At Burnham Copse, our values are simple, yet powerful.
The Amazing 8 learning skills were devised in response to our recognition and strong belief that there are important life skills to be taught and instilled in even the youngest of children.
A Government survey of corporate employers in 2012 found that the most important characteristics and attributes looked for in prospective employees, were of such life skills alongside, and even in some cases over and above, academic prowess.
We worked closely as a staff team to determine our own key values and agreed the skills that we most wanted to nurture in all our learners, both young and old.
We then worked with the children to decide how these skills would be fostered, promoted and followed. They decided, in their Eyries, that they would devise a superhero character for each of the skills. A competition to create a superhero for each skill was run, and the winning designs are those that you will see around the school and in every classroom today.
Planning for lessons reflects opportunities to practice these skills and they have even been captured by the children themselves within our school rules.
We are now further developing our reward system to recognize progress and achievement in the Amazing 8.


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import org.hl7.fhir.dstu3.model.Enumerations;
import uk.nhs.careconnect.ri.database.entity.BaseResource;

import javax.persistence.*;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

@Entity
@Table(name = "StructureDefinition",
        indexes = {

        })
public class StructureDefinitionEntity extends BaseResource {

    private static final int MAX_DESC_LENGTH = 4096;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name="STRUCTURE_ID")
    private Long id;

    @Column(name="URL",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String url;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="structureDefinition", targetEntity= StructureDefinitionIdentifier.class)
    private List<StructureDefinitionIdentifier> identifiers;

    @Column(name="VERSION",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String version;

    @Column(name="NAME",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String name;

    @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL)
    @Column(name="status")
    private Enumerations.PublicationStatus status;

    @Column(name = "experimental")
    private Boolean experimental;

    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    @Column(name = "DATETIME")
    private Date dateTime;

    @Column(name = "publisher",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String publisher;

    @Column(name = "COPYRIGHT",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String copyright;

    // Ignore usage context and jurisdiction for now

    @Column(name = "description",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH)
    private String description;

    @Column(name = "purpose",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH)
    private String purpose;

    @Column(name="START",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    String start;

    @Column(name = "profile",length = MAX_DESC_LENGTH,nullable = true)
    private String profile;

    public Enumerations.PublicationStatus getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public void setStatus(Enumerations.PublicationStatus status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    public String getVersion() {
        return version;
    }

    public void setVersion(String version) {
        this.version = version;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public Date getDateTime() {
        return dateTime;
    }

    public void setDateTime(Date dateTime) {
        this.dateTime = dateTime;
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public static int getMaxDescLength() {
        return MAX_DESC_LENGTH;
    }

    public String getPurpose() {
        return purpose;
    }

    public void setPurpose(String purpose) {
        this.purpose = purpose;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
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        this.description = description;
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        this.url = url;
    }

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        return experimental;
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        this.experimental = experimental;
    }

    public String getPublisher() {
        return publisher;
    }

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        this.publisher = publisher;
    }

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        return start;
    }

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        this.start = start;
    }

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        return profile;
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        this.profile = profile;
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        this.identifiers = identifiers;
    }

    public String getCopyright() {
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More signs the world isn't ending
The economy is still weak but the latest job numbers prove once again that the worst may be over.
By Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney.com editor at large
Last Updated: May 2, 2008: 5:51 PM EDT
Hiring holds steady
Half of 'rescued' borrowers still default
Job outlook gets gloomier
Where the jobs are
Issue #1: America's Money - Everyday on CNN
Sluggish growth continues
Do you believe your state is in a recession?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The worst-case scenarios just aren't playing out.
Yes, companies cut jobs again, we learned today, for the fourth straight month. In April, 20,000 jobs were lost, but economists on average expected a loss of 75,000 - some feared more than 100,000 cuts.
What's more, the unemployment rate dipped from 5.1% to 5%. Most thought it would tick higher.
TalkBack: Has the economy finally bottomed?
We've had news like this all week. In short, the economy is in bad shape....but it's simply not as bad as a lot of people are making it out to be.
On Wednesday, an initial reading of the economy in the first quarter showed that the economy grew - not by a lot, but at least it didn't decline as many feared.
The Chicago PMI, a key gauge of the manufacturing sector, came in a bit higher than forecast, a possible sign that the worst may be over for that troubled industry. And the government reported today that factory orders for March rose 1.4%, much higher than expected.
Finally, the increase in personal spending for April was also a bit better than expected, showing that the consumer isn't dead.
"We've been gradually coming to the conclusion that the economy is in a bottoming phase. The data has been weak but not as bad as expected. That's a good scenario and we're feeling better," said Joe Balestrino, fixed income market strategist with Federated Investors, a money management firm based in Pittsburgh.
With all this in mind, the Fed's rate cut on Wednesday might be the last for some time. The central bank is highly unlikely to lower rates again at its next meeting in June and it could keep interest rates at 2% for the foreseeable future.
That's because inflation, and not necessarily more problems in the housing and credit markets, are probably now Public Enemy #1 for the Fed in the wake of soaring food and oil prices.
A prolonged Fed pause could help to strengthen the dollar - which has rallied against the euro in the past week - and take some of the speculative froth out of oil and other commodity prices. Crude oil is now trading at about $113, down from a record high of just under $120 a barrel earlier in the week.
"The Fed is doing the right thing on the policy front. If it doesn't need to bring rates below 2%, it shouldn't," said Steve Van Order, chief fixed income strategist with Calvert Funds in Bethesda, Md.
The latest developments on the macroeconomic front has Wall Street a little more enthusiastic about the economy. The Dow closed above 13,000 yesterday for the first time since early January and stocks gained more ground Friday morning.
In addition, bonds continue to fall, sending yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-Year Treasury note higher. The 10-year now yields about 3.85%, up from a low this year of 3.28%. (Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions and higher yields are usually a sign of a rebounding economy.)
Earnings from many companies, reported in the past month, also support the idea that the economy may hold up.
"Earnings in the first quarter, excluding financials, have been pretty darn good," Balestrino said. "There is not a lot of data to support the thesis that there is contagion in Corporate America from the credit crunch."
Of course, this doesn't mean the economy is out of the woods. The jobs market isn't likely to strengthen significantly anytime soon and the housing market is certainly still in sad shape. If we are at, or nearing, a bottom, we may stumble across it for awhile.
But overall, it's been a good week, one that may hopefully put to rest some of the more outlandish fears about an imminent economic collapse. This may turn out to be a longer recession than expected but one that is ultimately fairly mild.
"You can see the panic wave cresting and an attempt at stabilization," Van Order said. "We're moving through this but it may take longer to get through. But you've got to feel better than you did a month or two ago. There's less teeth grinding."
Issue #1 - America's Money: All this week at noon ET, CNN explains how the weakening economy affects you. Full coverage.
Under the government's economic stimulus plan, 130 million people will receive tax rebate checks for $300 and up, starting April 28. What do you plan to do with your check? How do you think the stimulus plan will affect the economy? Send us your photos and videos, or email us and tell us what you think.
First Published: May 2, 2008: 10:26 AM EDT
Issue #1: America's Money
Silver lining despite job losses
Personal income growth slows but spending jumps
Fed cuts rates again and hints at pause
Economy still sputtering
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Amazon drops California associates to avoid...
Debt ceiling: Cut, cap and balance ... or...
EBay snaps up 'pay by phone' provider Zong
Minnesota shutdown: No resolution in sight
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Mets fan's T-shirts bring in six-figures
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French buy up NYC real estate
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Q: Initialize variable inside class without constructor Here is some simple java code .
class Test {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        TestClass c = new TestClass();
        System.out.println(c.x);
    }
}

class TestClass {
    {
        x = 2;
    }
    int x = 1;
}

I am getting the answer 1. Why?
Is there no constructor used to initialize?

