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Glenda Jackson Reigns as Queen Elizabeth
A stellar cast carries the day in Elizabeth R, the highly regarded 1971 British miniseries shown on Masterpiece Theatre in the U.S. The compelling subject matter and the first-rate actors—led by Glenda Jackson in the title role--mask what is often a slow-moving, occasionally creaky historical biography.
Elizabeth R charts the life of Queen Elizabeth I of England, from her days as a young woman through her 45-year reign as queen to her death in 1603. The six episodes, each with a running time of approximately 85 minutes, focus on: the events that lead to Elizabeth's ascension to the throne; her close relationship with Robert Dudley (Robert Hardy); Elizabeth's near-marriage to France's Duke of Anjou (Michael Williams); the treason plot involving Mary, Queen of Scots (Vivian Pickles); the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and her complex relationship with the much-younger Earl of Essex (Robin Ellis).
The best episodes are those involving the men in Elizabeth's life, specifically Dudley, the Duke of Anjou, and Essex. Each of them love the Queen in their own way, but they are thwarted by rumor (Dudley), politics (Anjou), or greed (Essex). It helps immensely that these historical figures are portrayed by a trio of fine actors.
Robert Hardy as Dudley.
Robert Hardy, best known for playing veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the TV series All Creatures Great and Small, captures the genuine affection that Dudley feels for his queen. He also makes it clear that Dudley is an ambitious man who faults fate for not having a seat on the throne. Married when childhood sweetheart Elizabeth becomes queen, Dudley's terminally-ill wife suffers an accidental death--or commits suicide--while he's at court. The timing leads to rumors that Dudley may have been involved with her demise. Those suspicions nix his chances of marrying Elizabeth, though they remain lifelong friends and he becomes a powerful royal adviser.
Michael William as the Duke of Anjou.
Michael Williams takes center stage in the third episode as the Duke of Anjou, brother to King Henry III of France. Williams, a veteran stage actor and long-time husband to Dame Judi Dench, brings much-needed humor to his role of the suitor that Elizabeth nicknamed "her frog." Eager to claim a position of similar authority to his brother, Williams' Anjou is a delightful mixture of lazy fop, petulant child, and charming wooer.
Robin Ellis as Essex.
Robin Ellis, best remembered as the handsome hero of the immensely popular Poldark, stars in the last episode as the doomed Essex. Ellis portrays Essex as a likable rascal, who is far too greedy and self-absorbed to appreciate the royal favors bestowed by Elizabeth. He repays her with insolence--at one point, she smacks his head and he partially withdraws his sword, an incident that actually occurred. Poldark fans will no doubt enjoy seeing Ellis in such a different role.
Jackson as the young Elizabeth.
Yet, while these three actors hold their own, it is Glenda Jackson that dominates Elizabeth R. She captures the intricate shadings of Elizabeth, as she ages from teenage princess to powerful ruler to an elderly woman who accepts her life, but not without remorse. She is gleeful when unlikely events fall into place and secures her the throne. She is filled with guilt and anger when her closest advisers convince her to execute her half-sister Mary. She is overcome with grief with she learns of Dudley's death. It's a remarkable performance and one that earned Jackson an Emmy. Ironically, she played Queen Elizabeth again in 1971 in the theatrical film Mary, Queen of Scots, which starred Vanessa Redgrave in the title role.
Elizabeth R won a total of five Emmys, including ones for outstanding drama series and costumes. Although it's easy to see why it was held in high esteem, the series is nonetheless inconsistent. The episode about the defeat of the Spanish Armada is flat, mostly because the show's budget required that the battle scenes not be shown (but described by a character after the fact). Although Jackson has a powerful scene near the end, the episode about the treasonous Babington Plot is so convoluted that it's often hard to follow the historical events.
Still, Elizabeth R remains a must-see for fans of historical drama. It is, based on my limited research, remarkably accurate...and the acting is often sublime.
Labels: 10 must-see british TV series, elizabeth r, glenda jackson, michael williams, rick29 (author), robert hardy, robin ellis
Yvette July 7, 2014 at 7:26 PM
I agree with you completely, Rick. This was a remarkable mini-series made so by remarkable actors even if it did, budget wise, have some weaknesses. Glenda Jackson was Elizabeth - I can never imagine anyone else in the role. Or anyone else saying these lines: 'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king and a King of England too.' One incredible woman played by another.
Robert Hardy as a romantic lead??? This I've got to see! I think this is on Netflix streaming and will check it out. I stumbled upon Fawlty Towers on Amazon streaming the other day and watched the first episode and lo and behold there was Poldark, er, Robin Ellis as an undercover cop with an eye for Polly.
boudicca June 10, 2021 at 3:14 AM
Robert Hardy is VERY romantic and swoonworthily memorable
joel65913 July 12, 2014 at 8:40 PM
Since the mini is 40 plus years old it's no surprise that the sets and techniques are a bit antiquated but Glenda Jackson's performance is timeless. Along with The Six Wives of Henry the VIII, with Keith Michell's equally timeless portrayal these are a magnificent example of what England was producing in the 70's. A shame Glenda decided to leave acting for politics she would be tearing the place up now giving Maggie Smith and Judi Dench a run for their money.
Joe Riordan August 4, 2017 at 3:06 AM
Elizabeth had her cousin Mary Queen of Scots executed. Not her half-sister Mary as you state. Mary reigned and died a natural death before Elizabeth.
Marian October 1, 2019 at 2:09 PM
Glenda Jackson's is the best portrayal of Elizabeth I that I've ever seen. Elizabeth's strength and intelligence and her strong emotions which she has to master to steer herself through turmoil and danger are very well delineated. The acting is very fine and the series pretty historically accurate. You said it was slow but it was wonderful to see the history of these dangerous and exciting times covered in such depth. It was possible to follow the politics and the machinations of the men who were influential in her court.
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January is one of those months when people pay close attention to the cost of things, with that long spell from the pre-Christmas payday through until the end of January. Spells of cold weather and snow have also meant the inclination to use the car more and protect the family from the worst of it. So how have petrol and diesel prices faired during the month?
According to data from the government, the average price for both petrol and diesel have increased during the month of January. At the beginning of the month, the average price around the country for petrol was 120.19 and for diesel 123.51. By the end of the month, the figures for both had risen, with diesel slightly ahead of petrol regarding percentage increase. Petrol was at an average price of 121.69 while diesel was at 125.32.
These increases show that the price had continued to rise steadily, since July last year, when it reached a low point. The cost of filling up the average car in the UK (based on a Ford Focus with a 55-litre tank) is now £67.13 for a petrol car and £68.67 for a diesel car.
Reports show that prices hit a three year high in December 2017, and with the continued increase into this month, it will mean another new high. The growth suggested that the difference between filling up your car in the middle of the year and filling it up at the end was around £5 – and is a little higher now.
For drivers of petrol cars around the country, the most affordable prices available were in Scotland and Manchester.
The picture was similar for diesel drivers, with two locations around Scotland offering the lowest prices, followed by a station in County Durham.
Drivers in other areas of Scotland also had to contend with the highest prices for petrol around the country.
For diesel drivers, Leicestershire topped the charts as the most expensive place to fill up followed by a few locations across Scotland.
Most experts think that the trend will continue to be a bad one for drivers. Oil Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) have recently cut the production levels to make oil prices rise. It means that the cost of petrol and diesel at the pump increases as well. These changes will continue to have an affect into February, and probably onwards, showing that the times of lower fuel prices seem to be behind us for the time being.
There is at least one silver lining amid the doom and gloom. Tesco has announced that they are offering 10p off a litre of fuel again. There is however a stipulation that you need to spend £60 or more to get the voucher, so if you do a few little shops, it might be worth saving them for a single larger one to qualify.
The discount could save drivers £5 off £50 worth of fuel and may stimulate other supermarkets into offering similar deals soon. The offer is available on shopping until 11th February and motorists have until 25th February to use the voucher that they receive.
pound getting stronger and stronger will it effect on fuel price?????????????
Not very reflective of prices in Wales. At the date of this article being posted, we are currently paying £1.26 per litre and the more remote areas of Wales are paying considerably more, so this article is not very factual of current prices around the country.
I read not too long ago about this and also said was USA would be increasing its Fracking operations ! Now they have pioneered an advanced way of bringing up oil and gas quicker it was said we could see a change in Oil prices and it coming down at the pumps ? Dollar Vs £ will make a difference and maybe We should all be 'friends ' with there president?
with the fuel prices continuing to rise then inflation will also rise putting a strain on the economy and also workers seeking higher wage rises??
fuel prices have the most effect on the cost of living and as long as OPEC dictate oil production then there is more misery for motorists and the economy. THINK AGAIN ABOUT AN ELECTRIC/ PHEV VEHICLE???
Since downloading the PetrolPrices app I always check the cheapest in the area and plan my errands etc to coincide with a fill up. recommended app to friends & family and they are all using it too.


