While American Motors and Studebaker were quick to recognize the trend to smaller cars, GM, Ford and Chrysler were asleep at the wheel. When they finally woke up from their long winter's nap, Chrysler and Ford decided to target Rambler and Studebaker's Lark.
General Motors decided to go head to head with With Wolfsburg. By 1959, West Germany's Volkswagen had climbed be the third best-selling automobile in Canada. GM coveted Volkswagen's market share. The behemoth would battle the Beetle.
Edward N. Cole had been general manager of Chevrolet since 1956. Cole was a personal friend of Heinz Nordoff, who had worked at GM for a decade before returning to Europe, as Volkswagen's chief. Cole visited his good friend in Wolfsburg and carefully studied the Beetle.
Since Chevrolet's compact was still on the drawing board, something needed to be done immediately. Already, one out of every four automobiles sold throughout the Dominion was imported from Europe. For a quick fix in this burgeoning market segment, GM Canada relied on Vauxhall and the badge-engineered, Canada-only Envoy.
was personally chosen by Cole—a compilation of Chev's two most recognizable and most popular models, Corvette and Bel Air—Corvair. The name already belonged to the corporation's name bin—it had first appeared on a dream Corvette that dazzled 1.9 million North Americans during the 1954 GM Motorama.
Every aspect of GM's pint-sized warrior would be unique. Designers would give their import fighter a stylish, modern look and engineers would make sure it was technically sophisticated. For secrecy, prototypes were code-named Holden Special, Holden being GM Holden of Australia.
Under the guidance of engineer Kai Hansen, the aircraft-inspired, rear-mounted and air-cooled engine set the entire auto industry on its ear. Six pistons were laid out flat, rather than being horizontally opposed. Rated at 2.3 litres (140 cubic inches), 59.6 kiloWatts (80 horsepower) or 67.1 kiloWatts (95 horsepower), it featured a two-piece crankcase, individually cast iron cylinder barrels, with finned aluminum heads.
Now, General Motors was no stranger to the rear-mounted, air-cooled engine layout. The corporation had created the M-42 Duster tank for the US government. A total of 3,700 machines built between 1952 and 1960. Rugged and reliable, they served in the Korean Conflict and the Viet Nam War.
Corvair received Quadra-Flex independent coil suspension on all four wheels. Power steering was not needed as the front end was much lighter than most. Cole rejected the idea of equipping the cars with manual transmission but it was forced on him by superiors. Cars equipped with the two-speed PowerGlide automatic transmission, featured a dash-mounted gear selector.
William 'Billy' Mitchell put the designers through their paces, too. With 4 572 millimetres (180 inches) in overall length and a 2 743 millimetre (108-inch) wheelbase, there was nothing in the field that remotely resembled the Corvair. Body by Fisher was monocoque construction—dubbed Monostrut. The nose was kissed with a concave panel dressed up with the Chevrolet emblem affixed to the centre, a no-nonsense bumper, quad headlights and a splash of brightwork.
From the side, the windshield canted smartly. The roof ended at the wraparound rear window. A strip of brightwork was applied just beneath the beltline. A subtle convex panel, with the right amount of faring at both ends, accentuated the daringly streamlined look.
The rear deck was noticeably longer than in many other cars. The engine cover rolled gently into the brightwork strip that nearly wrapped the shell. A pair of windsplits were impressed into the space between the rear window and the hood. Two louvered panels were for air intake. The nameplate was spelled out at the trailing edge of the deck. Round taillights projected from the reverse-canted body panel. The license plate was rear and centre. Below the bumper was the engine exhaust panel. Resurrecting the ghost of Nashes past, auto press pundits dubbed the styling as 'bathtub' in look.
What was good for the goose was good for the gander. GM explored the possibility of marketing its smallest bowtie to Europeans. Corvair was sent to auto shows in Britain and continental Europe. There was little interest, however, on the part of prospective purchasers.
Advertising teased the public for months in advance. Corvair was marketed as 'revolutionary'. It was the car "With the engine in the rear where it belongs in a compact car." All publicity was discreetly aimed at Volkswagen, without ever naming the competition. When launched, Corvair joined the battle line with eight other compacts built in Windsor, Oakville and Hamilton.
Production got off to a slow start. A steel workers' strike in the US triggered parts shortages in the new $10-million Oshawa plant. Records show that a single Corvair finally scooted out the doors in November. There was nowhere to go but up; December's total was 176 units and rose to 921 in January.
Competitively priced with other domestic compacts, Corvair ranged from $2,145 for the 500 two-door Coupe to $2,275 for the four-door sedan in the 700 series. In response, VW's base price was slashed by $205. For an extra $145 one could buy a Beetle with a sunroof. Wolfsburg's most expensive ride was the $2,345 the Cabriolet.
Corvair's 1960 model year ended in May, with 3,261 being built. Most popular was the 500 sedan, which found 1,172 buyers. The 700 sedan took a close second—only seven units behind the 500. A total of 362 of the 500 Coupes were built and the final number of 700 Coupes was 562 units.
Results were disappointing. Lowest on the ladder of domestically-built compacts, Corvair took 10.6% of the market. Ford Falcon and its Frontenac cousin reigned as the compact kings, garnering 57%; Studebaker's Lark was second with 16.8% and Valiant snagged 16.4%.
Canadians could fill The Forum full of new small car offerings but no dent had been made in Volkswagen purchases. Customers had been brand loyal since 1952. VW added heaps of conquest sales every year. With sales circling the 30,000 mark, Volkswagen nailed the Number Three spot behind Chevrolet (full-sized) and Pontiac.
Chev-Olds dealers quickly discovered Corvair to be a tough sell. The cold, hard fact was that Corvair was not perceived as an economy car. Those who did buy weren't looking for a niche vehicle. To beef up the line, a pair of Lakewood wagons was added for 1961. The cargo bay held 1.9 cubic metres (68 cubic feet) of room and a snappy, better dressed Monza appeared in coupe and convertible variants.
Still, more needed to be done. The dealer body demanded GM create more conventional compact offerings to compete with Rambler and Studebaker's Lark. Management saw the wisdom in this.
Workers in Oshawa rolled out 1,530 upscale Monza coupes and 612 Monza sedans. The 700 sedan still led the popularity pack with 2,213 units hitting the nation's highways and byways. Least popular was the 700 Lakewood. Only 547 of the pint-sized wagons were shipped. At the end of the 1961 season, Corvair production reached 6,981 units.
When Corvair arrived on showroom floors for 1962, it was accompanied by more traditional small car kin. Chev-Olds dealers were given the Chevy II and Pontiac-Buick dealers received the homegrown Acadian. Just to be safe, the Pontiac Tempest, the Oldsmobile F-88 and the Buick Special were imported from the US. These cost between $200 and $500 more than Chevy II and Acadian—and found few buyers.
For 1962, the bare-bones 500 line was pared to a single model—the coupe. Workers built 903 of them. The 700 series racked up 758 coupes, 1,656 sedans and most rare, a total of 68 Lakewood wagons.
The manual transmission that was unwanted in 1960 would give the Corvair a new lease on life. A four-speed gearbox, mated to a sweet super-charged engine, was included in the sporty Spyder package. Suddenly, the Corvair was the working class Porsche.
The Monza family grew, with the addition of a natty station wagon, of which 205 were shipped from Oshawa. The leader of the Corvair pack was the coupe with 2,772 builds, followed by 1,020 sedans.
At the end of the 1962 selling season, Ford's Falcon and Rambler took the number one and two spots in the small-car field with 18, 215 and 17,343 built. Chevy II chalked up 15,876 units built, Acadian production was 13,010. Corvair ranked dead last in the compact segment—after the Studebaker Lark— with only 6,574 cars built.
Virtually unchanged in appearance, the 1963 Corvair lineup included the 500 coupe, listing at $2,343—of which 843 were built, and 665 coupes along with 1,059 of the 700 series sedans headed to St. John's and Victoria and points between. Monza was the biggest winner with 2,821 coupes, 799 sedans—and in the nick of time—693 convertibles. The sassy ragtops could be snapped up for $2,694 f.o.b. Oshawa.
The 700 series lost its Lakewood wagon as did the Monza. Killed by friendly fire, the Acadian and Chevy II laid waste to the Corvair wagon market.
When it was time to tally the 1963 production stats, 6,880 Corvairs had been built. The optional Spyder package for the coupe and convertible continued to be of interest with 693 and 793 built, respectively. Total production climbed to 6,800 units.
When Corvair appeared for 1964, it was the fifth year of the same body shell. What new and exciting five years ago, was now old hat with the public. The face wore a more prominent faux lightbar. The bowtie was featured in a triangular emblem, hung from the -pseudo lightbar. Corvair was spelled out in block letters at the leading edge of the trunk.
Technical changes included finned brakes and reworked leaf springs. The rear suspension revamped. Taillights were tweaked. Interiors were refined. The instrument panel was slathered in brightwork. the glove box wore a new nameplate and Monza models sported European inspired map pockets.
Now Corvair offered seven models spread over four series. The previous Spyder option was now the full-fledged Monza Spyder. Engine displacement was increased to 2.7 litres (164 cubic inches), whipping up 70.8 kiloWatts (95 horses) in the base mill. Transverse rear leaf springs gave a better road grip. Rear brakes were now finned.
There were subtle differences in the exterior. The chrome bar that ran across the snout grew thicker. Corvair—in bold block lettering—adorned the hood and deck.
The Monza Spyder two-door sedan sold for $3,080 and the convertible for $3,560. A trio of snappy Monzas were next; the Club Coupe sold for $2,703; the four-door sedan cost $2,767 and the ragtop pegged at $3,183. The lone offering in the 700 series was the four-door sedan with a price tag of $2,508 and the modest 500 Club Coupe, listed at $2,364 with its weight of 1 110 kilos (2,449 pounds).
1,050 of the 500 Coupes were built. The 700 Coupe was deleted but 1,022 of the sedans left the factory. Monza took the lion's share of production in Oshawa, with 3,190 coupes, 892 sedans and 559 ragtops.
When reporting for 1964, Corvair production rose to 7,369 units, its best ever. Volkswagen dropped to fifth place in calendar year registrations, behind Valiant and Rambler.
When the plant shut down for model changeover, there would be an all-new Corvair to roll out the doors.
Monza Spyder cvt $3,560 2,664 lbs.


