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Harnessing Noise in Optical Computing for AI
A research team has developed new optical computing hardware for AI and machine learning, which it says is faster and much more energy efficient than conventional electronics.
February 23, 2022 Holt Hackney Applications & Technology, Applications & Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning 0
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are currently affecting our lives in many small but meaningful ways. In the near future, it's predicted that these technologies will have an even larger impact through activities such as driving fully autonomous vehicles, enabling complex scientific research and creating efficiencies within the enterprise.
But the computers used for AI and machine learning demand a lot of energy. Currently, the need for computing power related to these technologies is doubling roughly every three to four months. And cloud computing data centers used by AI and machine learning applications worldwide are already devouring more electrical power per year than some small countries. It's easy to see that this level of energy consumption is unsustainable.
A research team led by the University of Washington has developed new optical computing hardware for AI and machine learning, which it says is faster and much more energy efficient than conventional electronics. The research also addresses another challenge — the 'noise' inherent to optical computing that can interfere with computing precision.
In a new paper, published Jan. 21 in Science Advances, the team demonstrates an optical computing system for AI and machine learning that not only mitigates this noise, but actually uses some of it as input to help enhance the creative output of the artificial neural network within the system.
"We've built an optical computer that is faster than a conventional digital computer," said lead author Changming Wu, a UW doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering. "And also, this optical computer can create new things based on random inputs generated from the optical noise that most researchers tried to evade."
Optical computing noise essentially comes from stray light particles, or photons, that originate from the operation of lasers within the device and background thermal radiation. To target noise, the researchers connected their optical computing core to a special type of machine learning network, called a Generative Adversarial Network.
The team tested several noise mitigation techniques, which included using some of the noise generated by the optical computing core to serve as random inputs for the GAN.
For example, the team assigned the GAN the task of learning how to handwrite the number "7" like a person would. The optical computer could not simply print out the number according to a prescribed font. It had to learn the task much like a child would, by looking at visual samples of handwriting and practicing until it could write the number correctly. Of course the optical computer didn't have a human hand for writing, so its form of "handwriting" was to generate digital images that had a style similar to the samples it had studied, but were not identical to them.
"Instead of training the network to read handwritten numbers, we trained the network to learn to write numbers, mimicking visual samples of handwriting that it was trained on," said senior author Mo Li, a UW professor of electrical and computer engineering. "We, with the help of our computer science collaborators at Duke University, also showed that the GAN can mitigate the negative impact of the optical computing hardware noises by using a training algorithm that is robust to errors and noises. More than that, the network actually uses the noises as random input that is needed to generate output instances."
After learning from handwritten samples of the number seven, which were from a standard AI-training image set, the GAN practiced writing "7" until it could do it successfully. Along the way, it developed its own distinct writing style and could write numbers from one to 10 in computer simulations.
The next steps include building this device at a larger scale using current semiconductor manufacturing technology. So, instead of constructing the next version of the device in a lab, the team plans to use an industrial semiconductor foundry to achieve wafer-scale technology. A larger-scale device will further improve performance and allow the research team to do more complex tasks beyond handwriting generation such as creating artwork and even videos.
"This optical system represents a computer hardware architecture that can enhance the creativity of artificial neural networks used in AI and machine learning, but more importantly, it demonstrates the viability for this system at a large scale where noise and errors can be mitigated and even harnessed," Li said. "AI applications are growing so fast that in the future, their energy consumption will be unsustainable. This technology has the potential to help reduce that energy consumption, making AI and machine learning environmentally sustainable — and very fast, achieving higher performance overall."
Additional co-authors are Ruoming Peng, a UW doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering; Xiaoxuan Yang, a doctoral student at Duke University; Heshan Yu, a research associate at University of Maryland, College Park; Ichiro Takeuchi, a professor at University of Maryland, College Park; and Yiran Chen, a professor at Duke University. This research was funded by the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office. Part of this work was conducted at the Washington Nanofabrication Facility at the UW.
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Fossils of a Prehistoric Rainforest Hide in Australia's Rusted Rocks
Australia's Central Tablelands, hundreds of miles northwest of Sydney, are dominated today by grasses and spindly trees. But scientists recently discovered that some of the area's rusted rocks conceal traces of the lush rainforests that covered the area 15 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch.
The area, McGraths Flat, is not Australia's only Miocene deposit, but these new fossils are a paleontological boon because of their exquisite preservation. Over the past three years paleontologists have excavated flowers, insects and even a bird's wispy feather.
The scientists' discoveries, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, help reconstruct Australia's Miocene rainforest in extensive detail, and the site "opens a whole new area of exploration for Australian paleontology," said Scott Hocknull, a paleontologist at Queensland Museum who was not involved in the research.
Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat. Nearly devoid of oxygen, this stagnant pool kept scavengers at bay, allowing plant material and animal carcasses to accumulate. As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong, the pool's low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material. As a result, the fossils at McGraths Flat are preserved in a dense, iron-rich rock known as goethite.
This method of fossilization is uncommon, Dr. Hocknull said. Because quality fossils are rarely found in igneous rocks, paleontologists often overlook them. However, the fossils from McGraths Flat illustrate that goethite, which is common in Australia, can yield remarkable fossils.
"There's no shortage of goethite," Dr. Hocknull said. "We're essentially a rusting country."
Because of their iron-tinted origins, many of the fossils from McGraths Flat glimmer with a metallic sheen. In addition to pristine plants, the goethite is crawling with fossilized insects. As they split apart the brick-colored slabs of stone, the researchers have discovered a miniature menagerie of giant cicadas, dragonflies and parasitic wasps. And many are remarkably preserved — some ancient flies sport the detailed imprints of their compound eyes.
The site has also yielded more than a dozen archaic arachnids. While insects have sturdy exoskeletons, Michael Frese, a virologist and paleontologist at the University of Canberra and a co-author of the study, likens spiders to "squishy bags of liquid." As a result, Australia's fossil record of spiders was nearly nonexistent before McGraths Flat.
The fossils are so well preserved that the paleontologists were able to observe relationships between species — something that is often difficult to parse from fossil sites, according to Matthew McCurry, the curator of paleontology at The Australian Museum and the study's lead author. For example, the team observed parasites fastened to a fish's tail and a nematode that had infiltrated a longhorn beetle.
