Vince Stingl establishes a hard pottery workshop in Herend.
Mór Fischer buys the Manufactory from Vince Stingl and his partner, regular porcelain manufacture begins. "Herend Begins" Read more!
London, Great Exhibition: Gold Medal.
Paris, World Exhibition: First Class Medal.
Mór Fischer is raised to Hungarian Nobility, thereafter bearing the former name "Farkasházy". The factory has 83 workers, and 3 large and 6 small kilns.
Fischer's son fail to overcome difficulties and sell the Manufactory to the state. The first Herend Porcelain Manufactory Ltd. is founded.
The Manufactory is closed, the same year is bought by Jenő Fischer, Mór Fischer's grandson.
World Exhibition, Paris: Gold Medal.
During the First World War output was reduced to a trickle, most of the workers were called up into the army and the factory was hardly able to function.
The Manufactory is turned into a joint-stock company with Dr. Gyula Gulden as managing director.
Philadelphia, International Exhibition: Gold Medal.
Chicago, World Exposition: The American market opens up to the factory.
Number of employees: 140, with a third of products made for export.
Bruxelles, World Exposition, Grand Prix.
Herend Porcelain Manufactory is nationalized.
Herend, through its valued foreign trade, earned significant hard currency for the country.
The number of employees increased to 759.
Herend is separated from the Fine Ceramics Industry Works and becomes an independent enterprise.
From the early 1980's Herend regularly takes part in the Frankfurt International Fair.
The Community of European Porcelain Makers is founded: six manufactories with long tradition of crafting hand-made porcelain (Vienna, Berlin, Herend, Ludwigsburg, Meissen and Sevres) conclude an agreement to foster the idea of manufacture (making their own ware, hand painting, nurturing applied art traditions and training apprentices).
On 30th of June the Herend Porcelain Manufactory Ltd. is founded as the legal successor of Herend Porcelain Manufactory.
Series of Exhibitions in large American cities (from New York to Los Angeles) with demonstrations by Master Painters. The number of employees reaches 1583.
The first independent Herend Shop opens in the Raffles Hotel in Singapore.
Imre Schrammel is appointed artistic director.
Herend Shop in luxury Hotel Adlon, Berlin.
Herend Austria opens in Vienna. This is where our story begins.
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The final line-up of speakers at the fourth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) conference has been announced, with the event due to take place at Stanford University, California on October 22nd to 24th.
Billed as the premier conference on artificial intelligence in video games and entertainment, the conference is hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
The finalized line-up of speakers includes Doug Church and Borut Pfeifer from Electronic Arts, David Cope from the University of California Santa Cruz, Eric Grundstrom from Electronic Arts/Maxis, Damian Isla from Bungie Studios and Steve Rabin from Nintendo, DigiPen Institute of Technology.
The conference also features a technical program, with papers on research and industry developments, as well as poster/demonstration sessions.
"This year's technical submissions have been particularly strong, with over three times the number of submissions from last year, and we're eager to share them with the community," commented Chris Darken, program chair and a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.
"It's an exciting time for entertainment AI," said Michael Mateas, conference chair and researcher at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
"We've seen many recent games succeed thanks to smart gameplay, interesting interactive characters, and lifelike worlds. AI is at the core of bringing all these elements to life. And AIIDE is where many of these new AI approaches are first presented, and where existing techniques are explored in depth."
Further information can be found at the official website.