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Q: How to implement Pre-order Tree traversal using recursion returning a List of Nodes without making use of Global variables I am having trouble implementing traversals in a tree.
The assignment explicitly states that the pre-order traversal must be done recursively.
In addition, the traversal method MUST also return a list without declaring any global variables.
The problem I am running into is that if I instantiate the list within my main method, I get a "cannot find symbol" error on my preorder_list variable. However, if I instantiate the list within the method, every time a recursive call is made the list will clear itself.
Are there any workarounds for this?
The code of Traversal and TreeNode classes.
Traverals:
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedList;

/**
 * Your implementation of the pre-order, in-order, and post-order
 * traversals of a tree.
 */
public class Traversals<T extends Comparable<? super T>> {

    /**
     * DO NOT ADD ANY GLOBAL VARIABLES!
     */

    /**
     * Given the root of a binary search tree, generate a
     * pre-order traversal of the tree. The original tree
     * should not be modified in any way.
     *
     * This must be done recursively.
     *
     * Must be O(n).
     *
     * @param <T> Generic type.
     * @param root The root of a BST.
     * @return List containing the pre-order traversal of the tree.
     */
        public List<T> preorder(TreeNode<T> root) {
        if (root == null) {
            return preorder_list;
        }
            else {
            preorder_list.add(root);
            preorder(root.getLeft());
            preorder(root.getRight());
        }
        return preorder_list;
        }

    /**
     * Given the root of a binary search tree, generate an
     * in-order traversal of the tree. The original tree
     * should not be modified in any way.
     *
     * This must be done recursively.
     *
     * Must be O(n).
     *
     * @param <T> Generic type.
     * @param root The root of a BST.
     * @return List containing the in-order traversal of the tree.
     */
        //public List<T> inorder(TreeNode<T> root) {
         // WRITE YOUR CODE HERE (DO NOT MODIFY METHOD HEADER)!
        //}

    /**
     * Given the root of a binary search tree, generate a
     * post-order traversal of the tree. The original tree
     * should not be modified in any way.
     *
     * This must be done recursively.
     *
     * Must be O(n).
     *
     * @param <T> Generic type.
     * @param root The root of a BST.
     * @return List containing the post-order traversal of the tree.
     */
        //public List<T> postorder(TreeNode<T> root) {
            // WRITE YOUR CODE HERE (DO NOT MODIFY METHOD HEADER)!
        //}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List<Integer> preorder_list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
        Traversals tree = new Traversals();
        TreeNode<Integer> root = new TreeNode(50);
        TreeNode<Integer> a = new TreeNode(25);
        TreeNode<Integer> b = new TreeNode(10);
        TreeNode<Integer> c = new TreeNode(100);
        TreeNode<Integer> d = new TreeNode(75);
        TreeNode<Integer> e = new TreeNode(125);
        TreeNode<Integer> f = new TreeNode(110);
        root.setLeft(a);
        a.setLeft(b);
        root.setRight(c);
        c.setLeft(d);
        c.setRight(e);
        e.setLeft(f);
    }
}

TreeNode:
public class TreeNode<T extends Comparable<? super T>> {

        private T data;
        private TreeNode<T> left;
        private TreeNode<T> right;

    /**
     * Constructs a TreeNode with the given data.
     *
     * @param data the data stored in the new node
     */
        TreeNode(T data) {
            this.data = data;
        }

    /**
     * Gets the data.
     *
     * @return the data
     */
        T getData() {
            return data;
        }

    /**
     * Gets the left child.
     *
     * @return the left child
     */
        TreeNode<T> getLeft() {
            return left;
        }

    /**
     * Gets the right child.
     *
     * @return the right child
     */
        TreeNode<T> getRight() {
            return right;
        }

    /**
     * Sets the data.
     *
     * @param data the new data
     */
        void setData(T data) {
            this.data = data;
        }

    /**
     * Sets the left child.
     *
     * @param left the new left child
     */
        void setLeft(TreeNode<T> left) {
            this.left = left;
        }

    /**
     * Sets the right child.
     *
     * @param right the new right child
     */
        void setRight(TreeNode<T> right) {
            this.right = right;
        }
}

A: You have to declare a list of nodes within the preorder() method, not within the main().
To achieve that, you can preorder() expect a list of nodes as one of the arguments.
In case if according to the requirements of your assignment method preorder() should take only one argument (a node), you can declare a helper method that expects two arguments: a node and a list that contains all discovered nodes.
Sidenote: don't omit generic type parameter in angle brackets (<Integer>) while instantiating Traversals and forget the diamond (<>) while creating new instances of nodes. Otherwise you'll get compiler warning because of the use of the row type usage.
That's how it might look like:
class Traversals<T extends Comparable<? super T>> {

    public List<TreeNode<T>> preorder(TreeNode<T> root) {
        return preorder(root, new ArrayList<>());
    }

    public List<TreeNode<T>> preorder(TreeNode<T> root, List<TreeNode<T>> nodes) {

        if (root == null) {
            return nodes;
        }
        nodes.add(root);                  // adding the current node
        preorder(root.getLeft(), nodes);  // exploring the left subtree
        preorder(root.getRight(), nodes); // exploring the right subtree

        return nodes;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Traversals<Integer> tree = new Traversals<>(); // don't omit generic parameter

        TreeNode<Integer> root = new TreeNode<>(50);
        TreeNode<Integer> a = new TreeNode<>(25);
        TreeNode<Integer> b = new TreeNode<>(10);
        TreeNode<Integer> c = new TreeNode<>(100);
        TreeNode<Integer> d = new TreeNode<>(75);
        TreeNode<Integer> e = new TreeNode<>(125);
        TreeNode<Integer> f = new TreeNode<>(110);

        root.setLeft(a);
        a.setLeft(b);
        root.setRight(c);
        c.setLeft(d);
        c.setRight(e);
        e.setLeft(f);

        List<TreeNode<Integer>> preorderNodes = tree.preorder(root);

        for (TreeNode<Integer> node : preorderNodes) {
            System.out.println(node);
        }
    }

    public static class TreeNode<T extends Comparable<? super T>> {

        // all TreeNode contents with no changes

        @Override
        public String toString() {
            return "TreeNode{" + "data=" + data + '}';
        }
    }
}

Output:
TreeNode{data=50}
TreeNode{data=25}
TreeNode{data=10}
TreeNode{data=100}
TreeNode{data=75}
TreeNode{data=125}
TreeNode{data=110}

A: There is no need to declare the list in main() or as a global variable. You can have the list instanciated inside the method. If root is null, you just return an empty list. If it's not you call preorder() recursively on the root, then the left sub-tree, and finally the right sub-tree, and add the results you get to the list.
public List<T> preorder(TreeNode<T> root) {
    List<T> list = new ArrayList<>();
    if (root != null) {
        list.add(root.getData());
        list.addAll(preorder(root.getLeft()));
        list.addAll(preorder(root.getRight()));
    }
    return list;
}

Call:
List preorder_list = tree.preorder(root);

Ouput:
[50, 25, 10, 100, 75, 125, 110]

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La Copa del Rey de Hockey Patines 2018 fue la septuagésima quinta edición de la Copa del Rey de este deporte. La sede única fue Lloret de Mar (Gerona) y los encuentros se disputaron en el Pabellón Municipal.