Dr. Frese utilized an electron microscope and microphotography techniques to examine the rainforest's inhabitants. While imaging a fossilized sawfly, Dr. Frese discovered a clump of pollen on the bee-like insect's head.
"We can tell which flower was visited by this particular sawfly before it fell into the water and met its untimely end," Dr. Frese said. "That would not be possible if the quality of preservation was not as high."
The pollen also revealed that the rainforest was surrounded by drier environments, making it likely that McGraths Flat represents a remnant patch of a once larger forest. According to Dr. McCurry, this makes sense considering the climatic trends of the Miocene.
When these insects scurried around the iron-tainted billabong, Australia was drifting northward, away from Antarctica. As it traveled, its climate drastically dried out, causing the rainforests to retract and leading to widespread extinctions.
The researchers believe McGraths Flat offers an intimate glimpse of how this dramatic climate transition affected particular species within the rainforest ecosystem. For instance, some insects found at McGraths Flat endured drier conditions while others are now found only in northern Australia's remnant pockets of rainforest.
"Studying these fossil ecosystems, we can see which species were better able to adapt to those changes," Dr. McCurry said. "We can potentially predict which are most at risk in terms of future changes."
Dr. Frese said that McGraths Flat was particularly useful for reconstructing ancient ecosystems because of the breadth of species it preserved.
"Our site is different because it's all small fossils, but in the end, I think it will tell us more about what has happened in the ecosystem," Dr. Frese said. "You do not need to find a one-ton terror bird to tell this story."
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It's going to be a long day, thank goodness for good stereo equipment.
Incredible Blues album I found tonight called Tank Full Of Blues by Dion.
Yes that Dion from the 1960's who did Abraham, Martin & John and a bunch of doo-wop hits.
Guy can really write and play the guitar.
Link Wray, Beans and Fatback.
Picked it up on Record Store, just got around to playing now.
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Bugsy | 1991
Bugsy film location: Virginia Hill's mansion: Plymouth Boulevard, Hancock Park
Los Angeles, California; Nevada
Warren Beatty,
Annette Bening,
Ben Kingsley,
Elliott Gould,
Bebe Neuwirth,
Joe Mantegna
Biopic of the man who, according to legend, built Las Vegas. The real Bugsy – sorry, Benny – Siegel was gunned down, shot through the eyes (see the tasteful picture in Kenneth Anger's wickedly pleasurable Hollywood Babylon) at his home in Beverly Hills, 810 Linden Drive.
The 1940s Beverly Hills of the film, though, is largely represented by Los Angeles' eastern neighbour, Pasadena, where the houses of Jack Dragna and Bugsy himself were filmed. The home of Virginia Hill (Annette Bening) is 425 South Plymouth Boulevard in the Hancock Park district of midtown Los Angeles.
Bugsy film location: Bugsy is welcomed to LA by George Raft: Union Station, North Alameda Street, Downtown Los Angeles
Siegel (Warren Beatty) is met on arrival in Los Angeles by George Raft (Joe Mantegna) at the wonderful Spanish-style Union Station, 800 North Alameda Street. There's impressive attention to detail  the famous sign in the hills, glimpsed only briefly in the background during the drive to Hollywood, actually reads 'HOLLYWOODLAND', as it did until 1949.
The Flamingo of the movie looks very different to the Las Vegas casino of today, and had to be rebuilt in its original form out in Thermal, south of I-10 between Palm Springs and Salton Sea in the Southern California desert.
The pink neon Flamingo as it's seen today appears at the end of Bugsy. Bugsy's rose garden (it was alleged, only half jokingly, that several of his enemies rested beneath it) was finally paved over in 1990, and in 1993 Siegel's on-site penthouse was demolished to make way for the new water park. See the Flamingo today at 3555 Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Bugsy location: the mobsters's meeting at the 'Hotel Nacional de Cuba': Castle Green Apartments, South Raymond Avenue, Pasadena
The 'Hotel Nacional de Cuba', where the gang leaders gather to discuss Bugsy's future, is a conflation of two buildings. The grandiose lobby is the familiar Park Plaza Hotel, 607 South Park View Street, downtown Los Angeles. The hotel has featured in dozens of films – see its imposing lobby again in The Naked Gun 33 1/3, Less Than Zero and David Lynch's Wild At Heart. The exterior is the astonishing Castle Green, 99 South Raymond Avenue at East Green Street just south of Colorado Boulevard in central Pasadena.
This Moorish fantasy, which you have to see to believe, was built at the turn of the century as an annexe to an older hotel on the other side of Raymond Avenue. The older hotel was demolished in the Thirties, leaving the stump of the strange connecting bridge straddling the avenue. The interior of Castle Green can be seen in lots of films including The Sting, The Man With Two Brains and The Last Samurai.
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You may be asking, "Why should I care about the Workforce Readiness Program certification?" It is our goal that all businesses will recognize the certificate as an endorsement that the student is ready to successfully enter the workforce. We also hope the certificate will give students a head start in the market place, giving them a stamp of approval when the student is applying to college or a job. Data will be collected on students throughout the year and award certificates will be given based on this data. The program is designed to evaluate both quantitative and qualitative criteria, including attendance, disciplinary record, and soft skills. Every student is eligible for this program, and every student is capable of achieving a certificate, as the power to achieve lies within their hands. Implementation of the program has already begun.
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So this weekend I tried out Barton G and it is definitely in my top 5 favorite restaurants. The food presentations are incredible. Very creative.
The bread looks like donuts.
This is the "Laughing Bird Popcorn Shrimp"
I ordered the "Rake and Ho Garden" salad, perfect for my vegetarians out there. It was so cute they had seed packets for the flax seeds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds.
And if you have room for dessert their most popular dessert is the "Marie Antoinette's Head - Let Them Eat Cake"
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During a press briefing on Thursday where authorities in Florida addressed the mass shooting at another American school, officials said that GoFundMe is a safe place to donate to help victims - and donors jumped at the chance.
A little after 10:30 ET, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and other leaders spoke from Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed in a school. During the update, officials urged people to donate to the GoFundMe and called it a 'safe place' for donations.
When that happened, the GoFundMe spiked $4,000 in about a minute. About five minutes, the total was at $58,300 and counting. At 11:30 am, the GoFundMe account was at $114,400.
