Microelectronics Research Group of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. In 1987 he was at Thomson-CSF, Paris, France and in 1991-1992 at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Since September 1995 he is a faculty member of the Microelectronics Research Group of FORTH and the Physics Department of University of Crete, where he currently holds an associate professor position. He currently runs 4 national and 2 European research projects concerning the development by Molecular Beam Epitaxy of novel GaN and InN based heterostructure and nanostructure materials enabling advanced sensors, electronic and optoelectronic devices. He has contributed 96 research publications in refereed journals, two book chapters and holds 4 technical patents-applications.
The Nano-Rf project is funded by Seventh Framework program under the grant agreement No FP7-ICT-2011-8
About Nano-RF
The main concept of NANO-RF is the development of CNT & graphene based advanced component technologies for the implementation of miniaturised electronic systems for 2020 and beyond wireless communications and radars.
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Q: Check if variable is set to NO_VALUE I am using dogpile to have cache in my python program.
During the init of my program, I clean the cache SimpleCache.set_fault_injector(NO_VALUE)
@staticmethod
def set_fault_injector(injector):
    SimpleCache.save("fault_injector", injector)

Then I retrieve the object with:
@staticmethod
def get_fault_injector():
    return SimpleCache.get("fault_injector")

injector = get_fault_injector()

Here in my test, I am checking if the injector variable is set to NO_VALUE, but the comparison is returning False (it should be TRUE). How do I check if injector is set to NO_VALUE? The way that I clear the cache is correct?
In [3]: injector
Out[3]: <dogpile.cache.api.NoValue at 0x7fdde0dfd750>

In [4]: NO_VALUE
Out[4]: <dogpile.cache.api.NoValue at 0x7fdde16dbed0>

In [5]: injector == NO_VALUE
Out[5]: False

In [6]: type(injector)
Out[6]: dogpile.cache.api.NoValue

In [7]: type(NO_VALUE)
Out[7]: dogpile.cache.api.NoValue

In [8]: injector is NO_VALUE
Out[8]: False

[9]: type(injector) == type(NO_VALUE)
Out[9]: True

A: I don't have experience in dogpile, however, from what I understand from the docs, when a value is missing then dogpile normally returns a specific instance of dogpile.cache.api.NoValue, which is NO_CACHE.
The issue here is probably linked to you explicitly setting a cache key to NO_CACHE, which somehow ends up leaving you with 2 different instances of the NoValue class.
It appears to me that NO_CACHE is not really meant to be used for unsetting a key, I believe your issue would be resolved if you actually used .delete("fault_injector") or whatever removal method your cache wrapper has available.

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Great Indian Peninsula Railway (первоначально Great Indian Peninsular Railway Company, биржевое сокращение GIPR) — британская железнодорожная компания, действовавшая на территории Британской Индии. Штаб-квартира компании располагалась в районе была предшественницей Центральной железной дороги, штаб-квартира которой находилась в районе Бори Бундер города Мумбаи (Бомбея). GIRP была образована актом Британского парламента от 1 августа 1849 с уставным капиталом в 50 000 фунтов. 21 августа 1847 года она заключила официальный контракт с Ост-Индской компанией на строительство и эксплуатацию железнодорожной линии длиной 56 км, ставшей первым участком магистрали, соединяющей Мумбаи с Хандешем и Бераром и другими президентствами Индии. Совет директоров Ост-Индской компании назначил главным инженер-резидентом GIPR Джеймса Джона Беркли, его помощниками — К. Б. Кара и Р. У. Грэхема. Железная дорога стала первой пассажирской линией Индии с первоначальным маршрутом от Мумбаи до Тханы длиной 34 км, открытым в 1853 году. 1 июля 1925 года управление GIRP было передано правительству. 5 ноября 1951 года GIRP вошла в Центральную железную дорогу.

Регистрация в Лондоне
Созданная в 1849 году как компания с головным офисом в Лондоне, Great Indian Peninsula Railway имела планы по строительству железнодорожной сети протяжённостью более 2000 км, призванной соединить Мумбаи с внутренней частью Индостана и крупным портом Ченнаи (Мадрас) на восточном побережье. Первоначально предполагалось соединить города Пуна, Нашик, Аурангабад, Ахмеднагар, Солапур, Нагпур, Амравати и Хайдарабад. Развитие транспортной сети должно было увеличить экспорт хлопка, шёлка, опия, сахара и пряностей.

В управляющий комитет вошло 25 британских подданных, включая должностных лиц Ост-Индской компании и лондонских банков, большинство из которых проживали в Великобритании, и лишь некоторые — в Индии. В первоначальный состав совета вошли такие люди как  и  (оба члены парламента Великобритании), ставшие председателем и заместителем председателя компании; Фредерик Айртон (выходец из Ост-Индской компании); кавалеристы майор Клейтон и генерал-майор Бриггс; жители Мумбаи Джон Грэм, полковник Диккенсон и Джамсетджи Джиджибой; банкиры Джон Харви (Лондонский коммерческий банк) и С. Джервис (директор Лондонского и Графского банка, Ломбард-стрит); а также директора других железнодорожных компаний Ричард Патерсон (председатель Northern and Eastern Railway Company) и Мелвиль Уилсон (директор Alliance Assurance Office).

Железная дорога из Мумбаи
16 апреля 1853 года в 15:35 первый пассажирский поезд железной дороги Great Indian Peninsula Railway отправился со станции Бори-Бандер в Мумбаи на станцию в Тхане. Чтобы добраться до места назначения, поезду понадобилось пятьдесят семь минут. За это время он преодолел 34 км. Состав из 14 вагонов, в которых разместились 400 пассажиров, тащили три паровоза: Sultan, Sindh и Sahib.

Участок линии от Тханы до Кальяна был открыт 1 мая 1854 года. Его строительство было сложнее, так как требовалось было возвести двухпутные виадуки над устьем реки и два туннеля.

12 мая 1856 года линия была продолжена до Хополи через Паласдхари, а 14 июня 1858 года открылся участок Хандала — Пуна. Участок Паласдхари — Хандала пересекал горы Бхор-Гхат, и для завершения строительства потребовалось ещё пять лет. Отсутствовавший 21 км пути пассажиры преодолевали в паланкинах или на лошадях.

1 января 1861 года открылась линия до Касары, а 1 января 1865 года был построен участок до Игатпури с крутым подъёмом у Тхал-Гат, что завершило пересечение Западных Гат.

Мумбаи — Ченнаи
Юго-восточная магистраль после Кальяна проходила через Бор-Гат к Пуне, Солапуру и Рачуру, где соединилась с Мадрасской железной дорогой. К 1868 году общая длина сети достигла 888 км, в к 1870 — уже 2388 км.

Мумбаи — Калькутта
Северо-восточная магистраль после Кальяна проходила через Тхат-Гат в Бхусавал, где раздваивалась. Одна ветка уходила в большой хлопковый район Амравати, откуда продолжалась до Нагпура, а затем до Раджнандгаона в округе Друг. Другая ветка вела в Джабалпур, где соединялась с участком Джабалпур — Аллахабад Восточно-Индийской железной дороги, открытым в июне 1867 года. В результате образовался прямой маршрут из Мумбаи в Калькутту. 7 июня 1870 года официально открылась линия Хаора — Аллахабад — Мумбаи, которая была упомянута в книге французского писателя Жюля Верна «Вокруг света за восемьдесят дней». Хотя в романе ошибочно утверждается, что линия проходит через Аурангабад, который, также ошибочно, объявлен столицей императора Аурангзеба Аламгира. В действительности линия не достигла Аурангабада, а продолжилась на север от Бхусавала в направлении Джабалпура. На церемонии открытия вице-король Индии лорд Мейо заявил, что «было сочтено желательным, чтобы, по возможности, в кратчайшие возможные сроки вся страна была покрыта сетью линий в единой системе».

Дальнейшее развитие
30 июня 1900 года правительство Индии приобрело активы GIPR и объединило их с активами Indian Midland Railway, которая имела сеть линий широкой колеи в округеДжханси. Развитием обеих железных дорог занялась заново сформированная компания, получившая старое имя: Great Indian Peninsula Railway. В 1878 году при финансовой поддержке правительства была построена железнодорожная линия Дхонд — Манмад, которая сократила путь из Ченнаи в Аллахабад и сделала ненужным объезд через Кальян.