Se disputó entre los 7 mejores equipos de la OK Liga 2017-18 en la primera vuelta de la liga y el C.H. Lloret como anfitrión, según el sorteo efectuado el 6 de febrero de 2018.

Los partidos se jugaron entre el 22 y el 25 de febrero de 2018.

El campeón de esta edición fue el FC Barcelona, que consiguió su vigésimo segundo título de copa.

De forma paralela se disputó la tercera edición de la MiniCopa Masculina en categoría base. Se jugó en formato cuartos de final (sábado), semifinales y final (domingo) entre ocho equipos de categoría MASC12. Los equipos participantes fueron Deportivo Liceo, Igualada HC, Reus Deportiu, CH Lloret, Girona CH, ICG Software Lleida, CE Noia y FC Barcelona, que se proclamó campeón de esta edición por tercera vez consecutiva.

Equipos participantes
 Club Esportiu Noia
 FC Barcelona
 Reus Deportiu
 HC Liceo
 Club Hoquei Lloret
 Igualada Hoquei Club
 Club Esportiu Lleida Llista Blava
 Girona Club d'Hoquei

Resultados

Final

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Real Federación Española de Patinaje
Copa de SM El Rey 2017/18

Copa del Rey de Hockey Patines
Hockey sobre patines en 2018

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Bed-In è stata una forma di protesta non-violenta contro la guerra in Vietnam messa in atto nel 1969 da John Lennon e Yōko Ono.

Storia
Durante la guerra in Vietnam, nel 1969, John Lennon e Yōko Ono tennero un Bed-In per la Pace della durata di due settimane nelle città di Amsterdam e Montréal, questo era il loro modo non-violento di protestare contro la guerra e di promuovere la pace mondiale. Il termine è una ironica storpiatura del popolare termine inglese "Sit-in" (di protesta).

Bed-in di Amsterdam

Sapendo che il loro matrimonio, celebratosi il 20 marzo 1969, sarebbe stato un grande evento mediatico, John e Yoko decisero di usare indirettamente la pubblicità che avrebbero ricevuto per promuovere la pace mondiale. Passarono la loro luna di miele nella suite presidenziale (stanza 702) dell'Amsterdam Hilton Hotel tra il 25 e il 31 marzo, dando libero accesso alla stampa nella loro camera da letto tutti i giorni dalle nove di mattina alle nove di sera. La stampa si trovava davanti i due coniugi in pigiama, eternamente a letto, che parlavano di amore e pace universali con appesi alla parete della camera cartelli scritti a mano con scritte tipo "Hair Peace" (Pace dei capelli) e "Bed Peace" (Pace a letto). Dopo sette giorni, la coppia si spostò a Vienna, Austria, dove i due tennero una conferenza stampa rinchiusi in un sacco.

Durante l'aprile 1969, John e Yoko manifestarono in favore della pace in diversi Paesi nella speranza che l'attenzione mediatica attirata dalle loro figure avrebbe favorito anche la diffusione del messaggio pacifista. Per otto mesi, la coppia inviò delle scatolette con dentro delle ghiande ai vari leader mondiali, però non ottenne mai la possibilità di incontrare nessun capo di stato. Il loro matrimonio («You can get married in Gibraltar near Spain»), il primo Bed-In («Talking in our beds for a week»), la conferenza stampa di Vienna («Made a lightning trip to Vienna...The newspapers said...»), sono tutti menzionati nella canzone dei Beatles The Ballad of John and Yoko.

Bed-in di Montréal
Il loro secondo Bed-In avrebbe dovuto tenersi a New York City, ma John non fu accettato nel Paese a causa dei suoi trascorsi giudiziari risalenti al 1968, per possesso di cannabis. Quindi il tutto venne spostato alle Bahamas nello Sheraton Oceanus Hotel, ma dopo una nottata afosa, la coppia decise di spostarsi a Montréal.

Arrivarono a Montréal il 26 maggio e presero alloggio nella stanza numero 1742 del Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Nel corso della loro permanenza durata sette giorni, invitarono nella loro stanza amici e conoscenti, tra i quali Timothy Leary, Murray the K, Tommy Smothers, Allen Ginsberg, Dick Gregory e Al Capp, e tutti tranne Capp (che ebbe un acceso diverbio con la coppia) parteciparono alla registrazione collettiva del brano Give Peace a Chance, registrato nella camera d'albergo il primo giugno. La televisione di stato del Canada, la Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, filmò gran parte dell'evento.

Nel dicembre 1969, John e Yoko diffusero il loro messaggio di pace attraverso cartelloni pubblicitari sparsi nelle maggiori città del mondo che recavano la scritta "WAR IS OVER! If You Want It - Happy Christmas From John and Yoko" (LA GUERRA È FINITA! Se lo volete - Buon Natale da John & Yoko).

Riferimenti nella cultura di massa

La forma di protesta artistica del Bed-In colpì molto l'opinione pubblica dell'epoca e da allora è stata reinterpretata e riutilizzata da svariati artisti, come, tra i più noti, Marijke van Warmerdam e la sua gallerista Kees van Gelder nel 1992 nello stesso hotel Amsterdam Hilton; e The Centre of Attention nel 2005 a Miami. Un finto Bed-In di protesta è stato messo in scena nel 2006 dai Viva Voce per un loro videoclip musicale. Nel 2010, Il centro di Liverpool per le arti contemporanee, il Bluecoat, mise in scena un evento della durata di 62 giorni denominato "Bed-In at the Bluecoat", nel quale artisti, attivisti, comunità ed altri invitavano il pubblico a fare "qualcosa per un mondo migliore." Yoko diede il suo assenso all'evento e inviò un messaggio video. Il progetto ebbe inizio il 9 ottobre, data del settantesimo compleanno di Lennon se fosse stato in vita, e terminò il 9 dicembre, trentesimo anniversario del suo assassinio.

I Bed-In di John & Yoko sono citati nella canzone Don't Look Back in Anger degli Oasis, nella quale il cantante Noel Gallagher canta: «I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed / 'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head». La canzone è inclusa nel loro album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? del 1995

Gli Articolo 31, nel brano Gigugin dell'album Così com'è (1996) citarono in maniera leggera e ironica la protesta organizzata da John Lennon e Yoko Ono. Nella canzone infatti J-Ax canta: «Gigugin, ti porterei ogni sera a cena da Chez Maxime, e al Drive In in limousine, come John Lennon farei un bed-in, Gigugin, come Dean Martin gingo-gingolin!».

Nel video musicale della canzone It's Saturday dei Marcy Playground, il gruppo si ritrova nella stanza d'hotel di John Lennon e Yoko durante il loro Bed-In.

Il duo pop giapponese Puffy Amiyumi rese omaggio ai Bed-in sulla copertina del loro album Nice. del 2003.

Alla fine del 2006, Billie Joe Armstrong, cantante solista della band Green Day, e sua moglie, Adrienne Armstrong, effettuarono un Bed-In. Billie Joe e Adrienne restarono a letto, con un poster sopra le loro teste con scritto "Fate l'amore non fate la guerra" in spagnolo.

Nel 2010, la città di Montreal ha posizionato un'installazione artistica all'interno del Mount Royal Park per commemorare il celebre Bed-In. L'opera di Linda Covit e Marie-Claude Séguin si intitola Give Peace a Chance e contiene le parole "give peace a chance" ("date una possibilità alla pace") in quaranta lingue differenti.

Nel 2013 la cantante statunitense Jhene Aiko e il rapper Childish Gambino resero omaggio al Bed-In di John Lennon & Yoko Ono apparendo a letto con dei fiori in mano nella copertina del singolo Bed Peace tratto dall'EP Sail Out della Aiko.

Il 13 settembre 2018, davanti al Municipio di New York la stessa Yoko Ono ricreò il famoso bed-in insieme all'ex Beatle Ringo Starr e al famoso attore Jeff Bridges.