*NEW CONSTRUCTION* Come take a look at this beautiful new home on a 1 acre lot in Apple Valley. 4Bedroom, 2 Bath, 3 Car oversized garage. This home sits on 1 acre of land close to shopping. Open concept kitchen, dining, living area. With a large kitchen island that can accommodate up to six bar stools. R.V parking and tons of room for those extra toys or that pool that you have always wanted. Come take a look, it wont last long.
I am interested in 15165 Cheyenne Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307.


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It is obviously very dooable in php when the files are in the same folder structure as the php file that is doing the processing but I have not found a solution to the edit files on usb drive.
Basically I will have a usb key full of pictures that I will need to sort into different folders via my php application.

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Dwarf bougainvillea provides glorious color to your landscape without the rampant growth of full size varieties.
The most well-known dwarf variety is Helen Johnson bougainvillea.
This is a versatile and hardy shrub you can keep trimmed to 3 feet.
The blossoms are bright pink with a hint of purple, and newly opening flower bracts have a slight pink-orange tone.
A newer cultivar that stays smaller and more compact is Sunvillea. Flower colors are pink - a soft salmon-pink, rose - a dark pink bordering on purple, and white - with a touch of creamy yellow.
These shrubs are small enough to work as front-of-the-border plants.
Dwarf bougainvilleas have thorns but because they're smaller overall than full-size varieties, they won't tear you to bits.
Sunvilleas (like the Pixie variety, covered under the 4-6' Shrubs section) have dense foliage that covers up the thorns on their stems.
Bougainvilleas bloom on and off all year - even in winter.
The flower of any bougainvillea plant is actually the tiny white blossom...the colorful parts are the flower bracts that encircle the little white blooms.
The size of a dwarf bougainvillea depends on the variety.
Helen Johnson is best kept trimmed to about 3 feet, while the miniature Sunvillea (left and below) can be kept a bit smaller.
Bougainvilleas are moderately salt-tolerant, fast growers that need full sun to flower heavily.
They're cold tolerant and do well anywhere in South Florida.
Add a mixture of composted cow manure and top soil or organic peat moss to the hole when you plant.
Dwarf bougainvillea care requires occasional trimming to shape, especially the Helen Johnson variety which can grow somewhat leggy. After each bloom cycle, cut each stem back at least several inches past the bloom area.
Sunvillea is more dense and mounded, needing less trimming.
Fertilize after each bloom cycle with a top-quality granular fertilizer high in phosphorus to promote flowering. You can supplement feedings with bone meal and/or liquid fertilizer as well.
These shrubs are drought-tolerant but do best with regular waterings timed to let them dry out in between.
Plant Helen Johnson 2-1/2 to 3 feet apart.
Because this variety can grow longer branches, place it far enough away from foot traffic and play areas so thorns aren't a problem.
Sunvilleas can go as close as 1-1/2 to 2 feet apart.
Dwarf bougainvillea, especially Sunvillea varieties, make excellent container plants.
COMPANION PLANT SUGGESTIONS: Plant with other sun-lovers that like it on the dry side, including crown of thorns, dwarf clusia, clusia guttifera, Knock Out rose, juniper, podocarpus, and carissa.


Once again, the event brought together data providers from administration departments, archives and libraries with programmers and data specialists.
The third Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon (external link) was held at the University of Lausanne from 14 to 16 September. The goal was to show how publicly accessible data can be used in an innovative way for research purposes, visualisations or web publications. A wealth of over 100 public datasets (external link) served as source material, including digitised image holdings, maps, recordings of theatre productions and extensive bibliographical data.
The project team formed on location "Jung - Rilke Correspondence Networks (external link)" used the hackathon to scrutinise the metadata on the letter holdings of Rainer Maria Rilke (Swiss Literary Archives) and Carl Gustav Jung (ETH Zurich University Archives). The goal was to gradually refine and enrich the data with a view to ultimately visualising it in different ways. For instance, the geocoding of the sender's location enabled the correspondence networks to be depicted on maps. The video of the project's final presentation (external link) provided insights into the project and the various visualisation possibilities.


