At the 2015 SHOT Show, I got a sneak peak at the new EPU-5200 battery pack from Streamlight. This new unit is a durable 5,200 mAh/19.24 Wh battery designed to charge phones and other devices while you are away from a wall socket.
Two months ago, the company sent me one to review. Like a lot of you, I have several other battery packs, some of which do an exceptional job. However, the Streamlight is the only one I have that I would feel comfortable carrying when kayaking, camping or just getting caught in a rainstorm. I found the unit to be very water resistant and pretty darn rugged.
If you want my bottom line, this Streamlight battery pack is an excellent buy for anyone who finds themselves out-of-doors. It doesn't have the largest capacity, but it is weatherproof and drop resistant and will charge your phone multiple times in harsh environments. Please continue on in this review for all of the details.
Charging via USB ports has become the de facto standard for most modern electronics. Phones, tablets, watches and even tactical flashlights are using USB charging. Because of this, portable power banks like the Streamlight EPU-5200 have become a popular way of keeping those devices charged while on the go.
There are a large number of mobile battery packs on the market. They range in quality from the excellent to the nearly worthless, and different companies offer any number of features on these units.
Streamlight uses a lithium ion (Li-ion) battery that is rated for 500 charge cycles. In general, Li-ion batteries do not set a memory like older rechargeable batteries, and they also hold a charge for a longer period of time, typically months.
The EPU-5200 is a compact portable battery that is about 4.5″ long and weighs a little over 5 ounces. It has a hard plastic shell with large ridges similar to the slide serrations on a Glock pistol. Streamlight included a metal clip on the back of the power pack for easy carrying. The clip is removable.
One end of the EPU-5200 has a protective cap that slides off to reveal the controls and charging ports. The cap is attached to the body with a loop of high strength elastic cord. This prevents the cap from being lost. A side benefit of the captive top is that when it is moved to expose the charging ports, it can act as a kickstand for the unit.
A thick rubber gasket creates a very tight seal between the cap and body of the power bank. Streamlight does not claim that the unit is waterproof, but they clearly built it to be very water resistant.
Unlike the vast majority of battery packs, the Streamlight EPU-5200 is tested for drop resistance. According to testing done in compliance with the ANSI FL 1 standard, this unit is drop resistant to a full 2 meters.
For those who are not familiar with the standard, this rating means that an independent testing lab drop-tested six of these units. Each unit was dropped six times – one on each side – from 2 meters. To pass the test, no significant damage can be visible (cracked case, etc.) and the device must continue to work.
The EPU-5200 has a micro-USB port on the side of the body. This is used for charging the battery pack. On the end is a single, standard-sized USB port that is used to charge other devices with this unit as the power source.
Next to the USB port is an LED light that can be used as a navigational or work light. The light is not intended, nor is it suitable, to be a tactical light. It is more than adequate to help you find your way in the dark.
On the face of the unit is a power switch that controls the output and light. Four blue LEDs arc over the top of the power switch to indicate the amount of charge contained in the power bank.
Streamlight backs the EPU-5200 with a lifetime warranty. The warranty does not cover normal use issues, so I would not expect them to replace a unit for not holding a charge once you have gone past the stated number of charge cycles.
Typically, people are looking for three things in a portable charger: capacity, speed of charging and price. "Real world" capacity and speed of charging are both affected by the unit doing the charging and the device being charged.
The amount of energy stored in a battery can be expressed in a variety of ways. One way is in amp hours (Ah) and another is Wh (watt hours.) Most frequently, the measurement of mAh, or milliamp hours, is used to express capacity in consumer batteries. However, these numbers are just part of the story.
Consider the mAh rating on a battery as the theoretical maximum capacity under ideal conditions. Real world capacity is frequently lower than the rating due to the way different devices draw energy from the battery, inefficiencies in the system, etc.
The following information is provided in an attempt to provide you with an approachable, relatively non-technical look at the performance of this portable battery pack.
When testing the battery, I used two different electronic devices: an iPhone 5 and a Streamlight ProTac HL USB flashlight.
I started off by running my iPhone down until it shut off (below 7%) and then charging it using the original Apple cable. The EPU-5200 charged the phone to 100% three times. A fourth try got me to about 40%.
Not bad considering Streamlight estimates the pack will completely charge an iPhone 2-3 times. Obviously, newer iPhones with larger battery capacities are not likely to get 3+ charges out of the unit.
The average charge time for the iPhone (from dead to 100%) was 1 hour, 51 minutes.
I also ran a charge test with the ProTac HL USB. Streamlight states the battery pack will completely charge the unit twice, and so it did. A third try didn't transfer very much juice.
Charging the ProTac HL USB is significantly slower than the iPhone due to the light's relatively low ability to draw power. If you skip down to the next section, you will see than the iPhone was drawing more than 5 watts, while the flashlight was just over 2 watts. Consequently, the charge time on the flashlight from dead to full averaged 7 hours, 6 minutes. The battery in the flashlight is a 3.6v 2.2 Ah/7.92 Wh Li-ion.
Charging the EPU-5200 is a slow process. Streamlight advises it takes up to 8 hours to charge the unit. My own experience with the unit finds this to be an accurate estimation.
The next thing I did was to measure the output of the EPU-5200 and two other battery packs for comparison. I used an inexpensive PortaPow USB power monitor. For comparison, I used Limefuel L156x (15,600 mAh/57.72 Wh) and Duracell PPS2 (1150 mAh) battery packs.
The power monitor connected directly to the battery and the charging cable then connected to the monitor. I conducted the tests with the Streamlight unit at about 75% charge.
When conducting the tests, I used the shortest cable I had on hand when charging. However to see what, if any, difference cable length might make, I took measurements with both a 4″ cable and a 40″ cable charging the ProTac HL USB from the EPU-5200.
While the longer cable does not reduce efficiency by very much, it does suggest that multiple inefficiencies throughout the system can reduce the useable charge in whatever external battery pack you may be using.
This unit is not waterproof. Dunk it in the river and you might kill it. However, the EPU-5200 is rated at the IPX4 standard, which means the unit is water resistant. To meet the IPX4 standard, the unit must be able to withstand splashing from every direction. This makes the unit weather proof, and highly resistant to water intrusion.
As I mentioned earlier in this review, the protective cover has a thick rubber gasket with three ridges similar to windshield wiper blades. This seems to do an excellent job at keeping water out of the electronics.
Two weeks ago, I took the family to Disney World. In the past, I would carry my Limefuel with me. However, Florida tends to be quite rainy in the summer afternoons. The forecast suggested we would spend at least part of the day getting rained on. So, I was happy to take the lighter (by half) and infinitely more water resistant EPU-5200 with me for the trip.
As expected, the rain started around 4 pm. It was not a downpour, but it was definitely a steady, soaking rain. I pulled the Streamlight out of my Maxpedition pack to ensure it would be exposed to the weather. The picture above was taken in front of Splash Mountain at about 5 pm. It's not a great shot, but the unit was wet.
The unit showed no ill effects from the rain, and no water appeared to have leaked into any part of the pack. Now, several weeks later, the EPU-5200 continues to operate perfectly.
I like the Streamlight EPU-5200 quite a lot. It offers a significant amount of portable charging capabilities while remaining fairly light. Additionally, the unit is more rugged and better protected from the weather than many other external battery packs.
While I like the idea of having a larger capacity rating, I found that in actual use this battery pack provided more than enough juice to keep me – a heavy electronics user – running throughout the day.
The EPU-5200 is a great balance between durability and capacity. Whereas I might opt for a heavier battery bank while hitting the SHOT Show where I run multiple electronics devices hard all day, the Streamlight is the item I would take for anything I do outdoors. It is lighter, weatherproof and impact resistant. Additionally, it offers ample recharging capabilities in the vast majority of circumstances. For me, the EPU-5200 is an excellent choice for its intended purpose.
It would be nice if the unit had a second USB port so I could charge two devices at the same time. However, this is definitely not a deal killer for me, and I happily recommend this unit. If you would like to purchase one of these units, please click here.
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Title: Regulation of post-transcriptional gene expression in human mitochondria
Authors: Rozanska, Agata
Abstract: Mitochondria are cellular organelles that have evolved from the eubacterial ancestor into highly specialized compartment of the eukaryotic cell. They are unique among animal cells in that they retain a level of autonomy through the genetic information in their genome. Human mtDNA is built of ~16.5 kbp encoding 13 polypeptides, which are synthesised by mitoribosomes. The latter consist of two RNA species also transcribed from mtDNA and approximately 80 proteins originating from the nucleus. All 13 products of intramitochondrial translation are incorporated into the inner mitochondrial membrane where they co-build the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system. OXPHOS is a multicomplex machinery, the final product of which is adenosine triphosphate, ATP, a carrier of energy that is necessary to sustain cell homeostasis and growth. The malfunctions of mitochondria have a severe impact on the 'host' organism and are the causative factor in many human diseases. Pathological changes of mitochondrial function can be triggered by mutations in the mitochondrial genome and/or defects in nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial activity. The mitochondrial gene expression pathway has been increasingly investigated during last twenty years and combines both types of factors, those translated in the cytosol and those synthesised in the mitochondrial matrix. A functional mitochondrion requires over 1500 proteins to be imported from the cytosol, a significant subset of these are devoted to the maintenance, replication, transcription and subsequently for translation of the minimal mitochondrial genome fostered within. In the course of my PhD study three of these nuclear encoded but mitochondrially destined proteins were investigated. The first of these proteins that I contributed to investigating was SLIRP. As the specificity of this RNA binding protein had not been established I performed CLIP (cross-linking immunoprecipitation) assay in order to assess the ability of SLIRP to bind RNA. The data generated from this analysis directly showed that SLIRP can interact with all mt-mRNAs apart from MTND6. This work confirmed that SLIRP participates in the stability of mt-mRNA species, as has now been subsequently published by other research groups. A main part of my PhD studies centred on characterisation of MRPL12. This protein belongs to the pool of conserved mitochondrial proteins having the bacterial orthologue 3 called L7/L12. One of the unique features of these proteins is their dynamic character and ability to exchange location between ribosomal LSU and the free pool. This has been postulated to be a regulatory mechanism of translation process in response to fluctuations in cell metabolism. To test this hypothesis I characterised immortalised fibroblasts obtained from a patient with a homozygous mutation in MRPL12 caused by c.542C to T transition in exon 5. This cell line allowed me to study the consequence of this defect on the regulation of translation in human mitochondria. I could conclude that a reduced number of MRPL12 molecules per mt-LSU in subject fibroblasts did not affect overall mitoribosome assembly, but a visible decline in mitochondrial translation was detected although the reduction in translational efficiency for different mitochondrially encoded subunits varied. The third protein that I characterised was mitochondrial RBFA. This protein was identified in my host laboratory and preliminary characterisation performed prior to my involvement. My studies included the CLIP assay that showed direct interaction of this protein with a 3' terminal stem loop of helix 45 of the 12S mt-rRNA. The methylation status of two conserved neighbouring adenines located in helix 45 was altered by changes in steady state level of RBFA. Moreover, the CLIP data identified a second rRNA species associated with RBFA. This was an unexpected RNA species in the form of 5S rRNA. The data regarding the mitochondrial localisation and specifically any submitochondrial location has been controversial. Intriguingly my data identified a number of chimeric CLIP sequences containing both 5S and 12S rRNA fragments, strongly suggesting that within the mitochondrial matrix RBFA interacts simultaneously with both RNA species. Similarity between the 5S rRNA secondary structure and snoRNA, which guides modifications on cytosolic rRNA, led to the hypothesis proposing a novel function for 5S rRNA guiding methylation at helix 45 of the 12S mtrRNA. My data therefore assign RBFA as a new member of the group of maturation factors of the mammalian mt-SSU.
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Camera d'albergo is a 1981 Italian comedy film written and directed by Mario Monicelli. Ida Di Benedetto won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress and Ruggero Mastroianni won the David di Donatello for Best Editing.