Note

Voci correlate
 John Lennon
 Yōko Ono
 Nonviolenza
 Pacifismo

Propaganda
Storia contemporanea
Forme di protesta


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The internett connection is a solid 100 MBps, the average connection to the Citrix enviroment is about 10 – 20 MS latency.
This sample video shows how the tests is being run. This allows us to closer analyze the sample data from Netbalancer as well.
So it's a minor increase which is expected since ThinWire uses a small amount of bandwidth. Now Framehawk on the other hand will use about 4% of the packet engine CPU. Note again that this was when we kept working with the PDF documentet.
RDP used about 17MB of bandwidth PDF scrolling and zooming made a huge delay in how the end-user could work. Surfing on the webpage which has a huge amount of graphics, freezed up for a couple of seconds. Youtube itself, well it didn't work very well.
So what does all this data tells us?
The last couple of months I have been contacted by a few partners and customers were they are experiencing issues with their CSP Base Licenses where the Citrix Studio does not recognise licenses installed on a license server.
If you are running an earlier version of XenDesktop you have to use PowerShell (PoSH)  to set the licensing mode.
This is by design and stems from a decision made by Product Management when the XD Advanced mode was added to the product in order to support the CSP Base Licenses. The decision was made not to reflect the availability of that mode within the Citrix Studio GUI and to allow for that mode selection to be via the SDK only.
When you set the licensing mode via PoSH, as described in CTX139752, Studio displays the error that it "Can´t find a valid license" and fails to display any licenses within the Licensing Node.
However, as long as the correct Edition and Model are displayed, users can connect and will actually consume a license from the license server.
When initially performing the build of the delivery controllers, using CSP Base Licensed, it is recommended that a temporary 30 day evaluation license be used and upon completion of the build to utilize PoSH and CTX139752 to change mode to Advanced and Per User/Device.
4. However, a user session can be established and an associated license consumed.
This week I have been assisting a partner with a XenDesktop 7.6 with HDX 3D Pro POC and when the base installation was done, we decided to put the environment to the test by installing and playing some Crysis 3.
I ran into an error the other day while trying to set up XenDesktop with VMWare vSphere 5.5 following the guide on blogs.citrix.com using the default VMWare vCenter certificate.
I tried the first suggestion where I was supposed to download the cacert.pem from "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\SSL" on the vCenter machine.
There were no such file there so I went for a suggestion in the comment field in the article and tried to use the rui.crt. This did not help either.
As you can see there is no "Continue to this website option", so I could not continue following the instructions.
After some research I found a KB article (KB 2661254) that explained that to reduce the risk of unauthorized exposure of sensitive information, Microsoft has released a nonsecurity update for all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. This update blocks cryptographic keys that are less than 1024 bits long.
Windows 8.x and Windows Server 2012(R2) already include the functionality to block the use of weak RSA keys that are less than 1024 bits long.
After closing and opening IE I received the option to continue.
I have included the screenshots of the remaining process for you below.
Remember to remove the registry key when you are done.
We are closing in at the end of 2013 and and with the Release of XenDesktop 7 earlier this year a new certification path for XenDesktop has emerged.
I have had the great opportunity to teach the beta classes of XenDesktop 7 at Commaxx in Norway and have also passed the new certifications.
This course is intended for administrators and operators that need to learn the skills to manage and support a XenDesktop 7 environment.
Citrix offers a Prep Guide for the 200 exam that can be downloaded here.
Throughout this course, students will learn how to configure an environment that includes XenServer, XenDesktop, Citrix License Server, MCS, PVS, Personal vDisk, StoreFront, NetScaler (ICA Proxy, Load Balancing, Endpoint Analysis), and Citrix Receiver.
Upon course completion, students will be able to build an environment including all XenDesktop 7 components from scratch and test the implementation.
that is needed to support a XenDektop 7 environment.
Citrix offers a Prep Guide for the 300 exam that can be downloaded here.
This five-day course is intended for solution designers such as Architects, Consultants, and Engineers eager in learning how to assess and design a XenDesktop 7 solution.
Citrix offers a Prep Guide for the 200 exam that can be downloaded here.
Citrix has made some major changes in the way of the flow of the courses. There are participation from the students and a lot more labs.
My experience and feedback from the students so far has been positive all over.
The Deployment course has a few days of infrastructure  installation (AD, SQL etc) that I am not looking for when attending a Citrix Course. BUT these componoents are of course crucial for a succesful XenDesktop implementation nonetheless….
My advice is to take both  the Managing and Deployment courses, then you will get the best of both worlds.
During my research I found that using XenApp Platinum licenses in a XenDesktop App edition environment, Provisioning Services were enabled as part of the Platinum license.
I also mentioned that I believed Insight functionality as well would be "boosted" with use of these licenses, and today I followed up on that thought.
The procedure to find this out were a lot easier than the last time.
I started the environment configured with XenDesktop App edition Concurrent licenses and looked at Trend data in Director. As seen in the screenshot below, I was able to track 7 days of historical data.
I then switched to XenApp Platinum licenses and logged back into Director. As seen in the next screenshot, I was able to track a year of data instead of only 7 days.
This is good news for XenApp Platinum customers who is looking for moving to XenDesktop 7 App Edition, and the only way to get 1 year of historical data in Director without going for XenDesktop Platinum.
I also described a "bug" in my earlier post regarding an error message while I tried to go back to use XenDesktop App edition CCU licenses after I had used XenApp Platinum licenses.
This failed today as well, and I believe this might be "by design" since once you configured the use of Platinum Licenses, extended Insight functionality were enabled and might not be so easy to turn off.


The big boys of racing made their way back to the track this past weekend at the Texas Motor Speedway as the International Truck Challenge kicked off its second season.
The lesser-known drivers of the National Association for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) Winston Cup teams took the wheel - and the spotlight - in a fierce skills competition of their own.
NASCAR Winston Cup race team drivers will exhibit their skills over four weekends throughout this season for the "International Truck Challenge," a series of timed obstacle courses designed to showcase the talents of NASCAR's big rig drivers, as well as the powerful trucks they rely on to get them from race to race.
"The rig drivers of NASCAR play a crucial role in keeping Winston Cup drivers in the race from week to week," said Steve Keate, president, truck group, International Truck and Engine Corporation. "The International Truck Challenge gives us a great opportunity to showcase their skills and reward them for their hard work."
Testing a variety of tough truckdriving skills with two intricate 180-degree turns, two slalom runs, a series of tethered barriers and a simulated loading dock, the competition awards points to drivers for skillfully maneuvering the obstacle course while racing against a clock. Superior driving skill is awarded with bonus points, but mistakes result in deductions, instead of tickets.
The winner of each of this year's four competitions receives $1,000 and a shot at the end-of-season $20,000 jackpot from International, awarded to the points leader after the season's final event at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
Races will take place during Winston Cup Series events at Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX/April 6; Lowe's Motor Speedway, Charlotte, NC/May 18; Chicago Motor Speedway, Chicago/July 13; and Atlanta Motor Speedway, Atlanta/Oct. 26.
For driver standings throughout the racing season, or for more information on the International Truck Challenge, visit www.InternationalDelivers.com or www.nascar.com/RACE/International/.


Yesterday marked Edenwaith's first official foray into iPhone development. A new tutorial has been posted, detailing the construction of a simple flashlight application, called Taschenlampe.
Taschenlampe is not an officially released product, it is merely an example program for the purposes of the tutorial. However, this is just the beginning for several iPhone-related projects which are in the works.