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See The Able, Not The Label
By Amanda Kong
Last Saturday, marked a milestone in raising social awareness about inclusive fashion as 2nd year law students of BAC held a fashion show like none other at the Central Piazza, KL Gateway Mall. It was unique for one significant reason – the conventional tall and slender runway models were this time replaced by persons with disabilities.
Organised by students, aptly named 'Under-rated' and in partnership with the Asian Designers Guild founded by leading fashion designer Bill Keith, the show themed 'Glamour Includes', hinges on Sustainable Development Goal 10 for reduced inequalities.
The event was graced by Lembah Pantai MP Fahmi Fadzil and Senator Bathmavathi Krishnan, a special needs advocate.
Being included isn't a privilege, it is a right. This holds true as Glamour Includes is a fashion show for the differently abled community. Eight wonderful individuals together with eight Malaysian fashion designers from the Asian Designers Guild (ADG) collaborated for the very first time with one message in mind; inclusion of those with disabilities into the fashion world.
The arrival of Glamour Includes also presents a great opportunity to talk about disability and fashion.
There are two main issues to tackle. Firstly, current fashionable clothes have not been traditionally designed with those with limited mobility in mind. For example, buttons or zips would immediately present a challenge to many. With over a million wheelchair users in Malaysia alone, this is a significant group to exclude.
Secondly, adapted clothes for those with disabilities have habitually been a bit lacklustre. Fashion brands tend to focus on practicability rather than aesthetic appearance, hence resulting to serious lack of trendy clothing which is functional for the differently abled community.
I was grateful to be given an opportunity to be one of the models. This is the first fashion show I attended, and I got to experience a catwalk for the very first time. The efforts and initiatives taken by BAC and the designers from ADG to make this event a success is truly appreciated.
I got to know and also work with various amazing individuals. It is a great start to promote inclusivity for persons with disability in the Malaysian fashion industry.
About Amanda Kong
Diagnosed with congenital glaucoma as a young child, Amanda Kong Hwei Zhen could see bright colours and shades of light. But this did not deter her from defying the odds to secure a First Class law degree from the University of Liverpool. Currently, Amanda is pursuing her pupilage at one of Malaysia's oldest, largest and most awarded legal firms in the country, Skrine & Co.
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Ryan, the second trombone in the CPO, came to the instrument by chance. He was a trumpeter, grounded in the Moravian Church in Bellville from the age of 13, and three years later when to study at the Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre. There it was decided that he should transfer to the trombone and he knew then that this would be his future – he would be a professional trombonist.
Ryan then went to study music at UCT and there he soon realized that he would need to get much more experience if he was to play in more than the wind band and the Big Band – he wanted to play in the symphony orchestra. Encouraged by friends who saw how important the experience was obtained in the CPYO, he signed on in 2008 and for the next couple of years. His confidence and his proficiency boosted thanks to the CPYO, he was soon accepted into the UCT Symphony Orchestra.
At the beginning of 2011, the CPO was invited to tour America and Ryan was invited to go along – there was a vacancy in the trombones and he filled it, first on tour and then he auditioned and won the position.
"Without the CPYO, I would not be here," he says. "I developed a love of concerts, going far more regularly to hear the professional orchestra and learned how a good professional brass section really sounds. When I was in the CPYO, I would always ask the professional musicians for advice, and I am happy to do the same for my young colleagues in today's youth orchestra and wind ensemble."
Ryan graduated from UCT with a B Mus, and credits Willy Haubrich, formerly principal trombone of the CTSO and now head of brass at UCT, CPO principal trombone Slava Mrazik, and Sean Kierman, with his accomplishments, all of whom gave him lessons. He also had master classes with Weston Sprott, assistant trombone in the Metropolitan Orchestra in New York, and Jürgen van Rijn, principal of the Concertgebouw Orchestra on its tour here a couple of years ago. He attended the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival twice, both times courtesy of bursaries from the CPO, and played in the SA National Youth Orchestra.
With the tight schedules the orchestra maintains, there's not much time for private work but he does go the off freelance gig and last year went with the Miagi Orchestra to play in Berlin and Amsterdam.
About the CPYO he has this to say: "Playing in that orchestra was inspirational and aspirational. What I learned was priceless. I was inspired to work hard, and I knew that I could be a professional musician and how to get there. I played great music and had the privilege to work with many different conductors.


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#ReleaseTheSnyderCut
In English, KommenTier
I will always stand by Zack Snyder, yet alone for Watchmen. An absolute masterpiece. I had high hopes when Snyder joined the DCEU. Batman v. Superman was flawed, but decent. Far from being perfect, but it had some great scenes and gave me hope, that the Justice League movie might be not so bad after all. Reality was, it was even worse. JL is close to be unwatchable. A lot of fans thought so, but they also thought that this is not really Snyders fault, but Warner Bros. Snyder left the project during post production, when one of his daughters died by suicide.
Joss Whedon took over and the rest is history. JL was not a complete disaster at the box office, but in the end, it kinda was. It's said that Whedon only shot 15-20% of the whole movie, so it's very unclear how he actually changed Snyders vision. But since the release, there is a rumor for a Snyder cut and now, there seems to be a movement that demands to finally see his vision. There is even a website where you register – https://surveyhero.com/ – I really appreciate the passion that his fans show. Amazing. If this will ever happen, who knows. But if would be very interesting for sure.
I'd love to see Snyders vision too, but I kinda doubt it would change how I feel about the movie. Other than the MCU, the DCEU never really made sense to me: Name one thing some of the others can do, that Superman can't? See. It just doesn't make sense to me. But okay. There could have been a better movie for sure, but I doubt that a slightly different cut would made JL so much better, but I don't know of course so yes, I'd love to see it. Hope it will happens sometime.
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Rolls-Royce in talks over powering up chemicals giant
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Derby-based Rolls-Royce is in talks to build a small-scale nuclear reactor to power Sir Jim Ratcliffe's chemicals plant in Scotland.
The Ineos boss is said to be keen to seal an agreement with Rolls for it to power the chemical refinery, in a move which could provide a blueprint for the future of heavy industry and engineering in the UK.
Rolls is at the head of a consortium which has plans to build several 470-megawatt modular nuclear reactors across the UK, as it looks to move away from its traditional air engine business.
The Derby giant needs customers signed up ahead of any construction, with each reactor estimated to cost around £1.8bn.
Ineos runs Grangemouth in conjunction with China's state-run Petro-China. The firm wants Grangemouth to be carbon neutral by 2045.