Cast
 Vittorio Gassman: Achille Mengaroni
 Monica Vitti: Flaminia
 Enrico Montesano: Fausto Talponi
 Roger Pierre: Cesare De Blasi
 Béatrice Bruno: Emma
 Ida Di Benedetto: Moglie vergine
 Néstor Garay: Cesare Di Blasi
 Gianni Agus:  Se stesso
 Franco Ferrini: Gianni
 Daniele Formica: Aldo
Nando Paone: Guido Bollati
Paul Muller: Hans
Isa Danieli: Maria

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Commedia all'italiana
Films directed by Mario Monicelli
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Self-reflexive films
1980s Italian-language films
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross around March 1820 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.
Born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other enslaved people to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger".[3] After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America (Canada), and helped newly freed enslaved people to find work. Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry.When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After her death in 1913, she became an icon of courage and freedom.
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De Republiek der Zuid-Molukken, of in het Maleis Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), is een in 1950 op Ambon uitgeroepen staat.

Geschiedenis

Oorsprong
Op 27 december 1949 droeg Nederland de soevereiniteit van Nederlands-Indië met uitzondering van Nieuw-Guinea over aan de Republik Indonesia Serikat (RIS), oftewel de Verenigde Staten van Indonesië, na daarover afspraken gemaakt te hebben op de zogenaamde Nederlands-Indonesische rondetafelconferentie van 1949. De Zuid-Molukken maakten toen als daerah (provincie) deel uit van de deelstaat Oost-Indonesië. Spoedig na de onafhankelijkheid begon Indonesië onder president Soekarno met het opheffen van de federale structuur. Chris Soumokil (van Molukse afkomst, zijn vader kwam van Saparua), die als minister van Justitie en waarnemend premier een belangrijke rol had gespeeld in de regering van de deelstaat Oost-Indonesië, was de drijvende kracht achter verschillende pogingen de deelstaat overeind te houden, zoals de militaire coup van Andi Aziz en een poging tot het stichten van een onafhankelijke staat Oost-Indonesië (april 1950). Toen dat mislukte en de deelstaat zich onderwierp aan de door republikeinen gedomineerde centrale regering, week hij uit naar Ambon, legde contact met een andere Molukse federalist J.A. Manusama en op hun initiatief werd op 24 april de RMS uitgeroepen en op 25 april door het het hoofd van de daerah Zuid-Molukken (kepala daerah) Johanis Hermanus Manuhutu de RMS geproclameerd. Soumokil wilde dat het hoofd de proclamatie deed en president werd met het oog op internationale erkenning.

Het recht op onafhankelijkheid was in principe op de Nederlands-Indonesische rondetafelconferentie van 1949 erkend, maar de praktische uitvoering ervan moest aan nogal wat voorwaarden voldoen (zoals een plebisciet en overleg met de deelstaten). De aanhang van de RMS is niet goed meer in te schatten. Er zijn schattingen van 50 tot 70% (op Ambon). Er was ook een substantiële republikeinse aanhang: bij verkiezingen voor de Zuid-Molukkenraad was de republikeinse partij (PIM) nogal succesvol. Ook 'kepala daerah' Manuhutu was oorspronkelijk republikeinsgezind. De landing van APRIS-troepen in Makassar, de dreigende opheffing van de deelstaat Oost-Indonesië en geruchten over een landing van APRIS-troepen op Ambon waren van grote invloed op de publieke opinie, waardoor wellicht een toenemende aanhang van de RMS ontstond. Sommige getuigen beweren dat de proclamatie is gebeurd onder fysieke bedreiging van (ex-)KST-militairen, wat door anderen weer wordt ontkend. Er is nooit bewijs gevonden voor fysieke bedreigingen.