В 1918 году железнодорожная сеть GIPR имела протяжённость 4300 км широкой колеи и 1240 км узкой колеи шириной 762 мм (2,5 фута). Самой длинной узкоколейной линией являлась дорога Ачалпур — Мартазапур — Яватмал длиной 189 км, построенная в 1913 году в окрестностях Нагпура

1 января 1925 года  правительство Индии взяло дорогу под прямое управление. Одновременно GIRP была передана линия Джабалпур — Аллахабад, ранее принадлежавшая Восточно-Индийской железной дороге. 3 февраля 1925 года из Мумбаи началась электрификация дороги системой 3000 В постоянного тока. В 1929 году был электрифицирован участок до Кальяна, в 1930 году — до Пуны и Игатпури.

1 июня 1930 года был пущен первый в Индии пассажирский поезд повышенной комфортности Deccan Queen c электрическим локомотивом. Он курсировал по маршруту Мумбаи — Пуна. Электровоз EA / 1 № 4006, водивший состав, позже получил имя сэра Роджера Ламли, губернатора Мумбаи в 1930-х годах. В настоящее время электровоз экспонируется в Национальном железнодорожном музее Индии в Нью-Дели.

5 ноябре 1951 года GIPR была объединена с Nizam's Guaranteed State Railway, Dholpur-Bari Light Railway, Scindia State Railway, став частью Центральной железной дороги.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Газетные вырезки о Great Indian Peninsula Railway на сайте Германской национальной экономической библиотеки

Транспорт Мумбаи
Железнодорожные компании Индии
Исторические железные дороги Великобритании

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Django Unchained – Two Thumbs up from Larry and Marty with three provisions!
Marty and I waited for home viewing of Django Unchained and we are glad we waited but we really did enjoy it. It's hard to put into words how Quentin Tarantino managed to put in so much laughing out loud humor in the midst of a story about slavery and violence/killing.
Now we see why Christopher Waltz (Inglorious Basterds) won the award for best supporting actor. We honestly thought he was the leading actor until we reviewed the credits. Jamie Fox was convincing in his role and the cast of used to be A list – now character actors is long. We enjoyed seeing so many old and familiar faces and trying to remember what their big hits were. It was probably the first check many of them have cashed in awhile.
My three proviso's are: 1. You can't be sensitive about the N or F word as they are used in virtually every scene as common gutteral talk. 2. You must enjoy blatant parody for parody's sake. 3. You have to either be comfortable with what I felt were the most realistic bullet wound scenes I've seen since Vietnam or watch it with someone who will tell you its OK to look now.
Overall we really liked the movie and laughed more times than I can count. Like Pulp Fiction it combines parody with an attempt to deal with real life issues and multiple personal stories. I'm glad we waited for home viewing because it is long and we had two refreshment and potty breaks.
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On Monday, we began Sound+Vision's quest for a great $59 headphone by looking at the Skullcandy Hesh 2.0 and the Beyerdynamic DTX 300 p. Today, we'll be auditioning the Philips CitiScape Metro and the AudioTechnica ATH-RE70 Retro-Face. On Friday, we'll wrap up with the Urbanears Plattan and the House of Marley Positive Vibration.
As with the Hesh 2.0 and the DTX 300 p, the Metro and the Retro-Face were judged by a panel consisting of me and three experienced listeners: L.A. voice actress Lauren Dragan and Howard and Joe Rodgers of Rogersound Labs (RSL). I taped over all the logos on the headphones, so Lauren, Howard, and Joe wouldn't know what brands or models they were hearing. I then ran a full set of measurements on each set of headphones.


Its been almost a year since we completely switched to KiCad. It was a great experience working with KiCad. No schematic page limits, no board size limits, built in online DRC and what not. The online DRC feature itself making the switch worth because we are completely out the DRC->FIX ERROR->DRC… cycle in Eagle. Yeh, you can mitigate this with Eagle by using properly selected grid size, but still not as useful as online DRC. I must say, learning KiCad and making the switch (not just me, the whole company) was really really worth it. Now looking back, I can find no trace of regret in my mind doing this. If you are thinking about giving KiCad a try, go for it. It will be time well spent, and you'll never regret it (provided you can get past the initial trouble of learning a completely new tool).
Ok, let's get back to the original subject, our experiment with Spartan6 CSG225. Its been a long time since we designed Elbert, Spartan 3A based FPGA development platform . We sold many hundreds of Elbert boards and it was one of our very successful products. 50K Spartan 3A is an entry level FPGA best suited for small projects and learning purposes. The most frequently asked question by customers was when Numato is going to come up with a larger FPGA for some serious projects. Well, designing Elbert was an easy learning curve for us. But as we go to bigger FPGAs, it can get more difficult. Board design gets complex, more external interfaces, SDRAM et… So we decided to settle on the middle ground with Spartan 6 which is the next level to Spartan 3 series in terms of power and functionality but similar complexity levels.
After a few rounds of discussion, the product feature set is finalized, Spartan 6 FPGA + PIC32 Micro + SDRAM. We decided to make it in a module form factor rather than a development form factor. This way, we could still make a development board using this module or users can design their own custom boards to use the module.
We put together the schematic and design a 6 layer board using KiCad and Freerouting tool. We could get away with 4 layers if blind/buried vias used. But the PCB house we originally planned to work with didn't support blind/buried vias. PIC32 interface with FPGA was straight forward with no necessity for length matching. At these short trace lengths, it probably wasn't critical that the SDRAM traces are length matched. But out of our peak of paranoia, we went for length matching. As you know, KiCad doesn't support length matching but it will let you export the board to work with Freerouting tool. Freerouting supports length matching but it wasn't easy to figure out how to do it due to lack of documentation (may be documentation existed but we couldn't find it). Anyway we figured out how to do it (May be worth writing a tutorial on this) and once got used to it, length matching was fairly easy.
Another biggest challenge was finding a FPGA package that we can work with. After searching for a while we came to the conclusion that we are not going to find a part that is non-BGA and fit all our requirements (Gate count, Hardware SDRAM controller etc…). Finally we ended up choosing Spartan6 LX9 which is available only in BGA packages. CSG225 was the only package available with our vendor (Digikey) at that time. So we had to choose 225 ball BGA even though our experience with working BGA was very limited.
After a couple weeks worth waiting, we received the boards and our hardware folks were able to solder the BGA chip very successfully using a toaster oven and a pair of tweezers with the help of a microscope . To tell you the truth, even I was amazed that they did do it right at the first time. Kudos to the team!!


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AIST Policy News - 7 November 2019
APRA moves on Choice disclosure
Senate Economics Committee gives amnesty bill the green light
House Economics Committee amends program
APRA has addressed the most urgent gaps in APRA's data collection – particularly for Choice products and investment options – in the Superannuation Data Transformation project released today.
In a discussion paper released today, APRA outlines its initiatives and new requirements to improve superannuation data collection, in particular by increasing the comparability and consistency of reported data.
Importantly, this upgrades the scope and granularity of the data APRA collects on Choice products in the first phase of the project.
Requirements for new reporting of Choice products will be finalised by mid-2020, and the first tranche of Choice and investment option data collected under Phase 1 is due to be published in late 2020.
Phase 2 will increase the granularity of all data collection and involve enhanced data analytics. Phase 3 will review the outcome of Phases 2 and 3 and address any implementation issues.
AIST will be involved in consultations with APRA and our member funds about these improvements to measures to improve data transparency and accountability.
For further information or to be involved in consultations, contact AIST Senior Policy Manager David Haynes at dhaynes@aist.asn.au
The Senate Economics Legislation Committee has recommended that the Treasury Laws Amendment (Recovering Unpaid Superannuation) Bill 2019 be passed, giving effect to the amnesty for unpaid super.
Despite multiple participants in the inquiry, including AIST, questioning the effectiveness of the amnesty and expressing concern that the amnesty would send the wrong message to employers, the Committee issued its report recommending that the Bill be passed.
The report also states that given the extension of the amnesty period since the legislation was first announced, a longer amnesty period is not needed.
AIST recommended that the Senate Committee reject the Bill, arguing that a SG amnesty would be neither well-targeted nor effective.
AIST's submission pointed to international evidence showing that amnesties do not work and can even exacerbate the problem as previously honest citizens reduce their compliance in anticipation of another, future amnesty.
The program for the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics superannuation hearings on the 21st and 22nd of November has undergone slight amendments, with REST and Hostplus now expected to appear separately.
The Standing Committee will question the superannuation sector over two days of hearings as part of its ongoing review of the four major banks and other financial institutions.
Suncorp was also originally scheduled to appear, but was excused from the program.
The committee states their examination of the entities, which includes AIST member funds, will include monitoring the sector's progress on implementing relevant recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.
View Current program for Day 1 and Day 2 here.