Last month, Rolls said it had identified the first locations for its small-scale reactors, with two sites Wales, Sellafield in Cumbria and Oldbury, near Bristol, pinpointed.
A spokesman for Rolls told The Telegraph: "Rolls-Royce SMR is talking to a number of industrial customers who see huge potential in using our UK developed technology to provide affordable, long-term, low carbon electricity, generated from a sustainable source. We do not comment publicly on any commercial discussions.
"In addition to generating low-carbon electricity for the grid, its small footprint and factory-built approach means the Rolls-Royce SMR can be deployed to power, energy intensive industrial processes, including the production of hydrogen and synthetic fuels."
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Hysteria – Def Leppard – 1987
Claimed Sales: 20m
First listen?: Yes
Format Listened?: CD
Conceived as the 'Metal version of Thriller' by producer Robert 'Mutt' Lange, Hysteria at least has the same level of consistency across its tracks as the biggest album of all time. Whether you could possibly describe this 80s Pop Rock album as Metal is a whole other matter and hearing this for the first time it's easy to see why Def Leppard's rock fans were disappointed. It's polished to perfection, the production across these tracks is undeniably impressive, everything is layered with precision with instruments fusing in and out of each other across every track. Breakout hit single Pour Some Sugar On Me is one of 80s Rock's strongest hooks, the vocoder led backing vocals setting the tone for other killer choruses on Armageddon It and Women; the former of these tracks featuring a key change that wouldn't be out of place on a Cher record. There's such a distinctive sound across every minute of Hysteria it's undeniably 80s, but there's a country leaning twang to it too. US #1 hit Love Bites is the strongest example of this, with the power chords and soaring vocals turning it into a Def Leppard stadium rock hit. The pace is up for most of the album, though the opening 6 tracks are most definitely the stand outs here. For the second half, Gods of War features an extended voice over clip backed by explosions which ends up being the most Metal moment of the album. The title track Hysteria is probably the most mellow moment of the record, Joe Elliott giving his strongest vocal performance of the album surrounded by smooth guitar solos. As an album, Hysteria is totally my sort of thing, expertly crafted with years of painstaking tweaks to every track, you can hear the work that has gone into it. It's nowhere near as heavy as I expected, this is most definitely 80s Pop Rock, but in the best way. Given the fact I had to physically buy the CD of Hysteria to listen to it for the first time, it feels like a risk that has paid off. This is one of the strongest Rock albums of the decade that I've heard.
Will I listen again?: Yes!
Best Track: Pour Some Sugar On Me is undeniably catchy, but it's Animal that manages to capture the magic of this album the best.
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Haute Tombette
Haute Tombette, St Mary
Haut de Tombette
Haute Tombette Carnation Farm
Rue de La Grosse Epine, St Mary
Farm group with buildings dating from 15th century
The property was sold for £650,000 in 2005
La Gerche: J La Gerche on Godfray map
According to the Jersey Datestone Register this stone was intended to read SM ER, but no interpretation has been made to support this assertion
1670 SMR E
IR SA 1670
Historic farm group of early origins. The farmhouse and adjoining outbuilding retain their proportions and historic stonework. The group as a whole contributes to the rural, roadside setting.
Haute Tombette displays Jersey's vernacular tradition in the use of local materials and details, with features including accolade lintels and a round arch doorway. A building on this site is shown on the Richmond Map of 1795. The building is considered to be from the 15th century with further developments taking place in the 17th and 19th centuries.
Two-storey five-bay house with two-storey wing to west, returning south as two-storey outbuilding. Detached to north is two-storey converted outbuilding. The inscribed lintel is thought to be a 16th century cill which has been carved and inverted to be used as a lintel.
Despite the age of the property it failed to make it into Volume One. A brief entry in the second volume mentions the datestone, and some architectural features:
"There is a simple square tourelle staircase which does not reach the first floor level, and this is understandable as the roof has clearly been raised. An interior stone wall took a chimney when the roof was thatched. The present front door is not contemporary, but a round arch now in the carnation packing room to the west must have been removed when the plastering was done. At the same time the arch was heightened by the addition of one stone on either side.
Tombette Cottages - we are not certain that this is part of the Haute Tombette property. It may be part of another property in St Mary known as Tombette
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Depends whom you ask (as we originally wrote here).
In the order in which the following media reports were published, she was
Twelve in September 2011 [quoted by Israellycool from an Arab source];
Eight in August 2012 [Source: +972, a far-left Israeli site];
Thirteen in December 2012 [Source: TimeTurk News and other Turkish sources];
Ten in December 2012 [Source: World Bulletin];
Thirteen in June 2013 [Source: Your Middle East];
Twelve in February 2014 [Source; The Guardian];
Fourteen in September 2015 [Source: NBC News];
Sixteen in February 2017 [a South African source].
So depending on which media report you want to believe, she was born (in the same order as those links above) in 1999, 2004, 1999, 2002, 2000, 2002, 2001 and 2001.
Making her now thirteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and/or eighteen.
It's hard to be precise. We assume all this vagueness is intentional and part of the family's manipulation of her appearance, her image and her life.
UPDATE January 1, 2018: We tweeted this evening [here] that the Tamimi girl is now 16 years and 11 months old according to the Israel Prison Service, quoted today over at JewishPress.com We think this emphasizes how, since the age of 9, she has been the product of her clan's and parents' inputs, cynical manipulation and child abuse.
Labels: Nabi Saleh, Sbarro, Tamimi, Weaponizing Children
JeffwithaJ said...
She's two years old, judging by her behavior.
She's a child warrior, pushed into it by her parents. It's shameless and child abuse.
Absolutely agree with Arthur. No child of 9 is capable of the sorts of decisions that bring her to thrust a fist into an armed soldier's face. Has anyone ever come across a parallel situation where Israel was not involved and where parents, with the cameras pointed and recording, tell a pre-pubescent child to get into a soldier's path and make trouble?
It's bad enough the parents aren't ostracized in their own village, or sanctioned by the law. But in the Tamimi case, the extremists of Amnesty declare the parents to be human rights heroes and spend a fortune parading Bassem Tamimi around the US. And don't lose their jobs.
Whatever innocence Ahed Tamimi may have possessed in those early days, she's not innocent now and as answerable for her bigotry and incitement to violence as her parents and near-kin are.


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FIRST Dates has a good track record for couples making it on the outside.