Op dat moment bestond de leiding van de RMS uit onder andere uit:
 president: districtsbestuurder J.H. Manuhutu (tot 3 mei 1950)
 premier: Albert Wairisal
 minister van Buitenlandse Zaken: Chris Soumokil (vanaf 3 mei 1950 president)
 minister van Onderwijs: J.A. Manusama (twee maanden later ook minister van Defensie)

Op 17 augustus 1950 riep president Soekarno de Indonesische eenheidsstaat uit en na onderhandelingen en een blokkade begon het Indonesische leger op 28 september met de invasie van Ambon. Via het toen nog bij het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden behorende Nieuw-Guinea werd tevergeefs militaire steun gezocht bij Nederland, maar ook bij de Verenigde Staten en Australië. Ruim een maand na het begin van de invasie viel op 5 november de hoofdstad Ambon in handen van het Indonesische leger. De RMS-regering week begin december uit naar het nabijgelegen eiland Ceram om van daar uit de strijd voort te zetten. Onder leiding van Soumokil werd op dit eiland de guerrillaoorlog voortgezet.

In 1951 kwamen op dienstbevel bijna 4000, vooral Zuid-Molukse, KNIL-militairen met hun familie (in totaal ongeveer 12.500 personen) naar Nederland voor wat bedoeld was als een tijdelijk verblijf. Dit na het krijgen van de status van leden van de Nederlandse Koninklijke Landmacht; in het dienstbevel stond dat overbrenging 'noodzakelijk' was. Daarentegen was het de wens van de Molukse militairen om overgebracht te worden naar hun land, de Zuid-Molukken, om zich aan te sluiten bij het leger dat onder leiding stond van Soumokil. In Nederland aangekomen werden alle militairen ontslagen en kregen de status "Statenloos". Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog was in Nederland een grote woningnood en omdat het om tijdelijke vestiging zou gaan, werden deze families ondergebracht in woonoorden zoals de voormalige concentratiekampen Westerbork en Vught.

Indonesische militairen arresteerden Soumokil op 2 december 1963 op het eiland Ceram, waarna de guerrillaoorlog snel ten einde liep. Op 11 maart 1966 nam generaal Soeharto in Indonesië de macht over van Soekarno en een maand later, op 12 april 1966, werd Soumokil geëxecuteerd. Na deze executie werd de in Nederland wonende Manusama president in ballingschap van de RMS. Door 'generaal' I.J. Tamaëla werd echter enkele jaren later eveneens het presidentschap van de RMS opgeëist al was zijn aanhang kleiner dan die van Manusama.

Radicalisering in Nederland

Manusama was niet in staat de radicalisering van vooral de jongeren binnen de Zuid-Molukse gemeenschap in Nederland in de hand te houden.
 1966 – Uit woede over de executie van Soumokil volgde in de nacht na aankomst van de weduwe van Soumokil met hun zoontje Tommy in Nederland op 26 juli 1966 een brandstichting van de Indonesische ambassade in Den Haag. Deze brandstichting vormde het begin van de radicalisering.
 1970 – Zuid-Molukse jongeren bezetten op 31 augustus de woning van de Indonesische ambassadeur in Wassenaar. Een politieman (Hans Moolenaar) stierf bij deze actie.
 1975
 In het voorjaar van 1975 was er een mislukte poging Juliana te gijzelen.
 Van 2 december tot 14 december was er een treinkaping bij Wijster en vanaf 4 december was er tevens de bezetting van het Indonesische consulaat in Amsterdam. Hierbij viel een dode, een consulaatmedewerker die vergeefs had geprobeerd te vluchten. Bij Wijster stierven drie passagiers bij vier pogingen tot executie. De vierde passagier, Rob de Groot, wist zijn executie te overleven door zich voor dood te houden.
 1977 – Op 23 mei begon de treinkaping bij De Punt en tegelijkertijd de gijzeling van een lagere school in Bovensmilde. Aan beide acties werd op 11 juni door politie en leger met geweld een eind gemaakt. Er vielen geen slachtoffers in Bovensmilde. Bij De Punt stierven zes kapers en twee passagiers, en zes passagiers raakten gewond.
 1978 – De laatste gewelddadige actie in Nederland waarbij doden vielen was de gijzeling in het provinciehuis in Assen. Op de eerste dag (13 maart) werd een ambtenaar doodgeschoten. Een dag later volgde de bestorming door politie en leger waarmee de gijzeling beëindigd werd, maar waarbij een tweede ambtenaar verwondingen opliep waaraan hij weken later zou overlijden. Tijdens deze acties traden onder andere Manusama, ds. Metiarij, dr. Tan en mevrouw Soumokil op als bemiddelaar.
 2000 – Tijdens de dodenherdenking op de Dam van 4 mei 2000 waren er verscherpte veiligheidsmaatregelen, met name waren scherpschutters van de politie op de daken van de gebouwen rond de Dam te zien. Op 4 mei 2009 bevestigde Joop van Riessen, oud-hoofdcommissaris van de Amsterdamse politie, in het televisieprogramma NOVA dat er die dag een melding was binnengekomen dat een Molukse groepering tijdens de herdenking een actie zou hebben gepland.

Er is in de jaren tachtig achter de schermen hard gewerkt aan ontspanning in de Nederlands-Molukse relaties. Dat resulteerde onder andere in de Rietkerk-uitkering en de Herdenkingspenning komst Ambonezen naar Nederland (Rietkerkpenning).

Tutuhatunewa en Wattilete
In april 1993 droeg de toen 82-jarige Manusama het leiderschap van de RMS over aan de gepensioneerde arts Frans Tutuhatunewa. In 2001 kwam Tutuhatunewa in het nieuws toen bleek dat de RMS financiële steun verleende aan het verzet op de Zuid-Molukken, waarbij hij niet wilde uitsluiten dat dat geld ook gebruikt zou kunnen worden voor de aankoop van wapens. Na het ontslag in april 2001 van Frieda Souhuwat-Tomasoa en Otto Matulessy werden in april 2004 John Pesulima en Wim Sopacua aan het kabinet toegevoegd. Premier werd John Wattilete. Op 17 april 2010 werd Wattilete beëdigd als nieuwe president van de RMS. Hiermee bestaat de gehele leiding van de RMS uit Molukkers die in Nederland geboren zijn.

Voorgenomen staatsbezoek president van Indonesië aan Nederland
Omdat de regering in ballingschap een kort geding had aangespannen tegen Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is een voor 6 oktober 2010 gepland staatsbezoek uitgesteld tot een nader te bepalen datum.

Symboliek

Volkslied
Door de geschiedenis heen zijn er twee volksliederen gebruikt. Een daarvan Maluku, Tanah Airku (De Molukken, Mijn Vaderland) bevindt zich op Wikisource. Het Hena Masa Waja was het eerste volkslied en werd op 25 april 1950 gezongen na de proclamatie van de RMS. Ondanks de latere invoering van het lied Maluku Tanah Airku als officieel volkslied, heeft het Hena Masa Waja haar sentimentele waarde behouden en wordt het nog vaak ten gehore gebracht op ceremoniële bijeenkomsten.

Staatswapen
Het officiële staatswapen van de RMS werd in 1950 door de regering vastgesteld. Het vertoont de 'pombo', een Molukse duif. De Molukse cultuur is rijk aan symboliek en bijgeloof en als er een witte duif wordt gesignaleerd bij een belangrijke gebeurtenis, ziet men dit als een goed voorteken.

Het devies Mena muria
De wapenspreuk van de Republik Maluku Selatan, Mena muria, zou van prehistorische origine zijn. Destijds werd de kreet gebruikt bij het geven van bevelen aan de prauwroeiers (Mena muria, Voor en achter). Deze roeiers hadden een soort eigen clan of gemeenschap. Er zijn ook theorieën over een andere herkomst, zo wordt er gesproken over een groep verzetsstrijders uit de bergen waar menig Japanner, tijdens de Japanse bezetting in de Tweede Wereldoorlog, maar liever bij uit de buurt bleef.

Zij zouden het devies gebruiken in de zin van: Ik ga, wij volgen! Vrij vertaald betekent Mena muria: Een voor allen, allen voor een!