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Shenmue I & II releases in Japan, selling over 30k units its debut week
November 29, 2018 by George
If you guys didn't know, we actually got Shenmue I & II early in the West. Some folks say we got it early to bug test it for its Japanese release, who knows. What we do know is that Shenmue I & II hit Japanese store shelves on November 22, 2018 and charted number for on the Japanese Media Create charts. The top spot was given to Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee! (which seems to track both games as one) but the impressive debut this week came from EA's Battlefield V which garnered 110,653 sales in its debut week, really making Shenmue I & II's 37,529 units seem rather weak. But at the end of the day, Shenmue I & II is a port and Battlefield V is a brand new game, so comparing them sales wise is useless.
You can check the full media create chart on Gematsu or after the break:
[NSW] Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Let's Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 162,467 (823,707)
[PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts, 11/20/18) – 110,653 (New)
[PS4] Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories (Granzella, 11/22/18) – 42,272 (New)
[PS4] Shenmue I & II (Limited Edition Included) (Sega, 11/22/18) – 37,529 (New)
[NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 24,450 (370,077)
[PS4] Fallout 76 (Limited Edition Included) (Bethesda Softworks, 11/15/18) – 11,800 (85,289)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,714 (1,847,777)
[NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 10,527 (2,709,412)
[PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (SIE, 10/12/18) – 10,052 (470,942)
[NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,818 (375,166)
[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 6,883 (1,166,281)
[3DS] Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo, 11/08/18) – 6,640 (43,329)
[NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 5,309 (1,850,991)
[3DS] Neko Tomo (Bandai Namco, 11/22/18) – 5,212 (New)
[PS4] Red Dead Redemption 2 (Limited Editions Included) (Take-Two Interactive, 10/26/18) – 4,411 (196,592)
[3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 4,169 (1,764,472)
[NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 3,996 (646,201)
[NSW] Nari Kids Park HUGtto! PreCure (Bandai Namco, 11/21/18) – 3,301 (New)
[PS4] Hitman 2 (Warner Bros. Interactive, 11/15/18) – 2,821 (12,983)
[NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,650 (228,067)
SEGA Japan reveals Shenmue I & II special collector's edition for PlayStation 4, with CD soundtrack, poster and box Phantasy Star Online 2 coming to Japanese PlayStation 4 owners on April 20 A Certain Magical Virtual-On shifts 27k units on its debut Valkyria Chronicles 4 debuts in 2nd place in Japan, beating Ni no Kuni II Shenmue I & II releases August 21 to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC – pre-order today!
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A NURSERY teacher is going to spend the next three months pounding the streets come rain or shine as she prepares for her first marathon.
After entering a 10km race last year, Catherine Jamison, from Imperial Wharf, Fulham, caught the running bug and signed up for the London Marathon.
The 41-year-old, who works at the Bishop's Park Montessori Nursery School in Cloncurry Street, is now on a strict training regime to get into shape for the big day on Sunday, April 21.
Ms Jamison, who has not done any serious running since her cross country days at school, will be raising money for Bowel & Cancer Research, as her husband Alex Hotouras is a research registrar at the Royal London Hospital and works with patients affected by the disease.
She raised just over £400 for the charity when she took part in the 10km event and jumped at the chance to represent them again.
She said: "I hadn't done any exercise other than going to the gym and swimming. I found that running outside in the fresh air gave me a huge buzz – it's very addictive. So when the charity wanted people to do the London Marathon, I volunteered.
To help reach her goal of £2,000, Ms Jamison will bake cakes and organise fundraising events for pupils and parents.
She said: "The school is being very supportive. When I ran before, most of the sponsorship came from the parents so I'll be looking for help in reaching my amount. It's such a worthy cause as bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK.


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Finding His Voice: Jason Berry reflects on college and career
By: Katya Schwenk and Rachel Cohen
As the Voice nears our 50th anniversary in March 2019, we are looking back at our history, alumni, and life after the Voice.
Jason Berry (COL '71) arrived at Georgetown in 1967, during the height of the Vietnam War. Lyndon B. Johnson was president and the university, like the rest of the country, was gripped by fiery anti-war protests. Students were angry and looking for an outlet.
The Georgetown Voice was their answer. In 1969, Stephen Pisinski (COL '71) and a few friends, frustrated by The Hoya's reluctance to cover the war and other off-campus news, split from the newspaper to create their own.
"Our editorial policy will view and analyze issues in a liberal light. We shall not limit our editorial content to campus topics," they wrote in the Voice's debut editorial in 1969. "We promise to present and analyze national and local issues of concern to the students, whose concern should spread beyond the campus."
Berry was one of these early members of the Voice, writing film and theater reviews. Since then, he has produced a film on jazz in New Orleans and written a comedic novel.
But it was during his career as an investigative reporter in the '80s when he wrote the story that changed his career: His report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in New Orleans broke the story before it had become the nationwide conversation it is today.
Before that, though, when he first arrived on campus 50 years ago, Berry was new to activism and overwhelmed by wartime protests. "I was just a guy from New Orleans," he said. "I wasn't used to things like that."
The politics at the time were heated because they were deeply personal. Berry and other male students were eligible for the draft. At any moment, they could be selected and required to enlist.
"I remember in my junior year, sitting around a kitchen of a house on Calvert Street, and we listened on the radio as they called out the numbers in the lottery," Berry said. "If you got a low number you had to register for the draft." His number—in the 300s—was high enough to spare him.
The heightened political tension on campus during those years was unavoidable. Student voices grew louder and more radical. "It was a very politically charged environment. The combination of civil rights and the war created an atmosphere of great intensity," he said.
Although Berry opposed the war, he didn't consider himself the most radical voice on campus. He laughed as he recalled the irony of poring over Dante and Shakespeare for his English classes and then taking to the streets afterwards to protest the establishment. "I guess you could call me a moderate radical," he said.
Everyone was talking about politics all the time, Berry said. They wrote about politics, too. He remembers the strength of student journalism then. Vietnam helped create the Voice, and it also strengthened the readership of other outlets.
"I had the impression that a lot of students read those outlets," Berry said. "You read the student press to learn what was going on in your own world."
Martin Yant (SFS '71), another early Voice member, recruited Berry to write for the publication. Berry often wrote for the university's literary magazine, Georgetown Quarterly.
In 1970, the administration slashed student media budgets. Several publications merged with the Quarterly—which still "failed to come out quarterly," according to the 1971 yearbook. Others did not survive at all. The Voice itself hardly made it through.
"It felt the lack of financial backing to the point that it opted for a cheaper format, so that it does not become a Hoya-Voice," the 1971 yearbook read. Despite rumors of a merger at the time, the Voice has continued independently ever since.
Berry continued to pursue journalism after his start at the Voice. After graduating, he went to Mississippi and worked as a press secretary for Charles Evers' unsuccessful bid for governor.
He published a book on that experience in 1973. By the age of 24, he had returned to New Orleans and started a career as a freelance journalist, covering arts and politics in the city. Since then, he has worked as an independent writer.
But his life as a freelance writer in the early '70s would be impossible now, Berry said. His apartment in New Orleans cost $75 a month—less than $500 today. He could survive on one article a week, and he found comfortable success in his work. It was this independence, he said, that allowed him to write the story that changed his career.
In 1984, a friend of his from high school, who worked as a lawyer, granted him access to the trial documents of a priest accused of sex abuse in Lafayette County, Louisiana. The series of articles he wrote spurred by those first documents was the first well-publicized case of sex abuse in the Catholic Church in the U.S. The stories shocked the nation and launched Berry's career.
Berry could never quite escape the story. Priests and nuns approached him with tips on other cases. In 2002, The Boston Globe's Spotlight team published their famed findings of sexual misconduct and abuse within Catholic churches in their area, and spurred Berry to investigate. "I sort of came out of retirement on that issue. I got a contract very quickly and did a second book," he said.
Berry felt obligated to pursue the story. "My life probably would have been happier if I had just kept writing about politics and culture in New Orleans," Berry said. "But the story kept deepening and widening, and it became such a media narrative. Almost like a tsunami, which is where we are right now."
Now this wave has reached Georgetown. The university has faced criticism from students for not revoking the honorary degrees of Cardinals Theodore McCarrick and Donald Wuerl— both of whom were involved in high-profile sex abuse scandals in the Church this summer. Berry wrote a piece for the Washington Post on these scandals in August.
While it's an important conversation, Berry explained, it's not the only subject he cares about. He has dedicated much of his career to writing about New Orleans, covering its rich arts and music scene. Just as the national spotlight falls once again on the Church, his book on the city he loves is being released.
"There have been two major stories of my life: the city of my birth and the church at which I was raised," Berry said. "And right now, they're colliding."
This collision of stories has always been a vital part of the Voice's own philosophy. The publication was founded to cover both local and national politics, to investigate art and culture as well as political scandals—a dichotomy Berry has embodied throughout his career.
Berry emphasized the importance of the student and local journalism in papers like the Voice. "Journalism is going through a revolution with so many print outlets really being starved for advertising," he said. "While the web has indeed opened up a seemingly endless array of outlets, it's so important to have intelligent, critical commentary not just of city life, but life in small towns."
But Berry remains optimistic about the profession he began 50 years ago with the Voice.
"I don't think journalism is going to simply fade," he said. "The important thing is not to give up."
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Bulls hire 76ers' Eversley as GM
The Chicago Bulls are set to name Marc Eversley as their new general manager, multiple outlets reported Monday.
Formally the senior vice president of personnel for the Philadelphia 76ers, Eversley was selected by new Bulls executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas, who previously named JJ Polk of the New Orleans Pelicans as assistant general manager.
Eversley replaces Gar Forman, who was fired earlier this month after 22 years with the team. Forman had been the GM since May 2009 and was named the NBA Executive of the Year in 2011.
Other candidates for the position included Mark Hughes from the Los Angeles Clippers, Matt Lloyd of the Orlando Magic and the Dallas Mavericks' Michael Finley.
Eversley had been with Philadelphia since May 2016. He previously worked in the front offices of the Washington Wizards and Toronto Raptors.
A native of Ottawa, Canada, Eversley becomes the first black general manager in Bulls history.
Chicago was 22-43 when the NBA suspended the 2019-20 season in mid-March. The Bulls have not been to the playoffs since the 2016-17 season.