First Dates has a good track record for couples making it on the outside, with shows such as Love Island and Dinner Date having few partnerships that last a lifetime.
The Channel 4 dating show – which is fronted by iconic French Maître d'hôtel Fred Sirieix – has had its fair share of marriages and children, despite some dates that never quite make it off the ground.
The happy couple were matched on season eight of First Dates, after Greig was first dumped by another date before he'd finished his meal. But when he returned later in the season, he was partnered with Shaun – and love blossomed.
The gorgeous couple, who often share loved-up posts on social media, soon announced their engagement in December 2017. Shaun wrote: "I have some absolutely fantastic news for you all, sorry if I haven't managed to speak to you over the weekend in person. Last week, I asked Mr. Greig Fairweather to marry me.
This happy couple met on the show back in 2016, and left fans overjoyed when they confirmed they were expecting a baby on the show.
They share the first ever First Dates baby Aziza, who was born in April the following year.
Now, the gorgeous pair often gush over each other on Instagram, and even appeared on This Morning to show their young tot to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield.
Lauren was first matched the DJ Terry Turbo, but it didn't work out – especially after her asked her bra size.
She later found love with Dan, who appeared on the show in season five.
The pair have a little boy, Jude, together and are now expecting another baby together after getting engaged in 2017.
The pair met on the show in 2016, and announced their engagement a year later.
Speaking about the engagement, Hema said: "We went away to Copenhagen for my birthday with my sister and her husband.
"After a lovely meal and drinks on the first night, Ajai surprised me and was down on one knee! As he is always joking around most times, I thought this was also a big joke!"
Doreen and James first met on the show in 2017, melting viewers hearts in the process.
James emotionally revealed he had lost his beloved wife, and Doreen revealed her husband had run off with a younger woman following 46 years of marriage.
The pair are happily still together after James invited Doreen to his rose garden.


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"Everything is going to be fine
If it's not fine it's not the end."
(Oscar Wilde)
On the basis of the Federal Government's decision, overnight stays for touristic purposes are not permitted until 31 January 2021.
We are open for business travellers and private guests with impotant reasons.
We offer a range of six comfortable rooms between 13 qm and 33 qm (four have kitchenettes).
A brief video clip can be seen here.
Our family room can accommodate up to five people and is also suitable for guests with impaired mobility.
In 33m² (355 sq ft) you will find two comfortable double beds, a kitchenette and a spacious bathroom.
1–3 nights: 129 Euro
4–14 nights: 115 Euro
15–29 nights: 99 Euro
This 16m² (172 sq ft) room comes with a comfortable double bed, a kitchenette with a fridge and a modern bathroom.
1–3 nights: 79 Euro
4–14 nights: 69 Euro
This bright 20m² (215 sq ft) apartment with an en suite bathroom allows you to relax with up to two people
and create a meal in the separate kitchen.
This 16m² (172 sq ft) room is fitted with a double bed, modern bathroom, and a small kitchen for light cooking
with a stylish table and chairs where you can enjoy your meal.
Small but sweet (13 m²/139 sq ft), this double room has everything you need for a pleasant stay:
a comfortable bed, a modern bathroom, a desk and a wardrobe.
This small, quiet double room offers a lot of cosiness in 14 m² (150 sq ft) with a place to sit and work or eat,
a wardrobe, and a modern bathroom.
All prices are per person per night.
Every additional person will be charged €10,00 per night (except for in the family room in which children under 18 can stay for free with one or two adults).
The price per night doesn't include breakfast.
For the various options available, please see breakfast.
If you would like to stay for 30 days or more, please send your enquiry directly to
info@list-five.de.
All rooms are equipped with a flat screen TV and complimentary WiFi.
Hospitality Tray at List Five
We provide a hospitality tray with tea, coffee, biscuits and the like. We've also negotiated special breakfast deals at nearby cafés just for you.
Gourmet Breakfast
at Café List
(from 8:30 on weekdays)
Enjoy a relaxed breakfast at Café List, which caters to any budget or taste from 8:30 onwards (9:00 am on a Saturday, 10:00 am on a Sunday) – just 150m down the street.
The special discount for List Five guests includes a hot beverage, fresh baguette, and a selection of jams, meats, cheeses and fruit for EUR 9.00.
www.cafe-list.de
Early Bird Breakfast
at "Kantinchen" (weekdays from 7:00 am)
For early risers, there's always the breakfast deal at Kantinchen, just 50m away:
Enjoy a hot beverage, a Birchermuesli with fresh fruit or a savoury bagel for EUR 5,00 or a quick "French Breakfast" with a hot drink and croissant for EUR 3,00. The choice is your's!
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Here you can book by using
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You are also welcome to book simply by entering all other details and leaving the credit card details blank. You can then let me know whether you wish to be invoiced for your stay or would like to pay in cash or by EC-Card on arrival. I will also gladly book your stay for you if you let me know the relevant details (dates, room, number of people). Send me an email (info@list-five.de) or an SMS/Whatsapp (+49 (0)162-9541379) or just give me a call at the same number.
Cancellations up to 2 days before your planned arrival are free of charge.
For cancellations on the day before your arrival we will charge 50%, later cancellations may be charged in full.
List Five is situated in a quiet but central residential area in Stuttgart's south, close to many interesting little shops, cafés and restaurants. From the Hauptbahnhof you can be at List Five within 15 minutes by public transport or 10 minutes by taxi. It is a 40 minute journey by public transport or 15 minutes by taxi to the airport and trade fair.
From the Hauptbahnhof you can be at List Five
within 15 minutes.
The lines U6, U7, and U12 can take you from Hauptbahnhof to Bopser in 6 minutes. From there it is an uncomplicated 8 minute downhill walk to List Five. Alternatively, take bus No. 43 at Olgaeck (also on the lines U6, U7, and U12 from Hauptbahnhof) which will take you very close to List Five in just 6 minutes.
On your return journey (to save you the uphill walk) we recommend you take the U1 or U14 from Marienplatz (8 minutes' walk) to Hauptbahnhof (9 minute trip).
A taxi can take you to List Five in 10 minutes (about 15 EUR) from the main station or in 15 minutes from the airport
(about 30 EUR).
Please note that parking spots are a scarce commodity in the Lehenviertel. Depending on availability, you can rent a spot in our Innenhof (courtyard) for EUR 5.00 per night. We are currently on the lookout for more spots to rent in the area.