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Study: Maine's Lottery Budget Tripled Since 2003
Maine Public
Dave Sherwood
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
Lottery tickets are on display at the Waite General Store in Washington County.
By Dave Sherwood
©Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
Editor's note: This story is 2nd in a three-part series entitled "Lottery: Selling Hope to the Hopeless." Click here to read part one.
When Maine announced in 2014 that it was searching for an ad agency to promote the state's $230 million-a-year lottery, executives at Fuseideas, a Massachusetts-based firm, were ecstatic.
"It's not often that an RFP (Request for Proposals) comes across my desk that makes me stop, get up, and then high five the next person who walks by my office," wrote company CEO Dennis Franczak in a letter to state lottery officials in August 2014. "It's even less often that a prospective client is so perfect, so in need of what we do … that one high five isn't enough, and I rally the entire agency — high fives all around!"
Franczak was confident he could boost the lottery's image and sales with smarter advertising. His agency had the track record to prove it. In 2013, Franczak said Fuseideas had helped increase lottery sales in Connecticut by $41 million; in Massachusetts, by $102 million.
Maine lottery officials awarded Fuseideas the contract in February 2015, a key part of a larger effort to re-tool its marketing, with a focus on "driving maximum sales and profits." Since 2003, the state-run lottery has more than tripled its advertising budget, invested in sophisticated market research to better target customers and installed flat-screen TVs in stores to advertise jackpots and encourage impulse buys, according to interviews and documents obtained by an open records request.
Such tactics, while good for the state's treasury, may not be so good for poor and working class Mainers, a Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting investigation has found.
Credit Dave Sherwood / Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
John Beaudoin of Chelsea purchases a pair of "Bonus Crossword" tickets from Randolph Takeout, a convenience store and gas station in Randolph. Beaudoin says the crossword puzzle keeps his mind sharp. Two years ago, he said, he won $30.
A first-ever analysis of detailed lottery sales data, conducted by Cornell University at the request of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, suggests that Maine's poor and unemployed spend disproportionately on the lottery, despite long odds of winning disguised by the sophisticated techniques of modern marketing.
Officials with the state Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, which administers the lottery, say concerns about advertising are overblown. "We haven't made any concerted effort to do any more advertising in the past five years," said the lottery's deputy director Tim Poulin.
But state Rep. Louis Luchini, D-Ellsworth, chair of the legislative committee that oversees the lottery, said he and other lawmakers have long had questions about the lottery's use of marketing.
"It's especially tricky when the state runs a business like this," he said. "You don't want to push liquor or lottery but, you know, it is something that raises money for the state. It's not black and white."
Maine's lottery was created by public referendum in 1973. It got off to a rocky start. Mainers, famously frugal and socially conservative, didn't flock to the lottery as did residents in other states, sales data show.
"We're flinty Yankees," said Maine historian Paul Mills. "Gambling really wasn't part of our heritage."
That didn't sit well with the game's early promoters, who deemed the rate of play in some towns "unacceptable," and set out to take "corrective action," according to a 1976 audit.
Four decades of new games, promotions and joint enterprises with other states followed. In time, Mainers were swayed.
Lorraine Skidgel of Randolph purchases a Megabucks ticket at Randolph Takeout, a convenience store and gas station in Randolph. "I spend $4 a week. I guess I'm like everybody, taking a chance and hoping to win," she said.
The lottery and gambling, once widely considered a vice, became one of the state's biggest revenue drivers. Lottery sales are now double those of liquor in Maine and even exceed the total haul from the state's corporate tax.
To keep the lottery revenue growing, the lottery's — and the state's — dependence on advertising also grew.
A detailed examination of strategy documents, lottery commission meeting minutes and financial statements, obtained through a Freedom of Access Act request, offer a rare inside look into the techniques used to entice Maine people to buy more lottery tickets.
Among them:
Mailing 100,000 households — 20 percent of Maine's total population — coupons for free Powerball and instant tickets to introduce games to "infrequent players.
Offering bonuses to retailers who increase year-over-year ticket sales.
Installing brighter jackpot signs in store windows and advertisements on pump handles at gas stations to attract impulse buys.
Conducting a yearlong, internet-based "player segmentation study" to aid in customer profiling and targeting.
Installing 1,300 customized television screens in stores to advertise lottery promotions and showcase winners, part of a new wave of high-tech, targeted marketing intended to put the "lottery at top-of-mind and spark impulse buys."
Initiating an Internet "subscription play service" to make it more convenient to play draw games on a regular basis. "No more having to navigate traffic or stand in line," according to lottery advertising.
Crisis and quick recovery
Many of these marketing tactics coincided with the aftermath of the 2009 global economic crisis and housing crash.
Poulin, deputy director of the lottery, said the downturn slowed what had been consistently increasing sales through 2009.
Yet just five years later, sales rebounded to nearly $228 million, surpassing all previous records, according to lottery financial statements.
Advertising played a role.
The lottery has more than tripled its in-state advertising expenditures since 2003. It now budgets $3.5 million a year for promoting its Maine ($1.5 million of the total) and Tri-State lotto games, big jackpot draw games it operates with New Hampshire and Vermont.
"Once you swallow the idea that you're going to have a lottery, you have to advertise," said David Just, a Cornell behavioral economist who analyzed Maine's lottery data for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. "But you're targeting people who could make better use of the money they spend on lottery tickets."
During the economic crisis, some may have stopped playing, but others, increasingly desperate and confronted with unemployment, likely increased spending, he said.
For every one percent increase in unemployment in a given zip code, Just's research found, sales of lottery scratch and instant tickets in Maine jump by 10 percent.
"The financial crisis caused economic turmoil and that drove lottery sales," said Just.
The lottery's Poulin acknowledged sales have rebounded, but denied the state had increased advertising in the wake of the economic crisis.
"It took us a while to get the players that left, back," said Poulin.
Scientific Games, the multi-national company that operates many technical aspects of Maine's lottery, including customer research, celebrated the sales comeback in a recent lottery commission meeting.
"Other states are looking to Maine to see how we are having so much success with draw games and the promotions that are being done," a Scientific Games representative told lottery officials on April 15, 2015.
Yet most of the tactics used by Scientific Games to sway customers remain inaccessible to the public.
The Las Vegas-based company, which holds a contract to operate the state lottery worth approximately $8 million annually, has redacted all of its 285-page marketing proposal for Maine to shield it from public scrutiny, calling it "confidential information."
A big new idea
Fuseideas, the Massachusetts-based company that officials said will work together with Scientific Games to promote the Maine lottery, has yet to complete a strategic advertising plan, officials said.
But the company's 148-page proposal, obtained by a Maine Freedom of Access Act request, gives a glimpse of what may be to come.
The new marketing strategy revolves around a "big idea," the proposal reads. The idea is to change the image of gambling by associating it with widely-accepted forms of entertainment.
"Lottery play is one part of a healthy and responsible entertainment mix, right alongside going to the movies, watching the Patriots play and bowling on Sundays with the neighbors," according to the proposal.
The agency has proposed to fly aerial banners over beaches and tourist areas and beef up advertising at restaurants, ski areas, bars and on social media. It also plans to hide $50,000 "golden tickets" in select Maine towns as part of a lottery "scavenger hunt."
Such tactics, they hope, will entice the 18- to 25-year-old "millenials" — the youngest legal generation of lottery players — who rarely play the lottery now, but are vital to future sales, officials said.
"It's part of the struggle all lotteries are facing. Our demographic is getting older, but our state legislatures are still demanding we return the same level of profits year over year, so you have to find new strategies to engage our players," said lottery deputy director Poulin.
The solution, according to Fuseideas, is emphasizing to players that the winners are "'just like me,' people who have always believed they never win anything."
Behavioral economist Just, of Cornell, says such tactics are common — but come with strings attached.
"The face of the people who win is always very visible in advertising," he said. "But that psychology, that image, is deceiving because we never see the faces of the losers, and especially not the chronic losers."
Increasingly aggressive marketing has not gone unnoticed by the convenience and grocery store owners who sell the tickets.
"They've been really pushy about advertising lately," said Derrick Ray, store manager at Columbia 4-Corners Shop 'N Save. "We won't let them do it here. If we did, they'd have signs everywhere."
But Ray acknowledged having moved the customer service desk, where lottery tickets are sold, directly in front of the checkout lines, where shoppers were more likely to see it. "Sure, we put it in front of the registers so we get more impulse buys. Wait — is that bad?"
In part three, legislators weigh the costs and benefits of Maine's state-run lottery.
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service based in Augusta. Email pinetreewatchdog@gmail.com or visit www.pinetreewatchdog.org.
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I was just wondering what the status of the Ys 5 patch was. I know some things about the patch, and the issues it has faced/faces, so I'll list what I know, and hopefully someone can fill in the blanks.
I know that Deuce, known for his work on other Ys games, did the actual text translation, or at least that is what I was lead to believe based on old posts on Ancient Land of Ys. From what I understand, the text translation was done, and sent to Gideon. Is this correct? Also, I know that Deuce had a falling out on the aforementioned message board, and has kinda dropped off of the face of the internet, at least as far as I can tell. Will that effect the progress of the patch at all?
Also, I seem to remember some talk of Ys5 being very difficult to hack. I don't know the specifics, and am not knowledgeable enough in any programming to understand the details, but I do know that certain text-coding conventions have killed translation projects.
I also seem to recall Gideon mentioning limited access to software used to hack and insert text. Is this still the case, and if so, is this effecting the project in any way?
Finally, I understand that Gideon has a lot of projects on his plate, and quite a few are more relevant to his interests. Considering this is his hobby, I won't fault him for preferring to work on things he likes, but is there any way we could find out a sort of priority list, as to what he plans to work on next?
SRW games. There's your priority list right there.
Yeah, I got that vibe in general from the board. Despite that, between SRW 1 and SRW@G I know that Metal Max Returns, Danzarb, and Live A Live 2.0 got a release. Also, I know there were some progress updates for non SRW games, so part of me has to hope that there is some room for other things inbetween @g and the next SRW game to be released.
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I'm rather fond of Ys. Ys V and RS2 are the major "I hope it's next" projects on my list.
Deuce still visits RHDN and from time to time he frequently badgers Gideon publicly to finish up the hacking so he can polish his script. I think he's been doing that for like a year now. I believe one of things that has yet to be hacked/fixed are the item stuff or something similar.