My primary area of research examines factors which moderate psychosocial adaptation and treatment adherence in individuals with chronic medical conditions including diabetes, hypertension, chronic pain and obesity. Much of my research has focused on stressful life events and their impact on disease and health behaviors such as diet, physical activity and medication adherence.
My contribution to the psychological literature has included the development of instruments for assessing what most people would label as minor daily annoyances (e.g., driving in heavy traffic, arguing with a co-worker) and the demonstration that these events are associated with poor health outcomes and increases in high risk health behaviors.
I am currently funded by two NIH grants. One of the grants, on which I am Co-Principal Investigator, involves translational research, i.e., adapting methods shown to be effective for weight loss in clinical trials for use in general medical clinics. I am the Principal Investigator on the other grant which compares personal counseling techniques versus internet based interventions for maintaining dietary and exercise adherence in adults who have lost weight.
DR. BRANTLEY is conducting research on psychological aspects of physical illness. Current research involves studies to investigate psychological factors that may promote long-term adherence with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Students will be required to perform library work, data collection, and data coding and input. Specific duties vary with each research project. For further information, contact Dr. Brantley in the Behavioral Medicine Laboratory at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 763-2629.
Brantley, P.J., Waldo, K., Matthews-Ewald, M.R., Brock, R., Champagne, C.M., Church, T, Harris, M.N., McKnight, G.T., McKnight M., Myers, V.H., & Ryan, D.H. (2014) Why patients seek bariatric surgery: Does insurance coverage matter? Obesity Surgery.24(6), 961-964.
Brantley, P. J., Stewart, D. W., Myers, V. H., Matthews-Ewald, M. R., Ard, J., Coughlin, J., Jerome, G. J., Samuel-Hodge, C., Lien, L. F., Gullion, C. M., Hollis, J. F., Svetkey, L. P., & Stevens, V. J. (2014). Psychosocial predictors of weight regain in the Weight Loss Maintenance Trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 1155-1168.
Fitzpatrick, S.L., Bandeen-Roche, K., Stevens, V.J., Coughlin, J.W., Rubin, R.R., Brantley, P.J., Funk, K.L., Svetkey, L.P., Jerome, G.J., Dalcon, D., Charleston, J, & Appeal, L.J. (2014) Examining behavioral processes through which lifestyle interventions promote weight loss: Results from PREMIER. Obesity. 22 (4), 1002-1007.
Myers, V.H., McVay, M.A., Champagne, C.M., Hollis, J.F., Coughlin, J.W., Funk, K.L., Guillion, C.M., Jerome, G.J., Loria, C.M., Samuel-Hodge, C.D., Stevens, V.J., Svetkey, L.P., & Brantley, P.J. (2013) Weight loss history as a predictor of weight loss: results from Phase I of the weight loss maintenance trial. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 36 (6),574-582. PMID: 22907176.
Tyson, C.C., Appeal, L.J., Vollmer, W.M., Jerome, G.J, Brantley, P.J., Hollis, J.F., Stevens, V.J., Ard, J.D., Patel, U.D., & Svetkey, L.P. (2013) Impact of 5-year weight change on blood pressure: Results from the weight loss maintenance trial. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 15, (7), 458-464. PMID:23815533.
Myers, V.H., Adams, C.E., Barbera, B.L., & Brantley, P.J. (2012). Medical and psychosocial outcomes of laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: Cross-sectional findings at 4-year follow-up. Obesity Surgery,22, 230-239. PMID: 21136302.
Ryan, D. H, Johnson, W.D., Myers, V.H., Prather, T.L., McGlone, M.M., Rood, J., Brantley, P.J., Bray, G.A et al (2010). Non-Surgical weight loss for extreme obesity in primary care settings: Results of the Louisiana Obese Subjects Study. Archives of Internal Medicine,170(2): 146-154.
Pekmezi, D.W., Barbera, B.L., Bodenlos, J.S., Jones, G.N. & Brantley, P.J. (2009). Promoting physical activity in low income African Americans: Project LAPS. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 3 (2), 82-91.
Brantley, P. J., Bodenlos, J. S., Cowles, M., Whitehead, D., Ancona, M., & Jones, G. N. (2007). Development and validation of the Weekly Stress Inventory- Short Form. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 29 (1), 54-59.
Elmer, P.J., Obarzanek, E., Vollmer, W.M., Simons-Morton, D., Stevens, V. J. Young, D.R., Lin, P.H, Champagne, C. M., Harsha, D.W., Svetkey, L.P., Ard, J. Brantley, P.J., Proschan, M.P., Erlinger, T.P., & Appel, L.J. for the PREMIER Collaborative Research Group. (2006).Effects of comprehensive lifestyle modification on diet, weight, physical fitness, and blood pressure control: 18-month results of a randomized trial. Annals of Internal Medicine, 144 (7), 485-495.


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Q: Install web site in Ubuntu Server using Samba I've installed Ubuntu Server in VirtualBox running on Windows for someone to test a CMS. To make it easier managing the application, I decided to use Samba to access Apache's document root. What configuration do I need to make, and how do I access from Windows?
During installation I chose LAMP and Samba file server at the package selection step for this purpose.

A: Assuming your document root is in /var/www/foo you need to setup a smb.conf with a section like this:
[global]
workgroup = WKG
netbios name = barserver
[foo]
path = /var/www/foo

With this settings you should be able to access the webspace from a windows computer in the LAN using \\barserver\foo
The accessing computer should be within the workgroup WKG.


Would you like to study, work or volunteer abroad? Learn how to make it possible!
April 15, 2019 by Charlotte Gerstein in News | Comments Off on Would you like to study, work or volunteer abroad? Learn how to make it possible!
You will find resources on financial aid for study abroad, international job listings, information on teaching English abroad, volunteer opportunities, resources for learning about places to go and learning languages, and more.
The library is a partner helping with this event by providing a display of books on these topics.
April 2, 2019 by Charlotte Gerstein in News | Comments Off on April Fool's? April Facts!
And, did you know April 2 is International Fact-Checking Day? Don't take our word for it, check out the International Fact-Checking Network's page: International Fact-Checking Day or the Poynter Institute's newsletter post about it, with activities and fun facts 😉 . If you forgot to celebrate on April 2, don't worry, you can appreciate and seek facts every day! For fun and enlightenment, here's a fact-checking quiz you can take.


(New Orleans, LA / May 20, 2014) Monica A. Frois, shareholder in Baker Donelson's New Orleans office, has been named to the board of managers of the Hermann-Grima and Gallier Historic Houses.
Ms. Frois has more than 20 years of experience in health care matters as well as complex litigation, insurance issues, legal ethics and professional responsibility litigation. She represents health care systems, hospital service districts, hospitals, physicians, nursing homes and numerous other health care providers in operational, compliance, regulatory and transactional issues as well as a wide variety of litigation. Ms. Frois has served on the Medical/Legal Interprofessional Committee of the Louisiana State Medical Society and the Louisiana State Bar Association and was appointed vice chair of membership for the Medical Defense & Health Law Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel.
Since 2006, Ms. Frois has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and was named the Best Lawyers' 2012 New Orleans Medical Malpractice Law – Defendants "Lawyer of the Year." She has also been recognized by Louisiana Super Lawyers since 2010 and has been named to the publication's list of "Top 25 Female Attorneys" in the state of Louisiana since 2011. Ms. Frois currently serves on the board of directors of Save Our Cemeteries and of the NOLA City Dog Park.
The Hermann-Grima and Gallier Historic Houses are museums located in New Orleans' historic French Quarter. The museums are run by The Women's Exchange, which strives to make a difference in historic preservation by restoring and maintaining the 19th century houses and interpreting their contribution and place within the city.


G03335 - UNFPA Technical Briefing: Urbanization, gender and poverty - pubs.iied.org.
Cities concentrate poverty but, for many, they are the best hope of escaping it. Unfortunately, there is a tendency to plan against, rather than for, low-income urban residents. This does not exclude them from income-generating activities but makes it difficult for them to secure decent living conditions. In so doing, inadequate urban policies place a disproportionate burden on reproduction rather than on production activities, and on women rather than men. A gendered understanding of urbanization and urban poverty is not just about women. It highlights how urban disadvantage is not only income-related, but includes limited access to shelter and basic services.


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DQT was founded in 2004 with just a handful of ties. A potential gap in the market was seen for inexpensive, plain ties. After a steady start our range was expanded and the process repeated.
Things slowly started to develop and we realised that initial envision of creating a neckwear company to fill a much needed market gap was actually becoming a reality.
From the onset, our philosophy was to create inexpensive, but at the same time very high quality ties and with this, our name 'Discount Quality Ties' was created. With our rebranding in 2010, this became the acronym, DQT.
We developed our standard men's ties into numerous styles and later boy's products and accessories were added. These, all made from the same fabric ensured everything matched. Matching colours and styles was one of our main goals so as to provide a complete family no matter big or small with the same, amazing look.
In 2009 we experimented with the idea of waistcoats, also in the same matching fabric as our neckwear to try and access more of the wedding market that we had already penetrated. It proved a success and with that, we have developed many more wedding fabrics and continue to do so until this day.
In recent years our range has diversified beyond traditional neckwear and now incorporates a complete selection including top hats, braces, waistcoats, shirts and beyond.
In early 2013, we launched our drop shipping service giving small and medium sizes businesses within Europe the opportunity to sell DQT products without the need to invest into large amounts of stock. This has proved to be a success with both our partners and ourselves.
In mid 2013, shortly after our drop shipping launch, we began to offer wholesale accounts again to small and medium sizes businesses who wish to offer our products both in retail premises and online retail stores. Again, a success, it allows our specifically approved partners to purchase quantities of our products at a significant discount and reach out to an even broader area of the market.
2017 has been a very busy year for DQT. We expanded our warehouse because we were simply out of space with the quantity of stock and new designs we have developed over the years.
And we are not stopping there, our market research and development team are constantly exploring new options for our customers and trade partners. We have regular new collections released every 3-4 months to ensure we are offering you, our customers the freshest and most stylish designs all from one place. No matter how big the DQT brand becomes, we will continue to offer the exceptional quality and service our customers expect.
I was extremely pleased with the quality of the tie I ordered. I bought a royal blue tie for my boyfriend's birthday, he loved it and his colleagues' compliments even more. I never knew a tie could make his special day so complete. DQT, you are the best!
All orders have been delivered promptly, many thanks forsuch a brilliant service.
I was meant to head out to the shops looking for a cummerbund, however I found your firm online and decided to try you first. I will not now need to dash out this afternoon as the parcel was posted through my door 5mins ago. Superb!


