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Mirror-world of balance of payments – by Tetiana Bogdan
How to mitigate the effects of global shocks and reduce the external financial vulnerability of the economy.
Avoidance of the balance of payments crisis and large-scale defaults during the economic crisis of 2020-2021 was a pleasant exception to the established rule of interdependence (mutual strengthening) of financial and economic crises in Ukraine. However, this state of affairs largely reflected not the achievements of Ukraine's macroeconomic policy, but the unique nature of the current crisis, the side effects of which were the slowdown in imports while maintaining access to the international capital market. These factors restrained the transmissions of external shocks in Ukraine's economy through trade and financial channels.
During 2020 and January-February 2021 there were both positive and negative phenomena in Ukraine's balance of payments:
formation of an unprecedented current account surplus (at the level of 4% of GDP) with a 7-fold reduction in the deficit in trade of goods and services, which increased the degree of external sustainability of the economy and painlessly financed capital outflows from Ukraine;
minimal reduction in wages in the context of the pandemic and economic crisis, which kept the national economy from plummeting and supported Ukraine's balance of payments;
resumption of foreign portfolio investment in the domestic government bond market, which indicated a satisfactory level of solvency of Ukraine and provided some support to the state budget;
beginning of the outflow of direct and portfolio investments from the economy of Ukraine, which became a significant factor in the decline in capital investment and the stagnation of the credit process in Ukraine;
excess of external debt repayment over borrowing amounts, which highlighted liquidity and solvency risks in the non-financial corporations sector;
active purchase of foreign assets by residents of Ukraine, which intensified the processes of financial exhaustion of the national economy;
prolongation of instability risks of balance of payments associated with large needs for refinancing accumulated debts and volatility of foreign capital flows.
Since 2016, Ukraine has had a chronical deficit of current account and a surplus of financial account of the balance of payments. In 2020, however, the situation became directly opposed: a positive current account balance (USD 6.2 billion) and a negative financial account balance (USD 4.2 billion) were recorded for the year. The first months of 2021 reproduced the general trends of the previous year: the current account remained positive and the financial account remained negative (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Ukraine's Balance of Payments Aggregates in 2013-2021, million USD
Source: Compiled by the author based on National Bank of Ukraine
In terms of GDP, the current account surplus in 2020 reached an unusually high level of 4%, which became an absolute record after 2004. The transformation of the chronical deficit into a surplus was caused primarily by falling import purchases due to the crisis reduction in consumer demand, lower world energy prices, disruption of international production and supply chains, and reduced opportunities to sell imported products within the country.
The rate of decline in exports of goods and services in 2020 (4.5% compared to 2019) lagged significantly behind the rate of decline in imports (17.9%), which resulted in a narrowing of the trade deficit from USD 12.5 to 1.8 billion. At the same time, the positive balance of trade in services increased 2.75 times. A nearly twofold reduction in imports of tourist services from USD 8.5 billion to USD 4.6 billion significantly improved the balance of services.
Following the results of 2020, the share of food and raw materials for their production in the structure of Ukraine's exports of goods was almost 50%, and in 2018 this share was 43%. The steady external demand for food products supported the physical and value volumes of their exports. In the structure of Ukraine's exports of goods, the share of all raw materials (food, mineral products, ferrous and nonferrous metals) was at a consistently high level of 80%.
However, in the geographical structure of Ukrainian exports there were significant changes. Exports of goods and services to the EU in 2020 fell by 10.6% compared to 2019; at the same time, exports to Asian countries grew by 15.7%. As a result, the EU's share in Ukrainian exports decreased by 2.2 percentage points (to 35.1%), and the share of Asia increased by 5.9% (to 33.4%). The decrease in exports to the European Union was due to tight quarantine restrictions in the EU and the restraining nature of some articles of the Association Agreement (in terms of quotas for agricultural products, technical regulation of industrial exports and restrictions on exports of services).
The net outflow on the financial account and capital account in 2020 was USD 4.2 billion, which stands in sharp contrast to the net inflow of funds in previous years. In January-February 2021, the outflow continued and reached USD 1.3 billion. In 2020, a significant growth of external assets was combined with a slight increase in external liabilities, as a result of which residents of Ukraine were net creditors of the rest of the world (in the amount of USD 6.2 billion) (see Figure 2).
Figure 2. Financial Account Balance and its Components in 2017-2020
The significant components of the net outflow of capital from Ukraine in 2020 were as follows:
a) an increase in external assets of the private sector by USD 6.9 billion, including the accumulation of foreign currency cash outside the banks which amounted to USD 5.1 billion;
b) net repayment of debt securities by the public and private sectors of Ukraine which was USD 0.9 billion;
c) net withdrawal of foreign direct investment in Ukraine by non-residents which was almost USD 1 billion.
The growth of external assets in 2020 was almost the same as in 2019. But if we analyze the structure of asset growth in the dynamics, then in 2020 direct and portfolio investments of residents of Ukraine decreased several times, while the cash currency outside banks doubled. Cash accumulation accelerated due to growing economic uncertainty during the crisis, a surge in devaluation, and reduced funding for shadow operations under permanent quarantine restrictions.
The analysis of the financial account for 2018-2020 clearly shows that the liberalization of capital movements after the introduction of the Law "On Currency and Currency Operations" caused a huge capital outflow of residents of Ukraine: the growth of external assets increased from USD 0.9 billion in 2018 to USD 7 billion in 2019 and to USD 6.9 billion in 2020. The outflow of capital triggered decapitalization and financial exhaustion of the economy, which undermined the prospects for economic recovery.
In the structure of assets of the international investment position (see Fig. 3) foreign currency cash outside banks played the dominant role: its position at the end of 2020 reached USD 93.7 billion. Trade credits and advances and foreign direct investment which accordingly amounted to USD 4.0 billion and USD 8.8 billion were also important components of the international investment position assets.
Figure 3. Main Components of Assets of Ukraine's International Investment Position in 2013-2020
The absolute size of official foreign exchange reserves of Ukraine in 2020 went up by USD 3.8 billion, but for two months of 2021 it diminished by USD 0.6 billion. At the same time, the basic indicators of reserve adequacy are still lower than the threshold ratio. In particular, at the end of 2020 the actual size of NBU's international reserves was at the level of 95% of the IMF composite criterion, lagging behind the threshold ratio by 5%. The ratio of reserves to short-term external debt increased from 45.5% in 2018 to 60.1% in 2020, but still did not reach a critical level (100%).
According to the NBU, in 2021-2022 Ukraine will have to pay more than USD 17 billion on public and publicly-guaranteed debt in foreign currency, not to mention the debt payments of private borrowers. This value is equivalent to 60% of the current level of Ukraine's international reserves. This situation indicates the fragile nature of the achieved macro-financial stability in the country and the lack of alternatives to Ukraine's cooperation with official creditors.
That is, today the key risks to the stability of Ukraine's balance of payments are associated with the massive outflow of national capital and the unreliability of sources of debt refinancing. An alarming symptom is that since the beginning of 2021, the volatility of financial markets has increased with the growth of long-term interest rates in advanced economies.
The market yields on 10-year US Treasury bonds grew from less than 1% at the beginning of the year to 1.7% in April 2021. There has also been a sharp rise in interest rates in the UK and a moderate rise in Japan and the Eurozone. This reflected investors' expectations about future inflation and money supply. There are now fears that central banks in advanced economies will respond to this situation by raising the key policy rate; then portfolio investors will begin to leave emerging markets in large numbers.
This means that for Ukraine, as well as for other emerging market economies, the risks of access to external market financing are becoming relevant. To offset such risks, the IMF advises central banks of emerging market economies to pursue an easier monetary policy that will be able to offset rising global interest rates (Shifting Gears: Monetary Policy Spillovers During the Recovery from COVID-19). The National Bank of Ukraine, as always in such situations, is following its own unique path and while strengthening external financial risks it has already moved to a cycle of raising interest rates.
Mitigation of global shocks and reduction of external financial vulnerability of Ukraine's economy should be based on the implementation of the following economic policy measures:
Increase in volume and improvement of the structure of international reserves by:
a) repurchasing the surplus of foreign currency supply by the National Bank during the seasonal growth of export revenues and a gradual increase in reserves to USD 31-32 billion; b) raising the share of gold from the current 5.3% to at least 15%; of the total value of international reserves; c) enhancing investments in AAA-rated corporate bonds issued by the corporates from the EU and the USA.
Implementation of stimulating monetary policy through: a) refraining the National Bank from further raising the key policy rate (even with rising inflation); b) launching targeted long-term refinancing operations of banks to the real sector of the economy; c) easing standards for banks to reserves provisioning related to the credit risks.
Development of the domestic capital market on the basis of: a) expansion of liquid markets of financial instruments and risk mitigation mechanisms/ instruments; b) modernization, consolidation and development of the exchange and depository infrastructure of the market (introduction of the institution of a regulated market operator, creation of a model of the Multilateral Trading System, etc.); c) establishment of the Private Investment Guarantee Fund to cover the losses in the event of bankruptcy of professional stock market participants.
Gradual narrowing of the budget deficit starting from 2022 and the use of the following instruments of fiscal consolidation: a) increase in taxes on property, wealth and capital gains; b) improved administration of corporate profit tax; c) growth of environmental taxes and rent payments (especially for the extraction of iron and manganese ores); d) reduction in budget expenditures on state administration, security and judiciary.
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Kandinsky is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Victor Kandinsky (1849–1889), Russian physician
 Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist

See also
 Bibliothèque Kandinsky
 Kandinsky Prize

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require 'optparse'

module VagrantPlugins
  module CommandResume
    class Command < Vagrant.plugin("2", :command)
      def self.synopsis
        "resume a suspended vagrant machine"
      end

      def execute
        opts = OptionParser.new do |o|
          o.banner = "Usage: vagrant resume [vm-name]"
        end

        # Parse the options
        argv = parse_options(opts)
        return if !argv

        @logger.debug("'resume' each target VM...")
        with_target_vms(argv) do |machine|
          machine.action(:resume)
        end

        # Success, exit status 0
        0
      end
    end
  end
end

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No. 5 Gophers rebound behind Walker and LaFontaine to blank Irish, 3-0
John Fineran
Tribune Correspondent
SOUTH BEND — The Minnesota and Notre Dame hockey teams which showed up on a chilly Friday night inside the Compton Family Ice Arena were the polar opposites of themselves last weekend.
That was good news for Golden Gophers coach Bob Motzko and bad news for his Notre Dame counterpart Jeff Jackson.
After being swept at home 4-1 and 8-1 last weekend and falling out of first place in the Big Ten Hockey Conference, Minnesota got a goal and assist from junior captain Sammy Walker and 24 saves and an assist from senior goaltender Jack LaFontaine to blank Notre Dame 3-0 at the near-empty Lefty Smith Rink where the Irish are now 3-9-1 this COVID-19 season.
"Obviously we're very pleased with our effort and our commitment to how we were going to come in here and play tonight," said Motzko, who reshuffled his lines after skating his team hard in practice Monday.
Jackson saw the difference in the Gophers from the get-go. "They looked like a team that got swept last weekend; we looked like a team that won big last weekend," the Irish coach said.
Jackson's jab was intended. After winning 6-1 and 8-1 last weekend at Ohio State, the Fighting Irish looked anything but explosive and were outshot 33-24 and outplayed for the most part.
"They (the Gophers) are too good a team to turn pucks over on," Jackson continued. "I thought we did a very poor job managing the puck through the neutral zone, which left us turning the puck over and chasing more than we would prefer to."
The lone bright spot for the Irish was the play of senior goalie Dylan St. Cyr, who in his eighth straight start turned aside 30 of the 32 shots he faced. Minnesota got goals from Walker on the power play at 11:10 of the first period, off a deflection by Sampo Ranta at 15:35 of the third period and then added an empty-net goal at 19:59 by Blake McLaughlin off a feed from Walker on a 2-on-0 break.
"I can't blame Dylan on either one of the (first two) goals — he gave us an opportunity to win the game," Jackson said. "We just didn't have enough offensively."
With the victory, the Golden Gophers, ranked No. 1 most of the season including the weekend when Notre Dame swept them 3-2 and 2-1 last month in Minneapolis, returned to first place in the Big Ten over idle Wisconsin, which begins a two-game series Saturday afternoon at fourth-place Michigan. Minnesota (16-5-0 overall, 12-5-0-0-0-0 for 36 points in the Big Ten) is now two points up on the Badgers. Third-place Notre Dame (10-10-1 overall, 8-8-1-1-2-1 for 27 points in the Big Ten) remains four points ahead of the Wolverines.
The Gophers outshot the Irish 10-8 in the first period while taking a 1-0 lead just shortly after the teams exchanged penalties near the middle of the period. Minnesota's Ben Meyers went off at 8:17 for holding, giving the Irish a power play and Notre Dame, which scored five power-play goals last weekend, pressure LaFontaine early with three shots, two by Alex Steeves and another by Colin Theisen.
But the advantage was wiped out when Jake Pivonka took a good interference penalty to prevent a Gophers breakaway at 9:33. The teams skated 4-on-4 until Meyers penalty expired at 10:17 and for a time it looked like the Irish might escape any damage.
But LaFontaine sent an outlet pass to defenseman Jackson LaCombe, whose pass sent Walker down the slot. Walker quickly wristed a shot past St. Cyr on the goalie's stick side and the Gophers had a 1-0 lead that stood up to the intermission.
St. Cyr kept the Irish in the game in the second period by making 14 saves, including a couple on Walker and one on a breakaway by Ranta at 5:45. At one point, the Gophers outshot the Irish 10-2 in the first 13:46 of the period until Notre Dame got its footing with a couple of power-play opportunities.
The first Minnesota penalty was a tripping call against defenseman Ryan Johnson, and Notre Dame managed just one shot, a close-in try by Pivonka that the 6-foot-3 LaFontaine stopped.
Then with less than a minute remaining, Minnesota's 6-foot-4 sophomore center Jaxon Nelson laid out Notre Dame sophomore right wing Solag Bakich at center ice. Bakich stayed on his back for a few seconds before getting to his feet. Meanwhile, the officials looked at the replay and determined that Nelson's hit made contact to the head, a major penalty and game misconduct at 19:15.
The Irish, who scored three times on a five-minute major in the first period of last Saturday's 8-1 victory at Ohio State, didn't get a shot off in the remaining 45 seconds and had 4:15 left on the penalty in the third period.
LaFontaine, who had three shutouts coming into the game, stopped Nick Leivermann and Colin Theisen and then two shots by Bakich at the end of major penalty. The 5-foot-3 goalie later stopped Landon Slaggert at the doorstep at 12:05 to keep the Irish scoreless.
Ranta then deflected home a shot by Brannon McManus at 15:35 to make it 2-0.
"We were stuck in the defensive zone for too long, and generally when that happens, you're going to break down," said Jackson, who pulled St. Cyr with 2:19 remaining for the extra attacker. But LaFontaine stopped Leivermann and Theisen in the final minute before the Gophers added McLaughlin's insurance goal.
The teams conclude their two-game series Saturday afternoon at 5:30.
MINNESOTA 3, NOTRE DAME 0
At Lefty Smith Rink/Compton Family Ice Arena, South Bend
Minnesota 1 0 2—3
Notre Dame 0 0 0—0
First Period—Scoring: 1. Minnesota, Sammy Walker 11 (Jackson LaCombe, Jack LaFontaine) PPG 11:10. Penalties: Minnesota 1-2, Notre Dame 1-2.
Second Period—Scoring: None. Penalties (total): Minnesota 3-17 (4-19), Notre Dame 0-0 (1-2).
Third Period—Scoring: 2. Minnesota, Sampo Ranta 13 (Brannon McManus, Ben Brinkman) EV 15:35. 3. Minnesota, Blake McLaughlin 9 (Sammy Walker) EV/EN 19:59. Penalties (total): Minnesota 0-0 (4-19), Notre Dame 0-0 (1-2).
Shots on goal—Minnesota 33 (10-14-9), Notre Dame 24 (8-6-10). Goalie saves—Minnesota, Jack LaFontaine 24 (8-6-10), Notre Dame, Dylan St. Cyr 30 (9-14-7). Power-play opportunities—Minnesota 1 of 2, Notre Dame 0 of 3. Faceoffs won—Minnesota 18 (8-5-5), Notre Dame 23 (9-8-6). Blocked shots—Minnesota 15 (6-8-1), Notre Dame 21 (7-4-10). Referees—Brett DesRosiers and Sean Fernandez. Linesmen—Bill Hancock and Riley Bowles. Records—Minnesota 16-5-0 (12-5-0-0-0-0 for 36 points and second place in Big Ten), Notre Dame 10-10-1 (8-8-1-1-2-1 for 27 points and third place in Big Ten).