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    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

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    SSLCertificateKeyFile /pathtokey.pem
</VirtualHost>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

My www.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.org
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

    RedirectPermanent / http://example.org

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerName www.example.org

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

    RedirectPermanent / https://example.org

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    SSLCertificateFile /pathtocert.pem
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /pathtokey.pem
</VirtualHost>

<Directory "/var/www/html">
    Options FollowSymlinks ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

So what seems to be the problem? Also shouldn't both http and https redirects fail or succeed together?

A: The issue is with DNS 'A' and 'AAAA' records for the domain. There is a pre-configured A/AAAA record for www which is causing all the issues. I removed them and added a new one *.example.org. DNS redirects all wildcard subdomains to the server. The onus is now on the web server on how to deal with them.
It works fine now.
Also check this: How to redirect all wildcard subdomain to a particular subdomain? Having issues with a subdomain which runs nextcloud server

A: You might want to setup a rewrite, you might want something like this:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
        RewriteEngine On
        # this redirect only www.example.org to https
        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.org [NC]
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.org [NC]
        # this redirects anything to its https equivalent
        RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
        RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R,L]
   </VirtualHost>

alternatively, I guess you should simply modify your redirect rule in the *:80 from RedirectPermanent / http://example.orgto RedirectPermanent / https://example.org . The redirect has to point to https, not http...

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stress-induced amenorrhea Hypnotherapy -with just one session of Hypnotherapy I can help you to unleash the awesome power of your subconscious mind to help you overcome stress-induced amenorrhea.
Before I talk about stress-induced amenorrhea Hypnotherapy, I should explain what stress is. Stress is your response to any kind of positive and negative events and demands and attack. Stress is a very special feeling too events. It is special body preparation to meet a challenge increased strength.
Physical danger, exams, loss of loved ones, job, or family problems, etc. cause stress. Different people have different stressors.
Chemicals released into the blood affect a woman's body. These chemicals increase body strength, needed when there is a physical threat. But if an emotional stressor caused stress, increased body energy could create health problems.
Amenorrhea affects 2% – 6% of women. It is most common in women with high physical and emotional stress such as Olympic winners, war participants and witnesses, young ballet dancers and gymnasts.
A women's reproductive system always reacts during stress. Stress-induced amenorrhea is caused by increased stress. Women can stop having periods immediately after stress.
During puberty, it could occur more often as girls at this time are very sensitive to any stressful factors (especially emotional stress).
It was noted that some female soldiers in Iraq stopped having periods due to extreme heat and extreme stress.
Many women are very sensitive to the death or loss of a loved one, and these situations can often cause the periods to stop.
A recent study in the USA has shown that Amenorrhea Hypnotherapy can be one of the most effective treatments with 75% of women resuming their periods within three months of having only one session of hypnotherapy.
Amenorrhea Hypnotherapy is a type of therapy that uses hypnosis, which is an altered state of consciousness. Contrary to myth and popular belief at no time during the session are you in a trance or unaware of your surroundings, instead; it brings about a very relaxed state of mind.


KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 11): Eastern & Oriental Bhd (E&O) aims to raise as much as RM550.3 million via a private placement and renounceable rights issue to fund its property development projects.
The proposed private placement will involve the issuance of up to 10% of E&O's issued share capital, which currently stands at 1.31 billion stocks, E&O said in a stock exchange filing today.
Meanwhile, the renounceable rights issue will include free detachable warrants on an issue price and basis to be determined later.
Based on an illustrative price of RM1.20 per share, one rights stock for every four existing E&O stock and one warrant for every two stocks, E&O expects to raise between RM250 million and RM550.3 million.
Of the funds raised, as much as RM300 million will be allocated for property development and/or reclamation. Meanwhile, as much as RM200 million will be used to repay borrowings and RM48.8 million will be used as general working capital.
Among projects that E&O will fund with the amount raised is Phase 2 of its Seri Tanjung Pinang reclamation and property development project (STP2), as well as the upcoming residential property projects in Kuala Lumpur such as The Conlay and The Peak.
Assuming completion of the proposed private placement, rights issue and exercise of warrants, the group expects to lower its gearing from 0.61 times to as low as 0.15 times.
E&O will require the approval of its shareholders and regulatory authorities for the proposed fundraising exercises.
"The board, after having considered all aspects of the proposed fundraising, is of the opinion that the proposed fundraising is in the best interests of E&O," the group said.
E&O hopes to complete the proposed private placement by the first quarter of 2019 and the proposed rights issue by the third quarter of this year.
Shares of the group closed down 2 sen or 1.8% today at RM1.09, leaving the group with a market value of RM1.45 billion.


Treat Your Trends (TYTs) teaches individuals with diabetes how to detect, understand and safely prevent abnormal glucose trends in the future, rather than simply correcting a single glucose test. Assessing a glucose trend requires only a few consecutive glucose tests – before the first bite of food, after the meal processing is complete (about three hours later), and again before the next meal. When glucose control is poor, at least one trend should be reviewed each day. After symptomatic episodes of low and high blood glucose have been eliminated, only a few trends need to be assessed each week to progressively improve glucose control.
The goal is to mimic the normal pancreas by maintaining stable blood sugar trends. When insulin is appropriately matched to food, activity and other factors such as stress or illness the glucose trend should not vary by greater than 2 mmol/L during both meal and non-meal periods of the day and night.
Remember that each glucose trend today is an educational opportunity to prevent an abnormal glucose trend in the future.
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other healthy foods consist mainly of carbs that are rapidly digested into sugar in 1-2 hours; protein and fat are digested over 3-5 hours.
Limit total carbohydrate to about 50g balanced with a similar amount of protein and about 20g of fat per meal.