A: TestClass is compiled to be equivalent to this:
class TestClass {
    {
        this.x = 2;
    }

    int x;

    {
        this.x = 1;
    }
}

A: The order of execution of initializer blocks, and variable initializer is specified in JLS § 12.5:

Just before a reference to the newly created object is returned as the
  result, the indicated constructor is processed to initialize the new
  object using the following procedure:
[...]
4 Execute the instance initializers and instance variable initializers for this class, assigning the values of instance variable
  initializers to the corresponding instance variables, in the
  left-to-right order in which they appear textually in the source code
  for the class. [..]

So, the initializer blocks and variable initializers executed in order in which they appear in the source file. If you move the variable declaration, int x = 1;, before the initializer block, you'll get the result 2.
Technically, your Test class is compiled to the this:
class TestClass {
    int x;

    public TestClass() {
        super();
        x = 2;
        x = 1;
    }
}

For actual bytecode you can run javap -c command.

A: Because it would be compiled To :
class TestClass {
    int x;

    TestClass(){
        this.x = 2;
        this.x = 1;
    }
}

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The aim of this semester project was to find some applications of the multiresolution monogenic signal analysis. The monogenic signal is a 3 component signal composed of the wavelet transform of an original image as well as the real and imaginary part of the Riesz transform of the wavelet transform of the latter original image. This analysis was refined by using isotropic wavelets (Shannon and Simoncelli wavelets) instead of the initial polyharmonic wavelets. These two wavelets have the advantage of being truly isotropic, and they allow for an easy reconstruction of the image. We first implemented Shannon and Simoncelli wavelet decomposition and reconstruction, and then we included them in an existing plugin called MonogenicJ that implements the whole analysis as initially proposed.
The monogenic signal can be used to compute rotation invariant features (the monogenic modulus, phase and instantaneous frequency) describing the image. We combined the information given by these features to process the monogenic signal in different ways, yielding four different "applied" plugins. A first plugin is able to demodulate an image, another performs a "directional smoothing" of the image (i.e. simplifying the overall image but keeping the most oriented structures intact), a third allows a specific processing of the frequencies contained in the image (by keeping or removing frequencies lying in a given range), and the last one gives an insight of what could be done in the field of keypoints detection using the monogenic signal. Examples of two of these possible applications are shown in Fig. 1 and 2.
Fig. 1: Specific frequency selection (middle) and removal (left) on the Barbara image using the Monogenic wavenumber (instantaneous frequency).


Marc Lynch, a partisan professor who blogs at Abu Aardvark; Gregory Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate who studies Yemen (a country in which I have spent considerable time), Blake Hounshell, an editor at Foreign Policy; and other analysts tweeted to take issue with my post on Friday questioning both what Tawakkul Karman's affiliation with the Yemeni Islamist party Islah means, as well the co-founder of that party's work for al-Qaeda. Alas, they avoid addressing the questions at hand and instead substitute snarky and ad hominem attacks. Attacking the messenger rather than the message is a time-worn strategy to avoid debating issues on their merits.
While most Nobel prizes are based on a life's work whose value is apparent in hindsight, the Nobel Peace Prize is selected by a committee of Norwegian politicians, who base their choice upon a political agenda in the present. The agenda here is trying to counter the notion the Muslim Brotherhood, whose record of Islamist terrorism predates even Israel's foundation, might hijack the Arab Spring demonstrations to usher in a situation of one-man, one-vote, one-time. To paraphrase the Egyptian-American sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim during a 2006 panel at the American Enterprise Institute, the dichotomy in the Middle East is one of autocracy and theocracy; the two are mirror images of each other, and both attack the liberals in between. The question, then, is whether Islah represents the liberals.
Let's look at Islah co-founder Sheikh Zindani. The links to al-Qaeda were not drawn from thin air, but originate with the U.S. Treasury Department and were reported by the New York Times. But is he truly liberal and reformist? According to this Global Post article, Zindani does believe women can serve in parliament, but only if they are strictly segregated from men. As Zindani explained, according to the author, women can participate in government — so long as female parliamentarians attend sessions in separate rooms. Zindani also opposes restrictions on adult men marrying little girls. Karman may be honorable, but certainly it is worth asking her how she can affiliate with a party whose co-founder embraces such positions. The questions about terrorism are all the more relevant given that she was chosen precisely because of her affiliation with a Muslim Brotherhood party. As a Nobel Laureate, she will have a bully pulpit. It is worth knowing exactly what we are getting. True, Islah has multiple factions, but if Karman is deserving of the prize, it would be worthwhile to ask her to address the issue, condemning such factions if she so desires.
Alas, too often, Lynch, Johnson, Hounshell, and others obsessed with American domestic politics concentrate more on attacking those with whom they disagree than judging issues on their merits. I have never met Lynch; mutual acquaintances say he personalizes politics too much to associate with those with whom he disagrees. Nor have I met Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate who knows his stuff but who, like many academics, has trouble tolerating disagreement. I did have the pleasure of meeting Hounshell last month in Morocco. He was smart, engaging, and pleasant. However, Hounshell's tweets do suggest he runs analysts through a political filter in order to decide issues. It is unfortunate that that leads him to be sanguine about a party whose leader supports child marriage and strict segregation of women.


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This dinner was too good not to share. I'll post the exact recipe once our internet decides to work again, but it's relatively simple, and crazy delicious.
Grilled black rockfish fillets with avocado, arugula, tomato, Old Bay mayo and Hempler's bacon on grilled pugliese.
Seriously, eat it. It's awesome.
I love rock fish – never thought of pairing it with BLT and avacado but I certainly will in the fiture!
It's a great combo! Give it a try!


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Ambrogi, appartenente alla scuola bolognese, è principalmente conosciuto come decoratore di quadrature. Fu allievo di Francesco Brizio, Bernardino Baldi e Dionisio Fiammingo ed uno dei suoi pupilli fu Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.
Decorò Palazzo Paleotti insieme a Il Dentone, decorò inoltre molti altri palazzi nobiliari oltre che a Bologna, in Emilia.

Fu chiamato alla corte del Re di Polonia, ma consumato dal clima rigido vi morì nel 1678. Fra i suoi allievi compaiono i due fratelli Cervi, il Fumiani e Giacinto Campana.

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Bibliografia
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The Red Oak Animal Shelter attempts to adopt stray or abandoned animals to a "forever home" to provide a good life for the animal. Persons interested in adopting must come to the Shelter at 411 W. Red Oak Rd. and fill out an adoption application. It is recommended that you call Animal Control at 214-399-7730 to confirm availability.
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Episode 108 is here! There is some exciting news this week. Some of it includes bits of San Diego Comic Con, new episodes, and a potential idea of where the franchise is heading! And much more!
Nemesis and Alca7raz then talk about "Party Pooped!" Yaks, silly faces, and destruction! Plus, they talk about the official remix album that (sort of) just came out. There's also a couple of fan songs and a big fanfic! Tune in, and then complain when it's NOT PERFECT!


From the A720 City bypass take the Sherriffhall exit and follow A7 signs to City Centre. At the Cameron Toll roundabout follow signs to the Old Town and proceed up Dalkeith Road heading north.
Turn off of the Royal Mile at St Mary's Street (just below John Knox's House) and cross the traffic lights at the Cowgate proceeding up the Pleasance. After a mile or so you'll pass the Royal Commonwealth Pool on your left. At the next set of traffic lights turn left into Priestfield Road where you will find the gates of Prestonfield a few hundred metres on your left.
Prestonfield is just over an hour's flight from London and is only nine miles from Edinburgh airport with its many international flights. Taxis from Edinburgh airport take approximately 30 minutes.
Guests wishing to arrive in discreet style and luxury can book an airport collection and be met by our black-kilted driver in Prestonfield's sleek black Range Rover. Advance booking required from £60.
Prestonfield's coordinates are 1.8 nautical miles from Edinburgh N55 degrees 56.13 W 003 degrees 09.54 Altitude +200 feet above sea level. Please advise us in advance if you are arriving by helicopter.
We are a five minute taxi ride from Edinburgh's Waverley Rail Station.
Prestonfield has lots of free on-site parking for guests travelling by car. If you use sat nav the postcode is EH16 5UT.
Prestonfield has secure bike racks for guests and we have some mountain bikes that you are free for guests to use during your stay.
The following buses run to with half a mile of Prestonfield Nos. 2, 14 & 33.


