Late last year, Bethesda announced that the ill-fated Fallout 76 would be skipping Steam in favor of an exclusive release through their Bethesda.net store. The publisher further hinted that future games like Doom Eternal and Rage 2 may be Bethesda.net exclusives as well, which, unsurprisingly, didn't sit well with some fans. Well, you can breath a sigh of relief Steam lovers – it seems the Bethesda.net PC exclusivity experiment is officially over.
Today Bethesda announced that all their major upcoming games, including Doom Eternal, Rage 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, and Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot will be available on Steam. Also, not that anybody's really asking at this point, but Fallout 76 will also be released on Steam later this year.
This has to be seen as a major victory for Valve's platform in their increasingly heated battle with the Epic Games Store. At GDC 2019, Epic announced a variety of major exclusives, including The Outer Worlds, Control, and Dauntless, although Bethesda's lineup is arguably bigger than any of those games. It will be interesting to see if the increased competition brings more big publishers to Steam and/or Epic – could we perhaps see some Blizzard games on Steam? A greater selection of EA titles, perhaps? We'll just have to wait and see.
Of course, just because Bethesda has returned to steam doesn't mean they're shutting down their Bethesda.net store. In fact, Bethesda is offering a free copy of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind through their store, for today (March 25) only. Enter the code "TES25TH-MORROWIND" in Bethesda's launcher to get your free game.
Rage 2 rampages onto PC, Xbox One, and PS4 on May 14. Meanwhile, Doom Eternal and Wolfenstein: Youngblood arrive sometime this year.


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JORHAT: The five-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebration in almost 35 venues throughout the city of Jorhat kicked off on Thursday morning. Female devotees thronged the venues to light diyas and listen to devotional songs. Organizers fear that rain may play spoilsport and for this, the organizers are planning to extend the pandals, said Tapas Dey, the president of Laxmi Union Puja Committee on Thursday.


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Debbie Bard is acting group lead for the Data Science Engagement Group at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Berkeley National Lab. A native of the UK, her career spans research in particle physics, cosmology and computing on both sides of the Atlantic. She obtained her Ph.D. at Edinburgh University, and worked at Imperial College London and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before joining the Data and Analytics group at NERSC, where she focuses on data-intensive computing and research.
Mustafa Mustafa, Deborah Bard, Wahid Bhimji, Rami Al-Rfou, Zarija Lukić, "Creating Virtual Universes Using Generative Adversarial Networks", Submitted To Sci. Rep., June 1, 2017,
Wahid Bhimji, Debbie Bard, Kaylan Burleigh, Chris Daley, Steve Farrell, Markus Fasel, Brian Friesen, Lisa Gerhardt, Jialin Liu, Peter Nugent, Dave Paul, Jeff Porter, Vakho Tsulaia, "Extreme I/O on HPC for HEP using the Burst Buffer at NERSC", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, December 1, 2017, 898:082015,
B Friesen, MMA Patwary, B Austin, N Satish, Z Slepian, N Sundaram, D Bard, DJ Eisenstein, J Deslippe, P Dubey, Prabhat, "Galactos: Computing the Anisotropic 3-Point Correlation Function for 2 Billion Galaxies", November 2017, doi: 10.1145/3126908.3126927
The nature of dark energy and the complete theory of gravity are two central questions currently facing cosmology. A vital tool for addressing them is the 3-point correlation function (3PCF), which probes deviations from a spatially random distribution of galaxies. However, the 3PCF's formidable computational expense has prevented its application to astronomical surveys comprising millions to billions of galaxies. We present Galactos, a high-performance implementation of a novel, O(N2) algorithm that uses a load-balanced k-d tree and spherical harmonic expansions to compute the anisotropic 3PCF. Our implementation is optimized for the Intel Xeon Phi architecture, exploiting SIMD parallelism, instruction and thread concurrency, and significant L1 and L2 cache reuse, reaching 39% of peak performance on a single node. Galactos scales to the full Cori system, achieving 9.8 PF (peak) and 5.06 PF (sustained) across 9636 nodes, making the 3PCF easily computable for all galaxies in the observable universe.
Tina Declerck, Katie Antypas, Deborah Bard, Wahid Bhimji, Shane Canon, Shreyas Cholia, Helen (Yun) He, Douglas Jacobsen, Prabhat, Nicholas J. Wright, "Cori - A System to Support Data-Intensive Computing", Cray User Group Meeting 2016, London, England, May 2016,
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W. Bhimji, D. Bard, M. Romanus, D. Paul, A. Ovsyannikov, B. Friesen, M. Bryson, J. Correa, G. K. Lockwood, V. Tsulaia, S. Byna, S. Farrell, D. Gursoy, C. Daley, V. Beckner, B. Van Straalen, D. Trebotich, C. Tull, G. Weber, N. J. Wright, K. Antypas, Prabhat, "Accelerating Science with the NERSC Burst Buffer Early User Program", Cray User Group, May 11, 2016, LBNL LBNL-1005736,
NVRAM-based Burst Buffers are an important part of the emerging HPC storage landscape. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently installed one of the first Burst Buffer systems as part of its new Cori supercomputer, collaborating with Cray on the development of the DataWarp software. NERSC has a diverse user base comprised of over 6500 users in 700 different projects spanning a wide variety of scientific computing applications. The use-cases of the Burst Buffer at NERSC are therefore also considerable and diverse. We describe here performance measurements and lessons learned from the Burst Buffer Early User Program at NERSC, which selected a number of research projects to gain early access to the Burst Buffer and exercise its capability to enable new scientific advancements. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time a Burst Buffer has been stressed at scale by diverse, real user workloads and therefore these lessons will be of considerable benefit to shaping the developing use of Burst Buffers at HPC centers.
Presentation/Talks
Deborah Bard, Burst Buffers: Early Experiences and Outlook, Supercomputing 2016, November 14, 2016,
The long-awaited Burst Buffer technology is now being deployed on major supercomputing systems, including new machines at NERSC, LANL, ANL, and KAUST. In this BOF, we discuss early experience with Burst Buffers from both a systems and a user's perspective, including challenges faced and perspectives for future development. Short presentations from early adopters will be followed by general discussion with the audience. We hope that this BOF will attract interest and participation from end-users and software/hardware developers.
See www.burstbuffer.org for presentations.
Debbie Bard, Using Containers and HPC to Solve the Mysteries of the Universe, DockerCon 2016, June 27, 2016,
Container technology is being used to answer some of the biggest questions in science today - what is the Universe made of? How has it evolved over time? Scientists use vast quantities of data to study these questions, and analyzing this data requires Big Data solutions on high performance computing resources. In this talk we discuss why containers are being deployed on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC (the National Energy Research Scientific Computing center) to answer fundamental scientific questions. We will give examples of the use of Docker in simulating complex physical processes and analyzing experimental data in fields as diverse as particle physics, cosmology, astronomy, genomics and material science. We will demonstrate how container technology is being used to facilitate access to scientific computing resources by scientists from around the globe. Finally, we will discuss how container technology has the potential to revolutionize scientific publishing, and could solve the problem of scientific reproducibility.
Tina Declerck, Katie Antypas, Deborah Bard, Wahid Bhimji, Shane Canon, Shreyas Cholia, Helen (Yun) He, Douglas Jacobsen, Prabhat, Nicholas J. Wright, Cori - A System to Support Data-Intensive Computing, Cray User Group Meeting 2016, London, England, May 12, 2016,
Debbie Bard, Accelerating Science with the NERSC Burst Buffer Early User Program, Salishan Conference on High-Speed Computing, April 28, 2016,
NVRAM-based Burst Buffers are an important part of the emerging HPC storage landscape. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently installed one of the first Burst Buffer systems as part of its new Cori supercomputer, collaborating with Cray on the development of the DataWarp software. NERSC has a diverse user base comprised of over 6500 users in 750 different projects spanning a wide variety of scientific applications, including climate modeling, combustion, fusion, astrophysics, computational biology, and many more. The potential applications of the Burst Buffer at NERSC are therefore also considerable and diverse.
I will discuss the Burst Buffer Early User Program at NERSC, which selected a number of research projects to gain early access to the Burst Buffer and exercise its different capabilities to enable new scientific advancements. I will present details of the program, in-depth performance results and lessons-learnt from highlighted projects.
Debbie Bard, Wahid Bhimji, David Paul, Glenn K. Lockwood, Nicholas J Wright, Katie Antypas, Prabhat, Steve Farrell, Andrey Ovsyannikov, Melissa Romanus, Brian Van Straalen, David Trebotich, Guenter Weber, "Experiences with the Burst Buffer at NERSC", Supercomputing Conference, November 16, 2016,
Annette Greiner, Evan Racah, Shane Canon, Jialin Liu, Yunjie Liu, Debbie Bard, Lisa Gerhardt, Rollin Thomas, Shreyas Cholia, Jeff Porter, Wahid Bhimji, Quincey Koziol, Prabhat, "Data-Intensive Supercomputing for Science", Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Data Science Faire, May 3, 2016,
Review of current DAS activities for a non-NERSC audience.