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During the coronavirus pandemic, the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) is publishing frequent UK mortality analysis through its mortality monitor. The latest update covers week 50 of 2020 (5 to 11 December) based on provisional England & Wales deaths data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 22 December 2020.
The key points of this update are:
The number of deaths with COVID-19 mentioned on the death certificate was 2,756 in week 50, compared to 2,835 in week 49 and 3,040 in week 48.
There were 8% more deaths registered in England & Wales in week 50 than if death rates had been the same as for week 50 of 2019. The corresponding figures were 12% more in weeks 48 and 49 and 13% more in weeks 46 and 47.
There have been around 70,300 more deaths in the UK from the start of the pandemic to 11 December 2020 than if mortality rates were similar to those experienced in 2019. Of these, 9,500 have occurred in the second wave.
Cobus Daneel, Chair of the CMI Mortality Projections Committee said:
"The CMI's analysis of ONS data shows that there have been over 70,000 excess deaths since the start of the pandemic. About 10,000 of these have occurred in the second wave."
"Excess" deaths are the difference between actual deaths in 2020, and those that we would expect if mortality rates had been the same as in 2019.
For the purposes of the mortality monitor, the CMI treats the first wave of the pandemic as being week 10 onwards (i.e. from 29 February 2020) and the second wave as being week 38 onwards (i.e. from 12 September 2020).
The CMI intends to publish its next mortality monitor for week 51 on Wednesday 30 December 2020. This is a day later than the usual Tuesday release, as the ONS data will be released later during the holiday period. All mortality monitor weekly updates are publicly available on the mortality monitor page.
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In 1973, the first handheld cell phone prototype was used to make a call. Now, millions of Americans, and billions of people worldwide, subscribe to a cellular phone service. The cell phones available today and the ones being developed for tomorrow can do much more than make an analog phone call, however.
Nowadays, a person can send text messages, play games, surf the Internet, check stocks, shop, check email, listen to music, take photographs, record videos, browse social networking sites, connect to your home computer, keep a calendar, and more. As impressive as all these features are, they do pose a problem. With cell phones being able to do so much, many people are constantly using them, at work, home, restaurants, school, movie theaters, and, inevitably, while driving a motor vehicle.
Cell phones are a distraction. If a driver is focused on sending or reading a text message instead of making sure they are driving safely, it threatens the lives of other motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and anyone else on the road. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), distracted driving is defined as performing any non-driving activity while driving.
Cognitive – mind off of driving.
Using a cell phone, especially for sending or even reading text messages, involves all three.
According to the NHTSA, 5,474 people were killed and approximately 448,000 were injured in distraction-related car accident nationwide. Of those killed, 995 reportedly died in cell phone-related crashes. Based on federal observational data, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) determined that, in 2009, approximately 672,000 passenger vehicles, at any point in the day, were being driven by people using a hand-held cell phone. This is an unacceptably large number of distracted drivers.
All drivers are banned from sending or reading text messages.
A violation of the general cell phone use law constitutes a secondary offense, which means that a police officer cannot pull over someone talking on a hand-held cell phone unless they've committed some other traffic violation. Texting is a primary offense, however. This allows a police officer to cite a driver for texting without any other violation.
Using a cell phone while driving to make a call, text, surf the web, or for any other reason is a choice. Drivers who choose to pay attention to their cell phone instead of the road are a danger to the safety of everyone on the road and are liable for any accident their negligence causes. At Alpert Schreyer, LLC, our knowledgeable Maryland vehicle accident lawyers help injured car accident victims pursue just and maximum compensation for the losses they've suffered as a result of their injuries. To learn more about your legal rights and options, call us today for a free case evaluation at 1 (844)-MDCRASH or (301) 932-9997.


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/**
 * @name IPosition
 * @description
 * A position which can be either absolute or relative.
 */
export interface IPosition {
    /**
     * @name X
     * @description
     * The coordinate on the X-Axis
     */
    X: Number;
    /**
     * @name Y
     * @description
     * The coordinate on the Y-Axis
     */
    Y: Number;
    /**
     * @name Z
     * @description
     * The coordinate on the Z-Axis
     */
    Z: Number;
    /**
     * @name Type
     * @description
     * The type of the position, which can be either absolute or relative
     */
    Type: PositionType;
}
/**
 * @name Position
 * @description
 * Represents one position, containing X, Y, Z coordinates
 * to identify the current position
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export class Position implements IPosition {
    /**
     * @param {Number} x The coordinate on the X-Axis
     * @param {Number} y The coordinate on the Y-Axis
     * @param {Number} z The coordinate on the Z-Axis
     * @param {PositionType} type  The type of the position, which can be either absolute or relative
     */
    constructor(private x: Number,
        private y: Number,
        private z: Number,
        private type: PositionType) {
    }
    /**
     * @returns The X-Coordinate of the position.
     */
    public get X(): Number {
        return this.x;
    }
    /**
     * @param {Number} value The x coordinate which get set
     */
    public set X(value: Number) {
        this.x = value;
    }

    /**
     * @returns The Y-Coordinate of the position.
     */
    public get Y(): Number {
        return this.y;
    }
    /**
     * @param {Number} value The y coordinate which get set
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    public set Y(value: Number) {
        this.y = value;
    }

    /**
     * @returns The Z-Coordinate of the position.
     */
    public get Z(): Number {
        return this.z;
    }
    /**
     * @param {Number} value The z coordinate which should get set
     */
    public set Z(value: Number) {
        this.z = value;
    }

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     * @returns The type of the position, which can be either relative or absolute.
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    public get Type() {
        return this.type;
    }

    /**
     * @param {PositionType} value The type of the position, which can be either relative or absolute.
     */
    public set Type(value: PositionType) {
        this.type = value;
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}


"She is shining... the love I feel... we've been through so much together."
Soulmates often choose to be romantic companions in their earthly lifetimes. They live side by side, helping one another to meet life's challenges.
"We're almost in a dependency... lost without each other... when it comes to our progress, there is a delicate balance between helping and hindering."
After separation, when soulmates are met once again, whether in life, in death, or in an LBL session - how sweet is that reunion.
"We're here together. They're standing in front of me... arranged in a sort of crescent. They all communicate love... we've all been in each other's past lives... it's my family, it's home."
A Soul Group is a close-knit 'family' of spirits with whom a person has shared countless incarnations in various roles, as well as working, playing, and learning together in the spiritual dimension.
Being greeted by your brother/sister souls is a most enjoyable experience. There is laughter here, and sometimes tears of joy. As you receive pure love and acceptance without condition, your heart feels, knows, a deep sense of belonging.


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David Blink is the director of the College of the Siskiyous Concert and Jazz bands. He plays the trumpet, and is also a composer.

David Blink got his Bachelor's degree in Applied Music with an emphasis in Jazz from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his Master's degree in Music Composition from Central Washington University.

In 2015, David Blink moved to Morelia, Mexico where he formed a new Big band at the Conservatorio de Las Rosas, which became known as the Conservatorio de las Rosas Latin Jazz Orchestra.

David Blink has been a featured artist at the Festival Internacional de Música de Morelia. He created large ensemble arrangements of the famous jazz artist Eugenio Toussaint. As a electroacoustic musician and composer, he has been a featured artist at the Visiones Sonoras XI, and a visiting artist at CMMAS.