One of the reasons for writing on USSD code to check bank account balance on mobile phone for all Nigerian banks is because of the need for it especially for folks in the rural areas of Nigeria like villages. Recently observed some of these villages have no banks and for some folks like us that visited on some personal or business reasons, it has not been easy but thanks to Mobile banking codes i easily do my transactions even from my small Nokia phone.
Checking bank account balance use to be a Herculean task as to when you visit banks or the ATM just for this purpose, the long queues are discouraging and the cost outweighs the benefit. Recently it is much easier now to check your bank account balance and the best part is that you do not even require the internet to do this . Now with the use of USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) code, you can check bank account balance on mobile phone.
In this part i will go straight to the point and try to be detailed so you can easily get these codes and use it with ease. Below are the list of banks and their ussd codes to use whether you have a smartphone or not, i for one have an old Nokia phone and use this for my major banking transaction.
Simply dial *770# on your phone,if need be, follow the command prompt.
For First bank account holders, you can check your bank account balance by the following below.
Simply dial *894*00# on your phone.
To check your GTB account balance on your mobile you must register with the *737# mobile banking.
Once you've registered, just dial *737*6*1# on your phone. Follow the on-screen command to see your GTBank account balance.
Simply dial *901*5#, wait and enter the last 4 digits of your BVN PIN to see your account balance. It's as simple as that.
Alternative method is to SMS. Compose a message in the sample format – BAL(Space)Account Number, example. BAL 4892018453. Send to 08160000612. You will get an instant message displaying your account balance. You will be charged access fee of N5 for one transaction.
Simply Dial *326*0# on your phone. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
For First city Monument bank account holders, just do the following below.
Dial *389*214# on your phone. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
Dial *822*6*account number#, e. *822*6*0467986342# on your phone. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
Dial *322*082# (MTN, AIRTEL & 9Mobile subscribers) and this *085*082# (GLO subscribers only) on your phone.
Follow the on-screen command to register.
Follow further onscreen commands to see account balance.
Simply Dial *945*0# on your phone. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
Dial *389*215# on your phone, you are prompted to enter your 4-digit PIN. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
Dial *919*00# on your phone, you are prompted to enter your 4-digit PIN. Note that the phone number used must be registered with your bank account details.
To check your Skye Bank bank account balance, dial *833# from your phone and follow the on-screen command. Choose the balance menu to see your balance.
To check your Zenith Bank account balance, just dial *966*00# from your phone and follow the on-screen command. Choose the balance menu to see your balance.
To check your Stanbic IBTC account balance, dial *909# from your phone and follow the on-screen command. Choose the balance menu to see your balance.
To check Heritage bank account balance, dial *322*030# from your phone and follow the on-screen command. Choose the balance menu to see your account balance.
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Rome's Jewish style artichokes.(Photo: ViniCultural Tours via Flickr)
Finding My Jewish Home—in Rome
A trip to Italy helped me connect to my roots in a way I never had in New York or even Jerusalem. Maybe it's something in my DNA.
By Paula Derrow
June 3, 2016 • 12:00 AM
The first thing I noticed when my plane touched down in Rome, in the year 2000, my first real visit other than a barely recalled weekend in college 15 years earlier, was that the women swarming around baggage claim all looked like me. They were much more stylish, of course, with their characteristic bella figura, the Italian way of always putting one's best face forward, no schlumping around in sweatpants and running shoes. But like me, they had dark eyes, dark hair, bodies with a little curve to them, and there was lots of talking and emphatic gesturing, their mellifluous alloras and pregos and mamma mias making me want to jump into the conversation.
"Are you Italian?" the cab driver asked, as he drove me toward the city center after I'd retrieved my bag, the highway taking us beneath the remains of an ancient aqueduct glowing pink and gold in the early morning sun.
"No, I'm Jewish," I replied. Of course, one didn't preclude the other, but this was my stock answer when anyone asked about my ethnicity. I uttered it on autopilot, without any particular emotion. The last thing I expected was for that trip to the Eternal City, the seat of Christianity, to lead me to embrace my Jewishness in a new way, a way that my (very Jewish) home of New York City and even a visit to Israel hadn't. On that trip and the many that followed, I gradually came to understand that Rome and my Jewish identity were somehow intertwined, twin anchors tethering me to a home and a history I'd only been dimly aware of.
When I was growing up in suburban Long Island in the 1970s and '80s, my parents never observed the Sabbath. The only candles we lit were on Hanukkah, and on Passover we flew through our Seder in 15 minutes. Although I dutifully attended Hebrew school, I mildly resented my Sunday and Wednesday afternoons spent learning my alephs, bets, and gimmels. We weren't taught conversational Hebrew, just enough to be able to recite our haftorahs by rote at our bar and bat mitzvahs, chanting a language we didn't really know. When my big day arrived, I belted my 12-year-old heart out, the Ethel Merman of Temple Beth David, but my passion was more a product of my love of the spotlight than an indication of any religious feeling.
I mostly skipped out on Judaism after that, attending synagogue only on High Holidays—and even that was mostly to please my parents. They didn't expect me to be religious, but I knew they hoped I'd marry a nice Jewish boy, and when I graduated from college, they presented me with a congratulatory tour to Israel designed for young adults. Maybe you'll meet someone, I could almost hear my mother thinking as she and my father saw me off at the airport. Whatever my parents' motives, I was happy to accept the free trip. You'll cry as soon as the plane touches down on the tarmac in Jerusalem, my parents' friends assured me. You'll definitely cry at the Wailing Wall. At the least, I figured I'd feel more connected to my Jewishness, feel something approaching spirituality.
I didn't cry when the plane touched down in Jerusalem. I didn't cry at the Wailing Wall either, where an Orthodox gentleman scolded me for peeking over the divider separating the men from the women. Abashed, I closed my eyes and whispered a prayer—Shema Yisrael—then slipped a piece of paper with a wish between the powdery stones. But I was faking it, pretending to a devoutness I didn't feel. I loved bobbing weightless in the Dead Sea; hiking up Masada before dawn; the badass beautiful men and women soldiers carrying Uzis. But I never got emotional, never felt as if I'd come home.
It's not that I wasn't proud of my heritage. I felt Jewish through and through, but only in the vague cultural way so common to New York Jews accustomed to picking up bagels and a schmear on Sundays. It's easy to take your heritage for granted when you happen to be surrounded by people of the same kind, when no one is giving you the side eye for looking or behaving differently. It was the religious Jews who looked different in my neighborhood, Manhattan's Upper West Side, where I'd settled after college: the women with their wigs and sensible shoes, the men in their dark wool coats even on the warmest of days. I'd notice them walking to synagogue on Saturday mornings, but I was never tempted to follow.
I wasn't any more interested in visiting Jewish sites when I was away from home, not the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., nor the art nouveau synagogue in Paris' Marais district. Maybe that's because I'd always felt as if Judaism was just another "should" in my life, something I was supposed to embrace, but that didn't necessarily feel organic to my being.
Rome's Great Synagogue. (Photo: Shutterstock)
So when I went to Rome in 2000, in my mid-thirties, I didn't intend to seek out all things Jewish. I wasn't keen to see the Jewish ghetto, a place I'd heard about only vaguely, nor the famous Great Synagogue, with its unusual squared off dome. I preferred to tour the evocative Forum and the Pantheon with its round window to the sky, to pursue other, more sensual pleasures: the gelato served in teensy cups topped with fresh cream; the heaping plates of cacio e pepe, essentially pasta, salt, pepper, and pecorino cheese, a dish that tasted like comfort. I reveled in the light, the light, the sun glancing off graffiti-strewn buildings in coral and rose and ochre, a new ruin around every corner.