If you will be arriving by plane, please take the S-Bahn S2 or S3 towards the city centre/Hauptbahnhof and see our instructions for public transport and taxis above.
I have a passion for being a hostess and a great love of Britain developed during multiple stays across the Channel.
This inspired me to create a guesthouse the
style of British B&Bs.
I would be pleased to welcome you to List Five!
The List Five is a British-style guesthouse waiting to welcome you for your next stay in Stuttgart! We have six cosy and well-equipped rooms suitable for anyone from the single business person to the traveling family. Enjoy the luxury box spring beds, the British tea from the hospitality tray and the fluffy M&S towels. Whether you're just staying the night or you're in Stuttgart for a few weeks, we combine the flexibility of a hostel with the comforts of home.
List Five – Your British Guesthouse · Liststraße 5 · D 70180 Stuttgart
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I love Christmas! It is my favorite Holiday. Decorating, music, and yes the Christmas movies too. My top five, in no particular order, are Miracle on 34th Street, Charlie Brown Christmas, The Polar Express, Elf, and The Christmas Story.
I truly am thankful for so much in my life. I am thankful for my Savior, forgiveness, redemption, eternity with Christ. I am thankful for being rescued, redeemed, and transformed through God. I am thankful for my family, my husband, my two precious children, my daughter in heaven, and all of the relationships in my life. I am thankful for each and every circumstance, mountain I have to climb, and all the joys in my life.
My son and I very much alike. We have the same temperament, emotional, passionate, eager to please, and a big heart. He loves to hug and be close to one another.
Starbucks is a treat for me and although I wish I could order it more often I honestly only go when I have giftcards. So during the Christmas season and my birthday I am in love with three drinks! Peppermint Mocha, Pumpkin Spice Latte, and Coconut Mocha. I tried the Caramel Brulee with white mocha the other day and it was yummy too. I love coffee….
So there you have it, Me, Myself, and I link up questions. Would love to hear some of your answers too!
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Hello readers. For something different I would like to share something from the world of Theatre.
Showboat the Musical is currently being performed by a talented cast and crew from the Gold Coast Little Theatre.
Show Boat the Musical was last performed at Gold Coast Little Theatre in 1964, and is being performed as part of GCLT's Diamond Jubilee Season celebrating 60 years of community theatre on the Gold Coast.
If you are in the Gold Coast area I recommend you check it out!
Gold Coast Little Theatre presents Show Boat the Musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.
If you are in the Gold Coast area, check out this wonderful production. For more details check out their website.
This story comes from a talented young Russian writer, Yuri Borisov. I met Yuri recently on Vkontakte. Yuri is a writer with a lot potential.
Карты сброшены со стола, цепи сброшены с рук, глаза открыты, шаги сделаны – МЫ на воле…….
И правда, тепло…Снаружи и внутри…Люди, что окружают Меня, источают радость и добродушие…Они знают, Я знаю…Лечащий врач накормит нас чудотворным солнечным лекарством, и Мы возликуем!..
Я смотрю на Твои волосы, что блестят на солнце и отражают капли тепла Мне в сердце…Я смотрю на Твою улыбку, на этот врожденный признак Бога…Ты хочешь слов, но Я молчу – в голове лишь одно большое белое облако…Я просто греюсь в лучах солнца и наслаждаюсь близостью близких….
Я в помещении…Я вне помещения… Я где-то…Я опять что-то забыл…Я опять что-то потерял…Я предполагаю, что это Сон, но чувство страха, ПАНИКИ НЕ ПРОХОДИТ….Я что-то потерял…Я что-то забыл…Себя?..Свое имя?..Свое лицо?..
Засыпая без боли в теле, Мы считаем, что здоровы…Засыпая без боли в душе, Мы считаем, что нам хорошо…А что если..?..
Белая больница, белое помещение, белые коридоры, халаты, лица, стерильные пространства и душонки… Красная кровь: из вены, в резервуар…эта жидкость – хранитель жизни, эритроцитов, Моих снов, генов, идеалов, страхов и догадок…Что же надо взять для анализа Моей души?!..
Хлоп-хлоп в ладоши – результат через несколько дней….
Тот же коридор, те же помещения, халаты, лица, те же Мы, но с результатами анализов…Взгляды напряжены, в глазах каждого страх, в руках каждого – ручки для того, чтобы поставить подпись в правом углу собственной судьбы…Ты нервно сжимаешь красную больничную ручку на забавной пружинке, смотришь со страхом на еще неразвернутый листок…Все боятся…Я тоже боюсь…Я держу листок и не хочу даже смотреть на него, Меня поражает ПАНИКА, предчувствие…Я сжал ручку, чуть было не сломав ее: это обычная шариковая ручка, которую Я всегда ношу с собой, чтобы записывать внезапно рожденные мысли в подаренном Тобой маленьком блокноте….
ПАНИКА!!!..Приговор в действии!..Болезнь крови разъедает Мое тело и душу, а время стало пылью на старинных часах…ПОЧЕМУ они все молчат?!..Почему эти лица вокруг смотрят на Меня спокойно и не показывают пальцем на мертвеца?!..
– Что-то случилось?..Что у Тебя написано?!..
"Что Ты хочешь сделать, если Тебе останется жить день?.."…Учитель поворачивается ко Мне лицом, и Я вижу смертную тоску и боль в глазах, которые на самом деле Мои..
Я повернулся на бок, не обращая внимания на боль в легких, и увидел Свой письменный стол у окна..блокнот с теплыми воспоминаниями о глазах напротив, нежности губ и теплоте рук..Ручку..обычную, шариковую..
I wanted to share that I am nominated in 2 categories this year for the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll, and wanted to ask you all to please take a moment to cast your vote for me this year.
This story comes from Lynn in Louisiana.
This happened about 6 months ago on Louisiana Hwy 57, just outside of Dulac, a little town in the bayou country of Louisiana , and while it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's real.
An Ohio businessman, Saul Rubins, abandoned his disabled vehicle on the side of the road, and attempted to hitchhike. The night was pitch dark in the middle of a thunderstorm.. Time passed slowly and no cars went by. It was raining so hard he could hardly see his hand in front of his face.
wheel and no sound of an engine to be heard over the rain.
But just before the curve, a shadowy hand appeared at the driver's window, reached in and turned the steering wheel, guiding the car safely around the bend. Then, just as silently, the hand disappeared through the window and Saul was alone again.