David Blink was the Yakima Valley Community College director of instrumental music and jazz studies for over ten years. While there, he also directed the Yakima Valley Community College Salsa Band. Under his direction, the YVCC Salsa Band released a CD of original music: Black Salsify. Blink is the organizer of the Yakima Valley Community College Latin Music Festival, a yearly celebration that began in 2007. The Latin Music Festival has a community-outreach portion. Professional musicians, such as Memo Acevedo from various parts of the United States teach students of all ages in Yakima and the surrounding region about music.

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Summary: Math Tutor 2 is the sequel to the 2009 Best App For Primary School Kids Winner (3rd place). You can now learn how to easily do Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division and Fractions. Math Tutor is packed with 60 lessons 12 for each of the category, as you progress in the application you will learn new techniques and be able to solve more complex problems. You can also have fun while you do this, we have include 4 exciting mini games so you can practice. Daily tracking of your progress will help you see how much you are improving. Math Tutor is a great and fun tool for kids and grown up who want to improve their problem solving skills. Features: - 60 Lessons. - Addition. - Subtraction - Multiplication. - Division. - 4 Mini Games. - Progress Tracking. - Profiles. - Engaging User interface.


According to the World Bank, without the investments, changing rainfall patterns amid global warming could cost Zambia $4.3 billion over 10 years and keep 300,000 citizens below the poverty line. The World Bank says, "mitigating the impact of droughts and floods through development of a sound infrastructure platform to secure the productive use of water resources is central to continued economic development...Less that 5 percent of Zambia's arable land is irrigated".
This latest loan agreements of US$155m come in a month that Zambia has looked to borrow more than US$250m in a syndicated loan as GRZ struggles to find new sources of finance following irresponsible spending on wages and an ever expanding bureaucracy. The Government has also been negotiating with the mining companies to reduce their taxes following threats of closures - as global commodity prices tightens.
The World Bank is very irresponsible. It should be lending money to countries which have a publicly accepted Debt Management Legal Framework in place. I thought they were interested in good governance. Lending money, even for good causes, without a proper legal framework for the people to hold Government to account is quite foolish to say the least. The hypocrisy of these multilateral institutions never cease to amaze.


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The massive contract comes after MengXin tested Doosan's products and found their performance to be outstanding yet efficient in terms of fuel consumption.
Doosan's profit margins have witnessed an upward trend in recent times owing to the company's improving product sales in China.
Doosan Infracore (Doosan), a renowned South Korean Construction machinery manufacturing firm, has reportedly announced that it has signed a 36 excavator supply deal with leading Chinese mining company, Neimenggu MengXin Group (MengXin).
Reports cite, the massive supply contract comes after MengXin tested Doosan's products over a two-month period and found their performance to be exceptional yet efficient in terms of fuel consumption, making them ideal additions to the mining company's portfolio.
According to a report by International Mining, following the two-month testing period, MengXin Group has also decided to appoint Doosan Infracore as the company's primary supplier. The 36 excavators to be supplier by Doosan would be deployed across MengXin's existing mining portfolio located in the major mining district of Inner Mongolia.
Doosan would reportedly be supplying six units of its 80-ton excavator DX800, 10 units of its 38-ton excavator DX380 and over 20 units of its 52-ton excavators DX520 to the MengXin Group for its operations across Inner Mongolia.
As one of South Korea's leading construction equipment manufacturers, Doosan has witnessed an upward trend in its profit margins in recent times owing to the company's improving product sales across China, which is one of the company's key markets.
Market experts reportedly claim that domestic excavator sales in China have almost quadrupled over the last year to approximately 184,190 units as compared to unit sales back in 2016. Doosan Infracore sales also have experienced a surge of about 44% in 2018 as compared to previous year with over 15,630 of the company's units being sold.
According to reports, the financial terms related to the 36 excavator supply contract have not been disclosed by the two firms yet.


Whether you're a poet or a technologist, CubeFree and iPass make sure you stay connected to the people and things that matter most.
I suspect that a "connected world" conjures a few different images. The frequent traveler thinks of airports and planes and trains and increasingly of Uber – physical manifestations of moving bodies to endless points on the planet – familiar and exotic. Less grand – and perhaps self-centered – is the view that "I'm connected;" I know who matters – I'm important, and "if you don't know that yet, don't go far, 'cuz you know I'm gonna tell 'ya." But of course for most of us we see the common notion of being digitally connected – connected to the internet with access to all of the wonders of text and video and music and good and evil in this vast ocean of stuff fed by continuous streams of content and mighty rivers of creativity and sewers of, well, you get it. This connected world is a wonderfully brash and lawless place, the Wild West of the collective intelligence of mankind framed variously as the new Renaissance or Armageddon-in-waiting. But let's just hope that meddling regulators don't change this beautifully anarchic frontier.
Provocative, isn't it – that we are connected – emotionally – to a millennia of human thought, reason, and emotion through the poetry that conveys not the facts of the moment, but the passion or angst or delight felt as these events are observed or encountered? Validated by Churchill, who wisely observed, "history is written by the victors." In the hard-tech world of email and text and Twitter and WhatsApp, I take comfort in the notion that I can be connected to eons of human spirit through the ephemeral wisps of poetry.
As Sir Isaac Newton's famously observed in 1676: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." As the number of "things" with which to connect increases – or the giants get taller – the better the chances for creativity. If you believe Newton or Jobs, that is.
So bear with me – one more thought on the connected world before pulling this all together with what I hope is a point. Robert Metcalfe is an engineer, the inventor of Ethernet, but likely best remembered for the law of connectivity that carries his name. Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system. Paradoxically, the cold science of Metcalfe's rigid mathematics dovetails snuggly with a poet's view of tracking the history of human emotion, and the technologist's straightforward view of creativity. All three depend on connectivity, whether it is Job's connections of "things" or Collins' connections of generations through the written word. And we don't need a mathematical formula to make the leap that the larger the networks – networks of poems or networks of the "things" – the greater the value one can derive from it.
CubeFree certainly understands the merits and the power of a connected world. In finding the perfect place to "plug-in" and get some work done, with a database of hundreds-of-thousands of cafes, libraries, and co-working spaces across the globe, CubeFree is an indispensible tool for the road warrior. By using CubeFree, that mobile worker knows before settling in with their tablet the availability and quality of the Wi-Fi, the noise level, and the power outlets. And as more subscribers download the app, providing their own feedback and recommendations, the network of course grows – an ever-expanding web of the best place to connect and work when on the road. Brilliant in its simplicity, practicality, and ability to scale – organically.
So it is only natural that CubeFree and iPass, with a shared vision of the power of a connected world, would form a partnership. iPass, whose nearly 20M hotspots make up the world's largest commercial Wi-Fi network, helps to make sure that CubeFree users can always be connected to that Excel spreadsheet, a YouTube video, or a Billy Collins poem. For when you're on the road, it's all about always being able to connect to the people and things that matter most.


The Recording Academy, AEG Ehrlich Ventures and CBS will be honoring the 40th anniversary of the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack with a special concert event dedicated to legendary disco band, the Bee Gees. Two days after the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards, "Stayin' Alive: A GRAMMY Salute To The Music Of The Bee Gees" will be taped to be aired later this year. Nick Jonas, Grammy-nominated Demi Lovato and DNCE are among the list of scheduled performers.
Nick received virtually no recognition from the music industry after the release of "Last Year Was Complicated," but his involvement in this event isn't a surprise. After being snubbed by the prestigious award show, he took the high road and vocalized support for the Grammy Museum Giving fundraising campaign.
Nick Jonas isn't letting bitterness slow him down after his latest nomination snub. The singer wasn't nominated is a single category for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, but that doesn't mean he won't work with the music industry big wigs behind the ceremony.
Check out Nick's message below. Donate to the campaign here.
Yesterday, Demi Lovato took the stage for a special performance at The Grammys headquarters. The singer performed an acoustic version of "Stone Cold" for the audience who managed to Snapchat some of the performance.
See photos of Demi onstage and a clip of the performance below.