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By George Deeb Takeaway: "The devil is in the detail, in terms of how an earnout gets written." What Is an Earnout? An earnout is a financing arrangement for the purchase of a business in which the seller finances a portion of the purchase price, and payment of this amount is contingent on achieving a predetermined level of future
SBA Announces Hawaii's 2018 Top Small Business Winners
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SBA Announces Hawaii's 2018 Top Small Business Winners The Hawaii District Office announced the selection of Reginald "Regi" Perry, managing member of Barbers Point Aviation Services, LLC, as the 2018 Small Business Person of the Year for the State of Hawaii. Perry has been invited to represent the State of Hawaii at the celebration of
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Category: The Libertarian Gamer
The Libertarian Gamer: Superheroes!
July 1, 2007 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, The Libertarian Gamer
Atlas stood crouched on the launch pad, his arms holding up the bulky form of a $250 million, 1.5 ton communications satellite. He shifted the weight easily, adjusting his grip on the titanium handholds mounted on the satellite's protective shroud,[…]
The Libertarian Gamer: Gamma World, Part 2
February 22, 2005 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, Role-Playing Games, The Libertarian Gamer
In the last issue of the Libertarian Gamer, I laid the ground work for a libertarian campaign set in the classic post-apocalyptic setting known as Gamma World, laying down some campaign guidelines and destroying the world. Now it's time to[…]
February 15, 2005 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, The Libertarian Gamer
In the distant future, Earth will be in ruins. The land will have been ravaged by a horrific assortment of doomsday weapons, from nuclear bombs to genetically engineered super-viruses to hunter-killer nanites. Mutants — both human, animal and things horribly[…]
The Libertarian Gamer: Arcana Unearthed, Part 2: Races & Classes
August 27, 2004 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, Role-Playing Games, The Libertarian Gamer
In Part 1 of this column, I gave an overview of Monte Cook's Diamond Throne (Amazon) campaign setting for Arcana Unearthed (Amazon) and talked about the sort of adventures I'd like to run there. In Part 2, I talk about the races[…]
The Libertarian Gamer: Arcana Unearthed, Part 1: Campaign Set-Up
Monte Cooke's Arcana Unearthed (Amazon) is an alternative Players Handbook for Dungeons & Dragons that ditches the game's time-honored fantasy classes in favor of wholly new classes that contain echoes of their predecessors, but represent something entirely different. It does an[…]
The Libertarian Gamer: Politics and Gaming
August 9, 2004 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, Role-Playing Games, The Libertarian Gamer
Reactions to the Libertarian Gamers Project have been largely positive — in the month since I started promoting it, we've had 21 members join up, and a few good conversations over at the UncleBear.com forums, where people wanted to know[…]
The Libertarian Gamer: Spycraft, Part 2
August 2, 2004 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, The Libertarian Gamer
In The Libertarian Gamer: Spycraft, Part 1, I discussed the basic outline of the campaign and possible heroic organizations. But what's a hero without a villain? The Villains Fortunately, when you're running an espionage game, there are plenty to choose[…]
Contemplating a Libertarian RPG Campaign
July 26, 2004 Ken Newquist Game Columns, Games, The Libertarian Gamer
I've been contemplating running a play-by-email campaign for a while now, and with the launch of the Libertarian Gamers Project I've decided to make it a campaign with a libertarian bent. Offline, I've got a Dungeons & Dragons campaign (set[…]
Spycraft (Amazon) is Alderac's d20-based game of modern espionage. It draws upon the classics of the genre — James Bond, Mission: Impossible, The A Team, Sneakers, Alias — to create a game that's reminiscent of classic RPGs like James Bond:[…]


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adeo Insights – Kevin Murray's Diary: Week 4, South Wales
It's all very well us telling you what to see and do when you come to visit Britain but who can give you a better insight into what you can expect from an adeo tour than our guests themselves! Our guest Kevin Murray has been kind enough to allow us to publish his trip reports detailing his travels through England, Wales and Scotland this Spring.
This week Kevin and Glenys cross the border to Wales, land of Dragons, and make their way along the beautiful South Wales Coast.
Next stop, Cardiff in South Wales, reached via the gigantic Severn Bridge. Here we visited Cardiff Castle, another spectacular site just oozing with history. The last family to own it undertook extensive (and expensive) renovations, restoring the ancient Roman walls and creating a sort of medieval dream world in the opulent residences.
We spent another whole day exploring this surprising city, beginning with the extensive riverside parklands, then the Civic Centre and the National Museum with its comprehensive and informative display of the geological and paleontological history of Wales. Under unexpected blue skies we then wandered the streets, admiring the colorful low-rise buildings, the numerous pedestrian plazas and the attractive shopping arcades which make the centre of town very people-friendly. We also got to admire Cardiff's iconic Bay area, cleverly transformed from being the largest coal port in the world to a lively entertainment precinct dotted with some very impressive architecture, like the ginormous copper-sheathed Millennium Centre and the historic red-brick Pierhead building.
From Cardiff we ventured deeper into the mountainous Brecon Beacons area to the north, following the tortuous course of the Wye River through valleys painted with every shade of green. We explored the ruins of the surprisingly large Tintern Abbey, learning what life might have been like for a medieval Cistercian monk – not comfortable, that's certain!
After overnighting at the lovely little village of Crickhowell, we caught a beautiful old steam train right into the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park. Expecting rugged mountains but finding green, rolling hills – albeit rather large hills! The scenery was spectacular, with the gleaming white new wool of this year's Spring lambs dotting the bright green fields beyond mill-pond calm lakes and not a drop of rain in sight.
and so, on to Stackpole, our gateway to the glorious south coast of Wales, 200 miles of which is part of the Pembrokeshire National Park. We zigged and zagged along this rugged coast, exploring its windy headlands, sheltered coves and sandy beaches. We saw thousands of squabbling Guillemots vying for that crucial piece of ledge, high on pillars of rock thrusting above the crashing Atlantic waves. We wandered over headlands sculpted into magical shapes by sea and wind. We descended into a bleak stone hut wedged in a precipitous crevice where St Govan was supposed to have hidden from pirates. We explored the colourful town of Tenby whose pastel-shaded houses contrasted with the severity of the remnant castle ramparts.
From Stackpole we continued northwards, hugging the Welsh coast. We followed the medieval pilgrim path to the smallest "city" in the world, St David's. It achieves city status because of its cathedral, which is almost as big as the town. This beautiful cathedral with its impressive woodwork has been in more or less continuous use for over 700 years, even surviving the worst ravages of the Dissolution era. Next door to the cathedral was the Bishop's Palace, which wasn't so lucky. It is now in ruins but is intact enough to allow its English Heritage owners to use it as a background to cleverly convey what life must have been like in its heyday.
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Title (object)
Double portrait of Albrecht Dürer; two whole-length figures standing on either side of a table in front of an archway, surrounded by various instruments associated with Dürer's work as a painter, printmaker and art theorist. c.1628
After: Albrecht Dürer
Print made by: Lucas Kilian
School/style
1628 (circa)
Height: 380 millimetres
Width: 264 millimetres
Inscription Content
Lettered with Dürer's dates above the arch, lettered 'LABORE ET CONSTANTIA' on the table and lettered with signatures found on the respective painting on which the portrait is based on the tablets at left and right.
Lettered in lower margin 'ALBERTI DURERI Noribergensis, .... VIVIT POST FUNERA VIRTUS'
Inscribed on verso in brown ink 'P Mariette 1670'.
Curator's comments
The portraits based on Dürer's self-portraits in the Heller Altarpiece (at l) and the Holy Trinity Altarpiece of 1511 (r).
See G. Bartrum (ed.), 'Dürer and his legacy', exh. cat., BM, London 1999, cat. 18.
Entry from Dürer cat:
'This elaborate composition incorporates two portraits of Dürer surrounded by various instruments associated with his life as a painter, engraver, and theoretician. The figures and objects are positioned in front of a classical arch, which provides a suitably reverential setting and also loosely refers to Dürer's massive woodcut, The Triumphal Arch (cat.no 139). The arch is reflected in the artist's coat of arms, an open door, shown in a shield in the pediment above. The inscription explains that this print in honour of Dürer, 'prince among German painters', was published by Lucas Kilian of Augsburg, and that the two representations of the artist are based on his self- portraits in the Heller altarpiece commissioned for the Dominican church in Frankfurt of 1509 (Anzelewsky 115) and in the altarpiece of the Holy Trinity of 1511 commissioned for the Landauer chapel in the church of All Saints in Nuremberg (today in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum; Anzelewsky 118). Kilian has incorrectly transcribed the date of this latter painting, seen on a large plaque next to the figure of Dürer, as 1517. His engraving is undated but its commemorative character indicates that it might have been produced in 1628, the centenary year of Dürer's death.'
For another impression, see E,2.105.
Hollstein 177
Not on display (German XVIIc Mounted Roy)
Portrait of: Albrecht Dürer
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Previous owner/ex-collection: Pierre Mariette II
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Gert Engels (ur. 25 kwietnia 1957 w Düren) – niemiecki piłkarz, a następnie trener piłkarski.