Paralyzed with fear, Saul watched the hand reappear every time they reached a curve. Finally, scared nearly to death, Saul had all he could take, jumped out of the car, and ran to town.
Wet and in shock, he went into Schmoopy's. Voice quavering, he ordered two cups of coffee, black, and then told everybody about his supernatural experience.
The room became silent and everybody got goose bumps when they realized Saul was telling the truth (and not just some drunk).
In a recent article I read online, I read that libraries are more and more becoming like ghost towns.
In this technology age, where everything seems to be at our fingertips, places like libraries are dwindling, and to cope with the demand of a high-tech age, a majority are changing the way in which books are presented.
Now while it can be said that with the Internet boom, traditional books are becming a thing of the past, I decided to conduct my own survey on what the trend of people buying habits are.
Here are the results gathered from two social network sites.
For the majority who preferred traditional paperbacks, the response, more than often was people preferred the real thing as they like the feel of them more than downloading an E-Book.
We live in a digital age where everything is so easily accessible, but despite how fast technology changes, there is one thing that remains the same. People's buying habits.
So are E-Books the way of the future? I guess maybe for the Y-Gens this may be the way of the future, as E-Books can be shared with a vast number of people very quickly (which does raise a concern for Author Royalty Rights).
Only time will tell if Literacy will come in tune with the digital age and libraries and traditional books will become a thing of the past.


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Q: Windows 10 - OpenSSH Server - Operation timed out I followed these instructions.

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*The firewall rule "OpenSSH-Server-In-TCP" is present and enabled.

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*The command: New-NetFirewallRule -Name sshd -DisplayName 'OpenSSH Server (sshd)' -Enabled True -Direction Inbound -Protocol TCP -Action Allow -LocalPort 22

*sshd is running

*Port 22 is LISTENING
And yet I get ssh: connect to host MY_IP port 22: Operation timed out when trying to remote in from another device outside the network.

A: You have to debug where is the hindrance.
Depending on whether you have access to the server, check if the Status of the service is Running (Windows key -> Services). I saw it bear the names sshd or Open SSH (if you don't find it under one or the other name, check the whole list of services just in case).

Then check if you can ssh from a (DOS or PowerShell) command prompt within the same server, with ssh localhost, or even try with another user.
Try also ssh MY_IP from the same server.
Please report back results.

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Nixon's New Economic Plan
Nixon's Economic Policies Reflected Political Goals, Not Sound Theory
Price Coercion Inflation
Richard Nixon had a crisis mentality. In 1962, unhappily out of public office, he wrote an autobiographical account entitled Six Crises. Whereas some presidents have faced real crises, however, Nixon's were more the product of his personal sense of siege. As president he twice declared a state of national emergency, first on March 23, 1970, in response to a strike by postal workers and then on August 15, 1971, when balance-of-payments problems, among other things, led him to adopt an important set of policies called the New Economic Plan. (Whether any of the President's advisers appreciated that the same name had been given to the policies implemented by Soviet dictator Vladimir Lenin in 1921, I do not know, but someone should have known.)
Like most incumbent politicians, Nixon gladly took advantage of crises to augment his power, but he did not simply sit waiting for an emergency to come along. For him, the risk that he might not be reelected was crisis enough. According to his economic adviser Herbert Stein, he "tended to worry exceedingly about his reelection prospects and so to feel impelled to extreme measures to assure his reelection." Years before the election of 1972, Nixon and his aides began to scheme how they could maximize the likelihood of his reelection by manipulating the economy and creating as much apparent prosperity as possible before election day.
The New Economic Plan included several important elements, as described in the 1972 Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers: "The United States suspended the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets, for the first time since 1934. It imposed a temporary surcharge, generally at the rate of 10 percent, on dutiable imports. Prices, wages, and rents were frozen for 90 days, to be followed by a more flexible and durable—but still temporary—system of mandatory controls." In no way did this set of policies reflect sound economic principles. Political expediency was its sole driving force.
Price Controls
Nothing illustrates Nixon's political opportunism better than his imposition of mandatory controls over wages, prices, and rents. The President, who had served as a low-level functionary in the Office of Price Administration during World War II, had often expressed an aversion to price controls, which, he declared during the campaign of 1968, "can never be administered equitably and are not compatible with a free economy." Yet, as James Reichley has observed, Nixon was "not prepared to take extreme political risks for the sake of economic dogmas."
Having convinced himself that his defeat in the presidential election of 1960 had resulted from the Eisenhower administration's failure to generate favorable macroeconomic conditions on the eve of the election, Nixon was determined not to suffer again from the same kind of mistake. His latent fears were sharply aroused in 1970 and 1971, when the new administration's restrictive fiscal and monetary policies had a more immediate effect in raising the rate of unemployment than in reducing the rate of inflation.
Impatient that the government's macroeconomic policies seemed to be working so slowly, many politically important people began to call for direct price controls: Union leaders, big businessmen, members of Congress, potential presidential candidates in the next election, high-ranking economists in the treasury department, even Federal Reserve Board chairman Arthur Burns—all prodded the president to impose an "incomes policy" because, as Burns put it, "the rules of economics are not working in quite the way they used to." Congress, as if daring Nixon to do what he insisted he would never do, passed the Economic Stabilization Act, authorizing the President to control all prices, wages, and rents. Nixon signed the bill with apparent reluctance on August 17, 1970.
Late in 1970 the appointment of the flamboyant John Connally as secretary of the treasury and his subsequent designation as the administration's chief economic spokesman tipped the balance toward more controls. Connally had few economic scruples; he specialized in dramatic political gestures, favoring, in Nixon's football metaphor, the "big play." He supported the imposition of controls because he thought it would appeal to the public as a sweeping, take-charge action by the President.
Nixon liked that aspect of the controls. As he later wrote in his memoirs, imposition of the controls "was politically necessary and immediately popular in the short run." Indeed it was. The stock markets soared. As Stein noted, "The Dow-Jones Average rose 32.9 points on Monday after the President's announcement—the biggest one-day increase up to that point." Opinion polls indicated a huge preponderance of approval of the President's action, a response that showed, in Stein's view, "how shallow was the general support in principle for the basic characteristics of a free market economy." A year later, with rigorous controls still in force, Nixon was reelected by a huge margin.
Do Price Controls Work?