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Mark Franzen, Luther College head men's basketball coach, has announced the hiring of John Androus as an assistant coach.
No stranger to men's basketball fans, Androus '14 returns to Luther after serving as the top men's basketball assistant at Cornell College, Iowa last year. Prior to Cornell, he was he was an assistant coach at Mount Mercy University, Iowa from 2015-17.
"We are really excited to welcome John back to campus," commented Franzen. "Since his playing career at Luther, he has gained valuable coaching experience at the high school and college levels. Our guys will really enjoy working with John on the floor next season."
Named the Iowa Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 2013, he was a three-time all-conference performer for the Norse during his career. He helped lead Luther to Iowa Conference championships in 2011 and 2013 as well as an NCAA III National Tournament appearance in 2011. He scored over 1,000 points (1198) during his career and ranks ninth all-time for career rebounds (687) and seventh for career assists (224).
"I am excited to be back as a part of the Luther College men's basketball program," said Androus. "It's great to be back. It's a surreal feeling. This is a terrific opportunity to return to my alma mater and serve as assistant coach. I look forward to continuing to build the tradition of the Norse program."


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iPhone X pre-orders kick off Friday, October 27 at 12:01AM PT/3:01AM ET, and with heavy demand expected for this tenth anniversary iPhone, coupled with rumoured lower than expected launch supply, you're going to need all the tips and tricks to nab one.
Let's go over some tips on how to prepare for this Friday's iPhone X pre-order and do nothing but win, win, win.
If you're not awake for this pre-order, there's no point in even trying. Your best bet is to set your alarm for 15-30 minutes before the pre-order start time. Lucky folks on the west coast just need to stay up late (set your alarm anyways, young parents), while those on the east coast will most likely need to wake up from a deep slumber.
The Apple Store iOS app has made a name for itself as the fastest and easiest way to complete an Apple product pre-order. It's especially easy since you can pay with Apple Pay and Touch ID, shortening the checkout process.
Just click on the Account tab in the Apple Store iOS app and confirm your Primary Payment and Primary Shipping details.
Then select the card you will use for Apple Pay and confirm the billing address is current. Also make sure your credit card used for Apple Pay has a limit that will handle your preorder amount.
It comes down to seconds once preorders launch to get in on the first wave. To make for faster checkout, you can 'favourite' the iPhone X configuration you want ahead of time.
Open the app, select the iPhone X colour you desire (Silver or Space Grey) and capacity (64GB or 256GB), then tap the 'heart' icon in the upper left to add to favourites.
From here, tap Bag and proceed to checkout. You can then pay with Apple Pay.
If you're unsure how the process will work, try purchasing an Apple accessory using the above steps to familiarize yourself with the process. Once the order goes through, you can then cancel it before it even ships.
Reserve and Pick Up will allow you to either purchase outright or perform a carrier upgrade at Apple Stores. You can decide when you get there, as this is what people have been able to do in the past.
On top of having your iPhone or iPad ready with the Apple Store iOS app, have a backup device ready to place preorders, such as your Mac or PC ready on Apple.ca. You can also install a browser extension that automatically refreshes the website until it goes live.
Let's be honest, pre-ordering from Rogers, Telus and Bell in the past hasn't been that successful. With iPhone X rumoured to be in short supply, it'll be tough to get a device on launch day, we suspect.
Again, you will want to double check your Apple Pay details and add your iPhone X configuration to favourites by at least noon local time. Why? The Apple Store will go down hours ahead of preorders and you won't get store access once that happens. If you don't do it at lunch time you'll forget during dinner and after it'll be too late.
Also, if you want an iPhone X on launch day, order a silver model. From our informal poll, it looks like it'll be the 'least' popular.
What are your iPhone X preorder tips you have to share?


As 2019 marks the 20th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars as a theme, it seems fitting to restart this series with this game, as I've already covered the others. So let's recap. From 2005 until 2007, TT Games released a series of LEGO games based on the Skywalker saga, with LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, LEGO Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy, and LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, a combination of the previous two games, I'm actually let's playing this right now of the YouTube channel if you're interested.
Anyway, after year on year success, the LEGO Jedi went quiet for four years, an eternity to LEGO Star Wars fans. In 2011, however, we finally got some new light-saber wielding awesomeness to enjoy in LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.
Now I'm not going to say I loved this game when it first released because, honestly, I didn't. Having not watched the animated show at the time, I didn't feel the same connection with the source material as I did the previous Star Wars games and with design changes to characters, something didn't click for me.
Replaying this game now, however, and I have to say, my mind has been completely changed. With modern LEGO games bringing so much innovation over the years to the franchise, going back and playing LEGO Star Wars III has shown how ahead of it's time this game was. I'm probably not alone in my original view of this game, however, and that's why, as I said earlier, this is probably the most underrated LEGO game.