Kariera piłkarska
Swoją karierę piłkarską Engels rozpoczął w klubie SG Düren 99. Następnie w 1975 roku został zawodnikiem Borussii Mönchengladbach. W 1976 i 1977 roku Borussia wywalczyła dwa tytuły mistrza Niemiec, jednak Engels nie zdołał w niej zadebiutować w Bundeslidze. W 1978 roku odszedł do SV Baesweiler 09, a w latach 1980-1990 grał w SG Düren 99, w którym zakończył karierę.

Kariera trenerska
Po zakończeniu kariery piłkarskiej Engels został trenerem. W 1990 roku wyjechał do Japonii, gdzie prowadził zespół Prima Aseno FC. W 1998 roku został pierwszym trenerem Yokohamy Flugels. Klub ten pod wodzą Engelsa zdobył Puchar Cesarza Japonii. W 1999 roku prowadził JEF United, a w latach 2000-2003 - Kyoto Purple Sanga, który wygrał Puchar Cesarza w 2002 roku.

W 2004 roku Engels został asystentem w Urawie Red Diamonds, w której wspomagał Guido Buchwalda, a następnie Holgera Osiecka. W 2008 roku objął samodzielnie Urawę po zwolnieniu Osiecka. W listopadzie sam przestał być szkoleniowcem Urawy.

12 października 2011 Engels został selekcjonerem reprezentacji Mozambiku.

Bibliografia

Niemieccy piłkarze
Niemieccy trenerzy piłkarscy
Piłkarze Borussii Mönchengladbach
Selekcjonerzy reprezentacji Mozambiku w piłce nożnej mężczyzn
Urodzeni w 1957
Ludzie urodzeni w Düren
Trenerzy piłkarzy Kyoto Sanga F.C.
Trenerzy piłkarzy JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Trenerzy piłkarzy Urawa Red Diamonds


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NMCCA Opinion Summary: Hanabarger -- Another Factual Sufficiency Win for a Defendant
United States v. Hanabarger [opinion link here]
Appellant was convicted of two specifications of sexual assault in violation of Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). First, Appellant was convicted of penetrating a female Staff Sergeant's (SSgt Charlie) vulva with his penis by causing bodily harm—without her consent. Second, doing so again hours later when he knew or reasonably should have known she was asleep.
Appearing before the NMCCA, Appellant submits four assignments of error.[1] However, the majority reaches its conclusion focusing exclusively on his first assignment of error—whether the evidence presented is legally and factually insufficient to support Appellant's convictions.[2] In this 2-1 decision, the Court found that the presented—namely, the admitted evidence and trial testimony—did not "eliminate[] every fair and reasonable hypothesis except guilt."[3]
[1] The additional assignments of error—though not addressed by the majority as they found the evidence lacking to support the conviction—include:
(2) the trial counsel committed prosecutorial misconduct by introducing evidence of bruising to SSgt Charlie's inner thighs at trial after unequivocally promising during pretrial litigation that he would not do so; (3) the military judge erred in denying a Defense motion to compel production of the lead Naval Criminal Investigative Service [NCIS] agent who investigated the case; and (4) Appellant's trial defense counsel were constitutionally ineffective.
[2] The dissent, however, while finding the evidence to be sufficient, would have decided the case based upon the second and third assignments of error.
[3] The Court explains that "[a]fter reviewing the record, focusing solely on the admitted evidence and testimony at trial, we are not persuaded the Government proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt."
The 0430 Incident (Specification 1 of the Charge)
During the drive back to Camp Pendleton from SSgt Charlie's home, Appellant bragged about his recent relations with the Staff Sergeant to two junior Marines who were also present at the home. Appellant described having sex "a couple of times." However, seemingly unconcerned about sexual assault, SSgt Charlie sought only to know if the Appellant "pulled out." Consequently, the Court declared that "[t]he existence of at least one other 'fair and rational hypotheses' other than guilt precludes us from being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that this act occurred without SSgt Charlie's consent."
At trial, SSgt Charlie testified that she awoke to a knock on the door and found Appellant "aggressively penetrating her vulva with his penis." At this, the Court noted that she "made no indication of distress, shock, or other outward signs, but only got out of bed, put on a robe, and answered the door."
What is more, when Cpl Alpha knocked on the door, she inquired as to whether the occupants were "decent" to which Appellant replied, "No. Definitely not." At bottom, deciding between two possibilities,[1] the Court determined that the Government had not met its burden to prove a "sexual assault beyond a reasonable doubt, and in the process render the other possible consensual in flagrante delicto scenario fanciful conjecture."
Accordingly, the Court found the evidence presented in the case insufficient and unable to sustain the convictions. Further still, the Court determined that the Government had not met its burden to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. For the Court, there was simply "too much reasonable doubt" surrounding the evidence.
[1] On one hand, the Court reasoned, Appellant's response to Cpl Alpha would have roused SSgt Charlie as his mouth, based on their "spooning" positioning, would be close to her ear as he was assaulting his sleeping victim. However, an equally plausible explanation would conclude that the two were engaged in a consensual encounter and issued a warning to Cpl Alpha that they were "not decent."
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No opinion on the merits, but congratulations to frequent CAAFlog commentator Nathan Freeburg on this victory for his client.
Props to the dissenting judge for writing an extraordinarily thorough opinion explaining why they would have reversed on other grounds than those relied on by the majority (issues the majority did not reach due to their conclusion re FS).
The DAC-IPAD's latest report seemed to recognize the problem with non-binding Article 32s being an insufficient protection against week cases going forward. This is certainly a stark example of that: the 32 not only recommended against going forward but found no PC - the case went forward anyway - but was doomed by the same insufficient/flawed evidence the 32 PHO had warned about.
The MJ denying production of the lead NCIS agent is a particularly strange detail.
William Cassara link
This case is Exhibit A of why Congress should not do away with FS review.
At first I thought they had just let another diddler walk, but when the Art. 32 investigation is considered along with the issues in the dissent, this accused did not get a fair trial. I speculate that the government put the lead investigator out of the way on purpose.
LT Mike Wester did excellent work on the briefs. Very happy for the client and his family.
Phil Cave link
https://dacipad.whs.mil/images/Public/08-Reports/06_DACIPAD_Report_20200331_Final_Web.pdf
"Disposition of penetrative sexual offenses following a finding of "no probable cause" by the preliminary hearing officer • On average, convening authorities took action consistent with the Article 32 preliminary hearing officer's determination(s) of no probable cause—i.e., dismissed the charges lacking probable cause—in a majority
(66%) of the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard bases
• In the Army, on average, convening authorities took action consistent with the Article 32 preliminary hearing officer's determination(s) of no probable cause in a minority (33%) of cases.
• In FY17, 32 cases were referred to court-martial after an Article 32 preliminary hearing officer determined that there was no probable cause to believe a penetrative sexual offense occurred. Fifteen of the 32 referred cases (47%) resulted in dismissal of the penetrative sexual offense(s).195 In 17 of the 32 cases (53%), the penetrative sexual offenses were tried by court-martial. Of those penetrative sexual offense cases that were tried by court-martial, more than three-fourths (76%) resulted in verdicts of not guilty. Notably, one of the guilty verdicts was overturned on appeal due to lack of evidence.
Gene Fidell link
The following appears on p. 54 of the 2020 DACIPAD report from which Phil quotes:
"In FY18, 18 cases were referred to court-martial after an Article 32 preliminary hearing officer determined that there was no probable cause to believe a penetrative sex offense occurred. Seven of the 18 referred cases (39%) resulted in dismissal of the penetrative sexual offense(s). In 11 of the 18 cases (61%), the penetrative sexual offenses were tried by court-martial. Of those penetrative sexual offense cases that were tried by court-martial, nearly three-fourths (73%) resulted in verdicts of not guilty."