Zie ook
 Ambonezen
 Invasie van Ambon
 Geschiedenis van de Molukkers in Nederland

Literatuur
 Richard Chauvel, Nationalists, soldiers and separatists – The Ambonese islands from colonialism to revolt, 1880-1950, KITLV Press: Leiden 1990.
 Ben van Kaam, Ambon door de eeuwen, Anthos, 1977
 J.H.W. Veenstra, Ambon, een blok aan Nederlands been, Ons Erfdeel, jaargang 21, 1978, p. 511–524

Geschiedenis van de Molukken
Geschiedenis van Nederland in de 20e eeuw
Zuid-Molukken
Niet-erkende staat
Dekolonisatie van Indonesië


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Q: dynamically creating objects I have a method that receives an array of strings and I need to create objects with appropriate names.
For example:
public class temp {
   public static void main(String[] args){

    String[] a=new String[3];
    a[0]="first";
    a[1]="second";
    a[2]="third";
    createObjects(a);

   }
   public static void createObjects(String[] s)
   {
    //I want to have integers with same names
    int s[0],s[1],s[2];
   }
}

If I receive ("one","two") I must create:
Object one;
Object two;

If I receive ("boy","girl") I must create:
Object boy;
Object girl;

Any help would be appreciated.

A: Can't do that in java. You can instead create a Map who's keys are the strings and the values are the objects.

A: First create Map which contains the key as String representation of Integers.
public class Temp {

static Map<String, Integer> lMap;

static {

    lMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    lMap.put("first", 1);
    lMap.put("second", 2);
    lMap.put("third", 3);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Map<String, Integer> lMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    String[] a = new String[3];
    a[0] = "first";
    a[1] = "second";
    a[2] = "third";

    Integer[] iArray=createObjects(a);
    for(Integer i:iArray){

        System.out.println(i);
    }

}

public static Integer[] createObjects(String[] s) {
    // I want to have integers with same names
    Integer[] number = new Integer[s.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < s.length; i++) {
        number[i] = lMap.get(s[i]);
    }
    return number;
}

}

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Award-winning Canadian Library to install Horizon Sunrise
Press Release: epixtech, inc. [September 10, 2002]
Abstract: epixtech announces that the Winnipeg Public Library will migrate from its Dynix automation system to epixtech''s next generation Horizon Sunrise system. A Dynix customer since 1989, the library announced that its migration to Horizon Sunrise will include the immediate installation of several complimentary epixtech products, including iPac, TeleCirc II, PC Reliance, and Resource Sharing System interlibrary loan software.
WATERLOO, Ontario � September 10, 2002 � epixtech President and CEO Jack Blount joined city officials and library trustees at Winnipeg Public Library August 13 for a highly publicized contract signing ceremony signifying the library's migration from its Dynix automation system to epixtech's next generation Horizon Sunrise system. A Dynix customer since 1989, the library announced that its migration to Horizon Sunrise will include the immediate installation of several complimentary epixtech products, including iPac, TeleCirc II, PC Reliance, and Resource Sharing System interlibrary loan software.
�We value our relationship with Winnipeg Public Library and are proud to serve such a forward-thinking library. Winnipeg's patrons will be well served by a number of new services made possible by epixtech products,� Blount said. �The implementation of Horizon Sunrise and our patron empowerment products will dramatically expand access to information resources and further enhance Winnipeg Public Library's reputation as a pre-eminent information hub and focal point for the community.�
With more than 3 million patron visits per year, the 20-branch library system receives more visitors than Winnipeg Zoo, professional sporting events, and Winnipeg concert, ballet, symphony, and theater performances combined. Winnipeg Public Library has received two Canadian Library Association awards since 2000, one for its Read Aloud literacy program and one in recognition of innovative Web site development. The library is undertaking a $17 million renovation and expansion project that will overhaul Centennial Library, its main branch, starting in 2003. The installation of Horizon Sunrise and other epixtech solutions is part of the library's plan to expand its award-winning patron services far into the future.
�We are excited about our new agreement with epixtech,� said Rick Walker, manager of library services. �For more than ten years, epixtech has provided exceptional service to our users and excellent support to our staff. We look forward to the flexibility of the Horizon Sunrise system and the enhanced patron services that epixtech products will help us provide.�
For example, the installation of epixtech's iPac Web-based catalog will offer patrons 24-hour access to the library's collection of 1.6 million items. iPac provides users with a graphical interface and intuitive Internet-based functionality. The library will also install TeleCirc II, a telephone messaging system that uses advanced telephony and speech technology to provide patrons with state-of-the-art circulation request services. TeleCirc II saves libraries time and money by automatically generating and delivering overdue notices and other information to patrons.
Winnipeg will implement epixtech's Resource Sharing System to request, retrieve, and track materials borrowed from other library systems. Patrons will enjoy increased access to external resources and faster processing times for interlibrary loan transactions. Patrons will also benefit from uninterrupted service with PC Reliance circulation backup if the library's network is ever unavailable.
About epixtech
With more than 10,000 customers in 42 countries, epixtech is the world's leading provider of automation technologies, solutions, and services for libraries. Their award-winning library automation systems, including Dynix, NOTIS, and Horizon Sunrise, are installed in more sites than any other library automation vendor. epixtech's industry-leading access products for patron self-services and interlibrary loan, as well as new Web-based solutions, are also used by libraries around the world. epixtech, formerly Ameritech Library Services, became a private corporation in December of 1999. epixtech library automation services meet the needs of academic, research, public, corporate, consortia, and K-12 school libraries. Headquartered in Utah, epixtech has offices in Evanston, Illinois; Waterloo, Ontario; as well as in Australia, France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Taiwan. epixtech headquarters are located at 400 W. 5050 N., Provo, UT 84604. The company's Web page is found at www.epixtech.com
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HomeArticlesSisi is Working against Mahmoud Abbas
Sisi is Working against Mahmoud Abbas
February 23, 2016 Articles, Commentary
Al-Sisi is supporting Netanyahu against Palestinian resistance, he is also dealing a harsh blow to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. (MENA)
By Dr. Saleh Al-Naami
It is possible to assume that there are real reasons that made Israeli Minister of Infrastructure Yuval Steinitz gloat to the army leadership, security institutions and media elites in Tel Aviv last week after they sharply criticized him for openly admitting, a month ago, that Egypt President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi ordered the destruction of the tunnels between Gaza and Sinai based on Israel's request.
Many security officials and senior Israeli journalists warned that Steinitz's boldness to expose the reasons behind Al-Sisi's decision to destroy the tunnels could pose a threat to the strategic relations between Tel Aviv and the government in Cairo, and may lead to Al-Sisi deciding to stop his cooperation with Tel Aviv. Many considered this enough reason to dismiss Steinitz from the Ministerial Committee on National Security Affairs and prohibit him from knowing "state secrets". However, it was later apparent that Steinitz's actions not only did not provoke Al-Sisi's reservations, but instead, after the bomb was dropped by the Israeli minister, the Egyptian president sought to satisfy the right-wing ruling elites in Tel Aviv even more by complimenting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and praising his great leadership capabilities.
According to what those attending the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations told Netanyahu on the sidelines of the conference organised in occupied Jerusalem last Sunday, Al-Sisi told them in their meeting with him on 11 February in Cairo that Netanyahu is "a leader who possesses great powers, which assist him not only to lead his country, but can also advance the region and the entire world." (Makor Rishon, 14 February).
The context in which Jewish organisation leaders revealed Al-Sisi's personal impressions of Netanyahu has many deep connotations. Those who followed the order of speeches made during the Jewish leaders' conference will note that these personal impressions were revealed in the context of the American Jewish leaders saying that the extreme policies and path adopted by Netanyahu's government, the most extremist and racist government in the history of Israel, did not lead to the collapse of relations with several important Arab countries, but rather strengthened and expanded these relations. Therefore, it was not deplorable for Netanyahu to use what the Jewish leaders told him Al-Sisi said, to reinforce his position that Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories cannot possibly be the reason behind the instability in the region. He then cited the keenness of the Arab governments to extend the bridges of communication to Israel, both in secret and publically. (Makor Rishon, 14 February).
We could also say that Al-Sisi dealt the Israeli Zionist elites, who strongly criticized Netanyahu for his extremist policies and insistence on not making any real efforts to resolve the conflict with the Palestinians, a harsh blow. While many in Israel are accusing Netanyahu of threatening Israel's future and existence by means of his policies, the president of the largest Arab country praised him.
What the American Jewish organisation leaders quoted Al-Sisi saying may constitute the most important winning card for Likud's campaign during the next elections. The Egyptian president is telling Israelis that Netanyahu, who insists on settlements, Judaisation and on Israel keeping all of the West Bank, is the most suitable person to lead Israel.
Israel's dependence on Al-Sisi has reached the point that the former Israeli army spokesman, General Avi Benayahu proposed that his services be used to confront the BDS global campaign. (Maariv, 27 September 2015).
Therefore, it was no coincidence that the Israeli extremist right-wing elites specifically announced that they would follow in Al-Sisi's footsteps and praised the strategic partnership between his government and Israel in facing what Tel Aviv calls "Islamic fundamentalism". Israel categorizes Hamas under this banner, as it spearheads the Palestinian resistance in the Gaza Strip.
A-Sisi intensified his cooperation with Israel, returned his ambassador to Tel Aviv, and expressed his intimate view of Netanyahu, who is being accused, within Israel itself, of committing war crimes. At the same time, over 500 Israeli figures, many of whom occupied senior positions in the political and diplomatic field, signed a petition calling on Europe to boycott Netanyahu's government due to its extremist policies against Palestinians. (Makor Rishon, 29 January).
By means of his unconditional partnership with Israel, Al-Sisi is not only helping Netanyahu to face the Palestinian resistance, but is also dealing a harsh blow to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his political approach. Abbas needs Arab and international support in order to force Israel to change its current policies, which have reduced the margins of his manoeuvres. This ultimately led to the outbreak of the Jerusalem Intifada that not only threatens Israel, but its continuation will draw the curtain on Abbas's time and approach.
In his insistence on this type of relationship with Netanyahu, who vowed not to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state during his term, Al-Sisi is burying a knife in Abbas's back and all those who adopt his approach.
In short, if Al-Sisi was genuine in his alleged fight against "extremism", then he must stand, without hesitation, by Mahmoud Abbas, who is considered the most extreme version of "moderation" in his confrontation of Netanyahu and his colleagues.
Unfortunately, all that Al-Sisi is concerned with is repaying Netanyahu the favor, as he played a serious role in gathering international legitimacy for his government. Therefore, he insists on improving Israel's capabilities of confronting any Palestinian and Arab party that does not accept the insanity of the right-wing's extremism.
(Translated by MEMO from Al-Araby Al-Jadeed – February, 22 2016.)
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M Murqus says:
First of all, will you and the media please stop calling the current Egyptian dictator "al-sisi"? His name is "sisi" with no claim to any tribal "nobility."
Secondly, your attitude towards Mahmoud Abbas is too naive to be taken seriously. Abbas is not "moderate" but solely an instrument of zionist control over the so-called Palestinian "territories."
Thirdly, Sisi was brought in to save the infamous "treaty" with the zionist "state," which the U.S. and "Israel" feared Mursi was going to tear up. Thus from the start he was just another zionist stooge.
Finally, in proper journalism your headline should reference information in the leading paragraph not buried near the end!
Jerusalem Post reported that Egypt cancelled a scheduled meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Cairo because of what that zionist "minister" said.
Excerpt: "Defense and security cooperation is one of the most sensitive issues concerning both countries, and Egypt is extremely reluctant to disclose publicly their relationship with Israel out of concern that opposition forces will stoke populist anger by painting Sisi as a "collaborator" with Israel.
Security cooperation with Israel is highly unpopular among the Egyptian public."