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Teach Students To Think and Be More Practical: BOD Chairman
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TUESDAY, 20 AUGUST – The new Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Chairman of the Board of Directors, Tun Dato' Seri Zaki Tun Azmi urged academic staff of UMS to educate students to be forward thinking and more practical.
He said the responsibility of educating the new generation especially university students should be shouldered by academicians so as to produce a generation that is able to contribute to the nation.
"Today, majority of those studying at the university are there because they want to aim for a higher pay, but are not interested in what they are doing. We should change this thinking," he said at a function with UMS academicians last night. Also present was UMS Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Datuk Dr. Mohd Harun Abdullah, members of the Board of Directors and principal officers of the University.
Tun Zaki said that lecturers should teach their students how to implement those knowledge learned to their everyday lives or in the working world in future.
"Theoretical knowledge in itself is useless if not practiced" he stressed and emphasised that academicians should set their own Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
More than 200 lecturers were present at the function.
By Salbinous Saribun
Photo: Ramdan Nain


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Hey Sew-Alongers! How are we all doing? This week I want us to focus on finishing up with muslins and cutting out our fabric. Are you still having fitting issues? Please post your muslin pics in the Flickr pool with notes on specific feedback you'd like.
If you're feeling good about your fit, take the muslin apart, make any changes, and use that baby as your pattern. (Or transfer your changes to your paper pattern, if you prefer.) Time to cut your fabric! I will leave you to do that on your own, and just remind you to be meticulous about grainlines. And don't forget to transfer all your markings!
If we stick to this schedule, we'll have our new coats for Halloween!
Now, I will leave you with a video of Henry.
The video was too, too cute! All these posts around the web lately of cats are seriously making me want to run out and adopt one... lol.
I was hoping to finish my coat by the end of October, but now that I look at that schedule I guess I better get hopping!!
While I am still debating on whether or not to do this ( I live in Florida, and for the most part, a jacket like this would be rather not useful), the video of Henry made me chuckle. Thanks for that.
Thanks for the schedule, I was starting to feel really behind so it's nice to know where I stand.
Your video of Henry makes me jealous!
awwwww.... Henry looks like he has more-than-the-usual amount of fur!
Grrrrr!! I think I'm going to have to zoom through the Lady Grey (I need a coat NOW!! It was 42 when I took Miss Lucy out for her morning sniff!!), but I have Dan's coat to also work on and my longer 2812 to practice buttonholes on!
I really like a wider belt (as opposed to the tie) on the L.Grey - so I think I'm going to skip the buttons and go with giant snaps - I'll always wear belted!
Henry is adorable. I bet he would be more animated if you had Sharon's locks dangling in front of him.
Looking forward to the tailoring tutorials.
Henry looks so soft and fuzzy. :) I wish I wasn't allergic to cats.
I will struggle gamely to keep up, lol. Would love to wear this coat to the last 2 marching band events, which are in early November. And giant snaps sound like a possibility (thanks for reminding me, Patty). I'm using melton wool and have a feeling that bound buttonholes would just be a terror, even if I could find silk organza to match my wool.
Hi Gertie: I think I'm going to have to serge my lining edges (or they will fray). But my fashion fabric is not fray-prone (it's boucle wool that's been mildly felted - though it doesn't look it). Do you encourage serging or overlocking or do you feel (other than on pockets), all the edges will be concealed/protected and therefore it's not necessary?
What a handsome kitty cat.
Hahaha, I thought it was just my cat Charlie who rolls around waiting for belly rubs like that!
Man-o-man, I gotta get going on stitching my muslin together...between this, and the promise to my sister to make baby hats for halloween, I've got plenty to keep me busy all day long!
I hope the weather is still 'warm' enough to wear it still at the end of October. You just can never tell with Chicago weather.
I really hope I can stick to this schedule. I'd love to have my coat ready for Halloween. It's turned a little bit chilly here now!
I know I'm supposed to be paying attention to seam finishes... but aww what a lovely cat! Sign me up for the Henry Fan Club (even when I'm wearing that cat hair magnet - black wool!)!


Red Note, Sound and Music Embedded Composer in Residence, Thomas Butler's new work Elbow Room explores the psychogeography of cites; how we affect the city and how the city affects us.
The culmination of an 18 month residency with Red Note, Elbow Room uses composition, performance and field recording techniques to tell the story of the mid-twentieth century plan to demolish the city of Glasgow and replace it with a futuristic concrete utopia; an architect's view of a healthier, more rational and productive city, for a healthier, more rational and productive population.
Mixing period films from the Scottish Screen Archive, which extol the virtues of the Glasgow of the future, with new sound recordings made in the city and a virtuosic score featuring violin, cello, percussion, electric guitar, synthesizer, clarinet and bass clarinet, Elbow Room is a nostalgic reflection upon fantasy and reality, ideal and actuality.
More than just a story, Elbow Room is an evocative, highly stylised voyage combining video footage, still images and music. Transporting the audience back to a glorified past, a time of naively optimistic urban evolution.
End of the World (for one night only) is one-off, site-specific music-and-theatre piece about the predicted apocalypse on 21 December, for an audience of only 100 people who will travel around the amazing spaces inside Summerhall.
Featuring music by Gareth Williams, John Harris, Hanna Tuulikki, Colin Broom and Ludwig van Beethoven, writer Oliver Emmanuel has interwoven the stories of four everyday people living their lives in Edinburgh, on the last day of the world. There's a man who remembers everything and wants to die, a silent PhD student who is in love with a librarian, a musician trying to finish his third symphony and a Golden Eagle who wants to be a human.
Most productions about the end of the world tend to be grand and epic and set in New York. This is intimate and fluid and set in Edinburgh. Directed by Andy Arnold, four string players (Jackie Shave violin, Tom Hankey violin, Louise Williams viola and Robert Irvine cello) are joined by the eerie sound of the musical saw from Abi Vulliamy and the wonderful young soprano Marie Claire Breen (who sang in Red Note's Tantallon! These Lands, This Wall spectacular in September).


Token validator checks whether an existing token was affected by just performed input source modification so that it needs to be relexed.
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Instagram is a popular photo and video-sharing app that has become increasingly popular over the years.
What is an Instagram Video Downloader Tool?
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Founder of Ignite Brady Forrest discusses the incredible experience of Burning Man in this sharing art keynote. Forrest was one of the 45,000 people to attend the annual week-long temporary city in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. From this experience, there is an ability to become inspired by the majestical nature of the environment that is a blank slate both physically and metaphorically. As Burning Man does not follow many of societal conventions, people are allowed to create things that would have not been possible.
Forrest shares a story how back in 2009, 80 people built a 35 foot Rubik's Cube for this inspiring temporary city. This art could only happen in this location; Forrest believes that this project allowed the formation of community as these people became lifelong friends bonding over their work. Though there is criticism due to its temporariness, Burning Man inspires people's creativity. The importance of this sharing art keynote is that possibilities thrive when conventions are not forced upon them and imagination rules.


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Help Joseph Finish his Film Studies
By: Samantha Parrish
Short URL: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/help-joseph-finish-his-studies
Joseph Moema is a kind, dedicated, diligent and conscientious young man who's about to enter his final year as a film student. Sadly, his sponsor has pulled out at the last minute, leaving his future hanging in the balance!
The private college, Oakfields are very expensive. Around R59 000 for the year - we only need R25 000 more to secure his place! Joseph came second in the class last year and received a gold certificate and a trophy at graduation for his first year. The subjects he did last year were editing, script writing, camera studies, audio post, production, sound for film and film theory. He really wants to complete his studies so he can follow his dreams and get into the job market!
Help make this young man's dreams come true and avoid becoming another drop-out statistic in South Africa.
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Sandavágur (Strandbugten) er en bygd på den sydlige del af øen Vágar, Færøerne. Sandavágur ligger, som navnet antyder, ved enden af en bugt med sandstrand. Byens erhvervsliv er domineret af fiskeproduktion og havfiskeri med trawlere.
Borgmester er Bjarni E Priror.

 Indbyggere: 957 (1. januar 2020)
 Postnummer: FO-360
 Kommune: Vága kommuna
 Fodboldforening: SÍF Sandavágs Ítróttarfelag og 07 Vestur

Historie
Sandavágur ligger kun få hundrede meter øst for nabobygden Miðvágur. Den blev grundlagt allerede i vikingetiden for ca. 1000 år siden.