Economists, with notable exceptions, can be relied on to testify that price controls "don't work," and in the sense that economists have in mind—actually reducing inflation, not simply suppressing its manifestations—their conclusion is correct. From a political perspective, however, this claim misses the point. Price controls do work—to gain short-run political support for the politicians who impose them. The public seems never to learn that it is being sold a faulty political product. As Stein remarked, even after all of the economic disruptions, artificial scarcities, and inequities of Nixon's price-control program, which finally ended on April 30, 1974, "the experience did not leave the country with a strong commitment to the free market, monetarist way of restraining inflation. The attraction of the direct approach remained." Only four years later, the Carter administration yielded to political temptation and imposed another incomes policy, albeit a half-hearted one entirely reliant on indirect sanctions rather than legal penalties.
The most important legacy of Nixon's wage-price-rent control program was the government's energy price controls and allocations that persisted long after the comprehensive price controls had expired. When the first "energy crisis" struck, the administration was looking forward to disengagement from its no-longer-useful incomes policy. But given the lingering presence of the price controls, the Arab oil embargo and the OPEC price hikes of late 1973 and early 1974 quickly led in many areas to short supplies that were rationed mainly by the customers' waiting in the infamous gas lines. The inconvenience and uncertainty were more than the American public could bear. There immediately arose, in William Simon's words, "collective hysteria. . . . The political heat was on both Congress and the executive to solve the problem overnight."
Congress "solved" the problem, all right, as anyone who endured the manifold foul-ups of the two "energy crises" (1973–74 and 1979–80) will recall. Only with Ronald Reagan's election and the scrapping of all oil-price controls was the mess permitted to clean itself up through market processes. Even then, however, a complex system of price controls lingered for natural gas, a political dragon too fearful for even Sir Ronald to slay. Not until 1993 were these controls terminated fully.
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute and Editor at Large of the Institute's quarterly journal The Independent Review.
He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network.


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Artists to watch out for
Charlotte Lydia Stace
Spain's contemporary artists to watch (part 1) - by Charlotte Lydia Stace
During these difficult days of lockdown, with shops, cafes and galleries closed, boredom and loneliness linger, and lack of inspiration sets in. How will we entertain ourselves? What is there to do? We start to go stir crazy, our minds become lethargic and the memory of life before the coronavirus, with its trips to local art galleries, aimless strolls through the city's streets, stop offs at our favourite coffee shops, seems but a distant memory.
Well, thanks to the internet, we don't always have to leave the house to still get our fill of art. Art can add a drop of colour to an otherwise dull existence during lockdown. It can help calm our nerves and aid our mental health. So, why not fight the quarantine blues by familiarising yourself with the work of some of Spain's contemporary artists?
These artists offer something unique from every corner of Spain. Although trained in different mediums, be it sculpture, painting or installations, they all urge us to think critically about contemporary culture and the world we live in. Some have a political agenda, some draw attention to climate change, and others rebuke the advertising world. Read on to find out more about Spain's contemporary artists to watch out for.
Follow The Leaders by Issac Cordal
Issac Cordal
Famous for his cement sculptures, Cordal uses his artwork to reflect themes of politics, bureaucracy, human misery, climate change, and power. Hailing from Galicia, the multi-faceted artist's work involves sculpture and photography in the urban environment. His little sculptures can be found in drain pipes, cracks in walls and other unusual public places. The aim of this is to spark the imagination of the passer-by and make them question their connection to nature, as well as their social behaviour and place within society.
http://cementeclipses.com/
Stickers by Kiko Pérez
Kiko Pérez
Born in Vigo, Galicia, Pérez combines his artistic career with his primary job as a carpenter. Working in both the mediums of painting and sculpture, he gives special attention to the notion of objects, which form the basis of the majority of his pieces. He uses a variety of different shapes and formats in his artwork which can be found in mural paintings, works on paper and wood sculptures. Offering an uninhibited view of techniques and forms, Pérez plays with conventional uses of materials and their supposed rules to produce truly unique pieces.
http://www.heinrichehrhardt.com/artistas/kiko-perez/
Estación de ejercicios para una y varias articulaciones by Elena Alonso
Elena Alonso
Born in Madrid, Alonso graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Madrid in 2006, before going on to study a postgraduate degree in art in Helsinki. Since then her primary focus on art has been drawing, which she relates to other disciplines such as architecture, crafts, and design. Although confronting many issues in her work, she pays particular attention to the environment and the way in which we interact with it.
http://www.elenaalonso.com/
New World Order by Sr.X
Sr. X
Señor X, aka Sr. X, is a muralist from the small Spanish town of Gijon. Known for his 1950s vintage-style stencils which look like old advertisement posters, his work is both entertaining and at times provocative. His murals often contain political messages and ironic comments about society today. Choosing the streets as his canvas, his artwork is greatly influenced by pop culture and the messages he presents are thought-provoking and timeless.
https://sr-x.com/
Colmena by Ian Waelder
Ian Waelder
Waelder, the American-Spanish artist born in Madrid in 1993, is a contemporary artist with a bright future ahead. Now living and working in Frankfurt, Germany he is currently part of the Haegue Yang class at the Städelschule. His artwork is primarily done through the mediums of photography, painting and sculpture and focuses on the passage of time. His pieces represent small objects found in daily life, such as wooden boards with footprints still on them or pieces of linen with small stains, to represent how we all leave something behind us.
https://www.facebook.com/ianwaelder
Shape Mural by BToy
Born in Barcelona in 1977, Andrea Michaelsson, aka Btoy, studied law for four years before realizing she desired a life of art. She began her artistic journey by studying photography for three years in Barcelona. Following this, she focused mainly on photography and street art and has enjoyed improvising with a variety of art mediums including stencils, acrylics and spray paint. These experiments led her to create stencil artworks which portray female icons and can be seen on streets around the world, from Barcelona to New York, Mexico to Brussels.
https://www.baseelements.net/btoy/


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Fortnite has received yet another update that introduces two big new features to the experience.
You've got buried treasure, which involves following maps to track down legendary loot. You can use your pickaxe to dig up the treasure, which is fun.
The new slide duos LTM ties ice to your feet, so Fortnite becomes a huge ice level like in classic 90s platformers.
Sounds like a lot of fun, if incredibly frustrating when things don't go your way.
So go ahead and grab Fortnite from the official site right now.