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Title: Matter of Choice
Author: RM Alexander
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Some promises can't be kept.
Shannon Winters' picture perfect marriage is in shambles after a car accident left her husband an amnesiac. The commitment to vows he doesn't remember making keeps her fighting while covering up the parade of other women and a spectacle of bad behavior. Her career as owner and manager at a successful boutique hotel alongside the Hudson River keeps is her refuge, but, at thirty-seven years old, what she craves is the bond to be repaired.
Even twenty years after high school, Triston Keyes continues to be haunted by the memories of the girl he'd lost, the only woman he's ever loved. When he meets Shannon during a vacation, he finally has the chance to apologize. It's the only hope he has if he ever wants to fall in love with anyone else.
Sparks rekindle between them, and Shannon struggles to find a reason to stay true to a broken marriage which is quickly crumbling as she gravitates towards the forgotten love.
Until her husband pleas for her to come back.
But when the depth of betrayal is revealed, Shannon must choose her vows-and her beloved hotel-or to remain true to her heart; while Triston must fight to keep the past from catching up to his future.
Both know nothing is a matter of luck, but a matter of choice …
I did like this book... although I had some difficulty with it.
I honestly don't know what I would do if I was in Shannon Winter's shoes. She's married to a man who doesn't remember her, or even being married. One drunk driver took away his memory for almost two years, and it's been a lonely existence ever since. It also doesn't help matters that he is coming into her workplace drunk and looking to have a little fun.. with anyone else but her.
Then Triston Keyes happens to check into the hotel. Her first love who broke her heart twenty years ago. The feelings that she thought were long gone start to resurface. She's lonely, and craving attention. She would love her husband to be there, but that's a lost cause. She wants to stay true to her vows, but Greg makes things impossible for her to do that. She finally comes to her breaking point after one terrible incident at a banquet.
Tristan knows she's married, but the attraction and feelings he thought were forgotten come back. There were times in the book that I thought he should maintain distance, because Shannon was married. When he offers to be there as a friend for her lean on, Shannon takes him up on it. Her best friend Lauren knows what is going on, but she's acting secretive for some reason.
Then she catches Lauren in a very compromising position... and her world shatters.
Triston is there to pick up the pieces, and be the rock she so desperately needs. He wants her to leave Greg, but Shannon knows she can't. Her vows meant something, and she didn't want to not be there if Greg's memory came back.
I really did like this story... I felt horrible for Shannon to have to live this life that isn't complete. She was spending more and more time at her hotel, because it was her sanctuary away from the craziness of her life. Triston came into her life at just the right time.
I liked Triston, although he pushed her too hard at times when he knew she wasn't ready to be with him. She was a married woman, and he told her his feelings anyway. My head knew her marriage was over, but my heart was like... Dude, what are you doing? He didn't like seeing her husband constantly hurt her over and over again, and couldn't understand why she stayed with someone like that.
When she finally decides her marriage is no longer something she can fight for, he's happy to be the rock she so desperately needs.
"I think you're underestimating my commitment here."
"I think you're getting ahead of yourself."
"Am I?" He leaned forward, his knuckle cupping her chin as he edged it upwards and softly pressing his lips against her mouth. Her every fiber wanted to fight him, to push him away, but their skin pressed together felt too good, and she melted into him.
Slowly, they parted, her voice hoarse as she spoke. "We shouldn't …" She couldn't bear to open her eyes. She didn't want to see the expectations and hope she imagined to be shimmering in his gaze, or reveal the shame and uncertainty she knew was in hers.
He pressed a finger against her lips, leaning forward to whisper in her ear, his breath intoxicatingly warm. "Don't say 'we shouldn't' anything. Open your eyes sweetheart, look at me." He paused, and she could feel him back away. Setting her jaw firm, her lids eased open, staring into his gaze a mere inches away. "It was one kiss Shy. That's all. And I won't go further than that until you're ready. But to make it clear, I love you. It might seem impossible, it's been years and we haven't spent much time together since I came to the Grande. But I realized this afternoon, when I took a jog down that path we walked… I loved you in high school. Honestly, truly loved you. I screwed it up. But the love never really went away."
RM Alexander is an author of Contemporary and Paranormal Romance. Her current novel, "Matter of Choice" is releasing in January 2014.
She has been writing since she was 10 years old. Many times, she stopped writing for months or even years at a time, but always came back to it until, in 2009, an idea came to her she couldn't put down. Over the next two years, she wrote and revised "Shadows", which will becoming available in spring/summer of 2014.
Another novel, "Matter of Choice", found its way to paper in 2010 during the revision process for "Shadows". And as "Shadows" was making its rounds to literary agencies, "Matter of Choice" was finished and slated for release in January of 2014.
With characters who look for love in wrong places and are victims of the worse kind of betrayals while fighting for what they want and believe in, RM's novels promise a good read with unexpected twists and turns.
When she's not writing, RM is spending time with her husband and two small children in Michigan. She loves to travel, especially to Walt Disney World, and can often be found on Twitter or Facebook chatting with other authors and fans.
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Bionic Voice substitutes and regenerates the missing "voice source" for laryngectomees. It is naturally controlled by respiration and has an exceptionally high voice-quality. The Voice is generated by a smart algorithm and can be trained in its future generation to reach a voice quality resembling the patient's own.
Bionic Voice is a wearable system, integrating hardware and software to generate true voice for laryngectomees.
A pressure sensing module sits over the patient's stoma to monitor respiration. Similar to the vocal folds, these readings then drive an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software model of vocal folds which produces the patient's voice.
The AI software is designed to learn and mimic the natural voice of the patient.
Link to study 1
Naturally Controlled
Electronic voice prostheses such as electrolarynx require manual control. Bionic Voice is naturally controlled using respiration
Bionic Voice generates a voice quality better than other solutions in the market
Smart Prothesis
Bionic Voice has an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module that can learn to improve the quality of the voice over time to sound closer to the patient's own.
Laronix is an Australian biomedical company that has developed Bionic Voice: a wearable high-quality voice prosthesis for laryngectomees.
Laronix's Bionic Voice is non-invasive to the body and naturally controlled during speech and it generates an exceptionally high quality compared to other modalities in the market.
The technology was invented by Dr. Farzaneh Ahmadi during his Postdoctoral term at Western Sydney University. Farzaneh and her brother Mousa founded Laronix in August 2018 and have completed the pre-clinical trials of the solution and secured public funds. Laronix is now partnering with Stanford University to perform the clinical trials of the solution before moving on to scaled manufactory.
Laronix has a team of world-renown clinical and machine learning advisors to launch a wearable high-quality non-invasive alternative to existing invasive voice prostheses and improve patient outcomes.
Laronix is proudly supported by:
Dr. Farzaneh Ahmadi, Founder/CEO
Scientific Lead of Bionic Voice research, Nagoya University, a globally pioneering research team in Bionic Voice design.
Dr. Mousa Ahmadi, Co-Founder
PhD in product Design, User Experience, NJIT, USA, Platfora, Docker San Francisco CA
Director of Speech Rehabilitation Center. Stanford University.
Scientific Advisor
World Leading Expert in AI for natural voice synthesis, Nagoya University, Japan
Mr. Ben Wright
Director, NSW Health Medical Device Commercialisation Training Program, Sydney.
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title: Google Page Rank
excerpt: "De janvier 2017 à février 2017 : Analyse et caractérisation de l'algorithme PageRank de classement des pages internet utilisé par Google."
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### Objectif

L'objectif de ce projet est d'analyser et de caractériser le plus possible l'algorithme PageRank de classement des pages internet utilisé par Google par l'écriture d'un code.