Computer control operators use computer-controlled machines to cut metal, plastic, or glass precisely, shaping a finished part or product. They perform tasks using computer-controlled machinery that previously were done by human operators, such as drilling, cutting, milling, grinding, and lathing. An operator is in charge of transmitting programmed instructions to the machinery, which may range from a basic drill to a complex system of metalworking instruments. The finished parts these operators produce are used in aircraft, construction, automobile, and similar industries.
The efficiency of a numerically controlled system is that one machine can be programmed to perform many operations. For example, through numerical control, the automobile industry has automated many machining processes. Numerical control is also widely used in industries that use metal alloys, such as the aerospace industry. Metal alloys are substances that are composed of metal and one or more other elements. Steel is a common alloy. Machinists also use numerical controls to machine even the most difficult alloys to precise dimensions.
The operator's responsibilities depend on the type and capabilities of the machinery. A machine is generally equipped to use different tools and can be programmed to perform several tasks. Operators position the block of metal, plastic, or glass on the computer numerically controlled machines. They then set the controls and monitor the machine for problems that occur during the machining process. Problems can include a dull cutting tool or excessive vibration. More skilled operators may be required to modify the computer program to fix programming problems. An operator may be responsible for several machines or for more than one type of machine.
Computer control operators should have a high school degree, basic knowledge of computers and electronics, and several years of experience with conventional machine tools. Operators train in various ways, from apprenticeships, informally on the job, or in vocational programs. The least skilled operators, who run very basic controls, may need only minimal on-the-job training.
The National Institute of Metalworking Skills developed a set of skills standards that have been adopted by a number of vocational training facilities and colleges. Classroom training includes computer programming basics. Graduates of these programs are certified by the National Institute of Metalworking Skills.
Due to a shortage of qualified computer control operators, many companies promote these workers from within, training shop helpers or operators of conventional machine tools to use one or more types of numerically controlled equipment. Workers with good mechanical and computation skills are most likely to be selected. Graduates of National Institute of Metalworking Skills certificate programs can apply directly to machine shops. State employment offices and classified help wanted ads in the newspaper also list job openings.
The number of computer control operator jobs is expected to decline through 2014 as advances in computer numerically controlled machines result in increasing automation of the production process. However, the shortage of people entering training programs means that certified applicants should have good job opportunities. With additional training, which is usually provided by the company, an operator may advance to a computer control programming position. Operators may also be promoted to supervisory jobs.
Modern machine shops are usually clean, well lit, and well ventilated. Computer numerically controlled machines are enclosed to minimize workers' exposure to noise, dust, and chemicals. However, operators wear protective equipment such as earplugs and safety goggles to further reduce the risk of injury from flying debris or excessive machinery noise. Much of the work must be done while standing, and some heavy lifting may be involved.
Operators may be required to work evening and night shifts, as computer numerically controlled machines are expensive and companies want to boost productivity. During busy production periods, operators may work more than a forty-hour workweek.
The median salary for a computer control operator was $14.75 per hour in 2004. Operators in metalworking machinery manufacturing earned the highest median hourly wage of $16.34. Operators in plastics product manufacturing earned the lowest median hourly wage of $11.78. During production slowdowns, workers may be laid off or have their hours reduced. During peak periods, they may be able to earn overtime pay. Benefits usually include paid holidays and vacations, health insurance, and retirement plans.


It's not too long now until I head off to San Francisco; only seventeen days in fact.
I'm going to be flying out of Heathrow, stopping off in Boston to see Ethan, and then continuing on to my new (temporary) home.
The last time I flew out of Heathrow was back in April 2003, when I was off to Colorado for a month. Security levels were pretty high at that point, so every passenger in the check-in queue was personally reminded by three different staff members to remove sharp objects from their hand baggage. We all said thank you and that yes, we'd already put anything like that in our main bags.
As I got to front of the queue the lady to my left was asked (for the fourth and final time) if she had any sharp objects in her hand baggage, Oh no, nothing dear, came the reply. The check-in girl was just about to whiz her suitcase through to the handlers when the woman let out an exclamation and pulled seven pairs of scissors from her handbag, saying Oh, I forgot these!
Where is this new temporary home? Perhaps I missed where this was discussed in a previous post?
No, you're right, I haven't really posted about it before.
I'm off to live in San Francisco for three months, to take photos and generally hang out. I have to come back to the UK for a friend's wedding at the end of July, but I'm hoping to return to SF once that's done and spend a further three months snapping away, seeing the sites, and buying cheap computer hardware.
That lady was probably my mother. That's happened twice when I've been flying with her!
I hope that your new temporary home has cable/xDSL or some sort of internet connectivity Dunstan. I'd be sad to see you leave your site/blog for a 3 month haul!
I might be the only person that hasn't worked this one out, but, what on earth would a person need SEVEN pairs of scissors for?
I'm always so paranoid I check about a billion times. I'm worried I might have accidently left a hunting knife in my coat or something bizzare.
The image I put on the web is only 1600px wide. Although the full one is about 1800 wide, I figured no-one would be browsing about 1600px and so it'd be a waste of download.
I often find that, if anything, I do not have ENOUGH sharp implements on flights. Next time, I'm bring a cordless drill.
I dunno, Phil - and they were all different sizes as well, some tiny ones, some huge ones.
Question is, did she have rock and paper, too?
Anyway, welcome to my area! You might want to check out http://craigslist.org as a great resource for things such as housing in the SF Bay area (and others).
Now I'm just guessing here - and Dunstan you'll have to excuse me if I'm wrong - but I'm guessing our host is journeying to the States on the visa waiver programme, hence the necessity to return home after three months.
I did this myself in 98-99: went out to NYC for three months, had a blast; met a friend who'd won a competition for two to Switzerland to see the Cure in concert (don't ask), tagged along; went back to the US and was promptly stamped back in for a further three months; visited the parents at the end of that stint, and then promptly turned round and went back to NYC for Christmas 98!
Had to get a job after that though. Damn the real world!
"Hairdresser?" - Aye! A Traveling Hairdresser.
Brussels is nothing in flying miles, so we hadn't even taken off properly before we landed again. And again.
We were hurdeled into some kind of room, with seats and a restroom. There was also a vending machine, with delicous cola and everything, but it only accepted Belgium currency. We sat there for hours, snacking on the bifi's and playing on my brother's 100-in-1 M&M game 'console' he bought earlier.
The second time we had to stay on the cramped plane, and entertain ourselves with the chicken-like meat substance we were given to eat.
Needless to say, I'm never flying with Virgin again!
I like Virgin, I try and fly them whenever I can (Atlantic at least), far better entertainment systems and service than the others (imo). For someone who can't sleep on planes, it's a necessity. Mind you, the American carriers are far worse (no offence intended, but sort that out), mind you, the domestic ones are okay.
I've done a lot of flying in my time, and have mainly been long haul recently (parents lived in San Jose for 3 years, plus went round the world, NZ is still 12.5 hours flying from LA!). I'm sticking with short flights for a while.
And can someone have a word about Heathrow, it may be the busiest airport in the world, but it's the worst place to use and by far the ugliest.
Check out SF airport when you fly in, and watch out for the Marine Layer (or fog as the rest if the world calls it). I love those crazy Americans renaming stuff.
"It's a hair straigtening and preparation device."
When I worked as a baggage loader for USAirways we would get these packages from laboratory supply companies that were send as baggage to various places. The boxes were full of mice and felt like the cardboard on the outside of the box was alive (there was a similar vibrating effect when a bag would come through with a feminie entertainment device in it).
I'm not exactly sure what this story has to do with sharp knives but they're pesky those wacky terrorists. I've seen "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" a few times. A rodent can be a fearsome adversary.
As for Passenger Scissorhands-- Ummm, maybe travelling to Hollywood to audition for the sequel?? Or, likes living dangerously and just wanted to see what would happen? It's another boggler--I hope you'll keep finding and sharing them.