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Chile at risk of missing World Cup
First posted: October 3, 2017 October 6, 2017
Chile are at risk of missing the World Cup next year in Russia following their poor qualifying campaign so far. To make matters worse, the team will be without influential striker Alexis Sanchez that will be suspended for one of the matches, and possibly injured for the other.
Chile are currently 6th in the qualifying table and with only the first four teams qualifying for the Russian World Cup, it appears increasingly difficult for the Chile team to make it to the finals.
Chile will first have to win against Ecuador in a match that they will have to play without Arsenal striker Alexis Sanchez, and that has already sold out, with fans swamping this site with enough ticket requests to see it crash momentarily.
If they managed to get a positive result, they would have the toughest task of looking for a result in Brazil at the home of the group leaders. However with the Brazilian team already qualified they will be hoping that they will be fielding a weakened team.
Alexis Sanchez said that he is disappointed to be missing the first game as he would have liked to help his team in this tough match. He said that the players have themselves to blame for this poor campaign. He believes that they could have done much better during the campaign and now it is up to the last two games.
And with Argentina also fighting for the remaining qualification places, it appears to be quite impossible for Chile to qualify. However, in football you never know, and you will have to wait for the final games of the qualifiers to find out which teams will go through directly and which one will have to go through the play-off.
If ever Chile does not make it to the finals this will be a major disappointment for the country as they were hoping to have a real go at the World Cup especially after their triumph at the last Copa America.
Arsene Wenger insists Alexis Sanchez will be available for Liverpool game
Alexis Sanchez will win back the fans – Arsene Wenger


Dubbed Philippine Harvest Meets Bon Appétit, the three-day trade event was in keeping with this year's commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Philippines-France diplomatic ties and interchange. Bon Appétit was organized by the French Embassy in Manila in line with its PhilFrance: Feel French! campaign to celebrate the 70th year of strong bilateral partnership shared by the two nations.
For Philippine Harvest Meets Bon Appétit, DA has assembled 24 exhibitors from across the country that highlighted the richness and diversity of the country's organic, artisanal, natural, and indigenous agricultural products.
The French side, for its part, offered their world-renowned cheese, wines, dairy and meat products, pastries, and other foodstuff to highlight their proud gastronomic and culinary tradition, which incidentally belongs to UNESCO's World Heritage List as an embodiment of "intangible" cultural heritage.


A Self Invested Personal Pension, or SIPP is an individual personal pension that allows investors greater choice as to where to invest their pension savings. Traditionally personal pensions allow you to invest in a limited range of funds. Whereas a SIPP allows you into invest in a broad range of assets from commercial property, individual company shares and gold bullion.
A SIPP is classified by HMRC as a registered pension scheme and benefits from the same tax advantages as any other registered pension.
A SIPP account is ideally suited for individuals who are comfortable making their own investment decisions and want the ability to invest in a variety of assets or individuals taking independent financial advice.
A Small Self-Administered Scheme (SSAS) is a company pension scheme. The members of the scheme are also trustees and are responsible for making the investment decisions. Historically SSAS's where opened by private limited companies for the benefit of the owners and key employees. SSAS's are also classified as a registered pension scheme by HMRC and enjoy the same generous tax advantages.
SIPP/SSAS administrators are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and are independent of GOLD.co.uk.
What is a SIPP / SSAS?


We Norwegians is an apparel company, based in Voss, Norway. Focusing on the design, distribution, and marketing of premium wool products. Norwegians are wrapped in soft, wool blankets as new-borns, and we continue to wear wool as we grow up – Through out the year. The idea behind We Norwegians is to take the natural benefits that wool have, and make garments that have a natural technical function as well as a contemporary design. The designs are a mix of modern basics and traditional, Norwegian knitting patterns.