Francis Hodgson is Professor in the Culture of Photography, having established himself as a critical writer on photography.
His work has embraced both cultural and commercial aspects of photography and influenced the exhibiting and curation of photographs, with former roles including photography critic for the Financial Times, and Head of Photographs at Sotheby's, London. Hodgson is also a co-founder of the leading photography prize the Prix Pictet (on which he has twice served as chairman of the panel of judges). He has also been the chairman of judges on the Sony World Photography Awards, judged the Jerwood Awards, D&AD, British Journal of Photography Awards and AoP awards among others.
He has published a number of monograph texts on photography, has lectured to a wide range of audiences — from academic and scholarly to the business community or those involved in collecting photographic prints. Hodgson has been invited to address a number of specialist forums in photography, including at the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, and the Rencontres Internationales d'Arles, and has often broadcast on television and radio. On the commercial side he has spoken at meetings of the British Association of Picture Libraries and Archives, of the Picture Agency Council of America, and at meetings of Association of International Photography Art Dealers. Hodgson was invited to give the inaugural keynote at the first British Photography Symposium organised by RedEye in 2009.


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Water fluoridation – a socio-scientific issue
The New Zealand Ministry of Health defines water fluoridation as:
"The process of adjusting the natural level of fluoride in the water supply to between 0.7 ppm and 1.0 ppm. This is the optimal amount that provides protection against tooth decay. The amount added is monitored to make sure that the levels stay within that range."
The Ministry of Health website also points out that, in June 2018, the New Zealand Supreme Court issued a judgment confirming that local authorities have the legal authority to fluoridate water supplies. The judgment also notes that "in doing this, local authorities are not breaching people's individual rights to refuse to undergo medical treatment".
Differing viewpoints
The Ministry of Health reports that tooth decay is "the single most common chronic disease for New Zealanders" and that water fluoridation provides benefits "over and above brushing twice daily with fluoride toothpaste and eating a healthy diet".
Fluoride Free NZ is an organisation whose purpose is to end water fluoridation in New Zealand. It argues that water fluoridation doesn't work, is not safe and robs people of choice. Its website also says that "the overwhelming body of scientific and statistical evidence does not support fluoridation".
Review of international evidence
The Royal Society of New Zealand and the Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor were commissioned to review the scientific evidence relating to water fluoridation in 2014 and in 2021. Their conclusions (2014) include these statements:
"The only side effect of fluoridation at levels used in NZ is minimal fluorosis, and this is not of major cosmetic significance. There are no reported cases of disfiguring fluorosis associated with levels used for fluoridating water supplies in New Zealand.
"There is no evidence that typical fluoride intakes from formula feeding, using optimally fluoridated water for reconstitution, has any adverse effects on infant health or child development aside from a possible greater risk of mild dental fluorosis.
"We conclude that the scientific issues raised by those opposed to fluoridation are not supported by the evidence."
The important point is that the scientific studies that anti-fluoride campaigners use tend not to be directly relevant to the issue of water fluoridation at the levels that are used in New Zealand.
Fluoridation – a question of science or a question of societal values?
Sir Peter Gluckman, former Chief Science Advisor, writes that there are two issues on which the public debate is often centred, and both of these involve values.
The first issue is how to balance the common good of a population-based intervention with individual rights. He says that this is primarily a question of societal values – not science – similar to regulations that require us to wear seatbelts.
The second issue also involves values – should food be used as a medium for delivering a public health intervention? He points out that we already do this by adding iodine to salt. Too little iodine leads to neck swelling, weight changes, tiredness, hair loss, flaky skin, changes in the body's ability to control its temperature, changes in heart rate and difficulties in learning and remembering and may stunt the development of an unborn baby.
Using scientific evidence inappropriately
There are genuine concerns regarding fluorine poisoning in areas overseas where extremely high concentrations of fluoride naturally occur in the water or in the diet, but the science is clear that there is no risk of such disorders at the doses of fluoride added to local New Zealand water supplies. So why do these concerns continue? The misuse or inappropriate and alarmist use of science is a classic example of science being a proxy for values debates.
It is often easier for those seeking to advance values-based concerns to make the science sound scary or more uncertain than it really is. Indeed, it becomes a tactic amongst those who become passionate about their cause. Because biology and medicine are complex, studies can be difficult to put in perspective and odd results can be given undue weight.
Sir Peter Gluckman
Socio-scientific issues
A socio-scientific issue is an issue that draws on both scientific and social or values-based arguments. Because of this, people hold different viewpoints about how it might be addressed. Students should have access to a wide range of sources while developing their own personal viewpoint on any one issue. The skills they will develop include:
critiquing sources of information
analysing the relevant scientific evidence
identifying the potential social implications and multiple perspectives about these issues
articulating and justifying their own positions.
Being able to form and justify a personal position is a critical skill in the scientific community as well as in everyday life.
The fluoride debate in New Zealand has been well documented. The article Hamilton's fluoride debate chronicles the Hamilton City Council's decision to stop and then restart fluoridating the city's water supplies.
Below are a selection of links that students can use to read about scientific reviews, critiques and responses both for and against the issue. What constitutes evidence and the use of emotive language are two interesting aspects to explore.
Other food interventions
Fluoride is just one of many treatments used in New Zealand to protect human health. Others to consider are:
the mandatory addition of iodised salt to bread
the mandatory addition of folic acid to bread-making flour
the chlorination of water supplies
the pasteurisation of milk to eliminate health risks such as tuberculosis, brucellosis, E. coli and Campylobacter.
Students may wish to explore public attitudes to these treatments and what alternatives are available for people who oppose the treatments.
Socio-scientific issues are an engaging and relevant way to develop students' scientific literacy. Being able to understand and evaluate scientific evidence helps students to recognise the misuse or inappropriate use of science in values debates.
The Hub has other articles on socio-scientific issues, ethics and pedagogy.
Explore the use of fluoridation from different ethical perspectives using the Ethics thinking toolkit.
The Connected article Fake facts looks at misinformation, malinformation and disinformation in the online media landscape. It also suggests strategies for evaluating whether information is based on facts and whether it is worth sharing.
How much is 1 ppm? The activity Exploring small doses provides the opportunity to make a liquid measure of one part per million.
New Zealand scientist Muriel Bell was instrumental in having iodine added to salt (to prevent the swelling of the thyroid gland called goitre) and fluoride to water (to reduce tooth decay). This timeline outlines her research and fluoridation in New Zealand.
The following links will give students a range of perspectives regarding water fluoridation – not all of which are scientifically robust. This will be useful for students to develop skills to critically analyse sources of information.
The Ministry of Health web pages Fluoride and oral health and Water fluoridation.
See the Fluoride Free NZ website, who campaign to end water fluoridation in New Zealand.
The Open Parachute website has articles and comments from Ken Perrott who is pro-fluoride and Paul Connett who is anti-fluoride.
The Supreme Court's 2018 decision and media release regarding local authorities' legal authority to fluoridate water supplies.
Fluoride Free NZ's media release regarding the Supreme Court's 2018 decision.
A Royal Society Te Apārangi expert panel unanimously concludes that the benefits of mandatory fortification of packaged bread with folic acid outweigh possible but unproven adverse effects.
This news article Fluoridation of water— the 50-year-old debate we are still having covers the debate, which has been re-iginited by the 2021 government's plans to centralise control of flouridation under the Director-General of Health.
The Office of the Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor released their latest findings in June 2021, Fluoridation: an update on evidence, examining new evidence on water fluoridation.
In July 2021, the New Zealand Government introduced a policy to ensure all non-organic wheat flour for bread-making is to be fortified with folic acid.
Published 21 August 2018, Updated 8 July 2021 Referencing Hub articles