En runesten fra det trettende århundrede er fundet her. Den fortæller, at vikingen Thorkæl Onundarsøn østmand fra Rogaland var den første, der bosatte sig her. Runestenen er udstillet i Sandavágur Kirke.

Færøernes lagmand holdt til i Sandavágur indtil 1816, da lagmandsembedet blev nedlagt, og Færøerne blev et dansk amt.

Sandavágur er en gammel kirkebygd. Der har været kirker i bygden helt tilbage til den katolske tid. Fra skriftlige kilder ved man, at der har været 6 kirker i bygden.
Den særprægede kirke fra 1917 er tegnet af arkitekten Magnus Jacobsen (Magnus á Kamarinum), Tórshavn.

Turisme
Byen har både Bed & Breakfast, vandrehjem og campingplads.

Fra Oyrargjógv går der en vandresti ud til bygden Slættanes, som var beboet fra 1835 til 1964.
Nær ved ligger det gamle færgeleje Oyrargjógv, hvorfra færgen sejlede til Vestmanna, før Vágartunnelen blev bygget.

1997 og 2003 fik bygden prisen for at være Færøernes bedst velholdte bygd.

Øst for bygden ligger den markante klippe Trøllkonufingur (Troldkonefingeren).

Kendte personer fra Sandavágur
 Torkil Nielsen (f. 1964) – fodboldspiller der scorede Færøernes første mål i en international kamp (EM-kvalifikationskamp mod Østrig i 1990).
 Samuel Jacob Sesanus Olsen (1904-1994) – skolelærer, forfatter og oversætter.
 V. U. Hammershaimb (1819-1909) – grundlæggeren af det færøske skriftsprog.

Galleri

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 Kommunens hjemmeside
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@interface ADQRCodeScanView()
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSTimer *timer;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIView *scanFrame;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *imgScanLine;
@property (nonatomic, assign) BOOL isUp;
@property (nonatomic, assign) CGRect imgScanLineFrame;

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIViewController *lastViewController;
@property (nonatomic, copy) NSString *domain;
@end

@implementation ADQRCodeScanView

- (void)openQRCodeScan:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
    self.lastViewController = viewController;
    [self setFrame:[UIScreen mainScreen].bounds];
    viewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
    self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

    ZRQRCodeViewController *qrCode = [[ZRQRCodeViewController alloc] initWithScanType:ZRQRCodeScanTypeContinuation customView:self navigationBarTitle:@"QRCode Scan"];
    qrCode.VCTintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    __weak typeof(self) wself = self;
    [qrCode QRCodeScanningWithViewController:self.lastViewController completion:^(NSString *strValue) {
        NSLog(@"QRCode Scan Result = %@ ", strValue);

        UIViewController *vc = wself.lastViewController;
        [[[ADQRCodeCompletion alloc] init] performQRCodeCompletion:vc stringValue:strValue removeTopAfterSuccess:^() {
            for (UIViewController *tmpVC in self.lastViewController.navigationController.childViewControllers) {
                if ([tmpVC isKindOfClass:[ZRQRCodeViewController class]]) {
                    [self.lastViewController.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
                    break;
                }
            }
        }];
    } failure:^(NSString *message) {
        [[ZRAlertController defaultAlert] alertShowWithTitle:@"Note" message:message okayButton:@"Ok" completion:^{ }];
        NSLog(@"Error Message = %@", message);
    }];
    [self addSomeView:qrCode.view.frame];
    [self showTabbar];
}

- (void)addSomeView:(CGRect)rect
{
    UIView *bigBGView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:rect];
    bigBGView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    bigBGView.alpha = 0.1;
    [self addSubview:bigBGView];

    CGFloat bTxtHeight = 50;
    CGFloat bTxtY = rect.size.height - bTxtHeight - 61 * 2;
    UILabel *bottomText = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, bTxtY, rect.size.width, bTxtHeight)];
    [bottomText setText:@"Align to the frame"];
    [bottomText setTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    [bottomText setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:19]];
    [bottomText setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
    [self addSubview:bottomText];

    CGFloat sfX = 20;
    CGFloat sfW = rect.size.width - sfX * 2;
    CGFloat sfY = (rect.size.height - sfW) / 2;
    UIView *scanFrame = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(sfX, sfY, sfW, sfW)];
    scanFrame.layer.borderColor = [UIColor clearColor].CGColor;
    scanFrame.layer.borderWidth = 1;
    [self addSubview:scanFrame];
    self.scanFrame = scanFrame;

    CGFloat slX = 3;
    CGFloat slY = 2;
    CGFloat slW = scanFrame.frame.size.width - slX - slY;
    CGFloat slH = 8;
    UIImageView *scanLine = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(slX, slY, slW, slH)];
    [scanLine setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"QRCodeScanLine"]];
    [scanFrame addSubview:scanLine];

    self.imgScanLineFrame = scanLine.frame;
    self.isUp = YES;
    self.imgScanLine = scanLine;
    [self upAndDownScanLine];
//    __weak typeof(self) wself = self;
//    self.timer = [NSTimer timerWithTimeInterval:0.4 target:wself selector:@selector(upAndDownScanLine) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
//    [self.timer fire];
//    [[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] addTimer:self.timer forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
}

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    //镂空扫描区域
    [[UIColor colorWithWhite:0 alpha:0.5] setFill];
    CGRect translucentRect = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds;
    CGRect transparentRect = _scanFrame.frame;
    UIRectFill(translucentRect);
    CGRect holeiInterSection = CGRectIntersection(transparentRect, translucentRect);
    [[UIColor clearColor] setFill];
    UIRectFill(holeiInterSection);

    CGFloat length = 27;
    CGRect sfRect = _scanFrame.frame;
    CGFloat color[4] = { (float)69 / 255, (float)177 / 255, (float)249 / 255, 1 };
    CGFloat white[4] = { (float)255 / 255, (float)255 / 255, (float)255 / 255, 1 };

    CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextSetLineCap(ctx, kCGLineCapRound);
    CGContextSetLineJoin(ctx, kCGLineJoinRound);

    CGContextSetStrokeColor(ctx, white);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(ctx, 1.5);

    //左边线
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y + length);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height - length);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //底部边线
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + length, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width - length, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //右边线
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y + length);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height - length);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //上边线
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width - length, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + length, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    CGContextSetStrokeColor(ctx, color);
    CGContextSetLineWidth(ctx, 6);

    //左上角
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + length, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y + length);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //左下角
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height - length);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + length, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //右下角
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width - length, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x +  + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y + sfRect.size.height - length);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);

    //右上角
    CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width - length, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y);
    CGContextAddLineToPoint(ctx, sfRect.origin.x + sfRect.size.width, sfRect.origin.y + length);
    CGContextStrokePath(ctx);
}

//扫描滚动条,上上下下持续滚动
- (void)upAndDownScanLine
{
    self.imgScanLine.frame = self.imgScanLineFrame;
    [UIView animateWithDuration:SCROLL_LINE_SPEED animations:^{
        CGRect rect = self.imgScanLine.frame;
        CGRect rect1 = self.scanFrame.frame;
        rect.origin.y = rect1.size.height - rect.origin.y * 2;
        self.imgScanLine.frame = rect;
    }];

    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(SCROLL_LINE_SPEED * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
        [self upAndDownScanLine];
    });
}

- (void)dealloc
{
    [self abolishTimer];
}

- (void)abolishTimer
{
    if (self.timer) {
        [self.timer invalidate];
        self.timer = nil;
    }
}

- (void)showTabbar
{
    self.lastViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = NO;
}

@end


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Dit is de lijst van premiers van Tsjecho-Slowakije:

Premiers van Tsjecho-Slowakije (1918-1992)