Yet, wherever I went, the question the airport cab driver had asked would arise again—Are you Italian?—the natives stopping me to ask for directions, assuming I was a local. I'd shrug helplessly, feeling a little thrill that I seemed one of them.
And soon enough, Rome did become a sort of second home: When a friend from New York moved there, following a moody Italian musician-boyfriend and eventually snagging a flat with a guest room around the corner from the Pantheon, it was easy to fall into a habit of returning to the city yearly if I could, to start learning the language, simply because I wanted to, as opposed to being forced, spending nights doing exercises from a green-and-white workbook, practicing rolling the rrr's in trattoria.
It was my American friend who took me for the first time to Trastevere, a neighborhood whose cobbled streets were nearly too narrow for Vespas, never mind modern cars, its chic artisan shops selling supple leather shoes and handbags in every color. One evening, she and I stood in the middle of the Ponte Sisto, the quarter's picturesque pedestrian bridge. To the left, I could see the glow of St. Peter's massive cupola in the distance; to the right, the squared-off dome of the synagogue against the cerulean sky. That's when she mentioned that Trastevere had a Jewish history of its own, along with the remains of an ancient synagogue or two. I learned that the first Jews had come there to live in the 2nd century BCE, outsiders from the Holy Land drawn by trading opportunities but banned from the heart of the city. Instead, they were forced to settle across the Tiber, the way New York City's Jews were forced to reside in apartments on the west side of Manhattan, rejected by the Upper East Side's exclusive co-op boards.
From Trastevere, I could walk to the Jewish ghetto in seven minutes, as I did the next day—not for the history, but to try a kosher-style restaurant, Nonna Betta (Grandma Betty), I'd heard was good. There, I dove into a plate of classic Roman-Jewish carciofi alla giudia, deep-fried local artichokes, salted liberally, like hand-cut potato chips without the guilt. Afterward, I took a stroll around the tiny neighborhood, making perfunctory stops at the two or three sad-looking stores selling silver Seder plates and menorahs, stopping to read the plaque commemorating the round-up of the Jews during the Holocaust, then looping back to the synagogue. It was closed, but the Jewish museum, in the basement, was open, and I decided to check it out, almost an afterthought.
When I stepped inside, I immediately spied glass cases filled with more of those silver Seder plates and menorahs, and my heart sank a little. But as my eyes grew accustomed to the dim light, I began to read about the history of the Jews in Rome, about how one pope treated the community with relative liberality while another levied unbearable taxes and yet another forced conversions, burned Torah scrolls, and forbade Jews to do business with Christians. I read about the synagogues that once dotted the city and about how the word ghetto was an Italian word, first used during the 16th century in Venice, where the Jews there were sequestered over a period of two centuries. And I read about how the Nazis rounded up the remaining Jews in Rome's ghetto, the ones who hadn't already left, on Oct. 16, 1943.
As I read, a painful knot formed in my throat, a slight welling in my eyes, the emotion I had been told to expect in Israel, the one I'd hoped for. Except I was feeling it in Rome, a city Jews had been a part of from the beginning. Was that why I felt so oddly comfortable here, more comfortable than I'd ever felt in the suburban Reform synagogue of my Long Island childhood, the rabbi's droning sermons doing nothing to move me?
Whenever anyone mistook me for Italian, I felt an unreasonable surge of pride, as if I'd finally come home.
When I emerged from the museum, blinking into the glow of late afternoon, I strolled past a tiny pink bakery where men with yarmulkes waited in line for challah, then lingered in the main piazza, watching schoolchildren just released from the Jewish day school kick a soccer ball. Ready to return home, I went around a corner to find a graceful fountain in a hidden piazza, a fountain ringed by bronze turtles up top and dancing young boys below, reaching their arms high as if to catch the plodding creatures.
Several days later, at dinner at Spirito Divino, a restaurant in the non-touristy part of Trastevere, I struck up a conversation with the proprietor. "Did you know that this building is the site of the oldest Roman house in the city—older, even than the Colosseum?" he informed me proudly. "And that it also used to be a synagogue?"
"Really?" I asked, feeling the unexpected tickle of goose flesh as he beckoned me outside and directed my attention to the portico, where, when I aimed the flashlight of my iPhone, I could just make out the ghostly impression of Hebrew letters. I felt a shiver of wonder then, the same shiver I felt when, back in Manhattan a few months later, I came across an article in the New York Times about Rome and the Jews. Apparently, genetic researchers had discovered that Ashkenazi Jewish women were not descended from Jews in the Middle East as had long been assumed. In fact, DNA suggested that while Jewish men came from Israel, many of the women may have actually been converts from Rome, courted by male Jewish traders looking for wives far from home.
I was an Ashkenazi Jewish woman, my grandparents hailing from the Ukraine on both sides. Could that mean that I was as much a true Roman as I was Jewish, DNA-wise? Was I Roman before I was Jewish? Is that why everyone thought I was Italian, why the synagogue museum and the Jewish history I'd learned there had moved me in a way other Jewish sites hadn't, the way Israel hadn't?
Whenever anyone mistook me for Italian, I felt an unreasonable surge of pride, as if I'd finally come home. I'd never quite felt that pride in my Jewishness before, at least in the soulful way I craved. But as I put all my Jewish experiences in Rome together—the artichokes, the ghetto, the museum, the synagogues old and new—I realized that maybe Rome felt like home for a different reason: Jews like me, perhaps Jews related to me, had been in the city almost from the very beginning, helping to build its great monuments (including the Colosseum), mixing with the locals, putting an indelible Jewish stamp on the local cuisine. I wanted to find out all about these people—my people. I wanted to claim my history.
On successive trips, each time speaking a tad more Italian, I found myself gravitating to the ghetto and to Trastevere, and doing something radical, at least for me: I started seeking out Jewish landmarks. I kept my eyes downward on my way to visit the turtle fountain, on the lookout for tiny brass plaques embedded in the cobblestones beneath my feet, bearing the names of families who had once lived there and had been extinguished in the death camps. Other days, I'd search out Roman Jewish cuisine, not just artichokes, but fiori di zucca—fried zucchini flowers stuffed with mozzarella, usually at Nonna Betta. Or I'd grab some "Jewish pizza," the name given to the rock-hard but tasty fruitcake baked by three Jewish sisters in the pink bakery I'd noticed. On one trip, with my 14-year-old nephew in tow, I even made it into the synagogue itself, the two of us settled together into a pew as our Jewish Roman guide shared tidbits, among them that the people dressed as gladiators gathered near the Colosseum were—surprise!—nearly all Jewish. "It started with one family here in the ghetto 50 years ago and has continued on," she told us.
"How about that? They're Jewish!" I said, turning to my nephew, with something very much like pride. Like belonging.
I still try to get to the city I love at least once a year. I now speak passable Italian, rolling my r's like a native. If I can work it out, I stay in Trastevere with friends, where I'm able to catch a glimpse of the synagogue's dome as I set out to buy my morning cappuccino and a warm, jam-filled cornetto. By lunchtime, I often find myself at an outside table at Nonna Betta, still a favorite, just down the street from where the Jews were carted away in 1943. The waiters know me by now and greet me like family, kissing me on both cheeks before bringing me my fried artichokes and zucchini flowers. I bite into the delicacies, take a sip of wine, and feel at home.
Recently, at the tail end of my latest trip, in a taxi, heading to the edges of Trastevere for pizza, the driver asked, "You're Italian, right? Roman? There's something about your eyes, something about your face … I can tell."
Maybe he was flirting, but I like to think he saw something in me, my Roman-Jewish lineage stretching back 2,000 years, a lineage I somehow sensed from the moment I touched down on the tarmac of this pink-and-gold city, with its crumbling stones so reminiscent of Jerusalem.
"Si," I replied to the driver. "Sono un'ebrea romana." I am a Roman Jew.
"Ah, un'ebrea!" he replied, eyes gleaming. "Bella!" Beautiful. I had to agree.
Paula Derrow is a writer and editor living in New York City.