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Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Fallen quality
One of the amazing things about the original Jurassic Park is its ability to create wonder. No matter how many times I watch it, the reveal of the dinosaurs at the beginning of that movie is awe inspiring. I get goosebumps every time Sam Neill shakily lifts his glasses from his face and the score kicks in. It's a film about the wonder of life, and man's role in that.
The Jurassic World films are not that. They're monster movies, and that is, of course, OK. The original Jurassic World was fun enough as one, and still maintained some of the childish wonder at just how cool dinosaurs are. It had charm. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom does not. It takes the themes of the original movie, and the plot of its predecessor and mushes it all into what amounts to almost nothing. There's no wonder here. No goosebumps moments. It's that wonder of dinosaurs turned into the franchise of dinosaurs.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Official Trailer [HD]
Director: J.A. Bayona
Rated: PG-13
Fallen Kingdom kicks off with a moral question that teases a movie that might actually want to do something interesting. The dinosaurs living on the island where the Jurassic World theme park was are all about to go extinct thanks to a volcano that's erupting. Should humanity save them or should we let them die as they were never really supposed to be around in the first place and they enjoy killing people? While most of the world decides to let them die a much-softened Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is working to get someone to rescue them. Thankfully, Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), who helped create the dinos originally, pays her and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) to return to the island and rescue a few, including our boy Blue, the velociraptor.
Dinosaurs back on mainland, evil idiots doing evil things, a kid somehow getting involved. Yadda yadda yadda. As no one has learned anything from any history ever, shit hits the fan and almost any thematic questions are tossed out the window to once again have a genetically modified monster movie, but this time without any of the fun or creativity of the first.
There's a moment in Fallen Kingdom where our heroes are trapped and reflecting on the first time they saw a live dinosaur. It's supposed to be the film's equivalent of the aforementioned scene from the original (the timeless Jurassic Park score even kicks in), but it is so out of place in a film that carelessly throws dinosaurs around the screen that it caused me to sneer with cynicism. There's no feeling to the film, it's just CGI dinosaurs and a bunch of people doing stupid things over and over. It's hard to even enjoy it as a monster film as nothing feels cheesy enough, and the movie keeps trying to lay on the moral quandaries but doesn't actually care about them. There's nothing here but the repeated and hollow roars of a franchise that used to have a soul.
A lot of the blame needs to fall in the lap of J.A. Bayona, who seems to have ditched the originality and creativity that made A Monster Calls so good for straight up plagiary. You expect sequels to repeat the key shots of their predecessors here or there and give fans something to cheer about, but Bayona never does anything of his own to make the movie new. The iconic T-Rex moment from Jurassic Park is repeated over and over, and if he had done one more dramatic push into the mouth of a screaming dinosaur I would have thrown up from motion sickness. At no moment does anything in the film feel truly original, more a collection of scenes that hit a franchise checklist, all of which previous films in the franchise have done better.
The film has some redeeming value here and there keeping it from being a total trainwreck. The beginning of the movie features a prolific escape sequence amidst a volcanic eruption. It's loud, and big, and everything a monster movie should be. It even contains the one emotional moment that actually functions in the film. Sadly, it's at the beginning of the movie and you have to slog through the rest unless you're smart and leave early.
Pratt does his best with what he's given, but that's not much, especially as a host of other new characters are shoved in left and right for us to not enjoy. There's a new tech guy who hacks everything, and the manic pixie dream girl who does doctor stuff, and the big evil guy just out to make money who yells at the contractually obligated child. Why every movie in this franchise needs to have a child is beyond me, but Maise Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) has got to be the dumbest excuse ever. I'd be spoiling plot details in my rant on this so I'll digress, but her backstory and entire reason for existence just gets dumber and dumber as the movie tries to salvage some of its thematic pull through idiotic plot twists.
Speaking of idiotic, what the hell happened to Claire Dearing? Her character is almost completely changed from the original film. I know she learned a life lesson in that one, but she went from badass sprinting in heels to nothing more than a screaming, shouting, McGuffin that gets Pratt's character to go places. It's a really weird shift considering the film was written by the same guy and a loss of a character who could have been interesting. Even if they had used her well the movie completely wastes Blue, whose reappearance feels more like a toy contract obligation than anyone actually wanting him back.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is supposed to be a big dumb monster movie, but it doesn't even pull that off. It feels so redundant of Jurassic World and so reliant on the tropes of the series that nothing is ever interesting. Despite its repeated and desperate reminders that it thinks dinosaurs are so cool, it doesn't treat them that way. Somehow it takes all the childhood wonder that Jurassic Park encapsulated so perfectly and forgets it, leaving behind the fossilizing bones of a behemoth that once ruled many years ago.