Le PageRank (PR) est un indice qui mesure la notoriété de chaque page web référencée par Google. Elle est notée sous forme d'une valeur sur une échelle de 0 à 10 et permet ainsi d'établir le classement des pages web. Plus le nombre de liens qui pointent vers une page est grande, plus la page est populaire. On considère donc le web comme un graphe orienté dont les pages web sont représentées par les états et les flèches par des liens pointant d'une page vers une autre. Les utilisateurs se baladent sur le net en cliquant aléatoirement sur un lien de la page sur laquelle ils se trouvent. Cette marche aléatoire est représentée par une chaîne de Markov. Un internaute a donc une certaine probabilité d'être sur une page à un instant donné. Le PageRank d'une page est donc la probabilité qu'un internaute se trouve à une page en question lorsque l'on atteint l'équilibre qui correspond à la loi stationnaire.

La notion de PageRank a été introduite en 1998 par Serge Brin et Larry Page, cofondateurs de Google.

Pour mener a bien ce projet, nous avons :

* Analyse de l'algorithme

Tout d'abord, nous avons écrit un code permettant d'analyser l'algorithme. L'idée est de savoir ce qui se passe lorsque le réseau comporte un nombre de pages faible puis élevé à l'aide des instruments des chaînes de Markov régulières.

* Recherche de l'influence des différents paramétres

Après l'écriture d'un code et l'analyse de l'algorithme, nous avons observer l'influence des différents paramètres en recherchant tous les cas possibles.

### Quelques exemples et résultat final

### Outil et méthodes


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Road to the Oscars: The Shorts
February 14, 2018 filmadmin
From now until March 4th, the Oscars hype will follow some of the most popular names in filmmaking. The nominees for Documentary, Live Action, and Animated shorts, however, are rarely as eminent in theaters or for audiences. Short films are neither as accessible or as sought after as films with longer running times. Luckily, now's the perfect time for you to change that before the Oscars air in March. Theaters like O Cinema and The Bill Cosford Cinema will be playing all of the nominees for the short film categories starting this weekend!
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Are you obsessed with Awards shows? Can't get enough of that Oscars buzz? Do you live to see the red-carpet entrances of your favorite celebrities and filmmakers? Well, great news! Here's your opportunity to watch The 90th Academy Awards with other Oscars fanatics and movie-buffs. The FIU Film Studies Program will be hosting a live screening of the Oscars on March 4th in GC 140 starting at 7 p.m. with food, games, and a red-carpet!
The Haunting Visage of Eyes Without a Face
February 7, 2018 filmadmin
The unsettling visage of Christiane
On a rare occasion, the passage of time helps a film age like a fine wine. Such a rare example of this phenomenon is best observed in the case of Georges Franju's French horror film, Eyes Without a Face (1960). Released the same year that Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) was criticized for its "vulgar" shot of a flushing toilet, Eyes Without a Face is a movie that phenomenally blends emotional turmoil with the grotesque into a simple story whose unnerving aura transcends time and language. With four screenings of the film scheduled for this week thanks to the Secret Celluloid Society, now is an opportune time to sit back and re-examine a classic that deserves more mainstream attention than it currently has.
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Winchester Fires Nothing but Blanks
Sarah Winchester deserves better than this dreadful film
To believers of the supernatural, the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California is the remnant of an unfortunately haunted widow, while skeptics see the mansion as a monument to the power of inherited guilt. After consulting with a medium who foretold that the spirits killed by Winchester branded rifles would haunt her until her death, Sarah Winchester's mansion became legendary for having been under construction every day of her life. The end result was a beautifully ornate mansion that once stood seven stories tall, and was filled with over a hundred and fifty rooms, stairwells and doors that lead to nowhere, and had the chaotic floor-plan of a labyrinth. Knowing this, when I heard there were plans to make a film about Sarah Winchester and her interactions with a psychiatrist, I was genuinely excited by the prospect of a horror film that blurred the line between a genuine haunting and tragic psychological turmoil.
How foolish of me to anticipate a horror film released in February.
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Author: George IbarraHorror
Winchester Prize Pack Giveaway!
January 31, 2018 filmadmin
To celebrate the opening of the horror/biopic Winchester (starrring Helen Mirren), Allied Integrated Marketing has partnered with the Film Studies program to offer you a chance to win an exclusive WINCHESTER Prize Pack! Contents include a Black Veil, an Evil Spirit Kit, a Mini Poster and a $25 Fandango Gift Card! To enter, follow this link and enter your details.
Winners will be chosen at random before Friday, February 2nd at 11:00AM EST. Good Luck!
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Vote for your favorite Romantic Film!
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, its about that time of year to start stocking up on flowers, stuffed animals, and chocolate hearts. Which Romantic film gets you in the mood for love?
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2018 Academy Awards Celebrate Diversity In Film
Rejoice, film enthusiasts! Oscar Season is upon us once again. March 4th marks the 90th Academy Awards, a night of celebrating some of the most critically acclaimed films of the previous year. The Academy Awards (AKA The Oscars) is the artistic event of the season, where lovers of the medium gather around the television to watch cringey, topical humor – Jimmy Kimmel, unfortunately, returns as this year's emcee – inspirational speeches, and debate on whether or not certain movies deserve to win certain awards. More importantly, it is a night that recognizes achievements in filmmaking. Whether it be the less flashy technical awards like Best Sound Mixing, or much grander awards like Best Director, the importance of the event is to recognize fine works of art and all those that worked on them. While the winners should be applauded for their hard work, it is important to not forget that cinema is a transformative art and that the greatest prize of all is what a film could mean to someone as a personal level. That being said: if Roger Deakins doesn't win Best Cinematography for Blade Runner 2049, the Academy must be blind.
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The Keeper: A Story of Romance and Reconciliation
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Everyone knows that household products are chemistry products, but what is the colloidal part of it – the part where we excel and make a difference? Here are some examples: The detergents in the soap and dishwashing liquid that remove dirt due to their amphiphilic nature. The laundry detergents that must remove dirt but not color from our clothes. The window polish that leaves the surface repellant as a lotus leaf, nature's own nano material. The car shampoo that foams. The roof paint that doesn't drip but is thin enough for a smooth application leaving no blisters or cracks. The wall paint that dries to a thin film, but not so fast that it dries in the brush.
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Try again, Tony: your say on the new government
Posted on September 26, 2013 by Michael Koziol in Inner West Independent 0 Comments
Prime Minister Tony Abbott
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's new government has met a skeptical reception on the streets of Sydney's inner west, with locals expressing concern about its first week priorities.
The Inner West Independent spoke to shoppers in Glebe, Balmain and Leichhardt on Sunday, four days after the new administration was sworn in.
The government's decisions to cut the Climate Commission, regulate the publishing of information on asylum seeker boat arrivals and the inclusion of only one woman in cabinet were the most unpopular.
"The way I look at it you can either be a climate sceptic or you can believe in climate change, but whatever your view is, I don't think you should get rid of the [Climate] Commission," said Harsha, who works in taxation.
Cecilia, a student at Sydney University, questioned how women's affairs would be treated by the new government.
"There's only one woman in the cabinet, and there should be more," she said. "We're supposed to be a fairly egalitarian society where the advancement of women is not something that's strange."
Many were concerned about the welfare of asylum seekers and the revelation at the weekend that the government will not announce boat arrivals as they occur.
"I feel they're regressive over where they're going to take this country," said Trish of Balmain, who works in administration. "Mostly it's about the boat people, and the inability to recognise that this is a global issue and we have to work on it."
"He's hiding things about boats coming in already, moving the goal posts," said one Leichhardt resident.
Others were willing to give the new government the chance to prove itself.
"So far so good I think," said Dulanja, a clinical researcher from Elizabeth Bay. "I think they're just getting ready, so you can't really judge as yet."
She said strengthening the economy to withstand another financial crisis should be the Coalition's first priority.
Holly, a bartender from Balmain, wants the government to legislate for gay marriage but feels it is unlikely. She said the Climate Commission should not have been disassembled.
"There's a lot of scientific basis for global warming, we probably shouldn't be regressing on that front."
John, a retired transport economist from Abbotsford, objected to the sacking of senior public servants and Steve Bracks, the former Victorian Labor premier who was relieved of his diplomatic post in New York before even taking it up.
Locals frequently cited the NBN, DisabilityCare and Gonski as ideas they want the new government to follow through on.
"Probably all the Labor policies, the big picture things," said Kate from Petersham, who works in the public service.
For Tom, a Balmain student, it was even simpler.
"It sounds bad, but hopefully [they] screw up so the other guys can get in," he said.
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Mitch McConnell & Nancy Pelosi's Houses Vandalized After Senate GOP Blocks $2,000 Checks
Less than a week after the Republican-controlled Senate failed to take up a measure increasing American COVID-19 relief payments to $2,000, the homes of Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were vandalized with graffiti messages.
Photos taken of McConnell's Kentucky home on Saturday showed an expletive written on the Republican's mailbox. "WERES MY MONEY" could be seen written below a wreath on the front door and "MITCH KILLS THE POOR" was scrawled over a window.
Pelosi's San Francisco home was defaced with graffiti, as well, including "$2K," "CANCEL RENT!" and "WE WANT EVERYTHING" written on the Democrat's garage door.
According to the Associated Press, citing a police statement, a severed pig's head and fake blood were also left at Pelosi's home on New Year's Day.
Pelosi was reportedly not at home when the incident took place. It's unclear whether McConnell was home when his own home was vandalized, and his office did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's inquiry on if he was home.
On Saturday, McConnell released a statement condemning the vandalism, which he said was the result of a "radical tantrum."
"I've spent my career fighting for the First Amendment and defending peaceful protest," McConnell's statement read. "I appreciate every Kentuckian who has engaged in the democratic process whether they agree with me or not. This is different. Vandalism and the politics of fear have no place in our society."
"My wife and I have never been intimidated by this toxic playbook," he continued. "We just hope our neighbors in Louisville aren't too inconvenienced by this radical tantrum."
The vandalism came in the wake of the passage of a $2.3 trillion government funding deal and COVID-19 relief bill, which was signed into law last week.
The passage of the bipartisan bill came after months of gridlock and included $600 relief payments for Americans making less than $75,000.
Though President Donald Trump was expected to sign the bill shortly after it arrived on his desk, he instead stalled, suggesting he would veto the bill if it was not revised to include $2,000 checks (for which Democrats had initially pressed).
"I'm asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000 or $4,000 for a couple," Trump said in a four-minute video in which he called the bill a "disgrace."
Trump also sought to have remove numerous spending measures he disliked removed from the bill.
: GOP Blocks House Democrats' Attempt to Send $2,000 Stimulus Checks, Despite Trump's Support
In response, Democrats (in an effort spearheaded by Pelosi) attempted amend the bill to include $2,000 payments, saying they had been in favor of larger checks all along.
But those attempts failed after a vote on a standalone measure to increase payments to $2,000 for individuals was blocked by McConnell. That standalone measure had been supported by nearly all House Democrats and a few dozen House Republicans.
Trump eventually signed the COVID-19 relief bill and government funding package, but still slammed McConnell for holding up the increased payments.
"Unless Republicans have a death wish, and it is also the right thing to do, they must approve the $2000 payments ASAP," Trump tweeted after McConnell blocked Democrats' attempts to approve the larger checks.
Trump's "death wish" comments seemingly reference a pair of Georgia Senate run-offs set for Tuesday. The results of those races will ultimately determine which party has control of the Senate.
Both Republicans in the Senate races have recently come out in favor of larger, $2,000 checks, flip-flopping on earlier comments they had made after the president threw his support behind the payments.
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   :title: 0. Whetting your appetite: Why superquadrics?
   :author: ahuaman
   :date: 19-06-2014