Abstract: Concrete has became a universal building material. Its mechanical resistance was considered as a basic criterion. It appears today that the concrete can be affected by its environment. Its performances decrease when it is exposed to moisture, pollution and other aggressive substances such as chlorides and sulfates. Therefore, the concrete degrades and the steel bars corrode. Aggressive substances are generally conveyed by water. Thus, the water content is a good indicator of the durability of concrete. Non-destructive methods has been developed for diagnosing the state of a structure at any time, which allows monitoring and preventive maintenance work. The Radar technic is one of the buildings auscultation techniques which can be used. It is an application of electromagnetism and was mainly used to find buried objects in concrete and for the recognition of discontinuities or geometries. Relatively recent research has shown that the radar can also be used as a tool for characterizing the state of the material. This enables new application fields. The radar signal is analyzed in terms of mitigation and speed, by the use of different reflected signals and also the direct wave signal between transmitter and receiver. The measurements made in the laboratory or on site indicate the sensitivity of this signal to the desired settings. The radar allows locating steel bars, measure concrete cover and estimate moisture concrete. The propagation speed is directly related to the dielectric constant. This measure gives an idea about the actual concrete moisture condition. Analyses of radar profiles obtained by immediate auscultation of structures, Provides an idea about the anomalies related to the concrete: corrosion, presence of chlorides and other anomalies related to improper repair of the concrete or an accumulation of water above the element studied.
Abstract: The specific granulation problem is presented, which has concern to the controlled liquid metal jet and film flows for a production of the uniform by size and form particles (granules) cooled with a high rate, to be amorphous or close to the amorphous materials. Basics of the developed theory of the controlled jet and film flow disintegration with further rapid cooling of the drops after disintegration of film flow are presented together with the new patented granulation devices developed and tested. The original methods and devices can be used for production of the amorphous granules in a wide range of the given sizes, with a very narrow (plus-minus 50%) deviation in size.
Abstract: Friction stir processing (FSP), based on friction stir welding (FSW), is a thermo mechanical process for modifying the microstructural and mechanical properties of sheet metals and as-cast alloys. FSP also can be used for mechanical alloying and producing metal matrix composites. Having hexagonal close packed (hcp) structure and dendritic Mg12Al17 precipitations in grain boundaries, AZ91 magnesium alloy is a brittle metal. Due to creation of longitudinal cracks and tunneling cavities throughout the processing path, FSP of AZ91 is difficult and also sensitive to processing temperature. In this study, effect of processing parameters such as the rotational and traverse speeds and pin size on the temperature history experienced by material was investigated. Additionally, a minimum temperature required to produce a defect-free specimen is presented.
Abstract: Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have been used recently in applications where the supply is not synchronous with the demand in order to act as a buffer between the two and compensate the random variations of each. PCMs store and then release considerable amounts of heat without significant temperature variation. Their key property is the latent heat of fusion/solidification and the main point that has to be considered in the design of the application is the match between the melting point and operating temperature. Thus, the main mode in which heat is stored in the PCM is latent heat and a relatively small part is sensible heat. However, the main limitation in the applicability of PCMs is their value of the thermal conductivity coefficient. This rises various design constraints which eventually result in limited applications. Various methods exist to enhance the conduction heat transfer in PCMs. The paper presents a discussion on techniques, performances and limitations of graphite insertion to boost PCMs thermal conductivity. The main goals of the paper are (1) to demonstrate that although graphite inserts are beneficial in increasing the overall efficiency of a PCM – based thermal management system and (2) a number of limitations, side effects and factors that adversely influence the heat conductivity increase exist and must be accounted for by performing an overall optimization of the thermal management system under constraints dictated by functional requirements.
Abstract: To simulate the thermal hydraulics processes in fast reactors with a liquid metal coolant DNS CFD code CONV-3D has been developed. The paper presents the results of the application of CONV-3D code for simulation of sodium natural convection in the upper plenum of the MONJU (Japan) reactor vessel, the calculation results of the experiment conducted on the Phenix facility (France) with sodium coolant, mixing of sodium flows with different temperatures in the T-tube (Russia). The results of simulation of heavy-liquid metal (LBE) flow and heat transfer along a hexagonal 19-rod bundle with wire spacers (KALLA, Germany) are presented also. A satisfactory agreement of the numerical predictions with experiments is demonstrated, in particular for the temperature distribution vs the coordinates. The results obtained allow to conclude that using of CONV-3D code with high predictive power can be recommended for reactor applications.
Abstract: In this paper, the homogenization approach was presented to predict the effective mechanical properties of heterogeneous materials such as composite materials. Indeed, the main idea of this approach is to characterize the effective mechanical properties from a microstructural description of the heterogeneous materials and the knowledge of the local behavior of constituents using the homogenization process. It is a very efficient tool which is intensively developed in the field of numerical simulation of heterogeneous materials. Different scheme established from the solution of Eshelby's inclusion problem are recalled such as Mori-Tanaka scheme, dilute scheme and Voigt and Reuss bounds. Homogenization approach was applied to estimate the effective mechanical properties of tungsten fiber reinforced bulk metallic glass matrix composite. Predicted values were confronted with those obtained by experimental approach from literature. These comparisons show good agreement between the predicted and experimental values. The maximum deviations remain lower than 10.5% using Voigt bound. A parametric study shows that the mechanical properties depend strongly on the shape of inclusions.
Abstract: In this work, the electrospinning technique was used to obtain fibers for mechanical characterization. polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) was combined with organic solvents (ethanol and dimethylformamide (DMF)) to generate solutions, looking for the appropriate parameters to obtain fibers with the best morphology and the best mechanical properties. Starting from previous investigations to find the adequate percentages of solvent and PVP, several solutions were made, varying the different parameters like voltage, flow, tip collector distance. Seeking to obtain acceptable samples, the diameter was measured in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The elastic modulus was measured for the fibers with the best aspect. Mechanical properties were measured in an atomic force microscope (AFM) with the Hertz contact method and the data were approximated to its mathematical model. The solutions that resulted in the best morphological properties were: ethanol - 8% PVP, DMF – 14% PVP, 70% ethanol - 30% DMF - 8% PVP, with diameters in the micrometer range of 1.6, 1.22 and 1.35 respectively, and elastic modulus of 40.08 MPa, 8.8 MPa and 32.78 MPa correspondingly. An analysis of all the parameters influencing the process was performed and an analysis of the influence of the solvents, based on the data of the elastic moduli was carried out.