Visit Great Dixter's website at www.greatdixter.co.uk.
Christopher Lloyd's book, "The Well-Tempered Garden," gives a lot of insight into Lloyd's views on gardening.
An excellent, multiple-part program about Christopher Lloyd and Great Dixter, entitled "Gardener Provocateur," can be viewed at youtube.com/watch?v=GByDqI8n_w4.
There is something very special about seeing a garden in person after decades of reading about it in books and magazines. Such was the case with my visit to Great Dixter last month.
I recently led a group to tour some of the finest gardens in England. Over the course of 11 days, we visited Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Hidcote, Kew Gardens and Waterperry Gardens, just to name a few. As much as I enjoyed all of the other gardens, it was Great Dixter that had an emotional impact on me. Maybe it was just the fact that I was finally standing in front of that iconic house and exuberant garden.
To clarify, Great Dixter is both a house and a garden. Located in Northiam, East Sussex, the house is actually a blend of three houses, with the original being a mid-15th-century timbered building. In 1910, a 16th-century house was moved to the site and, in 1912, additional construction finally married the two homes.
Many gardeners have heard of Great Dixter because of its most famous resident, Christopher Lloyd. His father purchased the house in 1910. Christopher was the youngest of six children. He and his mother, Daisy, both shared a lifelong passion for gardening.
Christopher Lloyd lived from 1921 to 2006 and spent the majority of his life at Great Dixter. He was well-known as a writer but was often considered to be very controversial, especially with his landscape design techniques that involved combinations of diverse colors in his flower beds.
After a private tour of the house, our tour group was turned loose to explore the gardens. They completely lived up to my expectations.
The gardens, which are concentrated around the house, include a sunken garden, walled garden, topiary lawn, long border, an exotic garden and a vegetable garden.
Wandering through all of these areas was an adventure because one never knew what would be around the corner or through an opening in the many clipped yew hedges. I almost wanted to run with abandon from one area to the next because I felt giddy about being at Great Dixter. Fortunately, my desire to savor every square inch led to a very memorable visit.
My tour group and I fell in love with the eye-popping red Ladybird poppies gracing many of the beds. Other fantastic flowers that I'm certain have been added to our future shopping lists include Purple Sensation alliums, bicolor lupines, dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis), hardy Jerusalem sage (Phlomis russeliana), single white tree peonies, and meadow rue (Thalictrum).
In addition to a wonderful shop for purchasing garden-related items to bring back home, there was also a nursery filled with a mix of familiar plants and many plant cultivars I'd never seen before. Each of us is to be commended for resisting the temptation of trying to sneak plants back home – something the U.S. Customs officers would most definitely frown upon.
All in all, our visit to Great Dixter brought the garden alive for those of us who had only heard of it before. It is a must-see garden for any English gardens tour itinerary.
Susan Mulvihill is co-author, with Pat Munts, of "Northwest Gardener's Handbook." Contact her at Susan@susansinthegarden.com. Watch this week's "Everyone Can Grow A Garden" video youtube.com/c/susansinthegarden.
Published: June 23, 2018, 1 p.m.


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While there are a handful of public universities and colleges in Pennsylvania, the majority of the higher education institutions are private. The private universities can be broken down into the following categories: private colleges and technical schools, private Bible colleges, private four-year universities and colleges, private specialty schools and private doctoral schools. While there are an ample amount of private universities and colleges in Pennsylvania, that doesn't mean that students who wish to pursue a public higher education route don't have any opportunities. The Commonwealth System of Higher Education manages the four main publicly-funded institutions in the state, which also has 28 affiliate campuses and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education oversees 14 master's level universities.
The University of Pennsylvania, which is known most often as Penn, is one of the most prestigious private universities in the state. It is a member of the Ivy League, and is a private research school. Penn is located in Philadelphia, and was founded in 1740. It has the distinction of being a member of the Colonial Colleges - the higher education institutions that were founded before the American Revolution. In addition to being one of the oldest universities in the country, Penn is also known for being the first university to have both baccalaureate and graduate level programs offered in one location. The school as founded by Benjamin Franklin, and it also made its place in the history books for having the first medical school in the country as well as the first collegiate business school. It is one of the most exclusive schools in the country, and its most well-known academic programs include the dental school, law school, medical school, nursing school and communications school.
The most well-known public university in Pennsylvania is Pennsylvania State University, which is known affectionately as Penn State. The main Penn State campus is located in University Park, Pennsylvania, but there are 19 additional extension campuses and five specialty campuses throughout the state. Founded in 1855, Penn State is both a land-grant and a space-grant institution. Some of the most prominent academic programs at Penn State are the business programs and medical programs that are available. Some famous alumni who graduated from Penn State include Herman Fisher, who was the co-founder of the Fisher Price corporation and Richard T. James, who invented the popular children's toy, the Slinky. The school also has produced many professional athletes.
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What the Next God of War's Setting Could be
What's next for Kratos after the Norse saga's conclusion? Many suspect Ancient Egypt as his next destination, but possibilities abound.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 02nd, Jan. 2023
God of War Ragnarok launched on November 9th for PS4 and PS5 and sold a whopping 5.1 million units in five days. But according to PlayStation Trophy data, only 49.5 percent of players have completed the main story till now. Roughly 28.47 percent of players have unlocked the Platinum Trophy and done everything, more or less. There's plenty that most players won't know about without seeing everything the game offers, and there is a lot to see.
Whether you've played the game or not, the question is where the story goes from here. Where will Kratos go next? What could serve as the next game's setting? Which deities will he run afoul of? Before discussing that, it's important to note the aftermath of Ragnarok. Major spoilers follow for the ending, so beware.
After defeating Odin, an out-of-control Surtr – who becomes Ragnarok with the help of Kratos and his Blades of Chaos – destroys Asgard. Kratos, Atreus, Freya, Angrboda, Fenrir and Mimir flee while Freyr stays behind, seemingly sacrificing himself to give the group a chance to escape. Afterwards, Atreus and Kratos are shown a mural which Faye destroyed, thus allowing them to create their own fate. Upon further investigation, Kratos discovers a mural depicting him as a peaceful god, which some speculate heralds his ascension as the new All-Father of the Nine Realms.
Atreus and Angrboda embark on a journey to find the other Giants (after their spirits were transferred to spirit stones to prevent total annihilation at the hands of Odin and Thor). The surviving Aesir relocate to Vanaheim and are at peace with the Vanir. Afterwards, Kratos, Freya and Mimir venture through the Realms to bring peace. There are a fair number of threats, from dragons and the Berserkers to Gna, the Valkyrie Queen who seeks vengeance.
It's also worth noting that Tyr, the Norse god of war that stuck with Kratos and company throughout the story, wasn't really Tyr. Instead, it was Odin in disguise, and he kills Brok before escaping, leading to Sindri abandoning the group. He does help out in the final battle against Asgard, using a Sonic device to destroy its walls. Other than that, his whereabouts are unknown.
Thankfully, the real Tyr is still out there, and Kratos and Freya manage to free him from his prison in Niflheim. He knows about Kratos but is content to wander Niflheim and the other Realms.
With all this in mind, one would think that Kratos and company would settle down peacefully. The threats to the Nine Realms have been dealt with, after all. The developer also noted many times that this is the end of the Norse saga. However, some other settings and pantheons could potentially become involved down the line.
Before traveling to Midgard, Kratos went to Ancient Egypt after the events of God of War 3. As revealed in Dark Horse Comics God of War: Fallen God, Kratos attempts to rid himself of the Blades of Chaos fail, but the weapon finds its way back to him every time.
Throughout his travels, he also meets a man that recognizes him as the Greek god of war and speaks of destiny. This person would appear in various forms, telling Kratos that he can't escape destiny. It notes that destiny is the "destination you reach, no matter what direction you travel. At your journey's end, you find that you are exactly where you belong." After this, Kratos stops running from his "destiny" and ventures to Midgard, taking the Blades of Chaos with him.
All said and done, it's a pretty terrible comic book series that does little more than establish that Kratos is alive and still has the Blades of Chaos. However, some theorize that the mysterious entity is an Egyptian deity. Why would they constantly hound him, reminding Kratos of destiny? There are many potential reasons.
The first is that this entity could be Thoth, the Egyptian god of the moon. He was also the god of reckoning, the creator of all languages, and, most importantly, an adviser of the gods, representing the Sun God Ra. He's depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or baboon, two forms the comic's mysterious entity used to appear in front of Kratos. Not only does he lead the Ogdoad, a pantheon of primordial deities, but also arbitrates disputes between the gods. He appears in many tales as a counselor and was even equated to Hermes by the Greeks.
It's more than likely that Thoth knew everything about Kratos, from his past to the imminent future. He knew that Kratos was a threat following the destruction of the Greek pantheon and steered him towards the Norse gods instead. While this may have been to protect Egypt from the godslayer's next rampage, there may have been a bigger game at play.
It's possible that Thoth knew of Ragnarok and foresaw a result that would end with Odin's demise and a marginally happier ending for all involved, one that saw Kratos as the new All-Father. Based on what we know about the real-world myths of Thoth, it's unlikely that he's manipulating Kratos. Instead, he likely knows his role in the grand design and is simply playing it whenever required.
What could the potential grand design be? It could be gods from other pantheons that come after Kratos, potentially attacking Midgard after they hear of Odin's fate. After all, he's already rewritten history in several different ways. Fimbulwinter occurred far sooner due to Baldur's death. Surtr and Sinmara were both destined to become Ragnarok, but thanks to Kratos, it was only the former, with the latter still alive and grieving in Niflheim. Perhaps the other deities are becoming antsy that Kratos could rewrite their status quo if left unchecked.
This opens up the opportunity for Kratos to visit various other settings in addition to Egypt, like Japan, China, the Maya Region, and much more. Perhaps he could battle against Guan Yu, China's god of war, or run afoul of Hachiman, a Shinto deity and god of war for Japan. There are all manner of possibilities that would further expand on the scope that the previous games have established.
How established characters like Atreus, Angrboda, Tyr, Mimir and Freya would factor in remains to be seen. It wouldn't be strange for Kratos and his son to cross paths again, with the latter being older. Perhaps if Kratos were to fight against Raijin and Fuujin, Thrud could arrive with Mjolnir to back him up as the new Norse god of thunder. The possibilities are endless.
It's anyone's guess what the overarching story would be for the next God of War, especially with the Norse saga over and done. Who knows? All this may have been foreseen by Thoth. Perhaps the other major deities like Amaterasu Omikami or Ra are also aware, and simply playing this giant cosmic Game of Thrones, waiting to see where the chips may fall. Kratos could rewrite more major mythological events. Everything could end with his demise, or his legacy could carry on, perhaps with Atreus in a starring role.
A new God of War will happen at some point, whether it's with or without Kratos in a starring role. Whatever the case, with how critically and commercially acclaimed God of War Ragnarok has been, fans aren't tired of its brand of story-telling and action.
Note: The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, GamingBolt as an organization.
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Trina Solar Limited è un'azienda cinese con sede nella provincia di Jiangsu - con succursali negli Stati Uniti, Europa e Asia - quotata al NYSE e presso il PPVX (Photon Photovoltaic Stock Index).