   Superquadrics are a family of geometric shapes that can represent
   a wide array of diverse primitives using a small number of parameters.
   As an example, look at the figure below: The first row depicts
   5 common household objects. The second row shows the superquadrics
   that more closely resemble them.

   .. image:: images/e1/motivation1.png
	      :height: 240px
	      :align: center

   Superquadrics were initially introduced in the computer graphics community
   by Alan Barr [Barr81]_, but they were later adopted by the robotics community as
   an effective modelling tool to approximate objects shape. In general, superquadrics
   include superellipsoid and supertoroids, but for most practical uses, we
   care for only superellipsoids. These can be expressed with the following formula:

   .. math:: \left( \left(\dfrac{x}{a}\right)^{\frac{2}{\epsilon_{2}}} + \left(\dfrac{y}{b}\right)^{\frac{2}{\epsilon_{2}}} \right) ^{\frac{\epsilon_{2}}{\epsilon_1} } + \left(\dfrac{z}{c}\right)^{\frac{2}{\epsilon_{1}}} = 1
      :label: se_eq

   As it can be seen, superellipsoids in their canonical form can be expressed
   by 5 parameters:

   * :math:`a,b,c`: Scaling factors along principal axes
   * :math:`\epsilon_{1}` : Shape factor of the superellipsoid cross section in a plane orthogonal to XY containing the axis Z.
   * :math:`\epsilon_{2}` : Shape factor of the superellipsoid cross section in a plane parallel to XY.

   If a general transformation is considered, then the total number of parameters required
   to define a superellipsoid is 11 (the 6 additional being the rotation and
   translation degrees of freedom :math:`(x,y,z,\rho,\psi,\theta)`)

   Expression :eq:`se_eq` shows the implicit equation of the superellipsoids. Its parametric
   solution can be expressed as:

   .. math::
      :nowrap:

      \begin{eqnarray*}
      x = a{\cos(\theta)}^{\epsilon_{1}}{\cos(\gamma)}^{\epsilon_{2}} \\
      y = b{\cos(\theta)}^{\epsilon_{1}}{\sin(\gamma)}^{\epsilon_{2}} \\
      z = c{\sin(\theta)}^{\epsilon_{1}}
      \end{eqnarray*}

   with :math:`\theta \in [-\phi/2, \phi/2]` and :math:`\gamma \in [-\phi,\phi]`. In our next post we will learn how to generate pointclouds for superellipsoids (which is not as simple as just sampling :math:`\theta` and :math:`\gamma`! Stay tuned :).

   .. [Barr81] Barr, Alan H. "Superquadrics and angle-preserving transformations." IEEE Computer graphics and Applications 1.1 (1981): 11-23.


I've written a lot about low carb diets lately and for a good reason; I think they're one of the best ways to lose weight and keep it off.
I don't necessarily mean you have to stop eating carbs altogether; just that cutting down on bread, rice, pasta, potatoes and processed junk food will help you lose weight no mess and no fuss.
But how do you go about starting a low carb diet? Many people aren't really sure.
In this article I want to provide you with a simple step-by-step guide to starting what I think is one of the best weight loss plans around!
Changing from your current diet to a low carb diet overnight can be a big shock to the system and the bigger the shock, the more likely you are to revert to old habits. Make the transition from old diet to new easier by making just one meal a day low carb. Do this for a few days and then add another meal. Take a week or two to make the full transition to low carb dieting. The result? Less shock and easier compliance.
If you are lover of bread, rice, pasta and potatoes, you need to find some lower carb alternatives to these high carb foods. You should avoid just cutting these foods out and leaving big gaps on your plate! Instead, find similar tasting foods that are much lower in carbs. For example, in place of French-fried potatoes, try oven-baked rutabaga, instead of pasta, use spiralized vegetables. There are lots more food tips in my article "Low Carb Replacements for Common High Carb Foods".
The more low carb meals you can prepare in advance, the easier you will find it to stick to your low carb diet. From washing and preparing tomorrow's vegetables the night before to cooking batches of meals for freezing, prior preparation means you will be less tempted to break your diet, "Why You Should Be Planning Your Meals".
Preparing meals in advance means you will not need to put much effort into eating healthily – the hard work is already done. When you get home from work feeling hungry and tired, the fact you have a meal ready and waiting for you means you are much less likely to dial up a pizza delivery and derail your diet.
Cutting back on carbs means you'll need to eat less of certain foods but you can eat lots and lots of other great-tasting foods instead. In fact, there are probably more alternatives than foods you'll need to cut back on. Think of your low carb diet as an opportunity to eat new and interesting foods and don't dwell on the fact you won't eat as much bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes as normal. Going low carb will broaden your menu and not restrict it!
Bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes are the most obvious sources of carbohydrate in the standard American diet but unless you take a moment to read your food labels, you could easily end up consuming hidden carbs too. Hidden carbs are lurking in many processed foods, often in the form of refined sugar. Make sure you know how to spot hidden carbs. Find "How to Identify Sugar on Nutrition Labels".
If you cut back on carbs, you need to provide your body with an alternative source of fuel – fat. A low carb AND low fat diet will leave you hungry and lacking energy; you need more than just protein to eat. Make sure you eat plenty of healthy fats to replace the carbs you are not eating. Good choices include nut oils and butters, olive oil, coconut oil, avocados, fish oil, butter, lard and any other natural fats and oils.
Many commercially-produced low carb and carb-free foods contain unhealthy ingredients such as sugar alcohols, trans fats, and artificial sweeteners. Eating low carb versions of the unhealthy foods that caused you to gain weight in the first place makes no sense! A low carb cookie is still a cookie and is the opposite of what constitutes a healthy food. Rather than eat low carb versions of unhealthy foods, just eat the regular version of those foods in accordance to the 10% rule discussed earlier.
Starting any new diet can be hard but you'll make the entire process easier if you start it right! Use these tried-and-tested tips to make sure you get off on the right foot with your new low carb diet. That way, you will enjoy an easier transition, are more likely to stick to your new diet and you'll get much better results too.
Love your recipe selections. I have a 96 year old aunt that is excited to see her loosing weight on your low carb diet.(she has tried all things, even just drinking Boost with any success. She read what you wrote about a low carb diet and got excited about trying it out.) My only problem is with her being able to chew raw veggies. Can I steam the veggies? She cannot eat salads but I wanted to try the Rice and Lentil Salad recipe for her. She can handle cooked chicken (in small pieces) but does't like any other meat except bacon and ham. How many carbs are in carrots? she likes them. I put my husband (age80 this month) and myself (79) on the low carb diet. This is all new to me and we are excited to see the results. Thanks for any and all help you can give me.
It was truly a blessing to find you website. Keep up the good work.
HI Marion. Yes, steamed vegetables is a very good idea as it keeps all the food vitamins and nutrients. In fact, steamed broccoli gives more nutrients than raw broccoli (video, not mine, explaining that here). Carrots are low carb and the best part is that fruit and vegetables are high on fiber so slower sugar absorption, fewer insulin spikes, less insulin being produced.
The best advice that worked for me: don't focus only on weight loss, check your mood, how do you feel, your anxiety levels … in my experience, less sugar (low-carb), less anxiety (after a week, first week is challenging due to sugar cravings), less bloated sensation and much more energy. This benefits have given me lots of motivation to keep my low-carb journey. Instead of looking at the scale, I've looked on my inner sensations and that still is the engine that keeps me going. All the luck and, if you can, share your feedback along the journey as I'm sure will motivate others to start or continue their own. Have a great day.