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Five Things You Might Not Know About Our Wool Sweater
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on October 26, 2020 in Essentials Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
When we were releasing our new sweater the All Man's Right, we posted a series of five facts about the product to our social media, as we were dropping it. Here are the five points.
1. It's hand knit
In fact all the products here at Red Hat Factory are hand knit. It is kind of our basic idea. We want to push back against a culture of over consumption and over production, and we do it by putting a bit of spotlight on the handmade.
There is something to a handmade product that makes it a special keepsake. You know it took time, and you know someone personally sat down and made what you now hold in your hand.
2. It's tailored
While one-size works for our beanies, it won't work for a sweater. Tailoring each sweater, of course, only kicks the handmadeness to the next level. You give us a list of measurements outlined on the product page, and we deliver a sweater that specifically suits you.
3. It takes 40 hours to knit
This may be shocking to some. A full work week? Sometimes it takes more, sometimes less, but 40 is a good average.
Had you hired for example a mechanic for those hours, you'd be spending tens of thousands of kroners (Norwegian currency), so how come we can charge what we do for the sweaters?
The art of sweater knitting is ancient, and therefore it comes with a culture where it was the housewife creating products to protect her own family through the cold Nordic winters.
It didn't come out of a commercial idea.
Therefore genuinely hand knit sweaters are mostly made and given as gifts from Norwegian mothers to their children. Sales mostly go for mere symbolic sums.
We can however justify selling so many work hours for a package price because of a little quirk. My mother don't ever stop knitting. On an airplane, in the car, at a party, hanging out with a crew of like minded knitters, she never stops!
That is why the products go out at the price they do. She would have knit them anyhow. But don't go looking for a career in knitting if you want to get rich. This is a product of pure passion.
4. It's our own pattern
Tying back into the angular style of Norwegian traditional patterns, my mother made her own. This is nothing new to her, since she has been designing unique sweaters and patterns for years, but I must say she outdid herself on this one.
With this pattern, we went for a simplicity that could suit the all-man, but still looks completely Nordicly traditional.
5. It's 100% wool
Our earlier products have been respectively 80 and 85% wool, because of how the different properties of those mixtures of yarn benefit those products. The wool sweater however was the first perfect fit for a 100% pure sheep wool yarn, and I am very happy to say so.
The closer to nature the better.
How to Care for a Wool Sweater
A Red Hat Factory wool sweater is knit the old way with 100% wool, and is therefore in demand of a bit more care than your average cotton hoodie.
Like a nice pair of leather shoes needs their oil, our tailored hand knit sweater, the All Man's Right, needs some love. These are general tips for most wool sweaters though, so feel free to use the guide for your own home knit sweater as well.
Nothing beats a hand knit wool sweater.
The most important points
Wash at 40° wool setting.
Don't hand wash.
Don't tumble dry.
Dry laying down.
It will require patching up.
But please continue reading.
Washing your wool sweater
My mother actually warned me not to hand wash my sweaters. The gentle lapping of the wool setting on the washing machine is better, since it repeats the same patterns back and forth without twisting the wool.
If your wool setting centrifuges it, don't worry. The setting knows what it's doing.
Drying your wool sweater
First of all: For God's sake, do not tumble dry any wool! That turn it into something else entirely.
While that is obvious to a lot of you, the next advice is not equally intuitive.
I did the mistake that I hung one of my sweaters it up to dry. This resulted in a bad stretch. Wool sweaters have to dry laying flat. For example, spread it out across a wash stand.
Patching up a wool sweater
If you have some skill in knitting or in sowing you may patch the sweater up yourself. Otherwise we offer a patching service for buyers of our own All Man's Right sweaters.
You'll want to know a few things about tearing and patching.
How often do you need to patch it up?
This varies a lot from person to person, but I've found on my four wool sweaters I've needed about a patch every third year (on each sweater). The most important thing is to patch it up as soon as it gets a tear, before it starts unravelling.
Patches look like patches
Yes. We won't be able to perfectly patch it up, so like a scar, it's going ot get strong again, but the memory of the injury will be visible. This, in my opinion, is something positive. The lore of your sweater only grows. Also, the coloring of different batches of yarn differ slightly, so the patches may also have small color varieties. (Which in my opinion is totally epic).
The patch on one of my wool sweaters' elbow.
It think that is all you need to know to be ready to adopt a genuine hand knit wool sweater, and ensure a long and happy life for it.
4 Outfits That Go With a Red Cap
The red hand knit cap is the beginning and the heart of our company. Everyone from Jaques Cousteau to Kanye West wears them. But what outfits go well with a red beanie?
1. Red cap, blue denim shirt — Marvin Gaye, Jaques Cousteau, Steve Zissou
They are poster children for the red cap, and are mentioned a lot in Red Hat Factory articles. What all their iconic outfits have in common is the red/blue contrast, which is one of my personal favorites. I often wear a denim shirt with my red cap.
Marvin Gaye, Steve Zissou and Jaques Cousteau have all contributed to making denim/red cap an iconic outfit.
2. Red cap, green jacket — Kanye West
In nature, the red cap stands out, and that is kind of the point. Wearing military style greens with the cap is never a mistake. Especially if you're out hunting and want to avoid being mistaken for a moose.
As you blend with nature, the cap pops even more.
Red caps, green jackets.
It is yet another favorite for us at the Factory.
3. Red cap, yellow rain jacket
Yellow has become the iconic color for rain jackets. Red is the same for knit caps. Two bright icons together creates a colorful collision. Also, the rain jacket as a fisherman's working wear, draws out the history of the fisherman beanie in your outfit.
The red cap goes so well with a yellow rain jacket.
4. Red cap on a monochrome backdrop
Black and white are seldom wrong "color" choices when it comes to lending voice to other pieces of apparel. If you want your beanie to shine, why not go monochrome — white or black?
Black and white, with a radiating spot of red.
Here at Red Hat Factory we are much more interested in seeing what you can come up with.
How you integrate our caps into your style is way more fun than telling you how to do it. That is why we deliver our hand knit pieces as a long "sausage" of wool that you fold yourself.
After all, though it's a corny thing to say, the best piece of apparel is actually confidence.
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on September 10, 2020 in Essentials Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
Rough, sturdy and simple — the working class fisherman and his rough knit cap has ever been an inspiration for how we knit our products. But how deep into that history can we dig?
We already wrote a whole article about the Steve Zissou hat, and how that has shaped our beanies. Steve is a fictional character who draws his inspiration from red beanie wearing, submarine genius Jaques Cousteau. But what inspiration was he drawing on? — what connected beanies to the seafarer in the first place?
"Old fisherman wearing wool cap" by Eliot Elisofon
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History of the fisherman beanie
I'd love to come up with something deeply symbolic, but I think history is very simple — yet beautiful — when it comes to the fisherman beanie.
Imagine coastal society. It's a time when most women are the keepers of the house, while the men are out providing for the family's economical needs.
"The Knitting Woman" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Say what you want about gender roles — I'm not here to discuss that, but simply to dig into history.
There are deep historical roots to why knitting is prevalent among women in Norway (where Red Hat Factory comes from) to this day. I know my mother learnt it from her mother, who again probably learnt it from hers — the roots stretch far back.
Those days were a time when the woman was tasked with actually protecting the household against the elements — and among the responsibilities was keeping her family warm at the onset of winter.
In our imagined little coastal society, not all the fishermen could afford a water proof sou'wester, so the next best alternative stood in line. Wool was readily available, and the property of wool that isolates even when wet made it a fine second choice.