Fondata nel 1997 da Jifan Gao, l'azienda progetta e produce lingotti, wafer, celle solari e pannelli solari. Trina Solar si è ripetutamente posizionata nella classifica Fortune delle 100 aziende a più rapida crescita (nel 2011 aveva guadagnato l'11ª posizione)..

Trina Solar ha sviluppato una produzione verticalmente integrata che va dalla produzione di lingotti, wafer e celle al montaggio di moduli di alta qualità. Al 2014 l'azienda risultava avaere venduto moduli solari per un totale di 11 GW, di cui 3,66 GW nel solo anno fiscale 2014, il che ha permesso a Trina Solar di diventare il maggiore fornitore di moduli fotovoltaici al mondo – come annunciato da IHS.

Nel 2022 l'azienda ha sviluppato i nuovi pannelli fotovoltaici Vertex S+, gamma realizzata con celle N-Type che permettono al modulo di raggiungere una potenza massima di 425 W e un'efficienza di conversione del 21,9%.

Protezione ambientale
Nel 2010 l'azienda è diventata membro di PV Cycle e offre gratuitamente il servizio di raccolta e riciclo dei moduli giunti alla fine del loro ciclo di vita, adempiendo la Direttiva WEE europea Negli anni 2012, 2013 e 2014 l'azienda si è posizionata al primo posto nella classifica "Solar Scorecard" istituita dalla Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC).