Texas Wine Tours of Fredericksburg provides the best wine tours along the 290 Wine Road and in the Texas Wine Country. Our Texas wine region is one of the most visited wine areas in the USA with up to 5 million visitors each year.
Texas Wine Tours are perfect for bachelorette parties, girlfriend getaways, or large gatherings who want a memorable tour as part of their Fredericksburg getaway.


The Petits Chefs cooked and baked from @jannisescott1 's #oventotablecookbook this week. 15 boys made Twenty Minute Chicken Noodle Soup and Raspberry Swirl Brownies in under an hour in a cramped STEM lab. The great thing about Jan's book is that the recipes involve minimal cleanup so we were out the door with our soup and our brownies (a complete meal, n'est ce pas!?) in an hour. AND cleanup was done! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 Read all about it in the "Petits Chefs" highlight in my profile! Thanks @penguincanada for the review copy!
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Benzinga's Insider Buys of the Week: Sprint, Cheniere Energy Partners And More
Nelson Hem
Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors.
Some beneficial owners made notable purchases of shares last week.
Insider buys at one company coincide with the selection of a new financial officer.
Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10-percent owners only buy shares of a company for one reason — they believe the stock price will rise and they want to profit from it. So insider buys can be an encouraging signal for potential investors, particularly in an overpriced market or after disappointing news.
Here's a look at some notable insider purchases reported in the past week.
Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) saw beneficial owner Softbank scoop up another 4.30 million or so shares of this second-tier telecom at prices that averaged $5.96 each, for a total of more than $25.6 million. Note that this was a continuation of Softbank's share-buying throughout December.
Sprint just named a new chief financial officer, Michael Combes, the former CEO of Altice. On last look the share price at Sprint was at $5.80, a level that's down a bit from Softbank's most recent insider purchase prices, as well as less than 2-percent lower year to date.
Cheniere Energy Partners LP (NYSE: CQP) saw two beneficial owners, Blackstone CQP Common Holdco and GSO Holdings, purchased more than 919,600 shares of this natural gas-focused firm at between $29.49 and $29.63 apiece for a total of more than $27.2 million. This too was a continuation of December buys made by these two 10-percent owners.
Stifel recently initiated coverage on the stock but with a Hold rating. The shares closed most recently at $29.70, still near the purchase price and essentially flat year-to-date.
See also:Benzinga's Insider Buys Of The Week: Prospect Capital, Omega Healthcare Investors And More
The Biglari Holdings Inc (NYSE: BH) founder and CEO, Sardar Biglari, acquired more than 3.200 shares of restaurant chain operator this past week. At between $416.95 and $419.32 a share, that cost him more than $738,000. Note that Biglari is a frequent buyer of small batches of shares, and his most recent stake is listed as being more than 684,000 shares.
Before the end of the year, the owner of Steak 'n Shake and Maxim magazine announced plans to become a dual-class stock with A shares and B shares. The stock closed most recently at $417.98, which is in the range of Biglari's latest purchase prices. It is also fractionally lower year-to-date.
At Compass Diversified Holdings (NYSE: CODI), six insiders altogether bought more than 29,200 shares of this private equity firm. At a share price of $17.24, those purchases totaled around $503,000. The transactions occurred about the same time as the company announced its quarterly distributions for common and preferred shares.
Shares of this Westport, Connecticut-based company have traded mostly between $16 and $19 in the past 18 months. The stock ended last week at $17.40 per share, up about 2 percent for the week, so the purchases appear to be well timed.
At the time of this writing, the author had no position in the mentioned equities.
Keep up with all the latest breaking news and trading ideas by following Benzinga on Twitter.
Photo by M.O. Stevens/Wikimedia.
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December 29, 2010 – Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with Al Jazeera English TV about climate change, global warming deniers, and looking ahead.
Climate Science Watch spoke with climate scientist Dr. Benjamin Santer about the attribution of extreme weather events to Climate Change.
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TEST(EncodingHexTest, is_hex_char)
{
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('0'));
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('9'));
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('A'));
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('F'));
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('a'));
    EXPECT_TRUE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('f'));