So she knits him a beanie, tight knit because of years of skill (she has knit for every one of her seven kids) and full of care because she desperately wants her man to come home from the sea, today as every day before.
"The Old Fisherman" by Paul Crompton. The fisherman wears the more sophisticated sou'wester.
In this way the hand knit fisherman beanie represents a simple life of hard work and survival that most people through history has lived.
It is good to look at history for perspective, and maybe to gain some gratefulness.
Real fishermen beanies
Finding images of actual fishermen, wearing beanies is tremendously hard. The modern trend of the fisherman beanie has taken over image searches, pushing the black and white genuine photos aside.
Mostly whenever I find a picture of what we would call a fisherman beanie today, it turns out to be a modern day portrait, taken with a vintage style. The real pictures I've found however, reveals something very interesting.
It seems that people put whatever they wanted on their heads before heading out to sea. And that is just how we like it.
Fishermen seem to always have worn whatever they wanted, or maybe whatever was at their disposition?
The super long fishermen beanies with pom-poms
You might have noticed on the first picture, beside Cousteau, that the fisherman has an incredibly long beanie with a pom-pom at the end.
The style derives from fishing societies in Portugal, specifically the Povoan culture.
The first picture is a Povoan, the other ones are also Portuguese — maybe Povoan as well.
The culture was centered around fishing. Their legends and their religion — it all swirled around the sea, sea creatures and fish. Saint Andrew was believed to fish the souls of the perished at sea into heaven, and they avoided work on Sunday because of an old legend about a sea serpent punishing people who violated the holy day of rest.
Most importantly though, they wore the longest fishermen beanies the world has ever seen with pom-pom and all — and with that they sported the wildest sideburns known to man.
Deeming from the last illustration, the beanies were even red. And you know exactly how we feel about that!
The Shaping of Our Beanie Models
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on September 4, 2020 in Essentials Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
When we set out to design the first ever Red Hat Factory model, we didn't go looking for the spectacular. Quite the contrary.
Looking at products and heritage items we consider absolute classics, we noticed one commonality. The classic yellow rain jacket, rough worn oak tables, faded leather belts, the knives that my dad has hanging on his wall, that we have used on all my childhood adventures — they all share one trait.
Simplicity.
From the outset, we knew we were making a product the old way — the way it's been done from generation to generation. And wanting to also create a product that would be appreciated for generations, I let my mom take me back in time, showing me an array of basic simple knitting methods and their aesthetics.
What we in Norway call ribbestrikk. It's one of the basic tools of the craft. Here a Southlander is laying on a Norwegian Setesdalsgenser — a regional traditional sweater pattern.
Following the red thread
I've learned through both design and writing, that the creative process often starts with a more bloated product, and then is slimmed down through the cutting off of unnecessary features.
I am sure a lot of you can relate that to your own work. We often over-design — then cut back.
For the first Red Hat Factory cap, we went through 5–10 different models, and model by model we dropped things. First the unique knit pattern along the edge, then the shaped panels that gave an approximate head shape to the product.
An extremely rare photo of some of the pre-production experimental models. My wife right there in the middle. Most, if not all these beanies are given away a long time ago.
Finally, after hours upon hours of work, I dropped a final idea on my mother. "What if we just make the hat a tube, and let the owner shape it by wearing it."
It sounds boring, but in all its simplicity, it actually worked best.
And the people loved it.
"The quality is amazing, and I know I'll be able to use it for years to come!"
Morten Furre, Australia
"Fantastic quality, durable and stylish. Each Red Hat has been hand crafted with love and attention to detail."
Greg Burkin, Canada
The final beanie is just a tube sown together on the top. You create the fold yourself.
"[The Southlander] is by far my favorite – it's quality top notch and unlike my other beanies it feels just perfect. Whether you're dressed up and going out on the town or just heading to the store this is a must for any occasion."
Nathan Pearson, USA
"I am using the Southlander pretty much every day."
Asbjørn Østreim, Norway
"Like a good wine, this gets better with age."
Billy Chester, USA
We knew we had hit something.
First model down
Finally the first of what was to become the Southlander was off the needles, knit using the technique called ribbestrikk in Norwegian, and sowed together in an x on the top. Nothing more nothing less.
Me randomly snatching brand photos while hanging out with friends in Stockholm. This is the first Southlander ever made (at the time called "the Rounded") and I still have it at home.
The tube shape makes it look small when you get it, but once it's had some time to shape itself to your head, it becomes better fitted to you than any pre-formed shape could bring.
Also, since the cap is a simple tube with no defined edge, you control how you fold it. We have another article that dives deeper into possible folding styles.
From fishermen to carpenters, the simple, yet gritty style of a workman's beanie has been a hallmark of the hard working craftsman.
Simple is classic.
Simple hats, simple brand
When we first released the beanies to the webshop, the Southlander was simply named the Rounded. And paired with the simple design and the simple name, came a very simple sketched icon.
The first Red Hat Factory product — the Rounded.
The whole brand was built and centered from the historic notion of the old beanie, knit by a wife before she sent her husband out on the sea to haul fish nets in the pouring rain.
While he is out fishing, the woman gets a business idea, and hastily she sketches down a few beanies with her pen. Then she sighs and peers out the window, wondering whether he will return today or not.
Little did that proverbial woman know she was planting the seed of Red Hat Factory to come.
That is the story behind the type of assets we use in the brand to this day. They have evolved a lot, but the style remains. Mom-made. Home made. Simple lines.
The three beanie models we have today, with the overhauled brand names.
A Point to the Round
The North Cap was at first a failed attempt to cap off the beanie in a round fashion. It became pointier than it was supposed to.
When my quirky brother in law saw it, however, he loved it more than what I considered the final product. I soon realized we needed a second model. Based on the first, but with a touch of different, for the more explorative soul.
In line with the simple brand, we just named it the Pointy Tip.
The second model's initial branding.
Its base was, and still is, exactly the same as the Southlander, but it caps off in a peak rather than a half circle, making it the first choice of the ones who wants a basic cap, but with a slight edge to it.
The simple branding process. In the first round of branding material, not much changed from final sketch to digitalized asset.
It still is a classic though, and draws much of its inspiration back to the movie The Life Aquatic, which itself draws on the real life character Jacques Costeau.
Children Invade the Brand
A long time we only had two models, one color. And I refused every suggestion for additional colors and other products — very purposefully. I felt like if we were going to be the Red Hat Factory, we need to have at least a year, where we are just that — a factory of Red Hats.
As a side note, we aren't really using a factory — it is true hand knit. But that is a different story.
The third beanie model, the Bay Bee, has a boringly simple history. When a friend, in our early days, asked if we had one for children, we said yes, and made a smaller version of the Southlander.
Not much more to say on that.
Once we finished the baby model, we took some photos with my niece and nephew.
There is an interesting feature to the baby model, however. You know how I told you that the wool beanies are very small, and stretches a lot to fit your head. This is just how wool needs to be to properly fit you. On the Bay Bee, this makes the beanie fit from babyhood to 3-4 years old, but look very different at each stage.
You can see we stuck with the simple names, but you'll notice, the following drawing is a little more polished around the edges than its predecessors. This actually inspired me to rebrand and rename all the beanies in turn.
The first Baby model.
Talking of that stretchiness