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I have mostly been working with Numpy, Scipy and Matplotlib to satisfy my fitting and plotting needs. I was wondering if there is a way to call the F77 program in Python and then have it run like I would any other F77 program until the portion where I need it to fit and spit out some nice plots (none of this GNUplot stuff).
I know about F2PY, but I have heard mixed things about it. I have also contemplated using pyexpect and go from there, but I have have bad experience with the way it handles changing expected prompts on the screen (or I am just using it incorrectly).
Thanks for any info on this.

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Numpy can read a binary file and treat it as a array.
Going from here to matplotlib then should be a breeeze.

A: It sounds like all you want to do is run the F77 program and then parse the output files, all from python (correct me if I'm wrong). The simplest thing to do, assuming that the fortran program runs to completion is to just set up python to take the inputs from the user or a config file (see http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html), then feed those inputs into the python process module:
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The property consists of a Georgian House fronting onto Clayport Street and a range of more recent buildings attached to the rear. The listing description dates the main house to 1815 but the plaque on the wall of the house dates it to 1780. It appears from the deeds that the house was constructed in the latter part of the 18th century and modified in the mid 19th century to incorporate the carriage archway at the side. At the same time the extensive garden plot at the rear was sold off and reduced. It is possible that other internal alterations took place at this time.
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TechNet Letter to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on the Fiscal Year 2020 NDAA
The Honorable Adam Smith (D-WA)
House Committee on Armed Services
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The Honorable Mac Thornberry (R-TX)
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The Honorable James Inhofe (R-OK)
Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Honorable Jack Reed (D-RI)
Democratic Leader
Dear Chairman Smith, Chairman Inhofe, Republican Leader Thornberry, Democratic Leader Reed, and Distinguished Members of the House-Senate National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Committee:
As you work toward a final 2020 NDAA conference report, TechNet renews our commitment to advancing this critical legislation in a manner that furthers the tech industry's longstanding partnership with the military in advancing U.S. national security objectives. Because technology is increasingly vital to a strong national defense — and with cyber threats growing each day — we want to ensure our men and women in uniform have access to the most cutting-edge technologies available to defend the American people.
TechNet is the national, bipartisan network of innovation economy CEOs and senior executives. Our diverse membership includes dynamic American businesses ranging from startups to the most iconic companies on the planet and represents over three million employees and countless customers in the fields of information technology, e-commerce, the sharing and gig economies, advanced energy, cybersecurity, venture capital, and finance.
Just as technology powers every sector of our economy today, it is also key to keeping our military ahead of the evolving global threats we face. Today and in the future, achieving technological superiority is the key to deterring aggression from our adversaries and ensuring that any time our service members enter the battlefield, they do so with an overwhelming advantage. Thus, it is imperative that this and future NDAA legislation continue to make significant investments in research and development of cutting-edge innovations such as artificial intelligence, 5G, and quantum computing, among others. Ultimately, achieving superiority in these emerging technologies is essential for U.S. national and economic security — and the U.S. tech sector has a vital role to play.
A comprehensive national defense strategy also recognizes that cyberspace is growing ever more contested as our adversaries' technological capabilities have advanced. Cyberattacks by state and non-state actors threaten international and national security, democratic processes, the global economy, the free flow of ideas and information, and the safety, security, and privacy of individuals. Our approach to cybersecurity must focus on deterrence, modernization, and resilience. To this end, we support efforts by lawmakers to strengthen U.S. cyber capabilities and invest more in cyber research.
We appreciate all the work done thus far on the NDAA by lawmakers in both chambers. At this critical juncture in the process, we write to share our recommendations on the following key provisions that are of concern or in conflict between the House- and Senate-passed versions of the NDAA:
S. 1790, Title II, Subtitle B, Section 212: Establishing secure 5G networks for warfighters and providing funding to start this effort at two Air Force installations. We have concerns about existing R&D provisions related to 5G, which would allow DOD to work on and manage non-federal spectrum that the private sector has already invested billions of dollars in developing. Granting this new authority to DOD would mark a significant policy shift by the federal government given that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has traditionally overseen and managed non-federal spectrum. To be clear, we support measures to encourage the U.S. military to utilize 5G technologies, but are concerned by this proposed power shift and its implications.
S. 1790, Title V, Subtitle F, Section 577: Improving employment opportunities for military spouses by making it easier for them to transport their occupational licenses when they move and extending the authority for the service branches to reimburse licensure and certification costs arising from a permanent change of station. We welcome this policy in light of innovations in online platforms that help facilitate work opportunities for these individuals. It should be included in the final conference report.
H.R. 2500, Title V, Subtitle E, Section 550K: We urge conferees to remove language that was added during the floor debate as an amendment by Representative Katie Porter (D-CA). This language would expand coverage of the Military Lending Act (MLA) to all veterans and military surviving spouses. We are concerned that this proposal is not workable from a technology standpoint or enforceable because a viable database for these groups to reference does not exist.
H.R. 2500, Title XVI, Subtitle B, Section 1615: Preserving language authorizing an increase of $5.2 million above the administration's request for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency to acquire advanced cyber threat detection sensors, hunt and response mechanisms, and commercial cyber threat intelligence to ensure Defense Industrial Base networks remain protected from nation state adversaries.
In addition to these four aforementioned items, we reiterate our support for the following objectives that passed as part of S. 1790, the Senate's NDAA:
Title VIII, Subtitle A, Section 801: Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's pilot program on intellectual property evaluation for acquisition programs.
Title VIII, Subtitle E, Section 852: Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's establishment of special pathways for rapid acquisition of software applications and upgrades.
Title X, Subtitle E, Section 1035: Directing development and implementation of a policy for transitioning data and applications in support of the DOD's cloud strategy.
Title XLII, Section 4201:
Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's increase of $57.5 million above the administration's request for cyber basic and applied research.
Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's funding authorization for the Defense Digital Service to support the modernization of DOD IT systems
Title XLVII, Section 4701: Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's increases of approximately $50 million above the administration's request for advanced manufacturing, materials, and printed circuit boards.
Preserving the Senate-passed NDAA's efforts encouraging the development and deployment of Department of Defense (DOD) AI systems in support of national security, including funding for Defense Innovation Unit AI research (Title XLII, Section 4201), extending the National Security Commission on AI (Title X, Subtitle E, Section 1042), and expanding AI research by the Department across several areas.
Funding for science and technology efforts to implement the National Defense Strategy, especially in the areas of AI, 5G, quantum computing, cybersecurity, and university research.
Developing a cyber roadmap for DOD's science and technology activities.
We also appreciate that the Senate-passed NDAA highlights the importance of DOD military information capabilities to counter adversary messaging and reaffirms the importance of our alliances across Europe and Asia. Closer security and economic ties with these allies and trading partners are vital for the security and economic prosperity of the American people.
We would also like to express our support for the following measures in H.R. 2500:
Title II, Subtitle B, Section 230: Requires the DOD to assess the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce for organizations within it and identify the types and quantities of STEM jobs needed to support future mission work to ensure the military does not experience a knowledge or readiness gap.
Title II, Subtitle B, Section 230B: Improves coordination between the federal government, industry, and academia to ensure global superiority of the U.S. in quantum information science necessary for meeting national security requirements.
Title II, Subtitle C, Section 243: Directs the DOD and Air Force to establish a Quantum Information Science Innovation Center and authorizes $10 million for that purpose.
As lawmakers work to reconcile differences between each chamber's NDAA, we encourage you to continue working with TechNet and our member companies to ensure the tech industry can remain a valuable partner in providing cutting-edge technologies to our service men and women. We also urge you to ensure that this NDAA includes strong intellectual property protections and furthers DOD's ability to leverage all existing commercial technologies and best practices in order to effectively meet mission needs and put taxpayer dollars to the most effective use.
Thank you for considering our perspective as you take up this important legislation. We welcome the opportunity to serve as a resource as work on the NDAA continues this year.
Linda Moore
TechNet President and CEO