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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber wins 2011 Volvo prize
September 12, 2011 Garry Peterson	Leave a comment
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber has won this year's Volvo environmental prize for his contributions to earth system science and policy. Resilience science has mentioned his work previously, especially his work on tipping points in the earth system.
The prize committee writes:
One of the most exciting, relevant and rapidly growing areas of environmental research is Earth System science. Over the past decade or two, the realisations that the Earth behaves as a single, integrative system and that human activities are now influencing the functioning of this system have revolutionised the framing of environmental problems at the global scale. No longer can human development proceed without consideration of impacts on our own global life support system.
…His outstanding contributions to "Earth System science for sustainability" at the national and international level have solidified Schellnhuber's position as a world leader in the field. He is a member of the board of the prestigious Dahlem Conferences, which have made major contributions to the Earth System science – sustainability link. Beyond this higher level role, he has also been on the organising committee himself for key Dahlem Conferences. A good example is the 2003 conference on "Earth System Analysis in the Anthropocene", which contributed important insights into the concept of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in Earth history, and its connection to the growing sustainability agenda.
…Finally, Schellnhuber has forged exceptionally powerful and effective links between science and policy at the highest levels around the world. The best example of this is his initiation of a series of Nobel Laureate Symposia, which gather Laureates from physics, chemistry, medicine, economics and literature to explore the environmental challenges that humanity faces in the 21st century. The third in this series, held in Stockholm in 2011, produced a set of recommendations for action that was delivered directly to the UN Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Global Sustainability.
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Regime Shifts
The Anthropocene: spread of an idea
May 27, 2011 Garry Peterson	Leave a comment
The Anthropocene, the idea that the entire planet has become a social-ecological system, is now being discussed in the mass media. Three recent sightings…
1) The Economist has a feature story A man-made world: Science is recognising humans as a geological force to be reckoned with. The author writes:
To think of deliberately interfering in the Earth system will undoubtedly be alarming to some. But so will an Anthropocene deprived of such deliberation. A way to try and split the difference has been propounded by a group of Earth-system scientists inspired by (and including) Dr Crutzen under the banner of "planetary boundaries". The planetary-boundaries group, which published a sort of manifesto in 2009, argues for increased restraint and, where necessary, direct intervention aimed at bringing all sorts of things in the Earth system, from the alkalinity of the oceans to the rate of phosphate run-off from the land, close to the conditions pertaining in the Holocene. Carbon-dioxide levels, the researchers recommend, should be brought back from whatever they peak at to a level a little higher than the Holocene's and a little lower than today's.
The Earth's history shows that the planet can indeed tip from one state to another, amplifying the sometimes modest changes which trigger the transition. The nightmare would be a flip to some permanently altered state much further from the Holocene than things are today: a hotter world with much less productive oceans, for example. Such things cannot be ruled out. On the other hand, the invocation of poorly defined tipping points is a well worn rhetorical trick for stirring the fears of people unperturbed by current, relatively modest, changes.
In general, the goal of staying at or returning close to Holocene conditions seems judicious. It remains to be seen if it is practical. The Holocene never supported a civilisation of 10 billion reasonably rich people, as the Anthropocene must seek to do, and there is no proof that such a population can fit into a planetary pot so circumscribed. So it may be that a "good Anthropocene", stable and productive for humans and other species they rely on, is one in which some aspects of the Earth system's behaviour are lastingly changed. For example, the Holocene would, without human intervention, have eventually come to an end in a new ice age. Keeping the Anthropocene free of ice ages will probably strike most people as a good idea.
2) The New York Times has a discussion between a number of thinkers on the Anthropocene – The Age of Anthropocene: Should We Worry? The discussants include Jon Foley, Erle Ellis, Ruth DeFreis, and Brad Allenby.
3) There are also shorter articles in the BBC and Discovery News.
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Feedback Analysis Job at PIK
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is looking to fill a research position within the Marie Curie Network GREENCYCLES-II, based in Potsdam, Germany:
T5.3 Feedback analysis and evaluation using the CLIMBER model
The Early-Stage Researcher (PhD candidate) will investigate feedbacks between climate and vegetation using the CLIMBER family of intermediate-complexity Earth-system models developed at PIK. Specifically, the established CLIMBER-2 model will be used to evaluate biosphere-climate interactions at global and continental scales. This will be complemented by more detailed investigations of feedbacks resulting from large-scale modifications of the land surface such as due to expanded biofuel production with the CLIMBER-3 model currently under development.
The successful candidate will actively participate in network-wide workshops and training events.
The position is expected to start on 1 January 2011 and run until 31 December 2013. Applications should arrive before 1.10.2010, but will be also accepted until the position is filled.
Interested candidates should send a CV, a half-page statement of interest, copies of your high-school and academic certificates, the names of two referees and a completed Eligibility Form (http://www.greencycles.org/vacancies/) to Dr. Andrey Ganopolski, preferably by e-mail (Andrey.Ganopolski@pik-potsdam.de) or by post (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, PF 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany).
Payment will be according to Marie Curie rules (http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/), including an allowance for transnational travel and mobility.
At the start of their fellowship, researchers may not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc) in Germany for more than 12 months in the preceding 3 years. German nationals are eligible only if they have been active in research in a non-Associated Third Country for at least three of the last four years
Early-stage researchers (ESRs) must be in the first 4 years (full-time equivalent) of their research careers, including the period of research training, starting at the qualification date.
PIK seeks to increase the number of female scientists and encourages them to apply. Disabled persons with comparable qualifications receive preferential status.
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Ecosystem services, General, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Reorganization
The "Ctrl+Alt+Del" of Global Change Sciences
September 1, 2010 Victor Galaz	2 Comments
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This is one of those important things that seldom make the headlines. While climate change science has received considerable public attention, especially since the controversies around the IPCC scientific assessments, another fact is seldom, if ever, acknowledged – that a number of international global change programmes are reorganizing to better match the increasing need for policy-relevant, integrated sustainability science.
The Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) as an example, has been reorganizing its work the last years, to better integrate the natural and social sciences and acknowledge the non-linear features of global change. This integration is to be developed by a range of ESSP associated research programmes and projects, including (prepare for an alphabet soup….) DIVERSITAS, IGBP, IHDP, WCRP,GCP, GECAFS, GWSP , GECHH, START and MAIRS. This paper lays out the thinking behind the ongoing reorganization.
One important change under the ESSP, and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change, is the reorganization of the previous programme Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC, lead by the international institutions legend Oran Young), into a new initiative: the Earth System Governance Project (ESG). The ESG, lead by Frank Biermann in Amsterdam, aims to study the role of multilevel governance, institutions and actor-networks in dealing with global environmental change, and includes several international research centres.
In addition, the International Council for Science (ICSU), in partnership with UNESCO and the United Nations University, is launching a new international initiative based on the insights and framework provided by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: the Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS). PECS ambition is to address the following question: 'how do policies and practices affect resilience of the portfolio of ecosystem services that support human well-being and allow for adaptation to a changing environment?'. PECS will provide scientific knowledge to the newly launched "IPCC-like" Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). An article published in PNAS in 2009, lays out the thinking behind the PECS programme.
So, if you ever get the question "where are the scientists that will help save the world", the answer is easy: it's ESSP, PECS, DIVERSITAS, ICSU, IPBES, ESG, IHDP, IGBP, WCRP,GCP, GECAFS, ….
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Big Back Loop, Greenlash, Regime Shifts
Lovelock, climatic regime shifts, and soft sociology
April 27, 2009 Garry Peterson	Leave a comment
In Nature, biogeochemist Andrew Watson reviews The Vanishing Face Of Gaia by James Lovelock in Final warning from a sceptical prophet:
In The Vanishing Face Of Gaia, Lovelock argues that model projections of the climate a century ahead are of little use. The models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) extrapolate from a smooth trend of warming, yet the real climate system, complex and fully coupled to the biology of land and ocean, is unlikely to change in this simple way. It is more likely to flip from one state to another, with non-linear tipping points that the IPCC models are too simplistic to capture. Lovelock fears that the climate will shift to a new and considerably hotter regime, and that once underway, this shift will be irreversible.
This view is not officially sanctioned 'IPCC-speak', but he is fully within the envelope of scientific consensus when he warns of the possibility of rapid and irreversible change. Other climate scientists — notably Wally Broecker (see Nature 328, 123–126; 1987) — have said much the same for a long time, although Lovelock uses more graphic language and his popular voice will carry further. Palaeoclimate records show that rapid flips have happened before, so this must be a strong possibility for the future if we continue to force up the levels of greenhouse gases at the current rate.
What is controversial is Lovelock's vision for humanity: rapid climate change will lead to the deaths of most people on the planet, and to mass migrations to those places that are still habitable. He does not spell out exactly how this might happen, but is convinced a hotter Earth will be able to sustain only a few per cent of the current human population. The implication is that Gaia and human society are close to a cliff-edge, and could unravel rapidly and catastrophically.
The controversy lies less in the climatology and more in the sociology. How will societies behave in the face of such change? Will we pull together with a wartime spirit, or will we fragment, fight and kill one another over Gaia's carcass? Lovelock is on softer ground here. His only special qualification for discussing human behaviour is his longevity — having lived through the Second World War, he knows what people sometimes do to one another during evil times.
Lovelock's vision of sudden and imminent collapse is apocalyptic, but for our long-term future and that of the planet it might be preferable to some of the alternatives. Suppose, for instance, that our profligate ways and expanding population are sustained for the rest of this century, but at a huge cost — the complete loss of all the natural ecosystems of the world. Most of us, living in cities and insulated from the natural environment, would barely notice until it was too late to do anything about it. This is what many politicians, economists and industrialists seem to want — their mantra of unceasing economic growth implies that we should take for ourselves all Gaia's resources and squeeze from them the maximum short-term gain, leaving nothing for the future.
Following this vision, we will need to transform the entire planet into a factory farm to feed our 10 billion or 15 billion mouths. There will be no room on this giant spherical feedlot for anything but ourselves and our half-dozen species of domestic plants and animals. Gaia, the natural Earth system, will have disappeared. As for the underpinning biogeochemical cycles, the best we can hope is that we can manage them ourselves, taking over the heavy responsibility for keeping Earth habitable, which Gaia once did for us automatically.
The more likely outcome is that we would barely manage them at all. In that case, we would face a sequence of global environmental crises and a steady degradation of the planetary environment that would eventually kill just as many of us as a sudden collapse. Given that, perhaps we had better hope that Lovelock is right, and Gaia does for us — or most of us — before we do for her.
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Resilience Science on twitter
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Origami for Community Regime Shift Tekwa doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1… pic.twitter.com/hH4uvHODvu
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How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere? Duffy+ dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… Esti… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Fauna of the Anthropocene
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Super nice owners, kind, gracious, really made us feel at home. Very hospitable. House is located on a hilltop with a fantastic view of the valley. Very quiet and clean. Excellent facilities, the apartment was furnished with everything we needed.
We stayed a week with the very nice farmer family in our own apartment. Beautiful view on the mountains at the opposite side of the Zillertal, we could see our ski slopes. Very nice and helpful owners. Functional furniture, all very clean. We went skiing in Kaltenbach, 20 min. drive only.
Schöne Wohnung oberhalb des Zillertals mit großartigem Ausblick. Sehr ruhig gelegen, nichts für Partygänger. Nette Eigentümer, man kann Käse, Wurst, Obstler u.ä. aus eigener Herstellung kaufen. In 30 Autominuten mehrere große Skigebiete erreichbar.
Die Lage der Unterkunft ist einfach ein Traum und die Gastfreundschaft beispielhaft. Bei viel Schnee allerdings Schneeketten erforderlich.
Das Haus und die Lage ist wie aus dem Bilderbuch...jeden Moment könnte Heidi um die Ecke kommen!
Ein tolles Haus, Wohnung weltklasse. Super nette Familie! Wir kommen gern wieder!
Die Aussicht, die Ruhe und das Highlight für unsere Kinder waren die vielen Tiere.
Der Hof ist ca 400 Jahre alt und sowohl von der Bauweise, der Einrichtung und der Lage sehr idyllisch. Die Vermieter sind sehr nett und hilfsbereit, zB hat der Sohn der Gastwirte uns eine Stallführung gegeben. Man fühlt sich gut aufgenommen.
Featuring a garden and a terrace, Schonderhof provides accommodations in Hart im Zillertal with free WiFi and mountain views. Guests staying at this farm stay can use a fully equipped kitchen.
This farm stay with river views features 3 bedrooms and a bathroom with a shower. A flat-screen TV is available.
Innsbruck is 29 miles from the farm stay, while Mayrhofen is 18 miles away. The nearest airport is Kranebitten Airport, 31 miles from Schonderhof.
This property is also rated for the best value in Hart im Zillertal! Guests are getting more for their money when compared to other properties in this city.
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The accommodation comprised of a one room apartment for two people and two other rooms separated by a common corridor. The corridor is not actively used by the hosts, still it does not feel as private as we would have liked.
The apatment is not seperate part of house. To go to 2 bedrooms you need to use corridor that is used by host family what cause you can't feel fully private.