Zie ook
 Lijst van Tsjechische premiers
 Lijst van premiers van Slowakije

Tsjecho-Slowakije


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White Night is an annual wonderful light festival full of magic and novelty, featuring music, dance, visual display, light show, and a variety of buskers, attracting hundreds of thousands of people in Melbourne, Australia.
About White Night Festival
Following the trend of progressive cities around the world, the City of Melbourne began hosting the White Night event since 2013 aiming to introduce the innovation of artistic activities and has become one of the major cultural events in Melbourne, Australia.
This one-day-all-night festival (7 AM – 7 PM) is a night of creativity and culture, which features spectacular projection art, mind-bending installations and unexpected experiences, lighting up the streets of Melbourne. It's fascinating to see how the city transforms over those 12 hours from a working day-to-day city to this mysterious "other-worldly" space with around 300 artists performing around the CBD of Melbourne.
At Federation Square people dance all night while hundreds of mirror balls hang above the space. Flinders Street Station is converted into a theatre. People can also discover hidden little illuminated artworks as they walk around Melbourne's laneways and the whole city has this surreal outer-space feeling!
In 2019 the festival moved to winter and changed to White Night Reimagined, a pared-down but stretched-out version of the arts, music and light festival. From 2021 forward, Melburnians have said goodbye to White Night and welcomed the new RISING Festival (an integration of White Night and Melbourne International Arts Festival), but two lucky regional towns which are Bendigo and Geelong were still in the spotlight for the festival of lights in October and November 2021.
What to expect at the new White Night Festival?
Here's how the new White Night works. The original festival used to run from 7pm to 7am over a single night. But since 2019, it has taken place over three winter nights (in August). Events will start from 7pm every evening and finish at midnight on weekdays and at 2am at the weekend. The city's buildings won't feature projections which were made popular in the original White Night, but don't worry though, there will be plenty of activity to love about White Night 2.0.
The event is divided into different zones in Melbourne's city centre. There are three main festival precincts: Treasury Gardens, Carlton Gardens and Birrarung Marr. Each also has a distinct theme.
Birrarung Marr will be home to the 'physical realm' and host a range of appropriately high energy works and performance like Globe – a performance by Amsterdam street theatre company Close Act featuring a giant globe with 41 performers dancing in, on and around it.
Globe – a spectacular performance when the artists will hang from the sky in three 9-meter-high pyramid-shaped towers, accompanied by emotional music that brings an immersive and emotional performance.
Treasury Gardens will be transformed into the 'sensory realm' where you can explore artworks and lighting installations that engage all your senses.
Finally, Carlton Gardens will be the 'spiritual realm' and be home to a ten-metre long glowing lion puppet called 'The Guardian'. The gardens will also be transformed into the set of Mad Max: Fury Road.
Some of Melbourne's major arts and culture institutions will be staying open until late too, including Melbourne Museum, the State Library of Victoria and the National Gallery of Victoria. They will all be offering their own special programs (and provide respite from the cold nights).
The RISING festival will open on May 26 next year, running for 12 nights. But artistic directors Hannah Fox and Gideon Obarzanek said it would be a completely new type of festival. "It will also have a stronger visual arts element than has ever been seen before," Obarzanek said.
"We're looking for a richer experience for audiences when they come into the city to engage more than before. It's a festival for everyone, so it's more about public theatre, public spaces and celebrating the features of our city. The city will be our stage. It will be a festival that's really reflective of Melbourne and centres around the night time as (Melbourne is) the only city in Australia that has a performing arts culture seven nights a week. This large-scale festival will establish Melbourne as a destination in itself", said Fox, who has directed popular Tasmanian arts festivals.
Come to see these magnificent local landmarks and buildings transformed in a spectacle of light, catch the live performances throughout the festival and show some love to the regional towns when the festival returns next year.
Food-wise, there will also be street food on offer with a bunch of specials happening across the weekend to sustain you through the night. You can score a fairy floss white Negroni or try 15 different toasties and matching Hot Toddies across the three nights.
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What if I tell you that instead of spending your dollars on impressions and clicks, you can instead focus your spending on key performance metrics (KPIs) that can help you get better results?
It's the whole point of starting out with a superior performance marketing strategy done by professionals.
Performance marketing is all about shifting the marketing perception from an awareness-focused marketing strategy to an action-based one. The term envelopes various aspects of digital marketing. It is a specific marketing type that runs on media and involves the latest technologies. It is an overwhelming marketing strategy that works under a strict creative-first advertising model.
Performance marketing ensures that the budget you spend on marketing is only when it generates profitable results. These results can range from clicks to product pages, coupon code redeems, and even lead to purchases. As a result, marketers get a much accurate insight into ROI. Marketers then find out which tactics, Ad types, and social channels were the best and inspired users to take measurable actions.
Do you know that mobile marketing accounts for more than 70% of the overall digital advertising budget?
That's almost $74 billion. By the year 2021, these spendings are expected to increase and reach an alarming $118 billion. It makes up for almost 80% of the complete online ad budget available surpassing other traditional marketing budgets such as TV, Radio and Print Media.
Today, mobile technology has successfully earned the power of keeping audiences hooked to their screens. It has the capacity to engage an audience for almost three hours a day on average.
Most digital marketing specialists in UK perform their daily marketing activities, keeping the return on ad spend (ROAS) in mind. With performance marketing, they can bag most of the authentic clients within their respective client list. Moreover, it helps them establish a potent business model that solely works on client-defined objectives. Why is it a favorite with the clients? It is because Performance Marketing is all about performance. If there are no lead generations, you won't get paid.
That's one of the reasons why performance marketing is readily adopted among modern businesses.
In the near future, we will see an incredible uprise in the field of performance marketing. To elucidate how I have deduced this result; here are some interesting facts for you.
Performance marketing is predicted to grow up to 10 percent by the end of 2020.
More than 62 percent of average brand marketing budget will go towards performance marketing.
Almost 57 percent of performance marketers will use social media as a marketing platform.
How Does Costing Factor in Performance Marketing?
Basically, the costing model in performance marketing comparatively works quite differently than other marketing methods. When we talk about cost, clients are entailed to pay the service providers when they generate a lead. In digital marketing, performance marketing revolves around two key metrics; cost per acquisition (CPA) and cost per lead (CPL). Clients particularly measure KPIs based on these two factors and accurately define how much investment is further required to achieve a set target.
Once the end-goal of the client is identified, the performance metrics are determined. Whatever the purpose of your marketing, be it getting more sign-ups on your website, or getting people to experience your product in a demo, or boosting your product sales; the costing for this particular type of marketing strategy is defined by how often these assigned goals are met.
How Does Performance Marketing Work?
To better inculcate the concept of how performance marketing works, I am going to create a hypothetical situation and educate our masses on how businesses make the best use of this marketing strategy.
Suppose you are working for SaaS-based cloud business, known as (CloudFast). The purpose of your product is to deliver a seamless managed cloud hosting solution to end-users. You are currently employed at the firm and actively working for their marketing department. You have been continuously investing in the company's budget in various marketing channels, but you can't see any probable results.
Therefore, you decide to take the performance marketing approach in your business. Upon browsing the Internet, you come across a CPA network of B2B blogs run by an affiliate marketing analyst. He boasts a rather vast network of consumers belonging to a range of review websites, online courses, media sites and much more. He works with them on sub-affiliate bases and your product can benefit from him.
As a shrewd business person, you can strike a deal with this affiliate marketer by setting a certain budget spending of let's say around $50 on every cost-per-acquisition (CPA). It will be a mutually benefiting contract between both parties. As a result, you will see solid potential paying customers and he will get $50 on each successful lead. You can apply this use case on just about any business of your choice. Imagine you are running an e-commerce store and want to make the most of affiliate marketing… this strategy will still be a win-win game and is the best way to increase your earnings.
Performance marketing is a parent marketing method, under which a number of different strategic marketing styles work coherently to establish a brand presence in the market.
You can have better trackability of your ROI metrics.
You will have to face low risk when investing budget.
You will get better ROI results as compared previously.
You will have an extended advertising reach.
You will not have to handle any third-party validations.
So that's all folks, I hope it was an informative read.
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1. Upananda.-A thera. He belonged to the Sākiyan clan. Several incidents connected with him are mentioned in the Vinaya. Once he promised to spend the rainy season with Pasenadi Kosala, but on his way there he saw two lodgings where robes were plentiful and so kept Vassa in those lodgings instead. Pasenadi was greatly annoyed and when, in due course, the matter reached the ears of the Buddha, Upananda was rebuked and a set of rules was passed regarding promises made about the rainy season (Vin.i.153).
On another occasion Upananda spent the rainy season at Sāvatthi, but when the time came for the monks to gather together and divide the robes that had been given to them, he went from village to village, taking his share of the robes from everywhere. The Buddha sent for him and rebuked him in the presence of the Order, but the rebuke had evidently no effect, for we find him again spending the Vassa alone in two residences, with the idea of obtaining many robes. The Buddha, however, ordered that only one portion should be given to him (Vin.i.300).
His greediness was not confined to robes. Once he was invited to a meal by an official, a follower of the ājīvakas. He went late, and finding no room left for him, made a junior monk get up and give him his seat. There was a great uproar, but Upananda had his way (Vin.ii.165). Elsewhere he is accused of having appropriated two lodgings for himself at the same time, one at Sāvatthi and the other somewhere in the country. He was evidently unpopular among the monks, because on this occasion we find him spoken of as "a maker of strife, quarrelsome, a maker of disputes, given to idle talk, a raiser of legal questions." (Vin.ii.168).
Upananda was fond of money, for we find in the Vinaya (Vin.ii.297) a statement to the effect that "on the occasion of the matter of Upananda the Sākiyan, the Buddha distinctly laid down a precept by which gold and silver were forbidden."
Upananda had been given his meals regularly by a certain family. Once a dish of meat was prepared for him, but a little boy in the house started to cry for the meat, and it was given to him. Upananda insisted that a kahāpana should be paid to him in lieu of the meat (Vin.iii.236f).
Upananda was once asked to preach to those that came to Jetavana. Among the visitors was a banker, and when the banker expressed the desire to give something to Upananda to show his appreciation of the sermon, Upananda wished to have the robe that the man wore. The banker was embarrassed, and promised to go home at once and fetch him another robe, even better than the one he had on. But Upananda was adamant, till, in despair, the man gave him his robe and went away. Again, when Upananda heard that a certain man wished to offer him a robe, he went to the man and told him what kind of robe he wanted, and said he would accept no other (Vin.iii.215).
A story is also told of a Paribbājaka exchanging his own garment for one belonging to Upananda, which was of rich colour. Two other Paribbājakas told him that he had lost in the bargain, so he wished to cry off the deal, but Upananda positively refused (Vin.iii.240f). He did not, however, always come off best in a bargain. Once he gave a robe to a colleague, on condition that the latter should join him in his tours. The condition was agreed to, but later, when the recipient monk heard that the Buddha was going on tour, he preferred to join the Buddha's company. The robe was not returned to Upananda, who had to be reported to the Buddha for the violent language he used to the defaulter (Vin.iii.254f). Upananda is mentioned as quarrelling with the Chabbaggiya monks (Vin.iv.30) and, at another time, as going his alms-rounds with a colleague with whom he quarrelled when the rounds were over, refusing to give him any of the food obtained. The unfortunate monk had to starve because it was then too late to go out begging again (Vin.iv.92f). We are not told whether Upananda deliberately set out to have a quarrel in order that he might keep all the food himself!
Nor were all Upananda's misdemeanours confined to greed for possessions. We are told that once a complaint was made to the Buddha that Upananda had gone to the house of an acquaintance and had sat down in the bedroom of the woman of the house, talking to her. The husband ordered food to be brought to Upananda, and when that was done, asked him to leave. But the woman wished him to stay and he refused to go away (Vin.iv.94).
On two other occasions he is mentioned as visiting the houses of his acquaintances and being found by the husbands, seated alone with their wives (Vin.iv.95-7; see also 121, 127 and 168, for other offences committed by him).
With most laymen, however, he was evidently popular. Mention is made of a meal where the donor kept all the other monks waiting for quite a long while, till Upananda should arrive, after his visits to various households (Vin.iv.98). And, again, of food being sent to the monastery with express instructions that the other monks should eat only after Upananda had done so (Vin.iv.99).
Episodes regarding Upananda's misdeeds are not confined to the Vinaya. In the Dabbhapuppha Jātaka (J.iii.332ff; see also DhA.iii.139ff) we are told that he was in the habit of preaching contentment to others. When they, touched by his preaching, cast away their good robes, etc., Upananda collected them for himself. Once he cheated two brethren of a costly blanket. When the matter was brought to the Buddha's notice, this Jātaka was related to show how in previous births, too, he had plundered other people's goods. He had been a jackal called Māyāvī, and had cheated two other jackals of a rohita-fish they had caught. Again, in the Samudda Jātaka (J.ii.441f), he is described as a great eater and drinker; he would not be satisfied even with cart-loads of provisions. The Jātaka tells of how he once was born as a water-crow and tried to prevent the fish from drinking the sea-water lest he should not have enough for himself.
Buddhaghosa calls him a lolajātika, held in contempt by his eighty thousand fellow Sākiyans who joined the Order (Sp.iii.665). Elsewhere he is referred to as a well-known example of one who never practised what he preached and, therefore, did not benefit by his cleverness. E.g., AA.i.92; MA.i.348; Vsm.i.81.
Upananda had under him two novices, Kandaka and Mahaka, who seem to have resembled their teacher in being undesirables. They were found guilty of an unnatural offence, and the Buddha ordered that no one should ordain them (Vin.i.79). This order seems to have been rescinded later (see Vin.i.83).
2. Upananda.-A king of fifty-seven kappas ago; a previous birth of Tindukadāyaka Thera. Ap.i.201.
3. Upananda.-Four Pacceka Buddhas, mentioned in the Isigili Sutta. M.iii.70.
4. Upananda.-Commander-in-chief of the Magadha kingdom. He was present at the conversation, recorded in the Gopaka-Moggallāna Sutta, between Ananda and Vassakāra. M.iii.13.