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Contents of An/Our Island Story
by H.E. Marshall
Chapters with Dates
ch. 1 The Stories of Albion and Brutus (mythical)
ch. 2 The Coming of the Romans (55BC)
ch. 3 The Romans Come Again (54BC)
ch. 4 How Caligula Conquered Britain (40AD)
ch. 5 The Story of a Warrior Queen (Boadicea; 60AD)
ch. 6 The Last of the Romans (Julius Agricola; 77AD)
ch. 7 The Story of St. Alban (200AD??)
ch. 8 Vortigern and King Constans (400's)
ch. 9 The Story of the Coming of Hengist and Horsa (mid-400's)
ch. 10 Hengist's Treachery (mid-400's)
ch. 11 How the Giant's Dance was Brought to Britain (Aurelius Ambrosius; 400's)
ch. 12 The Coming of Arthur (500's)
ch. 13 The Founding of the Round Table (500's)
ch. 14 The Story of Gregory and the Pretty Children (574)
ch. 15 How King Alfred Learned to Read (849)
ch. 16 King Alfred in the Cowherd's Cottage (849-899)
ch. 17 More About Alfred the Great (899)
ch. 18 Ethelred the Unready (968-1016)
ch. 19 How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown (late 900's-1016)
ch. 20 Canute and the Waves (late 900's-1035)
ch. 21 Edward the Confessor (1003-1066)
ch. 22 Harold (1022-1066)
ch. 23 The Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
ch. 24 The Battle of Hastings (1066)
ch. 25 William the Conqueror: Hereward the Wake (1035-1072)
ch. 26 William the Conqueror: Death of the King (1087)
ch. 27 The Story of William the Red (1058-1100)
ch. 28 Henry I: The Story of the "White Ship" (1120)
ch. 29 The Story of King Stephen (1135-1154)
ch. 30 Henry Plantagenet: Gilbert and Rohesia (1118?)
ch. 31 Henry Plantagenet: Thomas a Becket (1118-1170)
ch. 32 Henry Plantagenet: The Conquest of Ireland (1168-1171)
ch. 33 The Story of Richard Coeur de Lion (1157-1199)
ch. 34 The Story of How Blondel Found the King (late 1100's)
ch. 35 John Lackland: The Story of Prince Arthur (1203)
ch. 36 John Lackland: The Story of the Great Charter (1215)
ch. 37 Henry III of Winchester: Hubert de Burgh (1180-1243)
ch. 38 Henry III of Winchester: Simon de Montfort (1208-1265)
ch. 39 Henry III: The Story of the Poisoned Dagger (1265-1274?)
ch. 40 Edward I: The Little War of Chalons (May 1274)
ch. 41 Edward I: The Lawgiver (1274-1307)
ch. 42 Edward I: The Hammer of the Scots (1290's)
ch. 43 The Story of King Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) and Sir Henry Bohun (1276-1322)
ch. 44 Story of the Battle of Bannockburn (1314)
ch. 45 Edward III of Windsor: The Battle of Sluys (1340)
ch. 46 Edward III of Windsor: The Battle of Crecy (1346)
ch. 47 Edward III of Windsor: The Siege of Calais (1346-47)
ch. 48 Edward III of Windsor: The Battle of Poitiers (Sept 1356)
ch. 49 Richard II of Bordeaux: Wat Tyler's Rebellion (1381)
ch. 50 How King Richard Lost His Throne (1399)
ch. 51 Henry IV of Bolingbroke: Battle of Shrewsbury (1403)
ch. 52 The Story of How Prince Hal (Henry V) was Sent to Prison (1410ish?)
ch. 53 Henry V of Monmouth: The Battle of Agincourt (1415)
ch. 54 Henry VI of Windsor: The Maid of Orleans (1451)
ch. 55 Henry VI of Windsor: Red Rose and White (1455-1485)
ch. 56 Edward IV: Queen Margaret and the Robbers (1461?)
ch. 57 Edward IV: The Story of the Kingmaker (1464/71)
ch. 58 Edward V: The King Who was Never Crowned (1483)
ch. 59 Richard III: Two Little Princes in the Tower (1483-85)
ch. 60 Henry VII: Story of the Make-Believe Prince (Lambert Simnel; 1487)
ch. 61 Henry VII: Another Make-Believe Prince (Perkin Warbeck 1490)
ch. 62 Henry VIII: The Field of the Cloth of Gold (Guisnes 1520)
ch. 63 How the King became the Defender of the Faith (1521)
ch. 64 Henry VIII: The Story of the King's Six Wives (1491-1547)
ch. 65 Edward VI: The Story of a Boy King (1537-1553)
ch. 66 The Story of Lady Jane Grey (1536-1554)
ch. 67 How the Princess Elizabeth Became a Prisoner (1554)
ch. 68 Mary I: How a Candle Was Lit in England (1554-1558)
ch. 69 How the Imprisoned Princess Became a Queen (1558-1603)
ch. 70 Elizabeth: The Story of a Most Unhappy Queen (Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1567)
ch. 71 How England was Saved From the Spaniards (1588-9)
ch. 72 Elizabeth: The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
ch. 73 Elizabeth: The Story of the Queen's Favourite (Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 1565-1601)
ch. 74 The Story of Guy Fawkes (1605)
ch. 75 The Story of the Mayflower (1620)
ch. 76 How a Woman Struck a Blow for Freedom (Jenny Geddes 1637)
ch. 77 How the King and the Parliament Quarreled (1640)
ch. 78 The Story of How the King was Brought to His Death (1649)
ch. 79 The Commonwealth: The Adventures of a Prince (1649-1651)
ch. 80 The Commonwealth: The Lord Protector Cromwell (1649-1658)
ch. 81 How Death Walked in the Streets of London (1665)
ch. 82 Charles II: The Story of How London was Burned (1666)
ch. 83 The Fiery Cross (Archibald, 9th Earl of Argyll, Monmouth's Rebellion 1685)
ch. 84 The Story of King Monmouth (1685)
ch. 85 The Story of the Seven Bishops (1687)
ch. 86 William the Deliverer (William of Orange and Glorious Revolution 1688)
ch. 87 William III and Mary II: Brave Londonderry (1690)
ch. 88 The Story of a Sad Day in a Highland Glen (1694-1702)
ch. 89 Anne: How the Union Jack was Made (1707)
ch. 90 The Story of the Earl of Mar's Hunting Party (The Fifteen Rebellion 1715)
ch. 91 George II: The Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart 1720-1788)
ch. 92 George II: The Story of Flora MacDonald (1746)
ch. 93 The Story of the Black Hole of Calcutta (1756)
ch. 94 George II: The Story of How Canada Was Won (1759)
ch. 95 George III: The Story of How America Was Lost (1776-1782)
ch. 96 George III: A Story of a Spinning Wheel (Richard Arkwright 1733-1792)
ch. 97 England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty (Trafalgar 1805)
ch. 98 George III: The Battle of Waterloo (1815)
ch. 99 George IV: The First Gentleman in Europe (1762-1830)
ch. 100 William IV: Two Peaceful Victories (Reform Bill 1832; Slavery Abolition Act 1833)
ch. 101 Victoria: The Girl Queen (1837)
ch. 102 Victoria: When Bread was Dear (Corn Laws repealed 1846)
ch. 103 Victoria: Peace (The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace 1851)
ch. 104 Victoria: War (Crimean War 1853-1856; Florence Nightingale)
ch. 105 Victoria: The Land of Snow (Sir John Franklin's Expedition North-West Passage 1845-1859)
ch. 106 Victoria: The Siege of Delhi (1857)
ch. 107 Victoria: The Pipes at Lucknow (1857)
ch. 108 Victoria: Under the Southern Cross (Australia; Arthur Philip 1787; 1867)
ch. 109 Victoria: From Cannibal to Christian (New Zealand 1840's?)
ch. 110 Victoria: Boer and Briton (1899-1902)
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"I'll make it work," we say to ourselves as we run home from work to drop Johnny off at piano lessons and then Sally to soccer. We pick them up in a rush, stopping through a drive-thru for dinner and eating in the car. Getting home just in time to tuck them both into bed after a bath, story, and kisses. And then, we clean the house.
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This was supposed to be a happy transition from university to a graduate nurse, it was anything but. Being bullied and intimidate at work in a new job was horrendous especially as it was in an acute mental health ward and I was a graduate nurse. As some will know working in an acute ward is a very stressful place to be, a bit like being in a war zone. Probably not the most sensible place for a sensitive person like me to be working. Not that had entered mind at the time.
The funny thing was that for months before hand, my intuition was telling me not to go. I felt sick when I thought about it but in the end I thought, 'I have spent all this time training, I need to make some money'.
I wasn't being bullied by the clients I liked them, they were people with some big issues to try and deal with, it was by staff.
I felt disempowered, pretty useless, and very depressed. This was a place that should have been supporting me in learning about my new role, some of the staff did and there were shifts that I really enjoyed and felt like I was a contributing member of the team. But other days it was terrible. I keep telling myself you'll be okay.
At the start I thought I could handle it but it's like a leaky tap that constant dripping just broke me drip by drip. I cried a lot. I got to work some shifts and I didn't want to go on the ward. There should have been support set up but there wasn't and finally the inevitable happened. I couldn't do it anymore.
The next few months were awful, I cried a lot, wouldn't go out of the house, lost faith even though my guides were saying,' It will be okay, this is something that you need to experience'. At that point I thought may be we should swap places.
I stopped meditating that was not wise, but I was in a dark place for sometime.
A thought kept floating round in the back of my mind about Transpersonal Counselling, so eventually I went and did some research on it and found that an information day was coming up. It was the first bit of hope that I had had in months. A friend came with me and we got all the information and I thought this is what I want to do.
I was still embroiled in work stuff but for the first time I was not so worried about it and my heart was feeling lighter.
I had a dilemma though; my lawyer wanted to pursue them for damages and yes that would have helped financially. But I knew I was coming out of that black hole and I didn't want to go back there so I said no, let it go, and moved forward. It was the best thing I ever did. I felt happier, with hope for the future and had something to work towards. My friend was going to join me in doing the course and that was a bonus. We had also been through our nursing training together.
Some of the things that did get me through that time were going out for walks. I always felt better when I was out in nature.
A deep sense of knowing that this was for a reason and things would change.
Writing a list of the things that I was grateful for.
My intuitive ability to be able to see and hear my guides.
In the early stages I couldn't do any of these but gradually it passed. Meditation helped with this.
5 years on I have learnt a great deal from that experience.
I will never allow anyone to treat me like that again.
I am worth much more.
I need to be responsible for where I put myself work wise that is to do with my sensitivity.
I have the tools to now help others through change and transition.
And I take time to put myself first (that one took awhile).
To be in my own space when I get tired.
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Learning to use and trust in our intuition is one of the gifts we have been given to use to navigate through our life.
How many of us do? Learning to trust our own intuition and instincts can be challenging for some and quite easy for others.
With intuition it's just a knowing, you don't know how you now, you just do, that gut feeling that you have about certain things.
How do you know the difference between it and logical thinking?
With logical thinking it's going through a logical step-by-step process, and then coming to an answer that is viable or valid. Your intuition is the first thought that comes into your mind. Learn to trust it. For some reason we don't, or can't, we are just not sure if it is our intuition, our head, or just thoughts floating around.
A number of us just do it without thinking, others take a little while to master it, but when we do start trusting it, it makes such a difference in our lives. People make business decisions based on instincts and intuition. People choose their partners and cars based on intuition or their inner knowing.
How often do you trust yourself and your knowing your intuition?
How can you really trust what you are getting is right anyway?
My gut feelings (intuition) is usually spot on.
Do you feel what I am saying, do you hear what I am saying, or do you see it.
I want you all to imagine you are on the beach. It is a fairly remote beach the sand is firm, the day is clear and there is a slight breeze blowing. As you walk along the beach you notice there is four- wheel -drive in front of you, its bright yellow, you can already feel yourself start to smile.
You walk on up to it there is no one in it it's just there.
It tells you to get in and have a drive, how are you feeling? A little apprehensive or yea lets go.
You get in behind the wheel and off you go down the beach. You start to go faster you feel your heart singing, here you are in this yellow four wheel drive driving flat out along the beach, it feels fantastic, you feel alive, happy, and are really in the moment. As you reach the end of the beach you slow down until you come to a stop. You sit there for a moment contemplating on the ride you just had and how it made you feel.
You get out of the four -wheel -drive grinning at the yellowness of it, but thinking how it reminds you of a very large sun and how happy you feel looking at it. You say thanks and continue on your way.
Whenever you think of that ride you smile.
That was your imagination, did you feel see, hear what was happening, was it easy to do or a little difficult? Did you do all three some of the time? Using your intuition is a bit like using your imagination it takes practice.
When you understand how you receive your information that also makes it easier for you work with it.
So if you feel things (kinesthetic) and someone guiding a mediation says, 'look at the tree in the forest', rather than you trying to see and not being able to, you can feel it.
3.This exercise is also a way of helping to change our own thoughts and behaviour.
We can be going through difficult situations at times, but if you thought about the ride you just had in the yellow four wheel drive how would that make you feel?
Learning to trust this process is helping to develop your own intuition your own inner awareness and over time it will become second nature.
If you feel you would like to learn more about your Intuitive abilities and your Spiritual Awareness and journey I have 5 online courses that are now available on my web page. I do advise that you do the 'Guarding the Door to your Sacred Space' first (as this is the foundation course) which is learning about your energy field and how to protect it from negative energy and not so positive environments. It also covers learning about your intuitive abilities.
If you have found this helpful please pass it on.
Spiritual development is not just about being kind, or thoughtful or having positive thoughts. It's about being real, authentic, learning about yourself, your lessons and working on them. It's about those inner feelings of faith that guide you through your life.
So why would you want to work on your Spiritual development?
What do I want out of my life?
Do I want to connect to my potential and bring the spiritual, psychical and emotional aspects of my life into being?
Often we chose the safe option, as that's what our logical part wants for us. But if you reflect for a moment and tap into your heart what does it say?
Our heart is where our desires and dreams are kept, so why not listen to what it is telling you.
Spiritual Development is a journey of discovery: you discover that you are far more than the physical you. That there are depths to you that you couldn't image. You begin to understand that you have lessons to learn and that going on the self discovery journey puts you in touch with skills to work through these lessons in a much more positive way. You grow and blossom.
You begin to understand that each of our journeys is different, and that we each have the right to walk our path at our own pace and learn what we need to in our own way. Not in someone else's time, or on someone else's way.
That we have many gifts that we often can't see. But through spiritual development we explore them in a safe environment and use them in an ethical way.
We learn that we are all connected through collective consciousness and one-way or another what someone does somewhere in the world it will affect us.
As we grow on a spiritual level we become more sensitive which can be a good thing or make it more difficult, but we learn to protect our own energy field. We become kinder to ourselves and to our planet. We understand that looking after us first means that we can then look after others.
In my new online courses you can choose which course you would like to begin your journey with. I do advise 'Guarding the door to your Sacred Space' as this is the foundation for all the learning to follow.
Regain control over your life's path.
Feel more empowered in your workplace environment.
Create a more calm and peaceful day.
This course will give you the techniques to take control of how you live your life. Cleansing or resetting your energy so that your experiences, moods and feelings are not influenced by something or someone else.
For me, this module is the foundation to any work that you will be doing that involves working with your intuitive abilities, conscious awareness, healing and spiritual or psychic work.
We all know that when building a new house, if the foundations aren't solid to build on, the building will not last the distance. For me, learning these techniques is the solid foundation to build any work that involves states of reality. But it is also helpful in our everyday lives.
Creating a sacred space and using spiritual protection will become second nature after a while.