Summary: Here are answers to some common questions relating to divorce and legal separation that we come across.
Often, couples seeking assistance from a St. Louis divorce lawyer have certain questions that need to be answered to ensure that they educated before they proceed. Here are answers to some common questions that we come across.
Is there any difference between legal separation and divorce?
In a divorce, the marriage is dissolved by law, which essentially means that marriage ends once the divorce is ruled by the court of law, whereas in a legal separation, the marriage is not dissolved. The spouses remain married to each other, in spite of living separately (no longer being a couple). Therefore in a legal separation, if any of the spouses wish to remarry, they cannot, unless they get divorced.
Where should one file for a divorce?
To file a divorce, the residency requirement states that at least one of the divorcing parties should have lived in the state for a minimum period of 90 days before filing the action. That means, for a Missouri court to have jurisdiction over a case at least one of the divorcing parties needs to be residing in Missouri for at least 90 days prior to filing the divorce action.
Which State can determine child custody?
Often, divorcing parents move away to another state in pursuit of a new job or any other opportunity. In a divorce case where children are involved, and the parents reside in separate states, it is essential to determine which state is the home state. The state that has jurisdiction over the children is known as the child's home state. In order to eliminate complications in determining the home state and jurisdiction, almost all states adhere to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA).
Which state law applies to a child support order?
According to the UCCJEA, only the home state of the child has continued exclusive jurisdiction to enter or modify child support, custody and visitation rights orders, until all parties (including the child) exit the state.
What are child custody orders?
Child custody can be divided into two types – legal and physical custody, which are further divided into – joint or sole custody.
Legal custody – Legal custody of a child refers to the decision making right and the responsibility of a parent. Where joint legal custody enables both parents to take proper decisions about their children's health, education and welfare, and is preferred, sole legal custody awards the ultimate decision-making power to only one parent.
Physical custody – Physical custody refers to the actual time parents spend with the children. Joint physical custody awards both parents time with the children. Sole physical custody means that the children reside with one parent, while the court gives reasonable visitation rights to the other. The court can also order no visitation rights to a parent if the parent has a history of violence, substance abuse, or other behavior that is detrimental to the well-being of the child.
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Pamela Painter
Pamela Painter is the author of three story collections: Getting to Know the Weather, The Long and Short of I, and Wouldn't You Like to Know. She is also the co-author of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Five Points, Harper's, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, among others. She has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review's The John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter lives in Boston and teaches in the Emerson College MFA Program.
"Sound Is as Important as Meaning," An Interview with Pamela Painter
This interview was conducted via email by Interview Editor Lauren Fosgett. Of the process, she said, "Interviewing Pamela Painter was a delight. I loved reading her work and many of her stories will stay with me for a long while. I know I will be returning to her collections time and time again. I was grateful for the opportunity to ask her these questions, she is such a sweet individual and her kind spirit resonates in her insightful answers." In this interview, she discusses compiling her collections, learning to read as a writer, and her definition of flash fiction.
Superstition Review: What is your favorite story in Wouldn't You Like to Know? Which was your favorite to write?
Pamela Painter: My favorite story is probably "The New Year." I do love the idea of the traveling team of a cheating, broken-hearted man and his Italian ham. And the last line of the story sort of fell into place. It doesn't quite make sense but it sounded right when I wrote it. Sound is as important as meaning.
SR: Many of the short stories in Wouldn't You Like to Know have been published in journals such as Smokelong Quarterly, Narrative, and Del Sol Review. What approach do you take when deciding which stories to collect for a book? Do you write stories specifically for the collection? What is your decision process like when you are submitting this same work to magazines?
PP: I write my stories one by one—never with a future collection in mind, nor where I might submit them for publication. Quite a few of my stories have never made it into a collection and probably never will. As for sending work out, I have a list of magazines that I follow and admire, and where I'd like my work to end up—you mentioned three of them in your question. Sometimes a magazine is looking for stories for a particular issue, perhaps around a particular theme or form, and I am always pleased when I have stories that might fit that journal's vision. I've had work taken recently for three such issues, River Styx's "American Odes," the Marie Alexander Flash Sequence Anthology, and Flashed: Sudden Stories in Prose and Comics.
SR: I noticed that "The New Year" and "Twins" were featured in both The Long and Short of It and Wouldn't You Like to Know. Why did you revisit these stories and what lead you to include them in your most recent collection?
PP: When I put The Long and Short of It together I didn't anticipate that I would publish a book of just flash fiction. Then I began writing more and more short shorts, and I decided that my next book would be all flash fiction. It felt disrespectful to those two stories to leave them out.
SR: "Snap Judgment" and "Driver's Test" are some of my favorite stories in Wouldn't You Like to Know because the titles take on a new meaning after reading the story. What is most important to you when titling your work? What elements of your stories do you try to capture in their titles? How does that extend to titling a collection?
PP: Titles are so hard to come by. "Snap Judgment" was easy because the male character has been judging her and she gets back at him with her little story about a Malthusian proliferation of mice. "Driver's Test" used to be "Skid Marks" and then someone told me what skid marks refer to in Australia. Never mind.
I want a title to be a key to the story, something that pulls you into the story and also resonates when you reach the story's end. As for collection titles, I can probably think of other titles I might have used but didn't. They seemed right at the time, and have to stand. On occasion, and with a few glasses of wine, my friends and I will make up titles that don't have a story or novel to go with them yet. I'm still waiting to write a story to go with "Crocodile Tears."
SR: In an interview with SmokeLong Quarterly, you give advice to new writers, saying "discipline is a form of self respect" and that it is important to give yourself to the work and commit yourself to a story. How long did it take for you to develop this discipline as a writer?
PP: I'm still working on taking my own advice. I have often wished I could write a novel because the novelist has the same world to return to and inhabit day after day—sometimes for years. What a comfort a fictional home can be. A novelist's characters must feel like old friends of a sort—even the villains. Whereas the story writer might revise a story over and over, and even be working on several at the same time, but soon they are finished, or set aside. And one must begin again.
SR: In that interview you also state that you organize your collections by "looking for dissimilarities that will make the reading of each story a different experience." How do you maintain the tension between stories while still maintaining a cohesive collection?
PP: By dissimilarities I mean that I might juxtapose different points of view, male and female narrators, present or past tenses, experimental or realistic, dark and light. Reviews of my first collection talked about the range of stories, when they could have complained about a lack of cohesion. My second collection seemed to have shape because I divided it into three sections. It moved from short to longer and then long stories. I think story collections—even though they are conveniently "collected" for the reader—should be read one story at a time, with time in between each story. When reading story collections, I'll read one story and then move on to the novel I am also reading. I am always reading a book that is longer than a story. A novel, biography, etc. And what bliss that there is so much to read.
SR: How have your students or teaching inspired or prompted your writing? To what extent have you considered them collaborators in your creative process?
PP: One component of teaching is articulating how fiction works—for you. I stress that everyone needs to find their own way of writing, and I strive to pass along what I have learned as a writer, from "reading as a writer." Often, I ask students to choose a collection of stories as a "go-to" book, and then when we're talking about summarized dialogue, or setting, or tone, or characterization, or the interior landscape of the characters, students bring in examples from their go-to books. They are reading as writers. I used to xerox reams of examples, and then a friend and I were asked to do a textbook, and four editions later, What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers is still going strong. It has some of my favorite examples of the art and craft of fiction, and my favorite quotes, such as Paul Engle who said, "A work of art is first of all work." And Margot Livesey saying, "One must learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice to comprehend."
My co-author, Anne Bernays, and I were pleased to use the work of over 150 students in What If? as examples of our exercises. Some students who were undergrads are now writers and professors themselves. And two of the stories reprinted in the collection at the end of What If? are by students whose stories began as a responses to an exercise and went on to be published in The Atlantic and Best New American Voices. And years ago, I had the pleasure of co-teaching with the wonderful writer and teacher, Ron Carlson, who always asks of every story, "Into what life has this trouble come." His concepts of the inside and outside story and the engine that drives the story are at at the heart of my teaching to this day.
Students are collaborators in the sense that, when we're together, I am talking about writing. At least once or twice a semester, an idea for a story will come to me and I stop abruptly and write it down. Sometimes it is only a word, such as "cement." I encourage students to keep a notebook. An idea can disappear all too easily, but even one word can bring it back. The next story that I will write has to do with cement statues acquired while traveling in France.
SR: Who are your literary influences?
PP: Instead of offering a list of names, I'd prefer to say that my influences are every book I've ever read. And reading like a writer. I'm particularly interested in the ways that characters use their imaginations to explore and reveal their interior landscapes. I remember reading a story by Alice Munro in which a character has a long complicated dream about his philandering self and then wakes and sets about separating what is true from what is not. I was immediately able to do the same thing in a story I was working on at the time. The dream becomes a sort of confession, and then once awake the truth comes out. Andre Dubus' character in "A Father's Story" has an imagined conversation with God, in which God forgives him for the death of a young man. Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye has a long, stunning passage in which a sister imagines the hijacking and murder of her beloved scientist brother. She ends the passage with the sentence "Here I stop inventing." Atwood's ending of Bodily Harm is a tour de force of a character's imagination.
My favorite story about literary influences is told by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a Paris Review Interview. Friends had given him a copy of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. He says "The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, 'As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect…' When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing." An astonishing word for Garcia Marquez to use—allowed.
One should be open to "influences." Hemingway and Fitzgerald used to write letters to each other in which they point out the "tricks" of other writers and how they have appropriated them for their own work.
SR: In "What I See," the narrator discovers that the wavy lines on a pool's surface in a David Hockney painting weren't just imagined, he only had to look to notice them in real life. Over at Necessary Fiction, you describe your experience discovering this detail and the inspiration behind the story. Do you have any other similar experiences where painted art or other mixed media allowed you to see the world in a new way?
PP: Edward Hopper's paintings seem to shimmer with stories. I wrote about his painting "The Office at Night" because a curator's description seemed so off the mark. The curator's label said, "The secretary's exaggerated sexualized person contrasts with the buttoned-up indifference of her boss: the frisson of their intimate overtime is undermined by a sense that the scene's erotic expectations are not likely to be met." The painting wasn't titled "at Night" for nothing. And her neckline is going to dip open when she picks up the piece of paper that her boss, at his desk, has nudged to the floor. So I imagined a different destiny, a different outcome for their evening than the curator had predicted.