Growing up, I was not extremely crazy about birthdays. Of course, I thought they were fun and a wonderful excuse to get together with some of my favorite people, but I was never the type of person who envisioned their birthday as the best day of the year.
As I grow older, I find birthdays to be quite interesting as I now see the other side of birth. I see my friends and family counting down to a day in anticipation for their new child to enter this world. Birthdays are so special to the parents-to-be, while the new baby has no idea what is really happening.
That's kind of how I view remission. Every chemo was like a new trimester for me, as I got closer and closer to giving birth to my health.
Let me break down my cancerversaries for you!
On the day that I was diagnosed, I already had plans to go bowling with friends. In light of the life-changing news I received from the doctor that day, I went through with my plans to go bowling for one last hoorah before my life was set to change forever.
Post-diagnosis and treatment, it has become a tradition for me to go bowling on May 19 of every year. While I'm not celebrating the fact that I was diagnosed with cancer, I am celebrating the day that I got the answers to start my journey of healing. This day was essentially the beginning of my journey!
Now, this is a day I had been counting down to from the moment I began treatment. I was marking off the days on my calendar to reach my last chemo. This is the day that most cancer survivors celebrate as their cancerversary, as in most cases it marks the last day of treatment for them. On this day, my fiancé and I have started a tradition to do a scavenger hunt as a celebration of my last chemo. He calls it "12 Quests for 12 Rounds of Chemo." This is a fun way to celebrate such a special day and it truly means so much to me. This day sort of feels like my birthday.
This also is a day to celebrate because I finally heard the words that I had been waiting to hear for so long! While I don't do a full-on celebration for this, it is wildly symbolic to me because it also is New Year's Eve, which represents the start of a fresh, new, and healthy year. I like to take this day to have an inward celebration with myself to set intentions and goals for the year to come, while also creating a gratitude list for all that I am thankful for from this past year.
I want to add that these plans and days are something I put together mostly on my own. I take the responsibility of explaining to people WHY these days are important. Although it might be frustrating that people don't jump to plan and celebrate our wins after we have achieved, I learned that we can't always expect people to fully understand unless we do our job in teaching them. While you celebrate your milestones, try to take your disappointment and turn it into a positive by planning yourself a wonderful day and inviting the people you love! People won't know it's important unless we tell them!
Please share in the comments what cancerversaries you celebrate and how you celebrate them.
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