There is widespread agreement that our immigration system is fundamentally broken and needs comprehensive reform. Immigrant families are forced to wait 10 years or more to see their closest loved ones, because our family visa system is so severely backlogged. Each year, there are more than 500,000 manual labor jobs available that go unfilled by U.S. workers, while our system offers only 5,000 visas to immigrants to fill those jobs.
Indeed, the current system runs counter to family values, our economy's needs and the common good.
On any given day, our government pays costly rates to detain upward of 28,000 immigrants, including many whose only violation was entering the country illegally or overstaying a visa. Most troubling are the immigration workplace raids occurring across the country that are having a devastating and harmful effect on families and communities.
These problems must be fixed -- and they can be.
Last May, the Republican-led Senate passed the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act -- a bipartisan bill that contained the key components for meaningful reform. This year, leaders in the House already have introduced the promising STRIVE bill -- Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy. But at a time when we need immediate action, progress has stalled in the Senate, which has not yet introduced any legislation.
A year ago, Republican Sens. Sam Brownback of Kansas, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona provided key leadership in the Senate. We need them to renew their commitment to the issue, because they can bring together leaders from both sides of the aisle to achieve compromise. Brownback, in particular, should not abandon the principled position he held on this important humanitarian issue just last year.
Without leadership from these key Republican senators, comprehensive immigration reform likely will become mired in divisive politics.
For example, in late March and late April when the Senate could not reach agreement on a bill, the White House came up with two proposals catering to more extreme anti-immigrant interests. From our perspective, both President Bush's first and second plans would hurt families, workers, businesses and our country as a whole.
As Christians, we are challenged to welcome the stranger as we would welcome Jesus. From within our congregations, we witness how immigrants are vital members of our churches, families, schools, businesses, neighborhood associations and broader society. We also see how our leaders' failure to enact immigration reform has harmed our communities.
Now is the time for congressional leaders to finish the work of passing humane, fair and comprehensive immigration legislation. Now is the time to fix the decades-long family visa backlogs. Now is the time to protect immigrant workers' rights and enable them to be with their families. Now is the time to secure our nation without resorting to inhumane enforcement practices, like the fear-inducing workplace raids or the jailing of families and children.
As time is running out, we call upon the Senate's Republican leadership to play their indispensable role in leading this nation toward comprehensive immigration reform.
The Rev. Gerald Mansholt is bishop of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Rev. Ronald Gilmore is bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City.