I recently wrote a story titled "Look, See" that is coming out in Green Mountains Review. The narrator is an art teacher who has a respect for stuff. Wonderful word—stuff. I think that every artist has stuff that acts as totems. I began to think about "stuff" several years ago after seeing a Gauguin exhibition at the MFA in Boston. In addition to his rich and vivid paintings the museum had collected items he took with him to the islands—carvings, a fragment from an Egyptian vase, tiny paintings. It made me aware of what we collect, the world we build around us. In my story, art students are made aware of the stuff they collect, and often carry with them. Then they are told to draw their stuff.
SR: You are obviously very comfortable in the world of flash fiction, and you've mentioned that you will never write a novel. I'm curious, what is the longest story you've written? How long does a piece need to be before it is out of your comfort zone?
PP: As I said earlier, I wish I could write a novel, but I suspect I never will. About two years ago, I had an idea for a novel and I did a lot of research for it on French landscape wallpapers, Beethoven's "Emperor Concerto," Alsace. I knew the unstable situation of the story, and I was really excited about setting forth on the journey of a long work. Then I began to write. I wrote about six pages and stopped cold. After a time, I decided it probably should be a novella instead of a novel. I haven't written it yet, so I might be waiting for permission—or the discipline—to write it as a long short story. I am still intrigued by the premise and hope to put all that research to good use someday.
My longest story, "The Second Night of a One Night Stand," which is the last story in The Long and Short of It, is about 30 pages.
SR: What made you want to become a writer?
PP: Eudora Welty in her superb book, Eye of the Storm says, "Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading." That's the answer: a superior devotion to reading. I was always a reader—as a child I was known as "There's-that-Pam-with-her-nose-in-a-book." By college, I knew I wanted to write stories though I hadn't done so yet. But I did talk my way into a fiction workshop with John Barth at Penn State. In the first class he said, "Bring me all your work. Recall any stories you've submitted to journals and I will read them and see where you are." At that point, I hadn't written one story, never mind submitted any to a journal, so I dropped out of the class. But what generosity on Barth's part. Lost in the Fun House is a great book, and I so regret that I wasn't ready for his workshop. Then two years later, when I was teaching high school, I was asked to teach a fiction workshop. At the first meeting, I told the students to write a story and bring it in the next day. They bitched and moaned—knowing more than I about how difficult writing is—so I said, "Enough. I'll do a story with you." And that night I wrote my first short story. I went on to write another story that spring, in my own creative writing class, and my second story became my first published story.
SR: What compels you to write flash fiction? How does writing flash fiction influence or inform your process of writing longer prose?
PP: When I begin a story, almost from the first sentences I know whether it is going to be a 250 word story, a five page story or twenty pages—not because I know where the story is going or how it will end, but because the story's elements seem to demand a short or longer spooling out of their potential. Given this, I am baffled by my experience of trying to write the novel, whose research I described above.
SR: You recently were on a panel at AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) with other flash fiction teachers (Sophie Rosenblum, Sherrie Flick, Sean Lovelace, and Sarah Einstein). Where did the idea for the panel come from? What conversations deriving from the panel expanded your own thinking about flash fiction?
PP: I was delighted to be on that panel, which was put together by Sophie Rosenblum, who was a great moderator. I remember Sean Lovelace's discussion of "appropriation." He said he began writing letters of complaint to various companies that had done him wrong, and he enjoyed this activity so much that he began writing fiction. He talked about the story that uses appropriation as its form. A memo, a letter of complaint, a list, etc. Sarah talked about reading as a writer, which underscores how I want my students to read. And Sherrie Flick read Dan Kaplan's story "Bill" from Flash Fiction Forward and talked about cadence. It made me want to write such a story.
SR: LJ Moore of Examiner.com defines flash fiction as "stories that clock in (usually) under 500 words, but contain all of the elements—plot, intrigue, conflict, and resolution—of a full-length story." Do you feel this is an accurate depiction of flash? What is your personal definition of flash fiction?
PP: Hmmmm . . . I'm not sure that I would ask flash fiction to have all of those elements. For one thing, I don't like the word conflict because so often the important "conflict" is an internal one. When Anne and I wrote the first draft of What If? we left plot out. Rust Hills' in Writing in General and The Short Story in Particular talks about "tension," and "anticipation" and when I'm discussing his book and/or the subject of plot I add "apprehension." I like Moore's word "intrigue"—but sometimes a flash story has no resolution as such.
SR: There is a musical quality to your writing that makes several of your stories almost read like prose poems. In what ways do you believe flash fiction differs from prose poetry?
PP: For me, the flash story has a tiny narrative arc that the prose poem can ignore in deference to an image or the musicality of its language.
SR: What trends do you notice now in contemporary flash fiction? Do you have any projections for its role in the future?
PP: I think more and more flash stories are achieving a density that the earlier stories didn't have. Particularly a density of language, such as one finds in the stories of Meg Pokrass, Etger Karet. I was asked to judge Rose Metal Press's Short Short Chapbook contest next fall and I am looking forward to seeing what flash writers are up to. I want to find a collection as fresh as Tiff Holland's Betty Superman, that was chosen for Rose Metal Press by the great flash writer Kim Chinquee.
SR: What are you reading?
PP: I just started The Year We Left Home, a novel by Jean Thompson, who edited the most recent issue of Ploughshares and gave a great reading at Emerson. Such sly wit. Novels are always the through line of my reading, though I also read short stories in the same time frame. Sometimes it depends on what comes in the mail that day, say the new issue of Missouri Review or Kenyon Review, or Smoke Long Quarterly or stories that are are posted or recommended on Facebook. If I'm heading out of the house, I might tuck a story from One Story into my purse or backpack.
SR: You have received grants from the NEA and The Massachusetts Artists Foundation. Could you discuss how such recognition has affected you as a writer, or, your career as a writer?
PP: I was enormously grateful for my NEA, which came at a most auspicious time. I ghost wrote books for years as a way of putting three children through college, and I was about to embark on another ghost-writing project when I received an NEA. My family took me out to dinner that night to celebrate and my fortune cookie read "An award in the arts will lead to a change in your career." It was astonishing. When I sent my report to the NEA a year later, I included a xerox of my fortune cookie. That award allowed me to stop ghostwriting and to teach and only write fiction instead.
SR: Describe your writing space.
PP: About five years ago, I made a small "L"-shaped space for myself in my living room. It is a sunny room, formal, with a marble fireplace, beautiful moldings and art that I admire. That is where I am writing now. My actual study is downstairs and filled with file drawers full of teaching materials, contracts, tax info, correspondence, all the paper that one accumulates in one's life. When I go upstairs to my living room I am going there to write stories.
SR: What are you currently working on?
PP: What a great final question. The long and short answer: more stories.
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Google Maps Adds Real Time Incident Reporting Courtesy Of Waze
Ryan Whitwam
2013/08/20 7:17am PDT Aug 20, 2013
One of the advantages of using Waze for navigation has long been its real time traffic reporting by way of a committed user base. Now Google's acquisition of the company is bearing fruit as that live-updated data is being piped into Google Maps.
Google Maps can already estimate traffic conditions based on the movement of Android devices, but this new source of data is more exact. It will tell Maps users about accidents, road closures, construction, and other general traffic frustrations. The feature will be available to users in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Switzerland, UK and the US.
In addition to the Google improvements, Waze users are getting Google search integration in the app, as well as Google Street View and satellite imagery in the Waze Map Editor. Good updates all around.
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Find it, Fix It or Build It has brought us some amazing Halloween Hacks, affordable decor ideas, who doesn't love that.
Can we have Halloween without a few treats? How about the delicious Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies from Culinary Envy.
and Four Season Family has given us a delightfully frightful Halloween Printable. Let's Sit for a Spell shall we, Teachers are you thinking of some amazing classroom games now? I sure am.
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Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place
Peruvians from the Huinchiri community in Cusco region are rebuilding a 500-year-old Incan hanging bridge, made using traditional weaving techniques to string a crossing together spanning the Apurimac river far below.
The Q'eswachaka bridge has been used for over 500 years to connect communities divided by the river. But during the Covid pandemic it fell into disrepair and collapsed in March.
Members of the affected communities, such as the Huinchiri, decided to rebuild the 30-meter (98.43 ft) long bridge in the traditional Incan style: by weaving it.
Teams of workers, starting from both sides of the ravine and balancing on giant main ropes that had been stretched over the river, worked towards the centre, putting in place smaller ropes as barriers between the handrail ropes and the walkway's floor.
"Last year because of the pandemic, it wasn't strengthened … That is why at the beginning of this year the bridge fell," said Cusco Regional Governor Jean Paul Benavente.
"But now it is like an answer to the pandemic itself. From the depths of the Peruvian Andean identity, this bridge is strung up across the Apurimac basin and we can tell the world that we are coming out if this little by little."
In 2013, Unesco recognised the skills and traditions associated to the reconstruction of the Q'eswachaka bridge as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
"This is history. More than 500 years of a paradox in time. The Q'eswachaka, this Incan living bridge, is really an expression and cultural manifestation," added Benavente.
"This is community, in this particular case, the Huinchiri community from the Quehue district is currently working to string up this bridge that connects villages, but that also connects traditions and connects culture."
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for some reasons, I need to process XISF formatted files from a Windows forms application. Reading uncompressed data as well as Zlib compressed data with or without byte shuffling works as expected.
My attempts to get lz4 or lz4-HC decompression to work failed. lz4 or lz4-HC are in fact plain copies without a compression attribute. The metadata compression method is correctly stored.
Using the current version of the XISF support module, I can't reproduce any errors with LZ4 and LZ4-HC compression. Can you be more specific? How are you using XISF files from Windows forms?
> How are you using XISF files from Windows forms?
This is, what I see.
This is a perfectly normal result. A lossless data compression algorithm attempts to reduce the required storage space for a given data set, but that goal is not necessarily achievable . Sometimes a data block is not compressible with a particular algorithm. When this happens, the XISF support module ignores compression parameters and just stores the uncompressed block.
The Zlib codec implements a lossless compression algorithm based on entropy analysis and reduction techniques. Zlib is extremely efficient and rarely fails to compress a data block. LZ4, on the other hand, works by detecting data redundancies directly on the data stream. This is much faster than entropy analysis, but is also less efficient in compression ratio terms. With highly entropic data (high noise contents, for example), plain LZ4 compression can fail to compress a block with relative ease. LZ4-HC is the "high compression" variant of LZ4, which usually achieves somewhat smaller compression ratios than Zlib, but is faster, especially for decompression.
The byte shuffling algorithm increments data locality, that is, data items are redistributed so that similar values tend to be placed close together. This greatly improves compressibility, so all compression codecs, including LZ4, can usually work much better with byte-shuffled data.
 Pedantic mode on - The proof of this is done by reduction to the absurd. If a data compression algorithm could guarantee that any data set can be compressed, even by reducing its size by one bit, then any data set could be compressed ad infinitum, that is, by compressing the result of a previous compression. Such data set would eventually require zero bytes of storage space - pedantic mode off.
that's a perfect answer. So, if the attributes say compression=nothing, I can simply take the buffer 'as is'.