    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('G'));
    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('g'));
    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('+'));
    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('-'));
    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char('@'));
    EXPECT_FALSE(encoding::hex::is_hex_char(' '));
}

TEST(EncodingHexTest, from_hex_char)
{
    EXPECT_EQ(0, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('0'));
    EXPECT_EQ(9, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('9'));
    EXPECT_EQ(10, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('A'));
    EXPECT_EQ(10, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('a'));
    EXPECT_EQ(15, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('F'));
    EXPECT_EQ(15, encoding::hex::from_hex_char('f'));
}

TEST(EncodingHexTest, encode)
{
    unsigned char buf[] {
        0x00, 0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x9A, 0xBC, 0xDE, 0xFF
    };

    EXPECT_EQ("00123456789ABCDEFF", encoding::hex::encode(buf, ARRAY_SIZE(buf)));
    EXPECT_EQ("", encoding::hex::encode(buf, 0));
}

TEST(EncodingHexTest, decode)
{
    std::string s = "00123456789ABCDEFF";
    std::string invalid = "012";

    unsigned char data[1024];

    EXPECT_GT(0, encoding::hex::decode(invalid, data));
}


Poor Syria. Strategically located at the northern edge of the Middle East on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, with its archeological finds dating back nearly eight thousand years, is perhaps the oldest continually inhabited place of the world. Its two most important cities Aleppo and Damascus had been the capitals of numerous empires dating back at least to the thirtieth century BC. Throughout its history, ancient Syria was blessed with productive agriculture, profitable trade as well as thriving urbanized culture that created religions and philosophies, and invented the very first alphabet. On the other hand, ancient and modern Syria had been also cursed and shaped by never ending cycles of religious and sectarian violence.
The roots of the civil war that started in the beginning of 2011 go back to the mid-9th century when Ibn Nusayr declared himself the "Bab" – the "gateway to truth." Proclaiming his teachings to be the only true religion, Ibn Nusayr preached the Holy Trinity of Muhammad, his cousin and son in law Husayn ibn Ali, and Salman al-Farisi, a freed Persian slave of Muhammad's. Ali was also elevated to be the Jesus-like incarnation of divinity. Borrowing further from Christianity, he made the symbolic presentation of bread and wine an integral part of religious services, in which wine represents God himself. Moreover, the Nusayris, also called Alawis or Ansaris, celebrate almost all Christian festivals and holidays, and worship most of the Christian saints. Finally, Ibn Nusayr denied the five pillars of Islam and rejected the Shari'a in its entirety.
Dozens of alleged refugees have entered Germany on fake Syrian passports, which were produced using technology similar to that used to forge documents for some of the perpetrators of the Paris attacks, the German Bild newspaper reported Tuesday, citing government sources.
Last week, two French citizens posing as refugees were arrested in Austria on suspicion of having links to the November 13 Paris terror attacks. The suspects, of Algerian and Pakistani descent, were allegedly using fake Syrian passports and are believed to have entered Austria with some of the Paris attackers in October. Individuals posing as refugees entered Germany using passports made by the same means as those found on the suspects arrested in Austria.
"They contain the same features of forgery," one of the sources told the German media outlet.
I attended USCIS's Asylum Division Quarterly Stakeholder Meeting last week. It was led by John Lafferty, chief of the Asylum Division. Those present were, for the most part, USCIS staff and immigration lawyers in charge of representing asylum seekers and refugees.
The Asylum Division suffers from a high staff turnover. Loss of trained staff means recruiting and training others to do the job. It is also understaffed. Officers have a hard time meeting quotas set by the president.
Understand that the debate about Syrian refugees in the United States is a political sideshow. It has nothing to do with ending the crisis in Syria itself, nothing to do with helping France and Lebanon fight Jihadi terror, and nothing to do with xenophobia. Should the United States offer refuge to Syrians fleeing the war? Absolutely. But let's get some perspective.


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Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competition
Christos K. Argus*, Nicholas D. Gill, Justin W. L. Keogh, Will G. Hopkins, C. Martyn Beaven
Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competition. J Strength Cond Res 23(5): 1583-1592, 2009-The purpose of this investigation was to assess changes in strength, power, and levels of testosterone and cortisol over a 13-week elite competitive rugby union season. Thirty-two professional rugby union athletes from a Super 14 rugby team (age, 24.4 +/- 2.7 years; height, 184.7 +/- 6.2 cm; mass, 104.0 +/- 11.2 kg; mean +/- SD) were assessed for upper-body and lower-body strength (bench press and box squat, respectively) and power (bench throw and jump squat, respectively) up to 5 times throughout the competitive season. Salivary testosterone and cortisol samples, along with ratings of perceived soreness and tiredness, were also obtained before each power assessment. An effect size of 0.2 was interpreted as the smallest worthwhile change. A small increase in lower-body strength was observed over the study period (8.5%; 90% confidence limits +/- 7.2%), whereas upper-body strength was maintained (-1.2%; +/- 2.7%). Decreases in lower-body power (-3.3%; +/- 5.5%) and upper-body power (-3.4; +/- 4.9%) were small and trivial. There were moderate increases in testosterone (54%; +/- 27%) and cortisol (97%; +/- 51%) over the competitive season, and the testosterone to cortisol ratio showed a small decline (22%; +/- 25%), whereas changes in perceived soreness and tiredness were trivial. Individual differences over the competitive season for all measures were mostly trivial or inestimable. Some small to moderate relationships were observed between strength and power; however, relationships between hormonal concentrations and performance were mainly trivial but unclear. Positive adaptation in strength and power may be primarily affected by cumulative training volume and stimulus over a competitive season. Greater than 2 resistance sessions per week may be needed to improve strength and power in elite rugby union athletes during a competitive season.
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
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Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competitionAccepted author manuscript, 158 KBLicence: Other
Argus, C. K., Gill, N. D., Keogh, J. W. L., Hopkins, W. G., & Beaven, C. M. (2009). Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competition. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 23(5), 1583-1592. https://doi.org/10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181a392d9
Argus, Christos K. ; Gill, Nicholas D. ; Keogh, Justin W. L. ; Hopkins, Will G. ; Beaven, C. Martyn. / Changes in strength, power, and steroid hormones during a professional rugby union competition. In: Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 2009 ; Vol. 23, No. 5. pp. 1583-1592.
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Archaeoscope have been commisioned to design various databases to hold archaeological records such as context details, artefact descriptions, drawing and photographic information etc. for On Site Archaeology and Field Archaeology Specialists Ltd., and recruitment / job vacancy details / applicant details for the Northern Education Consultancy. The archaeological databases were created to operate in conjunction with GIS systems used by the two contracting units to help in the analysis of site data prior to publication of the findings. We have recently designed a project management database on behalf of ARCUS.
The Northern Education Consultancy database was designed to aid updates to their recruitment web site. An online MySQL database houses current job vacancies, and is linked via PHP to deliver dynamic content to various pages in their web site and provide an online search facility of the database. A second database is used to hold data on potential applicants looking for work, which applicants themselves can add to via an online form.
An example of a simple archaeological database housing plan records can be viewed at saida_index.php. This comprises two tables, one holding the drawing register and another holding information linking contexts to relevant drawings. The drawing records can be browsed by number, searched by keywords in their descriptions, or a context number can be entered and a list of relevant drawings will be returned. The results are linked to a CAD file of the drawing where one exists.
Database driven web sites need not be queryable, but can enable the client to perform their own updates. An example is the excavation & research page of this site, which delivers content from a database without the viewer necessarily being aware of this. Any addition to the database is immediately reflected in the page content without any alteration to the html coding. An example of database delivered archaeological context information can be viewed via the Archaeoscope context database. Here, the context list is extracted directly from the database, and further details are returned if a context number is clicked. Select a site from those listed below to view the context information.
Databases have also been designed to store archaeological and historical information relating to a potential major redevelopment of the Hungate area in York. We are also able to offer more general database design, usually implemented in familiar environments such as Microsoft Access, for general data management.