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marine tankers, pipelines
Most of the crude oil processed at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery comes from foreign sources and arrives by marine tanker. The crude oil is transported to the refinery wharf by 800 feet-long marine tankers managed by the Chevron Shipping Company.
Berths for crude oil marine tankers are situated along the refinery's marine terminal, which is located on Bayou Casotte adjacent to the Port of Pascagoula's marine facilities.
At the marine terminal, the cargo of crude oil is discharged through pipelines to storage tanks in the refinery. The marine terminal also has berths to load refined products. About 65 percent of all refinery products leave the refinery via ship or barge. Wharf operators receive ships from such places as Mexico and South America.
We also take care to protect air quality at our marine terminal. The refinery has a Marine Vapor Recovery (MVR) system at the marine terminal to control vapors of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are generated during cargo loading.
The MVR system complies with the Clean Air Act's regulations for control of VOC emissions from tank vessels that carry oil and chemicals in bulk.
crude oil storage
Tanks, some with capacities of more than 390,000 barrels (16 million gallons), store the crude oil, as well as intermediate stocks (partially refined), finished products and chemicals.
The refinery's more than 300 tanks have containment areas designed to hold their capacities in the event of a tank rupture. The system also diverts rainwater runoff from this area to the refinery's effluent treating facilities to protect local waters.