Most our customers express surprise when they see the size of the new beanie. It is small.
Your average cotton beanie doesn't stretch a lot, so what you see is what you get. A wollen knit cap will grow with you, and take its shape from your head. In the beginning, the hat can even be a bit slippy for some people, especially when your hair is newly shampooed.
Like a good pair of selvedge jeans, or a new set of leather boots, it needs to be worn in. After that, it will be your most trusty friend.
No brand for a reason
Many also express surprise at the lack of any brand assets on the cap. You get a Certificate of Authenticity upon purchase, and there will be stickers in the box — but the beanie itself is completely bare.
The branding is found separately on the box and on stickers — but the beanie itself is bare bone.
We chose this because of the history of the brand. Taking the experience of growing up with a knitting mother and bringing it to you. When she knit me a piece, there was no brand. It was pure, just a gift of love from a parent to a child, and therefore we keep the beanies pure.
Washing instructions are found on the web.
With the lack of brand, the texture of the beanie needs to stand out even more, and so it does. We chose wool partly for its features (isolates even when wet), but also a lot because of its look. Gritty and rough, connecting you with the hard worker on the seas a hundred years ago, the construction workers balancing the beams of Empire State Building when it came up, and the kind hands that knit it — stitch by stitch, with care.
One Sock to Rule them All —New Product in Store
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on July 1, 2020 in News Reel Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
When my brother in law came into my apartment while I was drying wool socks after laundry, he made me realize something. Not everyone has a basket of 25 pairs of wooly socks right inside the door.
When I grew up this was normal. As Norwegians, we live pretty far into the northern hemisphere, and floors get cold. When the termometer drops below -20℃ (-4℉), your sweet leather boots aren't always enough. That is why the average Norwegian household has a basket of family-shared wooly socks in the hallway near the front door.
Ben Laws, the infamous mind behind MacLaren Barbers.
The Grandmother Resistance Movement
When I was little, I was into film-making big time. We made action movies with polyphonic ringtones playing Mission Impossible in the background, and basically ran around beating each other up in the forest and bringing each other to justice. Before I had editing software we re-shot scenes by rewinding the tape and filming over the old stuff — something that resulted in a lot of funny choppy transitions.
At this time in my life I started writing on a script idea. The Grandmother Resistance Movement. It would be a comedy about how during WWII grandmothers formed an underground knitting movement, where they provided soldiers with warm wooly socks. They would have their own secret communication networks through tapping morse code on their knitting needles, and they'd smuggle baskets of socks through the mountains to get to the front lines. All in skirts and with permanent. (Perm — something all Norwegian grandmothers have.)
This is a frame, featuring me, from a bear hunting tutorial me and my neighbors made around that time.
From reminiscing about 13 year old me coming up with this idea, it is pretty clear that the hand knit wool sock stood pretty strong in our culture. It was the standing joke that we'd get socks for Christmas if we didn't behave — then we grew up, and what had been a threat became a treat. When we shopped for winter boots, we always made sure there was space for the thick wooly socks inside. We'd simply never go out in snow boots without them.
Lucky bastards
While we as Norwegians are lucky enough that a fine pair of hand knit wool socks are used as a threat, not all of you have a Norwegian grandma. That is why we make our mission to make it available for you. Yet another little piece of our culture shared with you. Knit by genuine Norwegian mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, and quite frankly, even great great grandmothers.
Word of the day: Great great grandmother in Norwegian is tippoldemor.
As we take the step into (pun intended) a future of being more than just a Hat Factory, what better product to bring than the grandmother-made standard issue Norwegian Wool Sock.
I bring you The Grandma(ster).
Old Lady Advice from My Mother (And New Packaging)
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on February 6, 2020 in News Reel Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
Am I calling my own mother an old lady? Not really. But… it wouldn't have been that bad. In our family age is something we try to honor and are proud of. Age is wisdom, and old age is when you're entitled to more comfort and respect from those around you.
We believe that older generations have wisdom to pass on to the next one, and we have found a way to include more of that into Red Hat Factory.
"Old lady advice" or — the less flattering translation — "hag advice" is a saying or proverb that has gone from generation to generation. No one knows from when or where it originated, but everyone has heard it.
A good example came early this year, when my Grandmother suddenly exclaimed, as we were dining Norwegian lapskaus: "There's a difference between daddy and the cat."
My grandmother holding my son.
I had to have it explained for me by my mom later that evening. The proverb had been said because I couldn't eat the dessert (because of allergies). In this proverb I was the cat who's not getting what's served at the table. Not everyone should be equally treated — the worker is worth his pay, as they say.
These proverbs were more freely thrown around back in the days, and since we are all about Norwegian traditional knitting, we'll throw another piece of Norsk culture into the mix.
A Norwegian blessing
From 2020 on you will get a handwritten note with a selected piece of old lady advice or an old Norwegian blessing, written in Norwegian with every beanie you order. It doesn't get more primal than that.
A classic Norwegian blessing.
The one in the picture is a classic Norwegian blessing, incorporating old fashioned humor, rhymes, and a reference to a classic toilet.
Spoiler alert: Some are more serious than others.
It is only a few generations since everyone had an "outside-toilet" (utedo). These usually stood (some still do, especially outside the typical Norwegian mountain cabin) on the edge of a precipice or wall, so the waste could gather up in some sort of tank, or area below. This was excellent fertilizer, so grass normally grew rapidly in the general area behind the toilet. This card says "may happiness grow, as grass behind the toilet." In Norwegian, that rhymes.
If you receive a card, and want the translation and decipher the meaning, you'll have to chat with us, and that's just what we want — more connection with you guys. You're the ones making Red Hat Factory an exciting journey, and we always love hearing from you.
A worthy packaging
The beanies we sell in store at MacLaren Barbers have been packed in modest slick white packages, with each respective logo stickered on the front. Because of an issue with shipping from Norway, we couldn't use the same for our beanies through mail.
Now however, I have found some packages that work for international shipping, and we can finally deliver the beanies just as we wanted all along. It has taken some time, because this is a small family business, and many things have been higher on my priority list. But, here it is.
The North Cap packaging.
How to Wear a Red Hat Factory Cap
Written by Benjamin Antoni Andersen Published on April 15, 2019 in Essentials Designer and instigator of Red Hat Factory, constantly hungry for mountainous adventures.
There are actually more ways than you might think, and the choice is all yours.
Our models deliver as a tube that you are free to fold as you like, and the lack of any tags on the edges makes your freedom total.
One thing I've noticed through selling beanies all across the world — no one wears it the same, and that is the beauty of it.
With that said we have three basic ways of wearing a Red Hat Factory cap.
The single fold
If it is a little bit colder, you might want yo go for a single fold, as I did on this old picture. Though it is my second favorite fold, it looks awesome, and it gives space for you to pull it over your ears if you please.
My favorite — fold your cap twice
My favorite style, and the one most commonly used by Red Hatters around the world, is the double fold.
Here's Sophia with the basic double fold.
A classic double fold.
The third way to wear a red hat factory cap — the roll
I honestly can't tell if this picture a roll or a sloppy double fold, but I like the idea of rolling the edge, as opposed to doing sharp folds. And I have seen it done, looking great!
Conclusion — wear your cap your way
Just to underline how different we are, and how the caps we wear shape to our style and head shape – here is a bunch of people wearing it their way.
Be like them – unlike each other.