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'Artemis Fowl' a Streaming Mess
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Ferdia Shaw, Lara McDonnell, Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Nonzo Anozie, Colin Farrell and Judi Dench
Critical rating: 1½ stars out of 4
Photo courtesy of Disney
Ferdia Shaw stars in "Artemis Fowl," available now on Disney Plus.
By Forrest Hartman
It's fair to say Kenneth Branagh is capable of greatness. We know this thanks to memorable acting turns in films ranging from "Dunkirk" to "Othello" (1995) and because of his equally thrilling work behind the camera.
Branagh is the rare screen star who has shown as much talent and breadth as a director as he has when chewing scenery. Although much of his directorial work is centered on Shakespeare adaptations – think "Henry V" and "Much Ado About Nothing" – he has proven himself equally capable in the superhero ("Thor") and mystery "Murder on the Orient Express" (2017) genres.
Branagh is also adept at entertaining the family crowd, as one of his most-charming directorial works is Disney's 2015 live-action reimagining of "Cinderella." That fact made his attachment to the "Artemis Fowl" screen adaptation promising. Originally, intended as a May theatrical release, the movie was derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic and shifted to a June 12 debut on the Disney Plus streaming service. Since most of Disney's high-profile 2020 pictures have been delayed rather than shifted to this platform, one imagines executives knew what they had when Branagh turned it in. It's not good.
Although we know Branagh is capable of greatness due to his lengthy body of work, almost everything we know about the title character in "Artemis Fowl" is due to voiceover narration or poorly developed plot contrivances that leave too much to the imagination. In fact, "Artemis Fowl" is so poorly developed – both in terms of characterization and world building – that it's hard to imagine how Branagh would let this pass.
The same can be said of the admirable cast. Ferdia Shaw, who plays young Artemis, is joined by Colin Farrell (Artemis Fowl Senior), Josh Gad, Judi Dench, Lara McDonnell and Tamara Smart. There is enough ability in this group for one to expect a serviceable film. Instead, we get a hodgepodge that – although nifty to look at – alternates between confusing, dull and outright frustrating. The latter is true because there is good material to work with.
The movie is based on the well-received young adult novels by author Eoin Colfer, and the focus is on the title character, a 12-year-old so bright that he has no patience for school. The intolerance stems from the fact that Artemis knows more than virtually everyone, including his teachers and the psychologist who ineffectually attempts to knock him down a peg. Viewers learn these background points through terse narration and a handful of hasty scenes that do nothing to build empathy with Artemis. That's problematic because one has to care about him to invest in the adventure that follows.
Although young Artemis hates school, he dotes on his father (Artemis Senior), a single parent who thrills his son with fanciful stories about fairies, goblins and other mystical creatures. These seem like fantasy tales until Artemis Senior goes missing, and young Artemis discovers that his father has actually been feeding him the secrets of a hidden world. What's more, Artemis must tap into that world to save his dad.
The movie's visuals are admirable. In fact, they are quite good for a picture included as part of the base, original content of a streaming service. These are special effects one would expect from a big screen feature … because that's what was initially intended. It's not easy to make fantasy material look believable, but Branagh and his crew succeed on that front.
Viewers are legitimately transported to a land where fairies and goblins are real, and it's all very dazzling and Harry Potter-like. "Artemis Fowl" would seem, then, to be a perfect film for fans of that series. Alas, the Potter features are painstakingly mapped out so viewers understand the rules of the magical world they enter. This is not so with "Fowl," which teases viewers without elaborating. That leads to a long string of questions that are never adequately answered.
Equally annoying is the lack of time given each key character. Artemis Junior is an outline at best. His father gets too little screen time to serve as anything other than a treasure for Artemis to chase, and Holly Short (a fairy who is key to the action) makes life-altering decisions with whimsical ease. Even the narrator, a "giant" dwarf named Mulch Diggums, is little more than a sketch. One might chalk this up to too many cuts if the film was longer, but at 93 minutes, "Artemis Fowl" could have added plentiful background without overstaying its welcome.
Every writing coach tells students to "show" readers what's happening rather than "tell" them. The same advice is crucial with film, but "Artemis Fowl" is invested only in telling. Viewers never see the souls of the characters and – because of this – they're never allowed to feel much of anything. A movie without feeling is a movie that fails.
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