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Understand to Factor Perfect Square Trinomials.
Perfect square trinomials are algebraic expressions with three terms that are created by multiplying a binomial by itself. To factor a perfect square trinomial, we need to be able to recognize perfect squares. So, if we have a trinomial, where the first term is a perfect square, the second term is a perfect square, and the middle term is twice a x b, it will be a perfect square trinomial.
The formula is: (a + b) ² = a² + 2ab + b². Because a perfect-square trinomial is still a trinomial, we follow the steps in the backward FOIL method of factoring. However, we must account for one extra step at the very end where we express the answer as a binomial squared. While this formula is a time saver, there are several other methods to factor trinomials with a leading coefficient not equal to 1, the trial-and-error method, the grouping method, and a method called bottoms up.
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The last two years of living in Korea has been cherry blossom heaven. I had amazing experiences at the nation's biggest cherry blossom festival in Jinhae both years (2016, 2017) and didn't see the same thing twice. When I announced my move to Gyeongju, the museum without walls, everyone said "oh what a beautiful place! you're going to love the spring". And I was. I was excited to love spring until it turned out to be the bipolar spring from hell. It's late April still vacillating back and forth from 10C with rain 30C with sun. Neither the flowers nor I know what to do.
I was so ready for a couple weeks of stunning cherry blossoms and sunny afternoons by the lake and river, but instead I got about two days (both of which I was working during) and then the rain drove all the blossoms away.
Since I couldn't attend a cherry blossom festival this spring, I've decided to focus on the other bounty of cherry blossom season: the themed food and drink. Bearing in mind I'm not in Seoul where the trendy boutique cafes all live, I decided to try and find as many cherry blossom themed consumables as possible in my small town of Gyeongju.
This is by no means a comprehensive list. Every town has a few local variants, and who knows how many tiny cafes and bakeries were selling their own seasonal specials that I never even encountered. Nonetheless, it should be obvious that cherry blossom season isn't only a feast for the eyes.
Starbucks Cherry Blossom Frappuccino: This one is available in several countries. It's a seasonal milkshake style beverage. I like that it wasn't too sweet. I don't feel like it tastes especially floral, but it's pink and festive and fun, so why not?
Ediya Cherry Blossom Latte: As a result of the Starbucks trend, every other cafe here offers some variation on the cherry blossom latte/frappe. Ediya is probably the most famous, but I found it to taste like strawberry milk. The iced latte version was thicker than flavored milk, but not all the way to frappe/milkshake status.
Bliss Blooming Latte: The one coffee shop I really wanted to visit this year and didn't get to try was the cafe Bliss out by Bomun Lake. They have a latte with a "blooming" blossom. A confectionery of some sort that expands in the coffee. No other branch offers this cherry blossom special. I saw the video online and was instantly captivated. However the lake is rather far away and I never made it out there a second time after learning about it. I'll put it on the list for next year.
Kanu Spring Blend: This is my go to instant coffee brand, a phrase I never would have believed I could have uttered 5 years ago. I admit, I did try it at first because of the ads, but it's so much better than most of the other packet coffees in Korea that it soon became a staple at my office desk for emergency pick me ups. I was so excited to see it show up in the seasonal line up, but I haven't seen it in any of Gyeongju's shops.
Cherry Blossom Soda: GS25 is a major convenience store brand here in Korea and they also have their own line of drinks and snacks. In the spring, they offer a couple of cans decked out in cherry blossom art. The pink can is a bright pink bubbly soda pop that wins hands down for the most floral flavor. It reminded me of drinking sweetened rose or orange blossom drinks in the middle east. I don't know if it's made from real cherry blossoms or if they use a more common flower to get the flavor, but it's legit. My only complaint was that it was so insanely sweet I had to dilute it. I wanted to mix it with gin, but I haven't found a local supply since moving here. I tried it with water, but that didn't work well. Finally, I mixed it with milk, Italian soda style, and that was delicious.
Cherry Blossom Grape Juice: The green can was actually my favorite drink of the season. Instead of a soda, it's green grape juice with the same intensely floral flavor as the soda. It doesn't have the crazy pink dye, or the bubbles. It's a bit less sweet, and it has some tasty fruit jelly bits in the bottom. It was still strong, but I diluted it with just water and it was perfect. I'm thinking of buying a bunch to stash for the summer.
Cherry Blossom Milk: Koreans love flavored milk. Banana is the most popular flavor here, but I've seen several others including green grape and apple. While perusing at a local 7-11 I noticed a single serving milk container with pink blossoms on it. Upon closer inspection, it was indeed cherry blossom milk. It wasn't bad, only mildly too sweet and somewhere between floral and fruity. Worth drinking once, more than once if you love sweet milk.
Hoegaarden Cherry Beer: It's technically cherry flavored and cherry blossom scented, but it was released seasonally and decorated with pink blossoms. I was expecting it to be similar to a lambic, but it ended up tasting more like a shandy made with cherry-ade. Not too sweet, and certainly not bad.
Kirin Sakura Viewing Can: This beer is decorated with the signature unicorn dancing amid the sakura. Kirin is a Japanese beer company and sakura viewing is an important part of spring. The seasonal can is decorated to put you in the mood for spring, but the inside is the same classic Kirin taste. I happen to like Kirin beer, so this wasn't a big disappointment.
Soju: I saw posters around town for soju (the Korean distilled rice wine) that had cherry blossoms on the label, and usually when there's something on the soju label other than bamboo it signifies flavor, so I was very hopeful when I finally found some. Sadly, it turned out to be regular soju, which I don't care for as much as the cheongju (like soju, but smoother with less of that nail-polish-remover aftertaste).
Cherry blossom popcorn: GS25 is a chain of local 24 hour convenience stores. The same brand that created my favorite floral soda and juice, as a matter of fact, and they didn't stop at drinks. Amid the food offerings was a light pink bag of cherry blossom popcorn. This was my first find of the season this year and I wasn't sure what to make of it. When I opened the bag, I was hit by a powerful and pleasant perfume making it clear that this was not merely pink popcorn, but genuinely floral. It was sweet and tart, with a base coat of kettle corn and a top note of something like Smarties. I didn't realize at the time, but I suspect it was made with actual cherry blossoms. More later.
Cherry blossom Pepero sticks: By now the world knows Japan's famous Pocky sticks: crisp shortbread sticks dipped in chocolate and other flavors. When my family lived in Japan in the 80s (yeah… old) the iconic treats weren't available in the US and I spent years pining for them after we moved back to America. Although Korea has gotten past it's hatred of all things Japanese enough to import Pocky, they also have their own national brand of the delicious snacks called "Pepero". There's even a national holiday for Pepero where all the stores sell huge boxes and decorated gift sets and we all buy and exchange boxes of Pepero. Not Pocky. The Lotte brand of short, double dipped pepero are delicious anyway, but then I spotted this special pink package and had to try it. The first dip was white chocolate and the top coat had the same sweet/tart taste that I'm coming to realize is the 'authentic' cherry powder flavor. It was more creamy than sweet, which was refreshing. It's not going to replace chocolate as my favorite Pepero flavor, but still enjoyable.
Cherry blossom frozen yogurt: Since many coffee shops here are also dessert cafes, it wasn't only coffee drinks that came in exciting cherry blossom themes. Yogurpresso is a dessert cafe that specializes in, as you can imagine by the name, frozen yogurt and espresso drinks! Unlike American fro-yo, this is quite tart, like actual yogurt instead of ice cream with an identity crisis. The large "blossoms" are crisp meringue and the sprinkles are some kind of candy. It might be one of the preserved cherry blossom additives. I've seen them mostly advertised out of Japan. More likely they are random berry flavored sugar bits. However, the little carafe of pink milk down there is the cherry blossom flavor. A tiny pour over to add floral goodness to the sundae. It was tart and refreshing with a variety of flavors and textures to keep it interesting.
Once again in a convenience store (they are truly ubiquitous) I found a rack of blossom themed snack cakes. I'm not a huge fan of the packaged pastries here in Korea. Although they are super cheap, they are far inferior to the fresh pastries offered on every other street at the cafe/bakery combos like Tous le Jous and Paris Baguette. I got one bun to try, but it turned out to be strawberry creme. The darker red is red bean (a common bun filling and one I actually quite like), but I prefer my red bean filling with fresh cream. The strawberry was too sweet and there wasn't anything cherry blossom about it other than the pinkness. The other snack you see here is a variant on the ever present snack cakes. I read this one before grabbing it and it's also just strawberry and cream cheese. I didn't bother to buy it after all.
I didn't go to any festivals this year, but I decided to throw in my festival food observations from previous years. Every festival in Korea has shaped and colored cotton candy. I've seen cartoon charaters, animals, and abstract art created in spun sugar. Cherry blossom festivals of course bring out cherry blossom shaped cotton candy. I didn't eat any because I figure it's all cotton candy flavored when we're talking about festival street carts.
I did eat the cherry blossom fried ice cream at last year's festival, however. It's not very pretty, and it's hard to tell in the paper cup that it is blossom shaped, but you can sort of make out the petals at the top? The best part of this treat is watching them make it. The vendor removes a super frozen blossom of ice cream and dips it in batter before dropping it in boiling oil right before your eyes! When it's done, the outside is warm and crispy and the inside is cold and creamy. It was vanilla, and I loved it anyway.
Honey Butter Cherry Blossom Potato Chips: I was not going to eat this. I saw it early in the season and turned away. This is because when I first arrived in Korea I tried the Honey Butter Chip. I do not know what the obsession with honey butter flavor here is, but you can get WAY too much stuff in honey butter. The problem was it was awful. It was cloyingly sweet and the butter was really potent (maybe because they use French fermented butter?) I was glad to have the experience once, but had no desire to repeat it.
Then I read another blog about Korean snacks and discovered that the limited edition seasonal flavor is actually made with domestic cherry blossoms, harvested from Chilgok County in north Gyeongsang. That's really close to where I live!
Only 1.4 million bags were released, by the way. That sounds like a lot, but there are more than 51 million people in Korea, soooo I guess we're sharing. As you can see, the chips are not pink. I'm fine with that since it means no dyes. The smell of cherry blossoms is the first thing that hits you when you open the bag, which is saying something, since potato chips have a fairly strong smell of their own. I tasted a crisp and was pleased to find that the cloying sweetness I'd disliked in my first honey butter experience was dampened significantly by a gentle floral tartness. I became extremely curious at this point. So many of the things I'd tasted had been more tart than floral, and I'd just been assuming it was a matter of artificial flavors, but this was made with real flowers!
I looked it up, because that's me. I found that in Japan, there's an ages old culinary tradition of salt pickling cherry blossoms in plum vinegar. But, Haitai Corp. was very clear about the Korean origin of the flowers they used (equally proud of the French origin of the butter they use, by the way). I broke down and worked on translating the package and ingredients list to try and get more information, but all I could gather was that it's domestic Korean flowers and not artificial flavors.
My only conclusion is that cherry blossoms are actually tart in taste. This explains why every cherry blossom treat I tried was either a little sour or way too sweet. The flavor has to be treated more like lemon or green plum in contrast to sweeter flowers like jasmine or lavender. Considering how many times I was surprised by sourness, maybe I ate a lot more real cherry blossoms this year than I realized.
Happy spring and happy snacking!


3D - Tube bending machine (bending machine) with capacity of round metal tubes bending up to Ø 80 mm and wall thickness up to 2,5 mm for non-ferrous metals and 2 mm for stainless and black pipes. The distances between the respective rounds are performed by programmable adjustment, as the bending is possible to be realized in different planes along the pipe length. There is a mandrel (arbor) in the pipe opening in the bending zone, which prevents pipe crushing.
Pipe bending machine CANSA MAKINA PIPE BENDING CNC 80 R3 has a digital control and metal pipes bending capacity up to Ø 80 mm with a wall thickness of up to 2,5 mm for non-ferrous metals and 2 mm for stainless and black pipes. The machine provides tubes folding on arc from different range (radius) or another curve at different angles and in different planes. It provides the processing of both standard bending and certain non-standard pipe shapes and sizes.
Tube bending is a process whose products are widely used in the production of cars, tractors, aircraft, metal-cutting and other machines.
Pipe-bending machine with bending capacity of metal pipes up to Ø 80 mm and wall thickness up to 2.5 mm for non-ferrous metals and 2 mm for stainless and black pipes.