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Q: SAX parser. How to stop SAX parser connecting to the Internet? I am trying to parse 11384 XML files into one SQLite database. One of them:
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Firstly, I thought that this error was because of one exact file. But an error is happening with different files in different times. How to make SAX parser stop connecting to the Internet?

A: You can supply your own EntityResolver
public class DummyEntityResolver implements EntityResolver {
    public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicID, String systemID)
        throws SAXException {

        return new InputSource(new StringReader(""));
    }
}

and
public void readXmlFromFile(File file) throws ParserConfigurationException,
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}

This stops external entity resolution. If you have some external entities, you want to provide, you can do this checking publicID and systemID.
HTH.

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What exactly are the health benefits of Resveratrol?
Resveratrol is a valuable plant compound found in the seeds and skins of grapes that are rich in antioxidant compositions. Resveratrol can help protect the body against harmful changes leading to disease.
Any nutritionist will tell you that a diet plan enriched with Resveratrol will strengthen the immune system which will help you to fight many diseases. Resveratrol & TN25 is based on an anti-ageing vitamin which is taking America by storm.
Dr David Sinclair from the Harvard Medical School is quoted as saying: 'Resveratrol is the best medical breakthrough since the antibiotic'.
The National Science Foundation of America has stated that they are looking at Resveratrol to protect against Alzheimer's. There are also reports that it has helped heart disease, diabetes and even cancers.
Having trialled Resveratrol for several years, I now find that the clients upon which I did the study have shown a tremendous effect in relation to their restoration of hair colour and condition of their skin. All this has been done naturally, but it seems that one gets even greater health benefits.
'Resveratrol is used for its reputed anti-aging effects. It is said to have antioxidant properties and antiplatelet effects and is therefore promoted as having benefits in a variety of cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis. It also has some oestrogenic and anti-inflammatory activity, and is under investigation in the prevention and treatment of cancer, because it appears to reduce cell proliferation'.
'British scientists have discovered how to get biologically active doses of Resveratrol, the anti-ageing compound extracted from the skins of red grapes, into the body.
'The major development paves the way for new treatments… which use the health-giving chemical to protect against a string of chronic diseases for a variety of cancers to heart disease and even to extend life. Researchers at the University of Leicester have shown how Resveratrol can still remain effective at fighting cancer even after the body converts it into other compounds.
'Resveratrol is metabolised by the body very quickly which means it had previously been thought that levels would drop too quickly to make it usable in clinical trials. But now, the latest study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found that in fact it is not rendered ineffective once it is metabolised by the body'.
The Daily Express has an article about the Resveratrol health benefits: 'Red Wine Compound Resveratrol Fights Cancer' …which makes very interesting reading indeed.
It would take 667 bottles of red wine to produce a tiny 0.03oz of Resveratrol.
Here at Eucaderm we have tremendous demand for our Resveratrol capsules and for good reason. They really are the answer to many peoples' prayers!
You can order your Resveratrol from this page, or go to the Shop here if you prefer.
Resveratrol is a valuable plant compound and is rich in anti-oxidant compositions. Any nutritionist will tell you that a diet plan enriched with Resveratrol will strengthen the immune system which will help you to fight many diseases.


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Category: Naming A Trailer
Our 2022 Rockwood Geo Pro 15TB has a name! We promise that it will be divulged at some point in this post. Hang with us and read along.
Assigning names to objects is kind of intriguing, isn't it? Have you named your car, truck, bicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, airplane, etc? If you have an RV, have you named it? As those who've followed our former full-time RV lifestyle read from early posts, our first trailer was a 2018 Nash 26N made by Northwood Manufacturing. We named it "Tranquility". Not only were we anticipating some tranquil times on our travels and surrounded by the beauty of our country, we also recall watching as youngsters the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landing in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. Our first truck that towed the Nash trailer was named "Bessie". My paternal great-grandmother was named Bessie. When my great-grandfather John first laid eyes on Bessie, she was seated on a buggy at the reins of a spirited horse. As she zipped down the country road, my great-grandfather asked his friend who this young woman might be. An introduction was made in short order. We could envision our 2012 Ford F-250 being at the reins of "Tranquility" and spiriting us on our way around the country.
April 2018 – Tranquility the Trailer with Bessie the Truck
Naming provides identity. It also insinuates a type of bond. Perhaps the bond is related to a particular activity to which your object is tied. For example, my parents adopted the 1963 Chevy Suburban that first belonged to my aunt, uncle, and cousins. It was a battleship gray. They called it the" Gray Goose". The Gray Goose went on many adventures with my aunt, uncle, and cousins and came to us with that history. So, we kept the name. It would be the first vehicle that became our primary wheels for getting to and from school when my younger sister, Char, and I didn't take the school bus, especially with after school sports and clubs. The Gray Goose also had numerous adventures, including a 1973 girls' trip to go camping in Wisconsin. There were other escapades reflecting some immature teenage choices. (I won't go into details). Needless to say, Gray Goose was a fun and happy name!
August 1973 The Gray Goose, our old 1963 Suburban, en route to camp in Wisconsin with my sister and two friends.
Fast forward a few years with a growing family, Steve and I had one of the first mini-vans made. It was a 1984 Toyota Van Wagon. In fact, we read about it in a car magazine when we needed to replace our Datsun B-210 Hatchback. Then we visited the local Toyota dealer to ask about the Van Wagon. Interestingly, they didn't even know about the Van Wagon. We showed them the magazine article. We placed an order and waited a couple of months until it arrived. While we didn't assign a name immediately, over time as our kids became older and more movie aware, they thought that "Yoda" from Star Wars would be a good name. You know, ToYOTA sounds a bit like YODA. Yoda took us 200,000+ miles of road trips, car pools, camping, bike trips, and more. We should have been a poster family for this vehicle because it was such an anomaly at the time. Countless times during the first years that we had it, we gave strangers a tour due to their curiosity. Top question: where is the engine located? Our answer: beneath the driver's seat. They couldn't believe their eyes when we'd unlock the driver's seat, lift it, and show them the engine!
October 1984 – Yoda our 1984 Toyota Van Wagon
Okay…change of subject. Raise your hand if you like s'mores? Hands-down we LOVE them. All of the years of camping, our marshmallow roasting sticks remain a staple in our camping kitchen. Steve has such a knack for building wonderful campfires. He'd get a nice roaring campfire going. Then Jeremy, Stephanie, and I exercised patience as we gradually watched the flames give way to the perfect embers for roasting marshmallows. There's nothing quite as satisfying as a s'more or two or three. Graham cracker square topped with a Hershey's milk chocolate square, topped with a hot, roasted marshmallow, and lastly topped with another graham cracker square, Gently press to get a bit of oozing from the roasted marshmallow. OH YUM!
May 2021 – Roasting Marshmallows over a Campfire, Dworshak Reservoir State Park, Idaho.
Essentials for S'Mores (plus new roasting sticks)!
Ready, Set, Go for S'more Making!
February 2019. – Steve roasts a marshmallow at City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico.
June 2005 – Diane roasted a PERFECT marshmallow, Grand Lake, Colorado.
March 14, 2020 – It's PI Day. We made a S'More Pie at Kartchner Caverns State Park, Arizona.
So…why tell you about s'more making? We invite you to take a good look at the photo of our 2022 Rockwood Geo Pro 15TB. Our imaginations say, "Hmmm….it's the shape and white like a marshmallow!" Does your imagination see a marshmallow?
Check this out carefully!
Then we look closer at the decals on the side of the Geo Pro. There's two horizontal stripes, black and gold. Then there are swooches much like giant parentheses at each end of the side. Do you see a side view of a square of Hershey's chocolate? This is the black stripe. Now how about the gold stripe beneath it? It sorta, kinda looks like a side view of a graham cracker square. See it? Now stay with me here. The half-circle decal swooshes at either end of the trailer's side look a bit like a roasted marshmallow being squished as if pressed down. Well, this sure sounds like a S'MORE!
Folks, meet our new trailer named S'more! With S'more, we can make SOME MORE memories. Plus, it will help us SEE MORE states, state parks, national parks, perhaps the southern tier of Canadian provinces, plus family and friends! What we'll look forward to doing is sitting by a campfire at some point, roasting marshmallows, and making luscious, gooey, melt-in-your mouth s'mores. Even better would have you join us at our campfire! Stay tuned as 2022 brings some camping trips and we'll share more of S'mores travels. Now…what to name our Toyota Highlander SUV…any thoughts?
Take care everyone ! Cheers to s'mores and S'More! May you have a Happy Thanksgiving next week.
Diane (& Steve)


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Cudahy is een plaats (city) in de Amerikaanse staat Wisconsin, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Milwaukee County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 18.429. In 2006 is het aantal inwoners door het United States Census Bureau geschat op 18.051, een daling van 378 (-2,1%).

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van 12,3 km², geheel bestaande uit land.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 12 km rond Cudahy.

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Plaats in Wisconsin

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