In our previous blogs, we've been covering the benefits of stylish countertop options for your home, like quartz and marble. While both of these styles are great options for your kitchen, there is still another option to consider. Granite countertops have been a reliable option for kitchens, bathrooms, restaurants, and more since they took off in the 1980s. Today, granite is available in many different colors and patterns. And, because granite is a natural stone, no two pieces look identical, making your countertop unique. When you're looking for new countertops that are beautiful and functional, there's almost no better choice than granite. Let's take a look at the some of the many benefits that come with granite counters.
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Earlier this month, Fox shared a very brief teaser for The Gifted, its new X-Men-adjacent series about two parents trying to protect their mutant child from mutant-hating authorities. That teaser told us virtually nothing, and the Marvel logo at the beginning was the only indication that it was for an X-Men show, but now Fox has shared a full trailer that shows off some of the more crucial details. We get young people using their mutant powers, anti-mutant bullies (or at least anti-nerd bullies), and an appearance from government jerks looking to arrest mutants just for being different. There's even a casual reference to The X-Men and The Brotherhood—the name given to Magneto's team of evil mutants—though neither team makes a proper appearance.
The Gifted stars Amy Acker and Stephen Moyer, and it's set to premiere on Fox in the fall.


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You've received a verbal job offer from a company, but no written offer letter yet.
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It is challenging to know how to react during these anxiety-inducing situations. Without a written offer letter and clear direction, it is hard to know how to decipher your next steps. Sending a follow-up email is a great way to maintain communication and connection with potential employers, but understanding how to properly do so is where most people run into trouble.
There's a fine line between proactive and pushy. You want to display a can-do, energetic attitude without coming off as aggressive or snippy. Before sending an email, ensure you understand what may be causing the delay. Acting off impulse can raise red flags, therefore explore all possible reasoning's before drafting an email.
Your follow-up email should be courteous and short. Your goal should be to express enthusiasm about the offer while asking for the status.
The example above reinforces the fact that you need an offer letter to move forward with the position, you are interested in the company and are being proactive in your job search. It is polite, yet still gets the point across.
Below is a follow-up email I crafted for a young college graduate who has been interning with a company for 2 years. He was concerned with how to ask for a job offer without sounding demanding or entitled. The follow-up email is short and simple, but reiterates his degree, skills and dedication to the company.
Through these techniques you will be able to inquire about your potential job opportunities intelligently and gracefully.


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Congratulations to Jenna Banz and Kayla Gallant for winning a GOLD medal at the OVA Satellite tournament in Kitchener. This tournament was a qualifier for the Ontario Summer Games.
the Ontario Volleyball Association Region 3.
This same weekend the Scorpions duo of Maddi Mulholland and Elyssa Trotter won silver in the 14U Premier Division. Great job!


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I have written a plugin for my own site where I have an issue like "after user login to the site if he logout then again if he clicks on browser back button then the previous page showing again instead of login page". Iam trying the below code but it doesn't work.
Can the below code works or not?
I think this issue totally browser issue not belongs to server. I think just a page refresh that does the trick. I was using 'wp_logout_url' for user logout. how to do it can anyone plz tell me? Thanks in advance.
Try using wp_redirect after logout. There's an example of how to use it here.