Flying into Cancun, Mexico, we had already decided to give Cancun itself a miss – millions of Americans + millions of resorts = hell – so we caught a bus straight down to Playa del Carmen and found a bed for the night. Playa is a pretty cool place, it's still touristy and still has way too many Americans, but the beaches are beautiful, the beers are cheap, and the place is mega chilled.
After a few day of doing not much of anything, we headed down to Tulum, a wee town 1 hour south of Playa, which is famous for it's beaches and it's ruins. We lucked out here and found a cute new hotel, who's owners decided to upgrade us from a room to a suite for no extra cost, yay! So for a couple of days we had a pretty room, a tv, a hot shower and a little courtyard with a hammock. Bliss.
From Tulum we caught a bus down to Chetumal (border of Mexico) and hung around for few hours until we could catch a boat to Belize and the island of Caye Caulker (aka our new favourite place in the world)! We arrived at Caye Caulker as it got dark, so after finding a room, we went out for food and, of course, rum. We met heaps of people straight away and ended up having a pretty crazy night, running around the various bars and clubs (of which, there aren't many!) until around 3 am. The next day, we went off exploring and attempted to walk around the whole island. The island is pretty small, but bigger than we thought, so with the heat of the early afternoon sun, we gave up and stopped for food and beers!
The best spot on the island was a little open air bar called Lazy Lizard. It was next to a little beach with a boardwalk out in to the ocean. Very chilled, and if you like fish, you can snorkel in "the split" (where the island was divided into 2 by a previous hurricane) or drink your beers at a table out in the water. Not for me, I sunbathed on the beach instead. Jas went for a half day snorkelling trip on the 3rd day, sounded fairly terrifying to me – he saw (& was touched by) reef sharks and stingrays. Eeeeek! But he seemed to like it.
We would have loved to stay at Caye Caulker for another couple of weeks and have Christmas there, but we just couldn't afford it, so we headed for a cheaper country – Guatemala.


More Doctor Who Mr Men mash-ups!
Thanks to the Radio Times for details of the next wave of Mr Men meets Doctor Who. I've resisted getting these (so far!) but they do look great! Details here: The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack face the Autons in one of four new Doctor Who-Mr Men mash-up books.


From @BalancingMama: Summer fun should also be safe! Safety tips and facts moms need to know.
Do not allow children to ride near roads or in parking lots.
No child should ride alone - the American Academy of Pediatrics says no child under age 8 should be alone, but honestly? These days I believe that should be even older. Make sure even your pre-teens ride where you can still see them from a distance.
Never allow children into water without close adult supervision.
Understand what drowning really looks like; a child that is unmoving and quiet in the water could be drowning. Per the CDC, about one in five people who die from drowning are age 14 or younger and within that age group, drowning is second only to auto crashes for unintentional injury-related fatalities.
Diving into shallow water is also an extreme hazard and a leading cause of spinal cord injury including paraplegia and quadriplegia. Do not allow children to dive anywhere where signs prohibit such action. "No Diving" is there for a reason.
Also be vigilant and follow all slip-n-slide and waterslide rules. Never allow children (or adults) to enter water head-first. Hitting any surface at the wrong angle can also cause severe spinal cord injury.
Obviously, children should never light fireworks and adults should always use caution.
Spectators should keep a safe distance.
Did you know that sparklers are one of the leading causes of fireworks injury simply because they are taken for granted? Sparklers burn at temperatures around (and over) 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Make sure children understand the danger and use sparklers properly. Do not light more than one sparkler at a time, and do not lay spent sparklers down on dry grass or flammable materials - putting them in sand or water is best.
Have lots of family fun this season - but stay safe! A visit to the ER will ruin even the best vacation day.


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Q: Servlet on servicemix v5.3.2 Faced with a problem during migration from SM v5.1.4 to v5.3.2.
The code below works perfectly on v5.1.4. The servlet is registred with a key "CamelServlet" in the HttpRegistry and it has a single provider which is CamelHttpTransportServlet and a single consumer Consumer[servlet:///?matchOnUriPrefix=true].
On the version 5.3.2 for some reason there are two HttpRegistries are registred. The first one again with a key "CamelServlet" and this registry has a consumer Consumer[servlet:///?matchOnUriPrefix=true] which is fine, but the provider is registered for a different instance of HttpRegistry  with a key org.ops4j.pax.web.service.spi.model.ServletModel-XXX (where XXX is a generated integer).  So now I have two HttpRegistries, one has providers, another one consumers. With this the "mainRoute" is never called because consumers are registered not for the CamelServlet but for some another HttpRegistry. So when a request comes, the code in the service method of the CamelServlet.class which is marked with {1} will return null for a consumer and no route will be called.
Does anyone has an idea what is wrong and how I can fix that? Thank you
CamelServlet
package org.apache.camel.component.http;

public class CamelServlet extends HttpServlet {
.........................

    @Override
    protected void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
        log.trace("Service: {}", request);

        // Is there a consumer registered for the request.
        HttpConsumer consumer = resolve(request); //{1} resolve a consumer
        if (consumer == null) {
            log.debug("No consumer to service request {}", request);
            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
            return;
        }
    }

....................

}

Camel context
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
                       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd

                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi-compendium/spring-osgi-compendium.xsd
                       http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd
                       http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd"
    >

<!--camel servlet-->
<bean id="camelServlet" class="org.apache.camel.component.servlet.CamelHttpTransportServlet"/>

<osgi:service ref="camelServlet">
    <osgi:interfaces>
        <value>javax.servlet.Servlet</value>
        <value>org.apache.camel.component.http.CamelServlet</value>
    </osgi:interfaces>
    <osgi:service-properties>
        <entry key="alias" value="/test" />
        <entry key="matchOnUriPrefix" value="true" />
        <entry key="servlet-name" value="CamelServlet"/>
    </osgi:service-properties>
</osgi:service>

<camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring" streamCache="true" trace="false">

    <route id="mainRoute">
        <from uri="servlet:///?matchOnUriPrefix=true"/>
        <log message="Process mainRoute"/>
    </route>

</camelContext>

A: Found it. With the servicemix v5.3.2 a PAX wrapper is used and the problem was inside org.ops4j.pax.web.extender.whiteboard.internal.tracker.ServletTracker in the createWebElement method.
With the Servicemix v5.1.4 all service-properties other than standard ones were added as initial parameters for a servlet. SM v 3.5.2 by default simply ignores all service-properties which name does not start with "init." prefix (defined in org.ops4j.pax.web.extender.whiteboard.ExtenderConstants.DEFAULT_INIT_PREFIX_PROP). So that leaded to the fact that servlet-name property was ignored and in this case an id of an ServletModel object was used which happens to be in the org.ops4j.pax.web.service.spi.model.ServletModel-XXX format. Simple solution for me was to add an 'init.' prefix to the property so the spring conext looked like the following
...........
<osgi:service ref="camelServlet">
    <osgi:interfaces>
        <value>javax.servlet.Servlet</value>
        <value>org.apache.camel.component.http.CamelServlet</value>
    </osgi:interfaces>
    <osgi:service-properties>
        <entry key="alias" value="/test" />
        <entry key="matchOnUriPrefix" value="true" />
        <entry key="init.servlet-name" value="CamelServlet"/>
    </osgi:service-properties>
</osgi:service>
...........

Did not find a description of this new feature in the documentation, so possibly there is a way to override this behavior in a config, but I have not looked for that.
Hope that may save time for somebody who ran into the same issue.


The tourism and travel industry represents, worldwide, the most dynamic sector of activity and, at the same time, the most important job generator, as well as a source of recovering the national economies. Tourism is a complex activity because it generates the circulation of massive sums of money, thus contributing to the development of various economic activities which are favourable to the environment protection and to the globalization process emphasis. Tourism itself cannot be considered as a "positive" or "negative" action, but its very diverse consequences can be evaluated in this manner. In the process of sustainable development of tourism, it is necessary that an increased attention be paid to the quality of the touristic products, which should simultaneously offer "the taste of perfection" and "the perfection of taste".