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Q: Reactive Feign with Webflux I'm using Reactive Feign implementation from here (https://github.com/Playtika/feign-reactive) but even when I tried to use Spring WebClient I have the same problem.
When I call a URL with a POST Request, passing a JSON Body, the stream never done. The thread remains freeze awaiting for finish and it never hapens.
fun post(request: PostRequest): Mono<PostResponse> {
    val response = myClient.post(request)
        .onErrorResume {
            log.error("Error sending request", it)
            Mono.error<PostResponse>(it)
        }
        .doOnSuccess {
            log.info("Success with response $it")
            it
        }
    response.block()
    return response
}

But, when I call subscribe() nothing happens and request remains freezed. When I call block() method, it throws the follow exception:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: block()/blockFirst()/blockLast() are blocking, which is not supported in thread reactor-http-nio-4

Running Debug, I got this log:
2021-01-06 11:57:42.047 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] r.client.log.DefaultReactiveLogger       : [MyClient#post]--->POST http://localhost:8081/post HTTP/1.1
2021-01-06 11:57:42.048 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] r.n.resources.PooledConnectionProvider   : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] Channel acquired, now 1 active connections and 0 inactive connections
2021-01-06 11:57:42.048 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] reactor.netty.ReactorNetty               : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] Added decoder [ReadTimeoutHandler] at the end of the user pipeline, full pipeline: [reactor.left.httpCodec, ReadTimeoutHandler, reactor.right.reactiveBridge, DefaultChannelPipeline$TailContext#0]
2021-01-06 11:57:42.048 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] reactor.netty.ReactorNetty               : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] Added decoder [WriteTimeoutHandler] at the end of the user pipeline, full pipeline: [reactor.left.httpCodec, ReadTimeoutHandler, WriteTimeoutHandler, reactor.right.reactiveBridge, DefaultChannelPipeline$TailContext#0]
2021-01-06 11:57:42.048 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] r.netty.http.client.HttpClientConnect    : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] Handler is being applied: {uri=http://localhost:8081/post, method=POST}
2021-01-06 11:57:42.049 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] r.n.resources.PooledConnectionProvider   : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] onStateChange(POST{uri=/post, connection=PooledConnection{channel=[id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80]}}, [request_prepared])
2021-01-06 11:57:42.074 DEBUG 13624 --- [ctor-http-nio-4] r.n.resources.PooledConnectionProvider   : [id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80] onStateChange(POST{uri=/post, connection=PooledConnection{channel=[id: 0x77f83c34, L:/10.7.8.88:62005 - R:localhost/127.0.0.1:80]}}, [request_sent])

There is a way to make this request?

A: Replace .block() call by .map() in this way:
fun post(request: PostRequest): Mono<PostResponse> =
    myClient.post(request)
        .onErrorResume {
            log.error("Error sending request", it)
            Mono.error<PostResponse>(it)
        }
        .map {
          log.info("Success with response $it")
          ok(it)
        }

.map() is synchronous, so it does the same as subscribe(). Subscribe should be called from the client-side, not from the server-side on non-blocking pipelines. With .map() you the pipeline becomes synchronous, but it won't run until a client .subscribes()


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Machine Learning Algorithm Mines 16 Billion E-Mails
Human e-mailing behavior is so predictable that computer scientists have created an algorithm that can calculate when an e-mail thread is about to end.
Emerging Technology from the arXivarchive page
Electronic mail plays a hugely important role in the lives of a large fraction of the world's population. And yet, strangely, little is known about the way people use e-mail. How many e-mail conversations do people have? How long are these conversations and how do they end? And how does the volume of incoming mail affect people's behavior?
Today, we get an answer to a range of questions like these thanks to the work of researchers at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona and California and at the University of Southern California. These guys have studied patterns of behavior in a database of 16 billion e-mails exchanged between two million people over several months. "We believe ours is the first large scale analysis of e-mail conversations," they say.
It turns out that e-mail patterns are so reliable that a machine learning algorithm can predict in advance how long a reply is likely to be and when an e-mail conversation is likely to end. That's information that could play an important role in the next generation of e-mail systems.
It's easy to imagine that computational anthropologists must have been poring over vast e-mail databases to determine the impact of this relatively new form of messaging on ordinary lifestyles.
Not so. The relatively few completed studies have been done on small samples of e-mails and resulted in relatively simple discoveries. These include the fact that some people reply to e-mails in the sequence they arrive while others pick and choose the most important to reply to first.
To remedy this gap in in our knowledge, Farshad Kooti at the University of Southern California and pals study a database of 16 billion e-mails in Yahoo Mail from people who had agreed to allow their data to be used for research.
Because much of the e-mail people receive is spam or is generated automatically, the team chose only those e-mails that have been sent between two individuals in a conversation lasting at least five exchanges.
These 16 billion e-mails came from the e-mail accounts of two million unique users and included only e-mail from commercial domains and from other Yahoo users who had opted in to the research. Of these 16 billion, 187 million e-mails were exchanged between pairs of users in the dataset. These were essentially the ones of interest.
The researchers were then able to study the statistical nature of this form of pairwise communication using information such as sender ID, receiver ID, time sent, the e-mail subject, the body of the e-mail and the number of attachments.
To ensure privacy, the researchers anonymized the senders and receivers and no human analyzed the contents of the e-mail bodies. Instead, the researchers used algorithms to extract statistics from the e-mail bodies, such as their length, the number of e-mail ids in a thread, and so on.
The team grouped e-mails between individuals if they shared the same subject line, (all but one of which would start with "Re:") and ordered the messages according to their timestamp.
They then studied various features of these e-mail chains, such as the time it takes to reply to an e-mail, the length of the reply as well as how these factors vary according to the age and sex of the sender and so on.
The results make for interesting reading. It turns out that younger people send faster, shorter replies and that men send slightly faster and shorter replies than women.
The time of writing is also a factor. "We found that users reply faster to e-mails received during weekdays and working hours, and that replies tend to become shorter later in the day and on weekends," say Kooti and co.
And mobile devices have an impact too. "Replies from mobile devices were faster and shorter than from desktops, and e-mails without attachments typically got faster replies," they say.
An increasingly important phenomena is e-mail overload. Kooti and co found that as people receive more e-mails, they increase the rate at which they reply but not by enough to compensate for the higher load.
In other words, as people become more overloaded, they reply to a smaller fraction of incoming e-mails with shorter replies. "However, their responsiveness remained intact and may even be faster," say the researchers.
The team also looked at the differences between an e-mail and its reply, such as the number of words used and the time between responses. Interestingly, during the first half of an e-mail conversation, replies become more similar, both in reply time and length. However, all that changes after the middle of the threat when the reply behavior becomes increasingly different.
These patterns allowed the team to build a machine learning algorithm to spot the various stages of e-mail conversations and predict when they are likely to end. They trained this algorithm to predict the time and length of replies and whether an e-mail was the last one in the thread.
And although these predictions are not perfect, they are good enough to have an impact on the way e-mail systems might be designed in future. "Ability to accurately predict what messages a user will reply to can be used by e-mail clients to rank e-mails in the users' inbox by their replying priority, thus helping ease the burden of information overload," say the team.
That's interesting work that could help determine the way algorithms handle our e-mails in future. Anything that usefully helps to ease the burden of e-mail overload could become an important part of the hidden bureaucracy of communication.
Yahoo has a clear interest in this kind of work so it is surprising this kind of study has been done for the first time now. With any luck, the process of incorporating these findings into future e-mail systems will not take quite so long.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1504.00704 : Evolution of Conversations in the Age of E-mail Overload
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
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Mass Effect Andromeda seems to be nearing completion. Or at least the separate portions of the game being designed by different teams is finally being put together into a coherent whole that actually resembles the final product.
One of the level designers over at BioWare, Jos Hendriks, has finally had a chance to play a more complete version of the game that includes more than just his own contributions. He was so excited about being able to see the whole thing put together that he took to Twitter to compliment his colleagues on their own good work.
I like that he has to emphasise the "if/when" we'll see it, as if it could be cancelled at any moment. Mass Effect Andromeda was announced at E3 this year to a pretty big reception even though little info was initially given. Throughout the past year we've seen more information regarding the game, including the setting, name and just a little bit about the plot, though not much.
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Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini (né à Côme le , mort à Milan le ) est un journaliste et un polémiste anticlérical italien.