Business people are often overcome by stress. But they are not the only ones. Many things cause stress and people often feel they cannot go on because of stress.
I still remember how I woke up one morning at 02h00 because of stress. I was feeling so miserable, I sank down on the floor behind the door in my study. I was absolutely down, exhausted by the stress that I had to deal with 24 hours a day. I was at the end of my tether. And I said it straight out to the Lord. I felt as if the baggage I had to carry every day as a child of the Lord had simply become too heavy.
So there I sat in the corner struggling with the Lord for more than an hour.
After some time I got up tiredly and opened my Bible. And there it was before me, verse 23: 23You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. I read that verse over and over and steadily and surely calm spread over me. I realized that I had to ground myself in the foundation of the Gospel, so that the wild winds and storms around me would not sway me.
It must sound stupid, but in a way I could feel the stress leave my body. Probably also because I once again realized that God is with me and talks to me. Through his Word He said to me that He knows that I'm struggling, that He can see how hard it is for me, that He recognizes that I'm exhausted and needs guidance. And that is why I got this verse, to plant myself in the Gospel, because then no winds of destruction would be able to blow me over.
But I have to do something, too. Yes, verse 22 tells us that Christ had to work hard to bring about peace between God and us. He gave his life! We have to do something – we have to believe! But that is not all: 23… There is no other Message—just this one.
We must take this to heart: The Gospel is the only guideline and we have to keep to it! Deep inside we know when we did something wrong. But in a way we succeed in being deaf to that little voice that says: No, don't do it.
Sometimes we feel bad, but when we get into the same situation, we simply don't hear that little voice. Why do we so often succeed in doing what we know is wrong? Why is it so easy to go against God's will?
Maybe we should stop living double lives and make a choice. It seems as if we want our cake and eat it too! I'm a child of the Lord, but when I live my life out in the world, I do what the world does.
Are you sitting in a corner today?
Here is some simple advice with enormous impact: Plant yourself deeply in God's Gospel; in other words, do what God asks you to do, and do not deviate from this by even one millimeter. God will give you peace! God will show you how to go on! God will show Himself to you! Yes, even to you! Just do it!
Can you give it to God?
What must you do to have less stress?
Father, Your Word is always filled with wisdom and helps us to live in such a way that we prosper. Thank you that You want to teach us how to make the right decisions. Help us to be obedient. Amen.


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Select a City All Cities Basel Chicago Eindhoven Les Sables d'Olonne London Los Angeles New York New York and Paris Nice Toronto
PRINT November 1981
New York and Paris
"California Billboards"
"California Billboards," sponsored by the Eyes and Ears Foundation in San Francisco, Fashion Moda, and the Public Art Fund in New York, consisted of seven billboards by artists, put up in different sections of New York with technical assistance from Foster and Kleiser Outdoor Advertising. All of the artists involved in the project are or have been based in California, and the painted canvases mounted on billboards around the city were originally commissioned by the Eyes and Ears Foundation for an outdoor exhibition on the West Coast. The artists were Karen Carson, Sri Chinmoy, Jack Frost, Masashi
"Disney Animations And Animators"
Walt Disney at the Whitney promised the sunniest of meetings between popular and high culture. At last, the Diaghilev of animation was getting his entrepreneurial due. Walt Disney, after all, set standards against which animation is still measured, established a formula for family entertainment that held together for the better part of 50 years, and produced a body of work that is unrivaled in its ability to transcend the cultural and political differences of a global audience. His animation is as calculated as a NASA space probe, but the embraceable reality of his characters and the sentimental
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
If you've ever bought a magazine because of its cover, then "Magazine Covers," a fascinating survey of the development of this form of graphic expression, is for you. The show includes more than 140 examples of American and Western European publications from the last hundred years, and it reveals how magazine covers have responded directly and immediately to changing styles in art, to fads, and to shifts in reading habits. Magazines are very much creatures of capitalism, filling an industrialized culture's need to know and reinforcing its understanding of information as power. Magazines also
"Group Show," "The New Dimension: Traditional Artists And Photography"
Daniel Wolf, Inc., Prakapas Gallery
Group shows. I hate them. And "Group Show," was a perfect example of why. It contained 60 photographs by 36 contemporary photographers. There were silver prints, platinum prints, salt prints, and color prints. Most of them were by people about whom even the gallery knew precious little. What can you do with a show like this? Nothing. It's chaos. There was too much material for me to get my mind around the whole exhibition, and too little to allow me to concentrate on any one photographer. Going from image to image, I felt as if I were picking lint.
The motives for putting on such a show include,
"'I Shall Save One Land Unvisited': Eleven Southern Photographers"
International Center of Photography Museum (ICP)
The main thing that "'I shall Save One Land Unvisited'" had over the shows at Wolf and Prakapas was that there were half a dozen to a dozen images by each of the 11 photographers included. It may be that I liked this show better not because the photographers in it were better, but simply because there were enough pictures by each to let me make a judgment. I know that I don't like the photographs by John Menapace, around whom this show was organized, but I am moved by some of the other imagery in the show. Menapace's photographs are a tribute to a dead son—the show's title is a line spoken by
"Selected 19th Century Images"
Like "The New Dimension," the show at Photograph was a historical one that contained, in many cases, only one or two examples of a photographer's work. Most of the photographers are so well-known, at least to regular gallery-goers, that a show like this could get away with such abbreviation. (Still problematic is what could be made of the show by summer visitors who came as novices hoping to learn something about the history of photography. They left the gallery, I suspect, with their eyes rolling around in their heads.) Nonetheless, while 90 images by a dozen photographers is more tolerable as
There's a poem by Robert Frost that goes, in its entirety,
We dance around in a ring and
suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle
and knows.
Jacob Riis' photographs occupy the middle position in modern photography, though there's a question about how knowing Riis himself was. The central place his work holds is that not of the secret, but the paradox. No photographs embody the quirky, zany modern esthetic better than his do, or earlier. And no photographer could have been more oblivious to esthetic issues in photography. If Riis was aware of art in photography at all, it was in a purely negative
Robert Moskowitz
To say that Robert Moskowitz has shifted from a Platonic idealism to a phenomenological concreteness is no doubt tantamount to walking around with an unusually big and tempting chip on one's shoulder; yet that does seem the most accurate way of describing Moskowitz's recent output.
The rear end of a car and an X (Cadillac/Chopsticks); a building and a cross (Wrigley Building); a cane and a hat (Retirement Painting)—the works from 1975–78 feature objects such as these floating in canvas space. This unanchored quality suggests the image seen in the mind's eye, since only there can form be apprehended
This year's concept for the annual outdoor sculpture show on the Wave Hill estate was "Tableaux," a galvanizing choice because of what it excludes. One: kinetic, ecological, and participatory art—because a tableau seems to require stasis and, as participants Robert Longo and Scott Burton both mentioned in their statements, frontality and framing, thereby discouraging physical interaction between environment, viewer, and piece. Two: abstract art—because of the premodern associations of the term.
Although these offerings neither actively engage the environment nor efface themselves in front of it,
Ward's Island
First of all, it's hard to compete with the freshness of Wave Hill. Secondly, when the genii loci are outcasts, as are the psychiatric patients on Ward's Island (however pleasant it would be to pretend that visitors to and inmates in these hospital grounds comprise one big family), and when the bucolic aspects of the place itself are overshadowed by the steel girders of the Triborough Bridge and by industrial structures of vague import, you fight a sense of purlieu panic just in visiting the other annual outdoor sculpture show. But, thirdly, when the art does little to capitalize on this edginess
"New Directors/New Films"
Museum of Modern Art and Film Society of Lincoln Center
Cynical folks might say that any film series curatorially committed to the plight of the international underdog must wallow in liberal platitudes. Fortunately, some of the movies included in last spring's "New Directors/New Films" series (cosponsored by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center) helped to remedy this cynic's jaundiced eye. In lieu of reiterating high-minded but familiar rallying cries for human liberation, nearly half of the 14 films included reflect upon intricate social ironies in calm tones and cool styles, through characters and situations that are far
Wendy Clarke
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
Since 1977, Wendy Clarke has made over 800 videotapes (some in color, but most in black-and-white) of people talking about their feelings on love. An edited selection of these "Love Tapes," each a three-minute monologue by a person sitting alone before a camera, was on view at MoMA.
In Clarke's recordings, men and women from various age, ethnic, and societal groups display romanticism and cynicism, hope and despair; some tell of specific relationships, others discuss various kinds of love, and still others speak about love in social or even metaphysical terms. Several people present during my