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Intel to cut 12,000 staff as PC sales collapse
Intel is cutting 12,000 jobs in the next year as the PC market flounders and it concentrates on the internet of things.
The move, which the company is calling a "restructuring initiative", will see the equivalent of 11 per cent of its global staff made redundant.
The reduction in staff will see global "site consolidations" as well as both voluntary and involuntary redundancies. In an email to staff CEO Brian Krzanich wrote that most of the closures and losses would be detailed to staff during the next 60 days but some would last until 2017. "These are not changes I take lightly," Krzanich said, before going to explain that the job losses were part of a long-term strategy to alter the business.
Intel, which made its name in the PC business, will now focus on the internet of things and data centres. Krzanich said he wanted to make Intel the "leader for the smart, connected world".
The two areas accounted for 40 per cent of Intel's revenue and most of its operating profit in the last year, Intel said in a statement. Both of the profitable areas "largely offset the decline in the PC market segment".
According to figures from Gartner the first quarter of 2016 saw a nine per cent drop in PC sales compared to the first quarter of the previous year – 64.8 million units were shipped, the analysts said. The quarter was the sixth consecutive one where PC shipments declined and the first time since 2007 when the amount of PCs shipped fell below 65 million units.
In recent years Intel has changed its business focus as sales of PCs have dropped off. This has included a big push on wearable devices.
In June 2015 the company announced it had purchased smart eyewear makers Recon for an undisclosed fee. Intel has also made strides into the wearables world and collaborated on an Android Wear watch with Tag Heur and Google.
The company also recently unveiled its button-sized Curie module that could power the wearables of the future. The device was built on a tiny Intel chip called Quark SE and also contains Bluetooth, motion sensors and battery charging capabilities.
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Thomas Pendergast , known as Thomas Pendergast (12 January 1870–1946) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Accrington.

Season 1889-90
Thomas Pendergast made his club and League debut as a 19 year old on 19 October 1889. The match was played at Thorneyholme Road, Accrington and the visitors were Burnley. Pendergast played as a left-sided inside forward. The match ended 2-2. He played 16 of Accrington' 22 League fixtures, all at Inside-Forward and he scored six goals in the season. The Lancashire Evening Post of 20 November 1889 made reference to Pendergast's first club and League goal which put Accrington 1-0 up. "Directly afterwards, however, Pendergast drew first blood." The article also states that Pendergast had a shot saved by Jimmy Warner not long after he scored. During the first-half Villa had taken a 2-1 lead and it was Pendergast who put them back in front. "The Reds (Accrington) had a fruitless corner, but before long Pendergast scored with a simple shot.

He later played for Accrington Stanley and was a director of that club for many years.

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1870 births
1946 deaths
English footballers
Accrington F.C. players
English Football League players
Association football forwards

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The good guys are loosing and the bad guys are winning and the only place that the good guys win is in the movies. Have you ever wondered why that happens, not that the bad guys loose in the movies but why the good guys loose in real life.
Society is based on people doing the right thing for the benefit of that society. We have law enforcement for correcting the status quo when someone breaks the laws of the society. What we are finding at present is that the communication medium that is the internet is totally lawless and hard to police.
The largest problem is the good guys always have to play catch up. It is like the old west movies, something happens – bank gets robbed, cattle get stolen – then the good guys have to form a posse, and light off into the distance, so that they can catch the bad guys sometime without results.
This reactive process is how society has been living for hundreds or even thousands of years, and at present there will be no change on the horizon. So what can we do to protect ourselves from the lawlessness of the Internet?
Tricky question and the answer is that you have to start thinking like the bad guys. By thinking like the bad guys you start to put strategies and tactics in place that are designed to protect you from the real bad guys. To do this you need to look at a number of systems that will deliver the required protection.
Don't go to or download from dubious sites, in most situations free is bad.
Just a few ideas when it comes to protecting your business from the bad guys. One final word, talk to an ethical hacker and get a penetration test done on your business. This will define how secure you really are.
The bad guys may still win but by using better protection than they are expecting they will probably move on to easier targets, and it is so much better if the bad guys rob another bank than yours isn't it!!!!
Good stuff in the article and yes, among all others, important are the vpn connections which keeps your traffic private as it should.


"The pre-show hours are a great opportunity for dealers and other members of the industry to meet exhibitors before the general public arrives," said event director Bina Bilenky. "And the parties are a chance to hang with our star artisans and presenters."
Now in its eighth year, the Philly Bike Expo will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Hall E. The event includes workshops and seminars, a large test-ride area, food trucks and a kids' zone.