Biographie

Origines
Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini nait à Côme de Francesco Bianchi et Maria Zoini.  Il est envoyé par sa famille à Milan comme commis apprenti dans un magasin puis à Vienne pour apprendre la langue allemande. Là, il se rend suspect auprès de la police autrichienne, qui peu de temps après, l'oblige à rentrer en Lombardie.

L'exil dans le canton du Tessin
Pour échapper à la persécution de la police impériale, en 1830 il s'installe à Capolago dans le Canton du Tessin près de la Tipografia e Libreria Elvetica. Là, il commence à collaborer pour certains journaux, d'abord (1831-1832) comme que rédacteur de l'Ancora, journal modéré.

Il se signale, immédiatement, pour une ligne fortement anticléricale, comme en témoigne un carnet de 1832 intitulé « Réfutation des quatre pétitions par certains membres du clergé au Grand Conseil » (« Confutazione delle quattro petizioni presentate da alcuni ecclesiastici al Gran Consiglio »), publié par la Tipografia e Libreria Elvetica de Capolago.
En 1834, il publie à Capolago, la traduction italienne de «Histoire de la République de Venise » du français Pierre-Antoine Daru, qui décrit Venise dirigée par un régime sombre et oppressant.

En 1835 et jusqu'en 1837, il est l'un des fondateurs de Repubblicano della Svizzera italiana, un organe du parti radical au pouvoir, dont les colonnes traduisent une féroce polémique anticléricale qui donne lieu à de nombreux procès pénaux.

En 1837 il commence la publication, auprès de la Tipografia e Libreria Elvetica, de l'« Histoire des papes»(« Storia dei papi »). L'œuvre, résultat d'une grande érudition, représente encore aujourd'hui une référence de la polémique anti-catholique italienne. La « Storia dei papi » aurait dû comprendre 12 volumes, que la Tipografia e Libreria Elvetica reprend en 1850 sans jamais la terminer .
En 1836, il publie une première version de la « Biographie de Fra' Paolo Sarpi » où il  exhume le travail de l'historien presque oublié afin de soutenir une vive polémique anti-catholique, œuvre mieux argumentée et historiquement fondée que la précédente « Storia dei papi ».

L'exil à Zurich
Les deux travaux contribuent, en 1839, à le faire expulser du comté pour la violence de son anticléricalisme. Il épouse Maria Bellasi de Mendrisio.

Il réapparait à Grono, dans canton des Grisons, où il saisit l'occasion pour ouvrir une polémique mémorable avec le capitaine Filippo de Sacco de Grono, en particulier sur l'immunité ecclésiastique. Il s'installe, par la suite, à Zurich.

Retour en Lombardie
En 1842, il décide de profiter de l'amnistie décrétée en 1838 en Lombardie-Vénétie autrichienne après le couronnement de  Ferdinand I. Arrivé à Milan, Giovini se consacre à des études historiques.

En 1842 il publie « Histoire critique de l'Église gréco-moderne et de l'Église russe » (« Istoria critica della Chiesa greco-moderna e della Chiesa russa »). En 1844, il publie à Milan « Histoire des Juifs et de leurs sectes et doctrines religieuses durant le Second Temple »(« Storia degli Ebrei e delle loro sette e dottrine religiose durante il Secondo Tempio ») le premier ouvrage du genre en Italie et l'un des premiers en Europe à traiter de manière non-apologétique la vie religieuse du judaïsme au temps de Jésus et entrer en dialogue direct avec l'histoire juive moderne émergente, l'ouvrage accueille un long essai du rabbin Samuel David Luzzatto. Toujours en 1844, il publie deux autres œuvres : « Idées sur les causes du déclin de l'Empire romain en occident » (« Idee sulle cause della decadenza dell'Impero Romano in occidente Milano» ) et « Pontificat de saint Grégoire le Grand » (« Pontificato di san Gregorio il Grande »), en 1845, «Examen critique des actes et documents de la papesse Jeanne» ) («Esame critico degli atti e documenti della papessa Giovanna» ) et «Critique des Évangiles» )(«Critica degli Evangeli» ) (1855). Il commence une  « Histoire de la Lombardie »  (« Storia della Lombardia » ) et termine « Lexique de la Lombardie » (« Lessico della Lombardia » ).

Directeur à Turin
Par la suite, Giovini s'installe à Turin, où il prend, en 1848, la direction de la revue l'Opinione, poste qu'il occupe jusqu'en juin 1852. La revue a été créée le 26 janvier de la même année par un groupe de « modérés de gauche » qui comprenait Giacomo Durando, Massimo Cordero di Montezemolo, Urbano Rattazzi, Giuseppe Cornero et Giovanni Lanza.

Giovini donne au journal une orientation fortement anticléricale et radicale : après la tragique défaite du Royaume de Sardaigne à Novara, sur l'Opinione du 28 mars il expose la thèse que la guerre doit continuer, coûte que coûte, en faisant valoir en outre que la défaite est due à une conspiration. Au cours des années suivantes, ses positions anticléricales le mènent à partager certaines des initiatives des gouvernements de Cavour, il conduit aussi une ferme polémique à l'encontre des républicains mazziniens. Dans ce contexte, il publie « L'Autriche en Italie et ses confiscations » (« L'Austria in Italia e le sue confische ») en 1853.

Dernières années
En 1860, il dirige le quotidien napolitain Patria. Il meurt en 1862 à Milan.

Notes et références

Bibliographie
  Rinaldo Caddeo, Le edizioni di Capolago, 1934.
  Marcella Bottiglioni-Barrella, Un dimenticato del nostro Risorgimento, Aurelio Bianchi-Giovini  (1799-1862), Modène, Società Tipografica Modenese, 1951.
 Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Istituto Treccani, Rome, volume 10, 60-63.

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Naissance à Côme
Journaliste italien du XIXe siècle
Personnalité du Risorgimento
Patriote de l'Unité italienne
Naissance en novembre 1799
Décès en mai 1862
Décès à Milan
Décès à 62 ans


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